| Trump retweets videos of Black men attacking white victims, asking, 'Where are the protesters?' Posted: 23 Jun 2020 07:55 AM PDT  Amid protests over the killings of Black citizens that have lasted almost a month, President Trump retweeted videos of Black men attacking white victims in separate incidents — one of which occurred last year — while wondering why they did not spark similar protests.
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| Lawmakers split along party lines on Justice Department's pot probes Posted: 24 Jun 2020 12:53 PM PDT  Attorney General William Barr ordered unneeded probes into the cannabis industry because of his opposition to pot, a Justice Department attorney testified Wednesday in a stormy congressional hearing on allegations of politically-motivated overreach by Barr. John Elias, a career Justice Department antitrust attorney who served as the division's chief of staff, testified under oath that since March 2019 the Barr Justice Department investigated 10 mergers in the cannabis industry, even though the industry is not concentrated.
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| Kentucky Senate Democratic primary to decide who challenges McConnell too close to call Posted: 24 Jun 2020 02:33 PM PDT  In New York, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Eliot Engel is trailing progressive newcomer Jamaal Bowman in the early count.
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| Calif. College Professor Placed on Leave After Asking Asian-American Student to 'Anglicize' Her Name Posted: 24 Jun 2020 05:41 AM PDT  'This incident is obviously disturbing,' Laney College's President said in a statement
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| Letters to the Editor: Adam Schiff kowtows to the mob in pulling his endorsement of Jackie Lacey Posted: 23 Jun 2020 03:00 AM PDT  Adam Schiff should know there are many moderate Democrats who do not favor "defunding" the police or other radical reforms opposed by Jackie Lacey.
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| Kosovo president, 9 others indicted on war crimes charges Posted: 24 Jun 2020 07:05 AM PDT  Kosovo President Hashim Thaci and nine other former separatist fighters were indicted Wednesday on a range of crimes against humanity and war crimes charges, including murder, by an international prosecutor probing their actions against ethnic Serbs and others during and after Kosovo's 1998-99 independence war with Serbia. Because of the indictment, Thaci has postponed his trip to Washington, where he was to meet Saturday for talks at the White House with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.
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| Ready to fly again? Southwest launches annual fall fare sale, with one-way tickets starting at $39 Posted: 23 Jun 2020 10:13 AM PDT  The three-day Southwest Airlines sale covers travel between Aug. 11 and Dec. 17, excluding Thanksgiving travel, on flights within the continental U.S.
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| Trump threatens prison time after protesters attempt to topple Andrew Jackson statue near White House Posted: 23 Jun 2020 07:35 AM PDT  In the weeks since the initial demonstrations following George Floyd's killing, protesters have increasingly focused on removing monuments of figures in American history associated with racism.
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| Australian fugitive 'found hiding in ship's air vent' Posted: 24 Jun 2020 12:30 AM PDT  The sexual assault suspect had disappeared after being rescued from a yacht in rough seas, police say.
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| Major quake shakes southern Mexico, at least six killed Posted: 23 Jun 2020 08:39 AM PDT  The fatalities were near the quake's center in Oaxaca, a mountainous state known for its coffee, mescal and Spanish colonial architecture. A Reuters witness in the state's Pacific coast resort town of La Crucecita, which Mexican authorities said was the epicenter of the earthquake, saw anxious residents standing outside their homes hours after the tremor as they feared deadly aftershocks. "We lost everything in one moment to nature," said Vicente Romero, an owner of a stationary store whose house suffered structural damage.
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| Putin throws military parade to mark defeat of Germany in WW2 — and declare victory over coronavirus Posted: 24 Jun 2020 01:02 AM PDT  Russian President Vladimir Putin, who reportedly was frightened of the coronavirus and hid behind the Kremlin walls, emerges to declare victory.
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| Armed men gather near Rayshard Brooks shooting site, say police are no longer allowed Posted: 24 Jun 2020 06:13 AM PDT  Atlanta residents express safety concerns about the area surrounding the Wendy's property; Jonathan Serrie reports.
