| Post-debate and hospitalization, Trump falls further behind Biden in national polls Posted: 06 Oct 2020 12:09 PM PDT  With the 2020 election exactly four weeks away, former Vice President Joe Biden is leading President Trump in every national poll, opening up a significant advantage in surveys taken since the first presidential debate.
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| Ghislaine Maxwell hired a new defense lawyer who once represented one of Osama bin Laden's associates Posted: 07 Oct 2020 10:16 AM PDT  In court papers filed earlier this week, attorney Bobbi Sternheim said she would represent Ghislaine Maxwell in her sex-trafficking case.
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| Democrat's personal scandal roils N. Carolina Senate race Posted: 06 Oct 2020 02:24 PM PDT  A race in North Carolina critical to control of the U.S. Senate has been thrown into turmoil over allegations of personal misconduct by Democrat Cal Cunningham, a married man who had an extramarital relationship this summer with a consultant. Previously undisclosed text messages obtained by The Associated Press and additional interviews show that the relationship extended beyond suggestive texts, as was previously reported, to an intimate encounter as recent as July. Republicans hold a 53-47 majority in the Senate, and the contest between Cunningham and Republican Sen. Thom Tillis has been among the most watched in the country, with polls showing a tight race and both parties investing heavily in the outcome.
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| IL graduated income tax proposal faces controversy, confusion amid early voting Posted: 06 Oct 2020 04:29 PM PDT  The accusations are flying once again over the proposed graduated income tax amendment that will be decided by Illinois voters on election day.
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| Report: White House chief of staff blocking new coronavirus vaccine guidelines Posted: 05 Oct 2020 08:13 PM PDT  The White House is blocking strict new coronavirus vaccine guidelines proposed by the Food and Drug Administration due to a provision that would likely prevent any vaccine from being authorized before the November election, several people familiar with the matter told The New York Times. The guidelines are intended to reassure the public that coronavirus vaccines are being held to a common standard, the Times reports. They were submitted to the Office of Management and Budget for approval on Sept. 21, but White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has intervened, questioning the need for researchers to follow vaccine trial volunteers for two months after they receive their final dose. Per the guidelines, this would have to happen before authorization is granted for a vaccine, with FDA officials saying it's necessary to determine if there are side effects and to make sure the vaccine protects people for longer than a few weeks.Trump has been promising a vaccine and pushing for one to be released before the Nov. 3 presidential election, and under the guidelines it is highly unlikely a vaccine would be authorized before then. The FDA is now going around the White House, the Times reports, and will share the guidelines with an outside advisory committee with the hope that they will enforce the standards. Read more at The New York Times.More stories from theweek.com President Superspreader Trump is finally doubling down on COVID skepticism 5 worrying red flags from Trump's doctor
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| Supreme court launches attack on gay marriage ahead of Amy Coney Barrett nomination Posted: 06 Oct 2020 04:30 AM PDT  Two conservative justices made an unexpected statement attacking 2015 decision, causing alarm amongst campaigners
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| Where’s Jim Cantore? Sign urges weatherman to ‘stay home’ as hurricane nears Louisiana Posted: 07 Oct 2020 10:56 AM PDT  Here's how the weatherman responded.
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| Misleading India-China claims being shared online Posted: 06 Oct 2020 05:22 PM PDT  Videos of the India-China border stand-off have been circulating - but they are not what they claim to be.
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| Team Trump tries new spin: Biden lacks 'firsthand experience' with COVID-19 Posted: 05 Oct 2020 11:19 AM PDT  With Donald Trump hospitalized with COVID-19 as the 2020 campaign enters its final month, the president's staffers have begun trotting out a new message to try to resurrect his flagging poll numbers: that catching the deadly disease is a strength, not a weakness.
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| Stolen $300m Mao scroll found 'cut in half': Hong Kong police Posted: 07 Oct 2020 04:46 AM PDT  A stolen poetry scroll written by Mao Zedong and valued at hundreds of millions of dollars has been recovered, Hong Kong police said Wednesday -- but not before it was cut in half.
