| Stacey Abrams on police shooting of Rayshard Brooks: 'There is a legitimacy to this outrage' Posted: 14 Jun 2020 09:26 AM PDT  Stacey Abrams said the fatal Atlanta police shooting of Rayshard Brooks showed the "legitimacy" of the outrage expressed by Black Lives Matter protests.
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| Minneapolis officers quit in wake of George Floyd protests Posted: 14 Jun 2020 09:07 AM PDT  At least seven Minneapolis police officers have quit and another seven are in the process of resigning, citing a lack of support from department and city leaders as protests over George Floyd's death escalated. Current and former officers told The Minneapolis Star Tribune that officers are upset with Mayor Jacob Frey's decision to abandon the Third Precinct station during the protests. The Minnesota Department of Human Rights launched a civil rights investigation into the city's police department this month and the FBI is investigating whether police willfully deprived Floyd of his civil rights.
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| China's enormous response to a localized coronavirus outbreak at a market shows it's taking COVID-19 far more seriously than the rest of the world Posted: 15 Jun 2020 03:30 AM PDT  Brazil, Mexico, and many US states are reopening despite reporting record new daily cases of the coronavirus.
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| U.S. Air Force jet wreckage found off U.K. coast, pilot still missing Posted: 15 Jun 2020 08:35 AM PDT  Air Force says jet's wreckage found off English coast after crash during a training mission, but the search for the pilot continues.
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| Hillary Clinton knocks Trump's liability waiver for Oklahoma rally Posted: 13 Jun 2020 01:02 PM PDT  Hillary Clinton chided Donald Trump's presidential campaign for resuming large rallies amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and obliging those seeking tickets to his first event in Tulsa, Okla., to sign a liability waiver acknowledging the "inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19."
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| Woman apologises for telling man he was illegally defacing his own home with ‘Black Lives Matter’ slogan Posted: 15 Jun 2020 03:16 AM PDT  A San Francisco woman who questioned a man writing "Black Lives Matter" on his own home has apologised for assuming he did not live there and calling the police on him."I want to apologise directly to Mr Juanillo," Ms Alexander said in a statement. "There are not enough words to describe how truly sorry I am for being disrespectful to him last Tuesday when I made the decision to question him about what he was doing in front of his home. I should have minded my own business."
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| Police killing of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta ruled a homicide Posted: 14 Jun 2020 05:53 PM PDT  The Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office said Brooks, 27, died after he was shot twice in the back.
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| Japan halts deployment of Aegis Ashore missile defence system Posted: 15 Jun 2020 02:10 AM PDT  Japanese Defence Minister Taro Kono said on Monday that he had suspended plans to deploy two U.S.-made Aegis Ashore air defence radar stations designed to detect and counter North Korean ballistic missiles. Kono told reporters that Japan was halting the deployment due to technical issues as well as cost. The two proposed Lockheed Martin Co radar sites, one in the northern prefecture of Akita and the other in Yamaguchi prefecture in southern Japan, had also faced opposition from local residents.
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| Colombia's ELN rebels free six more hostages amid peace talks plea Posted: 15 Jun 2020 03:45 AM PDT  Six are released as the left-wing ELN group calls for peace negotiations to resume.
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| Philippine American journalist Maria Ressa convicted in cybercrime case Posted: 14 Jun 2020 08:04 PM PDT  Ressa's conviction was seen as a severe blow to press freedom in the Philippines under strongman President Rodrigo Duterte.
