| Leaked CDC document contradicts Pence claim that U.S. coronavirus cases 'have stabilized' Posted: 17 Jun 2020 12:55 PM PDT  Even as Vice President Mike Pence wrote that U.S. coronavirus cases "have stabilized," the CDC circulated a document warning that infections have increased more than 18 percent.
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| Supreme Court blocks Trump administration's attempt to end DACA Posted: 18 Jun 2020 08:45 AM PDT  In a 5-4 ruling, the court kept protections in place for "Dreamers" but noted that the White House had the power to end the Obama-era program.
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| NYPD officer bragged about taking off protester's mask and pepper-spraying him, bodycam footage shows Posted: 18 Jun 2020 10:48 AM PDT  Since protests erupted around the country last month, the NYPD has come under fire for numerous instances of violence against peaceful protesters.
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| Cuomo slams federal government for coronavirus response Posted: 18 Jun 2020 09:27 AM PDT  Florida is among a number of states, like Oklahoma and Arizona, that have seen a surge in new cases. Cuomo called the federal government's guidance an "undeniable mistake" and said the White House had operated since day one on "pure political ideology." "It is a political theory, a public relations theory versus a science-based, fact-based theory," Cuomo said.
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| Photos show famed hidden treasure found after 10-year search Posted: 18 Jun 2020 05:00 AM PDT  Forrest Fenn posted three photos on his blog, saying the bronze chest filled with gold, jewels, and other valuables is indeed his famed treasure.
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| Ben Carson Inadvertently Makes the Case for ‘Systemic Racism’ on Fox News Posted: 17 Jun 2020 05:54 PM PDT  During an appearance with Martha MacCallum on Fox News Wednesday night, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson accidentally made the exact opposite argument of the one he was trying to make.After once again defending the police officers who have now been charged with the killing of Rayshard Brooks, saying there was "wrong on both sides," Carson addressed the larger debate over "systemic racism" in America. "We live in a period of time where, if there's any incident that goes on that involves a Black person and a white person, you can be guaranteed that the term 'racism' is going to be thrown into it," he said. "The fact of the matter is, there are lots of interactions that occur between people that have nothing to do with race, but we impose that on everything." Ben Carson Defends Atlanta Police Officer Who Killed Rayshard Brooks on 'Fox News Sunday'From there, Carson outlined what might happen in the United States if systemic racism is acknowledged."If we say the system is systemically racist, then it gives us the excuse that we need to try to completely change the system," he said. To those who say they want to "remake America," Carson said, "First you have to make the case that America is broken," something he obviously believes not to be the case."Do we have defects? Absolutely," he added. "We're inhabited by imperfect people. But why don't we look at situations like what just occurred in Atlanta, let's dissect this and let's make sure that we put in place policies so that people don't continue to have these types of situations arise. That would be much smarter than getting into our respective corners and demonizing each other and getting angry all the time." Nodding in agreement, MacCallum finally chimed in with, "Wise words, Dr. Carson." For the activists who have been wanting America to address systemic racism in policing and other aspects of American society for years, that "excuse" for change that Carson describes is exactly what they have been fighting for. They probably couldn't have put it better themselves. Trevor Noah's Emotional Plea to Cops After Rayshard Brooks Killing: 'When Is It Enough?'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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| Seattle police union expelled from large labor group Posted: 18 Jun 2020 08:27 AM PDT  The largest labor group in the Seattle area has expelled the city's police union, saying the guild representing officers failed to address racism within its ranks. The vote Wednesday night by the King County Labor Council to exclude the Seattle Police Officers Guild comes after weeks of protests in the city over police brutality and racism following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. It's also significant as the labor council is politically influential.
