| Trump snubs former EPA chief Pruitt in Tulsa visit Posted: 19 Jun 2020 07:58 AM PDT  When President Trump comes to Tulsa on Saturday for his first campaign event since the coronavirus shutdown, one person won't be there: Tulsa's own Scott Pruitt.
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| Bill to remove Confederate statues from Capitol stalled by Missouri's Blunt Posted: 19 Jun 2020 09:59 AM PDT  The legislation proposed by Sen. Cory Booker would have removed 11 statues honoring men who voluntarily served in the Confederacy from the National Statuary Hall Collection.
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| 'At a loss about what they're supposed to do': Police take on their own kind of protest Posted: 19 Jun 2020 10:17 AM PDT  As the national movement for police reform and racial justice grows, more police push back, saying the public has painted them with too broad a brush.
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| McEnany won't wear mask at Tulsa Trump rally Posted: 19 Jun 2020 12:05 PM PDT  The Centers for Disease Control recommends that Americans wear masks in public.
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| China claims valley where Indian, Chinese soldiers brawled Posted: 19 Jun 2020 10:57 PM PDT  China said the Galwan Valley high up in the Himalayan border region where Chinese and Indian troops engaged in a deadly brawl this week falls entirely within China, boldly renewing claims on the disputed area as the Asian giants continued using military and diplomatic channels to try to reduce tensions on Saturday. The confrontation in the Galwan Valley, part of the disputed Ladakh region along the Himalayan frontier, was the deadliest between the two countries in 45 years. India blames China for instigating the fight by developing infrastructure in the valley, which it said was a breach of the agreement of what area remained in dispute.
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| North Korea prepares to send anti-South leaflets across the border Posted: 19 Jun 2020 06:32 PM PDT  North Korea is gearing up to send propaganda leaflets over its southern border, denouncing North Korean defectors and South Korea, its state media said on Saturday, the latest retaliation for leaflets from the South as bilateral tensions rise. Enraged North Korean people across the country "are actively pushing forward with the preparations for launching a large-scale distribution of leaflets", which are piled as high as a mountain, said state news agency KCNA. "Every action should be met with proper reaction and only when one experiences it oneself, one can feel how offending it is," KCNA said. North Korea has blamed North Korean defectors for launching leaflets across the border and threatened military action. On Tuesday, Pyongyang blew up an inter-Korean liaison office to show its displeasure against the defectors and South Korea for not stopping them launching leaflets. A North Korean defector-led group said on Friday it had scrapped a plan to send hundreds of plastic bottles stuffed with rice, medicine and face masks to North Korea by throwing them into the sea near the border on Sunday.
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| Matt Gaetz Appears Alongside His Newly Revealed ‘Son’ on Tucker Carlson’s Show Posted: 18 Jun 2020 07:16 PM PDT  Hours after announcing that he has a 19-year-old Cuban "son," Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) appeared alongside the teen, Nestor Galban, on Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight to prove to a Democratic colleague with whom he's been feuding that he has a "non-white" child.Gaetz's revelation about Galban came on the heels of his extremely heated altercation with Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) during a congressional hearing on police reform, which flew off the rails when Gaetz exploded at Richmond for suggesting he didn't know what it's like to fear for a Black son."For all those wondering, this is my son Nestor. We share no blood but he is my life. He came from Cuba (legally, of course) six years ago and lives with me in Florida," Gaetz tweeted on Thursday morning. "I am so proud of him and raising him has been the best, most rewarding thing I've done in my life."The pro-Trump congressman also wrote that Nestor had just turned 19 and arrived when he was 12, adding that he was "triggered" by Richmond's remarks because he knows what it's like to "raise non-white kids." Gaetz's sudden announcement that he had a grown son, meanwhile, raised quite a few questions, especially considering he had never publicly disclosed this before Thursday.At the same time he appeared on Carlson's show, People published a report providing details on Gaetz's relationship to Galban. Gaetz admitted to People that he "did not formally adopt" Galban, stating that Galban moved in with him when he was 12 because Gaetz—then a state legislator—was dating Galban's older sister. "He is a part of my family story," Gaetz told People, adding