| Trump claims he won't participate in virtual debate Posted: 08 Oct 2020 06:12 AM PDT  "I'm not going to waste my time doing a virtual debate," the president said shortly after organizers announced the Oct. 15 town hall would be held remotely. "That's not what debating is all about. You sit behind a computer and do a debate, it's ridiculous, and then they cut you off whenever they want."
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| Fox News cut ties with a frequent guest after he called Kamala Harris an 'insufferable lying b----' on Twitter Posted: 09 Oct 2020 02:43 AM PDT  Harlan Hill, who has ties to President Donald Trump's reelection campaign, was a frequent guest on Fox News until he tweeted an insult about Harris.
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| Trump yard sign rigged with razor blades left town worker needing 13 stitches Posted: 09 Oct 2020 07:26 AM PDT  The worker was trying to move a sign that was too close to the road when "he was cut by razor blades that had been attached to the bottom edge of the sign," the sheriff's office said.
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| Former commander of Guantánamo Bay Navy base sentenced to federal prison Posted: 09 Oct 2020 07:26 AM PDT  A federal judge sentenced a former commander of the Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on Thursday to two years in prison for trying to cover up a drunken fight with a commissary worker who was later found dead in the bay.
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| Woman says Southwest wouldn’t let her on plane due to ‘inappropriate’ outfit Posted: 09 Oct 2020 09:35 AM PDT  Kayla Eubanks said Southwest Airlines employees told her that she needed to wear a shirt over her outfit in order to board one of their planes.
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| How a Virus Surge Among Orthodox Jews Became a Crisis for New York Posted: 08 Oct 2020 05:30 AM PDT  NEW YORK -- All summer, life had been returning to normal in the Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods of Brooklyn. On Eastern Parkway and along 13th Avenue, throngs of men in black hats and coats once again visited synagogues three times a day. Children went off to camp. Weddings filled large banquet halls.Hardly anyone wore a mask.Then in mid-August, the city's disease data detection program -- called SaTScan -- began to blare a warning about a rise of coronavirus cases in Borough Park. In response, the city's new health commissioner, Dr. Dave Chokshi, held an urgent conference call with Orthodox Jewish news outlets to warn of rising transmission and to express concern that public health advice was not being diligently followed in these communities.But the call grew contentious when Chokshi was peppered with questions about why Mayor Bill de Blasio and his administration had not shown the same level of concern about the mass gatherings of protesters during the Black Lives Matter demonstrations."What justification can we tell readers -- why do they have to be careful when the mayor carves out exceptions based on his own personal politics?" one reporter asked Chokshi.In the weeks that followed, the tensions between the authorities and Orthodox Jewish communities would worsen, escalating into the biggest health challenge for the city since the spring. What began as a small uptick in a few neighborhoods in Brooklyn now threatens to hasten the arrival of a second wave that could cause new hardships for millions of New Yorkers and stall the recovery of the weakened economy.For decades, tightly knit Hasidic and other ultra-Orthodox Jewish sects have thrived in the city and the surrounding suburbs while warding off many aspects of the modern world. Now, they are facing unwelcome scrutiny over whether the virus is spreading because some people in these insular communities are reluctant to embrace public health practices and have become susceptible to misinformation, including from President Donald Trump.On Tuesday, seeking to curb the virus in these neighborhoods, Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered the first major retrenchment in the city's recovery from a pandemic that has killed more than 20,000 residents. Cuomo imposed a shutdown of schools and nonessential business in parts of Brooklyn and Queens, as well as in sections of Rockland and Orange counties that also have sizable populations of Orthodox Jewish residents.Cuomo also pointedly adopted tough new regulations on houses of worship, making it clear that he was especially concerned about Orthodox Jewish worshippers crowding into synagogues. For at least the next two weeks, houses of worship in these neighborhoods can host no more than 10 people at a time, he said."The Torah speaks about how certain religious obligations can be excused, if you are going to save a life," he said. "This is about saving a life."The governor's order touched off a fierce backlash in Orthodox neighborhoods, including protests on Tuesday night in Borough Park and an attack on a well-known Jewish journalist on Wednesday night.Interviews with community leaders, public health experts and city and state officials show that some Orthodox leaders did belatedly recognize the dangers of the virus spreading. For example, in September, more than 120 Hasidic leaders and yeshiva principals logged on to an emergency conference call hours before the Sabbath. Notably, city officials were not invited.Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein -- a former aide to Mayor de Blasio who represents Borough Park and was the first Hasidic state lawmaker elected from Brooklyn -- implored administrators to urge parents of yeshiva students to take public health measures seriously."The government is asking us to take steps that people might find inconvenient, but the alternative will be much worse for everyone," Eichenstein said he told them.A few days later, de Blasio himself gathered dozens of Orthodox Jewish leaders for a video call where he also asked them to promote social distancing and other public health measures.The two meetings achieved some results. More people in the community began to wear masks. But it may have been too late.In recent weeks, neighborhoods with large numbers of Orthodox Jewish residents have consistently been posting positivity rates of more than 3%, and as high as 8%. Several other areas with Orthodox populations have had rates between 2% and 3%. Hospitals in Brooklyn have begun bracing for an influx of patients from these areas.The overall daily positivity rate in the city has recently been between 1% and 2%. If the surge in these neighborhoods spreads and the citywide rate averages 3% or higher for a seven-day period, that would force an immediate shutdown of the entire public school system, as well as a citywide ban on indoor dining -- a big blow to the city's recovery.There are at least 500,000 Orthodox Jews in the New York area, by some estimates. Many live in Brooklyn, home to well over a dozen Hasidic Jewish sects, each one with its own religious leaders, institutions and schools.Many Orthodox Jewish residents of the city are not Hasidic, but the public health authorities said the sharp increase in the virus caseload affected broad swaths of these communities, too.The Orthodox communities in New York City, Rockland and Orange counties have all experienced sharp increases in cases: The positivity rate over the past week in the Town of Palm Tree in Orange, a Satmar Hasidic enclave, is 18%.Many of these communities were hit hard by the virus in the spring, leaving some to believe, mistakenly, that they had attained herd immunity.Hasidic neighborhoods may be particularly susceptible to virus misinformation because people tend to avoid the internet, and few families own televisions. Many get their news from conservative talk radio, Yiddish publications with an often conservative bent or memes shared via WhatsApp.City and state elected officials have often had an uneasy relationship with Hasidic communities, wary of antagonizing them because they often vote as a bloc.At the same time, Trump is hugely popular -- in some city election precincts with large Hasidic populations, he received more than 80% of the vote in 2016 -- and his disdain for mask-wearing has influenced residents, leaders say.Many yeshivas do not teach science and other secular subjects at close to the same level as public schools -- creating fertile ground for misinformation about herd immunity, critics say.As a hint of the difficulties that lay ahead for public health officials, large gatherings in Orthodox neighborhoods have continued in recent days. Mask wearing is sometimes sparse.In Borough Park over the summer, one man, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he said he feared social ostracism, recalled that he stopped using a mask after his 8-year-old son came to him crying.The son's friends had said his father was under the sway of liberal "goyim," a term for non-Jews that often has a pejorative connotation.Motti Seligson, a spokesman for Chabad, one of the largest Hasidic groups in the world, accused city and state health officials of failing to reach out to the Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods.Health officials "should have leaned in on their relationships with people on the street level to understand what the challenges are and how they can support these communities," Seligson said.The city has argued that public health officials have spoken with neighborhood leaders for weeks and distributed tens of thousands of masks, made hundreds of thousands of robocalls and placed ads in Yiddish newspapers.When the coronavirus struck in March, de Blasio, long close to the Orthodox community, took a firmer approach than he had in the past over health matters.In a late-night Twitter outburst in April, which has remained a point of anguish for Hasidic leaders, the mayor described personally helping to break up a funeral for a rabbi who died of COVID-19. He warned the community that public health rules would be enforced. But in places like Borough Park, they were not.Orthodox Jewish leaders said they believed that the authorities had unfairly singled Jews out for criticism over gatherings but did not express similar alarm when Black Lives Matter protesters filled the streets in recent months.Cuomo's decision to announce the new lockdown in the middle of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, with an enforcement deadline that is one day before Simhat Torah, a holiday that celebrates the reading of the Torah, has only entrenched some Orthodox Jews' belief that officials treat religious events as unimportant or reckless."The community feels a double standard -- this is the overwhelming consensus," said Yochonon Donn, a Hasidic journalist who was on the call with Chokshi, the city's health commissioner, in August. "Why are the free speech rights of protesters more important than the rights of people who want to pray?"A spokesman for the mayor, Bill Neidhardt, said public health, not politics, guided the city response."Our goal is to ensure all New Yorkers stay healthy," he said. "That is our lodestar, that's what guides us. It's not about demographics, or political background."He said that from a public health perspective there is a distinction between when "First Amendment rights are being expressed outdoors with masks on" -- as was the case in many Black Lives Matter protests -- and when they are being expressed "indoors, in large gatherings with little mask-wearing," as