| Polls show Biden will win. Of course, they said the same thing about Hillary, right? | Opinion Posted: 14 Oct 2020 11:05 AM PDT  When Donald Trump won the presidential election in 2016, refuting the forecasts of virtually all the pollsters, I promised never to trust polls again. But I interviewed several leading pollsters recently to ask why we should trust them this time, and they offered several good reasons not to dismiss their findings.
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| Accused Kenosha shooting suspect Kyle Rittenhouse won't be charged in his home state of Illinois Posted: 14 Oct 2020 08:51 AM PDT  Local authorities said there's no evidence Rittenhouse, who is accused of killing two people in August, possessed the weapon outside of Wisconsin.
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| GOP suggests Supreme Court, on brink of 6-3 majority, may not strike down Obamacare after all Posted: 14 Oct 2020 06:27 PM PDT  With balloting well underway in the Nov. 3 election, Republicans downplay the idea that the Supreme Court would wipe out the Affordable Care Act, fearing a voter backlash.
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| Rent for a studio in San Francisco plummeted over 30% from this time last year as remote workers now seek to flee the city Posted: 14 Oct 2020 08:59 AM PDT  San Francisco saw the biggest drop in rental prices in the US as more tech workers work remotely and can move away from Silicon Valley offices.
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| School says students may be intentionally getting COVID-19 Posted: 14 Oct 2020 09:46 AM PDT  Brigham Young University's campus in Idaho warned that students caught intentionally contracting the virus will be suspended and potentially "permanently dismissed."
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| Mexican court blocks ex-president's bid to register new party Posted: 15 Oct 2020 07:07 AM PDT  Mexico's top electoral tribunal has rejected former President Felipe Calderon's bid to register a new political party, citing insufficient proof on the origin of cash contributions, it said on Thursday. Calderon, president from 2006 to 2012, and his wife Margarita Zavala, a presidential candidate in the 2018 election, had sought to register Mexico Libre (Free Mexico) after splitting with the center-right National Action Party (PAN). The upper chamber of the Federal Electoral Tribunal (TEPJF) ruled by a majority vote to deny the registration.
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| Former Idaho gubernatorial candidate charged in 1984 abduction and killing of Colorado girl Posted: 14 Oct 2020 03:59 AM PDT  Steven Pankey has been charged with the death of a 12-year-old Colorado girl who vanished in 1984, authorities said on Tuesday.
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| Chloe Wiegand's grandfather pleads guilty in toddler's cruise ship death, won't serve time Posted: 15 Oct 2020 10:07 AM PDT  Sam Anello has pleaded guilty in the cruise ship death of his granddaughter Chloe Wiegand. But he won't serve jail time.
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| Harris cancels travel after Biden campaign announces positive Covid tests Posted: 15 Oct 2020 06:54 AM PDT  The campaign said Harris has tested negative for coronavirus three times over the past week, including Thursday.
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| Afghan-Taliban conflict: Helicopters carrying wounded troops collide Posted: 14 Oct 2020 10:22 AM PDT  Nine people died in the collision in Helmand province, amid fierce fighting with the Taliban.
