| Pro-abortion-rights group is all in for Biden but warns about 'gender stereotypes' in VP coverage Posted: 10 Aug 2020 05:25 PM PDT  The head of NARAL Pro-Choice America told Yahoo News on Monday that the organization is "pulling out all the stops" to keep President Trump from being reelected, allocating $32 million to elect Joe Biden.
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| Police searched a United Airlines jet after a reportedly hallucinating passenger claimed there was a bomb on board Posted: 10 Aug 2020 03:01 PM PDT  Police officers searched the plane with passengers still on board and offloaded each piece of luggage on the plane to be checked by canine units.
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| 84 arrests made at Sturgis Rally as governor welcomes 250,000 bikers to district Posted: 10 Aug 2020 02:31 PM PDT  Sturgis Motorcycle Rally kicked off in the western part of South Dakota on Friday, leading to 84 arrests in one day, according to a report.The annual rally, which the city council decided would go ahead in June, has drawn thousands of bikers to the state from all over the country, many without masks or social distancing in mind.
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| Fact check: Quarantine 'camps' are real, but COVID-19 camp claim stretches truth Posted: 09 Aug 2020 10:31 AM PDT  An Instagram post is correct about expansion of quarantine sites during the pandemic, but falsely claims personal information will be accessed there.
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| Lebanon government resigns amid explosion fallout Posted: 10 Aug 2020 03:39 AM PDT  Lebanon's government resigned during a cabinet meeting on Monday to discuss early elections following last week's catastrophic explosion in Beirut, the country's health minister has said. "The whole government resigned," Hamad Hassan told reporters at the end of the meeting. Prime Minister Hassan Diab was expected to travel to the presidential palace to "hand over the resignation in the name of all the ministers," Mr Hassan said. Pressure has mounted on the government to step down amid growing anger from a public that holds it accountable for the explosion that damaged half the capital last Tuesday. Three ministers had already offered their resignations ahead of the meeting, while Foreign minister Nassif Hitti resigned the day before blast, warning the country was at risk of becoming a failed state and the government seemed incapable of reform. Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni, a key negotiator with the International Monetary Fund over a rescue plan to help Lebanon exit a financial crisis, prepared his resignation letter and brought it with him to a cabinet meeting, a source close to him said.
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| Chicago protests: Restrictions imposed after chaotic night of unrest Posted: 10 Aug 2020 04:10 PM PDT  Chicago officials say over 100 arrests have been made after a night of violence and looting.
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| Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong Media Mogul Who Met With Pompeo and Pence, Arrested for ‘Collusion With Foreign Forces’ Posted: 10 Aug 2020 01:53 AM PDT  HONG KONG—The founder of a popular newspaper has been arrested by the Hong Kong Police Force, six weeks after Beijing passed a national-security law that carries a maximum penalty of life in prison for people deemed to have participated in acts of "secession, subversion, treason, or collusion with foreign forces" against the Chinese and Hong Kong governments.Trump Is Under Increasing Pressure to Blow Up His China Deal Before Election DayJimmy Lai, a media mogul who owns the broadsheet Apple Daily, is also a key financial contributor to Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp. In July 2019, Lai met with Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington to discuss the erosion of Hong Kong's autonomy and an extradition bill that drew massive protests. In the eyes of the Chinese Communist Party and its proxies in Hong Kong, that counts as colluding with foreign powers to destabilize the city—and in turn disrupting the party's grip on its political hierarchy.On Friday, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam and 10 other government officials were sanctioned by the United States for paring away the freedoms of people who reside in the city. Lam is "directly responsible for implementing Beijing's policies of suppression of freedom and democratic processes," the Treasury Department said.The 10 a.m. raid on Apple Daily's newsroom involved 200 police officers, who searched the premises without a warrant and blocked access to reporters from most news outlets, in particular barring all foreign news providers. Apple Daily's own journalists, however, stayed in their office building and activated their livestreams. Plainclothes officers went through cubicles, rifling through papers at reporters' and editors' desks. Stacks of light blue plastic crates were filled with printed materials and rolled out of the building, then loaded onto police vehicles.