| 'Cheap shot': Sanders fires back when Bloomberg goes after 'socialism' Posted: 19 Feb 2020 08:22 PM PST  Michael Bloomberg attacked Sen. Bernie Sanders at Wednesday's debate in Las Vegas, with the billionaire former New York City mayor claiming the self-described democratic socialist's ownership of multiple homes makes him a hypocrite.
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| U.S. vs. Huawei: Is future of the internet at stake? Posted: 21 Feb 2020 08:39 AM PST  The U.S. government is trying to stop Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei from dominating the 5G market. The outcome of the dispute could change the future of the internet.
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| Rohrabacher confirms he offered Trump pardon to Assange for proof Russia didn't hack DNC email Posted: 20 Feb 2020 05:14 AM PST  Former congressman Dana Rohrabacher confirmed to Yahoo News he told Julian Assange President Trump would pardon him if he turned over information proving Russians weren't the source of Democratic emails published by WikiLeaks.
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| Americans stranded at Pakistan airport after cruise ship was denied entry to multiple countries over coronavirus fears Posted: 20 Feb 2020 02:00 PM PST  A plane full of Americans and Canadians was stranded on a tarmac at an airport in Karachi, Pakistan, for several hours on Thursday after it was turned away from multiple countries due to fears of the coronavirus, according to a family member of two of the passengers.
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| Elizabeth Warren trolls Republican donor with ad in his paper telling him how much tax she'll make him pay Posted: 20 Feb 2020 03:44 PM PST  Elizabeth Warren has bought ad space in a newspaper owned by Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson, taunting the billionaire with an estimate for how much he would pay during the first year of her presidency with her promised 2 per cent wealth tax."Here's how much Sheldon Adelson pays under Elizabeth Warren's wealth tax in the first year: $2,300,000,000,' the ad, printed in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, says.
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| Grief, anger and calls for action after shooting in Germany Posted: 21 Feb 2020 12:33 AM PST  Hundreds of grieving people flocked to Friday prayers in the mosques of the German town of Hanau, two days after a racially motivated shooting shook the country and prompted fresh calls for a crackdown on far-right extremism. Germany's top security official said authorities would step up the police presence throughout the country and keep a closer watch on mosques and other sites, in a first reaction to the rampage. In Hanau, German and Turkish flags flew at half-staff outside a mosque where worshipers were gathering Friday.
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| Intelligence employee pleads guilty to leaking classified info to journalists Posted: 20 Feb 2020 03:04 PM PST  Federal prosecutors say Henry Kyle Frese researched multiple classified intelligence reports – some of which were unrelated to his job duties.
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| South Korea accepted that its efforts to stop the coronavirus from infecting the country failed and says it's pivoting to containment Posted: 21 Feb 2020 02:55 AM PST  Cases of the coronavirus in South Korea have tripled. The government says it must now take a different approach.
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| 46,000-year-old bird found in Siberia Posted: 20 Feb 2020 07:46 PM PST  Along with the ancient bird, scientists are also studying an 18,000-year-old puppy and other extremely old specimens.
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| Democrat Warren, worried campaign will run out of cash, taps $3 million loan Posted: 20 Feb 2020 09:37 PM PST  NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren raised more money than most of her Democratic presidential rivals in the weeks before the Iowa caucuses, but spent so heavily that her campaign took out a $3 million loan fearing she would run out of cash. Warren raised $10.4 million in contributions in January -- more than former Vice President Joe Biden's $9 million and former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg's $6 million -- but ended the month with only $2.3 million in cash, according to disclosures filed on Thursday. All of the presidential hopefuls were required to submit financial disclosures on Thursday, public documents that offer insights into how they are managing their multi-million campaign operations.
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| Germany's immigrant community in Hanau reeling after attack Posted: 20 Feb 2020 11:10 AM PST  In the German town of Hanau, a longtime immigrant destination with decades of coexistence between people of different origins, residents were left with the fear Thursday that their community was targeted after a gunman shot and killed nine people of foreign background. Residents shook their heads at a level of violence that is rare in Germany, and wondered at the degree of anti-foreigner hatred expressed by the attack in a place where Turks and ethnic Kurds patronize the same hookah bars, and where members of both groups were among the victims along with people with roots in Bulgaria, Bosniaand Romania, according to media reports. Among the dead was the owner of the Midnight Shisha Bar, an immigrant from Turkey who worked and saved to buy his own business, along with the gaming kiosk next door.
