| Three arrested after paint thrown on NYC Black Lives Matter mural Posted: 17 Jul 2020 10:05 PM PDT  This time, blue paint was used to vandalize the city-approved mural on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue.
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| Opinion: The Supreme Court — again — shamefully makes it hard for Americans to vote Posted: 17 Jul 2020 03:00 AM PDT  In a Florida case, the justices block a ruling in favor of felons who served their time
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| Anthony Fauci said New York is an example of how to 'correctly' confront soaring coronavirus cases Posted: 18 Jul 2020 02:23 PM PDT  New York City is slated to enter Phase 4 of its reopening on July 20, three months after the city counted a peak of 10,000 new cases per day.
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| China coronavirus: 'Wartime state' declared for Urumqi in Xinjiang Posted: 18 Jul 2020 08:44 AM PDT  Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, has a small number of infections but strict counter-measures.
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| It's too late for masks alone to turn the tide on coronavirus. Why the U.S. needs to lock down hot spots right away. Posted: 17 Jul 2020 09:16 AM PDT  Masks are necessary to combat America's resurgent coronavirus pandemic. But they may no longer be enough. Patterns from countries that are faring much better than the U.S. suggest we won't bring the virus to heel until we start locking down hot spots as well.
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| National Museum of African American History apologizes for chart listing attributes of 'whiteness' after criticism from Donald Trump Jr and the conservative media Posted: 18 Jul 2020 04:39 AM PDT  The National Museum for African American History and Culture listed rational thought and hard work as traits of white culture.
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| Prosecutor in Jodi Arias murder case agrees to be disbarred Posted: 18 Jul 2020 12:36 PM PDT  A former Arizona prosecutor known for winning a conviction in the Jodi Arias murder case agreed on Friday to be disbarred in an ethics case in which he was accused of sharing the identity of an Arias juror and sexually harassing female law clerks in his office.
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| President says he’s ‘saddened’ by John Lewis’ death after Barack Obama led heartfelt tributes for the civil rights hero Posted: 18 Jul 2020 09:38 AM PDT  Donald Trump said he was "saddened" to hear the news of Congressman John Lewis' death after the civil rights leader died on Friday. Earlier on Saturday, Congresswoman Karen Bass, the Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, told the president he should not issue a statement so people could "mourn in peace".The president ordered earlier for the flags to be flown at half-staff at the White House and other public buildings for the remainder of the day.
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| Three white men charged in killing of Black jogger in Georgia plead not guilty Posted: 17 Jul 2020 07:47 AM PDT  Ahmaud Arbery, 25, who was killed on Feb. 23 just outside the coastal town of Brunswick, became a touchstone in cross-country protests over racial and social justice in the United States. A former law enforcement officer, Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son Travis, 34, are charged with murder and aggravated assault. Police say Gregory McMichael saw Arbery jogging through his neighborhood outside of Brunswick and believed he looked like a burglary suspect.
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| Justice Ginsburg says cancer has returned, but won't retire Posted: 17 Jul 2020 09:15 AM PDT  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Friday she is receiving chemotherapy for a recurrence of cancer, but has no plans to retire from the Supreme Court. The 87-year-old Ginsburg, who has had four earlier bouts with cancer including pancreatic cancer last year, said her treatment so far has succeeded in reducing lesions on her liver and she will continue chemotherapy sessions every two weeks "to keep my cancer at bay."
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| Rep. Justin Amash confirms he won't seek re-election to Congress Posted: 17 Jul 2020 05:55 AM PDT  Amash, who has served in Congress since 2011, announced in July 2019 that he was leaving the Republican Party.
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| Nigeria's Zamfara state offers repentant bandits cows for AK-47s Posted: 17 Jul 2020 09:09 AM PDT  Zamfara state's governor uses an original ploy to deal with a recent wave of bandit attacks.
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| China's western city Urumqi enters 'wartime mode' after reporting 16 coronavirus cases Posted: 17 Jul 2020 06:26 PM PDT  Urumqi, the capital of China's far western region of Xinjiang, has gone into "wartime mode" and launched an emergency response plan after the city reported 16 new coronavirus cases on Friday. It urged people not to make unnecessary trips outside the city and ordered infection tests for anyone who needed to leave Urumqi, aiming to prevent the spread of the virus. On its official Weibo account on Saturday the regional government said all recent new infections and asymptomatic cases reported in the autonomous region were in Urumqi.
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| Powerful House chair Eliot Engel defeated by progressive newcomer Jamaal Bowman in stunning upset Posted: 17 Jul 2020 11:39 AM PDT  Rep. Eliot Engel, who served decades in Congress, was defeated by a political newcomer in a stunning upset showing the power of the progressive wing.
