| Trump still struggling to articulate his agenda for a second term Posted: 10 Jul 2020 09:55 AM PDT  The president has been asked three times in the last two weeks to name his top priority items for a second term — and he has struggled to name them.
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| Seoul mayor's apparent suicide sends shock waves through South Korea Posted: 10 Jul 2020 04:39 AM PDT  News that the former activist, women's rights advocate and lawyer had apparently taken his own life has rocked South Korea's capital.
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| "It's going to happen again," says former New Zealand PM Clark tasked with WHO COVID-19 review Posted: 09 Jul 2020 07:01 PM PDT  New Zealand's former prime minister Helen Clark warned if the world remained "flat-footed" in its response to pandemics it faces future economic, social and political crisis, after she was appointed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to lead a review of the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. WHO announced late on Thursday that Clark and Liberia's former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will lead a panel scrutinising the global response. The COVID-19 outbreak originated in China in late 2019 and has infected a reported 12.16 million people globally and 550,242 have died, according to a Reuters tally.
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| US student visas: 'A lot of people I know are scared for the future' Posted: 09 Jul 2020 01:12 PM PDT  The US said some visas could be revoked because of coronavirus, leaving students confused and uncertain.
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| Militants kill BJP politician Wasim Bari and his family in Kashmir Posted: 08 Jul 2020 07:58 PM PDT  A Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party politician was killed along with his brother and father in Indian administered Kashmir, officials said on Thursday. Wasim Bari, 38, and his family were attacked by militants at his residence in north Kashmir's Bandipora district on Wednesday night. All three were shot at point-blank range and died on the way to hospital. Authorities have arrested all 11 police personnel who were guarding him for dereliction of duties. Mr Bari's residence is a few meters away from the police station. This is the first attack on BJP workers in Kashmir after abrogation of Article 370 on August 5, 2019, when India stripped off the disputed region's autonomy. The killing of Mr Bari, who is survived by his wife and sister, has sent shock waves across political circles in Kashmir. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has condemned the attack.
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| Twitter billionaire Jack Dorsey just announced he will be funding a universal basic income experiment that could affect up to 7 million people Posted: 09 Jul 2020 02:58 PM PDT  Jack Dorsey's fellow Silicon Valley billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg think a universal basic income could help poor Americans, too.
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| A Naked-Eye Comet Is Soaring Through the Sky—Here's How to See It Posted: 08 Jul 2020 11:37 AM PDT  These things don't come around very often.
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| Australia offers safe haven to Hong Kongers, sparking China fury Posted: 09 Jul 2020 04:42 AM PDT  Australia offered pathways to permanent residency for thousands of people from Hong Kong on Thursday in response to China's crackdown on dissent, drawing a furious reply from Beijing. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said his government was suspending its extradition agreement with the city and, in addition to extending the visas of 10,000 Hong Kongers already in the country, threw open the door to thousands more wanting to start a new life Down Under. Morrison said the decisions were taken in response to China's imposition last week of a tough new security law in Hong Kong, which he said "constitutes a fundamental change of circumstances" for the semi-autonomous territory.
