| Biden wins 2020 presidential election: Live coverage Posted: 07 Nov 2020 04:52 AM PST  Yahoo News is providing complete coverage, with live updates and reaction to Biden's historic win.
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| Fact check: Viral video shows Pennsylvania poll workers fixing damaged ballots Posted: 06 Nov 2020 01:25 PM PST  A viral video claiming to show a poll worker committing voter fraud in Delaware County is false. Poll workers were fixing damaged ballots.
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| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spars with her centrist Democratic colleagues over policy and rhetoric after House Democrats suffer unexpected losses Posted: 06 Nov 2020 02:13 PM PST  House Democrats' unexpected electoral losses this week prompted renewed debate over the party's policies and message.
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| Dutch PM denounces intolerance as teacher in hiding amid Islam cartoon debate Posted: 06 Nov 2020 05:47 AM PST  Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Friday denounced what he called intolerable threats to freedom of expression, after a Rotterdam teacher was forced into hiding following a classroom discussion on the killing of French teacher Samuel Paty. Police said they had arrested a teenager on suspicion of inciting threats against the Dutch teacher. It was not clear if the unidentified 18-year-old woman, who police said posted messages on social media, was a student at the city's Emmauscollege high school, where the class debate took place.
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| 'We're seeing more than ever': white shark populations rise off California coast Posted: 06 Nov 2020 03:00 AM PST  CSU Long Beach shark lab has tagged a record amount of white sharks, signaling a healthy ecosystem – and warmer watersChris Lowe is no longer surprised when he sees drone footage of juvenile white sharks cruising near surfers and swimmers in southern California's ocean waters.Lowe directs the shark lab at California State University, Long Beach, and for the past 12 years he's been monitoring populations of juvenile white sharks off the southern California coast with tags, drones and planes. This year, Lowe has already tagged a record 38 sharks, triple the number that were tagged last year. "Normally they'd be leaving by now, but instead we are seeing more sharks than ever."Two years ago, Lowe was asked by the state to investigate in more detail what sharks are doing along the beaches and how they behave in proximity to people – research that officials hope will help predict where and when the sharks show up and will help educate the public about the animals.White sharks have been affected by humans for more than a century. Commercial fisheries caught them for years (many a fish taco was probably shark, Lowe said) and sharks' primary adult food – marine mammals – has been hunted to the brink of extinction.California moved to protect its white shark population in 1994, and has seen its numbers rise steadily since. In southern California, most sharks spotted near beaches are juveniles.White sharks are born at 4.5 to 5ft long, and grow a foot each year for their first five years of life. They love southern California's shallows because the water is warmer (young sharks lack the ability to retain heat in colder waters), safer from predators and full of their preferred food: stingrays. When they reach 10ft, they switch food sources to marine mammals like seals, and they spend more time away from the shoreline.Lowe studies the animals from the land, in the water and from the skies.He works closely with lifeguards, who are on the frontlines during the summer and fall beach season. His team also goes out to tag sharks, when they try to surgically implant the animals' back with a finger-sized acoustic transmitter that connects with listening stations all along the coastline.> Heading out to look for baby white sharks to tag w/ Dr. Chris Lowe of CSULB's shark lab. pic.twitter.com/UMNqhlHLwz> > — Jill Replogle (@jillrep) June 28, 2017The acoustic stations display where the sharks are spending their time, and they allow the research team to track individual sharks for years – even when they cross the southern border with Mexico to Baja California. Some of the transmitters will last for a decade. "It's a little like how you get a bill at the end of the month for a toll road," said Lowe. "We use the same technology – the only difference is we get the bill, they don't."> New animations by @native.illustrator showing how our passive acoustic telemetry shark tracking tech works. sharkspies trackingnotslacking pic.twitter.com/W5zzna4TAZ> > — Chris Lowe (@CSULBsharklab) September 18, 2020In addition to tagging and tracking, the team also uses an autonomous underwater robot that can rise up and down and looks like a torpedo. It carries a full set of oceanographic sensors on its nose and a video camera. The robot allows the researchers to make high-resolution three-dimensional maps, and study why sharks are hanging out where they are: is it because there are more stingrays, warmer water, or fewer people?Aerial drones are the team's final piece of tech – the researchers fly drone surveys from the San Diego border with Mexico to Santa Barbara, to identify sharks' location and size, and to see when they are close to people. "We can go through and count how many people are in the water, surfers, fishers, paddle boarders, and plot the distance to any shark," Lowe said.Lowe has found that not only are there more kid-sharks in the waters, they're around longer, too. Juvenile white sharks typically leave California waters for Baja California in the fall, and return in the spring, but that pattern has been changing – probably due to warmer waters and an abundance of food. "We may have white sharks here year-round," he said.Up in Monterey Bay in northern California, David Ebert, who directs the Pacific Shark Research Center at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, has seen a similar rise in numbers of juvenile white sharks off the coast.Ebert recalled taking a helicopter ride in 2015 over the Monterey Bay and being astounded by what he saw from the sky: little sharks hanging out in small groups, right off the beach.On one hand, the growing presence of the juveniles is a good sign, he said, because it shows the ecosystem is clean and there is enough food to support the sharks. But it also points to how the climate crisis, and warmer ocean temperatures, can shift the range of the animals. Southern California used to be at the northern limit of their range, and now it might be in the middle, Ebert said.Even with more sharks in the water, Ebert said humans have little to fear from the juveniles. Since 1950, when the state started keeping records, there have been on average only three or four attacks a year in California, Ebert says – even as the state population has swelled from 15 million to 40 million. "There are so many people in the water: you have paddle boards, kayaks, wetsuits, but the number of attacks hasn't really changed. That tells you that people are not on the menu, they're not out here hunting people.""They're an amazing animal to see in person," he added. "I think it's one of those rare wildlife experiences, you can spend your whole life out there on the water and never see one."Lowe, too, said that generally when he sees sharks swimming around people, the people have no idea – and the sharks generally don't care.He and his team now hope to create a shark forecast – "it's going to be a sharky week!" – that can help educate beachgoers about the sharks in California's waters. Lowe said he could see a future where lifeguards can post signs about where the juveniles are hanging out, alongside information about the tides and waves. He says that if you happen to see a group of sharks on the beach, it's actually a cause for celebration: "They are keeping the stingray population down, and they generally don't care about people."
