| Top US general says military will not escort Donald Trump from the White House if election disputed Posted: 29 Aug 2020 11:45 AM PDT  America's most senior general has declared the military will not intervene if Donald Trump were to decline to leave the White House following a disputed US election. In a letter to Congress, Mark Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he did not envisage soldiers playing any role if Republicans and Democrats did not agree on the result. Mr Trump has repeatedly voiced concerns that the election will be undermined by fraud during widespread mail-in voting amid the coronavirus pandemic, and suggested that the result may never be known. Joe Biden, the Democrat nominee, has said he fears Mr Trump will try to "steal" the election but the military would "escort him from the White House with great dispatch." Democrat congresswomen Elissa Slotkin and Mikie Sherrill wrote to the general seeking answers as to what the military's role would be. In a written response General Milley, known to be a student of military history, wrote: "I believe deeply in the principle of an apolitical US military. In the event of a dispute over some aspect of the elections, by law US courts and the US Congress are required to resolve any disputes, not the US military. "I foresee no role for the US armed forces in this process. We will not turn our backs on the Constitution of the United States." Ms Slotkin said: "These are just prudent questions to be asking given the things that the president has been saying publicly." She said the general's answers "demonstrated that the chairman recognised the military's role in our elections is to essentially stay out, that the military's role in the peaceful transition of power is to stay out." Last month, Mr Trump said it was too early to guarantee he would accept the election results. He said: "I have to see. Look, I have to see. No, I'm not going to just say yes. I'm not going to say no."
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| What we know about the career of the officer who shot Jacob Blake Posted: 28 Aug 2020 10:43 AM PDT  Rusten Sheskey said in an August 2019 interview that what he likes most about police work "is that you're dealing with people on perhaps the worst day of their lives and you can try and help them."
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| Man booked in slaying of 3, including Fort Hood soldier Posted: 28 Aug 2020 07:18 PM PDT |
| In pictures: Thousands gather for historic March on Washington Posted: 28 Aug 2020 03:04 PM PDT  Some 50,000 supporters packed DC's National Mall to demand racial justice and urge people to vote.
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| Does Kyle Rittenhouse Have a Self-Defense Claim? Posted: 28 Aug 2020 08:14 AM PDT  Kenosha, a city of 100,000 in Wisconsin's southeastern corner, now confronts the question of when lethal force is justified in two different cases. One, the shooting of Jacob Blake by a police officer, I addressed yesterday. The other is the case of Kyle Rittenhouse, who is alleged to have killed two people and injured one during the civil unrest this week, and who has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide, reckless homicide, and other offenses.Rittenhouse is a 17-year-old from Antioch, Ill., about a half hour's drive from Kenosha. Inexplicably, this underage police cadet from out of state wound up on the streets after curfew in a place where a riot was likely imminent, doing interviews with journalists and openly carrying an AR-15–style rifle.There can be no question that Rittenhouse and whatever adults were in charge of him made idiotic decisions. Minors should not stand guard at riots play-acting at being cops. But even people who knowingly put themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time are allowed to defend themselves against attack when they get there. So the biggest legal question is: Did Rittenhouse defend himself against attack with an appropriate amount of force, or were the people he shot the ones acting in self-defense by trying to disarm him?The very beginning of the situation is not on video that I am aware, but the complaint against Rittenhouse contains some key details from Richard McGinnis, a Daily Caller reporter who was interviewing Rittenhouse at the time:> McGinnis said that as they were walking south another armed male who appeared to be in his 30s joined them and said he was there to protect the defendant. McGinnis stated that before the defendant reached the parking lot and ran across it, the defendant had moved from the middle of Sheridan Road to the sidewalk and that is when McGinnis saw a male ([Joseph] Rosenbaum) initially try to engage the defendant. McGinnis stated that as the defendant was walking Rosenbaum was trying to get closer to the defendant. When Rosenbaum advanced, the defendant did a "juke" move and started running. McGinnis stated that there were other people that were moving very quickly. McGinnis stated that they were moving towards the defendant. McGinnis said that according to what he saw the defendant was trying to evade these individuals.After that, much of the situation was recorded, and the New York Times has done an excellent job of stitching the videos together. This Twitter thread from a co-author of the piece nicely explains the events and (for those willing to watch graphic