| Trump caught off guard as Iran's Zarif lands in G7 summit town Posted: 24 Aug 2019 04:05 PM PDT  Iran's foreign minister flew into the French resort hosting a G7 summit on Sunday, an unexpected twist to a meeting already troubled by differences between U.S. President Donald Trump and Western allies over a raft of issues, including Iran. A White House official said France's invitation to Mohammad Javad Zarif for talks on the sidelines of the meeting in the Basque beachside town of Biarritz was "a surprise", and there were no immediate plans for U.S. officials to meet him. Zarif went straight into talks with his French counterpart to assess what conditions could lead to a de-escalation of tension between Tehran and Washington, a French official said.
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| The Latest: Hong Kong protest winds down after clashes Posted: 24 Aug 2019 04:49 AM PDT  A large group of protesters has largely dispersed in Hong Kong after engaging in clashes with police for the first time in nearly two weeks. Riot officers used tear gas and nonlethal rounds Saturday after protesters took over a road in the city's Kowloon Bay area. The protesters regrouped several times to challenge police again before calling it a day as night fell.
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| A floating nuclear plant in Russia features a gym, bar, and pool. An expert calls it 'Chernobyl on ice.' Posted: 23 Aug 2019 10:49 AM PDT  Environmental activists worry about the perils of placing nuclear reactors at sea, where they could be vulnerable to climate-related disasters.
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| Psychologist approved Jeffrey Epstein's removal from suicide watch Posted: 23 Aug 2019 11:27 PM PDT  A psychologist at the federal detention center in New York City where financier Jeffrey Epstein was jailed on sex-trafficking charges had approved his removal from suicide watch before he killed himself, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday. The disclosure came in a letter dated on Thursday from Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd and addressed to the leaders of the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, seeking details about the circumstances surrounding Epstein's death earlier this month. Epstein, who was 66, was found dead Aug. 10 in his cell inside a segregated housing unit of the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Lower Manhattan.
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| Who are the Koch brothers and how did David Koch help shape conservatism in America? Posted: 23 Aug 2019 11:54 AM PDT  The Koch brothers built a massive political empire that has influenced conservative politics for decades.
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| Journalist killed in Mexico Posted: 24 Aug 2019 10:32 PM PDT  The head of a Mexican news website was found stabbed to death in the center of the country, authorities said Saturday, the 10th such killing this year. The body of Nevith Condes Jaramillo "was found Saturday morning... showing injuries from a sharp object," the state prosecutor said in a statement. Condes Jaramillo, 42, was the head of a local news site in Tejupilco and was also an announcer on a community radio station.
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| All the Best Le Creuset Deals During Williams Sonoma Warehouse Sale Posted: 23 Aug 2019 11:54 AM PDT |
| Trump's economic anxiety comes to a boil Posted: 23 Aug 2019 11:47 AM PDT  The president directs U.S. businesses to pull out of China, but maintains that the "economy is doing really well."
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| Revered as a saint by online extremists, how Christchurch shooter inspired copycat terrorists around the world Posted: 24 Aug 2019 01:22 PM PDT  "Brenton Tarrant was a catalyst for me personally. He showed me that it could be done. And that it needed to be done."Those were the words written by John Timothy Earnest shortly before he stormed a synagogue in Poway, California, and opened fire on the Jewish congregation.
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| Two NYC women plead guilty to plan to build bomb for attack on U.S. Posted: 23 Aug 2019 10:59 AM PDT ![Two NYC women plead guilty to plan to build bomb for attack on U.S.]( "Two NYC women plead guilty to plan to build bomb for attack on U.S.") Two women inspired by radical Islam pleaded guilty in New York City on Friday to teaching and distributing information about the manufacture and use of an explosive, destructive device and weapon of mass destruction, federal prosecutors said. Asia Siddiqui and Noelle Velentzas, both U.S. citizens in their 30s from the borough of Queens, face up to 20 years in prison when they are sentenced. U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue said in a statement the defendants studied some of the most deadly attacks in U.S. history as a blueprint for their plans to kill American law enforcement and military personnel.