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| Michael Gove warns Northern Irish voters will reject EU over bureaucratic customs rules Posted: 18 Jun 2020 08:33 AM PDT  Michael Gove has warned Northern Ireland will vote to break away from EU customs rules if Brussels is too "bureaucratic" about enforcing the new border in the Irish Sea. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster told MPs on a scrutiny committee that there would be "unfettered access" of Northern Irish products to mainland Britain. Pressed on whether that meant no exit declarations on goods travelling to the mainland, he said, "absolutely". Michel Barnier said at the end of the fourth round of Brexit negotiations that avoiding exit declarations on goods moving from Northern Ireland was "incompatible with the legal commitments accepted by the UK" in the Northern Irish Protocol. Mr Gove, a cabinet minister, warned a heavy-handed approach would mean voters deciding against continued alignment with EU rules in the Stormont Vote planned for four years' time. The British Government secured the vote to bring democratic accountability in negotiations with the EU, which ended in a deal to put a customs border in the Irish Sea rather than on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, which is an EU member. "If the protocol is seen to be working, it's more likely the alignment provisions can be accepted," Mr Gove said, "if it's the case that it were imposed in an over bureaucratic and burdensome manner that would lead inevitably, I think, to a greater degree of disquiet." "When it comes to goods moving from Northern Ireland into the rest of the United Kingdom, the situation will be exactly the same. Come what may," Mr Gove said before admitting there would be additional checks on British goods going to Northern Ireland.
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| 68 Outdoor Patio Ideas and Designs for Backyards and Rooftops Posted: 18 Jun 2020 10:17 AM PDT |
| Trump's lack of self-esteem results in 'dangerous' decisions, psychoanalyst says Posted: 17 Jun 2020 04:51 PM PDT  A prominent psychoanalyst who specializes in understanding narcissistic personalities says that President Trump suffers from a grievous lack of self-esteem.
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| Jean Kennedy Smith, last surviving sibling of President John F. Kennedy, dies Posted: 18 Jun 2020 06:45 AM PDT  The last surviving sibling of President John F. Kennedy, Jean Kennedy Smith, has died at 92.
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| Brazil police arrest ex-aide to president's son in graft probe Posted: 18 Jun 2020 06:58 AM PDT  Brazilian police on Thursday arrested a former aide to President Jair Bolsonaro's eldest son in a graft investigation threatening to undermine the far-right leader and ratchet up his battle with the judiciary. Fabricio Queiroz, who worked with Senator Flavio Bolsonaro when he was a Rio de Janeiro state lawmaker, was arrested outside Sao Paulo in a home owned by a personal lawyer for the Bolsonaro family, according to prosecutors. Investigators sought Queiroz for questioning over more than 1.2 million reais ($230,000) in bank transactions in a suspected scheme to embezzle the salaries of phantom employees in the Rio state assembly.
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| Honduras says its president has been hospitalized with COVID-19. Many don't believe it Posted: 18 Jun 2020 05:29 PM PDT  President Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras is a polarizing figure who has been named in a U.S. drug trafficking case. He says he has the coronavirus. Some don't believe him.
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| Just 39 migrant kids avoided expulsion at the border in May Posted: 18 Jun 2020 03:42 PM PDT  U.S. officials at the southern border carried out 1,001 arrests of unaccompanied migrant children in May. Just 39 were allowed to stay.
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| Moon Jae-in Is Getting Tired of North Korea's Growing Aggression Posted: 17 Jun 2020 11:38 AM PDT  President Moon Jae-in is tired of taking abuse from the North—and he's starting to lose his patience.
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| Hong Kong children's shop told to remove protester statue Posted: 18 Jun 2020 08:59 AM PDT  The owner of the clothing store is refusing to remove the life-sized statue, called "Lady Liberty".
