| QAnon Says FBI Labeling Them a Terror Threat Just Proves There’s a Deep-State Conspiracy Against Them Posted: 02 Aug 2019 10:51 AM PDT  Scott Olson/GettyOn paper, Thursday was a bad day for followers of the far-right conspiracy theory QAnon. A newly revealed FBI report warned that the theory's followers presented a heightened risk for terrorism. Multiple popular predictions by QAnon followers also failed to materialize.But for hardcore Q followers, the rough week won't shake their faith.The FBI memo, which was published in late May and first reported by Yahoo News, warned of the theory's likelihood to "spread and evolve in the modern information marketplace." So far, the warning has proven true. Despite a series of violent QAnon-inspired incidents and failed Q prophecies, movement followers still say they see nothing wrong with it, and even suggest that the FBI report is part of a conspiracy against them.The memo names QAnon supporters, alongside followers of other fringe political conspiracy theories like Pizzagate, as being likely to carry out extremist acts in the name of their beliefs."One key assumption driving these assessments is that certain conspiracy theory narratives tacitly support or legitimize violent action," the memo reads. "The FBI also assumes, but not all individuals or domestic extremists who hold such beliefs will act on them. The FBI assess these conspiracy theories very likely will emerge, spread, and evolve in the modern information marketplace, occasionally driving both groups and individual extremists to carry out criminal or violent acts."What Is QAnon? The Craziest Theory of the Trump Era, ExplainedQAnon followers believe President Trump's opponents are involved in a vast conspiracy of Satanic child sex-trafficking and cannibalism, and that Q, an anonymous poster on the forum 8chan, is actually a high-level military operative feeding them information on mass arrests that are totally coming this time around. The movement has been suspending its disbelief for nearly two years of unfulfilled promises of purges and revolutions.They saved plenty of skepticism for the very real FBI memo. Maybe the FBI report was fake, a prominent Q peddler suggested on Twitter. (When asked about the memo, the FBI told Yahoo it "routinely shares information with our law enforcement partners.")Other Q followers on Twitter accused FBI Director Christopher Wray of acting against Trump, and suggested that he needed to be fired. A third set suggested the memo was actually good. This crowd claimed the memo was an elaborate ruse to trick the media into asking Trump about QAnon. (For reasons not entirely clear, many QAnon supporters believe that Trump supports QAnon but won't speak openly about it unless asked by a reporter.)But QAnon followers have stuck with their conspiracy theory through other rough patches. The theory's followers have gone on to commit violence, including a follower who led an armed standoff at the Hoover Dam last summer, inspired by his frustration that one of Q's clues never materialized. Months later, a vlogger who made QAnon videos was arrested for allegedly threatening a massacre at YouTube, which he believed was censoring him. In January, a Q believer allegedly murdered his brother with a sword over a conspiratorial idea. Leaders of multiple heavily armed groups on the southern border were led by QAnon believers, who were later arrested for various counts of trespassing and weapons violations. A man accused of murdering a New York mob boss scribbled a Q on his hand in court and claimed to have been motivated by his belief in the conspiracy theory.Despite those incidents, major figures in Trump World have still flirted with the conspiracy theory. "Now do ANTIFA," Donald Trump Jr. tweeted after the FBI memo was revealed, in reference to the anti-fascist movement. (In fact, federal agencies have already released memos about anti-fascists, some of them based on right-wing hoaxes, The Daily Beast previously reported. Figures on the right are currently trying to have the FBI classify the anti-fascist movement as a domestic terror group, something it cannot do because anti-fascism is not a group, and the FBI makes no such domestic classifications. The same holds true for QAnon believers.)At Trump's rally in Cincinnati hours after the memo was revealed, warm-up speaker Brandon Straka invoked one of the movement's slogans. The crowd around him was full of Q shirts and signs.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet 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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| US wants to quickly deploy new missiles in Asia: Esper Posted: 03 Aug 2019 04:34 AM PDT  Washington wants to quickly deploy new intermediate-range missiles in Asia, US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Saturday in a move likely to anger China. The new Pentagon chief said the US was now free to deploy the weapons following its withdrawal Friday from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty with Russia. "Yes I would like to," Esper said when asked if the US was considering deploying new medium-range conventional weapons in Asia.
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| US to pull out thousands of troops under Taliban deal Posted: 02 Aug 2019 04:34 AM PDT  America could withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan in the coming months as part of an initial peace agreement with the Taliban. American and militant envoys meeting in Qatar's capital said they were optimistic of soon clinching a deal to end America's 18-year-old conflict. An initial deal would see US troop numbers fall to as low as 8,000 from their current level of 14,000, the Washington Post reported. In return the Taliban would have to give guarantees Afghan soil would not become a launchpad for transnational terrorist groups like al-Qaeda. They would also begin negotiating with the Afghan government to find a wider political settlement to the world's deadliest conflict. "I would say that they are 80 or 90 percent of the way there," one official told the paper. "But there is still a long way to go on that last 10 or 20 percent." Sources familiar with the talks said argument among the Taliban may still scupper a deal. The militants have until now demanded a full US withdrawal before they talk to Ashraf Ghani's government and it is unclear if hardliners will accept a partial withdrawal to start. Details of how and agreement might be monitored or verified were also still being hammered out. The conflict is now the deadliest in the world Credit: Reuters "Dissension in the Taliban ranks may yet throw spanners in the works. But overall it's positive," said one official. It was not immediately clear if there was progress on the other element of talks, the Taliban's agreement to a ceasefire. Zalmay Khalilzad, Donald Trump's peace envoy, has said until now that a deal cannot be finalised until all the elements, including a truce, are agreed. Casualties have continued to mount steeply as sides in the conflict have continued to fight while negotiating. Mr Khalilzad is under intense pressure to find Mr Trump a way out of the war, which the US president has dismissed as a costly failure. The talks are also overshadowing campaigning for September's the Afghan presidential elections, with candidates unsure whether an election will even be held in the event of a deal.
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| Lowe's to cut thousands of jobs as it seeks to outsource workers Posted: 02 Aug 2019 06:21 PM PDT  Lowe's told thousands of store workers this week that their jobs were being eliminated as the company outsourced tasks.