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| Immigration: Baby girl in critical condition after illegal border crossing in Texas Posted: 24 Aug 2019 01:57 PM PDT  A baby girl is in critical condition after being detained by the U.S. with her father. They had crossed the Rio Grande illegally in a group of 21 people.
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| Britain sends another warship to Gulf Posted: 24 Aug 2019 11:26 AM PDT  A third British warship is heading to the Gulf, the Royal Navy announced Saturday, amid heightened tensions in the region. Britain has already sent the HMS Kent to cover for frigate HMS Montrose while it undergoes maintenance in nearby Bahrain, and is now redirecting the Type 45 destroyer HMS Defender from its mission to the Pacific. Britain outraged Iran by seizing one of its tankers -- the Grace 1 -- on July 4 on suspicion it was carrying oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions.
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| 2 women accused of shoplifting strollers and accidentally leaving their baby behind Posted: 24 Aug 2019 10:30 AM PDT  Two women were arrested for allegedly shoplifting baby strollers and accidentally leaving their own baby behind as they tried to get away.
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| Democratic presidential candidates have a new approach for tackling gun violence: Treat it as a public-health crisis Posted: 23 Aug 2019 10:23 AM PDT  Candidates like Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker want to draw on tactics used by community-based organizations to fight gun violence.
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| Johnson acknowledges touch and go prospects for Brexit deal Posted: 25 Aug 2019 09:29 AM PDT  U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson acknowledged Sunday that the prospect of a Brexit deal was "touch and go," as other European Union capitals grasp the problems Britain has with the withdrawal agreement. Speaking on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit, Johnson said that in the last few days, following visits to France and Germany, it has dawned on the EU what "the shape of the problem is for the U.K." Among the key issues is how to prevent the return of a border between EU member Ireland and Britain's Northern Ireland. The comments came after Johnson won U.S. President Donald Trump's approval for his approach in talks to leave the EU after a chummy meeting on the sidelines of the G-7 summit in France.
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| CNN Hires Fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe as Contributor Posted: 23 Aug 2019 09:57 AM PDT  Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe is joining CNN as an on-air contributor, the network's media reporter Oliver Darcy announced Friday.McCabe was fired from the FBI in March 2018 after the Department of Justice's inspector general revealed that he'd repeatedly lied under oath to investigators about his role in leaking information on the bureau's Clinton Foundation investigation to the Wall Street Journal. The Inspector General referred the matter to the U.S. attorney's office for investigation and McCabe may still face criminal charges.The 21-year FBI veteran maintains his innocence, arguing that he was misunderstood and tried to correct the record. He filed suit against the Trump administration in U.S. District Court in Washington earlier this month, alleging that his dismissal was "politically motivated and retaliatory."President Trump routinely disparaged McCabe as a political partisan during his time in the administration, often invoking his wife, Jill McCabe, who ran unsuccessfully for state senate in Virginia as a Democrat in 2015.Senator Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) mocked CNN's commitment to honest journalism in response to McCabe's hiring.> The guy who DOJ inspector general found committed federal crimes & is a serial liar? Good work, CNN. Love to see that commitment to serious journalism https://t.co/rHfBB9aLVW> > -- Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) August 23, 2019The news of McCabe's hiring comes just one day after CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter chastised Fox News for hiring former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders."The Trump White House has a record of misleading the public. All administrations spin. This administration lies consistently, whether it's Sanders, or Spicer, or other White House aides. And it's all led from the top by a president who lies even about the weather and the time of day. That, I think, is why this deserves outrage and backlash," Stelter said.
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| How conservatives are making the best case against the death penalty Posted: 25 Aug 2019 03:00 AM PDT  There are many reasons to oppose capital punishment. People of faith have reasons to be against it. So do people who see the inequities in the system.