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| Rupert Murdoch’s daughter-in-law urges Fox to ‘put country above profits’ Posted: 06 Nov 2020 04:49 PM PST  Kathryn Murdoch weighs in on the row over Fox News' coverage of the election, in true Succession style
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| Missouri poll worker kept COVID diagnosis mostly to herself Posted: 06 Nov 2020 01:36 PM PST  O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri election judge who came to work despite testing positive for the coronavirus died in her sleep after a 15-hour shift at the polls, the director of her county's election office said Friday. The woman worked Election Day as an election judge supervisor at Memorial Hall in Blanchette Park in the St. Louis suburb of St. Charles. St. Charles County Election Authority Director Kurt Bahr said in a phone interview that the woman had previously worked several other elections, as had her sister at a different polling site.
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| Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Several Others Have COVID Posted: 06 Nov 2020 08:12 PM PST  White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has contracted COVID-19—weeks after an outbreak infected a slew of Trumpworld figures, including the president.Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson and Trump campaign aide Nick Trainer have also tested positive, according to Bloomberg. At least two other White House staffers are also ill, according to multiple media reports.The news comes just two weeks after Meadows shockingly admitted on television that the Trump administration has decided it is "not going to control the pandemic."And it broke on a day that the United States set a new record for coronavirus cases, tallying another 122,000 positive tests as hospitalizations soar.As The Daily Beast has reported, Meadows has aggressively shunned masks and has mocked others for taking precautions in the midst of a pandemic that has killed more than 230,000 Americans."You guys, with all your masks... You look very different than you used to," he snarked at reporters trying to ask him questions as he walked—maskless—indoors with Jared Kushner in June.> White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, to reporters: "You guys, with all your masks... You look very different than you used to." > @politico's @JakeSherman: "We're just trying not to die." > pic.twitter.com/aD7KvgHNLH> > — David Gura (@davidgura) June 9, 2020White House journalists have identified Meadows as one of the administration officials they feel is endangering the health of those around him."It's absolutely outrageous," one prominent correspondent told the Daily Beast last month."They have literally put lives in jeopardy, they have put people's health in jeopardy—there's no other way to describe it when you have multiple White House staffers getting sick with COVID and they're still not taking precautions. I don't know how else to describe it other than it's just reckless and shows a lack of regard for other human beings—especially the press."Mark Meadows Might Be the Second Most 'Reckless' Man in the White HouseMeadows has even questioned the effectiveness of masks, even though scientific studies have proven they slow the spread of the virus."If masks is the panacea for everything, if that's the way that we open back our economy and get everybody back to work, I will gladly wear my mask each and every day if that's what makes the difference. And it doesn't," he said in September.When COVID-19 broke out in Vice President Mike Pence's office last month, Meadows reportedly tried to keep it secret. Pressed about that, he tried to justify it by saying that he did not believe "sharing personal information is something we should do."His illness comes as the nation waits to find out who the next president will be. News of his positive test broke just moments after former Vice President Joe Biden addressed the nation about the status of vote-counting and spoke movingly about the toll the coronavirus had exacted in the last eight months.Bloomberg reported that Meadows was with Trump at campaign headquarters on Tuesday and was back on Wednesday. He was not wearing a mask either time.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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| Former Rays prospect and Corona Santiago High standout Brandon Martin convicted of triple murder Posted: 05 Nov 2020 02:32 PM PST  Former Tampa Bay Rays prospect Brandon Martin has been convicted of murdering three men with a baseball bat.
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| Trump-to-Biden transition is already unhinged and it won't get better: Mastio and Lawrence Posted: 07 Nov 2020 09:00 AM PST  One thing we have learned from watching Trump these last four years is that he never reaches bottom. There is always something worse he can do.