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| Fixture Forecast: Barcelona to suffer major title blow, while City will maintain furious form vs. Chelsea Posted: 24 Jun 2020 12:30 PM PDT  Barcelona can't afford a slip-up in La Liga, but one is coming their way. And it's unwise to bet against Manchester City.
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| One of the coldest places on Earth recorded its hottest temperature ever: 100.4 degrees Posted: 24 Jun 2020 11:22 AM PDT  The temperature in Verkhoyansk hit 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit on Saturday. It's the planet's northernmost 100-degree reading ever recorded.
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| Europe's travel ban on Americans could be a sign of disastrous things to come for US airlines Posted: 24 Jun 2020 02:03 PM PDT  The European Union's ban on American travelers could mean business and international travel take longer to recover — a bad sign for airlines.
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| Trump news – live: President threatens anti-racism protesters with 10-year jail terms for statue vandalism and defends coronavirus testing order Posted: 23 Jun 2020 06:02 AM PDT  Donald Trump has upped the ante in his war of words with anti-racism demonstrators after threatening anyone involved in toppling statues and monuments of divisive figures from American history with "serious force" and up to 10 years in jail.The president tweeted his latest "LAW AND ORDER" message after Black Lives Matter activists in DC attempted to bring down a statue of seventh president Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square near the White House, scrawling the phrase "killer scum" along its base and also defacing the nearby St John's Church.
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| Woman accused of burning Wendy's after shooting granted bond Posted: 24 Jun 2020 10:57 AM PDT  A woman charged with arson in the burning of a fast food restaurant in the wake of Rayshard Brooks' killing was granted bond Wednesday but must wear an ankle monitor and remain at home, a judge said. Natalie White, 29, appeared in court by video from the Fulton County jail, where she has been held on a first-degree arson charge since she turned herself in Tuesday. An arrest warrant accuses her of setting fire to the Wendy's restaurant using a torch made with a lighter and some type of can.
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| President Trump warns 2020 will be the most rigged election in history; Ohio election officials disagree Posted: 22 Jun 2020 06:59 PM PDT  President Trump warns 2020 will be the most rigged election in history; Ohio election officials disagree
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| Putin throws military parade to declare victory over virus Posted: 24 Jun 2020 12:11 AM PDT Russian President Vladimir Putin, who reportedly was frightened of the coronavirus and hid behind the Kremlin walls, emerges to declare victory.
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| Was Seattle’s Notorious Protest Zone Doomed by Recent Shootings? Posted: 24 Jun 2020 01:32 AM PDT  After a few remarkable weeks of free food, far-right agitation, and most recently, multiple shootings, Seattle's Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) looks like it might be on the rocks.The CHOP (formerly known as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ) is an approximately six-block zone in Seattle where, after a violent crackdown by police against racial justice protesters, the city agreed to withdraw police and clear the streets for demonstrations. Activists quickly set up tents and issued a list of demands including police abolition and de-gentrification measures like rent control. But Seattle never agreed to keep police out forever. And after a trio of shootings in and around the zone, the city is calling to dismantle the CHOP, leaving activists wondering how to keep the protest going.In a Monday press conference, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said the city would work with activists to dismantle the CHOP."It's time for people to go home. It is time for us to restore Cal Anderson [Park] and Capitol Hill so it can be a vibrant part of the community," Durkan said at the press conference. "We can still accommodate people who want to protest peacefully, come there and gather. But the impacts on the businesses and residents and community are now too much."She added that police would re-enter the neighborhood precinct, which was boarded up when cops left the area on June 8, although she did not elaborate on a timeline for the reintroduction of police. Seattle Police did not return a request for comment.A spokesperson for the CHOP-affiliated group, Seattle Organized Protest Support said the disbandment talk had led to divergent views within the neighborhood."There is a lot of uncertainty going around in the CHOP right now, different people have different opinions," the spokesperson told The Daily Beast. "As far as the groups that I'm in, it seems that the general consensus is to follow Black leaders for the next step, which is tricky in and of itself because we never know who is working with the city and who isn't."Other encampment-based movements have faced similar predicaments in the past. The Occupy Wall Street protests lasted approximately three months camped in a downtown Manhattan park before police raided the scene and sent the movement spiraling. Todd Gitlin, a Columbia University professor and author of the book Occupy Nation, said the uprooted camp sites face an ideological reckoning."The problem for manifestations that come together around an occasion, like a park to occupy, is 'well then what?'" Gitlin told The Daily Beast. "How do you sustain yourself when the occupation is over? In the case of Occupy, there were these hundreds of encampments, but they were all land-dependent. They had no other identity. They had no other connections."Some Occupy organizers turned to more electoral