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| Ilhan Omar: Minneapolis Police Department ‘Rotten to the Root,’ Can’t Be Reformed Posted: 15 Jun 2020 05:29 AM PDT  Democratic Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar said Sunday that the Minneapolis Police Department is "rotten to the root," making any attempt to reform it futile, and called for the city's police force to be dismantled."You can't really reform a department that is rotten to the root," Omar said during an interview on CNN. "What you can do is rebuild. And so this is our opportunity, you know, as a city to come together, have the conversation of what public safety looks like, who enforces the most dangerous crimes that take place in our community."Calls to overhaul and defund the police department have emerged in the wake of the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis after a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes, including after Floyd passed out."A new way forward can't be put in place if we have a department that is having a crisis of credibility, if we have a department that's led by a chief who's suited for racism, if we have a department that hasn't solved homicides. Half of the homicides in Minneapolis Police Department go unsolved," said the congresswoman, whose district encompasses the entire city of Minneapolis. "There have been cases where they've destroyed rape kits.""Right now they're moving towards a process where there is a separation of the kind of crimes that solicit the help of, you know, officers, and the kind of crimes that we should have someone else respond to," she said.The Minneapolis police chief announced last week that he will immediately withdraw from negotiations with the city's police union as the department considers a suite of reforms after George Floyd's death.Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey has called for "sweeping structural reform" of the department but has resisted calls to defund the city's police force.Meanwhile, the Minneapolis City Council last week announced that a veto-proof majority had voted to dissolve the department, a proposal opposed by both the mayor and police chief.Both riots and peaceful protests against racism and police brutality have broken out in Minneapolis and in cities around the country in the wake of Floyd's death.
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| Australia 'disheartened' by death sentence in China Posted: 13 Jun 2020 06:25 PM PDT  Australia on Sunday described as "deeply disheartening" a death sentence China imposed on an Australian man accused of drug smuggling, and the trade minister said it shouldn't be linked to ongoing friction over trade and the pandemic. Karm Gilespie was arrested in 2013 at Baiyun Airport in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou on charges of attempting to board an international flight with more than 7.5 kilograms (16.5 pounds) of methamphetamine in his check-in luggage. The Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court on Saturday announced Gilespie had been sentenced to death and ordered the confiscation of all of his personal property.
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| Coronavirus world round-up: US records lowest death toll since mid-April Posted: 14 Jun 2020 05:00 PM PDT  Follow the latest coronavirus news in our daily live blog Read all our coronavirus coverage here Subscribe to The Telegraph, free for one month The United States has recorded 382 coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing its death toll to 115,729, according to a tally on Sunday by Johns Hopkins University. This was the lowest US 24-hour toll since the peak in mid-April. It has been averaging 800 or so a day recently. The world's top economy is by far the hardest-hit country in the pandemic, with both the highest number of deaths and the largest number of infections - 2,093,335 at 8.30 pm Saturday (0030 GMT Sunday), a tracker maintained by the Baltimore-based university showed.
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| Republicans insist Trump Tulsa rally won't spread coronavirus – despite local concern Posted: 14 Jun 2020 11:06 AM PDT  * Attendees at Saturday campaign rally will have to sign waiver * Tulsa health director expresses concern over indoor eventRepublican lawmakers are downplaying concerns that a Donald Trump indoor rally planned for Tulsa, Oklahoma, for next weekend could contribute to the spread Covid-19, amid an increase in cases in the city.The Tulsa city-county health department director, Bruce Dart, said he worried the rally could be dangerous for attendees as well as the president."I wish we could postpone this to a time when the virus isn't as large a concern as it is today," Dart told Tulsa World."I think it's an honor for Tulsa to have a sitting president want to come and visit our community, but not during a pandemic. I'm concerned about our ability to protect anyone who attends a large, indoor event, and I'm also concerned about our ability to ensure the president stays safe as well."Trump is set to travel to Oklahoma next Saturday, to stage his first rally since early March.The event was moved from Friday to avoid a clash with Juneteenth, the day on which African Americans celebrate the end of slavery. The president had faced criticism for planning a rally on such a day in Tulsa, the scene in 1921 of the worst race massacre in US history.James Lankford, a Republican senator from Oklahoma, said on Sunday the rally did not need to be postponed because the increase in coronavirus cases is "a little bit of a bump".In fact it is too early to say if the increase is small and temporary."Our deaths continue to decline and we encourage people that are high risk not to get involved in any location, whether that be a rally or other higher-risk locations," Lankford told ABC's This