| A deadlocked Senate greets Amy Coney Barrett Posted: 12 Oct 2020 01:54 PM PDT  Democrats blamed Trump and congressional Republicans for nominating Barrett against Ginsburg's dying wishes and rushing the confirmation process in desperate hopes of winning a conservative majority on the high court.
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| Alaska's Senate race rocked by leaked videos, China ties and even a dead bear Posted: 12 Oct 2020 01:04 PM PDT  The race is tight and has faced a series of eccentric controversies.
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| "Nervous breakdown": President Trump attacks Fox News and Drudge Report in early morning tweet spree Posted: 13 Oct 2020 09:12 AM PDT  "People want the TRUTH!" Trump tweeted at the two right-leaning outlets
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| A Chinese city says it tested 3 million people for COVID-19 in 2 days, showing how much the US and Europe still lag behind in testing capability Posted: 13 Oct 2020 03:20 AM PDT  Authorities in Qingdao, eastern China, announced a massive testing effort after identifying 12 new coronavirus cases.
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| Anchorage mayor admits to inappropriate affair with reporter Posted: 13 Oct 2020 04:21 AM PDT  The mayor of Anchorage, Alaska, admitted to having an inappropriate relationship with a female reporter on Monday, after initially denying the allegations.
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| 20 ‘free-roaming’ pythons – some as long as 10 feet – seized at Utah home, cops say Posted: 12 Oct 2020 11:53 AM PDT  The snakes were "mostly free-roaming inside the residence."
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| KKK ‘social visit’ cards left at Biden supporters' homes Posted: 13 Oct 2020 07:32 AM PDT  Business cards warned residents not to 'make the next visit a business call'
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| I volunteered for a COVID-19 vaccine trial in New Jersey. Here's what it's been like since the shot. Posted: 13 Oct 2020 05:30 AM PDT  What's it like being part of a trial to see if the COVID-19 vaccine being developed by Moderna is effective?
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| Supreme Court term limits would increase political tensions around justices, not ease them Posted: 13 Oct 2020 05:38 AM PDT  Term limits for justices are unconstitutional and wouldn't solve our problems. We need a better way to lower the political temperature around the court.
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| U.S. slams Turkey's renewed seismic survey push in eastern Mediterranean Posted: 13 Oct 2020 05:41 AM PDT  The United States on Tuesday slammed Turkey's renewed push to send a vessel to carry out seismic surveys in the eastern Mediterranean, accusing Ankara of unilaterally stoking tensions and "deliberately" complicating the resumption of talks with Greece. "The United States deplores Turkey's October 11 announcement of renewed Turkish survey activity in areas over which Greece asserts jurisdiction in the Eastern Mediterranean," State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said in a statement while urging Ankara to cease its survey activities.
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| 'Stop playing games with our lives': Americans on financial brink plead with politicians to pass bill for second stimulus checks Posted: 13 Oct 2020 08:11 AM PDT  For many Americans across the country, the prospect of getting a second stimulus check from the government is a matter of life and death.
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| Stan Swamy: The oldest person to be accused of terrorism in India Posted: 12 Oct 2020 09:22 PM PDT  A respected 83-year-old activist and priest is the latest to be arrested for alleged links with Maoists.
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| Denver police identify suspect in fatal shooting near dueling protests Posted: 12 Oct 2020 04:06 PM PDT  Matthew Dolloff, 30, was being held for investigation of first-degree murder.
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| Family of Iraqi asylum-seekers charter private jet to Germany Posted: 13 Oct 2020 06:28 AM PDT  A family of Iraqi asylum-seekers were caught entering Germany by private jet last week, it has emerged. The family, who are believed to be from the Kurdish-controlled area of northern Iraq, arrived at Munich airport in a chartered private plane from Istanbul last Friday. A couple named only as 49-year-old Shwana Q and his 44-year-old wife Basoz Q were travelling with their two children aged 12 and 7. They were carrying forged diplomatic passports from the Caribbean island nation of St Kitts and Nevis and claimed they were on their way to the nearby island of Dominica. They told passport officers they wanted to spend one night in Munich while they waited for a change of aircraft. But the officials became suspicious when none of the family could speak English or French — the two languages generally spoken by diplomats. On closer examination their diplomatic passport cards proved to be forgeries.
