| CDC study on COVID-19 in kids bolsters case for elementary school reopening Posted: 28 Sep 2020 11:26 AM PDT  The study adds nuance to prior findings that the risk of contracting and dying from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, increases with age.
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| ‘Fox & Friends’ Hosts Look On in Horror as Rudy Giuliani Blurts Out Biden Dementia Conspiracy Theory Posted: 29 Sep 2020 05:50 AM PDT  Everyone knows that live television isn't easy. Anything can go wrong—from a faulty connection, a verbal slip-up, or, as was the case on Tuesday morning's Fox & Friends, Rudy Giuliani bellowing insane conspiracy theories at the nation with no obvious way to stop him.It's always a risk to allow Giuliani to share his wildly unpredictable stream of consciousness live. The man who was named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2001 has long since been reduced to sharing the latest Trumpist conspiracy theories on any cable news channel that has the budget to cover any possible subsequent defamation lawsuits.This time, his F&F hosts looked on with visible horror in their eyes as Giuliani shared his completely baseless belief that Joe Biden is suffering from dementia. If you have the time, it's worth watching the clip at least three times so you can see each of the hosts panicking in their own unique way as the former New York City mayor rambles on and on.> On Fox & Friends, Rudy Giuliani says Joe Biden "has dementia. There's no doubt about it. I've talked to doctors. ... The president's quite right to say maybe he's taken adderall." The hosts get visibly uncomfortable. pic.twitter.com/2Ma7DKNBpS> > — Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) September 29, 2020With a mischievous cackle, Giuliani began: "The man [Biden] has dementia. There's no doubt about it. I've talked to doctors. I've had them look at a hundred different tapes of his five years ago and today." Trying his very best to shut Giuliani down, host Steve Doocy interjected that Biden's team has said the Democrat has no serious medical problems.Giuliani then made an extraordinary noise at Doocy that can best be typed as "Oowughawughawugh," before continuing: "He can't recite the Pledge of Allegiance and he's fine? He was in the Senate for 160 years? I mean, he can't do the prologue to the... to the... con... to the... uh... Constitution of the United States or the Declaration of Independence, any of them."Getting louder and increasingly excited about his armchair diagnosis, Giuliani went on: "He can't do NUMBERS. Wow, are the numbers screwed up. He actually displays symptoms that two gerontologists told me are classic symptoms of middle level dementia." Doocy and co-host Ainsley Earhardt both responded to that claim by softly saying, "Right." The third host, Brian Kilmeade, can just be seen blinking rapidly.Fox News Lobotomizes Its 'Brain Room,' Cuts Fact-Based JournalismNevertheless, Giuliani persisted. "That's when [Biden] does that 'I pledge allegiance to the United States... uh... uh... um... I think,' he's done that twice," said the ex mayor. "That's a classic symptom in the DSM-V, it's the fifth symptom, of dementia, he's got eight of the 10."Then, seemingly remembering that he was on the show to talk about tonight's presidential debate, he went on: "Look, that isn't the debate. He can get through it. I think the president is quite right to say maybe he's taken Adderall or some kind of attention deficit disorder thing."As Giuliani began pulling prescription medicine brands out of the air, Doocy had finally had enough and told him firmly, "None of us are doctors, that is your opinion." Giuliani fought back, saying it was actually the opinion of some very professional-sounding doctors that he knows.But the game was up. Kilmeade, in his first verbal interjection of the entire exchange, said with exasperation, "We can stay away from that." Earhardt then moved on to pick Giuliani's brain on the Supreme Court.This particular line of attack is one that Giuliani—whose work as President Trump's lawyer and top dirt-digger on Hunter and Joe Biden kicked off a chain of events that got his client impeached last year—has enthusiastically embraced as one of his primary functions now for Team Trump.Shortly before midnight on Monday night, Giuliani started texting The Daily Beast to say that Trump did "great" in recent White House debate prep (for which the president said on Sunday that Giuliani and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie took part), and to rail against Biden as a "senile," "broken down old crook" who's supposedly suffering from "dementia" and needs "ADD drugs" to get through the Tuesday debate. The Trump attorney also claimed that someone had told him how stupid Biden was in law school.Giuliani also mentioned late Monday evening that he'd be flying with Trump on Air Force One on Tuesday and would be at the Cleveland debate. Asked about what kinds of questions he peppered the president with during the prep, the former New York City mayor replied, "It really doesn't work like that with him. It's much more of a discussion rather than a rehearsal. Plus you are dealing with a very smart, very alert human being, not a senile old man."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's spy chief just released 'Russian disinformation' against Hillary Clinton that he acknowledged may be fabricated Posted: 29 Sep 2020 03:09 PM PDT  DNI John Ratcliffe said in a letter that the US intel community "does not know the accuracy" of the allegation or whether it's been fabricated.