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| Top Navy SEAL commander writes scathing letter saying the force has a problem in the wake of SEAL scandals Posted: 01 Aug 2019 11:21 AM PDT  Rear Adm. Collin Green wrote a scathing letter to his forces, saying special operators need to shape up in the wake of SEAL scandals.
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| Why Did Two Chinese SU-30 Fighters Fly Within 150 Feet of a Nuclear 'Sniffer' Plane in 2017? Posted: 01 Aug 2019 07:00 PM PDT  A U.S. official told CNN the two Chinese jets came within 150 feet of the U.S. plane, with one flying upside-down directly above it.As reported by CNN a U.S. Air Force (USAF) WC-135 was intercepted by two Chinese Sukhoi Su-30 fighters on May 17, 2017 while flying in international airspace over the East China Sea.According to the statement from Air Force Lt. Col. Hodge, the American flight crew described the encounter as "unprofessional.""While we are still investigating the incident, initial reports from the U.S. aircrew characterized the intercept as unprofessional. The issue is being addressed with China through appropriate diplomatic and military channels," He explained.(This first appeared in 2017.)A U.S. official told CNN the two Chinese jets came within 150 feet of the U.S. plane, with one flying upside-down directly above it.The WC-135 Constant Phoenix, whose mission is looking for distinctive elements a nuclear test of any type would emit into the air, has been regularly deployed on routine missions in Northeast Asia where it has been used to gather evidence of possible nuclear tests by North Korea.
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| Exiled Thai critic attacked with chemicals in Japan Posted: 03 Aug 2019 09:16 AM PDT ![Exiled Thai critic attacked with chemicals in Japan]( "Exiled Thai critic attacked with chemicals in Japan") An exiled Thai critic of the country's military and monarchy said he was attacked in his home in Japan last month and believes Thai authorities were behind the incident, an accusation that was ridiculed by the kingdom's army chief. Pavin Chachavalpongpun, a 48-year-old associate professor at Kyoto University, said he was asleep with his partner when a man broke into their home last month at about 4 a.m. and sprayed the couple with a substance that burned their skin. Neither was seriously hurt, but Pavin said they have been told by police not to return home.
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| Nigel Farage says Trump’s racist attack on Democratic congresswomen was ‘genius’ Posted: 02 Aug 2019 03:23 PM PDT  Nigel Farage has enthusiastically praised Donald Trump's "go back" comments, directed at four congresswomen of colour.The US president's remarks were widely condemned as racist after he told Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, to return to the "broken and crime infested places from which they came".All of the Democrats, known as the Squad, are American citizens. Three of the four were born in the country.Ms Omar, the fourth, arrived in the US as a child refugee.The president described the women as people"who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst, most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world"."Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came?" he asked.Despite the significant controversy generated by the remarks, Mr Farage said the comments were shrewd."I thought, 'Dear, oh dear, oh dear'. You realise, 48 hours on, it was genius because what's happened is the Democrats gather round the Squad, which allows him to say, 'Oh look, the Squad are the centre of the Democratic Party'," he said."He's remarkably good at what he does," Mr Farage added, in an interview with The Times."He does things his way. But he is a remarkably effective operator."Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had condemned Mr Trump's remarks as "racist" at the time, challenging Boris Johnson to do so too during the Conservative leadership contest.Mr Johnson, now the prime minister, refused to, but did describe the comments as "totally unacceptable".Former Ukip leader Mr Farage has also found himself mired in race-related controversy at times in the past.In May 2014, he was accused of a making a "racial slur" against Romanians after he suggested he would be concerned living next to a house of them.Later that year, he used an interview with radio station LBC to defend a Ukip candidate who had used the word "ch**ky" to describe a Chinese person."If you and your mates were going out for a Chinese, what do you say you're going for?" Mr Farage asked presenter Nick Ferarri.Mr Ferarri responded by saying he "honestly would not" use the phrase in such a context."A lot would," Mr Farage replied.
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| Three journalists slain in Mexico in a week Posted: 02 Aug 2019 05:01 PM PDT  Two journalists were shot dead in Mexico Friday, bringing to three the number of journalists killed in the country this week, officials say. Jorge Celestino Ruiz, who worked for the newspaper El Grafico de Xalapa, was killed on Friday night in the violence-plagued state of Veracruz, the mayor of the state's capital Paulino Dominguez told AFP. Ruiz's house was shot at in October and bullets were also "fired at his vehicle to intimidate him," said a police source, who asked for anonymity, and did not give further details.
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| 'Too bad!': Trump jokes about 3 a.m. break-in at Elijah Cummings's home Posted: 02 Aug 2019 07:24 AM PDT  President Trump shared the news of a burglary reported at the Baltimore home of Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings in a sarcastic tweet.