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| US city council candidate says she wants to keep town 'a white community as much as possible' Posted: 23 Aug 2019 12:04 PM PDT  A city council candidate in Michigan told an audience that she wanted to keep her city "a white community".Jean Cramer shocked constituents and politicians in Marysville, Michigan when she gave an overtly racist answer to a question about how the town should attract more foreign-born residents in the Great Lakes area.
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| Israel says air strike in Syria sent "no immunity" message to Iran Posted: 25 Aug 2019 03:03 AM PDT ![Israel says air strike in Syria sent "no immunity" message to Iran]( "Israel says air strike in Syria sent \"no immunity\" message to Iran") JERUSALEM/DAMASCUS, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Israel said on Sunday an air strike against an arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards in Syria that it accused of planning "killer drone attacks" showed Tehran that its forces were vulnerable anywhere. A senior Revolutionary Guards commander denied that Iranian targets had been hit late on Saturday and said its military "advisory centres have not been harmed", the semi-official ILNA news agency reported.
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| A man was training to get a gun permit. The instructor accidentally shot him, police say Posted: 24 Aug 2019 11:27 AM PDT  The instructor, a Riverside County Sheriff's Department trainer, accidentally shot a student attending the class to get a concealed weapons permit.
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| 200,000 Rohingya rally to mark 'Genocide Day' in Bangladesh camps Posted: 25 Aug 2019 08:30 AM PDT  Some 200,000 Rohingya rallied in a Bangladesh camp Sunday to mark two years since they fled a violent crackdown by Myanmar forces, just days after a second failed attempt to repatriate the refugees. During the brutal August 2017 offensive, around 740,000 of the Muslim minority escaped Myanmar's Rakhine state -- joining those who had fled earlier persecution. A total of nearly one million refugees now live in three dozen squalid camps in Bangladesh's southeastern border district of Cox's Bazar.
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| The Overstock CEO Resigned Claiming 'Deep State' Conspiracy and a Relationship With a Russian Spy. Here's What to Know Posted: 23 Aug 2019 02:27 PM PDT  Patrick Byrne issued a bizarre statement through Overstock criticizing the FBI, referring to a "deep state" conspiracy. Here's what to know about the incident.
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| NJ Cop Sent to Psychiatric Ward After Wife’s Slaying Will Finally Face Judge Posted: 24 Aug 2019 08:20 PM PDT  Chip East/ReutersA New Jersey cop accused of breaking into his estranged wife's home, shooting her, and then chasing her into the streets to put a final bullet in her head—all while in uniform—will finally face a judge next week.Newark Lt. John Formisano was arrested a couple of hours after the July 15 slaying. But instead of being brought to court, he was taken to a psychiatric unit after telling investigators that he "blacked out" just before the shooting.According to a police affidavit, the 49-year-old exhibited "suicidal behavior." Five weeks later, he was still in the hospital and had not been arraigned in a court of law—frustrating victim Christie Solaro-Formisano's family."What we feel is we want to have some justice. Any justice can bring a small fraction of peace and closure," her aunt, Joy Mandara, said earlier this week. "Right now, it seems justice is working very slowly and differently from how we expected."Uniformed Cop Who Allegedly Gunned Down Screaming Wife Hasn't Faced JusticeAfter The Daily Beast and local media reported on the delay, the wheels of justice seemed to speed up. Prosecutors confirmed Saturday that there will be a hearing in the case on Wednesday, and that Formisano will appear via video hookup from the psychiatric unit.Before the hearing was scheduled, prosecutors had insisted Formisano was not getting special treatment because he is a police officer."If this defendant was a house painter or a businessman on Wall Street in the same circumstances, it would have been handled in the same way," a spokesman for the Morris County Prosecutor's Office told The Daily Beast earlier in the week.At the time of the shooting, Solaro-Formisano and the Newark lieutenant were in the process of getting