| Scientific American backs Biden in its 1st presidential endorsement Posted: 15 Sep 2020 10:28 AM PDT  The magazine on Tuesday announced the first presidential endorsement in its 175-year history. Its editors said they felt "compelled" to do so because President Trump's rejection of science has cost tens of thousands of American lives.
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| Breonna Taylor's mother reaches $12M settlement, police reform agreement with Louisville Posted: 15 Sep 2020 01:09 PM PDT  The family of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman who was shot and killed by police in her Louisville, Ky., apartment earlier this year, has settled a wrongful death lawsuit against the city for $12 million that includes an agreement to implement a number of police reforms.
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| Three BLM protesters charged following confrontation with Pittsburgh diners Posted: 15 Sep 2020 03:04 PM PDT  Videos of demonstrators shouting at customers previously surfaced online
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| 'Completely preserved' Ice Age cave bear carcass found by reindeer herders in Russia Posted: 15 Sep 2020 06:35 AM PDT  Scientists at North-Eastern Federal University (NEFU) in Yakutsk, Russia, on Monday announced a cave bear carcass was discovered by reindeer herders.
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| Woodward to join Yahoo News' 'Skullduggery' podcast for an in-depth interview about his new Trump book Posted: 16 Sep 2020 09:00 AM PDT  Tune in here on Thursday, Sept. 17, at 12:30 p.m. ET.
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| Rochester police tried to play down Daniel Prude's killing to avoid 'violent blowback,' documents show Posted: 16 Sep 2020 10:57 AM PDT  The Rochester, New York, police department seemingly tried to make itself look better after one of its officers killed a Black man in March.Daniel Prude, a 41-year-old Black man, died by asphyxiation in March after Rochester police put a "spit hood" on his head and held him against the pavement; Prude was experiencing a mental heath incident. Information about the killing sparked nonstop protests when it became public in early September, but as documents the city released Monday show, that's exactly what police leaders were trying to avoid.While Prude died in March, his case remained under wraps in early June as protests began against the death of George Floyd and other police killings of Black people. But then-Deputy Police Chief Mark Simmons was still worried about how Prude's death would be received in that climate. "I am very concerned about releasing this prematurely," he wrote in an email to then-Police Chief La'Ron Singletary. "We certainly do not want people to misinterpret the officers' actions and conflate this incident with any recent killings of unarmed Black men by law enforcement nationally. That would simply be a false narrative, and could create animosity and potentially violent blowback in this community as a result." Singletary wrote back quickly: "I totally agree."The police report on Prude's killing also seemed to be manipulated to push the narrative in the police's favor. While Prude was originally listed as an "individual" on the police report describing the "victim," another officer circled that mark in red pen and wrote "make him a suspect."Singletary resigned last week, calling claims he'd mishandled Prude's death an "attempt to destroy my character and integrity." Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren (D) fired Singletary on Monday before he was set to depart, in part citing these documents for her decision. Read more at The New York Times, and find Rochester's full release here.More stories from theweek.com How a productivity phenomenon explains the unraveling of America How the Trump-Russia story was buried The conservatives who want to undo the Enlightenment
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| NASA mulls possible mission to Venus after recent discovery of possible life Posted: 16 Sep 2020 01:32 PM PDT  NASA is considering approving by next April up to two planetary science missions from four proposals under review, including one to Venus that scientists involved in the project said could help determine whether or not that planet harbors life. The U.S. space agency in February shortlisted four proposed missions that are now being reviewed by a NASA panel, two of which would involve robotic probes to Venus. One of those, called DAVINCI+, would send a probe into the Venusian atmosphere.
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| 'Hi, this is Navalny': Poisoned Putin critic posts photo from hospital as his aide says he plans to return to Russia Posted: 15 Sep 2020 09:10 AM PDT  "I still can hardly do anything, but yesterday I was able to breathe on my own for the whole day," wrote Alexei Navalny, a prominent Putin opponent.