Week."So, high-risk folks need to be able to step back and everybody needs to be able to take responsibility for their own health."The White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said attendees at the rally "must observe the safety guidelines"."The social distancing must be observed," Kudlow told CNN's State of the Union. "Face coverings in key places must be observed."Trump has refused to wear a mask at a series of recent public events.The Trump campaign is asking supporters to sign a waiver that makes clear the campaign is not responsible if anyone gets ill from crowding with thousands of others in an enclosed space.There was a new high in daily increases for Oklahoma and Tulsa county on Saturday, while the rolling average of daily increases continues to rise. About the same number of people are being tested.On Friday the Tulsa health department said the outbreak was linked to indoor gatherings. Hospitalizations and the percentage of tests coming back positive have been steady in the state.Saturday also saw an increase in cases in Alabama, Florida and South Carolina, which reported a record number of new cases for the third day in a row, while Alaska did so for the first time in weeks. Arizona and Nevada reported a near-record number of new cases. Many state health officials partly attributed the increases to gatherings over the Memorial Day holiday weekend in late May.On Friday, the White House coronavirus taskforce member Dr Anthony Fauci told CNN the US would not necessarily see a second wave of Covid-19 infections, "if you approach it in the proper way".That, he said, meant people should maintain social distancing and continue to wear masks in public.Nationally, there were more than 25,000 new cases reported on Saturday, the highest tally for a Saturday since 2 May, in part due to a significant increase in testing. In Louisiana, one of the earlier virus hotspots, new cases were again on the rise with more than 1,200 – the most in the state since 21 May.The hospitalizations metric is not affected by increased testing. Arkansas, North Carolina, Texas and Utah all had a record number of patients enter hospital on Saturday. In South Carolina, 69% to 77% of hospital beds are occupied, depending on the region."When you start to see increases in hospitalization," Fauci said on Friday, "that's a surefire situation that you've got to pay close attention to."
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| Fox News falls for Monty Python joke in report criticising Seattle protesters Posted: 14 Jun 2020 07:41 AM PDT  Fox News' coverage of the Seattle protests has taken another hit after the news organisation quoted a Reddit Monty Python joke as real for its viewers.Martha MacCallum, host of Fox News' The Story, was covering Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) for her viewers, which included claims from the cable news channel that there were leadership problems within the organisation.
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| 'Disinfecting non-stop' as Italy faces two new virus outbreaks Posted: 14 Jun 2020 09:20 AM PDT  Yellow police tape -- a familiar sight across Italy since the coronavirus began sweeping the country in March -- reappeared at the weekend outside a Rome squat where around 15 new cases have emerged. Health workers insist the outbreak among squatters including a Peruvian family is under control, at a time when Italy is cautiously relaxing measures to contain the disease that has claimed more than 34,000 lives. A second outbreak was far bigger and occurred at a hospital on the western edge of Rome, with 109 cases and five deaths.
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| Thai PM warns against criticism of the monarchy Posted: 15 Jun 2020 04:27 AM PDT  Thailand's prime minister on Monday warned political activists not to criticize the monarchy, saying doing so could damage their job prospects even though the king had asked him not to make prosecutions under a law protecting the royal family. Insulting the monarchy is a crime under Article 112 of Thailand's criminal code, punishable by up to 15 years in prison. The suspected kidnapping of a Thai democracy activist in Cambodia this month ignited small protests by university students, with some questioning in online comments the "lese majeste" law.
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| Supreme Court rejects cases challenging immunity for police officers Posted: 15 Jun 2020 06:57 AM PDT  The court's decision not to hear the cases comes against the backdrop of protests that have erupted across the U.S.
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| Florida protester Oluwatoyin Salau, 19, found dead in Tallahassee after going missing Posted: 15 Jun 2020 09:16 AM PDT  Oluwatoyin Salau, a 19-year-old protester, was found dead Saturday night after she went missing more than a week ago.
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| WHO: We're not seeing a 'second wave.' Coronavirus cases are spiking because lockdown rules are easing. Posted: 15 Jun 2020 08:57 AM PDT  Most places in the world are "still very much in the throes" of a first wave, a World Health Organization leader said June 12.
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| 'Beijing will not be a second Wuhan': Fears of new outbreak after string of coronavirus cases Posted: 15 Jun 2020 06:19 AM PDT  The new outbreak has been traced to a major wholesale food market in Beijing's southwestern Fengtai district.
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| Atlanta police chief resigns following fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks Posted: 13 Jun 2020 08:21 PM PDT  Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced the resignation of Police Chief Erika Shields after Rayshard Brooks was killed by an Atlanta officer in a struggle following a field sobriety test.