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| How Black NYPD Officers Really Feel About the Floyd Protesters Posted: 17 Jun 2020 11:52 AM PDT  NEW YORK -- Edwin Raymond, a black lieutenant in the Police Department, heard racial insults -- "Sellout!" and "Uncle Tom!" -- rising above protesters' chants as he helped to control the crowds at recent demonstrations in Brooklyn against police brutality and racism.He said he understood the words were aimed at black officers like him. He tried not to take them personally, but the shouts were particularly painful, he said, because he has long been an outspoken critic of what he sees as racial discrimination within the department."I'm not blind to the issues, but I'm torn," Raymond said. "As I'm standing there with my riot helmet and being called a 'coon,' people have no idea that I identify with them. I understand them. I'm here for them. I've been trying to be here as a change agent."Raymond, 34, is one of hundreds of black and Hispanic officers in New York City who have found themselves caught between competing loyalties. Many said they sympathized with protesters across the city and the country who have turned out en masse to demonstrate against police brutality in the wake of George Floyd's death at the hands of a white officer in Minneapolis.The officers said they had experienced racism and share the protesters' mission to combat it. Still, the unrest offers painful reminders that many black and Hispanic New Yorkers see them as enemies in uniform, worsening the internal tug-of-war between their identity and their badges.Since Mayor Bill de Blasio took office in 2014, the Police Department has become "majority-minority": White officers now make up less than half of the 36,000 uniformed members of the force. The number of Hispanic officers has grown to make up 29% of the force, while the percentage of Asian officers in the force doubled to 9%, according to the department's data. (In the 2010 census, about 29% of city residents were Hispanic and 14% Asian.)But the department has struggled to boost the ranks of black officers. Black people make up about 24% of the city but only 15% of the force, a number that has remained flat since 2014. And even though more black and Hispanic chiefs have been elevated to leadership roles under de Blasio, two-thirds of the officers in the department's top ranks, from lieutenant to chief, are still white, the data show.In the wake of Floyd's death on May 25, some black officers felt a duty to speak out. Two days later, Dmaine Freeland, a black detective in Brooklyn, put on his uniform, sat at his kitchen table, clasped his hands and recorded a video on his cellphone.The detective denounced the officer who had knelt on Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes while three other officers watched. He called him an "enemy" and asked "every good cop to speak up." Then he posted the two-minute video on Facebook."I just spiritually felt the need to speak for good cops out there," Freeland, 44, said in an interview, so "that we don't get bunched in with the actions of one or four bad cops."Sgt. Khadijah Faison, a black officer in Jamaica, Queens, took a public step of another kind: She knelt with protesters in a gesture of solidarity.Faison had been working at a midday protest on May 31 near the 103rd Precinct station, where she is part of the community affairs unit. The demonstrators formed a circle and beckoned her and other officers to join them for prayer. She said she felt moved to do so."If you are asking to pray, you kneel. So I kneeled too," she said. "I think we were all looking for a sign."Two other officers also decided to kneel next to her, including her commanding officer, who is white.The department frowns on officers' making political statements in uniform, but the Floyd protests have created a different dynamic, as top police officials and union leaders have condemned the officers in Minneapolis.The police commissioner, Dermot F. Shea, shared a NY1 News reporter's photos of the moment Faison knelt, writing: "We need more of this, to see and hear each other, to work together, to recognize that our differences are our strength."The next day, Chief Terence A. Monahan, the department's highest-ranking uniformed officer, also knelt with protesters in Manhattan, and other officers have followed suit.Black and Hispanic officers said the show of support from white officers and commanders like Monahan was one of the ways the current protests have been different from past demonstrations over police killings.Several of the officers said they were disappointed by the looting and violence that has occurred during and after some protest marches, including instances of unnecessary force used by the police against demonstrators.The violence has made it difficult to have reasonable exchanges with protesters, these officers said. The police have being videotaped shoving, beating and pepper-spraying demonstrators. One officer has been arrested, at least two others have been suspended, and dozens are under investigation over attacks on protesters.At the same time, the black and Hispanic officers say they feel unnerved by violence aimed at the police. Protesters have hit officers with rocks and bricks and have surrounded occupied police cars, throwing heavy objects at them. Some have even hurled Molotov cocktails."You've got to worry that someone's going to hurt you," Officer Pedro Serrano, who works in the South Bronx, said. "But on the other hand, you understand the fight. You've seen the racism."But they have also