| One of Trump's favorite pollsters shows his approval plummeting Posted: 27 May 2020 11:39 AM PDT  President Trump's approval rating has plummeted since late February, according to the Rasmussen daily tracking poll, which the president frequently cited during his first three years in office.
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| ‘A murderer lives here': Grafitti scrawled outside home of white police officer who knelt on neck of George Floyd Posted: 28 May 2020 08:33 AM PDT  Angry Minneapolis residents protesting the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis Police Officer scrawled the phrase "A murderer lives here" on the road outside the officer's house Wednesday night.Mr Floyd was killed when Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for eight minutes, despite Mr Floyd crying out that he couldn't breathe. Eventually Mr Floyd lost consciousness and died.
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| India's economy seen slowing rapidly in March quarter, with worse to come Posted: 28 May 2020 05:21 PM PDT  Gross domestic product data out later on Friday is expected to show India's economy grew at its slowest pace in at least two years in the March quarter as the coronavirus pandemic weakened already declining consumer demand and private investment. The median forecast from a Reuters poll of economists put annual economic growth at 2.1% in the March quarter, lower than 4.7% in the December quarter. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has maintained the lockdown ordered on March 25 to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the world's second most populous country, though many restrictions were eased for manufacturing, transport and other services from May 18.
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| More than 100,000 people have died of COVID-19 in the US, which is comparable to the number of residents in a city like Edison, New Jersey Posted: 27 May 2020 09:07 PM PDT  By May 18, around 14% of Americans said they know someone who died from coronavirus, a study from Ipsos found.
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| Canadian court rules against Huawei exec fighting extradition Posted: 27 May 2020 11:54 AM PDT  Chinese Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou was dealt a legal setback Wednesday when a Canadian judge ruled that proceedings to extradite her to the United States will go ahead. The decision on so-called double criminality, a key test for extradition, found that bank fraud accusations against Meng would stand up in Canada. The interim ruling denying Meng's attempt to gain her freedom means she will continue to live in Vancouver under strict bail conditions while her case plays out.
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| US indicts ex-Venezuelan lawmaker linked with Maduro Posted: 27 May 2020 02:25 PM PDT |
| CDC changes its 'confusing' guidelines on coronavirus and surfaces. Here's what we know. Posted: 27 May 2020 11:48 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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| Ethiopian army ‘shot man dead because phone rang’ - Amnesty Posted: 29 May 2020 07:28 AM PDT  It was one of several incidents in a crackdown in Oromia in 2019, Amnesty International says.
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| Minneapolis police officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck had 18 previous internal complaints against him Posted: 29 May 2020 12:09 AM PDT  The Minneapolis police officer who was filmed kneeling on George Floyd's neck for several minutes even as he said "I can't breathe" has previously been the subject of multiple complaints filed to the Minneapolis Police Department's Internal Affairs Division, it has emerged.Mr Chauvin, who has been fired along with the other three police officers who apprehended Mr Floyd, was reported to the division 18 times. According to a police summary, only two of the complaints were "closed with discipline".
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| IKEA manager in Poland charged for firing worker over anti-gay comments Posted: 28 May 2020 11:27 AM PDT  The manager was charged with religious discrimination for firing an employee who called homosexuality "an abomination" on the company's internal website.
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| Total number of coronavirus cases in Gulf Arab states surpasses 200,000: Reuters tally Posted: 27 May 2020 10:54 AM PDT  The number of coronavirus cases in the six Gulf Arab states doubled in less than a month to surpass 200,000 on Wednesday, according to a Reuters' tally, at a time the region's two biggest economies move to resume activity. Coronavirus infections in the energy producing region, which crossed the 100,000 mark on May 11, had initially been linked to travel but then spread among low-income migrant workers in overcrowded quarters, prompting authorities to increase testing. Saudi Arabia, which has the most infections, said restrictions would be lifted in three phases, culminating in a curfew completely ending from June 21, with the exception of the holy city of Mecca.
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| Iran Guards warn US after receiving new combat vessels Posted: 28 May 2020 06:15 AM PDT  Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Thursday warned the United States against its naval presence in the Gulf as they received 110 new combat vessels. "We announce today that wherever the Americans are, we are right next to them, and they will feel our presence even more in the near future," the Guards' navy chief Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri said during a ceremony in southern Iran. Iran and the United States have appeared to be on the brink of an all-out confrontation twice in the past year.
