| Biden tops Trump for town hall television ratings Posted: 16 Oct 2020 11:00 AM PDT  Joe Biden bested Donald Trump on Thursday night in a category sure to grab the president's attention: television ratings.
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| Decapitated French teacher warned not to show Prophet Muhammad images before attack Posted: 17 Oct 2020 06:54 AM PDT  "We said to the teacher it was not good to show photos like this and that it would cause a huge problem," student Martial Lusiela told NBC News.
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| Chicago's top cop had 10 drinks before falling asleep behind the wheel. 7 officers who looked the other way are now suspended Posted: 16 Oct 2020 03:15 PM PDT  Seven officers have been suspended for their actions the night the city's top cop was found passed out behind the wheel after drinking.
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| Thailand blocks Change.org as petition against king gains traction Posted: 16 Oct 2020 03:22 AM PDT  The petition had called for the king to be declared persona non grata in Germany.
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| Illegally raised deer gores woman out walking her dog, Colorado officials say Posted: 16 Oct 2020 05:21 PM PDT  The deer jabbed the woman's abdomen with its antlers, officials said.
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| Romania cleared to buy advanced ship-killing missiles Posted: 16 Oct 2020 01:35 PM PDT  The agreement could be worth about $300 million.
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| South African white farmers and rival black protesters face off outside court hearing over farm murder case Posted: 16 Oct 2020 05:04 AM PDT  White South African farmers and rival Black protesters hurled abuse and threats at each other on Friday ahead of a court hearing in a murder case that has exposed still simmering racial tensions 26 years after the end of apartheid. The killing of Brendan Horner, a white man whose body was found tied to a pole at his farm in Free State province, sparked riots at the start of this month, and prompted President Cyril Ramaphosa to make a statement urging South Africans to "resist attempts... to mobilise communities along racial lines". The farmers, who accuse the government of failing to protect them from violent crime, arrived in pick-up trucks ahead of the court hearing in the central town of Senekal for Horner's two suspected killers. The farmers mostly wore khaki shirts and shorts, a few wore military outfits, and at least one was armed. A group on motorbikes sporting long beards drove through Senekal, a trading town surrounded by dry, hilly countryside, some waving flags with crosses on. "We are getting tired now of all the farm murders," said Geoffrey Marais, 30, a livestock trader from Delmas, where a woman was strangled to death two weeks ago. "Enough is enough. They (the government) must start to prioritise these crimes."
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| ‘I don’t owe Russia money,’ Trump says, while refusing to detail any foreign debts Posted: 15 Oct 2020 08:03 PM PDT  President Trump declined to release definitive information on his financial situation when asked at Thursday's town hall in Miami about leaked tax returns that appear to show he owes hundreds of millions of dollars.
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| 'Fire! Fire! Fire!': A ship captain faces prosecution after a slaughter at sea Posted: 15 Oct 2020 02:04 PM PDT  The chilling case of the Ping Shin 101, which is still unfolding, shows the challenge of prosecuting crimes on the high seas.
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| Fact check: Meme misrepresents photo of Biden kneeling at campaign event for photo Posted: 15 Oct 2020 03:07 PM PDT  A meme purporting that Joe Biden knelt during the national anthem at a recent Miami campaign event misrepresents what really happened.
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| The South Dakota attorney general who hit a man with his car told a 911 dispatcher 'it could be' a deer, call recording shows Posted: 16 Oct 2020 09:55 AM PDT  South Dakota released the audio of a 911 call and a toxicology report as part of an investigation into the state attorney general's fatal car crash.