politics, like joining the 2016 Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, or became active in issues like housing rights, Gitlin noted. Others appeared to leave the political scene.The CHOP zone's cop-free cred is one of its main attractions. But several shootings in or near the CHOP in recent days have left some Seattle officials, Durkan included, calling for resumed police details. Early Tuesday morning, a man was injured in a non-life-threatening shooting near—but apparently not in—the CHOP. The incident followed a Saturday morning shooting that left a 19-year-old dead and a 33-year-old critically wounded in the CHOP. A 17-year-old was also shot in the arm Sunday night.Some activists and at least one Seattle City Council member have sparred with officials over the characterization of the incidents."We completely reject the characterizations – by right-wing & corporate media, Trump administration, and Seattle Police Officers Guild president – of the CHOP as a violent place & the claims that the presence of police would have prevented either shooting," Seattle City Council Member Kshama Sawant tweeted on Monday. She noted that neither of the weekend shootings appear to have been committed by protesters. (Police have not made arrests in either case.)Other activists have taken issue with the police chief's claim that a "hostile crowd" of protesters prevented officers from responding to the Saturday shooting. "No one within the CHOP denied entry to PD within any organizational capacity," organizers told KOMO News after the shooting. "Officers deciding on their own not to enter an area is not the same as being denied entry." (Police body camera footage from the incident appears to show some people yelling at police, but officers moving without obstruction.)Nevertheless, the shootings have placed new challenges on a protest movement that was already a favorite villain of conservative voices and far-right groups, some of which have entered the CHOP armed and been involved in a fistfight near the zone.After the Saturday shooting, the group Voices of CHOP issued a letter "acknowledg[ing] that no organizations, protests, or revolutions are perfect. We must be willing to collectively learn and react quickly to mistakes within our movement. We do not want to see what was started with the intention of lifting the BLM message destroyed."The group suggested two changes to curb unruliness in the CHOP, including "safe [drug] use areas near the outskirts of C.H.O.P.," along with signage asking people to "keep safe distance away from C.H.O.P. while intoxicated." The letter also acknowledged that "the late hours of C.H.O.P. tend to give way to some problematic behavior." The group suggested reducing the CHOP's operating hours from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., clearing the zone out overnight but leaving enough people "for peace keeping and occupy purposes."Sawant tweeted that her City Council office supports the proposal to cut operating hours in half. But momentum behind the protest zone shifting to part time also comes as attendance has apparently begun to fizzle out. A live-streamer who has closely covered the protests told the Washington Post attendance has dwindled since its beginning in early June.Amid the mayor's calls to dissolve the CHOP, and the reportedly organic dissolution by protesters who've stopped showing up, some CHOP backers are emphasizing the protest's more abstract qualities as a way to keep the movement alive."As socialists," Sawant tweeted, "we recognize capitalism is a deeply violent system, and that an occupation in a few city blocks cannot by itself form a society separate from the violence, trauma, and ills that absolutely pervade capitalist society as a whole."For some protesters, that means returning to the protests extensive demands. As of Monday, a handmade sign on the zone's abandoned precinct announced some activists' stance not to leave until the city defunds its police force by 50 percent, introduces new funding for Black communities, and releases people arrested in the protests that erupted after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody.The CHOP has been in place fewer than three weeks. Occupy Wall Street stayed in its encampment nearly three months—and even still, Gitlin characterized the protest as "more of a moment than a movement."That said, Occupy made enduring political waves because "it was a moment that dovetailed with other moments, and we can see retrospectively that they contributed to a kind of revitalization or awakening outsider energy looking for ways to get traction in the American scene."The CHOP might be short-lived, some organizers have indicated, but it stems from sweeping, nationwide protests, into which activists might continue their energy.The Seattle Organized Protest Support released its own statement on Monday reiterating those three demands, noting that, as an occupied area, "CHOP may not be a sustainable fight."The six blocks weren't the point of the original protest, the SOPS spokesperson said."CHOP wasn't the goal, and the people who are fighting the fight recognize that," the representative said. "The people came up with three demands that were the original goal, everything born out of that is temporary and was never meant to distract from the purpose of the fight."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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| U.S. Republican police reform measure fails in key Senate vote Posted: 24 Jun 2020 09:55 AM PDT  A controversial Republican bill intended to rein in police misconduct in the aftermath of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis failed on Wednesday to garner enough support to move forward in the U.S. Senate. It came a month after Floyd's death in police custody set off weeks of worldwide protests against police brutality. With public sentiment for police reform running high, the bill's failure could pressure Republicans to agree to Democratic demands for bipartisan negotiations on new legislation.
