| Charlamagne Tha God hits out at Biden for calling Trump 'first' racist president Posted: 24 Jul 2020 04:38 PM PDT  Charlamagne Tha God has hit out at Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden for branding Donald Trump the "first" racist president.Mr Biden had criticised Mr Trump for what he called "his spread of racism" on Wednesday, calling him the "first" racist to be elected president.
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| Professor behind 'vile' racist and sexist tweets found dead in North Carolina home Posted: 24 Jul 2020 11:17 AM PDT  Mike Adams, professor at University of North Carolina Wilmington, was set to retire Aug. 1 after being slammed by the university for "vile" and "hateful" language.
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| Grimes told Elon Musk to turn off his phone and that she 'cannot support hate' in a now-deleted tweet, after he tweeted that 'pronouns suck' Posted: 25 Jul 2020 03:25 AM PDT  Grimes told her partner, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, to switch off his phone: "Please stop this. I know this isn't your heart."
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| Louisiana Teens Left Body of Missing ASU Professor in a Dumpster: Police Posted: 24 Jul 2020 07:21 PM PDT  The case of a missing Arizona State University professor who vanished in March took a dark turn on Friday as police announced the discovery of his remains in a landfill, allegedly dumped by two Louisiana teenagers.Junseok Chae, associate dean for research at ASU's School of Engineering, was reported missing March 25 when he didn't return home from work at the university. Authorities began searching a dump in Surprise, Arizona on May 11, but only discovered his body on July 17 after a weeks-long manhunt that involved dozens of people working 15-hour shifts and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Police say they also found related evidence in the landfill.Two teenagers, Javian Ezell, 19, and Gabrielle Austin, 18, were arrested in Shreveport, Louisiana after allegedly being caught driving the professor's car. They face charges of first-degree murder, vehicle theft, and armed robbery. Police say the two allegedly killed Chae before leaving his body in a dumpster, which was then emptied out in the landfill. The motive and means of the alleged murder were not immediately clear, and police have not disclosed what relation, if any, the two teens had to the professor. Each is being held on a $1 million bond after extradition to Arizona. Chae, who received his undergraduate degree in South Korea, had worked at ASU researching and teaching electrical engineering and computer science since 2005. He held four patents, had published more than 150 academic papers, and authored a book, according to ASU's website.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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| 'I am in a risk category': Fauci explains why he won't be getting on a plane right now amid COVID-19 Posted: 24 Jul 2020 06:50 AM PDT  The next time you get on a plane, there's one person you aren't likely to run into: White House Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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| Georgia's governor and Atlanta's mayor ordered to mediate coronavirus mask fight Posted: 23 Jul 2020 05:04 PM PDT  A Georgia judge on Thursday ordered the governor and Atlanta's mayor to enter mediation over the governor's lawsuit aimed at stopping the city from enforcing its requirement that people wear masks in public during the coronavirus pandemic. Fulton Superior Court Judge Jane Barwick ordered Governor Brian Kemp and Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms to attend mediation with another judge and try to resolve the dispute before an emergency hearing scheduled in the case for Tuesday. Earlier this month, Kemp, a Republican, barred local leaders from requiring people to wear masks.
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| 'Ask Prince Andrew': Trump gives cryptic answer about Epstein island in newly resurfaced interview Posted: 23 Jul 2020 10:53 AM PDT  A video from 2015 has emerged in which Donald Trump directs reporters to "Ask Prince Andrew" about Jeffrey Epstein's private island.The encounter with reporters took place before Mr Trump entered the 2016 presidential race at that year's CPAC conservative conference.
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| LAPD officer and soon-to-be father dies of COVID-19 complications Posted: 24 Jul 2020 05:42 PM PDT  Officer Valentin Martinez, 45, was expecting twins with his partner and joined the force in 2007. The city's mayor has ordered flags to be lowered in his honor.
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| Iran protests to UN after US jets approach flight over Syria Posted: 24 Jul 2020 11:20 AM PDT  Iran protested Friday to the United Nations of a "flagrant violation" of international law after nearby US fighter jets sparked panic on an Iranian passenger plane over war-torn Syria. The incident on Thursday was the latest between arch-foes Tehran and Washington since US President Donald Trump in 2018 walked out of a nuclear accord with Iran and imposed punishing sanctions. Iran's state television broadcast footage filmed on a mobile phone of screaming passengers as the pilot of a Mahan Air plane on a flight from Tehran to Beirut took emergency action.