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| Atlanta's confederate monuments: how do ‘context markers’ help explain racism? Posted: 02 Aug 2019 11:00 PM PDT  Symbols dedicated to the south's soldiers have come under debate for not mentioning their roots in racial segregationThe Peace monument in Piedmont Park in Atlanta depicts a Confederate soldier halted by an angel. It was defaced in 2017 after the protests in Charlottesville, Virginia. Photograph: David Goldman/Associated PressAtlanta's monuments to its Confederate past cannot be taken down by law. But the city is now moving to provide much-needed historical context on the realities of slavery, the civil war and the era of Jim Crow segregation that followed.Homages to Atlanta's history crop up in many cemeteries and parks. Little context accompanies those stone memorials with engraved plaques referring to "heroic efforts" and the south's soldiers' efforts to "unite" the country after the civil war. There is no mention of racism or slavery and segregation.But now, Atlanta is placing four new context markers near some of the statues and monuments that will offer a fuller and more honest accounting of the south's history and its legacy of slavery and racism.One marker will go up near the 1935-constructed Peachtree Battle Avenue monument, a simple stone engraved memorial commemorating an 1864 civil war battle stressing peace between the north and south. The new additional panel next to it will point out flaws in the monument's inscription by saying: "[It] describes the United States after the civil war as a perfected nation. This ignores the segregation and disenfranchisement of African Americans and others that still existed in 1935."Another marker, at the Peace monument, built in 1911 in the midst of one of Atlanta's most popular parks, is a large statue of a Confederate soldier halted by an angel. The original plaque explains how a Confederate-era city militia was on a peace mission to unite America after the civil war. The added marker explains how it excludes 200,000 African Americans who served in the US army.Both monuments stress unity between the north and south in the wake of the civil war, but neither plaque commemorating the Confederacy mentions the reason for the war: pro-slavery southern states advocated for secession, wanting to continue the enslavement of African Americans.Both were erected not during the civil war or shortly after, but during the era of Jim Crow laws, enforcing racial segregation."There's a lot of people don't understand these monuments were not really put up right after the civil war," Heidi Bierich, the director of the Innocence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, explained. "[Confederate monuments] were assertions of when white people were gaining more power under Jim Crow, or the Klan in the 1920s. So it was a big old, you know: 'I reject civil rights, I reject black rights.'"Two other monuments in the Oakland cemetery – the Confederate obelisk and the Lion of the Confederacy – will also have markers to contextualize their continued placement on state-owned property. Both are some of the oldest Confederate symbols in the city, with the latter built in 1895 placing an enormous lion statue in the middle of a cemetery of thousands of unmarked Confederate graves. The Confederate obelisk, a looming stone pillar, is the tallest, most prominent focus of the Confederate part of the cemetery.Advocates for these new markers, like Bierich, say the new information panels are more truthful because now visitors won't see a Confederate monument without having some other narrative.They are necessary because a local political struggle over the fate of the monuments ended with them being protected by law, even as some other southern communities took down their Confederate statues.However, Atlanta's National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) president Richard Rose said the city shouldn't have compromised on the monuments. "You can't contextualize racism or compromise on racism," he said, adding that these markers "establish that racism is valid".In 2017, the city's then mayor Kasim Reed formed a committee to review street names and city-owned monuments, just months after white nationalists rallied in Charlottesville in protest at the removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E Lee. Some of those marching had carried white power symbols as a car smashed into anti-racism protesters, killing Heather Heyer.Though the debate around memorials to Confederate history has continued since the violent rallies in Virginia, the 2015 shooting by Dylann Roof at a black church in South Carolina ignited the debate after the gunman posted pictures with the Confederate flag. South Carolina removed the flag from its statehouse grounds, but kept its monuments.The committee advised that Confederate monuments in Georgia be moved to storage, but a recent law signed by Republican governor Brian Kemp makes it illegal to remove any monument on property owned by the state. The NAACP denounced the law, saying the monuments "glorify treason and a hateful history of black subjugation, reinforced through domestic terrorism".Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia, according to the SPLC, also have similar laws in place to protect Confederate monuments from removal.Of the seven states banning the removal of Confederate monuments, Atlanta is the only city within them to add context via plaques.Sheffield Hale, president and chief executive of the Atlanta History Center, said the markers – paid for in part by the center – help address the issue, but they are not a permanent solution."I do think it gives [people] a starting point, which is sorely needed right now, in our society, as a way to deal with contentious issues. Let's argue about the facts, let's put them down on paper – or on a marker – and have a conversation about them," he said.The final line to be added alongside the Peace monument is certain to do just that."This monument should no longer stand as a memorial to white brotherhood; rather, it should be seen as an artifact representing a shared history in which millions of Americans were denied civil and human rights," it says.But just miles from downtown Atlanta, the largest memorial of the Confederacy in the US still looms over the city with no context and a laser light show highlighting the state's most visited attraction. That is Stone Mountain, where families picnic under the gaze of a gigantic carving of Confederate leaders.
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| Sunk Your Battleship: How Russia's Su-57 Stealth Fighter Is a Navy Killer Posted: 02 Aug 2019 09:49 AM PDT  "Today the enterprise is working on developing an active homing warhead for the promising anti-ship missile that is planned to be carried by the Su-57 fighter as well," Krivoruchko said.Russia is designing an anti-ship missile for its Su-57 stealth fighter.But is hunting ships the best mission for such an advanced aircraft?Deputy Defense Minister Alexey Krivoruchko made the announcement while visiting the Detal Design Bureau, which is developing a new anti-ship missile, according to Russian news agency TASS.(This first appeared in June 2019.)"Today the enterprise is working on developing an active homing warhead for the promising anti-ship missile that is planned to be carried by the Su-57 fighter as well," Krivoruchko said."A working meeting was held on the premises of the Detal Design Bureau to discuss the issue of signing a contract with Tactical Missiles Corporation on acquiring the entire range of air-launched weapons for the Su-57 fighter jets," TASS said.
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| Joe Biden 'surprised' by fellow Democrats attacking Obama's legacy at debates Posted: 01 Aug 2019 12:08 PM PDT  "I don't think there is anything he has to apologize for," the former vice president said. "It kind of surprised me, the degree of the criticism."
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| Ukrainian president's staff chief tries to quit after two months Posted: 02 Aug 2019 02:46 AM PDT  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff sent in a letter of resignation, after two months in his job, but Zelenskiy has not signed it, according to a statement on the presidential website on Friday. Mystery has surrounded the status of Andriy Bogdan, the head of the presidential administration, since Thursday evening. The local news agency Interfax Ukraine had reported Bogdan's resignation but later retracted the story.
