| Appeals court dismisses Democrats' lawsuit against Trump Posted: 07 Feb 2020 10:02 AM PST  A federal appeals court in Washington on Friday dismissed one of several ongoing lawsuits charging that President Donald Trump has illegally profited off the presidency. The lawsuit the court dismissed was filed by Democratic members of Congress in 2017. The court was not ruling on whether Trump violated the law.
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| Furious Democrats call for Tom Perez's resignation after Iowa fiasco Posted: 07 Feb 2020 04:05 PM PST  Apparent attempts by Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez to absolve himself of responsibility over the Iowa caucus fiasco have sparked many in the party to begin calling for his resignation. "It's a lack of leadership," Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) told The Hill in an interview Friday. "If you have the Iowa situation you don't throw them under the bus, you stand up and you support and you try to fix it. He doesn't lead on anything."Party insiders have been particularly rankled by Perez's treatment of Iowa Democratic Party Chair Troy Price, who has publicly taken heat over the scandal that resulted from a failed app on election night and a week's worth of confusion over the winner. Perez took three days after the Iowa debacle to speak publicly about the caucuses, Politico reports, after having failed to appear alongside Price during an initial public address. "Loads of state party chairs are pissed that [Perez] would treat one of their peers like this," one state party official told Politico.Perez has repeatedly attempted to distance himself from the scandal. On Thursday, he demanded a recanvass — essentially, a recalculation — of the election results, while Iowa Democrats were still counting votes. On Friday, asked by CNN's John Berman "how much of this is on you?," Perez dodged. "Well, again, the Iowa Democratic Party runs the caucus," he said. "Okay? And they — what happened was unacceptable."The American Prospect's David Dayen blasted Perez, writing that the chair was "seeking to be an independent actor trying to 'clean up' the Iowa mess, when he was fully implicated in making the mess in the first place." Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), speaking with Politico, called Perez's leadership "virtually nonexistent ... It's just a matter of time before he's going to go."More stories from theweek.com American democracy is dying 20 reportedly killed in Thailand mass shooting USWNT will get a chance to avenge their early 2016 exit after locking up 2020 Olympic bid
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| Texas executes man convicted of killing five family members Posted: 06 Feb 2020 09:53 PM PST  Texas Thursday executed a man who killed five family members including two of his children in 2002 during what his defense argued was a delirium induced by crack cocaine. Abel Ochoa, 47, was administered a lethal injection at the Huntsville penitentiary north of Houston and was pronounced dead at 6:48 pm (0048 GMT Friday), Texas prison officials said. According to court documents, on a Sunday morning after church in August 2002 Ochoa asked his wife for money to buy crack cocaine.
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| The next Tiananmen Square? Chinese citizens are demanding increased free speech after the death of a coronavirus whistleblower doctor. China is censoring their calls. Posted: 07 Feb 2020 10:43 AM PST  Viral hashtags — "The Wuhan government owes Li Wenliang an apology," "I want freedom of speech," and "We want freedom of speech" – were seen by millions before being censored.
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| CORRECTED-WRAPUP 8-American dies of coronavirus in China; five Britons infected in French Alps Posted: 07 Feb 2020 07:37 PM PST  A 60-year-old American has died of the new coronavirus, the first confirmed non-Chinese death of the illness, U.S. officials said, as millions of Chinese began returning home after a Lunar New Year break that was extended to try to contain the outbreak. While the vast majority of cases have been in China, the virus has spread to some two dozen countries abroad, including five British nationals infected in a French mountain resort. The American man died on Thursday in Wuhan, epicentre of the virus outbreak in the central Chinese province of Hubei, a U.S. embassy spokesman said in Beijing on Saturday.
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| She pulled her vote when she found out Pete Buttigieg is gay. He says`I'm running to be her president too.' Posted: 06 Feb 2020 11:10 AM PST  Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg responds to the Iowa woman who was captured on video withdrawing her support after learning he's gay.
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| Police officers to stop women from having abortions under proposed new Missouri bill Posted: 07 Feb 2020 10:28 AM PST  Police officers would be granted the power to prevent women from having an abortion under a new bill proposed by a politician in Missouri.Mike Moon, a Republican Missouri state representative who previously shared a video of himself decapitating a living chicken on Facebook to justify why abortion should be banned, introduced the controversial legislation.