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| Aspirin vs. ibuprofen: The key differences and which one you should take Posted: 06 Nov 2020 12:12 PM PST  Aspirin and ibuprofen are both anti-inflammatory drugs used to treat pain, inflammation, and fever — though they have some key differences.
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| Citing zero evidence, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich asks Attorney General Bill Barr to send federal agents to arrest election workers in Pennsylvania Posted: 06 Nov 2020 09:22 AM PST  In an interview with Fox News on Thursday night, Newt Gingrich claimed that the voting system in Pennsylvania was "corrupt."
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| Fighting nears key town as Azerbaijani forces advance in Karabakh Posted: 07 Nov 2020 03:30 AM PST  Explosions sound in the distance as Kamo Hayrapetyan kneels to pray at the Holy Saviour Cathedral in Nagorno-Karabakh's historic town of Shusha.
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| Michigan couple with 14 sons welcome their first daughter after nearly three decades Posted: 06 Nov 2020 01:43 PM PST  A Michigan couple whose large family attracted attention by growing to include 14 sons has welcomed their first daughter nearly three decades after the birth of their first child.
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| The Army Is Looking at Changing Up the Size of Its Infantry Squads Posted: 06 Nov 2020 11:17 AM PST |
| Eta aims torrential rain at South Florida Posted: 07 Nov 2020 09:26 AM PST  The tropical depression may brush the region Sunday, and residents were warned to pay attention to forecasts and warnings.
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| She Killed Her Grandpa and Stuffed Him in a Tool Box, Cops Say Posted: 06 Nov 2020 08:45 PM PST  A New Mexico woman has been accused of drugging her veteran grandfather to death, stuffing his body in a big tool box, and telling people that he was living at a fictional nursing home.Candy Jo Webb, 27, went on the lam after a neighbor found A.J. Harden's decomposed remains in mid-October, and investigators began asking questions, according to court papers.But she was tracked to Jacksonville, Florida, where U.S. marshals picked her up on Thursday. She's being held on a charge of first-degree murder and awaiting extradition to New Mexico, police said Friday.A criminal complaint against Webb says that police learned Harden, 82, was dead when a resident of Fort Sumner, Chad Abeyta, noticed a foul odor coming from a tool box dumped on property near his home and made the grisly discovery.The remains were severely decayed, but a medical appointment card with Harden's name was found in the pocket of the clothing. Then investigators discovered that Harden had a link to the burial ground: his granddaughter had once lived on the property with her boyfriend, Shawn Perkins.As The Eastern New Mexico News reported earlier this week, Webb told police that she took her 82-year-old grandfather to to a nursing home in Wellington, Texas, in the spring but needed to look up the name of the facility.The next day, police spoke to the dead man's grandson, Arron Harden, who said he had not seen his grandfather, that Webb would not say where he was, and that she had obtained a restraining order keeping him away from the home.When investigators pressed Webb on A.J.'s whereabouts, she said he was at the "Shady Oaks" retirement home in Fort Worth—which does not exist, according to court papers.Webb ghosted the cops, who turned their attention to her boyfriend, Garrett Beene. He revealed that Webb told him Harden died in his sleep and she called the fire department to take his body away, but police said no emergency call was ever made.A day later, Beene contacted police through his attorney with a different story: Webb allegedly told him that her grandfather asked her to kill him so she gave him a fatal dose of Xanax and Ambien. Beene said he didn't believe her and accused her of doing it so she could have his lake house. Perkins, the ex-boyfriend, had told police that Harden regularly gave Webb money.An obituary said Harden grew up in Fort Sumner, served in the Navy, got married, and became a truck driver. In his later years, he and his wife ran a hamburger stand."An amazing man with a beautiful heart," friend Denise Beck wrote on his condolence page.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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| 'It's a slaughter,' doctors say of new coronavirus wave Posted: 07 Nov 2020 07:25 AM PST  Coronavirus hospitalizations have been rapidly climbing, leading to concerns that we may once more see what we saw over the spring and early summer: crowded intensive care units, overwhelmed hospitals, deaths that could have been prevented.
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| Who is in Biden's cabinet? Speculation grows for potential administration Posted: 06 Nov 2020 10:22 PM PST  Rumours and predictions among insiders and analysts about future White House leadership
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| Three states pass amendments that 'only citizens' can vote Posted: 07 Nov 2020 07:10 AM PST  Voters in Colorado, Florida and Alabama passed ballot measures Tuesday that codify what is already law: That only U.S. citizens 18 and older can vote. The amendments passed overwhelmingly in all three states, including by a nearly 8-to-1 ratio in Alabama and Florida. Before the 2020 election, North Dakota and Arizona were the only state constitutions that specified non-citizens could not vote in state or local elections.
