| Trump rips Biden and Fauci for coronavirus 'bad calls' and again suggests the pandemic nearly over Posted: 19 Oct 2020 04:29 PM PDT  President Trump attacked Joe Biden and the nation's top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci during a campaign rally in Prescott, Ariz.
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| Marines remove general investigated over alleged racial slur Posted: 20 Oct 2020 09:21 AM PDT  The Marine Corps has removed a two-star general from command of Marine forces in Europe and Africa based on an investigation into allegations that he used a racial slur during a training event, officials said Tuesday. The decision to relieve Maj. Gen. Stephen Neary of command of Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa, headquartered in Germany, was made by the commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. David Berger. "Neary was relieved due to a loss of trust and confidence in his ability to serve in command," the Marines said in a brief written statement.
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| ‘She hit her face!’ Watch a Delta passenger smack a flight attendant on board plane Posted: 21 Oct 2020 09:17 AM PDT  Another day, another on-board confrontation.
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| Pope calls for civil union laws for same-sex couples, in major departure from Vatican doctrine Posted: 21 Oct 2020 07:07 AM PDT  "Homosexuals have a right to be part of the family," the pontiff said in "Francesco," a documentary about his life.
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| 3 killed, 1 person in critical condition after Texas club shooting Posted: 21 Oct 2020 05:24 AM PDT  A shooting in a Texas club left three dead and a fourth critically injured, police said, hours after another incident in which an officer was shot dead.
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| Fake naked photos of thousands of women shared online Posted: 20 Oct 2020 09:40 AM PDT  Fake naked images of thousands of women are being made from social media photos.
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| Heartbreak in the Magic Kingdom: Laid-off Disney workers turn to food banks as coronavirus devastates Florida tourism Posted: 20 Oct 2020 06:19 AM PDT  The coronavirus has led to thousands of layoffs at Disney in Orlando, and devastated the local economy, reports Richard Hall
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| Why the US Supreme Court letting Pennsylvania's extended ballot deadline stand is one of its most important decisions this year Posted: 20 Oct 2020 02:43 PM PDT  It could prevent thousands of votes from being rejected, but Barrett being on the court might have swayed the decision in the other direction.
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| 'They only care about votes': As millions slip into poverty, voting may be the only leverage for a 2nd stimulus check Posted: 21 Oct 2020 07:39 AM PDT  Millions of Americans across the country are fed up with elected officials who haven't worked out a second stimulus bill. As more time passes, Americans don't care how it gets done; they just want something done.
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| More than 50 former intel officials signed a public letter saying they believe the Hunter Biden story has 'all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation' Posted: 19 Oct 2020 10:54 PM PDT  The former intel officials wrote they believed the arrival of emails to the New York Post, which they dubbed a "laptop op," was a cause for suspicion.
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| Human remains were found by researchers in a dig searching for victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre Posted: 20 Oct 2020 07:56 PM PDT  An estimated 150 to 300 people, who were mostly Black, were killed in the Tulsa Race Massacre, which occurred from May 31, 1921 to June 1, 1921.
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| Woman rescued in Zion National Park is 'getting her strength back' Posted: 20 Oct 2020 01:40 PM PDT  "She was unable to take more than a step or two without collapsing," the woman's daughter said. "She told me she was so dehydrated she couldn't open her mouth."
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| Many killed and wounded in Afghanistan visa stampede Posted: 21 Oct 2020 07:05 AM PDT  Chaos broke out when thousands gathered in a stadium in Afghanistan to apply for visas to Pakistan.
