| Nearly 400 employees at a Missouri pork plant tested positive for COVID-19. All of them were asymptomatic. Posted: 04 May 2020 08:23 AM PDT  About 17% of Triumph Foods employees who were screened have tested positive for the coronavirus. The company's CEO said they'll be paid on leave.
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| Illinois anti-lockdown protester waves Nazi slogan from Auschwitz concentration camp Posted: 03 May 2020 11:26 AM PDT  An anti-lockdown protester in Illinois has been widely condemned for brandishing a sign bearing a Nazi slogan from the gates of Auschwitz concentration camp.The woman, who has not been identified, was part of a group protesting to "Re-Open Illinois' in Chicago on Friday.
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| A mother and daughter shared a hospital room, fighting coronavirus until the end Posted: 03 May 2020 02:00 AM PDT  A woman faces the "bittersweet blessing" of being hospitalized with their mother when they both fell ill with COVID-19.
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| North and South Korean troops exchange fire along border Posted: 03 May 2020 08:04 AM PDT  North and South Korean troops exchanged fire along their border on Sunday, the South's military said, the first such incident since the rivals took unprecedented steps to decrease frontline tensions in 2018.
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| Police clash with crowds as India eases coronavirus curbs Posted: 04 May 2020 12:50 AM PDT  Indian police fired tear gas at a crowd of protesting migrant workers in Gujarat and launched baton charges against hundreds of people queuing at liquor stores in New Delhi, even as the first steps were being taken to relax a coronavirus lockdown. The world's largest lockdown, in force since March 25, is slowly being eased in some areas with fewer infections, although it will stay in place at least until May 17, the government said last week. About 1,000 stranded workers seeking help to return to homes in states across India gathered on the outskirts of Gujarat's city of Surat and threw stones at police who ordered them to disperse, an official said.
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| Ministers 'fully aware' China was covering up extent of coronavirus outbreak in early weeks of crisis Posted: 03 May 2020 09:33 AM PDT  Ministers were made "fully aware" by intelligence agencies that China had covered up the true scale of the coronavirus outbreak, it was claimed on Sunday night, raising questions over Britain's decision to delay the lockdown. The UK Government was told "not to believe Beijing's claims" from the outset and to treat information coming out of China with scepticism, The Telegraph understands. A senior former MI6 official said the intelligence agencies knew what was "really happening" in China and passed that information to ministers. Doubts are also being expressed over China's insistence that the outbreak began in a so-called "wet market" in Wuhan, where live animals were being sold. The spotlight is being turned on the nearby Wuhan Institute of Virology amid claims that lax biosecurity may have allowed the disease, being examined in the lab, to somehow escape. A Chinese television news report dating from two years ago shows scientists in the institute's "emerging viruses group" wearing only lab coats and latex gloves but no other form of protective personal equipment. The latest studies suggest the true number of people infected in China in the first wave, dating back to mid-February, was close to a quarter of a million – four times higher than the official figure. China has also since revised its death toll up by 50 per cent. Downing Street continued to use China's official figures in comparative graphs on the scale of the outbreak until just over a week ago, but then dropped the country from the charts over concerns about the accuracy of the data.
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| Coronavirus: UK contact-tracing app is ready for Isle of Wight downloads Posted: 04 May 2020 10:23 AM PDT  Isle of Wight council staff and healthcare workers will be invited to start testing app on Tuesday.
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| Here are all the times Joe Biden has been accused of acting inappropriately toward women and girls Posted: 04 May 2020 07:45 AM PDT  Eight women have accused Biden of behaving inappropriately. He's also been criticized for his comments about young girls on the campaign trail.
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| Trump says new FBI notes exonerate Michael Flynn, analysts say that's not the case Posted: 03 May 2020 02:02 PM PDT  Critics said Trump is distorting the contents of notes about an FBI interview in which Flynn apparently lied about talks with a Russian ambassador.
