| Biden doesn't think 'it's time' for an Obama endorsement Posted: 01 Mar 2020 09:57 AM PST  Former Vice President Joe Biden has picked up some big endorsements in the last week or so, including a couple in Virginia after he won South Carolina's Democratic presidential primary Saturday. But in case you're wondering if former President Barack Obama will get behind his old right-hand man before Super Tuesday, Biden suggests not holding your breath. During an appearance on ABC's This Week on Sunday, host George Stephanopoulos asked Biden, who is back in the thick of the race but is still likely chasing national frontrunner Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), if it's time for Obama to endorse him. Biden often evokes Obama's legacy during his campaign, but he said he isn't bothered by the fact that the former commander-in-chief has kept his distance from the race overall. In fact, he told Stephanopoulos he needs to "earn it on his own" and that an Obama endorsement would have created the perception Biden thought he was "entitled" to the presidency.The vice president said he knows his old running mate will show up for him should he win the nomination and help him campaign against President Trump. But, the Democratic primary, it seems, is his fight. > NEW: @GStephanopoulos: Is the fact that Barack Obama hasn't endorsed you hurting you, and is it time?> > Joe Biden: "No, it isn't hurting me and I don't think it's time. He and I talked about this from the very beginning. I have to earn this on my own." https://t.co/23kgGkwFyy pic.twitter.com/AUrPQx70ow> > -- This Week (@ThisWeekABC) March 1, 2020More stories from theweek.com 5 scathingly funny cartoons about Trump's coronavirus response If democratic socialism is so bad, why is Norway so great? A coronavirus recession would likely end Trump's presidency
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| Why isn't there a male birth control pill? Posted: 29 Feb 2020 09:34 AM PST  No male birth control product has made it to market, but over the past year, there has been promising early progress on new treatments — including a pill, a gel that's rubbed onto the skin and an injection that acts as a nonsurgical vasectomy — that could finally bring the first male contraceptive to the public. If that happens, research suggests a "male pill" could drastically reduce unplanned pregnancies, especially in developing countries.
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| 'They are starting to get more and more desperate': Greta Thunberg responds to a Canadian oil company accused of creating a vulgar cartoon depicting her in a non-consensual sex act Posted: 01 Mar 2020 06:57 AM PST  X-Site Energy Services has denied creating the vulgar sticker that shows 17-year-old Thunberg engaged in a non-consensual sexual act.
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| Embattled Chris Matthews Left Out of MSNBC’s S.C. Primary Coverage Posted: 29 Feb 2020 05:39 PM PST  A day after he was accused of sexual harassment by a journalist, MSNBC decided to keep host Chris Matthews off its airwaves during coverage of the South Carolina primary results.Matthews is normally a fixture of election night coverage, which made his absence on Saturday all the more notable. His disappearing act came as MSNBC faced calls from a feminist organization to fire him because of sexism and sexual misconduct allegations—after raised eyebrows over other on-air remarks.A week ago, Matthews likened Sen Bernie Sanders' (I-VT) victory in the Nevada caucuses to France falling to the Nazis in World War II. He apologized to Sanders—who is Jewish and whose family lost members in the Holocaust—but quickly shoved his foot in his mouth again.Laura Bassett Accuses MSNBC Host Chris Matthews of Sexually Harassing Her in 2016After Tuesday's Democratic debate, Matthews pressed Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) about why she confronted former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg about accusations of sexist behavior in his past, including an allegation he told a pregnant employee to "kill it.""Why would he lie?" Matthews said of Bloomberg's denial. "Because just to protect himself?"Then, on Friday, columnist Laura Bassett wrote in a GQ article that Matthews harassed her in 2016, looking her over while she was getting her makeup done for an appearance and remarking, "Why haven't I fallen in love with you yet?"'Senator Sanders, I'm Sorry': Chris Matthews Apologizes for Nazi AnalogyBassett said Matthews continued to comment on her appearance, at one point telling the makeup artist, "Make sure you wipe this off her face after the show. We don't make her up so some guy at a bar can look at her like this."It was reported in late 2017 that NBC had paid separation compensation to a producer who accused Matthews of sexually harassing her. The network claimed at the time that the host had been "formally reprimanded" over the incident.On Friday night, Matthews had another cringe-worthy moment. While covering President Donald Trump's South Carolina rally, he mistook South Carolina Democratic Senate candidate Jaime Harrison with footage of another black politician, Tim Scott (R-S.C.).MSNBC did not immediately return a request for comment.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Former youth pastor accused of revenge plot over sexual assault case Posted: 01 Mar 2020 02:55 PM PST  He is alleged to have tried to hire a prison inmate to kill a senior church official and a judge involved in his 2017 conviction in Pennsylvania.