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| British study finds traits tied to enduring COVID-19 symptoms Posted: 21 Oct 2020 04:10 AM PDT  Most people recover from COVID-19 within four weeks, but one in 20 patients is still ill after eight weeks and one in 40 continues to have symptoms after 12 weeks, a new study from Kings College London found, according to BBC News. The researchers pored over self-reported data in the COVID Symptoms Study app, looking for patterns that could predict if a patient who contracts the new coronavirus will have "long COVID" or recover more rapidly. They found several traits that appeared to increase the risk of longer-lasting COVID-19."Having more than five different symptoms in the first week was one of the key risk factors," Dr. Claire Steves at Kings College London told BBC News. Patients with a cough, diarrhea, loss of taste and smell, headaches, and fatigue would be at higher risk than somebody with just a cough, for example. People over 50 also had increased odds of long COVID, as did people with asthma or lung disease, and women."We've seen from the early data coming out that men were at much more risk of very severe disease and sadly of dying from COVID, it appears that women are more at risk of long COVID." Steves said. There are no set symptoms for long COVID, but fatigue is common, BBC News notes. You can find more examples in this new PSA on long COVID from Britain's Department of Health and Social Care. More stories from theweek.com Will Kansas go blue? What happened to third party candidates? If Roe falls
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| Trump supporter launches furious rant at Starbucks barista Posted: 20 Oct 2020 01:53 PM PDT  This week a Trump supporter went viral for all the wrong reasons after video surfaced of her yelling anti-Black Lives Matter rhetoric at a Starbucks barista in Santee, California. The clip – which was taken by a concerned customer – shows the agitated woman getting into a heated war of words with barista Alex Beckom, 19, after being politely asked her to wear the Trump 2020 mask under her chin, correctly over her face. Instead of leaving quietly, the woman then accused the coffee shop employee of discriminating against her for her political views as a supporter of the president.
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| Anti-Trump group targets Rubio with $450,000 ad buy in Florida on Supreme Court Posted: 20 Oct 2020 07:02 AM PDT  Republican senators against the nomination of a Supreme Court justice during an election year but support Amy Coney Barrett's appointment are a target.
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| Ivanka Trump mocked for saying she's been using pandemic to learn guitar, as eight million fall into poverty Posted: 20 Oct 2020 01:54 PM PDT  'Lucky she doesn't have to worry about rent or food,' says one Twitter user
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| Justice Department Announces Rule to Bar Some Criminal Illegal Immigrants from Asylum Posted: 20 Oct 2020 03:34 PM PDT  The Departments of Justice and Homeland Security on Tuesday announced new regulations barring illegal immigrants who have committed certain crimes from obtaining asylum in the U.S., part of the Trump administration's ongoing effort to prevent bad actors from gaining entrance to the country."To ensure that criminal aliens cannot obtain this discretionary benefit, the Attorney General and Secretary of Homeland Security have exercised their regulatory authority to limit eligibility for asylum for aliens who have engaged in specified categories of criminal behavior," the DOJ said in a statement.Under the new rule, immigrants who are convicted felons, have been convicted of smuggling or harboring other illegal immigrants or reentering the country illegally, committed certain drunk driving offenses, committed a crime involving gangs, received government benefits illegally, committed drug trafficking or possession offenses, or committed offenses related to false identification will not be eligible for asylum.Notably, immigrants who have committed certain domestic violence offenses, such as battery or extreme cruelty, will also be barred from asylum even if they were not convicted.Acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli said Tuesday on a call with reporters that the rule aims to "bring some sanity to the asylum system and our legal immigration system" and to "get the charlatans out of the system and preserve it for those who are deserving of America's tremendous generosity."Cuccinelli said that he expects the rule to help "speed the process along" of vetting asylum seekers, potentially easing the asylum program's current backlog of over a million cases.Asylum seekers who are currently waiting on their cases in the U.S. but are now ineligible for asylum under the new rule "will be deported" when their cases come up, Cucinelli said.The new rule will take effect 30 days after it is published in the Federal Register on Wednesday.Last year, the administration attempted to deny asylum to all migrants who failed to enter the U.S. through a legal port of entry but that policy was struck down by more than one federal judge, who said it was "inconsistent with" the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.
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| Human remains found in search for Tulsa massacre victims Posted: 20 Oct 2020 02:05 PM PDT  One set of human remains, and perhaps a second, have been found in a Tulsa cemetery where investigators are searching for victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, Oklahoma state archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck said Tuesday. "We do have one confirmed individual and the possibility of a second" body found, Stackelbeck said. The confirmed human remains were found little more than 3 feet (90 centimeters) underground in an area known as the "Original 18," where funeral home records show massacre victims are buried.
