| Trump's new coronavirus adviser uses made-up statistics and false claims to praise White House pandemic response Posted: 04 Sep 2020 01:05 PM PDT  In recent days, Dr. Scott Atlas has eclipsed Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx as Trump's most visible, and presumably trusted, coronavirus adviser.
|
| A Texas woman's body caught on fire after she used an 'off-brand' hand sanitizer and lit a candle in her home Posted: 05 Sep 2020 12:22 PM PDT  The mother of three ended up in an intensive care unit with major burns after her body and home caught on fire, according to local news.
|
| Jacob Blake makes court appearance from hospital bed Posted: 04 Sep 2020 04:11 PM PDT  The black man whose shooting by police triggered protests faces charges unrelated to that incident.
|
| Soldier from Key West killed in military vehicle crash in Texas Posted: 04 Sep 2020 12:51 PM PDT  A decorated U.S. Army soldier from Key West was killed in a military vehicle crash in Texas last week, according to reports by the Army Times and Stars and Stripes .
|
| California's oldest state park, home to iconic redwoods, expects to close for year due to fires Posted: 04 Sep 2020 06:55 PM PDT  The California State Parks Department has confirmed to USA TODAY that Big Basin Redwoods State Park is expected to close for a year due to wildfires.
|
| Video shows car plowing through protesters in Times Square Posted: 04 Sep 2020 11:05 AM PDT  When asked if there was a crime committed, Shea said, "Well, that's what we want to see as part of the investigation. We'd like to interview both sides."
|
| Why Trump should wait until after the election to announce a COVID-19 vaccine Posted: 04 Sep 2020 02:32 PM PDT  In recent days, experts have become increasingly convinced — and alarmed — that President Trump is pushing to cut corners and rush the release of a COVID-19 vaccine before Nov. 3 to improve his chances in the election.
|
| A massive 164-feet deep crater suddenly opened up on Siberia's Arctic tundra and it could be the result of an explosion triggered by climate change, scientists say Posted: 05 Sep 2020 06:48 AM PDT  The crater was accidentally discovered by a Russian film crew as they were flying over the Yamal peninsula on an unrelated assignment.
|
| Jessica Krug will not teach this semester, George Washington University says Posted: 05 Sep 2020 03:51 AM PDT  Jessica Krug admitted in a blog post that she was a white Jewish woman from Kansas City.
|
| Judge orders US to stop detaining migrant children in hotels Posted: 04 Sep 2020 03:27 PM PDT  A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to stop detaining immigrant children in hotels before expelling them from the United States, saying the much-criticized practice skirted "fundamental humanitarian protections." U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee ruled that the use of hotels as long-term detention spaces violates a two-decade-old settlement governing the treatment of immigrant children in custody. Immigration agencies since March have expelled 148,000 people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border under an emergency declaration citing the pandemic.
|
| What we know about Nancy Pelosi's visit to the San Francisco hair salon she accused of a 'setup' Posted: 03 Sep 2020 06:33 PM PDT  Here's what happened when Nancy Pelosi visited a San Francisco salon that was supposed to be closed due to the coronavirus.
|
| A Ukrainian airline banned a passenger for life after she opened a jet's emergency exit door and walked around on the wing Posted: 04 Sep 2020 08:51 AM PDT  Passengers reportedly heard the passenger complain that she was "too hot" and opened the emergency exit to cool down.
