| Trump avoids tax return questions as he brings yet another truck to the White House Posted: 28 Sep 2020 09:23 AM PDT  President Trump ignored every pressing topic Monday as he welcomed one of his favorite things to the White House.The New York Times dropped a bombshell report Sunday evening revealing Trump leveraged business losses to avoid paying taxes for years, as well as using other dubious financial strategies to lower his tax bills. Trump denied the report in a Sunday press conference, and on Monday, avoided questions about his tax returns altogether as he praised an electric pick-up truck.The White House unexpectedly called reporters to the South Lawn on Monday, where they found Trump inspecting a Lordstown Motors 2021 electric pick-up truck. "We've all done a good job," Trump said after praising the truck's manufacturers, and then, out of nowhere, said "it's hotter now than it was before, and that's something really different." But before he could get too close to acknowledging fossil fuels' role in warming the Earth, he pivoted to call the truck "an incredible piece of science" and implied electrification is sure to "happen with more and more trucks and cars." He then walked away to reporters shouting "can you say anything about the tax returns?" and "when are you going to release them?"> MOMENTS AGO: President Trump leaves truck event, not answering as reporter yells: "Can you say anything about the TAX RETURNS, Mr. President? When are you going to RELEASE THEM?" pic.twitter.com/b1ZNJ5rLRa> > — The Hill (@thehill) September 28, 2020It's far from the first time Trump has brought trucks to the White House, though they're usually a bit bigger than this one. And as The Washington Post has reported, it's something his advisers will do to cheer the president up when he's "inconsolable."More stories from theweek.com Trump literally can't afford to lose the election The bigger truth revealed by Trump's taxes Family-owned winery among properties destroyed by raging fire in Napa Valley
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| 'Motherf-----': Former Mueller prosecutor describes the moment his team nailed Paul Manafort for financial fraud Posted: 28 Sep 2020 03:14 PM PDT  Another prosecutor "let out a freewheeling hoot" when she saw the evidence, Weissmann writes. "If this holds up," Weissmann told them, "he's dead."
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| Intermittent fasting alone does not boost weight loss and could cause loss of muscle, according to a new study Posted: 28 Sep 2020 08:00 AM PDT  A small study found that, without calorie restriction, intermittent fasting did not have much impact on weight, and put people at risk of weight gain.
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| Veteran facing border wall scam charges with Steve Bannon: ‘Not a penny’ was taken Posted: 28 Sep 2020 04:30 PM PDT  When 'Build the Wall' amputee veteran Brian Kolfage was arrested, officers forbade use of prosthetic legs, now he plans to sue
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| Catholic voters can't ignore abortion or Kamala Harris' religious bigotry in 2020 election Posted: 28 Sep 2020 10:28 AM PDT  As Pope Francis has said, 'The right to life is the first among human rights.' So why make American Catholics feel like they shouldn't vote for life?
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| Lawyer says officer thought Blake was trying to kidnap child Posted: 27 Sep 2020 10:11 AM PDT  The Kenosha police officer who shot Jacob Blake in the back seven times last month told investigators he thought Blake was trying to abduct one of his own children and that he opened fire because Blake started turning toward the officer while holding a knife, the officer's lawyer contends. Sheskey saw Blake put a child in the SUV as he arrived, but he didn't know that two other children were also in the back seat, Matthews said.
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| Texas governor declares disaster after brain-eating amoeba that killed 6-year-old found in city's water Posted: 28 Sep 2020 10:54 AM PDT |
| 'Utter devastation': Three dead as multiple wildfires in California explode in size Posted: 28 Sep 2020 04:30 PM PDT  "This was pretty devastating," one official said. "Just literally hundreds and hundreds of homes devastated with nothing standing."
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| Exclusive: As States Prepared Mail-in Ballots, Postal Service Failed to Update at Least 1.8 Million Addresses Posted: 28 Sep 2020 03:00 AM PDT  As states prepared to send out tens of millions of ballots, the U.S. Postal Service inexplicably stopped fully updating its database, leading to a failure of registering at least 1.8 million addresses
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| Body camera footage shows Trump's former campaign manager Brad Parscale being tackled by police outside his Florida home Posted: 28 Sep 2020 01:30 PM PDT  Candice Parscale called 911 on Sunday, saying her husband had loaded a firearm and threatened to hurt himself, according to a police report.