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| Britain's health service not for sale in US free-trade talks Posted: 01 Mar 2020 12:08 PM PST  Any free-trade deal with the United States must protect Britain's cherished National Health Service, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government declared Sunday as it published an outline of its negotiating objectives for the transatlantic deal. The British government estimates its economy will get a 3.4 billion-pound ($4.3 billion) boost and trade between the close allies will increase by 15.3 billion pounds ($19.6 billion) if trade barriers between the United Kingdom and the United States are removed. Among objectives outlined Sunday were a clear statement saying that British negotiators would protect the state-funded National Health Service.
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| Nervous about buying a plane ticket? American waiving change fees amid coronavirus crisis Posted: 01 Mar 2020 02:37 PM PST  American joined JetBlue and Alaska in allowing travelers buying new tickets to change them without paying a hefty fee. Fare differences will apply.
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| Pete Buttigieg drops out of 2020 race to be Democratic presidential nominee Posted: 01 Mar 2020 04:00 PM PST  Former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, leaves the race to take on Donald Trump after a poor showing in the South Carolina primaryPete Buttigieg has ended his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Two campaign sources confirmed the news to the Guardian and said the former candidate was on his way back to South Bend, his home town in Indiana, where he would speak later on Sunday night.The 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend has never held statewide or national office but made a strong run in the Democratic primary, winning the Iowa caucuses narrowly from Bernie Sanders, now the national frontrunner, to whom he placed second in New Hampshire.But Buttigieg could not make progress in Nevada and South Carolina, the first two states with influential minority voting blocs.Joe Biden, the former vice-president, won the South Carolina primary on Saturday by a landslide margin. The next date on the calendar is Super Tuesday, 3 March, when 14 states, American Samoa and Democrats who live overseas will vote.Biden will look to harvest support from Buttigieg as he seeks to establish himself as the moderate choice to deny Sanders. The progressive from Vermont, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, sits in the Senate as an independent. Party figures fear he will not be able to beat Donald Trump in November.Speaking to CNN on Sunday morning, Biden said he had not had any conversations with other candidates about whether they should drop out and back him but added: "I think everyone knows it's going to be much more difficult to win back the Senate and keep control of the House if Bernie's at the top of the ticket."The Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar is still in the race and is unlikely to quit before her state votes on Tuesday. The billionaire former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg is also a centrist candidate for the nomination but he is self-funding his campaign and has not yet entered a primary.Another billionaire moderate, Tom Steyer, dropped out on Saturday night.At first on Sunday, which Buttigieg began with breakfast with former president Jimmy Carter in Plains, Georgia, it did not seem he would take the final step."Every day we are in this campaign," he told NBC News, "is a day that we have reached the conclusion that pushing forward is the best thing we can do for the country and for the party."But later in the day he was out.CNN reported that the former mayor was "unwilling to be [the] reason Sanders is able to get 'insurmountable' delegate lead on Super Tuesday". It was also reported that Buttigieg was not planning to endorse another candidate on Sunday.Rick Wilson, a former Republican consultant turned anti-Trump organiser who advocates a moderate choice of Democratic nominee, wrote on Twitter: "It's hard to pick the right time to go in a campaign, but Pete Buttigieg did."It seems likely Buttigieg will remain a figure on the national stage. A charismatic campaigner in the centre lane of the primary, having prepared his ground with a run for party chair in 2016, he built an impressive fundraising operation.He was also the first openly gay candidate