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| Kentucky Postal Worker Who Dumped More Than 100 Absentee Ballots Fired, May Face Federal Charges Posted: 17 Oct 2020 09:45 AM PDT  A Kentucky postal worker who allegedly threw out more than 100 absentee ballots in a dumpster on Thursday has been fired by the U.S. Postal Service and may face federal prosecution.The Postal Service Office of Inspector General discovered 112 discarded absentee ballots intended for voters in ZIP code 40299, which is located in the Louisville metro area, as well as two political fliers that had also been discarded.The unidentified individual responsible for throwing out the ballots in a dumpster near Jeffersontown has been fired and his case has been accepted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for federal prosecution, the USPS Office of the Inspector General said."Federal privacy concerns preclude me from providing any more details about their employment," special agent Scott Balfour commented.The ballots, which were all unopened and had not been filled out, had been sent out by the Jefferson County Clerk's Office on Oct. 3 and were delivered to voters on Thursday after they were recovered.Some voters had called the clerk's office and complained about not receiving their ballots. The office had been planning to mail out new ballots to the affected voters."I will point out that the vast majority of the Postal Service's 630,000 employees are hard-working, trustworthy individuals who work around the clock to deliver the nation's mail, and incidents of this nature are exceedingly rare when put into that context," Balfour stressed.Earlier this month, a postal worker in New Jersey was arrested for allegedly discarding 99 ballots for the November election along with other mail.Several other states have had issues with sending out mail ballots, including New York, where some Brooklyn residents reported receiving their absentee ballot along with a "official absentee ballot envelope" with an incorrect name and address.Voting by mail has become a fraught issue leading up to the November election. Democrats have encouraged voters to submit their ballot by mail to protect themselves from potential exposure to the coronavirus at polling places. Meanwhile, President Trump has opposed the widespread use of mail-in ballots, saying it is a breeding ground for voter fraud and "puts the election at risk."
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| Murdered 2-year-old inspires new Florida law Posted: 16 Oct 2020 05:00 PM PDT  Florida signed Jordan's Law to prevent this happening to another child. A Florida mother may never see the outside of a prison again after she was sentenced today in the murder of her own son, but his legacy will live on in a law inspired by his short life. Charisse Stinson, 23, was sentenced to 50 years in prison after killing her son in 2018, per WFLA News.
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| Pompeo seeks reversal of 'provocative' North Cyprus move to reopen Varosha Posted: 16 Oct 2020 11:35 AM PDT  U..S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo voiced deep concern about Northern Cyprus' reopening part of a beachfront resort abandoned since Turkey invaded the island in 1974, calling it provocative and seeking its reversal, the State Department said on Friday. Pompeo made the comments in a call with Cypriot Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides, the Department said, referring to Turkish Cypriot authorities partial reopening of the beach town of Varosha, a former resort area fenced off and abandoned in no-man's land since the 1974 invasion divided the island. "The Secretary expressed deep concern and noted such a move was provocative and inconsistent with UN Security Council Resolutions 550 and 789 and not conducive to a return to settlement talks," State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said in a statement.
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| Teacher beheaded in Paris suburb after showing cartoons of Prophet Mohammed to class Posted: 16 Oct 2020 09:42 AM PDT  A history teacher who showed his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in class was beheaded near his school in a Paris suburb on Friday by a suspected Islamist terrorist who shouted "Allahu Akbar", police said. Alerted by local residents, police confronted and shot dead a man armed with a kitchen knife and an air gun who refused to drop his weapons and surrender, and threatened them. Minutes later, officers found the body of 47-year-old Samuel Paty, a history and geography teacher. A bomb disposal unit was called in to check whether the presumed assailant was wearing a suicide vest or belt. Witnesses told police they heard the assailant shouting "Allahu Akbar" ['God is the greatest' in Arabic], police sources said. The teacher had received death threats after giving a class on freedom of expression, during which he showed pupils the controversial cartoons, a police source said. The presumed killer was reported to be an 18-year-old Chechen, the sources said.
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| Boeing is using a 'scorched earth' strategy to keep evidence away from lawyers representing 737 Max crash victims, lawyer says Posted: 17 Oct 2020 03:00 AM PDT  189 people died when a Lion Air Boeing 737 Max plane crashed in October 2018, and 157 more died in the Ethiopan Airlines crash in March 2019.
