| Video shows Black man pinned to tree in what he calls 'attempted lynching' at Indiana lake Posted: 06 Jul 2020 03:22 PM PDT  Indiana authorities are investigating a report by a Black man who said he was pinned to a tree by a group of white men, an attack he likened to an "attempted lynching."
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| White House defends Trump's claim that 99 percent of COVID-19 cases are 'harmless' with chart showing 5 percent are fatal Posted: 06 Jul 2020 12:17 PM PDT  Press secretary Kayleigh McEnany came to her press briefing on Monday prepared to defend President Trump's assertion that "99 percent" of U.S. coronavirus cases are "totally harmless" with two charts that inadvertently disproved his claim.
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| FBI chief says China threatens families to coerce overseas critics to return to China Posted: 07 Jul 2020 08:03 AM PDT  FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday urged China-born people in the United States to contact the FBI if Chinese officials try to force them to return to China under a program of coercion that he said is led by Chinese President Xi Jinping. Wray issued the unusual appeal in an address to the Hudson Institute think tank in which he reiterated U.S. charges that China is using espionage, cyber theft, blackmail and other means as part of a strategy to replace the United States as the world's dominant economic and technological power.
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| Michigan drivers met with startling billboard message: 'Driving while Black? Racial profiling just ahead' Posted: 07 Jul 2020 07:09 AM PDT  "Driving while Black? Racial profiling just ahead. Welcome to Livonia," the billboard reads. The town's mayor called the sign "counterproductive."
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| Did Doxxing of an Oklahoma Councilwoman Lead to a Neighbor Being Raped? Posted: 07 Jul 2020 01:36 AM PDT  A city council member in Norman, Oklahoma, proposed a police budget cut. Then officers for that department posted her address online. Days later, a woman who lived in the other half of her duplex was raped by an assailant who allegedly made a political threat.The attack was a case of retaliation and mistaken identity, the council member alleges.Alexandra Scott, a Norman council member who won the Democratic nomination for her state Senate seat last month, is an outspoken critic of her city's police force. When racial justice protests swept the nation in June, Scott proposed slashing the Norman Police budget by $4.5 million. During a city council meeting about defunding, she also discussed a stalking incident she experienced, which she said police handled improperly. Now a pair of Norman Police officers are under investigation for allegedly posting Scott's personal information online, which Scott says may have led to the sexual assault of her neighbor.These 911 Emergency Dispatchers Are Ready to Defund the PoliceDefunding the police is a fraught issue across the country, but especially in Norman, where police have made their disagreements with elected officials well known. Amid calls to slash the city's police budget by millions, council members voted to reallocate $865,000 from the department. The move didn't cut the police's overall budget (it mostly vetoes the department's requested raise, but keeps the department's coffers at slightly above last year's budget) but it was enough for the city's police union to file a lawsuit against city council this month. Scott's criticism of Norman Police has made her a favorite villain in some pro-police circles in the city. A recent Facebook post shared by a Norman Police officer called her "another AOC," in reference to the New York representative who has become a boogeyperson for conservatives. That same police officer, John Barbour, is one of two under investigation for sharing Scott's personal details shortly after her testimony on police defunding. In posts first reported by the Norman Transcript, Barbour made a Facebook post sharing an unredacted video of police responding to Scott's 911 call in May. (Although details of the video remain unconfirmed, they align with Scott's own testimony about calling 911 on a stalker that month.)Neither Scott nor Norman Police returned The Daily Beast's requests for comment. Barbour declined to comment, referring The Daily Beast to the Norman Police public information officer, as his case was under investigation. A spokesperson for the group Norman Citizens for Racial Justice said Scott's address was identifiable in the post. "After Alex shared her story of solidarity during that [city council] study session, an officer released an unredacted report and some footage of her making a police report fairly recently," the spokesperson told The Daily Beast. "Those items that the officer uploaded to Facebook had her home address on there."This Utah Police Chief Was Promoted Even After His Racist Posts Were Exposed. Now Residents Want Him Out.When Barbour was met with criticism online for the video, he responded sarcastically. "So what I am getting is that if the issue was the officer let everyone see, but when