for American president.Recently, when the rightwing shock jock and Trump ally Rush Limbaugh questioned whether Americans were ready to vote for a gay president, even the controversialist in the Oval Office was quick to disown the suggestion. On the campaign trail, where he regularly appeared with his husband Chasten, Buttigieg hit back hard.In comments distributed to the media on Sunday, a Buttigieg campaign official said: "Pete was willing to go where no other candidates were – and when he held a Fox News town hall and got a standing ovation, people realised that Pete's message of moving past our divided politics was truly possible."One of Buttigieg's last tweets as a candidate linked to a Michigan ballot initiative on anti-discrimination law and promised supporters that as president he would "help pass the Equality Act, and with your courage and activism … create a community where we all belong".In a statement, Sarah Kate Ellis, president and chief executive of the Glaad advocacy group, said Buttigieg "showed the world that Americans are ready to accept and embrace qualified LGBTQ public leaders."Charles Kaiser, a Guardian contributor and the author of The Gay Metropolis: the Landmark History of Gay Life in America, said: "Even though he is leaving the race, his success in Iowa and New Hampshire was transformative."Before Pete Buttigieg no one knew if an openly gay or lesbian American could be a credible candidate for president. Now, no one from the LGBTQ community will ever grow up thinking their sexuality is an unsurmountable obstacle on the road to the White House."
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| Waste of Time: Trump Wants to Cut Taxes to Battle the Coronavirus. Posted: 29 Feb 2020 06:21 PM PST  Simply put, coronavirus's impact on the economy is both a consumer confidence issue, as well as a supply-chain and labour-supply issue, which cannot be fixed by any policy.
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| Iraqi prime minister candidate Allawi quits as vacuum looms Posted: 01 Mar 2020 05:51 AM PST  Iraqi Prime Minister-designate Mohammed Allawi withdrew his candidacy for the post on Sunday, accusing political parties of obstructing him, deepening a domestic crisis and threatening an unprecedented power vacuum. Allawi's appointment was meant to ease a crisis as the Shi'ite-led country faces a mass protest movement that broke out in October and brought down Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi. President Barham Salih will begin consultations to choose a new candidate for a new prime minister within 15 days, the state news agency said.
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| Oregon elementary school closing for cleaning after an employee becomes the third potential case of 'community spread' of the new coronavirus Posted: 28 Feb 2020 10:57 PM PST  An elementary school has closed after one of its employees was discovered to be the third confirmed case of COVID-19 community spread.
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| Police find 25-year-old alligator in basement of Ohio home Posted: 01 Mar 2020 09:24 AM PST  Ohio investigators made a scaly new friend this week when they learned an American alligator was being held in the basement of a Groveport, Ohio, home.
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| Trump: Getting rid of "bad" people made him successful Posted: 29 Feb 2020 06:52 PM PST  President Trump said Saturday that his "journey" in the nation's highest office would have been a failure if he hadn't been able to rid the government of people he described as "bad."
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| 'Seriously people - STOP BUYING MASKS!': Surgeon general says they won't protect from coronavirus Posted: 01 Mar 2020 10:11 AM PST  The surgeon general has a message for people who want to run out and stockpile masks to combat coronavirus – don't.
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| Jimmy Carter: Buttigieg "doesn't know what he's going to do" after South Carolina Posted: 01 Mar 2020 10:51 AM PST  Buttigieg said South Carolina was a "convincing" victory for former Vice President Joe Biden.
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| Could This Be the Navy's New Super Bomber? (Wait, What?) Posted: 29 Feb 2020 02:00 PM PST  While bombers could certainly contribute to searches for adversary shipping, quite likely potential targets will more often be relayed to them by other maritime surveillance assets.
