| U.S. death toll passes 60,000 mark Trump said would mark success in coronavirus fight Posted: 29 Apr 2020 12:54 PM PDT  Until recently, the president touted that projection as proof his administration's COVID-19 response was working.
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| Evidence emerges for sex-assault allegation against Biden Posted: 29 Apr 2020 01:56 PM PDT  Former Senate staffer Tara Reade has alleged that presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993, a charge the former vice president's campaign denies.
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| Should rent be canceled because of the coronavirus? Posted: 29 Apr 2020 01:49 PM PDT  The economic impacts of coronavirus have caused millions of Americans to struggle to pay their rent. Would canceling rental fees be an economic savior?
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| A night at Trump's D.C. hotel, the GOP hot spot emptied by coronavirus Posted: 30 Apr 2020 05:36 AM PDT  What's it like to spend a night at the Trump International Hotel, the president's flagship property, facing economic ruin amid the coronavirus pandemic?
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| 'A near impossibility': Experts doubt North Korea's claim of zero coronavirus cases Posted: 30 Apr 2020 01:32 PM PDT  Experts say there's evidence of at least a small-scale COVID-19 outbreak in North Korea. And some fear Kim Jong Un's lockdown could spark a famine.
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| As Michael Flynn seeks to withdraw guilty plea, unsealed documents could help attack FBI's case Posted: 29 Apr 2020 08:22 PM PDT  The documents could provide lawyers for Trump's former national security adviser with new ammunition against the law enforcement agency.
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| Ex-Honduran national police chief charged in New York Posted: 30 Apr 2020 01:08 PM PDT  The former chief of the Honduran National Police faces drug and weapons charges in New York, where prosecutors claimed Thursday that he traded his law enforcement clout to protect U.S.-bound shipments of cocaine. The charges were brought against Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares, known as "El Tigre" or "The Tiger," in Manhattan federal court. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said Bonilla played a key role in a violent international drug conspiracy, working on behalf of former Honduran congressman Tony Hernández Alvarado and, his brother, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández.
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| How COVID-19's US fatalities compare to America's worst flu seasons Posted: 30 Apr 2020 04:42 PM PDT  Deaths in the United States from the novel coronavirus topped more than 62,000 Thursday, making it deadlier than any flu season since 1967, according to data compiled by Reuters.The only deadlier flu seasons were in 1967 when about 100,000 Americans died, 1957 when 116,000 died and the Spanish flu of 1918 when 675,000 died, according to the CDC.The United States has the world's highest coronavirus death toll; so far more than 1,079,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 have occurred in the U.S., with 62,603 deaths, while 127,950 people having recovered, according to the latest statistics Thursday night.The comparison to the Spanish flu recalls when an infectious disease expert told AccuWeather early in March about what may lay ahead, noting the outbreak could have a historically unprecedented impact on life across the globe."This pathogen has all the signs of being 'the big one,'" Dr. Bryan Lewis, a professor at the Biocomplexity Institute at the University of Virginia, told AccuWeather on March 3. "When current estimates for COVID-19 are compared to the 1918 pandemic, they are eerily similar. The outcomes will likely be different given modern medicine; however, the impact on society and its functioning is likely to be significant."The 1918 influenza pandemic, sometimes called the Spanish Flu pandemic, is the most severe pandemic in recent history. An estimated 500 million people - or one-third of the world's population - became infected and the number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with roughly 675,000 in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Health care workers look on as four members of Hill Air Force Base's 388th Fighter Wing fly in formation over University of Utah Hospital Thursday, April 30, 2020, in Salt Lake City. The flyover was a "thank you" to health care workers, first responders, military members and essential personnel, as well as those who are staying home to help "flatten the curve" during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) As for this year's flu season, it was historically long, but not as deadly as past seasons.At 22 weeks, it was the longest above-baseline flu season in at least 20 years of CDC records. Last year was the previous longest at 20 weeks.A total of 19,932 laboratory-confirmed influenza-associated hospitalizations were reported between Oct. 1, 2019, and April 18, 2020, according to the CDC. That's the second-highest total - there were 30,453 in 2017-18 - since such figures were first kept during the 2009-10 flu season.The CDC's estimate of flu-related deaths this season is a broad range of 24,000 - 62,000, with final estimates to be determined in the future.Keep checking back on AccuWeather.com and stay tuned to the AccuWeather Network on DirecTV, Frontier and Verizon Fios.