someone slanders the fine officers on open record meeting it's not ok to find out the proof," he posted, apparently accusing Scott of being dishonest in her testimony.Barbour removed the video but shared a recent police report (from when Scott was arrested at a recent protest) that contained her address. In comments viewed by The Daily Beast, Barbour accused Scott of participating in a riot. When commenters noted that "you can't just call protesters rioters … There was no riot," Barbour responded, "If you say so….but I bet state law says different."Another Norman Police officer, Michael Lauderback, appears to have also shared Scott's personal information using the Facebook handle "Tired Ofthehate," which was linked to his legal name. Lauderback posted a picture of a sexual assault report Scott made in 2015. Lauderback could not be reached for comment and appears to have since deleted his Facebook account.Both officers are now under investigation for posting Scott's personal information, the Norman Record reported. The police department noted that since Barbour claimed to have obtained the video from a third party who obtained it through a public records request, the officers' posts appear to be legal.But Scott and Norman Citizens for Racial Justice said the posts play into a larger culture of harassment that has emerged on Norman-centric social media. "Most of the targeting happened after we started advocating for defunding the police," the Racial Justice spokesperson told The Daily Beast, noting that many people in her group were experiencing harassment from a "ReOpen Norman" Facebook page.In a since-deleted Facebook post, Scott said that social media activity had led to real-world horror for her and a neighbor."People were passing around my address on social media (and wherever else) for 2 weeks & making light of my experiences with assault and stalking," she wrote. "I've received threatening messages and voicemails from men stating they, 'hoped I didn't need the police' when something happened."Scott claims those threats came to a head late last month. Her address, which was shared publicly, is in a duplex building. On June 27, someone broke into the other half of the duplex and assaulted Scott's neighbor."She was raped by [a] stranger who broke into her side of our duplex last night. She had been out with her father, he dropped her off around Midnight and left. Then she was assaulted in her hallway," Scott wrote in the now-deleted post. "Her rapist dug his elbow into her neck, pushed her into the wall, and told her 'Maybe next time you'll learn your lesson.' He threw her on the ground and raped her."The attack, she said, was intended for her. "They got the wrong woman," she wrote. Norman Police released a statement acknowledging the incident and the prior publication of the address on social media although, in a heavily redacted police report obtained by the Transcript, the incident is described as a burglary.Since Norman Police officers posted Scott's address, it has circulated on right-wing Oklahoma pages, where it remains online. 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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| Australia warns of 'arbitrary detention' in China Posted: 07 Jul 2020 03:15 AM PDT  Australia warned its citizens Tuesday they could face "arbitrary detention" if they travel to China, the latest sign of growing tensions between the two nations. The foreign ministry issued the warning in updated travel advice, which also noted that Chinese authorities had detained foreigners for allegedly "endangering national security". Australia has already told its citizens to avoid all international travel due to the coronavirus pandemic, and the updated advice did not raise the overall level of the warning against travel to China.
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| 8 of Atlantic City's famous casinos just reopened for the first time since March. These photos show just how different the casino experience is going to be after the pandemic. Posted: 06 Jul 2020 11:19 AM PDT  From masked models to plexiglass barriers, photos show what Atlantic City's casinos looked like on the weekend they reopened to the public.
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| A rare case of brain-eating amoeba has been confirmed in Florida. Officials are telling residents to avoid tap water, and to swim with nose clips. Posted: 06 Jul 2020 07:38 AM PDT  The Florida Department of Health had to issue a warning for residents to avoid nasal contact with tap water.
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| The Lincoln Project continues anti-Trump ad campaign Posted: 07 Jul 2020 09:04 AM PDT  On Tuesday, the Lincoln Project, a conservative political action committee formed in late 2019, released an ad titled "Whispers," which suggests those in President Trump's inner circle are secretly mocking him. This is the latest in a series of attack ads produced and distributed by the committee, whose members include George Conway, Steve Schmidt and other prominent Republicans who oppose Trump. Yahoo News has assembled a compilation of some of the Lincoln Project's most controversial advertisements.