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| Airport worker with no license takes plane for spin near D.C., almost crashes, feds say Posted: 20 Feb 2020 01:53 PM PST  Ryan Guy Parker allegedly "bounced" the landing and spun out when he touched down at the end of one harrowing flight.
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| Tom Steyer pits his billions against Bloomberg's in TV ad slamming 'racist' policies Posted: 19 Feb 2020 03:39 PM PST  Democratic presidential candidates may have turned on Michael Bloomberg, but only Tom Steyer is putting money on the sentiment.In his latest TV ad, Steyer — who's a billionaire like Bloomberg, albeit about 50 times less rich — gives a megaphone to what some other Democrats have been saying. He pulls out controversial clips of Bloomberg defending the stop and frisk program he furthered "as the Republican mayor of New York City," and then slams Bloomberg's entire past agenda as "racist" in the seven-figure ad buy, The Associated Press reports.Steyer's ad is full of Bloomberg's own words, including clips of him blaming the 2008 financial crisis on redlining, which denied loans to people in low-income and minority neighborhoods. "Those policies were racist, and Mike Bloomberg was wrong to support them," a voiceover says before promising Steyer "will be a president for all of America."Bloomberg will make his Democratic debate debut on Wednesday night after meeting the polling threshold needed to qualify. Steyer won't be at the debate, but other Democrats will surely take up his attacks on Bloomberg.More stories from theweek.com Trump ridicules South Korea's Parasite after Oscars victory, asks for 'Gone with the Wind back' The growing crisis in cosmology Mike Bloomberg is not the lesser of two evils
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| Iowa Professor Bound and Gagged Husband Before His Death: Cops Posted: 20 Feb 2020 11:09 AM PST  An Iowa professor has been charged for allegedly gagging and binding her husband to a chair with rope for hours before his death, authorities said on Wednesday evening.Gowun Park, a 41-year-old assistant economics professor at Simpson College, was charged with first-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping in the death of her 41-year-old husband, Sung Nam, on Saturday, West Des Moines police told The Daily Beast. "Ms. Park's actions and in-actions were directly responsible for Mr. Nam's death. The injuries sustained by Mr. Nam were not self-inflicted," a criminal complaint obtained by the Des Moines Register says. "Ms. Park stated that the only people present during the duration of the events were her and her husband, Sung Woo Nam."California Woman Fabricated Firefighter Husband to Scam Donors: PoliceAuthorities allege Park bound her husband's hands and feet with zip ties before tying him to a chair in their West Des Moines home on Saturday between 10:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Park then allegedly stuffed "an item of clothing" into Nam's mouth to prevent him from yelling in protest before finally using duct tape to place a towel over his head to cover his eyes.Several hours later, at about 5:05 p.m., police say Nam asked to be untied in distress, but his wife refused to free him. Gun finally called West Des Moines police officers at around 6:45 p.m., at which point deputies found Nam unresponsive with ligature marks on the front of his neck and throat. His wife was "performing CPR" on him, authorities said."Ms. Park made efforts to hide and conceal the binding items prior to the arrival of emergency personnel," the criminal complaint said. Nam was transported to UnityPoint Health-Iowa Methodist Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. The next day, Park emailed her students to say she was canceling classes for the following week and postponing their midterm because of a "personnel issue," according to the Des Moines Register. Park, who was hired at the small liberal-arts college in 2017, was arrested on Wednesday after faculty members saw deputies in her office. Air Force Major Charged With Murder After Missing Wife's Remains Found"I witnessed three police officers in the faculty member's office searching through papers and drawers," Brian Steffen, professor of multimedia communications, told the school's newspaper, The Simpsonian. "I did see police officers remove a computer from her office. I don't know whether they took other materials, but I did see them take a computer away."A Simpson College spokesperson told The Daily Beast that the school has suspended Park following her arrest and is cooperating with authorities during the ongoing investigation. As of Thursday afternoon, Park's staff profile page was removed from Simpson College's website, as was any mention of the assistant economics professor.Wife Kills Husband, Admits It in a Bar Bathroom"The recent news has left me and other classmates in shock," Kody Ricken, a sophomore and one of Park's advisees, told the student newspaper. "We never would have expected her to do anything like this."Park received her master's degree in economics from New York University in 2010 before teaching there as an adjunct professor for five years, a school spokesperson confirmed. She later received her doctoral degree in economics in 2017 from the City University of New York just before joining Simpson College faculty, according to alumni records. Park is being held on a $5 million bond at Dallas County Jail. It was not immediately known whether she has a lawyer. Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Coronavirus is Spreading Rapidly in China (And One Minority Group Is Under Serious Threat) Posted: 20 Feb 2020 02:12 PM PST  If the Chinese government cannot or does not curb the transmission of the novel coronavirus in Xinjiang, it's possible that it will evolve, as the influenza virus did in 1918, to become even more dangerous to humans
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| Trump's approval rating hits record high as he mocks 'fake media' polls predicting he'll lose the election Posted: 19 Feb 2020 11:59 AM PST  With his approval rating again climbing to post-impeachment high, Donald Trump mocked his Democratic challengers by contending his campaign's internal polling shows him winning a second term.The president used a tweet to call his campaign's polling "REAL," contending those surveys show him "beating all of the Dem candidates".
