| Trump lashes out at Cindy McCain after she endorses Biden Posted: 23 Sep 2020 06:32 AM PDT  "Never a fan of John," the president tweeted. "Cindy can have Sleepy Joe!"
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| State Supreme Court rules against Parkland families on Broward Schools’ liability Posted: 24 Sep 2020 11:29 AM PDT |
| GOP Sen. Cory Gardner stayed mum on meatpacking coronavirus outbreaks as he received industry donations Posted: 24 Sep 2020 02:14 PM PDT  Some of the biggest and most deadly COVID-19 outbreaks in the U.S. stemmed from the meatpacking industry. But Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) was reluctant to call for accountability, including when it came to a Colorado-based plant Gardner received donations from, Business Insider reports.Early in the pandemic, meatpacking factories' close quarters became home to massive COVID-19 outbreaks throughout the country. An outbreak at the JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colorado led to at least 291 confirmed cases and six deaths — the biggest localized outbreak in the state. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) explicitly called for an investigation at the facility, as did a JBS employee union, which called out Gardner for failing to provide promised coronavirus tests for workers. But Gardner wouldn't discuss the situation with Business Insider, and similarly avoided questions about JBS in a local radio interview.Throughout his Senate career, Gardner has been one of the top recipients of donations from JBS; He has received $24,000 from the company over the years. This election cycle, he received the second most money from JBS of any senator, as well as the second largest contribution total from the meatpacking industry as a whole. Gardner is considered one of the most vulnerable senators this fall as he faces former Gov. John Hickenlooper (D).More stories from theweek.com America needs to hear the bad news first A mild defense of Republican hypocrisy on the Supreme Court Trump is the only one being honest about the Supreme Court fight
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| ‘Unlike anything we’ve seen in modern history’: Attacks against journalists soar during Black Lives Matter protests Posted: 24 Sep 2020 06:15 AM PDT  Arrests of US journalists halfway through 2020 outnumber number of jailed reporters in China in 2019
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| Investigators say they found thousands of child porn images in the home of a popular kids' YouTuber Posted: 24 Sep 2020 11:50 AM PDT  The science educator behind the popular children's YouTube channel "The Happy Scientist" has been indicted on child pornography charges.
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| European Union refuses to recognise Belarusian president following dubious vote and police violence Posted: 24 Sep 2020 02:39 AM PDT  The European Union in a rare show of unity on Thursday said that it won't recognise Alexander Lukashenko as the legitimate leader of Belarus. Mr Lukashenko's landslide victory in August's rigged vote sparked protests that were reignited on Wednesday after Mr Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus for 26 years, held a clandestine swearing-in ceremony. Mr Lukashenko's security forces led a ferocious crackdown on opposition protests in the days following the elections. Hundreds of people have reported injuries, torture or mistreatment at the hands of law enforcement. The EU's diplomatic chief said in a statement on Thursday that the ceremony and "the new mandate claimed by Alexander Lukashenko lack any democractic legitimacy." "This 'inauguration' directly contradicts the will of large parts of the Belarusian population, as expressed in numerous, unprecedented and peaceful protests since the elections, and serves to only further deepen the political crisis in Belarus." The tough stance on Mr Lukashenko comes just a few days after European foreign ministers failed to agree on potential sanctions on Belarus after Cyprus blocked the plan, citing the lack of joint EU action against Turkey. Thousands of Belarusians took to the streets of capital Minsk and other cities on Wednesday evening to protest against Mr Lukashenko's rule.
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| LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and his billions are disrupting the Democratic Party Posted: 24 Sep 2020 10:57 AM PDT  LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman is one of the Democratic Party's most prominent donors — but what does it mean to disrupt an election?
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| Vietnam police bust ring selling 'recycled condoms' Posted: 24 Sep 2020 06:04 AM PDT |
| Expect a clear outcome to the election, Biden senior adviser says Posted: 23 Sep 2020 02:25 PM PDT  Senior Biden adviser Bob Bauer says he has faith in election officials who are working hard around the country. Bauer does not expect a contested outcome.
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| Fact check: After deplaning in Tampa, Joe Biden waved to firefighters in a field Posted: 23 Sep 2020 11:42 AM PDT  A video that appears to show Joe Biden waving to an empty field circulated on social media last week. In reality, he was waving at firefighters.
