| Trump admits greenhouse gases contribute to climate change 'to an extent' Posted: 29 Sep 2020 08:16 PM PDT  For the first time in his presidency, Donald Trump acknowledged that human-generated greenhouse gases contributes to climate change.
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| Trump promised 300 million N95 masks by September. He isn't even close. Posted: 29 Sep 2020 11:30 AM PDT  The Trump administration is falling far short of its goal of having 300 million N95 respirators available in time for the flu season, according to internal documents reviewed by Yahoo News.
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| Fox News host floats bonkers conspiracy theory that Joe Biden will use listening devices at debate Posted: 29 Sep 2020 08:41 AM PDT  "The Trump team asked to inspect the ears of each debater for electronic devices or transmitters," Bill Hemmer says
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| Marine fighter jet lands safely after crashing in mid-air with another plane in Southern California Posted: 30 Sep 2020 10:14 AM PDT  Jet makes emergency landing in farm field after colliding with another plane
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| The family of one of the officers who killed Breonna Taylor started an online fundraiser so he can retire early and focus on his 'safety' Posted: 30 Sep 2020 02:57 AM PDT  The family of Detective Myles Cosgrove is trying to raise $75,000 so that he can buy out the rest of his service time and retire early.
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| Engineers found the location of an elusive leak on the space station: It's in a Russian module that provides crucial life support Posted: 29 Sep 2020 11:24 AM PDT  The source of the small leak on the International Space Station is on a module on the station's Russian side, according to NASA.
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| People with this name can get a free flight to Florida on Frontier Airlines Posted: 30 Sep 2020 06:20 AM PDT  The eligible flights are in October, the airline said.
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| Crown prince becomes oil-rich Kuwait's new ruling emir Posted: 29 Sep 2020 09:28 AM PDT |
| White House announces major improvements in coronavirus testing (again) Posted: 28 Sep 2020 02:57 PM PDT  "We are now at an inflection point in testing," said Adm. Brett Giroir, a Department of Health and Human Services official who is in charge of testing on the White House coronavirus task force.
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| Pro-Life Senator Joni Ernst Says There’s a ‘Very Minimal’ Chance Supreme Court Will Overturn Roe v. Wade Posted: 29 Sep 2020 06:52 AM PDT  Pro-life Senator Joni Ernst (R., Iowa) said on Monday that she thinks the likelihood of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that made abortion legal, is "very minimal."Ernst's comments during an hour-long debate for the U.S. Senate race against her pro-abortion opponent, Democrat Theresa Greenfield. Moderator David Yepsen asked what each candidate would do if the Court overturned the ruling, which President Trump has suggested may happen now that he has nominated pro-life Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the high court. If confirmed, Barrett's appointment would create a 6-3 conservative majority on the Court. Ernst explained that she is "proudly pro-life" and thinks "every life has value and is worthwhile" but expressed skepticism that the ruling would be overturned."I think the likelihood of Roe v. Wade being overturned is very minimal. I don't see that happening, truly I don't see that happening," she said.The Iowa Republican went on to say that what pro-lifers can do, in lieu of a Court decision, is educate the public on how important life is."I think that the views that are being taken by Theresa Greenfield and those that are backing her from the coasts, from California and New York, it's inappropriate and not acceptable to most Iowa voters," she said. Ernst has supported overturning the ruling in the past, and in January joined 206 other members of Congress in petitioning the Supreme Court to reconsider Roe v. Wade. Greenfield said she believes abortion rights are "settled law.""I will always defend a woman's right to make her own health care decisions with the guidance of her doctor," she said. Barrett, when asked in 2016 about ways a future Supreme Court might allow states to pass more restrictions on abortion, said she didn't believe the core case behind Roe v. Wade would change."I think don't think the core case – Roe's core holding that, you know, women have a right to an abortion – I don't think that would change. But I think the question of whether people can get very late-term abortions, how many restrictions can be put on clinics – I think that would change," she said.Greenfield is currently polling 2.6 points ahead of Ernst, according to a RealClearPolitics average of polling totals. Editor's Note: A previous version of this article identified Theresa Greenfield as anti-abortion, when she is in fact pro-abortion.