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| 2 men charged in July 4 'attempted lynching' at Indiana lake Posted: 17 Jul 2020 09:17 AM PDT  Two men were charged Friday in an alleged assault against a Black man who was seen in a viral video being held against his will in the woods near an Indiana lake on the Fourth of July.
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| Iran estimates up to 25 million virus cases since outbreak Posted: 18 Jul 2020 03:47 AM PDT  Iran's president Saturday estimated as many as 25 million Iranians could have been infected with the coronavirus since the outbreak's beginning, and urged the public to take the pandemic seriously, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. President Hassan Rouhani cited a new Iranian Health Ministry study in offering the unprecedentedly high number of infections. Rouhani also said he believes an additional 30-35 million people could be infected in coming months, again without citing the basis for his estimate.
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| The once humble pickup has gone full-on luxury — here are my favorite swanky features Posted: 18 Jul 2020 08:30 AM PDT  Today's full-size pickups can easily hang with Audi, BMW, and Mercedes when it comes to luxury appointments.
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| Chuck Woolery's spokesman confirms his son has COVID-19 Posted: 16 Jul 2020 08:06 PM PDT  Days after tweeting that "everyone is lying about COVID-19," former Love Connection host Chuck Woolery confirmed through a spokesman that his son has tested positive for the virus."Chuck's son is fine and asymptomatic," Mark Young told CNN. Young also said that Woolery deactivated his Twitter account on Wednesday due to the "abuse he has received from thousands of intolerant people," but will return one day.On Sunday, Woolery declared on Twitter that "the most outrageous lies are the ones about COVID-19. Everyone is lying. The CDC, Media, Democrats, our Doctors, not all but most, that we are told to trust. I think it's all about the election and keeping the economy from coming back, which is about the election. I'm sick of it." His conspiracy theory was retweeted the next morning by President Trump.Woolery released a new episode of his podcast Blunt Force Truth on Thursday, and was on the defensive, saying he never called COVID-19 "a hoax" or said "it's not real," just that "we've been lied to." Woolery also said it was "an honor to have your president retweet what your thoughts are and think it's important enough to do that."More stories from theweek.com What Americans are finally learning about freedom Has Trump incidentally squashed his own argument about the Supreme Court? Marco Rubio mistakenly tweets a picture of Elijah Cummings alongside tribute to John Lewis
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| Pentagon bans Confederate flag in way to avoid Trump's wrath Posted: 17 Jul 2020 11:28 AM PDT  In a carefully worded policy, the Pentagon is banning Confederate flags from military installations without using the word "ban" to avoid openly contradicting President Trump, who has defended people's rights to display it.
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| A 10-year-old boy was dragged off a boat by a shark on the Australian coast Posted: 17 Jul 2020 02:03 PM PDT  The boy was left with arm, head, and chest injuries after the shark attack near Stanley, on northwest coast of Tasmania, Australia.
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| It’s do or die for Germany’s new missile defense weapon Posted: 17 Jul 2020 09:18 AM PDT  The ongoing negotiations with industry suggest there is still no common ground on the legal framework for costs and risks associated with the next-generation program.
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| SpaceX capsule carrying NASA astronauts slated for August 2 return Posted: 17 Jul 2020 09:38 AM PDT  The NASA astronauts who traveled to the International Space Station in SpaceX's first crewed flight in May are expected to return to Earth on Aug. 2 after spending two months in orbit, a NASA spokesman said on Friday. U.S. astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will gear up for the final benchmark test of SpaceX's so-called Demo-2 mission: a coordinated splashdown somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean that will cap NASA's first crewed mission from U.S. soil in nearly a decade. Since 2011, when the U.S. space shuttle program ended, NASA astronauts have had to hitch rides into orbit aboard Russia's Soyuz spacecraft.
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| Kuwait's ruler, 91, admitted to hospital for medical checkup Posted: 18 Jul 2020 02:50 AM PDT  Kuwait's 91-year-old ruler was admitted to the hospital Saturday for a medical checkup and the country's crown prince temporarily took some of his powers in his absence, the oil-rich nation's state-run news agency reported. Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah was in "good health," the KUNA news agency said, citing a statement from the country's royal court minister. A later statement said Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah had assumed some of Sheikh Sabah's powers temporarily, without explaining why that was necessary.
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| Goya boycott, say Latinos, is about Trump's 'hate,' not politics Posted: 18 Jul 2020 03:25 AM PDT  "Puerto Ricans, Dominicans and Mexican Americans — we made that company," one former customer said. "It hurt me, coming from Goya."