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| Joe Biden’s Latino problem goes beyond Florida Posted: 15 Sep 2020 02:00 AM PDT  Joe Biden is heading to Florida on Tuesday amid worries about his campaign's Latino outreach operation. Recent polls there have seen Biden's lead dwindle to just about 1 percent, in large part due to soft support among Latinos.
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| US denies sending American accused of spying in Venezuela Posted: 16 Sep 2020 12:52 PM PDT  A senior U.S. official on Wednesday rejected claims that the government sent an American citizen to Venezuela where he's been charged with plotting terrorist attacks and labeled a spy. Venezuelan authorities say they captured a man identified as Matthew John Heath with a trove of photos, specialized weapons and cash. "The U.S. government did not send Mr. Heath to Venezuela," Abrams said.
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| Chinese virologist who claimed coronavirus was created in a lab and fled to US has been suspended by Twitter Posted: 16 Sep 2020 10:00 AM PDT  Academic had 60,000 followers before her suspension
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| Category 2 Hurricane Sally hits Alabama and is forecast to bring devastating floods to the Gulf Coast as it trundles toward Georgia Posted: 16 Sep 2020 05:27 AM PDT  Forecasters warn of "catastrophic and life-threatening flash flooding" along the Gulf Coast from Hurricane Sally.
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| Another BSO deputy fired for response to Parkland shooting will be rehired, arbitrator rules Posted: 16 Sep 2020 05:11 PM PDT  Broward Deputy Josh Stambaugh was one of four deputies fired for neglecting their duty during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Valentine's Day mass shooting. An arbitrator has ruled he should be getting his job back more than two years after the shooting.
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| 'Is that leg really broken?' Rights group documents detainee abuse in Belarus Posted: 15 Sep 2020 04:49 PM PDT  Detainees swept up in protest against Belarus president describe harrowing jailhouse abuse. Major rights group deems some of it torture.
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| In a lucky coincidence, a spacecraft is scheduled to fly by Venus just weeks after researchers announced finding potential signs of life Posted: 16 Sep 2020 03:34 PM PDT  The BepiColumbo spacecraft consists of two satellites launched together. It will fly by Venus twice: once in October, and once next August.
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| Boeing Hid ‘Catastrophic’ 737 MAX Design Flaws That Killed Hundreds Posted: 16 Sep 2020 03:58 AM PDT  The final House Transportation committee report on the fatal design flaws of Boeing's 737 MAX—which killed 346 people in two accidents between 2018 and 2019—show the air disasters could have been avoided.The 239-page report, which was released Wednesday, is the product of an 18-month investigation that confirmed time and again that Boeing caved into "production pressure that ultimately jeopardized the safety of the flying public." The committee cites competition with Airbus as a primary cause of cuts in costs to maintain the 737 MAX production, even though those shortcuts were fatal. "Our report lays out disturbing revelations about how Boeing—under pressure to compete with Airbus and deliver profits for Wall Street—escaped scrutiny from the Federal Aviation Administration, withheld critical information from pilots, and ultimately put planes into service that killed 346 innocent people," the House committee chairman wrote. "What's particularly infuriating is how Boeing and FAA both gambled with public safety in the critical time period between the two crashes," Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) said. The report quotes Boeing's lead design engineer as being blindly unaware of the consequences of the MCAS software upgrade he approved that was designed to automatically push the jet's nose down in certain conditions. He approved the software upgrade despite warnings from at least one test pilot that the changes made in 2018 could be "catastrophic"—which they were on two occasions, first in Indonesia in November 2018 and then in Ethiopia in March 2019, which led to the global grounding of the popular workhorse for many airlines. The report also accuses Boeing of a "culture of concealment" saying they held back "crucial information from the FAA, its customers, and 737 MAX pilots," adding that the pilots were expected to learn to mitigate and override the MCAS system, which few were thoroughly trained on. The House committee members also fault FAA for giving Boeing so much leeway that led to the failure to report certain safety issues in their own self-regulation, suggesting that "conflicts of interest" jeopardized the safety of the flying public. They also cite several instances in which FAA officials gave Boeing a pass, overruling their own safety regulations to keep Boeing happy. The committee also apologized to the survivors of both crashes. "On behalf of the families of the victims of both crashes, as well as anyone who steps on a plane expecting to arrive at their destination safely, we are making this report public to put a spotlight not only on the broken safety culture at Boeing but also the gaps in the regulatory system at the FAA that allowed this fatally flawed plane into service."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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| Republican-led U.S. Senate panel approves subpoenas for Obama-era officials and politicos Posted: 16 Sep 2020 11:43 AM PDT  A Republican-led Senate committee on Wednesday voted to move forward with subpoenas and depositions of dozens of Obama-era officials over the objections of Democrats who say the panel's inquiry is intended to boost President Donald Trump's re-election campaign. The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved moves to subpoena and take depositions from witnesses who the Republican majority say are relevant to its investigation into "Crossfire Hurricane," a code name the FBI used for an investigation it opened during the 2016 election campaign into allegations that Trump's campaign colluded with Russia. Trump and his supporters have aggressively denied such collusion and have suggested that the Obama-era inquiries were politically motivated.