that Nestor "is my son in every conceivable way, and I can't imagine loving him any more if he was my own flesh and blood." He declined to tell the magazine what Nestor's relationship was with his biological family at this time.Carlson, meanwhile, introduced the pro-Trump congressman on his program by asking him how he feels about Richmond telling him "you are not allowed to participate in the conversation because of your skin color."Saying his Democratic colleague's remarks were "offensive" because Richmond didn't know anything about his experience, Gaetz went on to say that "Nestor is the light of my life" and that he "couldn't imagine loving him anymore if he was my own flesh and blood.""I've raised him for the last six years, and he is the most remarkable young man," he added. "I am proud of him, and I am honestly embarrassed of the United States Congress that we have resorted to criticizing each other based on our race and the race of our children and I wish that we could be more productive going forward."After Gaetz said Galban had been raised to "treat everyone equally," Carlson wondered aloud if Galban had also learned those lessons in school, prompting Gaetz to reveal that Nestor was already mic'd up and ready to appear on-screen."What do you make of Cedric Richmond's attacks? Did you see all of this?" Carlson asked Galban."I did not see it because I was sleeping from my workout the night before," Nestor replied, adding that he woke up to the tweets on the altercation and Gaetz calling him about it."I think it's unfair to tell someone that they don't understand because they don't have—because of their racial color," he added. "While he is fighting for equality but if you tell someone to not get involved—he doesn't understand because of the color—you are being a hypocrite there."The Fox host applauded Galban's answer before snarkily noting that this is now something "you would be censured for," something Gaetz agreed with."I cannot believe that it's acceptable in the United States Congress for someone to tell someone else that they are fighting for their children more than they are. You have a son," Gaetz said. "How would you feel if someone said to you that they were fighting for your own family more than you were? That's why I got very upset."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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| Citing 'problems' receiving a ballot, Trump campaign manager acknowledges he didn't vote in '16 Posted: 19 Jun 2020 11:05 PM PDT  Parscale, then a Texas resident, oversaw Trump's digital operation in 2016 and became the campaign manager in 2018.
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| EU extends Russian sanctions over Ukraine: Merkel Posted: 19 Jun 2020 06:34 AM PDT  The European Union has agreed to extend punishing sanctions against Russia over the conflict in Ukraine by six months, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday. The measures over Russia's role in the conflict were first imposed after Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine in 2014 and have been renewed every six months ever since. Germany and France have repeatedly sought to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine.
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| Muhammad Ali's son said his dad wouldn't have supported Black Lives Matter movement or protests over George Floyd's death Posted: 20 Jun 2020 10:44 AM PDT  "It's not just black lives matter, white lives matter, Chinese lives matter, all lives matter, everybody's life matters," Ali Jr. said.
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| Amid protests, Chicago's streets turned violent. 'Defund the police' critics say it's a warning. Posted: 20 Jun 2020 08:25 AM PDT  Critics see Chicago as emblematic of chaos that could follow decreases in police funding. Experts say the relationship between policing and gun violence is nuanced.
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| Navy upholds firing of carrier captain in virus outbreak Posted: 19 Jun 2020 09:36 PM PDT  The two senior commanders on a coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier didn't "do enough, soon enough," to stem the outbreak, the top U.S. Navy officer said Friday, a stunning reversal that upheld the firing of the ship's captain who had pleaded for faster action to protect the crew. Capt. Brett E. Crozier and Rear Adm. Stuart Baker, commander of the carrier strike group, made serious errors in judgment as they tried to work through an outbreak that sidelined the USS Theodore Roosevelt in Guam for 10 weeks, said Adm. Mike Gilday, the chief of naval operations. The Crozier decision was a surprise since Gilday had recommended that the captain be restored to his command less than two months ago after an initial inquiry.
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| Meet All the Weapons Kim Jong-Un Wishes He Could Get His Hands On Posted: 19 Jun 2020 12:09 PM PDT  Thankfully sanctions will make it harder for him.
