| Calls in Congress for probe on how former Trump aide won $3 million respirator contract Posted: 26 May 2020 12:54 PM PDT  Before leaving the Trump administration, Zachary Fuentes was a deputy to John Kelly, the retired Marine general who was Trump's second chief of staff.
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| Meng Wanzhou: Key decision expected in extradition case Posted: 27 May 2020 08:23 AM PDT  A Canadian court will decide whether the Huawei executive's case counts as "double criminality".
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| Brazil police raid Rio governor's residences amid COVID-19 probe Posted: 26 May 2020 04:14 AM PDT  Brazilian federal police on Tuesday raided the residences of Rio de Janeiro's right-wing Governor Wilson Witzel as part of a COVID-19 corruption probe, targeting one of President Jair Bolsonaro's political foes as the pandemic sweeps the nation. Federal prosecutors alleged Witzel, a former-ally-turned-foe of Bolsonaro, and his wife Helena led a sprawling criminal operation in which her law firm was used to receive payment from a company that won state coronavirus contracts, according to federal court documents seen by Reuters. In a statement, Witzel said he was innocent, and accused Bolsonaro of "interference" in the probe.
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| Demand has ‘just dried up’ for U.S. small firms in requesting coronavirus stimulus Posted: 26 May 2020 08:37 AM PDT  When the U.S. government first rolled out forgivable loans to small businesses in early April under the Paycheck Protection Program, loan officers at Bank of the West in Grapevine, Texas, worked nights and weekends to process a tsunami of applications.
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| Monterey County DA to investigate if Biden accuser Tara Reade gave 'false testimony under oath' about expert witness credentials Posted: 26 May 2020 11:00 PM PDT  Reade served as an expert witness in domestic violence cases in California, for a decade, but cases where she testified are now under scrutiny.
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| George Floyd death sparks large protests, confrontations with police Posted: 27 May 2020 09:53 AM PDT  Videos show police using smoke bombs or tear gas, as well as flash grenades, against the demonstrators.
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| A new 'parking lot Karen' is going viral on TikTok for physically blocking someone's car from an open parking spot Posted: 27 May 2020 08:21 AM PDT  A TikTok shows a "Karen" blocking TikTok user @savsoares and her friend from parking by leaning on their car as she directed another car to park.
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| So-called honor killing of teen girl brings outcry in Iran Posted: 27 May 2020 05:16 AM PDT  The so-called honor killing of a 14-year-old Iranian girl by her father, who reportedly used a farming sickle to behead her as she slept, has prompted a nationwide outcry. Reza Ashrafi, now in custody, was apparently enraged when he killed his daughter Romina on Thursday after she ran away with 34-year-old Bahamn Khavari in Talesh, some 320 kilometers (198 miles) northwest of the capital, Tehran. In traditional societies in the Middle East, including Iran, blame would typically fall on a runaway girl for purportedly having sullied her family's honor, rather than on an adult male luring away a child.
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| Xi Jinping says China strengthening armed forces amid tensions with US over coronavirus Posted: 27 May 2020 01:41 AM PDT  Beijing says it will improve its preparedness for military combat. In the background: heightened U.S. tensions.
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| US says Russia sent jets to Libya 'mercenaries' Posted: 26 May 2020 07:57 PM PDT  Russia urges peace talks as the US accuses it of meddling in the Libya conflict.
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| Dutch PM did not visit dying mother until end due to coronavirus rules: statement Posted: 26 May 2020 08:57 AM PDT  Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte did not visit his 96-year-old mother for more than eight weeks until hours before her death this month due to lockdown measures in the Netherlands, his office said on Tuesday. Mieke Rutte-Dilling died on May 13, Rutte's office announced on Monday. "The prime minister complied with all the coronavirus restriction measures and didn't visit his mother for (more than 8) weeks," the premier's office said in a statement.