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| Trump: Doctors Were ‘Very Surprised’ I ‘Aced’ Cognitive Test Posted: 09 Jul 2020 08:20 PM PDT  President Donald Trump boasted on Thursday night about a cognitive test he took during a Walter Reed physical, telling Fox News host Sean Hannity that doctors were "very surprised" that he "aced" it while calling on former Vice President Joe Biden to take the same test.Calling in to close confidant Hannity's primetime program, both the president and the Fox News star began openly questioning Biden's mental fitness and suggesting he is suffering from cognitive decline.After Hannity aired a montage of selectively edited clips to characterize Biden as senile, and Trump described the former vice president as "brainwashed," the conservative host brought up Biden's recent claim that he "can hardly wait" to test his cognitive capability against Trump's."Now he apparently says that he has many cognitive tests," Hannity said. "He's tested all the time, cognitively. Maybe he'll release those records and maybe he'll release his medical records."(For the record, Biden said he's "been tested and I'm constantly tested," and that all anyone has to do is "watch me," suggesting he means that the real world tests him.)Hannity wondered aloud if Biden has been trying to figure out a way to avoid debating the president, a recent right-wing talking point that has gained steam recently, prompting Trump to say "yes" before going on a tangent."But he meant the COVID tests. He didn't mean cognitive. He meant COVID," Trump declared.After Hannity insisted Biden said "cognitive," Trump continued to argue that the ex-veep meant coronavirus tests—Biden has said he hadn't taken a COVID-19 test yet—but that Biden was "confused by the question and the words and everything else but he didn't take a cognitive test because he couldn't pass one."The president went on to say that he took a cognitive test "very recently" in order to prove to those questioning his mental acuity that he was "all there." (It appears Trump is talking about the Montreal Cognitive Assessment he took during his 2018 physical exam, which he passed.)"I proved I was all there because I aced it," Trump bellowed. "I aced the test and he should take the same exact test. A very standard test.""I took it at Walter Reed, a medical center, in front of doctors, and they were very surprised," he continued. "They said, that's an unbelievable thing. Rarely does anybody do what you just did. But he should take that same test."The president would go on to say that Biden "has been totally taken over" and it's "because he doesn't understand what's going on" before once again claiming that Biden "wants to get out of the debates."Last month, the Biden campaign announced that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee would be participating in the three scheduled presidential debates this fall.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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| ‘Disappointed and outraged.’ Black Lives Matter murals defaced across US, photos show Posted: 08 Jul 2020 04:07 PM PDT  "This is a reminder that if white folks can't give us a small mural on a side street in Oak Park, they won't be able to give up much," a Chicago organizer said.
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| 'Scared for my life' but needing a salary: Teachers weigh risks of COVID-19 Posted: 09 Jul 2020 10:34 AM PDT  For teachers, the question is stark: Is the risk of catching COVID-19 worth continuing in a profession many love and need to fund retirement plans?
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| The first trials to figure out if coronavirus vaccines work are starting in the US, and scientists are looking for thousands of volunteers. Here's how to sign up. Posted: 09 Jul 2020 08:54 AM PDT  The US is seeking tens of thousands of people to test experimental coronavirus vaccines. Here's how to volunteer.
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| California mother asks for help in finding teen daughter missing since October Posted: 09 Jul 2020 12:34 PM PDT  An Amador County mother is desperately searching for her missing 17-year-old daughter after she disappeared at the end of last year.
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| Fox News host Tucker Carlson accused of echoing white supremacist slogan on air Posted: 09 Jul 2020 02:07 PM PDT  Fox News host Tucker Carlson has been accused of echoing a 14-word white supremacist phrase during one of his on-air segments.During a segment on his Monday evening show, Mr Carlson showed side-by-side images of Representative Ilhan Omar and Senator Tammy Duckworth, both of whom are Democrats on Capitol Hill and were born overseas.
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| Israel looked like a model for halting coronavirus. Here's how it 'lost its bearings.' Posted: 09 Jul 2020 01:31 AM PDT  "It has been several weeks since Israel's compass for handling the pandemic has lost its bearings," wrote the public health director in her resignation.
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| CEO apologizes after racist rant targeting Asian American family Posted: 08 Jul 2020 03:42 PM PDT  The executive from San Francisco is seen on video yelling racial slurs and expletives before a waiter tells him to leave.
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| An Austin police officer appeared to grope a woman's breast after pulling her over for a traffic violation Posted: 09 Jul 2020 11:44 AM PDT  The Austin Police Department defended the officer's conduct, saying he followed the department's regulations and that no female officer was available.
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| US to start Cyprus military training, defying Turkey Posted: 08 Jul 2020 01:18 PM PDT  The United States said Wednesday it plans to conduct military training with Cyprus for the first time, defying NATO ally Turkey, which warned of destabilization. The US Congress last year ended a decades-long arms embargo on the island, whose northern third is occupied by Turkey. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the State Department for the first time will fund military training for the Republic of Cyprus as part of "our expanding security relationship."