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| 'Boogaloo' on the loose: Experts warn Congress about extremism on the right Posted: 17 Jul 2020 12:53 PM PDT  Authorities on extremism told Congress Thursday that far-right groups, not the radicals of antifa, currently pose the most serious threat of political violence in the U.S. — including attacks on the police.
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| Pentagon to Consider Stripping Names, Gender Pronouns from Selection Boards Posted: 17 Jul 2020 01:25 PM PDT  Defense Secretary Mark Esper said personnel leaders are eyeing options to eliminate unconscious bias from promotion boards.
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| U.S. aircraft carriers return to South China Sea amid rising tensions Posted: 17 Jul 2020 03:27 AM PDT  For the second time in two weeks, the United States has deployed two aircraft carriers to the South China Sea, the U.S. Navy said on Friday, as China and the United States accuse each other of stoking tensions in the region. The USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan carried out operations and military exercises in the contested waterway between July 4 and July 6, and returned to the region on Friday, according to a U.S. Navy statement. "Nimitz and Reagan Carrier Strike Groups are operating in the South China Sea, wherever international law allows, to reinforce our commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific, a rules based international order, and to our allies and partners in the region," Rear Admiral Jim Kirk, commander of the Nimitz, said in the statement.
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| Mexican drug cartel shows off uniformed troops with military weapons and armoured vehicles in video Posted: 18 Jul 2020 07:15 AM PDT  Mexico's top security official has said authorities are investigating a video which showed dozens of uniformed troops with military-grade weapons and armoured pickup trucks apparently connected to a major drug cartel.The video, which circulated on social media on Friday, appeared to be a show of power by members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) - one of Mexico's most powerful criminal groups.
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| India-Pakistan fighting in Kashmir kills 3, wounds 2 Posted: 18 Jul 2020 04:52 AM PDT |
| Comet Neowise is a dazzling sight, but it's also a reminder of how woefully unprepared we are for dangerous asteroids Posted: 18 Jul 2020 05:50 AM PDT  A NASA telescope spotted Comet Neowise by sheer luck three months ago. If the comet were a killer asteroid, that may have been too late.
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| Trump sours on online learning that his administration evangelized Posted: 17 Jul 2020 04:45 PM PDT  "Why do students have to go to a school building in the first place?" Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said in 2018.
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| Can Iraq rein in Shiite militias? What one killing tells us. Posted: 17 Jul 2020 12:40 PM PDT |
| U.S. passenger flights to India can resume July 23 Posted: 17 Jul 2020 07:00 PM PDT  The government of India has agreed to allow U.S. air carriers to resume passenger services in the U.S.-India market starting July 23, the U.S. Transportation Department said on Friday. The Indian government, citing the coronavirus, had banned all scheduled services, prompting the U.S. Transportation Department in June to accuse India of engaging in "unfair and discriminatory practices" on charter air carriers serving India.
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| Details released about plane crash involving Earnhardt Jr. Posted: 18 Jul 2020 10:29 AM PDT  Dale Earnhardt Jr. and a pilot struggled to open a crashed airplane's wing emergency exit as the aircraft started to burn before the race car driver and his family managed to escape from the main door, according to new details about the 2019 accident.
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| Republican senator criticised for suggesting Hispanic people less likely to follow coronavirus guidance Posted: 18 Jul 2020 05:24 AM PDT  A Republican senator has come under fire for suggesting Hispanic people in his state are less likely to wear masks and follow social distancing rules during the coronavirus pandemic.Thom Tillis, the junior senator for North Carolina, said during a virtual town hall on Tuesday that he had concerns about "less consistent adherence" with public health guidelines among the Hispanic population.
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| Floods kill 14 in China as water peaks at Three Gorges Dam Posted: 18 Jul 2020 01:55 AM PDT  At least 14 people have died in the latest round of seasonal rains and flooding in southern China, as soldiers and workers built makeshift barriers with sandbags and rocks Saturday to keep the Yangtze River and its tributaries at bay. Three floodgates of the Three Gorges Dam that spans the Yangtze were opened as the water level behind the massive dam rose more than 15 meters (50 feet) above flood level, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. The dam was holding back about 45% of the water, Xinhua said, citing China Three Gorges Corp.
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| The US government spent $1.75 million on an Airbus A321 passenger jet just to blow it up — here's why Posted: 17 Jul 2020 05:56 AM PDT  The US government typically purchases aircraft that are built in the US or by American manufacturers. Except when it just wants to blow them up.