footage) provides the key clips:> A teenager faces charges in shootings that left 2 people dead in Kenosha, WI. The @nytimes Visual Investigations team reviewed hours of livestreams to track 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse's movements during and leading up to the shootings. [THREAD] https://t.co/FRCYlS5wgH> > -- Christiaan Triebert (@trbrtc) August 27, 2020 The first video starts with people already chasing Rittenhouse, one of whom throws something at him. One person even fires a handgun in the air — and another, Rosenbaum, charges at Rittenhouse, who shoots him. After that, there are more shots from an unknown source, and Rittenhouse calls a friend on his phone and leaves.But again he's pursued, with some protesters urging others to join in, and this time he falls down. Several people move in on him, and he takes shots at three, hitting two. One is holding a handgun and survives a shot to the arm; the other has a skateboard and dies. Again there are additional mysterious gunshots after the fact.Obviously, a big unanswered question right now is how this all really got started. But as we wait for that information, let's take a gander at the Wisconsin laws at issue.There are two extremes here: justifiable use of deadly force and first-degree intentional homicide. So let's see what the law says about those two situations, bearing in mind that other charges can apply if Rittenhouse's behavior fell in between them. (There are plenty of options: Rittenhouse is charged with reckless homicide for the first fatal shooting, first-degree intentional homicide for the second, and attempted first-degree intentional homicide for the nonfatal one, in addition to charges for reckless endangerment and bearing a dangerous weapon as a minor.)Quite typically for a U.S. state, Wisconsin allows civilian use of deadly force when one "reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm." One major issue, then, will be whether Rittenhouse reasonably thought that the folks engaging with him meant to inflict serious injury, not just disarm him.But what if Rittenhouse provoked the confrontation to begin with? That's bad for a claim of self-defense, but it doesn't preclude one. Here's another excerpt from the Wisconsin statute books:> (a) A person who engages in unlawful conduct of a type likely to provoke others to attack him or her and thereby does provoke an attack is not entitled to claim the privilege of self-defense against such attack, except when the attack which ensues is of a type causing the person engaging in the unlawful conduct to reasonably believe that he or she is in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm. In such a case, the person engaging in the unlawful conduct is privileged to act in self-defense, but the person is not privileged to resort to the use of force intended or likely to cause death to the person's assailant unless the person reasonably believes he or she has exhausted every other reasonable means to escape from or otherwise avoid death or great bodily harm at the hands of his or her assailant.> > (b) The privilege lost by provocation may be regained if the actor in good faith withdraws from the fight and gives adequate notice thereof to his or her assailant.> > (c) A person who provokes an attack, whether by lawful or unlawful conduct, with intent to use such an attack as an excuse to cause death or great bodily harm to his or her assailant is not entitled to claim the privilege of self-defense.So, even if Rittenhouse bears some responsibility for the initial conflict, he can still argue that he did everything he could to escape the situation and withdraw from the fight. Both shooting incidents began with him running away.Moving to the other extreme, to prove first-degree intentional homicide, prosecutors will have to show that Rittenhouse "cause[d] the death of another human being with intent to kill that person" and will have to disprove the existence of any "mitigating circumstances" the defense asserts. If the prosecution fails at the latter task, the offense is knocked down to the second degree.Mitigating circumstances include "adequate provocation," meaning the victim did something "sufficient to cause complete lack of self-control in an ordinarily constituted person"; "unnecessary defensive force," meaning Rittenhouse "believed he . . . was in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm and that the force used was necessary to defend [himself]," even though the belief was unreasonable; and "prevention of felony," meaning he believed his actions were necessary to stop the "commission of a felony," even though the belief was unreasonable. In other words, even if Rittenhouse unreasonably thought his actions were necessary, he can get the charge downgraded, though in that case he'll still have committed a very serious offense.Rittenhouse is already a hero to some and a supervillain to others; in that sense, he is the Bernie Goetz of 2020. The highest charge against him strikes me as a stretch, but beyond that I don't have any bold opinions yet. The outcome for each shooting will depend on whether Rittenhouse reasonably feared for his life, which in turn might depend on broader context we lack thus far — and even if all three shootings were justified, there are still firearms and reckless-endangerment charges for him to contend with.Where the f*** were this kid's parents?
