| Azar says Trump family 'is a different situation than the rest of us' on COVID safety measures Posted: 02 Oct 2020 01:45 PM PDT  Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar was at pains to defend not only the administration's response, but the president's behavior.
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| ‘Take it! Take it!’ Watch a man get violently carjacked in front of his Florida home Posted: 02 Oct 2020 10:36 AM PDT  A terrifying carjacking went down for a Florida man right in front of his Windermere-area home Monday night.
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| Democratic Senate candidate Cal Cunningham admits he sent sexual messages to woman who is not his wife Posted: 03 Oct 2020 08:25 AM PDT  Cunningham admitted to sending sexual text messages to a woman who is not his wife but said he will not drop out of the race against Sen. Thom Tillis.
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| The virus slams into a broken Washington Posted: 03 Oct 2020 09:58 AM PDT  Most D.C. crises follow an expected pattern. Not this one.
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| More wildfire evacuations ordered as Northern California braces for powerful winds Posted: 01 Oct 2020 07:23 PM PDT  The length of containment lines dug around wildfires in the state is so massive they could stretch from San Diego to New York City, a fire official said.
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| Steve Daines got influx of cash after vote to extend an investor visa program “rampant” with fraud Posted: 03 Oct 2020 03:00 AM PDT  Montana GOP senator met with investor and visa proponent at private resort — then his vote made donations flow
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| Japan reveals record high budget request eyeing hypersonic tech, F-35s and more Posted: 02 Oct 2020 06:25 AM PDT  Japan is set to continue its recent trend of setting new records for its annual defense budgets, with the country continuing to cast a wary eye on China's military modernization and nuclear-armed North Korea's missile program.
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| Factbox: Coronavirus in U.S. Congress - 18 members have tested or been presumed positive Posted: 02 Oct 2020 01:26 PM PDT  Lee's announcement came within hours of the bombshell news of Republican President Donald Trump's positive test. Lee was one of several prominent people who did not wear masks in a crowd at the White House on Sept. 26 as Trump introduced U.S. Appeals Court Judge Amy Coney Barrett as his Supreme Court nominee. Cassidy, 63, a Louisiana Republican, decided to self-quarantine for 14 days and contact those with whom he may have had contact after testing positive, according to a statement in August.
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| Rep. Jordan announces he’s getting COVID-19 test after being on Air Force One with Trump Posted: 02 Oct 2020 06:11 AM PDT  Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee, joins 'Fox & Friends.'
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| Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis throws presidential campaign into uncertainty Posted: 02 Oct 2020 07:49 AM PDT  Among the questions that have immediately emerged, the most serious revolved around what happens to the nation's government if a nominee for president is incapacitated or dies so close to an election.
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| An Arkansas man was sentenced to more than 100 years in prison for a fatal shooting over unwanted mayonnaise on his hamburger order Posted: 03 Oct 2020 08:31 AM PDT  According to local news outlet, 35-year-old Andra Crockett was sentenced up to 130 years in prison for the 2019 shooting.
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| Texas AG Ken Paxton took bribes and abused office, top aides say in call for federal investigation Posted: 03 Oct 2020 05:10 PM PDT  Top aides of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton have asked federal authorities to investigate allegations of potential crimes.
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| Miami cop called mom to say he didn’t feel well. When she got to his home, he was dead. Posted: 02 Oct 2020 03:00 AM PDT  A young Miami police officer who injured his foot chasing a suspect two weeks ago died Thursday evening after calling his mother and telling her he took medication and didn't feel well.
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| Despite coronavirus impact, U.S. Mexican workers send big amounts of money back home Posted: 02 Oct 2020 05:36 AM PDT  "We are honestly very surprised at their resilience," Jonathan Fortun, an economist at the Institute of International Finance in Washington, said about the payments.