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| 'No mask — no entry': New York Gov. Cuomo says he'll sign an executive order allowing businesses to refuse service to people who won't wear masks Posted: 28 May 2020 09:56 AM PDT  "No mask — no entry," said New York's governor. The executive order will give businesses the power to keep people without masks from entering.
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| Failed Maduro coup leader flew on pro-govt magnate's plane Posted: 28 May 2020 05:15 AM PDT  It was mid-January and Jordan Goudreau was itching to get going on a secret plan to raid Venezuela and arrest President Nicolás Maduro when the former special forces commando flew to the city of Barranquilla in Colombia to meet with his would-be partner in arms. To get there, Goudreau and two former Green Beret buddies relied on some unusual help: a chartered flight out of Miami's Opa Locka executive airport on a plane owned by a Venezuelan businessman so close to the government of Hugo Chávez that he spent almost 4 years in a U.S. prison for trying to cover up clandestine cash payments to its allies. The owner of the Venezuela-registered Cessna Citation II with yellow and blue lines, identified with the tail number YV-3231, was Franklin Durán, according to three people familiar with the businessman's movements who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.
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| Minneapolis mayor responds after night of protests and violence in wake of George Floyd's death Posted: 28 May 2020 11:23 AM PDT  At a press conference on Thursday, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said protests and unrest after the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man seen on video pinned to the ground by the neck while being arrested by a white police officer, were the result of "built-up anger and sadness" in the black community over the past 400 years.
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| Joshua Wong: Hong Kong Cannot Prosper Without Autonomy Posted: 29 May 2020 07:13 AM PDT  The prosperity of Hong Kong is based on its autonomy, not Beijing's dictatorship, writes Hong Kong activists Joshua Wong and Glacier Kwong.
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| Trump, Flynn, and flipping the script on Russia Posted: 28 May 2020 01:03 PM PDT |
| British mercenaries 'involved in botched operation' backing rebel leader in Libya, according to secret UN report Posted: 27 May 2020 12:43 PM PDT  Six British citizens including two former Royal Marine commandos have been accused of taking part in a botched mercenary mission to Libya to fight on behalf of renegade general Khalifa Haftar. The five men and one woman are named in a confidential report by the United Nations panel of experts on Libya into a botched mission that ended with the mercenaries making a remarkable sea-borne escape after falling out with their hosts. The men, including former Royal Marines Sean Callaghan Louw and Andrew Scott Ritchie, were among around 20 mercenaries who travelled to Benghazi in eastern Libya in June 2019 in a contract organised by a UAE based company called Opus, according to the report seen by the Daily Telegraph. Amanda Perry, a United Arab Emirate based businesswoman, is identified and is alleged to have been a "facilitator" of the project. She is the managing director of Opus Capital Asset FZE, the company that hired two boats used by the group. She is also company secretary of Lancaster 6, a business owned by Christiaan Durrant, a former Australian fighter pilot and Malta resident who is also named - and accused of being a facilitator in the report.
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| Benjamin Crump: When will African Americans have the right to self defense? Posted: 28 May 2020 05:54 PM PDT  Breonna Taylor's boyfriend tried to stand his ground, but got charged with a crime instead.
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| China plans to extend curbs on international flights until June 30: U.S. embassy Posted: 29 May 2020 01:54 AM PDT  Chinese civil aviation authorities plan to extend until June 30 their curbs on international flights to contain the spread of the coronavirus, the U.S. embassy in Beijing said in a travel advisory on Friday. China has drastically cut such flights since March to allay concerns over infections brought by arriving passengers. A so-called "Five One" policy allows mainland carriers to fly just one flight a week on one route to any country and foreign airlines to operate just one flight a week to China.
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| The Chinese CDC now says the coronavirus didn't jump to people at the Wuhan wet market — instead, it was the site of a super-spreader event Posted: 28 May 2020 03:49 PM PDT  The origin of the new coronavirus still isn't known. But according to the Chinese CDC, it isn't the wet market in Wuhan.
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| Why India must battle the shame of period stain Posted: 28 May 2020 10:38 AM PDT  Award-winning photographer Niraj Gera takes on stigma surrounding menstruation in India.
