| Hong Kong police criticised over rough arrest of 12-year-old girl during protests Posted: 07 Sep 2020 02:20 AM PDT  Hong Kong police tackled a 12-year old girl to the ground and arrested her on Sunday amid a protests against delayed parliamentary elections. A video widely shared online shows riot police pushing the youngster to the ground as she tried to dash away. She was later charged for allegedly violating coronavirus social distancing rules, police said. But her mother told local media: "She was just trying to buy art supplies with her brother." The video has sparked outrage online, gathering over a million views on Twitter. On the local Reddit-like forum LIHKG, one commenter criticised the police for being "loud and impolite" as if a "mad dog chasing after people who run." In a statement on Facebook, the police said the girl was running in a "suspicious manner" that required officers to chase and subdue her with the use of "minimum force".
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| 100,000 march in Minsk to demand Belarus leader resigns Posted: 06 Sep 2020 08:20 AM PDT  Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched Sunday to the outskirts of the presidential residence in the capital of Belarus, calling for the country's authoritarian leader to resign as protests against President Alexander Lukashenko entered their fifth week. Protests also took place in major cities throughout Belarus, said Interior Ministry spokeswoman Olga Chemodanova. Crowd sizes for those protests were not immediately reported, but Ales Bialiatski, head of the Viasna human rights organization, said the demonstration in Minsk attracted more than 100,000 people.
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| A Brooklyn couple was pulled off a New York City ferry in handcuffs after they refused to wear masks Posted: 06 Sep 2020 02:57 PM PDT  The husband and wife were issued summonses for disorderly conduct after refusing the captain's orders to put on a mask or disembark, the NYPD said.
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| Daniel Prude: Rochester mayor vows to reform police Posted: 07 Sep 2020 01:57 AM PDT  There was a fifth night of protests in Rochester, New York over the death of black man Daniel Prude.
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| California wildfire traps campers in national forest Posted: 05 Sep 2020 09:23 PM PDT  The Creek Fire jumped a river and compromised the only road into the Mammoth Pool Campground, where they were forced to shelter in place.
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| Anita Hill backs Biden, despite his 'mistakes' in handling her testimony during Clarence Thomas hearings Posted: 06 Sep 2020 03:15 PM PDT  "Notwithstanding all of his limitations in the past, and the mistakes that he made in the past," Hill said Biden "should be elected in November."
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| Jacob Blake shares message from hospital bed Posted: 06 Sep 2020 02:11 PM PDT  The 29-year-old and father of six also described the constant pain he feels in the minute-long clip posted on Twitter.
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| The Mask-Defying Church at Center of Disastrous Maine Wedding Linked to 3 Deaths, 144 Virus Cases Posted: 05 Sep 2020 11:52 AM PDT  Maine's biggest COVID-19 outbreak is linked to a wedding officiated by the pastor of a distancing-defying church who says masks are part of a "socialistic platform." Now more than 144 COVID-19 patients have been linked to the event, and three people are dead.Todd Bell is pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church in Sanford, Maine. Famous for flying between ministries in multiple states on his private plane (God "burdened" his heart to do airplane ministry, he says), Bell flew in to officiate a rural Maine wedding on August 7.That wedding is the nexus of 144 COVID-19 cases, including three that resulted in deaths, Maine officials said Friday. One of the deceased, an 83-year-old woman, did not even attend the wedding, but contracted the virus from a guest. None of this appears to be stopping Bell from doing business as usual in his church, calling on worshippers to trust "God, not government" as the pandemic progresses.The Fall of Florida's Biggest Sham 'Church' Peddling Bleach as a 'Sacrament' The August 7 wedding in Millinocket, Maine was a super-spreader event. Sixty-five guests attended the event at the Big Moose Inn, a violation of the state's limit on large gatherings. Officiated by Bell, the celebration went on to sicken guests, some of whom in turn passed it on to people in particularly vulnerable communities. COVID-19 outbreaks at a local rehabilitation center, a senior living facility, a county jail, and a school have all been traced back to the wedding. The number of cases linked to the event has doubled in the past week.One of the victims, 83-year-old Theresa Dentremont, did not attend the wedding, but caught COVID-19 from someone who had. A mother of six, Dentremont was described in an obituary as the "anchor of her family" and someone who was "unwaveringly positive