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| A$AP Rocky arrives back in US after release from Swedish prison amid looming assault verdict Posted: 03 Aug 2019 03:09 AM PDT  Rapper A$AP Rocky has returned to the US amid a looming verdict in an assault case against him in Sweden. The 30-year-old, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, was released from jail in southern Sweden on Friday by judges who are mulling a verdict against him and two other Americans that is expected on 14 August. Nearly a month after his arrest in Stockholm, Los Angeles media reported the artist was among a number of people shown emerging from a private plane at Los Angeles International Airport. Along with David Rispers Jr and Bladimir Corniel, the rapper is accused of beating 19-year-old Mustafa Jafari on 30 June outside a fast food restaurant in central Stockholm. Mayers, who had been jailed since his 3 July arrest, pleaded not guilty at the start of the three-day trial on Tuesday. One of the witnesses to the assault revised her story from initial police reports, testifying Friday that she did not actually see Mayers hit Jafari with a bottle – a key focus of the trial. She and a friend, testifying anonymously at Stockholm District Court, both maintained they did see Mayers and his partners assaulting Jafari, however. "Everything happened very quickly. We were scared for our lives," the first woman told the court in Swedish. "He (Jafari) was bleeding. He showed his injuries on his hand. He also said he had a sore back." Mayers said he acted in self defence when Jafari and another man would not leave them alone. Mayers' bodyguard, Timothy Leon Williams, also testified Friday, sharing a story similar to what the rapper told the courtroom when he took the stand earlier in the week. Williams said he asked Jafari to "go away" when he approached the group a second time outside the restaurant. "I knew something's not right about him. I'm noticing it because I'm a bodyguard," Williams said in English. "And now, I'm looking at him like, 'Yo, what's wrong with you?' I'm looking at him and saw that his eyes were really glossy, like he's on something." Mayers had also testified earlier this week that he suspected Jafari and his friend were under the influence of some drug, which officials have not yet commented on. The case has attracted the attention of prominent figures, from Justin Bieber to Donald Trump. Mr Trump, who caused a stir in US-Swedish diplomatic relations after publicly offering support to the Grammy-nominated artist, celebrated the temporary release. "It was a Rocky Week, get home ASAP A$AP!" the US president said in a tweet. Swedish prime minister Stefan Lofven heard an appeal from Mr Trump in July, but said he could not interfere in a legal case. Robert O'Brien, a US special presidential envoy sent to monitor the court proceedings, stressed that Washington was "grateful that I got to attend and observe the judicial process" in Sweden. But in a leaked diplomatic letter sent to the Swedish Prosecution Authority on 31 July, obtained by CNN, Mr O'Brien was rather more threatening, when he warned of "potentially negative consequences" if the case failed to be resolved "as soon as possible". The letter requested Mayers be immediately released from prison and instead placed under house arrest at a local Stockholm hotel.After learning they would be released, the three suspects shared hugs as some of the public gathered inside the courthouse loudly cheered. Mayers' mother, Renee Black, was present throughout court proceedings and was with her son when he was released. The rapper shared an emotional post on Instagram after he was released, thanking his fans for their support during this "very difficult and humbling experience". "Thank you from the bottom of my heart to all of my fans, friends and anyone across the globe who supported me during these last few weeks," Mayers wrote."I can't begin to describe how grateful I am for all of you. This has been a very difficult and humbling experience. I want to thank the court for allowing me, Bladi and Thoto to return to our family and friends. Thanks again for all of the love and support."Additional reporting by AP
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| Maldives police arrest ex-vice president who fled to India Posted: 03 Aug 2019 07:11 AM PDT  Maldives police said Saturday that they arrested a former vice president who had sought asylum in India after fleeing the Indian Ocean archipelago nation to avoid questioning over the alleged embezzlement of state funds and were bringing him back to the Maldives. Former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb fled the Maldives and arrived by boat at southern India's Tuticorin port on Thursday. On Saturday, Maldives police confirmed that Adeeb had been arrested.
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| Navy identifies Lemoore pilot killed in crash in Death Valley National Park Posted: 02 Aug 2019 07:11 PM PDT  The Navy has identified the Lemoore pilot killed in a crash in Death Valley National Park earlier this week.
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| 1969 Plymouth Road Runner Heads To The Auction Block Posted: 01 Aug 2019 04:07 PM PDT  It will be at the Saratoga Auto Auction this fall. The Saratoga Auto Auction will take place at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center this fall from Friday, September 20, 2019 through Saturday, September 21, 2019. The beautiful red 1969 Plymouth Road Runner convertible you see here will be crossing that auction block. This Road Runner is a numbers-matching classic powered by a 383 cubic-inch V8 engine mated to a four-speed manual transmission. It's just one of 769 models produced in that configuration for 1969. This beauty also has Edelbrock carbs with the factory intake and exhaust. It pushes out a satisfying 335 horses so you can really feel the wind in your hair.The Plymouth Road Runner was a mid-size car that was manufactured between 1968 and 1980; its main focus was on performance. By the year 1968, some of the original muscle cars increased in price as they gained more features. Plymouth decided to counter this trend by developing the Road Runner and marketing it with a lower price; it fell below the upscale GTX model.The 1969 model retained its look for the most part, but with slight changes to the taillights, grille, and side marker lights. Optional bucket seats were offered and the model sported new Road Runner decals. The Road Runner also added a convertible option for 1969 with 2,128 such models produced–all with the 383 cubic-inch motor and just ten with the 426 Hemi. Production numbers were broken down further according to the transmission type.This Plymouth Road Runner convertible was treated to a frame-off restoration and is in excellent condition. Just look at that stunning scorch red exterior with black stripes and the contrasting white top. The interior is also white and gives off added contrast when the top is down. You can register to bid on this classic right here. Read More: Show-Quality Silver Platinum 1969 Plymouth Road Runner 1970 Plymouth Road Runner Will Drive You Plum Crazy
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| North Korea’s 13,000 Deadly Artillery Pieces: The Real Threat Trump Should Fear? Posted: 02 Aug 2019 12:28 AM PDT  "Even without using nuclear weapons, North Korea has the capacity to unleash a devastating level of violence against a significant portion of the ROK population through some mix of conventional artillery and possibly chemical munitions," according to a January 2019 report from RAND, a California think tank with close ties to the U.S. military.North Korea on May 4, 2019 test-fired a short-range ballistic missile \-- its first major launch in the 18 months since North Korean leader Kim Jong Un suspended missile testing ahead of a summit with U.S. president Donald Trump.Pyongyang on May 9, 2019 launched a second "projectile," South Korean officials said.(This first appeared in May.)The May tests of at least one apparently nuclear-capable short-range missile startled foreign observers and threatened to elevate tensions between the United States and its allies South Korea and Japan on one side and, on the other side, North Korea and its main patron China.But a less dramatic test of North Korea's heavy artillery that occured at the same time as the May 4 rocket launch arguably is more important.
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| Almost 30 people jump off boat into shark-filled waters after fire: 'All hell broke loose' Posted: 02 Aug 2019 09:58 AM PDT  About 30 passengers and crew members on a small boat in the Galapagos had to jump into shark-filled waters last month after a fire broke out on board.