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| Random coronavirus testing indicates nearly a third of Kabul could be infected Posted: 03 May 2020 08:14 AM PDT  Some countries have been receiving relatively good news about their coronavirus epidemics — Spain for instance is easing restrictions thanks to a dwindling case load, and Madrid just reported its lowest one-day death increase since March 18. South Korea, meanwhile, reported only 13 new cases Sunday, and is getting prepared to rollback some elements of its lockdown, as well. But those positive steps are far from a global trend.India and Russia both reported record daily infections, while deaths continue to climb in the United States and the United Kingdom. One country that has people particularly worried is Afghanistan, where the health ministry revealed Sunday that a small study indicates about a third of Kabul's residents could be infected with COVID-19. The study involved 500 random COVID-19 tests that resulted in 156 positives. Overall, Afghanistan has taken close to 12,000 samples, with 2,700 coming back positive.The latest news has officials worried the disease is spreading more rapidly than originally thought. Afghanistan has long been seen as a country vulnerable to the pandemic, especially as the government and the Taliban struggle to broker a peace deal to end their violent, decades-long conflict. Kabul and other cities in the country are on lockdown.More stories from theweek.com How George W. Bush exposed Trump's biggest failure Trump was the disaster we should have seen coming 5 questions about how coronavirus will affect the 2020 election
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| Dubai Expo 2020 world’s fair postponed to October 1, 2021 Posted: 03 May 2020 10:35 PM PDT  Dubai's Expo 2020 world's fair will be postponed to Oct. 1, 2021, over the new coronavirus pandemic, a Paris-based body behind the events said Monday. The announcement by the Bureau International des Expositions came just hours after police in Kuwait dispersed what they described as a riot by stranded Egyptians unable to return home amid the coronavirus pandemic. Dubai, a sheikhdom in the United Arab Emirates, has bet billions of dollars on Expo 2020 to rejuvenate its troubled economy.
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| Twins who got in to 5 Ivy League schools make their choice Posted: 04 May 2020 08:32 AM PDT  The Alexander sisters will be the first generation of their family to attend college.
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| Australia and New Zealand discuss possible trans-Tasman 'travel bubble' Posted: 03 May 2020 04:59 PM PDT  New Zealand and Australia are discussing the potential creation of a "travel bubble" between the two countries, even as Australia on Monday reported its highest number of coronavirus cases in two weeks. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she has accepted an invite from Australian Premier Scott Morrison to take part in a meeting of Australia's emergency coronavirus cabinet on Tuesday, stoking anticipation of a travel deal. The neighbouring countries have claimed success in substantially slowing the progress of the coronavirus epidemic to a level well below the United States, Britain and Europe.
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| Forty years ago, Yugoslavia's leader Tito died Posted: 04 May 2020 12:34 AM PDT  The leader of communist Yugoslavia, Josip Broz Tito, died after a long illness on May 4, 1980, just days before his 88th birthday. There was an outpouring of emotion over the death of Tito, who refused to let his Balkan country come under the Soviet thumb and kept a federation of different ethnicities and religions together. On Sunday, May 4, Tito is described as being in a "very grave" and "critical" condition in the latest of the bulletins which reported updates on his health since he was admitted to hospital in Ljubljana nearly four months earlier.
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| Coronavirus: 'Missing link' species may never be found Posted: 04 May 2020 06:18 AM PDT  The "intermediate host" animal that passed the coronavirus from bats to humans may never be found, say scientists.
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| Elon Musk, owner of a $100 million real-estate portfolio, just tweeted that he will sell all his belongings and 'own no house.' Take a look at some of the mansions he'll have to offload to make that happen. Posted: 04 May 2020 06:46 AM PDT  Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla, reportedly owns at least seven houses. Per a recent tweet, he now intends to sell all of them.