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| ‘They cover my shrapnel wounds’: Veteran Senate candidate responds to critics using photo of her tattoos Posted: 24 Sep 2020 01:36 PM PDT  After a Republican super PAC in Texas posted a photo of Senate candidate MJ Hegar featuring her tattoos and calling her a "radical," Hegar had a quick response on Twitter: the tattoos covered shrapnel wounds she received as an Air Force helicopter pilot in Afghanistan. A pro-Cornyn Super PAC is using a photo of my tattoos to make me seem "radical."
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| Tucker Carlson Accuses BLM of Lying About Breonna Taylor’s Death, Gets Major Fact Wrong Posted: 23 Sep 2020 07:24 PM PDT  Fox News host Tucker Carlson reacted Wednesday night to Louisville police officers dodging charges in the killing of Breonna Taylor by claiming Black Lives Matter had peddled a "lie" about the 26-year-old's fatal shooting, all while falsely accusing Taylor's boyfriend of being a drug dealer.With protests erupting in Louisville hours after a grand jury decided not to charge three cops with killing Taylor, Carlson recapped the decision while complaining about the way Taylor's death had been portrayed by social justice activists and the press."In March, three Louisville police officers served a search warrant at the apartment of a woman called Breonna Taylor," Carlson said. "They knocked outside and announced they were from the police department and then they entered the apartment."While Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron said that one civilian witness testified they heard police announce themselves before breaking through Taylor's door, media interviews with residents at the complex reveal that the vast majority didn't hear the officers do that. The New York Times found one neighbor, who was directly above the apartment, say they heard the police announce themselves.Carlson went on to note that Kenneth Walker, Taylor's boyfriend who was at the apartment that night, fired on the police after they entered the apartment. Walker has maintained that he never heard the officers announce themselves as police and believed someone was breaking in. But Carlson portrayed the incident as an attack on police officers by someone who he mistakenly referred to as "supposedly a drug dealer.""Walker was Breonna Taylor's boyfriend—he was also supposedly a drug dealer," Carlson declared. "That was one of the reasons the police were there. Walker admits that he fired first and that he shot a police officer."Walker, however, was nowhere to be found on any of the series of warrants that were served by police, including the "no-knock" warrant on Taylor's apartment by three plainclothes policemen. Taylor's ex-boyfriend, Jemarcus Glover, was the subject of the investigation by Louisville police, while Walker has no drug offenses to his name.Glover, meanwhile, has accused Louisville prosecutors of trying to bribe him with a plea deal in order to incriminate Taylor, claiming they offered a lighter sentence in exchange for testimony that Taylor was part of a criminal organization. Glover currently faces charges of drug trafficking and criminal syndication.Carlson would go on to say "those are the facts of the case" before turning his ire towards Black Lives Matter, saying "BLM lied about how Breonna Taylor died" and that her killing was falsely described as a "murder."Towards the end of his program, however, Carlson issued an on-air correction about how he described Walker, insisting he "inadvertently" mixed up Walker and Glover."We made a mistake at the top of the show and we want to correct it, as we always do," the Fox News host stated. "We flipped the names around of a couple people inadvertently. We said police believed Breonna Taylor's boyfriend was a drug dealer—he might have been. We meant to say her ex-boyfriend. We wanted to correct that, sorry."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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| Pablo Escobar: Money hidden in wall found in drug lord's house Posted: 24 Sep 2020 05:49 AM PDT  A plastic bag with money worth $18m (£14m) is found in a wall by one of the drug lord's nephews.
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| Column: How Democrats could curb a conservative SCOTUS without court-packing - Frankel Posted: 23 Sep 2020 12:39 PM PDT  President Donald Trump and Republicans in the U.S. Senate are barreling forward with plans to lock down conservative control of the U.S. Supreme Court for decades to come. The president has said he will announce his nominee on Saturday to fill the seat of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. According to an upcoming California Law Review article, The Supreme Court and the 117th Congress, Congress can home in on how the Supreme Court decides which cases to hear.
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| In wake of Gardner's suicide, special prosecutor offers new details about events leading up to James Scurlock shooting Posted: 23 Sep 2020 03:39 PM PDT  One day before Jake Gardner fatally shot James Scurlock outside his bar in downtown Omaha, President Trump threatened to send the military to Minneapolis in response to violent clashes between police and protesters following the death of George Floyd in police custody, tweeting "when the looting starts, the shooting starts."