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| New Jersey mayor rescinds $2,500 police overtime bill sent to student who organized BLM protest Posted: 29 Aug 2020 04:16 PM PDT  After holding the protest in July, Emily Gil received a letter from Mayor Mario Kranjac saying she owed $2,499.26 for police overtime.
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| A Democratic turf war is raging — even as progressives try to elect Biden Posted: 29 Aug 2020 04:00 AM PDT  Off-the-radar battles between moderates and progressives have broken out over health care, police reform and primary challenges.
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| Sarah Palin can sue New York Times for defamation: court ruling Posted: 28 Aug 2020 03:06 PM PDT  A federal judge on Friday rejected the New York Times' bid to dismiss Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit over a 2017 editorial she said falsely linked her to a mass shooting. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan said that while much of Palin's case was circumstantial, it was strong enough for a jury to find the Times and former editorial page editor James Bennet acted with "actual malice by clear and convincing evidence." Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate and former Alaska governor, sued over a June 14, 2017 editorial published after an Alexandria, Virginia, shooting that wounded four people, including then-House Majority Whip Steve Scalise.
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| Stolen Fortnite accounts are being sold on the black market for hundreds of dollars Posted: 29 Aug 2020 05:05 AM PDT  Hackers are using tools that allow them to see if login credentials from past data breaches allow them access to Fortnite accounts.
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| CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta fears attendees of Trump's RNC speech will get COVID-19 and 'may even die' Posted: 28 Aug 2020 07:29 AM PDT  CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta couldn't be more exasperated by President Trump's decision to speak before a packed crowd at the Republican National Convention, fearing some attendees could die from COVID-19 as a result.Trump on Thursday delivered his acceptance speech at the RNC before a crowd of about 1,500 people who weren't practicing social distancing and few of whom were wearing masks, a fact Gupta sounded the alarm about on Friday morning, expressing deep frustration that such an event took place during the coronavirus pandemic."The history books will be written about this chapter in our lives at some point, and it will show events like that and say that in the middle of a pandemic ... at a time when there were more than 5 million infected, we started having events like that again," Gupta said. "It's really frustrating. It's mind-boggling."Gupta went on to say that this demonstrates that some people still haven't "learned" how dangerous COVID-19 is, and he raised concerns about the coronavirus spread the event may lead to."There will be people who became infected as a result of that event last night," Gupta said. "And there will be people who will spread it, and possibly require hospitalization, may even die as a result of that event last night."CNN's Jim Acosta reports that a senior White House official dismissed concerns about the crowd at the event by declaring, "Everybody is going to catch this thing eventually." But Gupta pushed back against that flippant comment, noting that what COVID-19 "does to the body" long term still isn't clear and warning, "You don't want this virus." > "There will be people who became infected as a result of that event last night, and there'll be people who will spread it and possibly require hospitalization, may even die," @drsanjaygupta says about the large crowd that wasn't socially distanced for Trump's RNC speech. pic.twitter.com/BIU3JBTV0W> > -- CNN (@CNN) August 28, 2020More stories from theweek.com Trump's RNC polling bounce more about 'subtraction on the Biden side,' pollster suggests 5 more scathingly funny cartoons about the Republican National Convention Many uninsured coronavirus patients reportedly don't qualify for Trump's coverage program because of other illnesses
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| If the police officer who shot Jacob Blake can prove he feared an 'imminent risk of death or great bodily harm,' his shooting could be legally justified Posted: 29 Aug 2020 10:45 AM PDT  An officer shot Jacob Blake while he had his back turned toward them. If they reasonably feared for their lives, it may be legally justified.
