| Trump snubs former EPA chief Pruitt in Tulsa visit Posted: 19 Jun 2020 07:58 AM PDT  When President Trump comes to Tulsa on Saturday for his first campaign event since the coronavirus shutdown, one person won't be there: Tulsa's own Scott Pruitt.
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| Pompeo says way U.S. treats Hong Kong depends on how China does Posted: 19 Jun 2020 09:47 AM PDT  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday the United States would in future treat Hong Kong as a Chinese city rather than an autonomous one to the extent that China treats the territory as a Chinese city. Pompeo told the online Copenhagen Democracy Summit that elections due in Hong Kong in September would "tell us everything that we need to know about the Chinese Communist Party's intentions with respect to freedom in Hong Kong."
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| Bolton could still face charges for tell-all book on Trump, experts say Posted: 18 Jun 2020 03:33 PM PDT  On Wednesday, the Trump administration took former national security adviser John Bolton to court in a last-ditch attempt to halt the June 23 publication of his memoir "The Room Where It Happened."
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| The officer accused of killing Rayshard Brooks was moved to a different jail over security concerns Posted: 19 Jun 2020 11:19 AM PDT  Garrett Rolfe, who was scheduled to appear in court today, has moved correctional facilities due to security concerns.
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| Galwan Valley: The fake news about India and China's border clash Posted: 19 Jun 2020 08:48 AM PDT  With feelings running high between the two Asian nations, plenty of misleading content has been shared.
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| North Carolina protesters tear down Confederate statue and hang it by the neck from a post Posted: 19 Jun 2020 07:54 PM PDT  Protesters in North Carolina's capital pulled down parts of a Confederate monument Friday on night and hanged one of the toppled statues from a light post. Demonstrators used a strap to pull down two statues of Confederate soldiers that were part of a larger obelisk near the state capitol in downtown Raleigh, news outlets reported. Police officers earlier in the evening had foiled the protesters' previous attempt to use ropes to topple the statues. But after the officers cleared the area, protesters mounted the obelisk and were able to take down the statues. They then dragged the statues down a street and used a rope to hang one of the figures by its neck from a light post. The other statue was dragged to the Wake County courthouse, according to the News & Observer.
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| EU extends Russian sanctions over Ukraine: Merkel Posted: 19 Jun 2020 06:34 AM PDT  The European Union has agreed to extend punishing sanctions against Russia over the conflict in Ukraine by six months, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday. The measures over Russia's role in the conflict were first imposed after Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine in 2014 and have been renewed every six months ever since. Germany and France have repeatedly sought to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine.
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| Factbox: China's new national security proposals for Hong Kong riddled with uncertainty Posted: 19 Jun 2020 01:29 AM PDT  China's plans to impose new national security laws on Hong Kong are raising widespread fears the legislation could lead to profound changes in the former British colony. WILL MAINLAND CHINA'S POWERFUL SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES BE ABLE TO TAKE ENFORCEMENT ACTION IN THE CITY? The initial resolution of the National People's Congress raises the prospect that officers from such agencies could be based in the city for the first time if needed on national security cases.
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| In US Military First, the Air Force has Picked a Woman as Top Enlisted Leader Posted: 19 Jun 2020 11:14 AM PDT  Bass emerged as "the consensus choice from more than a dozen finalists from across the Air Force's global operation."
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| Maryland police chief latest to face reckoning amid protests Posted: 19 Jun 2020 01:06 PM PDT  A Maryland police chief resigned this week within hours of a court filing that portrayed his department, one of the state's largest, as an agency poisoned by a racist culture. A complaint cited by the filing said a Prince George's County police sergeant had a personalized license plate with an acronym for a vulgarity directed at President Barack Obama. A lieutenant derided Black Lives Matter protesters in comments quoted in a New York Times article.
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| McEnany says she will not wear a face mask at Trump’s Tulsa rally Posted: 19 Jun 2020 11:31 AM PDT  At a press conference on Friday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany says she will not wear a face mask at President Trump's campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla., on Saturday. The CDC recommends that adults wear face coverings to stop the spread of coronavirus.
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| Mexican president says he ordered last year's release of 'El Chapo's' son Posted: 19 Jun 2020 05:24 PM PDT  The bungled operation was seen as indisputable evidence that criminal gangs hold the upper hand in Culiacán and across broad swaths of Mexico.
