| West Virginia sees coronavirus outbreaks in churches Posted: 15 Jun 2020 01:08 PM PDT  Less than a month after President Trump urged churches to reopen, West Virginia has reported a significant number of coronavirus outbreaks linked to houses of worship.
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| Violent counter-protesters mobbed a small-town BLM demonstration in Ohio amid false rumors of antifa Posted: 16 Jun 2020 12:32 PM PDT  A small demonstration against racism in Bethel, Ohio, turned violent when hundreds counter-protesters arrived after learning of the event online.
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| 'Not to me, they don't': Philadelphia court supervisor fired for tearing down Black Lives Matter signs on video Posted: 16 Jun 2020 10:44 AM PDT  A supervisor with Philadelphia's Family Court was fired after a video circulated online showing him tearing down Black Lives Matter signs and telling bystanders that black lives don't matter to him.The video shows Michael Henkel marching along a sidewalk tearing Black Lives Matter signs from fences and walls. When a bystander yells "black lives matter" at him, Mr Henkel replies "not to me, they don't."
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| A Crisis Is Brewing Between India and China. But This Time There Is a Big Difference. Posted: 16 Jun 2020 07:59 AM PDT  America has inserted itself deeper into the China-India-Pakistan triangle, altering the shape of the regional order, pushing it toward a bipolar one with Beijing and Islamabad on one side and New Delhi and, to some extent, itself on the other.
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| Police department rips Tucker Carlson for "inaccurate" protest report Posted: 16 Jun 2020 11:57 AM PDT  The department said Carlson's report creates "creates an environment of confusion and bitterness"
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| Supreme Court won't consider limiting police immunity from civil lawsuits Posted: 15 Jun 2020 11:08 AM PDT  The justices' decision not to hear any new cases follows the recent death of George Floyd, a Black man in Minneapolis, while in police custody.
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| Woman apologizes after criticism for confronting homeowner Posted: 15 Jun 2020 03:10 PM PDT  The CEO of a cosmetics company has issued an apology after a video went viral showing her and her husband confronting a man and threatening to call police because he wrote "Black Lives Matter" in chalk on his San Francisco property.
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| 18 of America’s Best Historic Homes to Visit Posted: 15 Jun 2020 01:00 PM PDT |
| 'Kroger Karen' is going viral for using a stroller to block a Black woman from leaving a grocery store parking lot Posted: 16 Jun 2020 01:58 PM PDT  Shaneeka Montgomery-Strickland live-streamed the incident in which a white woman barred her from exiting a Kroger parking lot.
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| GoFundMe froze $350,000 in contributions after Black Lives Matter supporters mistakenly donated to an unaffiliated group with the same name Posted: 15 Jun 2020 07:14 PM PDT  The Black Lives Matter Foundation attracted $4 million in donations to its mission for "unity with the police department," BuzzFeed News reported.
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| Lindsey Graham praises Joe Biden and calls Donald Trump a 'race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot' in new ad Posted: 15 Jun 2020 08:54 AM PDT  Before he was one of the president's closest allies, Lindsey Graham (R—SC) was an outspoken critic of Donald Trump — and some members of the Republican Party want voters to remember that come Election Day.A new ad from the group Republican Voters Against Trump features the conservative senator dissing the president along the campaign trail in 2016, as well as discussing his admiration for former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
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| Police killing of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta ruled a homicide Posted: 15 Jun 2020 10:16 AM PDT  The Fulton County Medical Examiner's Office said Brooks, 27, died after he was shot twice in the back.