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| U.S. renews pressure on Europe to ditch Huawei in new networks Posted: 29 Sep 2020 07:48 AM PDT  Telecoms company Huawei Technologies is part of China's surveillance state, complicit in human rights abuses, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday, as Washington renewed pressure on Europe to ban the company from fifth-generation (5G) networks. Keith Krach, the undersecretary of state for economic affairs, stepped up warnings as Germany and Italy consider their next-generation mobile networks, in his first tour of European capitals since the COVID-19 pandemic hindered travel in March. Huawei [HWT.UL] is "an arm of the CCP surveillance state and a tool for human rights abuse," Krach told a German Marshall Fund think-tank event, referring to the Chinese Communist Party.
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| FBI investigates land owned by missing Colorado mom's husband Posted: 29 Sep 2020 03:45 PM PDT  The scent of human remains has been discovered on land owned by Barry Morphew, the husband of missing Colorado mom Suzanne Morphew, her brother told multiple media outlets on Monday.
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| Brake failure, 'egregious disregard for safety' caused NY limo crash that killed 20 people, NTSB says Posted: 29 Sep 2020 02:12 PM PDT  Two years after the country's worst road transportation disaster since 2005, the NTSB finalized its report on the cause of the Schoharie, New York, crash.
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| A new SpaceX video shows never-before-seen footage of its first astronaut flight Posted: 29 Sep 2020 03:11 PM PDT  The newly released footage tracks astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley as they fly SpaceX's Crew Dragon spaceship to and from the space station.
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| Indonesian hostage dies in Philippine army, militant battle Posted: 30 Sep 2020 07:05 AM PDT |
| Biden Ridicules Trump’s COVID Response: ‘Inject Some Bleach in Your Arm’ Posted: 29 Sep 2020 07:21 PM PDT  Former Vice President Joe Biden tore into President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic during Tuesday night's debate, ticking off a laundry list of some of Trump's most alarming comments during the public health crisis."This is the same man that told you by Easter this would be gone away, by the warm weather it'd be gone, miraculously, like a miracle," Biden said. "And by the way, maybe you can inject some bleach in your arm and that would take care of it."The mention of the bleach comment, one of Trump's most problematic moments of the pandemic, made Trump try to cut Biden off and declare, "That was said sarcastically."On April 23, Trump jumped on an "emerging result" from his own Department of Homeland Security and started spitballing dangerous possible virus treatments that frightened health experts, with one such idea in that briefing including disinfectants."And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks [the virus] out [from a surface] in a minute, one minute, and is there a way we can do something like that [by] injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets on the lungs and it does a tremendous number," Trump said during the April 23 briefing.During the coronavirus-focused portion of the debate, Biden consistently slammed Trump for not having a plan as the coronavirus pandemic rages on and the nation's death toll climbs past 200,000, according to Johns Hopkins University.Trump also declared he wants to keep the country open as he keeps up a far more optimistic view of the nation's fight against the virus. The president was emphatic again about a quick timeline for getting a coronavirus vaccine, saying during the debate "you'll have the vaccine soon." But earlier this month, when CDC Director Robert Redfield told lawmakers that he thought a vaccine wouldn't be "generally available to the American public" until "late second quarter, third quarter of 2021," Trump lashed out at the leading medical official and said Redfield was "confused."During the debate, Biden followed the president's vaccine comments with another attack, saying, "Do you believe for a moment what he's telling you in light of all the lies he's told you about the whole issue relating to COVID?""He still hasn't even acknowledged that he knew this was happening, knew how dangerous it was going to be back in February and he didn't even tell you, he's on record as saying it, he panicked