| The Biden campaign is reaching out to Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders with targeted ad campaign Posted: 09 Oct 2020 10:00 AM PDT  Joe Biden's campaign announced on Friday a paid media campaign targeting Asian-American and Pacific Islander communities that will include digital, radio and print ads airing nationally and in 16 key states.
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| Extradition fight continues in Kenosha protest shootings Posted: 08 Oct 2020 08:51 PM PDT  A 17-year-old accused of killing two protesters days after Jacob Blake was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, remains in custody in his home state of Illinois as his attorneys fight efforts to send him to Wisconsin to stand trial on homicide charges. Kyle Rittenhouse appeared on streaming video and wore a face mask during a brief court hearing Friday in Lake County, Illinois. Judge Paul Novak scheduled an Oct. 30 hearing on the extradition request, though prosecutors told Novak they were prepared to move faster.
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| One of the men involved in the plot to kidnap Michigan governor had 'rage issues,' report says Posted: 10 Oct 2020 09:05 AM PDT  The man, Adam Fox, also appeared to have intentions to incite violence against racial justice protesters earlier this year, BuzzFeed News reported.
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| Police fire teargas at Nigerians protesting at alleged brutality, witnesses say Posted: 09 Oct 2020 09:01 AM PDT  Nigerian police used teargas on Friday to disperse dozens of people in the capital Abuja who had gathered to protest at alleged brutality by members of a special police unit, witnesses said. Protesters, some holding placards, ran as clouds of teargas hung in the air. Multiple people at the incident said on Twitter that police had fired the canisters.
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| Fire at South Korea 33-level tower block brought under control Posted: 08 Oct 2020 11:08 PM PDT  Hundreds were earlier forced to evacuate the building and dozens were sent to hospital for smoke inhalation.
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| Massive 3,500-pound shark spotted off coast of North America Posted: 10 Oct 2020 10:12 AM PDT  "You can really kinda see the story of their life unfolding across all the blotches and healed wounds on their body," team leader Chris Fischer said. "It really hits you differently."
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| Harrison demands Graham get COVID-19 test before next debate Posted: 09 Oct 2020 01:18 PM PDT  Sen. Lindsey Graham and Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison are set to meet for their second debate on Friday.
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| Experts: Ballistics report shows Louisville officer was shot by Breonna Taylor's boyfriend, not by 'friendly fire' Posted: 08 Oct 2020 05:45 PM PDT  Experts say Breonna Taylor's boyfriend must have been the one to shoot a Louisville officer because no one else fired the same type of ammunition.
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| Despite stumbles and disruptions, VP debate shows America's progress: Readers Posted: 09 Oct 2020 02:39 PM PDT  On debate stage, vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris showed beyond a doubt that she is ready to lead this nation.
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| In campaign's final stretch, Democrats claw their way back in Pennsylvania Posted: 09 Oct 2020 05:00 AM PDT  After Donald Trump shocked Keystone State Democrats in 2016, the Biden campaign is trying to reach every county, big and small, to flip the result back.
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| 'It instilled such problems': ex-member of Amy Coney Barrett's faith group speaks out Posted: 10 Oct 2020 12:30 AM PDT  Former insiders and religious scholars say scrutiny of Barrett's connection to People of Praise is entirely legitimateRebekah Powers was 11 when members of her faith group, the People of Praise, gathered around as she sat on a chair and laid their hands on her to pray. Powers' sister had shown a gift for speaking in tongues, a defining trait of the followers of the small charismatic Christian community, and Rebekah was expected to do the same.But after what seemed like an eternity, she proved unable to produce a sound."I couldn't get it, and I stayed there an hour and a half before they gave up and finally said, 'You just have blockage. You need to just work on your sin and be more open," she said.The 41-year-old had a rebellious spirit and left People of Praise when she turned 18. It has taken decades of therapy and hard work to overcome the intense feelings of shame and fear of damnation that she said marked her childhood. The Christian faith group, based in South Bend, Indiana, dominated every aspect of her early life, she said.Next week, Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative appellate court judge who is a prominent member of the 1,700-member strong People of Praise, will sit before the Senate judiciary committee to face questions about her judicial philosophy as part of her controversial confirmation to take a seat on the supreme court. A successful appointment, replacing the liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg, will cement a conservative dominance on the powerful body.Democrats have already stated that neither Barrett's Catholic faith nor her membership in the People of Praise – which has never publicly been discussed or disclosed, but has been examined in press reports – will be raised in their questioning of the nominee.Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader who is seeking to confirm Barrett before the end of October, has nevertheless said that media reports and some remarks by senators about a newly discovered public statement by Barrett in opposition to Roe v Wade, were "disgusting attacks" on faith. He said they risked a return to the "tropes of the 1960s", when it was feared by some anti-Catholic bigots that John F Kennedy would act in the interest of the pope instead of the US."Our coastal elites are so disconnected from their own country that they treat religious Americans like strange animals in a menagerie," McConnell said in a statement.But Powers, who is one of a handful of former People of Praise members who contacted the Guardian to describe their difficult experience in the group (using her married name), and some religious scholars who have studied charismatic Christian communities, say Barrett's membership in this specific religious community does raise legitimate questions. They want to examine how views that are integral to the group's core beliefs – from its treatment of women to the separation of church and state – might influence her. They are also distinct from most mainstream Catholic faith.In the bi-weekly and hours-long meetings that defined Powers' childhood, intense prayer and discussions centered on obedience and driving out sin. Powers, who does not know Barrett, frequently witnessed people speaking in tongues and frenzied calls for evil spirits to be expelled, episodes that usually led to exorcisms.> The brainwashing and the groupthink, the female subjugation … it was so devaluing> > Rebekah PowersIn the strict hierarchy exercised by the group, Powers' parents were often asked to take in other members into their home, even though her own family were using food stamps to get by. As a child and teenager, Powers' father served as her spiritual "head" and worked multiple jobs, including being asked to tend to the lawns of the community's properties, free of charge.Women who are married, like Barrett, count their husbands as their "heads"."We were Catholic, but the Catholicism was on the side. Our life, all of our friends, all of the randoms who were living in our household, were the [People of Praise] community. It was God," she said. "The brainwashing and the groupthink, the female subjugation of being there to serve and listen to your spiritual head. It was so devaluing. To me, it instilled such problems."Powers' experiences are in line with a handbook called The Spirit and Purpose of the People of Praise, which was obtained by the Guardian and confirms that people who seek to be members of the group are prayed with for the release of "charismatic gifts" – specifically, speaking in tongues and the gift of "prophecy". It also states: "Obedience to authority and submission to headship are active responses to the gifts of God."Although Barrett has not discussed the issue, there is evidence that the former Notre Dame law professor served as a trustee for a school affiliated with the group; lived in the home of a prominent co-founder when she was in law school; and announced the birth of her children in People of Praise's magazine, which has removed references to Barrett and her family since she joined the federal bench in 2017.The Washington Post reported this week that Barrett served as a "handmaid" as late as 2010, a leadership position for women in the community, according to a directory.Barrett's father, Mike Coney, who has served in a leadership position in the People of Praise, described his own decision to join the group in a 2018 testimonial at his Catholic church, describing how he had initially unwillingly attended a charismatic seminar as a young man. "When prayed with for a greater outpouring of the Holy Spirit, nothing happened. Then later that night I began to speak in tongues. More importantly, I was filled with an insatiable appetite for reading scripture and spiritual books," he wrote.Thomas Csordas, an anthropology professor at the University of California San Diego who has studied the issues around communities like People of Praise, said it was wrong to focus attention on whether the group could be a considered a "cult" in the spirit of Jim Jones's Peoples Temple. It was much more appropriate, he said, to examine what he called the "intentional community" of People of Praise and its nature of being "conservative, authoritarian, hierarchical, and patriarchal"."I think they're potentially more dangerous and much more sophisticated [than a cult]," he said. "It is not the kind of group where submission of women to men means that they have to stay barefoot and pregnant. Instead, they have to be lawyers and judges and submissive to men at the same time. They have to be able to have a career and seven kids at the same time."Far from taking her cues from the People of Praise, Csordas said, Barrett's biography showed she was not a "mindless devotee" of a cult, but rather part of the elite of the intentional charismatic covenant community, reflecting her previous status as a handmaiden and trustee of the school, and her father's leadership role."Contrary to a situation in which people might worry she might be told what to think or told by her husband. Being that far into the community means, no, she is going to be teaching other people." She already "knows" what to think because of the patriarchal structure she was raised in, which mirrors conservative Catholic views and the views of her judicial mentor, Antonin Scalia.Massimo Faggioli, a professor of theology at Villanova University, said that even if senators declined to question Barrett about her faith, the issues deserved to be aired in other forums because groups like People of Praise, he said, does reject a secular view of separation between church and state."I don't think we should put her Catholicism on trial, but the Catholic conservative legal movement is putting liberalism on trial. They want to change a certain understanding of the liberal order of individual rights, and that is coming from the religious worldview of Catholic groups," he said."Maybe not in the Senate, but in the public square."A spokesman for People of Praise has said it would be inappropriate to discuss Barrett. He has also said the organization is an ecumenical community that strives to allow men and women with a "wide variety of political and religious views" to live together in harmony.
