| Trump says he has evidence coronavirus came from a Chinese lab, but he can't reveal it Posted: 30 Apr 2020 04:29 PM PDT  President Trump said Thursday that he had seen evidence to prove that the coronavirus pandemic had spread from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, but he declined to detail what that evidence was.
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| Governor closes all roads into a New Mexico city Posted: 01 May 2020 01:26 PM PDT  Effective immediately, all roads into Gallup, New Mexico, are closed.
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| Afghan president, feuding rival reach 'tentative' agreement Posted: 01 May 2020 06:10 AM PDT  A bitter feud between Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his rival Abdullah Abdullah appeared closer to resolution Friday after Abdullah said the two men had moved forward in talks. Abdullah previously served as Afghanistan's "chief executive" under a power-sharing deal with Ghani, but lost that post following last year's presidential elections that Ghani won amid claims of fraud. Instead of accepting defeat, Abdullah proclaimed himself president, a title he uses to this day, though the international community only recognises Ghani.
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| Jewish leadership organisation hits out at Sir Keir Starmer after two Labour MPs attend conference call with expelled activists Posted: 30 Apr 2020 08:20 AM PDT  A Jewish leadership organisation has hit out at Sir Keir Starmer after it emerged that two Labour MPs had taken part in a conference call which included activists expelled from the party over alleged anti-Semitism. The Board of Deputies of British Jews has called on the new Labour leader to take "swift and decisive action" after former shadow home secretary Diane Abbott and serving frontbencher Bell Ribeiro-Addy took part in the event. Marie van der Zyl, the Board's president, claimed the pair's actions were a breach of the 10 anti-Semitism pledges that Sir Keir had signed up to during the Labour leadership contest earlier this year. One of the pledges states clearly that any Labour politician or member that campaigns or provides a platform for people suspended or expelled over anti-Semitism should themselves be suspended. In a clear warning to Sir Keir, Ms van der Zyl added: "It is completely unacceptable that Labour MPs, and even ordinary members, should be sharing platforms with those that have been expelled from the Party for anti-Semitism. "We would urge Labour to take swift and decisive action to show that this is a new era, rather than a false dawn."
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| Pelosi Suggests Biden Does Not Need to ‘Directly’ Address Reade Allegation: ‘I’m Satisfied with How He Has Responded’ Posted: 30 Apr 2020 07:20 AM PDT  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) on Thursday dismissed the notion that vice president Joe Biden should "directly, publicly" respond to sexual-assault allegations made by his former Senate staffer, saying in an interview that she was "satisfied with how he has responded."Speaking to CNN, Pelosi defended Biden after she was asked if Biden should answer the allegation "head-on" and by "himself.""I'm satisfied with how he has responded," Pelosi said, adding she was "very proud to endorse him.""It's a matter that he has to deal with, but I am impressed with the people who worked for him at the time saying that they absolutely never heard one iota of information about this, nobody ever brought forth a claim or had anybody else tell them about such a claim," she stated.> Nancy Pelosi was asked on @CNN about the Biden sexual assault allegation and she defended him.> > "He's a person of great values, integrity, authenticity, imagination, and connection to the American people," Pelosi said, adding that she's "satisfied with how he has responded." pic.twitter.com/gaDt8Ki7oR> > -- Mike Brest (@MikeBrestDC) April 30, 2020While Biden's campaign has strongly denied the allegations of Biden's accuser, Tara Reade, the former vice president has not said anything publicly about the situation. The New York Times said Wednesday that talking points about the allegation that had been circulated by the campaign "inaccurately suggest" the paper concluded that Reade's claims were false.Reade has said that she complained about the incident to Biden staffers at the time, who have denied that she ever approached them. But last week, a 1993 clip from CNN's Larry King Live showed a woman calling in about "problems" her daughter had had with a U.S. senator. Reade, who had previously told The Intercept that such a tape existed, identified the woman as her mother. Earlier this week, one of Reade's former neighbors came forward and said Reade told her about details of the allegation in the mid-1990s.Biden's top female surrogates and prospective vice presidential candidates have also defended the former vice president. "I believe women deserve to be heard, and I believe that has happened here," former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said on Tuesday, apparently referencing the campaign's talking points about the Times article.Reade has said that she has been surprised by the dismissals of her claims in the "MeToo" era. News surfaced Wednesday that a letter asking Biden to address Reade's claims was drafted by national women's advocacy groups, only for the letter to not be publicly released after the Biden campaign learned of it."I was just hoping to get a fair and equal treatment," Reade told National Review. "But because it's Joe Biden I've been silenced or smeared."