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| Sen. Thom Tillis’ Opponent Confirms Extramarital Sexting Posted: 03 Oct 2020 07:22 AM PDT  The U.S. Senate race in North Carolina has been thrown into turmoil: The incumbent, Thom Tillis, has COVID-19 and his opponent, Cal Cunningham, has been caught sending extramarital texts.The Democrat's romantic messages to public relations strategist Arlene Guzman Todd were initially exposed by the National File, a right-wing website.But in a statement to the Raleigh News & Observer, Cunningham confirmed their accuracy."I have hurt my family, disappointed my friends, and am deeply sorry. The first step in repairing those relationships is taking complete responsibility, which I do. I ask that my family's privacy be respected in this personal matter," he said.He also said he has no intention of dropping out of the race, where he has been leading Tillis in the polls."I remain grateful and humbled by the ongoing support that North Carolinians have extended in this campaign, and in the remaining weeks before this election I will continue to work to earn the opportunity to fight for the people of our state," he said.At Least 7 Who Attended Rose Garden Event Have COVIDMeanwhile, Tillis' campaign has been upended by Friday night's news that he has contracted the coronavirus. He is one of seven people who tested positive after attending last weekend's Rose Garden ceremony for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. The others are President Trump, first lady Melania Trump, former adviser Kellyanne Conway, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), the president of Notre Dame University, and a White House journalist.Cunningham said that because he recently shared a debate stage with Tillis, he planned to get tested for the virus, too.National File did not say how it obtained the text messages between Cunningham, a married father of two, and Guzman Todd, who is also married.By the standards of recent scandals, they are on the tame side, with Cunningham writing, "Would make my day to roll over and kiss you about now," and Guzman Todd writing, "The only thing I want on my to-do list is you."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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| Royal Navy diving contract with Chinese-linked firm is 'maritime version of our 5G' Posted: 02 Oct 2020 11:54 AM PDT  The Royal Navy diving contract with a Chinese-linked firm is the "maritime version of our 5G", the Defence Chairman has warned. Tobias Ellwood raised security concerns after JFD, an underwater capability which is a customer of Chinese owned SMD, a supplier of subsea equipment, announced it had been awarded a contract for the management and availability of the Royal Navy's in-service life-support diving equipment, to help safeguard the lives of divers worldwide. Tobias Ellwood, chairman of the Defence Select Committee, said: "It's the maritime version of our 5G. "We are falling into China's trap by becoming subservient in so many aspects of our life, including military." This follows already strained relations with Beijing after Boris Johnson bowed to the demands of backbench MPs in July and banned Huawei from the 5G network, with the agreement to strip out all of its existing infrastructure over the next few years. Huawei is viewed as a security threat because of laws in China that oblige private companies to hand over data to the government if required, and a US embargo on secure American-made chips being sold to the firm has increased the perceived danger. China previously warned that Britain would "bear the consequences" if it treated the country as a hostile provider, and was further disgruntled after Britain offered three million Hong Kong residents a home in the UK following its decision to impose strict security laws on the former colony. Dr Alan Mendoza, executive director of the Henry Jackson Society, said: "Given growing concerns about the aims of the Chinese Communist Party, it seems extraordinary that a company ultimately owned by the Chinese state can be involved in the supply chain for a Royal Navy contract. The British state should be mitigating risks, not taking unnecessary ones." In a statement released by JFD, which has done business with the Royal Navy for more than 20 years, it said that among the equipment suite it will be servicing is its Shadow rebreather, a system designed and manufactured by JFD, as well as provision for recompression chambers, enclosed mine lifting bags (EMLB), parachute lift bags and surface-supplied diving equipment. On its website SMD lists JFD as its customer for its remotely operated vehicles (ROV) systems which are used underwater for submarine rescue, torpedo recovery and range maintenance and distressed aircraft and vessel recovery. Mr Ellwood has previously warned that nuts and bolts from China should not be involved in UK military equipment and earlier this year announced his committee had launched an inquiry into the UK's defence supply chain. "We need indigenous capabilities and not be at the beacon call of China," Mr Ellwood said. "They won't attack directly and this affects our ability to have sovereign equipment. "This is the wrong move." It is understood that the Ministry of Defence conducts "thorough checks of all companies" that it does business with.