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| Houston cancels plan to host Texas Republican convention Posted: 08 Jul 2020 05:03 PM PDT  The city's mayor made the decision because of health risks from coronavirus, which is hitting Texas particularly hard.
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| US universities are charging full fees for 'virtual' class this fall. This is absurd Posted: 10 Jul 2020 01:30 AM PDT  Schools with huge endowments are pretending remote learning is the same experience. Give students a break Colleges and universities are in an unprecedented bind. Coronavirus continues to rage in many parts of America, making the sort of communal gatherings that are hallmarks of collegiate life outright dangerous. Lecture halls, libraries, football games and dorm-room parties can all be superspreader events.Some educational institutions have already declared that almost the entire academic year will occur remotely, while others are forging on with in-person learning. Two of the schools I teach at, NYU and St Joseph's College in Brooklyn, are attempting the latter, which will carry its own risks, depending on how New York City progresses in its continuing battle to keep infection rates low.For schools that have decided against most in-person instruction, the caution exercised is understandable. The University of California system, Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Rutgers have all declared that the bulk of their course offerings will be online. But about 60% of schools nationwide are still planning an in-person start to the year.What they all aren't doing is reducing tuition, even though a significant portion of the value these educational institutions provide is now lost indefinitely. Only Princeton has offered a 10% price cut. Harvard, with its $40bn endowment, is still charging full tuition. So are Rutgers and the University of California schools, both public universities.Though they charge less than private institutions, Rutgers or a University of California school aren't cheap. In-state students at California public universities still pay about $14,000 a year to attend. At Rutgers, in New Jersey, in-state students pay a little more than $12,000. (At both schools, out-of-state tuition is far higher, more than $40,000 and $30,000 respectively.)Remote learning, no matter how well-intentioned, is a diluted product, and students deserve a tuition reduction for sitting at home and staring at a laptop screen. As someone who taught remotely this past semester, I strained to provide a comparable experience to what students were used to. Ultimately I could not. Professors cannot connect with students in the same way. And the ancillary benefits of college – making friends, networking with peers, joining clubs, playing intramural sports – are all lost.> College costs have soared, and now almost every institution, in the age of coronavirus, faces a reckoningThere is an argument that students, especially at prestige schools, are still getting the value of a degree and therefore should pay the full freight. Isn't the diploma ultimately what matters? But that's not how colleges and universities pitch themselves to unsuspecting freshmen.College life is not merely about scoring a dream job right after graduation. It's supposed to be an experience. Behold our manicured lawns, our successful basketball team, our state-of-the-art fitness center, the newly revamped computer lab – and pay dearly for them. Part of the tradeoff of taking on crippling debt is supposed to be the creation of unforgettable memories, those four life-changing years you'll never have again. Remote learning promises none of that.Public schools are in a tougher position than their wealthier private counterparts. Tuition is how they generate much of their revenue, particularly after decades of cost-cutting by state governments. Many states have left world-class public institutions begging for money; the cuts after the 2008 economic crash were especially deep. Without a massive federal bailout package, public universities and community colleges will be suffering for years to come, starved of tax revenue in the wake of the pandemic.Still, these public institutions can offer tuition discounts while seeking cuts elsewhere. Fun fact: who is the highest paid public employee in the history of New Jersey? It's Greg Schiano, the Rutgers football coach, who makes $4m annually. Rutgers, like other universities across the country, has been in an athletics arms race to match powerhouses like University of Michigan and Ohio State, which also happen to be public institutions. The profligate spending led Rutgers to amass a $100m athletic budget in the 2018-19 school year, running up large deficits.Rutgers could offer a good faith tuition reduction to students while shrinking nonessential expenditures, like athletics. The same could be done at the University of California system, where the two crown jewels, UCLA and UC Berkeley, had massive athletic deficits during the 2019 fiscal year.College costs have soared over the decades for a variety of reasons – declining public aid, expensive athletics, increased demand, and the rising cost of staff, particularly those not tied to the faculty – and now almost every institution, in the age of coronavirus, faces a reckoning. They can continue to overcharge students. Or they can attempt a measure of economic justice at a time when, from the White House on down, it's utterly lacking. * Ross Barkan is a writer based in New York City
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| HPV vaccine recommendations updated by American Cancer Society. Here’s what to know Posted: 08 Jul 2020 11:36 AM PDT  The recommendations include guidance on when the vaccine should be given.