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| EU says it didn't bow to pressure from China to water down a critical coronavirus disinformation report, but not everyone's convinced Posted: 01 May 2020 12:35 AM PDT  Josep Borrell, the European Union's chief diplomat said: "There is no watering down of our findings." But some lawmakers aren't convinced.
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| If flu deaths were counted like COVID-19 deaths, the worst recent flu season evidently killed 15,620 Americans Posted: 30 Apr 2020 10:34 PM PDT  The U.S. now has more than 63,000 confirmed COVID-19 deaths, and most experts say that's almost certainly an undercount. Still, if you compare that number to the 2017-18 flu season, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates killed 61,000 people, it looks like COVID-19 might be similar to a bad flu — President Trump has made this point, as have many conservative media personalities. But the data so far show that this new coronavirus is much more lethal than the flu, and Dr. Jeremy Samuel Faust has an explanation.Faust, a Harvard Medical School instructor and emergency physician at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, wrote in Scientific American that he started wondering about the flu-to-COVID comparisons when it occurred to him that in nearly eight years of hospital work, "I had almost never seen anyone die of the flu." Neither had any of the colleagues he called around the country. So he did some research, and this is what he found:> The 25,000 to 69,000 numbers that Trump cited do not represent counted flu deaths per year; they are estimates that the CDC produces by multiplying the number of flu death counts reported by various coefficients produced through complicated algorithms. These coefficients are based on assumptions of how many cases, hospitalizations, and deaths they believe went unreported. In the last six flu seasons, the CDC's reported number of actual confirmed flu deaths — that is, counting flu deaths the way we are currently counting deaths from the coronavirus — has ranged from 3,448 to 15,620. [Jeremy Faust, Scientific American]So in an apples-to-apples comparison, matching the second week of April's COVID-19 deaths to the worst week of the past seven flu seasons, "the novel coronavirus killed between 9.5 and 44 times more people than seasonal flu," Faust writes. Read his entire essay at Scientific American.More stories from theweek.com The smoke-filled room that could oust Joe Biden 5 scathingly funny cartoons about Mike Pence's unmasked hospital visit Parks and Recreation reunion raises almost $3 million for coronavirus relief
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| Trump World Star and Budding Conspiracy Theorist Lead Protest of Michigan’s Virus Lockdown Posted: 30 Apr 2020 01:19 PM PDT  Hundreds of protesters, some of them armed with assault rifles, gathered at Michigan's state Capitol on Thursday, demanding entry onto the state Senate floor to confront lawmakers set to debate an extension of the stay-at-home order in place to curtail the spread of the novel coronavirus. The "American Patriot Rally" outside of the Lansing building was aimed at Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who had made an appeal this week to extend the public health order as the state continues to battle a surge of COVID-19 cases. To date, 3,670 people have died and 40,399 have been infected by the virus across the state, according to a tally by John's Hopkins University.Carrying American flags and pro-Trump signs—along with their firearms—many people at Thursday's anti-lockdown rally blatantly ignored the national social-distancing guidelines as they clustered together outside the Capitol in the morning hours to argue that Whitmer's order violated constitutional rights and demanded a return to public life amid the ongoing pandemic. "We're the only nation that went to war with the South to free other men. Are we that same nation?" Tom Norton, a Republican U.S. congressional candidate, told the crowd that held up "Open Michigan Now" and "Make American Work Again" signs. Sheriffs Buck the Law, Refuse to Enforce Lockdown OrdersIn the crowd, many shouted, "You cannot lock us out. This is the people's house." Others were heard yelling "let us in" and accusing police of being "redcoats." As residents filed into the Capitol building to continue their right to protest, police officers were seen taking their temperatures in accordance with new COVID-19 guidelines. State Sen. Dayna Polehanki (D) noted the effect the armed observers had on the chamber, claiming that some state senators were wearing bulletproof vests. Facebook had deleted the event page days before the rally, citing rules against defying social distancing orders. But that didn't stop droves of protesters from showing up on the Capitol grounds anyway. Though the rallying cry for the