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| General Motors just teased an electric full-size Chevy pickup truck with 400 miles of range Posted: 24 Jul 2020 01:04 PM PDT  A Chevy EV pickup would join a GMC Hummer pickup, as well as a lineup of new EVs from Cadillac and Buick.
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| Prosecutor Falsely Claimed Patricia McCloskey’s Gun Was Capable of Firing When She Brandished It Outside Her Home Posted: 24 Jul 2020 09:40 AM PDT  Patricia McCloskey's handgun was inoperable when she brandished it to ward off demonstrators who had congregated on her front lawn, but a St. Louis prosecutor ordered crime lab technicians to reassemble the gun in working order and then attested that it was "readily capable of lethal use" in charging documents filed against McCloskey.McCloskey has stated that the handgun she used was inoperable, which under Missouri law would exonerate her from the charge of unlawful use of a weapon. However, assistant circuit attorney Chris Hinckley wrote that the gun was "readily capable of lethal use" when charging McCloskey on Monday, a St. Louis NBC affiliate reported."The firearm could not be test fired as submitted," reads a report from the St. Louis police crime lab obtained by 5 On Your Side. "At the request of ACA Chris Hinckley, the firearm was field stripped and found to have been assembled incorrectly….The firearm was reassembled properly, test fired and functioned as designed." Crime lab workers photographed the disassembly and reassembly process.McCloskey's husband Mark also brandished a firearm, an AR-15 rifle. The couple said they had intentionally rendered the handgun inoperable so that they could use it as a prop in court, in a separate case brought against a gun manufacturer."It's disheartening to learn that a law enforcement agency altered evidence in order to prosecute an innocent member of the community," the couple's attorney Joe Schwartz said. National Review has reached out to the St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office for comment.The McCloskeys responded to a June 28 incident during which George Floyd protesters broke into their gated community while attempting to reach the house of St. Louis mayor Lyda Krewson."The group began yelling obscenities and threats of harm to both victims," a police report stated. "When the victims observed multiple subjects who were armed, they then armed themselves and contacted police."Missouri attorney general Eric Schmitt has filed to dismiss the case against the couple.
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| Sudan mass grave linked to anti-Bashir coup attempt Posted: 24 Jul 2020 03:21 AM PDT  The 28 bodies are thought to be army officers involved in a failed coup against Omar al-Bashir in 1990.
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| A musician who felt the US was unsafe went to South Korea. He posted about his 2-week mandatory quarantine on TikTok, but wouldn't encourage others to leave. Posted: 24 Jul 2020 11:14 PM PDT  "They were very cautious the entire time. I was really impressed by how they handled everything," he told Insider.
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| Israeli police use water cannons on protesters, arrest 55 Posted: 23 Jul 2020 11:36 PM PDT  Israeli police used water cannons to disperse protesters in central Jerusalem and arrested at least 55 of them as clashes broke out overnight after thousands staged a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israelis have held a series of demonstrations in recent weeks calling on Netanyahu to resign, citing his trial on corruption charges and his fractious unity government's poor handling of the coronavirus pandemic. A smaller counterprotest in support of Netanyahu was held nearby, with the two camps separated by metal barricades and a large police presence.
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| Donald Trump Admits He ‘Often’ Retweets Without Thinking in Barstool Sports Interview Posted: 24 Jul 2020 01:15 PM PDT  President Donald Trump got just about as introspective as he's capable of getting during an interview with Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy this week at the White House.The interview included such hard-hitting questions as "Do you love doing Twitter?""There are times when I love it," Trump said with a smile. "Too much sometimes, right?" After getting his social-media guru Dan Scavino to confirm his current total number of followers, the president boasted about his "very big voice" in the face of "fake news," adding, "It's been very important for me." Then Portnoy, who made sure to point out that his nickname is "El Presidente," asked if the actual president ever tweets something out and then wakes up the next day and thinks, "Aw man, I wish I didn't send that one out." "Often," Trump replied. "Too often." He then went on to explain that "in the old days," people would write a letter and then put it in a drawer and decide the next day if they actually wanted to mail it. "But we don't do that with Twitter," he said. "We put it out instantaneously, we feel great, and then you start getting phone calls." When his staff asks him questions like, "Did you really say this?" Trump said that his first response is often, "What's wrong with that?" "You know what I find? It's not the tweets, it's the retweets that get you in trouble," Trump added. He didn't mention any specific examples, but it's quite possible the recent video of a supporter repeatedly shouting "White power!" may have been on his mind (among his other infamously bigoted or conspiratorial retweets). Portnoy then asked Trump how exactly he ends up retweeting so many "crazy" people. "You don't even look, you just press retweet, you just fire from the hip!" he said."Well, you see something that looks good and you don't investigate it," Trump replied, "and you don't look at exactly what is on the helmet, which is in miniature, and you don't blow it up. But I have found, almost always, it's the retweets that get you in trouble." "I've seen that a little bit with you," Portnoy agreed before moving on to bait Trump into trashing Dr. Anthony Fauci. Barstool Sports Employees of Color Go to Extremes to Get Founder Dave Portnoy's Half-Assed Apology for RacismInside Barstool Sports' Culture of Online Hate: 'They Treat Sexual Harassment and Cyberbullying as a Game'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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| Manson follower Leslie Van Houten could get parole Posted: 24 Jul 2020 03:32 AM PDT  Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten has been recommended for parole after serving nearly five decades in prison.