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| Former aide to Chinese vice president named in anti-graft probe Posted: 02 Oct 2020 11:05 PM PDT |
| Latino Voters May Defy the GOP’s Conventional Wisdom Posted: 03 Oct 2020 03:30 AM PDT  For Latino voters across the country, the issue of lax border policy versus Trump's hawkish stance on illegal immigration isn't settled. Rather, it is possible that the rise of the Latino Republican will defy the conventional wisdom of many GOP strategists and pundits: that restrictionist border policy, or anything deviating from the status quo before Trump — what amounts to de facto open borders — could alienate Latino voters. It is possible that Latinos in border states such as California and Texas are getting behind Trump because of his hardline stance on this issue, which is directly related to GOP's messaging on law and order.Historically, there has never been any consensus among Latinos on the issue of illegal immigration. In fact, for many Latinos, especially workers in the agricultural industry, hardline stances were quite common. Caesar Chavez is one of the most admired populist figures in American history, and he had no tolerance for illegal immigration. The leader of the United Farm Workers union, Chavez described illegal immigrants as "wetbacks" who threatened unionized workers. "As long as we have a poor country bordering California," he said in 1972, "it's going to be very difficult to win strikes." Chavez believed that illegal immigrants would drive down wages and weaken union negotiating power. How did Chavez respond when U.S. government failed to secure the border in the late '70s? Armed with bats, chains, and barbed wire, Chavez and his fellow union members (all of whom were Latino) set up tents along the border of California and Mexico and proceeded to attack Mexican nationals who tried to make a run for it. The line was a hundred miles long. The effort was a success, according to Chavez. He didn't hesitate in declaring it so.In 1994, 30 percent of California Latinos voted in favor of Proposition 187, also known as the "Save Our State" Initiative. Prop 187 was ultimately ruled unconstitutional. Its provisions would have banned illegal immigrants from California's public-school system and required providers of non-emergency health care to verify the legal status of a person seeking assistance. There was backlash against the proposition, especially among Latinos. Over 70,000 Latino immigrants protested in Los Angeles. But that 30 percent was not at all insignificant. Several academic studies, which investigated why Latinos would vote for the proposition, were published years later.Even today, there is still no consensus among Latinos. In 2018, for example, 58.5 percent of Latino voters said they supported Trump's immigration policies even though they disliked the president. Over 50 percent of respondents want stronger immigration laws, while only 18.3 percent said that current immigration law was too strict. Furthermore, in a recent Washington Post survey, 69 percent of Latinos favored shutting down almost all immigration amid the coronavirus pandemic. There is also the issue of law and order, which is high among Latinos' concerns in the aftermath of this summer's riots. In an early-June poll conducted by ABC News/Ipsos, 54 percent of Latino Democrats supported sending in the military to restore order in cities, and 60 percent of all Latino voters were amenable to military presence. What do these figures have to do with Trump's immigration policies? Upholding law and order in cities is not entirely different from upholding law and order on the border, and Latinos who support law-enforcement agencies and the military intervening in cities might prefer that the border be secured and that immigrants enter the country legally. As stated earlier, historically, this was the case in California.The idea that all immigrants, Latinos, and blacks are guaranteed to vote for Democrats in the long term is a delusion, as is the idea that all Latino voters are driven away from the GOP because of Trump's immigration policy and his "xenophobic" rhetoric. Now more than ever, citizens are privy to the media's hysteria about white supremacy, and Trump's past comments about illegal immigrants seem completely irrelevant during a pandemic, recession, and season of rioting. If Republicans want to be the party of law and order that broadly appeals to all demographics, then perhaps they shouldn't be equivocal on the issue of illegal immigration.
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| Twitter warned it will suspend users who wish for President Trump's death and then received a backlash claiming double standards Posted: 03 Oct 2020 04:55 AM PDT  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Rashida Tlaib said they frequently faced death threats on Twitter.
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| A woman accused her neighbor — a Latino man and history teacher — of kidnapping a white toddler. The boy was his grandson. Posted: 03 Oct 2020 08:44 AM PDT  Police surrounded the grandfather Abel Mata as his neighbor, a samurai sword-wielding white woman, claimed he was an abductor.
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| 'You know that your dream's ending': Flight attendants bid tearful goodbyes as they're furloughed Posted: 02 Oct 2020 07:56 PM PDT  American Airlines flight attendants share their stories as the furloughs affecting the airline industry begin amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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| 17-foot white shark caught off Nova Scotia declared a 3,541-pound ‘Queen of the Ocean’ Posted: 02 Oct 2020 03:00 PM PDT  She is more than 50 years old and covered with scars and scratches.