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| Hurricane Laura was the latest storm to strengthen fast, but is rapid intensification really becoming more common? Posted: 28 Aug 2020 05:25 AM PDT  Hurricane Laura blew up quickly as it headed for the Louisiana coast, intensifying from a tropical storm to a major hurricane in less than 24 hours. By the time it made it landfall, it was a powerful Category 4 hurricane with 150 mile-per-hour winds.The Atlantic has seen several hurricanes rapidly intensify like this in recent years. In 2018, Hurricane Michael unexpectedly jumped from Category 2 to Category 5 in the span of a day before hitting the Florida Panhandle. Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria in 2017 also met the definition of rapid intensification: an increase of at least 35 miles per hour in a 24-hour period. Based on preliminary reports from the National Hurricane Center, Laura gained 65 mph in one 24-hour period and, more impressively, added 80 mph from Aug. 25 to Aug. 27.But do all these fast-growing, powerful storms in recent years mean rapid intensification is becoming more common?With information about hurricanes coming through social media and phone apps, that's a question hurricane scientists like myself are hearing a lot. It's useful to consider a few things: the history of U.S. hurricanes, why the Atlantic is currently so active, and the ingredients that allow storms to strengthen so quickly. What makes storms blow up?Just as a pastry chef needs all the ingredients to successfully make a cake, storms like Laura need favorable conditions to be able to form and rapidly intensify. Three key ingredients help a hurricane rapidly intensify: * Warm ocean waters. Hurricanes draw energy from warm surface water, particularly when it's at least 80 degrees Fahrenheit or warmer. * Ample moisture, or water content in the atmosphere, to maintain clouds. * Low vertical wind shear. This is a measure of how the wind changes speed and direction with height in the atmosphere. High wind shear will disrupt the clouds, making it hard for the storm to stay together.When all of these ingredients are present, vigorous thunderstorms can form and organize, allowing a robust eyewall to develop. Large-scale changes in ocean temperature, like the El Niño–Southern Oscillation and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation, can also have an impact on hurricane activity.Because these ingredients change, the Atlantic hurricane season varies year to year. This year, as the seasonal forecasts created by Colorado State University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned, the ingredients are favorable for an active season with more major hurricanes. A review of storms from 1981 to 2012 found that 70% of major Atlantic hurricanes – those reaching Category 3 or higher – had gone through rapid intensification. Why don't all storms grow this quickly?Just having the right water temperature and moisture won't ensure that storms will undergo rapid intensification or become major hurricanes. We saw that with Hurricane Marco. It swept through the Gulf of Mexico just ahead of Hurricane Laura but weakened to a tropical storm before landfall.A big difference was the wind shear. The thunderstorms powering Marco's core struggled to stay connected to its circulation as high wind shear in the Gulf of Mexico stripped them away.When then-Tropical Storm Laura passed over Cuba into the Gulf, the high wind shear conditions had receded, leaving nothing but a favorable environment for Laura to develop catastrophic winds and a dangerous storm surge. As with ice skaters who pull their arms in during a spin to rotate faster, the thunderstorms of Laura's eyewall pulled in the atmosphere around the storm, causing the winds to accelerate into a high-end Category 4 storm. While there are additional complexities to this process, a theoretical framework for intensification that I further developed with colleauges highlights how the location of eyewall thunderstorms relative to the storm's maximum winds triggers rapid intensification. This theory has been supported by eyewall observations collected during "hurricane hunter" flights. So, are these events becoming more common?This is a challenging question and an active topic of research. Because rapidly intensifying hurricanes are fairly rare, there isn't enough information yet to say if rapid intensification is happening more often. The hurricane research community has consistent, reliable observations of storm intensity only since the start of the satellite era and routine storm-penetrating "hurricane hunter" flights since the 1970s.We have seen more rapid intensification events in recent years, and some scientists have concluded that the warming climate is likely playing a role. However, we've also had more active hurricane seasons in those years, and more work needs to be done in this area to understand global trends, such as why hurricanes are crossing ocean basins more slowly. To try to answer this puzzle, hurricane researchers are using historical records to help refine mathematical theories and computer simulations of storms to better understand rapid intensification. The new knowledge will continue to improve forecast guidance and lead to a better understanding of how hurricanes will change in an evolving climate system.