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| Nasa SpaceX launch - live: Historic liftoff at risk as weather overshadows plan to send astronauts into space from US soil Posted: 27 May 2020 05:02 AM PDT  Nasa and SpaceX are about to make history with the first launch of astronauts from US soil since the end of the Space Shuttle programme.The launch will see Nasa astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley sent to the International Space Station on board a SpaceX rocket, in a collaboration that could set the tone for the future of space exploration.
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| Family separation returns under cover of the coronavirus Posted: 27 May 2020 03:00 AM PDT  Three children are fighting government efforts to take them from their father and deport them to El Salvador to no one. They're far from alone.
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| A Eurowings plane with just 2 passengers on board was forced to turn around after learning its destination airport was closed due to coronavirus Posted: 27 May 2020 04:11 AM PDT  The flight from Düsseldorf, Germany, to Sardinia, Italy, made it all the way to its destination before it had to turn around.
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| Bones of approximately 60 mammoths discovered in Mexico Posted: 26 May 2020 12:42 PM PDT  The discoveries will provide an "unprecedented opportunity to delve into more than 30,000 years of history," the country's National Institute of Anthropology and History said.
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| Levi’s Is Taking 50% off These Best-Selling Jeans Right Now Posted: 27 May 2020 07:23 AM PDT |
| Iran, US prisoners held by two sides Posted: 27 May 2020 03:58 AM PDT  Tehran (AFP) - Iran and the United States have long been sworn enemies, and despite rare prisoner swaps in recent years, they still hold a number of each other's nationals behind bars.
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| India activists held over citizenship law protest Posted: 25 May 2020 08:34 PM PDT  Two women are among several activists who have been arrested since India's lockdown began in March.
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| Fourth Iranian fuel tanker enters the Caribbean as Venezuela readies distribution Posted: 27 May 2020 08:03 AM PDT |
| Ilhan Omar says she believes woman who claims Joe Biden sexually assaulted her Posted: 25 May 2020 11:31 AM PDT  Democrat "squad" member Ilhan Omar says she believes sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden but would vote for him anyway to defeat Donald Trump.In a Tweet defending her support of accuser Tara Reade, the Minnesota congresswoman said that "believing survivors is consistent with my values".
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| The CDC says coronavirus 'does not spread easily' on surfaces or objects. Here's what we know. Posted: 27 May 2020 09:18 AM PDT  This new CDC update may quell some major concerns about how COVID-19 is transmitted, but plenty of questions still remain. Here's what to know.
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| Editorial: Your web browsing says a lot about you. The government should have to get a warrant to look at it Posted: 27 May 2020 03:00 AM PDT  In reauthorizing a surveillance law, Congress must protect the privacy of the internet
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| Three European air forces approve performance benchmarks for next-gen fighter jet Posted: 27 May 2020 06:21 AM PDT  The criteria will be used to whittle down the number of design options as the Future Combat Air System program proceeds through the next stages of development.
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| Sweden touts the success of its controversial lockdown-free coronavirus strategy, but the country still has one of the highest mortality rates in the world Posted: 26 May 2020 07:56 PM PDT  Some experts have said Sweden's risky strategy will eventually yield positive results, while others have highlighted serious pitfalls.
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| McEnany defends Trump’s promoting 'Morning Joe' conspiracy theory Posted: 26 May 2020 12:45 PM PDT  White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Tuesday defended President Trump's promotion of a murder conspiracy theory about 'Morning Joe' host Joe Scarborough.
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| Memorial Day weekend shootings leave 10 dead in Chicago Posted: 26 May 2020 06:59 AM PDT  Chicago saw its deadliest Memorial Day weekend for gun violence since 2015, a jarring reminder that even a coronavirus pandemic and a statewide stay-at-home order cannot halt shootings in the city. "The violence throughout the city on Memorial Day weekend was nothing short of alarming," Chicago police Superintendent David Brown told the media Tuesday after the first major test of his tenure as the city's top officer ended with 49 people being shot, 10 of them fatally. According to Chicago police crime statistics posted online, between Jan. 1 and May 24, the nation's third-largest city had 200 homicides, compared with 176 during the same period last year.
