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In an interview with Breitbart News on Tuesday, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK) said the Trump administration should consider banning all “non-essential travel” from China into the United States given the risks associated with the ongoing coronavirus outbreak in the one-party state.

“Persons infected with coronavirus can transmit it before it [they] are symptomatic, which is very dangerous from an epidemiological standpoint,” said Cotton. Non-symptomatic carriers of the coronavirus would be unidentifiable as threats via screening mechanisms protocols to filter infected persons in the context of international travel.

Cotton determined, “I believe the administration should begin to plan for the prospect of having to suspend all non-essential travel from China to the United States.”

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The uptick in crime across New York City since the new year began is a direct result of the city’s newly implemented bail reform laws, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said.

“In the first three weeks of this year, we’re seeing significant spikes in crime. So either we forgot how to police New York City, or there’s a correlation,” Shea told reporters Friday. “If you let out individuals that commit a lot of crime, that’s precision policing in reverse, and we’re seeing the effects in a very quick time, and that is why we’re so concerned.”

As of Friday at midnight, robberies in New York City are up 32.5%, car theft is up 61%, and burglaries are up 18% compared with the same time period last year, the New York Post reported.

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I began part one of “Why Are So Many Young People Unhappy?” with data showing the apparently unprecedentedly high rate of unhappiness among young people in America (and elsewhere, but I am focusing on America).

The rates of suicide, self-injury, depression, mass shootings, and loneliness (at all ages) are higher than ever recorded.

It seems that Americans may have been happier, and certainly less lonely, during the Great Depression and World War II than today, even with today’s unprecedentedly high levels of health, longevity, education, and material well-being.

There is, of course, no single explanation, and I listed a number of possible explanations:

Increased use of illicit drugs and prescription drug abuse, and less human interaction because of constant cellphone use are two widely offered, valid explanations. Less valid explanations include competition, grades anxiety, capitalism, and income inequality. And then there are young people’s fears that because of global warming, they have a bleak, and perhaps no, future.

But I do believe that a loss of values and meaning are the two greatest sources of unhappiness…

People on social media compete over who would surprise or shock the online community more, and while many new trends are adorable, creative, unique, and inspiring, some are bizarre and even creepy!

The video posted by the very popular Instagram account @nail_sunny, renowned for doing unconventional and over-the-top manicures, confused many.

The short tutorial video shows the Russian Instagram nail artist crafting her fingernails into small hands and feet!

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White House adviser Ivanka Trump blasted a panel of pundits who appeared on CNN over the weekend and mocked supporters of her father, President Trump.

“You consistently make fun of half the country and then complain that it is divided,” the first daughter tweeted Tuesday. “The arrogance, mocking accents and smug ridicule of this nation’s ‘Real Elites’ is disgusting.”

Appearing on Don Lemon’s CNN Tonight over the weekend, panelists Wajahat Ali and Rick Wilson imitated what they believe a typical Trump supporter might sound or think like.

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UPDATE: It turns out it was smoke only from an exhaust vent. 

Ocean City and Berlin on the scene of a building fire, Shotti’s Point restaurant. 35th and coastal. Smoke showing.

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. —People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is calling on the keepers of the weather-forecasting groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, to let him retire — and to be replaced by an animatronic groundhog.

PETA wrote in a letter to the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club on Monday that it was time for the beloved tradition to change.

Every Feb. 2, Phil gets dragged out of his hole and held up to flashing lights and crowds in what is a highly stressful experience for him, PETA said. And his current accommodations don’t allow him to dig, burrow or forage like non-famous groundhogs naturally do.

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A national supporter for the Bernie Sanders campaign once claimed that the United States was to blame for the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Phillip Agnew, who joined the Sanders campaign in July 2019, has blamed the U.S. for 9/11 several times.

“Tomorrow America remembers the day that she turned on herself, dismantled her constitution, and killed her own citizens in the name of money,” Agnew tweeted out on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

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