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| Jewish leadership organisation hits out at Sir Keir Starmer after two Labour MPs attend conference call with expelled activists Posted: 30 Apr 2020 08:20 AM PDT  A Jewish leadership organisation has hit out at Sir Keir Starmer after it emerged that two Labour MPs had taken part in a conference call which included activists expelled from the party over alleged anti-Semitism. The Board of Deputies of British Jews has called on the new Labour leader to take "swift and decisive action" after former shadow home secretary Diane Abbott and serving frontbencher Bell Ribeiro-Addy took part in the event. Marie van der Zyl, the Board's president, claimed the pair's actions were a breach of the 10 anti-Semitism pledges that Sir Keir had signed up to during the Labour leadership contest earlier this year. One of the pledges states clearly that any Labour politician or member that campaigns or provides a platform for people suspended or expelled over anti-Semitism should themselves be suspended. In a clear warning to Sir Keir, Ms van der Zyl added: "It is completely unacceptable that Labour MPs, and even ordinary members, should be sharing platforms with those that have been expelled from the Party for anti-Semitism. "We would urge Labour to take swift and decisive action to show that this is a new era, rather than a false dawn."
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| Detention of undocumented immigrants 'explodes' under Trump: report Posted: 30 Apr 2020 11:38 AM PDT  The detention of undocumented immigrants has "exploded" since President Donald Trump took office and 40 new holding facilities have opened since 2017, according to a report published on Thursday. Most of the newly-opened detention centers are run by private companies, according to the report by the American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Watch, and the National Immigrant Justice Center. The report found that on average, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was detaining more than 50,000 people each day in fiscal year 2019.
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| Coronavirus: Why Nigeria's rice handouts aren't going down well Posted: 30 Apr 2020 12:55 PM PDT  There are allegations that some of the thousands of bags of rice given as food handouts have expired.
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| Trump slams Obama administration over COVID-19 testing, even though it first appeared in humans last year Posted: 30 Apr 2020 11:00 AM PDT  Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office with New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, President Trump attacked the Obama administration for its lack of preparedness for the coronavirus pandemic, including inadequate testing. The COVID-19 virus first appeared in humans late last year, almost three years after President Obama left office.
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| Editorial: Tara Reade's allegation that Joe Biden assaulted her demands an independent investigation Posted: 30 Apr 2020 03:43 PM PDT  Believe all women? No, but take serious accusations seriously.
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| 23 photos show what life in North Korea is like during its coronavirus lockdown Posted: 30 Apr 2020 02:15 PM PDT  North Korea has implemented a number of measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but its claims of zero cases are highly unlikely.
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| California closes Orange County beaches where crowds defied coronavirus guidelines Posted: 29 Apr 2020 11:19 PM PDT  California Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday ordered beaches in Orange County in the southern part of the state to close, after crowds defied public health guidelines to throng the popular shoreline last weekend. The move came after Newsom complained that beachgoers could hasten the spread of the coronavirus in California, delaying the state's ability to ease public health restrictions even as millions of people in the most-populous U.S. state obey the stay-at-home rules imposed in March. Newsom's decision to close the Orange County beaches, announced at his daily coronavirus briefing, stood in contrast to media reports, including by Reuters, that the Democratic governor planned to close all parks and beaches in the state.