was the norm during some Orthodox synagogue services.Neidhardt said that he believed the city's outreach and education efforts had shown some success. But he said restrictions were needed to stop the renewed spread of the virus.Several factors appear to explain why these communities were vulnerable, health experts and Jewish leaders said.A history of religious persecution has made many Orthodox Jews deeply wary of outsiders. Large multigenerational families with many children are the norm, and those families often live in small apartments. They have a highly communal way of life whose daily rhythms are at odds with pandemic restrictions, with thrice-daily gatherings at synagogue a social and spiritual bedrock for men."A much more drastic shift in daily life is required for an Orthodox male to achieve the same reduced risk in disease prevention," said Ephraim Sherman, an Orthodox Jew who is a nurse practitioner who has cared for critically ill COVID-19 patients.In some areas, including Borough Park, many Orthodox Jews who have conservative views were more likely to take their cues about the virus from Trump than from de Blasio."When it comes to politics and the way people consume information, Borough Park could be in any red state in America," said David Greenfield, a Democrat who represented the area on the City Council until 2017.Naftuli Moster, an activist for more secular education in yeshivas who grew up Hasidic, blamed Hasidic leaders for failing to urge their followers to follow public health guidelines.Moster said the community's struggle with misinformation could not be separated from the paucity of scientific education in its yeshivas."This is a community in which tens of thousands of people have very little knowledge of science," said Moster, who was educated in a yeshiva. "I didn't learn what a cell or a molecule was -- the idea that there was something smaller than what your eye can see -- until I was 21 years old and in college."This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2020 The New York Times Company
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| Pompeo warns of China risks ahead of US-India talks Posted: 09 Oct 2020 01:35 PM PDT  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday urged closer ties with India as he warned of China's growing might on its doorstep, amid a flurry of diplomacy between the world's two largest democracies.
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| South Carolina Senate debate replaced with interviews after Lindsey Graham ‘refuses Covid-19 test' Posted: 09 Oct 2020 02:59 PM PDT  Republican senator reportedly declines coronavirus test and attacks rival for demanding 'special treatment' as GOP under scrutiny for White House disease outbreak
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| Coronavirus pushes Trump into a 'fiasco vortex' as events spin out of administration's control Posted: 09 Oct 2020 01:15 PM PDT  The coronavirus outbreak at the White House has plunged Trump's presidency into what crisis relations expert Eric Dezenhall calls "the fiasco vortex," a phenomenon in which crisis overtakes a public figure, destroying any attempts to impose a favorable cast on developments.
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| Moderator Susan Page on Pence interrupting her during VP debate: 'I don't know that I've seen him in that kind of setting with a male moderator' Posted: 08 Oct 2020 07:54 PM PDT  A post-debate analysis by CBS News found that Pence interrupted Harris twice as often as she did to him during the debate.
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| Hunter Biden’s Former Business Partner to Be Sentenced after Court Revives Fraud Conviction Posted: 09 Oct 2020 07:32 AM PDT  Hunter Biden's former business parter will face sentencing in a fraud case after a federal appeals court on Wednesday reinstated his conviction.Devon Archer, a longtime business associate of Joe Biden's son, was convicted in June, 2018 on charges related to his involvement in a scheme to defraud a Native American tribe.The defendants, including Archer, are accused of pressuring the Wakpamni Lake Community Association, an affiliate of the Oglala Sioux Tribe to issue $60 million in economic-development bonds which the defendants then used for their own purposes, such as investing in their own businesses instead of investing it back into the tribe.After his conviction, a federal judge in New York overturned Archer's conviction later that year, saying the evidence was insufficient to prove that Archer was aware of the multi-million dollar bond fraud scheme.The three-judge panel of the New York-based 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated Archer's conviction on Wednesday, ruling that the lower court "abused its discretion in vacating the judgment and granting a new trial" and stating that Archer "knew at least the general nature and extent of the scheme and intended to bring about its success."Archer is scheduled to be sentenced on January 21.Archer worked with Hunter Biden on various business ventures, including serving with the Democratic presidential nominee's son on the board of a Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings.Hunter Biden was appointed to Burisma's board in 2014 while his father was vice president and resigned from the board in April of last year after his lucrative position on the board drew scrutiny.In spring, 2016, Biden called on Ukraine to fire the prosecutor who had been investigating the energy company paying his son. The vice president threatened to withdraw $1 billion in U.S. military aid to Ukraine if the country did not fire the prosecutor, who was accused by the State Department and U.S. allies in Europe of being soft on corruption.