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| Trump news – live: President complains he’s being ‘Covid Shamed’ over Tulsa rally coronavirus fears and claims 1m have applied for 19,000 tickets Posted: 15 Jun 2020 06:18 AM PDT  Donald Trump is complaining he is being "Covid Shamed" after facing pressure to cancel his upcoming election rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, since the city's health director, Dr Bruce Dart, expressed anxiety over the spread of coronavirus and the president's own adviser, Larry Kudlow, admitted that attendees would be well advised to wear a face mask."Covid is here in Tulsa, it is transmitting very efficiently,"€ Dr Dart said over the weekend. "I wish we could postpone this to a time when the virus isn'€™t as large a concern as it is today."
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| First Covid-19 lawsuit filed against Chinese government in latest sign of bubbling unrest Posted: 14 Jun 2020 08:46 AM PDT  When Zhang Hai checked his father into a hospital in Wuhan mid-January, he had no idea a novel coronavirus was sweeping through the city. Chinese authorities had yet to sound the alarm, despite mounting evidence the virus was fatal and transmitting quickly – at least two were dead, and infections had spread abroad. But police pressured doctors to stay silent, and hospitals wouldn't allow extra protective gear, even as medical staff fell ill. So Mr Zhang never imagined his father, a 76-year-old veteran, would be infected with Covid-19 at the hospital while having a thigh fracture repaired, and die within a week. "If the government didn't cover up the disease in the early stages, my father wouldn't have died," Mr Zhang, 50, told the Telegraph. "I am furious... so many people lost their lives during this pandemic. What they did amounts to murder." On Wednesday, Mr Zhang filed the first lawsuit in China against the government that seeks restitution for its cover-up of the pandemic, according to lawyers and documents reviewed by the Telegraph.
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| Winston Churchill's granddaughter says his statue might be better off in a museum after protesters damaged it and scrawled 'racist' on it Posted: 13 Jun 2020 01:43 PM PDT  Emma Soames, a granddaughter of Winston Churchill, told the BBC she was "shocked" to see his statue covered with a barrier, but understood why.
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| Spain says will reopen EU borders, barring Portugal, on June 21 Posted: 14 Jun 2020 11:23 AM PDT  Spain, one of the world's leading tourist destinations, will next Sunday re-establish free travel with fellow EU countries, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced. The land border with Portugal will however remain closed until July 1. Portugal has suffered a much lower death rate than Spain from the coronavirus epidemic.
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| At least 7 Minneapolis cops have quit since George Floyd's death Posted: 14 Jun 2020 06:44 PM PDT  Officials didn't specify if the departures are specifically due to Floyd's death, but the decisions to leave were made recently.
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| Supreme Court won't consider limiting police immunity from civil lawsuits Posted: 15 Jun 2020 08:32 AM PDT  The justices' decision not to hear any new cases follows the recent death of George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis, while in police custody.
