| India sends 'hotline' message to Chinese over alleged kidnapping Posted: 07 Sep 2020 06:48 AM PDT  Reports say Chinese troops abducted five Indian civilians in a disputed border area.
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| Majority of Young Adults in the U.S. Now Live With Their Parents: Report Posted: 06 Sep 2020 02:01 PM PDT  The number of 18 to 29 year olds living at home hit a low of 29% in 1960 and it has risen over the decades
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| Tahlequah, 'Tour of Grief' killer whale, gives birth Posted: 06 Sep 2020 02:54 PM PDT |
| ‘Reckless & selfish.’ Huge Burning Man bash leads mayor to close San Francisco beach Posted: 06 Sep 2020 01:53 PM PDT  "You are not celebrating. You are putting people's lives at risk," Mayor London Breed wrote on Twitter.
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| Trump says he's taking 'high road' by not meeting with Democrats on coronavirus relief Posted: 07 Sep 2020 01:21 PM PDT  Talks between the Trump administration and Congress on a new round of aid for those hit hard by the pandemic have been stalled since late July.
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| Wary Hong Kongers shun China-backed mass virus testing Posted: 06 Sep 2020 11:26 PM PDT  Hong Kong's plan to test every resident for the coronavirus is being hobbled by limited take-up as a wary public steer clear of the China-backed health scheme.
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| Philippine leader pardons US Marine in transgender killing Posted: 07 Sep 2020 04:18 AM PDT  The Philippine president pardoned a U.S. Marine on Monday in a surprise move that will free him from imprisonment in the 2014 killing of a transgender Filipino woman that sparked anger in the former American colony. President Rodrigo Duterte said he decided to pardon Lance Cpl. Joseph Scott Pemberton because the Marine was not treated fairly after opponents blocked his early release for good conduct in detention.
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| Oregon rejects GOP voter statement, says it was submitted 29 seconds late Posted: 06 Sep 2020 10:15 AM PDT  The Oregon Republican Party's statement for the state voters' pamphlet arrived 29 seconds too late and will not appear in the guide mailed to voters for the November election, according to officials.
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| 'Mind-bogglingly complex': Here's what we know about how COVID vaccine will be distributed when it's approved Posted: 07 Sep 2020 09:11 AM PDT  We don't know when a COVID-19 vaccine will arrive, but we're starting to understand how it will be distributed. The logistics can be complicated.
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| Nigerian men arrested over German PPE 'scam' Posted: 07 Sep 2020 02:04 PM PDT  The men are accused of cloning the website of a Dutch company to obtain an order from a German state.
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| Search Underway After Sailor Goes Missing from Carrier Nimitz Posted: 06 Sep 2020 01:27 PM PDT  Search-and-rescue efforts are underway in the North Arabian Sea,
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| China says can cooperate with U.S. journalists if Chinese media treated fairly in U.S. Posted: 07 Sep 2020 12:07 AM PDT |
| Evicted state Senate hopeful charged with breaking into her old home, Georgia cops say Posted: 07 Sep 2020 10:20 AM PDT  Linda Pritchett told police her eviction was "improper."
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| West Virginia University suspending in-person undergrad classes amid COVID-19 spike Posted: 07 Sep 2020 02:52 PM PDT  "This pause in face-to-face undergraduate instruction will give us time to monitor the steadily climbing cases of COVID-19," a university official said.
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| Almost 300 Rohingya found on beach in Indonesia’s Aceh Posted: 06 Sep 2020 09:39 PM PDT  Almost 300 Rohingya Muslims were found on a beach in Indonesia's Aceh province on Monday after months at sea, officials said. Officials arrived and found that the Rohingya had dispersed into three groups after landing, Banda Sakti Subdistrict Military Commander Roni Mahendra said. Indrika Ratwatte, the director for Asia and the Pacific for UNHCR, the U.N. refugee agency, said the Rohingya had survived about seven months at sea in desperate conditions, with some needing medical treatment.
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| Bernie Sanders is convinced Trump won’t concede if he loses November election Posted: 06 Sep 2020 09:54 AM PDT  Former presidential hopeful and Sen. Bernie Sanders is convinced, however, that President Donald Trump is set to dishonor that tradition, should he lose his bid for re-election in November. In an interview with Politico, the Vermont independent stated that he believes there is a good chance that Trump will refuse to concede defeat if his opponent, Democratic nominee Joe Biden, is elected this fall. Sanders said this isn't "just idle speculation," being that Trump said it himself.
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| How we're developing a COVID-19 vaccine at 'Warp Speed': Alex Azar Posted: 07 Sep 2020 10:54 AM PDT  COVID-19 vaccines are in development and trials with Operation Warp Speed. Hopefully, in the months to come, there will be success.