or he just looked at the stock market, one of the two," Biden said. "Because guess what, a lot of people died and a lot more are going to die unless he gets a lot smarter a lot quicker."Trump then attacked the former vice president for his choice of using the word "smart" and attacked Biden's intelligence before championing his own handling of the virus, as the president has done emphatically when he focuses his words on the public health crisis.On the topic of masks, Trump also once again undercut his own administration's messaging on the crucial public health measure. Trump said he wears a mask when he thinks he needs it, and then criticized Biden for wearing "the biggest mask I've ever seen" during public appearances.As Biden pointed to Redfield, whom Biden emphasized had "said if... everybody wore masks and social distanced between now and January, we'd probably save up to 100,000 lives," Trump declared, "They've also said the opposite.""No serious person's said the opposite," Biden responded.And then Trump proceeded to call out Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, whom the president has been more willing to criticize at this stage of the pandemic, despite Fauci being widely seen as one of the more trustworthy public health voices coming from Trump's administration."Dr. Fauci, Dr. Fauci said… he said very strongly that masks are not good," Trump said. "Then he changed his mind, he said, 'Masks good.'"Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| North Carolina senate candidate commits grievous sin: confusing grilling for barbecuing Posted: 29 Sep 2020 01:56 PM PDT  You've got to hand it to North Carolina — they have some truly scrumptious scandals down in the Tar Heel State.Democratic Senate candidate Cal Cunningham found himself in hot water on Monday night after tweeting a photo of himself standing next to a gas grill, spatula in hand as he apparently readied hot dogs and hamburgers. "There's nothing better than BBQ — except for winning this Senate seat, of course," he wrote as a caption.> There's nothing better than BBQ—except for winning this Senate seat, of course. pic.twitter.com/oEsDXIZ5O2> > — Cal Cunningham (@CalforNC) September 28, 2020But North Carolinians quickly took issue with the fact that "the tweet itself appears to suggest, wrongly, that barbecue can be made on a gas grill, or worse, that grilling falls within the realm of barbecue," explains the Raleigh-based News & Observer. Sure enough, Cunningham was soon the target of many angry foodies online:> My dude, folks are not going to think you really have a whole hog on that tiny grill. And I know you are not referring to cooking hotdogs & burgers as "BBQ." > > It may behoove you to issue a statement on NC barbecue forthwith. You can thank me later.> > — Aylett "What's your voting plan?" Colston (@EveryVoiceNC) September 29, 2020> This is Dukakis in a tank bad in North Carolina. Why. https://t.co/POTba6FIot> > — Rory Cooper (@rorycooper) September 29, 2020Sure enough, the North Carolina GOP even issued a statement, slamming Cunningham by writing, "In North Carolina, we have Eastern BBQ and Western BBQ but neither involves a spatula, hot dog buns or gas grills. Cunningham is an elitist trial lawyer, and this BBQ gaffe demonstrates that he is out of touch with North Carolina voters who actually know what North Carolina BBQ is."Cunningham, a native of Lexington, quickly backtracked, telling The News & Observer that he would never mix up grilling with barbecuing. "No self-respecting son of Lexington would ever do that," he emphasized, claiming he'd only used the term because he was showing off his new campaign swag, an apron which reads — perhaps now rather audaciously — "Ambassador for North Carolina BBQ."More stories from theweek.com The worst presidential debate of all time Undecided voters describe Trump as a 'crackhead,' 'arrogant' in post-debate focus group Trump pummels Biden — and America
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| Keep shark tooth, Malta tells Britain's Prince George Posted: 29 Sep 2020 01:33 AM PDT  Malta, making a rapid U-turn, said on Tuesday Britain's Prince George was welcome to keep a fossilised shark tooth that was given to him by veteran naturalist Sir David Attenborough. The 23-million-year-old fossil was discovered by Attenborough in Malta when he was holidaying on the Mediterranean island in the 1960s. Culture Minister Jose Herrera said on Monday he would "set the ball rolling" in retreiving the tooth, but the plan rapidly ran aground.