> Can you imagine the newsrooms of @nytimes or @guardian encounter something like this? After HK police arrested @JimmyLaiApple, hundreds of police were sent to Apple Daily office without the search warrant. pic.twitter.com/mia12rSYyP> > — Joshua Wong 黃之鋒 �� (@joshuawongcf) August 10, 2020Behind one of the police's cordon lines, a placard read in yellow text on a black background—colors of Hong Kong's pro-democracy and anti-government movements—"Who's afraid of the truth?"The police cordon was lifted at around 3 p.m.As a city of finance and trade, support from people who believe in the same cause comes in charts, tickers, and cash investments. The share price of Next Digital, Lai's company that publishes Apple Daily, tanked by 17 percent shortly after the police raid began. But then Hongkongers threw in their backing for Lai by placing bullish orders on the stock, nearly tripling its price by 3 p.m.So far, Lai is the most high-profile figure in the pro-democracy movement to be arrested based on charges related to the national-security law. His two sons and four other people, including executives at Next Digital, were also taken into custody this morning. Police searched a restaurant operated by Lai's younger son, Ian, in the city's central business district.Earlier this year, Chinese state media outlet Global Times called Lai a "traitor," and said his tweets could "provide evidence of subversion" under the new national-security law.Lai's home is under near-constant surveillance by people who are presumed to be working for pro-Beijing organizations. Last September, masked men threw petrol bombs at his residence. The same happened in 2015. And two years before that, a man drove a car into the gate of Lai's residence, then left an ax and machete in the driveway as a warning to the media mogul.In 2008, Lai and a former Hong Kong Democratic Party chairman were the targets of an assassination plot. Ten triad members were arrested in mainland China for planning to shoot them.Hong Kong's press freedom is eroding at a rapid pace. Before Lai's arrest and the raid on Apple Daily, the Foreign Correspondents Club (FCC) in Hong Kong said foreign journalists were encountering unusual delays in their visa applications. And in 2018, the visa for The Financial Times' Asia news editor, Victor Mallet, was not renewed after he hosted a talk by a Hong Kong independence advocate at the FCC.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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| 'Unconstitutional slop': Democrats blast Trump's executive actions on coronavirus relief Posted: 09 Aug 2020 08:58 AM PDT  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the "kindest thing I could say" after looking at President Trump's executive orders was that he "doesn't know what he's talking about."
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| The best and worst face masks, ranked by their level of protection Posted: 10 Aug 2020 03:07 PM PDT  Cloth masks aren't as protective as surgical masks or N95 respirators, but some materials are better than others.
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| Georgia school moves online after COVID-19 infections reported Posted: 09 Aug 2020 06:14 PM PDT  A Georgia high school plans to start the week with all classes moving online after nine students and staff tested positive for the coronavirus when the school year opened last week with most students attending classes in-person.
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| Want to keep spoiling your pets during the coronavirus pandemic? Here’s the latest in 'pet tech' Posted: 10 Aug 2020 12:00 PM PDT  During the COVID-19 crisis, pets get plenty of attention. Some pet tech can help you keep spoiling your cat or dog when you are with them or away.
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| Mauritius oil spill: Fears vessel may 'break in two' as cracks appear Posted: 10 Aug 2020 12:37 PM PDT  The MV Wakashio, which ran aground on a coral reef on 25 July, is now leaking oil off the island.
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| Celebrate the VP nominee, not Biden's decision to pick a woman. It's the least he can do. Posted: 09 Aug 2020 11:19 AM PDT  Our country has endured high opportunity costs for keeping white men in power for so long while ignoring the political contributions women could make.
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| AOC slams New York Governor Cuomo over reopening schools in autumn Posted: 10 Aug 2020 11:58 AM PDT  Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has taken a swipe at New York Governor Andrew Cuomo over his decision to allow schools to open this fall, a rare case of Democrat-on-Democrat sparring during the pandemic."If it's not safe enough for indoor dining, what makes it safe enough for indoor schooling?" Ocasio-Cortez asked in a tweet. "And restaurants actually have soap in the bathrooms."