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| Exonerated Central Park Five members speak out: ‘Not too many things have changed since 30 years ago’ Posted: 06 Jul 2020 02:20 PM PDT  In 1989, five Black and Hispanic teens were falsely accused of raping and nearly killing Trisha Meili, a white woman jogging in Central Park. Known collectively as the Central Park Five, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise were convicted in two trials despite a lack of eyewitness testimony or DNA evidence and spent between six and 13 years in prison. Exonerated in 2002 after an investigation confirmed that a convicted murderer and rapist had committed the crime, the Central Park Five sued the city and state of New York, settling for millions.
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| New law would require NYPD police to take out individual insurance to cover misconduct claims Posted: 07 Jul 2020 10:55 AM PDT  A new bill introduced by a US lawmaker would require police officers to take out personal liability insurance to cover civil lawsuits filed against them for misconduct, reports have said.The new law, introduced by Senator Alessandra Biaggi, would mean that police are no longer represented by the city law department, according to a report by The New York Post.
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| Sen. Chuck Grassley will skip the RNC for the first time in 40 years, citing coronavirus Posted: 06 Jul 2020 12:08 PM PDT  Grassley said it will be the first time he skips the convention since he was elected to the U.S. Senate.
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| Russia cracks down on marmot hunting after bubonic plague alert Posted: 06 Jul 2020 08:14 AM PDT  Russia said on Monday it had stepped up patrols to stop people hunting marmots near its border with China and Mongolia after the countries reported possible cases of bubonic plague, which can be carried by the animals. Authorities in Bayan Nur, a city in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia, issued a warning on Sunday after a hospital reported a suspected case of the deadly disease. The Chinese region forbade the hunting and eating of the large rodents and asked the public to report any suspected cases, as well as any sick or dead marmots.
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| A former National Guard colonel apologized but will keep her professor job after saying sexual harassment is the 'price of admission for women' in the military Posted: 06 Jul 2020 01:16 PM PDT  Betsy Schoeller said her Facebook comment about Vanessa Guillén was intended to provide a "voice" to the "culture of sexual harassment" women face.
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| U.S. says foreign students may have to leave if their school goes online-only Posted: 06 Jul 2020 02:27 PM PDT  The news comes as some colleges and universities, including Harvard, have announced they will hold online-only courses this fall amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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| Black Lives Matter protesters face rare leak charge in Iowa Posted: 07 Jul 2020 01:00 PM PDT  Prosecutors in Iowa have filed a rarely used leak charge against Black Lives Matter protesters accused of stealing a confidential police document and displaying it during a television news broadcast. Two protesters are charged with unauthorized dissemination of intelligence data, a felony that carries up to five years in prison. The Iowa Judicial Branch says it's only the second time that the charge has been filed since 2010.
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| Prioritize COVID aid for child care and schools to help parents and the economy: GOP leader Posted: 07 Jul 2020 02:00 AM PDT  The economic crisis will get worse if we don't reopen schools and child care. We must educate our kids safely and help our communities return to work.