been heartened that the crowds marching after Floyd's death are bigger and more racially diverse than those that turned out after the death of Eric Garner, a Staten Island father who died after he was put in an illegal chokehold by a New York police officer in 2014."You'd think that would be the big one," Serrano said, referring to the Garner case. "But police departments across the world are showing time and time again that people of color, they don't matter. So I'm glad to see that more and more people are speaking up and seeing what's really happening."Raymond said the protesters were calling attention to some of the same policing practices that he and 11 other New York officers were seeking to change when they sued the city and the department in 2015 over racial discrimination in enforcement and in promotions. Serrano is also one of the plaintiffs.The officers said in their lawsuit that the Police Department uses a racist and illegal quota system to target black and Hispanic people for arrests and summonses. Their careers were stalled, the officers claimed, because they objected to the quotas as unfair.Raymond said the emphasis on numerical targets has led to the overly aggressive policing of black and Hispanic neighborhoods, which in turn has led to more fatal encounters between residents of those areas and the police. "It just becomes an oppressive organization," he said.The Police Department has denied the existence of quotas and disputes the accusation that its strategies are racist. The city is fighting the lawsuit.But similar charges of racism in police departments across the country lie at the heart of the protesters' complaints.Serrano said recent measures passed by the state Legislature aimed at addressing some problems raised by Floyd's death -- a statewide ban on police chokeholds and the repeal of a statute that kept officer misconduct secret -- were small improvements.But he said they fail to address the main issue, which, in his view, is the racial biases of the Police Department's leaders. "If you have a racist leadership who is never held responsible, nothing's going to happen," he said. "You're putting Band-Aids instead of fixing what the problem is."Shea has defended his department's record on race and diversity. He has pointed out that the department in the last six years has moved away from flawed strategies like "stop and frisk," which a judge found disproportionately affected black and Hispanic residents and ruled unconstitutional. They have also steadily reduced arrests and summonses.Detective Yuseff Hamm, the former president of the NYPD Guardians Association, a group of about 1,000 black police officers, said the killing of Floyd had eroded the progress that black leaders in the department, like Chief Jeffrey Maddrey in Brooklyn, have made in creating a positive image of policing in black and brown neighborhoods."We have to make up ground that we previously had and lost, to get people interested again in becoming police officers," he said.Detective Felicia Richards, the current president of the NYPD Guardians, said the visibility of black officers had been important in keeping the peace at the protests. "Kids who look like me need to know they are secured," she said. "This protest is as much about us as it is about them."But sometimes visibility makes officers targets for abuse. During a protest earlier this month outside Trump International Hotel in Columbus Circle, a young black woman saw a black police commander wearing a white shirt and raised her voice to get his attention."Hey, you, Uncle Tom! When are you leaving your master's house!" she shouted over and over again, using an epithet for black people accused of appeasing whites.The police official glared at the heckler before shifting his gaze, his face a rigid mask showing no emotion.Other protesters have seemed to ignore the possibility black officers might be sympathetic to their cause. On another night, two black officers tried to get protesters to move from the street onto the sidewalk in front of the Barclays Center. A white woman gave one of them a hard time, but he remained polite.Then a white man walked up behind him and yelled, "He wants to stomp on your neck and kill you!" The officer flashed a look of exasperation before turning around and asking the woman, again, to move toward the sidewalk.Other protesters have tried to make black officers feel guilty, suggesting they are insufficiently upset about Floyd. "They'll say, 'How do you feel if it was your child? If that was your husband or that was your father?'" Faison, in Queens, said. "It's not about a side. I experience the same pain that you experience."Officer Oriade Harbor, 38, a transgender black man assigned to Police Headquarters, said that even though he often speaks out against what he sees as social injustice, when he does police work he is still seen as "part of a system that is oppressive to black people.""People treat me different in uniform, because they only see the uniform," he said. He added, "At the end of the day I am a black person who dons a blue uniform. I am a trans male. I walk in all of these worlds."This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2020 The New York Times Company
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| Nazis used red triangles to mark political prisoners. That symbol is why Facebook banned a Donald Trump reelection campaign ad. Posted: 18 Jun 2020 05:07 PM PDT  Political prisoners filled Nazi concentration camps, and they were marked with red triangles. Learn the history of the symbol.