and...always found the good in every person and every situation."Six Calvary Baptist families also attended the wedding, Bell confirmed in a sermon last Sunday, reported by the Penobscot Bay Pilot. But despite a warning from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that Calvary Baptist-goers should voluntarily quarantine, the church was still in full unmasked operation last week.In his sermon, Bell told worshippers to stay home if they were sick, but launched into a conspiratorial sermon denouncing vaccines and repudiating anti-coronavirus measures. He also spent part of the sermon lashing out at people who had criticized him on social media, including a person who, after observing one of his posts about flying his private plane, speculated that Bell was going to spread the disease at a casino elsewhere in Maine.Bell quipped that a casino would be a good place to deliberately spread COVID-19. "Gambling has killed more people and ruined more homes and destroyed more things in our society almost than liquor or pot or pornography," Bell said, according to the Boston Globe. "Gambling is wicked."Although in his sermon Bell said he hoped the media was listening, the church has since removed all its live streamed sermons from YouTube and pulled its website. The church's phone number, when called, returns a message saying the number is not currently accepting calls. On Twitter, the church retweeted a person who claimed Bell was unfairly under attack."Please pray for Pastor Todd Bell, his family and his church. The media and many others have been relentlessly attacking him for having church amidst the rise of COVID cases in Maine," the tweet reads. "Pastors are being made out to be enemies of the people by media. We must stand together."> ������������ pic.twitter.com/DP9yK9Dmfb> > — Calvary Baptist Church (@CalvarySanford) August 23, 2020That claim—that pastors are being portrayed as enemies—might be harsh toward the rest of the state's religious leaders, most of whom have reportedly not had COVID-19 outbreaks in their congregations. Maine's WGME reported that the overwhelming majority of Maine religious congregations have taken steps to prevent the disease's spread, with some of them moving outdoors, implementing distancing for indoor services, or offering online sermons.Some groups affiliated with Calvary Baptist have distanced themselves from the church. A nonprofit shelter that used the church to distribute food to low-income locals relocated to an outdoor site this week. Beneficiaries of the food program are especially susceptible to COVID-19, the program's director told WGME, noting that 85 percent of the shelter's clients had health complications that could exacerbate COVID-19's worst effects.Another local told WGME that Calvary Baptist missionaries had actively proselytized after the wedding, even trying to enter her home without masks."They came in without masks and asked to come in even further," the woman told the news station. "They asked twice if I was sure they couldn't come into my living room. When I refused they forced a pamphlet at me."Read more at The Daily Beast.Get 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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| Majority of Young Adults in the U.S. Now Live With Their Parents: Report Posted: 06 Sep 2020 02:01 PM PDT  The number of 18 to 29 year olds living at home hit a low of 29% in 1960 and it has risen over the decades
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| Afghan negotiators wait in Kabul as start of peace talks faces delays: sources Posted: 07 Sep 2020 02:23 AM PDT  Afghan negotiators have pushed back a planned trip to Doha for long-awaited peace talks with the Taliban as logistical issues are still being worked on in the Qatari capital, delaying the start of the talks, a government and a diplomatic source said on Monday. After months of delays largely due to a disagreement over prisoner demands by the insurgent Taliban, a government decision to set most prisoners free last week led the major players involved to expect talks would finally begin. Negotiators had initially expected to fly to Doha late last week in anticipation of talks starting as soon as Monday.
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| Philippine leader pardons US Marine in transgender killing Posted: 07 Sep 2020 04:18 AM PDT  The Philippine president pardoned a U.S. Marine on Monday in a surprise move that will free him from imprisonment in the 2014 killing of a transgender Filipino woman that sparked anger in the former American colony. President Rodrigo Duterte said he decided to pardon Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton because the Marine was not treated fairly after opponents blocked his early release for good conduct in detention.
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| The Trump campaign has legal battles in 5 states to limit mail-in voting expansions Posted: 06 Sep 2020 01:46 PM PDT  The Trump campaign has been involved in litigation in Iowa, Nevada, New Jersey, Montana, and the Navajo Nation in Arizona to stifle efforts to expand voting by mail.
