| ICE to launch 'Citizens Academy' to teach civilians about 'targeted arrests' Posted: 13 Jul 2020 10:24 AM PDT  Operating with broad authority and minimal oversight, ICE's enforcement and removal operations have become increasingly aggressive under the Trump administration.
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| Iran executes defense ministry staffer as alleged CIA spy Posted: 14 Jul 2020 02:48 AM PDT  Iran has executed a former employee of the defense ministry who was convicted of spying on behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency, the country's judiciary said Tuesday. The report said Reza Asgari was executed last week. Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said Asgari had worked in the airspace department of the ministry and retired in 2016.
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| US Postmaster General tells postal workers to leave mail behind if it slows down their route Posted: 14 Jul 2020 02:47 PM PDT  The US Postal Service is in a financial crisis, and is now instructing workers to avoid logging overtime — even if it means leaving mail behind.
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| The St. Louis couple that aimed guns at Black Lives Matter protesters received dozens of offers to replace a firearm that was seized by police, their attorney says Posted: 14 Jul 2020 01:23 PM PDT  Police seized Mark and Patricia McCloskey's rifle in a search warrant. Since then, the couple has received over 50 offers to replace it, their lawyer said.
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| Chinese university sacks professor who criticised President Xi, friends say Posted: 14 Jul 2020 04:35 AM PDT |
| Trump slams Los Angeles for ‘terrible decision’ to keep schools closed Posted: 14 Jul 2020 03:27 PM PDT  "It is a balancing act but we have to open the schools," the president said.
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| Daniel Lewis Lee: US executes first federal prisoner in 17 years Posted: 14 Jul 2020 06:08 AM PDT  Triple murderer Daniel Lewis Lee is executed following a US Supreme Court ruling.
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| China declares primary election for pro-democracy candidates in Hong Kong 'illegal' Posted: 14 Jul 2020 09:42 AM PDT  China on Tuesday declared a primary election for pro-democracy parties in Hong Kong "illegal", saying it violated the new national security law. More than 600,000 residents voted over the weekend in an unofficial ballot to determine which candidates to put forward for the September election to the Legislative Council, the Beijing-dominated body that oversees the city. The city's leader Carrie Lam said on Monday that the voting was subversive in that it was an attempt to undermine the parliament and deliberately block government proposals. "If this so-called primary election's purpose is to achieve the ultimate goal of delivering what they called '35-plus' [the majority of lawmakers], with the objective of objecting or resisting every policy initiative of the HKSAR government, it may fall into the category of subverting the state power – one of the four types of offences under the national security law," Ms Lam said. "I am not saying it has breached (the law), but I have to put forward a warning that if that's going to be proven to be the case, then it's certainly a case to be answered." Beijing's Liaison office in the city later released a strongly worded statement, saying the vote was an attempt to overthrow the government and accusing one of the organisers, Benny Tai, who co-founded the National Occupy Movement, of colluding with foreign powers. "Tai was the culprit behind the chaos in Hong Kong and the representative for colluding foreign powers," the statement said. "The goal for the opposition party is to strike a 'colour revolution' in Hong Kong to overturn the government".
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| Virginia police are searching for people posting flyers calling on residents to 'pray for white Americans in 2020' Posted: 14 Jul 2020 03:46 PM PDT  Virginia police are investigating white supremacist flyers that are appearing in local resident mailboxes across the state.
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| US Navy warship challenges China in South China Sea as US blasts Beijing's 'unlawful' claims and 'gangster tactics' Posted: 14 Jul 2020 11:50 AM PDT  The US "will not let China claim the South China Sea as its own," a senior US State Department official said Tuesday.
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| Tanker off UAE sought by US over Iran sanctions 'hijacked' Posted: 15 Jul 2020 03:19 AM PDT  An oil tanker sought by the U.S. over allegedly circumventing sanctions on Iran was hijacked on July 5 off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, a seafarers organization said Wednesday. It wasn't immediately clear what happened aboard the Dominica-flagged MT Gulf Sky, though its reported hijacking comes after months of tensions between Iran and the U.S. David Hammond, the CEO of the United Kingdom-based group Human Rights at Sea, said he took a witness statement from the captain of the MT Gulf Sky, confirming the ship had been hijacked.
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| 'Turned out not to be a fish': Alligator rams kayaker into water on NC river Posted: 15 Jul 2020 04:56 AM PDT  Peter Joyce said he's seen alligators before while kayaking, but one rammed him and his kayak Sunday while on the Waccamaw River in North Carolina.