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| US surgeon general cited for being in closed Hawaii park Posted: 06 Oct 2020 01:20 PM PDT  The U.S. surgeon general was cited for being in a closed Hawaii park in August while in the islands helping with surge testing amid a spike in coronavirus cases, according to a criminal complaint filed in court. A Honolulu police officer cited Jerome Adams after seeing him with two men "looking at the view taking pictures" at Kualoa Regional Park on Oahu's northeastern coast, the citation said. Adams told the officer he was visiting Hawaii to work with the governor for COVID-19 and didn't know parks were closed.
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| NYC Orthodox Community Holds Protest Over New COVID Restrictions, Chants ‘Jewish Lives Matter’ Posted: 07 Oct 2020 05:28 AM PDT  Hundreds of members of the Borough Park Orthodox community filled the streets Tuesday night to protest new restrictions imposed on neighborhoods with a surge in COVID-19 cases, which include a limit on synagogue attendance and the closure of schools and non-essential businesses.The demonstrations, held into early Wednesday morning, grew more chaotic as the night wore on and protesters resisted orders to disperse: one person was injured "from a physical confrontation with other congregant(s)," protesters set a fire in the middle of a crosswalk and threw cardboard boxes and masks into the flames, according to NBC New York.A significant part of Borough Park faces the new tightened restrictions which limits houses of worship to 10 people or 25 percent capacity and completely closes schools and non-essential businesses. The area is subject to the most restrictive of three color-coded categories which are assigned by coronavirus case data.The neighborhood is among nine in New York City's "red zone" where the coronavirus positivity rate has held above 3 percent for seven straight days. Some members of the Orthodox community say they feel they have been unfairly blamed for the rise in cases.Community activist Heshy Tischler spoke to a large crowd that gathered on the corner of 50th Street and 15th Avenue around 9 p.m., blasting New York governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City mayor Bill de Blasio over the restrictions which must be enforced no later than Friday, the New York Post reported. "It's called civil disobedience, we can fight back," Tischler said after tearing up his face mask. "Do not allow them to torture you or scare you," he said, referring to elected officials. At another protest on 13th Avenue, councilman Kalman Yeger told the crowd: "We are not going to be deprived of the right that we have in America, like everybody else in America, the right to observe our religion," according to Boro Park News.As demonstrations continued late into the night, the number of protesters grew, with a group shutting down 13th Avenue to vehicular traffic at one point. According to the New York Post, after two city sheriff's deputies responded to a rubbish fire at the intersection of 46th Street and 13th Avenue after midnight, protesters chased them away and chanted "Jewish lives matter" as they held their ground. The fire was later extinguished around 1:30 am by FDNY firefighters and police. Police say no arrests or summonses were issued, according to NBC.Yeger and three other Jewish lawmakers — State Senator Simcha Felder, Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein and Councilman Chaim Deutsch — released a joint statement earlier on Tuesday sharply criticizing the governor for the restrictions and the Cuomo administration's "lack of coordination and communication with local officials.""We are appalled by Governor Cuomo's words and actions today. He has chosen to pursue a scientifically and constitutionally questionable shutdown of our communities," the statement read."His administration's utter lack of coordination and communication with local officials has been an ongoing issue since the start of the pandemic, and particularly recently as we face this uptick," the lawmakers continued.The group said though they represent areas where COVID-19 has spiked, Cuomo's administration had not kept them in the loop leading up to Tuesday's decision to shut down the hot spots.They also slammed Cuomo's use of images of large gatherings of New York's Jewish community — one of which was a 14-year-old photo — in a PowerPoint during his Monday press briefing. "Governor Cuomo's choice to single out a particular religious group, complete with a slideshow of photos to highlight his point, was outrageous," the lawmakers wrote. "His language was dangerous and divisive, and left the implication that Orthodox Jews alone are responsible for rising COVID cases in New York State."
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| Ford will cease production of its iconic Mustang Shelby GT350s soon, axing the best cars it currently makes Posted: 06 Oct 2020 05:04 AM PDT  The GT350 might look like just a striped muscle car, but it's one of the best sports cars out there — and likely won't be replaced in its full glory.