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| Greeks fear 'invasion' of migrants across Turkish border Posted: 01 Mar 2020 04:47 PM PST  Greece was on a state of alert Sunday as it faced an influx of thousands of migrants seeking to cross the border from Turkey, with locals fearing a new immigration crisis. "This is an invasion," said Giorgos Karampatzakis, mayor of Marassia village, a common border crossing near the Evros River. More than 13,000 migrants have gathered on the Turkish side of the river which runs 200 kilometres (125 miles) along the frontier and separates them from Greece and therefore the European Union.
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| Trump seeks to quell fear as first U.S. coronavirus death is reported Posted: 29 Feb 2020 12:14 PM PST  President Trump sought to ease rising fears about the coronavirus epidemic on a day when the first U.S. death from COVID-19 was reported and more cases were reported on the West Coast.
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| 'I have to earn this on my own': Biden on receiving Obama's endorsement Posted: 01 Mar 2020 02:31 AM PST  Just after the South Carolina primary, 2020 presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden is interviewed on "This Week."
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| The World Health Organization joined TikTok to post 'reliable' advice about the coronavirus amid a stream of memes and misinformation Posted: 01 Mar 2020 01:17 PM PST  The WHO first posted a video to TikTok about COVID-19 prevention on Friday. On Saturday, it shared information about controversial face masks.
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| Australia's first coronavirus death confirmed as former Diamond Cruise passenger Posted: 29 Feb 2020 06:42 PM PST  A former passenger on the Diamond Princess cruise ship that was quarantined off Japan for coronavirus died in a hospital in Perth early on Sunday, a health official said, becoming Australia's first death from the virus. "Our condolences are with his family and unfortunately he's the first death we've had from coronavirus in Australia," Andrew Robertson, the chief health officer of Western Australia state, told journalists. The man's widow also caught the virus, but is in stable condition, the health official said.
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| Governor's photo with drag queens stirs controversy in Kentucky Posted: 29 Feb 2020 09:35 AM PST  The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an activist drag troupe, said the controversy has helped further their goal of passing a statewide nondiscrimination law.
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| Buttigieg ‘Assessing at Every Turn’ After South Carolina Finish Posted: 01 Mar 2020 05:45 AM PST  (Bloomberg) -- Pete Buttigieg said Sunday he's assessing his candidacy "at every turn" but didn't signal he planned to drop out of the 2020 Democratic primary race. The former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, spoke on NBC's "Meet the Press" after a fourth-place finish in South Carolina on Saturday. Buttigieg picked up no delegates from the state after gaining 8.2% support, and did especially poorly -- 3% -- among African-American voters, a key Democratic constituency. "Every single day, we do a lot of math on this campaign," Buttiegieg said, according to a transcript provided by the network. "So we'll be assessing at every turn, not only what the right answer is for the campaign, but making sure that every step we take is in the interest of the party and that goal of making sure we defeat Donald Trump." Another Democratic candidate who came up short in South Carolina, billionaire Tom Steyer, ended his bid Saturday night. To contact the reporter on this story: Ros Krasny in Washington at rkrasny1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: James Ludden at jludden@bloomberg.net, Ros KrasnyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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| Attacks on Indian journalists highlight growing intolerance Posted: 01 Mar 2020 03:58 AM PST  Reporting in India has never been without its risks, but journalists say attacks on the media during last week's deadly communal riots between Hindus and Muslims in New Delhi show the situation is deteriorating. One reporter was shot and survived, another had his teeth knocked out, and many more said Hindu mobs demanded proof of religion and tried to keep them from documenting vandalism and violence that included people attacking one another with axes, swords, metal pipes and guns. Authorities have yet to provide an official account of what sparked the 72-hour clash that left 42 people dead and hundreds wounded, though tensions between Hindus and Muslims have been building for months over a new citizenship law.