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| Portland police seize shields, arrest 24 before march; one officer hospitalized Posted: 29 Sep 2020 09:29 AM PDT  At least 24 people were arrested when police broke up a planned march, then declared an unlawful assembly when protesters reorganized.
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| Man dies after falling 100 feet from Oregon cliff while posing for photo in tree Posted: 29 Sep 2020 12:07 PM PDT  Branch brake caused 43-year-old to plummet into ocean
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| ‘Defund the police’ message on Starbucks cups gets barista fired in Texas Posted: 29 Sep 2020 10:00 AM PDT  Starbucks called the incident "unacceptable."
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| State of emergency in 3 California counties as fire scorches wine country Posted: 29 Sep 2020 10:35 AM PDT  Large pieces of ash rained down on Napa Valley early Tuesday and a bright orange glow was visible in the hills above the city.
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| Singapore Airlines drops 'flights to nowhere' after outcry Posted: 29 Sep 2020 02:36 AM PDT  Singapore Airlines said Tuesday it had scrapped plans for "flights to nowhere" aimed at boosting its coronavirus-hit finances after an outcry over the environmental impact.
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| Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis: 'Bomb on donkey' used to ambush Borno governor Posted: 28 Sep 2020 09:11 AM PDT  Militants from an Islamic State-linked group strapped the animal with explosives in Borno state.
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| Texas sheriff indicted and booked in own jail after probe into Black man's death Posted: 28 Sep 2020 04:52 PM PDT  A Texas sheriff has been indicted on charges of destroying or concealing video in an investigation into the death in custody of a Black man, Javier Ambler, that was filmed by the police reality TV series "Live PD," prosecutors said Monday.
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| 'He has dementia': Rudy Guiliani makes unfounded claims about Biden during rambling Fox News interview Posted: 29 Sep 2020 06:41 AM PDT  The president's lawyer left Fox News hosts looking uncomfortable as he ramped up his fake conspiracies against Joe Biden
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| Brooklyn voters report getting ballot return envelopes with the wrong name and address. The error could invalidate their vote. Posted: 28 Sep 2020 09:42 PM PDT  "This is not my ballot, we have this random lady's ballot — it's like they messed this up in a big way," Victoria Edel told THE CITY.
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| Brake failure, 'egregious disregard for safety' caused NY limo crash that killed 20 people, NTSB says Posted: 29 Sep 2020 02:12 PM PDT  Two years after the country's worst road transportation disaster since 2005, the NTSB finalized its report on the cause of the Schoharie, New York, crash.