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| US-developed hypersonic missile hit within 6 inches of target, says Army secretary Posted: 13 Oct 2020 10:12 AM PDT  The Army secretary hailed the hypersonic missile's accuracy in his opening speech at the annual AUSA conference
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| Southwest Airlines is heading to two major airports. Here’s what you need to know Posted: 12 Oct 2020 12:27 PM PDT  Southwest operated out of one of the airports on its first day of service in 1971.
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| Peru opens Machu Picchu for a single Japanese tourist after almost seven-month wait Posted: 12 Oct 2020 07:26 PM PDT  Peru opened the ruins of Machu Picchu for a single Japanese tourist after he waited almost seven months to enter the Inca citadel, while trapped in the Andean country during the coronavirus outbreak. Jesse Takayama's entry into the ruins came thanks to a special request he submitted while stranded since mid-March in the town of Aguas Calientes, on the slopes of the mountains near the site, said Minister of Culture Alejandro Neyra on Monday. "He had come to Peru with the dream of being able to enter," Neyra said in a virtual press conference.
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| Kamala Harris says it's 'reckless' to hold Supreme Court hearings during a pandemic Posted: 12 Oct 2020 11:14 AM PDT  Harris also criticized Republicans, saying they are prioritizing pushing through Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation over a coronavirus stimulus package.
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| 2020 polls: Trump campaign failing to hurt Biden as much as it damaged Clinton in 2016 Posted: 13 Oct 2020 02:46 AM PDT  Polls have grown so one-sided that Republicans fear a Democratic 'blue wave' in November, with control of the Senate also at stake
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| Tanishq: Jewellery ad on interfaith couple withdrawn after outrage Posted: 13 Oct 2020 08:01 AM PDT  The Tanishq ad was criticised on social media for showing an Indian interfaith marriage baby shower.
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| Grand juror: Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron's 'statements and actions' in Breonna Taylor case remain a 'mystery' Posted: 13 Oct 2020 03:00 AM PDT  The grand juror's attorney said Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is trying to squelch jurors from commenting on "his misleading remarks."
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| Pakistan police arrest key suspect in shocking highway rape Posted: 13 Oct 2020 08:12 AM PDT  Pakistani police have arrested the second assailant in a gang rape of a woman whose car broke down on a deserted highway at night last month, when two attackers pulled her out of the vehicle and brutally assaulted her as her terrified children watched, helpless. Why was she on the motor way?
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| King of Thailand Runs Out of Friends, at Home and Abroad Posted: 13 Oct 2020 05:29 AM PDT  The billionaire king of Thailand is running out of friends, at home and abroad.King Maha Vajiralongkorn, who spends much of his time in Germany, in a hotel in the Bavarian Alps accompanied by a modern-day harem of up to 20 female consorts, has now been warned by Angela Merkel's government not to conduct state business from German soil.His residency there, which was revealed at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis when the hotel sought special permission to stay open, has become a flashpoint for unprecedented protests in Thailand against the repressive state and its semi-divine royal family.The protests have been inflamed by reports of the king's vast wealth, estimated by London's Financial Times at between $30bn and $40bn, after sovereign funds were effectively put under his direct control by the leaders of a successful 2014 coup. He is believed to be the world's richest king. Accounts of his gilded life at the Grand Hotel Sonnenbichl in Garmish-Partenkirchen, where his retinue of 20 concubines who have all been given the same honorary surname includes his fourth wife, are not helping either his domestic or international image.Being one of the king's girlfriends is not without risk, however, as illustrated by the fate of his "official" mistress, Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi, 35, who was named Chao Khun Phra, which means "royal noble consort," shortly after he married his fourth wife, Queen Suthida.In October 2019, it was announced that Sineenat had been stripped of the title in a palace statement that called her "ungrateful" for conducting a rivalry with Queen Suthida.She is believed to have spent ten months in jail, but earlier this year she was restored to her former position, with a statement published in the government's Royal Gazette saying Sineenat was "untainted" and therefore entitled to the royal noble consort title and all her previous posts within the palace.As The Daily Beast recently reported, Vajiralongkorn is also alleged to have built up an extraordinary fleet of 38 jets and helicopters for the exclusive use of the Thai royal family.Reports of his medieval privilege, not carried by local mainstream media due to strict prohibitions, now trickle back into the country via social media and Facebook. Thailand earlier this year sought to get Facebook to remove a group critical of the monarchy that had more than a million members, but failed in the attempt.His overseas existence has led to him being dubbed "The German" by some protesters.Although he flew back to Thailand on Saturday, and is expected to remain there to the end of the month, the king's de facto residency in Bavaria has now also begun to raise eyebrows in Germany as well, with Merkel's government explicitly saying last week that the Thai king should stop conducting state business while in Germany.Maria Adebahr, spokeswoman for the German foreign ministry, said that the government had repeatedly stressed to Thailand's ambassador to Berlin that "foreign affairs of state should not be pursued from German soil," adding, "We have made our position very clear."The issue even made it into the German parliament. Frithjof Schmidt, an MP for the