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| US employers step up anti-unionization efforts as pandemic spurs activism Posted: 18 Jun 2020 03:45 AM PDT  The coronavirus crisis is making organization efforts difficult for unions and bosses seem keen to take advantageDuring the coronavirus pandemic, employers have opposed unionization elections even as workers' activism over safety protections, job security and wages has increased in the face of an economic shutdown and health fears.But the pandemic has created difficult conditions for workers to organize elections in – something many employers appear to have taken advantage of, despite the wave of labor activism sweeping the US.The number of resolved union election cases at the National Labor Relations Board dropped from 84 in March 2020 to 13 in April 2020 as the pandemic raged. Several of the delayed union elections then had petitions withdrawn or have yet to be scheduled. During the pandemic, union election petitions have declined significantly. According to the NLRB, union representation case intake in April 2020 decreased by 67.6% compared with April 2019.The NLRB initially froze all union elections, while permitting mail-in ballot elections if employers and workers agreed to proceed. The board lifted the freeze on 6 April, after 116 union elections were delayed, and several other groups of workers had petition hearings postponed.For many workers, the need to have a union has never been greater.Monica Luna, an associate at a T-Mobile retail store in Del Rio, Texas for nearly three years, filed for a union election with the NLRB in April 2020 in response to working conditions during the pandemic and the lack of job security as T-Mobile is shuttering stores around the US."A week and a half after, our district manager started making appearances and we started having union avoidance meetings," said Luna.Her retail store remained opened entirely throughout the pandemic, yet her pay of $13 an hour remained the same. "I think it's funny [that] all of a sudden we're trying to form a union, and the district manager showed up and stayed for the week, was buying us food, giving his opinion regarding the union, trying to give us facts, saying if we didn't pay dues we could get fired."A T-Mobile spokesperson said in an email: "We as a company have the right to educate our employees about the facts around union representation so they can make informed decisions."The Communications Workers of America lost the election. Organizer Tim Dubnau put the defeat down to the anti-union meetings and frequent intervention from the district manager, while organizers were unable to meet with workers due to concerns of spreading the virus.Activists and labor unions and several elected officials in Congress have been pushing for the NLRB to develop procedures to hold union elections electronically, citing employer opposition to mail-in ballot elections and the urgency of safety protections for workers who risk exposure to coronavirus.As union elections resumed during the pandemic, several employers have continued to oppose unionization efforts through captive audience meetings and pushes to postpone or delay elections.Mission hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, has been fighting with nurses working to join National Nurses United, with the hospital pushing for an in-person voting election and to expand the bargaining unit from 1,600 nurses to all nurses, nurse practitioners and nurse anesthetists in the county.The hospital has also argued to postpone the election until after the pandemic, while hiring union avoidance consultants, the Crossroads Group, to hold anti-union meetings with workers and managers through the pandemic."We're still waiting for the NLRB to announce who will be able to vote and when and how the vote will take place," said Sarah Kuhl, a registered nurse at Mission Health's oncology department.Kuhl noted the hospital is still pushing for an in-person election vote, while anti-union meetings continue, and management distributes anti-union flyers. "Our cases of Covid-19 here in Asheville are increasing and staff members have been impacted, so an in-person vote would be irresponsible to patients and staff."A Mission hospital spokesperson told the Guardian: "We respect every colleague's right to decide for themselves whether they desire union representation or not. However, we do not believe unions benefit our facilities, our colleagues, and most importantly our patients."Rose Turner, organizing director at UFCW local 1529, filed a petition for a union election in Byhalia, Mississippi, as soon as the board lifted the election freeze on 6 April to represent workers at Hearthside Food Solutions, the largest private bakery in the US which packages cereal for Kellogg's.Immediately following the petition filing, Hearthside hired a union avoidance firm to hold regular meetings with workers to deter them from voting for the union. The vote was scheduled to be held via mail-in ballot due to the pandemic, but Hearthside Food Solutions pushed to hold a manual election and the NLRB agreed.The union won the election in a 62 to 47 vote."I've been with the union for over 30 years. That was the hardest election I ever experienced," said Turner, citing the difficulty for the union to hold meetings and speak to workers ahead of the vote. "In the end, we prevailed."Epic Academy College Prep and Hearthside Food Solutions did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