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| Texas Supreme Court rules against Houston mail voting plan Posted: 07 Oct 2020 07:51 AM PDT  The court sided with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's contention that the state's election law did not authorize a plan by Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins to mail ballot applications to the county's 2.4 million registered voters. The Supreme Court sent the case back to a lower court, which it directed to issue an injunction to prohibit Hollins from sending ballot applications to all registered voters. Hollins said in August he would mail applications to every registered voter in Harris County to help them decide if they are eligible to vote by mail in the Nov. 3 presidential election.
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| Vigil for black man killed by white officer in Texas thrown into chaos as white gunman arrives ‘to protect my city' Posted: 06 Oct 2020 12:22 PM PDT  A vigil for a black Texas man shot and killed by a white police officer turned tense when a white gunman arrived
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| US court orders Iran to pay $1.4 bn damages to missing intelligence agent Robert Levinson's family Posted: 06 Oct 2020 05:03 AM PDT  A US court has ordered Iran to pay $1.45 billion to the family of a former FBI agent who is believed to have been detained by the Iranian government while on a secret CIA mission to an Iranian island. Robert Levinson, who disappeared aged 58 on Kish island in March 2007, is believed by his family and the US government to have died in Iranian custody aged 71 or 72 after becoming the longest-held hostage in US history. US District Judge Timothy Kelly signed an order last Thursday awarding his family $107 million in compensation and punitive damages of $1.3 billion. Iranian state media and officials have not acknowledged the ruling in the case, which Iran did not defend. The order is unlikely to be paid in full, with damages coming from a US government fund for victims of state-sponsored terrorism, but Mr Levinson's family welcomed the judgement. "This judgment is the first step in the pursuit of justice for Robert Levinson, an American patriot who was kidnapped and subjected to unimaginable suffering for more than 13 years," his family said. "Until now, Iran has faced no consequences for its actions. Judge Kelly's decision won't bring Bob home, but we hope that it will serve as a warning against further hostage taking by Iran," the family said, adding: "We intend to find any and every avenue, and pursue all options, to seek justice for Robert Levinson." In March, Mr Levinson's family said information they received from US officials suggested he had died in Iranian custody. Iran denied this, saying he had left the country "years ago". Mr Levinson disappeared on Kish island after meeting an American Islamic militant who fled to Iran while facing charges over the murder of an Iranian embassy official in Washington. Months later, US government sources acknowledged that Mr Levinson had an informal contractual relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency. Shortly after he went missing, Iran said its security forces had detained Mr Levinson. That statement was later retracted and nothing was heard of him until 2010, when a video was released showing him looking haggard and thin. "I am not in very good health," he said in the footage in which he appealed to the US government to "answer the requests of the group" holding him. "I am running very quickly out of diabetes medicine," he said.
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| Trump returns to comparing COVID-19 to the flu: 'We have learned to live with it' Posted: 06 Oct 2020 06:30 AM PDT  President Trump on Tuesday continued to downplay the threat of the coronavirus after his release from the hospital, falsely suggesting that the virus that has killed more than 210,000 Americans is "far less lethal" than the seasonal flu.
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| Tana Mongeau says her promise to send free nudes to Biden voters was sarcastic: 'That would be illegal and weird' Posted: 07 Oct 2020 03:28 AM PDT  Numerous outlets and commentators speculated that Mongeau had committed election fraud by offering nudes for Biden votes.
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| John Hagee, prominent megachurch pastor, ill with COVID-19 Posted: 06 Oct 2020 01:14 PM PDT  Prominent megachurch pastor and conservative activist John Hagee has been diagnosed with COVID-19, his son announced during services at the Texas church his father founded. The 80-year-old pastor received the diagnosis Friday and was recovering after the illness was detected early, Matt Hagee said during Sunday morning services at Cornerstone Church in San Antonio. John Hagee founded a ministry that the church says now has 22,000 members.
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| Man faces charges after 80-year-old dies following mask dispute Posted: 06 Oct 2020 09:05 AM PDT  "We see it everywhere, where people are confronting one another and having arguments about not wearing masks," the district attorney said." It's unfortunate "this escalated" into a man's dying.