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| Washington, D.C., police union moves to block release of body cam footage Posted: 10 Aug 2020 01:17 PM PDT  The Washington, D.C., police union said on Monday it asked a court to block the mandatory release of body camera footage and names of police officers involved in shootings. The federal district passed a police reform law in July after weeks of protests in the nation's capital and across the globe against systemic racism and police brutality, sparked by the killing of African-American George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis.
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| Appeals of Nazi camp guard conviction in Germany dropped Posted: 10 Aug 2020 08:14 AM PDT  All appeals against the conviction of a 93-year-old Nazi concentration camp guard have been dropped, a Hamburg court said Monday, making the decision legally binding and easing the way for possible future prosecutions. Bruno Dey was convicted last month of 5,232 counts of accessory to murder in Hamburg state court — equal to the number of people believed to have been killed at Stutthof during his service there in 1944 and 1945. Because he was 17 and 18 at the time of his alleged crimes, Dey's case was heard in juvenile court and he was given a two-year suspended sentence.
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| Mnuchin open to restarting stimulus bill talks. Where do congressional leaders stand? Posted: 10 Aug 2020 12:24 PM PDT  President Donald Trump signed executive actions aimed at coronavirus relief on Saturday.
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| Senate cafeteria workers reportedly face layoffs if Congressional stalemate continues Posted: 10 Aug 2020 01:46 PM PDT  Up to 80 people who are part of the Senate cafeteria staff in the capitol could face layoffs by October if Congress can't emerge from its coronavirus relief deadlock, CNN reports.The company that employs the workers, Restaurant Associates, did not confirm the number, but did not deny issuing warnings of potential layoffs, which are the result of having to close some of its restaurants because of the pandemic.Senators told CNN they believe they will pass a bill that will fund the Architect of the Capitol — the federal agency that oversees the day-to-day function of the Capitol and has a private contract with Restaurant Associates — in time, allowing employees to continue to receive their paychecks, like the CARES Act did.Lawmakers said they were committed to protecting the workers' jobs, although Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) blamed Restaurant Associates, which he said "has been a problem to deal with," rather than his colleagues for the layoffs threat. As Murphy sees it, the company is simply trying "get more money out of the Architect of the Capitol," which he said could mean it's "time to find a vendor that's not going to use the threats of layoffs as a cajole to try to get more money." Read more at CNN.More stories from theweek.com Donald Trump's impotent tyranny California judge orders Uber and Lyft to classify drivers as employees QAnon goes mainstream
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| A Georgia high school that suspended students for posting pictures of crowded hallways now has 9 reported cases of coronavirus Posted: 09 Aug 2020 07:35 AM PDT  North Paulding High School in Georgia, whose policy is that masks are a "personal choice," now has 9 reported cases of coronavirus in one week.
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| Dollar Tree, Family Dollar reverse mask policy again. Now requiring customers wear masks amid COVID-19. Posted: 09 Aug 2020 11:23 AM PDT  Dollar Tree and Family Dollar have reversed course again use of masks during the coronavirus pandemic. Both retailers now require shoppers wear masks.
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| Mauritius oil spill: Locals scramble to contain environmental damage Posted: 09 Aug 2020 01:55 PM PDT  The MV Wakashio, which ran aground on a coral reef on 25 July, is now leaking oil off the island.
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| Xi or Tsai? Taiwan opposition jumps on US envoy's 'vocal slip' Posted: 10 Aug 2020 12:30 AM PDT  Taiwan's opposition party demanded a clarification Monday after a US envoy who is visiting appeared to mispronounce the name of the island's president for her arch rival in China. Health chief Alex Azar met with President Tsai Ing-wen earlier Monday in the highest level visit to Taiwan since the United States switched diplomatic recognition to China. In his opening statement he fluffed the name of President Tsai -- pronounced "ts-eye" -- and instead said something closer to "shee".
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| Coronavirus: Brazil becomes second country to pass 100,000 deaths after US Posted: 10 Aug 2020 09:38 AM PDT  Brazil's coronavirus death toll has surpassed 100,000, with the country's affliction showing no signs of abating as most cities reopen shops and restaurants.The nation became the second in the world to reach the grim milestone by official counts, 10 weeks after the United States.
