| Trump's new coronavirus adviser uses made-up statistics and false claims to praise White House pandemic response Posted: 04 Sep 2020 01:05 PM PDT  In recent days, Dr. Scott Atlas has eclipsed Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx as Trump's most visible, and presumably trusted, coronavirus adviser.
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| DC Police release body camera footage from fatal shooting Posted: 03 Sep 2020 12:31 PM PDT  Police in the nation's capital on Thursday released body camera footage from the officer who fatally shot a Black teenager a day earlier, leading to protests outside Mayor Muriel Bowser's home and a police station. Deon Kay, 18, was shot in the chest Wednesday afternoon in the midst of a foot pursuit with police officers. The officer turns around, sees Kay running a few feet behind him and fires a single shot into Kay's chest.
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| A shark latched onto a Florida man’s arm and decided to stay awhile, video shows Posted: 04 Sep 2020 11:58 AM PDT  A small shark hung onto a Florida beachgoer's arm relentlessly over the weekend, and the victim acted like it was no big deal.
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| A massive 164-feet deep crater suddenly opened up on Siberia's Arctic tundra and it could be the result of an explosion triggered by climate change, scientists say Posted: 05 Sep 2020 06:48 AM PDT  The crater was accidentally discovered by a Russian film crew as they were flying over the Yamal peninsula on an unrelated assignment.
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| California's oldest state park, home to iconic redwoods, expects to close for year due to fires Posted: 04 Sep 2020 06:55 PM PDT  The California State Parks Department has confirmed to USA TODAY that Big Basin Redwoods State Park is expected to close for a year due to wildfires.
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| Jessica Krug will not teach this semester, George Washington University says Posted: 05 Sep 2020 03:51 AM PDT  Jessica Krug admitted in a blog post that she was a white Jewish woman from Kansas City.
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| Japan coastguard suspends search for crew from capsized cattle ship due to bad weather Posted: 04 Sep 2020 11:53 PM PDT  Japan's coastguard on Saturday suspended its search for crew missing from a cattle ship in the East China Sea due to bad weather from a typhoon, a coastguard said. A third crewman from the Gulf Livestock 1 that capsized in a storm off Japan with a crew of 43 and a cargo of nearly 6,000 cattle, was found alive on Friday.
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| School carries no greater risk for staff and students than home, major survey concludes Posted: 04 Sep 2020 04:59 AM PDT  Turning up to primary or pre-school presents no greater risk to children or staff than staying at home, a Public Health England (PHE) study has found. More than 12,000 tests carried out over June and July yielded only three positive results. Antibody blood test - looking for evidence of past infection - also identified that rates were no higher than in the general population. Gavin Williamson, the Education Secretary, described the results as "hugely encouraging" and evidence that the wider harm to children from missing school is greater than that from coronavirus. From the 0.02 per cent of positive results, there was "no evidence" of onwards transmission either to household contacts or the wider educational setting, said PHE. The government scientists also found that children and staff who attended school more frequently were not more likely to test positive for antibodies than those who did not attend school at all or went less often. Surveillance revealed similar levels of antibodies in both staff and pupils, suggesting that children are as likely to get infected as adults. PHE said the low numbers of confirmed infections in children nationally could be due to children experiencing asymptomatic coronavirus or mild symptoms going undetected, rather than them being less susceptible than adults. But they added that the scarcity of positive cases and the extremely low number of outbreaks suggests that children are less likely to pass the infection on. The results, which come from surveillance of 131 primary and preschools, will give a boost for ministers as they call for all children to return to school this week. A warning for secondary schools However, PHE said the findings cannot be extrapolated to secondary school pupils, and follow warnings from some experts that adolescents have a higher risk of catching and spreading the virus. Dr Shamez Ladhani, Consultant Epidemiologist, Public Health England said: "This is the largest study of its kind in the country and suggests attending preschool and primary school brings no additional risk to either staff or students. "Although these results are preliminary, they should be very reassuring to parents who may be anxious about their children returning to school. "As has been found in previous research, infection within educational settings is extremely low, and while it appears that children do contract Covid-19, the overwhelming majority experience mild or no symptoms, and are unlikely to pass it on." Mr Williamson said: "I am hugely encouraged by the findings of this report, which support what the UK's Chief Medical Officers have already made clear - that the risk of catching coronavirus at school is low, meaning that the risk to children being out of school is, in fact, far greater. "This week has seen thousands of children reunited with classmates and teachers as schools across the country begin to reopen for full-time education for all pupils at the start of the autumn term. "Parents can be reassured that schools have in place protective measures to reduce the risk of transmission and these findings add to the assurance that the return to school has been based on the best scientific and medical advice."