|
| China complicit in bypassing UN sanctions to launder North Korean money, report suggests Posted: 03 Sep 2020 10:47 PM PDT  A new investigation into companies trading in the Chinese city of Dandong, on the border with North Korea, has shed a spotlight on Pyongyang's global money laundering networks and raised fresh questions about China's complicity in bypassing United Nations sanctions against Kim Jong-un's regime. "The Billion Dollar Border Town," a report published on Friday by the Royal United Services Institute, reveals how companies in Dandong, in China's northeast Liaoning province, have allegedly helped North Korean entities construct complex sanctions evasion networks across various jurisdictions. Data obtained by researchers indicated a small core of 150 companies was involved in $2.9 billion worth of shipments between September 2014 and February 2017, at a time when North Korea was escalating its nuclear and weapons programmes and the UN imposed wide-ranging sanctions in response. As a result, these 150 companies alone could have accounted for around 20 per cent of North Korea's total reported global trade value in that time period. "These include multiple Dandong firms being involved in coal and iron imports even as ever more stringent measures on such commodities were imposed by the UN Security Council in 2016 and 2017," said Joseph Byrne, a research analyst at RUSI's Proliferation and Nuclear Policy Team, and one of the report's authors.
|
| Osama bin Laden’s niece claims 9/11-inspired attack could happen if Trump loses the election Posted: 05 Sep 2020 08:26 AM PDT  Osama bin Laden's niece has claimed that another 9/11-inspired attack could happen if Joe Biden is elected president, and she says only Donald Trump could prevent it."ISIS proliferated under the Obama/Biden administration, leading to them coming to Europe. Trump has shown he protects America and us by extension from foreign threats by obliterating terrorists at the root and before they get a chance to strike," Noor bin Ladin, 33, told the New York Post in her first-ever interview.
|
| A massive wave capsized a cargo ship loaded with 6,000 cattle off the coast of Japan, said surviving crew member Posted: 05 Sep 2020 12:26 AM PDT  The Gulf Livestock 1, with 43 crew onboard, sent a distress signal from the East China Sea on Wednesday night after it was caught up in Typhoon Masak.
|
| Rochester, NY police union says officers acted by book in using hood in man's arrest Posted: 04 Sep 2020 07:44 AM PDT  "They had to do exactly what they did," Rochester Police Locust Club President Michael Mazzeo told a news conference on Friday, adding that there was a "substantial amount of evidence to show why the protocols" used by the officers were employed. Prude, a 41-year-old Black man, died after an encounter with police in Rochester, New York, in March. Release of the video was followed by protests in Rochester, turning the city of 200,000 people in the northwest corner of the state into the latest flash point in a summer of civil unrest over racism and police brutality.
|
| Chinese students face increased scrutiny at US airports Posted: 04 Sep 2020 04:23 PM PDT  As US-China relations sour further, some young Chinese visitors are being accused of technology theft.
|
| Hurricane Center watching 3 systems. But that’s not why Labor Day could bust in Miami Posted: 05 Sep 2020 06:01 AM PDT  The National Hurricane Center is eyeing several systems in the Atlantic.
|
| Signs of trouble before police pinned Prude naked on street Posted: 04 Sep 2020 05:39 AM PDT  Daniel Prude appeared to be spiraling into crisis in the hours before police handcuffed him on a city street in March, then pinned the naked man face down. Prude apparently stopped breathing as police in Rochester, New York, were restraining him and died when he was taken off life support a week later. Prude's death and the actions of the police officers — who covered the man's head with a "spit hood" during the confrontation — have intensified the debate over whether police should be responding to calls about people suffering mental health crises.
|
| Chris Stirewalt reacts to Biden answering reporter questions: ‘Shamefully embarrassing’ Posted: 04 Sep 2020 11:38 AM PDT  Fox News political editor Chris Stirewalt weighs in on former Vice President Joe Biden delivering remarks on 'the economic crisis that has been worsened' by Trump and answering reporter questions.
|
| A Florida congresswoman was blocked from visiting two USPS mail sorting facilities amid concerns for delayed mail delivery Posted: 05 Sep 2020 08:44 AM PDT  "Denying Congress access to the facilities is denying the vital public oversight of our mail system," Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz told NBC News.
|
| Fox News confirms report on Trump’s troop bashing on Twitter — but on-air claims story is debunked Posted: 04 Sep 2020 08:04 PM PDT  Fox News confirmed the story on Trump's loathing of troops
|
| No amount of right-wing airbrushing will turn Kenosha shooter into a ‘patriot’ | Opinion Posted: 04 Sep 2020 01:20 PM PDT  Kyle Rittenhouse is not a hero.