event was largely around the need to restore economic activity in the state, the gathering featured at least one Trump-world star, former Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke, and Jason Howland, a budding conspiracy theorist. Howland, one of the rally's organizers posted footage on YouTube last week of empty hospital parking lots, part of a right-wing movement to somehow prove the pandemic is overblown by filming areas where patients aren't treated. In one of the videos, hospital security warns Howland to leave the property before they call the police. "What are they really doing?" Howland said in a video. In another, he speculated that tents set up as a temporary coronavirus hospital are actually FEMA camps—a reference to a long-running conspiracy theory that FEMA is about to arrest American citizens and imprison them in "FEMA camps."Howland defended the many protesters who didn't wear masks, saying that it would have looked "pretty stupid." "If I'm gonna protest somebody, and I do it by the rules that they're laying down on me, I'm going to look pretty stupid by the end of the day," Howland said. He confirmed that armed militia groups were brought in to provide "security" at the rally, but declined to name the militias. In the face of mounting criticism online of the protesters' attempt to storm the legislative chamber, Howland said his rally-goers were "peaceful," although he conceded that they were loud. "I believe that is activism at its best, because they could hear us and we got what we wanted," he said. During his speech to the crowd, Clarke, an outspoken Trump supporter, urged the crowd to "become defiant" in the face of Whitmer's social-distancing order and questioned CDC guidance that people stay six-feet apart. "How did they come up with this number of six feet?" Clarke said. "I think they just pulled it out of their rear-ends."Anti-Vaxxers and Lockdown Protesters Form an Unholy AllianceThursday's rally comes just two weeks after "Operation Gridlock," where Trump supporters organized thousands of people to jam the streets of Lansing, Michigan, in protest of Whitmer's strict stay-at-home order. Since April 15, the state Capitol building has been the site of various anti-lockdown protests, and Whitmer has faced the wrath of the president's criticism. Despite intense criticism, Whitmer extended the state's stay-at-home order last week to May 15, but notably eased some restrictions on previously-banned public activists. On Tuesday, however, the Michigan Senate urged Whitmer to consider further easing the restrictions, highlighting the long-term economic ramifications on the state. On Wednesday, Michigan's Court of Claims defended the order, stating it does not violate citizens' constitutional rights or infringe on the residents' right to due process. "Those liberty interests are, and always have been, subject to society's interests—society being our fellow residents," Judge Christopher Murray wrote in the ruling, denying a request for a preliminary injunction against the order. 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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| White House press secretary vows to "never lie" to the press Posted: 01 May 2020 12:50 PM PDT  Kayleigh McEnany held her first news conference as White House press secretary.
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| Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin tells tells President Vladimir Putin he has the coronavirus Posted: 01 May 2020 06:48 AM PDT  Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin told President Vladimir Putin on Thursday that he had been diagnosed with the coronavirus and was temporarily stepping down to recover.
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| RPT-Trans woman sets herself on fire in Georgia as virus lockdown cuts income Posted: 01 May 2020 07:35 AM PDT |
| 14 Baking Supplies for Your New Bread-Making Hobby Posted: 30 Apr 2020 07:40 AM PDT |
| Jordan ends historic arrangement with Israel as West Bank annexation tensions rise Posted: 30 Apr 2020 12:41 PM PDT  Jordan's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Ambassador Dhaifallah Al-Fayez, said the additional harvesting period "will end this evening."
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| Inside an ICE facility in Louisiana, detainees say ICE is depriving them of masks, under-testing for COVID-19, and moving migrants around the country Posted: 01 May 2020 10:49 AM PDT  About 48% of detainees tested for in ICE facilities are positive for COVID-19. Detainees told Business Insider they're not getting basic supplies.
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| Fact Check: CDC has not stopped reporting flu deaths, and this season's numbers are typical Posted: 30 Apr 2020 02:57 PM PDT  A claim that the CDC has stopped tracking flu deaths because the number of deaths is so low is false.
