Italian Government Bans Christmas Travel, Prompting Regional Leaders to Call the Order ‘Crazy’
Italy’s government announced on Wednesday that citizens will not be able to travel throughout the country during Christmas, angering regional leaders who said the new effort to contain the coronavirus’s spread goes too far.
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The Italian government issued a new decree on Wednesday, stating that citizens will be prohibited from traveling through Italy’s 20 regions during Christmas. In this photo, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte holds a press conference to announce a new emergency decree on COVID restrictions, at Palazzo Chigi, on November 4, 2020 in Rome, Italy.
From December 21 to January 6, no Italian citizen will be able to travel among the country’s 20 regions except for work, medical reasons or emergencies, the government order said.
On Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, residents will not even be permitted to leave their specific towns. Those who live in small towns or villages within walking distance to the next will still be banned from leaving their own town limits.
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Sean Hannity Suggest Joe Biden Is On Top Of ‘Crime Family’ That Includes Nancy Pelosi And CNN
Fox News host Sean Hannity has once again mocked up a “crime family” graphic, this time targeting Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden.
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Joe Biden’s History-Making Communications Team Gets Reactions From Both Sides
Democratic President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Sunday announced the first-ever all-female White House senior communications team. Most members of the new team have previously worked for Biden and other Democrats. The announcement came with a widespread of reactions with most praising the all-women team. Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary in Donald Trump’s administration, dismissed the reports that this was a historic first move, tweeting that Trump already has an all-female senior White House press team.
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The Heaven’s Gate Cult
What’s the dress code for a mass suicide? The occasion calls for some level of formality, but one doesn’t want to overdress. Twenty years ago, the Heaven’s Gate UFO cult chose fitness-goth. When the bodies of 39 members were found in a suburban mansion in San Diego, California, on March 26, 1997, they were wearing matching outfits: bodies covered in purple shrouds, black shirts and sweatpants, patches reading “Heaven’s Gate away team” and black-and-white Nike Decade sneakers.The 39 bodies discovered that day weren’t really dead, according to cult doctrine. They had merely left their “vehicles” and traveled to the “next level,” or “the evolutionary level above human” (TELAH), escaping a soon-to-be “recycled” Earth. Journeying to TELAH was the long-term goal of the cult, which started in the ’70s, and in 1997 the members finally grabbed their chance. Their leader, Marshall Herff Applewhite (aka Do) claimed that behind the approaching Hale-Bopp comet was a spaceship that would take their souls. All they had to do was hitchhike by suicide.On March 24, 1997, members took turns eating pudding and applesauce laced with phenobarbital, all of it washed down with vodka.