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| Bars, indoor dining to close in Toronto amid virus surge Posted: 09 Oct 2020 10:55 AM PDT |
| Britain, France, and Germany said they will sanction Russia over Alexei Navalny's poisoning. Putin won't care. Posted: 10 Oct 2020 01:14 AM PDT  Just as in the 2018 poisoning of the Skripals in England and the 2019 killing of a Chechen leader in Germany, Europe's threats will go unheeded.
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| Southwest Airlines apologized to a woman who was blocked from boarding a flight because of her black halter top Posted: 10 Oct 2020 08:06 AM PDT  A Southwest Airlines employee blocked Kayla Eubanks from boarding a flight to Chicago for wearing what the employee called an inappropriate outfit.
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| The tale of Algeria's stolen cannon and France's cockerel Posted: 10 Oct 2020 04:50 PM PDT  Hopes grow that a gigantic weapon stolen after the invasion of Algiers in 1830 may soon be returned.
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| China, increasingly mighty, still learning how to project power Posted: 09 Oct 2020 09:31 AM PDT |
| Protesters want Kansas City police officer fired after kneeling on pregnant Black woman Posted: 09 Oct 2020 12:18 PM PDT  Bystander footage of Deja Stallings' arrest shows the officer kneeling on her back as the crowd yells to stop because she is pregnant.
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| Azeri leader rules out concessions before Nagorno-Karabakh talks Posted: 09 Oct 2020 01:21 AM PDT  Azerbaijan's president ruled out making any concessions to Armenia on Friday ahead of talks aimed at halting the deadliest fighting in the South Caucasus region for more than 25 years. President Ilham Aliyev's uncompromising position in a televised speech appeared to leave little room for de-escalation as the Azeri and Armenian foreign ministers arrived in Moscow. The talks were expected to be the first diplomatic contact between the enemies since fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave erupted on Sept. 27, killing hundreds of people.
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| Foreign policy experts rebuke Trump administration for policies that emboldened rivals, alienated allies Posted: 09 Oct 2020 06:52 AM PDT  A group of academic experts in international relations view President Trump's handling of foreign policy "largely as a failure," identifying specific examples of his botched global engagements and calling for new leadership just weeks before Election Day.
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| Aid group says Libyan militia is holding hostage 60 migrants Posted: 10 Oct 2020 04:48 AM PDT |
| No one will buy the Watts murder house featured in Netflix's 'American Murder: The Family Next Door Posted: 09 Oct 2020 12:54 PM PDT  The house is technically still owned by Watts despite its foreclosure
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| Ken Starr: Biden, Harris making terrible decision not to reveal choice for Supreme Court Posted: 10 Oct 2020 08:49 AM PDT  Former White House independent counsel reacts to the Democrats refusal to name their choices for the high court.
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| Millions will be ordered not to leave their local areas in new Covid clampdown Posted: 10 Oct 2020 11:47 AM PDT  Millions of people will be asked not to travel outside their local areas and could be banned from mixing with other households, even outdoors, amid fears that some hospitals in the North-West could be overwhelmed within days. This weekend, Downing Street was briefing mayors and council leaders on the planned three-tier "Local Covid Alert Levels" system of restrictions for England, expected to be announced by Boris Johnson on Monday. Joe Anderson, the Mayor of Liverpool, said he was in discussions with Number 10 about placing the city into the third tier – with the toughest restrictions – amid mounting concern over the number of cases and the capacity of intensive care units at hospitals in the area. The talks included discussions about deals that would give local leaders greater autonomy over measures and testing in their area in exchange for helping to enforce and explain the rules. Plans for the third "very high" tier are understood to include guidance asking residents not to travel outside their area other than for specific reasons such as work or education. Local mayors said they expected pubs and bars in these areas to have to close, with restaurants able to remain open until 10pm. In telephone calls with local leaders, Boris Johnson's aides also indicated that areas put into the third tier could face bans on multiple households mixing either indoors or outdoors. Separately, Downing Street is inviting leaders whose areas are due to be in the "very high" tier to request the closure of specific types of hospitality or leisure venues, including beauty salons and sports centres. That came after acknowledgement that the Government had not done enough to achieve "local buy-in" for some of the existing restrictions faced by areas with high infection rates in the North-East and the North-West.
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| Hathras case: A woman repeatedly reported rape. Why are police denying it? Posted: 09 Oct 2020 05:08 PM PDT  A young Indian woman repeatedly said she was raped, but authorities insist there was no sexual assault.