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| The smoke-filled room that could oust Joe Biden Posted: 01 May 2020 02:45 AM PDT  Never was former Vice President Joe Biden the 2020 dream. He promised electability and familiarity, which turned out to be good enough for a plurality of Democratic voters in the early primaries.But now that every other Democratic contender has dropped out and dutifully lined up behind the presumptive nominee, that choice might be sitting less comfortably. Biden is campaigning from his basement, giving interviews in which he occasionally moves past gaffes into total incoherence, raising questions about his mental fitness. Worst of all, evidence for a sexual assault allegation against him begins to mount.Add that to pandemic-induced uncertainty about when and how the Democratic National Convention will be held and it's fair to ask: Is Biden definitely the nominee? Right-wing commentators like Glenn Beck and Tucker Carlson as well as former Bernie Sanders Press Secretary Briahna Joy Gray have speculated Biden will be replaced on the ticket, but how could that happen? Is there a path to nominating someone else?Before the convention, which is currently rescheduled for August, the answer is probably no. Suspended primary elections have already raised concerns about abrogation of transparent, democratic processes — as have elections that weren't suspended. While Democratic delegates will understand the need to modify normal convention procedure to avoid spreading COVID-19, their understanding won't be unlimited. Sweeping changes to the nominating process would be suspect, and if the process continues as anticipated, Biden will very likely be selected as the nominee on the first ballot.So far, Biden has 1,406 of 1,991 delegates needed to win that initial vote, and those are delegates pledged (by strong custom, though not law) to Biden by primary and caucus results. Between now and August, there will be 22 more primaries whose outcomes will pledge another 1,368 delegates. Biden has no remaining challengers campaigning against him and needs fewer than half those delegates to win the first ballot. Unless the Democratic Party, wildly improbably, tosses its entire rule book out the window, Biden will take the nomination at the convention in a single vote.Ah, but what then? In the waning days of the Sanders campaign, I argued endorsements from superdelegates — prominent Democratic leaders and elected officials — showed party bosses had decided Biden was their guy. I don't expect to see those endorsements disappear, not publicly. But is the party leadership's commitment to Biden as solid as it once was?Suppose, plausibly, it is not. Suppose they don't want to run a historically elderly candidate amid a pandemic that is deadliest for the elderly? Suppose Tara Reade's assault accusation and Biden's tendency to misspeak even from the low-pressure, high-preparation environment of his own basement further fuel the "two senile sex offenders" narrative of this election? Suppose enthusiasm continues to grow for running New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), whom one poll found 56 percent of Democrats would prefer to Biden as their nominee? (Cuomo says he won't do it, but that could be an obligatory performance of deference to a party elder.)"The presidential debates are in effect already occurring daily between" Cuomo and Trump, Craig Snyder, a former Republican Senate chief of staff, argued in The Philadelphia Inquirer. We don't have to suppose Democratic Party leaders have noticed; they undoubtedly have.So if they wanted to replace Biden (whether with Cuomo, the veep nominee, or some arrangement of both) Democratic leadership could wait until after the nomination to do so. Then, as they did with Democratic vice presidential nominee Thomas Eagleton in 1972, they could ask Biden to step aside, citing his health.Biden's agreement is a long shot. Eagleton continued his Senate career after leaving the 1972 ticket over pressure about his mental health, but he was a much younger man. At Biden's age, stepping aside would end his political career for good. Relinquishing the nomination would therefore suggest he expects an embarrassing loss and ruined legacy if he stays.With Biden out, the Democratic National Committee, a group of around 350 which is "composed of the chairs and vice-chairs of each state Democratic Party Committee and over 200 members elected by Democrats in all 57 states and the territories," would vote to select a new nominee.Such a switch could be made any time between the convention nomination and Election Day. Because we technically vote for Electoral College members rather than presidential candidates, it may be, as Vox proposes, that Electors could simply transfer their vote from the old Democratic nominee to the new one regardless of what was printed on the ballot. But the legal situation is uncertain and varies from state to state. "For instance," notes FiveThirtyEight, "Michigan's law requires an Elector to vote for the ticket named on the ballot whereas Florida's rules say that an Elector is to 'vote for the candidates of the party that he or she was nominated to represent.'" That means a sooner swap, allowing more states to print the new name on the ballot, would be better. Yet court battles would be inevitable with the ever-litigious Trump involved.The likeliest outcome remains the most straightforward: That Biden will be the Democratic nominee and will face Trump in November. But if Democratic leaders did want to change horses midstream, late August or September could well be when they make their move.More stories from theweek.com 5 scathingly funny cartoons about Mike Pence's unmasked hospital visit Parks and Recreation reunion raises almost $3 million for coronavirus relief Scientists discover 5 FDA-approved drugs are effective at stopping coronavirus spread in the body
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| Trump news: President claims to have saved 'thousands of lives' as he revises down predictions of death toll Posted: 01 May 2020 01:45 PM PDT  Donald Trump's new White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany held her first press briefing on Friday after more than 400 days without a scheduled press briefing by the Trump administration.The last briefing was held by Sarah Sanders in March 2019, though the president has held his own free-wheeling briefings through the coronavirus pandemic and reporters scramble to get statements during Oval Office visits.
