| Sanders and Bloomberg exchange blows as Democratic race heats up Posted: 17 Feb 2020 07:35 AM PST  The gloves continue to come off in the race for the Democratic nomination, with Bernie Sanders attacking the billionaire former New York City mayor's record on race, and Bloomberg taking a swipe at the Vermont senator and his fervent supporters.
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| Wisconsin mother, two daughters found dead after Amber Alert issued; boyfriend arrested Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:30 PM PST  A mother and two daughters were found dead after an Amber Alert was issued Saturday.
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| 6-year-old girl was committed to mental health facility without parent consent Posted: 15 Feb 2020 10:36 AM PST  The mother said her daughter can tell her "bits and pieces" of what happened: "'Mommy, they locked the door. They wouldn't let me out. Mommy, they gave me a shot.'"
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| Push for universal basic income will outlive Andrew Yang's 2020 presidential campaign Posted: 17 Feb 2020 02:00 AM PST  A congressional 'cash squad' and other advocates are working on policies to put more money into the hands of people struggling to make ends meet.
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| ‘Photographer’ Drugged New Mom, Planned to Steal Baby, Cops Say Posted: 15 Feb 2020 01:20 PM PST  It began with an offer on Facebook group for the mothers of newborns: An aspiring photographer wanted to take pictures of babies for free to build her portfolio.To the mother of a 5-week-old infant, it sounded like a great deal. But after three sessions with the photographer, her teenage daughter in tow, things allegedly took a terrifying turn.The new mom ate a cupcake offered by the pair and soon began to feel wobbly, numb and drowsy. She feared she had been drugged, told the visitors to leave, and called 911.Police in Washington state suspect she was correct—and they say she's lucky the Feb. 5 encounter in Spanaway didn't turn out much worse. Investigators said they have collected evidence that the 38-year-old "photographer," Juliette Parker, had a plan to steal a baby and raise it as her own.On Friday afternoon, detectives from the Pierce County Sheriff's Department arrested Parker, who has also gone by the names Juliette Noel and Juliette Gains, and her 16-year-old daughter. Parker was charged with attempted kidnapping and second-degree assault.A release from the sheriff's office said there were red flags that something strange was afoot during Parker's earlier visit to the home. "The suspect was observed taking cell phone selfies with the victim's baby and was seen wiping her fingerprints off items she touched inside the victim's home," they said.The sheriff's office said they have identified "additional victims" but provided no details.Parker's ex-husband, Daniel Gaines, who is locked in a custody battle with her, said that he finds it hard to believe his daughter was in on the alleged plot."I question what my daughter knew," he told The Daily Beast.Last year, Parker ran for mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado, according to KOAA. At the time, she had only been a resident of the city for two years."I love Colorado Springs, and I want to live here the rest of my life," Parker said then, according to The Gazette. "I would like my kids to be able to live here and grow up here. I would like to have my grandkids be able to grow up here and live here and have their kids here."Parker, who ran on a platform of affordable housing and ending homelessness, lost by a landslide.The Gazette reported last year that Parker had been charged in federal court with trespassing in 2014; she explained that she wandered onto military property during a hike and picked up some old rifle bullets—one of which exploded at home, injuring her.Court records say she and a companion were scavenging for metal and took the shells home to melt them for scrap, the Tacoma News Tribune reported. While disassembling one, it blew up, blasting a 2-foot-wide hole in the floor and causing injuries to both.Additional reporting by Barbie Latza NadeauRead 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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| American woman from cruise ship tests positive again for coronavirus Posted: 16 Feb 2020 12:25 PM PST  An American passenger from a cruise ship that docked in Cambodia has tested positive for the new coronavirus a second time in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysiam officials said on Sunday, after the cruise line and Cambodian authorities sought further tests.