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| North Korea just unveiled what appears to be a new intercontinental ballistic missile, and it's huge Posted: 10 Oct 2020 07:00 AM PDT  Analysts said the road-mobile, liquid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missile appears to be the largest of its kind anywhere in the world.
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| Second presidential debate canceled after Trump refuses to hold it virtually Posted: 09 Oct 2020 03:51 PM PDT  The Commission on Presidential Debates announced Friday that it has officially canceled the Oct. 15 debate between President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden after Trump declined to go along with the plan to hold it virtually.
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| Detained Australian Yang Hengjun set to face trial in Beijing Posted: 09 Oct 2020 06:58 PM PDT |
| Gunmen kill Pakistan singer, father of rights activist Posted: 09 Oct 2020 08:53 AM PDT |
| NYC cancels $900M payment to teachers due to financial crisis Posted: 09 Oct 2020 12:54 PM PDT  NYC teachers who were expected to receive their share of a $900 million payout were told those funds will not be released. The de Blasio administration canceled the payment and is blaming it on the pandemic, according to the New York Post. "It is the city's desire to avoid the necessity for layoffs, and to make a retroactive payment at this time would therefore be fiscally irresponsible," said First Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan to Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers on Thursday.
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| Paris Hilton leads protest and calls for closure of Utah school Posted: 10 Oct 2020 08:44 AM PDT  The reality TV star says schools like Provo Canyon School abuse and mistreat youth.
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| Princeton will drop President Woodrow Wilson and rename school after influential Black finance expert Posted: 09 Oct 2020 07:06 PM PDT  History won't only be taught at Princeton University - it will be made. The Ivy League college is naming a residential college after Mellody Hobson, an influential finance expert who is an alumna and major donor to the school. She will be the first Black woman to have that honor in the Elizabeth, New Jersey-based school's 274-year history. Hobson College will be built on a site once named for ...
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| Thousands will enter the 2022 visa lottery for a free green card. This advice could help Posted: 10 Oct 2020 12:04 PM PDT  This week, the U.S. government opened the entry period to participate in the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program for Fiscal Year 2022 (DV-2022), which ends on Nov. 10, 2020.
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| 28 arrested, tear gas used in Wisconsin protests Posted: 10 Oct 2020 09:12 AM PDT  Police used tear gas on demonstrators and arrested 28 people during a third straight night of protests over the lack of charges against a suburban Milwaukee police officer who fatally shot a Black teen, authorities said, as they took to Twitter on Saturday to outline what they called an "escalation in force by the protesters." About 100 people gathered outside City Hall on Friday past Wauwatosa's 7 p.m. curfew and refused multiple orders to disperse, according to police. Police said they used tear gas on the crowd, after bottles were thrown at officers.
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| Footage from former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale's meltdown shows him complaining to a police officer that his wife wasn't having sex with him Posted: 10 Oct 2020 09:27 AM PDT  Trump's former campaign manager Brad Parscale was hospitalized last month after threatening to harm himself.
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| Trump hails his COVID 'cure' as leading medical journal calls him 'dangerously incompetent' on pandemic Posted: 09 Oct 2020 01:05 PM PDT  President Trump continued to hail an experimental monoclonal antibody treatment as a "cure" for COVID-19, telling radio host Rush Limbaugh that it sped his recovery from the disease and was "better than a vaccine."
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| Philippines says it and China reaffirm strong relations Posted: 10 Oct 2020 08:14 AM PDT  The foreign ministers of Philippines and China reaffirmed their countries' strong relations on Saturday, Manila's foreign ministry said, amid bilateral tensions over the South China Sea. China, which has for years been locked in maritime disputes with other coastal states in the South China Sea, has in recent months held exercises in disputed parts of the strategic waterway, at a time when other claimants are battling coronavirus outbreaks. "Both sides reaffirmed the continuing vitality of relations despite the constraints imposed by COVID-19," the Philippines' foreign ministry said in a statement following talks in Yunnan between Teodoro Locsin and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.
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| Two women share chemistry Nobel in historic win for 'genetic scissors' Posted: 09 Oct 2020 02:51 AM PDT  This year's prize, which is for work on genome editing, is awarded to two women for the first time.
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| Mideast wildfires kill 3, force thousands to flee homes Posted: 10 Oct 2020 05:41 AM PDT  Wildfires around the Middle East triggered by a heatwave hitting the region have killed three people, forced thousands of people to leave their homes and detonated landmines along the Lebanon-Israel border, state media and officials said Saturday. The areas hit by the heatwave are Syria, Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian territories. Wildfires spread across different areas of Israel and the West Bank for a second day Saturday, forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes.
