| Chuck Todd rips GOP senator for responding to Trump-Ukraine question with 'Fox News conspiracy propaganda stuff' Posted: 06 Oct 2019 09:30 AM PDT  Chuck Todd slammed Republican Sen. Ron Johnson for bringing up "Fox News conspiracy propaganda stuff" on "Meet the Press" Sunday when Johnson failed to answer a question about President Trump.
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| 'I've never had a crystal': Marianne Williamson demands to be taken seriously Posted: 04 Oct 2019 12:05 PM PDT  Marianne Williamson wants you to know she's not a "crystal woo woo lady."
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| Spanish police arrest drug traffickers who saved their lives in high speed boat chase Posted: 05 Oct 2019 04:53 AM PDT ![Spanish police arrest drug traffickers who saved their lives in high speed boat chase]( "Spanish police arrest drug traffickers who saved their lives in high speed boat chase") Spanish police arrested four drug traffickers who stopped to save their lives after the officers were thrown overboard during a high speed boat chase off the coast of Malaga on Friday. The three police officers fell into the sea following a collision with the trafficking boat during the chase, a Guardia Civil statement said. A police helicopter hovering overhead appealed to the speedboat via megaphone to stop and help the officers after their boat "span out of control", and the traffickers did so, pulling the agents to safety unharmed. However, when police found three tonnes of hashish in the waters nearby, the rescue did not appear to work in the traffickers' favour. The four on board were arrested regardless. "They were arrested for drug trafficking," a police statement said, indicating that more than 80 bundles of hash had been recovered from the sea. In a video posted by the Guardia Civil, the boats can be seen zooming across the open ocean before the semi-inflatable trafficking boat turns into the path of the police vessel, forcing it to turn sharply, throwing the three officers overboard. The video taken from the police helicopter then shows the officers bobbing around in the water below, before a wide shot shows the drug bundles floating nearby. High speed chases are not unusual off the coast of Malaga and the Costa del Sol, a known drug smuggling route from Africa to Europe. Morocco, just across the water, is the world's largest exporter of cannabis resin or hashish, according to the United Nations. A dramatic chase at the end of last year saw police ram a suspected drug boat in the open water, before officers from the chasing helicopter managed to intercept the fleeing suspects on land. The Spanish government has even moved to ban the high-speed semi-inflatable boats, known as RIBs, that are commonly used by traffickers to bring both drugs and more recently migrants from North Africa to Spain.
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| Andrew Yang Shouldn’t Retreat from His Past Success in Revitalizing Depressed Cities Posted: 04 Oct 2019 01:22 PM PDT  As Peter Beinart has trenchantly observed in The Atlantic, formerly moderate Generation X Democratic candidates Cory Booker and Kamala Harris have chosen to turn their backs on policies they once championed. Booker no longer talks up his successful expansion of charter schools as mayor of Newark, while Harris has run away from her common-sense decision, as San Francisco district attorney, to enforce truancy laws as a means to get the attention of parents of disadvantaged students. But there's another Gen X candidate, unmentioned by Beinart, who's run away from past successes: Andrew Yang.While he promotes government-led efforts to redistribute income, Yang has been silent about his own groundbreaking efforts to help declining cities — not through government, but through civil society. In 2011, after a successful career as corporate lawyer and business-school test-prep entrepreneur, Yang founded Venture for America (VFA). Modeled on Teach for America, VFA aimed to attract applicants from elite colleges to work as paid interns at start-up companies in poor cities such as Detroit, Cleveland, Birmingham, and Baltimore. Its funding came entirely from philanthropists, most importantly Detroit's Dan Gilbert, the founder of Quicken Loans. Like Dan Markowits, the author of the new The Meritocracy Trap, Yang saw the best and brightest as having "too limited a vision of what career success looks like," and got to work fixing the problem.Today, VFA is still in operation, with fellowships in 14 different cities around the country. The organization has supported more than 1,000 fellows, working in business incubators and often going on to found start-ups of their own. It says that 51 percent of them continue to live in the cities where their fellowship was based, and they've been involved in starting 129 new companies.Bringing graduates of some 300 colleges to cities that ambitious young people have long been fleeing is nothing to sneeze at. It's a record of success that gives Yang, if he'd only use it, a ready-made, positive message on the stump: Talented people can start new businesses, help power established ones, and in the process, make cities thrive. This message is all the more powerful when juxtaposed with generations of failed local, state, and federal policies based on the idea that subsidies to attract business are the best way of rejuvenating cities in decline.Indeed, what is striking about Yang's Venture for America is its fundamental separation from those failed government policies and from government itself. This is a private organization, fueled by philanthropic dollars and private start-up seed money. And its economic underpinnings are sound, as the work of Harvard's Ed Glaeser on the key impact of the "divergence" of human capital on urban economies has shown. Seattle never recruited Starbucks, Amazon, or Microsoft; those companies grew organically, thanks to talented founders and a skilled labor pool.It is depressing, then, that Yang has downplayed VFA's record of success in favor of a campaign built on a more dispiriting message: American capitalism is so broken, he says, that only a universal basic income, funded by a national value-added sales tax, can mitigate its destructive impact. One wishes that he would point to his own record in teaching Democrats that government is not the best route to prosperity. Indeed, government — through cumbersome permitting processes, high taxes, and burdensome licensing requirements — often holds back the fortunes of down-on-their-luck cities such as those Venture for America has helped revitalize. To be sure, this would be a more politically fraught path: Yang is a Democrat, and redistribution is the coin of his party's realm. But if he were braver, he could do quite a lot to change that state of affairs.