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| Tesla has reportedly accused an employee of 'maliciously sabotaging' part of its factory in a leaked email Posted: 07 Oct 2020 08:33 AM PDT  Tesla told workers the alleged incident affected "a few hours" of factory run time and that the person had been fired, according to a new report.
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| Ultra-Orthodox Rage Over Fresh COVID-19 Clampdown in New York Posted: 06 Oct 2020 03:30 PM PDT  Hours before a new coronavirus crackdown began in New York, Borough Park was fuming.On Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered public and private schools to close in 20 New York City ZIP Codes where positivity rates had spiked in recent weeks, most of them home to substantial ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities. Anger was already palpable that afternoon on the streets of one of the hottest hotspots citywide, a traditional home of New York's Hasidic population."It's just political theater," raged Mike Weber, whose teenage sons attend the Nesivos Hatalmud yeshiva, standing maskless outside the facility on the neighborhood's north end. "I'm not concerned about corona, I'm concerned about the kids."By Tuesday evening, tensions were at a boiling point as hundreds of ultra-Orthodox community members took to the streets in protest over the crackdown. The New York Post reports protesters lit garbage on fire and refused orders to disperse, and "chased away two city sheriff's deputies who responded." A report from the scene said the crowd was chanting "Jewish Lives Matter!" Religious learning institutions, which the broad majority of students in the affected precincts attend, were actually closed already for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, which ends Friday. But nearly every yeshiva in Borough Park featured an attached sukkah—a temporary enclosure, somewhere between a tent and a hut—from which largely maskless men and boys streamed in and out all afternoon.The governor's order Monday left such places of worship untouched—only for him to decree Tuesday that they could only accommodate up to 10 people at a time.Are 'Outside Forces' to Blame in NYC's Hottest COVID Zone?Even community leaders who agreed with the decision to shut down yeshivas and take other pandemic containment measures in the world's former coronavirus epicenter decried the incessant mixed and conflicting messages from Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio. The governor's Monday order came a day after the mayor called for closing not just schools but local businesses, and to begin that program not Tuesday but on Wednesday. Cuomo's initial order this week pertained only to schools, only for him to relent Tuesday and instruct nonessential businesses in designated "red zones" to close as well.That latest announcement was light on details, but included plenty of complaints from the governor about how the city's failure to clamp down on social distancing and mask-flouting scofflaws made the new crackdown necessary."If the plan I passed into law was actually enforced, we wouldn't be here," Cuomo said at a press conference in Albany.The jockeying fits a pattern dating to the earliest days of the pandemic, when Cuomo undercut de Blasio's efforts to impose a stay-at-home order and switch students to remote learning in the five boroughs—before issuing such orders himself."We've had an issue with a consistent message from the city, the state, to the community," Alan Kadish, an Orthodox Jewish physician and president of Touro College, a private Jewish university in New York, told The Daily Beast. "When you have a news conference where the city and the state are at odds, it's harder for the community to feel a partnership with a single voice that's saying 'This is what we need to do to make things right, this is what we need to do to keep kids educated.' It's frustrating."Cuomo's office did not provide an on-the-record statement by deadline. The mayor's office told The Daily Beast it had conducted 7,443 tests across the nine ZIP Codes with the highest positivity rates—while taking an apparent jab at the governor's push to crack down on violators."While others focus mostly on 'enforcement'/ticketing, the city believes we must have an 'all of the above' approach that surges in testing, education, outreach, nd enforcement. That's what is proven to work," said spokesman Bill Neidhardt.In response to the governor's directives, Touro will close not only its higher-education and research facilities, but also a yeshiva it operates in the highlighted ZIP Code of Kew Gardens Hills in Queens next week. Kadish characterized the school-closure order as "reasonable" from a medical perspective.Less reasonable, he argued, was a failure by the state and city governments to collaboratively outline a path for the schools to reopen if the positivity rate comes down. Several of the parents The Daily Beast spoke with this week asserted—without evidence—that any second wave of the coronavirus was less severe than the first, and that the high proportion of infections in religious Jewish communities was a consequence of only ill people taking the test."It's only a couple percent of an increase, it's not like we had