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| Ghana apologises to Nigeria for embassy demolition Posted: 24 Jun 2020 09:16 AM PDT  Armed men reportedly stormed the compound and destroyed a building under construction.
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| EU May Bar American Travelers as It Reopens Borders, Citing Failures on Virus Posted: 23 Jun 2020 11:50 AM PDT  BRUSSELS -- European Union countries rushing to revive their economies and reopen their borders after months of coronavirus restrictions are prepared to block Americans from entering because the United States has failed to control the scourge, according to draft lists of acceptable travelers seen by The New York Times.That prospect, which would lump American visitors in with Russians and Brazilians as unwelcome, is a stinging blow to American prestige in the world and a repudiation of President Donald Trump's handling of the virus in the United States, which has more than 2.3 million cases and upward of 120,000 deaths, more than any other country.European nations are currently haggling over two potential lists of acceptable visitors based on how countries are faring with the coronavirus pandemic. Both include China, as well as developing nations like Uganda, Cuba and Vietnam.Travelers from the United States and the rest of the world have been excluded from visiting the European Union -- with few exceptions mostly for repatriations or "essential travel" -- since mid-March. But a final decision on reopening the borders is expected early next week, before the bloc reopens July 1.A prohibition of Americans by Brussels partly reflects the shifting pattern of the pandemic. In March, when Europe was the epicenter, Trump infuriated European leaders when he banned citizens from most EU countries from traveling to the U.S. Trump justified the move as necessary to protect the United States, which at the time had roughly 1,100 coronavirus cases and 38 deaths.In late May and early June, Trump said Europe was "making progress" and hinted that some restrictions would be lifted soon, but nothing has happened since then. Today, Europe has largely curbed the outbreak, even as the United States, the worst afflicted, has seen more infection surges just in the past week.Prohibiting American travelers from entering the European Union would have significant economic, cultural and geopolitical ramifications. Millions of American tourists visit Europe every summer. Business travel is common, given the huge economic ties between the United States and the EU.The draft lists were shared with the Times by an official involved in the talks and confirmed by another official involved in the talks. Two additional EU officials confirmed the content of the lists as well the details of the negotiations to shape and finalize them. All of the officials gave the information on condition of anonymity because the issue is politically delicate.The forging of a common list of outsiders who can enter the bloc is part of an effort by the European Union to fully reopen internal borders among its 27 member states. Free travel and trade among members is a core principle of the bloc -- one that has been badly disrupted during the pandemic.Since the outbreak, the bloc has succumbed to piecemeal national policies that have resulted in an incoherent patchwork of open and closed borders.Some internal borders have practically remained closed while others have opened. Some member states that desperately need tourists have rushed ahead to accept non-EU visitors and pledged to test them on arrival. Others have tried to create closed travel zones between certain countries, called "bubbles" or "corridors."Putting these safe lists together highlights the fraught, messy task of removing pandemic-related measures and unifying the bloc's approach. But the imperatives of restoring the internal harmony of the EU and slowly opening up to the world are paramount, even if it threatens rifts with close allies including the United States, which appears bound to be excluded, at least initially.Trump, as well as his Russian and Brazilian counterparts, Vladimir Putin and Jair Bolsonaro, have followed what critics call a comparable path in their pandemic response that leaves all three countries in a similarly bad spot: They were dismissive at the outset of the crisis, slow to respond to scientific advice and saw a boom of domestic cases as other parts of the world, notably in Europe and Asia, were slowly managing to get their outbreaks under control.Countries on the EU draft lists have been selected as safe based on a combination of epidemiological criteria. The benchmark is the EU average number of new infections -- over the past 14 days -- per 100,000 