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| Six Times the Speed of Sound: Will the Air Force Get an SR-72 Spy Plane? Posted: 07 Feb 2020 09:59 AM PST  Better than the SR-71?
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| Trump Gave a Scholarship to a 4th Grader ‘Trapped’ in a ‘Failing’ Public Education at the State of the Union. She Reportedly Attends a Top Charter School Posted: 08 Feb 2020 09:12 AM PST  Trump pointed to her experience as an argument for expanding school choice
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| Man who ran down 2 students faces manslaughter charges Posted: 07 Feb 2020 11:13 AM PST  A man was charged with manslaughter Friday in the deaths of two suburban Oklahoma City high school cross-country athletes whom he hit with his truck as they ran on a sidewalk just a day after his own son was killed in a traffic accident. Max Leroy Townsend, 57, is accused of running over six Moore High School cross-country runners in front of the school Monday afternoon, killing senior Rachel Freeman and sophomore Yuridia Martinez. Townsend was also charged Friday with leaving the scene of a fatality accident, driving under the influence causing great bodily injury, and leaving the scene of an accident causing personal injury, District Attorney Greg Mashburn said.
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| Coronavirus puts Shanghai into a coma Posted: 07 Feb 2020 07:42 AM PST  For more than a week, the rare resident of Shanghai who dared venture outside has encountered something unfamiliar: a surreal peace and quiet. The deadly coronavirus epidemic has brought much of China to a standstill, but perhaps nowhere has the change been more stark than in the country's biggest and most vibrant city. Gone are the traffic jams, crowded sidewalks and businessmen hurrying to work, replaced by eerily empty roads, shuttered bars and businesses, and only the occasional pedestrians -- always behind a protective mask.
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| Americans quarantined at a US Air Force base over the coronavirus are teaching each other Zumba, boxing, and how to file their taxes Posted: 08 Feb 2020 04:20 AM PST  US citizens at March Air Reserve Base after flying from Wuhan described their lockdown experience to The Washington Post.
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| Treasury Department sent information on Hunter Biden to expanding GOP Senate inquiry Posted: 06 Feb 2020 10:32 AM PST  The U.S. Treasury Department has complied with Republican Senators' requests for highly sensitive and closely held financial records about Hunter Biden and his associates and turned over "'evidence' of questionable origin" to them, according to a leading Democrat on one of the committees conducting the investigation.
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| Iran says it is ready to mediate between Turkey and Syria Posted: 08 Feb 2020 05:14 AM PST  Iran is ready to help Turkey and Syria resolve their differences over the nearly nine-year-old war in Syria, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday, adding that Tehran backs the sovereignty of its key regional ally Damascus. Turkey has backed rebels looking to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, while Iran and Russia have supported Assad's forces in the war.
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| Michael Bloomberg surges to 2nd place in the betting markets Posted: 07 Feb 2020 01:49 PM PST  Americans may not be betting on Michael Bloomberg yet, but betting markets still think he's got a chance.The former New York City mayor has totally leapfrogged former Vice President Joe Biden in an average of betting markets, RealClearPolitics' average shows. Bloomberg has a 19 percent chance of winning, per ElectionBettingOdds.com, while PredictIt's betting market gives Bloomberg a 23-cent "yes" price to Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) 43 cents.Bloomberg's rise coincides with a major drop in Biden's betting chances, likely stemming from the former vice president's dismal performance in Monday's Iowa caucuses. Even former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg has come close to surpassing Biden in RealClearPolitics' average, and he did so decisively on PredictIt. Still, ElectionBettingOdds.com has President Trump with the best chance of winning the whole election this fall, giving him a 59.5 percent chance to Sanders' 14.8 percent and Bloomberg's 10 percent.The Biden drop was also good news for Sanders. He surpassed Biden on the betting markets in late January, and is now far and away the top candidate to win the Democratic nomination. Sanders, and according to RealClearPolitics' betting markets average, no top-ranking candidate has put that much space between themselves and second place since Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D-Mass.) bump in October of last year.More stories from theweek.com American democracy is dying 20 reportedly killed in Thailand mass shooting USWNT will get a chance to avenge their early 2016 exit after locking up 2020 Olympic bid
