| Republican lawmakers accused of hiding positive COVID-19 test result from Democrats, who call it 'immoral' Posted: 28 May 2020 11:54 AM PDT  Democratic lawmakers in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives are demanding answers after learning that one of their Republican colleagues tested positive for COVID-19, shared that information with GOP leadership, but never informed them.
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| White House encourages hydroxychloroquine use for coronavirus again Posted: 28 May 2020 02:03 PM PDT  Speaking during a press briefing on Thursday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany strongly endorsed the "prophylactic" use of hydroxychloroquine: that is, to prevent contracting the coronavirus.
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| Can you contract coronavirus from a surface or object? Posted: 29 May 2020 03:48 PM PDT  The CDC says that it may be possible to contract COVID-19 by coming in contact with a surface or object that has the virus on it, but you're much more likely to get the coronavirus through person-to-person transmission.
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| Sen. Ron Johnson releases transcripts of Michael Flynn's calls with Russian ambassador Posted: 29 May 2020 03:21 PM PDT  Phone conversations between then-incoming White House national security adviser Michael Flynn and Russian Amb, Sergey Kislyak were used as part of the Russia collusion investigation; David Spunt reports.
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| Greece to open airports to arrivals from 29 countries from June 15 Posted: 29 May 2020 07:42 AM PDT  Greece said Friday it would reopen its airports in Athens and Thessaloniki to arrivals from 29 countries from June 15, the start of the tourist season. Visitors would be allowed to fly into Greece from 16 EU countries, including Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, the Czech Republic, Baltic countries, Cyprus and Malta, the tourism ministry said in a statement. Outside the European Union, holidaymakers from Switzerland, Norway, and neighbouring Balkan countries such as Albania, Serbia and North Macedonia will be allowed to land at Greece's main airports from June 15.
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| Minneapolis police officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck had 18 previous internal complaints against him Posted: 29 May 2020 12:09 AM PDT  The Minneapolis police officer who was filmed kneeling on George Floyd's neck for several minutes even as he said "I can't breathe" has previously been the subject of multiple complaints filed to the Minneapolis Police Department's Internal Affairs Division, it has emerged.Mr Chauvin, who has been fired along with the other three police officers who apprehended Mr Floyd, was reported to the division 18 times. According to a police summary, only two of the complaints were "closed with discipline".
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| Long Island serial killer victim IDed 2 decades later Posted: 28 May 2020 11:13 AM PDT  A woman whose skeletal remains were found along a suburban New York beach highway, in an area where body parts of 10 other people had been strewn, was identified as a Philadelphia escort who went missing two decades ago, police said Thursday. Suffolk County police said the woman previously known as "Jane Doe No. 6" was identified through genetic genealogy technology as Valerie Mack, who also went by Melissa Taylor and was last seen in 2000 near Atlantic City, New Jersey. Determining the victim's identity has brought clarity to a long-running Long Island mystery that attracted national headlines, was featured on true-crime TV shows and was the subject of a recent Netflix film, Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart said.
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| China plans to extend curbs on international flights until June 30: U.S. embassy Posted: 29 May 2020 01:54 AM PDT  Chinese civil aviation authorities plan to extend until June 30 their curbs on international flights to contain the spread of the coronavirus, the U.S. embassy in Beijing said in a travel advisory on Friday. China has drastically cut such flights since March to allay concerns over infections brought by arriving passengers. A so-called "Five One" policy allows mainland carriers to fly just one flight a week on one route to any country and foreign airlines to operate just one flight a week to China.
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| Defense secretary says coronavirus vaccine will be available within months, but experts skeptical Posted: 28 May 2020 01:30 PM PDT  Pentagon leaders expressed strong confidence Thursday that a coronavirus vaccine will be available by January, and possibly as early as this fall — claims that were met with skepticism by scientific experts.