people, which is currently 16 for the bloc. The comparable number for the United States is 107, while Brazil's is 190, and Russia's is 80, according to a Times database.Once diplomats agree on a final list, it will be presented as a recommendation early next week before July 1. The EU can't force members to adopt it, but European officials warn that failure of any of the 27 members to stick to it could lead to the reintroduction of borders within the bloc.The reason this exercise is additionally complex for Europe is that, if internal borders are open but member states don't honor the same rules, visitors from nonapproved nations could land in one European country and then jump onward to other EU nations undetected.European officials said the list would be revised every two weeks to reflect new realities around the world as nations see the virus ebb and flow.The process of agreeing on it has been challenging, with diplomats from all European member states hunkering down for multiple hourslong meetings for the past few weeks.As of Tuesday, the officials and diplomats were poring over two versions of the safe list under debate and were scheduled to meet again Wednesday to continue sparring over the details.One list contains 47 countries and includes only those nations with an infection rate lower than the EU average. The other longer list has 54 countries and also includes those nations with slightly worse case rates than the EU average, going up to 20 new cases per 100,000 people.The existing restrictions on nonessential travel to all 27 member states plus Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein were introduced March 16 and extended twice until July 1, in a bid to contain the virus as the continent entered a three-month long confinement."Discussions are happening very intensively," to reach consensus in time for July 1, said Adalbert Jahnz, a spokesman for the European Commission, the bloc's executive branch. He called the process "frankly, a full-time job."The EU agency for infectious diseases, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, warned negotiators that the case numbers were so dependent on the level of truthfulness and testing in each country that it was hard to vouch for them, officials taking part in the talks said.China, for example, has been accused of withholding information and manipulating the numbers of infections released to the public. In parts of the developing world, case numbers are very low, but it's hard to determine whether they paint an accurate picture given limited testing.And in the United States, comments made by Trump at a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, over the weekend highlighted how easy it is to manipulate a country's case numbers, as he suggested that domestic testing was too broad."When you do testing to that extent, you're gonna find more people you're gonna find more cases. So I said to my people slow the testing down, please," Trump told supporters.European embassies around the world could be enlisted to help verify or opine on the data provided that would inform the final list, negotiators said, another indication that the list could end up being quite short if European diplomats at embassies said reported numbers were unreliable.Many EU countries are desperate to reopen their borders to visitors from outside the region to salvage tourism and boost airlines' revenue while keeping their own borders open to each other. Some have already started accepting visitors from outside the bloc.At the other extreme, a few European nations including Denmark are not prepared to allow any external visitors from non-EU countries and are likely to continue with this policy after July 1.Germany, France and many other EU nations want non-European travelers to be allowed but are also worried about individual countries tweaking the safe list or admitting travelers from excluded countries, officials said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2020 The New York Times Company
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| Inside the Homes and Studios of 13 American Artists Posted: 24 Jun 2020 01:30 PM PDT |
| A police officer charged with assaulting Black youths has worked for 9 different police departments, collecting use-of-force incidents and complaints along the way. Posted: 24 Jun 2020 12:34 PM PDT  Camden County prosecutors charged Officer Ryan Dubiel with assault, alleging he pepper-sprayed the youths "without provocation" on June 4.
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| Incumbent Dems face a reckoning on primary day: Will progressives unseat them? Posted: 23 Jun 2020 02:00 AM PDT  AOC faces her own challenger and is backing progressive candidates in other contests.