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| Geneva introduces world's highest minimum wage of £3,500 per month Posted: 30 Sep 2020 10:10 AM PDT  Geneva is to introduce a minimum monthly wage of nearly £3,500, the highest in the world, in response to growing poverty since the coronavirus outbreak. Geneva has been hit particularly hard by the Covid-19 pandemic because it relies on revenue from tourists and business visitors. At the height of the coronavirus crisis, queues more than half a mile long formed at food banks. The canton's 500,000 voters approved the minimum wage, proposed by Left-wing parties, by a 58-per-cent majority in a referendum, after rejecting it twice in 2014 and 2011. The measure will benefit some 30,000 low-paid workers, two-thirds of them women, many employed as cleaners or in restaurants or hairdressers. More than 300,000 of Switzerland's workers live in neighbouring France, where costs are lower. Most commute to jobs in the Geneva canton, or region. Michel Charrat of the European Cross-Border Group, which supports cross-border workers, told France 3 television that the vote result marked a "movement of solidarity" with the poor that would help "restore a certain balance among the people of Greater Geneva". From October 17, the minimum hourly wage will be 23 Swiss francs (almost £19.50), more than double the rate in neighbouring France or in the UK. It also exceeds the world's current highest minimum wage of over £11 per hour in Australia. The guaranteed minimum monthly salary in Geneva for a 41-hour week will be 4,086 Swiss francs (£3,437). Mr Charrat said: "Covid showed that a certain section of the Swiss population cannot live in Geneva… 4,000 Swiss francs a month (£3,362) is the minimum to stay above the poverty line." Rents in Geneva are often more than 2,000 Swiss francs a month, he added. Switzerland has Europe's highest average annual wage of more than £57,000, compared to nearly £35,500 in the UK, but the prosperous Alpine country sets no national minimum wage. Geneva will be the third Swiss canton to adopt one. Jura and Neuchâtel have both introduced a minimum hourly wage of 20 Swiss francs (£16.85). Geneva is rated the world's tenth most expensive city, according to The Economist Intelligence Unit's 2020 Worldwide Cost of Living Survey, with Paris in fifth place. London is not among the 10 costliest cities in the survey. According to another cost-of-living index compiled by Expatistan, Geneva is the world's second most expensive city. It rates London ninth. Switzerland sets no national minimum wage and Geneva will be the third Swiss canton to adopt one. Jura and Neuchâtel have both introduced a minimum hourly wage of 20 Swiss francs (£16.85). Left-wing parties in Switzerland argue that introducing a minimum wage is a better way to address the rising cost of living than limiting immigration from EU member-states, as proposed by Right-wingers. They argue that immigrant workers have pushed up housing costs and lowered wages. But Swiss voters rejected a proposal to end free movement from EU member-states in a national referendum on Sunday.
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| 'Like God has no sympathy': Crews struggle with deadly wildfires racing through Northern California, wine country Posted: 29 Sep 2020 08:21 PM PDT  California fire crews battled two ferocious blazes, including one in wine country, that destroyed homes and forced at least 70,000 people to flee
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| Police officer who choked black man during stop will never serve again Posted: 28 Sep 2020 02:46 PM PDT  Officer captured on camera saying he had choked Desmond Marrow
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| Florida reported a spike in COVID-19 cases just days after allowing restaurants and small businesses to fully reopen Posted: 29 Sep 2020 11:30 PM PDT  Florida's cases were declining but large crowds gathered this weekend following Gov. Ron DeSantis' order loosening restrictions on many businesses.
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| Hathras gang rape: India victim cremated 'without family's consent' Posted: 30 Sep 2020 03:16 AM PDT  The woman's death after she was gang raped allegedly by upper-caste men has caused huge anger in India.
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| House Intelligence panel to subpoena DHS over whistleblower Posted: 29 Sep 2020 12:18 PM PDT |
| Trump’s refusal to condemn white supremacists launches an online furor Posted: 29 Sep 2020 11:08 PM PDT  The president told the Proud Boys, a self-described "western chauvinist" group, to "stand back" and "stand by."
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| Moderna COVID-19 vaccine appears safe, shows signs of working in older adults: study Posted: 29 Sep 2020 02:04 PM PDT  Results from an early safety study of Moderna Inc's coronavirus vaccine candidate in older adults showed that it produced virus-neutralizing antibodies at levels similar to those seen in younger adults, with side effects roughly on par with high-dose flu shots, researchers said on Tuesday. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, offers a more complete picture of the vaccine's safety in older adults, a group at increased risk of severe complications from COVID-19. The findings are reassuring because immunity tends to weaken with age, Dr. Evan Anderson, one of the study's lead researchers from Emory University in Atlanta, said in a phone interview.