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| Amy Cooper Made Another 911 Call on Black Birder—and It Was Worse Than the First Posted: 14 Oct 2020 07:44 AM PDT  Amy Cooper, the white woman who called police on a Black man after he asked her to leash her dog in Central Park, called 911 twice during the Memorial Day incident, falsely stating in a previously unreported call that he "tried to assault her," prosecutors revealed Wednesday.Cooper, 41, was charged in July with a misdemeanor count of falsely reporting an incident in the third degree, the Manhattan District Attorney's office said. In a 911 call captured in a viral video, she allegedly falsely reported that Christian Cooper, 57, was threatening her life. The charge is punishable by up to a year in jail.However, Cyrus R. Vance, the Manhattan district attorney, said in a statement Wednesday that Cooper allegedly "engaged in racist criminal conduct" when she made a second 911 call in which she "falsely accused a Black man of trying to assault her." "Fortunately, no one was injured or killed in the police response to Ms. Cooper's hoax," the statement said.Black Birdwatcher Declines to Cooperate With Police in Case Against White Woman Who Called the Police on HimDuring a brief court hearing on Wednesday, Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi stressed that at no time during the May 25 encounter did Christian Cooper try to assault the 41-year-old woman, stating that "using the police in a way that is both racially offensive and designed to intimidate is something that can't be ignored."Cooper is negotiating a plea deal with Manhattan prosecutors that would spare her jail time. Illuzzi said Cooper was prepared to "take responsibility for her actions" and will be working with her defense team to explore a rehabilitative program that would "educate her and the community on the harm caused by such actions.""We hope this process will both enlighten, heal and prevent similar harm to our community in the future," the prosecutor added. "This process can be an opportunity for introspection and education."Authorities say that, on May 25, Cooper was walking her dog through the Ramble in Central Park, a woodsy area of the New York City sanctuary where dogs must be leashed, when Christian Cooper approached her. Christian Cooper, an avid bird watcher and PR professional, asked the 41-year-old to leash her dog but she refused. The two individuals are not related.In the video taken by Christian Cooper, Amy Cooper gets increasingly upset by his request and states she is going to call the police and tell them, "There's an African American man threatening my life.""I'm in the Ramble, there is a man, African-American, he has a bicycle helmet and he is recording me and threatening me and my dog," Amy Cooper is then heard yelling to a 911 operator while gripping her dog's collar. Before hanging up, she adds: "I am being threatened by a man in the Ramble, please send the cops immediately!"Before the video ends, Christian Cooper calmly thanks her when she finally puts her dog on a leash. His sister, Melody, later posted the video on social media, where it went viral—igniting worldwide outrage over Amy Cooper's white privilege.In the second, previously unreported 911 call, the 41-year-old repeated the accusation to another NYPD dispatcher before adding that the birder "tried to assault her," according to the DA's office. "When responding officers arrived, Ms. Cooper admitted that the male had not 'tried to assault' or come into contact with her," the DA's office said Wednesday.A day after the incident, Cooper was fired from her job as the head of insurance portfolio management at Franklin Templeton. The company said it doesn't "tolerate racism of any kind." The 41-year-old also surrendered her dog, Henry, to the shelter he was adopted from—though she was later reunited with the cocker spaniel.In a public apology issued on May 26, Cooper said she "reacted emotionally and made false assumptions about his intentions when, in fact, I was the one who was acting inappropriately by not having my dog on a leash.""He had every right to request that I leash my dog in an area where it was required. I am well aware of the pain that misassumptions and insensitive statements about race cause and would never have imagined that I would be involved in the type of incident that occurred with Chris," Cooper said in the statement."I hope that a few mortifying seconds in a lifetime of forty years will not define me in his eyes and that he will accept my sincere apology."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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| Marine Corps fires commander after 9 service members died when their amphibious assault vehicle sank into the sea Posted: 13 Oct 2020 07:13 PM PDT  The commanding officer of the unit involved in the accident was relieved "due to a loss in trust and confidence in his ability to command."
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| Does the flu vaccine affect my chances of getting COVID-19? Posted: 15 Oct 2020 12:08 AM PDT  The flu vaccine protects you from seasonal influenza, not the coronavirus — but avoiding the flu is especially important this year. Health officials and medical groups are urging people to get either the flu shot or nasal spray, so that doctors and hospitals don't face the extra strain of having to treat influenza in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Not to mention the confusion factor: The illnesses have such similar early symptoms that people who get the flu may mistakenly think they have COVID-19, said Dr. Gregory Poland, an infectious disease specialist at Mayo Clinic.
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| Russian spies living among us: Inside the FBI's "Operation Ghost Stories" Posted: 13 Oct 2020 08:10 PM PDT  FBI agents reveal how they tracked and stopped a Russian spy ring operating in the U.S., tasked with gathering government secrets.