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| One of the coldest places on Earth is experiencing a record-breaking heat wave Posted: 29 May 2020 09:46 AM PDT  Heat wave sparks concerns about devastating wildfire season and melting permafrost.
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| Philippines eases capital's strict virus lockdown Posted: 28 May 2020 08:51 AM PDT  The Philippines will lift key coronavirus lockdown measures in the nation's capital, President Rodrigo Duterte said Thursday, aiming to resuscitate a faltering economy after nearly three months of strict home quarantine. Manila has endured one of the world's longest lockdowns, which has hit the livelihoods of millions of workers but not halted a steady stream of new infections. "Remember that the entire nation is under quarantine," Duterte said in a late-night speech.
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| White House punts economic update as election draws near Posted: 28 May 2020 08:32 AM PDT  The White House took the unusual step on Thursday of deciding not to release an updated economic forecast as planned this year, a fresh sign of the administration's anxiety about how the coronavirus has ravaged the nation just months before the election. The decision, which was confirmed by a senior administration official who was not authorized to publicly comment on the plan, came amid intensifying signals of the pandemic's grim economic toll. At least 2.1 million Americans lost their jobs last week, meaning an astonishing 41 million Americans have filed for unemployment benefits since shutdowns intended to prevent the spread of the coronavirus began in mid-March.
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| Don Lemon Erupts: ‘No One Wants to Hear From the Birther-In-Chief’ on George Floyd Posted: 28 May 2020 06:42 PM PDT  CNN anchor Don Lemon unloaded on President Donald Trump after the Justice Department said Thursday that the president was "actively monitoring" the investigation of four Minneapolis police officers over the death of an unarmed black man, exclaiming that nobody "wants to hear from the Birther-in-Chief."During a press conference late Thursday afternoon, local and federal investigators insisted that they "can't rush" bringing charges for the death of George Floyd, who was pronounced dead after an officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes. With protests raging across the country, U.S. Attorney Erica MacDonald said the investigation was a "top priority" for the feds before adding that Trump and Attorney General William Barr were paying high attention to the case.Moments after the presser wrapped up, Lemon blew up over MacDonald invoking the president in this particular situation, bringing up a number of incidents Trump has been involved in over the years that have widely been seen as racist."I know she has a tough job, but guess what, as long as we are being honest right now, nobody wants to hear from the White House or the attorney general right now," Lemon exclaimed. "No one wants to hear from the man who wanted the death penalty to come back for the Central Park Five.""No one wants to hear from the man who says that the former president was not born in this country," the CNN anchor continued, in something of a call-and-response fashion. "No one wants to hear from the man who said there are 'very fine people on both sides.' Do you understand what I am saying?""No one wants to hear from the person that they perceive as contributing to situations like this in this society," Lemon kept going. "Not directly, but allowing people like that to think they can get away from this. No one wants to hear from the Birther-in-Chief, from the 'sons of bitches'-calling person, who says that athletes are kneeling for this very reason."After scolding federal investigators for seemingly having more urgency in telling protesters to calm down than investigating police brutality, Lemon concluded by expressing some solidarity with demonstrators amid the increasingly violent clashes."I understand the anger of the people upset in Minneapolis, Minnesota," he said. "I don't condone the actions. I don't understand the actions, but I understand the anger."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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| Long Island serial killer victim IDed 2 decades later Posted: 28 May 2020 11:13 AM PDT  A woman whose skeletal remains were found along a suburban New York beach highway, in an area where body parts of 10 other people had been strewn, was identified as a Philadelphia escort who went missing two decades ago, police said Thursday. Suffolk County police said the woman previously known as "Jane Doe No. 6" was identified through genetic genealogy technology as Valerie Mack, who also went by Melissa Taylor and was last seen in 2000 near Atlantic City, New Jersey. Determining the victim's identity has brought clarity to a long-running Long Island mystery that attracted national headlines, was featured on true-crime TV shows and was the subject of a recent Netflix film, Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart said.