|
| Disabled protester in wheelchair accuses Portland police of trying to ‘break his arms’ while arresting him Posted: 04 Sep 2020 09:37 AM PDT  A disabled protester arrested by Portland police while in his wheelchair, has accused officers of "trying to break" his arms.Dustin Brandon, 35, who is also a comedian and cannabis-rights campaigner, said he was was arrested for the first time this week, despite having attended almost each of the near 100 nights of protests, triggered by the killing by Minneapolis police of George Floyd.
|
| No sign of end to Far East anti-Kremlin rallies after nearly two months Posted: 05 Sep 2020 07:08 AM PDT  Weekly rallies against the Kremlin in Russia's Far East showed no sign of ending after nearly two months, with around 10,000 people taking to the streets on Saturday in one of the longest-lasting movements of provincial discontent of the Putin era. Residents of Khabarovsk started holding weekly rallies after the July 9 detention of Sergei Furgal, the region's popular governor, over murder charges he denies.
|
| Hundreds of bags of cannabis fell from the sky in Israel, dropped by a 'green drone' on a Tel Aviv square Posted: 05 Sep 2020 08:46 AM PDT  People rushed to scoop up the free cannabis that was scattered in Rabin Square, from a drone flown by a pro-legalization group.
|
| Marine wins Democratic primary for Kennedy's US House seat Posted: 03 Sep 2020 10:33 PM PDT  Jake Auchincloss, a city councilor in suburban Boston and a former Marine, won a packed primary to become the Democratic nominee in the race to fill the U.S. House seat being vacated by Rep. Joe Kennedy III in Massachusetts. Auchincloss edged out six other Democratic candidates in the crowded field for the open 4th Congressional District, a contest that took until early Friday to decide because of a deluge of mailed-in ballots that overwhelmed several cities and towns. After graduating from Harvard in 2010, Auchincloss served as a captain in the U.S. Marines.
|
| Labour MP Dawn Butler condemned after praising Extinction Rebellion for 'excellent work' Posted: 05 Sep 2020 04:09 AM PDT  A Labour MP has been condemned after praising Extinction Rebellion for 'excellent work' after they blocked the printworks of most of Britain's major newspapers. Dawn Butler, the Member of Parliament for Brent, tweeted applause for the attack on the free press, after the blockade meant many were unable to receive their newspapers, including The Telegraph, this morning. Some questioned whether she would be sanctioned by the Labour leadership for her tweet, which was hastily deleted after she received thousands of angry replies. Conservative MP for Guildford Angela Richardson responded, tweeting: "Anyone who applauds this behaviour genuinely fails to understand the gravity of this action. It's utterly unacceptable."
|
| White House and Congress reach informal deal to avert a government shutdown at end of month Posted: 04 Sep 2020 03:50 AM PDT  Nancy Pelosi and the Trump administration have come to an informal deal to avert a government shutdown, sources familiar with the discussions said.
|
| Trump Jr. joins Triller and lashes out against TikTok, claiming the app is 'something that could haunt your kids forever' Posted: 05 Sep 2020 01:01 PM PDT  Donald Trump Jr. on Friday targeted TikTok in a video posted to Triller, a video-sharing app that has expressed interested in purchasing TikTok.
|
| Texas mom severely burned after hand sanitizer catches fire Posted: 04 Sep 2020 03:40 AM PDT  "It's something that you never want your kids to see," Kate Wise said.
|
| If Biden doesn't win election in a landslide will Americans go to war? Posted: 05 Sep 2020 04:46 AM PDT  Should Americans be prepared for battle depending on the presidential election results? New York Post columnist Miranda Devine offers insight.