[Deep knowledge, daily. Sign up for The Conversation's newsletter.]This article is republished from The Conversation, a nonprofit news site dedicated to sharing ideas from academic experts.Read more: * A burning chemical plant may be just the tip of Hurricane Laura's damage in this area of oil fields and industry * Hurricanes can cause enormous damage inland, but emergency plans focus on coastsChris Slocum receives funding from and is employed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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| Six US Air Force B-52 bombers make symbolic sweep over all NATO members Posted: 28 Aug 2020 10:43 AM PDT  The one-off mission, titled "Allied Sky," is meant to signal the alliance's unity and improve interoperability, say U.S. military officials.
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| Australia open to talks over where NZ mosque shooter serves life sentence Posted: 27 Aug 2020 07:55 PM PDT  Australia's prime minister said on Friday he was open to discussions over whether Australian mass killer Brenton Tarrant, jailed for life without parole this week for the New Zealand mosque shootings, should serve his sentence in his home country. Scott Morrison told broadcaster Channel Seven he had not received a formal request from New Zealand for such a transfer, although New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters suggested it after Tarrant was sentenced on Thursday. "We'll have an open discussion and look at the issues around this," Morrison said, adding that the views of the affected families would need to be considered first.
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| A California chicken processing plant was shut down after a coronavirus outbreak infected 358 workers and killed 8 Posted: 28 Aug 2020 02:03 PM PDT  Heath officials said testing was insufficient so Foster Farms' outbreak became the "most severe and long-lasting" in Merced County.
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| Bush's 2004 strategist says 'people's hair would be on fire' if Bush, Obama had used the White House as a re-election prop Posted: 27 Aug 2020 10:00 PM PDT  President Trump walked from the White House to a stage on the South Lawn to give his Republican National Convention acceptance speech Thursday night, turning "the People's House" into "a partisan prop like no politician has ever done before," Michael D. Shear writes at The New York Times.> This is the image people have in their heads when they write government ethics laws. pic.twitter.com/8ljWmw7pCK> > -- Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) August 27, 2020"Previous presidents have sought to carefully navigate the propriety of mixing campaigning with governing," Shear noted, and while a few have announced their re-election campaigns from inside the White House, none has used it for such an "overtly political event," with "live crowds flanked by giant Jumbotrons on either side of the White House, serving as immense campaign billboards." If Barack Obama or George W. Bush had tried such a stunt during their re-election campaigns, "people's hair would be on fire," Bush's 2004 campaign chief strategist, Matthew Dowd, said on ABC News.> .@matthewjdowd: "I never thought I would see what I'm seeing tonight on the South Lawn. > > I can't imagine what would have happened if we had done that in 2004 or if Barack Obama had done that in 2012...people's hair would be on fire." https://t.co/AL3W4wottM RNC2020 pic.twitter.com/qy1yItFEzi> > -- ABC News (@ABC) August 28, 2020"It's not only, I believe, unethical, misuse of government power," Dowd added. "It may be illegal, what's happening on the South Lawn, and a bad modeling of behavior in the midst of a COVID crisis."None of the Bushes participated in this year's RNC, nor did any Cheneys, Reagans, or McCains. Also, "several dozen former staffers from Sen. Mitt Romney's (R-Utah) presidential campaign, the George W. Bush administration, and the campaign and Senate staff of former Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) have signed on to an effort to elect Joe Biden," Politico reported Thursday. "For the Romney and McCain staffers, they're working to elect the same man they tried to defeat in 2012 and 2008, respectively." (Dowd was not among the Bush alumni who signed a pro-Biden letter.)But perhaps Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) had the most succinct, on-brand response to Trump's use of the White House as a campaign prop. > Get off our lawn.> > -- Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) August 28, 2020More stories from theweek.com Trump's RNC polling bounce more about 'subtraction on the Biden side,' pollster suggests 5 more scathingly funny cartoons about the Republican National Convention Many uninsured coronavirus patients reportedly don't qualify for Trump's coverage program because of other illnesses
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| Dramatic last-second launch abort grounds spy satellite Posted: 29 Aug 2020 04:17 AM PDT  The "hot-fire abort" derailed plans for three launches in just two days from Florida's Space Coast.