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| Lithuania fears Lukashenko will sign away Belarus independence to Russia Posted: 07 Sep 2020 12:02 PM PDT  Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko could be about to give away his country's independence by signing an agreement on deeper integration with Russia, Lithuania's foreign minister said on Monday. Russian President Vladimir Putin has for many years pushed for closer ties with Belarus under the auspices of a unified state, and raised the idea again last month. Lukashenko has in the past rejected such moves, accusing Russia of wanting to swallow up his country, but now faces protests and the threat of Western sanctions over an Aug. 9 presidential election which opponents say was rigged.
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| Cyclist flashed his butt and assaulted pedestrians on Virginia trails, police say Posted: 07 Sep 2020 12:12 PM PDT  David Marlowe, 55, faces multiple charges.
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| China's first reusable spacecraft lands after 2-days in orbit Posted: 06 Sep 2020 05:49 AM PDT |
| North Korea's Kim inspects region hit by Typhoon Maysak Posted: 07 Sep 2020 03:49 AM PDT  SHOTLIST SOUTH HAMGYONG, NORTH KOREASEPTEMBER 5, 2020SOURCE: KCTVRESTRICTIONS: NO RESALE 1. Tracking shot North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visiting damaged area2. Wide shot official talking to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un3. Mid shot North Korean leader Kim Jong Un talking to officials at damaged area4. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un talking to officials at damaged area5. Wide shot damaged houses in flood6. Mid shot damaged houses7. Tracking shot North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walking at damaged area8. Wide shot North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walking at damaged area9. Wide shot North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looking at damaged area10. Extreme wide shot North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and officials in front of damaged houses11. Mid shot North Korean leader Kim Jong Un talking to officials while pointing at damaged area12. Tracking shot North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visiting damaged area13. Wide shot North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looking at damaged area14. Extreme wide shot North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visiting damaged area ///-----------------------------------------------------------AFP TEXT STORY: N. Korea's Kim orders thousands to help typhoon recoverySeoul, Sept 6, 2020 (AFP) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered 12,000 elite members of his ruling party based in Pyongyang to help with recovery efforts in two rural provinces lashed by a powerful typhoon, state media reported Sunday.Typhoon Maysak brought days of heavy downpours to the country's east coast earlier this week even as the North was still reeling from earlier flooding and typhoon damage, and another storm is forecast to barrel through the peninsula by Tuesday.Natural disasters tend to have a greater impact in the North due to its creaking infrastructure, and the country is vulnerable to flooding as many mountains and hills have long been deforested.More than 1,000 homes were destroyed by Maysak and public buildings and farmland were inundated with floodwater across North and South Hamgyong provinces, the official KCNA news agency reported.Kim inspected the damage on Saturday and held a policy meeting on disaster relief efforts, KCNA said.He also dismissed the chairman of the South Hamgyong provincial party committee, the report added.Photos carried by Sunday's official Rodong Sinmun newspaper showed Kim standing in front of destroyed homes and toppled trees as he discussed the situation with officials.In a two-page handwritten open letter to members of the ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, Kim said around 12,000 members from the capital will be sent to the two provinces to help with the recovery ahead of a key holiday next month.North Korea will mark the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the party on October 10."We cannot let a lot of people in South Hamgyong Province and North Hamgyong Province who newly suffered damage spend the holiday homeless," Kim was quoted as saying in the letter, which was carried by the Rodong Sinmun.The damage was an "urgent situation which needs to be tackled without even a moment's delay", he added.The report did not say how many were injured, missing or dead.In 2016 at least 138 North Koreans died after torrential rain triggered major floods, the United Nations said at the time.In the summer of 2012 more than 160 people were killed by a massive rainstorm.sh/axn
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| Priest tapped as Duluth, Minnesota bishop resigns amid probe Posted: 07 Sep 2020 07:40 AM PDT |
| Fact check: Payroll taxes cut by executive action must be paid back Posted: 07 Sep 2020 11:55 AM PDT  Your paycheck might be bigger lately, but you'll have to pay back any payroll tax cuts being deferred during the rest of 2020.
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| Living Vehicle unveiled its luxury new travel trailer RV with a convertible home office starting at almost $229,300 — take a look inside Posted: 06 Sep 2020 05:12 AM PDT  The trailer comes in three models ranging from $229,995 to $369,995, but the only difference is its power system.
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| Rival militias descend on Louisville at 'No justice, no Derby' Breonna Taylor protest Posted: 05 Sep 2020 08:08 PM PDT  Protesters march peacefully around Churchill Downs for Breonna Taylor, insisting "No justice, no Derby." Armed militias on both sides are also present.