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| GOP Rep. Calls for Romney to be Expelled from Republican Caucus Posted: 07 Feb 2020 08:38 AM PST  Representative Matt Gaetz (R., Fla.) on Thursday called for Senator Mitt Romney (R., Utah) to be expelled from Republican ranks in the Senate."If I were [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell I would expel Mitt Romney from the Republican caucus," Gaetz said in an interview on Fox News' Lou Dobbs Tonight. "He is not acting like a Republican. He has shown no interest in working with this administration, or with Republicans who are eager to seize the opportunity of the Trump presidency.""Frankly, I don't know what the difference is between Mitt Romney and a Democrat at this point," Gaetz continued.Romney was the only Republican senator to vote to convict President Trump on one article of impeachment. The Utah congressman is the first senator in American history to vote to impeach a president in his own party."The president did in fact pressure a foreign government to corrupt our election process," Romney told the Atlantic in an interview released Wednesday. "And really, corrupting an election process in a democratic republic is about as abusive and egregious an act against the Constitution—and one's oath—that I can imagine. It's what autocrats do."While Trump allies including Gaetz have vilified Romney for his decision, other Republicans were less certain Romney would be formally punished for his vote."There is always another day and another vote and you may not have everybody on every vote, sometimes you just have to play the next game when it comes along," said Senator John Thune (R., S.D.). "I'm sure that members of our conference will continue to work with him and accept his point of view."
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| 'I'm the sheriff, who are you?': Sheriff stops fake cop car in its tracks Posted: 07 Feb 2020 12:22 PM PST  Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard noticed something unusual about what he thought was a police car, but turned out to be a copycat.
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| Pro-Trump US preacher dropped by tour venues after outcry over homophobic comments Posted: 06 Feb 2020 03:12 PM PST  US evangelical preacher Franklin Graham, a staunch supporter of Donald Trump, has been dropped by every venue booked for his planned UK tour.The seven venues cancelled following public outcry about Mr Graham's views on Islam and homosexuality.
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| How America's Tanks Fought Soviet-Build T-34s at the Battle of Obong-Ni Posted: 06 Feb 2020 12:00 PM PST  A deadly battle.
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| Death of Chinese doctor fuels anger, demands for change Posted: 07 Feb 2020 02:29 AM PST  The death of a whistleblowing doctor whose early warnings about China's new coronavirus outbreak were suppressed by the police has unleashed a wave of anger at the government's handling of the crisis -- and bold demands for more freedom. Ophthalmologist Li Wenliang was among a group of people who sounded the alarm about the virus in late December, only to be reprimanded and censored by the authorities in central Hubei province. After Li's death was confirmed early Friday, the 34-year-old was lionised as a hero on social media, while officials were vilified for letting the epidemic spiral into a national health crisis instead of listening to the doctor.
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| The US Army wants its soldiers to be able to see enemies and other deadly threats through walls Posted: 07 Feb 2020 02:50 PM PST  The Army is trying to defeat battlefield unknowns by figuring out how soldiers can see through walls, a capability straight out of science fiction.
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| The U.S. Government Is Quarantining More Than 800 Americans. Here's Why That Very Rarely Happens Posted: 07 Feb 2020 02:26 PM PST  The mandatory quarantines in effect for Americans returning from Hubei province are the first in more than 50 years
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| Khamenei says Iran should increase military might to prevent war Posted: 08 Feb 2020 01:21 AM PST  Iran should increase its military might to prevent a war, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told a gathering of air force commanders on Saturday, dismissing the U.S. sanctions on the country as "criminal act". The Islamic Republic has vowed to increase its military strength despite mounting pressure from Western countries to curtail its military capabilities, including its ballistic missile program.
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| Police in Arizona are looking into doomsday mom Lori Vallow's connection to her late husband's life insurance policy Posted: 06 Feb 2020 02:02 PM PST  Lori Vallow's children still haven't been found.