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| Fact check: Jacob Blake did not 'brandish' knife, get gun before Kenosha police shooting Posted: 28 Aug 2020 08:33 AM PDT  There was no gun involved. Police did find a knife in the SUV, but authorities haven't said if Blake held it at some point.
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| Joe and Jill Biden have been married for 43 years — here's a timeline of their relationship Posted: 28 Aug 2020 12:33 PM PDT  Joe and Dr. Jill Biden have been at each other's sides through successes and failures, joyful celebrations and devastating losses.
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| Riot in Sweden after anti-Muslim Danish leader banned Posted: 29 Aug 2020 07:24 AM PDT  At least 10 people were arrested, and several police officers injured, in violence which broke out in southern Sweden after an anti-Muslim Danish politician was blocked from attending a Koran-burning rally, police said Saturday.
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| Prominent lawyer in Haiti is shot and killed at his home Posted: 29 Aug 2020 10:45 AM PDT |
| Louisiana avoided Laura's 'wall of water'? Not so, says forecaster Posted: 28 Aug 2020 08:26 AM PDT  The highest surge hit about 15 miles east of where Laura was forecast to make landfall but it "wobbled" at the last moment. Most U.S. media played up a nine-foot surge recorded by a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration observation station near Cameron, Louisiana, and the NHC was criticized for perhaps raising too much alarm.
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| Elon Musk confirmed a Russian national tried to bribe a Tesla employee with $1 million in a bungled ransomware attack Posted: 28 Aug 2020 04:46 AM PDT  The DOJ accused a Russian national of offering $1 million to an employee to install malware. Elon Musk confirmed the employee worked for Tesla.
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| McConnell inexplicably claims that Democrats want to tell Americans 'how many hamburgers you can eat' Posted: 27 Aug 2020 06:27 PM PDT  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) asked Americans to "support Republican Senate candidates across the country and re-elect my friend, President Donald Trump" during the Republican National Convention on Thursday night — including making an ominous (and false) threat that Democrats are prepared to take away your hamburgers if you don't.McConnell has been a bit of a reluctant ally — and even occasional foe — of the president's, even initially announcing he had no plans to talk at the convention before walking the statement back. But speaking from the verdant fields of Kentucky, McConnell stressed the importance of the election for conservative voters. Democrats "want to tell you when you can go to work, when your kid can go to school," McConnell claimed. "They want to tax your job out of existence, and then send you a government check for unemployment."He added that Democrats "want to tell you what kind of car you can drive, what sources of information are credible, and even how many hamburgers you can eat."> 'They want to tell you what kind of car you can drive, what sources of information are credible, and even how many hamburgers you can eat' — Rep. Mitch McConnell thinks he knows what Democrats are all about RNC2020 pic.twitter.com/8FVJvi032X> > — NowThis (@nowthisnews) August 28, 2020While it's not true that Democrats are seeking to regulate hamburgers, CNN's Daniel Dale noted that the claim "may, or may not, be an exaggerated reference to Sen. Kamala Harris's musings about dietary guidelines, which are not mandates."Either way, McConnell's intention was clear: "With two more liberal senators, we cannot undo the damage [Democrats have] done," he said.More stories from theweek.com Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman dies at 43 5 more scathingly funny cartoons about the Republican National Convention Sleepy Donald closes out the RNC
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| First confirmed case of COVID-19 reinfection is ‘not surprising,’ doctors say Posted: 29 Aug 2020 09:12 AM PDT  Researchers in Hong Kong confirmed the first known case of coronavirus reinfection, but many doctors and public health officials say it isn't that surprising given what we know about waning immunity from other coronaviruses.