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| Lawsuits challenge Virginia's sexual orientation protections Posted: 02 Oct 2020 07:52 AM PDT  Conservative legal group Alliance Defending Freedom claims the new state law infringes on their clients' religious freedoms.
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| Mexico deploys military to block migrant caravan Posted: 02 Oct 2020 05:21 PM PDT  Mexico on Friday ordered the military to deploy along its southern border to block a migrant caravan that President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador suggested was linked to the US election.
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| US Army discontinues Rapid Equipping Force Posted: 02 Oct 2020 03:23 PM PDT  The counterinsurgency remnant will disband.
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| U.S. government appeals judge's ruling to block WeChat app store ban Posted: 02 Oct 2020 09:14 AM PDT  The U.S. Justice Department on Friday said it was appealing a judge's decision to block the government from barring Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google from offering Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat for download in U.S. app stores. The government said it was appealing the Sept. 19 preliminary junction issued by U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The injunction blocked the U.S. Commerce Department order, which would also bar other U.S. transactions with Tencent Holding's <0700.HK> WeChat, potentially making the app unusable in the United States.
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| Judge halts new North Carolina absentee witness info rule Posted: 03 Oct 2020 07:43 AM PDT  A federal judge has halted new North Carolina absentee voting rules that gave voters more leeway to fix witness problems and extended the period when elections boards could accept mailed-in ballots. The rules, issued last week in a settlement with voting rights advocates, were blocked by a temporary restraining order issued Saturday by U.S. District Judge James Dever, who raised concerns about changing rules after numerous ballots have already been cast. Saturday's decision comes amid a tangle of litigation in state and federal court over absentee ballots in the key presidential battleground.
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| White House physician walks back a confusing timeline of Trump's coronavirus infection that implied he was diagnosed days before announcing his test results Posted: 03 Oct 2020 11:09 AM PDT  Dr. Sean Conley said Trump was "72 hours into the diagnosis," which would mean he was diagnosed on Wednesday while his test results were publicly disclosed Friday.
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| Louisville cops repeatedly told Breonna Taylor was not receiving suspicious packages tied to drug investigation, report says Posted: 02 Oct 2020 09:34 AM PDT  Louisville police officers carried out a no-knock raid at the home of Breonna Taylor despite the fact that they were repeatedly told there were no packages, "suspicious or otherwise," delivered to the residence that could be tied to their drug investigation, according to a new report. The 26-year-old EMT was fatally shot March 13 after three Louisville Metropolitan Police officers burst into ...
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| Ancient Egyptian mummies unearthed after more than 2,600 years Posted: 03 Oct 2020 05:27 AM PDT  A sealed door was also unearthed where it is expected more mummies may lie behind, said Khaled el-Anany the first Minister of Antiquities and Tourism.
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| ‘Disappointed’ some people responded to President Trump testing positive for coronavirus with ‘glee’: Mollie Hemingway Posted: 02 Oct 2020 04:44 AM PDT  Senior editor at The Federalist Mollie Hemingway reacts to the public reaction of President Trump testing positive for coronavirus.
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| Right-wing trolls Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman charged with felony voter intimidation Posted: 02 Oct 2020 02:00 AM PDT  Pair of persistent provocateurs under investigation for alleged vote-suppression tactics in four additional states
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| 'Thanks for the chaos': Madrid returns to lockdown Posted: 02 Oct 2020 03:37 AM PDT  Some 4.8 million Madrid residents will be barred from leaving the area from Friday evening, making it the first European capital back into lockdown due to surging coronavirus cases. Restaurants and bars in the Spanish capital and nine satellite towns will shut early and slash capacity by half in what has again become Europe's worst infection hotspot. The new restrictions, to start at 10 pm (2000 GMT), are not as strict as the previous lockdown from March, when people were barred from leaving their homes.
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| Anger from Moscow, Minsk as EU, US sanction Belarus Posted: 02 Oct 2020 01:21 PM PDT  The United States and the EU hit Belarus officials with long-awaited sanctions over the country's political crisis on Friday, drawing an angry response from Minsk and its ally Moscow.