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| Sen. Tim Scott Declares ‘We Are Not a Racist Country,’ Argues Dems’ Focus on Race Obstructs Police Reform Posted: 17 Jun 2020 11:13 AM PDT  While unveiling the Republican police reform bill on Wednesday, Senator Tim Scott said that the U.S. is "not a racist country" and criticized Democrats for what he saw as their relentless focus on race, advocating a discrete approach to policy solutions designed to address police brutality.Scott, the Senate's only black Republican, remarked in a press conference held to unveil the legislation that "some people enjoy talking about systemic racism" and "want to define everything from a racist perspective.""We don't spend time on the definition of a word, but we spend time on the definition of the problem and the definition of the solution," the South Carolina senator said, adding that Americans are often given the "false, binary choice" of backing either black Americans or law enforcement."I don't know how to tell people the nation is not racist. I'll try again: we are not a racist country," Scott said. "We deal with racism because there is racism in the country. Both are true, not mutually exclusive."The GOP police-reform bill, dubbed the Justice Act, would provide incentives for police departments to ban choke holds, strengthen reporting requirements for departments to disclose when an officer's use of force results in death or serious injury, fund more police body cameras, and mandate that the Justice Department come up with guidelines for deescalating police encounters, among other reforms. The bill also makes lynching a federal hate crime and establishes a commission to examine the social situation of black men and boys in the country."I don't worry about the definitions that people want to use, it's good for headlines, but it's really bad for policy. We're going to focus on getting something done," Scott concluded at the press conference.President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday encouraging police officers to limit the use of deadly force in the line of duty. The order detailed the administration's initiatives to encourage high standards for use of force, track officer misconduct, and bring in social workers and mental health professionals when responding to certain emergency calls.Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell promised Wednesday to take up the Republican bill quickly and encouraged Democrats to lend it their support. Democrats in both legislative chambers have meanwhile criticized the GOP bill, saying it does not include enough reforms for them to back it. House Democrats have introduced a separate police reform bill that McConnell said he will not bring to the floor should it reach the Senate.
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| Draft UN resolution calls for three aid crossings to Syria Posted: 18 Jun 2020 10:15 PM PDT |
| Mark Zuckerberg just got called out by more than 70 employees of his philanthropic initiative who are demanding the charity make big changes to combat systemic racism Posted: 18 Jun 2020 10:39 AM PDT  The rare activism within a major charity comes days after Zuckerberg-funded scientists slammed his inaction on controversial Trump Facebook posts.
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| Galwan Valley: The soldiers killed in the India-China border clash Posted: 18 Jun 2020 04:02 PM PDT  BBC Hindi speaks to five families from the eastern state of Bihar who lost loved ones in the clash.
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| Look at the facts in the Rayshard Brooks case. The George Floyd killing was different. Posted: 18 Jun 2020 04:02 AM PDT  There is no shortage of police misconduct due to racism. But claiming it where it may not exist weakens the righteous cause of stamping it out.
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| Trump describes coronavirus testing as 'overrated' and calls for less if virus reemerges Posted: 18 Jun 2020 11:18 AM PDT  Trump's decision to blame increases in coronavirus cases on testing is likely to be a central theme in how he explains his handling of the crisis this year.
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| Washington state mayor says Black Lives Matter movement is ‘domestic terrorism’ after her home was vandalized Posted: 18 Jun 2020 08:32 AM PDT  Mayor Cheryl Selby of Olympia, Washington, is now calling the Black Lives Matter moment 'domestic terrorism' after her home was vandalized.
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| Virginia State Senator Jennifer McClellan Launches Bid to Become First Black Female Governor Posted: 18 Jun 2020 04:00 AM PDT  Virginia state Sen. Jennifer McClellan announced on Thursday that she will run for governor in 2021, becoming the latest candidate to join the Democratic primary well over a year before the election, with a focus on combating racial injustice. "We're at a critical moment in Virginia where we have to recover from four crises happening at the same time: a health pandemic, an economic crisis, a reckoning with racial injustice, and a growing lack of faith in people in government's ability to solve problems," McClellan told The Daily Beast in an interview ahead of her announcement.McClellan, 47, is hoping to make history with her bid. If elected, she would be the nation's first Black female governor. After a series of victories for women in the 2018 midterm elections, the country has yet to elevate a Black woman to the governor's mansion."Part of what worries me is addressing the symbolic: confederate monuments and Lost Cause iconography and homages to white supremacy, yes we need to remove them, but that cannot be the final step," McClellan said. "If we are not willing to address the systemic inequity across all of our systems, we will never move forward. And we will never heal from 400 years of