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| Lindsey Graham Hints There is ‘More Damning’ Information about the Russia Investigation to be Released Posted: 28 Sep 2020 06:10 AM PDT  Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) on Sunday said to "stay tuned" for more "damning" information after he released records showing the main source for the Steele dossier had previously been the subject of an FBI counterintelligence investigation for his connections with Russian intelligence."There's a day of reckoning coming just stay tuned, and there's more coming, there's something else coming, more damning than this believe it or not," said the chairman of the Judiciary Committee in an appearance on Fox News.As part of the Senate panel's probe into the Russia investigation, Graham released declassified documents that showed the FBI had investigated Igor Danchenko, British former intelligence officer Christopher Steele's main source for his dossier, as a possible "threat to national security" a decade ago as a result of his connections with Russian intelligence.The declassified information was revealed to Graham in a letter last week sent by attorney general William Barr, in which the AG referenced what Graham may be hinting at. "I have also alerted the Director of National Intelligence to certain classified information in the possession of the intelligence community, also brought to my attention by [U.S. Attorney John] Durham, which bear upon the FBI's knowledge concerning the reliability of the dossier," Barr said in his letter. "Mr. Durham confirms that the disclosure of that information would not interfere with his investigation, and the Department otherwise defers to the DNI concerning the handling of this information."Durham is leading an investigation into the Russia investigation on behalf of the Justice Department.On Sunday Graham spoke about alleged wrongdoing in the Russia investigation saying there was "three buckets," including whether there was "any legitimate reason" for special counsel Robert Mueller to be investigating Trump's campaign for a crime involving Russia."In 2017, there was no evidence that anybody on the Trump campaign was working with the Russians," Graham said.The other two areas of concern are how the FBI may have misled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court to obtain warrants to wiretap a member of President Trump's team and the case against Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn.
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| Mom’s sudden death left children fending for themselves for five days, Texas cops say Posted: 29 Sep 2020 05:46 AM PDT  School officials asked for a welfare check at the home when the 5- and 7-year-old brothers didn't show up all week.
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| A 3-Michelin star restaurant in Napa has burned down in California's latest wildfire Posted: 29 Sep 2020 02:06 PM PDT  The Restaurant at Meadowood was engulfed by Napa Valley's Glass Fire on Monday morning and couldn't be saved.
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| Mitch McConnell ‘refusing to debate his election rival if there is a female moderator’ Posted: 29 Sep 2020 11:57 AM PDT  'He continues to resist allowing women to host debates,' said McConnell's opponent in the Kentucky Senate race
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| Amnesty International to halt India operations Posted: 29 Sep 2020 07:48 AM PDT  The human rights watchdog tells the BBC that the move comes due to reprisal from the government.
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| They Protested at a Police Station. They’re Charged With Trying to Kidnap Cops. Posted: 29 Sep 2020 01:36 AM PDT  The July 3 protest in Aurora, Colorado, seemed, at least on the surface, like just another of the hundreds of racial justice protests that have swept the nation this year. Demonstrators sat outside a police station chanting and playing music. Although they said they wouldn't leave until their demands were met, the protesters were cleared out by police around 4:30 a.m.Colorado Protest Erupts in Panic as Car Drives Into Crowd, Shots Fired But several of the protest leaders are facing felony attempted kidnapping charges for allegedly imprisoning police officers in their own precinct during the protest—charges their fellow activists are calling absurd.Lillian House, Joel Northam, and Whitney "Eliza" Lucero are among a group of Denver-area activists facing a slate of charges related to their protest activities this summer. Local prosecutors say the activists tried to kidnap police by holding a short-lived "occupation"-style protest outside the precinct and blocking its doors. But activists allege a crackdown on the most visible members of their movement, leading to terrifying SWAT arrests and the threat of years in prison."This characterization that someone quote-unquote kidnapped officers is absolutely ridiculous," Ryan Hamby, an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Marxist group with which House, Northam, and Lucero are affiliated, told The Daily Beast."It would be laughable if it wasn't so serious," he added.The July 3 protest was one of many that called for the termination of officers involved in the killing of Elijah McClain, a young Black man who died in Aurora Police custody last year. McClain was not accused of any crime but became the subject of police suspicion while walking home from the convenience store when someone called 911 to report him "look[ing] sketchy." Police placed McClain in a now-banned chokehold, causing him to vomit and lose consciousness. Paramedics later injected him with the sedative ketamine.An autopsy did not conclusively identify a single cause of death, and two of the three arresting officers