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| Feds seek more time to mull Boston Marathon bomber ruling Posted: 10 Aug 2020 10:53 AM PDT  Federal prosecutors said Monday that they need more time to decide whether to ask an appeals court to reconsider the case of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, whose death sentence was thrown out over concerns over about the jury selection process. The U.S. Justice Department urged the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to give prosecutors until Sept. 14 to file a petition asking the full court to hear the case.
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| Kudlow said he 'spoke out of turn' when saying unemployment benefits can only be extended by Congress Posted: 09 Aug 2020 09:30 AM PDT  Days before Trump signed four executive orders to bypass Congress, Larry Kudlow said he thought extending the benefits "required an act of Congress."
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| Riot declared as fire burns in Portland police union offices Posted: 09 Aug 2020 11:05 AM PDT  A fire inside a police union building led authorities in Portland, Ore., to declare a riot and turn protesters away from the offices as demonstrations continue in the city after federal agents withdrew more than a week ago.
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| Mexico's coronavirus outbreak is now the third worst in the world Posted: 10 Aug 2020 08:31 AM PDT  The U.S., by a wide margin, leads the globe in COVID-19 cases. But its neighbor to the south has its own alarming spike, making it the third worst outbreak in the world.Mexico has had 52,000 confirmed coronavirus deaths, The New York Times reported Monday. A widespread distrust of hospitals has made the pandemic even deadlier, as Mexicans are reportedly frequently refusing to seek treatment until their COVID-19 symptoms have worsened past the point of possible recovery, or not at all. Additionally, the tendency to avoid hospitals has made it difficult to confirm the true number of coronavirus deaths — those who die at home often aren't tested, so their deaths aren't counted as part of the official death toll. Mexico's government says there were 71,000 excess deaths this spring, deaths that aren't officially COVID-19-related but likely point to an even deadlier outbreak.Last month, nearly 70 percent of Mexicans said they would feel unsafe taking their loved ones to a hospital for coronavirus treatment, writes the Times. The fear, of course, isn't unfounded. Almost 40 percent of those hospitalized with COVID-19 end up dying, data shows, compared to less than 25 percent in New York City at the peak of the outbreak. Deaths in hospitals also happen quicker in Mexico, though doctors say that's partly because patients wait so long before arriving for treatment.The vicious cycle has many fearing that medical workers are even deliberately infecting patients or allowing them to die, though no evidence suggests that's the case. Read more at The New York Times.More stories from theweek.com Donald Trump's impotent tyranny California judge orders Uber and Lyft to classify drivers as employees QAnon goes mainstream
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| Sturgeon sorry for exams fiasco and admits student outrage a 'bigger problem' than grade inflation Posted: 10 Aug 2020 11:22 AM PDT  Nicola Sturgeon has issued an apology to teenagers hit by this year's results day fiasco and promised to fix the "unfair" system. After spending much of last week defending the arbitrary downgrading of 124,000 qualifications, under a "moderation" process put in place following the cancellation of this year's exams, the First Minister on Monday confirmed a government u-turn over results. Opposition parties said the First Minister's apology did not go far enough, and claimed the reversal was motivated by a desire to keep her under-fire Education Secretary and deputy, John Swinney, in his job. The furious row over school qualifications threatened to overshadow the reopening of Scottish schools, for the first time in almost five months, from Tuesday. Many are welcoming pupils back on a "phased" basis over the coming days ahead of a full-time return next week. The EIS, the country's largest teaching union, said a major survey of almost 30,000 members showed that only one in five were confident that schools are currently safe, with two thirds believing face coverings should be made mandatory among older pupils. However, on school qualifications, Ms Sturgeon admitted: "We did not get this right and I'm sorry for that." Details of an overhauled system will be unveiled on Tuesday at Holyrood. It is likely that many, if not all, of the 124,000 downgrades will now be reversed. Ms Sturgeon said she had come to the conclusion that the injustice and disillusionment felt by teenagers was a "bigger problem" that the impact widespread grade inflation would have on the credibility of this year's results.
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| Wild bear that sniffed woman's hair is caught and castrated Posted: 10 Aug 2020 07:57 AM PDT  The black bear was captured after he was filmed approaching a visitor at an ecological park.