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| Drone strike kills 2 al-Qaida commanders in NW Syria Posted: 14 Jun 2020 11:02 AM PDT |
| ‘Who are we?’ Joe Biden seizes the moment as nation's attitude shifts on race Posted: 15 Jun 2020 07:19 AM PDT  Democratic candidate appears emboldened by the changed political landscape, embracing a far more ambitious reform agenda than he did when entered the race for presidentIn the weeks since George Floyd died under the knee of a white police officer America's institutions – from boardrooms and newsrooms to locker rooms and classrooms – are publicly addressing systematic discrimination and demanding reforms.With a reckoning over race compounded by a pandemic and an economic collapse, Donald Trump and his would-be Democratic opponent Joe Biden are charting starkly different courses for the nation that could determine which one of them wins the White House in November.But in tone, tenor and leadership style, it is Biden who currently appears well positioned to harness this political moment.Biden has sought to cast himself as a champion of racial equality, encouraging peaceful protest and vowing to "heal the racial wounds that have long plagued our country"."This is a battle for the soul of America," he said at an economic roundtable in Philadelphia last week. "Who are we? What do we want to be? How do we see ourselves? What do we think we should be? Character is on the ballot here."As public attitudes shift quickly on race, Biden appears emboldened by the changed political landscape, embracing a far more ambitious reform agenda than he entered the race for president. By contrast, Trump, with his hostility to the protesters and resistance to their demands for reform, has found himself on the wrong side of the American public at a particularly perilous moment for his presidency and his re-election prospects.A Washington Post-Schar School poll found that 61% of Americans disapprove of the way Trump handled the protests while just 35% approve. When asked what type of president they preferred at this moment of racial strife, half said they would prefer a leader who can "address the nation's racial divisions", compared with 37% who said they would prefer a leader who can "restore security by enforcing the law"."People are finally seeing through the fog that has blinded them for too long," said Antjuan Seawright, a Democratic strategist based in South Carolina. "They are realizing that the system is broken and Donald Trump is not going to fix it."Public opinion on race has been moving leftward since the Black Lives Matter movement emerged in the wake of Trayvon Martin's death in 2012. White Democrats in particular have become increasingly more concerned about issues of racial inequality, even registering to the left of African Americans voters.But the recent shifts represent a sea change so sudden and deep that pollsters were left grasping for parallels.A Monmouth poll conducted after Floyd's killing found that for the first time a majority of Americans – 57% – and 49% of white Americans believe police are more likely to use excessive force against African Americans.When Eric Garner was killed by a police officer in New York City in 2014, just 33% of Americans and 26% of white Americans say African Americans were more likely to be subject to excessive use of force by the police. The same poll found that 3 in 4 Americans consider racism and discrimination a "big problem".Support for Black Lives Matter has also jumped, according to Civiqs Polling, that found voters from across the ideological and demographic spectrum embrace the movement."This is big," tweeted Frank Luntz, a Republican pollster who said he hadn't seen anything like it in more than three decades of polling. "This is 'Beatles on Ed Sullivan' big."Ample research has found race and identity were critical to Trump's victory in 2016.During the campaign, he brazenly stoked white racial grievance that had been building since the election of the nation's first black president, promising to restore America's past glory and "Make America Great Again". As president, Trump said there were "good people on both sides" of a deadly white supremacist rally. He disparaged four congresswomen of color with a racist taunt. And recently, he has responded to the most significant racial upheaval in a generation by describing protesters as "thugs" and "terrorists", threatening to unleash the army to quell demonstrations and defending military bases named after Confederate leaders.In response to the protests, Trump has declared himself the "president of law and order", appealing to a base that is predominantly white and conservative. This week he held a roundtable with law enforcement officials in Dallas, where he dismissed police brutality as the misconduct of a few "bad apples" and warned that "falsely labeling tens of millions of decent Americans as racists or bigots" would not improve race relations.Some observers have compared Trumps approach to Richard Nixon's 1968 election strategy, when he ran as the law-and-order candidate after a summer of riots – and won.But there is reason to believe 2020 may be different from 2016 and 1968, said Michael Tesler, a political scientist at the University of California at Irvine and author of Post-Racial or Most Racial? Race and Politics in the Obama Era.While "law and order" can be a powerful message in the midst of national upheaval, Tesler said, it's a much harder case to make as an incumbent whose governing style over the last three and a half years has contributed to that chaos."The country views Trump as a racial arsonist at a time when racial reconciliation is needed," he wrote in an email.And far from boosting Trump in November, the protests are likely to mobilize and energize Democrats, says Daniel Gillion, a political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author of The Loud Minority: Why Protests Matter in American Democracy.Throughout modern American history, protests have not only succeeded in influencing public policy but impacted electoral outcomes for the party ideologically aligned with their cause, according