have not been fired. The third arresting officer was fired for responding "ha ha" to pictures of other officers re-enacting and mocking McClain's death. (That officer is suing the city over his termination.)The firings of the police who re-enacted McClain's death were announced July 3, the same day as the protest outside the police precinct where demonstrators believed the remaining officers worked. Media reports—and even police tweets from most of the night—characterize the demonstration as peaceful, with some 600 protesters sitting around. Police ordered protesters to disperse at 2:30 a.m., tweeted a half-hour later that protesters were throwing things, and had cleared out the site by 4:30, the Denver Post reported at the time.But a statement from the Adams County district attorney this month accused protesters of holding cops hostage. Protesters "prevented 18 officers inside from leaving the building by barricading entrances and securing doors with wires, ropes, boards, picnic tables and sandbags," the statement read. (The district attorney was unavailable for comment. In a call with Denver's 9News, defendant Lillian House said she was unaware of the alleged barricade.)Those allegations come alongside serious criminal charges for six protest leaders, including three who are accused of attempted kidnapping, inciting a riot, and inciting a riot by giving commands, all of which are felonies.The protesters and prosecutors both point to a mid-protest phone call between activist Lillian House and Aurora's interim police chief Vanessa Wilson, which House broadcast to protesters over a microphone. House called on Wilson to fire the remaining officers involved in McClain's death; Wilson said she didn't have the authority to do that but thanked the protesters for not trying to enter the precinct."I appreciate that you haven't breached the building and I hope that you continue to keep that promise," Wilson said.Activists like Hamby have pointed to the call as evidence that protesters stayed within their rights."Like, why would you even say that?" Hamby said of Wilson's call. "She's basically admitting on the phone that we have not done any of the things that they're now claiming we did in this affidavit."On the phone call, House, who is also accused of a felony count of attempting to influence a public servant, affirmed that the protesters wouldn't enter the building. But they wouldn't leave, either, until the two remaining officers in McClain's killing were fired."I just want to make it perfectly crystal clear that everyone here has agreed that we are going to sit here," she said. "We're not going anywhere. We're not going in, we're not going out, we're sure not going out, and neither are these pigs that are inside the building. So we're not doing anything wrong. We're standing here." (The protesters did, in fact, reportedly leave before sunrise, when police advanced on them.)House's statements appear to be part of the basis for the prosecution's claims that the protest was actually a kidnapping attempt. What followed, fellow activists allege, was a heavy-handed roundup of the protest's most visible faces.Hamby, who organizes with House, Northam, and Lucero, claimed the busts were an attempt to "strike fear into organizers, strike fear into the movement."House and Lucero were arrested by multiple squad cars—House while driving and Lucero while in her apartment—and detained in jail for eight days, Hamby said. Fellow organizers have accused corrections officers of verbally abusing the two women and failing to provide adequate COVID-19 protections. Another protester, John "Russel" Ruch, was followed from his home in unmarked cars and scooped up in a Home Depot parking lot around dawn by officers who gave him "no information" about the cause for his arrest, Hamby claimed.In the most aggressive instance, multiple organizers claimed a SWAT team showed up to arrest protester Joel Northam, allegedly banging on the door and refusing to slide a warrant underneath. Aurora Police did not return a request for comment."He was on the phone with a lawyer the entire time, and the lawyer ended up telling him, 'You need to comply with what they're saying,'" Hamby said. "Because at that point we were worried that they were going to bust down the door and kill him."If convicted on all counts, the activists accused of attempted kidnapping could face decades in prison. The charges come as other activists associated with Black Lives Matter protests face heavy-handed charges, including a Utah protester who faced life in prison for allegedly purchasing paint that was used in a demonstration (the most aggressive charging enhancements in that case have since been dropped).Hamby said protesters planned on further mobilizing around a call to drop the charges. "If anything, the fight-back will be strengthened and emboldened," he said.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. 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| Mass evacuations as wildfire erupts in California wine country Posted: 29 Sep 2020 04:40 AM PDT  Tens of thousands of people have been forced out of their homes as a new wildfire burns out of control in Napa and Sonoma counties.
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| A hacker published thousands of students' grades and private information after a Nevada school district refused to pay ransom Posted: 28 Sep 2020 08:09 AM PDT  The school district suffered a ransomware attack during its first week of online classes and said law enforcement was investigating.
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| Alicia Silverstone defends her 9-year-old son’s long hair Posted: 28 Sep 2020 08:21 PM PDT  "We would never impose any social ideas about what hair on a boy or girl should look like," the actor wrote.