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| Exclusive: More than 40 countries accuse North Korea of breaching U.N. sanctions Posted: 24 Jul 2020 08:21 AM PDT  More than 40 countries accused North Korea on Friday of illicitly breaching a United Nations cap on refined petroleum imports and called for an immediate halt to deliveries until the end of the year, according to a complaint seen by Reuters. The 15-member U.N. Security Council imposed an annual cap of 500,000 barrels in December 2017 in a bid to cut off fuel for North Korea's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs. The complaint said North Korean vessels continue to conduct ship-to-ship transfers at sea "on a regular basis as the DPRK's primary means of importing refined petroleum."
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| Astrophysicists published the largest 3D map of the universe ever made, filling in 11 billion years of history Posted: 24 Jul 2020 07:29 AM PDT  It's the most comprehensive 3D map of the cosmos to date, covering millions of galaxies and supermassive black holes.
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| Man accused of running over Sikh man charged with hate crime Posted: 24 Jul 2020 01:31 PM PDT  A man accused of running over the Sikh owner of a suburban Denver liquor store after reportedly telling him and his wife to "go back to your country" is now facing a hate crime charge in addition to 16 other charges.
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| An antibody may be why some women have repeated miscarriages Posted: 24 Jul 2020 05:58 AM PDT  A Japanese study has indicated that the presence of a newly identified antibody may be responsible for repeated miscarriages in some women. The joint research carried out by scientists at Kobe and Osaka universities followed the discovery in 2015 of an autoantibody that could also be responsible for diseases such as thrombosis. Study participants were tested for the presence of the newly discovered autoantibody in their bodies, for which 23% of them were positive.
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| No masks, just questions, in Kansas counties with no cases Posted: 24 Jul 2020 12:57 PM PDT  Some businesses in two western Kansas counties that have yet to report a single positive coronavirus case aren't requiring customers to wear face masks — but they are asking whether they have traveled outside the county. Business owners in Rawlins and Wallace counties say they agree with local officials' decisions to opt out of an order from Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly requiring people to wear masks in public. In Wallace County, which borders Colorado, one restaurant posted on social media a graphic of a crossed out man with a face mask.
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| FAA orders emergency inspections of 2,000 Boeing 737s after engine failures post-coronavirus storage Posted: 24 Jul 2020 10:47 AM PDT  The FAA's emergency Airworthiness Directive, sparked by concerns about dual engine failure, does not apply to the grounded Boeing 737 Max.
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| Trump news: President boasts about being in rap songs after press secretary shares police 'propaganda' video and contradicts CDC coronavirus study Posted: 24 Jul 2020 12:52 PM PDT  White House secretary Kayleigh McEnany has defended Donald Trump over the well wishes he sent publicly to Ghislaine Maxwell, who has been charged with the sexual trafficking of young girls, while sharing a video of protestors described by critics as "propaganda" as the president threatens to send federal law enforcement to nationwide cities dealing with major demonstrations.Ms McEnany said that the president instead wanted "justice to be served for victims in this case". The United Nations has pleaded with the US to halt the use of force against journalists, at least 70 of which have been placed in custody during Black Lives Matter demonstrations.
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| Cuomo accuses U.S. immigration chiefs of breaching oath in travel lawsuit Posted: 24 Jul 2020 12:54 PM PDT  The U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan admitted late Thursday it had made inaccurate statements in a lawsuit brought by New York state over the Trusted Traveler program. It said the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would immediately lift the ban. "I believe there are civil damages that New York State is owed and we'll be pursuing possible claims for that," Cuomo said.