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| Trump boasts about 2021 Nobel nominations and complains he hasn’t received enough publicity Posted: 17 Oct 2020 09:58 AM PDT  Awarding organisation does not consider nominations an endorsement or 'extended honour'
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| Watchdog group accuses Amy Coney Barrett of “unconscionable cruelty” in teen rape case Posted: 16 Oct 2020 03:23 PM PDT  Barrett decided to overturn a $6.7M jury award to a teen allegedly raped in a jail run by ex-Sheriff David Clarke
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| A USPS worker suspected of throwing away bags full of mail posted about the QAnon conspiracy theory Posted: 16 Oct 2020 04:06 PM PDT  A Pittsburgh-area mail carrier suspected of discarding garbage bags of undelivered mail appears to be a QAnon conspiracy theorist.
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| Florida adds more than 4,000 new COVID-19 cases, the highest one-day total since August Posted: 17 Oct 2020 08:40 AM PDT  Florida's Department of Health on Saturday confirmed 4,044 additional cases of COVID-19, bringing the state's known total to 752,481. Also, 87 resident deaths were announced, seven fewer than announced on Friday, bringing the resident death toll to 15,917.
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| White House: Tennessee mask mandate 'must be implemented' Posted: 16 Oct 2020 04:33 PM PDT  The White House quietly told Tennessee early this week that "a statewide mask mandate must be implemented" to curb its growing spread of COVID-19, strong instructions that the White House and governor did not discuss publicly before the report emerged in a records request. The Oct. 11 state report for Tennessee, where Republican Gov. Bill Lee has let counties decide whether to require masks in public, first came to light in a records request by WUOT-FM. The Associated Press obtained the report from the Knox County Health Department afterward.
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| Air Force Settles $25 Million Lawsuit for F-16 Strafing Run That Killed Contractor Posted: 16 Oct 2020 04:37 PM PDT |
| A top Trump administration lawyer reportedly said a plan to send $200 prescription-drug coupons to seniors may be illegal Posted: 17 Oct 2020 07:59 AM PDT  Trump-administration officials had previously said the plan may violate rules on federal spending and Medicare-related tests, Politico reported.
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| Prosecutors: Denver security guard to be charged with 2nd-degree murder in shooting of demonstrator at rally Posted: 15 Oct 2020 07:39 PM PDT  Denver's District Attorney Beth McCann will file charges against Matthew Dolloff on Monday.
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| Biden slams Trump for failing to condemn would-be kidnapping plot on Michigan governor: ‘Sort of behaviour you’d expect from Isis’ Posted: 16 Oct 2020 01:51 PM PDT  At a speech in Michigan billed as remarks about the Affordable Care Act, Joe Biden paid tribute to Governor Gretchen Whitmer, following the recent discovery of the plot to kidnap her. "There is not a better governor in the United States of America than Gretchen Whitmer," he said.
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| Noam Chomsky: "If you don't push the lever for the Democrats, you are assisting Trump" Posted: 17 Oct 2020 09:00 AM PDT  Salon talks to the venerable author about the climate crisis, the Global Green New Deal and "lesser-evil voting"
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| This Keys man wanted to make conch salad. He’s off to jail Posted: 16 Oct 2020 11:32 AM PDT  This man's conch salad plans went awry.
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| China passes amendments outlawing insulting national flag Posted: 17 Oct 2020 03:52 AM PDT  The Standing Committee of China's congress on Saturday passed amendments to a law that will criminalize the intentional insulting of the national flag and emblem, after anti-government protesters in Hong Kong last year desecrated the Chinese flag. According to the newly amended National Flag and National Emblem Law, which will take effect on Jan. 1, those who intentionally burn, mutilate, paint, deface or trample the flag and emblem in public will be investigated for criminal responsibility. The law also states that that national flag must not be discarded, displayed upside down or used in any manner that impairs the dignity of the flag.