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| Chick-fil-A CEO urged white people to take action against racism and said he does not blame looters after multiple locations were damaged last week Posted: 19 Jun 2020 09:39 AM PDT  The CEO said that a dozen Chick-fil-A restaurants had been vandalized in the last week, but urged white people not to place a blame on the vandals.
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| China Returns Ten Captured Soldiers as Indian Military Weighs Response to Border Clash Posted: 19 Jun 2020 10:32 AM PDT  China returned ten captured soldiers to India on Friday following deadly clashes between the two nations' militaries in the Himalayan border region, the Wall Street Journal reported.Two senior Indian officials told the Journal that China had released the captured soldiers unharmed, although the Indian military refused to publicly confirm or deny the action. India's defense establishment is reportedly weighing a response to the clashes in which 20 Indian soldiers were killed, although such a move has not yet been approved."Nobody is talking of a full-blown war or conflict but China needs to be unequivocally told that India is not a pushover, militarily or otherwise," a source told the Times of India. "It cannot keep on unilaterally changing the status quo in the border areas and nibbling away at our territory."The fight occurred in Ladakh, a region of Kashmir in the Himalayan mountains that is the subject of a long-running territorial dispute between India, China, and Pakistan."Both China and India are going to continue building up their presence on the border," Zack Cooper, a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute specializing in China, told National Review. "But China starts in a much stronger position because they have invested in the logistical infrastructure to move in large units much more quickly."The clashes on Monday evening saw Chinese and Indian soldiers fighting with rocks, fists, and clubs wrapped in barbed wire. India reported over 70 injured soldiers in addition to 20 killed, while China has not disclosed if its troops suffered any casualties.Agreements between China and India forbid soldiers manning the border to carry firearms, and there have been no deaths in clashes between the two militaries since 1975. Previous clashes in 1962 led to the Sino-Indian War of that year.Protests against China have flared up across India following the latest confrontation, with demonstrators calling to boycott Chinese goods."There is a lot of anger among Indians after the violent face-off killed our soldiers," Shahnawaz Hussain, a spokesman for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, told the Journal. "We are a responsible nation, but in a democracy people have their rights to express displeasure and anguish."
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| 'Whitewashed and erased': There's a reason Juneteenth isn't taught in schools, educators say Posted: 18 Jun 2020 02:04 PM PDT  Educators said the history of systemic racism in this country and the contributions of Black people have been erased.
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| Media lauds Biden's 'fiery' message to Trump Posted: 19 Jun 2020 08:03 PM PDT  Raymond Arroyo breaks down Joe Biden's confusing campaign messaging during Friday Follies on 'The Ingraham Angle.'
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| Breonna Taylor: Louisville officer to be fired for deadly force use Posted: 19 Jun 2020 05:47 PM PDT  The police chief accused the officer of "blindly" firing into Breonna Taylor's apartment.
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| Police die enforcing Latin America's strictest lockdown as Peru's futile strategy unravels Posted: 19 Jun 2020 01:10 AM PDT  When Peru introduced one of Latin America's strictest lockdowns, national police brigadier David Rodriguez was sent to the streets of Lima to enforce the new guidelines. Just one month later the 55 year-old was struggling to breathe in the police clinic, pleading desperately on social media to be moved to an intensive care unit and for more oxygen. He died shortly after. "They're the ones sent out to protect others from the virus and they end up infected themselves," his daughter Krystell Rodriguez told The Telegraph. According to the country's interior minister, nearly 10,000 police officers have contracted Covid-19 on duty in the country and 170 have died. The numbers not only present a grim picture of Peru's futile fight against Covid-19, but also the tragedy at the heart of the surging crisis in Latin America, the global epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic.
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| Trump crowd, protesters verbally clash ahead of rally Posted: 19 Jun 2020 07:45 AM PDT  Supporters and detractors of President Donald Trump continued to gather Friday in Tulsa, where Trump is scheduled to take the stage for the first of his signature rallies during the coronavirus pandemic. Oklahoma's Supreme Court on Friday rejected a request to require everyone attending Trump's rally in a 19,000-seat arena to wear a face mask and maintain social distancing inside the arena to guard against the spread of the coronavirus.