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| Don Lemon Erupts: ‘No One Wants to Hear From the Birther-In-Chief’ on George Floyd Posted: 28 May 2020 06:42 PM PDT  CNN anchor Don Lemon unloaded on President Donald Trump after the Justice Department said Thursday that the president was "actively monitoring" the investigation of four Minneapolis police officers over the death of an unarmed black man, exclaiming that nobody "wants to hear from the Birther-in-Chief."During a press conference late Thursday afternoon, local and federal investigators insisted that they "can't rush" bringing charges for the death of George Floyd, who was pronounced dead after an officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes. With protests raging across the country, U.S. Attorney Erica MacDonald said the investigation was a "top priority" for the feds before adding that Trump and Attorney General William Barr were paying high attention to the case.Moments after the presser wrapped up, Lemon blew up over MacDonald invoking the president in this particular situation, bringing up a number of incidents Trump has been involved in over the years that have widely been seen as racist."I know she has a tough job, but guess what, as long as we are being honest right now, nobody wants to hear from the White House or the attorney general right now," Lemon exclaimed. "No one wants to hear from the man who wanted the death penalty to come back for the Central Park Five.""No one wants to hear from the man who says that the former president was not born in this country," the CNN anchor continued, in something of a call-and-response fashion. "No one wants to hear from the man who said there are 'very fine people on both sides.' Do you understand what I am saying?""No one wants to hear from the person that they perceive as contributing to situations like this in this society," Lemon kept going. "Not directly, but allowing people like that to think they can get away from this. No one wants to hear from the Birther-in-Chief, from the 'sons of bitches'-calling person, who says that athletes are kneeling for this very reason."After scolding federal investigators for seemingly having more urgency in telling protesters to calm down than investigating police brutality, Lemon concluded by expressing some solidarity with demonstrators amid the increasingly violent clashes."I understand the anger of the people upset in Minneapolis, Minnesota," he said. "I don't condone the actions. I don't understand the actions, but I understand the anger."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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| Why India must battle the shame of period stain Posted: 28 May 2020 10:38 AM PDT  Award-winning photographer Niraj Gera takes on stigma surrounding menstruation in India.
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| Britain pushing US to form 5G club of nations to cut out Huawei Posted: 29 May 2020 10:15 AM PDT  Britain said Friday it was pushing the United States to form a club of 10 nations that could develop its own 5G technology and reduce dependence on China's controversial telecoms giant Huawei. The issue is expected to feature at a G7 summit that US President Donald Trump will host next month against the backdrop of a fierce confrontation with China that has been exacerbated by a global blame game over the spread of the novel coronavirus. Britain has allowed the Chinese global leader in 5G technology to build up to 35 percent of the infrastructure necessary to roll out its new speedy data network.
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| Mississippi mayor under fire over comments on George Floyd's death Posted: 28 May 2020 07:36 AM PDT  Mayor Hal Marx of Petal, Mississippi, said he "didn't see anything unreasonable" in the video of George Floyd's arrest. "If you can talk, you can breathe."
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| Transcripts released of Flynn's calls with Russian diplomat Posted: 29 May 2020 02:38 PM PDT  Transcripts of phone calls that played a pivotal role in the Russia investigation were declassified and released Friday, showing that Michael Flynn, as an adviser to then-President-elect Donald Trump, urged Russia's ambassador to be "even-keeled" in response to punitive Obama administration measures, and assured him "we can have a better conversation" about relations between the two countries after Trump became president. Democrats said the transcripts showed that Flynn had lied to the FBI when he denied details of the conversation, and that he was undercutting a sitting president while ingratiating himself with a country that had just interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
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| Taiwan pledges help for fleeing Hong Kongers, riles China Posted: 27 May 2020 11:26 PM PDT  Taiwan promised on Thursday to settle Hong Kongers who flee the Chinese-ruled city for political reasons, offering help from employment to counselling, and prompting angry condemnation from Beijing as it pushes security legislation for Hong Kong. Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen this week became the first world leader to pledge specific measures to help people from Hong Kong who may leave the former British colony because of the new legislation. Chen Ming-tong, head of Taiwan's top China-policy maker, the Mainland Affairs Council, told parliament the government will establish an organisation to deliver "humanitarian relief" that includes settlement and employment in a joint effort with activists groups.