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| Shipbuilding: Here today, gone tomorrow Posted: 07 Nov 2020 04:00 AM PST  Industry well remembers the 1990s when costs drove the Navy to slash the Seawolf-class sub order from 29 hulls to just three, with no immediate replacement vesse ready to keep the lines hot.
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| Illinois' billionaire governor tried to hike taxes on the rich. It didn't pass. Posted: 06 Nov 2020 10:37 AM PST  Gov. JB Pritzker said at a Nov. 4 press conference the people of Illinois "deserved a fairer tax system, and you still do. But that didn't happen."
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| The public poll, press has never been as wrong as it was this time’ Posted: 05 Nov 2020 01:11 PM PST  Pollster Frank Luntz weigh in on polling of the 2020 presidential election.
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| A Motorcycle Rally in a Pandemic? 'We Kind of Knew What Was Going to Happen.' Posted: 07 Nov 2020 07:06 AM PST  STURGIS, S.D. -- Albert Aguirre was amped as he and a buddy skimmed across the South Dakota plains, heading to join 460,000 bikers for a motorcycle rally shaping up to be a Woodstock of unmasked, uninhibited coronavirus defiance."Sit tight Sturgis," Aguirre, 40, posted on Facebook on Aug. 7 as he snapped a photo of the sun sifting through the clouds. "We're almost there!"A month later, back home in the college town of Vermillion, South Dakota, Aguirre was so sick he could barely take a shower. He had not been tested but told friends that it had to be COVID-19.Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York TimesInfectious-disease experts had warned about the dangers of cramming thousands of revelers into the Black Hills of South Dakota at the height of a pandemic. But it was the 80th anniversary of the annual Sturgis rally, and bikers were coming no matter what.South Dakota's Republican governor, a vocal opponent of lockdowns, gave her blessing, local leaders set aside their misgivings, and thousands of people from every state in the nation rolled down Sturgis' Main Street.In the aftermath, hundreds of people have gotten sick, and Sturgis has become a rumbling symbol of America's bitter divisions over the coronavirus, even now, as cases continue to surge, surpassing more than 121,000 daily infections Thursday, and the nation's death toll crosses 235,000.Some called the rally a declaration of freedom and went home with T-shirts declaring, "Screw COVID I Went to Sturgis." But others in deeply conservative South Dakota now say it recklessly helped seed a new wave of cases raging out of control in the state.Family members who stayed away are angry at relatives who attended and brought the virus home. Sturgis council members who approved the rally have been bombarded with death threats. And health experts and politicians are still fighting over how many cases Sturgis may have caused across the country.After the crowds streamed home like some huge exhalation, coronavirus cases tied to the rally began popping up as far away as New Hampshire. Infection numbers climbed in the Dakotas and in the neighboring states of Wyoming and Nebraska, where thousands of residents had returned from Sturgis.In all, cases spread to more than 20 states and at least 300 people -- including revelers' families and co-workers who never set foot in South Dakota, according to state health officials. Twin sisters who had worked at a bike-washing stand in Sturgis tested positive. So did a local paramedic. And a motorcycle mechanic's family in Rapid City.Health officials said a lack of contact tracing and the sheer scale of the event have made it impossible to know how many people were infected directly or indirectly because of Sturgis."We don't know if we'll ever know the full extent," said Dr. Benjamin C. Aaker, president of the South Dakota State Medical Association. "These people go home and get sick with coronavirus. They don't have any way of knowing whether they picked it up at the rally or back in California."Aguirre's friends said they would likely never know whether he got sick at Sturgis, at a bar or restaurant in his hometown as college students returned, or somewhere else altogether.But friends said that by early September, Aguirre -- a big guy and fiercely loyal friend who loved cooking and the Wu-Tang Clan -- had been sick for more than a week and was struggling to breathe and eat. He called a local clinic but worried he could not afford to go to a hospital because he did not have insurance, according to friends and the chief of the Vermillion Police Department."Hanging in there?" a friend, Dan Herrera, texted Aguirre on Sept. 5."About to get in the shower and see how much energy that uses," Aguirre replied."Good luck."Three days later, Herrera texted Aguirre to check in.This time, there was no answer.'Do You Want Me to Build a Wall Around Sturgis?'Like every year, banners strung across Main Street proclaimed, "Welcome Harley Riders." Downtown was blocked off for motorcycle parking. And despite rising case counts and growing criticism, Gov. Kristi Noem told Fox News in August that the state was handling the virus and glad to host the rally. "We hope people come," she said.But behind the scenes, many in the 7,000-person city of Sturgis were on edge.Three City Council members wanted to call it off, but they changed their votes at the last minute after several large concert venues, including the Buffalo Chip campground and Rushmore Photo and Gifts, sent letters threatening legal action against the city. Sixty percent of residents who answered a city-sponsored survey wanted to postpone the rally, but city officials said they were boxed in."I said back in March, do you want me to build a wall around Sturgis or a wall around South Dakota, because that is the only way we could have stopped them," Mayor Mark Carstensen of Sturgis said.The backlash came quickly. After the rally concluded, city officials were flooded with death threats day and night by phone, email and mail.In response, the city scrubbed its website of all personal contact information and replaced it with a generic phone line. The death threats ramped up another notch after a study suggested the event resulted in an estimated 250,000 coronavirus infections across the country.Mike Bachand, a