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| Dozens arrested as violent Portland protests continue Posted: 05 Sep 2020 09:12 PM PDT  Hundreds of people gathered for rallies and marches against police violence and racial injustice Saturday night in Portland, Oregon, as often violent nightly demonstrations that have happened for 100 days since George Floyd was killed showed no signs of ceasing. Video posted online appeared to show tear gas being deployed to clear protesters from what police said was an unpermitted demonstration.
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| One depression is now Tropical Storm Paulette. The other is forecast to become Rene today Posted: 07 Sep 2020 06:30 AM PDT  The weekend's two disturbances off the coast of Africa have metamorphosed into Tropical Storm Paulette and Tropical Depression No. 18, projected to be Tropical Storm Rene by Tuesday.
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| Oregon rejects GOP voter statement, says it was submitted 29 seconds late Posted: 06 Sep 2020 10:15 AM PDT  The Oregon Republican Party's statement for the state voters' pamphlet arrived 29 seconds too late and will not appear in the guide mailed to voters for the November election, according to officials.
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| More than 20 NYU students suspended for breaking coronavirus rules, school says Posted: 06 Sep 2020 09:49 AM PDT  The prestigious New York City school, which did not provide details about the suspensions, tweeted the update after less than a week of in-person instruction.
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| Sweltering crowds throng to beaches for Labor Day weekend, despite pandemic worries Posted: 07 Sep 2020 09:30 AM PDT  As Labor Day ends an unusually quiet tourism season, beaches in California, Florida and New Jersey attract crowds mostly unhindered by coronavirus.
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| Nigerian men arrested over German PPE 'scam' Posted: 07 Sep 2020 04:59 AM PDT  The men are accused of cloning the website of a Dutch company to obtain an order from a German state.
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| Ahmaud Arbery’s mother says 2:23 Foundation using son’s name without consent Posted: 05 Sep 2020 05:20 PM PDT  Ahmaud Arbery's mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, said she has not endorsed an organization called the 2:23 Foundation. The foundation started a, "I Run With Maud" Labor Day campaign. Cooper-Jones said she feels disrespected because her late son's name is being used without her approval.
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| South Korea's new coronavirus cases sink to three-week low amid tight restrictions Posted: 06 Sep 2020 02:50 AM PDT  South Korea on Sunday reported the smallest daily rise in coronavirus infections in three weeks as tighter restrictions cap a second wave. This brings South Korea's total number of COVID-19 infections to 21,177, with 334 deaths.
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| From spit hoods to ketamine injections: The controversial police tactics highlighted by the Black Lives Matter movement Posted: 06 Sep 2020 08:15 AM PDT  The nationwide protests of the Black Lives Matter movement and has charged the debate about how police enforce law and order.
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| Almost 300 Rohingya found on beach in Indonesia’s Aceh Posted: 06 Sep 2020 09:39 PM PDT  Almost 300 Rohingya Muslims were found on a beach in Indonesia's Aceh province on Monday after months at sea, officials said. Officials arrived and found that the Rohingya had dispersed into three groups after landing, Banda Sakti Subdistrict Military Commander Roni Mahendra said. Indrika Ratwatte, the director for Asia and the Pacific for UNHCR, the U.N. refugee agency, said the Rohingya had survived about seven months at sea in desperate conditions, with some needing medical treatment.