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| Trump's suggestion to vote twice could put many in legal jeopardy, Stacey Abrams says Posted: 04 Sep 2020 12:30 PM PDT  President Trump's suggestion that people vote twice could make voters vulnerable to being accused of a crime and lead to longer lines and confusion at the polls, said former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.
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| Kentucky congressman defends teen accused in protest deaths Posted: 04 Sep 2020 03:12 PM PDT |
| Biden jokes that Kenosha audience would 'shoot me' if he didn't wrap up his remarks Posted: 03 Sep 2020 01:40 PM PDT  The comment came as Biden was visiting the community shaken by the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
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| Soldier from Key West killed in military vehicle crash in Texas Posted: 04 Sep 2020 12:51 PM PDT  A decorated U.S. Army soldier from Key West was killed in a military vehicle crash in Texas last week, according to reports by the Army Times and Stars and Stripes .
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| Typhoon Maysak: North Korea vows to punish officials over 'casualties' Posted: 05 Sep 2020 04:11 AM PDT  The ruling party says local officials are responsible for "dozens of casualties" in Typhoon Maysak,
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| Russia presses Germany for more detail on Navalny, urges 'transparency' Posted: 04 Sep 2020 12:02 AM PDT  The Kremlin said on Friday that it wanted dialogue with Germany over the case of opposition politician Alexei Navalny and that Russian doctors who treated him initially were much more transparent than the German doctors treating him now. Germany, where Navalny is in hospital, has said he was poisoned with a Soviet-style Novichok nerve agent and wants the perpetrators held to account. Russia has until now not opened a criminal investigation and said there is no evidence yet of a crime.
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| Sarah Huckabee Sanders called one of her former White House colleagues a 'liberal, aggressive, foulmouthed Jew from New York City' Posted: 05 Sep 2020 06:21 AM PDT  Sanders' provided the colorful description of communications specialist Josh Raffel in her new book, "Speaking for Myself."
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| Mexico's largest cartel 'arming consumer drones with explosives' in turf war Posted: 05 Sep 2020 08:07 AM PDT  Mexico's fastest growing drug cartel has developed drones laden with C4 explosives in the latest sign the country is losing control of an escalating cartel warfare. Fears are growing that the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) are morphing into narco terrorism as Mexico deals with a bloody battle for territory and drug supply routes into the US. Mexico's General Attorney's Office reported finding drones and the components needed to weaponise them during a search and seizure operation, and is now pursuing terrorism charges against the fast rising CJNG. CJNG split off from the Sinaloa Cartel, belonging to now-US prisoner Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, around 2010, and today it has expanded its territorial control over nearly the entire country in an escalating wave of violence with rival organisations. While both Mexico and the United States have actively arrested and extradited hundreds of cartel members and leaders, over the years the strategy has only caused cartels to fragment and regroup in new, often more violent, organisations. El Chapo, who famously broke out of prison twice, on Saturday appealed against his life sentence handed down a year ago by a US court for trafficking hundreds of tons of narcotics into the country. The end of El Chapo far from spelled the end of cartel violence in Mexico.
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| Letters to the Editor: Bored by Biden? You should be exhilarated at the prospect of his presidency Posted: 04 Sep 2020 03:00 AM PDT  Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will listen to scientists, work against inequality and govern in good faith — the complete opposite of what we have now.
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| 19 Black families purchase 96 acres of land to create a 'safe haven' for Black people Posted: 03 Sep 2020 02:51 PM PDT  Nineteen Black families purchased more than 96 acres of land in Georgia to create a safe space free of oppression. Eventually, they hope to grow the area into an incorporated, self-sustaining community.
