| Ivanka Trump said her son built a Lego replica of the White House for her father. She told a similar story about herself 13 years ago. Posted: 28 Aug 2020 07:57 AM PDT  It does seem as if her son built the Lego White House, but it's not on the mantelpiece for President Donald Trump to show off to world leaders.
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| Kyle Rittenhouse, 17-year-old charged in Kenosha protest shootings, considered himself militia, social media posts show Posted: 26 Aug 2020 02:01 PM PDT  Kyle Rittenhouse, charged with shooting three people during a Kenosha protest, thought of himself as a militia member, according to social media posts
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| More than 750,000 still without power in Laura's aftermath Posted: 27 Aug 2020 09:06 PM PDT  Hundreds of thousands of people across Louisiana were still without power or water Friday, a day after Laura sawed a devastating path through the state, while the hurricane's remnants carried tropical rain and wind across Tennessee and posed new dangers. Flooding and tornadoes were possible as the storm, now a tropical depression, drifted north. Forecasters warned that the system could strengthen into a tropical storm again upon returning to the Atlantic Ocean this weekend.
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| California relies on inmate fire crews who compare the dangerous job to 'slave work' Posted: 28 Aug 2020 08:27 AM PDT  Among those working around the clock to contain about 7,000 blazes in California are approximately 3,100 inmates trained as wildland firefighters.
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| Iranian man sentenced to nine years in prison for beheading daughter while she slept in 'honour killing' Posted: 28 Aug 2020 06:25 AM PDT  An Iranian has been sentenced to nine years in jail for beheading his teenaged daughter in her sleep, local media reported Friday, adding that the mother wants him executed. The so-called "honour" killing of 14-year-old Romina Ashrafi on May 21 sparked widespread outrage, with media condemning "institutionalised violence" in the Islamic republic. Media said Romina was decapitated at the family home in the village of Talesh in the northern province of Gilan. "Despite the judicial authorities' insistence on a 'special handling' of the case, the verdict has terrified me and my family," Rana Dashti, the mother, told ILNA news agency. "I don't want my husband to return to our village ever again," she said, calling for the verdict to be reviewed and changed to "execution". Having lived with the man for 15 years, Dashti said she now fears for the life of the rest of her family. Ebtekar newspaper said at the time of Romina's killing that Iran's "eye for an eye" retributive justice does not apply to a father who kills his child, for which the customary sentence is jail time and fines. Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has "expressed his regrets" following the girl's killing and called for the speedy passing of several anti-violence bills. Romina had reportedly run away after the father refused to give permission for her to marry a man 15 years her senior. But she was detained by authorities and taken home, despite having pleaded with a judge that she feared for her life if returned. The man she wanted to marry, Bahman Khavari, was sentenced to two years in prison, local media said, without specifying the charge. The legal age of marriage for women in Iran is 13.
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| RNC video showing violence in 'Biden's America' is actually Barcelona Posted: 27 Aug 2020 09:39 AM PDT  The Republican National Convention aired a video meant to paint the George Floyd protests and Black Lives Matter demonstrations as inherently violent, chaotic events, but included a scene from protests in Barcelona, Spain.A public broadcaster in Catalonia reported that the images in question - of fires burning in the streets - were captured in 2019 in Barcelona. The protests in Spain began after a Spanish court sentenced Catalan separatists to prison.
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| Arizona GOP worried Trump and McSally will cost them the state: “Arizonans are fed up” Posted: 27 Aug 2020 03:00 AM PDT  Trump and McSally's sagging poll numbers now threaten to flip both chambers of the state legislature to Democrats
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| Fact check: 'Sharia patrol force' won't roam Minneapolis if police force is dismantled Posted: 26 Aug 2020 12:18 PM PDT  A distortion of one state representative's unfounded claims led some to believe a 'Sharia patrol force' will soon police Minneapolis. It won't.
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| Heffernan: Can Kimberly Guilfoyle save American politics from vulgar preening? Posted: 28 Aug 2020 03:00 AM PDT  Maybe this century's bipartisan obsession with vulgar preening will be bookended by Guilfoyle's 2004 "New Kennedys" photo and her freeze-frame meme from the 2020 RNC.