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| The Trump Family’s Civil War Could Blow Us All Up Posted: 07 Jul 2020 07:38 AM PDT  Mary Trump's legal battles against her uncle might seem like a fun little political soap opera, but it's way more than that, Mary's lawyer Ted Boutrous explains on the latest episode of The New Abnormal. The attempt to stop her tell-all book before publication—"I think it's really an effort to intimidate people from speaking, to intimidate the press. But also it's a political tool. It's a fundraising tool. It seems to excite people who support President Trump," he tells hosts Molly Jong-Fast and Rick Wilson. So, what exactly will the book tell us about Donald Trump? Boutrous couldn't say too much yet, but what he did reveal looks, um, not-so-hot for the president: "The more people see what he was like before, and really understand the kind of person he is and was, the more people will be horrified that he's the president."Then! The Daily Beast's Kate Briquelet—who has broken some of the biggest stories about Jeffrey Epstein's cabal—joins the dynamic duo to talk about the arrest of Epstein 'madam' Ghislaine Maxwell. "There are power players in New York," she explains "who are very nervous that Ghislaine is going to spill the secrets." Ben Stiller Dishes on Trump's Obsession with ZoolanderShe also shares some of the wildest (read: disturbing) accusations she's heard about the accused pedo duo, including that Epstein wanted a "baby ranch" in New Mexico. Plus! Does Trump know how to listen to a podcast? Could Kanye's "run for president" could really, really backfire? How is Ye like Vermin Supreme? And what the hell is "the McKinsey of grift?"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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| Iraqi jihadism expert Hisham al-Hashemi killed Posted: 06 Jul 2020 01:01 PM PDT  Renowned jihadism expert Hisham al-Hashemi was shot outside his home in Baghdad on Monday and died shortly thereafter at a local hospital, Iraqi officials told AFP. Hashemi was an authoritative voice on Sunni jihadist factions including the Islamic State group, but was also frequently consulted by media and foreign governments on domestic Iraqi politics and Shiite armed groups. The investigator assigned to the killing told AFP that Hashemi, 47, walked out of his home in east Baghdad and was getting into his car when three gunmen on two motorcycles fired at him from metres away.
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| North Korea Would Use Lethal 'Swarm' Attacks to Fight Posted: 06 Jul 2020 03:30 PM PDT  How is South Korea is preparing to defeat them?
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| Biden campaign rolls out new fonts from typeface powerhouse Hoefler & Co. Posted: 06 Jul 2020 01:24 PM PDT  The fonts are from the same company behind typefaces for the Obamas, Rolling Stone, Twitter, Tiffany & Co., the Guggenheim, Condé Nast and Nike.
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| Brit Hume says criticism of Trump's Mount Rushmore speech 'could be a turning point' for the president Posted: 06 Jul 2020 08:50 PM PDT  I've rarely seen such biased and misleading coverage, says Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume on 'Fox News @ Night.'
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| Days after Ghislaine Maxwell's arrest, Epstein accuser demands investigation into sexual battery allegation Posted: 07 Jul 2020 11:20 AM PDT  Alicia Arden, a model, accused Jeffrey Epstein of groping her inside a hotel room during what she thought was supposed to be an interview.
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| Retired Air National Guard colonel apologizes for comments about Vanessa Guillen Posted: 06 Jul 2020 10:07 AM PDT  Betsy Schoeller wrote: "Sexual harassment is the price of admission for women" in the military and "If you're gonna cry like a snowflake about it, you're gonna pay the price."
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| Trump administration says pandemic aid saved 51 million jobs. Did it? Posted: 07 Jul 2020 05:28 PM PDT  U.S. President Donald Trump's administration touted its $660 billion small business pandemic aid program this week as a "wild success," unveiling data that showed the initiative saved 51 million jobs. For example, a Reuters analysis of the data found that 827 companies reported saving at least 400 jobs with a loan smaller than $150,000. Two hundred of those companies reported saving at least 400 jobs with a loan of just $5,000 or less.