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| COVID-19 case confirmed in pope's Vatican residence Posted: 17 Oct 2020 04:56 AM PDT  A man living in the same Vatican residence as Pope Francis has tested positive for COVID-19 and gone into isolation, the Vatican said on Saturday. Pope Francis, who had part of one lung removed during an illness when he was a young man in his native Argentina, is tested regularly for COVID-19. The Vatican, a tiny city-state surrounded by Rome, has been only lightly affected by the coronavirus, with about two dozen confirmed cases in total.
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| Azerbaijani drone strikes pick off Karabakh artillery Posted: 17 Oct 2020 09:43 AM PDT  The red mulberry trees meant to conceal them were not enough: Azerbaijani night-time drone strikes destroyed seven artillery guns in a field in Karmir Shuka, in southeast Nagorno Karabakh.
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| 'I gave money to your campaign': Trump was frustrated by John McCain after he ignored him at a congressional hearing, new book says Posted: 16 Oct 2020 04:06 PM PDT  "Oh yeah? See what that will get you," Sen. John McCain replied to an irritated Donald Trump at a hearing in 1993.
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| Scott Peterson's murder convictions of wife and unborn son to be reexamined Posted: 15 Oct 2020 01:06 PM PDT  Scott Peterson has gone from facing the death penalty for the 2004 conviction of killing his wife and unborn son to possibly facing a new trial.
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| Disney fires back at Elizabeth Warren in row over executive pay Posted: 16 Oct 2020 11:50 AM PDT  Company calls senator's open letter challenging reinstatement of executive pay 'misinformed'
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| Best Deals on the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro Posted: 16 Oct 2020 02:08 PM PDT  Interested in buying one of Apple's new phones? Preorders for the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro are now underway. Both come standard with the hardware needed to connect to 5G networks. They also have a ne...
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| Hawaii welcomes tourists again — so long as they've tested negative Posted: 15 Oct 2020 11:01 PM PDT  Thousands arrived Thursday, the first day of a pre-travel testing program that allowed travelers to come to the islands without quarantining.
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| Yahoo News/YouGov poll: Trump is actually doing worse with all white voters than in 2016 Posted: 15 Oct 2020 01:28 PM PDT  In the homestretch of the 2020 campaign, Trump not only appears to be performing worse than before among college-educated white women, he's also doing worse among white voters in general.
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| Thailand's king says country needs royalists as protesters defying ban for second day are met by water canons Posted: 16 Oct 2020 04:55 AM PDT  Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn said his country needs people who "love the monarchy" as he broke his silence on anti-royal protests rocking the capital of Bangkok. His pre-recorded comments were broadcast on state television as Thai police used water cannons, riot shields and batons to disperse thousands of protesters who defied a ban on protests for a second day. The king has made no direct comment on three months of protests that have called for curbs to his powers as well as for the removal of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, a former military ruler. He said "the country needs people who love the country and love the monarchy", adding: "All your experience and the things that you've done. You can teach the new generation of your experience. This will be greatly useful." Around 2,000 pro-democracy demonstrators had been chanting for the release of arrested activists and hurled obscenities at Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha in the city's main shopping mall district.
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| 'Big pile' of eels dumped in NYC park; impact not yet known Posted: 17 Oct 2020 06:41 AM PDT  Andrew Orkin was taking a break from his evening jog to sit by Prospect Park Lake when he turned around and was startled to see a tangle of wriggling snakes. There are no plans to eradicate the eels.
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| Woman who told Trump he had a nice smile at his town hall wishes the president would 'talk less' and is 'not a fan' Posted: 16 Oct 2020 09:24 AM PDT  Paulette Dale, the voter who complimented the president's smile on Thursday, told the Miami New Times that she planned to vote for Joe Biden.
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| Rubble, glass and blood stains: aftermath of Karabakh hospital bombing Posted: 16 Oct 2020 08:00 AM PDT  Shattered window panes, doors ripped off their hinges and a caved-in roof is all that remains of one building in the military hospital complex in the mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh region after recent shelling.
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