trauma inflicted on Black people."In a two-minute launch video detailing her candidacy, McClellan evoked the words of a civil rights icon: "Across Virginia, people are echoing the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: 'Where do we go from here?'" she said in the spot. "As we confront a pandemic, racial injustice, a changing world, our hearts have broken. We've felt frightened. Outraged. Inspired. We've looked to the future for a brighter day.""I know that this is not a moment to retreat to the past, but to step boldly into our future. We must rebuild our economy stronger, more inclusive, without leaving people behind," she says. "When we've faced the challenges of our time and the painful legacy of our past together, we've transformed challenges into opportunities and pain into action. I've led that kind of progress in the legislature. I'm running for governor to keep leading progress into our future."McClellan has led state-level civil rights initiatives for over a decade. Representing the greater Richmond area, she currently serves as vice chair of the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus and chair of the Virginia Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Commission, along with several other task forces related to racial justice. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta, a historically Black sorority, and the Black History Museum. She previously served as vice chair for the Virginia Democratic Party.Reflecting on what informed her decision to launch a potentially historic bid, McClellan spoke about her great grandparents. Her great grandfather, she recalled, needed to pass a literacy test and have three white people vouch for him to be able to register to vote. "To think about all of the progress made throughout my family, to think about that I could be the governor of the former capital of the Confederacy, I can't help but think about the arc of the moral universe," she said. "It does bend towards justice but it needs help from people. And all of the progress that we have made has been as a result of people pushing for that progress."McClellan joins a small field of declared Democratic gubernatorial candidates, including Jennifer Carroll Foy, a state delegate, Justin Fairfax, the state's lieutenant governor, both of whom are Black, and Mark Herring, the state's attorney general.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet 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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| Indian families demand justice as they await bodies of soldiers killed in clash with China Posted: 18 Jun 2020 01:38 AM PDT  In their last phone conversation, Neha Ojha, the wife of an Indian soldier, said she laughed off her husband's idea to name their daughter Snow White because he received the news of her birth while patrolling a snow-covered valley on the border with China. Sixteen hours later, Ojha was informed that her husband was among 20 soldiers killed by Chinese troops in the disputed Galwan Valley. The Indian army on Thursday began handing over the bodies of the soldiers killed in the fight - the worst clash in over half a century between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
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| At Least 20 Indian Army Soldiers Killed in Face-off with Chinese Troops in Ladakh’s Galwan Valley Posted: 17 Jun 2020 01:00 PM PDT  A dangerous escalation between two nuclear powers.
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| Colombian army rescues abducted Swiss and Brazilian tourists Posted: 18 Jun 2020 08:53 PM PDT  The Swiss and Brazilian tourists were kidnapped by dissidents from the former Farc rebel movement.
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| The deaths of George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks have soured the already strained relationship between Black people and the police Posted: 18 Jun 2020 08:38 PM PDT  The retired professor Delores Jones-Brown says her husband's motto is,"Don't call the police to this house unless somebody's dying."
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| ‘He’s now showing us every day what we have to lose’: Rep. James Clyburn on Trump’s Tulsa rally Posted: 17 Jun 2020 02:14 PM PDT  South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn tells Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff that President Trump's decision to hold a rally in Tulsa on the day after the 99th anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre, one of the worst examples of racial violence in United States history, should send a message to Black men who voted for Trump in 2016.
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| U.S. slaps sanctions on Mexican firms, individuals linked to Venezuelan oil trade Posted: 18 Jun 2020 11:43 AM PDT  The United States on Thursday blacklisted Mexico's Libre Abordo and a related company, accusing them of helping Caracas evade U.S. sanctions in the first formal action by the U.S. Treasury Department against Mexican firms involved in trading Venezuelan oil. The Treasury said in a statement it imposed sanctions on three individuals, eight entities and two vessels for activities related to a network attempting to skirt U.S. sanctions on Venezuela aimed at ousting President Nicolas Maduro.
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| Bath Iron Works shipbuilders are on the verge of striking Posted: 18 Jun 2020 12:17 PM PDT  The largest union at U.S. Navy shipbuilder Bath Iron Works begins voting Friday on a contract proposal that was unanimously rejected by its negotiating committee, raising the possibility of the first strike in 20 years.