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| Florida attorney general on investigation into Bloomberg’s $16M felon voter donation Posted: 24 Sep 2020 07:10 AM PDT  Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody defended her investigation into billionaire Mike Bloomberg's felon voter donation on 'Fox & Friends.'
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| The Latest: Venezuela's Guaidó urges nations to decry Maduro Posted: 23 Sep 2020 07:25 AM PDT  On his social media, the man recognized by the U.S. as Venezuela's rightful president delivered a rebuttal Wednesday following Nicolás Maduro's remarks. In his recorded remarks, Guaidó called on nations to denounce human rights abuses committed by the Maduro government. Guaidó is recognized by nearly 60 nations as Venezuela's president and has been in a nearly two-year standoff with Maduro.
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| Low tide reveals WWII-era bomb on beach near resort town in UK Posted: 24 Sep 2020 11:11 AM PDT  The World War II era explosive was found on a beach north of Weston-Super-Mare, a popular seaside vacation town in the Bristol Channel.
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| Pregnant woman rescues husband from shark attack in Florida Posted: 24 Sep 2020 11:24 AM PDT  Margot Dukes-Eddy dived into the water to save her husband "without hesitation", police say.
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| Qantas put fully stocked bar carts from its retired 747s up for sale for more than $1,000, and they're already all sold out Posted: 23 Sep 2020 12:16 PM PDT  Qantas packed the bar carts full of wine, snacks, and candy, and sold them for more than $1,000 each.
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| Mitch McConnell’s re-election campaign slapped with FEC flag over suspected accounting errors Posted: 24 Sep 2020 07:36 AM PDT  The latest probe into the campaign accounting comes just days after McConnell weighed in on Trump's court pick
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| She asked her neighbor to wear a mask in the elevator. Then came the attack, police say Posted: 24 Sep 2020 09:37 AM PDT  A Florida woman was arrested at her Jensen Beach condominium after she allegedly attacker her neighbor in an elevator
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| Bolton allegedly tried to share details of Trump's Ukraine dealings during impeachment, but the White House stopped him Posted: 23 Sep 2020 06:54 AM PDT  Former National Security Adviser John Bolton reportedly tried to do his part during President Trump's impeachment hearings.Bolton famously refused to testify during Trump's impeachment trial regarding the president's alleged quid pro quo with Ukraine, only confirming the deal months after the fact. But Bolton apparently did try to divulge some details from his book regarding Trump's Ukraine dealings — the White House just wouldn't let him, an official overseeing Bolton's book's prepublication review said in a Wednesday court filing.Ellen Knight, a career federal official formerly overseeing the National Security Council's records, was tasked with reviewing Bolton's book and making sure it didn't contain classified information, The New York Times describes via the filing from Knight's lawyer. During that process, Bolton requested a speedier review of a part of his book regarding Trump and Ukraine so he could release it during the impeachment trial. Knight's lawyer said at that point, Bolton's memoir The Room Where it Happened didn't have any classified information and Knight was "prepared to clear the manuscript," but White House aides still denied his request.Through her lawyer, Knight alleged that the "apolitical process" of prepublication review was "commandeered by political appointees for a seemingly political purpose." Bolton's book was the only time Knight had been asked to take several "unusual" steps within the review process, and she hadn't heard of predecessors having to do so either, her lawyer said.The court filing comes a week after the Justice Department opened a criminal inquiry into Bolton's book to determine whether it shared classified information. The White House tried to shut down the publication of Bolton's book even after copies of it were already in the hands of journalists.More stories from theweek.com America needs to hear the bad news first A mild defense of Republican hypocrisy on the Supreme Court Trump is the only one being honest about the Supreme Court fight
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| Seoul: North Korea kills S. Korean official, burns his body Posted: 23 Sep 2020 07:44 PM PDT  South Korea said Thursday that North Korean troops fatally shot a South Korean government official who may have attempted to defect and set his body on fire after finding him on a floating object near the countries' disputed sea boundary. According to Seoul, the man disappeared from a government ship that was checking on possible unauthorized fishing in an area south of the boundary on Monday, a day before he was found in North Korean waters. Later in the day, a North Korean navy boat came and opened fire at him, South Korea's Defense Ministry said.
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| Camp Lejeune Marines Warned to Stop Running in the Dark After 4 Coyote Attacks Posted: 24 Sep 2020 07:15 AM PDT  Three Marines and a sailor have been bitten by a coyote on the loose at Camp Lejeune.