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| The DNC warned campaign staffers to 'swipe carefully' on dating apps because matches could be political opponents digging for dirt Posted: 27 Aug 2020 01:15 PM PDT  A Democratic official told Business Insider that the warning is "nothing new" and that campaign staff are frequently reminded to be vigilant online.
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| China arrests 12 fleeing Hong Kong by speedboat: city police Posted: 28 Aug 2020 05:33 AM PDT  A dozen people fleeing Hong Kong on a speedboat, including an activist arrested under the draconian new national security law, have been captured by China, police in the city said Friday.
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| US imposes sanctions on Chinese defense firms over maritime dispute Posted: 27 Aug 2020 06:51 AM PDT  Some of the Chinese enterprises caught up in the latest U.S. sanctions were on the Defense News Top 100 list this year, which ranks defense companies around the world based on their defense-related revenue.
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| Jerry Falwell Jr 'enjoyed watching' his wife have sex, alleged lover says Posted: 28 Aug 2020 06:50 AM PDT  Giancarlo Granda says Liberty University head, who quit over sex scandal, knew of his relationship with Becki Falwell 'from day one'Giancarlo Granda, the man at the center of a sex scandal involving Jerry Falwell Jr, detailed on Friday how the evangelical leader and outspoken ally of Donald Trump "enjoyed watching" his wife and Granda having sex.In an interview with ABC News, Granda said he met Becki Falwell and Jerry Falwell, who resigned as president of the Christian, uber-conservative Liberty university this week, at a hotel in Florida in 2012.Granda, who was 20 at the time, said a relationship developed, which centered around him and Becki Falwell having sex while Jerry Falwell was in the room."He was aware from day one of our relationship, and he did in fact watch," Granda said.Falwell, one of the most influential evangelical figures in the US whose endorsement of Donald Trump in 2016 helped the president win the Republican primary, has had a remarkable fall from grace over the course of August.Falwell resigned from the university on 24 August, after Granda first went public with his story, telling Reuters he had a years-long sexual relationship involving the Falwells.Speaking to ABC's Good Morning show Granda gave a detailed account of the relationship.Granda, 29, said he was working the Fontainebleu hotel when he met Becki Falwell."I'm talking to some guests and I notice this woman behind me, staring at me, and she was noticeably drunk. And she was just flirting with me, and then we start flirting back and forth," Granda said."Towards the end of my work shift, she's like: 'Hey would you wanna go back to my hotel room?' And as a single 20-year-old I'm like yeah, of course."And then she's like: 'But my husband wants to watch.'Granda said: "Immediately I thought it was a bit strange, and I backed off. [Then] she's like: 'Oh no, he's not going to do anything. He's just gonna sit in a corner and he wants to watch and it's his thing.'"An initial sexual encounter developed into a years-long relationship with the couple, Granda told Reuters, with he and Becki Falwell having sex "multiple times a year" while Jerry Falwell watched.Falwell would later go into business with Granda, buying a Miami hostel.After Reuters published the interview with Granda on Monday, Falwell denied he was part of the trysts, and suggested his wife had an affair. "Becki had an inappropriate personal relationship with this person, something in which I was not involved," Falwell said in a statement.The news also emerged as Politico published a story alleging that Becki Falwell had had a sexual encounter with a former Liberty University student, who was a band mate of her son.Liberty University, which was founded by Falwell's televangelist father in 1971, is known for its strict rules over students' relationships."Sexual relations outside of a biblically ordained marriage between a natural-born man and a natural-born woman are not permissible at Liberty University," the university's honor code reads.In a statement to Politico Liberty University reiterated that it has "… policies against employees having sexual relationships with students, as well as having other inappropriate relationships outside of marriage, whether consensual or not".In a statement provided to the Washington Examiner, Falwell said the couple had retained a relationship with Granda to try to suppress the relationship. He also accused Granda of attempting to extract "substantial monies" and claimed, without offering evidence, that Granda "may have targeted other successful women".Granda told ABC: "That's false. That's ridiculous. That's just them trying to smear me."
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| Fact check: Jacob Blake did not 'brandish' knife, get gun before Kenosha police shooting Posted: 28 Aug 2020 08:33 AM PDT  There was no gun involved. Police did find a knife in the SUV, but authorities haven't said if Blake held it at some point.
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| Fake cancer drugs were cooked up in Alabama man’s kitchen — some with hair, feds say Posted: 27 Aug 2020 04:01 PM PDT  Patrick Bishop, 54, earned millions selling the bogus cancer treatments, according to court filings. Prosecutors said he spent it on houses and luxury cars.