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| SpaceX rocket launch could have ‘triggered lightning’, Nasa says Posted: 28 May 2020 12:43 AM PDT  The launch of a SpaceX rocket could have "triggered lightning" and so had to be cancelled, Nasa has said.The mission would have seen the first launch of astronauts from US soil in nine years, and the first ever private company to put humans into space.
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| Peter Manfredonia, the 23-year-old college student suspected of double murder, has been captured after a weeklong, multi-state manhunt Posted: 28 May 2020 05:05 AM PDT  Peter Manfredonia had been on the run since last Friday. He is suspected of killing two men and kidnapping one woman.
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| Twitter fact-checked a Chinese government spokesman after he suggested the US brought COVID-19 to Wuhan Posted: 28 May 2020 04:23 AM PDT  Twitter applied the label to the tweets after being questioned by the New York Post over a potential double standard, The Post reports.
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| Ethiopian army ‘shot man dead because phone rang’ - Amnesty Posted: 29 May 2020 07:28 AM PDT  It was one of several incidents in a crackdown in Oromia in 2019, Amnesty International says.
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| Burundi first lady hospitalised in Nairobi: government sources Posted: 29 May 2020 07:28 AM PDT  Burundi's first lady was in hospital in Nairobi on Friday, after being flown in on a late-night medical flight, according to sources at the airport and in the presidency. First lady Denise Bucumi was flown out of Burundi on a Pilatus plane by the AMREF air ambulance service, according to a source at the Melchior Airport in Bujumbura. A high-ranking government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP that Bucumi had gone to Nairobi "for treatment as she caught the coronavirus".
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| The Bird Watcher, That Incident and His Conflicted Feelings on Her Fate Posted: 28 May 2020 05:16 AM PDT  NEW YORK -- His binoculars around his neck, Christian Cooper, an avid birder, was back in his happy place on Wednesday: Central Park during migration season. He was trying to focus on the olive-sided flycatchers and red-bellied woodpeckers -- not on what had happened there two days earlier.That was when Cooper, who is black, asked a white woman to put her dog on a leash. When she did not, he began filming. In response, the woman said she would tell the police that "an African American man is threatening my life" before dialing 911.On Tuesday, the video went viral on Twitter and garnered more than 40 million views, setting off a painful discourse about the history of dangerous false accusations against black people made to police.The birds were a welcome distraction from thinking about what had happened next: By that day's end, the woman, Amy Cooper (no relation) had surrendered her dog and had been fired from her high-level finance job. As he wandered the park's North Woods on Wednesday shortly after dawn, Christian Cooper said he felt exhausted, exposed and profoundly conflicted, particularly about her fate."Any of us can make -- not necessarily a racist mistake, but a mistake," he said, "And to get that kind of tidal wave in such a compressed period of time, it's got to hurt. It's got to hurt."A gray catbird darted around his hiking boots."I'm not excusing the racism," he said. "But I don't know if her life needed to be torn apart."He opened his mouth to speak further and then stopped himself. He had been about to say the phrase, "that poor woman," he later acknowledged, but he could not bring himself to complete the thought."She went racial. There are certain dark societal impulses that she, as a white woman facing in a conflict with a black man, that she thought she could marshal to her advantage," he said."I don't know if it was a conscious thing or not," he added. "But she did it, and she went there."Cooper's love of birding began at age 10, he said, when his parents, two Long Island schoolteachers, enrolled him in a 4-H program. There, in a woodworking class, he crafted a bird feeder that he set in his lawn.The creatures that flocked to it set off a fascination that has endured for four decades, through his time at Harvard, where he graduated with a degree in political science, and into his years as an editor for Marvel Comics, where he is credited with creating one of the first gay characters in the Star Trek comic universe.A northern rough-winged swallow alighted on a branch and Cooper, 57, trained his lenses on it for a while.Then he resumed. "If we are going to make progress, we've got to address these things, and if this painful process is going to help us address this -- there's the yellow warbler!" Cooper said, cutting himself off to peer around with his binoculars.At length, he turned his eyes away from the tops of the London plane trees and continued where he had left off:"If this painful process -- oh, a Baltimore oriole just flew across!