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| Texas soldier's slaying inspires bid to expand military code Posted: 16 Sep 2020 11:01 AM PDT  Decisions on whether to prosecute members of the U.S. military for sexual assault or sexual harassment would be handled outside the chain of command under a measure members of Congress proposed Wednesday that is named for a Texas soldier who was slain by a fellow soldier. Reps. Jackie Speier, a Democrat from California, and Markwayne Mullin, a Republican from Oklahoma, said their bill would make sexual harassment a crime within the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
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| Jill Biden's $695 'vote' boots are selling fast days after she wore them in public Posted: 16 Sep 2020 02:46 PM PDT  Stuart Weitzman, which designed Dr. Jill Biden's 5050 Vote boots, has pledged 100% of its profits from the item to a nonprofit organization.
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| ‘She paid the price’: ICE deports immigrant woman weeks after she alleges guards sexually assaulted her Posted: 16 Sep 2020 11:13 AM PDT  The immigrant woman was deported on Monday with little notice, her lawyer says
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| Black man sues cops after being mistaken for burglar at his Wisconsin home, lawsuit says Posted: 16 Sep 2020 01:45 PM PDT  "It could have easily led to another death of an unarmed black man."
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| Almost two-thirds of millennials, Gen Z don't know that 6 million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, survey finds Posted: 16 Sep 2020 03:49 AM PDT  An alarming new survey on Holocaust knowledge also found that almost two-thirds of younger Americans don't know that six millions Jews were killed.
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| Slow-moving hurricanes that deluge coasts may be latest hazard of climate change Posted: 16 Sep 2020 11:41 AM PDT  For Grant Saltz, who runs a barbecue restaurant in Mobile, Alabama, what struck him about Hurricane Sally was its steady, deliberate pace, after the storm rumbled into the U.S. Gulf Coast on Wednesday as a powerful Category 2 hurricane. "It's so slow, this one," said Saltz, 38, while clearing away tree branches during a pause in the rains. Sally is not the most powerful storm to batter the U.S. Gulf Coast in recent memory, but its glacial pace is becoming a regular feature of the deadly storms, which many scientists attribute to climate change.
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| Coronavirus: What are the numbers out of Latin America? Posted: 16 Sep 2020 03:16 AM PDT  Some countries are beginning to see a drop in new daily cases, but the numbers are rising in others.