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| Debate offers Trump chance to yank stubbornly stable 2020 race his way Posted: 29 Sep 2020 03:21 AM PDT  Presidential candidates to face off for first time in Cleveland and for Biden no news would be good newsAfter months of anticipation, Donald Trump and election rival Joe Biden were scheduled to meet on a debate stage for the first time in Cleveland on Tuesday night, in what could be Trump's last best chance to turn the presidential race his way and win re-election.Suffering from weeks of negative revelations in the news and terrible poll numbers, Trump needs a big score at the first presidential debate to shift the national conversation away from the sputtering economy, the coronavirus pandemic and his staggering tax avoidance, analysts say.Those factors could see a performance by Trump that is even more aggressive than usual."Trump will go after Biden hard, to deflect attention away from his own troubles, including the reports on his tax evasion and business failures," said Brad Bannon, a Washington-based Democratic strategist. "Much of Biden's support is based on his calm demeanor, which contrasts well with the president's erratic personality."So, it's important for Biden to respond to Trump without losing his cool, and smile while he surgically cuts the president down to size."Advisers to Biden, meanwhile, say that a great debate result for the Democratic candidate would be for not much to happen at all. The challenge as they see it is for Biden to appear steady and draw a contrast with Trump – and to resist being drawn into a mudfight.Biden himself appears to recognize the dangers of meeting Trump on his preferred turf of insult and mockery."I hope I don't get baited into a brawl with this guy, because that's the only place he's comfortable," Biden told donors at a fundraiser in Delaware earlier this month. "This is a guy who is absolutely tasteless. Completely tasteless. So pointing it out doesn't do much."The presidential election on 3 November is only 35 days away, and early in-person voting is under way already, while about 10m mail-in ballots have been sent out across the country – a record brought about by the coronavirus crisis.The conventional wisdom about presidential debates is that they do not move the race much – except when they do. Former vice-president Al Gore was dinged for sighing through his first debate in 2000 with George W Bush. An underprepared outing by Barack Obama against Mitt Romney in their first debate of 2012 breathed new life into the challenger's campaign.But the stakes around the first debate of the 2020 cycle may be unique. The race has proven historically stable throughout the year, according to polling analysts, and big campaign moments including the national conventions and Biden's selection of Kamala Harris as a running mate do not appear to have moved the needle.For weeks, the Trump campaign has been touting the debate as the moment that would at last alter the race, regaling donors with a fantasy of a quick-witted Trump running circles around a somnolent Biden.Trump went so far at the weekend as to demand a "drug test" before the debate of Biden, whom Trump has baselessly accused of taking "performance enhancing drugs".Biden laughed off the suggestion, but his campaign issued a lacerating response."Vice-President Biden intends to deliver his debate answers in words," a Biden spokeswoman told Politico. "If the president thinks his best case is made in urine, he can have at it."Biden and Trump are scheduled to participate in three debates total. The 90-minute opener in the series will be held at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and be moderated by the Fox News host Chris Wallace, who has proven in the past to be a tough interviewer of the president.On Monday, Wallace said he hoped to be "as invisible as possible" onstage. "If I've done my job right, at the end of the night, people will say, 'That was a great debate, who was the moderator?'" Wallace told Fox.Wallace has picked six subjects for the night: the candidates' records in office; the supreme court; Covid-19; the economy; "race and violence in our cities"; and the integrity of the election.But a bombshell New York Times report at the weekend showing that Trump paid zero federal taxes in 10 of the last 15 years, and that Trump has hundreds of millions in mysterious debt coming due, could be one of many topics that upend the planned proceedings.Biden is expected to highlight how much of Trump's wealth was inherited, and to draw a contrast between Scranton, Pennsylvania, where Biden grew up, and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, the site of Trump's most famous golden tower.Biden might also underscore the dangers of a president who denies climate change by pointing to the ongoing wildfire crisis in the west. Facing new sexual assault allegations himself, Trump could seek to revive allegations against Biden.Trump has already signaled that Biden's family is fair game, with sustained attacks on his son Hunter Biden, whose relationships in Ukraine Republicans tried to use to muddle the impeachment inquiry.But Trump appears to need more political mileage out of the debate than the brief bump that a few sharply delivered attacks might deliver.More than winning an argument, strategists say, the debates are about making an impression on viewers that could nudge a crucial few into one camp or the other."Trump needs a Biden collapse," the Republican political consultant Mike Murphy, a frequent Trump critic, said on his podcast. "Because Trump needs something to happen on the 29th that gives him the whole month to work with."