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| Leaked data shows China's Uighurs detained due to religion Posted: 17 Feb 2020 08:05 AM PST  When a Chinese government mass detention campaign engulfed Memtimin Emer's native Xinjiang region three years ago, the elderly Uighur imam was swept up and locked away, along with three of his sons. The database profiles the internment of 311 individuals with relatives abroad in Karakax County, and lists information on more than 2,000 of their relatives, neighbors and friends. Taken as a whole, the database offers the fullest view yet into how Chinese officials decided who to put into and let out of detention camps, as part of a crackdown that has locked away more than a million ethnic minorities, most of them Muslims.
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| China legal activist who called on Xi to 'give way' arrested- activists Posted: 17 Feb 2020 03:20 AM PST |
| Buttigieg: I won't 'take lectures on family values' from Rush Limbaugh Posted: 16 Feb 2020 07:59 AM PST  Pete Buttigieg had a simple response on Sunday when asked about talk show host Rush Limbaugh's questioning whether Americans are ready to back a gay candidate for president.
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| 'Ice volcanoes' are erupting on a Lake Michigan beach. Here's what they look like. Posted: 17 Feb 2020 06:41 AM PST  A recent cold front has brought some interesting phenomena to Lake Michigan: first ice balls, now ice volcanoes.
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| A Texas jury found him guilty of murder. A computer algorithm proved his innocence. Posted: 16 Feb 2020 02:56 AM PST  Lydell Grant was supposed to be in prison for murder. But an emerging form of DNA technology, which has also come under scrutiny, is helping to free him in an unprecedented case.
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| 'Red flag' gun-control proposal is a recipe for decreased safety and less freedom Posted: 16 Feb 2020 02:00 AM PST  Even the American Civil Liberties Union says legislation like this is an affront to individual rights and due process.
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| Ocasio-Cortez faces 13 challengers – but can anyone unseat her? Posted: 17 Feb 2020 01:00 AM PST  Eight Republicans and five Democrats are vying to take on AOC – but many voters in the district are voicing support for the congresswomanDemocratic leftist superstar Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has risen to national – and even global – fame from an unlikely position as a young first-time congresswoman from New York.But now she faces 13 different challengers, including from within her own party as well as Republicans, as she prepares for her first congressional re-election campaign. News of the multiple bids to unseat AOC, however, came as a surprise to many voters on the streets of her district in the Bronx last week.Some voters still had not heard of the progressive superstar. Others said they would weigh the merits of her rivals as the contests heat up over the summer. But most voiced support, arguing that almost two years since Ocasio-Cortez threw a grenade at the Democratic establishment by ousting incumbent Joe Crowley, her progressive agenda – touting universal healthcare and a Green New Deal – was only now taking hold in the nation's political capital."Give her a chance! We knew who she was when we sent her, that she'd make a noise, and making a noise was why we sent her," said local businessman Abdul Abbas."She's done good things for the Bronx," concurred Carol Heraldo. "I like how she presents herself as woman, that she's firm, that she took what she believed and made it real. We don't see a lot of young people accomplish a lot because they're afraid – and she's not afraid."> We knew who she was when we sent her, that she'd make a noise, and making a noise was why we sent her> > Abdul AbbasThat's not how all see it. The first-term congresswoman is facing eight Republican and five Democratic candidates aiming to unseat her. Some appear symbolic, with little fundraising potential or appetite for collecting the necessary 4,000 signatures to get on the ballot.At her first campaign rally on Saturday, Ocasio-Cortez said she hoped to multiply turnout by four, reaching 60,000 votes in the primary election. She declined to be drawn on the challengers that have lined up to contest her seat."I think everyone has a right [to run]. I of course won my seat with a primary," she told the New York Post. "I would never begrudge anyone trying to run in a primary."Ocasio-Cortez's Republican challengers certainly seem to have their work cut out for them. In 2018 she steamedrolled the Republican candidate by a margin of 78%.With about $3.4m in her campaigns re-election coffers in a solidly Democratic district, Ocasio-Cortez's Republican challengers probably plan on merely damaging her or securing a bigger national media profile by taking on such