| Measures to control coronavirus have brought flu infections to 'historic lows.' Scientists want to keep it that way. Posted: 17 Sep 2020 11:22 AM PDT  Lockdowns and protective measures like the widespread wearing of face masks as a result of the coronavirus pandemic have driven influenza infections to record lows, according to a new CDC study.
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| Trump on COVID vaccine: I know better than the head of CDC Posted: 16 Sep 2020 04:40 PM PDT  President Trump said CDC Director Robert Redfield "made a mistake" about when a COVID-19 vaccine would be ready.
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| US denies sending American accused of spying in Venezuela Posted: 16 Sep 2020 12:52 PM PDT  A senior U.S. official on Wednesday rejected claims that the government sent an American citizen to Venezuela where he's been charged with plotting terrorist attacks and labeled a spy. Venezuelan authorities say they captured a man identified as Matthew John Heath with a trove of photos, specialized weapons and cash. "The U.S. government did not send Mr. Heath to Venezuela," Abrams said.
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| A California family is accusing Kamala Harris and Gov. Gavin Newsom of trespassing on their wildfire-ravaged property for a photo op Posted: 18 Sep 2020 03:07 AM PDT  Trampas and Bailee Patten accused Newsom and Harris of taking photos at their parents' destroyed home for "political gain."
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| He survived an Oregon wildfire by perching on a rock in a river, fending off embers with a chair Posted: 17 Sep 2020 10:53 AM PDT  Trapped in a canyon by downed trees and flames, an Oregon man survived on a rock in the middle of a river. He made time for a beer, too.
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| Jerry Falwell, Jr. was found intoxicated and bleeding at his home following a bombshell report alleging a years-long sexual affair between him, his wife, and another man Posted: 17 Sep 2020 05:39 PM PDT  Medical responders who arrived at Falwell's home reported multiple lacerations on his face, found "empty alcohol containers," and blood.
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| Rain helps efforts to control blazes in U.S. West; one firefighter dies Posted: 18 Sep 2020 07:35 AM PDT  A California firefighter was reported on Friday to have been killed in a blaze that started at a gender reveal party, as rainy weather brought some relief to a region that has suffered a historically devastating fire season. The firefighter died on Thursday while battling the El Dorado wildfire in California's San Bernardino National Forest, officials said on Friday. The El Dorado fire, which officials have said was started by pyrotechnics at the gender reveal party, has burned more than 21,000 acres (8,500 hectares) since the beginning of the month and was 66% contained on Friday.
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| GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn reveals she doesn’t know what an "Amendment" is — on Constitution Day Posted: 18 Sep 2020 02:22 AM PDT  "We will never rewrite the Constitution of the United States," she proudly and wrongly proclaimed on Twitter
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| Moderna shares Covid-19 vaccine trial blueprints, Pfizer follows Posted: 17 Sep 2020 05:33 PM PDT  US biotech firm Moderna, one of nine companies in the late stages of clinical trials for a Covid-19 vaccine, became the first to publish the complete blueprints of its study following calls for greater transparency.
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| Bill Barr responds to Democrats' fear that Trump won't leave office: 'I’ve never heard of that crap' Posted: 17 Sep 2020 09:24 AM PDT  President's hand-picked AG says United States on verge of being ruled by a 'mob' even though GOP holds two branches
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| Driver launches car across drawbridge as it starts to rise, Michigan police say Posted: 17 Sep 2020 07:39 AM PDT  A witness said the driver blew out all four of his tires.
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| JPMorgan is reportedly no longer reimbursing junior traders taking Ubers to and from work as the bank orders staff back to the office Posted: 17 Sep 2020 08:35 AM PDT  As the bank plans to bring back employees on September 21, it's ending reimbursements for junior traders Ubering to the office.
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| US carrier transits Strait of Hormuz amid tensions with Iran Posted: 18 Sep 2020 09:48 AM PDT  The USS Nimitz aircraft carrier safely transited on Friday through the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most important chokepoint for oil shipments, the U.S. Navy said, as tensions with Iran continue to simmer. In a "scheduled" maneuver, the U.S. sent the carrier and several other warships through the strait, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf, according to the U.S. Navy's Bahrain-based 5th fleet. The Nimitz, America's oldest carrier in active service, carries some 5,000 sailors and Marines.
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| Boater rescues man stranded under bridge: 'He was out there all night in just shorts' Posted: 18 Sep 2020 09:12 AM PDT  A community of residents, living on boats, in condos or stilted homes, were taken by surprise when Hurricane Sally blew through as a Category 2 storm.