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| Chinese rail stations and airports swamped during holiday, raising fears of fresh Covid outbreak Posted: 30 Sep 2020 06:36 AM PDT  People have begun swarming into China's rail stations and airports as the country where the coronavirus pandemic emerged enters into its first major public holiday week after lockdowns began easing, potentially raising the risk of new infections. Nearly half of the country's 1.4 billion people are expected to hit the road during China's "Golden Week," kicking off on Oct 1 as the nation celebrates its founding anniversary. Chinese authorities have relaxed some travel restrictions as the number of daily infections have begun dropping significantly. About 30 people were confirmed with the coronavirus through Tuesday this week, a figure that could rise given increased movement of people over the holiday. As such pandemic precautions remain in place, including detailed contact tracing via mobile phone apps that allow users to flash a green, yellow or red code – a health contagion profile that determines whether someone might pose an infection risk.
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| In California wine country, wildfire-fatigued residents weigh the unthinkable: Moving out Posted: 30 Sep 2020 08:50 AM PDT  The thought of leaving the picturesque wine country is not typically tempting. But as wildfires become a repeat occurrence, some say it's time to go.
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| Tory Lanez's team reportedly created fake email accounts for Megan Thee Stallion's record label to convince media outlets that he didn't shoot her Posted: 29 Sep 2020 12:02 PM PDT  The goal was reportedly to "campaign press" on Lanez's behalf after the "WAP" rapper accused him of shooting her twice in both of her feet.
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| Missing boater found 1,500 feet underwater in Lake Tahoe, officials say Posted: 28 Sep 2020 10:31 PM PDT  The body of a boater who had been missing since mid-August was recovered more than 1,500 feet underwater in Lake Tahoe after a search that lasted over a month, officials said Monday. The City of South Lake Tahoe said it began a missing person investigation with the Douglas County Sheriff's Office on Aug. 10 after a boat 29-year-old Ryan Normolye rented washed ashore in Glenbrook, Nevada without him in it.
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| San Jose officer facing assault charge in violent arrest of driver Posted: 29 Sep 2020 05:42 PM PDT  Video contradicted the officer's claim that the driver resisted commands, the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office said.
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| Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti previews first presidential debate Posted: 29 Sep 2020 04:39 PM PDT  Biden campaign co-chair joins Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum to look ahead to the Cleveland showdown
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| Trump intel chief unveils unverified Russian info about Dems Posted: 29 Sep 2020 06:05 PM PDT  The Trump administration's top intelligence official said Tuesday that he has declassified Russian intelligence alleging damaging information about Democrats during the 2016 election even though he acknowledged it might not be true. The announcement, just hours before the first presidential debate of this November's election, drew harsh criticism from lawmakers who accused National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe of politicizing intelligence. In a letter Tuesday to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Ratcliffe said that in late July 2016, U.S. intelligence agencies obtained "insight" into Russian spycraft alleging that Hillary Clinton, who was running for president, had "approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against" Trump.
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| Armenians Fear Turkey Is Back to Finish Off the Genocide Posted: 29 Sep 2020 09:36 AM PDT  MOSCOW—The fighting in a mountain enclave in the Caucasus escalated Tuesday when Turkish-backed forces shelled five villages including the capital of Stepanakert, according to Armenian officials.Skirmishes broke out on the border of Azerbaijan and Armenia over the weekend and the official death toll is over 100 as a decades-old dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh or the Republic of Artsakh erupted into violence.Artsakh is an ethnic Armenian pocket that was once part of Azerbaijan's territory but now hews closely to Armenia against the wishes of Turkey, which has lucrative oil and gas deals with Azerbaijan and a long-standing enmity with Armenia.Turkey Sends ISIS Warlord to Azerbaijan to Face Off Against Putin's Armenian Allies"We fight not only with Azerbaijan, with Turkey and thousands of its mercenary soldiers from the Middle East," Masis Mailyan, foreign minister of the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh, told The Daily Beast in a phone interview on Tuesday. "This morning the attackers shelled an Armenian town of Vardenis. This is the continuation of the Turkish genocide against Armenian people. The genocide, that the U.S. Congress officially recognized in a resolution last year, affirming that the Turkey exterminated 1.5 million Armenians."Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has fueled the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia, but he blames mediators for failing to solve the territorial dispute since a ceasefire in 1994. "The United States, Russia and France have not been able to resolve the conflict for almost 30 years. On the contrary, they are doing everything they can to prolong the problem," Erdogan said in half an hour speech on Tuesday. "Azerbaijan has already listened to you for 30 years! But whose lands are occupied? Azerbaijan's!"Civilians, including women and children, were reported killed on both sides. Tanks burned, armed drones and helicopters were shot out of the sky. The Armenian defense ministry reported that a Turkish warplane took off from Ganja airbase in Azerbaijan and shot down an Armenian jet aircraft Su-25 on Tuesday."Turkey has never expressed any regret for the massacre in 1915," Mailyan said. "Ankara criticized the Western countries for recognizing the Armenian Genocide."The foreign minister said there was a chance that major powers would be drawn into the growing conflict. "Azerbaijan and Turkey have a program called 'Great Turan': Erdogan aims to take control over the South Caucasus, which will weaken Russia's geopolitical positions," he said.While it's already bad, the worry is the conflict could easily escalate. The fighting threatens to involve Turkey, a NATO country, on the side of Azerbaijan while Russia's forces back Armenia. "If Armenia officially asks Russia for help, the Kremlin would have to deploy the army, in accordance with the Collective Security Treaty between the two countries," Mailyan told The Daily Beast, suggesting that even those consumed by domestic politics in the U.S. need to focus to prevent an even more disastrous war.The nation of Armenia with 2.9 million at home and millions in a diaspora in the United States, France, Russia, and elsewhere, feels very much united. In the first hours of the war, Kim Kardashian Tweeted her support for breakaway Artsakh: "We are praying for brave men and women risking their lives to protect Artsakh and Armenia. The news is misleading, these are not 'clashes,'" Kardashian, whose family fell victim to the Armenian genocide, warned.The breakaway region is roughly the size of Connecticut. It is backed by Armenia and its diaspora in the West: at least ten American states, including California, Michigan and Massachusetts, have passed bills recognizing the independence of Artsakh, the Armenian name for the region.Both Azerbaijan and Armenia declared states of emergency on Sunday, for the first time after an escalation four years ago. Erdogan accused Armenia of being "the biggest threat to regional peace," demanding its capital Yerevan give Nagorno-Karabakh territories back to Azerbaijan.Russia's leader, Vladimir Putin, discussed the conflict with his ally in Armenia, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. While Turkey has almost brotherly relations with Azerbaijan, Orthodox Russia feels very close to Christian Armenia. There are Russian military bases on Armenian territory close to the borders with Turkey and Iran.While Turkey has an almost pathological hatred of one side in this dispute, Russia has tried to maintain good relations with both sides. It has strong business and political ties with Azerbaijan, a country that borders the often unstable Russian region of Dagestan. To keep Azerbaijan happy, Moscow sold weapons to Azerbaijan for $4 billion in 2016, a move that was widely criticized in Armenia.Last week Armenia joined Russia, China, Iran, and several other Kremlin allies taking part in military exercises called Caucasus 2020, which featured up to 80,000 soldiers.The violence which erupted over the weekend has been brewing for an age. Azeri opposition activists have been talking about the coming war for months."Families, kids woke up to a real war on Sunday. We have thousands of refugees displaced from their homes, hiding in shelters," Anahit Musheghyan, who lives in Yerevan, told The Daily Beast.None of the compromises Russia has suggested over the past two decades has worked. And peace talks failed in the midst of the pandemic, in July, after several clashes on the Armenia-Azerbaijani border that killed 15 people.More than 100,000 Azeri activists joined the pro-war rallies in Baku, pushing Aliyev to take action. "There is something important to understand about this war: every single Azeri person, without any exclusion, agrees the war is necessary–the war is the only point President Ilham Aliyev gets right: we all want back the territories occupied by Armenians in 1994," Azeri journalist, Khadija Ismailova, explained to The Daily Beast.Ismailova, a fearless critic of Aliyev's authoritarian regime, has spent a year in prison on unjust charges, but when it comes to this attack, she sounds supportive. "I am not militaristic, but it is clear to me that we need to fight," she said. "The only concern we have is that Vladimir Putin might call Aliyev and tell him to stop advancing. If our forces occupy just a few villages and stop, that would be a huge disappointment. Putin must be talking with Erdogan a lot at the moment, negotiating their issues in Syria," Ismayilova suggested.The feeling in Yerevan is equally passionate. "Our country has mobilized 10,000 volunteer soldiers," photographer Karen Mirzoyan told The Daily Beast on Monday. "As soon as our people heard about Azeri shells killing a grandmother with her granddaughter, many men in reserve joined the forces."Armenians have controlled what is internationally regarded as Azerbaijani territory since 1994, so why did Azerbaijan choose this month to advance? Thomas De Waal, the author of Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War, said he thought Aliyev was trying to take advantage of election season in Washington. "Azerbaijan thinks that currently the U.S. is preoccupied with the presidential elections," he said.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. 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| Taiwan defence chief says no signs China is preparing for war Posted: 29 Sep 2020 02:48 AM PDT |
| Buried lakes of liquid water discovered on Mars Posted: 29 Sep 2020 05:53 PM PDT  The underground lakes were detected in the Red Planet's south polar region.