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| NASA and SpaceX's launch was postponed, but at least we got to see their wildly corny spacesuits Posted: 27 May 2020 03:04 PM PDT  The much-heralded joint launch between NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX was postponed on Wednesday due to light rain in Florida. It was a disappointing anticlimax for the first manned space launch from American soil since 2011 — all systems were "go" just an hour before astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley were scheduled for 4:33 p.m. liftoff — but there was a silver lining to the clouds above Cape Canaveral: the world got to see, for the first time, NASA and SpaceX's alarmingly cheesy spacesuits, which looked something like man-sized Mentos dispensers topped off with garden galoshes.While many on Twitter hailed the gear as looking "soo cool" and "so f—ing dope," the correct reaction came from one commenter who said the suits "make [the astronauts] look like stunt extras in a low budget space movie." Whether or not Behnken and Hurley find themselves menaced by rubbery Venus ghouls in some misbegotten Roger Corman epic, the suits might lead to an even graver danger: not being able to extract their heads from the two-sizes-too small helmets that Musk looks to have grabbed from his local Spirit Halloween.If the spacemen are fortunate enough to somehow wrench the helmets from their skulls, NASA and SpaceX will give it another go on either Saturday or Sunday — probably not enough time to raid NASA's old closets for some real spacesuits.More stories from theweek.com Amy Klobuchar didn't prosecute officer at center of George Floyd's death Trump's social media executive order could force social media to censor Trump Melania Trump reportedly warned Trump to take COVID-19 seriously — and he 'totally blew her off'
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| Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto withdraws from Biden VP consideration Posted: 28 May 2020 03:54 PM PDT  "I support Joe Biden 100% and will work tirelessly to help get him elected this November," Cortez Masto said in a statement.
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| Rohingya refugee crisis: 'The bodies were thrown out of the boat' Posted: 29 May 2020 06:14 AM PDT  Khadiza Begum, a Rohingya refugee, left Myanmar to escape violence but found more horror at sea.
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| Blood test nears for COVID-linked syndrome in children Posted: 27 May 2020 02:01 PM PDT  Findings from a large, multinational study could help speed development of an accurate diagnostic blood test for the mysterious inflammatory illness.
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| ICC allows former I.Coast president Gbagbo to leave Belgium Posted: 28 May 2020 03:02 PM PDT  The International Criminal Court on Thursday said former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo can leave Belgium under certain conditions following his acquittal last year over post-electoral violence that killed 3,000 people. Gbagbo and his deputy Charles Ble Goude were both cleared of crimes against humanity a year ago, eight years after the former West African strongman's arrest and transfer to the Hague-based court. Belgium agreed to host Gbagbo, 73, after he was released in February last year under strict conditions including that he would return to court for a prosecution appeal against his acquittal.
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| Moscow is painting over the Russian markings on its jet fighters and sending them to fight a proxy war against Turkey in Libya Posted: 28 May 2020 08:59 AM PDT  The Russian government has consistently denied directly intervening in the Libyan conflict. The photos show otherwise.
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| 2 black teens were suspended for wearing their hair in dreadlocks, and now their mothers are suing the school district Posted: 28 May 2020 10:59 AM PDT  DeAndre Arnold, 18, made headlines earlier this year after he was forbidden from walking in his graduation ceremony unless he cut his dreadlocks.
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| Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin arrested in George Floyd's death: Updates Posted: 29 May 2020 10:32 AM PDT  In two deeply shaken cities, peaceful protests later turned violent over the deaths of unarmed black Americans George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
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| China's same-sex couples heartened by property protection rights in new civil code Posted: 28 May 2020 02:51 AM PDT  It was an ambush, said He Meili, a 51-year-old lesbian woman, describing how she met with her dead partner's step-parents at a police station where they demanded she leave the apartment the couple had shared for 12 years. "It was that very moment at the police station when I truly felt the pain of not being protected by the law," she told Reuters. When Li died from lupus in 2016, her step-parents, legally next-of-kin, inherited the apartment in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou and were quick to stick an eviction note on the door.