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| A US Army Twitch streamer said the anti-Semitic phrase '6 million wasn't enough' during a game Posted: 16 Sep 2020 02:43 PM PDT  Motherboard reported a streamer for the Army National Guard Twitch channel repeated the anti-Semitic phrase "six million wasn't enough."
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| Man, woman who died in California fires didn't evacuate because of 'erroneous information' Posted: 16 Sep 2020 07:24 PM PDT  Fires ravaging California, Oregon and Washington have killed at least 34 people, destroyed thousands of homes and other structures and charred an area about the size of New Jersey.
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| Michigan fights outbreak of deadly disease that isn't coronavirus Posted: 17 Sep 2020 05:26 PM PDT  The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said Thursday it had ramped up nighttime aerial anti-mosquito spraying in high-risk areas of western Michigan after announcing it suspects that 28 horses and one human have contracted the disease in 11 counties in the state. Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) is present across the eastern United States as well as parts of the Midwest, but is generally rare in humans, according to the Centers for Disease Control. As of Sept. 9, only 5 people in the United States had been diagnosed with the disease in 2020, CDC data showed.
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| Seven dead, dozens infected after 'superspreader' wedding in rural US Posted: 17 Sep 2020 11:31 PM PDT  A wedding in rural Maine became a coronavirus "superspreader" event that left seven people dead and 177 infected, renewing fear of the disease in the northeastern US state that had hoped the worst of the pandemic was behind it.
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| Black man sues cops after being mistaken for burglar at his Wisconsin home, lawsuit says Posted: 16 Sep 2020 01:45 PM PDT  "It could have easily led to another death of an unarmed black man."
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| Moderna's CEO told us we should know if the biotech's coronavirus vaccine works in November Posted: 17 Sep 2020 04:00 AM PDT  The biotech slowed down its vaccine trials to recruit more diverse volunteers, particularly from the Black community.
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| In reversal, intelligence panels to get election briefings Posted: 16 Sep 2020 03:43 PM PDT |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student apologizes for falsely claiming to be Black Posted: 17 Sep 2020 04:23 PM PDT  The student has stepped down as a co-president of the school's graduate student union and a job as a teaching assistant.
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| Letters to the Editor: If the L.A. County Sheriff's Department won't clean up its act, disband its union Posted: 17 Sep 2020 10:52 AM PDT  Angering the people the department serves while stoking the pain fellow deputies is escalation, pure and simple. It has to end.
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| Kamala Harris accused of trespassing on fire-ravaged California property for photo-op by family Posted: 17 Sep 2020 02:31 PM PDT  Residents not yet allowed to return to survey damaged homes
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| CDC: Measures to control coronavirus have brought flu infections to 'historic lows' Posted: 17 Sep 2020 02:26 PM PDT  Lockdowns and protective measures like the widespread wearing of face masks as a result of the coronavirus pandemic have driven influenza infections to record lows, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study.
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| Fauci says that Trump and Redfield were "both right" about vaccines Posted: 18 Sep 2020 09:45 AM PDT  Trump has publicly contradicted the CDC director's timeline for vaccine distribution, saying that Redfield "made a mistake."
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| Virtual class students overhear fatal shooting between siblings, Wisconsin cops say Posted: 18 Sep 2020 06:20 AM PDT  A teacher called 911 after the shooting.
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| Biden blasts Barr's comments comparing coronavirus lockdowns to slavery as 'sick' and 'outrageous' Posted: 17 Sep 2020 07:49 PM PDT  "Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history," AG Barr said.
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| Exclusive: Trump plans executive order to punish arms trade with Iran - sources Posted: 17 Sep 2020 11:14 AM PDT  U.S. President Donald Trump plans to issue an executive order allowing him to impose U.S. sanctions on anyone who violates a conventional arms embargo against Iran, four sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday. The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the executive order was expected to be issued in the coming days and would allow the president to punish violators with secondary sanctions, depriving them of access to the U.S. market. The proximate cause for the U.S. action is the impending expiry of a U.N. arms embargo on Iran and to warn foreign actors - U.S. entities are already barred from such trade - that if they buy or sell arms to Iran they will face U.S. sanctions.
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| China's 1st Supercarrier Could Feature EMALS Launch Technology: Report Posted: 18 Sep 2020 05:57 AM PDT  The carrier could rival those in the U.S. fleet for size and capability, according to an analysis.