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| In conservative Kandahar, new gym creates safe space for Afghan women Posted: 23 Sep 2020 06:04 PM PDT  In Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar, rights activist Maryam Durani has found a fresh outlet for her decades of advocacy - a new fitness centre for women. Durani, 36, is a fierce campaigner for women's rights in the conservative stronghold where the Islamist Taliban militant group have major sway and take a conservative stance on the position of women, who mostly wear the burqa in public.
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| Trump advisor diagnosed with head cancer following leave of absence Posted: 24 Sep 2020 03:06 PM PDT  Michael Caputo has been diagnosed with metastatic head and neck cancer, spokesperson says
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| 124 immigrant children held in 3 Phoenix hotels under Trump policy, court records show Posted: 24 Sep 2020 04:35 AM PDT  A federal judge has given the Trump administration until Sept. 28 to stop the practice of holding immigrant children in hotels for prolonged periods.
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| 'Alexa, I'm being pulled over': Ring announces a new camera for the car that can record police interactions Posted: 24 Sep 2020 10:34 AM PDT  Just say "Alexa, I'm being pulled over" and the camera can record the interaction and alert specified contacts.
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| Texas Republicans turn on GOP Gov. Abbott over extending early voting Posted: 24 Sep 2020 05:03 AM PDT  A lawsuit has escalated an extraordinary backlash against the state leader from the right wing of his party.
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| Breonna Taylor: What happened on the night of her death? Posted: 24 Sep 2020 02:23 PM PDT  The 26-year-old was killed by police in her Louisville home, sparking protests and calls for justice.
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| Trump proposes ‘Born Alive’ executive order. Here’s what you need to know Posted: 24 Sep 2020 10:00 AM PDT  "This is our sacrosanct moral duty," Trump said.
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| Exclusive: Putin’s Allies Offered a ‘Back Channel’ to Key Witness in New Senate Report on the Bidens Posted: 23 Sep 2020 01:16 PM PDT  A key witness in the new GOP Senate probe tells TIME Russia's allies offered to feed him information on Joe and Hunter Biden.
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| Missouri governor, opponent of mandatory masks, has COVID-19 Posted: 23 Sep 2020 11:40 AM PDT  Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican who has steadfastly refused to require residents to wear masks, tested positive for the coronavirus, his office said Wednesday. Parson was tested after his wife, Teresa, tested positive earlier in the day. Teresa Parson had experienced mild symptoms, including a cough and nasal congestion, spokeswoman Kelli Jones said.
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| Italy may adopt targeted closures against coronavirus: PM to paper Posted: 23 Sep 2020 10:33 PM PDT  Italy may apply well-targeted closures where necessary to contain the spread of the new coronavirus while another general lockdown is unlikely, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte told la Stampa daily in an interview. "Today the situation in Italy is certainly better than in other European countries, and we are better prepared - even as a health system - to face a possible resurgence of the spread of the virus," Conte told the paper. "At present I exclude the possibility of a general lockdown; there could be - if necessary - well-targeted closures."
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| 'Send me a text': Obama calls on Americans to get in touch with thoughts on US election Posted: 24 Sep 2020 05:49 AM PDT  Former president has been campaigning for Joe Biden
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| Trump Data Guru Officially Disqualified Over ‘Shady’ Campaign Tactics Posted: 24 Sep 2020 08:01 AM PDT  LONDON—Alexander Nix, the man who was running Cambridge Analytica when it harvested the Facebook data of tens of millions of voters without their knowledge so it could be exploited by the Trump 2016 campaign, has been banned from directing any companies for seven years.The now-defunct Cambridge Analytica was a U.K. digital black-ops firm that collapsed in 2018 following revelations that it secretly collected Facebook profile information on 87 million people. The Daily Beast revealed two years ago that Team Trump used audience lists created by Cambridge Analytica to target "dark ads" on Facebook during the final months of the 2016 campaign and until Trump's inauguration.Nix gained notoriety as the face of Cambridge Analytica when he inadvertently revealed the shocking extent of its dubious operations. The company's former chief executive was secretly recorded by Britain's Channel 4 blabbing about his firm's work for Trump and effectively claiming that Cambridge Analytica was to thank for Trump becoming president.Nix said in the secret recording, "We did all the research, all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting, we ran all the digital campaign, the television campaign and our data informed all the strategy."The footage, in which he bragged about apparently illegal campaign tactics used on jobs in other parts of the world, was the beginning of his and Cambridge Analytica's swift and spectacular downfall. Nix was suspended as CEO when the tapes were broadcast in March 2018, the company collapsed in May that year. It was