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| Walkers found after 19 days in the New Zealand wilderness Posted: 27 May 2020 03:57 AM PDT  The 23-year-olds were winched from a clearing after a helicopter spotted smoke from their fire.
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| Brazil coronavirus deaths could surpass 125,000 by August, U.S. study says Posted: 26 May 2020 09:20 AM PDT  As Brazil's daily COVID-19 death rate climbs to the highest in the world, a University of Washington study is warning its total death toll could climb five-fold to 125,000 by early August, adding to fears it has become a new hot spot in the pandemic. The forecast from the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), released as Brazil's daily death toll climbed past that of the United States on Monday, came with a call for lockdowns that Brazil's president has resisted.
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| Trump on Twitter mocks Biden for wearing a face mask Posted: 27 May 2020 03:22 AM PDT  "I thought it was very unusual he had one on," the president said when asked about his tweet.
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| Iranian Tankers Arrive in Venezuela Despite the U.S. Navy Posted: 26 May 2020 02:25 AM PDT  The Iranian oil tanker Fortune slipped into Venezuelan waters in the pre-dawn dark of Monday morning, the first of five tankers from the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) bringing vitally needed gasoline to a regime the Trump administration has, for years, tried and failed to bring down. Four days before the Fortune arrived in Venezuelan waters, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo announced that sanctions slapped on Iran's shipping lines last December will take effect on June 8. The message seemed to get through. The tankers speeded up.While the Fortune was still unloading 280,000 barrels of the precious fuel, maritime live tracking websites showed three other tankers arrived in Venezuelan waters ahead of schedule. At approximately 1 am EDT Tuesday morning, the Faxom reached its final destination, three days earlier than its posted ETA. The Forest and the Petunia were close behind, also ahead of their scheduled arrival date. The last tanker, the Clavel, was still listed as arriving June 2.According to the petroleum industry news site Argus Media, the Fortune's cargo was being distributed under "a tightly rationed system, with some of the gasoline transported by pipeline to other points for truck distribution." It also cited an unnamed Defense Ministry official saying "some of the supply" could be transhipped to Cuba.The total cargo on the ships is an estimated 1.5 million barrels, barely enough to last two to three weeks, to make up for lost production from Venezuela's largest refinery complex that needs serious repair.Trump Just Inspired the Dumbest Damned Coup Plot in LatAm History, Complete with a QAnon CrazyThe fact that Venezuela is starved for gasoline—even though it has the world's largest proven reserves of petroleum—is testimony to the corruption and mismanagement that plague the country. In fact, the state-owned oil giant, Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) has crumbled. At the same time, an avalanche of U.S. sanctions intended to overthrow the government of President Nicolás Maduro has left the country effectively bankrupt. Much of the world, led by the Trump administration, recognizes opposition leader Juan Guaidó as the legitimate president of Venezuela despited a record that as proved both feckless and reckless. So Maduro has built a byzantine network of allies—notably Iran and Russia, but also shady gold traders and sympathetic shipping tycoons, to come to his rescue.On Venezuela's Government television channel, Venezolana de Television, Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino announced the Iranian tankers would receive a royal welcome, even if they have to play tag with the U.S. Navy on the high seas: "When those ships enter our exclusive economic zone, they will be escorted by FANB [Venezuelan navy] vessels and planes to welcome them and thank the Iranian people for their solidarity and cooperation amid the difficulties caused by COVID-19."But for all the fanfare surrounding the tankers' arrival, the stark reality is that Venezuela had to go half way around the world to get refined fuel, underlining the desperation of the Maduro regime—and a risky count-down has begun. The Trump administration keeps feinting toward military action with an increased naval presence in the Caribbean. It gave covert—but not very secret—aid to a failed coup a year ago, and it recently offered huge rewards for the arrest of Maduro and his top lieutenants, inspiring an operation by disastrously incompetent adventurers organized by a former U.S. Green Beret. Most were killed or captured by Maduro's forces—and by a few Venezuelan fishermen. But it's the sanctions that really continue to bite. Even with today's very low prices, how