City Council member, was among those who received death threats for his vote to host the event. The messages continue to come in, he said.Rod Woodruff, owner of the Buffalo Chip, which is outside the city limits of Sturgis and is used as a campground by motorcyclists during the rally, said he could not rationally see how the event could end up being a superspreader event and was skeptical of some of the cases being linked back to the event. Woodruff said he did not know of anyone who contracted the virus at the campgrounds.Democrats and some conservatives in South Dakota say the rally turned their state into a petri dish. They say Sturgis and other mass gatherings like President Donald Trump's Fourth of July rally, the state fair and an early-September Mustang car rally in Sturgis helped send the state's infection rate soaring to one of the highest in the nation. The state is averaging about 1,100 cases a day, compared with fewer than 100 in much of August and September.But other conservatives accuse the news media and Democrats of inflating case counts and exaggerating the rally's toll to smear its bikers. They said the number of infections was negligible compared with the thousands who attended and pointed out that many rallygoers spent the week outdoors, camping and zooming through Spearfish Canyon and the Badlands.'I've Never Seen Him So Sick'Back home, quietly, people were getting sick. And health departments in different states were struggling to trace where they had gotten sick or who else they might have infected on long road trips that spanned hundreds of miles.In Rapid City, Holly Sortland had feared the virus would find her family, especially her 15-year-old son who has a heart defect. Her husband was a motorcycle mechanic in Sturgis, and though he wore a mask and tried to stay away from the rally crowds, a co-worker had been going maskless to the bars. Five people at his bike shop tested positive."We kind of knew what was going to happen," Sortland said. "I've never seen him so sick."By mid-August, Sortland said, her husband was running a 101-degree fever and shed about 10 pounds. When she got flowers for her birthday, she realized that she could not smell them -- a symptom that she, too, had COVID-19. A positive coronavirus test confirmed it.A contact tracer with the South Dakota Department of Health called the family to ask where her husband worked, but he worried about getting into trouble with his boss given the stigma that swirls around the virus, Sortland said. When she talked with the tracer, she said, she was not asked about her family contacts or where she had shopped.To date, the Health Department has reported 125 coronavirus cases among state residents who attended the rally. Derrick Haskins, a department spokesman, said the agency only conducts contact tracing on South Dakota residents.The Minnesota Department of Health in September connected 74 cases to the rally -- 51 people who attended and 23 others who came into contact with them later. A man in his 60s who attended the rally contracted the virus and died. He is the only rallygoer whose death has been attributed to the coronavirus."It is very challenging to trace the infections that attendees may have spread after they returned from Sturgis," said Kris Ehresmann, director of infectious disease epidemiology at the Minnesota Department of Health. "We were able to link several infections at a Minnesota wedding to someone who had gone to Sturgis, but we were not able to definitively state there was a direct link. The web just becomes too complicated."In North Dakota, the Health Department traced 30 cases back to the event, said Nicole Peske, a spokeswoman for the agency. That number, she added, does not include any secondary coronavirus cases that may have resulted if someone contracted the virus from someone who was at the rally.Peske said the agency was still investigating the cases linked to the event.The illnesses cut rifts among friends and families. In the rural panhandle of western Nebraska, Heather Edwards watched with frustration after a cousin who had worked at the rally tested positive and then shrugged off the seriousness because she had a mild case. A woman in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, seethed after her sister returned home from Sturgis, went to a wedding with a pasta buffet and tested positive the next day.Heidi Morgan, a conservative Republican who lives in the Black Hills, said some friends from Nebraska who attended Sturgis got sick after returning home. They refused to get tested out of a belief that the rally's opponents wanted to use higher infection numbers as a political weapon."There's that feeling of, 'We're not going to add to the numbers,'" said Morgan, who said her family had taken the pandemic seriously, guided by their Baptist faith in putting others' welfare first. "I'm trying to convince them that's not true."'Not Knowing Is the Hardest Part'Aguirre was found dead at home Sept. 10. The officers who moved his body wore gowns and protective gear because of the coronavirus risk, according to Chief Matt Betzen of the Vermillion Police Department. A posthumous test for the virus came back positive, according to the county coroner.South Dakota's Health Department has not connected any deaths to the rally, and Aguirre's friends said they have been struggling to get answers or information about how and where he got sick, and wondering whether they could have helped."I don't understand why he went to Sturgis and didn't take COVID seriously," said Jon Esmay, a friend who had not spoken with Aguirre in a few months. "Mostly I'm just angry that someone who talked to or saw him more often didn't get him to the ER. I'm angry that I didn't talk to him more often."Dustin Van Balen, who considered Aguirre to be like an adopted brother, said he had been trying to piece together a timeline using Aguirre's phone. But he said they might never have answers."Not knowing is the hardest part," he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2020 The New York Times Company
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| Kindergartner reportedly dies of Covid-19 in Texas Posted: 06 Nov 2020 12:53 PM PST  "This doctor told us that our child would be fine, and our child didn't even make it twenty-four hours," the child's father said.