-- helps to correct, or takes us a step further toward addressing the underlying racial, horrible assumptions that we African Americans have to deal with, and have dealt with for centuries, that this woman tapped into, then it's worth it," he said, setting his binoculars down on his chest."Sadly, it has to come at her expense," he added.On Tuesday, Amy Cooper was fired by her employer, Franklin Templeton, where she had been a head of insurance portfolio management, according to her LinkedIn page.Cooper, who graduated from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, also surrendered her dog, Henry, to the rescue organization she had adopted him from, the same day, according to a Facebook post by the group.She issued a public apology to Christian Cooper, whom she had encountered in a semi-wild part of the park called The Ramble, where dogs must be leashed.After she refused to tether her dog on Memorial Day, Christian Cooper said, he attempted to lure the dog with treats, to induce her to restrain her pet. In a statement, Amy Cooper said she had misread his intent."I reacted emotionally and made false assumptions about his intentions when, in fact, I was the one who was acting inappropriately by not having my dog on a leash," she said in the statement.She did not respond to multiple requests for comment.On Wednesday, New York City's Commission on Human Rights began an investigation into Amy Cooper's actions.On his birding walk Wednesday, Christian Cooper said he had read her apology.He called it "a start." He said he was not interested in meeting her or in any face-to-face reconciliation.What he was interested in were birds, like the sighting in 2018 of a rare Kirtland's warbler that led him to sprint from his office in Midtown Manhattan to the park to catch a glimpse.Cooper, who now works in communications and lives on the Lower East Side, has fed his passion with birding trips to Central Park and around the world, and he is on the board of the New York City Audubon Society.He has developed a virtuoso's ear for their birdsong, and can identify them by chirp. ("There's a myth that I have the best ears in the park," he said. "It's a myth.")As he has pursued his passion, he has been keenly aware of the fact that there appear to be few other African American men invested in the hobby, excluded by the same subtle messaging he gets when he is followed around in shops, he said.And he is aware that the image he cuts -- as a man often shuffling the undergrowth after a rare bird, with a metal object, the binoculars, in his hand -- can read differently for a black person than for a white person.It doesn't stop him."We should be out here. The birds belong to all of us," he said. "The birds don't care what color you are."This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2020 The New York Times Company
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| Coronavirus quietly started spreading as early as January, CDC says Posted: 29 May 2020 10:35 AM PDT  By early February, there was "cryptic circulation" of the virus.
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| AP Explains: What's behind latest India-China border tension Posted: 29 May 2020 12:25 AM PDT  Indian officials say the latest row began in early May, when Chinese soldiers entered the Indian-controlled territory of Ladakh at three different points, erecting tents and guard posts. China has sought to downplay the confrontation while providing little information. China has objected to India building a road through the valley connecting the region to an airstrip, possibly sparking its move to assert control over territory along the border that is not clearly defined in places.
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| Move over James Bond; India returns alleged bird spy to Pakistan Posted: 29 May 2020 12:43 PM PDT  Indian police have released a pigeon belonging to a Pakistani fisherman after a probe found that the bird, which had flown across the contentious border between the nuclear-armed nations, was not a spy, two officials said on Friday. "The pigeon was set free yesterday (May 28) after nothing suspicious was found," said Shailendra Mishra, a senior police official in Indian-administered Kashmir. The Pakistani owner of the pigeon had urged India to return his bird, which Indian villagers turned over to police after discovering it.