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| A crowd in Ukraine threw bricks at buses carrying coronavirus evacuees from Wuhan to quarantine Posted: 21 Feb 2020 02:26 AM PST  The buses were attacked in Novi Sanzhary on Thursday night. Nobody on board has tested positive for the coronavirus — the quarantine is a precaution.
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| Pete Buttigieg quips he's 'a Microsoft Word guy' during Democratic debate and attracts instant Clippy comparisons Posted: 20 Feb 2020 08:06 AM PST  Democratic presidential candidate Buttigieg has revealed an affinity for Microsoft's famous word processor.
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| Housing crisis: Berkeley law would put renters first Posted: 20 Feb 2020 12:48 PM PST  The mayor of Berkeley, California, proposed a new housing policy Thursday aimed at giving renters first dibs when a property goes up for sale, as the state battles a severe housing shortage and homelessness that Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared his top priority. Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin announced a proposed ordinance to give renters "the first refusal and right to purchase" when their apartment buildings or rented homes are put on the market. Berkeley's city council will vote on the idea later this month.
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| A 15-month-old last seen in December was reported missing only this week Posted: 21 Feb 2020 10:21 AM PST  "This is a complicated case," the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation tweeted Thursday about the disappearance of Evelyn Mae Boswell. "Right now, our primary focus is finding Evelyn."
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| Russia warns Turkey, blocks UN bid to end Syria bloodshed Posted: 19 Feb 2020 01:39 PM PST  Russia on Wednesday warned Turkey against intervening in Syria as it blocked a UN bid to end the Damascus regime's brutal assault on the last rebel enclave. Syrian aid workers called urgently for a ceasefire and international help for nearly a million people fleeing the regime onslaught in the country's northwestern Idlib province -- the biggest wave of displaced civilians in the nine-year conflict. Turkey, supporter of some rebel groups in Idlib, has been pushing for a renewed ceasefire in talks with Russia, which backs the Syrian regime.
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| Grace Millane's mother tells killer she is 'haunted' by 'barbaric' murder Posted: 20 Feb 2020 01:12 PM PST  The mother of murdered British backpacker Grace Millane said she will be forever "haunted" by the violent end her daughter met, as her Tinder date murderer was sentenced to life imprisonment. The 28-year-old New Zealand man, who retained temporary name suppression, was sentenced to life imprisonment at a New Zealand court on Friday morning, with a minimum non-parole period of 17 years. Millane had been in New Zealand for less than two weeks when she matched with her killer on Tinder. She was murdered on December 1, 2018, the night they first met in person, during what the court heard was rough sex in his hotel room after cocktails at downtown Auckland bars. Before the sentencing was read out, Millane's mother Gillian Millane made a moving victim impact statement via audio-video link from England. Gillian told the court she would be forever "haunted" by the way her daughter, whom she considered her best friend, had died. She said she experienced suicidal thoughts in the months after, and that she feared turning on the radio lest a song reminding her of her daughter be played.
