| Woman tosses Molotov cocktail into Fla. Citizenship office Posted: 31 Aug 2019 10:35 AM PDT ![Woman tosses Molotov cocktail into Fla. Citizenship office]( "Woman tosses Molotov cocktail into Fla. Citizenship office") A woman tossed a lit Molotov cocktail into the lobby of a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Oakland Park, Florida. No one was reported injured, according to a report of the incident sent to Trump administration officials and viewed by The Associated Press. Law enforcement officials believe the woman intended to cause harm but the incident wasn't related to other ones where Homeland Security agencies were targeted.
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| Rapists who target drunk women cannot be charged with rape under New York law, prosecutor says Posted: 01 Sep 2019 09:38 AM PDT  The scenario is unfortunately common: A woman goes to a bar and chooses to have several drinks. Later that night, she becomes a victim of sexual assault.In New York, Manhattan's top prosecutor says, the assaulter can not be charged with a sex crime because of a legal loophole stipulating that someone who becomes voluntarily intoxicated is not considered "mentally incapacitated" for purposes of giving consent.
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| Flights cancelled after Hong Kong protesters target airport Posted: 31 Aug 2019 05:02 PM PDT  More than a dozen flights were cancelled Sunday as thousands of pro-democracy activists blocked routes to Hong Kong's airport, a day after protesters and police fought pitched battles in some of the worst violence seen in the city since unrest began three months ago. At least 16 flights were cancelled, the airport's website said, with the departure hall packed with a backlog of passengers who had struggled to make it to the terminals. Earlier, operators of the Airport Express train suspended services after the station was besieged, while black-clad protesters -- hiding from CCTV cameras under umbrellas -- built barricades at the bus terminus and attempted to stop traffic on the main road leading to the facility.
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| 'Very, very powerful': Trump briefed on Hurricane Dorian as storm becomes Category 5 Posted: 01 Sep 2019 10:28 AM PDT  President Donald Trump on Sunday described Hurricane Dorian as "one of the biggest hurricanes that we've ever seen" as he took part in a FEMA briefing.
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| Pope Francis trapped in Vatican lift for 25 minutes Posted: 01 Sep 2019 08:44 AM PDT  It has long been claimed by supporters of the Catholic faith that God moves in mysterious ways. But so, apparently, does Pope Francis's personal lift in the Vatican - which broke down on Sunday, trapping the world's most powerful clergyman inside for 25 minutes. The 82-year-old pontiff had to be freed by Vatican firefighters after an electrical fault brought his tiny private lift to a halt inside the ornate Apostolic Palace. He arrived about 10 minutes late for his regular Sunday audience after the rescue team was called to repair the lift and to free him. "I have to apologise for being late, but there was an accident," the pope said with a smile. "I was trapped inside an elevator for 25 minutes." "Thank God the firefighters arrived, I want to thank them so much." The firefighters were quickly summoned from their station inside the Vatican walls just a few hundred yards from where the pontiff was trapped. Once freed, the relieved pontiff asked the pilgrims gathered in the square to give the fire brigade a round of applause. The small private lift is known as the "little elevator of Pope Sixtus" because it links the courtyard named after the 16th century pope to the lavishly decorated papal apartment which Francis has shunned since his election in 2013. Pope Francis shaking hands with France's Cardinal Philippe Barbarin Credit: AFP He lives at the Santa Marta residence inside the Vatican walls but continues the tradition of blessing the crowds from the palace window every Sunday. In a separate statement on Sunday, Francis called for urgent action to stop the planet's environmental destruction and warned the Amazon was "gravely threatened" in a reference to the fires that have recently ravaged the region. He challenged governments to take "drastic measures" to combat global warming and reduce the use of fossil fuels, saying the world was experiencing a climate emergency. He blamed "sin, selfishness and a greedy desire to possess and exploit" for the damaging effects of climate change in a message to mark the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. It is not the first time the Catholic Church's first Latin American pope has lashed out about the damage caused by the Amazon fires. Last week he called for united action to extinguish the fires saying "that lung of forests is vital for our planet". The pope said the upcoming UN Climate Action Summit was of particular importance. "There, governments will have the responsibility of showing the political will to take drastic measures to achieve as quickly as possible zero net greenhouse gas emissions and to limit the average increase in global temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius with respect to pre-industrial levels, in accordance with the Paris Agreement goals." Francis has made environmental protection one of the hallmarks of his papacy and openly clashed with climate change skeptics like American President Donald Trump, who took the US out of the Paris climate accord. "We have caused a climate emergency that gravely threatens nature and life itself, including our own," said Francis, the leader of the world's 1.3 billon Roman Catholics.
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| Watch a man brazenly light a cigarette at gunpoint during an armed robbery Posted: 31 Aug 2019 01:19 PM PDT  If you think you're cool under pressure, you've got absolutely nothing on a St. Louis man who -- in a scene that could have easily been part of a Tarantino movie -- calmly and brazenly lit a cigarette while the bar he was in was being robbed.Not only that, our fearless hero refused to let the robber snatch his smartphone away. All the while, the robber was carrying around an assault weapon that was later revealed to be a Hi-Point Carbine. If that sounds familiar, the Hi-Point Carbine was one of the weapons used during the 1999 Columbine school shooting.The robbery itself was captured on video and shows all the other bar patrons smartly take immediate cover. Our cigarette toting hero, meanwhile, doesn't seem to show the tiniest ounce of concern or fear.What's more, he doesn't even flinch when the robber went around the bar and briefly pointed his weapon in his direction. Indeed, in a bad-ass demonstration of resolve, it was at this moment that he lit a cigarette, with seemingly no regard for his own well-being or St. Louis' indoor smoking laws. Even when another bar patron has a gun shoved into his back, the anonymous smoker remains incredibly calm while continuing to smoke."He just was very adamant about it like, 'I'm not playing your game," bartender Dustin Krueger told KMOV4 News.The video was shared to Facebook by the bar owner and can be viewed below.https://www.facebook.com/jkimack/videos/10213714436204738/As to how it all played out, the robber managed to escape with a handful of wallets, some cash, and a few cell phones. His total haul was said to be a few hundred dollars. Notably, and thankfully, no one in the bar was injured during the ordeal. A witness to the robber relays that the perpetrator appeared to be on some type of drug.
