| Special Report: U.S. takes aim at the power behind Venezuela's Maduro - his first lady Posted: 27 May 2020 09:10 AM PDT  The man, Yazenky Lamas, worked as a bodyguard for the person widely considered the power behind President Nicolas Maduro's throne: first lady Cilia Flores. Now, with help from Lamas' testimony, the United States is preparing to charge Flores in coming months with crimes that could include drug trafficking and corruption, four people familiar with the investigation of the first lady told Reuters. If Washington goes ahead with an indictment, these people said, the charges are likely to stem, at least in part, from a thwarted cocaine transaction that has already landed two of Flores' nephews in a Florida penitentiary.
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| US priest who founded Knights of Columbus to be beatified Posted: 27 May 2020 05:01 AM PDT  The founder of the Knights of Columbus, the influential U.S.-based lay Catholic organization, is moving a step closer to possible sainthood. Pope Francis has approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of the Rev. Michael McGivney, a Connecticut priest who died at age 38 of pneumonia in 1890 during a pandemic similar to the current coronavirus outbreak. The Vatican said Wednesday that Francis had signed off on the miracle required.
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| Pakistani villager urges India to return 'spy' pigeon Posted: 27 May 2020 06:29 AM PDT  The owner of a pigeon "arrested" by India for spying says his bird was freed for Eid and is innocent.
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| Russian Jets Blocked US Plane in Unsafe Maneuvers Over Mediterranean, Navy Says Posted: 27 May 2020 06:47 AM PDT  It was the third time in two months that Russian aircraft have intercepted Navy aircraft in the Sixth Fleet of operations.
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| Levi’s Is Taking 50% off These Best-Selling Jeans Right Now Posted: 27 May 2020 07:23 AM PDT |
| Hundreds arrested in Hong Kong as tensions over proposed security law boil over Posted: 27 May 2020 05:49 AM PDT  Protesters in a downtown shopping mall chanted "Liberate Hong Kong! Revolution of our times" and "Hong Kong independence, the only way out."
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| Sweden touts the success of its controversial lockdown-free coronavirus strategy, but the country still has one of the highest mortality rates in the world Posted: 26 May 2020 07:56 PM PDT  Some experts have said Sweden's risky strategy will eventually yield positive results, while others have highlighted serious pitfalls.
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| CDC changes its 'confusing' guidelines on coronavirus and surfaces. Here's what we know. Posted: 27 May 2020 11:48 AM PDT  This new CDC update may quell some major concerns about how COVID-19 is transmitted, but plenty of questions still remain. Here's what to know.
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| Mitt Romney calls out ‘vile’ Donald Trump murder accusations against ‘psycho’ Joe Scarborough Posted: 27 May 2020 08:26 AM PDT  "Never Trumper" Mitt Romney stepped in to defend his friend and former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough on Wednesday after the president renewed his Twitter feud against the MSNBC host.The Utah senator called the accusations vile and baseless after Donald Trump escalated his campaign against "psycho Joe" over the death of a former staffer Lori Klausutis, who died in Mr Scarborough's office when he was a Florida congressman, also empathising with Klausutis' husband.
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| U.S. accuses ex-Venezuelan lawmaker of drug conspiracy tied to Middle East militants Posted: 27 May 2020 03:03 PM PDT |
| US Congress approves China sanctions over ethnic crackdown Posted: 27 May 2020 02:56 PM PDT  Congress voted Wednesday to toughen the U.S. response to a brutal Chinese crackdown on ethnic minorities, adding another factor to the increasingly stormy relationship between the two countries. The House passed a bipartisan bill that would impose sanctions on Chinese officials involved in the mass surveillance and detention of Uighurs and other ethnic groups in the western Xinjiang region, a campaign that has drawn muted international response because of China's influence around the world. The measure already passed the Senate and needs a signature from President Donald Trump, who said this week he'll "very strongly" consider it amid U.S. anger over China's handling of the coronavirus outbreak and tension over a Chinese plan to restrict civil liberties in Hong Kong.
