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A riot erupted on March 27 on a bridge connecting China’s Jiangxi Province and the virus epicenter of Hubei, where provincial authorities had lifted lockdown measures days earlier. Footage of the incident shows residents from Hubei shouting and stomping on police cars, overturning multiple vehicles after Jiangxi police blocked them at the checkpoint on the bridge. “Go Hubei, go Hubei!” Locals shouted, according to videos posted on social media. One video filmed from a distance showed that throngs of people had filled almost the entire length of the bridge. At least five officers from the Jiangxi side were injured, according...

One of the pillars on which the alarmist case for doing something about global warming rests is the contention that the 20th century was the warmest in the last thousand years. This proposition is most dramatically expressed in the "hockey stick" graph contained in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's third assessment report. The graph shows temperatures mostly flat for the last 1,000 years, before a sudden, sharp rise in the 20th century that, on a graph, looks like the blade of a hockey stick. The graph is very persuasive — it caused Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) to express...