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| Mexican anti-discrimination agency chief resigns after censure by president Posted: 19 Jun 2020 10:20 AM PDT  The head of the Mexican government's anti-discrimination agency quit after criticism by President Andres Lopez Manuel Obrador, who on Friday said he would likely appoint an indigenous person in her place. Lopez Obrador chastised National Council for Preventing Discrimination chief Monica Maccise because it organized a "classism and racism in Mexico" event on Wednesday and invited a comedian the president and his wife consider racist. "I think that this event should not have been convened and those who do not share the transformation policy that is being carried out (by the government), in complete freedom can decide not to work for this government," Lopez Obrador said in his morning press conference on Friday.
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| Media lauds Biden's 'fiery' message to Trump Posted: 19 Jun 2020 08:03 PM PDT  Raymond Arroyo breaks down Joe Biden's confusing campaign messaging during Friday Follies on 'The Ingraham Angle.'
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| WH press secretary says she'll attend Trump's Tulsa rally, but won't wear a mask Posted: 19 Jun 2020 12:06 PM PDT  Health experts warn that Trump's rally, which will pack nearly 20,000 attendees into Tulsa's Bank of Oklahoma Center, represents a perfect storm for the transmission of COVID-19.
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| 'Hurt and angry', India leader warns China over border clash Posted: 19 Jun 2020 11:37 AM PDT  India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday that his country was "hurt and angry" after a border clash with China that left 20 troops dead, and warned that the army has been given free reign to respond to any new violence. India and China have blamed each other for the high altitude clash on their contested Himalaya frontier on Monday which also left Chinese casualties after brutal fights with nail studded batons, rocks and rods covered in barbed wire. Modi called a rare meeting with opposition party leaders to discuss the simmering crisis hours after China released 10 Indian troops, including two majors, it had seized in the battle in the Galwan valley of Ladakh region.
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| North Carolina protesters tear down Confederate statue and hang it by the neck from a post Posted: 19 Jun 2020 07:54 PM PDT  Protesters in North Carolina's capital pulled down parts of a Confederate monument Friday on night and hanged one of the toppled statues from a light post. Demonstrators used a strap to pull down two statues of Confederate soldiers that were part of a larger obelisk near the state capitol in downtown Raleigh, news outlets reported. Police officers earlier in the evening had foiled the protesters' previous attempt to use ropes to topple the statues. But after the officers cleared the area, protesters mounted the obelisk and were able to take down the statues. They then dragged the statues down a street and used a rope to hang one of the figures by its neck from a light post. The other statue was dragged to the Wake County courthouse, according to the News & Observer.
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| Man arrested in shooting of eight people outside San Antonio bar Posted: 19 Jun 2020 10:31 PM PDT  All of the victims are expected to survive. The shooting happened after a group was denied entry to a bar because they were inebriated.
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| Man shouts 'All Lives Matter' at Brooklyn barista in one man 'protest' over poster Posted: 19 Jun 2020 10:25 AM PDT  A man was caught on camera staging a one man All Lives Matter "protest" outside a coffee shop on Friday over a Black Lives Matter sign displayed in their window.Abraham "Avrumy" Knofler was filmed by a bystander outside Burly Coffee in the Bed-Stuy neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York City, on Thursday where he can be heard telling a barista that he was offended by the sign and chanting "All Lives Matter".
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| John Bolton: Judge rejects Trump bid to ban ex-adviser's book Posted: 20 Jun 2020 10:19 AM PDT  A US judge denies the Trump administration's bid to halt publication of John Bolton's memoir.
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| Mexican president says he ordered last year's release of 'El Chapo's' son Posted: 19 Jun 2020 05:24 PM PDT  The bungled operation was seen as indisputable evidence that criminal gangs hold the upper hand in Culiacán and across broad swaths of Mexico.
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| U.S. "not going to allow Russia and China to continue" increasing nuclear stockpiles, top negotiator says Posted: 19 Jun 2020 12:14 PM PDT  The U.S. is set to sit down with Russia and possibly China on Monday to discuss limiting all three countries' nuclear stockpiles. CBS News foreign affairs analyst Pamela Falk spoke to Ambassador Robert Wood, the U.S. top arms control negotiator, about his growing concerns over Russia and China's nuclear arsenals.
