| A deadlocked Senate greets Amy Coney Barrett Posted: 12 Oct 2020 01:54 PM PDT  Democrats blamed Trump and congressional Republicans for nominating Barrett against Ginsburg's dying wishes and rushing the confirmation process in desperate hopes of winning a conservative majority on the high court.
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| Alaska's Senate race rocked by leaked videos, China ties and even a dead bear Posted: 12 Oct 2020 01:04 PM PDT  The race is tight and has faced a series of eccentric controversies.
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| Wisconsin police chief says he has no reason to fire officer who fatally shot Alvin Cole Posted: 12 Oct 2020 01:57 PM PDT  The Black teenager was the third person fatally shot in the last five years by Wauwatosa Officer Joseph Mensah, who is also Black.
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| "Nervous breakdown": President Trump attacks Fox News and Drudge Report in early morning tweet spree Posted: 13 Oct 2020 09:12 AM PDT  "People want the TRUTH!" Trump tweeted at the two right-leaning outlets
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| Megan Thee Stallion says Black women are 'expected once again to deliver' an election win for Democrats but are still 'constantly disrespected and disregarded' Posted: 13 Oct 2020 01:33 PM PDT  The rapper wrote in the NYT about being subjected to "violence" by musician Tory Lanez as well as her SNL debut criticizing Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron.
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| Boeing and General Atomics join forces on new laser weapon Posted: 13 Oct 2020 02:03 PM PDT  The new high-powered laser will be configured for air and missile defense.
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| NYPD Arrests Leader of Violent Ultra-Orthodox COVID Protest Posted: 11 Oct 2020 07:17 PM PDT  The Trump-loving political gadfly who led ugly protests against new COVID-19 restrictions in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood was arrested by the NYPD on Sunday night.Within hours, new protests sprung up—with crowds massing outside the Brooklyn home of a journalist who was assaulted while covering last week's demonstrations.Harold "Heshy" Tischler was will be charged with inciting a riot and unlawful imprisonment in connection with the mob's Oct. 7 attack on reporter Jacob Korbbluh, police said.Tischler, an inflammatory figure who uses social media to spread his anti-lockdown message, had boasted that he would walk into the 66th Precinct stationhouse and surrender on Monday.But on Sunday night, the NYPD Warrant Squad showed up at his home to haul him in. "You see what they're doing?" he repeatedly yelled to a crowd of neighbors as he was led off in handcuffs."They tricked me," he complained.Tischler lives in Brooklyn's Borough Park, one of several communities that have seen dangerous spikes in COVID-19 cases in recent weeks, prompting Gov. Andrew Cuomo to impose new restrictions.During rowdy protests on the streets, Tischler—who sported a Trump bumper sticker on his shirt—oversaw a bonfire of masks, smeared the mayor's wife with slurs, and told his crowd of followers, "You are my soldiers! We are at war!"Why Is the Trump-Loving Provocateur in Brooklyn COVID-19 Protests Walking Free?On Tuesday, Kornbluh, a respected journalist for Jewish Insider, was surrounded by the mob, allegedly at Tischler's urging."Literally hundreds of members of the community tried to beat me up," Kornbluh told The Daily Beast afterward. "Somebody hit me in the head. I was kicked, dragged, and people were saying I deserved to die... calling me Hitler [and a] Nazi.""It took about 10 minutes for the police officers to get me out of the crowd," he added.Kornbluh filed an assault complaint, and as the days passed, the question of why Tischler had not been arrested grew louder—particularly after photos showed him posing with police officers after the protests.In an alarming turn of events, after Tischler's arrest on Sunday night, scores of his supporters converged on Kornbluh's Borough Park home and stood outside chanting "No Heshy, No Peace" while police officers formed a barrier so they couldn't break in.Tischler claims, with no apparent evidence, that Kornbluh harassed him. "I'll be going into prison," he said in his Twitter video on Friday. "I will, of course, be pleading not guilty."Tischler's arrest comes as city officials began enforcing the new COVID rules in earnest. Dozens of summonses with fines totaling more than $150,000 were issued this weekend to houses of worship and businesses in the so-called red zones.> A mob is forming, instigated by Heshy Tischler (from before he was arrested) and his supporters, outside of @jacobkornbluh's home. > > Jacob was the victim of assault by this man's mob, which is why Tischler is in jail. > > I'm very very worried for Jacob. https://t.co/raolh6TO56 pic.twitter.com/lW73uPPgue> > — Elad Nehorai (@PopChassid) October 12, 2020Read 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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| Clean Up With These Amazon Prime Day Vacuum Deals Posted: 13 Oct 2020 08:43 AM PDT |
| Residents on edge after KKK cards appear in yards with Biden signs in Tennessee Posted: 13 Oct 2020 01:56 PM PDT  "I was really startled by it and also kind of scared," one woman said.