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| I've known Amy Coney Barrett for over 20 years. Her intellect and heart are unrivaled. Posted: 26 Sep 2020 06:11 PM PDT  Yes, she is brilliant. And, yes, she is a principled, careful judge. But she also is one of the most generous people I have ever met.
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| Tow company sold vehicles of Texas military members while they were on duty, feds say Posted: 28 Sep 2020 04:29 PM PDT  One of the service members was at basic training when his car was towed, officials say.
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| Don Jr. Didn’t Get the Memo About Raising Biden Expectations Before Debate Posted: 28 Sep 2020 08:20 AM PDT  After weeks and months of President Donald Trump characterizing former Vice President Joe Biden as an senile old man who can't string two sentences together, his campaign has finally realized that they should start raising expectations for his performance at the first debate this Tuesday night.Apparently, Donald Trump Jr. didn't get the memo.The president's eldest son kicked off his Fox & Friends appearance by attacking CNN's Jake Tapper for not pressing Jill Biden harder on her husband's history of making "gaffes" during an interview on State of the Union Sunday. "Once a Democrat operative, all of it—always a Democrat operative," he said, unconvincingly."Joe Biden can't remember where he is 50 percent of the time," Trump Jr. declared. "He forgets the office that he's running for." He added, with no sense of irony, "If Donald Trump made one Joe Biden-type error, once, it would be all over! Joe does it every day.""So that's why he's in debate prep," he continued, mocking his father's opponent for doing his homework. "He can't be on the campaign trail because he needs to be able to perform for two hours, despite having done this for 50 years."Is Trump or Biden More Likely to Keel Over on Debate Night?But he wasn't done. He called Biden "the guy who's most inept in terms of speaking, in terms of ability" and telling the Fox hosts, "You would think that after half a century in Washington, D.C., Ainsley, you'd be able to remember your platform, you'd be able to remember a couple talking points and not need a TelePrompter. It's absolutely ridiculous."In recent weeks, Trump's top campaign staff have been doing whatever they can to undo the president's attempts to lower expectations for Biden's performance. "Joe Biden is not formidable anywhere else but he is formidable on the debate stage," campaign manager Bill Stepien told NBC News this month.Communications director Tim Murtaugh went even further, telling Fox News, "Biden spent decades skillfully debating in the Senate, won two debates while running for vice president and just came through 11 debates in Democratic primaries where he defeated two dozen challengers. Joe Biden is a master debater who knows what he is doing."And yet, like his father, Donald Trump Jr. seems unable to help himself from giving Biden an exceedingly low bar to overcome. At least he didn't accuse him or anyone else from his family of being on drugs this time.Later in his Fox & Friends interview, Trump Jr. actually seemed to realize what he had done, backtracking a bit to claim, "Joe Biden should be decent in the debate, he's been doing it for half a century. I'm worried about Joe Biden the other 22 hours of the day where he can't seem to leave the basement."The message seemed to be, don't let a successful debate performance fool you.Jimmy Kimmel on Donald Trump Jr.'s Attempts to 'Cancel' Him and Hosting the Virtual EmmysRead 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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| Alabama town removes statue of Confederate soldier in the middle of the night Posted: 28 Sep 2020 03:34 PM PDT  The town will pay a $25,000 fine for removing the 115-year-old monument
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| California governor signs law requiring trans inmates to be housed by gender identity Posted: 28 Sep 2020 07:53 AM PDT  The law requires inmates to be asked how they identify, then they must be housed accordingly. Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law on Saturday that will require California prisons to house transgender inmates according to their gender identity. The law requires officers to privately ask inmates if they identify as transgender, nonbinary or intersex.
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| Residents of a Texas city told not to drink tap water after a brain-eating microbe was found in the water supply Posted: 27 Sep 2020 04:28 AM PDT  Water tests were conducted in Texas communities after a 6-year-old boy died from a rare brain illness caused by a microbe found in water.