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| Peter Mandelson pictured with Jeffrey Epstein in 2005 Posted: 31 Aug 2019 03:26 AM PDT  Pictures of Peter Mandelson shopping with billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein in the Caribbean have emerged.The photos of the former British MP and cabinet minister with the long accused financier were published by The Daily Mail on Saturday.
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| UPDATE 2-Russia says U.S. strikes in Syria's Idlib put ceasefire at risk - reports Posted: 01 Sep 2019 01:58 AM PDT ![UPDATE 2-Russia says U.S. strikes in Syria's Idlib put ceasefire at risk - reports]( "UPDATE 2-Russia says U.S. strikes in Syria's Idlib put ceasefire at risk - reports") Russia's military said the United States had mounted air strikes in Syria's Idlib without forewarning Moscow or Ankara, endangering a ceasefire there, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday. The strikes without a heads-up in the "de-escalation zone" breached previous agreements and caused several casualties, TASS news agency cited the Russian defence ministry as saying. It said Russian and Syrian warplanes had fully suspended raids against insurgents in Idlib province in northwest Syria, after declaring a ceasefire that started on Saturday morning.
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| US blacklists Iran oil tanker in Mediterranean Posted: 30 Aug 2019 06:42 PM PDT  The United States on Friday blacklisted the Iranian oil tanker Adrian Darya following repeated warnings over its valuable oil cargo. The US Department of Treasury on Friday said the vessel is "blocked property" under an anti-terrorist order, and "anyone providing support to the Adrian Darya 1 risks being sanctioned". Lebanon had earlier dismissed Turkish claims that it would receive the ship, which has a cargo of 2.1 million barrels worth around $140 million.
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| Trial date set for men charged with 9/11 attacks Posted: 31 Aug 2019 08:53 AM PDT  Dr. James Mitchell personally interrogated the men charged with plotting the 9/11 attacks. He says Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would kill almost 3,000 people all over again if given the chance.
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| 9 Arizona State students from China detained at LA airport, denied admission to U.S. Posted: 31 Aug 2019 07:50 AM PDT  The students were "denied admission to the U.S. to continue their studies" and were sent back to China, ASU said.
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| Germany Seeks Forgiveness From Poland 80 Years After WWII Start Posted: 01 Sep 2019 04:58 AM PDT ![Germany Seeks Forgiveness From Poland 80 Years After WWII Start]( "Germany Seeks Forgiveness From Poland 80 Years After WWII Start") (Bloomberg) -- Germany made an emotional appeal for forgiveness to neighboring Poland 80 years after the start of World War II that was met by a renewed demand for reparations by the fellow European Union member's prime minister.U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, filling in after a cancellation by President Donald Trump, praised Poland's wartime heroism at the commemoration and said the evils of Nazi and Communist totalitarianism amounted to a period in history when men had "forgotten God."German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, visiting the town of Wielun, Poland, where Nazi bombers caused the first large-scale civilian casualties of the conflict in an air raid on Sept. 1, 1939, said his country won't forget the past and takes responsibility for the war's terror and atrocities."I bow my head before the victims of the attack on Wielun, I bow my head in front of the Polish victims of German tyranny and ask for forgiveness," Steinmeier said, first in German and then in Polish, at an event hosted by his counterpart Andrzej Duda.The ceremonies to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the start of the world's bloodiest conflict gathered about 40 delegations in Warsaw on Sunday, including Pence, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Trump canceled, saying he was needed in the U.S. as Hurricane Dorian threatened to cause widespread damage in the southern Atlantic states.'Twisted Ideologies'In his speech near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw, Pence said "no one fought with more valor, determination and righteous fury than the Poles" during the world's bloodiest conflict.Poland's Duda said the world hasn't learned its lesson from World War II, mentioning genocides in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, as well as recent territorial incursions by Russia in Ukraine and Georgia.Pence condemned the "twisted ideologies" of the the 20th century, which led to "the death squads, the concentration camps, the secret police, the pervasive lies of state propaganda machines, the destruction of churches and the endless hostility to people of faith."At a separate ceremony in Gdansk commemorating an attack on Poland from the Baltic Sea, Polish Premier Mateusz Morawiecki returned to the controversial topic of wartime reparations. He called on his nation's western neighbor and biggest trading partner to take "responsibility" for the economic costs of its invasion and occupation.Earlier this year, a Polish special parliamentary group published a preliminary study that showed the six-year conflict may have cost the Polish economy more than $850 billion -- or nearly two years of the eastern European country's output. The German government has said all claims were settled long ago.Compensation Demand"We have to remember the victims and we have to demand compensation," Morawiecki said.Unlike western European nations that settled World War II claims in the decades after the war, Poland says it was effectively prevented from doing so by its communist-era overlord Moscow. Poland signed its post-war border treaty with Germany only in 1990, a year after the Iron Curtain came down.Calls for reparations from the 1939-1945 conflict, during which about 6 million Poles -- half of them Jews -- were killed, have soured ties between Warsaw and Berlin since 2017. Poles claim that a 1953 declaration by communist authorities wasn't a sovereign decision but one made by a puppet regime of the Soviet Union.The one-sided declaration was made "in accord with the constitutional order of that era, and amid potential pressure from the Soviet Union, and can't be recognized," the Polish government said in 2004.(Updates with Pence's comments from second paragraph.)To contact the reporters on this story: Marek Strzelecki in Warsaw at mstrzelecki1@bloomberg.net;Justin Sink in Washington at jsink1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Andrea Dudik at adudik@bloomberg.net, Wojciech Moskwa, Michael WinfreyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| California deputies rescue wailing bear trapped in dumpster Posted: 30 Aug 2019 02:24 PM PDT  When a late-night trip to a trash container left a wailing bear cub stuck inside near a Lake Tahoe motel, deputies were called upon to help the cub reunite with its family. The cub can be heard crying from inside the metal dumpster in video recorded by Placer County Sheriff's deputies on Tuesday. It then climbs on the side of the trash container but fails to open the heavy lid.
