On a cool cloudy Tuesday at the end of March and the first quarter of 2020, here are some things going on:
From National Review, Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark) "saw the coronavirus coming".
From FrontpageMag, even during a pandemic, civil liberties matter.
From Townhall, White House reporters "fail miserably" during coronavirus briefings.
From The Washington Free Beacon, Pennsylvanian Governor Tom Wolf (D) bans elective surgery but not abortions.
From the Washington Examiner, according to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), it's not possible to say when Congress will reconvene due to the coronavirus.
From The Federalist, government officials and the media were wrong to tell Americans not to wear masks.
From American Thinker, after the coronavirus, when will we start thinking?
From CNS News, New York's Mr. Bill threatens to "permanently" shut down religious organizations that hold worship services while the city is shut down due to the coronavirus.
From NewsBusters, TV news has gone Sergeant Schultz on the new sexual assault allegations against former Vice President Biden. (Yesterday, I linked a similar story involving the #MeToo movement.)
From Summit News, the Empire State building is made to look like a red siren light. (via Canada Free Press)
From CBC News, according to Prime Minister Trudeau, made-in-Canada ventilators, masks, and coronavirus test kits are coming soon.
From Global News, Guelph (Ontaria) General Hospital is hiring.
From CTV News, in East Vancouver, British Columbia, thieves steal a paramedic's equipment from the trunk of her car. (This sort of thing makes me wonder if I should create an "assholes" label.)
From TeleSUR, Brazil's National Security Force participates in the battle against the coronavirus.
From Morocco World News, the Moroccan government plans to perform 10,000 coronavirus tests per day. (If you read French, read a related story at L'Economiste.)
From Hürriyet Daily News, a prototype of Turkey's first locally made ventilator is reportedly ready.
From Turkish Minute, Human Rights Watch urges Turkish authorities to resume supplying water to Kurdish-held parts of Syria.
From Rûdaw, suspected ISIS terrorists held at a prison in Hasahak, Syria riot for a second time.
From In-Cyprus, a woman who had tested positive for the coronavirus gives birth to a healthy baby boy at Makarios Hospital in Nicosia, Cyprus.
From The Syrian Observer, Syrian officials in the Damascus area fight against the coronavirus.
From Arutz Sheva, a new type of coronavirus test in Israel might sniff you while wagging her tail.
From The Times Of Israel, hundreds of people from coronavirus epicenters enter Israel without being tested.
From The Jerusalem Post, which Israeli cities have the most people sick from the coronavirus.
From YNetNews, new restrictions on prayer and work take effect in Israel.
From the Egypt Independent, "stay home" and "stay safe", says Egypt's Pyramid of Khufu at Giza.
From Egypt Today, President Abdel al-Sisi calls the results of Egypt's coronavirus precautions "reassuring".
From StepFeed, social distancing in Arab homes is not what you'd expect.
From The New Arab, a Saudi-led airstrike in Sana'a, Yemen kills dozens of horses.
From the Saudi Gazette, Saudi Arabia launches new measures against human trafficking.
From Radio Farda, Ukraine expects Iran to hand over the black boxes from the downed airplane even with the coronavirus pandemic going on.
From IranWire, a chronology of the coronavirus in Iran, including lies, misinformation, and makeshift graves.
From Dawn, the Pakistani province of Sindh establishes its first drive-through coronavirus test center in Karachi.
From The Express Tribune, Pakistani opposition parties call for monitoring of the government's coronavirus relief fund.
From Pakistan Today, the Pakistani government increases coronavirus testing as the country's death toll reaches 26.
From Khaama Press, Afghan forces stop a rocket attack in the province of Kunar by confiscating the rocket launcher.
From The Hans India, Indian Railways will modify 20,000 passenger coaches to accommodate over 300,000 coronavirus isolation beds.
From the Hindustan Times, India's Supreme Court orders the government to ensure that food, water and medicine are supplied to migrant workers in temporary housing due to the coronavirus.
From ANI, 44 foreign tourists are sent from Dharamshala, India to their embassies in Delhi.
From India Today, a businessman in the Indian state of Odisha feeds migrant workers from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh and their families.
From the Dhaka Tribune, the first person in Bangladesh to recover from the coronavirus shares his experience.
From the Daily Mirror, the Sri Lankan government and Uber Eats join forces to deliver essential supplies.
From the Colombo Page, roadblocks are set up in Colombo, Sri Lanka to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
From Maldives Insider, the airline Manta Air suspends its ATR services but will operate daily seaplanes between the Dhaalu and Baa atolls.
From The Jakarta Post, Indonesian President Joko Widodo announces free or discounted electricity to help households hit hardest by the economic effects from the coronavirus.
From The Straits Times, employers in Singapore must allow their workers to work from home, and seniors must be socially distanced.
From the Borneo Post, Malaysia's king and queen will forgo their royal emoluments for six months.
From Free Malaysia Today, palm oil producers ask the Sabah state government to allow them to go back to work.
From The Mainichi, the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa will demand information on two U.S. airmen stationed at Kadena Air Base who have been diagnosed with the coronavirus.
From Gatestone Institute, Iran speeds up its nuclear activities amid the coronavirus.
From The Stream, New York's Mr. Bill has overstepped his bounds.
From Fox News, Seattle's chief of police tells residents to call 911 for racists names amid the coronavirus pandemic.
From Reason, how will the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic compare to that of the 1957 flu pandemic?
From The Daytona Beach News-Journal, a burglar in Deltona Beach, Florida runs into the Second Amendment. (via The Blaze)
From the New York Post, New York's Mr. Bill asks the city's veterinarians and plastic surgeons to lend the ventilators. (It seems like I've picked on him enough for one day.)
And from Twitchy, a Bloomberg News White House reporter goes after President Trump and Verizon and gets an apparent "nothingburger".
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