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| North Carolina governor orders Confederate statues moved after several toppled Posted: 20 Jun 2020 04:30 AM PDT  Crowds in Washington D.C. also toppled a statue of a Confederate general late on Friday, capping a day when thousands of people marched through U.S. cities in Juneteenth observances commemorating the abolition of slavery. Video footage on Twitter showed cheering protesters in Raleigh taking down two Confederate statues with ropes and hanging one to a lamp post.
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| Nebraska governor: Counties requiring masks ineligible for relief money Posted: 19 Jun 2020 09:36 AM PDT  A spokesman for the governor said that if counties "want CARES Act money, they have to be fully open"
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| Police die enforcing Latin America's strictest lockdown as Peru's futile strategy unravels Posted: 19 Jun 2020 01:10 AM PDT  When Peru introduced one of Latin America's strictest lockdowns, national police brigadier David Rodriguez was sent to the streets of Lima to enforce the new guidelines. Just one month later the 55 year-old was struggling to breathe in the police clinic, pleading desperately on social media to be moved to an intensive care unit and for more oxygen. He died shortly after. "They're the ones sent out to protect others from the virus and they end up infected themselves," his daughter Krystell Rodriguez told The Telegraph. According to the country's interior minister, nearly 10,000 police officers have contracted Covid-19 on duty in the country and 170 have died. The numbers not only present a grim picture of Peru's futile fight against Covid-19, but also the tragedy at the heart of the surging crisis in Latin America, the global epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic.
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| Maryland police chief latest to face reckoning amid protests Posted: 19 Jun 2020 01:06 PM PDT  A Maryland police chief resigned this week within hours of a court filing that portrayed his department, one of the state's largest, as an agency poisoned by a racist culture. A complaint cited by the filing said a Prince George's County police sergeant had a personalized license plate with an acronym for a vulgarity directed at President Barack Obama. A lieutenant derided Black Lives Matter protesters in comments quoted in a New York Times article.
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| The U.S. Army's New Marksman Rifle Is One Tough Gun. Here's Why. Posted: 19 Jun 2020 05:30 AM PDT  This month soldiers from the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division became the first combat soldiers to receive the new M110A1 Squad Designated Marksman Rifle (SDMR). The semi-automatic 7.62x51mm weapon was fielded to soldiers in the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team at Fort Stewart, Georgia.
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| Air Force Probing Use of RC-26 Spy Plane in US Cities Posted: 19 Jun 2020 12:14 PM PDT  The investigation was prompted by lawmakers' concern over use of military equipment during protests across the country.
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| 'Into The Wild' bus removed from Alaska wilderness Posted: 19 Jun 2020 02:24 AM PDT  Tourists hiking to the remote area to visit the bus were getting into difficulties, officials said.
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| Professor who told student to 'anglicize' her name placed on leave Posted: 19 Jun 2020 02:08 PM PDT  "If I lived in Vietnam and my name in your language sounded like Eat a D---, I would change it to avoid embarrassment," the instructor allegedly wrote.