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| South Korea wages 'all-out responses' to virus with 586 new cases Posted: 01 Mar 2020 12:19 AM PST  South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Sunday the government was waging "all-out responses" to contain the novel coronavirus as the country added 586 more cases, taking the total to 3,736. South Korea has the largest national total in the world outside China, after it saw a rapid surge in the number of coronavirus cases in recent days. "The government is now waging all-out responses after raising the crisis alert to the highest level," Moon said at an Independence Movement Day ceremony, scaled down due to the outbreak.
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| 'Thank you, God': Trump revels in reign as absolute king of CPAC Posted: 29 Feb 2020 03:16 PM PST  At the grassroots conservative gathering after fronting a coronavirus briefing, the president was back in his happy placeStop Donald Trump now, Democrats warned at his impeachment trial, or will he take on the aspect of a king.The prophecy appears to have been borne out, as the US president hands out jobs to loyalists, purges perceived enemies, pardons convicted criminals and swaggers as if with a divine right.On Saturday, addressing the biggest annual gathering of US grassroots conservatives, Trump wondered aloud at it being "sort of a miracle" he has got so much done despite all he's been through."Maybe it's right there, right?" he asked, pointing to the heavens. "Thank you, God."The crowd loved it. Trump stayed away from a sceptical Conservative Political Action Conference in 2016 but now he is its sun king. Supporters in a palatial ballroom at the National Harbour leaped to their feet, whooping and cheering, many wearing "Make America great again" and "Keep America great" caps.> They're coming after me, and we fight them back> > Donald TrumpThey roared their approval when, like a medieval monarch who has survived a bloody insurrection, Trump vowed revenge."They're coming after me and we fight them back," he said. "And now we're going after them because we have no choice. We have to straighten out our country. But despite the best efforts of the leftwing fanatics, their scams, schemes, slanders, they've all been discredited, totally discredited."He singled out James Comey, whom he fired as director of the FBI, and special counsel Robert Mueller, who led the Russia investigation, as enemies whose heads deserved to end up on metaphorical spikes."How is Comey doing?" he asked, sardonically. "How is Bob Mueller doing? That was a great performance in Congress. 'Raise your right hand.' 'What?'"There was also mention of the Utah senator Mitt Romney, who voted to convict Trump at the impeachment trial and, like a rebellious duke, was banished from CPAC this year. Trump described Romney as "lowlife" and the crowd booed lustily.The president also spoke ominously of getting rid of bad people in government who are "not people that love our country" and launched a familiar tirade against the "fake news" media.He gave little sign that he is worried about the democratic inconvenience of an election in November. Just a couple of hours after trying to muster gravitas in the White House briefing room while discussing the coronavirus, he reverted to the comfort zone of freewheeling rally style.He took delight in mocking each of his Democratic rivals."We've got Sleepy Joe [Biden], we've got Crazy Bernie [Sanders], we've got Mini Mike [Bloomberg] but I think he's out of it," he said. "That was probably the worst debate performance in the history of presidential debates."It just shows you can't buy an election. I mean, there's a point at which people say, 'You gotta bring the goods a little bit, too.'"Trump parodied Bloomberg's height by crouching behind the lectern and the crowd went wild, laughing ecstatically and chanting: "Four more years! Four more years!"The president said: "We hit a nerve!"He also took a swipe at Biden, the former vice-president, for a gaffe in a recent debate: "Did he just say that we killed 150 million people? That's half of our population."Trump even held an instant poll by asking the audience to "scream" for whether he would beat Biden or Sanders more easily. There was a significant scream for Biden but a much louder and sustained one for the democratic socialist senator from Vermont.Trump suggested Biden would be "sitting in a home" for the elderly rather than governing, whereas Sanders might be a communist. That chimed with the conference's theme: "America vs socialism".Of the Democrats, Trump warned darkly: "They want to take away your money, take away your choice, take away your speech, take away your guns, take away your religion, take away your history, take away your future and ultimately take away your freedom. But we will never let them do that."In a characteristically rambling monologue, he seemed genuinely unable to comprehend how teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg beat him to the precious title of Time magazine person of the year.But he finished his speech by hugging and kissing the flag – a familiar move which elicited a huge cheer from his devoted subjects.For them, and for Trump's loyal courtiers at the White House and on Capitol Hill, it is a case of long live the king.