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| Minneapolis bus drivers are refusing to help police transport protesters to jail Posted: 29 May 2020 06:30 AM PDT  As tensions between police and protesters in Minneapolis reached a boiling point following the death of George Floyd, the city's bus drivers have made it abundantly clear which side they're on. The driver's union, ATU Local 1005, issued a statement of solidarity on Thursday, with some of its drivers going as far as to refuse to use their buses to help law enforcement transport protesters to jail."As a transit worker and union member, I refuse to transport my class and radical youth," one Minneapolis bus driver, Adam Burch, told the labor publication Payday. "An injury to one is an injury to all. The police murdered George Floyd and the protest against is completely justified and should continue until their demands are met."The union shared Burch's sentiment. "This system has failed all of us in the working class, from the coronavirus to the economic crisis we are facing," their statement read. "But the system has failed people of color and black Americans and black youth more than anyone else."The union added:> In ATU we have a saying: "NOT ONE MORE" when dealing with driver assaults, which in some cases have led to members being murdered while doing their job. We say "NOT ONE MORE" [to the] execution of a black life by the hands of the police. NOT ONE MORE! JUSTICE FOR GEORGE FLOYD! [ATU Local 1005]Payday notes that "it would be illegal for [the union] to call for a wildcat strike," though their statement makes the drivers' opinion heard. Meanwhile, transit workers have also launched a group called "Union Members for JusticeForGeorgeFloyd," assembling those who "are willing to do what we can to ensure our labor is not used to help the Minneapolis Police Department shut down calls for justice."More stories from theweek.com Amy Klobuchar didn't prosecute officer at center of George Floyd's death Minnesota governor says Trump's Minneapolis tweets are 'just not helpful' 'A riot is the language of the unheard,' Martin Luther King Jr. explained 53 years ago
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| Pa. state rep reveals positive COVID-19 diagnosis, lawmakers outraged over alleged lack of notification Posted: 28 May 2020 07:22 AM PDT  Democratic state leaders in Pennsylvania are outraged over claims a Republican lawmaker kept them in the dark about having the coronavirus.
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| Photos of mass graves in Brazil show the stark toll of the coronavirus, as experts predict that it will surpass 125,000 deaths by August Posted: 27 May 2020 07:51 PM PDT  Despite the growing number of coronavirus cases and deaths in Brazil, President Jair Bolsonaro has refused to impose a lockdown.
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| 'If you say you can't breathe, you're breathing': A Mississippi mayor who defended the officer who stood on George Floyd's neck has been asked to resign Posted: 29 May 2020 10:57 AM PDT  Petal, Mississippi, Mayor Hal Marx tweeted Floyd likely "died of overdose or heart attack" and that Minneapolis police are being "crucified."
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| Fury after Pennsylvania lawmakers concealed COVID diagnosis Posted: 28 May 2020 02:41 PM PDT  Republicans in the US state of Pennsylvania faced calls for their resignation Thursday after a lawmaker tested positive for COVID-19 and they did not tell Democratic colleagues for a full week. Democrats in the state's House of Representatives erupted in anger for having their health and that of their families put at risk, with one calling the chamber's Republican leadership "callous liars" for withholding the information even as the House remained in session. Democrats said three other Republicans exposed to Lewis eventually went into quarantine, but not before they served alongside Democrats in several sessions and committee meetings.
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| To punish China, Trump begins to revoke Hong Kong trade privileges Posted: 29 May 2020 01:10 PM PDT |
| One of the coldest places on Earth is experiencing a record-breaking heat wave Posted: 29 May 2020 09:46 AM PDT  Heat wave sparks concerns about devastating wildfire season and melting permafrost.