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| The 2021 IKEA Catalog Is Finally Here! Posted: 20 Oct 2020 02:31 PM PDT |
| Record-setting Cameron Peak wildfire consumes more than 200,000 acres in Colorado Posted: 19 Oct 2020 11:46 AM PDT  To the south, firefighters near Boulder were also battling a blaze that had torched at least 26 homes.
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| 'She didn't deserve to die': Louisville officer involved in Breonna Taylor case speaks out Posted: 21 Oct 2020 09:13 AM PDT  Jonathan Mattingly said Breonna Taylor's death is a tragedy — but it shouldn't be lumped in with the slayings of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery.
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| Outrage among Hindu groups as Kamala Harris's niece shares image of her photoshopped as goddess Posted: 20 Oct 2020 05:08 AM PDT  Image had planted Harris's face onto the Hindu goddess Durga, showing Biden as her lion and Trump as a demon she slays
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| India Covid-19: From losing loved ones to volunteering for a vaccine Posted: 20 Oct 2020 05:25 PM PDT  Anil Hebbar, who lost 10 friends to coronavirus, is taking part in Oxford University's vaccine trials.
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| Record-setting catch of 110-pound catfish in Georgia has angler under fire. Here’s why Posted: 20 Oct 2020 02:59 PM PDT  Some aren't happy about what happened to the catfish
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| Trump has sparked a shift in how some conservatives talk and think about abortion Posted: 21 Oct 2020 09:18 AM PDT  There is a robust argument being made, by prominent public figures but also among everyday Americans, that the white evangelical movement has made a Faustian bargain by supporting the GOP, and President Trump, in exchange for promises to eliminate abortion.
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| Florida accused of sowing confusion with last-minute voting changes Posted: 21 Oct 2020 04:00 AM PDT  The Republican secretary of state has issued controversial guidance about ex-felons' rights and ballot dropboxes in what critics call an attempt at voter suppressionFlorida's top election official is facing accusations of voter suppression after two last-minute moves critics say will lead to intimidation and confusion.Alarm bells went off last week after the office of Florida's secretary of state, Laurel Lee, abruptly notified election officials the state was beginning to flag voters for potential removal from the voter rolls if they owed money related to a felony conviction. In a second letter, the state offered an extremely restrictive view on how localities needed to operate ballot drop boxes, which voters are increasingly turning to this year amid United States Postal Service delays.Both notices threaten confusion and chaos in one of the most important swing states in the 2020 election. Mail-in voting started weeks ago and in-person early voting started on Monday. Polls show an extremely tight race between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in Florida, a state where elections are routinely decided by just thousands of votes. 'This is just to create fearmongering'In 2018, Florida voters repealed the state's longstanding lifetime voting ban for people with felony convictions, a move estimated to affect up to 1.4 million people. But Republicans in the state legislature quickly undercut the reform by passing a law in 2019 that requires people to repay all financial obligations associated with their sentence before they can vote again. Civil rights groups sued the state over the measure, saying it amounted to an unlawful tax on the right to vote. A federal appeals court upheld the law in September, saying Florida did not even have to tell people how much they owed before they could vote.Florida does not have a centralized system for keeping track of how much people with felony convictions owe and it can be nearly impossible for even trained officials to figure it out. And under state law, no one can be removed ahead of the November election – state law gives local election officials seven days to notify a voter and then gives the voter 30 days to respond.Still, critics are worried that voters with felony convictions could receive notices suggesting they are ineligible to vote, dissuading them from casting votes, even though they are legally entitled to do so."If you're not able to put a system together to let people know what they owe, how can we even trust that you have any kind of legitimate system to determine whether people should be taken off of the roster," said Desmond Meade, the executive director of Florida Rights Restoration Coalition (FRRC), an advocacy group for people with felony convictions. He was concerned the state would wrongly flag people who were eligible to vote because they had been granted clemency, even though they still owed money to the state.An estimated 774,000 people in Florida are ineligible to vote because they owe money as part of a felony conviction. FRRC estimates 67,000 people with felonies have registered since 2018, though it's not clear how many have outstanding debts.The secretary of state's letter is a "ham-fisted attempt to intimidate voters and election officials", said Ion Sancho, who retired in 2016 after serving as the supervisor of elections in Florida's Leon county for 28 years."This is not something that can be