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| The director of a Brooklyn funeral home said 'bodies are coming out of our ears' after 50 bodies were found in storage trucks where leaking fluid was reported Posted: 30 Apr 2020 07:09 PM PDT  "I ran out of space. Bodies are coming out of our ears," Andrew Cleckley, the owner of the Brooklyn funeral home, told The New York Times.
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| Black Georgia man chased and killed while jogging, mom says Posted: 01 May 2020 06:09 AM PDT  Gregory McMichael told police he saw Ahmaud Arbery run by and said he recognized him from recent break-ins.
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| California judge won't reopen Orange County beaches Posted: 01 May 2020 06:32 PM PDT  Friday's decision came down as hundreds of people in Huntington Beach flooded the streets to protest the governor's directive.
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| Thunberg donates $100,000 to support children during pandemic Posted: 29 Apr 2020 10:03 PM PDT  Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has donated a $100,000 prize she won from a Danish foundation to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) for use against the COVID-19 pandemic, the world body said Thursday. "Like the climate crisis, the coronavirus pandemic is a child rights crisis," Thunberg, 17, was quoted as saying in the UNICEF statement. "It will affect all children, now and in the long term, but vulnerable groups will be impacted the most," she added.
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| Georgia businesses reopen to early success amid coronavirus pandemic Posted: 01 May 2020 08:51 AM PDT  Exactly one week since Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp began reopening the state's economy, small businesses shared early success stories as customers welcomed their return. But at what cost? Business owners say only time will tell.
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| Prominent Democratic women are standing by Joe Biden amid Tara Reade's sexual assault claim Posted: 01 May 2020 07:35 AM PDT  Some of Joe Biden's potential picks for a running mate have stood by him amid allegations of sexual assault by his former Senate staffer Tara Reade.
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| Fox News' Judge Napolitano wants Trump to pardon Flynn after FBI allegedly tried to 'get him fired' Posted: 30 Apr 2020 07:36 AM PDT  One of President Trump's biggest Fox News skeptics is on his side for this one.Documents unsealed late Wednesday in the case against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn raise questions about whether the FBI "set out to entrap" him in an interview with the agency, Fox News' judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano declared to Fox & Friends on Thursday. "Anybody who believes in the rule of law ... should be utterly scandalized and outraged" by what the documents reveal, and Trump should pardon Flynn "in the next day or so," Napolitano continued."This is a classic case of the FBI setting out to entrap someone and reducing it to writing," Napolitano incredulously said. He called for the Department of Justice to apologize to Flynn before the judge overseeing his case, denounce the FBI's actions, and both ask the judge to "vacate" Flynn's guilty plea and "dismiss" the indictment against him. And if it doesn't, Trump should quickly move to pardon him, Napolitano said.> Fox's Andrew Napolitano calls for Trump to pardon Michael Flynn "within the next day or so," unless the DOJ first denounces Flynn's prosecution, apologizes to him, and asks the judge to vacate his guilty plea and dismiss the indictment. pic.twitter.com/ycJcViHGSA> > — Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) April 30, 2020The documents reveal former FBI counterintelligence division Bill Priestap questioned "our goal" in a note written just days after Flynn lied about conversations with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. at the time. "Truth/admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?" Priestap wrote.Napolitano has frequently criticized Trump in the past, siding with those who wanted to impeach the president in saying he'd committed several crimes, including obstruction of justice.More stories from theweek.com The smoke-filled room that could oust Joe Biden 5 scathingly funny cartoons about Mike Pence's unmasked hospital visit The self-inflicted derangement of the conservative intellectuals