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| California residents didn't want controlled burns near their homes. Some of those homes then burned in a wildfire. Posted: 29 Aug 2020 12:48 PM PDT  Experts say prescribed burns are key to avoiding destructive wildfires. But the concerns of some homeowners sometimes stands in the way.
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| Kenosha residents say the way police handled the 2 shootings this week tell you all you need to know about whether the city is racist Posted: 28 Aug 2020 02:40 PM PDT  Kenosha, Wisconsin, has been thrust into the national reckoning on racism and police brutality after the shootings of Jacob Blake and protesters.
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| Cops found a barefoot missing Memphis girl in Biscayne Park. She led them to her sister. Posted: 28 Aug 2020 03:00 AM PDT  Biscayne Park Detective Rodney Schwartz rode his police motorcycle over to Griffin Boulevard early Tuesday morning after being told about a young girl who was "wandering aimlessly." When he found her, Sandra Bates, 13, was barefoot and disheveled and had that "thousand-yard stare," Schwartz said. Schwartz's search through databases was fruitless.
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| U.S. military identifies two soldiers killed in Black Hawk training crash Posted: 29 Aug 2020 01:41 PM PDT |
| Researchers at the University of Arizona say they stopped a coronavirus outbreak before it spread by testing students' poop Posted: 29 Aug 2020 04:09 AM PDT  Researchers at the University of Arizona say they may have prevented an outbreak of COVID-19 using wastewater-based epidemiology.
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| 2 more Kenosha officers named in Jacob Blake shooting Posted: 28 Aug 2020 05:53 PM PDT  The Wisconsin Department of Justice named two more Kenosha police officers involved in Jacob Blake's shooting.
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| Biden, aiming at Trump, says he won't use military as 'prop' Posted: 29 Aug 2020 12:28 PM PDT  Joe Biden said on Saturday that as president, he would never use the military "as a prop or private militia" and accused President Donald Trump of employing U.S. forces to settle "personal vendettas" and violate citizens' rights. The Democratic presidential nominee, in a virtual address to the National Guard Association of the United States' general conference, said Trump recommended "that you should be deployed to quote, 'dominate,' your fellow citizens for exercising their right to peacefully protest." "We're so much better than this," Biden said.
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| Turkey and Greece staring into 'the abyss' as tensions in Mediterranean risk spiraling into conflict Posted: 29 Aug 2020 04:20 AM PDT  As warships bristling with 21st century weapons systems prowled the eastern Mediterranean, Turkey's president drew on a rather earlier era to underline his latest round of sabre-rattling towards Greece. Recep Tayyip Erdogan chose the anniversary of a battle that took place near 1,000 years ago as an opportunity to warn the Greeks that they would be swept aside if they stood in the way of Turkish ambitions in the region. At the Battle of Manzikert in 1071, the Turkish Seljuk Empire beat Christian Byzantine forces, capturing the Byzantine emperor and forcing entry into the great hinterland of Anatolia. The battle is celebrated as marking the birth of the state of Turkey; nearly a millennium later, President Erdogan was in bellicose mood. "Turkey will take what is its right in the Mediterranean, in the Aegean and in the Black Sea," he said during the speech on Wednesday. "If anyone wants to stand before us and face the consequences, they are welcome to. If not, stay out of our way and we will continue with our work."