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| Trump drops spy chief pick Ratcliffe and mulls a replacement Posted: 02 Aug 2019 11:24 AM PDT  President Donald Trump on Friday dropped his choice of John Ratcliffe to be U.S. spy chief after questions arose about the congressman's lack of experience and possible exaggerations in his resume, marking the latest upheaval over a top national security post. Trump announced the move five days after he surprised many in Washington by making the conservative Republican lawmaker from Texas his selection to replace Daniel Coats as director of national intelligence, a post that oversees the 17 U.S. civilian and military intelligence agencies including the CIA. According to a source familiar with the situation, Trump is considering Republican Representatives Michael McCaul and Devin Nunes for the job.
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| El Salvador’s new president celebrates country’s first day without a murder for two years Posted: 02 Aug 2019 03:23 AM PDT  El Salvador's new president has touted a rare day without a homicide in the small Central American nation where such violence is a part of daily life. The last day of July proved somewhat of an exception, when not a single killing was recorded – only the eighth murder-free day in 19 years.The last time it went a full day without was more than two years ago – on 13 January 2017, and again two years previously on 22 January 2015, with another in 2013 and two in 2012, Al Jazeera previously reported. President Nayib Bukele, who is in his second month in office, announced the occasion for his often violent-riddled nation. The attorney general's office and the mortuary confirmed the president's comments that there were no homicides on Wednesday 31 July. Justice minister Rogelio Rivas said there were a total of 154 killings in July – down from 291 during the same month last year.Criminologist Ricardo Sosa said a murder-free day has only been witnessed eight times since the year 2000.Mr Sosa said while this could be seen as a sign that Mr Bukele's efforts against gang violence were working, the challenge would be sustaining the results.The new president, who announced he'd won the elections in February this year, ahead of assuming office in June, has pledged to improve security and encourage youth away from a path of crime. In July, he launched a new security strategy called "Secure El Salvador" to tackle crime and violence. The plan, which Mr Bukele had flagged earlier in the year, has five objectives; to prevent crime and violence; improve the justice system; do more to rehabilitate criminals; provide greater protections for victims; and strengthen institutions keeping citizens safe. The security plan would be carried out over the next few years, starting in Ciudad Delgado where it was launched, before expanding into other cities and municipalities. El Salvador has what Human Rights Watch has described as one of the world's highest homicide rates. The organisation said gangs played a large part in this as they exercised territorial control. "Gangs kill, disappear, rape or displace those who resist them, including government officials, security forces, and journalists," it said. "Security forces have been largely ineffective in protecting the population from gang violence and have committed egregious abuses, including the extrajudicial execution of alleged gang members, sexual assaults, and enforced disappearances."The government attributes the cause of the violence on turf wars between the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang and its rival gang Barrio 18, who it said were involved in drug trafficking and organised crime.It also estimated there are about 60,000 gang members across El Salvador.Additional reporting by Associated Press
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| Jesse Jackson pays homage to Roma at Auschwitz ceremony Posted: 02 Aug 2019 12:11 PM PDT  American civil rights activist the Rev. Jesse Jackson prayed and mourned at Auschwitz-Birkenau on Friday as he joined survivors paying homage to an often-forgotten genocide — that of the Roma people — on a key 75th anniversary. In addition to the 6 million Jews killed in death camps such as Auschwitz, the Nazis killed other minorities during World War II, including between 250,000 and 500,000 Roma and Sinti. Broadly speaking, Sinti are people who arrived from India and settled in Western and Central Europe many centuries ago, while Roma are centered largely in Eastern Europe.
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| Wild footage captures bat flying around Spirit Airlines plane midflight Posted: 02 Aug 2019 11:03 AM PDT  A shocking video that allegedly shows a bat flying around a Spirit Airlinesplane midflight has gone viral
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| Canada raises detained citizens with China Posted: 02 Aug 2019 11:52 AM PDT  Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Friday she had spoken to her Chinese counterpart in their first public meeting since the countries became embroiled in a diplomatic spat over two Canadians detained in China. Freeland told reporters she brought up the arrests of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor with Wang Yi during a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Thailand.
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| 'There was no way that they could've survived': A Boeing 737 Max victim’s mom and brother are demanding justice from the FAA (BA) Posted: 02 Aug 2019 10:27 AM PDT  Samya Stumo was 24 years old when the Boeing 737 Max she was on crashed in Ethiopia. Now her family is demanding justice from the FAA.
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| Hindu nationalist group says India unlikely to accept China-led trade deal Posted: 02 Aug 2019 04:11 AM PDT ![Hindu nationalist group says India unlikely to accept China-led trade deal]( "Hindu nationalist group says India unlikely to accept China-led trade deal") India is unlikely to sign a China-backed Asia-Pacific trade pact because of opposition from industry and farmers, a powerful nationalist group tied to Prime Narendra Modi said on Friday, in a blow to prospects for creating a giant free trade zone. Trade ministers from 16 countries are trying this week to negotiate the terms of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in Beijing in a new effort to break down barriers in an area home to 45 percent of world population. The Hindu nationalist group, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, said there was little support in India for the treaty.
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| James Comey: Justice Department will not charge former FBI director in spite of Trump attacks Posted: 01 Aug 2019 02:00 PM PDT  The Justice Department has declined to prosecute the former FBI director James Comey over how he dealt with his own memos containing "confidential" information, which was shared with the media after being fired from his post by Donald Trump.The decision was announced on Thursday, shortly after the department's inspector general referred Mr Comey for potential prosecution, and just hours after Mr Trump shared a Fox News clip suggesting that the intelligence official had been caught "red handed" with information he should not have had in his home."Director Comey was so self-righteous in telling the world that he didn't leak, he didn't do sneaky things, and he knew the law better than anybody else," Jason Chaffetz, a former Republican congressman and frequent Fox News contributor, said during the clip shared by the president.He continued: "But, when the FBI goes to your home and gets memos that reveal, evidently, we have to see if this is true, but confidential and classified information. You can't just take that information and ... Have it personally."The memos – first revealed in May 2017 by the New York Times – were written by Mr Comey contemporaneously after interactions with the president that February when Mr Trump asked him to shelve an investigation into the former national security advisor Michael Flynn for lying about meetings he had with Russian officials.> pic.twitter.com/0Zx9wr3MoP> > — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) > > August 1, 2019
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| A man drowned on his honeymoon in Florida. It was his first time swimming in the ocean. Posted: 01 Aug 2019 02:19 PM PDT  For Dalton Cottrell and Cheyenne Hedrick, "three days of wedded bliss turned into a nightmare very quickly," Hedrick wrote on Facebook.