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| Massacre in Mexican bar leaves 11 people dead Posted: 28 Sep 2020 05:55 AM PDT 
A massacre in a Mexican bar left 11 people dead on Sunday (September 27). The attorney general's office in the central state of Guanajuato said the bodies of seven men and four women were found at the scene in the city of Jaral del Progreso in the early hours. Authorities added that another woman was also found with gunshot injuries. It comes as the country grapples with a record homicide rate - despite the government's promises to tackle gang violence. Guanajuato, a major car-making hub, has become a recurring scene of criminal violence in Mexico, ravaged by a turf war between the local Santa Rosa de Lima gang and the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel. In July, gunmen killed 24 people at a drug rehabilitation center in Guanajuato. It was one of the worst mass slayings since President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office - pledging to reduce record levels of violence.
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| Justice Ginsburg buried at Arlington in private ceremony Posted: 29 Sep 2020 12:56 PM PDT  Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was buried Tuesday in a private ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, laid to rest beside her husband and near some of her former colleagues on the court. Washington last week honored the 87-year-old Ginsburg, who died Sept. 18, with two days where the public could view her casket at the top of the Supreme Court's steps and pay their respects. On Friday, the women's rights trailblazer and second woman to join the high court lay in state at the U.S. Capitol, the first woman to do so.
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| South Carolina city apologizes to Black residents for racial injustice resulting from its policies Posted: 29 Sep 2020 11:49 AM PDT  The Spartanburg city council unanimously approved a resolution that acknowledges systematic racism.
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| Germany walks away from Lockheed, Boeing cargo helicopter offers Posted: 29 Sep 2020 09:09 AM PDT  The surprise decision halts an acquisition race that was scheduled to a see a contract awarded in 2021.
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| A 2nd woman has reportedly accused Nikola Motors founder Trevor Milton of sexual assault Posted: 28 Sep 2020 11:08 PM PDT  Two women have filed police reports against Milton, both accusing him of sexually abusing them when they were 15, CNBC reported.
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| Lost wallet used as bait to lure alleged meth dealer into an arrest, Florida cops say Posted: 28 Sep 2020 04:05 PM PDT  The suspect showed up to the meeting spot with methamphetamine and $3,000 on his person.
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| The number of children with COVID-19 has risen 'dramatically' over the past 5 months, report finds Posted: 28 Sep 2020 09:01 PM PDT  Children make up 10% of COVID-19 cases, a big rise from 2.2% in April, the American Academy of Pediatrics reports. Increased testing isn't to blame.
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| Video shows alleged ballot harvesting in Ilhan Omar's district Posted: 28 Sep 2020 07:47 PM PDT  Minneapolis police announce investigation; Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe joins 'Hannity' to discuss
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| Oregon hostage situation leaves ‘multiple people' dead Posted: 29 Sep 2020 12:16 AM PDT  Officers responded to an address in Salem at around 12:30 pm on Monday
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| 'Miracle on the Hudson' pilot Sully Sullenberger said he'll only fly with airlines that block the middle seat during the pandemic Posted: 29 Sep 2020 07:00 AM PDT  The pilot who famously landed a damaged plane on the Hudson shared his thoughts on airline safety amid coronavirus.
