| Barack Obama put Kamala Harris in an impossible position Posted: 19 Aug 2020 09:05 PM PDT  The best that can be said of Kamala Harris' speech at the DNC on Wednesday night is that it was the second best of the evening. But putting it that way doesn't quite capture the reality of what happened. Barack Obama delivered an incredible speech — a rhetorically accomplished, complexly argued case for defeating Donald Trump, and he delivered it impeccably, staring straight into the camera, drilling right to the souls of the American people.In that respect, Harris was in an impossible position. Originally Obama's remarks were supposed to follow the speech of the vice-presidential nominee, but the former president reportedly suggested flipping the order once Harris' name was announced. That inadvertently set Harris up for failure. But if she had gone first, her pedestrian, disjointed speech, delivered in a tone of phony overacting, would have been largely forgotten by the morning. Obama really was that good, and Harris really was that bad.Rather than making an argument, Harris set out to do what she was expected to — introduce herself to the country. But she did it in a cloying, cliché-ridden way. And she wove the story of her family and career into the political history of the country by way of the identity-politics categories so beloved of left-wing activists and the Democratic Party's consultant class. She started by talking about women. Then transitioned to Black women. Then added in her Indian heritage, and Latinos. Later she name-checked Indigenous people, denounced structural racism, and then, in a tone of high earnestness, made the most cringe-inducing declaration of the entire convention so far: "There is no vaccine for racism."Unlike Obama, who used the camera so expertly, Harris delivered her remarks on a large stage ringed with American flags before an auditorium empty of all but a handful of journalists, photographers, and producers. The vibe started at awkward and sank lower from there.The cardinal rule for running-mates is to do no harm to the ticket. I doubt this single speech hurt the Democrats' prospects in November. But there is no way it helped.More stories from theweek.com 5 bitingly funny cartoons about the Democratic National Convention Kansas City Chiefs to ban fans from wearing headdresses to home games A confused Kirsten Dunst asks Kanye West why he put her on his campaign poster
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| Open mic catches Sen. Tom Carper cursing during Senate hearing on U.S. Postal Service Posted: 21 Aug 2020 08:18 AM PDT  Sen. Tom Carper said the "F-word" three times during a virtual Senate hearing on the United States Postal Service, which aired uncensored over C-SPAN.
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| Chief: Tennessee officers broke down door of innocent family Posted: 20 Aug 2020 07:57 AM PDT  Three white Tennessee police officers have had their police powers suspended after they broke down the door of an innocent Black family early Tuesday morning. Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake ordered a full investigation of the incident by the department's Office of Professional Accountability. "No innocent family in Nashville, anywhere, should be subjected to what the mother and her two children went through on Tuesday morning," Drake said in a news release.
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| Fox News Runs Wild With Bogus AOC Biden ‘Snub’ Controversy Posted: 19 Aug 2020 11:25 AM PDT  Fox News' opinion and "hard news" wings have seemingly gone all-in on a new, misleading narrative about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Tuesday evening DNC speech nominating runner-up Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) for president, repeatedly suggesting that the progressive star "snubbed" Joe Biden as a sign of Democrats in disarray.Shortly after Ocasio-Cortez's largely procedural and symbolic act of seconding Sanders' nomination on Tuesday evening—a speech which also featured her checking off a number of policy positions she shares with the democratic-socialist senator—several media outlets noted that she never mentioned by name Joe Biden—the party's actual nominee—in her brief remarks.The New York congresswoman immediately clarified her role in the convention's formalities while simultaneously pointing out that she supports Biden's candidacy in the general election."If you were confused, no worries! Convention rules require roll call & nominations for every candidate that passes the delegate threshold. I was asked to 2nd the nom for Sen. Sanders for roll call," she tweeted. "I extend my deepest congratulations to @JoeBiden - let's go win in November."NBC News, meanwhile, tweeted that the congresswoman "did not endorse Joe Biden" in her speech—fundamentally misrepresenting the tradition and formality behind her speech. Eventually the network deleted the tweet and issued an "editor's note and clarification" noting that NBC "should have included more detail in the nominating process." Ocasio-Cortez, however, said the damage had already been done, adding that media outlets knew "WELL in advance" the nature of her "routine" speech.