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| Airport strikes: More than 100 flights cancelled at Heathrow Airport ahead of first wave of walkouts Posted: 02 Aug 2019 11:16 AM PDT  More than 100 flights have been cancelled at Heathrow Airport next week, as holidaymakers brace themselves for the first of a wave of strikes set to scupper their travel plans. Security guards, firefighters and engineers are among those staging crippling walkouts on Monday and Tuesday at the height of the summer getaway period. The strikes, orchestrated by the UK's largest union Unite, are expected to hit almost 90,000 passengers and lead to the cancellation of around a fifth of flights from the west London airport. Heathrow Airport say they have cancelled 172 flights so far and are advising passengers to arrive two or three hours before their flight's depart time to avoid lengthy queues at security. Further disruption is expected at Gatwick Airport on August 10 and 11, when security workers will walk out for 48 hours in a dispute over "poverty pay" rates. Meanwhile last ditch talks to avert British Airways' first pilot strike for 40 years will continue into next week. Negotiations between pilots union the British Airline Pilots' Association (Balpa) and the airline failed to yield an agreement today, with representatives from both sides last night tight-lipped on proceedings. The talks follow a failed attempt by BA earlier this week to seek a legal injunction to block industrial action by pilots. Last ditch talks to avert British Airways' first pilot strike for 40 years will continue into next week Credit: Steve Parsons/PA Unite today rejected a revised pay offer for Heathrow's frontline workers in a ballot involving 4,000 of its members. The dispute arose from anger over pay disparities between airport workers doing the same job and the "massive pay package" of the airport's CEO John Holland-Kaye. Unite claim Mr Holland-Kaye earns in two days what some of the lowest paid Heathrow security guards earn in a year. It says he received a 103.2 per cent pay increase last year, with his basic remuneration package rising from £2.097 million in 2017 to £4.2 million in 2018. The union warned Heathrow that if the pay dispute was not settled then they faced paying out millions of pounds in compensation to airlines for cancelled flights. Unite, which could stage two further strikes on August 23 and 24, say airlines could receive a total of £4.6m in compensation if their passengers are unable to board flights. It previously suspended a two-day strike planned for July 26 and 27 to consult with it's members and hold a vote on the deal. Now the vote has taken place, last-ditch talks to avert planned strikes on Monday and Tuesday will begin. Wayne King, Unite's regional coordinating officer, said: "All the indications are pointing to an overwhelming rejection by our members of the revised offer which, in reality, offers little more than the £3.75 extra a day that the original offer did for many workers. "If members do reject the pay offer and Heathrow bosses dig their heels in, then there is a risk the airport is seen to prefer paying millions in compensation to airlines and needlessly causing misery for the travelling public, instead of sorting the dispute by going the extra mile and giving its workforce a decent pay rise." A Heathrow spokesperson said: "We are disappointed that Unite has rejected the latest pay offer and will continue to seek an agreement at ACAS. Unite is proceeding with its unnecessary strike action on 5th and 6th August and we regret that passengers looking to get away on well-earned breaks will be impacted by this. "We have activated contingency plans which will keep the airport open and safe on both strike days. We expect security queue times to be slightly longer than normal and advise passengers to check our website for detailed information on how to prepare for their flights and when to arrive at the airport. "As part of our plans, we are working with airlines to proactively consolidate flights and rebook passengers onto alternative services in advance. We also advise passengers to contact their airlines for the latest information, as well as follow our Twitter and Facebook accounts for further updates." The spokesperson refuted claims that airlines could be paid compensation. "In addition to this, the suggestion that the salary of our CEO has doubled over the past year is also inaccurate. All managers (including our CEO) received a 2.4pc increase to base salaries last year. In that same year, all participating Heathrow colleagues, which included security officers, benefited from additional payments as a result of a multi-year, company-wide savings and performance programme," the Heathrow spokesperson said.
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| Taiwan president's bodyguard smuggling scam implicates 76: spy agency Posted: 01 Aug 2019 05:34 PM PDT  More than 70 members of Taiwan's presidential security detail have been swept up in a cigarette smuggling scandal, the island's spy agency announced Friday, as its chief took the unusual step of appearing in public to vow a crackdown. The scandal first erupted last month when the customs administration said that an agent within President Tsai Ing-wen's entourage tried to bring in 9,800 cigarette cartons as he returned from an official trip accompanying the island's leader to the Caribbean. The agent pre-ordered the cigarettes online in Taiwan, stored them at an airport warehouse, and then planned to smuggle them past customs onto government vehicles as Tsai's motorcade left, authorities said.
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| The U.S. Army Is Going All in on a High-Powered Laser Weapon Posted: 02 Aug 2019 03:14 AM PDT  After years of testing out a low-energy Stryker-mounted directed energy system, the Army is formally pushing for a combat-ready laser weapon to blast enemy drones and ordnance out of the sky in the next four years.The Army is officially accelerating the prototyping and fielding of four Stryker vehicles outfitted with 50 kW-class laser weapons by fiscal year 2022, the service announced on July 26, a ten-fold increase over the 5 kW-class system that artillery soldiers have been testing in Germany since early 2018.The new laser prototype, know as the Multi-Mission High Energy Laser (MMHEL), is "intended to protect maneuvering Brigade Combat Teams from unmanned aerial systems (UAS), rotary- wing aircraft, and rockets, artillery and mortar (RAM)" as part of the Army's ongoing development of its Maneuver-Short Range Air Defense (M-SHORAD) capabilities, the service said.
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| Power outage cancels flights at Southern California airport Posted: 02 Aug 2019 10:18 PM PDT  John Wayne Airport in Southern California canceled all flights after a power outage left all its terminals in the dark late Friday.