a famed opponent.John Cummings, a former police officer, raised $425,000 in 10 weeks after announcing his candidacy for the Republican nomination on Fox & Friends. Jamaican immigrant Scherie Murray gave her first interview to Fox News's Sean Hannity and raised a similar amount.But having led a campaign to prevent Amazon from establishing a headquarters in neighboring Long Island City, and established herself as a leading member of "the Squad", the self-described group of progressive congresswomen that includes Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ocasio-Cortez is a political target.In a district that hasn't voted Republican in half a century, the Republican candidates are tackling a candidate who has become a lightning rod for rightwing anger nationally."Anything that indicates AOC is vulnerable would be godsend to people who don't like her or are upset about the Amazon loss of 27,000 jobs in New York," said veteran Democratic party strategist Hank Sheinkopf, warning: "Politics are unstable across the nation. Things are happening that we haven't seen or thought about before."Strategically speaking, a challenge to one of the most influential voices on the American left also could affect candidates in other, more marginal races. Within New York City, more than three dozen candidates promoting progressive, generational change are taking on congressional incumbents.In her own district, enthusiasm among supporters for Ocasio-Cortez is unwavering. The Working Families party "knows Ocasio-Cortez will beat any challengers who might arise because she's fighting tirelessly for her district and her agenda speaks to the people of Queens and the Bronx", the group said in a statement to the Guardian.But the Ocasio-Cortez campaign also knows that opposition to her remains deep within the Democratic party establishment. Open warfare broke out in July when the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, took aim at her and her close colleagues in the Squad. "All these people have is their public whatever and their Twitter world," Pelosi said. "But they didn't have any following. They're four people and that's how many votes they got."In a tweeted response, Ocasio-Cortez said: "That public 'whatever' is called public sentiment. And wielding the power to shift it is how we actually achieve meaningful change in this country."The progressive-moderate split could be clearly discerned, too, in the battle last year over the election of a new Queens district attorney when Tiffany Cabán, an Ocasio-Cortez-backed candidate running on a platform to reduce record levels of incarceration, initially declared victory with a margin of 1,100 votes.But establishment-backed candidate Melinda Katz demanded a recount and ultimately pulled ahead by 55 votes after a series of court challenges over voter eligibility.Ocasio-Cortez's most coherent Democratic challenger to date is former longtime CNBC correspondent and anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera. Caruso-Cabrera, who published a book in 2011 called You Know I'm Right: More Prosperity, Less Government, is a skeptic of big government and a proponent of free markets.Caruso-Cabrera is a relatively recent Democratic party member who registered her candidacy last week, appear to be preparing a more serious challenge as she seeks to take on Ocasio-Cortez in the Democratic primary."Caruso-Cabrero is as wild a card as AOC was two years ago," said Sheinkopf. "Caruso-Cabrero is likely to lead a spirited challenge and could be very competitive."She certainly fancies her chances."I am the daughter and granddaughter of working-class Italian and Cuban immigrants," Caruso-Cabrera said in a statement. "I am so lucky to have had such a wonderful career and I want everybody to have the opportunity that I've had. That's why I'm running."Ocasio-Cortez's campaign declined to comment on the challenge. But people close to the campaign said Caruso-Cabrera could be AOC's most potent opponent at least from the Democratic side, even though she represents a radically different vision of the party."It'll be interesting if she decides to hide her libertarian-conservative ideology," one source said. "Certain conservatives are upset that AOC beat Crowley and over Amazon so there maybe certain Koch-type figures who have had some role in recruiting her. I don't think [Caruso-Cabrera] is going to get young Democrats from around the country to work for her, but you could see young conservative activists in the district because they all spend so much time condemning her politics or lusting after her."However, candidates on both sides will be looking to raise money from outside the relatively poor, racially diverse district. Ocasio-Cortez's fame has long transcended the borders of her hardscrabble patch of the Bronx."AOC can raise an awful lot of money throughout the country from all sorts of people, but within the district there's not an awful lot of money to raise," said Sheinkopf.