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| Racist German Shooter Exposes the Global Network of Hate Posted: 20 Feb 2020 10:08 AM PST  BERLIN—Late Wednesday night in the central German city Hanau, a gunman that police have identified as 43-year-old Tobias Rathjen opened fire at two shisha bars. They're the kind of places favored by people who enjoy a laid-back atmosphere as they puff tobacco bubbling through water-filled hookahs, and on any given evening, many of those folks may be from Turkish, Kurdish, or North African backgrounds. They're quiet places for conversation and minding your own business. Do Germans Know a Hate Crime When They See It?But Rathjen just started blowing people away. He first opened fire at a hookah bar called Midnight in the center of Hanau. He then drove five minutes away to the Arena Bar and Cafe, where he opened fire again. He killed nine and injured several others at the two locations, then fled. Police swarmed into the neighborhood. When they tracked Rathjen down and stormed his apartment at 5 a.m., they found his dead body next to that of his 72-year-old mother. Apparently he had shot her, too.Investigators also found a manifesto with racist and ultranationalist views, and the federal prosecutor is treating the case as an example of extreme-right terrorism and it is already clear the shooter was drawing on the international propaganda of hate that has inspired murderers from New Zealand to the United States. It is also apparent that, despite condemnation of the killings by the ascendant far-right German opposition party AfD, or Alternative für Deutschland, it has contributed to this country's increasingly incendiary atmosphere.Witnesses were stunned."I got a call from a colleague that there was a shooting," Can Luca Frisenna, the 24-year-old son of the owner of a convenience store next to the Arena Bar, told reporters in front the taped-off crime scene. "I drove here directly. First I thought that my father had been hit and my little brother... and then I saw both of them, they were in shock, they were crying. Everyone was shocked."Things like this do not happen in this area," Frisenna said. "It's like a film, like a prank. I can't yet believe what has happened. I think all of my colleagues, they are like my family, they cannot believe it either."Both the Midnight and the Arena have owners with Kurdish backgrounds, according to Mehmet Tanriverdi, the chairman of the Kurdische Gemeinde Deutschland, or Kurdish Community in Germany.Tanriverdi said that five of the nine victims have Kurdish backgrounds, but "They are German citizens." One witness, Kenan Kocak, told the television network station NTV, "It's very sad in particular that young people—a young lad, and a young girl about 20 or 25 years old—have died. I was there with them yesterday. Someone who worked there was also taken to the hospital. It looks very bad."The news agency ANF has identified two of the people killed as Ferhat Ünvar and Gökhan Gültekin, both young men. A week ago the killer, who described himself as a bank teller, published a video on YouTube in which he addressed "all Americans." He spoke English in a light German accent and mouthed bizarre conspiracy theories about "underground military facilities" on U.S. soil. He referred repeatedly to 9/11 as an example of the imminent threat. He said that he, for one, has been under surveillance since birth and called on American citizens to wake up and "fight now." The video appeared to have been recorded in a private apartment; a bookshelf in the background was stacked with dozens of binders. Meanwhile, Rathjen uploaded a 24-page text on his personal website. It included long sections of white supremacist, ethno-nationalist rambling. He wrote that "not everyone who owns a German passport is purebred and valuable." He talked about one German Volk—"the people" in the ethno-nationalist sense—which he describes as being the best. Otherwise there are only "destructive races." The "solution to the puzzle," he wrote (misspelling "puzzle"—is that billions of people (he named Arab countries and Israel) be "annihilated."If such demented ravings were limited to one unhinged bank teller with a gun, society might rest easy in spite of the tragedy. But they are not. Last week, police in Germany arrested 12 right-wing extremists who allegedly had been planning terror attacks on mosques across the country, inspired by those carried out in New Zealand last year. They had plans to provoke revenge attacks and bring about a "civil war," authorities said.This often is part of the global hate network's gospel. The young white supremacist who murdered nine black men and women in a Bible study group in Charleston, South Carolina, one evening in June 2015, preached much the same philosophy.Inside the Head of Dylann Roof, Jihadist for White HateRathjen also wrote about the coming "war" on his website, claiming that it would be a double blow, both against the secret organizations that he says are reading his mind, and against the "degeneration of the Volk."Right-wing extremists who turn to terror rely on apocalyptic scenarios ("civil war") to characterize their targets as a threat and thus justify their criminal acts as "self defense."Politicians from Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), now Germany's biggest opposition party, have spurred this narrative by spreading conspiracies about "ethnic replacement" and disinformation campaigns about non-existent crimewaves—as exemplified by campaign posters