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| Hizbollah 'smuggling ammonium nitrate to Europe for attacks' says US counterterrorism official Posted: 17 Sep 2020 11:41 AM PDT  Hizbollah has smuggled caches of ammonium nitrate to Europe to use in attacks, a top US counterterrorism official has said. The Iran-backed Lebanese Shia group had moved ammonium nitrate through Belgium to France, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland, Ambassador Nathan Sales, Coordinator for Counterterrorism within the US Department of State, told reporters in a briefing on Thursday. Ammonium nitrate, a chemical compound often used for explosives which is also sold commercially for use as a fertiliser, caused the August explosion at a Beirut port which killed 190 people and wounded over 6,500. Some 2,750 tonnes exploded when a warehouse caught on fire. Hizbollah, which has a political and a militant wing, is in control of parts of the eastern Mediterranean port. "Today the US government is unveiling new information about Hezbollah's presence in Europe," Mr Sales said. "Since 2012, Hezbollah has established caches of ammonium nitrate throughout Europe by transporting first aid kits that contain the substance. I can reveal that such caches have been moved through Belgium to France, Greece, Italy, Spain and Switzerland."
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| Tesla driver falls asleep behind wheel of car going 93mph on autopilot Posted: 18 Sep 2020 02:40 AM PDT  Website states the autopilot function 'does not make the vehicle autonomous'
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| AP Exclusive: Census layoffs ordered despite judge's ruling Posted: 18 Sep 2020 10:59 AM PDT  Two weeks after a federal judge prohibited the U.S. Census Bureau from winding down the 2020 census, a manager in Illinois instructed employees to get started with layoffs, according to an audio of the conversation obtained by The Associated Press. During a conference call Thursday, the Chicago area manager told supervisors who report to him that they should track down census takers who don't currently have any cases, collect the iPhones they use to record information, and bid them goodbye. It was unclear whether such actions would violate U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh's temporary restraining order prohibiting the Census Bureau from winding down field operations while she considers a request to extend the head count by a month.
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| Newt Gingrich asks Fox News host if it's now 'verboten' to criticize George Soros, earns long stare Posted: 16 Sep 2020 08:55 PM PDT  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), an ally of President Trump, blamed George Soros on Fox News Wednesday for indirectly causing a recent rise in violence and property damage in some Democratic-run cities, claiming a slate of "progressive" district attorneys "overwhelmingly elected with George Soros' money" were letting criminals run wild. (Soros funds a political action committee that has backed reformist DA candidates since 2016, with some success, but he is hardly the only financial backer, as Fox News reports.)Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner told Gingrich it wasn't necessary to bring Soros into the discussion. Gingrich asked if mentioning Soros, a Jewish billionaire who survived Nazi occupation in his native Hungary, is now "verboten," the German word for "forbidden." Harris stared in silence for a long moment and changed the subject.> Newt Gingrich: "The number one problem in almost all the cities is George Soros-elected, left-wing, antipolice pro-criminal district attorneys..."> > Fox hos: "I'm not sure we need to bring George Soros into this."> > Newt: "Okay... So, it's verboten?"> > Long awkward silence. pic.twitter.com/tl4CgGcrzI> > — Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) September 16, 2020The FBI reported Tuesday that violent and property crime both dropped sharply in the first six months of 2020, with murders down 15 percent, rapes down 18 percent, and violent robbery down 7 percent versus a year earlier. Arson rose sharply, according to preliminary data, but violent crime overall dropped 5 percent in the Northeast, and by lesser amounts in the West and Midwest, AFP reports. Violent crime rose 2.5 percent in the South.More stories from theweek.com How a productivity phenomenon explains the unraveling of America How the Trump-Russia story was buried The conservatives who want to undo the Enlightenment
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| South Miami-Dade mother punched, bit, choked her child over Instagram videos, cops say Posted: 18 Sep 2020 05:26 AM PDT  A South Miami-Dade daughter wound up beaten into unconsciousness in a neighbor's driveway and her mother got jailed Wednesday afternoon on charges of aggravated child abuse, Miami-Dade police said.
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| Putin will try to kill Navalny again and the West will do little about it, NATO sources say Posted: 17 Sep 2020 08:07 AM PDT  "The moment he makes that calculation," a source says, "we will just know because Navalny is dead."
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| China holds military drill as US envoy visits Taiwan Posted: 18 Sep 2020 02:07 AM PDT  The military drills near the Taiwan Strait comes as China accuses the US and Taiwan of "collusion".