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| Rupert Murdoch-owned US outlets turn on Trump, urging him to act with 'grace' Posted: 06 Nov 2020 11:20 PM PST  Fox News, Wall Street Journal and New York Post all show stark change of tone as their former champion faces 'presidential endgame' * US election 2020 live: follow the latest news, results and reaction * Trump v Biden – full results as they come inMultiple Rupert Murdoch-owned conservative media outlets in the United States have shifted their messaging in a seeming effort to warn readers and viewers that Donald Trump may well have lost the presidential election.The new messaging appears to be closely coordinated, and it includes an appeal to Trump to preserve his "legacy" by showing grace in defeat. The message is being carried on Fox News and in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post – all outlets avidly consumed by Trump himself, especially Fox.One Fox News host, Laura Ingraham, an intimate of the president ever since she spoke at the 2016 Republican national convention, made an astounding statement that seemed directed at Trump personally, advising him to accept defeat "if and when that does happen" with "grace and composure" and appealing to his sense of his own legacy.Ingraham said in part: "If and when it's time to accept an unfavourable outcome in this election, and we hope it never comes, but if and when that does happen, president Trump needs to do it with the same grace and composure he demonstrated at that town hall with Savannah Guthrie. So many people remarked about his tone and presence. Exactly what he needs."Now losing, especially when you believe the process wasn't fair, it's a gut punch. And I'm not conceding anything tonight, by the way. But losing, if that's what happens – it's awful. But president Trump's legacy will only become more significant if he focuses on moving the country forward."> Laura Ingraham prepares her audience for the likely possibility that the President will lose the election pic.twitter.com/tG50EIHj60> > — Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) November 7, 2020The Wall Street Journal has published an opinion piece with almost the exact same message. It is titled "The Presidential Endgame" and subtitled "Trump has the right to fight in court, but he needs evidence to prove voter fraud"."Mr Trump's legacy will be diminished greatly if his final act is a bitter refusal to accept a legitimate defeat," the piece warns.Here is how the article opened: "Perhaps it was inevitable that Donald Trump's re-election campaign would end as his presidency began: with the president claiming victory and his frenzied antagonists denouncing him as a would-be fascist. The reality is that the US can and probably will have a normal election outcome regardless of the shouting between now and then."Mr Biden is leading in enough states to win the presidency, and if those votes survive recounts and legal challenges, he will be the next president."The New York Post – which before the election was the launch vehicle for wild and desperate attacks on Joe Biden's son Hunter – has produced a front page that all but proclaims a Biden victory:> This is a significant front page - the Murdoch empire preparing for a transfer of power..... election2020 pic.twitter.com/tUJE0CdFK4> > — Nick Bryant (@NickBryantNY) November 7, 2020Top editors at the Post have "told some staff members this week to be tougher in their coverage" of Trump, the New York Times reported, citing two anonymous employees of the paper.The Times piece said: "On Thursday, in a sudden about-face, Rupert Murdoch's scrappy tabloid published two articles with a wildly different tone. One accused the president of making an 'unfounded claim that political foes were trying to steal the election'. The headline on the other described Donald Trump Jr as the 'panic-stricken' author of a 'clueless tweet'."News coverage at Fox News has similarly shown little patience with the lies about voter fraud Trump is advancing in hopes of reversing the election.Asked about the Trump campaign's assertion that Republican observers had not been allowed to observe vote-counting, the Fox correspondent states flatly: "That's not true. It's not true. It's just not true."> Holy crap Fox News is going rogue and telling the truth. > > This is amazing...pic.twitter.com/e9xDED5gbq> > — Rex Chapman���� (@RexChapman) November 7, 2020> It is *incredible* to watch Rupert Murdoch assert his power and realize the degree to which *he's* the actual power center in all of this. https://t.co/z3VBvsqVLV> > — Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) November 7, 2020
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| 'The case of Trump vs reality': Joe Biden's law student granddaughter lays into president Posted: 06 Nov 2020 03:26 AM PST  Naomi Biden gives an insight into her family's anxious watch of a protracted results process
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| Bahamas Paradise forced crew to work for months. Judge says proposed payout isn’t enough Posted: 07 Nov 2020 04:00 AM PST  Crew members who were forced to work aboard Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line ships for five months this year without pay are still waiting to be compensated.
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| Head of nuclear weapons agency unexpectedly resigns Posted: 06 Nov 2020 04:35 PM PST  Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration, has resigned her position effectively immediately, Defense News has learned.
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| The futuristic US Army goggles built to make soldiers unstoppable in the dark are almost ready for troops to take into combat Posted: 07 Nov 2020 05:21 AM PST  The US Army hopes its new mixed-reality heads-up display will give its soldiers an edge on future battlefields. Check out what all it can do.