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| Hurricane Laura's 'unsurvivable' storm surge: It looks like Louisiana was spared, but some rural areas likely hit hard Posted: 28 Aug 2020 04:38 AM PDT  Gov. John Bel Edwards said Louisiana "caught a break" on storm surge. The National Hurricane Center says the surge was likely as bad as feared.
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| Delhi 2020 religious riots: Amnesty International accuses police of rights abuses Posted: 28 Aug 2020 03:54 AM PDT  Amnesty International finds police beat protesters and rioted with Hindu mobs against Muslims.
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| Elon Musk confirmed a Russian national tried to bribe a Tesla employee with $1 million in a bungled ransomware attack Posted: 28 Aug 2020 04:46 AM PDT  The DOJ accused a Russian national of offering $1 million to an employee to install malware. Elon Musk confirmed the employee worked for Tesla.
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| Virginia Senate Approves Bill to Downgrade Penalty for Assaulting a Police Officer Posted: 27 Aug 2020 11:22 AM PDT  The Virginia Senate approved legislation on Wednesday that would downgrade the legal penalty for a suspect found guilty of assaulting a police officer.Senate Bill 5032 would, if signed into law, eliminate the state's six-month mandatory minimum prison sentence for assaulting an officer, and also gives a local judge or jury the authority to downgrade the crime from a felony to a misdemeanor. The Virginia Senate voted 21-15 to approve the bill.Senator Scott Survell, a Democrat who proposed the legislation, said the bill was not meant to apply in cases of serious injury suffered by police officers."What we're talking about here are situations that involve much more insignificant minor touches," Survell said in comments reported by the Associated Press. However, state Republicans slammed the legislation in light of ongoing efforts nationwide to "defund" police departments."What in the world are we doing?" Senator John Cosgrove Jr. said. "Have you seen the attacks on police officers?"The bill will now move to the House, where Democrats hold a 55-45 majority.Democrats took control of the Virginia legislature in 2019 for the first time in decades, with Democrat Ralph Northam in the governor's office. That newfound power has led state Democrats to attempt to pass a flurry of liberal legislation, including stricter gun-control laws. The Washington Post noted in February of this year that Democrats were submitting so much legislation that lawmakers were working overtime trying to process the proposals.
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| Injunction barring Richmond from removing monument tossed Posted: 27 Aug 2020 03:14 PM PDT  The Virginia Supreme Court has tossed out an injunction handed down by a Richmond judge that barred officials from removing the only remaining Confederate monument owned by the city. Richmond Circuit Judge Bradley Cavedo issued a 60-day injunction in July shortly after Mayor Levar Stoney ordered the removal of the city's Confederate monuments, using authority under a local emergency order, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Thursday.
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| 'It's chaos': Postal workers say mail still backlogged, despite DeJoy's promises Posted: 28 Aug 2020 07:32 AM PDT  "Some stations have so much mail backed up, it's three times more than the volume you would see at Christmas," a Chicago postal worker said.
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| Giuliani at RNC: ‘Don’t let Democrats do to America what they have done to New York’ Posted: 27 Aug 2020 06:52 PM PDT  Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City, endorsed President Trump during the RNC on Thursday.
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| U.S. House panel announces contempt proceedings against Pompeo Posted: 28 Aug 2020 08:50 AM PDT  The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee announced contempt proceedings against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday, citing his refusal to comply with a subpoena for records into his "transparently political misuse" of department resources. The Democratic chairman of the committee, Eliot Engel, also cited a speech Pompeo recorded in Jerusalem for this week's Republican National Convention and said he had "demonstrated alarming disregard for the laws and rules governing his own conduct and for the tools the constitution provides to prevent government corruption." "He seems to think the office he holds, the department he runs, the personnel he oversees, and the taxpayer dollars that pay for all of it are there for his personal and political benefit," Engel said.
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| Kara Mann and CB2 Reveal New Collaboration Posted: 27 Aug 2020 11:22 AM PDT |
| Fox News anchor Chris Wallace slams colleagues for appearing to rationalize 17-year-old charged in Kenosha shooting: 'There is no justification' Posted: 27 Aug 2020 06:20 PM PDT  The veteran Fox News host said he didn't think it was right for vigilante justice to "fill the void" of police presence at protests.