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| Philippines rejects China's territorial label on island Posted: 30 Apr 2020 05:49 AM PDT  The Philippines protested on Thursday China's designation of a disputed South China Sea reef, which it has turned into a heavily fortified island base, as a Chinese "administrative center." The Department of Foreign Affairs issued a statement objecting to what it called China's "illegal designation" of Fiery Cross Reef as a regional administrative center in the hotly contested Spratly archipelago. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused China last week of taking advantage of widespread distraction over the pandemic to advance its territorial claims.
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| Indiana Postal Worker Shot Dead After Refusing to Deliver Mail to Man With Aggressive Dog: Court Docs Posted: 30 Apr 2020 11:36 AM PDT  An Indiana man charged with murdering a U.S. postal worker this week admitted he confronted her because his mail delivery had been suspended due to his "aggressive dog," prosecutors said.Tony Cushingberry-Mays, 21, was charged with second-degree murder, assaulting a federal employee, and discharging a firearm during a crime for the death of Angela Summers, a 45-year-old postal worker who was gunned down Monday afternoon during her mail delivery route in east Indianapolis, according to the United States District Court of Southern Indiana.The mother-of-one, who had joined the U.S. Postal Service in 2018, died in the hospital. According to federal law, killing an on-duty federal employee can be punishable by death or a life sentence. To date, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says four postal workers have been killed during workplace homicides in the last seven years. "Angela was such a joy to be around, she was such a breath of fresh air. This is the worst thing that's happened in my career," Paul Toms, president of the National Association of Letters Carriers' Indianapolis branch, told The Daily Beast on Wednesday. "This is a federal crime, but more importantly this is a senseless crime that should have never happened. It breaks my heart." Summers, a city carrier assistant at the USPS Linwood Indianapolis Post Office, was delivering mail at about 4 p.m. Monday when she bypassed Cushingberry-Mays' home in compliance with a suspension that had been put in place until he contained his dogs, according to court documents obtained by The Daily Beast. An angry Cushingberry-Mays approached Summers on his neighbor's front porch, standing about 6 feet away, and repeatedly asked her for the mail.Both Toms and a witness who spoke to WTHR said Cushingberry-Mays was allegedly upset about not getting his COVID-19 stimulus check when he confronted Summers.Summers, however, could not deliver his mail "because she was having a problem with the dog at his residence," the complaint said, adding that Summers had reported "several issues" with the dog, which had resulted in mail being held.Prosecutors said the USPS Linwood Indianapolis Post Office last sent a letter to the Cushingberry-Mays residence on April 13 indicating they would have to pick up mail from the post office.Toms said that, in compliance with USPS guidelines, Summers had reported an issue with dogs at the home. After three warning letters were sent, mail had been blocked from the home for about two weeks and "wasn't even given to Angela that day of the incident.""She was just following protocol, and the Postal Service curtailed the mail. It was not her fault that she didn't have the mail that day," Toms said. "My understanding is that she tried to explain that the mail could be picked up at another location and an argument ensued. I heard she was called horrible, horrible names." The postal worker's response triggered an argument, escalating to the point that Summers had to use pepper spray on the 21-year-old. "Cushingberry-Mays then pulled his handgun from the right side of his waistband (no holster), pointed his handgun at the letter carrier, and fired one shot at the letter carrier," the criminal complaint states. "He acknowledged the mace was not deadly but led to discomfort from his asthma."According to the complaint, Cushingberry-Mays admitted in a Tuesday interview with police that he ran away after shooting Summers, first going to his aunt's house before hiding the gun in the garage at his mother's. He told authorities "he did not mean to kill the letter carrier but wanted to scare her," according to court documents.Immediately after the shooting, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service launched an investigation and offered a $50,000 reward for any information leading to an arrest. It's not clear if Wednesday's arrest was made due to information obtained through the reward. "U.S. Postal Inspectors are charged with ensuring the safety and security of USPS employees, and that is a charge that we do not take lightly," Felicia George, USPI Detroit Division Acting Inspector in Charge, said in a statement. "Anyone who threatens, assaults, or otherwise harms a postal employee fulfilling her critical mission will be apprehended and held fully accountable."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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| Trump begins day with Twitter meltdown over newly released Michael Flynn FBI note Posted: 30 Apr 2020 06:39 AM PDT  Donald Trump began his Thursday with a barrage of tweets defending Michael Flynn, his former national security adviser, after Mr Flynn's attorneys released documents that they believe show the FBI tried to entrap him.A note, written in January 2017 by then-counterintelligence director Bill Priestap, ponders how to approach Mr Flynn's questioning. "What's our goal?" asks Mr Priestap. "Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?"