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| Colorado city bans ketamine use amid Elijah McClain probe Posted: 15 Sep 2020 10:31 AM PDT |
| Donald Trump warns Iran of severe retaliation if US diplomat attacked to avenge killing of top general Soleimani Posted: 15 Sep 2020 04:53 AM PDT  Donald Trump, the US president, warned Tehran it would face severe military retaliation if reports that it is planning to assassinate a US diplomat prove to be true. "Any attack by Iran, in any form, against the United States will be met with an attack on Iran that will be 1,000 times greater in magnitude!" Mr Trump tweeted on Monday evening. The threat comes a day after Politico reported that Iran was weighing up an assassination attempt against Lana Marks, the US ambassador to South Africa and long-time friend of President Trump. The reported plan is said to be in response to the killing of top Iranian commander General Qassim Soleimani by US forces in January this year. The report was based on documents seen by an anonymous US intelligence official and another who was "familiar with the issue". Ms Marks had been made aware of credible threats to her life, they said. The reporting has not been confirmed by any other major US news organisations or the US government. Serious tensions have been rising between the two countries since the assassination of Gen Soleimani, the leader of Iran's elite Quds force, in January.
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| The US just charged a group of Chinese hackers with orchestrating 'unprecedented' cyberattacks targeting over 100 companies, government agencies, and universities Posted: 16 Sep 2020 02:41 PM PDT  Federal prosecutors didn't say which organizations were targeted, but said Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, Google, and Verizon assisted the investigation.
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| ‘Democrat Voters Against Joe Biden’ Group Has Trump Fanatics, a Psychic, but No Actual Dems Posted: 16 Sep 2020 01:41 AM PDT  A new advocacy group ostensibly comprised of Democrats opposed to the election of Joe Biden appears to have the backing of few, if any, actual Democrats. Those involved, however, do include a Republican operative whose group illicitly funneled millions into political contests, a longtime Trump fan whose son works for the president's campaign, and a self-described celebrity psychic who's taught best practices for exorcisms. Democrat Voters Against Joe Biden is a project of an existing nonprofit advocacy group called Americans for Responsible Government, meaning it can engage in limited politicking and is not required to disclose its donors. Curiously, though it is not explicitly political, the group's online donation page includes disclaimer language required only of registered political committees advising donors that they can only donate $2,800 per election. No such donation limits exist for nonprofits.DVAJB set up a website in July and began running Facebook ads this month attacking Biden. The former vice president's "mental state is slipping and we can't let him become the most powerful man on Earth," one of the ads declares.As part of its anti-Biden efforts, DVAJB is soliciting video testimonials from Democrats who say they won't support Biden in November. So far, the group has posted just one video, from a man named Tracy in Phoenix, Arizona. Public records and social media postings reveal that his full name is Tracy Chavez, that his son is a field organizer for the Trump campaign, and that—per his son—he has been a Trump supporter since the 1980s.In Trump's Republican Convention Reality Show, 179,000 Dead Americans Barely Rate a CameoCrossover partisan appeal, or the appearance of it, is an asset that presidential campaigns and their supporters frequently seek. And DVAJB's formation comes as a pro-Biden counterpart, Republican Voters Against Trump, gathers and publishes its own video testimonials of GOP voters who say they won't back the president's re-election bid. DVAJB appears to have been created as an explicit answer to that group. Language on its website is copied nearly verbatim from the RVAT website, with some minor stylistic changes and Biden's name switched out for Trump's.But unlike RVAT, which is led by former aides to prominent Republicans such as Jeb Bush and John McCain, DVAJB doesn't appear to have much in the way of Democratic bona fides. One clue that few Democrats are involved is in the name. "Democrat" Voters Against Joe Biden eschews the adjective, "Democratic," that actual members of the party generally use. Another is the parent organization that runs it. Americans for Responsible Government is headed by Steve Nickolas, an Arizona bottled water businessman who's been involved in a handful of conservative political advocacy groups in recent years.In an interview on Tuesday, Nickolas acknowledged that his new initiative doesn't yet have much in the way of Biden-skeptical Democrats to promote. "We've only been live for a week and a half," he said. "We haven't really been overwhelmed with interest but we haven't really pushed it as much as we plan on doing."But Nickolas said the group hopes to begin gathering testimonials that it can then use to produce ads knocking the Democratic presidential nominee. He said he also hopes to recruit like-minded