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| Why Don't We Celebrate the Doughboys As the 'Greatest Generation'? Posted: 01 Mar 2020 08:13 AM PST  World War I was just as important as World War II.
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| As first U.S. patient dies, more coronavirus cases in Washington Posted: 01 Mar 2020 02:27 AM PST  Health officials have confirmed that a man in Washington state has died of COVID-19, and that there are two other "presumptive positive" cases.
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| Malaysia and India aim to repair soured ties that hit palm trade Posted: 01 Mar 2020 08:47 AM PST  Malaysia and India will work on improving ties that soured under former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and badly affected palm oil trade between the countries, officials from both nations said on Sunday. India is the world's biggest palm oil importer but its purchases from Malaysia, the second-biggest palm exporter behind Indonesia, dropped drastically in recent months after attacks on India's policies by Mahathir.
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| Map: Confirmed coronavirus cases, worldwide Posted: 01 Mar 2020 05:26 PM PST  More than 88,000 people have been sickened by a coronavirus, mostly in China. This map is updated daily.
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| 'This campaign has taken off.' Biden's blowout win in South Carolina could reshape nomination fight Posted: 01 Mar 2020 05:40 AM PST  Biden's South Carolina win was built on support of African American voters. He captured 60% of the black vote in the state, exit polls showed.
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| The stock market erased $6 trillion in wealth last week over coronavirus fears — but 3 charts show why it won't immediately impact most Americans Posted: 01 Mar 2020 05:41 AM PST  Most Americans don't own stock, and those that do skew wealthier. And under half of families have retirement accounts like a 401(k).
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| Coughing pope cancels participating in Lenten retreat Posted: 01 Mar 2020 03:39 AM PST  A coughing Pope Francis told pilgrims gathered for the traditional Sunday blessing that he is canceling his participation at a week-long spiritual retreat in the Roman countryside because of a cold. It is the first time in his seven-year papacy that he has missed the spiritual exercises that he initiated early in his pontificate to mark the start of each Lenten season. The 83-year-old pontiff, who lost part of a lung to a respiratory illness as a young man, has canceled several official engagements this week as he battled an apparent cold.
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| Coronavirus: Mike Pence admits US could see more deaths, after Trump calls crisis a ‘hoax’ Posted: 01 Mar 2020 06:21 AM PST  Mike Pence has admitted that the United States could see more deaths from the coronavirus.Speaking on CNN's State of the Union the vice-president, who has been put in charge of administration efforts to protect Americans from the deadly virus, acknowledged there could be more "sad news", but insisted the risk to most people was still low.
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| Turkey-Russia tensions soar after deadly Syria strike Posted: 28 Feb 2020 07:12 PM PST  The leaders of Russia and Turkey held crisis talks Friday after 33 Turkish soldiers died in an air strike in Syria, as Ankara ramped up pressure on Europe by threatening to flood in migrants. The United States and United Nations urged an end to the Russian-backed Syrian offensive against rebel holdouts, but Turkey appeared intent on easing tensions with Moscow by pinning the blame squarely on President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