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| Hundreds gather for funeral of Palestinian shot by Israeli troops Posted: 10 Jul 2020 05:29 AM PDT  Hundreds of people gathered in the occupied West Bank on Friday for the funeral of a Palestinian man shot by Israeli soldiers a day earlier. Israel's army said troops opened fire after the Palestinian and another man started throwing fire bombs at a guard post near the town of Nablus. Palestinian officials dismissed the report and said the man had been walking with friends when he was shot dead.
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| The Best Smart Technology for Your Socially Distanced Summer Posted: 10 Jul 2020 10:04 AM PDT |
| Ousted U.S. prosecutor says Barr pressed him to resign Posted: 09 Jul 2020 10:48 AM PDT  The top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, who was ousted last month as his office led a probe into President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudolph Giuliani, told lawmakers on Thursday U.S. Attorney General William Barr had pressured him to resign. In written comments submitted as part of a congressional inquiry, Geoffrey Berman said he was warned by Barr that if he did not leave and was fired, it would "not be good for my resume or future job prospects." Berman also said Barr repeatedly urged him to take another job, either in the Justice Department running its civil division or possibly as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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| Gun violence disproportionately affects minorities. Data shows it's getting worse. Posted: 09 Jul 2020 06:51 AM PDT  Communities of color have endured the weight of COVID-19, the recession and social unrest. They're also bearing the brunt of a surge in gun violence.
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| Rep. McClintock: Democrats will use anything out of context to attack Trump Posted: 09 Jul 2020 01:52 PM PDT  California Republican Rep. Tom McClintock weighs in on Democrats' push for release of Trump's tax returns.
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| No regrets: wounded Hong Kong police vow to keep enforcing law Posted: 09 Jul 2020 10:02 PM PDT  Nine months ago he was burned by corrosive liquid hurled during anti-government protests, but Hong Kong police officer Ling says he has no regrets and remains devoted to being a law enforcer. Officers like Ling have formed the spear tip of Beijing's pushback against huge and often violent pro-democracy protests in the restless finance hub. Now the police have been given expanded powers under a sweeping new national security law imposed by Beijing that aims to crush the democracy movement once and for all.
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| The United States does not want Cuba and Venezuela to buy on Amazon Posted: 09 Jul 2020 03:00 AM PDT  A minor nuisance that comes with U.S. sanctions is having to say goodbye to buying on Amazon.
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| Man who flies Nazi flag from his car to show he is in ‘total opposition of Black Lives Matter’ claims he was attacked because of it Posted: 09 Jul 2020 02:19 PM PDT  A man who flies a Nazi flag on the back of his car to show his opposition to Black Lives Matter protests and gay people, claims he was attacked last month because of it.Jesus Seineke, who lives in Alpine, San Diego, flies a Nazi flag on the back of his SUV when he drives around his local area.
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| Arrests and police raids follow Russia's vote to let Putin rule for life Posted: 09 Jul 2020 06:10 AM PDT  An opposition governor was detained and several activists had their homes raided by the police on Thursday as Russia's latest crackdown on dissent gathers momentum. The flurry of arrests and criminal inquiries follow last week's vote in which nearly 78 percent endorsed constitutional amendments allowing Vladimir Putin to stay as president at least until 2036 when he turns 83. Sergei Furgal, the governor of the Khabarovsk region in Russia's Far East who beat a Kremlin candidate at the 2018 election, was arrested by camouflaged agents of Russia's top investigative body on Thursday morning and put on a plane to Moscow. The popular governor whose landslide win at the polls embarrassed the pro-Kremlin party, is accused of organising two contract killings as well as an attempted murder 15 years ago, according to the Investigative Committee, Russia's main federal investigating authority. Mr Furgal has not been charged with any crime. An unnamed source claiming to be linked to Mr Furgal says he has denied the allegations. Mr Furgal had been in Russian parliament for more than a decade before he won the Khabarovsk election in 2018, which has raised questions about the timing of the charges brought against him.