that accused hookah bars of being places of "rape " and "poison."For Germany's radical right, escalation is the goal. Crime levels in Germany are still at an all-time low. Right-wing terrorism aims to spread fear and potentially bring about authoritarian measures that the AfD cannot implement directly. So of course AfD politicians have condemned the terror attack—one AfD politician wrote on Twitter, "Is this still the 'Germany in which we live well and happily' that Merkel's CDU (Conservative party) conjured up in 2017?"Four months ago, 27-year-old Stephan Balliet tried to commit a terror attack against a synagogue in the city of Halle an der Saale, and killed two bystanders. As was the case with Rathjen, he had not been known to intelligence services prior to his act of terror. Meanwhile, Stephan E., the man accused of murdering conservative politician Walter Lübcke on his front porch in June, was a neo-Nazi in the '90s, but only became active again in the past few years. The German newspaper Die Zeit reported Thursday that police found a New Right book in his apartment that propagates the same ethnic replacement theories AfD politicians have cited. In 2016, 18-year-old student David Sonboly killed nine people in Munich on the fifth anniversary of the terror attack in Norway by Anders Breivik. He had been bullied at school, but turned his resentment and fury on people simply for their appearance, claiming that refugees and immigrants were a threat to Germany's future. In 2018, reporters from the newspaper Taz uncovered a network of people (including soldiers from the German army) who were preparing "kill lists" of left-wing politicians and activists, whom they could execute on the apocalyptic "Day X."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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| Coronavirus: Princess Cruises boss under fire for blowing kisses at ship where two have died and 3,000 have been quarantined for weeks Posted: 20 Feb 2020 01:18 PM PST  The president of Princess Cruises welcomed a coronavirus-quarantined ship by blowing kisses and making heart signs, captured on a video set to upbeat music and posted on social media the same day as reports of the deaths of two passengers had surfaced.In a video posted to the company's social media on Wednesday, Jan Swartz is seen wearing a surgical mask and forming heart hands over her head as the cruise ship finally begins to disembark after its passengers were forced to remain at a port in Yokohama, Japan for several weeks following a shipwide outbreak of the flu-like respiratory virus.
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| Bloomberg trolls Trump with billboards as Trump campaigns in West Posted: 20 Feb 2020 05:23 PM PST  Billboards blaring, "Donald Trump cheats at golf" and "Donald Trump eats burnt steak" are going up in Las Vegas and Phoenix during Trump's Western campaign swing.
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| Apple has been granted a temporary restraining order against a man it says has been stalking Tim Cook Posted: 20 Feb 2020 02:26 PM PST  Apple says the man has been harassing Tim Cook and has shown up at his house in Palo Alto, California, twice, once with Champagne and flowers.
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| Roger Stone heckled as a ‘traitor’ at final sentencing Posted: 20 Feb 2020 09:29 AM PST  A judge said on Thursday President Trump's longtime adviser Roger Stone engaged in intolerable intimidating conduct toward her, but his lawyer asked that he get no prison time as he awaited sentencing on charges that include lying to lawmakers investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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| Tennessee man gets electric chair for killing fellow inmate Posted: 19 Feb 2020 10:37 PM PST  A convicted murderer was put to death in Tennessee's electric chair Thursday, becoming the state's fifth prisoner over 16 months to choose electrocution over the state's preferred method of lethal injection. Nicholas Sutton, 58, was pronounced dead at 7:26 p.m. at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. Sutton was sentenced to death in 1986 for killing fellow inmate Carl Estep in a conflict over a drug deal while both were incarcerated in an East Tennessee prison, where Sutton had been serving time for the killings of his grandmother and two others when he was 18.
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| New virus cases soar in S.Korea and Chinese prisons, more die in Iran Posted: 20 Feb 2020 04:42 PM PST  Two more people died from the new coronavirus in Iran, infections nearly doubled in South Korea, and clusters surfaced in Chinese prisons Friday, rekindling concerns about an epidemic that has killed more than 2,200 people in China. The World Health Organization warned nations could face a serious problem if they fail to "hit hard now" against the virus, which has infected more than 75,000 in China and over 1,100 abroad. China has pointed to official figures showing new cases slowing this week as evidence that its drastic containment measures are working, but fresh infections emerged at two Beijing hospitals, and more than 500 others were reported in prisons across the country.
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| Lori Vallow, mother of two missing Idaho children, arrested in Hawaii Posted: 20 Feb 2020 06:05 PM PST  Joshua Vallow, 7, and Tylee Ryan, 17, were last seen in September, according to the police in Rexburg, Idaho.