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| A cruise-ship passenger tested positive for the coronavirus after hundreds of other passengers disembarked and dispersed all over the world Posted: 16 Feb 2020 08:10 PM PST  The Westerdam cruise ship spent weeks at sea after five ports rejected it. Now, one of its former passengers has tested positive for the coronavirus.
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| North Korea vs. South Korea: Who Wins a War Straight-Up? Posted: 16 Feb 2020 12:00 PM PST  Quality vs. quantity?
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| Police: 1 dead, 4 wounded in Connecticut club shooting Posted: 16 Feb 2020 01:31 AM PST  Gunfire erupted at a Connecticut nightclub early Sunday morning, killing a man and wounding four other people, police said. A 28-year-old man died in the shooting at the Majestic Lounge in Hartford's South End, police Lt. Paul Cicero said. Two other males and two females were wounded, with two of them in surgery Sunday morning and two in stable condition, he said.
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| Judge sets Tuesday phone hearing in Roger Stone case Posted: 16 Feb 2020 12:57 PM PST  The court session would be the first since prosecutors abruptly quit last week
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| Police allegedly held a black student at gunpoint. Now the governor wants an investigation Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:13 PM PST  The governor of Illinois on Thursday urged police to investigate the alleged wrongful arrest of Jaylan Butler, a black college student swimmer.
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| Gunmen kill 24 in attack on Burkina Faso church Posted: 17 Feb 2020 05:46 AM PST |
| US embassy in Baghdad attacked with rockets Posted: 16 Feb 2020 10:29 AM PST  Rockets have dropped near the US embassy in Iraq and a military base hosting American troops, according to officials.There have been no causalities reported following the strikes, which fell amid heightened tensions in the Middle East.
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| The global spread of the coronavirus: Where is it? Posted: 17 Feb 2020 07:17 AM PST  Beijing (AFP) - The coronavirus that emerged in central China at the end of last year has now killed nearly 1,800 people and spread around the world.
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| 14 Americans on Evacuation Plane Test Positive for Coronavirus Posted: 17 Feb 2020 05:27 AM PST  Fourteen Americans aboard two chartered evacuation flights back to the U.S. have tested positive for the coronavirus, the State Department said Monday.The infected individuals were among hundreds released after two weeks in quarantine aboard a Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in Yokohama, Japan, which was carrying about 380 Americans and their family members. Before boarding the flights, they were screened for the virus and found to be without symptoms and fit to fly, but officials afterwards learned they had tested positive.The two evacuation flights left from Tokyo, and one landed at Travis Air Force Base near Sacramento, Calif., while the other landed at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas."These individuals were moved in the most expeditious and safe manner to a specialized containment area on the evacuation aircraft to isolate them in accordance with standard protocols," the State Department said in a statement."During the flights, these individuals will continue to be isolated from the other passengers," the statement said.Once in the U.S., those who tested positive will be quarantined for two weeks in "an appropriate location for continued isolation and care."So far, the U.S. has 15 confirmed cases of the coronavirus, not including the 14 new cases.The virus, a respiratory illness, originated in Wuhan, China, and has killed at least 1,770 people, most of whom were elderly or otherwise suffered from compromised immune systems, and infected over 70,000 in China.
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| Topless dairy industry protesters crash Sanders rally Posted: 17 Feb 2020 04:24 AM PST  Topless protesters crashed the stage at a rally for Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday afternoon to protest his involvement with the dairy industry.
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| If William Barr Truly Believed in Rule of Law, He Would Resign Posted: 16 Feb 2020 11:00 AM PST  If the President insists that DOJ must submit its prosecutions to his control whenever he chooses to intervene, Attorney General William Barr's only response can be to resign.