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| McConnell shields Judge Amy Coney Barrett from questions about election outcome as she meets with senators Posted: 29 Sep 2020 12:51 PM PDT  The Senate majority leader refused to answer if Ms Barrett should recuse herself from election-focused cases
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| Trump ex-campaign boss hospitalized amid threat to harm self Posted: 27 Sep 2020 10:48 PM PDT  President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Brad Parscale has been hospitalized after he threatened to harm himself, according to Florida police and campaign officials. Police officers talked Parscale out of his Fort Lauderdale home after his wife called police to say that he had multiple firearms and was threatening to hurt himself when he was hospitalized Sunday under the state's Baker Act. "Brad Parscale is a member of our family and we love him," said Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh.
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| With EU help, Taiwan gets rare win in China naming dispute Posted: 27 Sep 2020 10:50 PM PDT  Taiwan said on Monday the European Union had stepped in to help after a global alliance of mayors stopped referring to Taiwanese cities as part of China, in a rare win for the island amid growing Chinese pressure. China has ramped up efforts to get international groups and companies to refer on their websites and in official documents to democratic, self-ruled Taiwan as being part of China, to the ire of Taiwan's government and many of its people. Over the weekend, Taiwan officials expressed anger after the Brussels-based Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy began listing on its website its six Taiwan member cites as belonging to China.
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| Air Force Completes 8-Year B-1 Bomber Battle Station Upgrade Posted: 28 Sep 2020 01:11 PM PDT  The service announced that it finished the Integrated Battle Station, or IBS, modification earlier this month.
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| U.S. missile destroyer ship breaks Navy record for longest stint at sea Posted: 29 Sep 2020 08:15 AM PDT  The USS Stout reached 208 days at sea Sept. 26 as the Navy has imposed restrictions on port visits to protect sailors from the coronavirus.
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| Auschwitz director offers to serve time in place of 13-year-old Nigerian sentenced to 10 years for blasphemy Posted: 29 Sep 2020 11:58 AM PDT  The director of the Auschwitz Memorial in Poland has offered to serve time for a Nigerian child who was convicted of blasphemy and ordered to spend ten years in prison by a Sharia court . In an open letter, Piotr Cywinski asked Nigeria's President to intervene and pardon 13-year-old Omar Farouq for the conviction. "As the director of the Auschwitz memorial, which commemorates the victims and preserves the remains of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camps, where children were imprisoned and murdered, I cannot remain indifferent to this disgraceful sentence for humanity," he wrote. Omar Farouq was arrested earlier this year by religious police in Kano, Nigeria's second-largest city, after he had a 'blasphemous' conversation with an older man. His conviction by a religious court has provoked condemnation by the United Nations and global human rights groups. Mr Cywinski told The Telegraph that he felt he had to act when he heard about Omar. "When I heard about this story last week, I remembered that [Nigeria's] President Buhari visited Auschwitz in 2018. So I thought that maybe a voice coming from this difficult place would have some effect on him... I have kids that age. "There are some times we have to stop our own silence and try to do something. It's not enough to just like something on Facebook or retweet it." Mr Cywinski added that since he sent the letter last week, no one from the government had responded yet. Kola Alapinni, Omar's lawyer, told The Telegraph that the adolescent has been held in a prison for adults and not been allowed to see any legal representation. If Omar had been older, Mr Alapinni says, he would have been sentenced to death. At a federal level, Nigeria is a secular state. But 12 of the country's northern Muslim-dominated states have a Sharia system running in parallel to the secular courts. These courts can only try Muslims and regularly serve out medieval-style punishments. Mr Alapinni, a graduate of the University of Essex and a secularist campaigner, says he will keep fighting Omar's corner. "Section 10 of the constitution says Nigeria is a secular state. We are not Iran; we are no Saudi Arabia; we are not the Vatican. We are a multi-religious state with freedom of thought, expression and religion enshrined in the constitution," he says. "This should not be happening."
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| Breonna Taylor neighbor wants to know why cop wasn't charged for shooting into his unit Posted: 29 Sep 2020 02:00 AM PDT  "If that bullet went through my bed maybe I would have been dead too," Breonna Taylor's neighbor Stanley David said.
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| Support for Brexit is collapsing as poll finds shrinking minority of British people still back leaving the EU Posted: 29 Sep 2020 04:38 AM PDT  A new poll finds that Brexit regret is at its highest level among the British public since the 2016 referendum.
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