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| ‘No Restraint’: Violent Chaos in Minneapolis Could Spark the Next Ferguson Posted: 27 May 2020 05:48 PM PDT  MINNEAPOLIS—Jeremy Kocke held up the back of his shirt to show a large bruise forming from a rubber bullet. "I turned around and was shot in the back," he said Wednesday evening. "I didn't do anything to get shot."The 32-year-old was one of several protesters struck by Minneapolis Police projectiles after activists surrounded the department's embattled Third Precinct. Some threw water bottles and rocks over a hastily constructed police barricade. From the roof, looming police brandished weapons at the crowd below.Earlier on Wednesday, Kocke and a roommate had listened to Minneapolis City Council members "talk about how the police need to be restrained and will show restraint," he told The Daily Beast. "They asked protesters to show restraint. But they [the police] aren't. This isn't restraint. There is no restraint. This is chaos."Like COVID-19 death rates and social-distancing arrests, a new wave of protests—and their police response—are highlighting racial disparities in the coronavirus era. Tuesday's initial demonstrations in Minneapolis, which protested the death of 46-year-old black man George Floyd after he was pinned down on the neck by a local cop, likewise saw officers in riot gear crack down on demonstrators, striking at least one protester in the head with a rubber bullet and bloodying a reporter. Meanwhile, right-wing "re-open" protests in Minnesota and elsewhere have generally proceeded without police violence, even as mostly white demonstrators—some with extremist ties—occupied government buildings with semi-automatic rifles.Derek Chauvin, Minneapolis Cop Shown Kneeling on George Floyd's Neck, Hires Philando Castile Shooter's Lawyer Activists in Minneapolis say race is a motivating factor in police responses to the protests. It's why some say they're coming out to protest—even during a deadly pandemic—in the first place, and why an increasingly volatile landscape in a progressive city began to take on the feel of Ferguson-style unrest."Throwing tear gas at kids is not going to help," Leslie Redmon, president of the Minneapolis NAACP, told The Daily Beast. Redmon said she was among the demonstrators hit with tear gas on Tuesday, and that the heavy-handed response would not improve the police's relationship with protesters.Nekima Levy-Armstrong, Minneapolis-based civil rights attorney and founder of the Racial Justice Network, a racial equality group, described the police response as "excessive and militarized." Officers were filmed using tear gas, rubber bullets, and what appeared to be stun grenades on demonstrators on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. "There was no communication to protesters that police were going to start shooting projectiles and shooting rubber bullets and spraying tear gas," Levy-Armstrong told The Daily Beast, echoing activists and journalists who were caught in the crossfire. "They just started doing it. They didn't give people time to leave the area if they didn't want to engage with police on that level."Monique Cullars-Doty, an organizer with Black Lives Matter Twin Cities, said the police response hindered medical care for at least one person struck in the head with a rubber bullet. "They called 9-1-1 and the protesters were told that the police [on the scene] were the first responders and no medical attention was given. They were trying to get this person to ride to the hospital," said Cullars-Doty, whose own nephew was killed by police in nearby St. Paul in 2015.After witnessing one night of tear gas, Lisa Grimm brought water and milk to Wednesday night's protest. "I live less than a mile away from the murder. This is my home," she told The Daily Beast."How have the killers not been arrested and held like anyone else? This wouldn't be happening like this. We wouldn't have to risk our safety. We wouldn't be at risk for coronavirus. It's common logic." Some of the response might have stemmed from the police department's unprecedented decision to fire four officers involved in Floyd's death. A viral video showed Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck for at least seven minutes after police apprehended him over an alleged forgery. In the harrowing video, captured by a bystander, Floyd repeatedly states that he cannot breathe and that he is dying. Bystanders plead with Chauvin to get off Floyd, noting that he appears to have died. Although police initially claimed Floyd later died in the hospital after a "medical incident," a Minneapolis Fire Department report found that he had no pulse when he was placed in an ambulance.The four