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| Bizarre Email Is Latest Clue in Saga of Doomsday Couple With Missing Kids Posted: 01 Mar 2020 08:03 AM PST  The latest clue in the investigation of doomsday couple Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell is a weird email sent in her previous husband's name shortly before he was shot dead.Investigators want to question Vallow and Daybell about the June 29 message as they try to put together pieces of a puzzle that includes two dead spouses, two missing children, and an obsession with the apocalypse and near-death experiences, KSL-TV reported.Vallow's 17-year-old, Tylee Ryan, and adopted 7-year-old, J.J., have been missing since September—and the search for them has also raised questions about the deaths of Vallow's ex, Charles Vallow, and Daybell's wife, Tammy.Doomsday Mom Told Her Husband's Kids Their Dad Was Dead Via Text MessageCharles Vallow, 62, was killed by his wife's brother, Alex Cox, during what was initially described as a domestic dispute on July 11 in Chandler, Arizona.Two weeks earlier, Charles wrote an email to another brother-in-law, Adam Cox, in which he claimed that Lori had created an email account in his name and used it invite Daybell, who lived in Idaho, to visit him in Arizona."I would gladly fly you down here early next week," the bogus invite read. "You could stay in our guest room like before. I hate to take you away from your family, but I would definitely make it worth your time."When Charles got wind of the email, he questioned Lori about it but got no answers."I'm not sure of the relationship with her and Chad Daybell but they are up to something… She will not explain it…" he wrote to Adam Cox, according to KSL."I am going to send it to Chad Daybell's wife. Her name is Tammy and I found her email address on their website too… I've got her cell number too."It's not clear if Charles ever contacted Tammy. And three months after he was killed, she was dead, too. Weeks later, Lori and Chad—who bonded in a doomsday prepper group—got married.Sgt. Jason McClimans of the Chandler, Arizona, Police Department called the email "suspicious.""It draws various questions that we would need to ask Lori and Tylee and possibly Chad to get to the bottom of it," he said.Crazy Custody Battle With Doomsday Mom's Niece Airs Claims of Cults, Child-Stealing, and Attempted MurderThere's no shortage of questions police want to ask Lori, 46, and Chad, 51, starting with the location of Tylee and J.J., the only other witnesses to Charles' death.Idaho police say Lori refused to cooperate with search for the children, lied about their whereabouts, and took off for Hawaii with Chad when they started investigating.A judge ordered her arrested for desertion and contempt, and she is being extradited from Hawaii to Idaho to face those charges. Her new husband has reportedly already returned to Idaho.Police have reopened the investigation into Tammy Daybell's Oct. 19 death and exhumed her body, and they are taking another look at Charles Vallow's killing and the unexplained December death of Alex Cox. They are also investigating an October incident in which someone driving Charles' car took a shot at Brandon Boudreaux, the estranged husband of Lori's niece.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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| Cameroon's Biya agrees probe needed into village attack: France Posted: 01 Mar 2020 01:25 PM PST  Cameroon President Paul Biya agreed on Sunday with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, that an impartial probe was needed after gunmen killed 22 people in a village at the heart of a separatist insurgency last month, the French presidency said. The two leaders spoke by phone about the Feb. 14 attack in a village in western Cameroon, where gunmen in military uniforms and masks shot women and children and burned others in their homes. "They agreed an impartial probe was needed in reaction to the violence committed against civilians in the village of Ngarbuh in the northwestern province," the French presidency said in a statement.
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| 30 years after Americans with Disability Act, college students say law is not enough Posted: 01 Mar 2020 04:21 PM PST  "It's about going beyond compliance in terms of what the ADA really means and what it means in terms of disability and inclusivity," one expert said.