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| Second Mexican state to enter highest coronavirus alert level Posted: 06 Nov 2020 05:16 PM PST  A second Mexican state will from next week enter the highest level of coronavirus alert as authorities bid to contain a recent jump in infections in the north of the country, the health ministry said on Friday. The northern state of Durango will as of Monday join Chihuahua, a neighboring region on the U.S. border, in the red alert phase following an increase in hospitalizations. Most of Mexico's 32 regional governments are currently at the lower orange or yellow alert levels.
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| Sexual assault charge against Jacob Blake dismissed in plea bargain agreement Posted: 06 Nov 2020 01:24 PM PST  He pleaded guilty to lesser charges of disorderly conduct and domestic abuse.
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| Moderate Democrats blame Left-wing for costing them control of Senate Posted: 06 Nov 2020 11:14 AM PST  Moderate Democrats accused more progressive members of the party of spoiling their chances of taking back the Senate, in a blame game over why they lost more seats than predicted. Centrist blasted liberal colleagues during a private three-hour-long conference call for pushing "far-left" views they believe cost the Democrats key seats in the election, revealing a deep schism in the party. They had been hoping for a bigger night on Tuesday, especially after failing to flip the Senate in 2016 and 2018. "We need to not ever use the word 'socialist' or 'socialism' ever again. . . . We lost good members because of that," said Virginia congresswoman Abigail Spanberger, who narrowly leads in her re-election bid, on a call obtained by the Washington Post. "If we are classifying Tuesday as a success . . . we will get f---ing torn apart in 2022." The party had hoped to expand their House majority with wins in Republican-held districts, but instead lost at least six seats, as well as failing to retake the Senate. The party had banked on the public turning against Republicans over President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which has cost the lives of more than 235,000 Americans. James Clyburn, Majority Whip, said he believed they had gone too hard platforming "socialised medicine" and defunding the police in distincts with overwhelming white populations. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, a self-described democratic socialist and one of the so-called "squad" of left-wing congresswoman which includes Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, responded angrily, saying she believed the party was doing little to appeal to black voters. "To be real, it sounds like you are saying stop pushing for what black folks want," a tearful-sounding Ms Tlab claimed, accusing her colleagues of only being interested in appealing to white people in suburbia. The Trump administration had worked hard to paint the Democrats as socialites, claiming a moderate Joe Biden would be leaned on by more "radical" elements of the party once in office. They targeted Kamala Harris, Mr Biden's black running mate, in particular, claiming she supported the violence on the streets linked to the Black Lives Matter protests and that she was in favour of reallocating funding from the police. "Democrats' messaging is terrible; it doesn't resonate," Kurt Schrader, of Oregon's fifth congressional district, said. "When [voters] see the far left that gets all the news media attention, they get scared. They're very afraid that this will become a supernanny state, and their ability to do things on their own is going to be taken away." Nancy Pelosi, the 80-year-old grande dame of the Democrats, tried desperately to lift spirits, saying she held out hope that they could still take the Senate, pointing to two likely runoffs in Georgia where Democrats will be severe underdogs.
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| Fox News anchors reportedly instructed not to call Biden president-elect, even if the network projects his win Posted: 06 Nov 2020 08:22 AM PST  Fox News anchors are reportedly being told not to refer to former Vice President Joe Biden as the president-elect, even if the network projects that he has been elected president.The network has told anchors to "stay away" from referring to Biden using that term should Fox News call the race in his favor, telling them to instead use language like saying Biden has "enough electoral votes to win the presidency," CNN reports. One memo from Fox tells anchors to emphasize the legal efforts from President Trump's campaign in key states, saying, "We will report both sides until there is further guidance."The CNN report says that it's possible this instruction could change but notes that the network referred to President Trump as the president-elect of the United States the day after the 2016 presidential election.No major news networks have called the presidential race yet, but were Fox News to project Biden as the winner in Pennsylvania, it would also be projecting him as the winner of the race overall. The network was previously the first to project Biden as the winner in Arizona, but as of Friday morning, other news networks still say that race is too close to call. Trump was reportedly so upset by Fox's Arizona projection that he called up Fox owner Rupert Murdoch to complain.Following CNN's reporting about Fox's memos advising against calling Biden the president elect, CNN's Jake Tapper on Friday called on Fox reporters to ignore the "crazy instruction" and said that those who follow it "might as well hand in your press credential at the same time because you can't be taken seriously as a journalist." Despite the reported instruction, though, Fox News' Chris Wallace on Friday morning said that by this Sunday, "We may be talking about Biden as the president-elect." Update: A Fox News spokesperson on Friday denied that there have been any "network wide memos or editorial guidance" from the network on the subject.More stories from theweek.com Fox News brings Trump to his knees The day the world stopped paying attention to Donald Trump The left just got crushed
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| Texas kindergartner student reportedly dies after contracting coronavirus Posted: 06 Nov 2020 04:27 PM PST  'We are certainly heartbroken,' says Amarillo's public health director Casie Stoughton
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| Hong Kong police set up a hotline for people to snitch on those breaching China's draconian national security law, and it got more than 1,000 calls within hours Posted: 07 Nov 2020 12:56 AM PST  China imposed the security law for Hong Kong on June 30, giving itself new powers to crack down on dissent in all forms.