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| California making 'a lot of progress' on reopening theme parks, but Gov. Newsom isn't ready to say when Posted: 03 Sep 2020 11:02 AM PDT  California is making "a lot of progress" toward reopening Disneyland and other theme parks, Gov. Gavin Newsom says. But he isn't ready to talk dates.
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| Search for survivor in Beirut rubble grips grieving nation Posted: 03 Sep 2020 11:49 PM PDT  Rescue workers used cranes, shovels and their bare hands in search operations that resumed early Friday in the rubble of a building that collapsed last month in Beirut's catastrophic explosion, hoping to find a survivor after a pulsing signal was detected. A march and a vigil were planned Friday as well as a moment of silence at 6:08 p.m., the moment that marked the most destructive single incident in Lebanon's history on Aug. 4. The search operation unfolding in Beirut's historic Mar Mikhail district on a street once filled with crowded bars and restaurants has gripped the nation for the past 24 hours.
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| Kosovo to recognize Israel and Serbia to move embassy to Jerusalem Posted: 04 Sep 2020 01:30 PM PDT  Israel scored two diplomatic gains Friday when majority-Muslim Kosovo agreed to recognize the Jewish state and Serbia said it would move its embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.
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| White woman charged with hate crime over beach confrontation Posted: 04 Sep 2020 04:26 AM PDT  A white woman has been charged with a felony hate crime after she initiated a confrontation with a group of Black men.
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| 'Nothing was going to defeat him': Biden describes phone call with Jacob Blake Posted: 03 Sep 2020 03:26 PM PDT  Biden met with the family in Wisconsin and said Blake's mother prayed with him for her son — and for the police officer who shot him.
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| Labour MP Dawn Butler condemned after praising Extinction Rebellion for 'excellent work' Posted: 05 Sep 2020 04:09 AM PDT  A Labour MP has been condemned after praising Extinction Rebellion for 'excellent work' after they blocked the printworks of most of Britain's major newspapers. Dawn Butler, the Member of Parliament for Brent, tweeted applause for the attack on the free press, after the blockade meant many were unable to receive their newspapers, including The Telegraph, this morning. Some questioned whether she would be sanctioned by the Labour leadership for her tweet, which was hastily deleted after she received thousands of angry replies. Conservative MP for Guildford Angela Richardson responded, tweeting: "Anyone who applauds this behaviour genuinely fails to understand the gravity of this action. It's utterly unacceptable."
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| Another record-breaking heat wave is building in the West Posted: 03 Sep 2020 10:24 AM PDT  In some areas the heat will be even more intense than the historic heat wave just a couple of weeks ago.
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| US Forest Service police dog survives second stabbing attack Posted: 04 Sep 2020 04:02 PM PDT  A highly decorated U.S. Forest Service police dog suffered nine stab wounds during a marijuana raid in Northern California. What's more, it's the second time the dog, an 11-year-old Belgian Malinois named Ice, recovered after being seriously injured on the job. Ice was wounded Aug. 27 in the Klamath National Forest south of the Oregon border when he was released to catch a suspect who had fled down a steep hill to escape the raid that unearthed more than 5,500 marijuana plants.
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| Philippines talking to Pfizer, Russia on COVID-19 vaccine supply Posted: 03 Sep 2020 11:26 PM PDT  The Philippine health ministry said on Friday it was due to meet representatives of U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc and the Russian embassy, as the Southeast Asian country looks to secure a supply of a COVID-19 vaccine. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has pledged that the country, which has reported the region's highest number of coronavirus cases, would be "back to normal" by December, pinning his hopes on access to affordable vaccines from countries like China and Russia. Officials of the president's office and ministries of health and foreign affairs would meet with Pfizer on Friday afternoon, then Russian officials later in the day, health undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said.
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| Exclusive: Two-thirds of Americans say they won't get COVID-19 vaccine when it's first available, USA TODAY/ Suffolk Poll shows Posted: 04 Sep 2020 07:09 AM PDT  Two-thirds of U.S. voters say they won't try to get a coronavirus vaccine as soon as it becomes available, according to a new USA TODAY/Suffolk poll.
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| Mississippi AG drops case against Curtis Flowers, a Black man who was tried 6 times for same crime Posted: 04 Sep 2020 04:41 PM PDT  Mississippi's Attorney General Office is dropping its case against Curtis Flowers, a Black man who was tried six times for the same crime.