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| Pete Buttigieg will not quit Democratic race despite Joe Biden surge Posted: 01 Mar 2020 06:44 AM PST  * Moderate finishes distant fourth in South Carolina * Former VP is clear leader in moderate challenge to SandersPete Buttigieg will not drop out of the race to be the Democratic presidential nominee, despite finishing well behind Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders in the South Carolina primary on Saturday."Every day we are in this campaign is a day that we have reached the conclusion that pushing forward is the best thing we can do for the country and for the party," he insisted on NBC's Meet the Press.The South Carolina result firmly established Biden as the frontrunner for the centrist wing of the Democratic party, which is attempting to fend off Vermont senator Sanders, a self-declared socialist, heading into the key Super Tuesday contests next week.The billionaire Tom Steyer, who had the third most support in South Carolina with 11%, dropped out on Saturday night. Buttigieg had an even worse performance, getting 8% of the vote to Biden's 48% and Sanders' 20%.Some observers and party figures have called for other moderates – including Minnesota Amy Klobuchar and the billionaire former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg – to get out of the race, in order to clear the field for Biden in an attempt to deny Sanders the nomination.But Buttigieg, who has pitched himself as the best moderate candidate, told NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday he would not quit."I think the most important thing right now is to look at what we can do to make sure that we put forward a campaign that is going to end the Trump presidency," Buttigieg said."Everywhere I go, Americans are focused on ensuring that we not only get better policies, that we turn the page on all of the things that this president is doing and has done to our country, to our democracy, but also that we turn the page on the tone in our politics and that we move on from this divisive and toxic season in American public life and that continues to be my focus, as it has every day since the campaign began."On Sunday Biden's campaign said the former vice-president had raised $5m in donations in the past 24 hours, a record for most online donations in one day for his campaign.He also picked up a string of endorsements, including from former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe and former Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz.Speaking to CNN's State of the Union, Biden said he hadn't had any conversations with other candidates about the need for them to drop out and back him."I think it's going to be a decision for the rest of the field to make as they move forward," he said. "I think everyone knows it's going to be much more difficult to win back the Senate and keep control of the House if Bernie's at the top of the ticket. But that's a judgment for them to make and I think that will work itself out in the near term."
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| At least 3,200 Amazon delivery drivers will be laid off by the end of April as the company keeps cutting ties with contractors Posted: 01 Mar 2020 10:22 AM PST  Amazon is cutting ties with some of its third-party delivery partners, resulting in thousands of layoffs in recent months.
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| New coronavirus cases of unknown origin found on West Coast Posted: 29 Feb 2020 10:49 AM PST  Health officials in California, Oregon and Washington state, where the first U.S. COVID-19 death has been reported, are worried about the novel coronavirus spreading through West Coast communities after confirming that three patients were infected by unknown means.
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| Police clash with French islanders fearing coronavirus among tourists Posted: 01 Mar 2020 11:32 AM PST  Saint-Denis de la Reunion (AFP) - Police used tear gas on protesting residents of France's Indian Ocean territory Reunion Island on Sunday who tried to block passengers of a cruise ship turned away from nearby Madagascar for fear there may be people infected with the coronavirus on board. The incident came just hours after clashes between police and protesters near the airport in Martinique, another French overseas territory, demanding strict control of any new arrivals as panic over the outbreak spreads.
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| Nuke the Nukes: The Air Force Wanted to Attack Russian Nuclear Bombers with Nuclear Weapons Posted: 01 Mar 2020 06:22 AM PST  What could go wrong? Well, a lot.
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| Mike Pence calls Donald Trump Jr.'s inflammatory coronavirus comments an 'understandable' response Posted: 01 Mar 2020 10:46 AM PST  When pushed by CNN's Jake Tapper on Sunday, Vice President Mike Pence didn't directly refute some inflammatory comments about the coronavirus previously made by Donald Trump Jr.Trump Jr. said Friday that Democrats seemingly "hope" the virus comes to the United States and "kills millions of people" so they could bring down President Trump. Tapper played the clip for Pence and asked him if he believed anyone -- Democrat or Republican -- actively wanted the virus to spread and harm Americans. Pence, who is charge of the American response to the coronavirus, didn't outright agree with Trump Jr., but he did say there was some harsh rhetoric being tossed around, and he thinks the younger Trump was mainly arguing that the outbreak shouldn't be politicized."Responding to the kind of things that have been hurled is understandable," Pence said, before adding that he was setting politics aside to "work the problem." > On CNN, Mike Pence not only refused to disagree with Donald Trump Jr's assertion that Democrats are rooting for coronavirus to kill millions of people to hurt Trump -- but Pence even characterized Don Jr's sentiment as "understandable" pic.twitter.com/KwD624XGkq> > -- Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 1, 2020More stories from theweek.com A coronavirus recession would likely end Trump's presidency Confidence seems to be waning for candidates other than Biden and Sanders after South Carolina If democratic socialism is so bad, why is Norway so great?
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