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| ICE says it will not conduct immigration enforcement operations in affected areas during Hurricane Dorian Posted: 31 Aug 2019 05:32 AM PDT  A spokesman for the federal agency said in a statement Friday that "we must stand as one community to focus on aiding the victims."
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| Kamala Harris Attended LA Fundraisers The Same Day She Missed Endorsement Interview Posted: 30 Aug 2019 12:35 PM PDT  Ethan Miller/GettySen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) had been scheduled to participate in a question-and-answer session with the left-wing Working Families Party on August 22 as part of the organization's endorsement process. She did not attend, and as a result of missing the session—and not being able to reschedule before a planned endorsement vote next month—she is now out of contention for the party's endorsement, as first reported by NBC News. That same day, Harris did appear at two California fundraisers, respectively hosted by actress Jessica Alba and MGM Motion Picture Group President Jon Glickman and Bridgid Coulter, the CEO of Blackbird Collective, an outfit focused on providing workspaces for women of color. Harris' campaign told The Daily Beast that it did not miss the Q&A; because of the fundraisers. But her scheduling choices still sparked confusion at the WFP. "We don't know how the campaign makes decisions," Rob Duffey, national communications director for WFP told The Daily Beast. "We were willing to be flexible on time and locations, however, and we are disappointed they didn't find a time to hear questions from our members."According to a source with the party who was familiar with the scheduling process, the group spent about a month trying to coordinate the session with Harris, even offering to do it in the Los Angeles area to accommodate her campaign schedule. According to a release sent out on August 12, the conversation was scheduled for 6:30 PM EST on August 22 and was to last for an hour. The Harris campaign canceled the WFP session two days prior to the day it was supposed to be taped. And a Harris spokesperson confirmed to NBC News that the Senator would not be able to do the Q&A; prior to the group's endorsement vote next month. This is not the first time a Harris fundraiser has led to questions about campaign priorities. Two weeks ago, the Senator was accused of missing a climate forum to attend a fundraiser. She ultimately moved her schedule around amid the public outcry. The Working Families Party is a left-wing political party that sprung up in New York in 1998, but has spread into active chapters throughout the country. It was first organized as a labor-backed coalition and has advocated for a $15 minimum wage and Medicare for All. It's unclear whether Harris' careful co-opting of some of the party's major progressive priorities would have won the party over, particularly as their members have a broad array of more historically progressive candidates from which to choose. Still, the Senator had been among six presidential contenders up for WFP's endorsement. The other five, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro already conducted their Q&A;'s with the group. In the 2016 primary, WFP chose to back Sanders though they eventually supported Hillary Clinton when she became the Democratic nominee. 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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| Two Former New York Detectives Avoid Jail, Given Probation For Sex With Teen They Held In Custody Posted: 30 Aug 2019 03:52 PM PDT  The officers had arrested an 18-year-old who admitted to having marijuana on her person
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| German media, lawmakers point finger at Moscow over executed Georgian Posted: 31 Aug 2019 09:32 AM PDT  Despite Russian denials, German politicians and media are blaming Moscow for the Berlin assassination of a Georgian who once fought Russian forces in Chechnya, an affair that could spark a diplomatic crisis. One security source, in comments to German weekly Der Spiegel, described the killing as a second Skripal affair -- referring to the attempt on the life of a former Russian agent in England last year. On Friday, August 23, German police arrested a 49-year-old suspect from Russia's Chechnya republic, shortly after Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, 40, had been shot dead.
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| Judges say travelers can sue TSA over screener mistreatment Posted: 30 Aug 2019 04:24 PM PDT ![Judges say travelers can sue TSA over screener mistreatment]( "Judges say travelers can sue TSA over screener mistreatment") A U.S. appeals court says travelers can sue the government over mistreatment by federal airport screeners because the agents can act like law enforcement officers, including when they conduct invasive searches. The 9-4 decision Friday by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned earlier rulings and is a setback for the Transportation Security Administration and its screeners. The government is generally immune from lawsuits, but a federal law lets people sue over the actions of officers who can conduct searches and arrest people.
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| Chinese national carrying bulletproof vest denied entry to US possessed ‘significant cache of firearms’ Posted: 31 Aug 2019 07:19 AM PDT  A Chinese national who was denied entry to the United States after officials discovered ballistic armour in his luggage possessed a "significant weapons cache" at his US residence, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said on Friday.A photo of the weaponry sent to The Independent by CBP showed at least five guns, several high-capacity magazines and attachments used to make semiautomatic weapons fire faster, commonly known as "bump-stock" devices.
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| Iran official says U.S. showing "some flexibility" on oil sales Posted: 31 Aug 2019 12:46 AM PDT ![Iran official says U.S. showing "some flexibility" on oil sales]( "Iran official says U.S. showing \"some flexibility\" on oil sales") A senior Iranian official said on Saturday the United States had shown flexibility on the licensing of Iranian oil sales and this was a sign that Washington's "maximum pressure" policy against Tehran had been defeated, state media reported. French President Emmanuel Macron paved the way at a G7 summit a week ago for a potential diplomatic solution to a confrontation between the United States and Iran brewing since President Donald Trump withdrew Washington last year from world powers' 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran.
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| China tells Philippines it won't recognize ruling on sea row Posted: 30 Aug 2019 06:41 PM PDT  Chinese President Xi Jinping told his Philippine counterpart that Beijing will not recognize an international arbitration ruling that has invalidated most of China's claims to virtually the entire South China Sea, the Philippine leader's spokesman said. The row over the disputed waters — a major global shipping route thought to be rich in oil and gas reserves — has for years marred China's relationship with the Philippines and other neighboring countries with rival territorial claims. Beijing has transformed a string of disputed reefs into missile-protected island bases.
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| Hurricane Dorian heading to the Bahamas: What we know about its latest path Posted: 31 Aug 2019 08:53 PM PDT  The strengthened storm bears down on the Bahamas but may turn north before hitting Florida directly.