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| De Blasio Tells Covid Contract Tracers Not to Ask Positive Cases If They’ve Attended BLM Protests Posted: 15 Jun 2020 06:43 AM PDT  New York City's coronavirus contact-tracing force are not asking those who test positive for COVID-19 whether they recently attended a Black Lives Matter demonstration, a city spokesperson confirmed."No person will be asked proactively if they attended a protest," Avery Cohen, a spokesperson for de Blasio, told THE CITY about the directive. "If a person wants to proactively offer that information, there is an opportunity for them to do so."De Blasio, who announced his program last month to hire 1,000 "contact tracers," has promised to reveal Monday how many city residents have been questioned so far.Tracers are supposed to ask those who test positive for Covid-19 to "recall 'contacts' and individuals they may have exposed," Cohen explained. Tracers also probe for any "close contacts" of the patient — anyone that has been within six feet of the infected person for at least 10 minutes.New York City officials have taken a soft stance over fears that mass protests could lead to a spike in coronavirus cases. "Let's be clear about something: if there is a spike in coronavirus cases in the next two weeks, don't blame the protesters. Blame racism," Mark Levine, head of the city council's health committee, tweeted earlier this month.The mayor, whose daughter was arrested during a Manhattan protest over the death of George Floyd, is facing a lawsuit from Catholics and Jews for violating the constitutional rights of religious New Yorkers by placing restrictions on religious services. But De Blasio has pushed back on claims that he has been hypocritical in allowing protests to proceed while keeping religious services shuttered."When you see . . . an entire nation, simultaneously grappling with an extraordinary crisis seated in 400 years of American racism, I'm sorry, that is not the same question as the understandably aggrieved store owner or the devout religious person who wants to go back to services," de Blasio said in a press conference earlier this month.
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| He Xiangjian: China arrests five after attempt to kidnap billionaire Posted: 15 Jun 2020 01:33 PM PDT  Five people have been arrested after an attempt to kidnap He Xiangjian, one of China's richest men.
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| Russia’s Ka-52 Helicopter Gunship to be Upgraded with Long-Range Missiles Posted: 16 Jun 2020 05:00 AM PDT  What can they do?
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| Should the World Be Worried About the 'Explosive' New Outbreak of Coronavirus in Beijing? Posted: 16 Jun 2020 01:23 AM PDT  Since 106 new cases emerged around a food market, the Chinese capital has been plunged into what officials are calling "wartime mode."
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| Federal judge, wife killed in cartel-plagued Mexican state Posted: 16 Jun 2020 01:12 PM PDT |
| Virus more efficient at infection after mutation; diseased lungs more receptive to virus Posted: 15 Jun 2020 12:20 PM PDT  A genetic mutation in the new coronavirus that significantly increases its ability to infect cells may explain why outbreaks in Northern Italy and New York were larger than ones seen earlier in the pandemic. Scientists at Scripps Research in Florida say the mutated virus was seen infrequently in March, but by April accounted for some 65% of cases submitted from around the world to the GenBank database run by the National Institutes of Health. The mutation, designated D614G, increased the number of "spikes" the virus uses to bind to and break into cells, and made them more stable, researchers found in the study undergoing peer review.
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| Steroid treatment saves one third of most severe COVID-19 cases: trial Posted: 16 Jun 2020 06:34 AM PDT  The steroid dexamethasone has been found to save the lives of one third of the most serious COVID-19 cases, according to trial results hailed Tuesday as a "major breakthrough" in the fight against the disease. Researchers led by a team from the University of Oxford administered the widely available drug to more than 2,000 severely ill COVID-19 patients. Among those who could only breathe with the help of a ventilator, dexamethasone reduced deaths by 35 percent, and it reduced deaths of those receiving oxygen by a fifth, according to preliminary results.
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| Trump trailing in polls because people don't want to admit they support him, former press secretary says Posted: 16 Jun 2020 08:35 AM PDT  Former Trump administration press secretary Sean Spicer has a theory as to why his former boss is trailing Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in almost every recent poll.People do not want to admit they support him — even to family and friends.
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| 'Golden State Killer' suspect to plead guilty, won't get death penalty Posted: 16 Jun 2020 04:33 AM PDT  The man accused of being the Golden State Killer is expected to plead guilty on June 29 in return for being spared the death penalty, a source familiar with the matter said Monday.
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| 'Embrace the change': Black officers sidestep unions to support police reform Posted: 15 Jun 2020 11:01 AM PDT  "We're talking about Black men dying. We're talking about systemic racism in police work," said a leader of one Black law enforcement association.
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| Atlanta officer Garrett Rolfe was fired after fatally shooting Rayshard Brooks. He had recently been trained in de-escalation tactics and cultural awareness. Posted: 15 Jun 2020 04:34 PM PDT  Garrett Rolfe attended 2,000 hours of police training, his personnel record shows. In January, he attended a course in the use of deadly force.