opposition Greens, asked why the German government had for months been allowing the king to engage in domestic politics from Bavaria. Heiko Maas, the foreign minister, replied: "We would always clearly counteract efforts by guests in our country to conduct affairs of state from our country."Schmidt, along with many Germans, is deeply uncomfortable that their country may effectively be providing a headquarters for a repressive regime: Schmidt cited the example of the king's role in unilaterally preventing his elder sister, Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya, from running as a candidate in the March 24 election.The move against the princess was widely seen as further evidence of a skewed race in which the prime minister, and leader of Thailand's 2014 coup, General Prayut Chan-o-cha, had an unfair advantage, as 250 members of the Senate who help chose the PM were simply selected by the junta.Strict laws preventing direct criticism of the monarch, his household, and even his pets are being openly and widely defied for the first time as part of ongoing student-led protests against the government."It's the biggest issue of all in Thailand," Parit "Penguin" Chiwarak, told the Financial Times. "The royal institution can interfere in politics because they have enough money."If we don't say it now, when are we going to say it?"Opponents of the commanding position and privilege of the Thai royal family have been emboldened in recent months as rallies by student protesters against the establishment have seen their numbers swelling. Thailand is battling a deep recession brought about by COVID-19 and the collapse of the pivotal tourist trade.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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| US Army firms up requirements for future long-range assault aircraft ahead of competition Posted: 13 Oct 2020 05:37 AM PDT  The Army's Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft program has passed through a requirements gauntlet, and the service is prepping to release a draft request for proposals.
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| Romney decries state of America's 'vile, vituperative, hate-filled' politics, puts blame largely on Trump Posted: 13 Oct 2020 08:14 AM PDT  Romney said he's "troubled" by U.S. politics having "moved away from spirited debate to a vile, vituperative, hate-filled morass" unbecoming of America.
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| Mexico says one of its citizens was subjected to a non-consensual surgery in ICE detention Posted: 13 Oct 2020 12:27 AM PDT  Mexico's foreign ministry said its citizen was detained at an ICE facility in Georgia where numerous women say they were forced to undergo surgeries.
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| 2 remain in critical condition after outdoor dining crash in San Jose Posted: 12 Oct 2020 08:03 PM PDT  Two women remain in critical condition, according to police, after a 69-year-old man crashed his SUV into a crowd of dim sum diners outside Grand Century Shopping Mall in San Jose on Sunday afternoon.
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| Who was Joe Biden's first wife, Neilia, and how did she and their daughter die? Posted: 12 Oct 2020 11:04 AM PDT  Young Delaware senator's devastating losses shaped life and career in Washington
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| New Zealand Deputy PM Humiliates U.S. COVID Denier: ‘He Obviously Got an Education in America’ Posted: 13 Oct 2020 05:50 AM PDT  To be fair, it's probably easier to be a COVID-19 denier in New Zealand than in the United States. The island country has effectively eliminated the virus, twice, and life is now carrying on largely as normal.However, that doesn't mean you shouldn't expect to be absolutely torn to pieces if you start spouting virus conspiracy theories in public there. Sadly for one man, conspicuous by his American accent, that is exactly what happened at a campaign rally in the city of Tauranga this week.The COVID denier piped up at a campaign event led by Winston Peters, leader of the New Zealand First party, and deputy prime minister in the coalition with prime minister Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party. Ardern's government has been glowingly praised around the world for its decisive pandemic response which has seen New Zealand record one of the lowest death tolls from the virus on the planet, at only 25 people.The man, who wasn't named in a news report about the incident from TVNZ, can be heard on video doubting that the virus exists. "Where's your evidence that there is a virus that causes the disease?" the man asked, apparently holding something he'd printed out from the internet.The denier had already annoyed Peters by trying to ask more than his one allotted question, so the lawmaker didn't hold back in his response to the man. "Sit down, sit down," said the deputy prime minister. "We've got someone who obviously got an education in America—220,000 people have died in the U.S., there are eight million cases to date."Peters added: "We've got 79,000 cases just today, probably in India, and here is someone who gets up and says 'the Earth is flat.'" The deputy PM then witheringly told the man: "Sorry, sunshine, wrong place."Inevitably, the man didn't realize that he'd been resoundingly humiliated in public and tried to respond to what Peters had said, but he was told: "Quiet, we have manners at our meetings as well."Last week, New Zealand moved to lift the last of its virus restrictions after going 10 days with no new cases in Auckland, which had experienced a small cluster. Unrestricted gatherings are allowed throughout the nation, and there's no physical distancing rules in bars and restaurants.To date, New Zealand has recorded 1,800 positive tests and 25 deaths, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. The U.S., meanwhile, has tallied over 7,800,000 cases and 215,000 deaths.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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| How many Humvees will remain after the US Army brings in its Joint Light Tactical Vehicle? Posted: 13 Oct 2020 08:00 AM PDT  The ratio of Joint Light Tactical Vehicles to Humvees is expected to shake out in the next budget request.