before. It's completely different now," complained Jack Brody, whose 20 grandchildren attend schools scattered across Borough Park, as he prepared to join a mass of other unmasked men inside the sukkah at the United Talmudical Academy.Kadish said there was some evidence to support these contentions, but that deeper study was needed. That's why it's essential, he argued, that de Blasio and Cuomo lay out a roadmap for school reopenings that engages the broader population of Borough Park and gets them tested. Gothamist, meanwhile, reported last week that some local leaders appeared to be taking steps to deflate COVID-19 testing numbers in embattled Orthodox areas."Any proposal to close the schools should be accompanied by widespread testing this week, so we know what the magnitude of the problem is," Kadish said. "With the right encouragement, particularly by saying that there's willingness to open the schools as soon as possible if the infection rate goes down, that will galvanize the community to access the resources that are available to get testing done."The impact of the clashing directives from Albany and City Hall was evident on the ground in Borough Park. One local rabbi, who asked to speak anonymously because his yeshiva's board had not authorized him to comment, pointed to the discrepancy between Cuomo's school-closure order and de Blasio's push to also close shops as proof that the entire plan was arbitrary and politically motivated."Why didn't he close all the businesses? Because all the business owners said it would be the final nail in the coffin for them," the rabbi alleged. "The kids just can't speak up for themselves, but it's the final nail in the coffin for them."The religious leader gave vent to fears that young children might fall years behind on reading instruction while high schoolers could miss the state's Regents examinations for a second time, after New York canceled the annual evaluations due to the pandemic this spring.Kadish and other experts explained the special sensitivity around the yeshivas, which have been a point of tension for years. Critics and local dissidents have long complained that some of the schools fail to provide adequate secular instruction, and the city shuttered several that did not mandate student vaccinations during a deadly measles outbreak last year.Rabbi Chaim David Zwiebel, vice president of the nonprofit Agudath Israel, noted that many ultra-Orthodox practitioners lack an Internet connection and other technologies that permit children to study remotely and for parents to obtain reliable information about current affairs—including the pandemic. The yeshivas, in the view of many, are the only way to ensure the continuation of ultra-Orthodox traditions."As a community, there's nothing more precious and important to us than transmitting the Jewish heritage to our children and next generation," Zwiebel said. "This is the central religious obligation that parents have to their children in the Jewish faith. And that is to make sure the next generation will be part of the link that goes all the way back to Sinai. You need Jewish schools."But the mayor's office does not have the power to reopen the schools now that Cuomo has closed them. And a coordination roadmap for on-site lessons to begin again is still missing."We have an opportunity to do widespread testing this week, to demonstrate what the real infection rate is, to see what the real hospitalization rates are, and determine when the schools can be allowed to open," said Kadish. "If we don't take that opportunity, then the decision is a bad decision, because this time will be wasted."Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet 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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| In Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Erdogan eyes Turkey's "place in world order" Posted: 06 Oct 2020 10:16 PM PDT  President Tayyip Erdogan's strong backing for Azerbaijan in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh has set Turkey apart from other big nations and alarmed NATO allies that are demanding a ceasefire. The president has described Ankara's support for Azerbaijan as part of Turkey's quest for its "deserved place in the world order."
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| He was locked in his room for seven months. Then his sister snuck in matches, police say Posted: 07 Oct 2020 09:33 AM PDT  A Florida child was so desperate to escape his parents that he did something dangerously extreme, police say.
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| NYC politician who compared gay people to paedophiles expelled in city first Posted: 06 Oct 2020 05:10 PM PDT  The councilman is accused of hosting a retreat in the Virgin Islands at the same time as his wife's daughter's wedding
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| Here are all the stories Trump has cited as evidence of a rigged election Posted: 07 Oct 2020 08:55 AM PDT  Though President Trump has referenced incidents across the country that he claimed were proof Democrats are trying to cheat their way to an election victory, even the top voting experts in the Republican Party say it's impossible to rig the presidential election.