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| 'Because I was white' — Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian shares story of walking away from a police encounter in college after he was found drunk and high in his car Posted: 16 Jun 2020 10:13 AM PDT  "Because I was white. I walked away + started Reddit, not jail time. I became an entrepreneur, not a statistic," Ohanian tweeted.
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| Is the U.S. Naval Buildup in the Pacific a Warning to China? Posted: 15 Jun 2020 12:55 PM PDT  Beijing had better believe it.
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| American convicted of spying in Russia, gets 16 years Posted: 15 Jun 2020 01:38 AM PDT  A Russian court convicted an American corporate security executive Monday of espionage and sentenced him to 16 years in prison after a closed trial that the U.S. denounced as a "mockery of justice," and it angrily said his treatment in jail was "appalling." Paul Whelan, a former Marine from Novi, Michigan, has insisted he was innocent, saying he was set up when he was arrested in Moscow in December 2018 while he was visiting Russia to attend a friend's wedding. "We have serious concerns that Mr. Whelan was deprived of the fair trial guarantees that Russia is required to provide him in accordance with its international human rights obligations," U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement.
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| Texas reports record high number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients Posted: 16 Jun 2020 12:46 PM PDT  The state is reporting a record-high number of coronavirus hospitalizations for the fourth day in a row.
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| U.S. Justice Dept. employees to testify about political meddling, House panel says Posted: 16 Jun 2020 07:55 AM PDT |
| 'Unorthodox,' 'abuse of power': ICE is hitting lawful asylum-seekers with a new obstacle Posted: 16 Jun 2020 08:32 AM PDT  "Now that they're granting some paroles, they're placing as many hurdles as possible," said a staff attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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| Secret drug cave discovered by Spanish police Posted: 15 Jun 2020 06:51 AM PDT  A secret operations centre buried in a garden belonging to alleged drug traffickers has been discovered by Spanish police, accessed via steps hidden under an ornamental fountain. It was only after Guardia Civil officers in the Costa del Sol town of Mijas began to investigate the three men accused of trafficking cannabis that they made the discovery, realising a small ornate fountain positioned next to a barbecue lifted up to reveal a shaft into the ground. At the bottom of the stairwell, officers advanced along a cramped tunnel before entering a shipping container buried under the garden, where the gang hid drug consignments. "It seems like something out of Hollywood, but we see this kind of thing in the local drug trafficking scene," a Guardia Civil spokesman told The Telegraph.
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| I gave my Afro-Latino boyfriend the 'police talk' before visiting the US. After George Floyd's killing, I watched his baptism into American life. Posted: 16 Jun 2020 06:30 AM PDT  As a Black American, my life experiences differ from Jhony's. Before visiting my family, I knew I had to prepare him for what he might encounter here.
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| New virus cases in China, N. Zealand sound pandemic alarm Posted: 16 Jun 2020 01:45 AM PDT  More than two dozen new coronavirus cases in China and the first New Zealand infections in almost a month on Tuesday underlined the immense challenges still ahead in containing the deadly pandemic, even as some EU nations reopened their borders to fellow Europeans. More than eight million people have now been infected with the virus worldwide since it first emerged in China late last year -- with more than 435,000 deaths -- and the tolls are still surging in Latin America and South Asia. The latest reminder of the threat came on Tuesday from China, which had largely brought its outbreak under control, as 27 new infections were reported in Beijing, where a new cluster linked to a wholesale food market has sparked mass testing and neighbourhood lockdowns.
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| 20 Indian troops killed in China clashes: Indian army Posted: 16 Jun 2020 11:37 AM PDT  The Indian army said on Tuesday that 20 of its soldiers were killed in clashes with Chinese troops at a disputed border site, in a major escalation of a weeks-long standoff in the western Himalayas. Soraya Ali reports.
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| Lawyer: Egyptian journalist detained on fake news charges Posted: 15 Jun 2020 05:59 PM PDT |
| North Korea's Demolition of the Kaesong Liaison Office Is a Sign of Desperation Posted: 16 Jun 2020 11:59 AM PDT  Not aggression. Here's why.
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| Trump to sign police reform executive order on Tuesday Posted: 15 Jun 2020 12:28 PM PDT  U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Tuesday that will seek to improve how police officers treat African Americans and others by improving credentialing, training and mental health resources, administration officials said. The order comes after Trump has struck a strict "law and order" tone in his response to protests around the country sparked by the death of African American George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis. Trump has faced criticism from Democrats for his response and some allies are concerned that his handling of the protests and the coronavirus pandemic are hurting his and other Republican leaders' chances of re-election in November.