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| 'Opioid overdoses are skyrocketing': as Covid-19 sweeps across US an old epidemic returns Posted: 09 Jul 2020 03:00 AM PDT  The pandemic is creating the social conditions – no jobs, isolation, despair – that helped enable the opioid crisis to emerge in the first place. Now it's backIn West Virginia, they are bracing for the second wave.The epidemic that hit the Appalachian state harder than any other in the US finally looked to be in retreat. Now it's advancing again. Not coronavirus but opioid overdoses, with one scourge driving a resurgence of the other.Covid-19 has claimed 93 lives in West Virginia over the past three months. That is only a fraction of those killed by drug overdoses, which caused nearly 1,000 deaths in the state in 2018 alone, mostly from opioids but also methamphetamine (also known as meth).That year was better than the one before as the Appalachian state appeared to turn the tide on an epidemic that has ravaged the region for two decades, destroying lives, tearing apart families and dragging down local economies.Now coronavirus looks to be undoing the advances made against a drug epidemic that has claimed close to 600,000 lives in the US over the past two decades. Worse, it is also laying the ground for a long-term resurgence of addiction by exacerbating many of the conditions, including unemployment, low incomes and isolation, that contributed to the rise of the opioid epidemic and "deaths of despair"."The number of opioid overdoses is skyrocketing and I don't think it will be easily turned back," said Dr Mike Brumage, former director of the West Virginia office of drug control policy."Once the tsunami of Covid-19 finally recedes, we're going to be left with the social conditions that enabled the opioid crisis to emerge in the first place, and those are not going to go away."To Brumage and others, coronavirus has also shown what can happen when the government takes a public health emergency seriously, unlike the opioid epidemic, which was largely ignored even as the death toll climbed into the hundreds of thousands.The American Medical Association said it was "greatly concerned" at reported increases in opioid overdoses in more than 30 states although it will be months before hard data is available.> Clearly, what we have lost with the pandemic is a loss of connection> > Dr Mike BrumagePublic health officials from Kentucky to Florida, Texas and Colorado have recorded surges in opioid deaths as the economic and social anxieties created by the Covid-19 pandemic prove fertile ground for addiction. In addition, Brumage said significant numbers of people have fallen out of treatment programmes as support networks have been yanked away by social distancing orders."I'm a firm adherent to the idea that the opposite of addiction is not sobriety, the opposite of addiction is connection. Clearly, what we have lost with the pandemic is a loss of connection," he said."Many of the people who were using the programme either didn't have broadband or they didn't have cellphone service, especially those who were homeless. They just fell out of the programme," he said.The resurgence was not unforeseen. In March, as Covid-19 escalated, Donald Trump warned about the human toll beyond lives claimed by the virus. "You're going to have tremendous suicides, but you know what you're going to have more than anything else? Drug addiction. You will see drugs being used like nobody has ever used them before. And people are going to be dying all over the place from drug addiction," he said.Brumage and others who spoke to the Guardian were at pains to say they believed the scale of the government's response to Covid-19 is necessary. But they saw the mobilisation of financial resources and political will to cope with the virus in stark contrast to the response of successive administrations to the opioid epidemic.Emily Walden lost her son to an opioid overdose and now heads Fed Up!, a group campaigning to reduce the US's exceptionally high opioid prescribing levels."Congress immediately acted with coronavirus to help those that lost their jobs, to make sure that people were taken care of and it was addressed properly," she said. "Look at the difference with the opioid epidemic, which has largely been ignored by our federal government for 20 years."While the US government has thrown $6tn at coronavirus, the Trump administration dedicated just $6bn to directly dealing with opioid addiction over his first two years in office even though about the same number of people died of drug overdoses in that period as have now been lost to Covid-19.Brumage said federal health institutions have shifted their focus to coronavirus, including freezing a $1bn research project to find less addictive pain treatments.