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| Letters to the Editor: An eviction apocalypse looms for California, but not in L.A. Here's why Posted: 28 Aug 2020 02:59 PM PDT  The state's emergency measure against eviction expires Sept. 1, but L.A.'s tough ordinances will continue to provide protection, Councilman Mitch O'Farrell writes.
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| Jacob Blake is no longer handcuffed to his hospital bed now that his July arrest warrant has been vacated, lawyer says Posted: 28 Aug 2020 02:12 PM PDT  Attorney Patrick Cafferty told the Chicago Sun-Times that $500 bail has been posted so deputies are no longer standing guard in Jacob Blake's room.
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| Child clinging to inflatable unicorn rescued off the coast of Greece Posted: 28 Aug 2020 01:07 PM PDT  Believe it or not, this isn't the first time someone has found themselves stranded on an inflatable unicorn.
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| Byron Allen’s $10 billion racial discrimination lawsuit against Charter Communications allowed to proceed Posted: 28 Aug 2020 11:22 PM PDT  Byron Allen's $10 billion racial discrimination lawsuit filed against Charter Communications will proceed after a district court judge ruled in his favor in a motion to dismiss. Allen's Entertainment Studios Networks, Inc., which is the parent company of theGrio, announced on Friday that Federal District Court Judge George H. Wu once again denied Charter Communications' motion to dismiss the suit in which Allen accused the cable company of violating the Civil Rights Act of 1866. Judge Wu had previously ruled in Allen's favor back in October 2016, which Charter later appealed.
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| Amazon driver hits 73-year-old man in the face after being 'asked to wear a face mask' while delivering packages Posted: 28 Aug 2020 12:26 PM PDT  An Amazon delivery driver allegedly assaulted a 73-year-old man that asked him to put on a face mask before entering a condo.The alleged assault was caught on surveillance video. Ray Breslin, who asked the driver to stay out of the building until he had a mask, returns from their discussion wearing a mask.
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| Map: State-by-state breakdown of coronavirus travel restrictions Posted: 28 Aug 2020 12:32 PM PDT  U.S. states and territories are making new rules for travelers. Find which ones across the United States have implemented travel restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19.
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| Trump knocks protesters against racial injustice during New Hampshire rally Posted: 28 Aug 2020 03:03 AM PDT  Fresh from accepting the Republican nomination, U.S. President Donald Trump had harsh words for anti-racism protesters on Friday during a campaign stop in the politically important state of New Hampshire. Addressing a crowd in an airport hangar, Trump called the demonstrators who sought to disrupt his White House speech on Thursday night "thugs" and said Senator Rand Paul could have died when he was swarmed by protesters afterwards. Paul said on Friday he was attacked by an "angry mob" of more than 100 people near the White House and had to be rescued by the police.
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| Kosovo currently the deadliest country for coronavirus, despite having Europe's youngest population Posted: 28 Aug 2020 09:07 AM PDT  Kosovo has become the world's most deadly country for Covid-19 despite the fact it has Europe's youngest population, as the republic's divided political class struggles to contain the virus. Over the last week, the death rate in Kosovo jumped to 54.2 fatalities per million people, making the republic of 1.8 million the world's leader when it comes to per capita deaths from the virus, according to figures from John Hopkins University. Columbia is in second place, with 50 fatalities per million people. Avdullah Hoti, the prime minister who tested positive for the virus in early August, has warned that the hospitals across the country were running out of beds due to an influx of new Covid cases. He has also said the government was prepared to bring in new restrictions in an effort to contain the virus. Despite Kosovo's young population - 53 percent of its people are under the age of 25 - it has proved particularly vulnerable to the pandemic.
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| Thai submarine purchase hits rough seas Posted: 28 Aug 2020 10:13 AM PDT  Thailand's intention to buy two more submarines from China has run into vociferous resistance, with the country's main opposition party questioning the need to go ahead with the acquisition against the backdrop of the economic slump.
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| Judge agrees to free Chinese researcher in visa fraud case Posted: 28 Aug 2020 07:01 PM PDT |