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| Watch Out! U.S. Army Tanks Could Collapse Polish Bridges On Their Way to Battle Russia Posted: 20 Feb 2020 04:33 PM PST  The U.S. Army and its closest allies have a problem. The region of the world where they arguably are most likely to deploy its heaviest vehicles for high-tech combat also is peppered with flimsy old bridges that can't support the vehicles' weight.
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| Former Rep. Dana Rohrabacher confirms he tried to get Trump to pardon Julian Assange Posted: 20 Feb 2020 09:13 AM PST  Former GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher says he actually did offer WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a presidential pardon — and that he told the Trump administration all about it.The Trump administration denied Wednesday that it had sent Rohrabacher to offer Assange a pardon, with White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham saying Trump "barely knows Dana Rohrabacher" and has "never spoken to him on this subject or almost any subject." But Rohrabacher provided a different story in a Thursday interview with Yahoo News, saying he floated a pardon if Assange could prove Russia didn't hack the Democratic National Committee in 2016.Rohrabacher met with Assange for three hours in August 2017 at the Ecuardorian embassy where he was claiming asylum. The ex-congressmember was looking to prove his conspiracy theory and claim Russia didn't actually hack DNC emails and provide those emails to WikiLeaks, Rohrabacher told Yahoo News. If Assange could do so, Rohrabacher assured Assange he would get a presidential pardon — "He knew I could get to the president," Rohrabacher said. Rohrabacher called then-White House Chief of Staff John Kelly after the meeting and mentioned the possible pardon, though he said Kelly didn't even commit to discussing the matter with Trump.Rohrabacher was a high-profile representative for 30 years before Rep. Harley Rouda (D-Calif.) beat him in the 2018 midterms. Assange was ousted from the embassy about a year ago and has since been charged in the U.S. with illegally publishing government secrets.More stories from theweek.com Former CIA Director John Brennan says 'we are now in a full-blown national security crisis' Trump's top trade adviser admits he's hunting for 'Anonymous' How much will Medicare-for-all save Americans? A lot.
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| Poll: Trump Comfortably Leads Every Democratic Candidate in Wisconsin Posted: 20 Feb 2020 09:58 AM PST  A new swing-state poll conducted by Quinnipiac University found that President Trump leads every Democratic candidate by at least seven points in the battleground state of Wisconsin.The poll shows Trump ahead of Senator Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.) by 11 points with a 50-39 percent lead, while the president also comes out on top of both former mayors in the race, Pete Buttigieg and Mike Bloomberg, by an eight-point margin of 49-41 percent. Against the progressive Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, Trump wins by ten and seven points, respectively — 51-41 over Warren and 50-43 over Sanders.The poll stands in sharp contrast to Quinnipiac's national polls, which continue to indicate that the Democratic field would best the incumbent by a comfortable margin.Former vice president Joe Biden, who was heavily criticized by Trump during impeachment, is projected to lose to the president by seven points, 49 to 42 percent.While the poll also surveys Pennsylvania — where Democrats lead by an average of five points — and Michigan, where Democrats barely lead by an average of three points, Democrats "are mostly negatively viewed" in all three states."Between President Trump and the Democratic presidential candidates, voters aren't showing much enthusiasm about any candidate. Getting a split favorability rating is the high-water mark," Quinnipiac University Polling Analyst Mary Snow said.Averaged across all three battleground states, the race is a tossup for Democrats against Trump.> New Quinnipiac general election results in PA/MI/WI. > Here's the average across the three states: > Trump v. Biden: Biden+2 > v. Bloomberg: Bloomberg+1 > v. Sanders: Sanders+1 > v. Buttigieg: Trump+1 > v. Klob: Trump+1 > v. Warren: Trump+1https://t.co/xzFeSvdWqO> > -- Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) February 20, 2020 In all three states, Quinnipiac finds the top issue for voters is the economy, Trump's handling of which received a positive rating of 59 - 38 percent in Wisconsin, 57 - 41 percent in Pennsylvania, and 52-44 in Michigan. More than half of respondents in all three states also say they are better off than in 2016.Trump's polling numbers have ticked up since impeachment, with the president hitting personal high approval ratings in several major indexes over the last month.He has had consistently good numbers in Wisconsin, with a Marquette University Law School poll in November finding him ahead of Biden, Sanders, Warren, and Buttigieg.