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| Teachers suspended after unsupervised toddlers escape preschool, wander into traffic Posted: 06 Oct 2019 10:09 AM PDT  A woman reported seeing a group of toddlers wandering the streets near Little Sunshine's Playhouse & Preschool in Gilbert Friday morning.
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| Man walking his dogs nearly killed by lightning strike Posted: 04 Oct 2019 11:15 AM PDT  A quiet dog walk nearly turned fatal on Thursday night for a man in Spring, Texas, located about 25 miles from Houston. Thanks to quick actions by witness Bill Wilson, the man is expected to survive.The unnamed victim is in his late-20s, according to officials. He was heading toward the local dog park when a lightning bolt struck him. As can be seen in the video, the shock was severe enough that it left a fist-sized hole in the concrete."He was face down on the ground, we rolled him over and checked his pulse, he wasn't breathing," Wilson told ABC13. "We eventually got a heartbeat back and spontaneous respiration, and right about then the ambulance pulled in."According to reports, the man's three German Shepards ran away once the victim was knocked unconscious from the lightning strike. Officers were able to locate the dogs with help from neighbors.The man was airlifted to the hospital, and officials confirmed that he was breathing and conscious.Wilson, who is being hailed as a hero, works at Stuebner Airline Veterinary Hospital, located near where the incident took place."I jumped out of my car and ran to see what was up and it was obvious the man had been struck lightning," Wilson said. "His clothes were burned."
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| FEATURE-What's in a name? India's citizenship drive hits women hardest Posted: 05 Oct 2019 04:01 PM PDT ![FEATURE-What's in a name? India's citizenship drive hits women hardest]( "FEATURE-What's in a name? India's citizenship drive hits women hardest") Abanti Deka had no idea when she married her husband that taking his name would jeopardise her Indian citizenship. When the register was published at the end of August, the names of nearly 2 million of the state's about 33 million people were missing, plunging them into a bureaucratic nightmare that human rights experts fear could render some stateless. Abanti was one of the unlucky ones.
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| Climate activists occupy Paris mall as global Extinction Rebellion protests begin Posted: 05 Oct 2019 04:53 PM PDT  Hundreds of climate activists barricaded themselves into a Paris shopping centre on Saturday as security forces tried to remove them, ahead of a planned series of protests around the world by the Extinction Rebellion movement. Campaigners faced off against police and some inconvenienced shoppers as they occupied part of the Italie 2 mall in southeast Paris. The protest comes ahead of planned disruption to 60 cities around the world from Monday in a fortnight of civil disobedience, from Extinction Rebellion (XR), which is warning of an environmental "apocalypse".
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| A Delta flight was delayed 3 hours after a passenger managed to board without a ticket (DAL) Posted: 06 Oct 2019 09:25 AM PDT  A TSA spokesperson said the person did go through security, but all passengers were re-screened out of an abundance of caution.
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| Before a notorious phone call, the Trump administration was lauded for helping Ukraine Posted: 04 Oct 2019 03:00 PM PDT  A central irony of the controversy over President Trump's alleged efforts to condition military aid to Ukraine on political favors is that Trump has presided over the shipment of more lethal weaponry to Ukraine than had his predecessor, President Barack Obama.