to Gillion.His research found African American turnout in 2016 was higher in cities that saw Black Lives Matter protests, even as it declined elsewhere. But the effect is geographically concentrated and the protests were limited."Now that protests are happening in everyone's backyard it's likely there will be a snowballing effect," he said. "And based on what I've found, one can only expect that Democrats are going to be more mobilized to vote in November because of what's taking place."Heather McGhee, co-chair of the political advocacy group color of change, said the coronavirus pandemic and the economic crisis caused by efforts to control it, which have disproportionately impacted African American communities, "primed" the nation for this tectonic shift in attitudes on racism in America."It became very clear once the pandemic is that we were all suffering from the same storm, but we weren't all in the same boat," said McGhee.McGhee described Biden as a "weather vane" for the Democratic party.During the primary, he offered himself as a pragmatist who once assured donors that under his administration "nothing would fundamentally change". But that was when Democrats' top concern was ousting Trump. Now, as inequalities in public health, the economy and race are laid bare, Biden's sudden desire for systemic change is telling."The band-aid has been ripped off," Biden said recently during a virtual appearance, explaining that more Americans are connecting the dots and exposed deep-rooted social ills. "The scar is apparent and I think they're ready to do something about it. I think they're ready to see some real institutional change."A majority of Americans, including among Republicans, agree some changes to policing are needed. But growing calls from activists to "defund the police" has little support."There is a danger that lurks there for Biden and the Democrats," warned Ruy Teixeira, a political demographer at the Center for American Progress, a liberal thinktank in Washington. "There are scenarios in which you could see Trump making a successful law and order appeal, particularly to these white non-college [educated] voters who are sensitive to the issue."Biden, who faced criticism during the primary over his legislative record on criminal justice and race, has embraced an overhaul of policing.Though he and Democratic leaders in Congress have flatly rejected growing calls to "defund the police" it has not stopped Trump and his Republican allies from seizing on the issue in an effort to drive a wedge between activists and moderate Democrats.Trump's electoral strategy hinges on his ability to drive up turnout among his base of support, which is predominantly white, older, less educated and conservative. While their share of the electorate is shrinking, this cohort holds outsized influence in the handful of states that will likely determine the election.Biden's task is to stitch together a coalition that is increasingly multicultural, young, educated and liberal. Diverse battleground states like Arizona, Georgia and Texas, once bastions of conservatism, are now competitive.Biden won the primary on the strength of his support among African Americans, but he struggled to appeal to the young voters now leading the protests, said Steve Phillips, host of Democracy in Color with Steve Phillips and the author of the book Brown Is the New White. "There's a bigger risk of failing to inspire and galvanize younger voters and people of color than there is alienating moderate voters," he said.Karen Finney, a Democratic strategist who advised Hillary Clinton's campaign in 2016, said Biden must "treat black voters like swing voters".Choosing a black woman as his running mate would be one way of emphasizing black voters importance to the Democratic party."History is telling us that in this moment we need to lift the voices of black Americans," she said, "and especially the voices of black women".
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| Tanker truck explodes into a ball of fire on Chinese highway, killing 19 people Posted: 14 Jun 2020 06:03 AM PDT  Nineteen people were killed and more than 170 injured when a tanker truck exploded on a highway in eastern China, local authorities said. The force of the blast on Saturday afternoon caused nearby homes and factories to collapse, and sent huge clouds of black smoke billowing into the air as flames engulfed several cars. Dramatic video footage of the accident in the eastern province of Zhejiang showed a ball of fire shooting into the air as people screamed. In one clip, a large piece of debris is seen flying into the air before crashing onto nearby buildings. Another video showed the remains of the tanker and several truck tyres smashed into a building, which had been reduced to rubble. Local authorities said the truck was loaded with liquefied gas. State news agency Xinhua reported Sunday that there was a second blast when the truck fell onto a workshop near the expressway after the first explosion. Emergency responders were still conducting search and rescue operations, it added. Deadly road accidents are common in China, where traffic regulations are often flouted or not enforced. Last year, at least 36 people died and 36 others were hurt in eastern China when a packed coach with a flat tyre collided with a truck.
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| Criminal case opened against Kremlin critic Navalny for slander Posted: 15 Jun 2020 09:37 AM PDT  Russian authorities said on Monday they had opened a criminal investigation for suspected slander against Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny for comments he made on social media. The Investigative Committee, which handles probes into major crimes, accused Navalny of slandering a Russian World War Two veteran who featured in a video clip with other prominent Russians to express support for constitutional reforms set to be put to a national vote on July 1. The reforms, among other things, would allow Vladimir Putin to run for another two terms in the Kremlin and potentially serve until 2036 instead of stepping down in 2024.