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| Here’s $5.4 billion of stuff the US Navy says it wants but didn’t fit in its FY21 budget request Posted: 21 Feb 2020 06:44 AM PST  Here's the Navy's laundry list of stuff it wants in 2021 but says it couldn't fit into its FY21 ask.
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| Coronavirus: 11 of 13 Diamond Princess evacuees taken to Nebraska test positive Posted: 21 Feb 2020 06:57 AM PST  The University of Nebraska Medical Center said Thursday that 11 of the 13 Diamond Princess evacuees taken there have tested positive for coronavirus.
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| Nurse sentenced to 13 years in prison for harming infants Posted: 21 Feb 2020 04:01 AM PST |
| At least 5 people in China have disappeared, gotten arrested, or been silenced after speaking out about the coronavirus — here's what we know about them Posted: 20 Feb 2020 08:06 AM PST  Wuhan doctor Li Wenliang, who died of the new coronavirus, was initially censored by police. He wasn't the only whistleblower to go silent.
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| 59 Hong Kong police quarantined after meal with virus colleague Posted: 21 Feb 2020 02:05 AM PST  Dozens of Hong Kong police officers have been placed in quarantine after attending a banquet with a colleague who later tested positive for the new coronavirus, officials said Friday. The news prompted celebrations among some pro-democracy protesters, a vivid illustration of how deeply polarised the city has become after months of rallies and thousands of arrests last year. Health officials said four officers as well as the infected policeman's wife and mother-in-law showed symptoms of illness.
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| This Fighter Jet Is The Biggest Threat To Russia's Su-57 Stealth Fighter (Not the F-35) Posted: 21 Feb 2020 05:55 AM PST  And it's not American.
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| Former national security adviser denounces the House's impeachment proceedings as 'grossly partisan' Posted: 20 Feb 2020 06:26 AM PST  Former national security adviser John Bolton on Wednesday denounced the House's impeachment proceedings against President Trump as "grossly partisan" and said his testimony would not have changed Trump's acquittal in the Senate, as he continued to stay quiet on the details of a yet-to-be-released book.
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| AOC launches plan to block non-progressive Democrats with all-female candidates: 'My ambition right now is to be a little less lonely in Congress' Posted: 21 Feb 2020 06:45 AM PST  Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is planning to endorse an all-female group of progressive candidates to build the far left, with some of the challengers going against members already in the Democratic Party.Her endorsements of more than one dozen candidates from her new political action committee will include a progressive challenger to potentially unseat a Texas representative from her party.
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| Warren: Bloomberg will drop 'another $100 million' just to 'erase America's memory' of the Las Vegas debate Posted: 20 Feb 2020 12:07 AM PST  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was not pulling her punches in Wednesday night's Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas, and her most potent haymakers landed on former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, standing to her right. MSNBC's post-debate panel showed the moment she started pummeling Bloomberg, and Chris Matthews described it in elaborate boxing metaphors.The Daily Show was a little more succinct:> Elizabeth Warren rn pic.twitter.com/HbrrAFVNRx> > -- The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) February 20, 2020Warren's biggest blow was set up by Bloomberg himself, and Joe Biden jumped in to help her finish him off.After the debate, Matthews asked Warren why she went after Bloomberg so hard. "I think it's important for people to know exactly what Michael Bloomberg has said and done," she said. "It is important to know who this guy is," and "he is a threat because he's already dropped $400 million in this campaign, and understand this: After his performance tonight, I have no doubt he is about to drop, tonight, another $100 million in this campaign ... to try to erase America's memory of what happened on that debate stage."Warren repeated her "arrogant billionaire" critique and when Matthews asked, she said Bloomberg's treatment of women should be disqualifying for the Democratic nomination. "Can we please keep in mind" that women have "finally been acknowledged to be important in electing our candidates?" she said. "You just can't lead with a guy who's got this kind of history."The Daily Show, again, had a similar idea, but with a different, less likely destination for Bloomberg's millions. > DemDebate pic.twitter.com/nqCtm6BxDK> > -- The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) February 20, 2020More stories from theweek.com Former CIA Director John Brennan says 'we are now in a full-blown national security crisis' Trump's push to install people loyal to him in law enforcement, intelligence appears to be well underway The growing crisis in cosmology
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