> You can think of Covid-19 as a hurricane whereas the opioid crisis is more like global warming. It's happening, it's slow, it's dangerous> > Dr Mike Brumage"It's robbed the oxygen out of the room and made it the sole focus of what's happening," said Brumage. "There's also a fatigue about the opioid crisis. You can think of Covid-19 as a hurricane whereas the opioid crisis is more like global warming. It's happening, it's slow, it's dangerous, but it's not happening at the same speed and scale as the coronavirus is having right now." Brumage attributes the difference in response in part to attitudes toward drug addiction."The difference between getting Covid and dying of an overdose is stigma around drug use. This has been ingrained across the United States – that people using drugs are somehow seen as morally deficient and so it becomes easier then to other and alienate those people," he said.Walden does not accept that explanation. Like many whose families have been devastated by opioids, she sees a personal and public health catastrophe perpetuated by the financial and political power of the pharmaceutical industry to drive the US's exceptionally high opioid prescribing rates which were a major factor in driving the epidemic."This comes down to lobbyists and money. People say it's stigma and it's not. There is stigma but it's about profits and greed," she said.Dr Raeford Brown, a former chair of the Food and Drug Administration's opioid advisory committee, is a longstanding critic of drug industry influence over opioid medical policy and the government's response to the epidemic. He sees a parallel with coronavirus with US states lifting strong social distancing orders too early under corporate pressure."The United States is not good at doing public health," he said. "It failed the test with opioids and it failed the test with viral pandemics. But coronavirus and pandemics, and the things like the opioid crisis, are much more likely to get us than the Russians or the Chinese are."
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| Ex-Trump lawyer behind bars again after dispute over gag order Posted: 09 Jul 2020 11:06 AM PDT  Michael Cohen, U.S. President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, was taken to a federal jail on Thursday after refusing to agree to a gag order as a condition of serving his criminal sentence under home confinement, Cohen's lawyer said. Cohen, 53, was taken to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, according to his lawyer, Jeffrey Levine. Cohen had been released from a federal prison in upstate New York in May due to concerns over possible exposure to the novel coronavirus.
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| 'A gut punch': United Airlines to lay off up to 36,000 U.S. employees in October as travel remains depressed Posted: 08 Jul 2020 01:10 PM PDT  United said Wednesday that it will lay off up to 36,000 workers such as flight attendants and airport customer service agents, beginning Oct. 1.
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| The US recorded its highest ever number of daily COVID-19 infections, with more than 65,000 in a day Posted: 10 Jul 2020 03:26 AM PDT  The record for the number of new cases is being broken every few days, with infections rates in the south and west driving the surge.
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| UN official: 700 people died in Syrian camps for IS families Posted: 09 Jul 2020 10:30 PM PDT  The U.N. counterterrorism chief said his office received information that 700 people died recently in two camps in northeast Syria, where more than 70,000 mainly women and children connected to Islamic State fighters are detained in "very dire conditions." Vladimir Voronkov told a news conference Thursday that the people, including children, died of "lack of medicine, lack of food" at the al-Hol and Roj camps, which are overseen by Kurdish-led forces allied with the United States who spearheaded the fight against the extremist Islamic State group. Voronkov did not clarify when the 700 reportedly died or what the source of the information was.
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| Environmental Injustice Is Another Form of 'Assault on Black Bodies,' Says Sen. Cory Booker Posted: 09 Jul 2020 11:29 AM PDT  'The biggest determining factor of whether you live around toxicity is the color of your skin'
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| The authors of a study downplaying racism in police killings called their findings 'careless,' and retracted the paper Posted: 09 Jul 2020 12:23 PM PDT  Study authors Joseph Cesario and David Johnson said they wished they'd been more careful after people used their research out of context.