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| Michael Cohen’s Tell-All Book: Trump Thought Black People Were ‘Too Stupid’ to Vote for Him Posted: 05 Sep 2020 06:28 PM PDT  Michael Cohen claims in his new book that Donald Trump repeatedly insulted minorities during his 2016 campaign and dismissed them as "not my people," according to an excerpt of Cohen's book published by The Washington Post late Saturday. Cohen's Disloyal: A Memoir describes how Trump also said he'd "never get the Hispanic vote" because "like the Blacks, they're too stupid to vote for Trump." Trump's "low opinion of all Black folks" focused most viciously on former President Barack Obama, according to Cohen, the president's former personal lawyer who is serving a three-year prison sentence for campaign finance violations. The Commander in Chief reportedly attributed Obama's admission to Columbia University and Harvard Law School to nothing more than "f--king affirmative action." Of Obama's presidency, he was quoted as saying, "Tell me one country run by a black person that isn't a sh--hole. They are all complete f--king toilets."Cohen claims Trump went so far as to hire an Obama impersonator to appear in a video where Trump "ritualistically belittled the first black president and then fired him," according to CNN, which published a photo from Cohen's book that shows Trump seated behind a desk with a book in front of him that appears to show Obama's name, and a Black man in front of the desk wearing a black suit and American flag pin. Cohen also claims in the book that Trump's adulation for Russia's Vladimir Putin during his 2016 campaign had more to do with money than anything else. According to Cohen, Trump was an outspoken admirer of Putin in a bid to ingratiate himself with the Russian leader, believing at that point that he would lose the election but still manage to befriend Putin and get close to his wealth. His admiration for Putin also had nothing to do with politics or ideology. Rather, as Cohen claims, Trump was impressed with what he saw as Putin's ability "to take over an entire nation and run it like it was his personal company — like the Trump Organization, in fact."Trump and the White House have hit back against Cohen's claims by portraying him as a liar. Cohen was hit with a three-year prison sentence after taking a plea deal over illegal hush-money payments to two women that he said Trump instructed him to make.In response to the newest claims from Cohen's book revealed Saturday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany echoed previous statements by Team Trump on the matter. "Michael Cohen is a disgraced felon and disbarred lawyer, who lied to Congress. He has lost all credibility, and it's unsurprising to see his latest attempt to profit off of lies," McEnany was quoted telling the Post. Cohen calls Trump "a cheat, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man." He does not exempt himself from what he describes as Trump's mafia-esque orbit, saying his own actions make him "one of Trump's bad guys" and Trump's "designated thug."According to Cohen, Trump also personally approved a National Enquirer smear of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). The tabloid reportedly concocted a photograph about how Cruz's father was in the company of Lee Harvey Oswald shortly before the assassination of John F. Kennedy. "It's not real, right?" Trump asked Cohen. "Looks real to me!" Cohen said. Trump laughed and demanded the picture appear on the Enquirer's front page, according to the lawyer.As The Daily Beast reported back in April, Trump became visibly agitated when he caught wind of Cohen's upcoming tell-all earlier this year. Trump's attorney, Charles Harder, sent a letter to Cohen in May, on behalf of the Trump Organization, demanding that he stop writing his book in light of the non-disclosure agreement he signed while working for Trump. Cohen was released from prison early due to the coronavirus pandemic, but remanded back into custody a few weeks later, a move he tied directly to Trump's bid to stop him from writing the book. A judge agreed with him and ordered his release in July, ruling that his return to prison was "retaliatory" for his upcoming book. Read more at The Daily Beast.Get 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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| 'Arms race': How the Portland shooting shows protesters on the right and the left are bringing guns Posted: 05 Sep 2020 12:49 PM PDT  Experts say guns are showing up at demonstrations by protesters from both sides, creating a dangerous situation.
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| Chinese chip giant SMIC 'in shock' after US trade ban threat Posted: 07 Sep 2020 06:05 AM PDT  SMIC's Hong Kong shares sank 23% after the Pentagon said it could be added to a trade blacklist.
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| California hiker dies as record heat wave and wildfires scorch state Posted: 06 Sep 2020 05:08 PM PDT  Temperatures reached 121 degrees in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Woodland Hills.
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| Deal likely to fund U.S. government to early December, Mnuchin says Posted: 06 Sep 2020 06:35 AM PDT  U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Sunday said a deal between the White House and Congress would fund the federal government through the beginning of December and that details of the spending bill should be finalized by week's end. Mnuchin and U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had agreed to extend funding, according to a Democratic aide, but details on the bill have yet to emerge. "We're going to move forward with a clean CR (continuing resolution), hopefully through the beginning of December," Mnuchin told reporters at the White House, adding: "I hope by the end of the week we'll have something firmed up."
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| Navy searching for missing USS Nimitz sailor Posted: 07 Sep 2020 06:03 AM PDT  Search and rescue underway after sailor disappeared from aircraft carrier.
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| Living Vehicle unveiled its luxury new travel trailer RV with a convertible home office starting at almost $229,300 — take a look inside Posted: 06 Sep 2020 05:12 AM PDT  The trailer comes in three models ranging from $229,995 to $369,995, but the only difference is its power system.
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| Race to assess damage to stricken oil tanker off Sri Lanka Posted: 06 Sep 2020 01:48 AM PDT  An international team of salvage experts arrived in Sri Lanka Sunday to assess damage to a fire-stricken oil tanker off the east coast, officials said, as fear mounted for an environmental disaster if there is a leak.