> You waited several hours to correct your obvious and blatantly misleading tweet. > > It sparked an enormous amount of hatred and vitriol, & now the misinfo you created is circulating on other networks. > > All to generate hate-clicks from a pre-recorded, routine procedural motion. https://t.co/crDlEymgMD> > -- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 19, 2020While NBC News corrected its story, the right-leaning New York Post ran headlong with the narrative that Ocasio-Cortez essentially went rogue and publicly dissed the former vice president, publishing the headline: "AOC nominates Bernie Sanders, snubs Joe Biden in DNC address." The paper, a Murdoch-owned sister publication of Fox News, also ran a cover photo of the congresswoman with the caption "AOCYA, JOE!"And so, of course, the deceptively twisted narrative made its way over to Fox, with the network's hosts and reporters devoting multiple segments to peddling the line that Ocasio-Cortez used her 60-second ceremonial speech to burn Biden.As the Fox & Friends hosts held up a copy of the Post, Brian Kilmeade declared that "one of the biggest stories" coming out of the DNC was the "hostage video" of AOC "endorsing Bernie Sanders." This was all a plan by the far left to take over the Democratic Party, the Fox host suggested."It looks like there is an agenda trying to get out with Bernie Sanders leading off day one and AOC with her held-to-one-minute speech endorsing Bernard Sanders right after," Kilmeade continued. "The theory is, and it's hard to push it down, that once Joe Biden is elected, this party is going flying left, and when things like that happen and you see someone like AOC with the social media rock star she, is basically saying everything bad about the country, where she wants to take it, and what Bernie Sanders would do for it. Bad combination!"Fox News correspondent Griff Jenkins, meanwhile, called Ocasio-Cortez's speech the "snub of the night," later adding that the symbolic and long-traditional procedure of nominating a candidate who passed a delegate threshold was shocking."Now, many people wondered what Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would do with her short time," Jenkins said. "She nominated Bernie Sanders, which shocked many. She later clarified in a tweet that the convention organizers had asked her to do so, because Sanders had met the delegate threshold to be nominated. However, the organizers did not instruct her to specifically not mention Biden's name, which was perceived by many as a snub."Speaking to the hosts about the convention, The Hill's media reporter Joe Concha also suggested Ocasio-Cortez deliberately snubbed the Democratic Party standard-bearer."AOC, on top of that, during her 60-second speech doesn't bring up two words very key. It's a name. Joe Biden," Concha said. "Didn't even mention him once. How do you have a Democratic National Convention and not even bring up the nominee?"The concerted effort to push a classic "Dems in disarray" narrative continued on America's Newsroom, one of the network's ostensibly "straight news" programs. "I can't help but ask you about what we saw and heard from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in her one-minute delivery," anchor Sandra Smith wondered during an interview with conservative pundit Byron York. "She didn't even mention Joe Biden by name. The New York Post takes it on this morning: 'AOCYA, JOE!' She had her moment and didn't say Joe Biden's name."The program ran several other segments featuring on-air graphics that blared "Ocasio-Cortez Pushes Progressive Platform During Speech, But Doesn't Mention Biden" and "Critics Blast Rep Ocasio-Cortez For Leaving Biden Out Of Convention Speech." The "critics" in question, however, were left to the viewers' imaginations.At the same time, while the show obsessed over the non-story, Smith corrected White House counselor Kellyanne Conway for claiming Ocasio-Cortez "endorsed" Sanders at the DNC."To be clear, that's been reported as a lack of endorsement on her part for Joe Biden. She has asked for clarification from other news outlets this morning, not us, saying that that wasn't the case," Smith said. "She didn't mention Joe Biden's name last night, but she does support Joe Biden. She put that out there this morning."Moments later, however, Trace Gallagher questioned a Democratic flack over what the Fox anchor said was a "very confusing" message delivered by the progressive lawmaker at the DNC."I know it was symbolic, Zach, you know, this nomination of Bernie Sanders, but it was also very confusing," Gallagher said to ex-Obama campaign spokesperson Zach Friend. "This cannot, Zach, be the message that the Biden campaign was hoping for."After Friend pointed out that this was actually fairly common in past conventions and that it was intended to be a "good show of unity," Gallagher insisted that it was still extremely confusing before blasting the DNC for not providing more clarity.And so Fox's admitted confusion about a fairly mundane process results in a bogus narrative pushed across its programming.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. 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| Trump's QAnon embrace draws GOP backlash Posted: 20 Aug 2020 10:46 AM PDT  "Why in the world would the president not kick QAnon supporters' butts?" former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush tweeted.