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| Top E.U. Official Confirms China Objected to Coronavirus Report, Denies Revisions Were Result of Pressure Posted: 01 May 2020 07:23 AM PDT  The European Union's foreign policy chief admitted Thursday that China "expressed their concerns" over an EU report on Chinese disinformation regarding coronavirus, after allegations that his team had watered down their initial findings "to appease the Chinese Communist Party."Speaking to the European Parliament in Brussels, Josep Borrell denied that Beijing had coerced him to soften the report's verdict. Drafts of the report showed that language condemning China for "a global disinformation campaign" was removed, while an analyst in the EU administration warned her superiors of "self-censoring.""I can assure you that no changes had been introduced to the report published last week to align the concerns of a third party, in this case, China. There is no watering down of our findings. We have not bowed to anyone," he said.But Borrell admitted that it was "clear and evident" China was unhappy with the leaked report, first reported by the New York Times, stressing that the Chinese "expressed their concerns through the diplomatic channels."The admission did not satisfy some lawmakers. Thierry Mariani, a French politician, told Borrell that his team had been "caught with their hand in the cookie jar," while a Beligan member, Hilde Vautmans, demanded further answers. "Who interfered? Which Chinese official put pressure? At what level? What means of pressure?" she asked. "I think Europe needs to know that. Otherwise you're losing all credibility."Borrell did not go into details over his contact with China over the report. "The Chinese were not happy," he stated. "They were not happy at the beginning and they are still not happy now."
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| Woman spots 12-foot-long alligator in South Carolina Posted: 01 May 2020 08:46 AM PDT  The woman was with her dog when she came across this giant beast.
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| Ten soldiers killed in bomb attack in north Egypt Posted: 01 May 2020 11:07 AM PDT  Ten Egyptian soldiers, including an army officer, died in a bomb attack during the holy month of Ramadan in the volatile northern Sinai region of the country. The region is known for its jihadist insurrection and it is suspected this attack was carried out by Islamic State although no one immediately claimed responsibility. A spokesman for the army said the soldiers were targeted as they travelled in convoy near the town of Bir al-Abed on Thursday. The Egyptian army has been fighting an insurgency from the Sinai branch of IS since 2013. Fighting has intensified since the ousting of Mohamed Morsi that year. Since the Egyptian military moved into the region, official figures show that more than 845 jihadists and nearly 70 members of the security forces have lost their lives. However, it is impossible to verify these figures, as the region is cut off from media access. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi praised the fallen soldiers as "heroes" and "martyrs." Footballer Mohamed Salah was among those commenting on the incident, as he wrote on Twitter: "May God have mercy on the martyrs of the homeland in the Sinai and my wishes for a speedy recovery for all the injured."
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| WHO investigates link between coronavirus and syndrome that affects young kids Posted: 30 Apr 2020 07:04 AM PDT  "We are urgently conducting a surveillance study in the United Kingdom to establish what is going on," said Dr. Adam Finn.
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| Top CDC official says there's 'not a lot of science' to back-up theory that 'farting' spreads coronavirus Posted: 01 May 2020 10:54 AM PDT  Though coronavirus has been found in the fecal matter of some infected people, there's currently no evidence it can spread from feces to a person.
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| President's 'So what?' as 5,000 die sparks fury in Brazil Posted: 01 May 2020 06:29 PM PDT  "So what?" said Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday when a journalist asked him about the fact that more than 5,000 Brazilians had died of the coronavirus. The far-right leader's off-the-cuff comment has been sparking anger ever since, with governors, politicians, healthcare professionals and media figures all weighing in to express their outrage at his lack of empathy. Bolsonaro is no stranger to controversy.
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| McConnell says Biden will have to release more information surrounding Tara Reade allegation Posted: 30 Apr 2020 07:45 AM PDT  "It's a very challenging thing to run for president," the majority leader says.
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| 4 women arrested after Arizona mom found dead, blood found in bathroom Posted: 01 May 2020 04:36 AM PDT  Detective Jason Flam, a department spokesperson, confirmed in an email the arrest of the four women is related to Melissa Valenzuela's case.