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| Fox News Analyst Peddles False ‘Bleach’ Claim About Cops’ Drinks Posted: 18 Jun 2020 02:57 PM PDT  Fox News political analyst Gianno Caldwell on Thursday pushed the false narrative that restaurant employees have intentionally poisoned police officers, likely referencing an infamous claim that was debunked by the New York Police Department.During an appearance on Fox News' Your World with Neil Cavuto, Caldwell, who is Black, was asked by anchor Neil Cavuto about the growing push to make Juneteenth a national holiday, something Caldwell said he supported."Honestly what people don't know is that Juneteeth was established by Republicans," he added. "As we all know, Lincoln freed the slaves. So I absolutely support that."Cavuto then contrasted the current move to be "more conscious" of social and racial justice issues with the recent Atlanta police "sick-out," wondering aloud if "we are treating all sides fairly here."After saying that he supported police reform and highlighting the fact that the majority of Americans agree, Caldwell expressed concern that law enforcement was being unnecessarily targeted."I'm reminded of an incident in a restaurant where somebody put bleach in some drinks that officers were drinking," he said. "It is very, very disappointing. Because that is not where we really get a true reform."It is unclear which specific alleged incident Caldwell was referencing, but he was most likely referring to the incident earlier this week in which three NYPD officers claimed that Shake Shack employees put a bleach-like substance in their milkshakes. This prompted the local police unions to baselessly assert that the restaurant's employees "intentionally poisoned" the cops. Hours after the claims emerged, however, the NYPD cleared the workers and restaurant of any criminal wrongdoing. Despite that, some Fox News stars continued to push the false narrative online—even after the chief NYPD detective publicly debunked it.And Caldwell is no stranger to dropping baseless speculation or allegations into his on-air analysis. Earlier this month, after Attorney General William Barr said that he'd seen evidence that "antifa and other similar extremist groups" had instigated violence during protests—though no anti-fascists have yet been charged—Caldwell referenced conservatives' favorite bogeyman while going down a conspiratorial rabbit hole."Is it George Soros that's helped fund some of the operations?" Caldwell asked at the time. "If it is, and if antifa is declared a domestic terrorism group, would he possibly face some charges because of his association with it? It's any number of things that could absolutely come up with A.G. Barr."After publication, Caldwell took to Twitter to apologize for his remarks, acknowledging that the New York police found no wrongdoing in the case."Earlier today, I referenced a claim regarding an attack on law enforcement officers while at a restaurant," he wrote. "I apologize to our viewers as I was not fully knowledgeable on the incident. This claim was investigated and there was no criminal wrongdoing found, I regret this error."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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| NATO probes France-Turkey naval incident Posted: 18 Jun 2020 11:19 AM PDT  NATO said Thursday it has launched an official investigation into a naval incident in the Mediterranean between alliance members France and Turkey that has infuriated Paris. France has complained vehemently about the incident in which it says one of its ships was subjected to radar targeting by Turkish frigates as it sought to inspect a cargo vessel suspected of carrying arms to Libya. The incident is the latest flare-up in tensions between France and Turkey, which have clashed over Ankara's military operation in Syria and more recently over their roles in Libya's civil war.
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| 'It got ugly': What happened when Black Lives Matter protests came to small town Ohio Posted: 18 Jun 2020 09:01 AM PDT  In Bethel, Ohio, peaceful protesters were seen by some as no different than looters. Here, the protesters' message was a challenge to a way of life.
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| Bernie Sanders criticises Republican policing bill and says ‘we need to abolish qualified immunity’ Posted: 18 Jun 2020 02:42 PM PDT  Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has criticised the proposed Republican police reform bill, and has demanded the end to qualified immunity.On Wednesday, Republican senators announced a new bill that aims to reform police forces in the US, amid mass protests in response to the death of George Floyd, who died after being detained by a Minneapolis police officer.
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| Coronavirus Beijing: Why an outbreak sparked a salmon panic in China Posted: 18 Jun 2020 03:46 AM PDT  Beijing is seeing a rise in virus cases - but is frozen salmon really the cause?
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| Man arrested in shooting of eight people outside San Antonio bar Posted: 18 Jun 2020 08:18 PM PDT  All of the victims are expected to survive. The shooting happened after a group was denied entry to a bar because they were inebriated.
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| Revival Rugs Launches Debut Furniture Collection Posted: 18 Jun 2020 12:32 PM PDT |
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