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| Pompeo: John Bolton Is a ‘Traitor Who Damaged America’ Posted: 18 Jun 2020 06:24 PM PDT  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday evening hit back at former National Security Adviser John Bolton's depictions of the Trump administration's inner workings in his new memoir with a scathing statement."I've not read the book, but from the excerpts I've seen published, John Bolton is spreading a number of lies, fully-spun half-truths, and outright falsehoods," Pompeo said. "It is both sad and dangerous that John Bolton's final public role is that of a traitor who damaged America by violating his sacred trust with its people."Pompeo joins President Trump and other White House officials in portraying Bolton as a liar ahead of the June 23 publication of his book, The Room Where It Happened. The book contains a series of damning allegations about the Trump administration, including that the president sought China's help in securing victory in the 2020 election and routinely offered favors to dictators. The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit to stop the book's distribution. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin echoed Pompeo in a statement released Thursday: "John Bolton has put self-promotion ahead of the truth and of the interests of his country."Trump went even further in a series of Twitter tirades, calling Bolton a a "wacko" and a "liar" who is just trying to make him "look bad." Bolton, known for taking detailed notes during his tenure as national security adviser from April 2018 to September 2019, has faced criticism for writing a book about incompetence within the Trump administration but refusing to testify before the House during impeachment proceedings. News of his book first broke in January 2020, but prepublication review by the federal government, meant to redact classified information, delayed its release for months. Lawyers for the White House have said Bolton failed to complete the process, an allegation Bolton's attorneys and his publisher denied.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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| Leader of London BLM protests demands meeting with Johnson Posted: 20 Jun 2020 07:05 AM PDT  A leader of Black Lives Matter protests in London demanded a meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday and called on him to replace a political adviser chosen to lead a new commission on racial inequality. "I have been here every day, I am the person that leads 20,000 people every protest," Imarn Ayton, a 29-year-old actress, told Reuters as BLM demonstrators gathered in Hyde Park before their latest march.
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| Pelosi orders removal of portraits of Confederate predecessors Posted: 19 Jun 2020 09:00 AM PDT  The House will remove the portraits from the Capitol on Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S.
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| Fact check: Images of witches, 'Amish' supposedly at Floyd protest are out of context Posted: 19 Jun 2020 09:09 AM PDT  Among the viral images of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests are misleading claims about groups that support the movement.
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| Denver man accused of killing neighbor after argument involving racial slurs Posted: 19 Jun 2020 06:48 AM PDT  A Denver man is in jail after allegedly shooting his neighbor in the chest during an argument about where he parked his car.
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| Hungry neighbors cook together as virus roils Latin America Posted: 19 Jun 2020 06:04 AM PDT  An hour later, Arango, 43, is using a shovel to stir 30 gallons of sweet oatmeal in a stainless-steel pot over a fire of wood scraps alongside a cinder-block community center in the hills overlooking Peru's capital. Often operating with help from the Catholic Church and private charities, soup kitchens and community pots have become a symbol of the conundrum facing a region where most of the working population labors outside the formal economy. Economic shutdowns have forced poor Peruvians, Argentines and tens of millions of others to fall back on community-based efforts unseen in large numbers since crises like Peru's 1990s civil war or Argentina's financial crash two decades ago.
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| Trump Jr tells his father that Bin Laden endorsed Biden because it ‘would lead to the destruction of America’ Posted: 19 Jun 2020 07:13 AM PDT  Donald Trump claimed Osama Bin Laden backed Joe Biden's presidential bid and said he was withholding "very interesting" information about aliens in a recorded interview with his eldest son.The president's comments came in a Father's Day-themed interview streamed on the president's election campaign website, with Don Trump Jr, who hosts the podcast, 'Triggered'.
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| Coordinated blasts kill four in Pakistan, including soldiers Posted: 19 Jun 2020 05:18 AM PDT  Three consecutive explosions claimed by a little-known separatist group killed four people including two soldiers in Pakistan's southern province of Sindh on Friday, officials said. Shadowy secessionist organization the Sindhudesh Revolutionary Army, which wants the province to break from the Pakistani federation, said it carried out the attacks. One of the blasts was in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city and the capital of Sindh, where a civilian died and eight others including a paramilitary soldier were injured.
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| How A Chinese Basketball Star Got China Its First Aircraft Carrier Posted: 19 Jun 2020 02:00 AM PDT  Beijing did pay for the $20 million value of the carrier—but argued that it couldn't cover other costs because he lacked receipts.
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| North Korean defectors sometimes struggle to adjust to new life Posted: 20 Jun 2020 10:53 AM PDT  More than 30,000 defectors have escaped through China, some paying thousands of dollars to brokers.
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| Letters to the Editor: Don't fault Atlanta police for trying to enforce drunk driving laws Posted: 19 Jun 2020 03:00 AM PDT  Atlanta police officers were being professional and polite with Rayshard Brooks -- right up until he needlessly started resisting arrest.
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