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| Chinese President Xi knew severity of coronavirus weeks before going public; 40 Americans on cruise ship infected Posted: 16 Feb 2020 05:36 PM PST  President Xi Jinping published a timeline of his actions as the Communist Party worked to tamp down criticism of government handling of the crisis.
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| 14 Americans test positive for coronavirus after evacuation from quarantined cruise ship Posted: 17 Feb 2020 08:36 AM PST  More than 300 U.S. citizens and family members who had been on the Diamond Princess cruise ship were evacuated.
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| Pakistan to consider importing insecticides from India to fight locusts Posted: 17 Feb 2020 04:57 AM PST  Pakistan is likely to import insecticides from arch-rival India to brace itself for any locust attacks this summer, bypassing a ban on trade between the neighbouring nations. A copy of Cabinet agenda for a Tuesday meeting seen by Reuters has the import option on it. Pakistan severed all diplomatic and trade ties with New Delhi in August after India revoked the special status of Kashmir, a disputed territory between the two rivals, who have fought two of their three wars over the Himalayan region.
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| Japan suffers worst economic slump in five years Posted: 16 Feb 2020 06:22 PM PST  Japan has suffered its worst quarterly GDP contraction in more than five years, with a tax hike and a deadly typhoon taking a toll on the world's third-largest economy. The nation's gross domestic product in the three months to December shrank 1.6 percent from the previous quarter, even before the novel coronavirus outbreak in China hit Japan, according to official data published on Monday. The quarter was marked by a rise in consumption tax from eight percent to 10 percent, as well as Typhoon Hagibis, which killed more than 100 people and caused widespread flooding.
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| Costa Rican police find six tonnes of cocaine in biggest ever haul Posted: 16 Feb 2020 07:15 AM PST  Police in Costa Rica have found almost 6 tonnes of cocaine in a shipping container, leading to the country's biggest ever drug seizure.The drugs, which weighed 5,800kg, were discovered on Friday evening in Limón in a container of flowers due to be sent to Rotterdam, Holland, according to the Costan Rican national newspaper La Nación.
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| Coronavirus Proves One Thing: China's Rise Is Built on Quicksand Posted: 16 Feb 2020 09:34 AM PST  We may not build hospitals in 10 days with forced labor, but we are better able to create conditions where we don't have to.
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| A woman's side-by-side images show the reality behind the 'perfect' Instagram photo Posted: 17 Feb 2020 06:30 AM PST  Sara Puhto shares "Instagram versus Reality" photos in order to demonstrate how poses can drastically change your appearance in pictures.
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| Over 1,100 former Justice Department officials call for William Barr's resignation after his handling of Roger Stone's sentencing Posted: 16 Feb 2020 09:14 AM PST  "Mr. Barr's actions in doing the President's personal bidding unfortunately speak louder than his words," the former DOJ officials wrote.
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| Why Xi's 'defensive' coronavirus speech could backfire Posted: 16 Feb 2020 04:30 AM PST  Chinese state media published an internal speech delivered by President Xi Jinping on Saturday in which he describes taking action on the coronavirus outbreak as early as Jan. 7.In the speech, which was given Feb. 3, Xi said he had "issued demands about the efforts to prevent and control" the virus during a meeting of the Communist Party's highest council, the Politburo Standing Committee, last month, and that he personally authorized the lockdown of the epicenter, Wuhan, beginning on Jan. 23. "I have at every moment monitored the spread of the epidemic and progress in efforts to curtail it," he said.Publishing the speech is viewed as an attempt to show Xi has been involved from the start since he's been criticized for remaining in the shadows. "The overall tone of the speech of appears to be defensive," Minxin Pei, a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College, told The New York Times. "He wants to change the narrative, which until this point has been very unfavorable to the top leadership."But some analysts think it could backfire and lead to even more criticism about how the government kept the public in the dark for too long. "It seems like he's trying to indicate that 'we weren't asleep at the wheel,'" Jude Blanchette, the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told the Times. "But it comes off like 'we knew this was a problem, but we weren't sounding the alarm.'" Read more at The New York Times.More stories from theweek.com Brad Parscale tweeted an impressive image of Air Force One arriving at the Daytona 500. It was from 2004. 5 scathingly funny cartoons about Trump's Justice Department takeover The sidelining of Elizabeth Warren
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| Florida approves $2 million claim for wrongfully convicted man Posted: 15 Feb 2020 07:02 PM PST  The move comes a little over three weeks after the Department of Legal Affairs initially denied the request for compensation.