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| Swedish Outfitter H&M Severs Ties With Chinese Supplier over Xinjiang Forced Labor Accusations Posted: 17 Sep 2020 08:04 AM PDT  Swedish clothing company H&M said Tuesday that it is severing ties with Chinese yarn producer Huafu Fashion over accusations that the supplier uses "forced labor" of ethnic and religious minorities in the Xinjiang province of China.H&M admitted that the company had an "indirect business relationship with one mill" owned by Huafu Fashion in Shangyu in the province of Zhejiang."While there are no indications for forced labor in the Shangyu mill, we have decided to, until we get more clarity around allegations of forced labor, phase out our indirect business relationship with Huafu Fashion Co, regardless of unit and province, within the next 12 months," H&M said.The clothing giant added that it has never done business with another Huafu factory in the Chinese province of Anhui. A March report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute claimed that H&M benefited from forced labor at the Anhui factory.The company also promised to no longer source cotton from Xinjiang and said it launched "an inquiry at all the garment manufacturing factories we work with in China aiming to ensure that they are not employing workers … through what is reported on as labor transfer programs or employment schemes where forced labor is an increased risk."The Chinese government has detained since 2017 an estimated one million if not more Uyghur Muslims and other minorities in "re-education camps" around Xinjiang, which are designed to instill a sense of loyalty to the government and erase the culture attachments of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities. Around 80,000 Uyghurs have been forced to work in factories, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute estimated.China claims that the detention camps are for voluntary education and training and are used to combat extremism, but Chinese government documents leaked last year detail how the facilities are run with extreme control over their residents.
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| American woman could face up to 10 years in prison after allegedly spreading coronavirus during German bar crawl Posted: 17 Sep 2020 01:41 PM PDT  Hundreds of people have been tested and 59 people tested positive for the novel virus
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| How a 'Hillbilly Brigade' saved an Oregon town from raging wildfires Posted: 17 Sep 2020 09:13 AM PDT  Nicole West steered her bulldozer through the smoldering forest, pushing logs into the underbrush and away from the wildfires ripping through Oregon's Cascade Mountains. Behind West, on the front lines of the 136,000-acre (55,000-hectare) Riverside fire, two young men pulled a water tank behind their pickup truck, struggling to douse the flames. In a year when ferocious wildfires have killed at least 34 people and burned millions of acres in Oregon, Washington and California, the brigade has pulled off a miracle in the thick forests around Molalla in recent days, residents and fire officials say.
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| Jared Kushner strongly suggests Trump is open to assassinating foreign leaders Posted: 17 Sep 2020 03:37 AM PDT  President Trump told Fox & Friends on Tuesday that despite earlier denials, he had been all set to assassinate Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2017 but James Mattis, his defense secretary at the time, "didn't want to do it." Political assassinations have been illegal in the U.S. since President Gerald Ford signed Executive Order 11905 in 1976, following revelations of U.S. assassination attempts in Latin America.A few hours after Trump told Fox & Friends he "would have rather taken [Assad] out," his son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner told Sinclair Broadcasting's James Rosen that Trump "always keeps all options on the table," Rosen reported Wednesday. In the interview, he asked Kushner twice if Trump considered assassinating foreign leaders "a legitimate tool of U.S. foreign policy," and Kushner suggested the answer is yes, even if he preferred not to use the word assassination."Different terminology could be used to describe, you know, different methods that you're going to take to try to retaliate to somebody for an action that they've taken," Kushner said. Trump "knows that it's a full-contact sport. This is not touch football."> EXCLUSIVE: @jaredkushner defends the use of assassinations as a tool of U.S. foreign policy -- despite Exec. Order 11905, signed by President Ford in 1976, banning the practice. @POTUS "keeps all options on the table," Kushner tells @WeAreSinclair. "This is not touch football." pic.twitter.com/dJKNsh5her> > — James Rosen (@JamesRosenTV) September 16, 2020Executive Order 11905 does not define political assassination, and while Trump opted against assassinating Assad, he did order the killing of a top Iranian general, Qassem Suleimani. The Trump administration used "different terminology" to describe that targeted drone strike, but whether or not it was lawful rests on a disputed technicality.More stories from theweek.com How a productivity phenomenon explains the unraveling of America How the Trump-Russia story was buried The conservatives who want to undo the Enlightenment
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| Soldier from Fort Bragg killed in Navy base crash in Key West Posted: 17 Sep 2020 12:28 PM PDT  The U.S. Army has identified a soldier struck and killed by a vehicle driven by an on-duty Navy Security Force civilian Monday on a Key West Navy base.
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| Where is Trump's health care policy? Posted: 16 Sep 2020 04:31 PM PDT  Trump touts new health care policy after repeatedly promising its launch since March. Fox News' Kevin Corke with more.
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| Oracle will have to pore over the TikTok's source code to make sure there are no backdoors as part of its proposed deal Posted: 18 Sep 2020 06:17 AM PDT  TikTok and Oracle will need to convince the Trump administration their proposed deal will keep data secure.
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