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| Supreme Court hands victory to school voucher lobby – will religious minorities, nonbelievers and state autonomy lose out? Posted: 07 Jul 2020 05:15 AM PDT  The Supreme Court's recent decision that Montana cannot exclude donations that go to religious schools from a small tax credit program could have consequences felt far beyond the state.The 5-4 ruling in Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, which came down June 30, follows on from recent cases that have expanded what counts as discrimination against religion under the U.S. Constitution, making it harder for states to deny grants to faith-based institutions.From my perspective as a scholar of law and religion, this latest ruling could massively limit states' ability to exclude religious schools from all sorts of funding, including controversial voucher programs which allow state funds to be used by parents to send children to a private school. And rather than preventing religious discrimination, the court's decision may actually support a system that discriminates against religious minorities and those of no faith. A win for voucher advocatesThe Espinoza decision was quickly hailed as a major win by supporters of school vouchers, including Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. It isn't the first time they have cheered the court.In 2002, the Supreme Court, in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, ruled in favor of a voucher program in Ohio which overwhelmingly benefited religious schools. The court held that the program did not violate the U.S. Constitution's Establishment Clause which limits government support for, and promotion of, religion.That decision broke with a long line of previous cases, which held that government could not use taxpayer dollars to fund religious education. In the years following the Zelman decision, public support for school voucher programs has grown. The election of President Donald Trump and appointment of DeVos as education secretary gave the pro-voucher lobby powerful advocates in the administration. The White House has made vouchers a central plank of their schools policy, with Trump likening "school choice" – a term that includes the use of vouchers – as the "civil rights statement" of the decade.Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has paved the way for religious schools to benefit from vouchers through a series of rulings.In addition to Zelman, and as a precursor to Espinoza, the justices ruled in 2017 that a Missouri program that provided free playground chips for resurfacing, could not deny access to a religious school seeking to resurface its playground. In that case, Trinity Lutheran v. Comer, the justices held that refusing the grant contravened the Constitution's Free Exercise Clause, which prohibits discrimination against religion, among other things.Until then, the doctrine had been limited to situations in which a government discriminated against a religion through hostility toward that faith, such as when the City of Hialeah, Florida, created a series of ordinances to discriminate against the practice of Santeria. In a footnote in the Trinity Lutheran case, the justices specifically noted that the decision was limited and did "not address religious uses of funding" such as for attendance at religious schools. But in Espinoza, the Supreme Court has essentially ignored that narrower reading. Instead, the court held that exclusion of donations to religious schools from the state tax credit program discriminates against religion. Siphoning fundsThis has significant implications for school vouchers. It could force states to include religious schools in any program that is open to private nonreligious schools. So if a state allows for parents to use vouchers to take a child out of the public school system, then religious schools must be allowed to benefit from those funds.But rather than preventing religious discrimination, the expansion of voucher plans, in my view, may actually encourage it.The majority of private schools are religious – and in some areas with voucher programs, religious schools make up more than 90% of private schools.In most districts, religious schools that can afford to take voucher students represent only a few larger denominations that are able to highly subsidize religious education. For example, in the Cleveland School District involved in the Zelman case, 96% of voucher recipients went to religious schools representing just one or two denominations. But vouchers strip money from public education – every voucher going to a private school means a loss of per student funding for public schools.This would force the parents of religious minorities, agnostics and atheists to choose between sending their children to a school that may provide religious teaching that goes against their wishes or leave their children in public schools that will be further drained of funding and students.The Espinoza ruling did leave the door ajar a little when it comes to limiting vouchers to religious private schools. The court draws a tightrope-like line between discrimination based on religious status – the fact that a school is religious – and situations where the denial of funding is based on concerns the funds will support religious functions.But precedent suggests walking this tightrope might be difficult for states and school districts. The Supreme Court's decision in Zelman upheld vouchers for religious schools including those which proselytize. It is hard to imagine how a state might prevent funds from going to a faith-based school without it being seen as denying funding based on that school's religious status. Of course, states can simply not have voucher or tax credit programs for private schools – the Espinoza decision makes it clear that this is acceptable. And some states already do this. For example, Michigan explicitly prevents taxpayer money going to private schools regardless of whether those schools are religious or not.But even these bans on taxpayer funding for private education are increasingly being challenged by school voucher enthusiasts and religious groups. Put on noticeIn Espinoza, the Supreme Court has put states and school districts on notice that if they have voucher programs they can not prevent taxpayer money from being used at religious private schools. That could leave some parents with an uncomfortable choice between sending a child to a public school that is losing funding as a result of vouchers or a religious private school that may proselytize their children.This article is republished from The Conversation, a nonprofit news site dedicated to sharing ideas from academic experts.Read more: * An old debate over religion in school is opening up again * Are yoga and mindfulness in schools religious?Frank S. Ravitch does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
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| Coronavirus: White House insists world sees US as ‘leader’ in pandemic as infections surge Posted: 06 Jul 2020 02:53 PM PDT  The White House has insisted that the US is being looked at as a "leader" in the fight against coronavirus, even as cases continue to spiral across the country.The latest comments came at a White House press briefing on Monday, when press secretary Kayleigh McEnany was questioned about the country's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
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| US killing of Iran's top general 'unlawful': UN expert Posted: 07 Jul 2020 04:55 AM PDT  The US drone strike that killed Iran's top general Qasem Soleimani was "unlawful", the United Nations expert on extrajudicial killings concluded in a report released Tuesday. Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, concluded it was an "arbitrary killing" that violated the UN charter. The US had provided no evidence that an imminent attack against US interest was being planned, she wrote.