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| Sudan rains and floods claim 20 more lives Posted: 09 Aug 2020 11:58 AM PDT  At least 20 people were killed and 13 others wounded Sunday in torrential rains and flooding, the latest victims of days of flooding in Sudan, the civil defence said. Heavy rains typically hit Sudan between June and October each year, and this week the country has been badly battered by the downpour. "20 people have died and 13 have been injured while 345 houses were destroyed or badly damaged" across the country Sunday, the civil defence said.
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| Injured cruise ship worker ‘forgotten’ after seven months in South Florida hotels Posted: 09 Aug 2020 04:00 AM PDT  From behind the locked window of his 10th-floor hotel room, Paúl Córdova watches dozens of airplanes take off and land each day at Miami International Airport.
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| Breonna Taylor's name is a national rallying cry. Will it be enough to charge the police? Posted: 10 Aug 2020 03:00 AM PDT  Her name has echoed in streets. It's on signs, LeBron's shoes and magazine covers. Will that pressure be enough to get the results protesters demand?
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| Trump lashes out at Republican who called his executive orders 'unconstitutional slop' Posted: 10 Aug 2020 07:51 AM PDT  Donald Trump lashed out on Monday at a Republican senator who is criticising recent executive orders the president says would provide relief to those out of work due to the coronavirus and protect some from being evicted.Mr Trump used a Monday morning tweet to call Nebraska GOP Senator Ben Sasse a "RINO," short for "Republican in name only," and mocked him over his last Senate campaign.
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| Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says gig economy companies should be required to establish 'benefits funds' for workers instead of treating them as full-time employees Posted: 10 Aug 2020 07:03 AM PDT  The ridesharing company is facing mounting pressure from drivers and labor activists to extend more benefits to gig workers.
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| Women who use marijuana during pregnancy are 1.5 times more likely to have a child with autism, according to the largest study of its kind Posted: 10 Aug 2020 09:39 AM PDT  In the largest study of its kind, marijuana use in pregnancy was linked to a 50% higher risk of having a child with autism.
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| Nigerian singer sentenced to death for blasphemy in Kano state Posted: 10 Aug 2020 12:38 PM PDT  Musician Yahaya Sharif-Aminu broadcast a song about Prophet Muhammad in March.
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| Iran closes down newspaper after expert doubts official coronavirus tolls Posted: 10 Aug 2020 07:38 AM PDT  Iran shut down a newspaper on Monday after it quoted a former member of the national coronavirus taskforce as saying the country's tolls from the epidemic could be 20 times higher than official figures, state news agency IRNA reported. "The Jahan-e Sanat newspaper was shut down today for publishing an interview on Sunday," the newspaper's editor-in-chief, Mohammadreza Saadi, told IRNA. On Sunday, the newspaper published an interview with Mohammadreza Mahboubfar, in which he said: "The figures announced by the officials on coronavirus cases and deaths account for only 5% of the country's real tolls".
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| Man says he wasn’t allowed into an Arkansas casino because ‘men do not carry purses’ Posted: 10 Aug 2020 09:39 AM PDT  The casino has since apologized.
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| Liberty University names acting leader with Falwell on leave Posted: 10 Aug 2020 02:46 PM PDT  Liberty University in Virginia announced Monday that its board had chosen an interim president to lead the school days after Jerry Falwell Jr. began an indefinite leave of absence after one of his posts on social media created an uproar. Jerry Prevo, who has served as chairman of the school's board of trustees since 2003 and recently retired as the senior pastor of a Baptist church in Alaska, will assume the role of acting president immediately, Liberty said in a news release. Prevo expects to work from the Lynchburg campus starting Aug. 17 and will step aside from his position on the board for the duration of the new role, according to the news release.
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| Puerto Rico’s primary goes off the rails Posted: 09 Aug 2020 03:18 PM PDT  "It's an embarrassment to our government and our people," said one candidate.
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| Litman: New York wants to dissolve the NRA; it will probably decapitate it instead Posted: 09 Aug 2020 03:00 AM PDT  Even if the NRA survives New York's lawsuit, dethroning its CEO and heaping it with humiliation and penalties will be a victory.
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