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| According to Saturday Night Live, Mike Pence Has a Ferris Bueller-Inspired Impeachment Strategy Posted: 06 Oct 2019 07:46 AM PDT  Suggestions include dragging Hunter Biden into Pizzagate
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| Six elephants die while trying to save each other in 'Hell's Abyss' Thai waterfall Posted: 05 Oct 2019 10:45 AM PDT  Six wild elephants drowned after slipping off a waterfall in northeast Thailand, authorities said on Saturday, with two others saved after they became stranded while apparently trying to rescue one of those that fell into the current. Officials in the northeastern Khao Yai national park were alerted to elephants "crying" for help at 3am, the Thai Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation said in a statement. Hours later, they found six bodies at the bottom of the gushing Haew Narok ("Hell's Abyss") waterfall. Two of the elephants had apparently attempted to save one of those that fell, but they found themselves trapped on a thin, slippery sliver of rock above the churning waters. Video showed another of the hulking animals struggling desperately to get back up to where the pair stood. Park officials tossed food laced with nutritional supplements in an attempt to boost their energy and give them the strength to climb back up into the forest. They later said the two had been rescued but were extremely distressed. Parks department spokesperson Sompoch Maneerat said it was unclear what caused the accident. "No one knows for sure the real cause of why they fell, but there was heavy rain there last night," he told AFP. The waterfall was closed to tourists as the rescue took place. Elephants are Thailand's national animal and live in the wild in parts of the country, but their numbers have dwindled to only a few thousand. Deforestation has pushed the wild population into closer contact with humans in recent decades and away from their natural habitats.
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| Recall alert: 1.1 million pocketknives recalled for posing 'laceration hazard' Posted: 05 Oct 2019 04:58 AM PDT  About 1.1 million Gordon Folding Knives are being recalled for "posing a laceration hazard." The knives were sold at Harbor Freight Tools stores.
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| Giuliani gives bizarre interview before posting angry 4:54 a.m. tweet Posted: 05 Oct 2019 11:05 AM PDT  President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani said his mission was "to disrupt the world" as he attempted to defend his involvement in the Ukraine scandal.
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| 2020 Lincoln Continental Coach Door Edition Priced at $116,645 Posted: 05 Oct 2019 10:05 AM PDT  High-dollar, old-school American opulence is back for 2020, suicide doors and all.
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| Greta Thunberg tells Yahoo News: Powerful men like Trump 'want to silence' young climate activists Posted: 04 Oct 2019 01:09 PM PDT  Greta Thunberg tells Yahoo News that youth climate activists are "making a difference."
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| Groom sexually assaulted wife's bridesmaid before wedding, police say Posted: 06 Oct 2019 10:34 AM PDT  According to police, the assault stopped when the bride caught him, but the wedding went on.
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| Xi and Kim hail 'immortal' China-North Korea relationship Posted: 05 Oct 2019 08:32 PM PDT  Chinese President Xi Jinping has promised to promote a "long-term, sound and stable" relationship with North Korea, state news agency Xinhua said Sunday, as the two countries mark 70 years of diplomatic relations. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un also sent a message to Xi saying their countries' "invincible friendship will be immortal on the road of accomplishing the cause of socialism," said Pyongyang's state news agency KCNA on Sunday.
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| Jewish death row inmate wins appeal days before execution after judge’s ‘regular racism and antisemitism’ revealed Posted: 06 Oct 2019 03:54 AM PDT  For more than 15 years on death row, Randy Halprin filed challenge after challenge to his sentence. The denials began to stack up.Finally, on Friday, one of his appeals persuaded Texas' highest court to stay his execution, which had been scheduled for 10 October.
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| A Chinese hog farmer is breeding giant, polar bear-sized pigs that weigh over 1,100 pounds, while the country contends with pork shortages Posted: 06 Oct 2019 09:12 AM PDT  As African swine fever decimates Chinese pork production, some farmers are breeding the biggest pigs possible, with some as large as polar bears.
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| Is Iran's Regime Really Be About To Collapse? Posted: 05 Oct 2019 06:00 PM PDT  The signs point to no, but it could happen.