individuals from across the aisle to serve in leadership roles for the group. "We don't have Democrats right now serving in a board capacity," he said. "But we certainly will invite that type of input as soon as we possibly can."As for funding, Nickolas said he'll be relying largely on grassroots donations. One of his most prominent political projects, an advocacy group called Americans for Responsible Leadership, "had some support from the Koch Brothers, but this one is totally on our shoulders here in Scottsdale."Nickolas founded Americans for Responsible Leadership in 2011 along with a former chairman of the Arizona Republican Party. And it soon found itself at the center of a major campaign finance scandal. In 2013, ARL and an affiliated group paid a $1 million fine to California authorities to settle allegations that they illegally laundered $11 million in contributions to a political group in the state.Nickolas said his experience being targeted during that ordeal by Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Biden's running mate and at the time California's attorney general, has given him "a personal stake in this election." Harris, he said, "ran us through the wringer... Her tactics were appalling and I was very upset with how it was handled."In addition to his political endeavors, Nickolas runs a handful of businesses in Arizona, primarily in the bottled water space, but also a couple of companies that appear to do media consulting, according to documents he filed during bankruptcy proceedings in 2018. One of his companies, natural hand sanitizer manufacturer Think Smarter Products, also employs Alex Meluskey, who ran for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Arizona in 2016. Meluskey is also involved in running DVAJB; when The Daily Beast reached out to request an interview with Nickolas, Meluskey responded, from a DVAJB email address, to set it up.The Think Smarter Products website also lists its social media and marketing director as a young man named Chris Chavez, whose LinkedIn page says he previously worked for another Nickolas company called Raintree Media Group. Chavez is currently a field organizer for Trump Victory, a joint fundraising committee for the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee. Chavez's father is the Tracy Chavez who is featured in DVAJB's sole testimonial video, in which he holds up a voter registration card showing his Democratic affiliation.Tracy Chavez may be a Democrat, though the date of his Democratic Party registration isn't clear from the video, but he's also a longtime Trump supporter, according to his son. "My dad supported him for president back in the 80s before he ever considered politics," the younger Chavez tweeted last year. The father and son duo were even pictured with Trump at a meet-and-greet in 2017 after the younger Chavez donated $3 to the RNC and won a chance to meet the president.Beyond Nickolas, Meluskey, and Tracy Chavez, the only other person associated with the DVAJB effort in public records is John Michael Capaldi. He's listed as a director of Americans for Responsible Government in corporate filings in Arizona, and he told The Daily Beast that he too is a Trump supporter, having voted for him in 2016 and with plans to do so again this year.Capaldi's past ventures are considerably more unorthodox than his foray into politics. He describes himself in his Instagram profile as an "internationally known celebrity psychic, life coach and stylist." A résumé posted to his LinkedIn page lists Capaldi as an employee of Nickolas's Raintree Media Group and says he's active in a number of philanthropic and cultural initiatives in Arizona. It also details his experience with the supernatural and the occult, noting his participation in a number of "ghost hunts" and his experience teaching classes including "Exorcisms Done Right." In an interview on Tuesday, Capaldi said he "stopped working in that world, and the reason I did is too many people are doing it and unless you have a TV show it's not fun."Capaldi said he met Nickolas about 15 years ago and leapt at the opportunity to get involved with DVAJB this year. "I left the Democratic party quite some time ago. I couldn't vote for [Biden] if I even tried," he said. In his circle of acquaintances in West Hollywood, Capaldi insisted, burgeoning Trump support is quiet but unmistakable. "I've met multiple Democrats who are ready to vote for Trump," he said. But he acknowledged the challenge of getting them to say so publicly, including in DVAJB's hoped-for testimonials. "There are Democrats who want to be known and there are Democrats who don't want to be known, and that's the problem."Capaldi's decidedly pro-Trump political leanings, and those of the others currently involved with the DVAJB effort, means it still has some work to do to claim to be a counterweight to Republican Voters Against Trump. That hasn't stopped the group from trying, with language that appears to explicitly mirror the RVAT website itself—including the way it bolded its website text. DVAJB's online donation portal says, with emphasis in the original, that its "goal is to get the unfiltered and authentic voices of anti-Biden/establishment voters who will spread the message across key swing states in hopes of keeping Biden away from the White House. This strategy is not new, but