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| Israel fires across border after anti-tank missiles launched from Lebanon Posted: 01 Sep 2019 07:22 AM PDT  Israel said it was returning fire Sunday after anti-tank missiles were launched at its territory from Lebanon, raising fears of a serious escalation with Hizbollah after a week of rising tensions. "A number of anti-tank missiles were fired from Lebanon towards an (Israeli military) base and military vehicles," an Israeli army statement said. "A number of hits have been confirmed. (Israel's military) is responding with fire towards the sources of fire and targets in southern Lebanon." After the initial reports of fire from Lebanon, a military spokesman called on Israelis living within four kilometres (2.5 miles) of the Lebanese border to remain at home and prepare shelters. Tensions have risen in the last week between Israel and its enemy Hizbollah, the Lebanese Shia movement backed by Iran. Tension between Israel and Lebanese militant group Hizbollah continues to escalate Credit: ATEF SAFADI/EPA-EFE/REX Hizbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said Saturday the group's response to an alleged Israeli drone attack on the group's Beirut stronghold had been "decided". The pre-dawn August 25 attack involved two drones - one exploded and caused damage to a Hizbollah-run media centre and another crashed without detonating due to technical failure. Israel has not claimed responsibility for the incident. The attack in Lebanon came just hours after Israel launched strikes in neighbouring Syria to prevent what it said was an impending Iranian drone attack on the Jewish state.
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| Nunes: There is no excuse for an FBI director to be this dirty Posted: 30 Aug 2019 04:37 PM PDT  Brennan, Clapper defend Comey in wake of IG report; Rep. Devin Nunes weighs in.
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| Sudan court charges Bashir with illegal use of foreign funds Posted: 31 Aug 2019 04:51 AM PDT  A Sudanese court on Saturday charged ousted president Omar al-Bashir, on trial for corruption, with illegal acquisition and use of foreign funds, offences which could put him behind bars for a decade. Judge Al-Sadiq Abdelrahman said at the third session of Bashir's trial that foreign funds of multiple currencies were found at his home. Authorities had "seized 6.9 million euros, $351,770 and 5.7 million Sudanese pounds at (Bashir's) home which he acquired and used illegally," the judge said.
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| Texas shooting toll rises to 7: local media Posted: 01 Sep 2019 09:11 AM PDT  The death toll in a mass shooting that unfurled chaotically on highways in western Texas has risen to seven, local media reported Sunday, citing authorities. Police had said Saturday that five people died and 21 were wounded in the extended shootout on roads between the cities of Midland and Odessa. The assailant died in a shootout with police outside an Odessa movie theater.
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| Man who served 36 years in jail for stealing $50 from bakery to be finally freed Posted: 31 Aug 2019 08:54 AM PDT  An Alabama man who served 36 years in prison for stealing $50.75 (£41 today) from a bakery will finally be released.Alvin Kennard was given a life sentence without parole in 1983 after being convicted of first degree robbery.
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| UPDATE 1-Iran shows off undamaged satellite after failed launch Posted: 30 Aug 2019 10:14 PM PDT ![UPDATE 1-Iran shows off undamaged satellite after failed launch]( "UPDATE 1-Iran shows off undamaged satellite after failed launch") Iran showed off an undamaged satellite on Saturday, days after a rocket exploded on its launchpad in the third failed launch of the year, which U.S. President Donald Trump had tweeted about hours earlier. The United States has warned Iran against rocket launches, fearing the technology used to put satellites into orbit could help it develop the ballistic missile capability needed to launch nuclear warheads, though Tehran denies its activity is a cover for such development. On Friday, Trump posted on Twitter a photo of what appeared to be the site of a failed Iranian satellite launch, raising questions about whether he had disclosed U.S. surveillance secrets.
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| Statue honors Dane credited as Nanjing Massacre lifesaver Posted: 31 Aug 2019 08:20 AM PDT ![Statue honors Dane credited as Nanjing Massacre lifesaver]( "Statue honors Dane credited as Nanjing Massacre lifesaver") A statue of a Danish citizen who is credited with saving thousands of people in China during the Japanese invasion that led to the Nanjing Massacre was unveiled by Denmark's queen on Saturday. Queen Margrethe II revealed the three-meter (10-foot) bronze statue of Bernhard Arp Sindberg at a park in Aarhus, the city where he was born in 1911. Designed by Chinese and Danish artists, the statue was a gift from the city of Nanjing, which was the capital at the time of the massacre in December 1937 and January 1938.
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| Hurricane Dorian upgraded to ‘extremely dangerous’ storm as it nears Florida and Bahamas Posted: 31 Aug 2019 01:39 AM PDT  Hurricane Dorian has ratcheted up to an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm as it slowly makes its way to the Bahamas and the east coast of Florida.Millions of people in the Bahamas and Florida, including the state's Walt Disney World and NASA's Kennedy Space Centre, may soon be finding themselves in the crosshairs of the hurricane.
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| The Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ Is the Perfect Phone for Writers, Note-Takers and Scribblers Posted: 30 Aug 2019 11:58 AM PDT  It's got a great camera and brilliant screen to boot
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| 'Sickening and troubling': Senators press VA for top-to-bottom probe in suspicious death scandal Posted: 30 Aug 2019 02:57 PM PDT  Lawmakers want to see what the Veterans Affairs Inspector General concludes about suspicious deaths at a West Virginia VA hospital before taking action.
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| Ohio attorney general sues to stop upcoming opioid trials Posted: 01 Sep 2019 05:48 AM PDT ![Ohio attorney general sues to stop upcoming opioid trials]( "Ohio attorney general sues to stop upcoming opioid trials") Upcoming trials seen as test cases for forcing drugmakers to pay for societal damage inflicted by the opioid epidemic should be delayed until Ohio's own lawsuits against the drugmakers can be heard, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost argued in a lawsuit. Yost, a Republican, said attempts to force drugmakers to pay should come in a single state action to allow equal distribution of money across Ohio. The Ohio trials, involving claims brought by Cuyahoga and Summit counties in northeastern Ohio, are scheduled for October.