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| McConnell laughs in debate when challenger Amy McGrath slams his COVID stimulus 'dereliction' Posted: 12 Oct 2020 08:39 PM PDT  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his Democratic challenger, Amy McGrath, faced off in their first and perhaps only debate Monday night. McGrath, a retired Marine combat pilot, criticized McConnell for blocking a new round of COVID-19 economic support, calling it a "dereliction of duty" and failure of leadership. McConnell, oddly, laughed.> Trying to figure out what he is laughing about. pic.twitter.com/1bF0TuOBzy> > — Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) October 13, 2020McConnell blamed congressional Democrats for blocking another coronavirus relief package, even though he publicly shot down negotiations between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the White House. He also noted that he brings home the bacon in a way McGrath could not from the "back bench" of the Senate. "I allow Kentucky to punch above its weight," McConnell said. "My last term $17.5 billion for the commonwealth that would not have been there had I not been the majority leader of the Senate.""I think her entire campaign is: she's a Marine, she's a mom, and I've been there (the Senate) too long," McConnell said. McGrath didn't disagree: "Senator, you've been there for 36 years. How's it looking, Kentucky?" McConnell's "one job is to help America through this crisis right now in passing legislation to keep our economy afloat so that people can make ends meet," she added. "And instead of doing that, he is trying to ram through a Supreme Court nominee right now, instead of negotiating, which is what he should have been doing all summer long to make that happen."McConnell also took several shots at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) — and also President Trump, perhaps, who is famously from New York as well.> McConnell said some version of this a number of times in tonight's debate: "Do you want somebody from New York setting the agenda" — referring to Schumer leading a dem senate majority.> > — Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) October 12, 2020The debate was held in the studio of WKYT in Lexington. The station "took a number of precautions in response to the coronavirus," The Associated Press reports. "Kentucky is in the midst of another spike of COVID-19 cases."More stories from theweek.com Biden's post-election tightrope walk The Democrats' desperate SCOTUS scaremongering An anxious poll-watcher's guide to 2020
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| U.S. Supreme Court shuts down Dems' anti-corruption lawsuit against Trump Posted: 13 Oct 2020 10:18 AM PDT  The Supreme Court on Tuesday put an end to a lawsuit brought by congressional Democrats that accused President Trump of violating anti-corruption provisions in the U.S. Constitution with his business dealings.
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| One of Los Angeles County’s largest-ever wildfires may have been sparked by tree branches hitting power equipment, says utility company Posted: 13 Oct 2020 09:07 AM PDT  So far 171 buildings and 87 homes have been destroyed by California blaze
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| Trump advises Brett Kavanaugh to sue his accusers, trigger full public review of evidence Posted: 13 Oct 2020 02:18 PM PDT  Hours later, the president expressed his admiration for disgraced Fox News CEO Roger Ailes
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| Grand juror: Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron's 'statements and actions' in Breonna Taylor case remain a 'mystery' Posted: 13 Oct 2020 12:32 PM PDT  The grand juror's attorney said Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is trying to squelch jurors from commenting on "his misleading remarks."