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| Nearly half of Brits back plan to give 3m people from Hong Kong path to citizenship Posted: 07 Jul 2020 11:30 AM PDT  Nearly half of British adults support the Government's proposal to welcome Hong Kongers, a poll has revealed. The Savanta ComRes survey found just one in four oppose the proposal to offer Hong Kongers that hold British National Overseas (BNO) Passports and their dependents a bespoke five-year visa, with the pathway to later apply for full UK citizenship. Over two in five Brits (42 per cent) expressed support for Boris Johnson having made this offer, with just one in four (25 per cent) expressing any opposition. Support is higher among those who say they are familiar with recent events in Hong Kong, with half (50 per cent) expressing outright support. Not since 1997 and the handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China has the UK ever been involved in such a heated clash over the territory's future.
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| China Has a Plan to Crush the Tibetan Diaspora Posted: 06 Jul 2020 07:40 AM PDT  Beijing's communists demand obedience. They are able to control Tibetans inside their borders today. Tomorrow, with a selection of the next Dalai Lama, they will go after the Tibetans in Dharamshala and elsewhere.
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| Portland Police See 240 Percent Yearly Increase in July Shootings Posted: 06 Jul 2020 02:46 PM PDT  Portland police have responded to 17 shootings so far this month, a 240 percent increase when the city saw five in the same timeframe last year, the department announced Monday.One shooting earlier this month injured a man, while another resulted in an infant child putting a spent bullet in her mouth, police revealed. In a statement, Portland police chief Chuck Lovell called the spike "alarming.""Gun violence negatively impacts everyone in our community and the increase we are seeing is alarming," he said. "As a community, we must come together to send a message that shootings in our City are unacceptable."Portland has faced weeks of unrest following the death of George Floyd in May. Over the weekend, police declared a riot after a bronze sculpture honoring Oregon's pioneers was set ablaze outside the city's justice center. The Fourth of July marked the city's 38th consecutive day of civil unrest.The head of Portland's police union released his own statement on Monday, calling on officials to take action."As riots continue, it is obvious to everyone that this is no longer about George Floyd, social justice, or police reform," Portland Police Association president Daryl Turner said. "This is about a group of individuals intent on causing injury, chaos, and destruction by rioting, looting, starting fires, throwing rocks, bottles, mortars, urine, and feces at peaceful protestors, as well as the police."Last month, protestors attempted to set up an "autonomous zone" in Portland's Pearl District, near an apartment building where Mayor Ted Wheeler reportedly lives, but were stymied by police.
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| Former CTA Bus Driver Charged With Body Slamming Man In Incident Caught On Video Posted: 06 Jul 2020 07:19 AM PDT  A former CTA bus driver has been charged with aggravated battery, after he was caught on video picking a man up and slamming him to the pavement last month on the South Side. Katie Johnston reports.
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| Giffords group takes aim at key U.S. Senate races in new push for gun limits Posted: 07 Jul 2020 03:23 AM PDT  With Democrats' chances of flipping the Senate improving as Republican President Donald Trump's poll numbers slide ahead of the Nov. 3 election, the group said background checks were a wedge issue that could win support from critical voting blocs in close races and beyond. "This issue helps Democrats in every single state and every single congressional district," Senator Chris Murphy said in an interview, citing opinion polls that show background checks are popular even among Republican voters.