|
| FHP clears biker accused of leaving woman to die after she fell on I-95, lawyer says Posted: 05 Sep 2020 01:48 PM PDT |
| Ousted Mali president Keita leaves country as transition talks begin Posted: 05 Sep 2020 06:03 AM PDT  Ousted Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita left the country on Saturday for medical treatment in Abu Dhabi, an adviser said, as talks about a transition back to civilian rule following last month's military coup got off to a chaotic start. Keita, 75, was hospitalised in the capital Bamako on Tuesday, six days after he was released from detention by the ruling junta, which seized power on Aug. 18.
|
| Utah police frustrated with anti-law enforcement sentiment Posted: 04 Sep 2020 03:14 PM PDT  After months of protests around the nation over racial injustice in policing, police groups in Utah say they have grown frustrated with rhetoric they describe as unfair and called for The Salt Lake Tribune to apologize after it published an editorial cartoon linking the Ku Klux Klan with law enforcement. Police supporters staged a protest outside the Tribune's printing press Thursday night after the Utah Sheriffs' Association, and Republican U.S. Rep Chris Stewart demanded that the paper retract the cartoon and apologize. Several police groups, including the state's Department of Public Safety, have condemned the use of KKK imagery to portray law enforcement officials.
|
| Judge bans Detroit police tactics against protesters Posted: 05 Sep 2020 11:23 AM PDT  A federal judge late Friday temporarily barred Detroit police from using tear gas, rubber bullets, batons, shields, chokeholds or sound cannons against peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters after a group accused the city for excessive force. U.S. District Court Judge Laurie Michelson partially granted a temporary restraining order filed Monday by Detroit Will Breathe against the city of Detroit, accusing police of using excessive force to deter protesters from practicing their free speech rights.
|
| Four years later, some Pennsylvania Trump fans still fired up Posted: 04 Sep 2020 09:30 AM PDT  In pro-Donald Trump areas of Pennsylvania, long a state Democrats thought they could rely on, some supporters of the Republican president say they are more enthusiastic than ever, and will work to reelect the incumbent who they say kept his promises.
|
| 'Assassins tried to kill my mother right in front of me, twice' Posted: 04 Sep 2020 05:23 PM PDT  Shuhra Koofi has witnessed two attempts to kill her mother Fawzia Koofi, a longstanding Taliban critic.
|
| 11 freshmen at Northeastern were dismissed for violating COVID-19 rules. Their $35,000 tuition won't be reimbursed. Posted: 04 Sep 2020 05:21 PM PDT  The students were dismissed after they were reportedly caught gathering without masks or socially distancing in a room designated for two people only.
|
| 'Get him out of here’: Donald Trump demanded UK ambassador leave US after leaked cables showed diplomat criticising him Posted: 05 Sep 2020 09:19 AM PDT  Donald Trump demanded the removal of the UK's ambassador to the US after leaked cables showed the diplomat criticising him, according to former US national security advisor John Bolton.Mr Trump ordered that Kim Darroch be made to leave Washington, Mr Bolton claims.
|
| Four Marines Safe After Super Stallion Helicopter Catches Fire Mid-Flight Posted: 05 Sep 2020 07:32 AM PDT  Four Marines were able to get out of a heavy lift helicopter safely after it made an emergency landing just miles from their air station.
|
| Democrats bash decision to reject Miami Heat’s offer of AA Arena as an early-voting site Posted: 05 Sep 2020 11:30 AM PDT  Two of Miami-Dade's leading Democratic candidates stood on a street corner outside the AmericanAirlines Arena on Saturday and denounced Mayor Carlos Gimenez's decision to reject the Miami Heat's offer to use the facility as an early-voting site and instead use a nearby museum with easy access to the city's Metromover system.
|
| Ohio woman falsely called police on Black man using his phone, said he was carrying a gun Posted: 05 Sep 2020 08:40 AM PDT  A woman had called the Ravenna Police Department from a dentist's office across the street and said a man was sitting in a black Mustang with a gun.
|