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| Kyle Rittenhouse, accused of killing 2 people during Wisconsin protests, won't face charges in Illinois, his home state Posted: 13 Oct 2020 09:31 PM PDT  Illinois police found Rittenhouse committed no crimes there. It was unclear whether someone else possessed the gun in Illinois, or where it is now.
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| ‘Jesus Christ’: Trump says the son of God is the only person more popular than him in US Posted: 15 Oct 2020 03:55 PM PDT  Claim comes as polls put president's approval rating in the low-40s
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| No need for Biden to quarantine after flying with person who tested positive for COVID-19: campaign Posted: 15 Oct 2020 01:27 PM PDT  Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden flew on an airplane with a person who subsequently tested positive for COVID-19 but Biden was not in close contact with the person and there is no need for him to quarantine, his campaign said on Thursday. "Vice President Biden was not in close contact, as defined by the CDC, with this individual at any time," the statement said, adding they both wore masks during the flights, which occurred on Monday and Tuesday. "Given these facts, we have been advised by the Vice President's doctor and the campaign's medical advisors that there is no need for the Vice President to quarantine," it said.
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| Should you trust the polls in 2020? Here’s what pollsters have to say Posted: 15 Oct 2020 07:42 AM PDT  Trump caused a massive upset in 2016. Could he do it again?
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| Sleeping homeless man on bench reported to Ohio cops. It was a sculpture of Jesus Posted: 15 Oct 2020 04:10 PM PDT  "Within twenty minutes of the statue arriving, I was having a conversation with a very kind police officer."
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| Nagorno-Karabakh volunteers get weapons as clashes intensify Posted: 15 Oct 2020 11:32 AM PDT  MARTUNI, Nagorno-Karabakh (AP) — As the fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces rages on in the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, its residents are joining volunteer squads to defend their towns. The Ovanisyan family and their neighbors were called Wednesday to receive their Kalashnikov rifles to help protect Martuni, a town close to the front line in the eastern part of the region. The recent fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh erupted on Sept. 27 and has since killed hundreds.
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| Navy's Top Officer Wants a New Mid-Size Destroyer That Packs a Major Punch Posted: 15 Oct 2020 10:14 AM PDT |
| Chinese nationals laundered money and helped sell drugs for Mexican cartels, feds say Posted: 15 Oct 2020 03:53 PM PDT  The six suspects made at least $30 million in an alleged scheme that involved funneling illicit drug money to the feared Sinaloa cartel, court documents say.
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| 3-week-old baby sexually assaulted in Marion County foster home, lawsuit says Posted: 15 Oct 2020 10:06 AM PDT  Foster officials knew the risk when they put a 3-week-old child in a foster home with a sexually aggressive teen, a lawsuit alleges. The girl was assaulted and battered.
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| Angela Merkel warns of potential 'disaster' as Germany records highest daily case total Posted: 15 Oct 2020 03:59 AM PDT  Angela Merkel is said to be deeply concerned that new coronavirus restrictions agreed by regional leaders do not go far enough and Germany may be heading for "disaster". The warning comes as Germany and Italy – two countries that appeared to have escaped the worst of the second wave – recorded their highest daily rise in infections since the start of the pandemic. Mrs Merkel put on a brave face for the cameras after German regional leaders stopped short of agreeing tough new measures she had proposed on Wednesday. But behind closed doors she reportedly lost her temper during marathon six-hour talks with the leaders of Germany's 16 states, telling them she was "not happy" and warning: "What you've agreed is not enough to avert disaster." Under Germany's federal system, the state governments have the final say over lockdown measures and Mrs Merkel is powerless to overrule them. Regional leaders agreed new restrictions for areas where the infection rate rises over safety limits, including an 11pm curfew for restaurants and pubs, a limit of 10 on gatherings and the mandatory use of face masks in crowded areas outdoors.
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| Graham's $28 million sets quarterly fundraising record for Senate Republicans Posted: 14 Oct 2020 04:02 PM PDT  Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has set a fundraising record for Republican Senate candidates, bringing in $28 million in the third quarter of a reelection battle that is becoming among the more expensive in the country.