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| US sanctions Hezbollah-allied Lebanese Christian politician Posted: 06 Nov 2020 07:43 AM PST  The U.S. Treasury on Friday slapped sanctions on Lebanon's former foreign minister and a leading Christian political ally of the militant Hezbollah group, singling him out for what it said was his role in corruption. Gebran Bassil, a lawmaker who leads the largest bloc in parliament and a son-in-law of President Michel Aoun, has emerged as a major target of Lebanese protesters who thronged streets in an uprising last year over endemic corruption and state mismanagement. The Treasury designation did not mention Bassil's alliance or links to Hezbollah, but the sanctions targeting him appeared to be part of the Trump administration's maximum pressure campaign against Iran and its allies in the region.
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| Tennessee governor gives death row inmate temporary reprieve Posted: 06 Nov 2020 02:46 PM PST  Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has granted a death row inmate a temporary reprieve from execution. Lee issued a short statement Friday afternoon saying he is granting a reprieve to Pervis Payne until April 9 "due to the challenges and disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic." Payne is the fourth inmate to receive a reprieve this year because of the virus.
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| GOP pushes back on Trump’s baseless claims about fraud and winning election with ‘legal votes’ in Thursday speech Posted: 06 Nov 2020 12:13 PM PST  GOP lawmakers pushed back on President Trump's Thursday address, making unsubstantiated and what some called "dangerous" claims about the election process, including claims of fraudulent activity among election workers who are still counting ballots in key battleground states.
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| Letters to the Editor: Democrats, stop being smug technocrats and start listening to Trump supporters Posted: 06 Nov 2020 03:00 AM PST  Democrats have an army of young Americans willing to do the hard work to make this country better. Here's how we should use them.
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| Glut of pheasants caused by lockdown shooting ban could threaten songbirds, warn conservationists Posted: 06 Nov 2020 07:52 AM PST  A glut of pheasants caused by the lockdown shooting ban could impact songbird populations, the RSPB has warned. Countryside organisations have spoken out after the government ruled that hunting and most shooting is unable to continue over the lockdown period. This is because people cannot meet in groups of more than two, or stay overnight to take part in recreational activity, meaning most shoots will be unviable. Tim Bonner, the Chief Executive of the Countryside Alliance, said that woods will be full of the birds as they are unable to be shot. He said there would be "woods full of pheasants released and acclimatised to the wild which will have to be fed and protected until December while every shoot day has to be cancelled. The pinnacle of a year's work brought to a sudden and complete halt. Their colleagues in Wales and Scotland have been wrestling with their own lockdowns and restrictions, but this is the most serious blow to the countryside since we were released from the first lockdown in the summer." The countryside campaigner added that the lockdown would be a "huntsman's or gamekeeper's worst nightmare" because of the kennels full of dogs and woods full of unshot birds. A Natural England commissioned review found that large, dense populations of pheasants can compete with songbirds for food, including seeds and insects. An RSPB spokesperson confirmed to the Telegraph that it is likely heightened pressure will be put on native bird populations because shooters will be unable to reduce the pheasant populations. Martin Harper, director for conservation at the RSPB said: "Every year around 60 million non-native pheasants and red-legged partridges are released into our countryside. This is twice the biomass of all UK's native breeding birds. "Last month, Defra acknowledged in their response to the legal challenge on releasing gamebirds on protected sites, the release of this huge quantity of gamebirds can have direct and indirect impacts on our environment. What's more, the number released has been increasing." He recommended the shooting industry spends lockdown improving the environment for Britain's birds, adding: "Sadly, because this is an unregulated activity we do not have a baseline against which we can compare the impact of the forced end to this year's shooting season. That said, a pause buys time for both the shooting industry to massively improve environmental standards and for governments across the UK to get a better understanding of the impact that gamebird shooting is having on our countryside and end environmentally unsustainable forms of shooting." Last week, the government confirmed it would be putting in place a licensing system for pheasant releases close to Special Protected Areas, in order to mitigate the environmental damage reports have shown they cause in large numbers. This was in response to a judicial review brought by BBC presenter Chris Packham's wildlife campaign group, and it is likely to affect around a quarter of shoots.
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| Election protester who reportedly tried to strangle police officer with chain is resident of psychiatric facility Posted: 06 Nov 2020 11:28 AM PST  'We will be reviewing this incident, and bring any additional perpetrators to justice,' says authorities
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| Berlin's new $7 billion airport has finally opened after 9 years of delays, corruption allegations, and construction woes— see inside Posted: 07 Nov 2020 05:25 AM PST  The opening had been delayed nearly a decade but Berliners finally have their new airport. And from the looks of it, the wait was worth it.
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