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| Fighting rages in Nagorno-Karabakh as Erdogan calls for Armenia to end 'occupation' Posted: 28 Sep 2020 11:47 AM PDT  Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has told Armenia to end its "occupation" of the flashpoint region of Nagorno-Karabakh amid a second day of fighting that claimed 21 more lives. Armenian forces have been in fierce clashes with Azerbaijan's troops in the region since Sunday, in the most severe flare-up of violence there for decades. On Monday, Mr Erdogan said the time has come to end the long-running crisis in Nagorno-Karabakh, which broke away from Azerbaijan, a Turkish ally, in the 1990s after a bloody separatist war. "The time has come for the crisis in the region that started with the occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh to be put to an end," Mr Erdogan said. "Once Armenia immediately leaves the territory it is occupying, the region will return to peace and harmony." Meanwhile, the president of Armenia, Armen Sarkissian, claimed that Ankara had provided F-16 fighter jets to support its ally. There were competing claims about fighting on the ground from both sides as forces from the two ex-Soviet neighbours pounded each other with rockets and artillery in the fiercest explosion of the conflict in more than a quarter of a century. In Nagorno-Karabakh said residents had taken cover in bomb shelters and constant shelling could be heard. "We haven't seen anything like this since the ceasefire to the war in the 1990s," said Olesya Vartanyan, senior analyst for the South Caucasus region at Crisis Group, told Reuters. "The fighting is taking place along all sections of the front line." Armenian officials said that another 15 of their soldiers had died, on top of 16 killed when hostilities first broke on Sunday. They added that "fights of various intensity" were "raging on", and that four Azerbaijani helicopters and 36 Azerbaijani tanks and APCs had been destroyed. Azerbaijan said that only one helicopter had been downed and that Armenian air defence systems had been heavily bombed. Both sides also accused each other of sending mercenaries who had fought in Syria into the conflict. Armenia's ambassador to Russia claimed that Turkey had sent 4,000 Syrian fighters that it had previously sponsored to fight against Syria's president Bashar-al Assad. Meanwhile, an Azerbaijani military spokesman, Colonel Vagif Dargahli, said that "mercenaries of Armenian origin from Syria" had been killed during the fighting. Neither Turkey nor Azerbaijan have so far offered any evidence to support their claims about the hired guns, although Turkey is widely believed to have sent Syrian mercenaries to back its allies in the Turkish-supported government in Libya. The clashes have led to fears that the conflict - effectively "frozen" for nearly 30 years - could now return to the full-blown hostilities of the 1990s, when 30,000 lives were lost. Although Nagorno-Karabakh has been under effective Armenian control since then, the territory is still regarded internationally as part of Azerbaijan, which wants to reclaim it.
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| $20M settlement reached in police killing of handcuffed man Posted: 28 Sep 2020 09:23 AM PDT  A Maryland county has agreed to a $20 million settlement with the family of a man who was handcuffed in a patrol car when a police officer shot and killed him, a county official said Monday. The Prince George's County police officer who killed William Green in January was arrested on charges including second-degree murder and has a trial scheduled for next year. Michael Owen Jr., who was a 10-year veteran of the police department, has been jailed since his arrest.
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| How Covid has affected Asian American multigenerational homes Posted: 28 Sep 2020 03:00 AM PDT  "I think many of us come from cultures where putting family and community before yourself is highly valued."
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| Commentary: We need to talk about those Breonna Taylor T-shirts Posted: 28 Sep 2020 11:51 AM PDT  Recent events have sparked a surge in Black Lives Matter merchandise. It can be difficult to conclude where proceeds from these products actually go.
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| House Democrats introduce $2.2 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, unlikely to pass in Senate Posted: 28 Sep 2020 04:11 PM PDT  The bill reauthorizes the $600 federal boost to unemployment benefits and sends out another round of $1,200 stimulus checks.