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| EU's Barnier says Brexit deal cannot be changed Posted: 31 Aug 2019 03:05 PM PDT  EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said Saturday the bloc will not change the divorce deal agreed with Britain and that he is "not optimistic" of avoiding a no-deal outcome. Barnier said the most contentious element of the agreement, the so-called backstop mechanism aimed at keeping the Northern Irish border open in all circumstances, must remain. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who took power last month, has called for the provision to be scrapped in order to reach a new deal ahead of the country's latest October 31 departure date.
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| 5,000 bodies found in unmarked graves in Mexico since 2006 Posted: 30 Aug 2019 01:54 PM PDT  Nearly 5,000 bodies have been found in more than 3,000 unmarked graves since Mexico deployed the army to fight drug trafficking in 2006, the government said Friday in its first comprehensive report on the carnage. Mexico has been hit by a wave of violence since launching the so-called "drug war," and activists and family members of the country's 40,000 missing persons have been denouncing mass graves for years. It found 3,024 unmarked graves nationwide, with at least 4,974 bodies, Karla Quintana, head of the national search commission for missing persons, told a news conference alongside President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on International Day of the Disappeared.
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| How Trump Can Win the Trade War Posted: 31 Aug 2019 06:00 PM PDT  (Bloomberg Opinion) -- If the trade war's objective is to even the playing field for American firms, President Donald Trump isn't going about it the right way. China's easy access to U.S. dollars over the past decade has fueled asset bubbles, driven an overseas debt binge and laid the groundwork for its low-cost, export-driven economy. Only cutting off the supply of cheap money will reverse this.So while Trump is pressuring Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to cut interest rates – questioning the central bank chief's patriotism and calling him "a bigger enemy than Xi Jinping" – the way to wring equitable behavior out of China is for the Fed to hold the line.Fundamentally, money will go where it can find yield. And however much capital the world has to spare, China has shown an appetite to absorb it. During the most expansive years of quantitative easing in the U.S., foreign money seeking yield went into China labeled as "trade" and "investment."From 2009 to 2014, China may have taken in as much as $2 trillion in hot money spewing from the Federal Reserve's low interest-rate policy. My company looked at just one measure – the over-invoicing of exports via Hong Kong – in just one year, 2013, and found $390 billion of such flows into China.Since Beijing's capital controls, at the time, aimed to shut out foreigners eager to bet on a steadily strengthening yuan, speculators looked for bypasses: For example, some trading companies in China would inflate the value of their exports, enabling more money to enter the country as "export receipts." Exaggerated foreign direct investment was also a popular channel for incoming speculative money, as was debt.China's economic story begins and ends with liquidity; with so many dead assets that have to be refinanced every year, the country requires an ever-growing supply of capital. Much more than cheap labor, this cheap capital is what has created bargain-basement export goods. It also fosters anti-competitive behavior. Domestic companies can operate at a much lower cost than their U.S. counterparts, and they are rewarded in capital markets, despite growing evidence of intellectual-property theft.Consider what a decade of near-zero interest-rate policy has done for China:IPOs: Chinese companies listed in the U.S. now have a value of about $890 billion. Not even the high-profile delistings and fraud charges against China MediaExpress Holdings Inc. and Sino-Forest Corp. could drain the hype for the IPOs of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., JD.com Inc. and Vipshop Holdings Ltd. Bonds: Investors hungry for yield have lapped up bonds issued by China's riskiest companies. That's enabled firms such as junk-rated China Evergrande Group, one of the country's most indebted developers, to continue tapping U.S. markets. Chinese firms have raised more than 90% of the high-yield Asian dollar debt issued this year. Mainland developers have about $110 billion in offshore junk-rated debt outstanding. Dumping: A steady flow of dollars into China fueled an investment splurge that supported the manufacturing of ultra-cheap exports, from DVD players and TV sets to solar panels. China's history of leniency toward borrowers – its first onshore default was in 2014 – meant firms were able to sell their goods at cut-rate prices without worrying about how they'd pay back their loans.All this means that the best way to curb Chinese excess is to limit the availability of the dollar. Trump's demand that Powell cut rates by one percentage point is counterproductive to what appears, anyway, to be the goal of the trade war. There are other, more targeted measures that the U.S. can pursue in tandem. These include: Halting new Chinese IPOs in the U.S. American regulators have already ramped up scrutiny over such listings, which have tumbled to $2.8 billion so far this year compared with $29.1 billion in 2014. The U.S. needs to close the door to all share sales until China agrees to enable investigation and prosecution of fraud by listed companies. Requiring that American auditors and stock regulators have access to the audit papers of Chinese companies that are part of U.S.-listed entities, under penalty of delisting. The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, a Washington-based non-profit that scrutinizes audits, also should be permitted to review its members in China, a goal the Securities and Exchange Commission highlighted in recent commentary. Taxing incoming Chinese (and other foreign) investment. U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin and Josh Hawley in late July submitted a bill that would allow the Fed to impose a flexible tax on capital inflows. This measure would make it less attractive to park money in U.S. assets, thereby shrinking the capital account imbalance, and by extension, the trade deficit.Depending on whether Trump gets his rate cut, China's slowdown will be fast or slow. By enabling new stimulus, cheap dollars would give the Chinese more rope to hang themselves with. Holding the line will mean Chinese austerity and unemployment. In that case, there would be no way out of economic recession other than an ambitious program of economic reform.To contact the author of this story: Anne Stevenson-Yang at anne@jcapitalresearch.comTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Rachel Rosenthal at rrosenthal21@bloomberg.netThis column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.Anne Stevenson-Yang is co-founder and research director of J Capital Research Ltd., a provider of investment advisory services.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinion©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| Second rescue boat heading to Lampedusa in potential new stand-off with Rome Posted: 31 Aug 2019 10:08 AM PDT  A second migrant rescue boat is heading towards the south Italian island of Lampedusa, potentially creating another stand-off with Italian authorities who are banning non-governmental organizations from bringing migrants ashore. Italy's outgoing interior minister Matteo Salvini has imposed a closed ports policy in the last year to stem illegal immigration from North Africa, calling for other European countries to share responsibility for refugees' shelter. The Alan Kurdi boat, operated by the German Sea-eye NGO, will remain outside Italian territorial waters and is still waiting for instructions, a Reuters witness on board said on Saturday.