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| Democratic Voters Worry Biden Has ‘Too Much Baggage’ After Trump’s Ukraine Smears Posted: 08 Feb 2020 02:00 AM PST  On the campaign trail, former Vice President Joe Biden has spoken openly and angrily about the attacks the right has waged on his family over their dealings in Ukraine, pointing to them as a sign that they consider him a threat to President Trump's re-election. "I wonder why they spend so much time trying to keep me from being the nominee," Biden said at a rally in Nashua, New Hampshire, earlier this week, mentioning the millions of dollars in ads launched to try and tear down his candidacy. "Have you ever seen another party spend as much time deciding who the other party's nominee shouldn't be?" There is no evidence that Biden or his son, Hunter, did anything wrong when the younger Biden was put on the board of energy company Burisma—in fact, the claims made by the White House and its allies have been effectively debunked. And at the Democratic debate in New Hampshire, even one of Biden's 2020 rivals, former mayor Pete Buttigieg, rejected the idea there is a "danger" in nominating Biden given the questions about his son's dealings in Ukraine. "No. And we're not going to let them change the subject," Buttigieg said. "This is not about Hunter Biden or Vice President Biden or any Biden. This is about an abuse of power by the president... Look, the vice president and I and all of us are competing but we've got to draw a line here."But for some Democratic voters, the damage of conspiracy theories circulated by Trump and his allies has already been done. And while certainly not the first issue voters raised, for some still rattled by the 2016 race any hint of wrongdoing—true or not—is enough to make them look elsewhere. "I think there's going to be too much baggage there," said Terri Gilbert, 54, a surgical technician from Newton, Iowa. "I think Trump's gonna make everything up and run with it and play it just like he did Hillary." At a rally for Buttigieg in Waterloo, Iowa, Maureen O'Connor, 61, a part-time retail worker, had the same concern. "I think they are gonna dig something up on Joe before the whole thing happens," she said. "Joe is a good candidate... I don't think we're gonna give Joe a chance." Rival campaigns have also noticed and, according to one Democratic operative with knowledge of the strategies, some have included a question about Biden and the Ukraine issue in their internal polling. Team Biden's Been Prepping for Impeachment Smears for Months"It's a real vulnerability, everyone knows that," the operative said, adding, however, that at least with Biden Democrats know what the attack is going to be as opposed to what may be looming for the yet-to-be vetted candidates. "It's the devil you know or the devil you don't know," the operative said. It is true that the other candidates in the race could also be weighed down by baggage once their records come into sharp relief. The Trump campaign is already planning to take advantage of Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-VT) self identification as a socialist, and new problematic comments made by the longtime politician have begun to surface as Sanders rises in the race. Sanders came under fire for those very views at Friday's debate. Still, none have gotten the attention from the GOP that Biden has in the run up to 2020. "I wonder if the Hunter Biden stuff spooked some voters," said David Axelrod, Barack Obama's former chief political campaign strategist. "They're worried he is going to be Benghazi-ed.""The biggest defining force in this primary is Democrats' ferocious recognition of the threat that Donald Trump is to our country and to who we are as a people. And Donald Trump is so terrified of Joe Biden that he got himself impeached by trying to spread lies about him," spokesman Andrew Bates told The Daily Beast. "Any 'Democrat' who traffics in Trump's repulsive and comprehensively disproven smears will find themselves eviscerated—by more than just one campaign."Biden, himself, has been defensive when the issue has been raised on the campaign trail. In early December at a stop in New Hampton, Iowa, Biden called out a voter who incorrectly said Biden sent his "son over there to get a job and work for a gas company that he had no experience with gas or nothing in order to get access for the president." GOP Base Is Hot to Probe Biden, Senate Republicans Not So MuchBiden responded by calling the man a "damned liar," suggested they take an "IQ test" and appeared to call the man "fat" (the Biden campaign said the former vice president was saying "facts.)In an interview with NBC's Savannah Gutherie the night before the Iowa Caucuses, Biden was asked about how the impeachment trial had ensured that his son's position on the Burisma board was in the public eye. "No one has found anything wrong with his dealings in Ukraine, except they say it sets a bad image," he said. Asked whether it was "wrong" for his son to take a position on the board of a company offered to him in exchange for access to the then-sitting vice president, Biden shot back, "That's not true, you are saying things you do not know what you are talking about. No one said that. Who said that?"After Gutherie explained that is how the situation appeared, whether or not it was true, Biden said of his son, "He said he regretted having done it. Speak for himself. He's a grown man."With the impeachment trial in the rearview mirror, the Trump campaign and its supporters are doing their best to keep the issue alive. Just feet away from the Concord site where Democratic contenders held a town hall discussing climate change with young voters this week, a large projector affixed on the side of a parked black truck played a scene on repeat discussing Joe Biden and his son Hunter, along with other contenders. The short segment, presented by the Committee to Defend the President, a pro-Trump PAC, showed clips from various opinion programs suggesting Hunter Biden is a corrupt individual. A banner on one segment read "HUNTER BIDEN'S FOREIGN DEALS" in all caps, with a video of the former vice president. "Did Joe Biden's son profit off father's position as vice president?"In New Hampshire, Democrats interviewed by The Daily Beast were less bothered by Trump's allegations. "On my end of things, the Hunter thing means nothing to me," said Chase Denamur, a Democrat from Litchfield, New Hampshire. "It doesn't bother me at all. It's just another Trump attack that he wants people to look at instead of what he's doing."Additional reporting: Sam Stein and Hanna Trudo 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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| Officials: TSA agent tricked a traveler into twice showing him her breasts Posted: 07 Feb 2020 06:57 AM PST  A federal Transportation Security Administration agent tricked a traveler into twice showing him her breasts as she went through security at one of the world's busiest airports, California's attorney said.