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| Judge lets ex-cop charged in Floyd's death live out of state Posted: 09 Oct 2020 10:03 AM PDT  A Minnesota judge cited safety concerns as he issued new conditions of release for an ex-Minneapolis police officer charged in the death of George Floyd that would allow him to live in a neighboring state while he awaits trial. Derek Chauvin posted $1 million bond on Wednesday and was allowed to walk free from the maximum security state prison where he had been held for his safety since shortly after his arrest. Floyd died after Chauvin, who is white, pressed his knee against Floyd's neck for several minutes even after the handcuffed Black man pleaded for air before his death May 25.
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| How to get your cat to like you: Smile like them, study says. Here’s how to do it Posted: 08 Oct 2020 01:37 PM PDT  Doing the "cat smile" might just get your cat to tolerate you.
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| Bella Hadid looked like she stepped out of the early 2000s while wearing chunky hair highlights and a graphic tank top Posted: 08 Oct 2020 09:21 AM PDT  Bella Hadid debuted her new, chunky highlights while walking around New York City in an early 2000s-inspired outfit on Tuesday.
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| Six men accused in plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer after Trump called to “liberate Michigan" Posted: 08 Oct 2020 11:27 AM PDT  The men allegedly planned to put Whitmer on "trial" for "treason" over Michigan's coronavirus restrictions
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| Affidavit: Texas officer was offered handshake before fatal shooting Posted: 08 Oct 2020 06:31 AM PDT  A Black man who was killed by a Texas police officer offered him a handshake prior to being shot, a court document said.
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| Trump launches rare attack on loyal aides Pompeo, Barr Posted: 08 Oct 2020 08:18 AM PDT  US President Donald Trump on Thursday voiced rare criticism of two of his most steadfast aides, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Attorney General Bill Barr, less than a month before elections.
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| Facebook's nudity-spotting AI mistook a photo of some onions for 'sexually suggestive' content Posted: 09 Oct 2020 03:00 AM PDT  Facebook said the onion-seed ad had been removed for breaking its rules on "products with overtly sexual positioning."
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| Harris blasts Pence in heated COVID-19 exchange: 'You respect the American people when you tell them the truth' Posted: 07 Oct 2020 06:27 PM PDT  Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif.) immediately got down to business on Wednesday night, sparring over their candidate's competing plans to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic."They knew what was happening and they didn't tell you," Harris stressed. "Can you imagine if you knew on January 28th as opposed to March 13th, what they knew, what you might have done to prepare? They knew and they covered it up." She concluded her opening remarks by arguing, "this administration has forfeited their right to re-election based on" their response.> Harris: They knew and they covered it up pic.twitter.com/AKiSDy23ED> > — Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) October 8, 2020Pence batted off the attack. "The reality is, when you look at the Biden plan, it reads an awful lot like what President Trump and I and our task force have been doing every step of the way," he claimed, adding: "It looks a little bit like plagiarism, which is something Joe Biden knows a little bit about," referencing a scandal that sank Biden's first presidential campaign in 1987. Pence went on to argue that "when you say what the American people have done over the last eight months hasn't worked, that's a disservice to the American people."> VP Mike Pence on the Biden/Harris plan for covid-19:> > "It looks a little bit like Plagiarism, which is something Joe Biden knows a little bit about." pic.twitter.com/7qpI02QzEW> > — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 8, 2020"Let's talk about respecting the American people," Harris circled back. "You respect the American people when you tell them the truth."More stories from theweek.com Mike Pence was the unlikely winner of the vice presidential debate The myth of Mike Pence's appeal Trump is shockingly bad at this
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| WFP fights hunger in food-deprived places, crises, war zones Posted: 09 Oct 2020 06:17 AM PDT  The World Food Program won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for its efforts to combat hunger amid the coronavirus pandemic, recognition that shines light on vulnerable communities across the Middle East and Africa that the U.N. agency seeks to help, those starving and living in war zones that may rarely get the world's attention. From Yemen to South Sudan, food insecurity is a growing scourge, made worse by a mixture of military conflict, environmental disaster and the economic fallout of the pandemic. In war-torn Yemen, described as the world's worst humanitarian disaster, millions depend each month on WFP for survival.