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| US south-west in grip of historic 'megadrought', research finds Posted: 29 May 2020 02:30 AM PDT  Intensified by climate change, the current 20-year arid period is one of the worst on record, with wide-ranging effectsWhen Ken Pimlott began fighting US wildfires at the age of 17, they seemed to him to be a brutal but manageable natural phenomenon."We had periodic [fire] sieges in the 80s, but there were breaks in between," said Pimlott, the former head of the California department of forestry and fire protection. But no longer. "That doesn't really happen any more. Now you can't even blink" between fires, he said. "We're seeing the kinds of fires we have never seen before."A recent study published in the journal Science helps explains why, revealing that the south-western US is in the grip of a 20-year megadrought – a period of severe aridity that is stoking fires, depleting reservoirs and putting a strain on water supplies to the states of the region."You see impacts everywhere, in snowpacks, reservoir levels, agriculture, groundwater and tree mortality," said co-author Benjamin Cook, of Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory. "Droughts are these amazingly disruptive events. Water sits at the foundation of everything."Researchers compared soil moisture records from 2000-2019 to other drought events from the past 1,200 years. They found that the current period is worse than all but one of five megadroughts identified in the record.Unlike past megadroughts – brought on by natural fluctuations in the Earth's climate – this current drought has been heavily influenced by human-induced climate change, "pushing what would have been a moderate drought in south-western North America into megadrought territory", according to the study."Global warming has made the drought much worse than it otherwise would have been," said Cook. "We estimate 30-50% is attributed to climate change."According to Nasa, 19 of the 20 warmest years on record have occurred since 2001. Climate change, if unchecked, will hit the American south-west particularly hard.A major concern is the megadrought's impact on water supplies in the region. It has experienced explosive growth – half of the nation's fastest-growing states are in the south-west – made possible by elaborate river diversion projects and massive reservoirs.Over the past two decades, drought-depleted rivers, and population growth has led to steep declines in two of the nation's largest reservoirs, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, on which which tens of millions of people depend.Water deliveries from the Colorado River are also being rationed this year, for the first time.For Pimlott, this drought has manifested itself in 21st-century fires unlike any he had previously witnessed. In 2018, a fire tornado destroyed part of one northern California town, and almost the entire community of Paradise, California, was wiped out by a blaze that claimed 85 victims."Were seeing more intense fires, with longer durations," he said.
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| CNN reporter arrested live on air at George Floyd Minnesota protest Posted: 29 May 2020 04:15 AM PDT  A CNN crew was arrested by police Friday morning while giving a live television report in Minneapolis, where the crew was covering ongoing protests over the death of George Floyd.
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| Nasa SpaceX launch: Evolution of the spacesuit Posted: 28 May 2020 08:50 AM PDT  How SpaceX's stylish spacesuit differs from other attire flown by astronauts.
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| Which major retail companies have filed for bankruptcy since the coronavirus pandemic hit? Here's the list. Posted: 29 May 2020 08:46 AM PDT  From iconic department stores to entertainment giants, the coronavirus has seemingly spared no one in its devastation of the U.S. economy.
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| Venezuela's opposition-led assembly backs Guaido over Maduro choice Posted: 28 May 2020 04:06 PM PDT  Venezuela's National Assembly on Thursday ratified opposition leader Juan Guaido as legislative speaker, defying a Supreme Court ruling approving a rival opposition figure more favorable to President Nicolas Maduro. The endorsement for Guaido continued a months-long stand-off with opposition rival Luis Parra, who Guaido has dismissed as "an accomplice to dictatorship". "I will continue to exercise my functions," Guaido told reporters in Caracas after a session held by video-conference rejected the "illegal" Supreme Court's decision.
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| The most devastating takeaways from Netflix's new docuseries on Jeffrey Epstein and his 'molestation pyramid scheme' Posted: 28 May 2020 01:15 PM PDT  Epstein's victims said they reported the sex trafficking ring to the FBI in 1996 — a decade before the financier received a controversial plea deal.
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| Judge fired after telling alleged rape victim to "close your legs" Posted: 27 May 2020 11:51 AM PDT  Superior Court Judge John Russo Jr. will never be allowed to work in New Jersey again.
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| Moscow's new coronavirus cases fall to lowest in more than a month Posted: 28 May 2020 12:41 AM PDT  The Kremlin on Thursday praised Moscow's authorities after the city reported its lowest daily increase in coronavirus infections since April 23, but some critics raised questions over some of Russia's reported data. Officials say Russia's outbreak is stabilising and President Vladimir Putin this week rescheduled Moscow's postponed May 9 Victory Day military parade for June 24. Moscow will begin easing its lockdown on Monday.
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