officers' brisk firings were a first for the city, and may have motivated police response to protesters, Levy-Armstrong argued. (The Minneapolis Police Department did not immediately return a request for comment.)"They want to retaliate," she told The Daily Beast earlier Wednesday. "They're angry, they're upset, and that's what we witnessed last night. Why did they need to wear riot gear and treat people like they were serious threats?"Images from re-open protests, including of white militia members lynching an effigy of Georgia's governor, or armed protesters storming Michigan's statehouse, have led some protesters to question whether activists of color could get away with the same stunts."When I look and see the angry white protester with their guns and having the opportunity to celebrate their constitutional rights, then look at black protesters who are peaceful … getting tear gas and shot with rubber bullets," said Toya Woodland, a minister and Black Lives Matter activists. "We've never been looked at as whole people. We're still being looked at as animals, by the Three-Fifths Compromise," she said, referring to the part of the constitution classifying enslaved people as less than fully human.Carmen Perez-Jordan, president of the nonprofit The Gathering for Justice, likewise tied the disparity in police response to America's centuries-long racial divides."How is it that an officer feels safe with an armed white person yelling and spitting in their face, but not with an unarmed black person?" she asked. Minneapolis, in particular, has struggled with those narratives. In 2015, Minneapolis police shot and killed Jamar Clark, a 24-year-old black man. When activists staged a days-long occupation outside the police station in protest, white supremacists fired on the crowd, seriously wounding five people.In 2016, a police officer in nearby Falcon Heights shot and killed Philando Castile, a black man during a traffic stop, while Castile's girlfriend and her young daughter looked on in horror. Chauvin, the officer who kneeled on Floyd's neck, has hired the lawyer who defended Castile's killer.Protests over Castile's killing were also marked by arrests."My friend had a bouquet of flowers in her hand, and there's a photo of her being arrested," Cullars-Doty said. "How much more peaceful can you be when you're just standing holding flowers?"She noted that the Castile protests had taken place at the state capitol, where re-open protesters had demonstrated earlier this month, without incident. (The protests took place in neighboring St. Paul, which has its own police force.)Re-open protesters don't deserve the crackdown Minneapolis protesters experienced, Perez-Jordan noted. But their demands differ. "Black and brown people are asking for their full humanity to be respected. They're asking for the right to live," she said, as opposed re-open protesters who are demanding "a perceived right to access to privilege, like having a certain haircut or being able to go out to eat in public. That's very different from what we're seeing online every single day when it comes to police officers who can kill an unarmed black person or an unarmed brown person with impunity."And while re-open protesters will theoretically go home when the lockdowns end, Minneapolis protesters said the demonstrations might continue.Anika Bowie, an activist who attended the Minneapolis protests on Wednesday, said the demonstrations were building on momentum from the Black Lives Matter protests that touched off after the killing of black teenager Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri."Just since Ferguson, we've had this whole backlog of history of police brutality," she said. "Now, we have more networks to exchange this information and communication." In spite of the coronavirus, Tuesday night's protests were the largest Levy-Armstrong had ever seen, she said, with thousands of people RSVPing on Facebook. Cullars-Doty attributed them to the nature of Floyd's death. It wasn't the first time a horrific video of a black man who died in police custody went viral. But the deaths are adding up."That video that we just have is gut wrenching," she said. "I was getting messages from people who haven't been out protesting ever. They're saying now that they're either fed up; they sat on the sidelines too long and some people have had their eyes opened. So I think this really is a big one."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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| Amphibious Ship Obliterates Drone with Laser Weapon in 1st-of-its-Kind Sea Test Posted: 26 May 2020 10:51 AM PDT  The Portland was equipped with the Solid State Laser Weapons System Demonstrator for the at-sea test.