a divorce.Formisano told investigators that he went to her home to drop off glasses for their 8-year-old daughter, the older of their two children. The mother of two was home with her boyfriend, and went down to the door."He's got a gun!" Solaro-Formisano yelled, according to the boyfriend. "Call 911!"A nightmarish scene ensued. Formisano allegedly chased his estranged wife through the house, shooting at her, then broke down the bedroom door and shot the boyfriend in the abdomen, thigh, arms, and hand.Bleeding from her wounds, Solaro-Formisano ran outside. She was scrambling up the steps to a neighbor's house when the cop allegedly caught up to her and shot her in the head.The neighbor called 911 and identified the gunman. "He's a Newark cop. He lives on the corner. I saw it. I saw him through my window. He's in his uniform," she told the dispatcher.N.J. Cop Claims He 'Blacked Out' Before Killing Estranged Wife, Shooting Her Boyfriend: AuthoritiesAccording to police, Formisano locked his service weapon in the trunk of his car, tossed his cellphone and drove 30 miles. He was nabbed in a parking lot.During a police interview, he did not deny his role in the bloodshed."After entering the residence, Formisano stated he began to suspect that [his estranged wife] had a male guest in the bedroom, at which point he 'blacked out,'" the police affidavit said."He stated that he recalls firing his weapon numerous times."Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| VIDEO: 2 trans women, gay man ejected from DTLA bar after alleged altercation with other group Posted: 24 Aug 2019 07:37 PM PDT  Two transgender women who were forcibly removed from a downtown L.A. bar say security guards used excessive force after they were allegedly verbally attacked with transphobic slurs.
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| Trump’s Offer to Help N.Y. With Subway Baffles Governor's Office Posted: 24 Aug 2019 12:03 PM PDT  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said he is ready to help New York extend the Second Avenue subway in New York City, an announcement that left even state Governor Andrew Cuomo baffled."Looking forward to helping New York City and Governor @andrewcuomo complete the long anticipated, and partially built, Second Avenue Subway," President Donald Trump said in a tweet.Cuomo's office on Saturday said that while the governor is involved in discussions with the president and the Department of Transportation about several infrastructure projects in the city, including the Gateway Tunnel project, the subway and updates at LaGuardia Airport, there have been no concrete steps taken to move forward."The president's tweet suggests good news but we have no specific funding or approval and that is all that is relevant," Communications Director Dani Lever said in a statement. "If an agreement actually materializes, we will provide an update."The Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to extend the subway line for 8.5 miles north, from East 96th Street to 125th Street in east Harlem, and add three underground stations. The line, debated for decades, began service in January 2017. To contact the reporters on this story: Jim Silver in New York at jsilver@bloomberg.net;Daniel Flatley in Washington at dflatley1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Sebastian Tong at stong41@bloomberg.net, Steve GeimannFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| 2 US allies in Asia are at each other's throats, and it's a big win for China Posted: 23 Aug 2019 10:31 AM PDT  "It weakens the United States' toolkit for fighting back against China's aims and ambitions," an Asia security expert told Insider.
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| Israel hits Iranian force in Syria to stop 'killer drones': military Posted: 24 Aug 2019 01:56 PM PDT ![Israel hits Iranian force in Syria to stop 'killer drones': military]( "Israel hits Iranian force in Syria to stop 'killer drones': military") JERUSALEM/DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Israeli aircraft on Saturday struck Iranian forces near Damascus that had been planning to launch "killer drones" at targets in Israel, an Israeli military spokesman said. "The strike targeted Iranian Quds Force operatives and Shiite militias which were preparing to advance attack plans targeting sites in Israel from within Syria over the last number of days," the military said in a statement. The elite Quds Force is the overseas arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).