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| Turkish court rules Kurdish leader's jailing violated rights Posted: 18 Jun 2020 11:06 PM PDT  Turkey's Constitutional Court has ruled that the lengthy jailing of a former head of Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party violated his rights, a decision published on Friday showed, but he was not expected to be released due to a separate investigation. Selahattin Demirtas, one of Turkey's best known politicians, has been in jail since November 2016 on terrorism-related charges. Prosecutors then launched a new investigation into him and requested his arrest again after the lifting of the previous detention order.
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| 'At a loss about what they're supposed to do': Police take on their own kind of protest Posted: 19 Jun 2020 10:17 AM PDT  As the national movement for police reform and racial justice grows, more police push back, saying the public has painted them with too broad a brush.
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| How A Chinese Basketball Star Got China Its First Aircraft Carrier Posted: 19 Jun 2020 02:00 AM PDT  Beijing did pay for the $20 million value of the carrier—but argued that it couldn't cover other costs because he lacked receipts.
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| In Cuba, families fear shortages will worsen as coronavirus affects the economy Posted: 19 Jun 2020 12:11 PM PDT  "We cannot choose. We buy whatever appears in the stores," said one Havana resident.
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| Imran Farooq: Three convicted for London murder of Pakistan exile Posted: 18 Jun 2020 10:59 PM PDT  A Pakistani court hands down life sentences to three men accused of killing Imran Farooq
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| Al-Qaeda North Africa confirms chief is dead: SITE Posted: 18 Jun 2020 04:24 PM PDT  Al-Qaeda's North Africa wing has confirmed that its Algerian chief Abdelmalek Droukdel is dead, according to SITE, the US watchdog for extremist groups. France said early this month that its forces killed Droukdel in northern Mali near the Algerian border, where it says the group has bases it uses to carry out bombings and abductions of Westerners. "After nearly two weeks, AQIM (Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) has officially acknowledged the death of its long time leader Droukdel (Wadud), with a video eulogy narrated by AQIM's head of media, pledging continued battles against occupying French forces and others in N. Africa and the Sahel," SITE director Rita Katz said Thursday on her Twitter account.
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| The WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic 100 days ago. In a little over 3 months, the virus has left devastation in its wake and doesn't show signs of stopping yet. Posted: 19 Jun 2020 11:02 PM PDT  As of June 19, the coronavirus has infected nearly 8.5 million people, and the death toll surpassed 450,000.
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| Trump's campaign manager didn't vote for Trump in 2016 Posted: 19 Jun 2020 03:29 PM PDT  Brad Parscale, the president's 2020 campaign manager, did not cast a ballot in the 2016 presidential election.
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| U.S. "not going to allow Russia and China to continue" increasing nuclear stockpiles, top negotiator says Posted: 19 Jun 2020 12:14 PM PDT  The U.S. is set to sit down with Russia and possibly China on Monday to discuss limiting all three countries' nuclear stockpiles. CBS News foreign affairs analyst Pamela Falk spoke to Ambassador Robert Wood, the U.S. top arms control negotiator, about his growing concerns over Russia and China's nuclear arsenals.
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| U.N. nuclear watchdog's board raises pressure on Iran over suspect sites Posted: 19 Jun 2020 01:52 AM PDT  The U.N. nuclear watchdog's 35-nation Board of Governors called on Iran on Friday to stop denying the agency access to two suspected former sites and to cooperate fully with it, diplomats attending the meeting said. A resolution, adopted in a vote called after China expressed opposition to it, raised pressure on Iran to let inspectors into the sites mentioned in two International Atomic Energy Agency reports because they could still host undeclared nuclear material or traces of it. The text of the resolution submitted by France, Britain and Germany and obtained by Reuters said the board "calls on Iran to fully cooperate with the Agency and satisfy the Agency's requests without any further delay, including by providing prompt access to the locations specified by the Agency."
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| India-China Himalayan standoff deadly for cashmere herds Posted: 18 Jun 2020 11:15 PM PDT  Antagonisms between Indian and Chinese troops high in the Himalayas are taking a dire toll on traditional goat herds that supply the world's finest, most expensive cashmere. This week, a deadly brawl between Indian and Chinese soldiers caused the deaths of at least 20 Indian soldiers in the Galwan Valley, an achingly beautiful landscape that is part of a border region that has been disputed for decades because of its strategic importance as the world's highest landing ground. The months-long military standoff between the Asian giants is hurting local communities due to the loss of tens of thousands of Himalayan goat kids died because they couldn't reach traditional winter grazing lands, officials and residents said.