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| A 'super healthy' 19-year-old college student has died from coronavirus complications Posted: 30 Sep 2020 09:13 AM PDT  Chad Dorrill, a "super healthy" student at Appalachian State University and former star basketball player, died from complications of the coronavirus.
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| Small study finds Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine may work equally well in older people as it does in younger adults Posted: 30 Sep 2020 07:57 AM PDT  Moderna's coronavirus vaccine appears to create as strong an immune response in older people as it does in younger adults. That's a positive sign.
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| Chunks of ash so big you can hear them land hit the Bay Area as California fires rage Posted: 29 Sep 2020 12:25 PM PDT  "I could hear it landing on my car," a Santa Rosa resident said.
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| Breonna Taylor case: Attorney general Daniel Cameron accused of deception by juror over charging decision Posted: 29 Sep 2020 05:53 AM PDT  Hospital worker was shot dead during a police raid on her home in March
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| “So much misinformation”: Fauci calls out Fox News and Trump’s new adviser for “outlandish” claims Posted: 29 Sep 2020 07:55 AM PDT  "Fox News . . . some of the things that they report there are outlandish, to be honest with you"
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| AP FACT CHECK: False claims flood Trump-Biden debate Posted: 29 Sep 2020 07:05 PM PDT  President Donald Trump unleashed a torrent of fabrications and fear-mongering in a belligerent debate with Joe Biden, at one point claiming that the U.S. death toll would have been 10 times higher under the Democrat because he wanted open borders in the pandemic. Biden preached no such thing. Biden stumbled on the record at times as the angry words flew from both men on the Cleveland stage.
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| Democrats introduce new $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief bill Posted: 29 Sep 2020 06:19 AM PDT  The bill, which is unlikely to pass the GOP-led Senate, is an updated version of earlier legislation. House Democrats introduced a new $2.2 trillion COVID-19 relief bill aimed at breaking the impasse with Republicans on how to get financial assistance to Americans before the November election. The package, which is unlikely to pass the Republican-led Senate, is an updated version of earlier legislation.
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| Italy set to extend COVID state of emergency as cases tick up: official Posted: 29 Sep 2020 05:47 AM PDT  Italy is likely to extend a state of emergency to help keep the coronavirus crisis under control, a senior official said on Tuesday as the government looks to avoid the surge in new cases hitting other European countries. The state of emergency, which is due to expire in mid-October, gives greater powers to both regional and central government, making it easier for officials to bypass the bureaucracy that smothers much decision-making in Italy. "I believe the government will need to ask for a further extension," Health Undersecretary Sandra Zampa told state broadcaster RAI.
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| Sonic boom heard in Paris and suburbs caused by fighter jet breaking sound barrier Posted: 30 Sep 2020 03:08 AM PDT  A loud blast heard throughout Paris on Wednesday briefly caused panic as edgy residents feared a bombing five days after a terrorist attack outside the former offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. The noise was caused by a sonic boom as a military jet broke the speed of sound, police said. Pierre Duclos, who was in a café around the corner from the site of the attack on Friday when the explosion-like noise was heard, said: "Everyone looked at each other and a few people got up and went outside. For a while, we thought another terrorist attack was coming and we were all shocked. Some people asked the café owner to close and lock the door. I was here on Friday and frankly I was really worried again today.
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| Hyundai just formed a division to build walking vehicles that can drive at highway speeds and climb walls Posted: 30 Sep 2020 09:15 AM PDT  Hyundai's New Horizons Studio will build the vehicles, which could help first responders on harsh terrain or pick up wheelchair users without a ramp.
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