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| UPDATE 2-EU rejects UK's request for weekend talks as Johnson insists on no Brexit delay Posted: 04 Oct 2019 11:18 PM PDT ![UPDATE 2-EU rejects UK's request for weekend talks as Johnson insists on no Brexit delay]( "UPDATE 2-EU rejects UK's request for weekend talks as Johnson insists on no Brexit delay") The European Union has rejected a British request to hold Brexit talks this weekend, British media reported, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson reiterated his commitment to leaving the bloc on Oct. 31 despite the possibility of a not reaching an exit deal. The European Commission said that Johnson's new Brexit proposals do not provide any basis for finalising a separation agreement, according to Sky News. Talks on Johnson's plan to replace the Irish backstop will not take place over the weekend, EU Commission spokeswoman Natasha Bertaud was quoted as saying by Sky http://bit.ly/33aHQAN.
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| Spiro Agnew's Lawyer: Mike Pence Should Be Worried About Impeachment Too Posted: 04 Oct 2019 11:03 AM PDT  Martin London, who represented Spiro Agnew, writes that no vice president has ever been impeached, but Mike Pence could be the first.
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| Turkey detains five Germans on terror charges: report Posted: 05 Oct 2019 06:17 AM PDT  Turkish authorities have detained five Germans over alleged links to Kurdish militants, pro-Kurdish media reported. The PKK is considered to be a terror group by Ankara, the United States and the European Union. The five, who were detained this week, were being held in Ankara, the agency said.
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| APNewsBreak: Evers issuing 1st Wisconsin pardons in 9 years Posted: 06 Oct 2019 09:43 AM PDT  Democratic Gov. Tony Evers will issue Wisconsin's first pardons in nine years, invoking his constitutional power to grant clemency to four people. Evers plans to issue the pardons Monday, the first he's making as governor after he re-started the pardons board in June. Evers' predecessor, Republican Scott Walker, never issued a single pardon over his eight years as governor.
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| Fringe group claims it planned 'eat the babies' stunt at AOC town hall Posted: 04 Oct 2019 06:37 PM PDT  The woman is from LaRouchePAC, who claimed responsibility for the outburst on twitter.
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| Fourteen-year-old shot in clashes between Hong Kong protesters and police in wake of face mask ban Posted: 04 Oct 2019 01:05 PM PDT  A 14-year-old boy was shot as clashes broke out between protesters and police in Hong Kong on Friday in the wake of a blanket ban on face masks. Demonstrators stormed the city's shopping district and set fire to Chinese banks. Police said a 14-year-old boy was shot in the thigh, but said it was unclear if he was hit by a stray bullet or shot by a police officer who fired his gun after being attacked by a group of protesters. The Hospital Authority said a 14-year-old boy was taken to hospital and was last night in serious condition. The incident would mark the second time live rounds have been fired against protesters since the demonstrations began. The face-mask ban invokes colonial-era emergency powers for the first time since the UK handed the city back to China in 1997. Police fired tear gas and all metro services to Hong Kong Island were halted as some stations also came under attack from protesters. The new face mask law will ban demonstrators from covering their faces in full or partially to prevent their identification during protests, marches or illegal assemblies, with violators facing up to one year of imprisonment or a maximum fine of $3,190. Authorities sent in rows of riot police to quell the protests Credit: NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP At a press conference flanked by her most senior ministers, Carrie Lam, the embattled Chief Executive, said the government enacted the unpopular measure out of duty to "end violence and restore order" to the city, which was now in a "very critical state of public danger" after four months of anti-government protests. The decision to invoke the colonial-era Emergency Regulations Ordinance to push through the face mask ban was "difficult but necessary for the public interest" after scenes of chaos and panic, she argued. As protesters gathered following the announcement, China voiced support for "extremely necessary" ban. The new law is aimed primarily at students, the most active participants in the city's protests, which began in June against a contentious bill that would have allowed extradition to mainland China, but has since snowballed into a demand for greater rights, including universal suffrage. Schools across the financial hub have already been issued with details of the "Anti-mask act." The ban was introduced after the worst street violence in decades this week when an 18-year-old demonstrator was shot and critically wounded during a clash with the police. However, the dramatic step by Carrie Lam's government threatens to inflame tensions further. Hong Kong chief executive confirmed the ban on Friday Credit: PHILIP FONG/AFP Opponents of the measure fear that the use of the Emergency Regulations Ordinance – a colonial-era law first used by the British government to quell a seamen's strike in Hong Kong harbour in 1922 – could open the door to sweeping controls. They fear that the government could use the ordinance as a form of martial law that would permit authorities to implement any new regulation the government believes would help end "an occasion of emergency or public danger." Examples could include greater powers to arrest citizens, censor publications, shut off communications networks and search premises without warrants.