timely accomplished before the election and again I think this is just to create fearmongering, putting fear in the hearts of those ex-felons who have been told they're legally allowed to vote," he said. "All of a sudden 'what does this mean?' They don't know. They're not lawyers."Lee is an appointee of Ron DeSantis, Florida's Republican governor and a close Trump ally. Last week, Trump said he would blame DeSantis if he lost the state of Florida.Lee's letter is the latest move in a long fight over the voting rights of people with felony convictions. During a federal trial earlier this year, state officials testified they had received approximately 85,000 voter registrations from people with felony convictions and had yet to review a single one. In its ruling last month, the US court of appeals for the 11th circuit said all 85,000 people were entitled to vote until they were removed based on "credible and reliable" evidence.Julie Ebenstein, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who helped represent the plaintiffs said the timing of the state's email was "extremely suspect, to say the least". She noted the law in question has been in effect since mid-2019, giving the state 16 months to figure out a system to deal with voters with outstanding debts. Beginning to notify people now, she said "can only intimidate people named, or sow confusion in the election results".It's not clear whether local supervisors of elections have already started investigating people for potential removal. Paul Lux, the supervisor of elections in Okaloosa county in the Florida panhandle, said his office had not yet received any names for investigation under the new guidance. William Boyett, the chief deputy supervisor of elections in Alachua county, said his office receives the names of people with felony convictions from the state on an almost daily basis and assumed new matches included people flagged under the state's newest guidance.Mark Ard, a Lee spokesman, said the department was legally obligated to review the registrations under Florida law."If the department determines that the information is credible and reliable, the department shall notify the supervisor and provide a copy of the supporting documentation," he said in a statement. "With the 11th circuit's recent decision, the law with respect to legal financial obligations is now clear and there is no legal basis for the department to ignore the obligations spelled out in Florida statutes." 'Unconscionable action'A day after Lee's office sent the notice about identifying potentially ineligible voters, it sent a second notice to the local officials outlining restrictions on how counties were supposed to be operating drop boxes, where people can drop off sealed ballots in person.The letter said that mail-drop boxes must be staffed at all times by an elections employee or sworn law enforcement official, complicating plans for localities that planned to offer 24-hour drop boxes and use video surveillance to monitor them, according to the Tampa Bay Times. Fifty of the state's 67 counties plan to offer drop boxes, the Times reported, though it is not clear how they plan to secure them.The state's guidance came after millions of mail-in votes had already been cast in the state. Republicans in Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania have all moved to limit drop boxes as record numbers of Americans are expected to cast their ballots by mail.Florida law requires election officials to offer drop boxes at their main election and branch offices as well as at early voting sites, but just says they need to be "secure". But Ronald Lubasky, an attorney representing local election officials, wrote in an email to them last week that state law did not define the word "secure". The supervisors of elections, he wrote in a letter to the officials last week, have the discretion to determine what that means."Drop boxes that are at the main office, a branch office, or early voting site are required to be secure, but I don't see that there is any staffing requirement or hours of operation related to those drop boxes," he said.He added that because the letter was an advisory, the local supervisor of elections – an elected official in Florida – was free to ignore it. After the letter, some county election officials told the Tampa Bay Times they would hire security to monitor the drop boxes, while others said they would not alter their plans.Sancho, the former election official, said Florida Republicans were obviously concerned about providing too much accessibility for people to cast a ballot. "It's just a sad effort to try to confuse the issues and we don't need any more confusion," he said. "They had to come up with some way to limit what they had previously provided, which is accessible vote-by-mail drop boxes."This is the political decision they came up with, again trying to limit access to the ballot box. Unconscionable action in my opinion."
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| U.S. fighter jets intercept Russian bombers near Alaska Posted: 20 Oct 2020 09:52 AM PDT  U.S. fighter jets intercepted four Russian military aircraft in international airspace near Alaska, NORAD said.
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| Fears of ecological disaster grow over stricken oil tanker in Caribbean Posted: 20 Oct 2020 08:05 AM PDT  Lawmakers from the National Assembly called on the country's government to urgently unload oil from Nabarima to avoid a spill.