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| Company says drug was effective against COVID-19 in U.S. study Posted: 29 Apr 2020 10:18 AM PDT  A biotech company says its experimental drug has proven effective against the new coronavirus in a major U.S. government study that put it to a strict test.
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| British man who set fire to himself to protest Bosnia war crimes may get statue in Sarajevo Posted: 30 Apr 2020 09:32 AM PDT  A British man who set himself on fire to protest Western inaction over war crimes in Bosnia should be honoured with a statue in Sarajevo, campaigners have said. Graham Bamford died on April 29, 1993 after pouring petrol over himself and flicking a cigarette lighter on Parliament Square while MPs were debating Bosnia in the House of Commons. The father of one from Macclesfield, who was 48 when he died, had no connection to the Balkans but had become increasingly agitated by television reports first from Croatia and then from Bosnia and Herzegovina. He wrote in a note found after his death: "The British people must stop the war in Bosnia, using force if necessary. The British army must not only be a guardian of honor at mass funerals. Bosnian babies, children and women are patiently waiting for the politicians to do what they should do – provide military protection. They must not stand aside and observe". The Bosnian sculptor Mustafa Skopljak created a statue to Mr Bamford eight years ago, but authorities have never granted a location to place the monument. It is currently stored in Sarajevo's Academy of Arts. Now, the Canadian Institute for Research of Genocide has called on Bosnian authorities to find a public place for the sculpture. "Isn't the way he appealed for helping Bosnia during the war enough for country's political, academic and other leaders to recognise this man as a hero", the officials of the Institute wrote in an open letter published in media in Bosnia and Herzegovina. "Graham Bamford, the man, we will never forget you and your humanity," the letter went on. The City of Sarajevo in 2009 established an annual award for humanity named after Graham Bamford. He is the subject of a documentary by the Croatian director Nenad Puhovski called "Graham and I - A True Story." Bamford is believed to have become particularly depressed after seeing reports about a massacre of Muslim civilians by Bosnian Croat forces two weeks before he killed himself. At least 116 people, including children and a three month old baby, were killed in the village of Ahmici in central Bosnia on April 16, 1993. Graphic images from the site filmed by an ITN team travelling with the British peacekeeping troops who discovered the massacre were broadcast around the world, and the site was later visited by representatives of the UN Security Council. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia was formed the following month. Colonel Bob Stewart, who led the unit that discovered the massacre, said: "As soon as I got back I spoke to my second in command and we felt the world ought to know what we had witnessed that day. We felt it was incumbent on us. " "We were fully aware that the images were graphic. A lot of good came from that broadcast. But what do I say when I find out someone was impacted by that? I really regret that."
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| 80,000 cruise workers are still stuck aboard ships in US waters. Staff members say it's 'embarrassing' they're not allowed to disembark. Posted: 30 Apr 2020 01:34 PM PDT  Up to 80,000 crew members are stuck on 120 cruise ships on US waters, and it's unclear when they'll touch land again.
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| Roger Stone bought more than 200 fake Facebook accounts, which he used to run ads defending Roger Stone Posted: 30 Apr 2020 10:15 AM PDT  Stone, a longtime friend to Donald Trump, ran a sprawling network of fake Facebook accounts starting in 2016, according to newly unsealed FBI records.