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| Taliban in Kabul to discuss prisoner releases under US deal Posted: 28 May 2020 09:25 AM PDT  A five-member Taliban team was in Kabul on Thursday to follow up on this week's prisoner release by the Afghan government that saw hundreds of insurgents freed. Javid Faisal, an Afghan national security spokesman, and Taliban political spokesman Suhail Shaheen both confirmed that a Taliban team was in the Afghan capital, without providing details. Earlier this week, Shaheen had said from Qatar, where the Taliban maintain a political office, that the insurgents planned to free "a remarkable number" of Afghan officials and others they hold captive.
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| Fourth Iranian tanker docks at Venezuelan port, U.S. slams 'distraction' Posted: 28 May 2020 10:12 AM PDT |
| How to Screw Up a Vice-Presidential Pick Posted: 29 May 2020 08:12 AM PDT  Joe Biden's choice for vice president is arguably the biggest decision of his campaign—and it could go very, very wrong. And no one knows more about failed veep picks than Steve Schmidt and Philippe Reines, who worked on the McCain/Palin and Clinton/Kaine campaigns.In Episode 12 of The New Abnormal, The Daily Beast's podcast for a world gone off the rails, Schmidt and Reines tell Molly Jong-Fast and Rick Wilson about what went south with Hillary Clinton's VP approach, and how Biden can avoid the same fate."It's not a matter of who you want to go to the movies with. It's a matter of being able to do it on day one," says Reines. "In a perfect world, he would pick Bernie Sanders," he adds. "I mean that would be a horrible world, but in that world he would pick Bernie to consolidate the party and money."On this planet, Reines says, Elizabeth Warren is the best person to help with that consolidation. (Reines says also he wanted Warren on the Clinton ticket in 2016, and that the Massachusetts senator was a finalist for the role.) Schmidt thinks Kamala Harris better rounds out the Biden ticket.Schmidt and Reines also talk about Stacey Abrams and why choosing her would ultimately do more harm than good: "This is not a time to gamble."Asked about Trump's re-election chances, neither of them think things look too good right now. Julián Castro on Why Everyone Hates Ted Cruz"I think right now, Trump is losing," says Schmidt. Reines chimes in: "For those who wanted to make things better, this is a failed experiment and amateur hour is over. Forty million Americans are out of a job. How the hell does a president get re-elected?" Plus! Our dynamic duo asks the important questions, like: What exactly is wrong with Mark Zuckerberg? And will the caregivers at the White House assisted-living facility try to give Donnie the pudding he likes?Listen to The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Stitcher.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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| Minneapolis police release a transcript of the 911 call that resulted in the police encounter with George Floyd Posted: 28 May 2020 11:07 PM PDT  The caller told the operator that Floyd appeared to be inebriated and refused to return his purchase once the caller realized he had used fake bills.
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| Indian monkeys snatch coronavirus samples Posted: 29 May 2020 06:05 AM PDT  Monkeys mobbed an Indian health worker and made off with coronavirus test blood samples, spreading fears that the stealing simians could spread the pandemic in the local area. Indian authorities often have to grapple with primates snatching food and even mobile phones. After making off with the three samples earlier this week in Meerut, near the capital New Delhi, the monkeys scampered up nearby trees and one then tried to chew its plunder.
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| Denmark and Norway cut coronavirus-hit Sweden out of free travel deal Posted: 29 May 2020 08:21 AM PDT  The governments of Denmark and Norway have cut Sweden out of a deal allowing each other's tourists to travel freely between the two countries — citing their Nordic neighbour's higher levels of coronavirus infection. The deal, announced at parallel press conferences in Oslo and Copenhagen on Friday afternoon, showed Sweden has failed in its diplomatic efforts to be included in the first stage of a Nordic travel bubble. Under the deal, people from Denmark will from June 15 be allowed to enter Norway without needing to quarantine, while tourists from Norway will be able to enter Denmark, so long as they have booked accommodation for at least six days. As she announced the agreement, Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen acknowledged that it would be difficult for many Swedes. "Danes and Swedes have family, lovers, and holiday homes across the border," she said. "Denmark and Sweden are at different places in relation to the coronavirus [epidemic], and this has a bearing on what we can decide in relation to the border."