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| Bernie Sanders slams Tesla CEO Elon Musk, saying it's 'pathetic' that Musk is against another government stimulus package Posted: 24 Jul 2020 07:34 PM PDT  "Another government stimulus package is not in the best interests of the people imo," Elon Musk said on Twitter on Friday.
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| Dark history of transatlantic slavery traced through DNA study Posted: 23 Jul 2020 05:07 PM PDT  A new DNA study published Thursday sheds fresh light on the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade, from the legacy of rape that can be seen in today's genetics to how disease likely decimated some groups forced to work in deadly conditions. The grim results from a paper, which appeared in the American Journal of Human Genetics, compiled genetic data from 50,000 consenting research participants from both sides of the Atlantic. It cross-referenced these with detailed records from slave ships that transported 12.5 million men, women and children between 1515 and 1865.
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| Viewer spots Florida reporter Victoria Price's cancer growth Posted: 24 Jul 2020 04:06 PM PDT  After watching an on-air broadcast, an eagle-eyed viewer urged Victoria Price to see a doctor.
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| Minneapolis council shifts police media duties to city staff Posted: 24 Jul 2020 10:18 AM PDT  The Minneapolis City Council voted Friday to shift police media duties from the Police Department to city staff in what one council member called a move to improve trust, amid calls for changes in policing after George Floyd's death. The shift in media duties won't affect the city's bottom line, but was seen as emblematic of a struggle over the future of policing in Minneapolis, where a majority of council members favor replacing the current department with a different kind of public safety agency. Overall, the City Council members redirected more than $1 million from a $193 million police budget Friday.
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| The coronavirus curves are starting to flatten — again. But complacency now could prove deadly. Posted: 23 Jul 2020 12:08 PM PDT  There's no evidence from the rest of the world that relying on people to behave themselves can actually suppress the coronavirus to a manageable level, as opposed to merely slowing its spread. So far, only lockdowns have done that.
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| Trump swings at Republican leader Liz Cheney over her criticisms of his administration Posted: 23 Jul 2020 10:55 AM PDT  Liz Cheney, the highest-ranking Republican woman in Congress, has faced a series of attacks from other Republicans close to Donald Trump.
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| Mexican minister quits after clash over navy's anti-drugs role Posted: 23 Jul 2020 09:55 AM PDT  Mexico's communications and transportation minister said on Thursday he was resigning because he disagreed with President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's decision to hand control of ports to the navy as the government seeks to curb drug trafficking. Anxious to stop chemicals used to make narcotics entering the country, Lopez Obrador wants the navy to oversee ports and customs facilities, a decision that the outgoing minister, Javier Jimenez Espriu, was not in agreement with. "We had a dispute that happens between free men," Lopez Obrador said in a video announcing Jimenez Espriu's exit.
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| 3 storm systems bearing down on United States, the Caribbean Posted: 24 Jul 2020 08:24 PM PDT  While Hurricane Douglas is barreling toward Hawaii, tropical storms are taking aim at Texas and the Windward Islands.
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| De Blasio Quotes Marx’s Communist Manifesto in Discussion on Relationship with NYC Business Community Posted: 24 Jul 2020 10:28 AM PDT  New York mayor Bill de Blasio quoted Karl Marx when outlining the relationship he wanted his office to have with the city's business community, in an appearance on The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC.Host Brian Lehrer asked de Blasio how the mayor was approaching businesses for help with recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Lehrer said that the mayor was not known for extensive outreach to the business community given his focus on issues of wealth inequality."There's an underlying truth in the fact that my focus has not been on the business community and the elite," de Blasio said. "I am tempted to borrow a quote from Karl Marx here…""They'll love that on Wall Street," Lehrer interjects."Yes they will," de Blasio laughs. "There's a famous quote that 'the state is the executive committee of the bourgeoisie,' and I use that openly to say no, I read that as a young person and thought, well, that's not the way it's supposed to be."The quote comes from the first chapter of Marx's Communist Manifesto, in which Marx outlines his theory of the progressive advancement of the class of the bourgeoisie at the expense of the proletariat.The mayor continued in the interview, "We need to work with the business community, we will work with the business community, but the city government represents the people, represents working people….A lot of folks have just sort of hit a wall when I say guys, you're gonna have to pay more taxes, and we're gonna have policies that favor working people more."De Blasio ended by saying he knows that many businesses want to help with a "comeback" for the city, and that his administration "really appreciate[s] that."The interview was not the first time de Blasio has quoted a communist figure. In 2019, the mayor apologized after quoting communist revolutionary Che Guevara at a rally of striking airport workers in Miami."I did not know the phrase I used in Miami today was associated with Che Guevara & I did not mean to offend anyone who heard it that way. I certainly apologize for not understanding that history," de Blasio wrote on Twitter after backlash from Miami's Latino community, many of whom are Cuban exiles.