can cash-strapped Venezuela afford the $45 million purchase price for Iran's refined product?According to Bloomberg News, Maduro turned to Alex Nain Saab Moran, a Colombian national indicted in the U.S. last July on federal money-laundering charges involving a $900 million shipment of Venezuelan gold to Turkey. Bloomberg reported Saab traveled to Tehran last April with senior executives from PDVSA and negotiated the Iran gasoline deal in exchange for crude oil. According to Bloomberg, Venezuelan officials sent about nine tons of gold—equivalent to US$ 500 million—to Iran on jets owned by Mahan Air, a Tehran-based carrier. In addition to the oil deal, Iran was also sending equipment to repair Venezuela's decaying refineries and broken gas pumps. Since then, Mahan Air has been placed on the growing U.S Treasury sanction list.But Venezuela still has to find ways to to get income from its crude oil, which accounts for about 95 percent of the nation's export revenues. In January 2019, the U.S. cut off Venezuela's main client, which was the United States itself. Venezuela lost the market for one third of its oil exports and production dropped to its lowest levels in 75 years. Russia's oil giant Rosneft stepped in, lending over US$ 6 billion to PDVSA. Through it's Swiss-based affiliate, Rosneft Trading, Rosneft tankers began transporting 80 percent of Venezuela's crude oil exports in a loan repayment deal. The U.S. slapped sanctions on Rosneft Trading. Rosneft itself, the mother company and the crown jewel in Russia's economy, was not targeted by Treasury. It shut down its operations in Venezuela immediately nonetheless—but only after transferring its Venezuelan crude oil exporting to another Rosneft unit, TNK Trading. Meanwhile, the image of Iranian tankers arriving in the backyard of the United States is a far departure from what one of Trump's short-lived cabinet members had envisioned. In February 2018, on the eve of his first whirlwind tour of South America, former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson invoked the 1823 Monroe Doctrine in his speech at the State University of Texas saying it was "as much alive today as the day when it was written." The doctrine claimed Washington has the right to intervene militarily at any time and anywhere in the western hemisphere to prevent foreign influences from establishing themselves. In fact, many have done so, from the British to the Soviets, in the nearly two centuries since its proclamation, but the supposed sanctity of the Monroe Doctrine appears to be an article of faint in the confines of the White House and the head of its mercurial occupant. On April 1, President Trump held one of his rambling news conferences pegged to COVID-19 as the nation grappled with daunting statistics and New York emerged as the new epicenter of the pandemic.As if out of nowhere, Trump made the startling announcement that he was sending U.S. Navy warships to the Caribbean to combat drug traffickers, and his administration fingered top Venezuelan officials as some of the worst. "As governments and nations focus on the coronavirus, there is a growing threat that cartels, criminals, terrorists and malign actors will try to exploit the situation for their own gain," said Trump. "We must not let that happen." National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien identified Venezuela directly, saying, "We will continue to execute our maximum pressure policy to counter the Maduro regime's activities, including drug trafficking." Earlier, the Trump administration had indicted Venezuelan President Maduro and members of his inner circle on charges they run a smuggling operation bringing up to 250 tons of cocaine a year to the U.S. They put a price on Maduro's head of $15 million and the total bounties on offer came to $55 million, prompting the ex-Green Beret Jordan Goudreau to launch the fiasco dubbed Operation Gideon. In the midst of all this, a shipping tycoon apparently has been delivering gasoline to his native Venezuela. Wilmer Ruperti told AP in an exclusive interview in April that his goal was humanitarian and that he had notified the U.S. Treasury Department which, he claimes, did not object. Ruperti also did not disclose where the refined fuel came from. As Iranian tankers continue arriving in Venezuela and Russian tankers head out of the Caribbean, it's apparent that no doctrine, Monroe's or otherwise, is stopping them. So there are several questions looming larger by the day: Will the U.S. Navy be ordered to stop those ships if there is a repeat performance? How long can Maduro continue like this? And how far is the Trump administration willing to go to bring him down at last?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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| Kudlow: Trump admin ‘may well’ support back-to-work bonus Posted: 26 May 2020 09:38 AM PDT  Republicans are aiming to offer an alternative to Democrats' push to continue $600 weekly federal unemployment payments.