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| 'Swastikas and nooses': governor slams 'racism' of Michigan lockdown protest Posted: 03 May 2020 04:49 PM PDT  Gretchen Whitmer says heavily armed men and Confederate flags at state capitol 'depicted some of the worst racism and awful parts of our history' * Coronavirus – latest US updates * Coronavirus – latest global updates * See all our coronavirus coverageGovernor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan issued a rebuke of the armed protesters who gathered inside the state capitol last week in defiance of statewide lockdown orders, saying the demonstrators embodied some of the "worst racism" of the nation's history."Some of the outrageousness of what happened at our capitol depicted some of the worst racism and awful parts of our history in this country," Whitmer said during a Sunday interview on CNN's State of the Union.Last week Donald Trump had said of the protesters: "These are very good people."Hundreds of protesters, many not wearing protective face masks and some armed legally with "long guns", gathered inside the statehouse in Lansing on Thursday as lawmakers debated the Democratic governor's request to extend her emergency powers to combat the coronavirus pandemic. The tightly packed crowd attempted to enter the floor of the legislative chamber and were held back by a line of state police and capitol staff, according to video footage posted by local journalists.> "We have to listen to the epidemiologist and health experts and displays like the one we saw at our capitol is not representative of who we are." Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer reacts to protesters descending on her state's capitol, including some who were armed. CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/lfPgGnpkGC> > — State of the Union (@CNNSotu) May 3, 2020Whitmer highlighted that the number of protesters was relatively small but that the imagery some of them used was a disturbing reminder of ugly elements of America's past. "We know that people are not all happy about having to take the stay-home posture," Whitmer said on Sunday, "and you know what, I'm not either. But we have to listen to the public health experts and displays like the one we saw in our state capitol are not representative of who we are in Michigan."There were swastikas and Confederate flags and nooses and people with assault rifles. That's a small group of people when you think that this is a state of almost 10 million people, the vast majority of whom are doing the right thing."Displaying the Confederate flag, or other symbols of the slave-owning south during the American civil war, is usually seen as racist. While some claim they are celebrating southern identity, it is widely seen as a racist symbol deeply offensive to black Americans. There is also an ongoing campaign to remove Confederate war statues from public display or rename streets and buildings which commemorate Confederate generals or politicians.Last week, the Democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, who represents Michigan's 13th congressional district, condemned the demonstrations at the state Capitol. "Black people get executed by police for just existing, while white people dressed like militia members carrying assault weapons are allowed to threaten State Legislators and staff," Tlaib wrote in a tweet on Thursday. > Black people get executed by police for just existing, while white people dressed like militia members carrying assault weapons are allowed to threaten State Legislators and staff. > > ��Our gun laws are so broken. https://t.co/w6Vw97kTV9> > — Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) April 30, 2020The protests continued to draw national attention on Friday when Trump once again threw his support behind the rightwing movement, saying Whitmer should "make a deal" with the demonstrators."The governor of Michigan should give a little, and put out the fire," the president wrote on Twitter. "These are very good people, but they are angry. They want their lives back again, safely! See them, talk to them, make a deal."When asked if it was appropriate for the president to express support for protests in which "long guns" were carried on Friday afternoon, the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, said the president supported the right to protest within the law and while following federal social distancing guidelines."The president says that we must protest lawfully and act within the bounds of the law," said McEnany.The staggering effects of the pandemic among Whitmer's electorate in terms of both illness and unemployment have placed a nationwide focus on Michigan, which is certain to be a key battleground state in the upcoming presidential election. The state had long been regarded as a Democratic stronghold but went for Trump four years ago, helping to spring his surprise electoral victory.
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| Trump makes false statement, claims Biden offered him an apology Posted: 04 May 2020 03:45 AM PDT  President Trump falsely stated on Sunday that Joe Biden apologized for calling him xenophobic after he issued travel restrictions on China.