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| Experts say this 'bridge to a vaccine' may be a reason for optimism. Here's how it works. Posted: 17 Jul 2020 02:26 PM PDT  They've been promoted as a "bridge to a vaccine." But what are monoclonal antibodies?
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| Meghan Markle Set to Fire Up the Youth Vote in Presidential Election Posted: 17 Jul 2020 01:03 AM PDT  If you love The Daily Beast's royal coverage, then we hope you'll enjoy The Royalist, a members-only series for Beast Inside. Become a member to get it in your inbox on Sunday.Meghan Markle is likely to be a prominent advocate of get-out-the-vote messaging in the run-up to the presidential election in November, a friend of the duchess tells The Daily Beast.Meghan is likely to focus her formidable celebrity firepower on enthusing young people in particular to make the all-important trip to the polls.Meghan Markle: I Was 'Unprotected' by Royal Family and 'Prohibited From Defending' Myself Intriguingly, sources would not be drawn on whether Meghan will or will not publicly endorse Joe Biden or criticize Donald Trump. However their unwillingness to rule either out suggests Meghan, who criticized Trump in forceful terms before she met Prince Harry, could yet be pondering the option of making a bombshell partisan intervention in the American presidential race.The friend said she will, however, be using her influence to urge "young people to engage in and use their civic power, to use their voices, to advocate on issues they care about," in the run up to the election.The fresh insight into the couple's increasingly overtly political—in the broadest sense of the word—public stance, came after a week which saw Meghan deliver her most activist speech yet, telling teenage attendees at the U.N.'s Girl Up conference that world leaders were not listening to young people fighting against climate change and racial injustice, and saying that young people were "setting the tone for an equitable humanity."In a pre-recorded message filmed in her Hollywood home, Meghan urged girls to "drown out" negative voices even when they were "painfully loud."Her remarks echoed the sentiments she expressed in a speech to graduating students at her old high school last month, when she urged pupils: "You're going to use your voice in a stronger way than you have ever been able to because most of you are 18—or you're going to turn 18—so you're going to vote."The source said that going forward Meghan is likely to continue to support the racial justice movement, as well as women and girls' equality movements—and underline again the importance of voting for young people.Indeed, it is the focus on encouraging participation in the November election which is likely to prove most controversial, especially given Meghan's well-known views on Trump (before she had met Harry, in the run-up to the 2016 election, Meghan called Trump "divisive" and "misogynistic" and said she might move to Canada if her were elected. Trump called her "nasty.") While urging people to use their vote is not exactly a controversial position, the freedom to speak out on an issue like this is one of the most important dividends of her and Harry's decisive split with the royal family.As a British princess, even one of American birth, there is no way Meghan could have got involved, however tangentially or non-controversially, in any commentary around a "foreign" election. Harry and Meghan have, however, made it clear in recent days that they no longer consider themselves in any way bound by the conventions of the royal family they left at the beginning of the year, despite having agreed to effectively not embarrass the Queen in their terms of departure. Just last week, for example, Harry criticized the Queen's beloved Commonwealth—a loose grouping of Anglophile nations, many of which were once colonial possessions of the crown.During a video call with some youth leaders from their home in Los Angeles, the couple appeared to take a swipe at the Commonwealth's racial history.Harry said: "When you look across the Commonwealth, there is no way that we can move forward unless we acknowledge the past. So many people have done such an incredible job of acknowledging the past and trying to right those wrongs, but I think we all acknowledge there is so much more to do."Meghan remarked: "We're going to have to be a little uncomfortable right now, because it's only in pushing through that discomfort that we get to the other side of this."The critical intervention caught the palace by surprise, and was all the more remarkable because Harry and Meghan retained their positions as president and vice-president of the Queen's Commonwealth Trust, a youth grouping within the organization.Sources have previously told The Daily Beast that Meghan was consistently infuriated by being told that she was not allowed to voice or express opinions as a royal. Indeed, Meghan's frustration at her silencing in another context—the right of reply to critical stories in the press—has now become a feature of her legal action against Associated Newspapers, the publishers of the Mail on Sunday.Meghan, who is suing Associated for invasion of privacy and breach of copyright over a private letter to her father which the paper published, said in a recent filing that when she wished to defend herself against false stories appearing in the media she was effectively banned from doing so by the palace machine, which left her feeling "unprotected."But could Meghan really come out for Biden?While it might seem unlikely, Harry and Meghan have certainly shown a remarkable facility to deliver shock after shock to the expected order of things.Having sacrificed so much to be able once again to express her opinions and to have her voice heard, it would be unwise—in this critical year for America—to bet too much against her now making the most of it.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. 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