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| Trump Slams Romney for Criticism as Third GOP Senator Chimes In Posted: 05 Oct 2019 04:34 PM PDT ![Trump Slams Romney for Criticism as Third GOP Senator Chimes In]( "Trump Slams Romney for Criticism as Third GOP Senator Chimes In") (Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump spent part of Saturday tweeting about Senator Mitt Romney after the Republican lawmaker criticized the president's calls for China and Ukraine to investigate political rival Joe Biden, even as a third GOP senator broke ranks.People in Utah view their vote for Romney as "a big mistake," Trump said, adding the hashtag ImpeachMittRomney. Earlier he called Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, a "pompous 'ass.'"The president was returning to the White House after several hours at his golf club in Virginia."By all appearances, the president's brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden is wrong and appalling," Romney wrote on Twitter Friday.Romney and Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska have been almost alone among Republican members of Congress in pushing back, even mildly, against Trump's actions and comments, which have sparked an impeachment inquiry led by House Democrats.Sasse this week responded after Trump suggested China should investigate the Bidens."Americans don't look to Chinese commies for the truth. If the Biden kid broke laws by selling his name to Beijing, that's a matter for American courts," Sasse told the Omaha World-Herald newspaper.On Saturday, Senator Susan Collins of Maine, a centrist Republican who faces a tough re-election battle in 2020, chimed in, according to the Bangor Daily News."I thought the president made a big mistake by asking China to get involved in investigating a political opponent," Collins said after a memorial service for firefighters in Augusta on Saturday. "It's completely inappropriate."To contact the reporters on this story: Ros Krasny in Washington at rkrasny1@bloomberg.net;Hailey Waller in New York at hwaller@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: James Ludden at jludden@bloomberg.net, Ian Fisher, Virginia Van NattaFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| Judge shoots himself in court in Thailand Posted: 05 Oct 2019 08:28 AM PDT ![Judge shoots himself in court in Thailand]( "Judge shoots himself in court in Thailand") A judge in southern Thailand shot himself in court after delivering a not guilty verdict in the case of five Muslim suspects charged with murder in the predominantly Buddhist country's restive south. Khanakorn Pianchana shot himself in the chest after acquitting the suspects charged with murder, illegal association and gun-related offences on Friday afternoon because of insufficient evidence. On Saturday, people laid flowers in front of the court in Yala, one of the three Muslim-majority southern provinces at the heart of the insurgency that has claimed more than 7,000 lives since 2004.
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| India clampdown hits Kashmir's Silicon Valley Posted: 04 Oct 2019 11:31 PM PDT  The coffee machines have been cold, computer screens blank and work stations empty for two months in Kashmir's Silicon Valley as an Indian communications blockade on the troubled region takes a growing toll on business. The dozen software development companies in the Rangreth industrial estate on the edge of Srinagar bring tens of millions of dollars of crucial revenue into the region each year. Pakistan also claims Kashmir which the two neighbours divided when they became independent in 1947 and have squabbled over ever since.
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| A 3.5 magnitude earthquake hit south of San Francisco Posted: 05 Oct 2019 10:07 AM PDT  A 3.5 magnitude earthquake hit west of Colma, which is just south of San Francisco. Colma is known as "The City of the Dead" because of its cemeteries
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| Germany could face refugee influx bigger than 2015 if EU does not agree quota system, interior minister warns Posted: 06 Oct 2019 08:48 AM PDT  Germany's interior minister warned on Sunday that the country could soon face a refugee influx bigger than the one it dealt with in 2015, as he sought support for his plans for an EU quota system for rescued migrants. "We need to do more to help our European partners with controls at the EU's external borders. We've left them alone for too long," Horst Seehofer told Bild newspaper. "If we don't do this, we'll experience a wave of refugees like in 2015 - or perhaps an even larger one." Mr Seehofer, a member of the conservative CSU party, was one of the most critical voices in the German government towards Angela Merkel's decision to open the country's borders in 2015. But his new plan has surprised many by committing Germany to taking in a quarter of the asylum seekers that arrive in the EU via the sea crossing from North Africa to Italy. He has not committed to accept any of those entering the EU via Greece or Spain. In a trip to Turkey and Greece which was spurred by a sharp rise in migrant crossings in the Aegean over the past year, the veteran politician said he would push for increased EU funds to be assigned to Turkey, while offering more technical support for Greece's coast guard. An agreement signed with Ankara in 2016 was key in turning the tide on a surge of migration which saw over a million asylum seekers arrive in Germany. Ever since the crisis peaked in 2015 Berlin has been pushing in Brussels for a binding quota system, but these efforts have foundered in the face of resistance from eastern Europe. Mr Seehofer's quota proposals have proven unpopular inside his own party. Ralph Brinkhaus, CDU/CSU faction leader in the Bundestag, suggested over the weekend that the plan would encourage smugglers to increase their activities. "This is the interior minister's initiative, it does not come from the CDU/CSU faction in the Bundestag. We will have to take a very close look at his plans," Mr Brinkhaus said.