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| With its convention and fundraisers canceled, NRA furloughs dozens, implements pay cuts Posted: 03 May 2020 09:16 PM PDT  Already struggling due to expensive legal battles, the National Rifle Association is scraping by amid the coronavirus pandemic, with dozens of employees laid off or furloughed and senior staffers taking 20 percent pay cuts.The organization canceled its national convention and several fundraisers and other events that bring money into the group. In a memo to employees, NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre said the staffing changes will be temporary. "Defending freedom has never been easy," he wrote in the email, obtained by The Associated Press. "Over the years, we've weathered more tough times than most. But we will rise from this stronger and well positioned to lead the fight to protect our Second Amendment, the First Amendment, and all our constitutional freedoms during the crucial upcoming elections and for years to come."The NRA's legal fights include investigations from state attorneys general into organization's finances and a contentious split with its longtime marketing firm. Last month, NPR obtained audio of an NRA board meeting held in January, during which LaPierre said "the cost that we bore" from legal issues in 2018 and 2019 "was probably about a $100 million hit in lost revenue and real cost. I mean, that's huge." The organization had to cut $80 million in costs, bringing it "down to the studs," LaPierre added.The NRA's most recent tax fillings show LaPierre earned about $2 million in compensation, but the group would not share with AP how much his pay has been cut.More stories from theweek.com How George W. Bush exposed Trump's biggest failure Trump was the disaster we should have seen coming 5 questions about how coronavirus will affect the 2020 election
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| City ends face-mask rule for shoppers after store employees are threatened Posted: 02 May 2020 01:58 PM PDT  "Store employees have been threatened with physical violence and showered with verbal abuse," the Stillwater city manager said. "There has been one threat of violence using a firearm."
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| When will US reach 100,000 deaths? After a horrific April, grim milestone could hit in May Posted: 04 May 2020 10:15 AM PDT  After the U.S. suffered nearly 60,000 deaths because of the coronavirus in April, the prospect looms of reaching the grim milestone of 100,000.
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| Iran approves plan to cut four zeros from falling currency -report Posted: 04 May 2020 12:13 AM PDT |
| AP Was There: National Guard kills 4 students at Kent State Posted: 03 May 2020 09:47 PM PDT  The Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed college students during a war protest at Kent State University on May 4, 1970. Four students were killed, and nine others were injured. Not all of those hurt or killed were involved in the demonstration, which opposed the U.S. bombing of neutral Cambodia during the Vietnam War.
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| Nigerians cautious as coronavirus lockdown eased Posted: 04 May 2020 03:57 AM PDT  Businesses in key areas reopen but some are reluctant to return to work over health fears.
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| The US records its highest daily death toll as almost 20 states ease lockdown restrictions, WHO reports Posted: 03 May 2020 03:28 AM PDT  On Friday, the country saw a total of 2,909 total deaths from the coronavirus pandemic in 24 hours — its highest number yet.
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| Internal CDC Models Project 3,000 Daily COVID Deaths by June 1 Posted: 04 May 2020 09:32 AM PDT  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is projecting the U.S. coronavirus daily death toll to reach about 3,000 people by June 1, with 200,000 new cases per day by the same date, the New York Times reported on Monday.The projections were compiled into charts currently used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency."There remains a large number of counties whose burden continues to grow," the CDC warned in the documents. President Trump predicted on Sunday that the U.S. would see thousands of additional deaths from the disease."We're going to lose anywhere from 75, 80, to 100,000 people," Trump said in a virtual town hall on Fox News. "That's a horrible thing. We shouldn't lose one person over this."At the end of March, Dr. Deborah Birx, response coordinator for the White House coronavirus task force, predicted a similar death toll of at least 100,000 even with Americans following social distancing guidelines.However, the president also stated that he believes the country will have a vaccine for coronavirus by the end of 2020. The White House has initiated "Operation Warp Speed," a coordinated effort by various elements in pharmaceutical industries, the military, and government agencies to speed development of a vaccine.There are currently over 1,100,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. and close to 68,000 deaths, with 19,000 deaths in New York City alone.U.S. unemployment has shot to 18 percent of the workforce, or about 30 million people, following mass closures of businesses to enforce social distancing measures. Several states with lower numbers of coronavirus cases, such as Georgia and Colorado, are gradually reopening businesses that were shut because of the pandemic.
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| 2020 poll: Elizabeth Warren tops Democrats' wish list for vice president Posted: 04 May 2020 08:38 AM PDT  Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts tops Democratic voters' wish list to join the party's presumptive presidential nominee, Joe Biden, on the ticket for November, a new poll has found.Seventy-one per cent of registered Democratic voters and voters who lean towards the party said Mr Biden should consider choosing Ms Warren, an erstwhile candidate for president herself, according to a CBS News/YouGov poll conducted from 28 April to 1 May.