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| U.S. to end sanctions waivers allowing some work at Iran nuclear sites Posted: 27 May 2020 11:13 AM PDT  The United States said on Wednesday it will terminate sanctions waivers that had allowed Russian, Chinese and European companies to carry out work originally designed to make it harder for Iranian nuclear sites to be used for weapons development. The waivers, which officials said expire on July 27, covered the conversion of Iran's Arak heavy water research reactor, the provision of enriched uranium for its Tehran Research Reactor and the transfer of spent and scrap reactor fuel abroad. In a statement, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave no precise justification for the move, which will halt some work originally designed to make it more difficult for Iran to potentially develop fissile material for nuclear bombs.
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| Huawei CFO Meng to find out if a U.S extradition case against her will proceed Posted: 27 May 2020 08:41 AM PDT  A top executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei is scheduled to learn Wednesday if a U.S extradition case against her can proceed. Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei's founder, at Vancouver's airport in late 2018. The U.S. wants her extradited to face fraud charges. Her arrest infuriated Beijing, which sees her case as a political move designed to prevent China's rise.
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| A pharmacist known as 'the Mask Man' has been charged with hoarding $200,000 worth of N95 masks and price-gouging customers Posted: 27 May 2020 02:35 PM PDT  The DOJ said the pharmacist, 66-year-old Richard Schirripa, sold $2,690 of masks to an undercover officer and said he felt "like a drug dealer."
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| Justice Department clears 3 senators in stock sales investigation, but Burr's case appears ongoing Posted: 27 May 2020 07:46 AM PDT  Investigations into Sens. Feinstein, Loeffler and Inhofe have been dropped. Sen. Richard Burr appears to still be under investigation.
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| As Trump rails against mail-in voting, his campaign tries to make it easier for Pennsylvania supporters Posted: 27 May 2020 01:38 PM PDT  "We have an obligation to our voters to inform them of what the law is in their state and what their options are," the campaign said.
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| McEnany defends Trump’s promoting 'Morning Joe' conspiracy theory Posted: 26 May 2020 12:45 PM PDT  White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Tuesday defended President Trump's promotion of a murder conspiracy theory about 'Morning Joe' host Joe Scarborough.
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| Pompeo says Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China Posted: 27 May 2020 08:56 AM PDT  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has notified Congress that the Trump administration no longer regards Hong Kong as autonomous from mainland China, setting the stage for U.S. to withdraw the former British colony's preferential trade and financial status it has enjoyed since it reverted to Chinese rule 23 years ago. The move does not carry any immediate penalties, which would have to be decided by President Donald Trump in consultation with Congress. "Hong Kong does not continue to warrant treatment under United States laws in the same manner as U.S. laws were applied to Hong Kong before July 1997," Pompeo said in a statement Wednesday.
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| A Eurowings plane with just 2 passengers on board was forced to turn around after learning its destination airport was closed due to coronavirus Posted: 27 May 2020 04:11 AM PDT  The flight from Düsseldorf, Germany, to Sardinia, Italy, made it all the way to its destination before it had to turn around.
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| U.S. coronavirus deaths top 100,000 as country reopens Posted: 27 May 2020 01:48 PM PDT  In about three months, more Americans have died from COVID-19 than during the Korean War, Vietnam War and the U.S. conflict in Iraq from 2003-2011 combined. The new respiratory disease has also killed more people than the AIDS epidemic did from 1981 through 1989, and it is far deadlier than the seasonal flu has been in decades. The last time the flu killed as many people in the United States was in the 1957-1958 season, when 116,000 died.
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| America Should Never Conduct Another Nuclear Test Posted: 27 May 2020 05:30 AM PDT  The U.S. government hasn't tested a nuclear weapon in 28 years, and for good reason.
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| This Neo-Futuristic Home Found Its Inspiration in the British Countryside Posted: 27 May 2020 01:14 PM PDT |
| Tropical Storm Bertha makes landfall on South Carolina coast, could bring up to 8 inches of rain to some areas Posted: 27 May 2020 11:28 AM PDT  Tropical Storm Bertha formed off the South Carolina coast Wednesday morning, the second named storm of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season.