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| A man who lives alone in an airplane hangar in a Utah ghost town has found the ultimate escape Posted: 13 Oct 2020 12:08 PM PDT  Ivo Zdarsky has been living alone in an airplane hangar in the abandoned town of Lucin, Utah, since 2007, social distancing before that was a thing.
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| Family of Iraqi asylum-seekers charter private jet to Germany Posted: 13 Oct 2020 06:28 AM PDT  A family of Iraqi asylum-seekers were caught entering Germany by private jet last week, it has emerged. The family, who are believed to be from the Kurdish-controlled area of northern Iraq, arrived at Munich airport in a chartered private plane from Istanbul last Friday. A couple named only as 49-year-old Shwana Q and his 44-year-old wife Basoz Q were travelling with their two children aged 12 and 7. They were carrying forged diplomatic passports from the Caribbean island nation of St Kitts and Nevis and claimed they were on their way to the nearby island of Dominica. They told passport officers they wanted to spend one night in Munich while they waited for a change of aircraft. But the officials became suspicious when none of the family could speak English or French — the two languages generally spoken by diplomats. On closer examination their diplomatic passport cards proved to be forgeries.
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| Mexico says one of its citizens was subjected to a non-consensual surgery in ICE detention Posted: 13 Oct 2020 12:27 AM PDT  Mexico's foreign ministry said its citizen was detained at an ICE facility in Georgia where numerous women say they were forced to undergo surgeries.
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| Biden reportedly considering Andrew Cuomo for attorney general Posted: 12 Oct 2020 07:28 AM PDT  The 2020 Presidential election may still be a few weeks away, but a new report reveals that if he wins, Joe Biden is considering tapping Andrew Cuomo as the next Attorney General. Whoever wins the November 3 election will be able to nominate a new set of Cabinet members, and according to a report by Axios, several sources close to Biden and/or Cuomo have said that speculation amongst the National Governor's Association and Democratic donors have substantiated the current attorney general rumors. Insider buzz is also suggesting that based on his long friendship with the former Vice President, Cuomo is being seen as a solid candidate.
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| How many Humvees will remain after the US Army brings in its Joint Light Tactical Vehicle? Posted: 13 Oct 2020 08:00 AM PDT  The ratio of Joint Light Tactical Vehicles to Humvees is expected to shake out in the next budget request.
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| How the FBI uncovered Russian spies posing as suburban Americans Posted: 13 Oct 2020 11:43 AM PDT  The agents were observed secretly meeting, passing cash, and hiding encrypted messages online
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| McConnell sets Senate vote on coronavirus aid, Pelosi spurns White House bid Posted: 13 Oct 2020 06:14 AM PDT  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday the Republican-led U.S. Senate would vote next week on a targeted, $500 billion coronavirus economic aid bill of the type Democrats already have rejected as they hold out for trillions in relief. With negotiations on a broader package stalled and Election Day approaching, both Republicans and Democrats faced pressure to take action to help Americans weather a pandemic that has killed more than 214,000 people and damaged the U.S. economy. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took a swipe on Tuesday at Trump's about-face.
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| Father of three still missing nearly six weeks after disappearing from North Carolina home Posted: 13 Oct 2020 03:50 PM PDT  Cory Dale Moore, 32, was last seen at his grandmother's house in Sanford, North Carolina, around 2 p.m. on September 3, 2020. His family said he left the house on foot without his shoes. His wallet and phone are also missing. Cory hasn't accessed his bank or social media accounts. The Lee County Sheriff's Office in North Carolina is investigating.