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| U.S. to ask top court to restore Boston Marathon bomber Tsarnaev's death sentence Posted: 20 Aug 2020 04:30 PM PDT  The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday it will ask the nation's top court to reinstate Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence for helping carry out the 2013 attack that killed three people and wounded more than 260 others. U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling in Boston said that after considering victims' views, the department had decided to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review an appellate court's July 31 decision to order a new death penalty phase trial for Tsarnaev. "Our hope is that this will result in reinstatement of the original sentence and avoid a retrial of the death penalty phase," Lelling said in a statement.
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| US Army’s future missile defense command system nearly simultaneously defeats cruise, ballistic missile threats Posted: 21 Aug 2020 08:26 AM PDT  Find out how the Army's most recent IBCS live-fire test went, and see footage a Black Dagger target missile launch.
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| A lawyer for a police officer charged in George Floyd's death says Floyd 'killed himself' by dying from an overdose and a heart condition Posted: 20 Aug 2020 08:18 AM PDT  The lawyer for Thomas Lane, a former Minneapolis police officer, said the cops charged in George Floyd's death were just "doing their jobs."
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| American universities, including Harvard and Princeton, weigh options to protect students from political prosecution under China's new national security law Posted: 19 Aug 2020 09:51 PM PDT  "We have to leave it up to the students whether they enroll because it is ultimately their lives that are going to be affected."
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| Double trouble: Pair of tropical systems could near US as powerful storms early next week Posted: 20 Aug 2020 02:41 PM PDT  A pair of tropical depressions were forecast to approach U.S. shores by early next week, the National Hurricane Center said Thursday.
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| Slovakia condemns Belgian police brutality against citizen Posted: 21 Aug 2020 05:53 AM PDT  Slovakia's foreign minister on Friday condemned the violent treatment of a Slovak citizen by police officers at a Belgian airport and demanded a thorough investigation. Foreign Minister Ivan Korcok commented on the case after a Belgian newspaper this week published a 2018 video of an officer sitting on top of a man at Brussels South Charleroi Airport and another officer apparently making a Hitler salute.
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| Trump claims 'something is wrong' with Joe Biden and compares himself to a chess grandmaster Posted: 20 Aug 2020 07:06 PM PDT  Donald Trump, counter-programming the Democratic National Convention, told Fox News "something is wrong with Joe Biden that leaves the party's soon-to-be presidential nominee "fight back" against lefist forces. He also"They've forced him to support things that no one ever would have thought," the president told Sean Hannity of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. "And he's not in a position to fight back. ... Something's going on. I assume we'll be able to find out ... sooner rather than later. A few minutes later, the 74-year-old Mr Trump compared himself to a world-class chess player, contending Mr Biden lacks the mental capacity at 77 to stand up to the world's harshest leaders, like Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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| Rep. Joe Kennedy III denies knowledge that his father contributed millions to super-PAC in support of Senate race Posted: 19 Aug 2020 02:12 PM PDT  Massachusetts congressman and Senate primary candidate Joe Kennedy III tells Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff that he had no knowledge that his father, Joe Kennedy II, had transferred a large sum of money into a super-PAC supporting his primary run against Sen. Ed Markey.
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| Under arrest for corruption, Mexico's former oil boss takes aim at three ex-presidents Posted: 20 Aug 2020 06:12 PM PDT  Former Pemex chief Emilio Lozoya accuses former presidents and others of payoffs, bribery, extortion and vote-buying.
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| Brazil's Guedes slams Senate overturning presidential veto on public sector pay rise Posted: 19 Aug 2020 07:27 PM PDT  Brazil's Economy Minister Paulo Guedes called a Senate decision on Wednesday to overturn a presidential veto blocking public sector pay rises during the COVID-19 pandemic a "disaster" and a "crime" against the people. President Jair Bolsonaro's veto, barring pay rises for civil servants in return for disbursing 60 billion reais ($11 billion) of aid to states and local authorities, will now be voted on in the lower house on Thursday. Speaking to reporters in Brasilia, Guedes said overturning the veto could see local governments take funds away from health spending and channel them towards public sector salaries.