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| Transgender fire chief files discrimination suit over firing Posted: 29 Apr 2020 11:00 AM PDT  A transgender fire chief has filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the small Georgia city where she led the fire department for more than a decade, then was fired 18 months after she began coming to work as a woman. Rachel Mosby says her firing last summer by the city of Byron not only cost her wages and retirement benefits, but also tarnished her reputation. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Macon says city officials fired Mosby "based on her sex, gender identity, and notions of sex stereotyping."
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| No arrests after black man shot dead while jogging Posted: 30 Apr 2020 02:06 PM PDT  Ahmaud Arbery's mother says she feels "very discouraged" by the investigation into her son's death.
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| How Tara Reade's allegations could bring down Joe Biden Posted: 29 Apr 2020 02:50 AM PDT  Earlier this month, I wrote a column asking what Democrats should do about sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden, the party's presumptive nominee for president. My answer? Not much. The accusation made by Tara Reade, a former Biden staffer from his days in the Senate during the early 1990s, didn't strike me as especially convincing, so Democrats, I suggested, could move forward without much concern. Though toward the end of the column I included two caveats: If Reade offered further corroboration of her claims or if evidence emerged of a larger pattern of abusive actions toward women on Biden's part, that could well change my views of the matter.Just two weeks later, both of my conditions have been met.Last week we learned that Reade's mother called into the Larry King Show in 1993 to talk about how her daughter had quit working for a "prominent senator" after unspecified "problems" as a staffer. Then earlier this week Business Insider reported that a former neighbor of Reade's (a self-described "strong Democrat") recalls a conversation with her in 1995 or 1996 in which Reade tearfully described being sexually assaulted by Biden. Together, those two stories help to corroborate Reade's specific claim about herself.Finally, on Tuesday, a 2008 essay by the late Alexander Cockburn surfaced in which the journalist reported that Biden had made "unwelcome and unwanted" sexual advances against a woman in 1972 or 1973. That establishes a possible longstanding pattern of Biden's behavior that further validates Reade's accusation (and potentially opens the door to others).In light of these revelations, the time has come for a two new questions: Can Biden survive the gathering storm around Tara Reade's allegations? And if so, will that fact be good or bad for the Democratic Party in November?The first question is the easier one to answer: Biden's presumptive nomination is quite likely to survive the corroboration of Reade's claims. That's because members of Biden's electoral base in the Democratic Party — older, culturally moderate white working-class voters in the Midwest and older, culturally moderate African Americans — are unlikely to be turned against him by one corroborated allegation of sexual assault from nearly three decades in the past. If anything, rank-and-file Democrats have expressed regret that some MeToo allegations have taken down popular members of the party (former Minnesota Sen. Al Franken is the example cited most frequently) — and they're also irritated that Democrats are expected to adhere to standards their opponents openly flout.The factions of the party most likely to turn on Biden because of a sexual-assault scandal are those who've been least wedded to his candidacy from the start — those firmly on the left, who supported Sen. Bernie Sanders; and white urban progressives, who tended to favor Sen. Elizabeth Warren's candidacy. Neither group possesses the numbers or influence in the party to get it to overrule the preferences of the other two electorally crucial factions — and obviously their opinions will also carry little weight with the candidate himself. This means that, so long as no additional corroborated accusations materialize, Biden will most likely get to hold onto the nomination if he wants to.That might turn out to be a very bad thing for the party come November.But how could this be? How could a sexual assault allegation place Biden at a disadvantage in the general election against President Trump, a man who has openly bragged on tape of sexual assault and has himself been accused of rape on multiple occasions?On substance, Trump will have zero moral ground to stand on. But he won't be taking a stand in the name of treating women with respect. Neither will he be accusing Biden of being a sexual predator. Instead, he and the entire Republican noise machine will constantly, relentlessly hammer Biden, leading Democrats, and the media for flagrant hypocrisy and double standards. The moral content of the issue won't matter one bit. What will matter is that Biden has set himself up as a moral arbiter on issues of sexual harassment and violence, insisting we must "believe all women," and that in the fall of 2018 he and many other members of his party sought to destroy the reputation of Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh for allegations of sexual assault that were less