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| Republicans fear backlash from voters over Trump’s dismissal of climate change Posted: 03 Aug 2019 03:44 AM PDT  When election time comes next year, Will Galloway, a student and Republican youth leader at Clemson University, will look for candidates who are strong on the mainstream conservative causes he cares about most, including gun rights and opposing abortion.But there is another issue high on his list of urgent concerns that is not on his party's agenda: climate change."Climate change isn't going to discriminate between red states and blue states, so red-state actors have to start engaging on these issues," said Mr Galloway, who is heading into his sophomore year and is chairman of the South Carolina Federation of College Republicans. "But we haven't been. We've completely ceded them to the left."While Donald Trump has led the Republican Party far down the road of denying the scientific consensus of human-caused climate change, Mr Galloway represents a concern among younger Republicans that has caught the attention of Republican strategists.In conversations with 10 Republican analysts, consultants and activists, all said they were acutely aware of the rising influence of young voters like Mr Galloway, who identify climate change as a top priority. Those strategists said lawmakers were aware, too, but few were taking action."We're definitely sending a message to younger voters that we don't care about things that are very important to them," said Douglas Heye, a former communications director at the Republican National Committee. "This spells certain doom in the long term if there isn't a plan to admit reality and have legislative prescriptions for it."Mr Trump has set the tone for Republicans by deriding climate change, using White House resources to undermine science and avoiding even uttering the phrase. Outside of a handful of states such as Florida, where addressing climate change has become more bipartisan, analysts said Republican politicians were unlikely to buck Mr Trump or even to talk about climate change on the campaign trail at all, except perhaps to criticise Democrats for supporting the Green New Deal.That, several strategists warned, means the party stands to lose voters to Democrats in 2020 and beyond – a prospect they said was particularly worrisome in swing districts that Republicans must win to recapture a majority in the House of Representatives.The polling bears out Mr Heye's prediction of a backlash. Nearly 60 per cent of Republicans between ages 23 and 38 say that climate change is having an effect on the United States and 36 per cent believe humans are the cause. That is about double the numbers of Republicans older than 52.But younger generations are also now outvoting their elders. According to a Pew Research Centre analysis, voters younger than 53 cast 62.5 million votes in the 2018 midterm elections. Those 53 and older, by contrast, were responsible for 60.1 million votes."Americans believe climate change is real, and that number goes up every single month," Frank Luntz, a veteran Republican strategist, told a congressional panel recently.He also circulated a memo to congressional Republicans in June warning that climate change was "a GOP vulnerability and a GOP opportunity."A Harvard University survey of voters younger than 30 found that 73 per cent of respondents disapproved of Mr Trump's approach to climate change (about the same proportion as those who object to his handling of race relations). Half the respondents identified as Republican or independent."Here's another gap between our party and younger voters," said a recent report by a Republican polling firm, Public Opinion Strategies. Speaking of younger Republicans, the firm concluded that "climate change is their most important issue" and called the numbers "concerning" for the party's future.The full effect will quite likely not be felt until after the 2020 election cycle. Mr Trump's campaign appears to have identified a strategy for winning re-election that relies on polarising the electorate on issues like race, immigration and, it seems, climate change. But conservatives said the long-term implications of that gambit were worrisome for the future of the party and the planet."He gets to set the national platform," Joseph Majkut, director of climate policy at the Niskanen Centre, a centre-right research organisation, said of Mr Trump. But, he noted, "Every year that goes by, where people are going about their lives as if greenhouse gas emissions are a matter of very small concern, we make the problem worse for ourselves."Mr Galloway and 45 other young Republicans with the American Conservation Coalition, a group that advocates for conservative environmental policies, brought that message to Washington last month when they lobbied Congress to address greenhouse-gas emissions with free-market solutions."You can be sceptical of climate change all you want, but young people aren't, and there's no way conservatives are going to win elections if we don't deal with climate change," said Benjamin Backer, the coalition's founder and president.The Washington Post
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| Parents sue school, fraternity brother after sons' suicides Posted: 01 Aug 2019 02:59 PM PDT ![Parents sue school, fraternity brother after sons' suicides]( "Parents sue school, fraternity brother after sons' suicides") The parents of two students who killed themselves at a Truman State University fraternity house are suing the Missouri school, the fraternity and a fraternity member who they claim encouraged the suicides. The joint lawsuit filed Wednesday in Adair County also links the fraternity member to two other suicides in the same academic year and a fifth death that remains under investigation, The Kansas City Star reported. The parents of Alexander David Mullins, of Kansas City, and Joshua Michael Thomas, of St. Louis, allege in their lawsuit that the school and others knew their sons struggled with depression and didn't act to protect them before they killed themselves at the Alpha Kappa Lambda House.
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| Battle Brews to Dump Jim Crow-Era Voting Rules in Deep South Posted: 02 Aug 2019 08:25 AM PDT  (Bloomberg) -- Mississippi has the highest percentage of African Americans of any state in the U.S. It hasn't elected a black official statewide in more than 130 years. Jennifer Riley Collins wants to break that streak.To become Mississippi's first black attorney general, Collins, a decorated U.S. Army colonel and civil rights lawyer, is getting help from the country's first black attorney general, Eric Holder. He's leading a lawsuit aimed at the state's 1890 constitution, which more than a century later still has provisions expressly crafted to stop African Americans from getting elected.If successful, the federal suit would scrap rules requiring candidates for statewide office to win both more than 50% of the popular vote and more than half the state's 122 state legislative districts -- two-thirds of which are majority white. If a candidate doesn't meet both conditions, the state House of Representatives chooses the winner regardless of who got the most votes.As racial divisions emerge as a subtext in the 2020 U.S. presidential race, the litigation could rewire the power structure in one of the nation's reddest states. Even if unsuccessful, it is bringing fresh attention to an extreme example of voter suppression: In Mississippi, racial animus isn't just a subtext. It's codified in the text that governs the state, lawyers and state politicians say."Our system was specifically designed to minimize the chances of an African-American being elected to statewide office in Mississippi,'' said Democratic House Minority Leader David Baria.The U.S. Supreme Court blessed partisan-drawn political boundaries in a June ruling, six years after the court weakened minority-voting protections across the U.S. But Mississippi stands out as an example of the consequences of gerrymandering on steroids."I can't think of another law I've been involved in challenging that was put in place specifically to discriminate against black voters and would have such a profound statistical effect on their ability to elect a