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| Pro-Police Agitators and Black Lives Matter Protesters Clash in Brooklyn Posted: 13 Jul 2020 05:51 PM PDT  The pro-police rallies came weeks after the New York City Council cut the NYPD's budget by $1 billion. The cuts came in light of national calls to defund police departments in response to the killing of George Floyd and other unarmed Black people at the hands of police officers.
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| Antibody Test for the Coronavirus Could Reveal Who Is Immune Posted: 14 Jul 2020 02:37 PM PDT  As the coronavirus pandemic drags on, governments and people around the globe are trying to stay safe while also figuring out what work, school, and socializing will look like with COVID-19 still...
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| Trump's attacks on mail-in voting could lead to nightmare scenario, election expert warns Posted: 13 Jul 2020 02:34 PM PDT  Even before the pandemic made it likely that there will be a historic number of mail-in ballots in this fall's election, UC Irvine professor Richard Hasen worried that if it were close, President Trump might declare victory before all votes were counted. That concern is now much greater for Hasen.
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| A Black teen didn't do her online schoolwork during the pandemic. A judge sent her to juvenile detention. Posted: 14 Jul 2020 12:43 PM PDT  Black youth in Michigan are incarcerated more than 4 times as often as white youth. The governor had discouraged such sentences due to the pandemic.
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| Philippine police deployed as virus cases forced into quarantine Posted: 15 Jul 2020 12:21 AM PDT  Philippine police are being deployed to ensure people who test positive for the coronavirus and cannot self-isolate at home are taken to state-run quarantine centres, sparking warnings Wednesday of potential rights violations. The move comes as authorities step up efforts to slow the rapid spread of the disease by increasing testing, reimposing lockdowns, and building dozens of quarantine centres to isolate patients with mild symptoms. To clamp down on local transmission, police are accompanying health workers to the homes of people who have tested positive and taking them to government facilities if their homes are considered inadequate for self-isolation or if they live with "vulnerable" people, officials said.
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| 8 Marines Earn Valor Awards for Daring Afghanistan Helo Raid with Hours of Close Combat Posted: 14 Jul 2020 01:29 PM PDT  Eight Marine Raiders recognized for their actions during the April 10, 2019, mission in southern Afghanistan.
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| Former veteran hospital nursing assistant pleads guilty to murder charges in string of insulin deaths Posted: 14 Jul 2020 02:34 PM PDT  Reta Mays was charged with seven counts of second-degree murder.
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| 'MythBusters' Host Grant Imahara, Dead at 49, Embodied the Pop Mech Spirit Posted: 14 Jul 2020 10:52 AM PDT |
| Top Trump Ally Preps a New Assault on Fauci Posted: 13 Jul 2020 07:00 PM PDT  As Donald Trump and his press secretary sought to downplay the White House's own effort to scapegoat Dr. Anthony Fauci, top allies to the president spent Monday working on ways to discredit the nation's leading infectious-diseases expert even more.Stephen Moore, a conservative economist who informally advises Trump on economic matters, said on Monday evening that he is working on a new policy memo that would "go after Fauci," not just for the doctor's proclamations on the still-raging coronavirus pandemic, but for his decades of work for the U.S. government prior to the current crisis."We are working on a memo that shows how many times Dr. Fauci's been wrong during not just [this pandemic], but during his entire career," Moore told The Daily Beast, adding that he and his team at the Committee to Unleash Prosperity had been working on it for weeks. Moore, whose failures at political and economic prognostication are routine grist for his critics, added that he and his group intend to send their final product to the White House and Trump and to "publicize it," once ready.Moore said that the current title of the memo is: "Dr. Wrong.""It will document how often his predictions have been not just wrong, but in many cases, fabulously wrong…[and it'll be] looking at his whole career of making predictions about disease, and trying to show a pattern," he continued. "Fauci's been 'Dr. Doom'… and I don't have a problem with him being 'Dr. Doom,' but I have a problem with him being wrong, wrong, wrong… He's been a detriment to getting the economy reopened, with a lot of his false predictions."The White House Made a List of All the Times Fauci 'Has Been Wrong' on the CoronavirusMoore's effort comes just as the Trump White House had circulated a written list of Fauci's past comments and predictions on the virus that Trump's team deemed flawed. The list overstates Fauci's actual record, as many of his early inferences and predictions were qualified with admissions that little was known about the virus. Fauci's record also, arguably, compares