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| When India's Aircraft Carrier Caught Fire, China Thought It Knew Why Posted: 05 Oct 2019 11:45 PM PDT  Terse words between rivals.
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| Gusty winds to bring a one-two punch of fire threats in California this week Posted: 05 Oct 2019 08:22 AM PDT  With dry weather set to continue in California, windy conditions will spark concern for high fire danger more than once this week.A high pressure setting up in the Rockies for the second half of the weekend will be the cause of breezier conditions Sunday in much of California. In Northern California, winds will come from the northeastern corner into the Sacramento Valley. In combination with the already dry conditions, an elevated fire threat is expected into Sunday.The gusty winds, and thus the fire danger, are also likely to filter into Southern California"An elevated fire danger is expected with locally breezy to windy conditions in the mountains and upper deserts, especially Sunday," said AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Dan Pydynowski.This week, a cold front set to unleash more snow in the northern Rockies will bring an even windier set up for California for the middle of the week. "Windy conditions and the low humidity, combined, will bring a more enhanced fire threat across not just California, but much of the West, including Nevada, Utah and Arizona," said AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Eric Leister.The greatest fire threat, however, will be confined to the usual spots in the Sacramento Valley and parts of the L.A. Basin.Depending on how strong the high in the Rockies gets, this could lead to a Santa Ana wind event for parts of Southern California, with wind gusts of 50 to 60 mph. Winds of this speed would be capable of producing downed trees and power lines. Sparks from downed lines and transformers could spark a fire as well.Throughout the week, people should exercise extreme caution with potential ignition sources, such as outdoor campfires, power equipment and cigarette butts.A small spark fueled by a strong wind could quickly become an uncontrollable inferno in just a few minutes.Having an emergency bag on hand can save valuable time should a rapidly spreading fire force a quick evacuation of your property.Download the free AccuWeather app to see the forecast for your location. Keep checking back for updates on AccuWeather.com andstay tuned to the AccuWeather Networkon DirecTV, Frontier and Verizon Fios.
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| 'Republicans in Congress believe he is wildly unfit to be president': Trump impeachment would be supported by GOP in secret ballot, House expert says Posted: 06 Oct 2019 07:56 AM PDT  A secret ballot vote on impeaching Donald Trump would garner "significant Republican support" in Congress, according to an expert in congressional politics.David Wasserman, who works for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, said he has had private conversations with Republican congressmen who believe Mr Trump is "wildly unfit to be president".
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| Chinese soldiers in Hong Kong warn protesters as emergency rules fail to quell unrest Posted: 05 Oct 2019 06:10 PM PDT  Chinese soldiers issued a warning to Hong Kong protesters on Sunday who shone lasers at their barracks in the city, in the first direct interaction with mainland military forces in four months of anti-government demonstrations. The People's Liberation Army (PLA) garrison in Kowloon district warned a crowd of a few hundred protesters they could be arrested for targeting its troops and barracks walls with laser lights. The stand-off with the PLA came after rallies attended by tens of thousands of protesters earlier on Sunday ended in violent clashes in several locations.
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| Jury to return Saturday in ex-officer's manslaughter trial Posted: 04 Oct 2019 05:24 PM PDT  Jury deliberations will resume Saturday morning in the trial of a former Georgia police officer charged in the fatal shooting of a fleeing, unarmed man. Local news media reported jurors in the manslaughter trial of Zechariah Presley adjourned around 8 p.m. Friday without reaching a decision after their first full day of deliberations. The white ex-officer faces up to 20 years in prison if he's convicted of voluntary manslaughter in death of Tony Green, who was black.
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