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| Why a Biden blowout is still the most likely result Posted: 28 Sep 2020 10:43 AM PDT  Five weeks out from the 2020 presidential election, significant media attention is being given to the small possibility that President Donald Trump could again pull off a narrow Electoral College victory while losing the popular vote, or that even an Electoral College tie could push the election to the House. Those scenarios, though, are mainly making headlines because they're interesting fodder for the pundit class. All the data point to a big blowout victory for Democratic nominee Joe Biden.The major recent polls (Economist/YouGov: Biden +7, CNBC: Biden +9, Quinnipiac: Biden +10, NYT: Biden +8) show Biden with a truly commanding lead nationally. Equally important is how Biden leads. The 2016 election was always a much closer and more dynamic race, Trump was facing a much more unpopular opponent, and a much larger number of voters were undecided. None of those are the case this time.This year we have experienced a global pandemic which has so far killed over 200,000 Americans, a massive economic disruption, multiple Trump administration scandals, and the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Yet Biden's large lead over Trump is basically identical to what it was at the end of last year. There is still the possibility that some new development — even bigger than those listed above — could shift the dynamics of the race, but that seems very unlikely.Biden also polls much better than Hillary Clinton ever did in the late stages of the 2016 election cycle — largely because there are significantly fewer undecided and third-party voters. In the RealClearPolitics polling average of the four-way race, Clinton's share of the vote never went over 46.2 percent while, by comparison, Biden has been bouncing right around 50 percent for the past few months with 7 percent third-party/undecided. To realistically win, Trump would need to pick up almost all the undecided voters and even flip some Biden voters.In 2016, both candidates were unpopular. The final YouGov poll found Clinton with a favorable rating of 43 percent and 56 percent unfavorable, compared to Trump's rating of 39 percent favorable and 60 percent unfavorable. This gave the outsider Trump a chance to win over voters who disliked both candidates. By comparison, right now Biden's favorability numbers are 45 percent to 47 percent compared to Trump at 42 percent favorable and 53 unfavorable. In addition, 52 percent of voters disapprove of how Trump has handled his job as president, while 57 percent of voters are upset or dissatisfied with Trump. Trump effectively needs to win over voters who dislike him, disapprove of his job performance, and are simply ambivalent about Biden.To be sure, in 2016, the very limited polling in certain critical swing states was off in important ways, and the final national polling undercounted Trump's support by roughly 1-2 points. Maybe there is another systematic undercounting of Trump's support in the polling this year, and maybe late-breaking events move voters towards him, and maybe a large share of voters who disapprove of Trump's job performance can be persuaded to vote against Biden — but that is a lot of maybes.It is just as likely that Biden will outperform his already big lead. Elections tend to be referendums on incumbents, which is particularly true this year. Trump's polling numbers in head-to-head matchups with Biden have closely mirrored his overall job approval numbers. At the same time, Trump's job approval has been stuck in the low 40s effectively his entire time in office. Almost unique among modern presidents, he has never appealed to the majority of the country and has basically never tried. There really is no precedent for a chronically unpopular president who never tried to reach out beyond his base.If the final election results follow this job approval pattern, Biden wins in a landslide even larger than his current polling lead. Winning by such a large margin would swamp Trump's modest advantage in the Electoral College.More stories from theweek.com Trump literally can't afford to lose the election Trump avoids tax return questions as he brings yet another truck to the White House The bigger truth revealed by Trump's taxes
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| British Museum 'won't remove controversial objects' from display Posted: 28 Sep 2020 05:10 AM PDT  Cultural institutions received a letter from the government warning them not to remove artefacts.
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| Wine country wildfire forces hundreds of evacuations Posted: 28 Sep 2020 05:51 AM PDT  A wind-driven wildfire erupted on Sunday in the heart of Northern California's Napa Valley wine country and spread across nearly 2,000 acres, forcing the evacuation of a hospital and hundreds of homes, authorities said.
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| Saudi Arabia says it busted terrorist cell trained by Iran's Revolutionary Guards Posted: 28 Sep 2020 12:08 PM PDT |
| South Carolina TV anchor hit man with beer bottle in fight over politics, police say Posted: 28 Sep 2020 01:54 PM PDT  The victim was left with cuts on his face, police said.
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| Pakistan's top court accepts appeal by Daniel Pearl's family Posted: 27 Sep 2020 09:18 PM PDT  Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday accepted an appeal by the family of slain American journalist Daniel Pearl seeking to keep a British-born Pakistani man on death row over the beheading of the Wall Street Journal reporter. The court delayed until next week hearing the appeal over the lower-court acquittal of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who had been on death row since his conviction in 2002 over Pearl's killing. The Supreme Court ordered Sheikh to remain in custody but Faisal Siddiqi, the lawyer for Pearl's family, told The Associated Press on Monday the court will decide next week whether Sheikh will remain imprisoned during the course of the appeal, which could be years.