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| Trump: I don't know how I got COVID-19, would love to donate plasma Posted: 09 Oct 2020 05:49 PM PDT  President joins Dr. Marc Siegel to discuss his stay at Walter Reed, the presidential debates and dexamethasone
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| A Florida mom walked into a Walmart. Then she vanished, surveillance video shows Posted: 09 Oct 2020 10:10 AM PDT  The mystery has deepened surrounding a Central Florida woman who has been missing since Sept. 25.
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| One Dead as Gunfire Erupts Amid Dueling Rallies in Denver Posted: 10 Oct 2020 03:51 PM PDT  A man was shot dead during rival rallies between far-right groups and Black Lives Matter protesters in Denver on Saturday. The victim, who has not been identified, was rushed to a hospital but succumbed to his injuries a short time later, Denver police confirmed. Two suspects were taken into custody in connection with the shooting, which occurred in the courtyard of the Denver Art Museum. Nearby, hundreds of activists from the far-right and Black Lives Matter had been facing off in dueling demonstrations.The shooting is now being investigated as a homicide, police said.> Update: This shooting is now being investigated as a Homicide. Updates will be posted as information comes available.> > — Denver Police Dept. (@DenverPolice) October 10, 2020A video said to be taken from the scene at the time of the shooting captured the gunfire and the shooting in the distance. After a shot rang out, police officers could be seen rushing to the area as bystanders screamed in horror and yelled, "He's got a gun!" A man could be seen lying on the ground as authorities handcuffed two other people nearby. > Potato video, but here is the person shooting the gun at the Denverprotests, and the scene after (Denver, CO) pic.twitter.com/N1FksCXWiW> > — Kitty Shackleford (@KittyLists) October 10, 2020The incident capped off a day of tensions in the city, after counter-protesters hosted a "BLM-Antifa Soup Drive" outside the Civic Center where right-wing groups had gathered for what was dubbed a "Patriot Muster." Far-right militias appeared ready to do battle at the event, wielding shields and wearing helmets, but only isolated clashes and screaming matches were reported between the two sides until the gunfire erupted. A day before the event, the organizer of the Patriot Rally, John Tiegen did an interview with the Steffan Tubbs Show where he was quoted saying of the rally: "I'm not going in there to do violence, but I'm going to be prepared to do violence."On Twitter, he called on participants to "be seen be heard loud and proud." "Don't let the communists, socialist party and groups intimidate or Oppress you any longer!" he wrote.Ahead of the rallies, the Denver Police Department said it would respect "the right to peacefully assemble" but urged those participating to "do so in a lawful manner."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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| Cunningham won't directly address possible other affairs Posted: 09 Oct 2020 01:27 PM PDT  Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cal Cunningham refused on Friday to address whether other sexual affairs could surface days after The Associated Press reported his intimate encounter this summer with a public relations consultant. Cunningham is in a closely contested, expensive race with Republican Sen. Thom Tillis that could determine control of the Senate. The U.S. Army Reserve officer and Raleigh attorney on Oct. 2 acknowledged the existence of sexually suggestive text messages between him and a woman, both of whom are married, and apologized for hurting his family and supporters.
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| The Taliban on Trump: "We hope he will win the election" Posted: 10 Oct 2020 09:07 AM PDT  President Trump's reelection bid received a vote of support Friday from an entity most in his party would reject: the Taliban.
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| Sen. Tammy Duckworth was once told to pump breast milk in an airport toilet stall. Now she has unlocked funding to put lactation rooms in all of America's airports. Posted: 10 Oct 2020 05:03 AM PDT  The senator's Friendly Airports for Mothers Improvement Act lets airports large and small use federal funds to install clean, private lactation areas.
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| India's already-high inflation likely climbed further in September: Reuters poll Posted: 08 Oct 2020 09:14 PM PDT  Retail inflation in India likely rose further above the central bank's medium-term target last month as food prices climbed due to lingering supply disruptions, a Reuters poll found, reducing the chances of another interest rate cut. Persistent high prices have hurt the recession-stricken economy, which contracted a record 23.9% in April-June despite the Reserve Bank of India cutting its key repo rate by a cumulative 115 basis points since the pandemic started. Although the government has eased some lockdown restrictions to help the economy, supply chain disruptions have shown little sign of abating as the virus continues to spread rapidly in India.
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| Australian boss fined over Belgian backpacker's fruit-picking death Posted: 08 Oct 2020 10:49 PM PDT  Olivier Max Caramin collapsed from heat stress after picking fruit for hours in the sun.
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