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| Experts: Ballistics report shows Louisville officer was shot by Breonna Taylor's boyfriend, not by 'friendly fire' Posted: 08 Oct 2020 05:45 PM PDT  Experts say Breonna Taylor's boyfriend must have been the one to shoot a Louisville officer because no one else fired the same type of ammunition.
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| No charges for Wisconsin officer in killing of Black teenager Posted: 08 Oct 2020 10:52 AM PDT  A Black Wisconsin police officer who fatally shot a Black teenager outside a suburban Milwaukee mall in February won't be charged because he had reasonable belief that deadly force was necessary, a prosecutor said on Wednesday.
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| In this small town, police are looking for suspects. The crime? Stealing campaign signs Posted: 09 Oct 2020 03:00 AM PDT  Love your neighbor, unless he or she supports the wrong candidate.
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| Sheriff who appeared at rally with Michigan kidnapping suspect says alleged plot may have been an 'arrest’ Posted: 09 Oct 2020 12:04 PM PDT  'A lot of people are angry with the governor and they want her arrested'
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| Trump declares he's 'healed' of the coronavirus, bashes DOJ and curses in two-hour interview Posted: 09 Oct 2020 01:26 PM PDT  The freewheeling interview with Rush Limbaugh was the longest the president has given since he tested positive last week.
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| Harry Litman: The Supreme Court is already pulling us back to the future Posted: 09 Oct 2020 03:00 AM PDT  On the first Monday in October, the Supreme Court minus Ginsburg flexed its hard-right muscles.
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| Fearing Biden tax hikes, wealthy Americans rush to change estate plans Posted: 09 Oct 2020 04:37 AM PDT  The biggest concern is that the White House and Congress could get swept up in a "Blue Wave" of Democratic wins that give Biden the power to propose and pass a sweeping set of tax reforms. Democrats want to raise estate taxes to the "historical norm," according to the party's platform.
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| Homeless migrants sleep rough beneath Dubai's skyscrapers as Covid employment crisis bites Posted: 09 Oct 2020 06:49 AM PDT  Dubai is witnessing a rare uptick in homelessness as migrant workers left destitute by the Covid downturn have begun sleeping out in parks under the glistening skyscrapers. Blue collar workers from Asia and Africa say they are trapped after losing jobs and running out of money to return home. Migrant workers who spoke to The Telegraph claimed they have been left abandoned after losing their jobs as the economy tightens. With no jobs and expired visas, many have congregated in parks in Dubai's poorer Satwa area, appealing for help for repatriation flights home. Homelessness and poverty are not typically visible in the United Arab Emirates' glitziest city. White collar jobs have also been threatened by the pandemic in UAE, with many UK expats returning home since coronavirus. Dubai's economy is geared towards heavy consumer spending in hospitality, luxury real estate and travel. Oxford Economics, a UK forecaster, estimates 900,000 jobs are under threat among a population of under 10 million.
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| Korean group must remove Berlin tribute to "comfort women" Posted: 09 Oct 2020 04:19 AM PDT  A Berlin district has ordered a local Korean group to remove a statue commemorating women used as sex slaves by Japan during World War II, saying Friday it goes beyond what had been approved. The issue of sex slaves, euphemistically called "comfort women," has been a major source of friction between South Korea and Japan, and the district's decision came after Japan expressed irritation about the statue depicting a woman sitting next to an empty chair. Stephan von Dassel, mayor of the central Mitte district, said permission had been given for the Korean organization to display a "peace statue" for one year, as a broad "statement against sexualized violence against women in armed conflicts."
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| Code enforcement crackdown: One officer arrested, others fired Posted: 09 Oct 2020 08:00 AM PDT  Derrick Erwin had been an Opa-locka code enforcement officer for over a decade before his career came crashing down last week. At around 1 a.m. last Friday, police took him into custody at his home less than half a mile from city hall, saying he committed fraud and theft by imposing thousands of dollars in fines on a property, then buying it himself before deleting the fines from the city's computer system.