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| Georgia teen abused by father on Instagram Live Posted: 06 Sep 2020 01:16 PM PDT |
| Letter from Africa: Why journalists in Nigeria feel under attack Posted: 06 Sep 2020 04:01 PM PDT  A video of a tongue-lashing one reporter recently received comes as no surprise, writes Mannir Dan Ali.
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| Would Biden ease up on China? Posted: 06 Sep 2020 03:01 AM PDT  When he was vice president, Joe Biden and other officials had a more optimistic view of Beijing. His outlook has evolved, as has the consensus in Washington.
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| 2 members of far-right group Boogaloo Bois arrested in Minnesota Posted: 05 Sep 2020 03:01 PM PDT  Two self-described members of the far-right extremist group Boogaloo Bois were arrested in Minnesota for attempting to conspire with Hamas. CBS Minnesota's Marielle Mohs reports.
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| California officials are urging residents to avoid hiking during an intense heat wave after a woman died on a Santa Monica trail Posted: 07 Sep 2020 08:07 AM PDT  Authorities have since announced that hiking trails along the Santa Monica Mountains will be closed through Monday.
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| Every aspect of supply chain and transportation is undergoing transformation, and the pandemic has only accelerated it Posted: 07 Sep 2020 07:20 AM PDT  The global supply chain has been severely challenged in the wake of the global pandemic. For transportation more widely, disruption and transformation has been continuing to accelerate
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| Priest named to be bishop by pope resigns after abuse probe Posted: 07 Sep 2020 07:40 AM PDT |
| Amid theft and accusations of sabotage, Haiti struggles to turn on the lights Posted: 06 Sep 2020 04:05 AM PDT |
| ‘Reckless & selfish.’ Huge Burning Man bash leads mayor to close San Francisco beach Posted: 06 Sep 2020 01:53 PM PDT  "You are not celebrating. You are putting people's lives at risk," Mayor London Breed wrote on Twitter.
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| Bond denied for Georgia trooper charged in fatal shooting of Black motorist Posted: 06 Sep 2020 08:30 AM PDT  A Georgia judge has denied bond for a former Georgia State Patrol trooper accused of murder in the August shooting death of a 60-year-old Black man who refused to stop for a broken tail light. Screven County Judge F. Gates Peed on Friday ruled that it "would be inappropriate" to grant bond at the moment for Jacob Gordon Thompson, given the facts of the case. Thompson, who is white, briefly chased Julian Lewis on Aug. 7 before forcing Lewis' car into a ditch and fatally shooting Lewis in the head.
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| Democrats are leading in the polls. That means it's time for them to panic. Posted: 06 Sep 2020 03:01 AM PDT  Some say it's in the DNA of the party to always think the worst is about to happen.
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| Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny out of medically induced coma Posted: 07 Sep 2020 06:30 AM PDT  Alexei Navalny, the poisoned Russian opposition leader, has regained consciousness and is reacting to stimuli, doctors announced on Monday. He has been brought out of a medically induced coma for the first time since his suspected poisoning with the nerve agent Novichok, and is starting to breathe on his own. The news came as Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secretary, said he had summoned the Russian ambassador to register the UK's "deep concern about the poisoning". "It's completely unacceptable that a banned chemical weapon has been used and Russia must hold a full, transparent investigation," Mr Raab tweeted. Mr Navalny's doctors stressed it is too early to determine whether he has suffered any long-term damage. The prominent Kremlin critic is being treated at Berlin's Charite Hospital after being transferred from Russia last month. "The patient has been removed from his medically induced coma and is being weaned off mechanical ventilation. He is responding to verbal stimuli," the hospital said in a statement. "It remains too early to gauge the potential long-term effects of his severe poisoning."
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| China Now Has Its Own Secret Reusable Spaceplane Posted: 07 Sep 2020 09:06 AM PDT  It's just like America's mysterious X-37B. We think.
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| In sign of COVID-19's impact on New York tourism, Hilton to close Times Square hotel Posted: 07 Sep 2020 09:09 AM PDT  Hilton is closing its 478-room hotel in Times Square on Oct. 1, according to a document it filed with state regulators this week, citing the pandemic.
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| Vietnam begins trial of 29 villagers in deadly land dispute Posted: 07 Sep 2020 06:22 AM PDT |
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