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| Fact check: Joe Biden faces friendly fire – partly false – over age, pot, prisons and more Posted: 07 Oct 2020 08:49 AM PDT  An Instagram user levels strong charges against former Vice President Joe Biden but says he will vote for him against Trump
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| Pence, Harris gear up for tomorrow's VP debate Posted: 06 Oct 2020 06:43 AM PDT  Bill McGurn, WSJ 'Main Street' columnist, weighs in on what to expect from tomorrow's highly anticipated VP debate.
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| Astronaut chooses daughter's wedding over space test flight Posted: 07 Oct 2020 10:46 AM PDT  The commander of Boeing's first astronaut flight has pulled himself off the crew so he's on Earth — not at the International Space Station — for his daughter's wedding next year. Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson announced his decision Wednesday. Last year, NASA astronaut Eric Boe stepped aside from the first Starliner crew for medical reasons.
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| Flooding hits six million people in East Africa Posted: 06 Oct 2020 07:48 AM PDT  The number affected by heavy seasonal rains has risen more than five fold since 2016, the UN says.
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| Hurricane Delta rapidly intensifies, targets Mexico, U.S. Gulf Coast Posted: 05 Oct 2020 10:46 PM PDT  Maximum sustained winds rose to 115 miles per hour (185 kph) on Tuesday and are forecast to accelerate further and strike Mexico's Yucatan peninsula on Wednesday as "an extremely dangerous" Category 4 hurricane, the NHC said. The storm will reenter the Gulf of Mexico a day later and intensify with winds of up to 140 mph, the NHC said.
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| Case of biracial woman saying she was set on fire by white men closed for lack of evidence Posted: 06 Oct 2020 03:19 PM PDT  The U.S. attorney's office in Madison, Wisconsin, said that "authorities could not establish that the attack, as alleged by the complainant, had occurred."
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| ‘We watched him fade away’: Judge recalls the moment her son was shot dead by disgruntled anti-feminist lawyer Posted: 06 Oct 2020 05:17 PM PDT  'I know that he hated me because I was a woman. He hated me because I was Latina. And that was the source of hate. I had the 'nerve' to become a judge'
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| Lindsey Graham, in a dead heat with Senate challenger, pleads for help Posted: 07 Oct 2020 06:32 AM PDT  The South Carolina senator has been one of President Trump's most ardent supporters, which has helped inspire a flood of Democratic money to his opponent, Jaime Harrison.
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| Kamala Harris v Mike Pence: What the two women who’ve run for VP before said about their own debates Posted: 07 Oct 2020 06:30 AM PDT  Two women broke the major parties' vice presidential glass ceilings – and both were obliged to debate more experienced male opponents
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| Cardinal sent Vatican money to intelligence expert who 'spent it on handbags and shoes' Posted: 06 Oct 2020 08:22 AM PDT  A cardinal sacked by the Pope for alleged embezzlement has been accused of funneling €500,000 to an Italian woman who spent some of the cash on luxury shoes, handbags and accessories. Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, who was stripped of his rights as a cardinal by Pope Francis last month, allegedly paid the money from Vatican funds to Cecilia Marogna, who claims to be an intelligence operative with links to the Italian secret services. She reportedly spent it on buying shoes, clothes and luxury items from brands such as Prada, Tod's, Moncler and Mont Blanc, according to Corriere della Sera, an Italian daily, basing its report on leaked Vatican documents. Ms Marogna admitted to receiving the €500,000 in Vatican funds through a company she runs that is based in Slovenia. But she said she had spent it on "diplomatic trips, paying sources for information, mediation and donations to humanitarian organisations." It was the latest tangled web of claims and counter-claims to involve Cardinal Becciu, 72, a once powerful Vatican figure who is being investigated for his role in the buying of a £400 million pound property in London. Cardinal Becciu has denied any wrongdoing in the London sale.