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| Lindsey Graham photographed with leader of white nationalist group Proud Boys Posted: 02 Oct 2020 12:58 PM PDT  The South Carolina senator recently called Proud Boys a 'racist organization,' however, photo shows him smiling with a known leader of the white nationalist group. Just days after President Donald Trump appeared to support the white supremacist group, Proud Boys, during Tuesday night's presidential debate — only to later disavow them after mounting pressure — a photograph has recently surfaced showing Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) with a member and organizer of the organization. The photo, which has made its rounds on Twitter, shows Graham smiling for a photo-op with Joe Biggs, a known member and organizer of Proud Boys, which has been classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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| Rochester, New York, mayor indicted on 2 felony campaign finance charges Posted: 02 Oct 2020 12:56 PM PDT  The Rochester mayor and her campaign aides are accused of illegally using a political action committee, or PAC, to bolster campaign finances.
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| Bay Area food banks remove letter from Pres. Trump found in donation boxes Posted: 02 Oct 2020 12:52 PM PDT  "It's wholly inappropriate and a potential violation of law for public officials to use public resources for political purposes and to attempt to influence the outcome of an election."
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| Firefighter's girlfriend watched live video as he saved home surrounded by flames Posted: 01 Oct 2020 09:41 PM PDT  Grant Newnom successfully fought off the flames surrounding the house in Santa Rosa, California, for hours, at times with nothing more than a garden hose.
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| Russian journalist dies after setting herself on fire Posted: 02 Oct 2020 08:31 AM PDT  A Russian journalist has set herself on fire and died outside police headquarters in an apparent protest against months of official harassment. Irina Slavina, editor-in-chief of the Koza Press news website in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, died at the scene, her news outlet said. Just an hour before she died by suicide, she wrote on her Facebook page: "Blame my death on the Russian Federation." Russia's top investigative body on Friday confirmed Ms Slavina's death and said they opened an official probe into self-immolation. A day earlier, police raided her home in connection with an investigation into a man linked to an organisation bankrolled by exiled Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Police seized her laptop, phone and notebooks, she wrote in a Facebook post: "They took away everything they could find. They left me with no means to work."
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| Florida reports 2,787 new COVID-19 cases and, breaking a trend, under 100 deaths Posted: 03 Oct 2020 10:47 AM PDT  UPDATE NOTE: This cases and deaths reported were changed from an earlier version after the state of Florida's COVID-19 dashboard updated. This keeps the source of the statistics reported in Herald stories day-to-day would remain consistent.
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| U.S. schools in suburbs, small cities reopening without COVID spike; big cities up next Posted: 02 Oct 2020 04:07 AM PDT  Cases in school-age children ticked slightly higher in mid-September as more schools reopened, but remains well below the peak set in mid-July. Over 700 primary, middle and high schools that have at least partially reopened, reported that 0.07% of students and 0.14% of staff had a confirmed coronavirus infection in the first half of September, according to data collected by Brown University https://bit.ly/3kWpwnJ. "There is starting to be some reassuring data that when you put in place the right measures - and have control of community spread ... you can open schools safely," said Dr. Nathaniel Beers, co-author of the American Academy of Pediatrics' school opening guidelines.
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| Karabakh main city struck as Armenia says 'ready' for mediation Posted: 02 Oct 2020 12:09 PM PDT  Armenia accused Azerbaijani forces of shelling the main city in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region on Friday as heavy fighting raged for a sixth day.
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| A sexual-harassment allegation against Kimberly Guilfoyle, Trump's campaign fundraiser, reportedly led to her Fox News ouster and a $4 million out-of-court settlement Posted: 01 Oct 2020 06:31 PM PDT  The New Yorker's Jane Mayer reported that Kimberly Guilfoyle forced her assistant to view photographs of male genitalia.
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| Utah police say a woman associated with QAnon kidnapped her own son with the help of a friend Posted: 02 Oct 2020 04:00 PM PDT  Two women with ties to QAnon are in police custody after allegedly kidnapping a child. Police say they are part of the sovereign citizen movement.
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| House passes COVID relief bill, but it's unlikely to pass Senate Posted: 02 Oct 2020 04:00 AM PDT  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has indicated that he would not support any legislation that has a price tag of over $2 trillion.
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| Anti-gay slur, then a punch in the face, NYPD says Posted: 02 Oct 2020 11:24 AM PDT  The victim was filming a TikTok video last weekend in lower Manhattan, and police are investigating the attack as a hate crime.
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