convincingly corroborated than those Reade has lodged against Biden.The Democratic nominee for president and his party are ruthless political operators who seek above all else to destroy their enemies and help themselves, all the while setting themselves up as impartial moral authorities. This will be the message, driven home over and over again: that claims of purity and impartiality are pretense, transparent fakes. Democrats might posture like they're better than Republicans, including the president, but they aren't. They're every bit as bad. They're just more dishonest about it.The Biden campaign's effort to portray itself as a moral reset from the debasement of the Trump years will run into this counter-message like a power sander. The Trump campaign will strip it away with a barrage of paid ads, prime-time cable news diatribes, and a hailstorm of tweets — all of it repeating the message (illustrated with clips from and about the Kavanaugh hearings) that Biden and his fellow Democrats are every bit the BS artists that Trump is, only they won't admit it. They'll lie about it, right to your face.To Democrats this prediction may sound implausible. There's no way that Trump, a man whose mendaciousness is well established and total, can possibly succeed in portraying Biden as more dishonest than he is. But he won't have to show that Biden is worse, just that he's no better.That's Trump's (perhaps only) winning move — to bring the playing field down to his level, to lower Biden's favorability rating, to make him seem less admirable, less likable, less morally upstanding, less … superior than Trump. He did the same thing against Hillary Clinton in 2016, using the FBI investigation of her email practices while secretary of state as a cudgel. Last summer, the strategy was to impugn Biden's son, making them both look like corrupt wheeler dealers in Ukraine. That didn't work out, but now Reade's allegations have made it possible for Trump and his party to do what they love most of all, which is to accuse Democrats and the media of smarmy double standards instead.Of course this won't work with most Democratic voters, but that won't be its aim. The aim will be to ensure maximal turnout and Trump loyalty among Republicans — and the destruction of Biden's reputation among independents in crucial swing states.Will it succeed? Trump will be facing re-election while presiding over a deadly pandemic and the early stages of an economic depression, so who knows. What I do know is that the behavior Tara Reade has plausibly alleged about the presumptive Democratic nominee is going to be a major liability for him as we head toward Election Day.Editor's note: A previous version of this article mischaracterized a quote by Alexander Cockburn. It has been corrected. We regret the error.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? 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| Brexit trade talks face collapse unless EU abandon demands for continued access to UK fishing waters Posted: 30 Apr 2020 11:38 AM PDT  Brexit trade negotiations face collapse unless the EU abandons its demands for continued access to UK fishing waters, sources close to the talks have said. Brussels has called for EU boats to keep access under "existing conditions" as a price for the free trade agreement being negotiated by the two sides. The UK insists any fishing agreement must be separate from the trade deal with access negotiated annually in a similar fashion to Norway's agreement with the bloc. A UK source close to the negotiations said that the EU's red line would need to change, otherwise the talks could be terminated in June. "There are some fundamentals that we're not going to change, nor going to move on. Because they are not so much negotiating positions as they're sort of what an independent state does" the source said. "An independent state has independent control over coastal waters," the source added, "what we are wanting now is an EU understanding that we are not going to subordinate our laws to them in any areas". Michel Barnier accused Britain of wasting time in the trade negotiations, which have a deadline of the end of the year, after a round of talks last week. He criticised British negotiators for failing to present a text on fisheries for negotiations. UK sources said there was no point presenting a text when the two sides were "talking across each other". Downing Street has called on EU national leaders to intervene to break the deadlock in the talks but that is not expected to happen before June, when a joint conference will be held to evaluate progress towards the agreement. The source said that the UK would consider walking away in June and begin preparing for a no trade deal exit at the end of the transition period. "We do need to prepare for the end of the transition period, focus on that as well. If we don't look like we are going to get a deal that will become the primary focus of effort," the source said. The deadline to finalise the trade deal, which has come under pressure from the coronavirus pandemic, is the end of the year, when the Brexit transition period finished. The transition period deep-freezes UK membership of the Single Market and Customs Union. Boris Johnson has vowed to not extend the transition period, despite the EU being ready to negotiate a delay and despite the risk of the UK failing to agree a deal in time, which would mean trading on less advantageous WTO terms.