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| IKEA manager in Poland charged for firing worker over anti-gay comments Posted: 28 May 2020 11:27 AM PDT  The manager was charged with religious discrimination for firing an employee who called homosexuality "an abomination" on the company's internal website.
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| Joe Biden plans to name running mate around August 1 Posted: 28 May 2020 11:01 AM PDT  Joe Biden says he hopes to announce his running mate around August 1. CBS News 2020 campaign reporter Bo Erickson joins CBSN to talk about the latest from the Democrat's campaign.
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| North Carolina Democrats 'dragging their feet' on convention rules, RNC chief says Posted: 29 May 2020 08:30 AM PDT  The comments by RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel on a popular North Carolina radio show came a day after her letter to Governor Roy Cooper setting a June 3 deadline to approve safety and logistical measures - such as how many people can gather together - to prevent the spread of the coronavirus during the August convention. Cooper's office responded by asking the RNC to spell out how many people will attend each night and how they will adhere to social distancing and other protocols, such as mask coverings.
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| Hong Kong on borrowed time as China pushes for more control Posted: 29 May 2020 06:00 AM PDT  Hong Kong has been living on borrowed time ever since the British made it a colony nearly 180 years ago, and all the more so after Beijing took control in 1997 and granted it autonomous status. China's passage of a national security law for the city is the latest sign that the 50-year "one country, two systems" arrangement that allowed Hong Kong to keep its own legal, financial and trade regimes is perishable. China's communist leaders have been preparing for decades to take full control of the glittering capitalist oasis, while building up their own trade and financial centers to take Hong Kong's place.
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| Fox News Star Geraldo Rivera Unloads on Trump: ‘What Is This, 6th Grade?!’ Posted: 29 May 2020 03:12 PM PDT  Geraldo Rivera delivered one of the harshest condemnations of Donald Trump ever aired on Fox News Friday afternoon when he appeared on The Five and took the president to task for threatening Minneapolis protesters with violence.After first criticizing Democrats for "studiously avoiding" the looting and vandalism by "anarchists" in that city following the police killing of George Floyd, Rivera pivoted to attack Trump directly. "But the other thing is, the president, in these tweets, 'when the looting starts, the shooting starts,' c'mon!" Rivera said, referring to the tweet that Twitter hid from Trump's timeline because it broke its rules on "glorifying violence." "What is this, 6th grade?" he asked. "You don't put gasoline on the fire. That's not calming anybody. Who are you daring?" Rivera mocked the idea that any demonstrators would stop what they're doing because Donald Trump tweeted that they might get shot. "That's not going to happen!" he exclaimed. "All he does is diminish himself." Rivera, who has at times both admitted that Trump is a "racist" and called him a "civil rights leader," went on to say that he "laments" the "recklessness of his tempestuous nature when it comes to Twitter." In response to Trump's accusations that Twitter is trying to censor him, the pundit called on the president to "self-censor himself." Trump attempted to walk back his incendiary comments in a pair of tweets on Friday, claiming that he was just worried about the safety of the protesters. "It's very simple, nobody should have any problem with this other than the haters, and those looking to cause trouble on social media," the president wrote, adding, "Honor the memory of George Floyd!" 'Fox & Friends' Confronts Kayleigh McEnany With Chris Wallace CriticismRead 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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| Rohingya refugee crisis: 'The bodies were thrown out of the boat' Posted: 29 May 2020 06:14 AM PDT  Khadiza Begum, a Rohingya refugee, left Myanmar to escape violence but found more horror at sea.
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| New Zealand has no new coronavirus cases and just discharged its last hospital patient. Here are the secrets to the country's success. Posted: 28 May 2020 10:03 AM PDT  New Zealand has reported zero new coronavirus cases over the last five days, and just discharged its last hospital patient. Here's what it did right.
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