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| Ex-Watergate prosecutors say judge has legal duty to review facts in Flynn case Posted: 27 May 2020 09:23 AM PDT  Sixteen former Watergate prosecutors on Wednesday said U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan should be allowed to review all the facts before deciding whether to grant a Justice Department request to drop the criminal case against President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn. In a filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the former prosecutors said they feared the Justice Department was not acting in the public interest, and that Sullivan has the power to scrutinize the request in order to ensure that "the waters of justice are not polluted." Flynn filed an emergency petition with the federal appeals court on May 21, asking the court to force Sullivan's hand and toss the case.
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| Search for UConn student wanted in 2 deaths in 6th day; stolen car eyed Posted: 27 May 2020 06:58 AM PDT  Connecticut State Police urged Peter Manfredonia, 23, to surrender, saying, "We know this is not who you are," while Pennsylvania officers probed whether a car theft Sunday was connected.
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| British mercenaries 'involved in botched operation' backing rebel leader in Libya, according to secret UN report Posted: 27 May 2020 12:43 PM PDT  Six British citizens including two former Royal Marine commandos have been accused of taking part in a botched mercenary mission to Libya to fight on behalf of renegade general Khalifa Haftar. The five men and one woman are named in a confidential report by the United Nations panel of experts on Libya into a botched mission that ended with the mercenaries making a remarkable sea-borne escape after falling out with their hosts. The men, including former Royal Marines Sean Callaghan Louw and Andrew Scott Ritchie, were among around 20 mercenaries who travelled to Benghazi in eastern Libya in June 2019 in a contract organised by a UAE based company called Opus, according to the report seen by the Daily Telegraph. Amanda Perry, a United Arab Emirate based businesswoman, is identified and is alleged to have been a "facilitator" of the project. She is the managing director of Opus Capital Asset FZE, the company that hired two boats used by the group. She is also company secretary of Lancaster 6, a business owned by Christiaan Durrant, a former Australian fighter pilot and Malta resident who is also named - and accused of being a facilitator in the report.
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| Hong Kong 'no longer autonomous from China' - Pompeo Posted: 27 May 2020 01:34 PM PDT  The US secretary of state says the territory no longer merits special treatment under US laws.
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| Zuckerberg reportedly brushed aside internal research that showed Facebook exposed users to more and more extreme views, saying he never wanted the topic brought to him again Posted: 26 May 2020 01:21 PM PDT  After Facebook researchers found the site contributed to divisive rhetoric, executives reportedly nixed proposed changes for fear of appearing biased.
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| Marine Corps to Shut Down, Cut Back 7 MOSs as the Force Prepares for Change Posted: 27 May 2020 02:20 PM PDT  Marines in several jobs will need to move into new fields -- or even other branches of the military.
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| $11,000 in personal items stolen from doctor visiting New York to fight coronavirus, report says Posted: 26 May 2020 11:25 AM PDT  A Texas doctor who moved to New York temporarily to assist in the fight against coronavirus has had $11,000 worth of personal items stolen from her hotel room, according to a report.Police sources told The New York Post that a woman who was believed to be in her 20's reportedly broke into the unidentified doctor's room at the Brooklyn Hotel on Atlantic Avenue at around 9am on Saturday.
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| Three European air forces approve performance benchmarks for next-gen fighter jet Posted: 27 May 2020 06:21 AM PDT  The criteria will be used to whittle down the number of design options as the Future Combat Air System program proceeds through the next stages of development.
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| India first quarter GDP growth likely to be weakest since 2012: Reuters poll Posted: 25 May 2020 08:17 PM PDT  India's economy is likely to have expanded at its slowest pace in at least eight years in the January-March quarter, partly as a result of the coronavirus clampdown, a Reuters poll predicted. Asia's third-largest economy began slowing last year, but a countrywide lockdown implemented by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 25 halted economic activity completely. "Activity in January and February was strong, but the slowdown in March is likely to have largely offset those gains," Aayushi Chaudhary, an economist at HSBC in Mumbai, said.