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| A Florida medical examiner sent emails begging officials to close local beaches. The beaches will open with almost no restrictions tomorrow. Posted: 03 May 2020 02:00 PM PDT  St. Johns County beaches were closed for about two weeks, partially re-opened on April 17 and will completely re-open on Monday.
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| Nearly four decades later, disappearance of Shelley-Anne Bacsu in Canada still a mystery Posted: 03 May 2020 08:44 AM PDT  Shelley-Anne Bacsu was last seen walking down Highway 16 toward her home in Hinton, Alberta, Canada, on May 3, 1983. She had called her mother at 8 p.m. to let her know she was on her way and asked her to make her something to eat. But Shelley-Anne never made it home. Some of her clothing and a library book were later found alongside Highway 40 near the Athabasca River. The Hinton RCMP Detachment and the RCMP Historical Homicide K Division are investigating.
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| Vietnam kids back at school after 3-month virus break Posted: 03 May 2020 10:42 PM PDT  Millions of schoolchildren in Vietnam returned to class on Monday after the country reported its 17th straight day of no domestically transmitted coronavirus infections. The decision to reopen schools came after the Southeast Asian nation eased social distancing measures at the end of April -- with experts pointing to a decisive response involving mass quarantines and expansive contact tracing for its apparent success in containing the disease. "I am very happy and excited because it's boring being at home," said 11-year-old Pham Anh Kiet.
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| UK to recommend sweeping changes to workplaces after lockdown: report Posted: 04 May 2020 09:22 AM PDT  The British government will recommend a wide range of changes to how people organise their working lives when the coronavirus lockdown is gradually loosened, according to a report on BuzzFeed on Monday. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised to give more details this week on how his government plans to gradually lift strict restrictions on movement that have been in place since March 23 without risking a new peak in coronavirus transmission. BuzzFeed said it had obtained seven guidance documents drawn up by ministers that would form the basis of the government's proposals.
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| 5 Indian troops, 2 rebels killed in Kashmir fighting Posted: 03 May 2020 12:46 AM PDT  Five Indian troops and two militants were killed in fighting in disputed Kashmir when the army and police stormed a house where rebels were holding hostages, officials said Sunday. A five-member counterinsurgency team entered the house in the northwestern Handwara area late Saturday and "successfully extricated the civilians," an Indian army statement said. The government forces came under heavy gunfire from militants, and in the ensuing firefight, two militants and all the team members died, the statement said.
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| Man, dog and five camels rescued from fall in Australian bush Posted: 03 May 2020 07:14 PM PDT  The convoy was pulled down a steep embankment in Australia after one of the camels slipped.
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| Off-duty Los Angeles police officer arrested, charged with attempted murder after camping trip shooting Posted: 03 May 2020 05:19 PM PDT |
| Mississippi's governor backtracked on ending the state's lockdown after the state saw its biggest increase in coronavirus deaths and cases Posted: 03 May 2020 04:19 AM PDT  Mississippi reported 397 new cases of coronavirus and 20 new deaths Friday, both of which were the highest daily numbers in the state.
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| Coronavirus tests fall to fewer than 80,000 two days after hitting the Government's target of 100,000 tests Posted: 03 May 2020 11:54 AM PDT  Coronvirvus tests fell to fewer than 80,000 yesterday just two days after hitting the Government's target of 100,000 tests by the end of the month. The news came as Grant Shapps, the Transport secretary, admitted that a lack of preparedness by the Government could have cost lives. New figues showed that just 76,496 were carried out in the 24 hours up to 9am yesterday, May 3. The fall came after Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced on Friday that the target of 100,000 tests a day by the end of April had been achieved, with more than 122,000 tests provided. That figure itself was questioned on Friday when it emerged that it included tens of thousands of swab kits sent to private homes and satellite testing sites not yet delivered to a laboratory for a result. The new figures mean that more than 1.2million tests have been carried out in the UK since the beginning of April. In the Government's daily briefing on Sunday, Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said that steps taken to extend testing would help get more people back to work. He said: "We have tested over 200,000 key workers and their families, allowing those who don't have the virus to go back to work and protecting those who do." Mr Gove said officials had expected a "dip" in testing over the weekend, but it should not "detract from the amazing achievement of the NHS and others in so significantly increasing the amount of tests that are available". The NHS England's national medical director Professor Stephen Powis added: "You will see that testing capacity has ramped up very quickly over the last week or so. "We are now at a very high level of testing, over 100,000 - a little bit of a dip in the weekend, but we anticipate that that testing capacity will continue to increase." Earlier Mr Shapps had been asked by the BBC presenter Andrew Marr if testing had been expanded more quickly and earlier then "a lot of people might not have died. Mr Shapps replied: " Yes, if we had had 100,000 test capacity before this thing started and the knowledge that we now have retrospectively, I'm sure many things could be different." Asked to comment on Mr Shapps' remarks, Mr Gove said the time for lessons "about how we handled this virus in its early stages" was for the future when it was under control.