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| Kim Jong-un inspects the damage as North Korea reels from floods and Typhoon Bavi Posted: 27 Aug 2020 09:49 PM PDT  North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has visited a rice-growing area devastated by a typhoon on Thursday, as the reclusive country reels from back-to-back natural and manmade catastrophes. Photos released by state media of the authoritarian leader inspecting fields alongside mask-wearing officials appeared to be framed to convey his benevolence as citizens struggle to cope with the impact of severe monsoon flooding, and the economic toll of the pandemic and ongoing global sanctions. Typhoon Bavi slammed into the country's southwestern province of Hwanghae, dealing a damaging blow to its corn stalks, rice paddies and other crops, and raising fears of increased hunger among an already malnourished population. Ten million people are reported by the United Nations to be suffering from food insecurity, living from harvest to harvest. The country also suffers from years of neglected infrastructure, which exacerbates the effects of natural disasters.
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| Texas father arrested in daughters' 2008 killings: FBI Posted: 27 Aug 2020 05:27 AM PDT  A Dallas-area taxi driver wanted for the 2008 slayings of his two teenage daughters was arrested on Wednesday, the FBI said.
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| Neighbors with hoses target fires as crews urge them to stop Posted: 26 Aug 2020 10:03 PM PDT  With California firefighters strapped for resources, residents have organized to put out flames themselves in a large swath of land burning south of San Francisco, defending their homes despite orders to evacuate and pleas by officials to get out of danger. The former head of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said the effort near a cluster of wildfires around the city of Santa Cruz is larger and more organized than he recalls in previous blazes. The group of wildfires near Santa Cruz has burned 125 square miles (324 square kilometers) and destroyed more than 500 buildings.
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| Teacher reinstated after parents complained about Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ posters Posted: 27 Aug 2020 12:13 PM PDT  A Texas school district backtracked after placing English teacher Taylor Lifka on leave over the posters in her virtual classroom.
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| Even Rudy Is Sick of His Biden-Ukraine Conspiracies Posted: 27 Aug 2020 07:04 PM PDT  Four years ago, Rudy Giuliani took to the stage at the Republican National Convention to deliver a shouty monologue about how his friend Donald Trump would usher in a new era of law and order and end the racial strife prompted by police killings of Black men. Four years later, Giuliani is back at the RNC. He's still shouty. And this time he's monologuing about how an unprecedented wave of protests, civil strife, and outrage over yet another new round of police shootings is why we need to re-elect Trump.Claiming that "my city is in shock" over a rise in shootings since the George Floyd protests began and with "a self described Progressive Democrat" in charge (shootings in New York City are up sharply this year, though still well below the levels they were at then Giuliani left office after 2001), Trump's lawyer called Joe Biden, a "Trojan horse" after yelling to the cameras: "Don't let Democrats do to America what they have done to New York!"Despite the references in Giuliani's speech Thursday night to rising urban crime rates and attacks on Democratic mayors, the speech from "America's mayor," as Oprah Winfrey deemed him after 9/11, had little to do with cities and everything to do with launching a broadside in the battle of the suburbs. Polls show suburban women and college-educated whites deserting Trump and leaning towards Biden. The president has responded on Twitter with dog whistles about affordable housing bringing minorities into the suburbs and housewives fearing that low income families would "invade" their communities. Trump campaign surrogates have tried to seize on the narrative by pointing to dire footage of cities on fire and warn that they're an omen of an America under Biden—while forgetting to acknowledge that it's the present under Trump.The unspoken subtext of Giuliani's speech tried to resolve that contradiction: Trump can't be held responsible for what happens in the Democratic-run cities and minority neighborhoods because he's not the president of cities and Black Americans; he's your president, the president of white suburbans. "It is clear that a vote for Biden and the Democrats creates the risk that you will bring this lawlessness to your city, town or suburb," Giuliani warned.He ticked off the names of innocents killed in recent months — 4-year old LeGen Taliferro in Kansas City , 17-year-old basketball star Brandon Hendricks in the Bronx days after graduating High School and passed with only brief mention, and 1-year-old Davell Gardner, Jr. in Brooklyn," before declaring that "For President Trump, and for us Republicans, all Black Lives Matter and the lives of LaGen, Brandon and Davell