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| France bans Islamist group after killing of teacher: government spokesman Posted: 21 Oct 2020 05:23 AM PDT  France will ban an Islamist group named after the late Sheikh Yassin as part of a crackdown on militants following the murder of a French schoolteacher last week, government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on Wednesday. Samuel Paty was beheaded on Oct. 16 by an 18-year-old of Chechen origin seeking to avenge his victim's use of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in a class on freedom of expression. "This is a battle over security, culture and education," Attal said.
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| Large earthquake off southern coast of Alaska prompts tsunami fears, fleeing Posted: 20 Oct 2020 01:36 PM PDT  A magnitude 7.5 earthquake prompted a tsunami warning Monday for a nearly thousand-mile stretch of Alaska's southern coast, with waves over 2 feet at the nearest community as the threat subsided.
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| Joe Biden supporter who was installing BLM sign arrested for allegedly shooting at passing Trump supporter and son Posted: 20 Oct 2020 12:12 PM PDT  Neighbours said the political signs supporting Democrats had been previously pulled down on multiple occasions
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| A jailed Philippine activist is forced to attend her infant's funeral in handcuffs and a hazmat suit Posted: 21 Oct 2020 03:00 AM PDT  The death of Reina Mae Nasino's 3-month-old daughter, River, has sparked an uproar over President Rodrigo Duterte's crackdown on human rights defenders. The underweight infant was separated from her mother, denying her breast milk that could have prolonged her life.
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| 26 Neutral Rugs That Make the Case for Beige Posted: 21 Oct 2020 08:41 AM PDT |
| Sri Lanka court: Constitutional amendment needs referendum Posted: 20 Oct 2020 01:49 AM PDT  Sri Lanka's highest court has ruled that four sections of a proposed amendment to the constitution that would consolidate power in the president's hands will need approval in a public referendum to become law because they are against the people's sovereignty. The Supreme Court's ruling, announced Tuesday by the parliamentary speaker, said that proposed sections that relieve the president from being responsible to Parliament and give him immunity from lawsuits and the power to dissolve Parliament a year after parliamentary elections are against public sovereignty. The constitution now allows the president's actions to be questioned in court and disallows him from dissolving Parliament until six months before the legislature's five-year term ends.
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| 24-hour curfew declared in Africa's biggest city Posted: 20 Oct 2020 11:46 AM PDT  Protesters gathered at a Lagos city centre tollgate which has become the epicentre of widespread demonstrations were shot at on Tuesday evening, according to four witnesses who fled the scene. It was unclear who shot at the protesters but several hundred people were present, in defiance of a curfew imposed hours earlier by the government as youth-led protests that began 12 days ago have spiralled. Authorities on Tuesday imposed a round-the-clock curfew on the Nigerian state of Lagos - including Africa's biggest city - in response to protests against alleged police brutality which they said had turned violent. The national police chief also ordered the immediate deployment of anti-riot forces following increased attacks on police facilities, a police spokesman said. The Lagos state governor's spokesman, Gboyega Akosile, said: "The curfew will not end tomorrow. A 24-hour curfew means all round the clock, day and night. It is indefinite. Nobody moves until we lift the curfew." Citizens in the commercial capital stocked up on food after the announcement. Staples such as tomatoes and eggs were sold out in some places as women in markets closed shops and people queued at cash machines. GT Bank, one of the largest lenders in Nigeria, said all its branches would remain closed for the duration of the curfew. Thousands of Nigerians demanding an end to alleged police brutality have taken to the streets every day for nearly two weeks across the country. Amnesty International said at least 15 people had been killed since the protests began. Rights groups had for years accused the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), a police unit targeting violent crime, of extortion, harassment and torture. But a video allegedly showing SARS officers killing a man in Delta state sparked the protests. Police denied the incident, and disbanded SARS on Oct. 11, but protests have persisted. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said the curfew would apply to all parts of the state, including the metropolis of Lagos, Africa's largest city with 20 million inhabitants. Only essential workers were exempted. It had been imposed as the protests had turned violent, he said. "I have watched with shock how what began as a peaceful EndSARS protest has degenerated into a monster that is threatening the wellbeing of our society," Sanwo-Olu said. A police station in the Orile Iganmu area of Lagos was set ablaze on Tuesday, TV news station Channels reported. The Lagos Chamber of Commerce said Nigeria's economy had suffered an estimated loss of 700 billion naira ($1.84 billion)in the last 12 days due to the disruption. Early in the protests, police fired on protesters in the Surulere area of Lagos and elsewhere. Armed gangs have attacked protesters in Lagos and the capital Abuja. The southwestern state of Ekiti imposed a curfew hours after the announcement in Lagos. Its governor said protests had been "hijacked" by criminals who sought to "rape, assault, rob and extort innocent citizens". The southern state of Edo on Monday imposed a similar curfew after a jailbreak by prisoners during protests. Police said they had strengthened security around prisons nationwide. The speaker of Nigeria's lower chamber of parliament, Femi Gbajabiamila, said he would not sign off on the federal budget for 2021 unless it included provisions to compensate victims of police brutality over the past two decades. Youth minister Sunday Dare said on Monday the government had met demonstrators' demands for talks on reforms in law enforcement and urged them to enter into dialogue..