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| NYPD officers charge at group of protesters and diners, arresting people on sidewalk Posted: 27 Sep 2020 11:04 AM PDT  Police say they "responded to a large disorderly group obstructing vehicular traffic," but video of the incident appeared to show a different scene.
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| Angry about Breonna Taylor? Do what Barack Obama said in 2016: 'Don't boo. Vote' Posted: 27 Sep 2020 03:00 AM PDT  There's only one thing to do now that the we know the outcome of the Breonna Taylor case: 'Don't boo. Vote.'
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| Trump and McConnell are reportedly already discussing Amy Coney Barrett's 7th Circuit replacement Posted: 28 Sep 2020 07:07 AM PDT  Amy Coney Barrett has a reasonably clear path to the Supreme Court, and top Republicans reportedly know it.President Trump formally nominated the 7th Circuit Court judge to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Saturday. And with Republicans firmly in the Senate majority, Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) are "so confident" in Barrett's confirmation that they're already dreaming up her appeals court replacement, Axios reports.Republican senators nearly universally said they'd like to vote on Trump's Ginsburg replacement even before he announced it would be Barrett. Just Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) definitively said they would rather not consider a nominee, citing the 2016 precedent in which Republicans refused to consider former President Barack Obama's election year nominee. But two senators won't be enough to keep Barrett off the bench before Election Day.If Barrett is quickly confirmed after her mid-October hearings, it's possible Republicans could quickly shove her 7th Circuit replacement through the Senate as well. That would be "the cherry on top" of conservatives' Supreme Court victory, and "one that McConnell won't pass up," a GOP Senate aide told Axios. McConnell and Republicans are reportedly considering nominating Kate Todd, a White House lawyer who was also on Trump's Supreme Court shortlist, to fill Barrett's slot. Todd is "a favorite of White House counsel Pat Cipollone," Axios writes, though an administration official said no one is formally in consideration for the appeals court yet.More stories from theweek.com Trump literally can't afford to lose the election Trump avoids tax return questions as he brings yet another truck to the White House The bigger truth revealed by Trump's taxes
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| Teacher says he can no longer teach kindergarten after parent complained about tattoos Posted: 28 Sep 2020 11:54 AM PDT  Local educational authorities said students under six "could be frightened" by the appearance of a teacher with tattoos.
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| Police officer who choked black man during stop will never serve again Posted: 28 Sep 2020 02:46 PM PDT  Officer captured on camera saying he had choked Desmond Marrow
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| Beijing passes law to protect medical whistleblowers Posted: 27 Sep 2020 11:53 PM PDT  Beijing's city government will protect "non-malicious" medical whistleblowers under a new law, passed months after a Chinese doctor was punished for sounding the alarm at the very beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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| Evacuations expanded as California wine country fire spreads quickly Posted: 28 Sep 2020 08:29 AM PDT  A wind-driven wildfire raged for a second day through northern California wine country on Monday, burning homes, forcing thousands of residents to flee and threatening some of the world-renowned vineyards of Napa and Sonoma counties, officials said. As of Monday morning, a blaze dubbed the Glass Fire had spread across 11,000 acres (4,450 hectares) of rolling grassy hillsides and oak woodlands, fanned by high winds and fueled largely by thick, dry scrub left unburned by previous wildfires. The fire erupted before dawn on Sunday near Calistoga, in the heart of the Napa Valley wine-growing region about 75 miles (120 km) north of San Francisco, and had spread by afternoon across 2,000 acres.
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| Texas sheriff arrested in investigation of Black man’s death during ‘Live PD’ filming Posted: 28 Sep 2020 12:50 PM PDT  The sheriff was arrested amid an investigation into the death of Javier Ambler, a Black man who died in police custody.