favorably to many top White House officials and allies, including Moore himself, who called for re-opening the economy in early May and once jokingly suggested that one way through the outbreak was to wear spacesuits.Nevertheless, a White House spokesperson issued an official statement, as first reported by The Washington Post this past week, that "several White House officials are concerned about the number of times Dr. Fauci has been wrong on things." Peter Navarro, the president's top trade adviser and a recurring Fauci antagonist, was also permitted to tell the Post, "Dr. Fauci has a good bedside manner with the public but he has been wrong about everything I have ever interacted with him on." And on Sunday, Dan Scavino, one of Trump's most trusted aides and his social-media director, posted to Facebook an anti-Fauci cartoon by Ben Garrison, with Scavino's caption reading, "Sorry, Dr. Faucet! At least you know if I'm going to disagree with a colleague, such as yourself, it's done publicly—and not cowardly, behind journalists with leaks. See you tomorrow!"On Monday, top White House officials tried to repair some of the damage. Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany claimed to reporters that "Dr. Fauci and the president have always had a very good working relationship." And Trump himself insisted: "I have a very good relationship with Dr. Fauci," calling the coronavirus task force figure "a very nice person" who "I don't always agree with."The back and forth was just the latest illustration of the dual impulses playing out in Trump's West Wing, as the virus continues to ravage the country and tank the economy. The president and his lieutenants are eager to find a scapegoat for the government's failure to prevent a death toll that's now north of 130,000. But they also realize that it's a bad look for them to openly wage war on Fauci, who in polls has earned a significantly larger share of the public trust than President Trump.When asked about this week's dust-up with Fauci and White House staff, Michael Caputo, the Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs who approves Fauci's TV appearances, told The Daily Beast on Monday: "I blame the media and their unending search for a 'Resistance' hero, for turning half a century of a scientist's hard work into a clickbait headline that helps reporters undermine the president's coronavirus response." The campaign to ding Fauci has been underway for months prior to White House communications shop sending a list of his past statements to the Post and other media outlets. Back in April, the president spent a chunk of Easter weekend quizzing confidants, "What do you think of Fauci?" and venting about how he'd made Fauci a "star" by allowing the doctor to be on TV so much. Since then, Trump's frustrations have only festered and in some cases intensified. According to three people familiar with the president's private remarks, Trump has encouraged several officials and prominent allies over the past two months to remind journalists and the public of all the ways in which Fauci has been "so wrong," or allegedly flawed, in his predictions during the coronavirus crisis. One of these sources said that Trump had encouraged them and others to—specifically—tweet about ways Fauci had "messed up," as this person characterized.The criticism has clearly worn on Fauci. In an interview with The Daily Beast in June, he repeatedly expressed caution and annoyance that most of his on-air television interviews resulted in "sound bites" and actively avoided questions because of it. When asked, for example, whether his earlier recommendation that Americans not buy masks contributed to early community spread, Fauci said: "That's a soundbite. I'm not gonna answer that. Sorry."And when pushed for details on what he and other senior administration officials could have done differently in responding to the U.S. outbreaks, Fauci admitted that the U.S. preparation "might have been a little bit more aggressive in the first week instead of waiting until it was clear that we were getting community spread," but cautioned that no one knew at the time what that transmission looked like."And it's always easy to take it out of context," he said. "I could see 1,000 sound bites flowing from this. Something like, 'If only we knew'."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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| Black Lives Matter mural outside Trump Tower defaced; mayor says 'nice try' Posted: 14 Jul 2020 09:25 AM PDT  The NYPD tweeted video footage Tuesday morning that shows a man wearing a baseball cap and mask pouring red paint on the street mural.
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| Despite physically distancing and wearing masks, 3 Arizona teachers who shared a classroom to online teach caught the coronavirus and one died Posted: 14 Jul 2020 09:00 PM PDT  "My main thing is if we can't stay safe, how are our students going to stay safe?" Angela Skillings told WWBT.
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| Controversial opinion editor Bari Weiss resigns from The New York Times Posted: 14 Jul 2020 08:42 AM PDT  In her resignation letter, Weiss said she was quitting after facing "unlawful discrimination" and a "hostile work environment."