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| Arbery case exemplifies how 'stand your ground' is a right, hate crime laws are hypothetical Posted: 26 May 2020 09:33 AM PDT  "The only advantage for the McMichaels is they are alive to tell their version of the story."
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| Obama administration economist predicts 'best jobs and growth numbers ever' ahead of the election Posted: 26 May 2020 08:01 AM PDT  An Obama administration economist has reportedly left Democrats concerned about President Trump's re-election prospects with his prediction about the state of the economy leading up to November.Speaking to a group of Republican and Democratic officials in early April, Politico reports Jason Furman, who was chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under former President Obama, surprisingly asserted that "we are about to see the best economic data we've seen in the history of this country."As the coronavirus pandemic takes a devastating toll on the U.S. economy, bringing the unemployment rate to the highest level seen since the Great Depression, Furman continues to predict a "partial rebound" on the horizon, comparing the situation to the economic aftermath following a natural disaster and telling Politico that "you could easily have one to two million jobs created a month in those four reports before November."He added, "And then toward the end of October, we will get GDP growth for the third quarter, at an annualized rate, and it could be double-digit positive economic growth. So these will be the best jobs and growth numbers ever." This assumes re-openings continue across the country and a second wave of coronavirus doesn't prompt major lockdowns. Although Politico notes that a "rebound won't mean that Trump has solved many underlying problems," Democrats are reportedly "spooked" by the idea that the president "could be poised to benefit from the dramatic numbers" ahead of the 2020 election, with one former Obama White House official pointing to Trump's positive polling on the economy and arguing, "This is the challenge for the Biden campaign. If they can't figure this out they should all just go home." Read the full report at Politico. More stories from theweek.com Demonstrators, police clash during protest over George Floyd's death Trump keeps falsely accusing Joe Scarborough of murder, and it's long past weird Jimmy Kimmel dings Trump's 'brazen hypocrisy' on golfing, calls America's mask war 'the dumbest standoff ever'
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| The next 100 days: How the coronavirus will continue to change your life at home, at work, at school and beyond Posted: 27 May 2020 05:04 PM PDT  In a little over 100 days, the coronavirus killed 100,000 Americans. What awaits the country over the next 100 days in the COVID-19 battle?
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| Demand has ‘just dried up’ for U.S. small firms in requesting coronavirus stimulus Posted: 26 May 2020 08:37 AM PDT  When the U.S. government first rolled out forgivable loans to small businesses in early April under the Paycheck Protection Program, loan officers at Bank of the West in Grapevine, Texas, worked nights and weekends to process a tsunami of applications.
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| US death toll from coronavirus surges past 100,000 people Posted: 26 May 2020 11:04 PM PDT  The U.S. surpassed a jarring milestone Wednesday in the coronavirus pandemic: 100,000 deaths. "It's a striking reminder of how dangerous this virus can be," said Josh Michaud, associate director of global health policy with the Kaiser Family Foundation in Washington. The once-unthinkable toll appears to be just the beginning of untold misery in the months ahead as Las Vegas casinos and Walt Disney World make plans to reopen, crowds of unmasked Americans swarm beaches and public health officials predict a resurgence by fall.
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| Xi Jinping urges China's army to prepare for armed combat as Hong Kong protests restart over a new bill that would strip away the city's freedoms Posted: 27 May 2020 02:02 AM PDT  China is expected to pass controversial national security laws for Hong Kong on Thursday, prompting renewed protests in the city.
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| 2 prominent members of an LA TikTok house were arrested on drug charges during a cross-country quarantine trip Posted: 26 May 2020 10:14 AM PDT  Bryce Hall, 20, and Jaden Hossler, 19, of the TikTok collective "Sway House" have been arrested on drug charges in Lee County, Texas.