matter to us. All lives matter to us."A few sentences later, he managed to use those names to blame Barack Obama and Biden, declaring that "It has been like this for decades and it's been controlled throughout by Democrats. In fact, shamefully Obama and Biden did nothing at all to quell the carnage. I guess these Black lives"—again referring to people killed this year, during the Trump presidency—"didn't matter to them."Perhaps not coincidentally, Biden was the candidate who punctured what remained of Giuliani's aura when both men were running for president early in the 2008 campaign. The soon to be vice president famously said of then-Republican frontrunner, that "there's only three things he needs to make ... a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9/11."Speaking directly after Pat Lynch, the leader of the NYPD's biggest union, which endorsed in a presidential race for the first time this year declared that "you won't be safe in Joe Biden's America," Giuliani again reached into subtext to criticize the Democratic nominee. The former mayor had spent the lead-up to the convention in a campaign of amateur gerontology in an attempt to suggest that Biden was senile and insinuated his diagnosis again on Thursday, alebit with more subtlety. Biden, Giuliani said, was "an obviously defective candidate" incapable of leaving his basement. The role of floating trial balloons in poor taste on the candidate's behalf was once reserved for another Trump advisor, Roger Stone. But since then Giuliani has stepped into the role with enthusiasm. Giuliani's most cherished trial balloon was notably absent from his speech and the convention in general. Trump's personal attorney spent much of 2019 roaming about Ukraine in search of dirt that could put Hunter Biden in the crosshairs of a foreign prosecutor and his father at a safe remove from the White House. Even for a campaign that's still in search of attack lines that will stick to the Democratic nominee, no one—not even Rudy—appears to have felt the Ukraine narrative was worth airing. Trump's impeachment appears to be the only thing Giuliani got for his effort to find what many once thought would be a political deathblow for Biden. 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| Detained Colombia businessman was negotiating with Iran for Venezuela, lawyers say Posted: 28 Aug 2020 05:13 AM PDT |
| Family held at gunpoint by cops over a doll settles claim with Phoenix for $475,000 Posted: 26 Aug 2020 05:37 PM PDT  The family had sought $10 million
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| Virtually the Best: Kids’ Furniture for an A+ Home-Learning Setup Posted: 28 Aug 2020 08:00 AM PDT |
| 'We appreciate you guys': Wisconsin police in armored vehicles thanked armed militia and gave out water bottles Posted: 26 Aug 2020 02:34 PM PDT  "We got to save a couple, but we'll give you a couple," a voice from the law-enforcement speaker said. "We appreciate you guys, we really do."
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| Letters to the Editor: Here's how police can end protests: Stop shooting unarmed Black people Posted: 28 Aug 2020 03:00 AM PDT  People who don't like sometimes nonpeaceful protests should put pressure on police to stop shooting unarmed Black people.
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| The Latest: Louisiana governor closes part of Interstate 10 Posted: 26 Aug 2020 11:30 AM PDT  Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said the state is closing Interstate 10 from around the Atchafalaya Bridge outside of Lafayette all the way into part of Texas, because several stretches within that area are expected to flood. In a radio interview Wednesday night, Edwards talked of the "apocalyptic" language that meteorologists have used for the storm. "The language I've heard from the National Weather Service I've never heard before ... They're sending the strongest possible message about how serious this storm is," he said.
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| Blue planet: Study proposes new origin theory for Earth's water Posted: 27 Aug 2020 05:08 PM PDT  Water covers 70 percent of the Earth's surface and is crucial to life as we know it, but how it got here has been a longstanding scientific debate.
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| Mary Trump says GOP convention 'disturbing to watch,' calls portrayal of president a sham Posted: 27 Aug 2020 06:17 PM PDT  The president's niece said on MSNBC that she was appalled to see her uncle described as a caring family man.
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| Putin says alleged mercenaries were lured to Belarus by foreign spy operation Posted: 27 Aug 2020 04:38 AM PDT  President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that a group of Russians who were detained in Belarus prior to its Aug. 9 election and accused of being mercenaries had been lured to Belarus by a Ukrainan-U.S. intelligence operation. Belarus had accused the men of seeking to destabilise the country ahead of its election, marking an unusual diplomatic row with close ally Russia. At the time, Russia had said the men were private security workers on their way to a third country.
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