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| Trump says 40,000 Americans who were brought back to US after COVID-19 travel ban were tested by states Posted: 03 May 2020 04:52 PM PDT  President Trump answers a question about the timing of his response to the coronavirus pandemic on 'America Together: Returning to Work'
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| How will colleges recover from coronavirus? Campuses that survived disasters offer clues Posted: 04 May 2020 04:00 AM PDT  Fires, floods and hurricanes have shut down higher education in the past — with worrying results.
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| DNC Chairman Likens Tara Reade Allegations to Clinton Emails ‘Because There Was Nothing There’ Posted: 04 May 2020 05:47 AM PDT  Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez dismissed calls to search Joe Biden's archives for Tara Reade's sexual-assault accusation, telling ABC's Martha Raddatz that "this is like the Hillary emails, because there was nothing there."Appearing on ABC's This Week, Perez defended Biden's innocence and his handling of the accusation, saying that Biden had already been thoroughly vetted by Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential race."They looked at the entire history of Joe Biden, his entire career. And I'll tell you, if Barack Obama had any indication that there was an issue, Barack Obama would not have had him as his vice-president," Perez argued. "Barack Obama trusted Joe Biden. I trust Joe Biden. And those investigations have been done."> "They looked at the entire history of Joe Biden … Barack Obama trusted Joe Biden, I trust Joe Biden," DNC Chairman Tom Perez tells @MarthaRaddatz when asked why the DNC won't convene an independent panel.> > Joe Biden denied the sexual assault allegation. https://t.co/s1sgImQ3cv pic.twitter.com/Q1bBgRmJEi> > -- ABC News (@ABC) May 4, 2020Biden publicly denied Reade's allegations for the first time last week, after the former Senate staffer said in March that Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993, and that she filed a complaint after the fact. The former vice president also denied that his Senate archive at the University of Delaware, which is closed to the public, would contain Reade's document."There is only one place a complaint of this kind could be: the National Archives," Biden said. "If there was ever any such complaint, the record will be there." But the National Archives has said it does not have personal records, and directed the search back to the Senate. Reade told the Associated Press last week that the report she filed with a congressional personnel office after the incident did not explicitly mention that Biden had sexual assaulted her.In March, a federal judge ordered Hillary Clinton to appear in a sworn deposition regarding her use of a private email account while serving as secretary of state, especially regarding the to the 2012 attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.Clinton has defended her reading of classified government emails on an unsecured private server as a matter of convenience, and in July 2016 the FBI recommended charging Clinton with a crime, only to announce in October of that same year that it would reopen the probe."To argue that the Court now has enough information to determine whether State conducted an adequate search is preposterous," U.S. District Court judge Royce Lamberth wrote in his ruling. "Even years after the FBI investigation, the slow trickle of new emails has yet to be explained . . . Why did she think that using a private server to conduct State Department business was permissible under the law in the first place?"
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| Italy's coronavirus death toll far higher than reported: stats office Posted: 04 May 2020 08:07 AM PDT  Italy's coronavirus death toll is much higher than reported, statistics bureau ISTAT said on Monday in an analysis pointing to thousands of fatalities that have never been officially attributed to COVID-19. In its first report of the epidemic's impact on Italy's mortality rate, covering 86% of the population, ISTAT said that from Feb. 21, when the first COVID-19 deaths occurred, until March 31, nationwide deaths were up 39% compared with the average of the previous five years. Of the 25,354 "excess deaths", the coronavirus was registered by the Civil Protection Agency as the official cause for 13,710, leaving around 11,600 deaths unaccounted for.