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| Which major retail companies have filed for bankruptcy since the coronavirus pandemic hit? Here's the list. Posted: 15 Jun 2020 07:26 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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| Fauci says normality could only come back 'within a year or so' as the country faces a spike in coronavirus infections Posted: 14 Jun 2020 07:20 AM PDT  White House infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said that ongoing protests sweeping the US were potential COVID-19 hotspots.
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| Rayshard Brooks killing: White officer who shot black man at drive-thru could be charged with murder Posted: 14 Jun 2020 11:37 AM PDT  The white police officer who fatally shot Rayshard Brooks could be charged with murder by Wednesday according to the Fulton County district attorney.Paul Howard told CNN that his office will decide by the middle of the week whether it will be filing charges against Garrett Rolfe, the officer who killed Mr Brooks on Saturday.
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| Do the Moral Arguments About the Atomic Bombings Hinge Around This One Point? Posted: 14 Jun 2020 03:00 PM PDT  Did Washington do it on purpose and delay accepting Tokyo's surrender?
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| U.S. fighter jet crashes into North Sea during training exercise Posted: 15 Jun 2020 06:17 AM PDT  A U.S. fighter jet has crashed into the North Sea on the east coast of England while on a routine training mission.
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| Oklahoma senator explains change in date of Trump rally Posted: 14 Jun 2020 08:11 AM PDT  Trump said Friday he'd move the Tulsa rally by one day out of respect for Juneteenth.
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| Failings of founder are a lesson, says Chief Scout Bear Grylls Posted: 13 Jun 2020 09:33 PM PDT  Chief Scout has said that the movement cannot deny its founder Lord Baden-Powell's "failings" but should learn from them. Bear Grylls says Scouting needs to be aware of its past and Baden-Powell's role, and that "history is nothing if we do not learn from it". The adventurer and TV presenter explained: "Baden-Powell may have taken the first step in creating Scouting, but the journey continues today without him. We know where we came from but we are not going back." Grylls' comments come after a row over whether a statue of Baden-Powell should be removed from its place in Poole harbour because of his espousal of some far-Right ideas. The local council planned to remove the monument because of fears it would become a target for anti-racist activists. But protesters, many former Scouts, thwarted the removal by forming a ring around the statue. Writing for The Telegraph, Grylls said the Scouting movement had to acknowledge Baden-Powell's vision in bringing together young people "to learn how to celebrate their differences, to love and protect the outdoor world, to serve communities, and to be empowered with skills for life". But he admitted that Baden-Powell was far from perfect and said Scouting had moved on since it was founded. He writes: "As Scouts, we most certainly do not celebrate Baden-Powell for his failings. We see them and we acknowledge them. And if he were here today we would disagree with him on many things, of that there is no doubt. And I suspect he would too." Grylls says that while being grateful to Baden-Powell, the Scouting movement "must also evolve", explaining that for that reason he supports the protests against racism that followed the killing of African-American George Floyd by a white policeman in Minneapolis. "This is why I wholeheartedly stand beside the righteous anger unleashed by the killing of George Floyd, and together we must all do what we can to right the awful injustices that BAME communities live with every day," he writes. The statue of Baden-Powell was installed in 2008 and faces Brownsea Island, off Poole, Dorset, where the Scout movement began. Declassified MI5 files revealed in 2010 that Baden-Powell was invited to meet Hitler after holding friendly talks about forming closer ties with the Hitler Youth. He has also been accused of holding racist and homophobic views. Following the toppling of the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol, the Baden-Powell monument was one of more than 60 that appeared on a "Topple the Racists" hit list. The list says he "committed atrocities against the Zulus in his military career and was a Nazi/fascist sympathiser". Vikki Slade, the leader of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council, said at that time: "While famed for the creation of the Scouts, we also recognise there are some aspects of Robert Baden-Powell's life that are considered less worthy of commemoration." Grylls writes: "This last week, people have expressed much confusion and anger at the possible removal of a statue of Lord Baden-Powell in Poole. "To me, and many Scouts, Brownsea Island (the place that the statue looks out on) is a reminder of that great Scouting vision that has since helped so many young people gain vital, life-enhancing skills. "It's right we take time to listen, to educate ourselves and reflect on our movement's history. "We need the humility to recognise there are times when the views and actions from our Scouting's past do not always match the values we live by today. "We must learn, adapt, and improve." Read more: BEAR GRYLLS | As Scouts, we certainly do not celebrate Baden-Powell for his failings
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| Colombia's confirmed coronavirus cases rise above 50,000 Posted: 14 Jun 2020 03:49 PM PDT  Confirmed coronavirus cases in Colombia have risen to over 50,000, the country's Health Ministry said on Sunday, while neighboring Ecuador approached the same milestone. Colombia has reported 50,939 cases of the coronavirus and 1,667 deaths. In Ecuador, cases have surpassed 46,700 and deaths stand at 3,896.