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| 'Shame on you': Florida gov. heckled at briefing Posted: 13 Jul 2020 03:40 PM PDT 
As of Monday there were nearly 270,000 recorded coronavirus cases and over 4,300 deaths in Florida, according to a Reuters tally.
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| Tucker Carlson says his former head writer 'paid a heavy price' for racist internet posts Posted: 13 Jul 2020 06:46 PM PDT  Carlson acknowledged the posts were "wrong," but did not offer an apology on behalf of the show or the network, saying his longtime associate had "paid a very heavy price" in losing his job.
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| Fact check: Rep. Ilhan Omar was not photographed at an al-Qaida training camp Posted: 14 Jul 2020 07:57 AM PDT  A photo claiming to be of Rep. Ilhan Omar was taken in 1978, four years before she was born. Social media posts claiming this are false.
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| Qatar wins air blockade case at top UN court Posted: 14 Jul 2020 08:40 AM PDT  The UN's top court on Tuesday backed Qatar in a bitter row with four Middle East nations that imposed an air blockade against Doha after accusing it of backing radical Islamists and Iran. The decision by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) covers a key part of the acrimonious standoff that erupted three years ago pitting Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates against Qatar. Qatar said after the decision that its rivals would "face justice".
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| Lindsey Graham Attempting to Declassify FBI Memo on Steele Source Who Undermined Dossier Posted: 14 Jul 2020 12:58 PM PDT  Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) revealed on Tuesday that he is attempting to declassify an FBI memo describing an interview with a crucial source for the Steele dossier, whose comments undermined the dossier's assertions.The source was dossier author Christopher Steele's only direct source inside Russia for many of the allegations included in the dossier. The Justice Department Inspector General report released in December 2019 noted that the individual, referred to as the "Primary Sub-Source," has since disputed various claims in the dossier, including that Trump-campaign officials colluded with Russian operatives during the 2016 election. The Primary Sub-Source made the allegations against the Steele dossier in an interview with the FBI."There's a memo about that interview," Graham said Tuesday in a podcast with Fox News host Trey Gowdy. "[DOJ Inspector General Michael] Horowitz found it — it was 40 pages. My staff has finally gotten a look at it. It's classified. I'm going to try to get it unclassified."Horowitz's December report found that the FBI had committed numerous errors in its applications for FISA warrants to surveil former Trump-campaign adviser Carter Page. Four footnotes in the report declassified in April revealed that the FBI received evidence in January 2017 that Russian operatives fed disinformation to Steele to be used in the dossier."I believe that the dossier, which was the key component of getting the warrant against Carter Page, was in fact Russian disinformation," Graham told Gowdy. "I believe that the FBI was on notice that it was unreliable, continued to use it anyway. I believe that they misled the FISA court."Steele admitted in April 2020 that his own records of interviews with the Primary Sub-Source "were wiped in early January 2017."
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| Trump 'may not go quietly' if he loses November election, Hillary Clinton warns Posted: 14 Jul 2020 05:36 AM PDT  Hillary Clinton has claimed that Donald Trump may refuse to leave office if he is defeated in November – and that voter suppression tactics are a key part of his strategy."I think it's a fair point to raise as to whether or not if he loses he's going to go quietly or not, and we have to be ready for that," Mr Trump's defeated 2016 opponent said in a television interview on Monday night.
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| California church says it will defy order limiting services during pandemic Posted: 14 Jul 2020 06:18 PM PDT  Defying Governor Gavin Newsom's orders, a California pastor announced on Facebook that the pews at his Rocklin church will still be filled with people come Sunday morning.
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| Kenyan 12-year old girl married to two men within a month Posted: 15 Jul 2020 08:39 AM PDT  Authorities in Kenya's Narok county rescued the child and are searching for her father and the two men.
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| Despite months of warning, the US could soon run out of gloves, goggles, and body bags as coronavirus cases keep surging Posted: 15 Jul 2020 06:20 AM PDT  Documents obtained by NBC News show the national stockpile is low on equipment, as medical workers continue reporting on shortages.
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| Statue of Black protester replaces toppled UK slave trader Posted: 15 Jul 2020 12:35 AM PDT  An artist has erected a statue of a Black Lives Matter protester atop the plinth in the English city of Bristol formerly occupied by a statue of a slave trader. Marc Quinn created the life-size resin and steel likeness of Jen Reid, a protester photographed standing on the plinth after demonstrators pulled down the statue of Edward Colston and dumped it in Bristol's harbor on June 7. The statue, titled "A Surge of Power (Jen Reid)" was erected before dawn on Wednesday without approval from city officials.