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| Some in Russia Think the Coronavirus Is a U.S. Biological Weapon Posted: 07 Feb 2020 04:33 PM PST  What is such a charge based on?
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| Snakebit! Bullmastiff heals, heads to Westminster Dog Show Posted: 07 Feb 2020 11:13 AM PST  Whatever got a piece of gentle Titus in the North Carolina brush, it was trouble. Co-owner Cassandra Carpenter reckons it was a pygmy rattlesnake. Veterinarian Jess Hunter figures it could've been a copperhead.
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| California moms on frontline of battle against homelessness Posted: 07 Feb 2020 05:36 PM PST  When Dominique Walker moved back from Mississippi to her native California last year, she planned to pursue a nursing degree while caring for her two small children. Walker became the latest casualty of the housing crisis after moving back to Oakland, about 13 miles (20 kilometers) east of San Francisco, last April to escape domestic violence.
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| Former US drone operator recalls dropping a missile on Afghanistan children and says military is ‘worse than the Nazis’ Posted: 07 Feb 2020 10:18 AM PST  A former US drone operator is speaking out against the atrocities he says he was forced to inflict during his time in the armed forces and says the American military as 'worse than the Nazis'.Brandon Bryant was enlisted in the US Air Force for six years. During his time with the military, he operated Predator drones, remotely firing missiles at targets more than 7,000 miles away from the small room containing his workspace near Las Vegas, Nevada.
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| New cases of coronavirus infections rise in China after two-day decline Posted: 07 Feb 2020 04:34 PM PST  The number of new confirmed infections from a coronavirus in mainland China rose on Friday after falling for two consecutive days, while the number of deaths from the outbreak once again hit a daily record, pushing the death toll past 700. Across mainland China, there were 3,399 new confirmed infections on Friday, bringing the total accumulated number so far to 34,546, the country's National Health Commission said on Saturday. The death toll had reached 722 as of the end of Friday, up by 86 from the previous day.
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| 'We ask for your prayers': Mom, 6 kids killed in Mississippi house fire, authorities say Posted: 08 Feb 2020 08:12 AM PST  The father, who attempted to rescue his family, survived according to a Clinton, Mississippi spokesman.
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| Sandra Fluke: Rush Limbaugh deserves health care, not the Presidential Medal of Freedom Posted: 07 Feb 2020 02:00 AM PST  Donald Trump and Rush Limbaugh would prevent every American from accessing affordable health care. But Democrats fight for coverage for all of us.