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| China threatens to invade Taiwan and parades one of its citizens as a 'spy' Posted: 12 Oct 2020 06:35 AM PDT  Beijing has stepped up its intimidation of Taiwan by releasing a video on state media of a simulated attack on the island and by airing the purported confession of a Taiwanese businessman detained in China on spying charges. The twin-pronged strategy came as Tsai Ing-wen, the Taiwanese president, appeared to offer an olive branch to China amid growing tensions across the Taiwan Strait, urging the Chinese Communist Party to engage in "meaningful dialogue" on an equal basis. President Tsai made the gesture on Saturday during National Day celebrations, describing relations with Beijing as "quite tense" after weeks of China ramping up its air force activity close to Taiwanese airspace and crossing the Taiwan Strait's sensitive mid line, which normally acts as an unofficial buffer zone. But her overtures were immediately rebuffed by Beijing, which has refused to negotiate with Ms Tsai's administration since she was first elected in 2016, and which immediately accused Taiwan of continuing to pursue independence and of having a confrontational mindset.
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| Biggest World War Two bomb found in Poland explodes while Navy defuses it Posted: 13 Oct 2020 04:16 PM PDT  The biggest World War Two bomb ever found in Poland exploded under water on Tuesday as navy divers tried to defuse it.
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| Accused Kenosha gunman won't face charges in Illinois Posted: 13 Oct 2020 02:20 PM PDT  A 17-year-old accused of killing two protesters days after Jacob Blake was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, will not face charges in his home state of Illinois, prosecutors said Tuesday. An investigation revealed the gun used in the Kenosha shooting was purchased, stored and used in Wisconsin, the Lake County State's Attorney's Office said. There is no evidence the gun was ever physically possessed by Kyle Rittenhouse in Illinois, it said.
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| Supreme Court term limits would increase political tensions around justices, not ease them Posted: 13 Oct 2020 05:38 AM PDT  Term limits for justices are unconstitutional and wouldn't solve our problems. We need a better way to lower the political temperature around the court.
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| New Zealand Deputy PM Humiliates U.S. COVID Denier: ‘He Obviously Got an Education in America’ Posted: 13 Oct 2020 05:50 AM PDT  To be fair, it's probably easier to be a COVID-19 denier in New Zealand than in the United States. The island country has effectively eliminated the virus, twice, and life is now carrying on largely as normal.However, that doesn't mean you shouldn't expect to be absolutely torn to pieces if you start spouting virus conspiracy theories in public there. Sadly for one man, conspicuous by his American accent, that is exactly what happened at a campaign rally in the city of Tauranga this week.The COVID denier piped up at a campaign event led by Winston Peters, leader of the New Zealand First party, and deputy prime minister in the coalition with prime minister Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party. Ardern's government has been glowingly praised around the world for its decisive pandemic response which has seen New Zealand record one of the lowest death tolls from the virus on the planet, at only 25 people.The man, who wasn't named in a news report about the incident from TVNZ, can be heard on video doubting that the virus exists. "Where's your evidence that there is a virus that causes the disease?" the man asked, apparently holding something he'd printed out from the internet.The denier had already annoyed Peters by trying to ask more than his one allotted question, so the lawmaker didn't hold back in his response to the man. "Sit down, sit down," said the deputy prime minister. "We've got someone who obviously got an education in America—220,000 people have died in the U.S., there are eight million cases to date."Peters added: "We've got 79,000 cases just today, probably in India, and here is someone who gets up and says 'the Earth is flat.'" The deputy PM then witheringly told the man: "Sorry, sunshine, wrong place."Inevitably, the man didn't realize that he'd been resoundingly humiliated in public and tried to respond to what Peters had said, but he was told: "Quiet, we have manners at our meetings as well."Last week, New Zealand moved to lift the last of its virus restrictions after going 10 days with no new cases in Auckland, which had experienced a small cluster. Unrestricted gatherings are allowed throughout the nation, and there's no physical distancing rules in bars and restaurants.To date, New Zealand has recorded 1,800 positive tests and 25 deaths, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. The U.S., meanwhile, has tallied over 7,800,000 cases and 215,000 deaths.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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| Three-year fugitive captured after calling 911 to say he'd been bitten by a rattlesnake Posted: 13 Oct 2020 11:35 AM PDT  Medics found no evidence of snake bite
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| DOJ sues Melania Trump's former adviser for disclosures in her tell-all book Posted: 13 Oct 2020 01:55 PM PDT  The lawsuit includes a demand that a federal judge divert all proceeds from the sale of Winston Wolkoff's book, "Melania and Me," to the federal government.