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| Ex-Green Beret claims he led foiled raid into Venezuela Posted: 03 May 2020 05:55 AM PDT  A former Green Beret has taken responsibility for what he claimed was a failed attack Sunday aimed at overthrowing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and that the socialist government said ended with eight dead. Jordan Goudreau's comments in an interview with an exiled Venezuelan journalist capped a bizarre day that started with reports of a predawn amphibious raid near the South American country's heavily guarded capital. An AP investigation published Friday found that Goudreau had been working with a retired Venezuelan army general now facing U.S. narcotics charges to train dozens of deserters from Venezuela's security forces at secret camps inside neighboring Colombia.
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| Coronavirus: Which African countries are ahead on testing? Posted: 04 May 2020 04:47 AM PDT  African states face real challenges in trying to expand their testing for the coronavirus.
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| Convicted Vietnam refugee fights deportation after 30 years in Hong Kong Posted: 03 May 2020 10:49 PM PDT  Three decades after he landed on Hong Kong shores as a child refugee, Vo Van Hung is fighting efforts to deport him to Vietnam now that he has finished a lengthy jail sentence -- for murder. Vietnam's "boat people" exodus subsided years ago. Since arriving in Hong Kong as a 12-year-old unaccompanied refugee in 1991, Vo has spent his life behind barbed wire and then bars.
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| Gilead has yet to set a price for the coronavirus treatment remdesivir, but an influential drug pricing watchdog says it could be worth up to $4,500 per patient Posted: 03 May 2020 09:39 AM PDT  The nonprofit group often finds drugs to be overpriced. For the first potential COVID-19 drug, it says a price of up to $4,500 could be justified.
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| Former FDA commissioner says coronavirus antibody tests are returning tons of false positives Posted: 04 May 2020 07:14 AM PDT  Former Food and Drug Administration Scott Gottlieb said Monday that if he took a coronavirus antibody test to see if he had built up any protection against the virus, he'd receive his result and then take the test again two more times.Gottlieb, during an appearance on CNBC's Squawk Box, said people shouldn't "put any stock" in a single antibody result, because the current tests on the market are churning out a high rate of false positives, which could lead people who don't have immunity to think they're safe. If those people repeat the tests, though, their chances of getting an accurate result increase.> "I wouldn't put any stock in any single result," says @ScottGottliebMD on anti-body testing for COVID19. "Quite frankly if it was me I'd repeat it three times." pic.twitter.com/w429b3PEUg> > — Squawk Box (@SquawkCNBC) May 4, 2020Antibody tests aren't useless from Gottlieb's perspective, though. He believes they can help paint a clearer picture of the scale of the pandemic — that is, while they may not help dictate what an individual should do going forward, they can help scientists and doctors understand the larger trend. Gottlieb has said he believes the number of coronavirus cases in the United States is likely 10 to 20 times higher than what's been recorded, and that would likely include folks who have already recovered.He also said he's fairly confident antibodies do point to some immunity, meaning it's unlikely people would get re-infected, or, if they do, they probably would experience a mild case since the body is more experienced at fighting the virus. The question, of course, is how long that immunity lasts.More stories from theweek.com How George W. Bush exposed Trump's biggest failure Trump was the disaster we should have seen coming 5 questions about how coronavirus will affect the 2020 election
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| LA riots: Rioter in infamous footage of trucker being pulled from vehicle says ‘nothing has changed’ since 1992 Posted: 03 May 2020 03:22 PM PDT  Most people who got to hear about Henry "Kiki" Watson was when they watched aerial footage of the Los Angeles riots showing a white van driver being pulled from his construction vehicle and attacked.Or else it was when the former marine, then aged 27, was arrested and mug-shotted, along with five other young black men and agreed a plea deal to only a modest charge. Or when he appeared with that driver, Reginald Denny, on The Phil Donahue Show after being released from jail, shook his hand and apologised "for my participation in the injuries you suffered".
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