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| Europe reopens borders but China battles new virus outbreak Posted: 15 Jun 2020 09:16 AM PDT  A raft of EU nations reopened their borders to fellow Europeans on Monday after months of coronavirus curbs, but China was battling a new outbreak that has stoked fears of a second wave. As caseloads have declined in recent weeks across many parts of Europe, governments have been keen to ease punishing lockdowns that have saved lives but devastated economies and wearied confined populations. Belgium, France, Germany and Greece were among those lifting border restrictions Monday, while Spain experimented with a pilot project that saw a planeload of German tourists fly into the Balearic islands.
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| Bars in Florida, Texas, and Arizona close after employees tested positive amid spike in new coronavirus cases Posted: 13 Jun 2020 12:46 PM PDT  Recent weeks have seen several states with record-high jumps in cases and hospitalizations in the coronavirus pandemic.
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| Businessman close to Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro arrested in Cape Verde Posted: 13 Jun 2020 02:54 PM PDT  Colombian national Alex Nain Saab is wanted in the US on charges of corruption and money laundering.
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| Billionaire Shari Redstone’s Son, 35, Deported From Israel for Flouting Quarantine to See Teen Lover Posted: 15 Jun 2020 04:24 AM PDT  You know how it is. Your mom's the billionaire boss of the ViacomCBS media empire, having emerged victorious from a messy, Succession-style family feud.You've spent your life criss-crossing the globe on airplanes. You're 35, and you're dating an 18-year old Israeli model. You don't think the normal rules apply to you. Perhaps it is not entirely surprising then that Brandon Korff, son of Shari Redstone and grandson of Sumner Redstone, thought he could get away with flouting Israel's tedious quarantine regulations.His pressing need to break the health and safety guidelines amid a deadly global pandemic? Hooking up with his beautiful young girlfriend, Yael Shelbia, an 18-year-old Instagram star who has appeared in campaigns for Kim Kardashian's KKW Beauty makeup line.No doubt Korff wasn't expecting to be caught, and, having been caught, it seems unlikely that the scion of one of America's most prominent billionaire families would have ever imagined he would be thrown out of the country in disgrace.But that is exactly the fate that befell Korff, who was unceremoniously ejected from Israel on Sunday night after he violated the terms of an "exceptional permit," which allowed him into the country to visit and stay with his brother, who is serving with the Israeli army.Korff promptly abandoned his brother's company in favor of the more compelling charms of his girlfriend.A statement from the Israeli government said Korff "violated the isolation orders from the moment he entered the country and met his Israeli partner," and "stayed with her in the same apartment."It said Korff, whose mother is the chairwoman of ViacomCBS, was ordered to leave the country immediately.The Times of Israel said the official statement did not identify Korff's partner, but Korff is known to be dating Shelbia, a part-time model who is also doing compulsory military service.Israel banned entry to non-citizens and non-residents in March in an effort to clamp down on the spread of the coronavirus. Israel requires all individuals entering the country to remain in quarantine for two weeks following their arrival.Unluckily, perhaps, for Korff, the country's leaders had every reason to come down hard on him; last week, Israel's health ministry came under fire after an Israeli billionaire businessman, Teddy Sagi, was granted an exemption from the isolation orders only to be spotted attending a party with Israeli celebrities.Minister of Health Yuli Edelstein issued a statement late last week saying: "No one is above the guidances, not even celebrities or the one percent. No one! The virus does not differentiate between celebrities and ordinary people."And nor, it seems, does the Israeli Population and Immigration Authority.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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