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| Texas hits all-time high for COVID-19 cases; governor urges residents to stay home Posted: 24 Jun 2020 09:14 AM PDT |
| Congresswoman Karen Bass being vetted to be Biden running mate Posted: 24 Jun 2020 04:10 AM PDT  The Congressional Black Caucus chair has been one of the leading House lawmakers in crafting policing reform legislation in the wake of the death of George Floyd.
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| Wife of Canadian detained in China speaks out Posted: 23 Jun 2020 11:21 AM PDT  Michael Kovrig, 48, who was arrested by Chinese authorities in December 2018, was formally charged last week with espionage. Kovrig's wife, Vina Nadjibulla, who lives in Toronto, has been fighting for his release since his arrest but went public this week for the first time. "The situation keeps getting more and more dire for Michael," she said in an interview with Reuters.
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| Coronavirus: New York imposes quarantine on nine US states Posted: 24 Jun 2020 02:27 PM PDT  It comes as a US university predicts 180,000 US deaths from the virus by October.
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| Trump Throws His Own Team Under the Bus on COVID-19 Testing: ‘I Don’t Kid’ Posted: 23 Jun 2020 09:26 AM PDT  Numerous times over the past several years, Donald Trump has tried to clean up particularly dangerous or offensive comments by claiming that he was just being sarcastic. It happened after he called President Barack Obama the "founder of ISIS" and when he publicly thanked Vladimir Putin for expelling U.S. diplomats. More recently, he dismissed his suggestion that disinfectant could be injected into the body to treat COVID-19 as sarcasm. So when his advisers started to defend his latest comments about deliberately slowing down coronavirus testing in order to make the national numbers look better by claiming that he was just joking, it made a perverse kind of sense. That is until Trump threw them under the bus.According to White House economic adviser Peter Navarro, Trump's remarks about testing as a "double-edged sword" at his Tulsa rally were "tongue in cheek." White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said the comment was "made in jest." This prompted CNN anchor Brianna Keilar to ask a spokesperson for the Trump campaign if he thought 120,000 dead Americans was "funny." Then, on Tuesday, CBS News reporter Weijia Jiang finally asked Trump directly, "When you said you asked your people to slow down testing, were you just kidding, or do you have a plan to slow down testing?" "I don't kid," Trump replied, before boasting about his administration's response to the crisis. "By having more tests, we find more cases." The president then repeated, without any hint of comedy, his assertion that "testing is a double-edged sword." Kayleigh McEnany Grilled on Trump's 'Kung Flu' Rally Slur"In one way, it tells you that you have cases," he said. "In another way, you find out where the cases are and you do a good job. We are doing a great job and we've never been credited for it. We're doing the best testing job anywhere in the world." As of this week, the United States now accounts for 20 percent of all new COVID-19 infections worldwide despite making up just over 4 percent of the global population, a discrepancy that cannot be explained away by increased testing. Dr. Anthony Fauci, meanwhile, seemed to contradict Trump when he testified to Congress on Tuesday that "none of us have ever been told to slow down on testing," adding, "In fact, we will be doing more testing."Late-Night Hosts Absolutely Lose It Over Trump's 'Sarcastic' Disinfectant TheoryRead 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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| Mississippi flag: 'In God We Trust' for Confederate symbol? Posted: 24 Jun 2020 12:23 PM PDT  Two of Mississippi's top elected Republicans proposed Wednesday that the Confederate battle emblem be replaced on the state flag with the words "In God We Trust," seeking a path toward unity in their state amid the backdrop of national protests over racial injustice. "It is my personal belief that it is time for us to change our state flag to reflect the love, compassion and conviction of our people," Attorney General Lynn Fitch said. Mississippi has the only state flag that includes the Confederate battle emblem — a red field topped by a blue X with 13 white stars.
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| Bangladesh boy, 15, arrested for Facebook criticism of PM Posted: 24 Jun 2020 06:02 AM PDT  A 15-year-old boy has become the latest person to fall foul of Bangladesh's contentious internet laws after being arrested for criticising Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on social media. Rights groups say the laws are used to silence dissent, with hundreds of people charged since 2018 for crimes including smearing the image of Hasina and other senior political figures. Police in Bhaluka said Wednesday they arrested Mohammad Emon at the weekend after a local official from the ruling party claimed the teen had "badmouthed... our mother-like leader".