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| DNC announces debate qualification threshold for South Carolina Posted: 15 Feb 2020 02:19 PM PST  Candidates will need to win one delegate in the first three states or poll above 10 percent to make the South Carolina debate state.
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| American woman from cruise ship tests positive again for coronavirus in Malaysia Posted: 15 Feb 2020 04:20 PM PST  KUALA LUMPUR/ SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia (Reuters) - An American passenger from a cruise ship that docked in Cambodia has tested positive for the new coronavirus a second time in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia said on Sunday, after the cruise firm and Cambodian authorities sought further tests. The 83-year-old woman was the first passenger from the MS Westerdam, operated by Carnival Corp unit Holland America Inc, to test positive for the virus.
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| USS Arizona crew member, Pearl Harbor survivor dies age 97 Posted: 16 Feb 2020 02:36 PM PST |
| Knife-Wielding Robbers in Hong Kong Steal 600 Rolls of Toilet Paper Amid Coronavirus Panic Posted: 16 Feb 2020 10:46 PM PST  Toilet paper has become scarce in the city following online rumors of shortages due to the coronavirus
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| Meet China's New JH-7A 'Flying Leopard' Supersonic Fighter Bomber Posted: 16 Feb 2020 01:00 AM PST  Do you feel scared?
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| Winter storm barreling toward the UK is possibly the strongest ever for North Atlantic Posted: 15 Feb 2020 12:51 PM PST  The storm likely to hit Ireland, the U.K., France and northern Germany with winds gusts up to 85 mph.
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| Trump reportedly urged the CIA to hunt and kill Osama bin Laden's son instead of more pressing terrorist threats Posted: 16 Feb 2020 10:49 PM PST  Intelligence officials would reportedly give President Donald Trump lists of top terror targets, but Hamza bin Laden's name was the only one he knew.
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| Trump blames border wall falling over on 'big winds' Posted: 16 Feb 2020 11:41 AM PST  President Trump has blamed reports about a section of his border wall falling over on the "Fake News," claiming in a tweet the part of the wall fell due to "big winds" and had since been fixed "forever."
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| Rwandan dissident singer found dead in custody: police Posted: 17 Feb 2020 03:43 AM PST  Kizito Mihigo, a survivor of the Rwandan genocide whose songs angered the government of strongman President Paul Kagame, was found dead in a police cell in the capital Kigali around 5am (0200 GMT). Mihigo, who was sentenced to 10 years' jail in 2015 for conspiracy against the government but later released on pardon, was captured trying to cross the border in Rwanda's south. Police spokesperson John Bosco Kabera said he was visited by family members and his lawyer during his detention.
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| Biden, Klobuchar hit Bloomberg's record ahead of Nevada debate Posted: 16 Feb 2020 07:00 AM PST  "There's a lot to talk about with Michael Bloomberg," Joe Biden says on "Meet the Press."
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| North Korea imported purebred horses from Russia as Kim Jong Un took snowy ride Posted: 17 Feb 2020 03:12 AM PST  MOSCOW/SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea, whose leader Kim Jong Un was filmed riding through the snow on a white stallion last year, has spent tens of thousands of dollars on 12 purebred horses from Russia, according to Russian customs data. Accompanied by senior North Korean figures, Kim took two well-publicized rides on the snowy slopes of the sacred Paektu Mountain in October and December. State media heralded the jaunts as important displays of strength in the face of international pressure and the photos of Kim astride a galloping white steed were seen around the world.
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