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| A US lab used rockets to launch a semi-truck into a new tractor trailer built to transport nuclear weapons Posted: 20 Oct 2020 12:53 PM PDT  "You've got to be able to ship nuclear assets safely and securely or you don't have a deterrence program," a lab project manager said.
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| Fox News obtains receipt from computer shop in Hunter Biden story Posted: 19 Oct 2020 09:02 PM PDT  Former Deputy National Security Adviser K.T. McFarland joins 'Fox News @ Night' with analysis.
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| ‘Cheer’ star Jerry Harris was warned before child porn arrest by the owner of a gym featured on ‘AGT,’ lawsuit claims Posted: 20 Oct 2020 02:18 PM PDT  Cheer Athletics co-owner Angela Rogers warned 'Cheer' star Jerry Harris about a possible investigation into his conduct, according to a lawsuit.
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| 7.5 magnitude earthquake near Alaska triggers tsunami warning Posted: 19 Oct 2020 04:40 PM PDT  The National Weather Service issued a tsunami warning for the Pacific coasts from Kennedy Entrance, Alaska, to Unimak Pass, Alaska.
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| Hundreds of Chinese fishing vessels ‘target’ Galapagos Islands Posted: 20 Oct 2020 10:52 AM PDT  Huge fleet evaded trackers on edge of protected zone
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| Former Mexican defense minister ordered held in U.S. jail without bond Posted: 20 Oct 2020 03:03 AM PDT  Mexico's former defense minister, Salvador Cienfuegos, was ordered held in U.S. custody without bail on Tuesday, pending his trial on drug trafficking charges in a case that could have far-reaching implications for U.S. and Mexican anti-cartel strategy. A U.S. magistrate judge also ordered Cienfuegos, 72, sent to New York to stand trial. Cienfuegos was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport last week.
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| Donald Trump is getting desperate — and his mental pathology is getting worse every day Posted: 21 Oct 2020 04:00 AM PDT  As mental health professionals, we see a disturbed and destructive man whose psyche is unraveling before our eyes
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| A night of flirting at a Broward casino leads to man being drugged, robbed, deputies said Posted: 20 Oct 2020 08:09 PM PDT  What started out as an evening of flirting with a woman at a Broward casino ended with him being drugged and robbed, deputies said.
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| Cyprus, Greece, Egypt to Turkey: drop the rancor, join us Posted: 21 Oct 2020 07:54 AM PDT  The leaders of Cyprus, Egypt and Greece on Wednesday renewed an invitation to Turkey to become a partner in reaping the potential benefits of offshore gas deposits, while urging Ankara to end its "aggressive" actions in the eastern Mediterranean. Turkey has also sent drilling ships where Cyprus says it has exclusive economic rights.
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| Navy SEALs are 'rusty' from scandals and post-9/11 wars as US prepares for more powerful foes, insiders warn Posted: 21 Oct 2020 07:16 AM PDT  Numerous scandals, after two decades of Middle East wars, have caused concern about Navy special operators' readiness for great-power competition.
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