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| Protesters block roads near Hong Kong airport Posted: 01 Sep 2019 07:23 AM PDT  Anti-government protesters blocked roads near Hong Kong's airport with burning barricades and damaged a train station Sunday after a night of violent clashes with police. Train and some bus service to the airport on the outlying island of Chek Lap Kok were suspended. Hong Kong has been the scene of tense anti-government protests for nearly three months.
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| Pro-life group claims Facebook is falsely labeling their post as fake news Posted: 31 Aug 2019 08:03 AM PDT  Live Action founder Lila Rose says that Facebook is using abortionists as fact-checkers.
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| Man told Starbucks barista his name was Aziz and she put ‘Isis’ on his cup Posted: 31 Aug 2019 05:59 AM PDT  In the same city where a Starbucks employee last year called police on black men for sitting quietly, two men in Islamic dress walked into a different Starbucks store for a drink.Niquel Johnson paid for three drinks in Philadelphia on Sunday, and in typical Starbucks fashion, an employee asked for his name. Mr Johnson, 40, told them "Aziz," his Islamic name pronounced ah-zeez. He has used it for 25 years - and "countless" times at that particular store.
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| 7 dead, more than a dozen injured in Odessa, Midland, Texas shooting: Here's what we know now Posted: 01 Sep 2019 10:00 AM PDT  The shooting occurred between Odessa and Midland after a routine traffic stop turned violent around 3 p.m. local time Saturday.
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| Dorian strikes Bahamas as dangerous Category 5 storm Posted: 01 Sep 2019 10:52 AM PDT  McLEAN'S TOWN CAY, Bahamas (AP) — Hurricane Dorian struck the northern Bahamas on Sunday as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, its 185 mph winds ripping off roofs and tearing down power lines as hundreds hunkered in schools, churches and other shelters. The second-strongest Atlantic hurricane since 1950, Dorian hit land in Elbow Cay in the Abaco Islands after authorities made last-minute pleas for those in low-lying areas to evacuate. Millions from Florida to the Carolinas kept a wary eye on the slow-moving Dorian amid indications it would veer sharply northeastward after passing the Bahamas and track up the U.S. Southeast seaboard.
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| Opposition supporters defy ban, march on Moscow Posted: 31 Aug 2019 07:21 AM PDT  Chanting "This is our city", Russian opposition supporters marched in central Moscow Saturday in defiance of a protest ban, just a week before controversial elections in the capital. Under the watchful eye of police, hundreds participated in the so-called "March against political repressions", shouting out demands including: "Freedom to political prisoners!". Moscow police said turnout was about 750, while Russian media gave a figure of several thousand people.
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| Inside The Metropolitan Community Church, Which Has Been Telling LGBTQ People God Loves Them For 50 Years Posted: 01 Sep 2019 02:33 AM PDT  GettyThe 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots was the rightful heart of this summer's World Pride celebrations. But a lesser-known 50th anniversary predating Stonewall, a golden jubilee year for a gay group that went all but unmentioned at World Pride, had arguably as great a foundational impact on national and global queer politics: the October 6, 1968 founding of the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC, for short) in Los Angeles by an activist minister named Troy Perry. March With Joy, Anger, and Power: Why Stonewall 50 and World Pride Is So Important to LGBTQ PeopleOn that day, responding to an ad in a somewhat ragtag newsletter for West Coast homosexuals called The Advocate—which would go on to become the influential magazine it is today—a dozen people gathered in Reverend Troy Perry's living room to observe the defrocked minister, a man expelled from his Florida church for homosexual tendencies, preach a gay-affirming sermon and administer communion. "It was a Mass and a mess," Perry recalled, later on. "Everybody was scared to death," Perry continued, recalling the terror that police would raid the service as an unlawful gathering and arrest the parishioners as sex criminals. Although that first service would be spared, police intimidation of MCC congregations became customary as their church spread its wings. "We always got bomb threats," Perry recalled in a recent sermon. "The police would come in with the dogs, and they'd say, 'Get out!'" In October 1973, the Indianapolis Police Department raided an MCC prayer meeting and conducted a mass arrest of parishioners for "frequenting a dive." Being gay and Christian, for many in the late 1960s and early 1970s, seemed an abominable, and at times unlawful, contradiction. Presently, although the mass of organized religion is anti-LGBTQ, a majority of queer Americans are not in fact anti-religion. A 2014 Religious Landscape Study by Pew surveyed 35,000 LGB respondents: 59 percent said they were religiously affiliated, and about 50 percent identified as Christian. A 2016 PRRI study put the numbers at 54 percent religious and 44 percent Christian, but the data is striking. Flip a coin in a random gay setting, and you're just as likely to find a believer than not. Such a paradox can seem unbearable for both queer atheists, who wish their community would reject the "traditional values" of mainstream religions, and for right-wing Christians seeking to purge sexual and gender minorities from their ranks and then discredit their reputations. As a standout example, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg's faith affirmations and respectability politics, especially in relation to his same-sex marriage, has met with animus from Evangelical leaders such as Franklin Graham, who stated that being a gay Christian was "something to be repentant of, not to be flaunted," and from gay New Republic writer Dale Peck, who called Buttigieg "a gay parody of heteronormative bourgeois domesticity." As The Daily Beast's Tim Teeman revealed, conservative commentator Erick Erickson has been inordinately focused both on Buttigieg's gay sex life, and his criticism of evangelicals who supported President Trump.