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| Deal likely to fund U.S. government to early December, Mnuchin says Posted: 06 Sep 2020 06:35 AM PDT  U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Sunday said a deal between the White House and Congress would fund the federal government through the beginning of December and that details of the spending bill should be finalized by week's end. Mnuchin and U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had agreed to extend funding, according to a Democratic aide, but details on the bill have yet to emerge. "We're going to move forward with a clean CR (continuing resolution), hopefully through the beginning of December," Mnuchin told reporters at the White House, adding: "I hope by the end of the week we'll have something firmed up."
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| South Africa's Clicks beauty stores raided after 'racist' hair advert Posted: 07 Sep 2020 06:48 AM PDT  The advert showed African hair labelled dry and dull while white hair was described as fine and flat.
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| California hiker dies as record heat wave and wildfires scorch state Posted: 06 Sep 2020 05:08 PM PDT  Temperatures reached 121 degrees in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Woodland Hills.
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| German foreign minister raises spectre of Nord Stream 2 sanctions over Navalny poisoning Posted: 05 Sep 2020 09:55 PM PDT  Germany could drop the Nord Stream 2 pipeline as punishment for the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Berlin said for the first time on Sunday as it threatened the Kremlin with sanctions. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said that "I hope... that the Russians do not force us to change our position on Nord Stream," in comments made to Bild newspaper. Mr Maas said that Berlin "would be compelled" to raise the issue of sanctions with its allies if Russia did not take steps towards investigating Mr Navalny's poisoning in the coming days. " If the Russians don't take part in solving the case then it is a further indication that they were involved," Mr Maas said. "If they don't go beyond smoke and mirrors we'll have to assume that Russia has something to hide." British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said that "The use of chemical weapons in this kind of context is pure gangsterism and Russia does have responsibility never to use it as a government, and second of all to make sure no-one else can use it within its territory." Nord Stream 2 is a new pipeline that would allow more Russian gas to flow to Europe via Germany, and is of strategic importance to Russia. But cancelling the project would be an ultima ratio for Germany, given its own financial interest in seeing the project through. There is little over 100 kilometres of the multi-billion euro pipeline still to be laid, but nothing has happened on the project since the US - which is opposed to it - threatened the companies involved with severe sanctions last December. And since a German army laboratory confirmed on Wednesday that Mr Navalny had been the victim of an assassination attempt with the nerve gas Novichok, domestic pressure has grown on the German government to cancel the gas line. Even within the ruling Christian Democratic Union party, influential foreign policy expert Norbert Röttgen said that "if the project were to be completed that would give Putin the ultimate proof that he can carry on with his politics as normal. A European decision should be: stop Nord Stream 2." Mr Maas made clear though that he wanted to avoid hitting the gas line if at all possible. "Those calling for a stop need to know what the consequences are," he said. "There are more than 100 companies from 12 European countries involved, and roughly half of them are German." There are also indications that Chancellor Angela Merkel has shifted her stance after saying last week that the pipeline should remain "decoupled" from Navalny. The statement came in for criticism from sections of the media. Asked at Friday's press conference if she would repeat the statement, her spokesman, Stefan Seibert, declined to comment. Mr Navalny is currently lying in an artificially induced coma in Berlin's Charité hospital. Doctors say that his condition is improving but that he will have a long road to recovery.
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| Hamas leader says group has missiles that can hit Tel Aviv Posted: 06 Sep 2020 10:07 AM PDT |
| Police were called on a Black man in Ohio after someone thought he had a gun but it turned out he just talking on his cellphone Posted: 06 Sep 2020 11:08 AM PDT  An anonymous woman called in a 911 tip about a man "in a black Mustang with a gun," and said she was "pretty darn sure" he had a pistol, local news reported.
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| Cardi B slams Candace Owens: ‘I’m not getting pimped out by White men’ Posted: 06 Sep 2020 06:22 PM PDT  Cardi B had time on her hands Sunday night when she posted a stinging video message to conservative personality Candace Owens. The Grammy award-winning performer, who refused to show her face on camera because she was under the weather, held nothing back in her address to Owens, who Cardi accused of harassing her online for her support of Democratic Party. Cardi B, real name Belcalis Almánzar, said that Trump supporters had been harassing her online due to her previous endorsement of Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primary and later of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
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| Gottlieb says COVID-19 vaccine "staged introduction" likely for 2021 Posted: 06 Sep 2020 08:13 AM PDT  Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb says Americans are "exhausted" by coronavirus mitigation efforts, warning vigilance to fight the virus.
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| Three Somali special forces killed, U.S. officer wounded in car bomb, Somali official says Posted: 07 Sep 2020 03:56 AM PDT |
| 13,000 chairs outside German parliament in Greek migrant camps protest Posted: 07 Sep 2020 01:47 PM PDT  Campaigners placed 13,000 chairs outside the German parliament building in Berlin on Monday, in a symbolic protest calling for the overcrowded migrants camps in Greek islands to be shut down.