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| Musk praises astronauts' "nerves of steel" ahead of historic launch Posted: 27 May 2020 01:39 PM PDT  "I'm the chief engineer," Elon Musk said. "So I'd just like to say if it goes right, it's credit to the SpaceX-NASA team. If it goes wrong, it's my fault."
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| Venezuela's Maduro vows to raise gasoline price as Iranian tanker nears Posted: 27 May 2020 08:03 AM PDT  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Wednesday pledged to begin charging citizens for gasoline, as the fourth cargo of a five-tanker flotilla bringing fuel from Iran approached the South American nation's exclusive economic zone. Iran is providing the country with up to 1.53 million barrels of gasoline and components to help it ease an acute scarcity that has forced Venezuelans to wait in hours-long lines at service stations or pay steep prices on the black market. With the arrival of the gasoline, Maduro said he would end the policy of providing fuel effectively for free after more than two decades of frozen pump prices.
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| US couple charged after child’s skeletal remains found in back yard Posted: 27 May 2020 01:33 AM PDT  A Tennessee couple have been charged with multiple crimes after an investigation uncovered the skeletal remains of their daughter in the back yard of their home.Michael Anthony Gray Sr., aged 63, and Shirley Ann Gray, aged 60, were charged on Monday with multiple crimes including child abuse, child neglect, kidnapping and abuse of a corpse.
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| Donald Trump calls reporter who wore face mask to ask question 'politically correct' Posted: 27 May 2020 10:59 AM PDT  Donald Trump has called a reporter who insisted on wearing a face mask while asking a question "politically correct" as his clash with Joe Biden over whether to wear one escalated. The US president denied he was mocking Mr Biden, the likely Democratic presidential nominee, for wearing a mask at a recent memorial event after sharing a photo of him doing so on Twitter. Mr Biden also pushed back against Mr Trump, who has been reluctant to wear a mask when seen in public, calling the president an "absolute fool" for failing to do so. The stand-off was seen as a new poll found that only half of Americans say they will definitely take a coronavirus vaccine if it is developed. A poll for the Associated Press found that 49 per cent of respondents said they would get vaccinated, 31 per cent said they were not sure and 20 per cent said they would not.
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| Archaeologists discover pristine ancient Roman mosaic floor buried under piles of vines Posted: 27 May 2020 12:17 PM PDT  Archaeologists have revisited an ancient Roman dig site that hasn't been touched in a century — and found something incredible underneath.In a vineyard outside the Italian city of Verona, under several feet of vines and dirt, researchers have uncovered what appears to be a perfectly preserved mosaic floor and pieces of a villa foundation dating back to the third century A.D. Surveyors in the commune of Negrar di Valpolicella north of Verona shared images of the site, providing a glimpse at a discovery that's largely still hidden beneath the dirt, BBC reports.Archaeologists first mapped out what appeared to be the remains of an ancient Roman villa outside Verona back in 1922 before the site was abandoned. The Superintendent of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of Verona decided to revisit the site last October and again in February, but their efforts to unearth the site were cut short when COVID-19 arrived in Italy, the Guardian reports. Excavation resumed last week and, by Monday, there was something incredible to show for their efforts. There's still a lot of careful work to be done before the whole floor and foundation can be revealed — along with some careful negotiation with the owners of the vineyard now growing on top of this ancient discovery.More stories from theweek.com It only took two hours for Trump's administration to contradict his threat to shut down Twitter Why Biden benefits by disappearing CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin explodes on co-host Joe Kernen: '100,000 people died and all you did was try and help your friend the president'
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| Israeli president calls Australian PM after teacher's ruling Posted: 27 May 2020 02:29 AM PDT  Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said he spoke Wednesday with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, following an Israeli court ruling that a former teacher accused of sexually abusing her students in Australia was fit to stand trial and be extradited. Rivlin noted that the matter was central to his state visit to Australia in February and that he had promised Morrison and Australia's pro-Israel Jewish community he would monitor the case closely.
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