* * *Perry's Metropolitan Community Church grew exponentially in its first year, expanding to more than 200 members and moving into a Hollywood theater. As noted in my book Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation, Perry's pastoral work proved revolutionary in that he appended formal spirituality to a nascent social movement—Gay Liberation—that previously lacked a religious center. Although gay-friendly churches had existed in the U.S. since at least 1946, with the founding of the Eucharistic Catholic Church in Atlanta, the MCC represented the first gay religious network that merged a spiritual function with a platform for social action. For example, in April 1969, Perry led his church in protest of State Steamship Lines when the company fired an employee for publicly declaring his homosexuality. Perry founded his church, it should be noted, in an era when homosexuality remained criminalized in every state except Illinois and vastly unpopular to most citizens, about seventy percent of whom deemed homosexuality to be "anti-American" or "always wrong" when polled. No employment or housing protections existed to protect sexual minorities, and those arrested for "crimes against nature" could face immediate termination and then prosecution for felony charges with mandatory prison sentences. By early 1970, with reverberations of Stonewall inspiring a wellspring of national activism, the MCC fellowship boasted eight congregations across seven American cities. Its surge, in fact, mimicked the spread of affinity cells for political organizations such as the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) and, later, the Gay Activists Alliance (GAA). Addressing his flock in the first MCC newsletter that April, Perry asked of Christendom, "What of the homosexual? Did you weep when one of us was beaten to death by the Police in Los Angeles?... Does it upset you that there are riots in New York?" Not all gay groups, however, welcomed the notion of a gay-friendly Jesus. Gay activist and publisher Charley Shively, who infamously burned a Bible at the 1977 Boston Pride events, wrote, "Christianity is the enemy," and an editorial writer argued, when the MCC expanded into Toronto, that "Christian belief and gay liberation are contradictory." The "June 28th cell" of the Gay Liberation Front remained outspokenly anti-religious even though, ironically, they met on Sunday nights in the Manhattan basement of Church of the Holy Apostles. Notwithstanding the rancor from within and without the movement, in June of 1970, Perry co-founded a Los Angeles parade to advance the Stonewall legacy. Called Christopher Street West, in honor of what happened on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village that previous June, it was the first "Pride parade," with street closures and a city-sanctioned route, in American history.An estimated 2,000 people, according to Perry, drove their floats and walked their pets down Hollywood Boulevard. That same weekend, several thousand homosexuals marched to Central Park to celebrate "Christopher Street Liberation Day"; one activist attested to The New York Times that gays have "gained a new pride." Gay groups in Chicago and San Francisco, where MCC missions had taken hold, also held public demonstrations. It was a moment of union for a nascent movement, in which the religious and irreligious took part. Contentiously, especially for gay liberationists opposed to both matrimony and monogamy, Troy Perry performed what Time magazine described as the first public same-sex marriage ceremony—called a "holy union"—in the United States mere months after the first MCC service. By 1969, an MCC holy union would become the basis of our nation's first lawsuit seeking legal recognition of a same-sex marriage, and in 1971 Life magazine devoted an article to homosexual religion that declared, "Perry is willing to 'marry' homosexual couples, though the marriages are not recognized as legal by existing laws in any state." By 1972, the MCC had blossomed to 24 congregations and missions, including one in London, and Troy Perry, with his trademark sideburns and pink clerical collar, had become a regular media presence—perhaps the most recognizable gay face in the world. Such attention, of course, provoked backlash. 1973 would be a year of fire for the MCC faithful. "We were sorely tried by the torch," Perry observed in his annual State of the Church report. First in late January, an "intentional fire of suspicious origin" destroyed the MCC Mother Church in Los Angeles. In March, the MCC of Nashville went up in flames, again with arson suspected. (MCC churches are still targets; as the Durango Herald reported, earlier in August the Albuquerque, New Mexico, MCC was vandalized, leading to hundreds of dollars in repairs.)Then on June 24, 1973, fire eviscerated the Up Stairs Lounge, a second-story gay bar in New Orleans with close ties to the local MCC congregation. This intentionally set blaze claimed the lives of 32 patrons, including one third of the MCC of New Orleans membership. It was the deadliest fire on record in New Orleans history and the largest mass killing of homosexuals in U.S. history—a record that would stand for 43 years. Devastatingly, the blaze also gutted the ranks of local MCC leadership, including a deacon named Mitch Mitchell and a pastor named Bill Larson, whose charred body was left on display in a street-facing window for at least four hours. Larson had been New Orleans' only "out" gay public figure at the time of the inferno, in a city where gay leaders still used nicknames or pseudonyms to avoid legal and professional blowback for their private lifestyles. Some local gays took the treatment of Larson's charred corpse to be a warning from authorities: Stay hidden. Troy Perry, leading Los Angeles Pride celebrations on Santa Monica State Beach, was alerted to the crisis in New Orleans within minutes by a national telephone network. Perry sensed what he later described as a "vacuum of gay leadership that needed to be filled." Perry rallied a bicoastal delegation of MCC ministers and Gay Liberation leaders, including Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) affiliate Morty Manford and Gay Community Services Center of Los Angeles president Morris Kight. They flew to New Orleans the following morning to manage the emergency. These efforts would represent Gay Liberation's first nationally coordinated response to a catastrophe. The New Orleans Emergency Task Force, as Morris Kight dubbed their delegation, also organized Gay Liberation's first national fundraising drive to help the Up Stairs Lounge victims.Administered by The Advocate, this fund raised some $17,000 (or about $100,000, in modern spending capacity) to help pay for funerals and surgeries. Manford toured the country spreading word of the arson to gay communities in Denver, Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.Additionally, the task force coordinated with the American Red Cross to spearhead what was then most successful blood drive in the history of the movement (prior to AIDS, blood drives were a common response to queer crises); gay communities donated enough blood to the "New Orleans Catastrophe" account to provide a "blood bank credit" for several years. Stunned by the lack of cross-gender solidarity between gays and lesbians following the Up Stairs Lounge catastrophe (for example, no Daughters of Bilitis groups sent checks to the memorial fund), Troy Perry sensed a lingering division between the sexes. "There is sexism among gay males and lesbians just as there is sexism in the non-gay population," Perry later wrote in his autobiography Don't Be Afraid Anymore. "Gay male sexism, an omnipresent issue from the earliest days of the GLF, increasingly became the cause of bitter accusation," agreed historian Martin Duberman.Seizing upon the lessons and failures of the New Orleans Emergency Task Force, Perry enacted foundational changes to his MCC fellowship that September. "Women clergy were not only a rarity in the general population, they were nonexistent in our denomination," Perry continued. Church bylaws were rewritten for gender-inclusive language, and Reverend Freda Smith, who in 1972 became first female minister in MCC history, was elected to serve on the MCC Board of Elders—the first woman in that church body. Many historians take the presence of lesbian speakers like Audre Lorde alongside gay speakers like Troy Perry at 1979's National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights to be a natural expression of the gay movement, forgetting that gay and lesbian communities were isolated a decade earlier. The two groups