it has been tried and tested -- we know it works." RVAT's, meanwhile, says, also with original emphasis, that its "strategy is to take the messages of anti-Trump Republicans, authentic and unvarnished, directly to persuadable voters in key states. This strategy has been exhaustively tested for over two years -- we know that it works."Elsewhere, DVAJB's website says: "These are the stories of Democrats, former Democrats, liberals, and former Obama/Biden voters who will not be voting for Joe Biden on November 3rd." That's remarkably similar to the RVAT website, which says: "These are Republicans, former Republicans, conservatives, and former Trump voters who can't support Trump for president this fall."Tim Miller, RVAT's political director, brushed off the apparent copycat. "They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but given that they have only recruited the 1 video of a purported Democrat for Trump, imitation feels a bit like an overstatement," he wrote.Asked whether the explicit imitation was intentional, Nickolas said, "Yes, it was," and left it at that.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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| Michelle Obama recalls moment police officers accused her brother of stealing his own bike as a child Posted: 16 Sep 2020 02:55 PM PDT  Former first lady welcomed her brother, Craig Robinson, and her mother, Marian Robinson, on her latest podcast episode
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| Jones: Why are privileged outsiders going into communities and burning things down? Posted: 16 Sep 2020 04:00 AM PDT  Lancaster riot suspects held on $1 million bail each; Fox Nation host Lawrence Jones reacts.
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| Hurricane Sally topples crane, wrecking huge piece of new Florida bridge, photos show Posted: 16 Sep 2020 12:56 PM PDT  "It's going to take a considerable amount of time to clean up from this."
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| China says military drills near Taiwan were a 'necessary action' Posted: 15 Sep 2020 08:14 PM PDT |
| Ukraine, Belarus trade accusations over Jewish pilgrims Posted: 16 Sep 2020 10:57 AM PDT  Ukraine and Belarus traded angry accusations Wednesday over thousands of Hasidic Jewish pilgrims who have remained stuck on their border after Ukraine denied them entry because of coronavirus restrictions. Ukraine's presidential office urged Belarusian authorities to stop issuing misleading signals to the ultra-Orthodox Jewish pilgrims that they could eventually cross the border. "We are asking Belarusian authorities to stop fueling the tensions on the border and refrain from spreading false encouraging statements that could leave the pilgrims with a feeling that the Ukrainian border might be opened," it said.
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| Los Angeles authorities have 'promising leads' in search for gunman who ambushed two sheriff's deputies, offer $175K reward Posted: 14 Sep 2020 09:51 PM PDT  Officials offered a $100K reward for information leading to an arrest after a gunman shot two LA sheriff's deputies in a weekend ambush.
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| Biden makes a pitch to Florida Hispanic voters Posted: 16 Sep 2020 02:59 AM PDT 
Democrat U.S. presidential nominee Joe Biden made his pitch to Latino voters on Tuesday (September 15) saying President Donald Trump has let them down. Biden pointed the finger at Trump's divisive immigration policies: "Whether it's in his heinous act of separating children from their families at our border or his repeated attacks on Dreamers, or his neglect of the people of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria or his repeated failure to make sure essential workers have the personal protective equipment they need. Donald Trump has done nothing but assault the dignity of Hispanic families over and over and over and over again." It was Biden's first campaign visit of the year to Florida, a battleground state where 20% of the electorate are Hispanic. But polls show Biden's support is lagging amongst Latinos and results show he's got a slight lead or is essentially tied with Trump in Florida. And with less than 50 days to go before Election Day, Biden is fighting concerns among Florida Latinos amid a disinformation campaign painting the moderate nominee as a socialist. Biden is also up against Trump's strength with conservative Cuban Americans, a Republican-leaning bloc the president has courted throughout his term. Biden chose to visit Kissimee, a city just south of Orlando and the heart of the state's growing Puerto Rican community. It's a sign of the campaign's focus on Puerto Rican voters, Biden rolled out an economic recovery plan for the island, which was devastated by Hurricane Maria in 2017. "I'm not going to steal the money that is desperately needed to reconstruct the island in order to build a wall along the border that does nothing to keep Americans safe." Trump has defended his handling of the recovery effort after the hurricane. Biden also tackled the immigration debate head on. The nominee has vowed to revoke many of the hardline immigration policies put in place by Trump's administration and focused on the need for broad health and economic strategies to recover from the global health crisis.