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| Letter from Africa: Why journalists in Nigeria feel under attack Posted: 06 Sep 2020 04:01 PM PDT  A video of a tongue-lashing one reporter recently received comes as no surprise, writes Mannir Dan Ali.
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| California wildfire traps campers in national forest Posted: 05 Sep 2020 09:23 PM PDT  The Creek Fire jumped a river and compromised the only road into the Mammoth Pool Campground, where they were forced to shelter in place.
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| Another popular Boeing plane is reportedly being investigated by the FAA after newly discovered production errors ground 8 aircraft Posted: 07 Sep 2020 05:23 PM PDT  Eight Boeing 787 Dreamliners were grounded after a potentially unsafe combination of two issues stemming from production errors was discovered.
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| Nebraska police officer dies 2 weeks after he was shot Posted: 07 Sep 2020 08:43 AM PDT  A Nebraska police officer who was shot two weeks ago while attempting to arrest a 17-year-old on an assault charge died Monday, authorities said. Luis "Mario" Herrera, a 23-year veteran of the Lincoln Police Department, was shot while serving a warrant Aug. 26, The Lincoln Journal Star reported. "Sadness does not begin to describe fully our community's sense of loss with the passing of Investigator Mario Herrera," Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird said in a brief statement.
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| Bond denied for Georgia trooper charged in fatal shooting of Black motorist Posted: 06 Sep 2020 08:30 AM PDT  A Georgia judge has denied bond for a former Georgia State Patrol trooper accused of murder in the August shooting death of a 60-year-old Black man who refused to stop for a broken tail light. Screven County Judge F. Gates Peed on Friday ruled that it "would be inappropriate" to grant bond at the moment for Jacob Gordon Thompson, given the facts of the case. Thompson, who is white, briefly chased Julian Lewis on Aug. 7 before forcing Lewis' car into a ditch and fatally shooting Lewis in the head.
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| In sign of COVID-19's impact on New York tourism, Hilton to close Times Square hotel Posted: 07 Sep 2020 09:09 AM PDT  Hilton is closing its 478-room hotel in Times Square on Oct. 1, according to a document it filed with state regulators this week, citing the pandemic.
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| Top Democrat accuses U.S. attorney general of lying about China election threat Posted: 06 Sep 2020 07:18 PM PDT  The Democratic chairman of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee on Sunday accused U.S. Attorney General William Barr of lying when he said China posed a bigger threat to November's U.S. election than Russia. "That's just a plain false statement by the attorney general," Adam Schiff told CNN. "What Bill Barr just did in that statement was just flat out mislead the American people."
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| Citing pandemic, the Archdiocese will livestream the Mass for Our Lady of Charity Posted: 07 Sep 2020 05:28 PM PDT  The novel coronavirus pandemic has caused hundreds of event cancellations across South Florida since March, but it won't prevent the celebration of Mass for Our Lady of Charity, the patron saint of Cuban Catholics, from happening this week.
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| Chinese chip giant SMIC 'in shock' after US trade ban threat Posted: 07 Sep 2020 06:05 AM PDT  SMIC's Hong Kong shares sank 23% after the Pentagon said it could be added to a trade blacklist.
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| Los Angeles County hits 121 degrees as California wildfires set records Posted: 07 Sep 2020 04:33 AM PDT  California wildfires have burned nearly 2.1 million acres so far in 2020, surpassing the record for the most land scorched in the state in a single year, CAL Fire Capt. Richard Cordova said Sunday. "This is crazy," Cordova said. "We haven't even got into the October and November fire season, and we've broken the all-time record."> Incredibly, this slipped in "under the radar" due to the more acute short-term wildfire crisis: 2020 has now eclipsed 2018 for the most acres burned in California in a single year during modern era (2,094,955 acres), & "offshore wind" season has not even arrived yet.CAwx CAfire pic.twitter.com/cP6cUYGHBq> > — Daniel Swain (@Weather_West) September 7, 2020The news came as a record-setting heat wave created new challenges for exhausted firefighters who had finally started making headway containing some of the biggest blazes. The temperature in Woodland Hills, California, reached 121 degrees on Sunday, the highest ever recorded in Los Angeles County. The new record was two degrees above the previous high set in 2006. The National Weather Service said the area could get even hotter as a dangerous heat wave continues in California, Nevada, and Arizona, and records could be broken in other parts of the region. San Luis Obispo recorded a temperature of 120 degrees at the Cal Poly weather station, shattering the previous record of 115 degrees, which was set during a 2017 heat wave. "This is unmatched, just unprecedented, unreal," said John Lindsey, a meteorologist with Pacific Gas and Electric. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) declared a state of emergency in five counties.More stories from theweek.com Former FDA commissioner predicts the pandemic will soon slow — but there will be 'a lot of death and disease along the way' What would make me vote Republican again 5 scathingly funny cartoons about Nancy Pelosi's salon visit
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