thereafter forced into compulsory liquidation in April 2019.Now, Nix has been slapped with a new punishment that will prevent him from directing any companies until October 2027.The British government's Insolvency Service confirmed Thursday that Nix will be "disqualified for seven years from acting as a director or directly or indirectly becoming involved, without the permission of the court, in the promotion, formation or management of a company."In the statement, the government agency condemned Nix for allowing Cambridge Analytica to carry out what it called "unethical services," which it said included "bribery or honey trap stings, voter disengagement campaigns, obtaining information to discredit political opponents and spreading information anonymously in political campaigns."Mark Bruce, the chief investigator for the Insolvency Service, said that Cambridge Analytica's parent company, SCL Elections, "repeatedly offered shady political services to potential clients over a number of years."The chief investigator went on to say in his statement: "Alexander Nix's actions did not meet the appropriate standard for a company director and his disqualification from managing limited companies for a significant amount of time is justified in the public interest."The Insolvency Service said Nix has signed the disqualification notice.Britain's punitive action against Nix comes nearly a year after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission came to a settlement with him and Aleksandr Kogan, who developed the app which allowed Cambridge Analytica to harvest the personal information of millions of Americans.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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| 'Shame on them': Sen. Kennedy denounces Dems over court packing threats Posted: 22 Sep 2020 08:27 PM PDT  Liberal activists pushing to increase size of high court
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| Parents knowingly sent kids with coronavirus to school, Wisconsin officials say Posted: 24 Sep 2020 10:00 AM PDT  "A handful of irresponsible parents could be responsible for closing down entire school districts," the Washington-Ozaukee public health director said.
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| 4 people have been charged after a Black man's body was found burning in an Iowa ditch Posted: 23 Sep 2020 03:36 AM PDT  Michael Williams' body was found burning in a ditch in Iowa on September 16. The police said race didn't seem to be a motivating factor in the death.
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| Trump says he'll accept a 2020 decision from the Supreme Court — after getting his nominee on the bench Posted: 24 Sep 2020 07:35 AM PDT  President Trump will accept the results of the 2020 election, but only under select conditions.In a press conference Wednesday, Trump raised concerns from both sides of the aisle as he refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power should he lose the election this fall. Trump suggested, without evidence, that ballot fraud would lead him to lose the election, and that it would likely be decided in the Supreme Court.So in a Thursday appearance on Brian Kilmeade's Fox News Radio, the host asked Trump if he would accept a Joe Biden victory if it came from the Supreme Court. "That I would agree with," Trump responded. "But I think we have a long way before we get there. These ballots are a horror show."But it's not as if Trump has no influence on the court he's relying on to make a 2020 decision. The Supreme Court already has a conservative majority, with two of Trump's own nominees already on the bench. And after Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death last week, Trump ominously said Wednesday it was important to get a new nominee on the bench before Election Day. "I think this [the election] will end up in the Supreme Court, and I think it's very important that we have nine justices," Trump said, alleging Democrats are running a "scam" that will end up "before the United States Supreme Court."More stories from theweek.com America needs to hear the bad news first A mild defense of Republican hypocrisy on the Supreme Court Trump is the only one being honest about the Supreme Court fight
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| South Florida ICE detainees required to go attend court regardless of whether they have COVID Posted: 24 Sep 2020 04:00 AM PDT  Immigration detainees in South Florida are being required to attend court hearings with other migrants even if they have COVID-19, two sources with the Department of Justice confirmed Wednesday.
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| Powerful Vatican Cardinal Becciu resigns amid scandal Posted: 24 Sep 2020 11:27 AM PDT  The powerful head of the Vatican's saint-making office, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, resigned suddenly Thursday from the post and renounced his rights as a cardinal amid a financial scandal that has reportedly implicated him indirectly. The Vatican provided no details on why Pope Francis accepted Becciu's resignation in a statement late Thursday. In the one-sentence announcement, the Holy See said only that Francis had accepted Becciu's resignation as prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints "and his rights connected to the cardinalate."
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| The Pentagon is eyeing a 500-ship Navy, documents reveal Posted: 24 Sep 2020 05:30 PM PDT  The Pentagon is weighing a dramatically different fleet that relies heavily on unmanned ships and submarines.
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