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| Body cam footage shows Phoenix police restraining a man on asphalt in 100-degree heat who later died Posted: 20 Aug 2020 02:08 PM PDT  Phoenix police launched an internal investigation and released footage showing the arrest of Ramon Lopez, 28, who died in hospital shortly afterward.
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| Greece denies illegally pushing migrants back to sea after New York Times investigation found 1,000 cases Posted: 20 Aug 2020 06:33 AM PDT  Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has denied renewed claims of illegal pushbacks of asylum-seekers at sea and accused Turkey of peddling "misinformation" about his country's "tough but fair" border management. "If there's any incident that needs to be explored, if there's any exaggeration at any given point, I'm going to be the first to look into it," Mitsotakis told CNN late Wednesday. "Greece is a country that respects the rule of law, we've granted asylum to tens of thousands of people," the PM said. The New York Times on August 14 said Greece was "abandoning" migrants at sea for the Turkish coastguard to rescue. It said it had interviewed survivors from five such episodes, and cited additional evidence from independent watchdogs, two academic researchers and the Turkish coastguard. Based on its research, the Times said more than 1,000 asylum seekers had been "dropped at sea" since March. Mitsotakis said the reports "essentially originate from Turkey". "Some of these reporters who do these types of exploratory journalism should be more careful in checking their sources," he said. "These types of reports are also an insult to our coastguard (which) has saved literally tens of thousands of refugees and migrants at sea, and our islands have always provided shelter to those in greater need," Mitsotakis said.
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| How Did Two U.S. Military Drones Collide Over Syria? Posted: 20 Aug 2020 06:29 AM PDT  They were likely keeping tabs on remnants of the Islamic State. So what happened?
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| Army asks for help in a search for missing Fort Hood soldier Posted: 20 Aug 2020 07:49 PM PDT  The U.S. Army is asking for the public's help in a search for another missing soldier in Texas. Fort Hood officials issued a missing soldier alert Thursday night for Sgt. Elder Fernandes, 23. Police in nearby Killeen said Fernandes was reported missing Wednesday and was last seen or heard from Monday afternoon when his staff sergeant dropped Fernandes off at his home in Killeen.
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| Colombia calls on US to extradite warlord over fears he will escape justice Posted: 20 Aug 2020 10:33 AM PDT  Salvatore Mancuso, free after a 12-year drug sentence, is wanted for gross human rights violations but is seeking to be deported to ItalyColombia has requested the extradition of a notorious paramilitary warlord jailed in the US on drug charges, amid fears that he may be deported to Italy – and escape justice for human rights crimes in the Andean nation.Salvatore Mancuso, 56, led a rightwing paramilitary group which carried out some of the worst violence against civilians during Colombia's decades-long civil war.He was convicted in Colombia of more than 1,500 murders and forced disappearances, and confessed to participating in a string of horrific crimes. But in 2008 was extradited to the US where he served 12 years of a 15-year sentence on drug trafficking charges.When was released in March, his lawyers claimed that he would be killed if he returns to Colombia, and argued that he should instead be deported to Italy, where he also holds citizenship.From there it is unlikely that he will answer for his crimes in Colombia, as the two countries do not share an extradition treaty."Salvatore Mancuso has serious outstanding debts with Colombian justice and for that I reason I have requested his extradition," Colombia's president, Iván Duque, tweeted on Thursday morning amid growing outcry over the case. "His crimes will not continue to be met with impunity."Mancuso, the well-educated son of an Italian immigrant from Colombia's cattle-ranching north-west, is the highest-ranking former commander of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia still alive. He signed off on countless atrocities during a three-way conflict between leftwing rebels and state forces often acting in collusion with the paramilitaries.In February 2000, militiamen under his command tortured and dismembered more than 60 peasant farmers in the rural village of El Salado, in one of the worst single acts of violence in the five-decade war. Victims – including a six-year-old girl and an elderly woman – were stabbed, beaten and strangled to death.Yirley Velasco, now 34, was 14 when four of Mancuso's men pinned her down in front of the village and sexually abused her after killing her neighbours."We're still wearing the scars of what he and his men did to us, every day we are tortured by it, so how could it be fair that he gets to live comfortably in Italy?" she said on Thursday.The conflict between the Colombian state and leftist rebel groups including the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (or Farc) left 260,000 dead and displaced over 7 million.A peace deal was signed with the Farc in 2016, which brought with it a truth and justice tribunal. Campaigners say that Mancuso, who has already implicated high-profile politicians in his crimes, must answer to it."He must come to Colombia to tell the truth about the political and business leaders that were involved," said Iván Cepeda, a prominent leftist senator whose father, a congressman, was murdered by paramilitaries in 1994.Rosario Montoya, 62, an afro-indigenous organiser from Mancuso's home-province of Córdoba, was forced to run from one of his death squads in 1987 after many of her neighbours and fellow activists had been murdered."They exterminated us and they stole our land and yet only Mancuso knows the truth of what happened," Montoya said. "We're not hoping that he gets punished, we're just hoping to hear who gave him the orders."