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| Dr. Fauci says it's 'doable' to have coronavirus vaccine with hundreds of millions of doses by January Posted: 30 Apr 2020 07:15 AM PDT  Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, believes it's "doable" to have hundreds of millions of doses of a coronavirus vaccine ready by January 2021.Fauci appeared Thursday on Today after Bloomberg reported that a Trump administration program, Operation Warp Speed, aims to speed up development of a COVID-19 vaccine with the goal of having 300 million doses available by January. Asked if this rapid timeline is actually possible, Fauci told Today that he believes it is, explaining that the plan is, as Bloomberg reported, to quickly move to ramp up production of some potential vaccines while they are undergoing trials but before it's clear if they work."We're going to start ramping up production with the companies involved, and you do that at risk," Fauci said. "In other words, you don't wait until you get an answer before you start manufacturing. You, at risk, proactively start making it assuming it's going to work. And if it does, then you could scale up and hopefully get to that timeline." Fauci added of this quick timeline, "I think that is doable, if things fall in the right place." In its report on Operation Warp Speed, Bloomberg noted that "there is no precedent for such rapid development of a vaccine." > "We want to go quickly, but we want to make sure it's safe and it's effective. I think that's doable if things fall in the right place." -Dr. Anthony Facui on the possibility of coronavirus vaccine being widely available by January. pic.twitter.com/SIHeucVuTK> > -- TODAY (@TODAYshow) April 30, 2020More stories from theweek.com The smoke-filled room that could oust Joe Biden 5 scathingly funny cartoons about Mike Pence's unmasked hospital visit The self-inflicted derangement of the conservative intellectuals
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| A former bodyguard for Ellen DeGeneres said his experience with the host was 'kind of demeaning' Posted: 01 May 2020 10:37 AM PDT  The former security official said DeGeneres never said hello to him when he worked with the talk-show host at the 2014 Oscars.
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| DeVos, Education Department sued for 'seizing' student borrower paychecks Posted: 01 May 2020 11:16 AM PDT  Supporters of a lawsuit against the department say the agency is placing the "well-being of vulnerable student loan borrowers in peril" during the coronavirus pandemic.
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| Bill Gates says US testing data is 'bogus' because it still takes 3 to 4 days to get results Posted: 30 Apr 2020 11:03 PM PDT  "The United States does not prioritize who gets tested," he said Thursday. "And the United States does not make sure you get results in 24 hours."
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| Syrians in Idlib protest opening of trade link with regime Posted: 01 May 2020 11:18 AM PDT  Maarat al-Naasan (Syria) (AFP) - Protests broke out across opposition-held parts of northwest Syria Friday against an al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group after it opened a trade crossing into regime territory, an AFP correspondent and a war monitor said. "Mass protests broke out in several towns and villages in the provinces of Idlib and Aleppo to denounce the practises of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham alliance" said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor. Led by Syria's former al-Qaeda affiliate, HTS and allied rebel groups dominate large swathes of Idlib province and slivers of neighbouring Aleppo.
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| Turkey claims success treating virus with drug touted by Trump Posted: 30 Apr 2020 05:55 AM PDT  The nation says every hospitalized coronavirus patient is given hydroxychloroquine.
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| Three Days in a Detroit Funeral Home Ravaged by the Coronavirus Posted: 01 May 2020 05:00 AM PDT  On April 29, Stephen Kemp arrived at his office just outside Detroit to a perplexing silence. Since COVID-19 hit the city, the phones at his…
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| N Korea's Kim Jong Un appears in public amid health rumors Posted: 01 May 2020 02:49 PM PDT  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made his first public appearance in 20 days as he celebrated the completion of a fertilizer factory near Pyongyang, state media said Saturday, ending an absence that had triggered global rumors that he may be seriously ill. The North's official Korean Central News Agency reported that Kim attended the ceremony Friday in Sunchon with other senior officials, including his sister Kim Yo Jong, who many analysts predict would take over if her brother is suddenly unable to rule.
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| A New York City man stole $12,000 worth of coronavirus stimulus checks from mailboxes, cops say Posted: 30 Apr 2020 08:14 AM PDT  Police arrested Feng Chen, 31, after finding him looking in mailboxes and a medical collection bin in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood,
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