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| Armed individuals seen near Atlanta Wendy's where Rayshard Brooks was killed Posted: 23 Jun 2020 07:19 PM PDT  Protesters tell Steve Harrigan that police officers will have to leave the area.
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| Fact check: Officer in Breonna Taylor killing not shot by friendly fire Posted: 24 Jun 2020 02:26 PM PDT  The claim that a Louisville officer was hurt by friendly fire at Breonna Taylor's apartment is false.
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| North Korea: Kim Jong-un 'suspends military action' against South Posted: 24 Jun 2020 02:54 AM PDT  The sudden de-escalation comes after Pyongyang had days ago threatened to send troops to the border.
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| The Dalai Lama on COVID-19, Trump, and "old thinking" in America Posted: 24 Jun 2020 06:24 AM PDT  Tibet's exiled Buddhist spiritual leader knows a thing or two about forced isolation, and he shares some wisdom with CBS News ahead of his 85th birthday.
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| Judge stays migrant teen's expulsion under US virus policy Posted: 24 Jun 2020 09:04 AM PDT |
| Missing Amish Teen Went to Church on Sunday—and Never Came Home Posted: 24 Jun 2020 09:36 AM PDT  Pennsylvania authorities on Wednesday continued their massive search for an Amish teenager who disappeared on Sunday after attending a church service—a move friends and family have described as "out of character" for the "sweet girl" who never caused trouble. Linda Stoltzfoos, 18, was last seen around 12:30 p.m. on Sunday at a farm on Stumptown Road in the heart of Pennsylvania's bucolic Amish country, the East Lampeter Township Police Department told The Daily Beast. Authorities said that when Stoltzfoos—who was wearing a tan dress, white apron, and white cape—failed to return to her Beechdale Road home after attending a church service just down the road, her parents became concerned and contacted police. The story was first reported by LancasterOnline. "She was a sweet, quiet girl who would never put herself in a troublesome situation," one family friend told The Daily Beast. "We are shocked—her even leaving without informing anybody where she was going is out of character. This is all out of character."Authorities also believe the teenager's disappearance is unusual, and while she is still being treated as an endangered missing person, several law enforcement agencies have joined the search. According to Pennsylvania State Police, which is also involved in the search effort, Stoltzfoos "may be at special risk of harm or injury."A spokesperson for the East Lampeter Township police said at least 100 volunteers and trained search personnel have put in 1,500 man hours into the search for the missing teenager in rural Pennsylvania. On Wednesday, the FBI joined the search, allowing authorities to use "more tools" in addition to dogs, horses, ATV equipment, and drones. East Lampeter Township detectives are interviewing family members and friends for further information about Stoltzfoos.While foul play has not been ruled out, police are "still attempting to figure out what may have happened" and are investigating "all angles" of the incident," East Lampeter Township police said."There is no reason for us to believe that she wanted to just leave," a spokesperson told The Daily Beast. "That's what makes it an unusual circumstance—it's totally out of character for Linda. This is not a normal missing person's investigation for us, I will say that. It's not typical to be receiving a missing person's case from the Amish community here."The spokesperson added that authorities Wednesday are issuing a "plea to Linda that she is not in any trouble, in the case that she left on her own free will. We just want her to contact us and let us know she is OK."Air Force Member Charged With Kidnapping, Murdering Missing Mennonite WomanTo help with the search, a Facebook page titled "Amish Girl Missing - Linda Stoltzfoos" has been created to provide updates in the teenager's case. "A new day.....the family and community will continue searching for Linda," one Wednesday post said, along with a photo of an open field. The page, adorned with photos and videos of community members volunteering to help with the search and praying for her safe return, also includes information on community prayer meetings. On Tuesday evening, a meeting was held behind the Smucker homestead in Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania—where over 100 came out to pray, cry, and sing in the open field, according to LancasterOnline."Thank you everyone for your prayers and support," the Facebook post states. "We will be holding another evening of prayer and worship on behalf of Linda, her family, and the local community. Please join us in person or on Facebook Live as we intercede for Linda this evening."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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