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| It turns out Mitch McConnell will appear at the RNC after all Posted: 20 Aug 2020 10:16 PM PDT  After some back and forth, it's been confirmed that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will make an appearance at next week's Republican National Convention.McConnell is up for re-election in November, and his campaign spokeswoman, Katharine Cooksey, said in a statement on Thursday that he would not be part of the convention. Instead, he planned on "traveling across all corners of Kentucky next week to speak with families, workers, and job creators about their needs." A few hours later, Cooksey changed course, saying there was a "miscommunication" and McConnell will be recording a message for the convention, The Hill reports. Like the Democratic National Convention this week, the RNC will be mostly virtual. President Trump will give his address from the White House, and told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday night that he wants to have more live parts than the DNC did, because otherwise the event will be "boring."More stories from theweek.com Trump says he'll send law enforcement, sheriffs to polling places on Election Day Trump initially responds to Biden's acceptance speech with brevity and correct grammar Joe Biden's speech even wowed his critics: 'Biden crushed expectations'
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| Fact check: Vice President Mike Pence 'can't wait' to be on debate stage with Kamala Harris Posted: 20 Aug 2020 05:20 PM PDT  The vice president has said on at least two occasions that he's looking forward to debating the Democratic senator in October in Utah.
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| Hong Kong court blocks release of first person charged under new security law Posted: 21 Aug 2020 02:57 AM PDT  Police said Tong Ying-kit, 23, carried a sign reading "Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times," and drove his motorbike into officers, knocking down several on a narrow street, before falling over and getting arrested. The government of the Asian financial hub has said the protest slogan connotes separatism or subversion under the new law, stoking concern over freedom of expression in the former British colony. Two judges of Hong Kong's High Court rejected Tong's application for release from detention, and set Tuesday for a bail hearing.
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| Mask breach forces Delta Air Lines to ban former Navy Seal who said he killed Osama bin Laden Posted: 20 Aug 2020 08:03 PM PDT  A former Navy Seal who has said he killed Osama bin Laden has been banned by Delta Air Lines after removing his mask during a flight. American Robert O'Neill tweeted about his ban on Thursday, and the airline confirmed the action. "Part of every customer's commitment prior to travelling on Delta is the requirement to acknowledge our updated travel policies, which includes wearing a mask," the airline said in a statement. "Failure to comply with our mask-wearing mandate can result in losing the ability to fly Delta in the future." All major US airlines require passengers to wear face coverings to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Delta said it had banned more than 100 passengers for violating the rule. Mr O'Neill posted a selfie showing himself, with no mask, on a Delta Connection flight on Wednesday from Minneapolis to Newark, New Jersey. Other passengers in the photo, including a man across the aisle who was wearing a Marine Corps hat, were wearing masks. The tweet was later deleted. In another tweet on Thursday, Mr O'Neill said: "Thank God it wasn't @Delta flying us in when we killed bin Laden... we weren't wearing masks..."
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| At least 5 people killed in Northern California wildfires Posted: 19 Aug 2020 10:20 PM PDT  Dozens of wildfires raging throughout Northern California have now claimed at least five lives and threaten tens of thousands of homes, authorities said Thursday. The death of a resident in Solano County, in the northeastern San Francisco Bay Area, was reported Thursday by Sheriff Thomas A. Ferrara, although he didn't have any additional details. In addition, three civilians had died in Napa County since the fires began, said Daniel Berlant, a Cal Fire assistant deputy director.