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| He posted fish photos from his Keys vacation. Then he went to jail Posted: 13 Oct 2020 02:49 PM PDT  A North Florida man came to the Florida Keys in August and fished, chronicling his vacation by posting videos and photos on his Facebook page.
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| Australia seeks answers on reported Chinese coal 'ban' Posted: 13 Oct 2020 02:27 AM PDT  Australia on Tuesday called for China to clarify whether restrictions have been placed on the import of Australian coal, a move that would deal a serious blow to the country's already struggling economy.
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| US Army firms up requirements for future long-range assault aircraft ahead of competition Posted: 13 Oct 2020 05:37 AM PDT  The Army's Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft program has passed through a requirements gauntlet, and the service is prepping to release a draft request for proposals.
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| California GOP refuses to comply with attorney general’s order to remove “illegal” ballot drop boxes Posted: 13 Oct 2020 09:40 AM PDT  The GOP is "willing to lie, cheat and threaten our democracy all for the sake of gaining power," Gavin Newsom says
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| Tanishq: Jewellery ad on interfaith couple withdrawn after outrage Posted: 13 Oct 2020 08:01 AM PDT  The Tanishq ad was criticised on social media for showing an Indian interfaith marriage baby shower.
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| King of Thailand Runs Out of Friends, at Home and Abroad Posted: 13 Oct 2020 05:29 AM PDT  The billionaire king of Thailand is running out of friends, at home and abroad.King Maha Vajiralongkorn, who spends much of his time in Germany, in a hotel in the Bavarian Alps accompanied by a modern-day harem of up to 20 female consorts, has now been warned by Angela Merkel's government not to conduct state business from German soil.His residency there, which was revealed at the beginning of the coronavirus crisis when the hotel sought special permission to stay open, has become a flashpoint for unprecedented protests in Thailand against the repressive state and its semi-divine royal family.The protests have been inflamed by reports of the king's vast wealth, estimated by London's Financial Times at between $30bn and $40bn, after sovereign funds were effectively put under his direct control by the leaders of a successful 2014 coup. He is believed to be the world's richest king. Accounts of his gilded life at the Grand Hotel Sonnenbichl in Garmish-Partenkirchen, where his retinue of 20 concubines who have all been given the same honorary surname includes his fourth wife, are not helping either his domestic or international image.Being one of the king's girlfriends is not without risk, however, as illustrated by the fate of his "official" mistress, Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi, 35, who was named Chao Khun Phra, which means "royal noble consort," shortly after he married his fourth wife, Queen Suthida.In October 2019, it was announced that Sineenat had been stripped of the title in a palace statement that called her "ungrateful" for conducting a rivalry with Queen Suthida.She is believed to have spent ten months in jail, but earlier this year she was restored to her former position, with a statement published in the government's Royal Gazette saying Sineenat was "untainted" and therefore entitled to the royal noble consort title and all her previous posts within the palace.As The Daily Beast recently reported, Vajiralongkorn is also alleged to have built up an extraordinary fleet of 38 jets and helicopters for the exclusive use of the Thai royal family.Reports of his medieval privilege, not carried by local mainstream media due to strict prohibitions, now trickle back into the country via social media and Facebook. Thailand earlier this year sought to get Facebook to remove a group critical of the monarchy that had more than a million members, but failed in the attempt.His overseas existence has led to him being dubbed "The German" by some protesters.Although he flew back to Thailand on Saturday, and is expected to remain there to the end of the month, the king's de facto residency in Bavaria has now also begun to raise eyebrows in Germany as well, with Merkel's government explicitly saying last week that the Thai king should stop conducting state business while in Germany.Maria Adebahr, spokeswoman for the German foreign ministry, said that the government had repeatedly stressed to Thailand's ambassador to Berlin that "foreign affairs of state should not be pursued from German soil," adding, "We have made our position very clear."The issue even made it into the German parliament. Frithjof Schmidt, an MP for the opposition Greens, asked why the German government had for months been allowing the king to engage in domestic politics from Bavaria. Heiko Maas, the foreign