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| Four years later, some Pennsylvania Trump fans still fired up Posted: 04 Sep 2020 09:30 AM PDT  In pro-Donald Trump areas of Pennsylvania, long a state Democrats thought they could rely on, some supporters of the Republican president say they are more enthusiastic than ever, and will work to reelect the incumbent who they say kept his promises.
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| China complicit in bypassing UN sanctions to launder North Korean money, report suggests Posted: 03 Sep 2020 10:47 PM PDT  A new investigation into companies trading in the Chinese city of Dandong, on the border with North Korea, has shed a spotlight on Pyongyang's global money laundering networks and raised fresh questions about China's complicity in bypassing United Nations sanctions against Kim Jong-un's regime. "The Billion Dollar Border Town," a report published on Friday by the Royal United Services Institute, reveals how companies in Dandong, in China's northeast Liaoning province, have allegedly helped North Korean entities construct complex sanctions evasion networks across various jurisdictions. Data obtained by researchers indicated a small core of 150 companies was involved in $2.9 billion worth of shipments between September 2014 and February 2017, at a time when North Korea was escalating its nuclear and weapons programmes and the UN imposed wide-ranging sanctions in response. As a result, these 150 companies alone could have accounted for around 20 per cent of North Korea's total reported global trade value in that time period. "These include multiple Dandong firms being involved in coal and iron imports even as ever more stringent measures on such commodities were imposed by the UN Security Council in 2016 and 2017," said Joseph Byrne, a research analyst at RUSI's Proliferation and Nuclear Policy Team, and one of the report's authors.
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| McEnany begins WH briefing criticizing Pelosi for hair salon visit, shows video on loop Posted: 03 Sep 2020 11:40 AM PDT  White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany opened Thursday's White House press briefing by criticizing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after a video surfaced showing Pelosi inside a salon without a mask, which violates local health guidelines.
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| Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen said the president 'would start a war' to stop himself from being removed from office Posted: 05 Sep 2020 01:52 AM PDT  Michael Cohen made his comments ahead of the release of his book "Disloyal, a Memoir," which details his 12 years working for Trump.
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| 3 deaths, 147 coronavirus cases now tied to Maine wedding Posted: 04 Sep 2020 12:57 PM PDT  The three people who died as a result of the outbreak did not attend the wedding.
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| Seminole Hard Rock Rock Hotel and Casino announces layoffs of more than 1,500 workers Posted: 04 Sep 2020 08:14 AM PDT  Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino near Hollywood has announced layoffs affecting 1,527 workers as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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| U.S. to allow Indian air carriers to conduct ground handling operations Posted: 03 Sep 2020 02:20 PM PDT |
| Jacob Blake makes court appearance from hospital bed Posted: 04 Sep 2020 04:11 PM PDT  The black man whose shooting by police triggered protests faces charges unrelated to that incident.
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| Exclusive: Michel Barnier to be sidelined by EU leaders in bid to break Brexit deadlock Posted: 04 Sep 2020 12:24 PM PDT  European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier is set to be sidelined by EU leaders in a bid to get a breakthrough in the negotiations about a trade treaty with the UK. Representatives of the bloc's 27 member states expect Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, to pave the way for heads of state and government to intervene in the deadlocked talks in a September 16 flagship speech. EU leaders are hoping that by stepping in to get the talks moving, it will help bridge the deep divides between the two sides, allowing Mr Barnier and his UK opposite number Lord Frost to agree the details. Two more rounds of trade negotiations are scheduled this month, with the first taking place in London next week, but the two sides remain divided. Relations between the UK and EU have descended into mutual recriminations, with both sides blaming each other for the deadlock after no progress on the major issues of fishing and state aid. Time is now running out, with Mr Barnier previously warning that a deal must be agreed by the end of October, to give the EU time to ratify the agreement before the end of the year.
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| Israelis rejoice in weed from heaven Posted: 05 Sep 2020 04:59 AM PDT  Cannabis rained from on high in Israel's liberal hub of Tel Aviv this week as legalisation campaigners used a drone to airdrop bags of the drug, sparking delight on the ground.
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