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| College students are preparing to return to campus in the fall. Is it worth it? Posted: 06 Jul 2020 11:44 AM PDT  "No matter which way you slice it, it's just a lose-lose situation," one student said.
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| Death toll from flooding in Japan reaches 55, dozen missing Posted: 06 Jul 2020 07:09 PM PDT  Soldiers used boats to rescue residents as floodwaters flowed down streets in southern Japanese towns hit by heavy rains that were expanding across the region on Tuesday. Pounding rain since late Friday in the southern region of Kyushu has triggered widespread flooding. More rain was predicted in Kyushu and the western half of Japan's main island of Honshu as the rain front moved east.
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| Fact check: Researchers found coronavirus in March 2019 wastewater; more study needed Posted: 07 Jul 2020 01:39 PM PDT  Yes, it's true a Spanish research group says it has found coronavirus in wastewater samples predating the pandemic, however more studies are needed.
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| Russians living near base where Putin's doomsday missile may have exploded last year warned ahead of new military activity Posted: 06 Jul 2020 10:37 AM PDT  Residents were told they are living in the "danger zone" and were given the opportunity to evacuate the before the military starts its work nearby.
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| ‘I believe in white power.’ Home Depot face mask fight spurs arrest, Illinois cops say Posted: 07 Jul 2020 11:09 AM PDT  "The entitlement is disgusting."
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| Kremlin promises reciprocal steps over UK sanctions against Russians Posted: 07 Jul 2020 02:55 AM PDT  Russia will respond with reciprocal measures to British sanctions against 25 Russians, including the country's top state investigator, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. Britain imposed sanctions on 25 Russians and 20 Saudis on Monday as part of post-Brexit measures foreign minister Dominic Raab said were aimed at stopping the laundering of "blood money". "We can only regret such unfriendly steps," said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
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| Trump 'going with his gut' in fanning racism, frustrating some White House aides Posted: 07 Jul 2020 01:19 PM PDT  Aides prefer him to focus on his wins and offer sharp criticism of his opponent, Joe Biden.
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| Whitmer Says She Won’t Be ‘Bullied’ into Reopening Michigan Too Soon, Could Reimpose Restrictions Posted: 07 Jul 2020 12:38 PM PDT  Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer said Tuesday that she could reimpose social-distancing restrictions if cases of the coronavirus continue to rise in the state, adding that she refuses to be "bullied" into reopening before it is safe to do so."I want to re-engage this economy more than anyone, but I'm not going to do it if it is too risky to do so, and that's why we're staying focused on the epidemiology," Whitmer said in a CNN interview."If they keep moving up, we're going to dial back if we have to," Whitmer continued. "I'm not going to be bullied into moving back before it's safe, and if we have to move back, we're going to."The Democratic governor noted that she was heavily criticized when she imposed stringent lockdown restrictions on Michigan residents in early March when the state discovered its first coronavirus case but said she remains prepared to take the steps necessary to ensure safety. Cases of the virus peaked in Michigan in April."I took a lot of heat when we brought that curve down, we saved thousands of lives. I'm prepared to take heat if that's what is going to take to keep people safe," Whitmer said.On Sunday, Michigan reported no new coronavirus deaths for the first time since March, although three deaths were reported on Monday, just one day later.Whitmer added that she had hoped to move the southern part of the state into Phase Four of the state's six-phase reopening plan but had to put those plans on pause just before the Fourth of July because cases of the virus increased.Several states that reopened their economies more aggressively have seen their coronavirus cases spike in recent weeks, including Texas and Florida.Whitmer's strict coronavirus lockdown polices riled some residents, prompting several demonstrations at the state capitol by residents protesting the restrictions. The governor's social-distancing rules previously prohibited residents from visiting their second residences and banned the sale of paint, furniture, and garden equipment.In May, dozens of protesters, some of them armed, went to the Michigan Capitol and stood in the Senate gallery, which is open to the public. Michigan State Police troopers blocked the demonstrators clamoring to enter the House chamber.
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