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| Amphibious Ship Obliterates Drone with Laser Weapon in 1st-of-its-Kind Sea Test Posted: 26 May 2020 10:51 AM PDT  The Portland was equipped with the Solid State Laser Weapons System Demonstrator for the at-sea test.
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| $11,000 in personal items stolen from doctor visiting New York to fight coronavirus, report says Posted: 26 May 2020 11:25 AM PDT  A Texas doctor who moved to New York temporarily to assist in the fight against coronavirus has had $11,000 worth of personal items stolen from her hotel room, according to a report.Police sources told The New York Post that a woman who was believed to be in her 20's reportedly broke into the unidentified doctor's room at the Brooklyn Hotel on Atlantic Avenue at around 9am on Saturday.
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| Sonar used to search Oklahoma pond for 2 missing children Posted: 26 May 2020 01:47 PM PDT  Searchers used sonar on Tuesday to examine a Tulsa pond for two young children last seen days ago with their noncustodial mother, who was arrested after being questioned about their disappearance. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol and Tulsa firefighters joined Tulsa police in searching a pond near an east Tulsa apartment complex for 3-year-old Miracle Crook and 2-year-old Tony Crook. Tulsa police did not immediately return phone calls Tuesday for further comment.
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| Nasa SpaceX launch: Evolution of the spacesuit Posted: 27 May 2020 05:46 AM PDT  How SpaceX's stylish spacesuit differs from other attire flown by astronauts.
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| U.S. sanctions advisory raises hurdles for global maritime industry Posted: 27 May 2020 09:21 AM PDT  Ship owners and insurers say it may be impossible for the maritime industry to fully comply with the Trump administration's new guidelines on how to avoid sanctions penalties related to Iran, North Korea and Syria, raising the risk of disruptions in a sector already struggling with the fallout of the coronavirus outbreak. The advisory issued this month marked the first U.S. sanctions guidance for the global maritime sector, and will test Washington's ability to clamp down on violations without disrupting an industry that handles 90% of the world's trade. The final version of the U.S. guidance, written after feedback from maritime professionals, asks for enhanced data-sharing between the shipping industry and U.S. authorities, constant location tracking of vessels, and industry-led investigations into suspicious activity.
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| Mike Pence predicted the pandemic would be 'behind us' by Memorial Day. Instead, hospitalizations are rising as deaths near 100,000. Posted: 26 May 2020 01:27 PM PDT  US deaths from the virus neared the devastating milestone of 100,000 over the holiday weekend and US hospitalizations are ticking up again.
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| India yogi who claimed to live without food or water dies aged 90 Posted: 25 May 2020 05:59 PM PDT  An Indian yogi whose claims he spent decades without food or water earned him a band of devotees and the scepticism of doctors died Tuesday, his neighbour told AFP. The long-haired and bearded Prahlad Jani -- who dressed in red and wore a nose ring in the fashion of Hindu goddesses -- hailed from Charada village in the western state of Gujarat, where he spent his life in a routine of yoga and mediation. "He died early Tuesday morning at his residence due to old age," Sheetal Chaudhary, who lived next door to Jani, told AFP.