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| Tucker Carlson Guest Shares Maine Governor’s Cellphone Number On the Air Posted: 30 Apr 2020 06:25 PM PDT  Chaos ensued on Thursday night when a guest on Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight shared the private cellphone number of Maine Gov. Janet Mills and asked for the show's millions of viewers to spam her line.Host Tucker Carlson welcomed on restaurant owner Rick Savage ostensibly to talk about Mills' recent decision to extend the state's coronavirus stay-at-home orders until May 31. Savage, who was prepping his restaurant for a May 1 re-opening, insisted that he will defy the orders and open back up on Friday."If you don't like it, take me to court," he exclaimed. "And if they do take me to court, I will save my tax money that I collect this month and I'll use that to find a lawyer."Carlson, who has been a vocal advocate for reversing social distancing restrictions and opening the country back up, applauded Savage while blasting Mills, calling the Democrat "the most incompetent dictatorial governor that I've seen in a long time."Savage, meanwhile, didn't want to just leave it there. Instead, the restaurateur said that he would "love to share Janet Mills' cellphone number with everybody so they can give her a call directly," claiming that the governor has all the government's phone lines shut down.As Savage began reading off the number, Carlson began waving his hands into the camera while yelling: "Wait, wait!" After his guest finished, the Fox News host apologized to Savage for possibly cutting him off before quickly plugging the restaurant and ending the segment, all while Savage continued talking about "starting a revolution." 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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| Louisiana pastor Tony Spell's followers jammed police phone lines to protest his arrest. He says it'll keep happening until cops 'get this ankle bracelet off of me.' Posted: 30 Apr 2020 09:23 AM PDT  The pastor has repeatedly gotten into legal trouble for trying to hold church services, saying stay-at-home orders violate his civil liberties.
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| Kim Yo-jong: North Korea's most powerful woman and heir apparent? Posted: 01 May 2020 01:15 AM PDT  Kim Jong-un's sister is North Korea's most powerful woman and a possible successor to her brother.
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| Ghana's virus cases spike 10 days after lockdown is lifted Posted: 30 Apr 2020 09:57 AM PDT  Confirmed coronavirus cases in Ghana have surged above 2,000, increasing 24% in a matter of days, health officials announced Thursday, reflecting mostly test taken during a recent three-week lockdown in the West African country's two largest cities. African nations have now reported more than 37,400 cases, including 1,598 deaths, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. In South Africa, which has the continent's highest number of reported cases at 5,350, community health workers continued testing in Johannesburg.
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| Arab League deems Israeli West Bank annexation a 'new war crime' Posted: 30 Apr 2020 07:19 AM PDT  The Arab League said Thursday Israel's controversial proposal to annex much of the West Bank constituted a "new war crime" against the Palestinians, during a virtual conference chaired in Cairo. "The implementation of plans to annex any part of the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967, including the Jordan Valley... and the lands on which Israeli settlements are standing represents a new war crime... against the Palestinian people," Arab foreign ministers said in a joint statement. The Arab League also urged the United States to "withdraw its support in enabling the plans of the occupying Israeli government".
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| Senior Chinese official challenges Trump over coronavirus response, says U.S. wasted weeks Posted: 29 Apr 2020 04:12 AM PDT  "Some political figures are politicizing this COVID-19. They're using this virus to stigmatize China. This is not something we are willing to see."