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| ‘Shocking and saddening’: Nearly two-thirds of millennial and Gen Z Americans unaware 6 million Jewish people murdered in Holocaust Posted: 16 Sep 2020 11:34 AM PDT  Survey questioned 1,000 respondents nationwide and 200 interviews in each state
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| Israel strikes Gaza after rocket fire during US ceremony Posted: 15 Sep 2020 11:17 PM PDT  The Israeli military struck Hamas militant sites in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday in response to rocket fire toward Israel the previous night that coincided with the signing of normalization agreements between Israel and two Arab countries at the White House. The barrage against Israel began Tuesday night just as the ceremony in Washington was getting underway to formalize the new agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. The rocket fire continued overnight, with sirens sounding across southern Israel.
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| Trump's Threat to Pull Funding From Schools Over How They Teach Slavery Is Part of a Long History of Politicizing American History Class Posted: 16 Sep 2020 01:59 PM PDT  "Is the point of history class to introduce young Americans to their heritage of heroes, the glories of American history?"
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| Filipino families of sunken ship crew plead for search to resume Posted: 16 Sep 2020 04:14 AM PDT  Families of 39 Filipino crewmen who were aboard a cattle ship that sank during a typhoon are pleading for a search to continue and to expand into uninhabited islands and nearby waters, two weeks after their vessel capsized off Japan. In tears during an online news conference, family members urged authorities to resume a massive search effort, after Japan's coastguard suspended its rescue last week. "We are getting frustrated not knowing where they are," said Liberty Seneres, wife of chief engineer, Aristotle Sabillena.
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| Bill Gates says he struggles to trust the CDC and FDA because officials with 'crackpot theories' have sidelined top-notch experts Posted: 15 Sep 2020 10:46 AM PDT  "This is third grade math. I mean, are you kidding?" Gates told STAT, when asked about the FDA's recent misstep on convalescent plasma.
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| An 88-year-old Black man killed by officers in California was a former employee of the same police department Posted: 15 Sep 2020 04:24 PM PDT  Robert Coleman, a resident of West Sacramento, worked for the police department for nearly a decade, authorities said.
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| Donald Trump keeps blasting 'universal' mail voting. But few states are planning that in November Posted: 16 Sep 2020 12:04 PM PDT  Fewer than 1 out of 5 states plan to automatically send ballots to all voters. Even in these states, in-person voting will remain an option.
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| Police break up huge party thrown by YouTube pranksters at infamous 'Jersey Shore' home Posted: 15 Sep 2020 01:40 PM PDT  Parties thrown by the Nelk Boys continue to draw thousands of fans, even during the coronavirus pandemic
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| UN demands all countries enforce UN arms embargo on Libya Posted: 15 Sep 2020 10:49 AM PDT  The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution Tuesday demanding that all countries enforce the widely violated U.N. arms embargo on Libya, withdraw all mercenaries from the North African nation. In the years after the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Moammar Gadhafi, Libya has sunk further into turmoil and is now divided between two rival administrations, based in the country's east and west, with an array of fighters and militias — backed by various foreign powers — allied with each side. The resolution's approval follows a recent report by U.N. experts monitoring sanctions on Libya that accused its warring parties and their international backers — the United Arab Emirates, Russia and Jordan on one side and Turkey and Qatar on the other — of violating the arms embargo, saying it remains "totally ineffective."
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