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| Some California students won't be required to wear masks this fall Posted: 14 Jul 2020 07:40 PM PDT  Officials are urging people to practice social distancing and wear face masks as coronavirus spikes in California, but the Orange County Board of Education said social distancing is "not necessary" for its students and wearing masks is "not based on science."
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| Fact check: A fake tweet claims AOC urged governors to shut down businesses to hurt Trump Posted: 14 Jul 2020 10:56 AM PDT  There is no evidence that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted the anti-Trump message shared by a Republican congressional candidate on social media.
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| China says those who see China as hostile are wrong Posted: 15 Jul 2020 03:47 AM PDT  China's envoy to Britain said on Wednesday that those who see China as a hostile state have got it all wrong and cautioned European Union states not to interfere in China's domestic affairs over Hong Kong. "Those who see China as systematic rival or as a potentially hostile state have got it all wrong - they have chosen the wrong target and they are heading in the wrong direction," Ambassador Liu Xiaoming told the Centre for European Reform.
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| Black Leaders Call on NYPD to Bring Back Anti-Crime Unit as Shootings Spike Posted: 14 Jul 2020 08:47 AM PDT  Leaders in the black community are calling on the New York Police Department to bring back the plainclothes Anti-Crime Unit that was eliminated last month as shootings and murders spike across the city.About 600 undercover officers from the unit were set to be transferred to other assignments including detective work and policing neighborhoods, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said a month ago. The anti-crime unit, which was responsible for getting guns off the streets, had been criticized as stoking distrust in law enforcement in minority communities.Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, one of the African-American voices calling for action on gun violence, criticized the police force's decision to completely disband the unit. He deplored the recent deadly shooting of a one-year-old, one of the victims of New York City's recent spike in gun violence."I think that a total elimination is something we need to reevaluate," Adams said, CBS New York reported. "Right now, bad guys are saying if you don't see a blue and white you can do whatever you want."Tony Herbert, an activist in New York's black community, agreed and lamented the rise in violence, criticizing New York officials for their failure to address the situation."The guns keep going off and now we have a 1-year-old and the blood is on the hands of the mayor and the state Legislature," Herbert said.The decision to disband the anti-crime unit was also panned by Police Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch, who warned that consequences would follow if city leaders refused to deal with increased gun violence."Anti-Crime's mission was to protect New Yorkers by proactively preventing crime, especially gun violence," Lynch said in a statement. "Shooting and murders are both climbing steadily upward, but our city leaders have decided that proactive policing isn't a priority anymore. They chose this strategy. They will have to reckon with the consequences."The city's murder rate for the month ending June 7 has more than doubled from the same period last year, and shooting victims have increased by 45 percent. Meanwhile, arrests for illegal gun possession have dropped dramatically, with only 29 people arrested during the week that ended July 5, down from 70 during the same week last year, according to NYPD data.In recent weeks, the NYPD has experienced a surge of over 400 percent in retirement applications from officers amid tensions with city officials and after the city's police budget was slashed by $1 billion.
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| Trump shares conspiracy that ‘everyone is lying’ about coronavirus to damage his re-election chances Posted: 13 Jul 2020 10:40 AM PDT  Donald Trump has shared a conspiracy theory with his 83.3 million followers that doctors are lying about the coronavirus pandemic to prevent him from being re-elected in November.Mr Trump retweeted accusations from game show host Chuck Woolrey on Twitter on Monday that claimed "everyone is lying" about Covid-19, without comment.
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| 5 Years Ago, New Horizons Reached Pluto—and We Never Stopped Learning Posted: 14 Jul 2020 11:25 AM PDT |
| The president of Emirates says passengers will never again be as comfortable as they have been aboard the enormous, discontinued Airbus A380 Posted: 15 Jul 2020 04:45 AM PDT  In an interview with Business Insider, Emirates president Tim Clark said that nothing can measure up to the iconic Airbus A380 for the airline.
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| Satellite images show Ethiopia dam reservoir swelling Posted: 14 Jul 2020 01:39 AM PDT |
| Fact check: DeVos never said 'only' 0.02% of children will die if schools reopen in the fall Posted: 14 Jul 2020 03:21 PM PDT  Numerous posts on social media claim Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said "only" 0.02% of children will die of COVID-19. She never said that.
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