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| China bristles at Canada over duo detained on spy charges Posted: 12 Oct 2020 03:22 AM PDT  Beijing on Monday rubbished a Canadian charge that two of its citizens were being arbitrarily detained in China, instead accusing Ottawa of "double standards" over the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.
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| Biggest World War Two bomb found in Poland explodes while being defused Posted: 13 Oct 2020 09:42 AM PDT  The biggest World War Two bomb ever found in Poland exploded under water on Tuesday as navy divers tried to defuse it. More than 750 people had been evacuated from the area near the Piast Canal outside the town of Swinoujscie where the Tallboy bomb used by Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) was found. Swinoujscie contains a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal but a spokesman for the town's mayor told PAP noone was injured and no infrastructure had been damaged.
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| Trump barred from moving $3.6 billion from military to fund border wall construction: Federal court Posted: 13 Oct 2020 03:53 AM PDT  The new border wall projects in Texas would have covered more than 60 miles, according to the ACLU
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| Wisconsin police chief says he has no reason to fire officer who fatally shot Alvin Cole Posted: 12 Oct 2020 01:57 PM PDT  The Black teenager was the third person fatally shot in the last five years by Wauwatosa Officer Joseph Mensah, who is also Black.
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| A white beauty influencer apologized for saying BIPOC and LGBTQ YouTubers are 'handed' their success by the platform Posted: 12 Oct 2020 03:26 PM PDT  Glam&Gore; apologized after her former friend Swoop accused her of racist microaggressions and 'using' creators like Jeffree Star and James Charles.
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| The world's richest king, his mysterious fortune and the protesters who want answers Posted: 13 Oct 2020 02:00 AM PDT  Thailand's King Vajiralongkorn is facing demands for limits on his powers and public oversight of an estimated $70 billion in crown wealth.
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| About 75,000 more Americans died from COVID-19 pandemic than reported in spring and summer, study finds Posted: 12 Oct 2020 10:24 AM PDT  Other diseases, delayed care, fear of seeking care and emotional crises stemming from the pandemic may have contributed to excess deaths, experts say.
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| California Republicans set up unofficial ballot boxes Posted: 12 Oct 2020 01:41 PM PDT  California's Republican Party on Monday acknowledged owning unofficial ballot drop boxes that state election officials said are illegal.
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| Israel hopes to collaborate with US on anti-missile lasers Posted: 13 Oct 2020 06:10 AM PDT  Israel's Missile Defense Organization has contacted the Pentagon to collaborate on developing directed-energy capabilities, according to agency director Moshe Patel.
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| Russia shuns US lunar program, as space cooperation under threat Posted: 12 Oct 2020 12:53 PM PDT  Russia is unlikely to participate in the Moon-orbiting station planned by the United States, a Russian official said Monday, marking the probable end of the type of close cooperation seen for two decades on the International Space Station (ISS).
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| ‘You better vote for me’: Trump demands Puerto Ricans elect him despite island not getting presidential vote Posted: 12 Oct 2020 10:41 PM PDT  Florida's large population from island could play key role in swing state, however
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| The history behind Columbus Day shows the holiday has been controversial since it was established Posted: 12 Oct 2020 10:12 AM PDT  Christopher Columbus wasn't simply a navigator whose arrival in America set off a wave of destruction.
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