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| Want to visit all 61 national parks in America? Here are 7 tips to help Posted: 25 Aug 2019 04:00 AM PDT ![Want to visit all 61 national parks in America? Here are 7 tips to help]( "Want to visit all 61 national parks in America? Here are 7 tips to help") This couple visited all 61 national parks this year — primarily via van — finishing their journey earlier this month.
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| Muslim man left in coma after Thai army interrogation dies Posted: 25 Aug 2019 12:22 AM PDT  A Muslim man left in a coma after being interrogated at a notorious Thai detention centre died Sunday, as pressure mounts on the army to release further findings of a probe into the case. Abdulloh Esormusor, a suspected rebel from the country's restive south died early Sunday morning, more than a month after he was taken to the Inkayuth military camp, his cousin Mohammatrahmat Mamu told AFP. Inkayuth is the Thai army's biggest detention centre in the south, where suspects are taken for interrogation and held under emergency laws and where rights groups have documented torture.
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| Chinese embassy says the US is trying to suppress Huawei Posted: 23 Aug 2019 02:48 PM PDT ![Chinese embassy says the US is trying to suppress Huawei]( "Chinese embassy says the US is trying to suppress Huawei") An embassy statement to The Associated Press said the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Canada at the request of U.S. authorities is "of course different" from China's detentions of Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor. "The Meng Wanzhou incident is not just a judicial case, but the U.S. using state power to work with its certain ally to suppress a private high-tech Chinese enterprise on unwarranted charges.
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| Jeffrey Epstein: 15 prison guards subpoenaed after two accused of sleeping on the job Posted: 23 Aug 2019 12:40 PM PDT  The warden and the head of the US Bureau of Prisons have been reassigned. Two employees accused of sleeping on the job and falsifying records have been placed on administrative leave.Now, roughly 15 employees at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in his jail cell have been subpoenaed as the criminal investigation into the events around his suicide intensifies, according to a prison official and a person with knowledge of the matter.
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| Pope, urging prayers, says Amazon forest vital for our Earth Posted: 25 Aug 2019 09:24 AM PDT  Pope Francis said Sunday that the Amazon forest is vital for our Earth and is urging prayers that fires there are quickly controlled even as Brazil sent tens of thousands of soldiers out to confront the crisis. Francis added his voice to the chorus of international concern that the blazes in Brazil will have grave repercussions on the world's environmental health. The pontiff, who is from the South American nation of Argentina that borders Brazil, told the public in St. Peter's Square that "we're all worried" about the vast Amazon fires.
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| US school spends $48 million on curved corridors and hiding places to foil mass shooters Posted: 23 Aug 2019 01:25 PM PDT  A school in the United States has spent $48 million redesigning its buildings with curved corridors, hiding places, and cement barriers in a bid to thwart mass shooters. The project at Fruitport High School in Michigan is aimed at reducing casualties in the event of an attack by hampering the sight lines available to a gunman in corridors. Cement barriers are being installed in hallways for pupils and teachers to take cover. Classroom windows looking on to hallways are being covered with impact-resistant film. Each classroom will also have a corner, called a "shadow zone," that is not visible from the hallway. And school administrators will be able to lock all the doors in the building by pushing a button. Bob Szymoniak, the school superintendent, said: "This building will be the safest, most secure building in the state of Michigan when it opens. "These are going to be design elements that are just naturally part of [school] buildings going into the future." He added: "If I go to Fruitport High School and I want to be an active shooter, I'm going in knowing I have reduced sight lines. It has reduced his ability to do harm." The changes will be unveiled in December and could lead to other schools across the US taking similar measures. A design firm employed to draw up the safety features has previously worked on prison buildings. Meanwhile, in the school district where the Columbine high school shooting took place in 1999, teachers have been issued with special marker pens. The pens are for writing the time they place a tourniquet on an injured pupil in the event of a shooting. Mr Szymoniak said the decision to go ahead with the project in Michigan was taken after the school shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in 2012, and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida last year. US President Donald Trump takes part in a listening session on gun violence with teachers and students in 2018 Credit: AFP Last year, the US had 24 school shootings in which people were killed or injured. Gun control has become a high-profile issue in the 2020 election in the wake of two more mass shootings earlier this month. On consecutive days separate gunmen opened fire in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, leaving more than 30 people dead. In response to those incidents Donald Trump said he would like to see "very meaningful background checks" on people buying guns. But earlier this week Mr Trump said the US already had significantly strict background checks in place, and that many of his supporters are gun owners. Seven in 10 Republicans expressed approval of Mr Trump's handling of gun policy in a new poll.