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| Christian abortion critics urge Dems to change platform Posted: 24 Jul 2020 06:05 AM PDT  A group of more than 100 Christian pastors, religion professors and other advocates is urging the Democratic National Committee to adopt a party platform that's friendlier to abortion opponents. In a letter organized by the anti-abortion group Democrats for Life and set to be sent Friday, the group of Christians calls on the Democratic Party to rescind its platform's support for ending restrictions on federal funding for abortion. Last year, Joe Biden, the Democrat's presumptive presidential nominee, shifted his position to back an end to restrictions on government funding for abortion.
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| Dr. Birx says 'we have to change our behavior now' as U.S. faces 'essentially three New Yorks' Posted: 24 Jul 2020 06:27 AM PDT  The White House's coronavirus task force coordinator is imploring Americans to change their behavior "now."Dr. Deborah Birx, response coordinator of President Trump's coronavirus task force, spoke to Today on Friday as new COVID-19 cases have continued to climb in the U.S. and especially in Texas, California, and Florida."I just want to make it clear to the American public: what we have right now are essentially three New Yorks with these three major states," Birx said. "And so we're really having to respond as an American people, and that's why you hear us calling for masks and increased social distancing to really stop the spread of this epidemic."New York was for a time the hardest-hit state in the U.S. during the coronavirus pandemic; its daily number of new COVID-19 cases has since fallen. California earlier this week surpassed New York as the state with the most reported coronavirus cases total, though its population is much larger, and New York has still reported more COVID-19 deaths. Texas and Florida have also faced surging COVID-19 cases in recent weeks.Birx described the nation's COVID-19 outbreak as "very serious," and speaking on Trump's recent decision to cancel the Florida portion of the Republican National Convention, she said this is an example of the kind of steps that are needed as the virus continues to spread."This is a signal to the American people: we have to change our behavior now before this virus completely moves back up through the north," she said. "We can do that, and we can do that as an American people." > White House task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx talks to @SavannahGuthrie about the rising coronavirus cases in states including Florida, Texas and California. > > "What we have right now are essentially three New Yorks with these three major states," she says. pic.twitter.com/mczzED47NX> > -- TODAY (@TODAYshow) July 24, 2020More stories from theweek.com The seaon's 1st Atlantic hurricane has formed The coming Republican power grab on the Supreme Court Current coronavirus wave 'could continue through the winter,' expert says
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| Coronavirus: The week when everything changed for Trump Posted: 25 Jul 2020 01:04 AM PDT  The president underwent a series of U-turns in an effort to save his re-election chances.
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| 'A handshake is a handshake': Friends split $22M Powerball jackpot, honoring years-old agreement Posted: 23 Jul 2020 12:15 PM PDT  Tom Cook and Joe Feeney are splitting a $22 million jackpot after Cook bought the winning ticket in Wisconsin.
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| France won't 'bow down' to criminal violence, vows interior minister Posted: 23 Jul 2020 10:41 AM PDT  France's new interior minister sought on Thursday to project a tougher stance on security after a shooting this week in a suburb of the Riviera city of Nice, saying the country would not bow to criminal violence. Gerald Darmanin, a close ally of former President Nicolas Sarkozy, was appointed by President Emmanuel Macron in a government reshuffle this month as the French leader sought to show he is tackling law and order. The minister traveled to Nice on Thursday to visit the Moulins district, where on Monday drug gangs clashed in broad daylight outside a supermarket, firing assault weapons after police arrests and a major drugs haul a week earlier.
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| NYPD chief tells officers to not let chokehold ban stop them Posted: 24 Jul 2020 06:08 PM PDT  The NYPD's chief of department raised eyebrows in a meeting on Thursday when he told officers they can't let chokehold bans keep them from doing their jobs.
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| US Army plans long-range missile fly-offs for future helicopters Posted: 24 Jul 2020 01:37 PM PDT  Fly-offs are coming up in the next few years to assess possible long-range missile options for the Army's future fleet of helicopters.
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