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| Explosive texts found on phone of suspect in Ahmaud Arbery murder case Posted: 09 Oct 2020 05:29 AM PDT  "48 Hours" uncovers the content of virulent, racial slurs found on the phone of William "Roddie" Bryan, the man who filmed the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. Bryan's attorney says his client "doesn't have a hateful bone in his body."
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| Fox guest calls Kamala Harris ‘Hillary in blackface’ in shocking exchange Posted: 08 Oct 2020 09:47 AM PDT  Offensive moment left panel momentarily confused
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| Hope Hicks returned to work at the White House the day after self-quarantining aboard Air Force One, according to report Posted: 09 Oct 2020 02:36 PM PDT  Hope Hicks only told Trump and a handful of senior staff about her COVID-19 diagnosis, much to the dismay of her coworkers, the Washington Post said.
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| Chinese military spokesperson tells U.S. to halt provocative actions Posted: 09 Oct 2020 08:27 AM PDT  A Chinese military spokesperson said on Friday that the U.S. destroyer John McCain had entered waters around the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea claimed by China without China's permission. "We demand the U.S. immediately stop such provocative actions, (and) strictly control and restrict military operations in the sea and air," the spokesperson said in a post on an official WeChat account. The spokesperson also said it would take all necessary measures to resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and security and to maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea.
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| Trump would 'rant' about politics and media at COVID task force meetings, aide says Posted: 08 Oct 2020 04:28 PM PDT  President Trump would interrupt coronavirus task force meetings with protracted and irrelevant "rants" about his coverage on Fox News, causing his aides to "look down at the floor" in embarrassment, says a former member of the task force.
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| Op-Ed: The world should not ignore the deadly attacks in the South Caucasus Posted: 08 Oct 2020 03:02 PM PDT  Artsakh, also called Nagorno-Karabakh, has endured a deadly barrage of Azerbaijani attacks. Armenians see them as an attempt to continue the Armenian genocide of 1915.
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| South Korea to replace Black Hawks with homemade Surion helos, says lawmaker Posted: 09 Oct 2020 09:15 AM PDT  The lawmaker has decried the effort as a means to support the local economy without considering performances and production cost.
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| Biden - news: Campaigns in deadlock as Trump’s ‘erratic behaviour’ leaves debates in doubt Posted: 08 Oct 2020 05:07 PM PDT  Follow the latest updates
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| They were at Panda Express in a Florida mall. Then came the punches and flying chair Posted: 09 Oct 2020 07:16 AM PDT  A trip to get Chinese takeout food turned violent a Naples, Florida, mall Tuesday.
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| What Happens Next in Ethiopia's Political Turmoil Posted: 09 Oct 2020 01:46 PM PDT  This week Ethiopia's government entered the controversial sixth year of its five-year mandate. Covid-19 has produced plenty of political drama these last few months, but Ethiopia has experienced more than most—here's why. Ethiopian politics operates in a system of "ethnic federalism"—while there is a central government to this federation, its constituent parts are carved out along ethnic lines and jockeyed over by parties promising the best deal for the ethnicities within them (of which there are dozens throughout a country of 112 million).
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| 'You're lying, it's a hoax': Disbelief of the coronavirus is driving a wedge through American families — even those who've been infected Posted: 09 Oct 2020 12:43 PM PDT  We spoke to two women on opposite ends of the political spectrum who both had the coronavirus to see how it's impacted their choice in the election.
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| Fact check: Girl pictured with Barack Obama in viral posts is his niece Posted: 09 Oct 2020 12:24 PM PDT  A claim with roots in QAnon suggested the former president belongs to a group of celebrity adenochrome harvesters. We rated it false.
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| Trump administration hits 18 countries with aluminum tariffs Posted: 09 Oct 2020 05:54 AM PDT  The United States on Friday imposed steep new tariffs on nearly $2 billion in aluminum from 18 countries the Commerce Department accuses of dumping into the American market, including Germany, Spain and Brazil.
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| College students are saying 'I love you' during Zoom lectures to show appreciation for their professor who has been teaching to a blank screen Posted: 09 Oct 2020 01:29 PM PDT  Students in David Branscome's ancient mythology class at Florida State University have started saying "I love you" at the end of each lecture.
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