state official statewide,'' said Marc Elias, who is involved in the Holder case and is considered one of the country's top Democratic elections attorneys.Sharing a fish dinner with two colleagues at the wood-paneled Parlor Market near the Capitol in Jackson, Baria said the state's election system is outrageous even among "the other racist states.''"Even Alabama doesn't do this,'' added lawmaker Earle Banks.The Holder suit was filed against Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann and Speaker of the House Philip Gunn, both Republicans. In a response to the suit, attorneys for them rejected the claims of racial intent."Neither the Speaker nor the Secretary wish to defend the motivations behind a law allegedly enacted with racial animus," the response stated. "However, both the allegations in the complaint and the timing of its filing demonstrate that this lawsuit is not about race, and it is not about vindicating alleged wrongs to plaintiffs' rights to vote -- it's about partisan politics."The Mississippi power structure has survived both the Democrats who created it and the Republicans who now oversee it.But just this week a federal appeals court affirmed a ruling that Mississippi's legislature illegally gerrymandered a state Senate district in 2012 by adding a portion of a wealthy predominantly white county to the poorer Delta counties to dilute black voters there. About a third of the state's African-Americans live in the Delta region.The fight in Mississippi is part of a larger political battle over voting rights prompted by the changing demographics of the electorate. Holder is fighting gerrymandering across the U.S. with his National Democratic Redistricting Committee, which Elias said looks for "provisions that are going to affect the voting rights of individuals in ways that could, down the road, affect redistricting.''In Mississippi, the voting-eligible black population is nearly 37% of the total -- the highest of any state, according to the most-recent U.S. Census.'Control of White People'The white men who penned the state constitution -- then part of the segregationist Democratic Party -- made no secret of their intent, saying openly that they wished to blunt African Americans' post-reconstruction political power. Mississippi's senior U.S. senator at the time, James George, called the 1890 constitutional convention to create a governing document that would ensure "a home government, under the control of the white people of the state.''The constitution used proxies for race to discriminate against black voters without saying so outright in its text. Most have been outlawed over time.The surviving provisions are the target of two federal lawsuits: Holder's, which was filed by the Mississippi Center for Justice in Jackson, and a consolidated suit by the justice center and the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center. The latter targets language intended to strip voting rights from black felons but not whites. Daniel Jordan III, a federal judge appointed by President George W. Bush, granted that suit class-action status in February.Almost one in 10 Mississippi adults was disenfranchised in 2016 (the most recent statistics), more than triple the national rate. Nearly 16 percent of the state's African-American adults have lost their voting rights, according to The Sentencing Project.'Socially Estranged'The fight over Mississippi's constitution reflects a national one over how easy it should be to vote. Democrats have pushed convenience while Republicans have advocated stricter limits in the name of preventing voter fraud, including President Donald Trump's short-lived election integrity commission in 2017.The issue for both major political parties is the population growth of demographic groups across the nation that have traditionally voted for Democrats, at the same time the recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions have cleared the way for a new wave of restricting voter participation, said Greg Magarian, a constitutional law professor at Washington University in St. Louis."The Supreme Court's racial-jurisprudence has been getting more conservative for 50 years,'' he said.States have enacted voting restrictions that -- like Mississippi's constitution -- don't explicitly say they target minorities but disproportionately affect them, even as they hurt some poorer whites, too. "They target the socially estranged, or people without driver's licenses or who don't know how to use government documents,'' Magarian said.Partisan gerrymandering, which the Supreme Court legalized in June, also serves as a proxy for illegal racial gerrymandering, he said.Even if the effort is driven by partisanship rather than racial intent, the effect is the same, he said: "I wouldn't be surprised if some of these conservative lawmakers don't have a racist bone in their bodies. But you screw over the Democrats, you're screwing over African-Americans.''Mississippi makes it harder to vote than any other state, according to a study published last year in Election Law Journal, a peer-reviewed legal publication focusing on voting rights. Gerrymandering, a strict voter ID law, and deep legislative disinterest in making voting easier all contribute, as do the surviving barriers in the state constitution, said Corey Wiggins, director of the Mississippi NAACP.'Furtive' OffensesThe lawsuit that includes the Southern Poverty Law Center challenges a constitutional list of crimes that cost felons the right to vote. It was designed to capture the mostly non-violent felonies historically believed to be more common among blacks. A state Supreme Court opinion in 1896 declared that the black population was "careless, landless ... and its criminal members given rather to furtive offences than to the robust crimes of the whites." Today, theft costs Mississippi felons the vote. Aggravated assault does not.The constitution's authors provided a remedy – for whites. To get voting rights back, an ex-convict must find a legislator willing to sponsor a bill in his name, get it passed by two thirds of both the House and Senate and signed by the governor. The intent was a fix "for white men who could negotiate the system,'' according to historian Dorothy Pratt, whose book on the 1890 convention, "Sowing the Wind," is cited in both constitutional challenges.The provision targeted in the Holder lawsuit has a broader effect. Today, an African-American backed candidate for statewide office needs 55 percent of the popular vote to win enough districts to clear the constitutional hurdle, the suit says.Holder's group has looked at the data and found the discriminatory law could have "a real effect on electoral outcomes this year,'' says Elias. "It's a fairly unusual circumstance.''One of the likeliest beneficiaries is white – and could directly impact Holder's long term goal. Mississippi attorney general Jim Hood, the only Democrat in statewide office now, is in a tight race for governor, an office with veto power over redistricting maps.His current campaign statement: "The candidate with the most votes should win, period.''Collins, the attorney general candidate and former executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Mississippi, also stands to benefit if it succeeds. She hopes the state settles."I think Mississippi is ready to move forward," Collins said in an interview at her downtown Jackson campaign office. "We just have to make sure that barriers that were intentionally put in place to exclude or marginalize one community over another are torn down."(Updates with today's outcome of a federal voting rights lawsuit in paragraph 13.)\--With assistance from Michael Sasso.To contact the reporters on this story: Margaret Newkirk in Atlanta at mnewkirk@bloomberg.net;Erik Larson in New York at elarson4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Anita Sharpe at asharpe6@bloomberg.net, Flynn McRobertsFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| 10-Year-Old Girl Crashes Mom's SUV While Driving Herself to McDonald's Posted: 01 Aug 2019 02:36 PM PDT  Kansas City police say a 10-year-old girl went to the hospital Wednesday morning after she crashed her mom`s SUV into a minivan and electrical box while trying to go to McDonald's.
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