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| Former paramilitary leader deported to Colombia Posted: 28 Sep 2020 12:04 PM PDT |
| Trump’s 2016 Campaign Listed Millions of Black Voters It Wanted to Stop From Voting, Leak Reveals Posted: 28 Sep 2020 10:00 AM PDT  LONDON—Over three million Black voters in key states were identified by President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign as people they had to persuade to stay at home on Election Day to help him reach the White House.The revelation comes from an enormous data leak obtained by the British news network Channel 4. It shows that, four years ago, the Trump campaign prepared files on almost 200 million American voters and separated some out into eight different categories. One such category, assigned to 3.5 million Black voters, was titled: "Deterrence."The leaked database was reportedly used by Trump's digital campaign team, which was critical to Trump's narrow victory. Channel 4 News has a track record of exposing the unethical practices of Cambridge Analytica—the now-defunct British digital black-ops firm that harvested the Facebook data of tens of millions of voters for the use of Team Trump.The leaked files show that Black Americans were disproportionately marked 'Deterrence' by the 2016 campaign, making up far more of the category when compared to general population stats. For example, in Georgia, Black people make up around a third of the population, but 61 percent of the Trump campaign's 'Deterrence' category there. The same pattern can be seen in data for North Carolina and Wisconsin.Cambridge Analytica's Real Role in Trump's Dark Facebook CampaignOverall, people of colour—labelled by the campaign as Black, Hispanic, Asian and 'Other' groups—made up 54 percent of the people in the 'Deterrence' category, according to Channel 4 News. In contrast, the lists of voters that the campaign wanted to encourage to head out to vote were mostly white. It's impossible to say how effective the tactics were, but research shows that, in 2016, Black turnout fell by eight points.The data does not offer a complete picture of exactly how the 'Deterrence' list was exploited, though it's likely that it was used to help the campaign micro-target people on Facebook in the months leading up to Election Day in 2016. The Daily Beast revealed two years ago that Team Trump used audience lists created by Cambridge Analytica to target "dark ads" on Facebook in the final months of the 2016 campaign.There's no public record of those "dark ads," which disappeared when the campaign stopped paying for them, and there's no public information on the lists that were used to target voters. However, Channel 4 does report that it found some evidence that Team Trump pushed ads at Black voters designed to damage opinions of Trump's rival, Hillary Clinton.One video ad showed Clinton talking about "super-predators" in 1996—a comment she apologized for in 2016 after the clip spread online. Channel 4 reports that Cambridge Analytica privately admitted that the campaign did target "AA," or African Americans, with what it called the "Predators video," though it's not known if the 'Deterrence' list was used.Trump Data Guru Officially Disqualified Over 'Shady' Campaign TacticsPresented with Channel 4's findings, Jamal Watkins, Vice President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said: "We use data... but it's to motivate, persuade and encourage folks to participate. We don't use the data to say who can we deter and keep at home. That just seems, fundamentally, it's a shift from the notion of democracy."Watkins added: "It's not 'may the best candidate win' at that point it's 'may the best well-funded machine suppress voters and keep them at home thereby rigging the election so that someone can win'."An unnamed Facebook spokesperson said: "Since 2016, elections have changed and so has Facebook—what happened with Cambridge Analytica couldn't happen today." The company cited its new rules prohibiting voter suppression, and its searchable political ads library which means that ads don't just disappear from the network as they did in 2016.The Trump campaign didn't provide any comment.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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| Trump says he's 'strongly demanding' Biden is drug tested ahead of their first presidential debate Posted: 27 Sep 2020 07:32 AM PDT  Trump has speculated that Biden's past debate performance was enhanced by drugs. In 2016, he made similar accusations against Hillary Clinton.
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| Major U.S. hospital chain reportedly hit with '1 of the largest medical cyberattacks' in history Posted: 28 Sep 2020 12:34 PM PDT  Universal Health Services' computer network will reportedly remain out of order for days after a massive ransomware attack.Computer systems at the hospital network's 400-plus locations reportedly began failing over the weekend, forcing some workers to begin taking records by hand and even hand-labeling medications, nurses tell NBC News. Computers may remain out of service for days as the chain deals with what might be "one of the largest medical cyberattacks in United States history," NBC News reports.Attacks starting early Sunday morning locked computers and phones at several UHS facilities, including those in California and Florida, people with direct knowledge of the incident tell TechCrunch. Mysterious messages referencing a "shadow universe," which reflects messaging from the Russian cybercrime group Ryuk, then began filling the screens, one person said. "Everyone was told to turn off all the computers and not to turn them on again. We were told it will be days before the computers are up again," the person said.UHS said Monday its network was down due to an "IT security issue." The issue did not jeopardize patient care, and "no patient or employee data appears to have been accessed, copied, or otherwise compromised," the statement continued. An executive who manages cybersecurity at another major U.S. hospital system affirmed to TechCrunch patients' data was "likely safe."More stories from theweek.com Trump literally can't afford to lose the election Trump avoids tax return questions as he brings yet another truck to the White House The bigger truth revealed by Trump's taxes
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| Oil washes up along five-mile stretch of Florida beach in wake of Hurricane Sally Posted: 28 Sep 2020 07:55 AM PDT  It's unclear at this point if the submerged oil is from the 2010 oil spill that was stirred up from Hurricane Sally or if it is from another source.