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| Tucker Carlson Praises ‘Brave’ Couple Who Painted Over BLM Mural Posted: 09 Jul 2020 07:35 PM PDT  Fox News' Tucker Carlson on Thursday night hosted the white California couple who are facing hate crime charges for painting over a Black Lives Matter street mural, praising them for their bravery while insisting they merely covered over "graffiti" that shouldn't have been there in the first place.Last weekend, David Nelson and Nicole Anderson spread black paint over a yellow BLM mural displayed on the street in front of the Martinez, California, courthouse. After video of an angry Anderson painting over the sign—which was approved by the city authorities—went viral, police announced the pair had been charged with three misdemeanor counts, including a hate crime, for their actions.Carlson, who has repeatedly described the Black Lives Matter movement as a "terror organization" and a "pandemic," immediately lauded the couple, saying they destroyed "nothing" yet have been charged with a hate crime.Nelson noted that while he has "no problem with Black people" he doesn't agree with the BLM movement because "they have a hidden agenda." He went on to say he wished he handled his interaction with the person who filmed them "more diplomatically" but that they were "angry" because they "are sick of the narrative."The Fox News host wondered aloud what they thought about a statue that was ripped down in San Francisco, which he attributed to "BLM activists," and spray painted with "Kill Whitey.""Why do you think you were charged with a hate crime?" Carlson added.Nelson said the charge was due to "cancel culture" and called on more Americans to "get together and band together and take to the streets," adding that they need to do it soon "because we are starting to lose ground here."Asked whether they were worried about losing their jobs over the situation, Anderson said she works for herself while Nelson said he was somewhat concerned about his employment, admitting he was on a "leave type of thing" at the moment."Man, you've got a lot of brass," a clearly impressed Carlson replied. "This was a brave thing to do. Are you paying a lawyer to defend you? I just want to say, you've been charged with a hate crime for painting over graffiti that wasn't supposed to be there."Nelson complained of a "double standard," claiming it's OK for Black Lives Matter "to go around and burn down the country, terrorize America, actually kill people." "They've done more harm than they've done good, Tucker," Nelson continued. "When we stand up and give them a little iota, taste of their own medicine, this is the extreme measures that are being taken and we can't let it happen. We need to stand up, we need to get together, all Americans in every city and take to the streets."Carlson nodded along, concluding the interview by saying he hopes conservatives rally to their defense because their situation "is outrageous."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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| Pelosi Weighs In On Baltimore Columbus Statue Destruction Posted: 09 Jul 2020 02:26 PM PDT  Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi weighed in on the toppling of Baltimore's Christopher Columbus statue on the Fourth of July, saying at a news conference Thursday that, "if the community doesn't want the statue there, the statue shouldn't be there."
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| The Best Beach Towels That Aren’t Totally Boring Posted: 10 Jul 2020 07:58 AM PDT |
| U.S. judge hearing Flynn case asks appeals court to reconsider dismissal Posted: 09 Jul 2020 12:14 PM PDT  The judge hearing the criminal prosecution against U.S. President Donald Trump's former adviser Michael Flynn on Thursday asked an appeals court to reconsider a recent decision dismissing the case. U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan asked the entire U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to review the June 24 decision that directed him to drop the Flynn case. The Justice Department sought to dismiss the case against Flynn, Trump's first national security adviser, following pressure from Trump and his allies, leading to criticism that Attorney General William Barr was using his office to help the president's friends.
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| West Virginia mail carrier guilty of election fraud after altering ballot requests to Republican Posted: 10 Jul 2020 03:42 AM PDT  Thomas Cooper admitted to having tampered some of the requests he delivered "as a joke." He did not know any of the voters whose requests he changed.
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| Satanic Temple threatens lawsuit over Mississippi’s ‘in God we trust’ flag plan Posted: 09 Jul 2020 06:53 AM PDT  The Satanic Temple has threatened to sue Mississippi over plans to include the phrase "In God We Trust" on its flag.In a letter addressed to state attorney general Lynn Fitch the Temple argued that not all Mississippians were represented by the phrase, which is the US national motto.
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| US gives the green light to Japan’s $23B F-35 buy Posted: 10 Jul 2020 11:01 AM PDT  Japan is set to become the fourth operator of the F-35B short takeoff and landing variant.
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| Scientists race to explain why COVID kills a lot more men than women Posted: 10 Jul 2020 08:53 AM PDT  In a new study, 40 men infected with COVID-19 will receive a 5-day course of progesterone to see if it raises their offs of surviving on par with women.
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