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| Trump Clarifies on Trade Regrets: Tariffs Should Be Higher Posted: 25 Aug 2019 06:04 AM PDT ![Trump Clarifies on Trade Regrets: Tariffs Should Be Higher]( "Trump Clarifies on Trade Regrets: Tariffs Should Be Higher") (Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. Donald Trump acknowledged having second thoughts on escalating the trade war with China -- only for his top spokeswoman to later say he meant he regretted not raising tariffs even more.White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham now says the media misinterpreted Trump's initial remarks. Trump doesn't regret starting a trade war but he does have second thoughts on whether he should have hit the Chinese even harder."The president was asked if he had 'any second thought on escalating the trade war with China.' His answer has been greatly misinterpreted. President Trump responded in the affirmative - because he regrets not raising the tariffs higher," Grisham said in a statement to reporters.The initial remark drew worldwide headlines because Trump is rarely one for second-guessing himself, and instead goes bigger on his ideas in the face of criticism. Grisham's explanation is more in the line with the Trump that the Group of Seven nations know, and who often drives them to distraction.The remarks came as Trump was meeting with U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday at the Group of Seven summit. He was asked whether he had "any second thoughts on escalating the trade war" with China, after he announced higher tariffs late Friday."Yeah, sure, why not?" Trump replied. Reporters asked again whether he had second thoughts. "Might as well, might as well," he replied, before reporters asked again. "I have second thoughts about everything," he said.The breezy acknowledgment from the president is the latest in the trade fight between the two largest economies, who continue to ratchet up pressure as warning signs flash on the risk of a global recession.Trump on Friday announced he would hike existing tariffs, applied to about $250 billion in Chinese goods, to 30 percent from 25 percent as of Oct. 1. He also said a new round of tariffs on $300 billion in goods will be taxed at 15 percent, up from 10 percent. The first batch of those tariffs is set to kick in on Sept 1.Trump's move was in response to China's decision to impose retaliatory tariffs on another $75 billion of U.S. goods, including levies on soybeans, pork, cotton and crude oil. Beijing's move takes aim at the heart of Trump's political support -- factories and farms across the Midwest and South.Whether Trump regrets ratcheting up the trade war or not ratcheting it up enough, China is preparing for relations to get much worse, said Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the state-run Global Times newspaper."Regardless of his specific expression each time, we're seriously making preparations for scenario in which China-U.S. trade relations deteriorate further, even much worse than now," he wrote on Twitter after Trump's remarks.Trump has seen his poll numbers sag ahead of his 2020 re-election bid, as consumers sour on his aggressive trade stance against China. Trump has bet his re-election chances on a strong economy, and with fears of recession growing among some economists, has insisted fears of an economic slowdown are overblown.Trump was also asked whether allied nations at the summit in Biarritz, France were pressing him to give up on the trade war. "No, not at all, I haven't heard that at all," he replied.But later, Johnson nudged him to do just that. "Just to register the faint, sheep-like note of our view on the trade war, we're in favor of trade peace on the whole, and dialing it down a beat," Johnson said.(Updates with details of Chinese tariffs in ninth paragraph)To contact the reporters on this story: Josh Wingrove in Biarritz, France at jwingrove4@bloomberg.net;Jennifer Jacobs in Biarritz, France at jjacobs68@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Craig Gordon at cgordon39@bloomberg.net, Flavia Krause-JacksonFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| UPDATE 3-Saudi-led coalition says downs Houthi drone fired at airbase Posted: 24 Aug 2019 09:24 PM PDT ![UPDATE 3-Saudi-led coalition says downs Houthi drone fired at airbase]( "UPDATE 3-Saudi-led coalition says downs Houthi drone fired at airbase") A Saudi-led military coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen said it downed a drone on Sunday that the Iran-aligned group has said they launched in the direction of a Saudi airbase. "The coalition forces intercepted and downed a drone launched from the city of Sanaa in the direction of Khamis Muchait's residential neighbourhoods," coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki told the official Saudi Press Agency. A Houthi military spokesman cited by the group's Al-Masirah TV earlier said the group had launched drones targeting the control towers of the Abha airport and the Khamis Mushait airbase, both in the southwest of the kingdom.