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| Army Destroys Cruise and Ballistic Missile Targets in 2nd Test of New Defense System Posted: 21 Aug 2020 07:07 AM PDT  It was the final live-fire exercise in a limited user test of the Army's Integrated Battle Command System.
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| Goodyear distances itself from viral image that drew Trump's ire Posted: 19 Aug 2020 11:55 AM PDT  The giant tiremaker responded to a local news report with an image that purported to show a "zero-tolerance policy" that does not allow political messaging, including MAGA attire.
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| Michael Bloomberg robbed the DNC Posted: 20 Aug 2020 08:14 PM PDT  We now know how much the going rate is for a spot at the Democratic National Convention. Michael Bloomberg spoke for five minutes on Thursday night not long before the nominee itself, a role arguably more prominent than that of Bernie Sanders, the much-abused runner-up.The former New York mayor's remarks were exactly what you would expect. He began by pointing out that he is not a Democrat. He gloated about the vast amounts of money he has given to buy politicians in all parties. He quoted a children's book. He talked about the importance of experts, like the ones he deferred to when he doubled down on the brutal policing tactics that have been the subject of protests across the country. He even said "hell" twice.The best part is that he didn't even have to pay for it. Bloomberg reneged on his promise back in March to keep the thousands of paid staff members who carried him to his towering victory in the 2020 American Samoa Democratic primary onboard until the general election. He has given a whopping $18 million to the party itself and just over $4 million to other grassroots organizations this year. He also offered them some useless free office space during the lockdown.At least President Trump was watching. > After the worst debate performance in the history of politics, Michael Bloomberg, commonly known as Mini Mike, is trying to make a comeback by begging the Democrats for relevance. They treated him like a dog - and always will. Before politics, he said GREAT things about me!> > -- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 21, 2020More stories from theweek.com Trump says he'll send law enforcement, sheriffs to polling places on Election Day Trump initially responds to Biden's acceptance speech with brevity and correct grammar Joe Biden's speech even wowed his critics: 'Biden crushed expectations'
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| Megan Boswell, mom of Tennessee's 2-year-old 'Baby Evelyn,' has been charged with her murder months after the toddler's remains were found Posted: 20 Aug 2020 01:05 PM PDT  Evelyn Boswell went missing in December, but a family member didn't report it until February. Her remains were found on a family member's property.
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| Venezuela coast could take half a century to recover from oil spill, researcher says Posted: 19 Aug 2020 02:05 PM PDT  A strip of Venezuela's western coastline boasting pristine beaches and fragile ecosystems like mangroves and coral reefs could take more than half a century to fully recover from the environmental impacts of a recent oil spill, a researcher said on Wednesday. The country's opposition-controlled National Assembly last week opened an investigation to determine the causes and consequences of the oil slicks that began washing up on the Caribbean coast of western Falcon state in early August. "We project that the negative consequences on ecosystems and their components could last for 50 years or more," Julia Alvarez, a biologist with Venezuela's SVE ecological society, told reporters.
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| Hong Kong: US suspends extradition treaty over national security law Posted: 20 Aug 2020 01:14 AM PDT  Three treaties between the US and Hong Kong were suspended, the latest move to pressure China.
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| 2 soldiers appeared in a DNC speech in their combat uniforms, and the US Army says they may have broken rules about partisanship Posted: 19 Aug 2020 01:40 PM PDT  The Department of Defense said it's investigating the presence of troops in a roll call clip by the U.S. territory American Samoa.
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| Mexico graft case: Ferrari for the president, bags of cash Posted: 20 Aug 2020 03:04 PM PDT  The alleged examples of kickbacks, bribes and graft contained in leaked accusations by a former Mexican official contain some of the oddest, most banal and most colorful instances of corruption seen in a while, ranging from a flashy sports car to a request for payment of school fees. The ex-head of Mexico's state oil company, Emilio Lozoya, said some opposition legislators demanded about $50 million in bribes to vote for an oil privatization reform. GRAFT ON WHEELS: In 2015, one of Mexico's most openly corrupt governors, Javier Duarte — currently in prison — purportedly approached then President Enrique Peña Nieto and gave him a mysterious folder.
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| Wolverines spotted at Mount Rainier National Park for the first time in over 100 years Posted: 20 Aug 2020 03:23 PM PDT  "It's really, really exciting," said Mount Rainier National Park Superintendent Chip Jenkins.