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| Op-Ed: Will 'hidden' Trump supporters give America an election day surprise? Posted: 15 Oct 2020 04:00 AM PDT  In 2016, Trump voters who hadn't expressed open support affected the accuracy of polls conducted before the election. This year is a different story.
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| London will go back into coronavirus lockdown from midnight Friday, with indoor household mixing banned Posted: 15 Oct 2020 03:57 AM PDT  The UK government is set to move London into the second-most-serious COVID-19 tier — "high" — at midnight on Friday.
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| Video shows seconds before and after fatal shooting at Denver protest Posted: 14 Oct 2020 03:45 PM PDT  Verbal altercation quickly escalates leaving one dead and one in custody
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| End Sars: Nigerian army warning amid anti-police brutality protests Posted: 15 Oct 2020 09:25 AM PDT  The statement follows a week of protests against police brutality which have shaken the country.
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| Soldiers to evaluate new light tank prototypes Posted: 15 Oct 2020 09:28 AM PDT  An upcoming soldier vehicle assessment for the Mobile Protected Firepower competitive entries could be a determining factor in helping the Army choose a winner.
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| White supremacist pleads guilty in plot to blow up Colorado synagogue Posted: 15 Oct 2020 03:15 PM PDT  A self-described white supremacist pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal hate crime and explosive charges for a botched plot to blow up a historic Colorado synagogue last year, prosecutors said on Thursday. Richard Holzer, 28, who was arrested in November following an undercover FBI sting, admitted to planning to bomb the Temple Emanuel synagogue in Pueblo, Colorado, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a statement.
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| Massive meth pile towers over DEA agents after what the agency calls a historic raid Posted: 14 Oct 2020 04:41 PM PDT  The huge drug bust comes just days after another record-setting meth seizure near San Diego
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| Postal Service agrees to reverse changes that slowed mail service nationwide Posted: 15 Oct 2020 05:45 AM PDT  The U.S. Postal Service agreed Wednesday to reverse changes that slowed mail service nationwide, settling a lawsuit filed by Montana Gov. Steve Bullock during a pandemic that is expected to force many more people to vote by mail.
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| Cuomo Says ‘Religious Practices’ of Orthodox Jews Causing Virus to Spread in New York City Posted: 14 Oct 2020 10:09 AM PDT  New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday singled out the "religious practices" of Orthodox Jews as the cause of renewed spread of the coronavirus in New York City."We're now having issues in the Orthodox Jewish community in New York, where because of their religious practices, etc., we're seeing a spread," Cuomo said.Last week, Orthodox Jewish leaders vehemently criticized Cuomo and took to the streets of Brooklyn to protest the governor's new coronavirus restrictions on schools, businesses, and houses of worship. The restrictions would shutter schools, non-essential businesses, and strictly limit the number of congregants allowed in houses of worship, in some areas allowing only ten worshippers at a time. Many of the Brooklyn and Queens "red zones" designated for the new restrictions are Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods."We are appalled by Governor Cuomo's words and actions today," read a letter from four Orthodox Jewish lawmakers who represent the neighborhoods affected by the new restrictions. "He has chosen to pursue a scientifically and constitutionally questionable shutdown of our communities."During a protest in Borough Park, demonstrators lit at least one fire in the street, and activist Harold "Heshy" Tischler was charged in an alleged attack on an Orthodox Jewish reporter who was targeted by the crowd during the protest.Cuomo blamed the growing frustration on the failure of communities to follow the state's previous restrictions, allowing the virus to spread."To the extent there are communities that are upset, that's because they haven't been following the original rules," Cuomo said. "That's why the infection spread, because they weren't following the rules and the rules weren't being enforced."Coronavirus hospitalizations spiked Wednesday from 705 to 748 patients, Cuomo said.The coronavirus outbreak in New York is entering a "new phase," the governor said, specifically "mini clusters" across the state that spring from a single event, such as a party or bar that did not observe social distancing rules."This is not going away anytime soon," Cuomo said. "Best case scenario, we're looking at another year … even if everything works out well."