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| 'I thought she was going to die': Parents separated from children after Mississippi ICE raids Posted: 24 Aug 2019 06:43 AM PDT  More than two weeks after massive ICE raids in Mississippi, multiple parents of young children remain in detention.
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| S.Africa seizes Air Tanzania plane over unpaid farm claim Posted: 25 Aug 2019 06:16 AM PDT  South Africa has impounded a plane belonging to Tanzania's national carrier over a farmer's $33-million compensation claim for his land which the Tanzanian government nationalised decades ago, a lawyer said Sunday. The Air Tanzania aircraft was seized on Friday at Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport after it landed during a scheduled flight from Tanzanian economic capital Dar-es Salaam. Lawyer Roger Wakefield of Werksmans Attorneys said the seizure followed an order granted by the High Court in Johannesburg on Wednesday.
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| Muslims in China's most oppressed, closed-off region are turning to China's version of Gen Z favorite TikTok to communicate with the world Posted: 25 Aug 2019 03:06 AM PDT  Dozens of Uighurs in Xinjiang are using Douyin to tell the outside world about their plight. This is their first contact with the outside world.
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| Cannibal trial: Man accused of raping, murdering and eating parts of ex-girlfriend's body granted mistrial Posted: 23 Aug 2019 02:52 PM PDT  The trial of a man accused of raping, murdering and eating parts of his ex-girlfriend's body has ended in a mistrial.Joseph Oberhansley, 38, is facing life in prison without parole on charges of murder, rape and burglary after prosecutors say he stalked, raped, and killed 46-year-old Tammy Jo Blanton before eating parts of her body in 2014.
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| Oregon defends past nonunanimous jury verdicts to high court Posted: 24 Aug 2019 01:29 PM PDT  Oregon's criminal justice system would be "overwhelmed" if the U.S. Supreme Court rules in an upcoming case that nonunanimous jury verdicts are unconstitutional, the state's attorney general has told the court. Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said in an amicus brief on Friday that if the U.S. Supreme Court finds nonunanimous juries unconstitutional, it could invalidate hundreds or even thousands of convictions in Oregon. Oregon is the only state in America allowing 11-1 or 10-2 jury verdicts in criminal trials, except first-degree murder convictions.
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| UAE minister calls Saudi-UAE coalition a strategic necessity in Yemen Posted: 24 Aug 2019 03:32 PM PDT  "As a result of our strategic relationship with Saudi Arabia, it is the one deciding whether to continue our role in supporting stability in Yemen within the Arab coalition or not," Gargash said in another tweet.
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| Man Who Stopped to 'Assist' Woman Having Car Trouble Accused of Sexually Assaulting Her Posted: 23 Aug 2019 02:51 PM PDT  Police in Monroe County, Indiana are working to identify a suspect in a rape case.
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| Democrats can’t just unwind Trump’s foreign policy Posted: 24 Aug 2019 03:36 AM PDT  Through executive orders, regulatory changes, political maneuvers and sometimes mere neglect, the president has overseen major, possibly permanent, shifts in U.S. foreign policy.
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