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| China's UK envoy warns Britain to avoid lectures over human rights Posted: 28 Sep 2020 10:56 AM PDT  China's ambassador to London has told Britain that it will suffer "setbacks" in its relationship with Beijing if it continues to raise issues about human rights. The warning came after a junior Foreign Office minister took Beijing to task at a Chinese embassy function on Monday, held to mark the 71st anniversary of the People's Republic. In his remarks, James Duddridge said that while Britain wanted to retain good relations with China, it was also concerned about Beijing's erosion of democracy in Hong Kong and its treatment of the Muslim Uighur minority in Xinjiang. Mr Duddridge's comments drew a cool response from Liu Xiaoming, the Chinese ambassador, who is understood to have replied pointedly that as Hong Kong was no longer under British rule, Beijing was not obliged to listen to British concerns. Mr Liu added that China's policies in Xinjiang, where the government has been accused of putting up to two million people into "re-education" camps, were designed to combat terrorism. Unless Britain and China observed a policy of "non-interference" in each other's internal politics, he continued, their relationship "would suffer setbacks or even retrogression." Mr Liu, 64, who has been China's envoy to London since 2010, is one of a new generation of Chinese diplomats who have eschewed the low profile traditionally favoured by their predecessors. Earlier this year, he hinted that some Chinese companies might pull out of Britain after the government reversed its decision to allow telecoms giant Huawei a key role in the 5G network. Last year, he also criticised the then Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, over his support for pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong, saying the protests were "a matter about breaking laws". His robust reply to Mr Duddridge's comments, which were made during an online gathering of guests, will be seen as a further indication of how relations between London and Beijing have cooled. Traditionally, routine diplomatic functions are not seen as forums where political differences are aired. Other Chinese ambassadors have already taken up a much more aggressive tack than Mr Liu, developing what become known as "wolf-warrior" diplomacy - a new, assertive dialogue to remind the world that China is now a superpower. Named after a Chinese film in which Beijing's troops defeat US enemies in Africa and Asia, the "wolf warrior" tactic was pioneered by Zhao Lijian, until last year China's envoy to Pakistan. In July last year, he got in a vicious Twitter spat with Susan Rice, a former advisor to Barack Obama, about China's treatment of Uighur Muslims, in which he suggested America improve its own record on race relations. It culminated in Ms Rice urging the Chinese government to recall him to Beijing.
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| Suspect in downing of flight MH17 denies any involvement Posted: 28 Sep 2020 02:03 AM PDT  One of four suspects on trial for the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 has denied any involvement with firing or supplying the missile allegedly used in its destruction, a lawyer said in court on Monday. MH17 was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down by a missile fired from territory held by pro-Russian rebels during fighting in eastern Ukraine, international investigators say. One defendant, Oleg Pulatov, has instructed a lawyer to defend him.
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| Sen. Johnson: Hunter Biden and his businesses raked in $4.2M Posted: 27 Sep 2020 07:59 AM PDT  Senate Homeland Security Committee chairman Ron Johnson joins 'Sunday Morning Futures.'
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| White nationalist from Charlottesville rally nicknamed ‘Crying Nazi’ is charged with threatening to rape a woman Posted: 28 Sep 2020 02:45 PM PDT  Christopher Cantwell sent a series of threatening text messages in bid to uncover information about leader of a far-right group
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| 500,000 sharks may have to die in the fight against COVID-19. Here’s why Posted: 28 Sep 2020 12:25 PM PDT  About 3 million sharks die each year so people can extract a special oil from their livers.
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