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| Israel army strikes Gaza target after rocket attack Posted: 05 Oct 2020 11:30 AM PDT |
| New portrait of Queen Victoria's African goddaughter sheds light on forgotten Black history Posted: 07 Oct 2020 10:47 AM PDT  Sarah Forbes Bonetta, born to an African ruler as Aina, became Queen Victoria's goddaughter in the mid-19th century.
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| Trudeau government survives key confidence vote Posted: 07 Oct 2020 09:38 AM PDT  The minority Liberals secured the support of the left-leaning NDP to survive Throne Speech vote.
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| Indian government names Shashanka Bhide, Ashima Goyal, Jayanth Varma as new MPC members Posted: 05 Oct 2020 06:40 PM PDT  The Indian government named Shashanka Bhide, Ashima Goyal and Jayanth Varma as its nominees on the central bank's monetary policy committee (MPC) late on Monday. The Reserve Bank of India was forced to delay the bi-monthly committee meeting set to take place from Sept. 29 to Oct. 1, as it required at least four MPC members to proceed and the Indian government had failed to name replacements for three previous appointees whose tenure ended in September. The committee, of three government nominees and three RBI members, had been scheduled to announce India's key interest rates and monetary policy for the next two months on Oct. 1.
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| Airline passenger sexually assaults sleeping 18-year-old on Indiana flight, feds say Posted: 07 Oct 2020 10:25 AM PDT  The passenger is also accused of exposing himself, the FBI says.
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| Trump's spy chief declassified a slew of documents that national security veterans say was part of an effort to boost the president's Russia claims Posted: 06 Oct 2020 09:05 PM PDT  Former officials accused DNI John Ratcliffe of selectively declassifying information that could compromise US sources and methods.
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| Family’s battle with hospital over ‘brain dead’ son to be decided in Texas court Posted: 06 Oct 2020 11:32 AM PDT  Nick Torres was found unresponsive in bathtub in September
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| Russian goes on trial on charges of carrying out Kremlin-ordered killing in Berlin Posted: 07 Oct 2020 07:13 AM PDT  The trial of a Russian man accused of carrying out a Kremlin-ordered assassination on German soil opened in Berlin on Wednesday. The case is expected to further damage relations between Germany and Russia, which are already strained by the attempted poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The defendant, a 55-year-old Russian, is accused of gunning down Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in broad daylight in a central Berlin park on orders from Moscow last year. Khangoshvili, a 40-year-old ethnic Chechen from Georgia, fought against Russia in the Chechnya war and had links to Georgian intelligence. The accused's true identity is disputed and the judge said he would address him as "Herr Defendant" throughout the trial.
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| Thousands evacuated after fire at Russian military arsenal Posted: 07 Oct 2020 10:57 AM PDT |
| Why Erdogan's flexing muscle in Karabakh Posted: 07 Oct 2020 10:15 AM PDT 
The worsening conflict between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces has seen one regional power -- Turkey -- throw its weight against both Russia and its own NATO allies. And its President Tayyip Erdogan has described it as part of a quest for Turkey's, quote, "deserved place in the world order." Turkey is backing Azerbaijan in the fighting over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Turkish-made drones now spearhead Azeri attacks and one senior official in Ankara said Turkey was providing infrastructure and support for the weapons, though it has no troops in the field. Hundreds dead, heavy artillery, tanks, and planes. It's the worst fighting there in decades. Erdogan sees an opportunity to change the status quo, rather than going along with decades-old mediation efforts by the U.S., France and Russia that he says have failed. And to bolster support at home by flexing muscle abroad. Ankara's reliance on gas imports from Azerbaijan adds another incentive. The enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh is part of Azerbaijan, but ruled and populated by ethnic Armenians. Cross-border campaigns such as those waged by Turkey in northern Syria, Iraq and Libya are a priority for Erdogan, another Turkish official said, and boost support for his party. But Turkey denies accusations by the French and Syrian presidents that it has sent Syrian jihadists it backs to fight in Nagorno-Karabakh. And Russian allegations it's sending mercenaries. Although Turkey's stance sends an implicit threat to Armenia and its ally Moscow, Erdogan's also betting that despite their differences, Turkey and Russia get on well enough to prevent a wider conflict in the region.
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