only united through concerted acts of outreach like Troy Perry's reforms within the MCC or Lambda Legal's protracted search for lesbian lawyers willing to associate with a gay organization that same year. Yet, as historian Jim Downs writes, "The accounts of gay writers, historians, and scholars have emphasized the sweaty political struggles in the streets in the 1970s, rather than the radical push by gay people of faith." How is it that a cofounder of the first Pride parade, a ringleader of Gay Liberation's first emergency task force, a speaker at the first LGBT+ March on Washington and the officiant of the first public same-sex marriage ceremonies in the U.S. is largely unknown to LGBT+ Americans?Furthermore, a radical Christian fellowship that played a leading role in establishing what many now call "Pride" through marriage ceremonies, public protests and human rights rallies—which resulted in at least 26 documented instances of arson or fire-bombing between 1973 and 1997 affecting nearly one in ten MCC congregations—has gone under-credited."Finally, the GLBT community is waking up and realizing how we important we are to the history of this movement," Perry insisted in a recent sermon. "We were pregnant with Stonewall!" Today, the extent to which the MCC and its legacy remains under-appreciated, even to aficionados of LGBT+ culture, speaks to the degree to which an institution that once stood in the vanguard of early Gay Liberation has been sidelined and left out of history books. "Many of the early chroniclers of gay liberation came from the political left and considered religion patriarchal, hierarchical, and the root of gay oppression," argued historian Jim Downs in Stand By Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation. "GLF and GAA were the 'liberation struggle,'" countered historian Martin Duberman in Has the Gay Movement Failed?, drawing an exclusionary line that places contemporaneous religious groups outside the fold."If GLF or GAA did harbor a few members attracted to a religious faith," Duberman continued, "they would probably have known better than to announce the fact." The anti-religion bias persisted for decades. An MCC of New Orleans minister named Dexter Brecht criticized The Advocate in 1994 for what he called "Christophobia" in their lack of coverage of the MCC's 25th anniversary. "Get with the true spirit of Pride and celebrate who we are," Brecht beseeched.* * *At WorldPride 2019 in New York City, an estimated 150,000 people marched a parade route that streamed past the site of the historic Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street—genuflecting at what is now regarded as an indisputable turning point in modern history. By contrast, the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches observed its 50th year of ministry this July not with the fanfare of WorldPride/Stonewall 50 but with a private conclave of about 900 ministers and supporters in Orlando. (Although the MCC 50th anniversary formally took place in October 2018, global celebrations were delayed until the church body met in General Conference, which occurs every two to three years.) Today, the MCC boasts 172 affiliated churches and 46 emerging ministries across 33 countries. More than half of MCC clergy are women, and about one quarter of MCC congregations reside outside the United States.Returning to his home state of Florida, a state from which he once fled after being expelled by his local ministry for his homosexual "sins," Troy Perry gave an opening address that recognized his two brothers in the audience. "When God speaks through you for 50 years," Perry preached, "in front of television cameras, in magazine articles, in books, everywhere for 50 years, I have not changed my testimony." From July 1 through 5, mere miles from the site of the Pulse nightclub shooting, the MCC faithful met to elect new leadership and conduct the 27th General Conference of the world's largest queer-founded, queer-led Christian denomination. "The difference between the MCC and any other church is, firstly, it was built by us for us," intoned MCC Reverend Elder Cecilia Eggleston, who became elevated in Orlando to the role of Moderator, or chief minister of the global congregation—a role defined and held by Troy Perry until he retired in 2005. Eggleston represents the second female Moderator in MCC history and the first Moderator to hail from outside the United States, reflecting the church's expanding mission. Presently, the largest MCC congregation in the world is the Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto, which from 2001 to 2003 was a litigant in the court battle that ultimately brought about same-sex marriage in Canada.Similarly, throughout the 2000s, Troy Perry sued the State of California to recognize his own same-sex marriage and, temporarily, won that recognition in May 2008, only to have his victory struck down by the infamous Proposition 8 ballot initiative. The MCC had, in fact, tied itself so closely to the issue of same-sex marriage, since the first holy union in 1968, that when same-sex marriage became recognized federally in 2015 by the U.S. Supreme Court, some within the ranks wondered if their church had served its purpose. "There are some folk who say the MCC has done its work well and faithfully, and maybe it's time for us to go gently into the background," reflected Eggleston. "That's just not going to happen," she continued. "You've got this gigantic pushback from all sorts of churches wanting to crush any possibility of someone in the queer community being seen as someone with a spiritual life, someone who possibly could be of interest to God." In 2019, for example, the United Methodist Church, the third largest Christian denomination in the world, voted to prohibit the ordination of LGBT+ clergy and the officiation of same-sex marriages. Similarly, the Evangelical Covenant Church expelled the First Covenant Church of Minneapolis from their denomination for supporting the LGBT+ community, and a Catholic high school in Indianapolis was forced to fire a gay teacher to remain in its local archdiocese. Globally, Eggleston notes with irony, "religious liberty" movements are on the rise to re-legitimize discrimination through the imposition of certain kinds of religion over others, ignoring the contrary gospel of churches like the MCC or the beliefs of the irreligious. She feels that these initiatives can only be defeated from within and without Christianity, through coordinated opposition. "Some aren't old enough to remember," she says, "but when the Berlin Wall came down, it was torn down from both sides." Eggleston states that her church intends to fight ongoing persecution and expand into regions of greatest need, where queer people are most imperilled. She cites a sisterhood of transgender women who recently joined the Good Hope MCC after years of living beneath a bridge in Cape Town, South Africa, as an exemplar of the new MCC ministry. "What do we want to be doing in the next 50 years?" she repeatedly asks her flock. Inundated with future plans, MCC leaders still found time at their 27th General Conference for a bus ride to the site of the Pulse nightclub shooting nearby on S. Orange Avenue. There, they bowed their heads and wept. "Our people are still being killed," Eggleston insists. "And they're being killed because of who they are and how God made them… If someone is being told they are a mistake in God's eyes, then we matter." 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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