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| Cuomo says "you're going to see pain" as economy reopens Posted: 26 May 2020 11:47 AM PDT  The governor said Monday that though hospitalizations, intubations and other metrics are down, there were still an additional 96 coronavirus-related deaths.
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| Republicans sense rich pickings in Biden archive – but will it be made public? Posted: 27 May 2020 03:00 AM PDT  A treasure trove is being curated at the University of Delaware, and the 2020 candidate is well aware of its explosive potentialRichard Nixon had tapes. Hillary Clinton had emails. Joe Biden has an archive spanning 36 years in the US Senate. It's a record of his thinking, on everything from criminal justice to the Iraq war, and it could offer rich pickings for reporters and Republican opposition researchers.The Biden senatorial papers comprise 1,875 boxes of "photographs, documents, videotapes and files" and 415 gigabytes of electronic records at the University of Delaware in his home state. They recently came to public attention when Biden was accused by Tara Reade, a former staffer, of sexually assaulting her in a Capitol Hill basement in 1993.While vehemently denying that allegation in a TV interview on 1 May, the former vice-president simultaneously acknowledged the explosive potential of the archive's many other contents."The fact is that there's a lot of things, of speeches I've made, positions I've taken, interviews that I did overseas with people, all of those things relating to my job, and the idea that they would all be made public in the fact while I was running for public office, they could be really taken out of context," he told interviewer Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC's Morning Joe program."They're papers or position papers, they are documents that existed and that – for example, when I met with [Vladimir] Putin or when I met with whomever, and all of that could be fodder in a campaign at this time."Biden, 77, also insisted that the collection does not contain personnel records, sending journalists on a wild goose chase through the National Archives and Senate in search of evidence of a complaint filed by Reade at the time of the alleged incident. The trail went cold, but the University of Delaware treasure trove remains tantalizing.Last week the Republican National Committee launched a digital advertising campaign, raising questions about whether the university is keeping documents under seal related to the Reade allegation. One of the ads alleges: "University of Delaware is complicit in sexual assault cover-up."Judicial Watch, a rightwing activist group, is taking legal advice on whether it has grounds to take the university to court for access to the records. Its president, Tom Fitton, said on Thursday: "If we find that the documents are being withheld from us contrary to law, we are prepared to sue."Biden's defenders argue he is merely following precedent: past senators who ran for president have not been required to disclose all their papers. But Fitton contended: "It's not that they're being required; the question is whether the records are available under law. If he had them at his house, maybe there's an argument, but they're not at his house. They're at a university and subject to Foia [Freedom of Information Act]."Biden's records were donated to the University of Delaware in 2012. The university did not respond to questions for this article but Andrea Boyle, a spokeswoman, told CNN earlier this month that it is still "curating the collection", a process likely to continue well into 2021, and the papers will not be released until two years after Biden retires from public life.> It sets up the Republican line perfectly, which is, 'What's he hiding? How come he won't show us?'> > Larry SabatoThat is unlikely to deter newspaper editors sensing that Biden, first elected to the Senate in 1972 at the age 29, is likely to have skeletons in the closet. His long political career includes the 1991 confirmation hearings for supreme court justice Clarence Thomas, accused of sexual harassment, as well as his support for a 1994 crime law that contributed to mass incarceration. Then there was his 2003 vote authorizing the invasion of Iraq, which he has since said he regrets.Furthermore, critics on the progressive wing of the Democratic party would be eager to scrutinize Biden's links to the financial services industry, a big player in Delaware. Conservatives might hunt for documents linking Biden's son, Hunter, to overseas business interests. In a replay of the 2016 campaign, when he encouraged Russia to hack Clinton's emails, Donald Trump may welcome a chance to make mischief by demanding "transparency".Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said: "His papers are much more voluminous than Hillary Clinton's emails, so I would expect there would be even more stories. Republicans are going to say, 'You just know there's some interesting material at the University of Delaware'. No, there really isn't, but they know it's a safe thing to say because it can't be disproven before the election."There are practical objections, Sabato added, but Republicans will seek to turn those to their advantage. "First of all, you couldn't publish it all or even open it all. He had an incredibly long career, a 50-year political career, and there are some personal items in there as well, from what I understand. How could you even manage to make it available to researchers, much less the general public, just a few months ahead of an election? It's not going to happen."Therefore, it sets up the Republican line perfectly, which is, 'What's he hiding? How come he won't show us?' No one out there is going to going to say, 'Well, of course, it's an enormous amount of material and why would he and most of it's junk,' which is true, by the way ."Other presidential candidates have faced similar pressures. Rich Galen, a campaign strategist for actor and former Republican senator Fred Thompson's unsuccessful 2008 bid, recalled: "His papers from the Senate were at the University of Tennessee and his opponents kept quacking about the fact that we had locked them up, literally, because we didn't want to go through every morning having some 12-year-old take five words out of a 300-word essay and have to defend it all day."So we just said to hell with you, if that's what the fight is going to be about, then the fight will be about not getting access to the papers as opposed to what's in the papers. And it's a little hard to make the case that Biden won't give up the papers at the University of Delaware while Trump has been in federal court for 27 years to protect his financial records."
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| Fact check: Anthony Fauci hasn't served on the board of the Clinton or Gates foundations Posted: 27 May 2020 07:55 AM PDT  Dr. Anthony Fauci has been a target of misinformation. The claim he has served on Clinton Foundation or Gates Foundation boards is false.
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| Andrew Yang: After coronavirus, we can build economy that works for all Americans Posted: 27 May 2020 03:53 AM PDT  COVID-19 has not only taken away jobs, it has also revealed to us the true 'essential,' vital occupations that keep our economy and society operating.
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| 'It's time to surrender': Attorney urges UConn senior accused of killing two and abducting a woman in machete crime spree to turn himself in Posted: 26 May 2020 08:23 AM PDT  A lawyer for the family of a Connecticut murder suspect has pleaded for him to surrender as the multi-state search for the college student continues.On Monday police had to dispel a rumour that Peter Manfredonia, a senior at the University of Connecticut, had been captured in New Jersey.
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| Hair salons, barbershops can reopen in most California counties Posted: 26 May 2020 10:30 PM PDT  Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday that hair salons and barbershops in most California counties can reopen as the state continues to ease some of the restrictions prompted by the coronavirus crisis. The hair salons and barbershops allowed to reopen must do so with many modifications in place. California issued a lengthy set of rules for reopening barbershops and hair salons. The long-awaited announcement about hair salons and barbershops comes on the heels of California officials easing other COVID-19 restrictions Monday, allowing houses of worship to reopen with modifications and changing other guidelines statewide. Get the full story in the video above.
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| Afghan government releases hundreds of Taliban prisoners Posted: 26 May 2020 03:50 AM PDT  The Afghan government released hundreds of Taliban prisoners Tuesday, its single largest prisoner release since the U.S. and the Taliban signed a peace deal earlier this year that spells out an exchange of detainees between the warring sides. The government announced it would release 900 Taliban prisoners as a three-day cease-fire with the insurgents draws to an end. The Taliban had called for the truce during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr that marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
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| Steve Bannon wins case to set up Italy political academy Posted: 27 May 2020 02:46 AM PDT  Steve Bannon, the former adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, has won the latest phase of a legal battle with Italy's culture ministry to set up a right-wing Catholic political academy. The ministry said it would appeal the regional court's decision. The court ruled for the Dignitatis Humanae Institute, which Bannon backs, against a previous decision that blocked the school starting up in an 800-year-old monastery south of Rome.
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| 'Billions of years of evolutionary history' under threat Posted: 27 May 2020 01:39 AM PDT  'Weird and wonderful' animals unlike anything else on Earth are sliding toward extinction, say scientists.
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