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| Fact check: Images of witches, 'Amish' supposedly at Floyd protest are out of context Posted: 19 Jun 2020 09:09 AM PDT  Among the viral images of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests are misleading claims about groups that support the movement.
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| China's Population Growing Pains Are Its Biggest Challenge Posted: 18 Jun 2020 11:30 PM PDT  Government researchers have predicted that the world's largest population will peak at 1.4 billion people in 2029.
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| FBI use social media papertrail to charge Philadelphia protester with arson of two police cars Posted: 18 Jun 2020 02:08 PM PDT  A woman who allegedly set fire to two police cars during protests in Philadelphia was tracked down by the FBI using information from social media including Etsy, Instagram, and LinkedIn, reports have said.Prosecutors announced on Wednesday that Lore-Elisabeth Blumenthal had been charged with arson for allegedly setting two police cars alight amid George Floyd protests on 30 May.
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| 'Into The Wild' bus removed from Alaska wilderness Posted: 19 Jun 2020 02:24 AM PDT  Tourists hiking to the remote area to visit the bus were getting into difficulties, officials said.
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| Florida reports record-high spike in coronavirus cases and a 'plunging' median age of infection Posted: 19 Jun 2020 12:48 PM PDT  Despite the surge, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he wouldn't issue a statewide order requiring face masks.
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| 'Conservative' Supreme Court proves political bad news for Trump Posted: 19 Jun 2020 06:52 PM PDT  Just months before President Donald Trump stands for reelection, his central pitch to conservatives -- that he has remade the US justice system in their image -- is unravelling. Twice this week the Supreme Court dealt defeats on issues dear to Trump's supporters: it expanded equal protection rights to gay and transgender people, and sustained protections for certain undocumented immigrants that Trump had sought to end. In his three and a half years in office Trump has replaced two of the nine justices, seemingly tilting the high court to the right for years to come.
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| Favourite to succeed Merkel blames new coronavirus outbreak on migrant workers Posted: 19 Jun 2020 06:53 AM PDT  The favourite to succeed Angela Merkel as German chancellor has come under fire after he appeared to blame migrant workers from Romania and Bulgaria for a new coronavirus outbreak. There is growing concern in Germany over the outbreak among workers at a pig slaughterhouse, which has fuelled the largest daily increase in new infections the country has experienced in almost a month, with 770 cases recorded on Thursday alone. But Armin Laschet, currently regional prime minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, dismissed concerns the outbreak had been caused by his decision to lift the lockdown in the state. "It's got nothing to do with it. Romanians and Bulgarians entered the country and the virus has come from there," Mr Laschet told reporters on Thursday. After his remarks were seized on by political rivals, including the foreign minister, Heiko Maas, who called them "extremely dangerous", Mr Laschet hastily backtracked. "It is forbidden to blame people of any origin for the virus. I want to make clear that this goes without saying for me and for the entire state government," Mr Laschet said. The outbreak at the Tönnies slaughterhouse in Rheda-Wiedenbrück has so far been successfully contained. The German military has been drafted in to set up a testing centre, some 7,000 staff have been place under quarantine and the production has been shut down. Altogether, there have been 730 cases confirmed at the slaughterhouse, and it is believed to account for more than 300 of the 770 new infections recorded on Thursday alone.
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| Wounded, bruised protesters testify to decry New York City police violence Posted: 18 Jun 2020 01:35 PM PDT  Dana Kopel testified that New York City police kicked her in the jaw and bound her wrists so tightly with zipties her hands turned blue, leaving one hand numb with nerve damage weeks after she marched through the Bronx to protest the killing of George Floyd. Jeffrey Castillo displayed cuts on his knees, bruises on his arms and a scar on his shoulder he said was caused after six officers knocked him off his bike while he chanted against police violence in Manhattan's West Village. One by one, some of the protesters who have filled city streets since Floyd's death in Minneapolis police custody in May described being injured by New York Police Department officers at a virtual public hearing called by state Attorney General Letitia James, which spilled into a second day on Thursday.
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| Pelosi orders removal of portraits of Confederate predecessors Posted: 19 Jun 2020 09:00 AM PDT  The House will remove the portraits from the Capitol on Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S.
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| Professor who told student to 'anglicize' her name placed on leave Posted: 19 Jun 2020 02:08 PM PDT  "If I lived in Vietnam and my name in your language sounded like Eat a D---, I would change it to avoid embarrassment," the instructor allegedly wrote.
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