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| Canada set to ban 11 categories of assault rifles, other weapons - source Posted: 30 Apr 2020 01:08 PM PDT |
| Remdesivir could help end coronavirus lockdown despite failure of Chinese trials, scientists say Posted: 30 Apr 2020 06:39 AM PDT  A coronavirus drug which initially failed in Chinese trials is now working and could help end lockdown restrictions, scientists have said. Remdesivir, a broad-spectrum antiviral, was developed more than a decade ago to cure an unknown "Disease X" and is currently being trialled on patients in the NHS. In results published in The Lancet on Wednesday, Chinese scientists said the drug worked no better than placebo. But less than 24 hours later, US health officials reported that their own trial, on more than 1,000 severely ill patients in 75 hospitals around the world, had seen recovery times cut from 15 days to 11, and mortality rates fall by nearly 30 per cent. British scientists involved in the UK trials said the results were "exciting" and, once rolled out, the drug could help lessen the need for lockdown restrictions by removing the burden on the NHS and cutting deaths. Patients who were being given placebo in the British trials are now being moved on to remdesivir.
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| JetBlue wants to suspend service at 16 major airports; Delta wants to halt service to 9 cities Posted: 29 Apr 2020 03:07 PM PDT  On Tuesday, JetBlue asked the Department of Transportation to let it suspend service at 16 major airports. Delta sought its OK for nine smaller ones.
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| Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison bought a Hawaiian island for $300 million in 2012. He's paying full wages and benefits for the island's workers during the pandemic shutdown. Posted: 29 Apr 2020 07:26 AM PDT  The Hawaiian island of Lanai is home to 3,200 people. Ellison, who's worth an estimated $58.6 billion, owns a 98% stake in the island.
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| Coronavirus: The leopard on India's streets and other claims fact checked Posted: 30 Apr 2020 07:06 AM PDT  What misleading stories about the coronavirus are doing the rounds in India?
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| Biden reaches deal to let Sanders keep hundreds of delegates Posted: 30 Apr 2020 07:00 AM PDT  Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden has agreed to let former primary rival Bernie Sanders keep hundreds of delegates he would otherwise forfeit by dropping out of the presidential race in a deal designed to avoid the bitter feelings that marred the party in 2016 and helped lead to Hillary Clinton's defeat. Under party rules, Sanders should lose about one-third of the delegates he's won in primaries and caucuses as the process moves ahead and states select the people who will attend the Democratic National Convention. The rules say those delegates should be Biden supporters, as he is the only candidate still actively seeking the party's nomination.
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| A New York City man stole $12,000 worth of coronavirus stimulus checks from mailboxes, cops say Posted: 30 Apr 2020 08:14 AM PDT  Police arrested Feng Chen, 31, after finding him looking in mailboxes and a medical collection bin in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood,
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| 'Survival': Tenants, landlords brace for largest rent strike in decades Posted: 29 Apr 2020 06:05 PM PDT  "If banks are getting bailed out and corporations are getting bailed out, why aren't poor people getting bailed out?" one activist asked.
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| Most Americans cannot or will not use COVID-19 contact tracing apps: poll Posted: 29 Apr 2020 10:38 AM PDT  More than half of all Americans either do not own smartphones or would not use apps backed by Alphabet Inc's Google and Apple Inc to trace who has been exposed to the new coronavirus, according to a poll by the Washington Post and University of Maryland released on Wednesday. The two tech companies have been working with public health experts and researchers to write apps that people can use to notify those they have come in contact with if they come down with COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus.
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| Trump backtracks after saying U.S. would "very soon" hit 5 million tests a day Posted: 29 Apr 2020 12:35 PM PDT  On Tuesday, the president, asked whether he was confident the U.S. could reach 5 million COVID-19 tests a day, said the U.S. would be there "very soon."
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| Gov. Brian Kemp plans to lift Georgia's statewide stay-at-home order for most residents on Friday Posted: 30 Apr 2020 12:06 PM PDT  The state's stay-at-home will expire for most residents on May 1, requiring the elderly and "medically fragile," to shelter in place through June 12.
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