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| Fact check: Fake Trump tweet says Supreme Court should decide every election Posted: 15 Oct 2020 01:55 PM PDT  A Facebook user posted an image purportedly of a tweet from President Donald Trump's Twitter account. It's not real.
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| Kim Jong Un's new 'monster' ICBM could pack a punch, but only if it survives long enough for North Korea to use it Posted: 15 Oct 2020 11:04 AM PDT  "If even one of these things gets through, that is a really spectacularly bad day for the United States," one expert told Insider.
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| US dumping hundreds of migrants in dangerous Mexican border town Posted: 14 Oct 2020 12:45 PM PDT  Expelled are being targeted by organised crime it is claimed
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| Videos show conservative activists cheering on voter suppression: 'We need to stop those ballots from going out' Posted: 14 Oct 2020 12:13 PM PDT  When conservatives gathered behind closed doors for conferences of the right-wing Council for National Policy, their talks had a common theme: Voter suppression.Conservatives met for three days in February and another three in August, maskless regardless of Virginia state policies, to discuss election strategies and other goals, The Washington Post reports. One August speaker was Charlie Kirk, the founder of the college conservative group Turning Point USA. At one point, Kirk pinned college campus shutdowns on Democrats, and then called those purported decisions a "very foolish thing" because it's going to lose them opportunities to "harvest" left-leaning college students' votes, video of the event obtained by the Post reveals. "Please, keep the campuses closed, it's a great thing," he said.Tom Fitton, president of the conservative group Judicial Watch, was more explicit. He alleged Democrats were "war-gaming" a plan to make House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) president, and used that as a call for conservative action against mail-in ballots. "We need to stop those ballots from going out, and I want the lawyers here to tell us what to do," Fitton said in video obtained by the Post. J. Christian Adams, a former Justice Department official, meanwhile told attendees to oppose mail-in voting and "be not afraid of the accusations that you're a voter suppressor, you're a racist and so forth."Read more about what CNP attendees had to say about voting at The Washington Post.More stories from theweek.com Will there be another Trump surprise in Michigan? The 1 big problem with 2 town halls Democrats need a better counter to 'originalism'
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| In California, people lived on the edge of homelessness before COVID-19. Now, it's worse. Posted: 15 Oct 2020 04:30 AM PDT  California's middle class isn't done shrinking. They await their fate, one government program away from minimum-wage jobs or losing their homes.
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| Security guard faces second-degree murder charge after killing at dueling protests in Denver Posted: 15 Oct 2020 04:10 PM PDT  The charges against Matthew Dolloff, 30, in the fatal shooting of Lee Keltner, 49, will be filed in Denver District Court on Monday.
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| Workers Who Were Laid Off Say They're Being Passed Over—For Their Own Jobs Posted: 15 Oct 2020 05:40 AM PDT  As companies begin rehiring, unions push for right of recall legislation that would give first dibs to laid-off employees
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| A giant fish has been swimming near a Massachusetts town and police want people to stop calling 911 about it Posted: 15 Oct 2020 02:54 PM PDT  The Wareham Department of Natural Resources said people were "jealous" of the fish "just because it's not swimming weather anymore."
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| Trump cites teenaged son's bout with coronavirus in calling for schools to reopen Posted: 13 Oct 2020 10:13 PM PDT  Under siege over his handling of the novel coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump on Wednesday cited what he said was his son's mild bout of the virus as a reason why American schools should reopen as soon as possible. Republican Trump made the comment about his son, Barron, while at a rally at the Des Moines, Iowa, airport on a mission to shore up support in battleground states that he won in 2016 but is in danger of losing to Democratic candidate Joe Biden barely three weeks before the election. Biden announced via Twitter that his campaign raised $383 million in September, adding to a campaign warchest that is already dwarfing the Trump campaign.
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| More than 3,000 Amazon workers have reportedly signed a petition demanding time off to vote in the 2020 elections Posted: 13 Oct 2020 10:13 PM PDT  Amazon has nearly 1.4 million US workers, around 1 out of every 200 of the country's eligible voters, but doesn't guarantee time off to vote.
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