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| Bubbles lead scientists to new coronavirus clue Posted: 19 Aug 2020 12:10 PM PDT  Dr. Alexandra Reynolds, a neurologist at New York's Mount Sinai Health System, was checking on a comatose COVID-19 patients for signs of a stroke and instead stumbled onto a new clue about how the virus may harm the lungs, thanks to a test that used tiny air bubbles and a robot.
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| Sturgis motorcycle rally tied to new coronavirus cases a state away in Nebraska Posted: 20 Aug 2020 05:26 PM PDT  The annual 10-day rally, which took place in South Dakota, began August 7 and attracted more than 460,000 vehicles.
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| Pelosi Accuses Trump, McConnell of ‘Standing in the Way,’ Vows to Flip House and Senate in Convention Speech Posted: 19 Aug 2020 08:02 PM PDT  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday addressed the Democratic National Convention and vowed to over come Republican obstruction by securing Democratic majorities in both chambers of Congress in November.Pelosi said Democrats in the House have passed and sent bills to the Senate dealing with health care costs, raising paychecks, voting rights, police reform, immigration, LGBT rights, gun violence, and climate change, among other issues."All of this is possible for America," Pelosi said. "Who was standing in the way? Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump.""Our nation faces the worst health and economic catastrophe in our history," the California Democrat continued.Pelosi said that the $3 trillion coronavirus stimulus package proposed by Democrats "is essential to safeguard lives, livelihood, and the life of our democracy.""And who was standing in the way? Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump," she said. "Instead of crushing the virus, they're trying to crush the Affordable Care Act."Pelosi also repeated Democrats' commitment to preserving abortion access."We are unleashing the power of women to take our rightful place in our national life by championing a woman's right to choose and defending Roe v. Wade," she said."Who's standing in the way? Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump," she repeated.Democrats are also considering a move known as the "nuclear option," or changing Senate rules to eliminate the 60-vote threshold currently required to end debate, which would allow a future Democratic Senate majority to pass legislation with a simple majority of 51 votes."We will increase our majority in the House. We will win a Democratic majority in the Senate. We will elect Kamala Harris vice president. And we will elect Joe Biden president of the United States of America," Pelosi promised.Also slated to speak Wednesday night at the convention are former president Barack Obama, 2016 Democratic nominee for president Hillary Clinton, and Senator Kamala Harris, who is presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden's running mate.
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| ‘No one wants to touch this case.’ Probe into payoffs in NFL players’ case goes nowhere. Posted: 20 Aug 2020 03:00 AM PDT  A police investigation revealed that a Miami high school football coach might have paid $55,000 in cash to four men who claimed they'd been robbed by two NFL players in Miramar. The payoffs, according to a detective's report, were made so the victims would change their story — and took place in a downtown Miami law office.
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| Poland reports record daily coronavirus figures Posted: 21 Aug 2020 01:38 AM PDT |
| Kim Jong-un gives sister Yo-jong 'more responsibilities' Posted: 20 Aug 2020 04:57 AM PDT  Kim Yo-jong has reportedly been given responsibility for North Korean policy towards the US.
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| Why Putin Is Unlikely to Come to Belarusian President Lukashenko's Rescue Posted: 20 Aug 2020 03:07 AM PDT  Another government friendly to Moscow is in trouble. As Belarus continues to be gripped by protests following rigged presidential elections on Aug. 9, many expect to see Russia's Vladimir Putin intervene. Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus' President for the past 26 years, certainly hopes Putin steps in to bail him out.
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| Congressman seeks to end park's designation as Lee memorial Posted: 20 Aug 2020 06:25 AM PDT  A northern Virginia congressman is pursuing legislation to remove Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's name from the official designation at the historic mansion where he lived before the Civil War. The home, overlooking the nation's capital and surrounded by Arlington National Cemetery, is a National Park Service site officially known as "Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial." Congress renamed the site in 1972 to add Lee's name and designate it as a memorial to him.
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| Salvors begin sinking ship which ran aground off Mauritius Posted: 20 Aug 2020 11:22 AM PDT  Salvage crews on Thursday began the process of sinking the broken stem of a Japanese-owned ship which ran aground off Mauritius, leading to a major oil spill and ecological disaster for the Indian Ocean island.
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