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| Louisville detective who obtained no-knock warrant for Breonna Taylor's apartment reassigned Posted: 16 Jun 2020 11:48 AM PDT  Detective Joshua Jaynes wrote five affidavits seeking a judge's permission for no-knock searches as a part of a narcotics investigation in March.
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| AT&T is laying off thousands of workers and shutting down at least 250 stores Posted: 16 Jun 2020 12:57 PM PDT  AT&T; is cutting 3,400 jobs and closing more than 250 stores as part of its efforts to focus on growth areas and respond to the impacts of COVID-19.
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| India-China clash: 20 Indian troops killed in Ladakh fighting Posted: 16 Jun 2020 02:40 PM PDT  It is the first deadly skirmish in decades between the two regional powers at their disputed border.
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| Tucker Carlson Laments That Black Lives Matter Is Now More Popular Than Trump Posted: 15 Jun 2020 06:52 PM PDT  Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Monday night once again devoted a lengthy monologue to attacking Black Lives Matter, this time bemoaning the social justice movement's rising popularity while wondering why the federal government hasn't filed conspiracy charges against it.Carlson, who has seen advertisers flee in recent days after saying Black Lives Matter "is definitely not about black lives," kicked off Monday night's program by noting that the group is gaining momentum among the American public as protests rage over George Floyd's death and police brutality."Here is breaking news we never expected to report," Carlson lamented. "Black Lives Matter is now more popular than the president of the United States and not slightly more popular than the president, much more popular."Noting that right-leaning pollster Rasmussen now finds 62 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of BLM, the Fox News host pointed out that the racial justice movement also outpolled presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and the pope. Describing BLM as the nation's most powerful political party, Carlson went on to claim that while Americans can criticize other political parties, "Black Lives Matter now enjoys complete immunity from criticism." Claiming use of the phrase "All Lives Matter" is now "considered hate speech," Carlson said the nation is in a "dangerous moment" before wondering aloud why Black Lives Matter hasn't been brought up on federal charges over the violent protests and looting that took place days after Floyd's death."Is there a reason the DOJ hasn't filed federal conspiracy charges against the people who organized and led these riots?" Carlson grumbled. "It's not as if we don't know who they are. Their crimes are on YouTube. You know the reason. BLM was involved."The Fox News host concluded his latest anti-BLM rant by claiming that it is gaining popularity because its supporters are "getting exactly what they want" and are doing it with "force.""They flood the streets with angry young people who break things and they hurt anyone who gets in the way," the conservative host declared. "When they want something, they take it. Make them mad and they will set your business on fire.""Annoy them and they will occupy your downtown and declare a brand-new country," he continued. "You will not do anything about it. They know that for certain."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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| Franklin Graham claims he’s not homophobic despite asking hospital volunteers to oppose same-sex marriage Posted: 16 Jun 2020 12:35 PM PDT  Evangelical pastor Franklin Graham has insisted that he is not homophobic, despite asking volunteers in his hospital to oppose same-sex marriage, and criticising Monday's Supreme Court ruling that protects LGBT+ Americans from discrimination at work.Mr Graham's Christian charitable group, Samaritans' Purse, set up a makeshift field hospital in New York, in April, to help treat coronavirus patients.
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| Obama to hold joint fundraiser for Biden next week Posted: 15 Jun 2020 06:12 PM PDT  Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is getting some help from his "former boss," Barack Obama, as he looks to fill his campaign coffers and unify the Democratic Party ahead of the November election. The former president and Biden will appear together next Tuesday for a "virtual grassroots fundraiser," the former vice president announced on Twitter. It will be the first time the two have appeared together since Obama endorsed Biden in April.
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| China's COVID-19 vaccine candidate shows promise in human trials, CNBG says Posted: 16 Jun 2020 05:32 AM PDT |
| President of police union chapter in Florida suspended after 'despicable' Facebook post Posted: 16 Jun 2020 11:52 AM PDT  A Facebook post by a Florida chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police recruited officers disciplined and charged in violent incidents.
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