minister, replied: "We would always clearly counteract efforts by guests in our country to conduct affairs of state from our country."Schmidt, along with many Germans, is deeply uncomfortable that their country may effectively be providing a headquarters for a repressive regime: Schmidt cited the example of the king's role in unilaterally preventing his elder sister, Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya, from running as a candidate in the March 24 election.The move against the princess was widely seen as further evidence of a skewed race in which the prime minister, and leader of Thailand's 2014 coup, General Prayut Chan-o-cha, had an unfair advantage, as 250 members of the Senate who help chose the PM were simply selected by the junta.Strict laws preventing direct criticism of the monarch, his household, and even his pets are being openly and widely defied for the first time as part of ongoing student-led protests against the government."It's the biggest issue of all in Thailand," Parit "Penguin" Chiwarak, told the Financial Times. "The royal institution can interfere in politics because they have enough money."If we don't say it now, when are we going to say it?"Opponents of the commanding position and privilege of the Thai royal family have been emboldened in recent months as rallies by student protesters against the establishment have seen their numbers swelling. Thailand is battling a deep recession brought about by COVID-19 and the collapse of the pivotal tourist trade.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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| U.S. Supreme Court rebuffs Planned Parenthood defunding case Posted: 13 Oct 2020 06:45 AM PDT  The justices declined to hear South Carolina's appeal of a lower court ruling that prevented the state from blocking funding under the Medicaid program to Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, the organization's regional affiliate. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic operates clinics in Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina, where it provides physical exams, cancer and other health screenings, as well as abortions.
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| Black McDonald's workers say they were called 'ghetto,' had their hours cut, and were unjustly fired in a new lawsuit Posted: 13 Oct 2020 10:13 AM PDT  The lawsuit claims that McDonald's has a systemic problem with racism, pointing to three other racial-discrimination suits filed this year.
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| Angela Merkel warns EU to get ready for no deal ahead of Boris Johnson's Brexit deadline Posted: 13 Oct 2020 05:34 AM PDT  Angela Merkel warned the EU must get ready for UK trade negotiations to fail as Boris Johnson told ministers the UK should have "no fear" over a no deal Brexit if his October 15 deadline is missed on Thursday. The Prime Minister told his Cabinet he believed a deal could still be done by Thursday's European Council summit in two days' time but that was ruled out by Michel Barnier, the EU's chief negotiator. Mr Johnson will speak to Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, on Wednesday after being briefed on whether a free trade agreement is in sight by David Frost, his chief negotiator. Mrs Merkel said the EU wanted to secure the trade deal and appeared to urge other member states to compromise in a speech to a Brussels-based EU institution. "Unfortunately we have to prepare for the event there will be no agreement," the German Chancellor said, "We also have to take into account the reality; an agreement has to be in the interests of both parties, in British interests as well as the interests of the 27 member European Union." In Luxembourg, Mr Barnier told Europe Ministers that not enough progress had been made on fisheries, the level playing field or enforcement to get the deal done by the summit. He made it clear he expects negotiations to continue beyond Mr Johnson's deadline until the end of the month. EU diplomats said that Mr Barnier had their' "full support". UK government sources claimed Michel Barnier was to blame if the deadline was missed. They accused him of being unable to marshall the 27 member states behind necessary compromises in sectors such as fishing, where France has vowed to show "no weakness". "The EU will continue to work for a fair deal in the coming days and weeks," Michel Barnier tweeted. "There is some movement here and there, but it is not sufficient by far and no tunnel in sight," an EU diplomat said. The "tunnel" is Brussels jargon for secret intense talks to clinch a deal. "Level playing field, fisheries and enforcement measures remain the key controversial issues," the diplomat said. "The EU have been using the old playbook in which they thought running down the clock would work against the UK," a British government source said. "But in fact all these tactics have achieved is to get us to the middle of October with lots of work that could have been done left undone."