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| Poll: Buttigieg Saps Biden Support with Twelve-Point Gain in New Hampshire Posted: 07 Feb 2020 06:07 AM PST  The latest New Hampshire caucus poll shows Pete Buttigieg up twelve points in just four days after declaring victory in the Iowa caucuses.Buttigieg now sits in second bplace in the latest WBZ/Boston Globe/Suffolk University poll with 23 percent, in a virtual tie with Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) — who leads with 24 percent — based on the margin of error.The former mayor made headlines by declaring victory in the Iowa caucuses Monday night, despite the fact that the state party had failed to report any official numbers. The Iowa Democratic Party has yet to declare a winner with 99 percent reporting as of Friday morning, but Buttigieg leads Sanders by a mere one-tenth of a percentage point in the overall vote, and 564–562 in state delegate equivalents.The declaration seemed to have given Buttigieg real momentum in the next state on the primary circuit, with Buttigieg surging from 11 to 23 percent in four days. On the flip side, Biden has fallen seven points to fourth place, with the poll showing that Buttigieg has gained 16 points overnight among voters over 65 — typically a source of strength for the former vice president."His movement is real," David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, said of Buttigieg's surge. "For savvy older voters, it looks to me that when the electability argument went away for Biden, where else were they going to go? There's nothing about him they dislike. His positions are close to Biden's, and he's the next most comfortable alternative to Biden."Biden has been blunt with voters on the campaign trail in New Hampshire this week after his poor performance in Iowa, telling a crowd Wednesday that "I am not going to sugarcoat it, we took a gut punch in Iowa." On Tuesday, the former vice president pleaded to a rally for support."I need your help. I am asking for your help. Look me over," Biden said. "Like my mother said, hope springs eternal. We are not giving up; we are not giving up."
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| Mexican president: Raffle winners will get $1M — not the presidential plane Posted: 07 Feb 2020 10:50 AM PST  Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Friday gave details about a raffle aimed at covering the cost of a luxury presidential plane he has struggled to sell, clarifying that winners will get $1 million in cash rather than the plane itself.
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| New coronavirus infected 40 staff in single Wuhan hospital: study Posted: 07 Feb 2020 01:14 PM PST  Forty health care workers were infected with the novel coronavirus by patients at a single Wuhan hospital in January, a new study has found, underscoring the risks to those at the frontlines of the growing epidemic. One patient who was admitted to the surgical department was presumed to have infected 10 health care workers, according to the paper that was authored by doctors at the Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on Friday. The study comes just hours after a Chinese doctor who was punished for raising the alarm about the coronavirus died from the pathogen -- sparking an outpouring of grief and anger over a worsening crisis that has now killed more than 630 people.
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| Weinstein's lawyer Donna Rotunno says she's never been sexually assaulted because she wouldn't 'put herself in that position' Posted: 07 Feb 2020 02:36 PM PST  New York Times' Megan Twohey asked Donna Rotunno if she's been sexually assaulted. She hadn't "because I would never put myself in that position."
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| Does India's F-21 Look A Little Familiar? It Should. Posted: 07 Feb 2020 07:30 PM PST  Their F-21 looks very familiar--like an F-16.
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| 2 more passengers diagnosed with coronavirus on Diamond Princess cruise ship off coast of Japan Posted: 08 Feb 2020 07:41 AM PST  Two more passengers, including another American, have fallen ill on the Diamond Princess cruise ship as the coronavirus rages on.
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| Syria army overruns Idlib crossroads town despite Turkish warnings Posted: 08 Feb 2020 07:52 AM PST  The Syrian army took control of a strategic northwestern crossroads town on Saturday, its latest gain in a weeks-long offensive against the country's last major rebel bastion of Idlib. The advance on Saraqeb came shortly after Turkey sent additional troops into the region and threatened to respond if any of its military observation posts in Idlib, set up under a 2018 truce, come under attack. "Army units now exercise full control over the town of Saraqeb," state television reported, over footage of the town's streets, deserted after weeks of bombardment.
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| Israel bans Palestinian agricultural exports via Jordan -PA minister Posted: 08 Feb 2020 02:38 AM PST ![Israel bans Palestinian agricultural exports via Jordan -PA minister]( "Israel bans Palestinian agricultural exports via Jordan -PA minister") Israel has escalated a trade war with the Palestinians by stopping their agricultural exports through Jordan, Palestinian Agriculture Minister Riyal al-Attari said on Saturday. Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) opened a new front in their decades-long conflict with a trade dispute that began in October and has escalated over the past week. "Yesterday, the director of Israeli crossings informed all exporters and all relevant parties that all Palestinian agriculture products would be banned from export to world markets through the Jordanian crossing starting Sunday," al-Attari told Voice of Palestine Radio.
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| U.S. cities and states with confirmed coronavirus cases Posted: 07 Feb 2020 03:05 AM PST  Six states are currently treating people infected with coronavirus.
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