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| Russia shuns US lunar program, as space cooperation under threat Posted: 12 Oct 2020 12:53 PM PDT  Russia is unlikely to participate in the Moon-orbiting station planned by the United States, a Russian official said Monday, marking the probable end of the type of close cooperation seen for two decades on the International Space Station (ISS).
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| Who was Joe Biden's first wife, Neilia, and how did she and their daughter die? Posted: 12 Oct 2020 11:04 AM PDT  Young Delaware senator's devastating losses shaped life and career in Washington
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| Police link random slayings in northern Virginia to MS-13 Posted: 13 Oct 2020 09:24 AM PDT |
| Barrett declines to say whether Trump has authority to delay the election Posted: 13 Oct 2020 07:47 AM PDT  Judge Amy Coney Barrett declined to say that a United States president doesn't have the authority to unilaterally delay an election.During the second day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearings on Tuesday, Barrett was asked by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) whether the president has "the authority to unilaterally delay a general election under any circumstances," noting that President Trump floated this idea earlier this year while pushing baseless voter fraud claims. Barrett did not comment on whether the president would have the authority to do so."If that question ever came before me, I would need to hear arguments from the litigants and read briefs and consult with my law clerks and talk to my colleagues and go through the opinion writing process," she said. "If I give off the cuff answers, then I would be basically a legal pundit, and I don't think we want judges to be legal pundits. I think we want judges to approach cases thoughtfully and with an open mind."Sylvia Albert, Common Cause director of voting and elections, previously explained to The Washington Post that the Constitution "empowers Congress, not the president, to select Election Day." Albert added, "No laws passed by Congress have delegated these powers to the president, even in an emergency, so Congress is the only entity that has the power to change the date of the election." > When asked if the Constitution gives the president the authority to delay an election, Judge Amy Coney Barrett says, "If I give off the cuff answers, then I would be basically a legal pundit and I don't think we want judges to be legal pundits." https://t.co/Cf9zQaZdGx pic.twitter.com/9RcTh9Dy75> > -- ABC News (@ABC) October 13, 2020More stories from theweek.com Biden's post-election tightrope walk The Democrats' desperate SCOTUS scaremongering An anxious poll-watcher's guide to 2020
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| New York's MTA faces 'greatest crisis' in its history, warns of price hikes and severe public transit service cuts Posted: 13 Oct 2020 09:31 AM PDT  Fare hikes, cuts in service and staff and "long-lasting damage" are in store for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority without a federal bailout, a report says.
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| India frees top Kashmir politician after more than a year in detention Posted: 13 Oct 2020 10:52 AM PDT  Indian authorities released a top Kashmiri politician late on Tuesday, the last major leader held since August last year when the federal government withdrew the troubled region's autonomy and arrested politicians. Mehbooba Mufti, a former Chief Minister of the state, was released late on Tuesday, government spokesperson Rohit Kansal said on Twitter. A government order seen by Reuters said Mufti's detention under the Public Safety Act, which allows for detention without trial for up to two years, was being revoked with immediate effect.
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| Korean band BTS under fire from China after war comments Posted: 13 Oct 2020 09:34 AM PDT  Chinese nationalists erupted in anger at South Korean boy band BTS after its leader thanked Korean War veterans for their sacrifices.
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