| WH press secretary says she'll attend Trump's Tulsa rally, but won't wear a mask Posted: 19 Jun 2020 12:06 PM PDT  Health experts warn that Trump's rally, which will pack nearly 20,000 attendees into Tulsa's Bank of Oklahoma Center, represents a perfect storm for the transmission of COVID-19.
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| China charges two detained Canadians with suspected espionage, Trudeau 'very disappointed' Posted: 18 Jun 2020 09:15 PM PDT  Chinese prosecutors said on Friday they have charged two detained Canadians for suspected espionage, indictments that could result in life imprisonment, in a case that has driven a diplomatic wedge between Ottawa and Beijing. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was "very disappointed" and would keep pressing China to release the duo. Former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor were arrested in late 2018 on state security charges, soon after Canadian police detained Huawei Technologies Co's [HWT.UL] chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, on a U.S. warrant.
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| Media lauds Biden's 'fiery' message to Trump Posted: 19 Jun 2020 08:03 PM PDT  Raymond Arroyo breaks down Joe Biden's confusing campaign messaging during Friday Follies on 'The Ingraham Angle.'
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| Bill to remove Confederate statues from Capitol stalled by Missouri's Blunt Posted: 19 Jun 2020 09:59 AM PDT  The legislation proposed by Sen. Cory Booker would have removed 11 statues honoring men who voluntarily served in the Confederacy from the National Statuary Hall Collection.
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| Navy upholds firing of carrier captain in virus outbreak Posted: 19 Jun 2020 09:36 PM PDT  The two senior commanders on a coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier didn't "do enough, soon enough," to stem the outbreak, the top U.S. Navy officer said Friday, a stunning reversal that upheld the firing of the ship's captain who had pleaded for faster action to protect the crew. Capt. Brett E. Crozier and Rear Adm. Stuart Baker, commander of the carrier strike group, made serious errors in judgment as they tried to work through an outbreak that sidelined the USS Theodore Roosevelt in Guam for 10 weeks, said Adm. Mike Gilday, the chief of naval operations. The Crozier decision was a surprise since Gilday had recommended that the captain be restored to his command less than two months ago after an initial inquiry.
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| Meet All the Weapons Kim Jong-Un Wishes He Could Get His Hands On Posted: 19 Jun 2020 12:09 PM PDT  Thankfully sanctions will make it harder for him.
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| Mexican president says he ordered last year's release of 'El Chapo's' son Posted: 19 Jun 2020 05:24 PM PDT  The bungled operation was seen as indisputable evidence that criminal gangs hold the upper hand in Culiacán and across broad swaths of Mexico.
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| Muhammad Ali's son said his dad wouldn't have supported Black Lives Matter movement or protests over George Floyd's death Posted: 20 Jun 2020 10:44 AM PDT  "It's not just black lives matter, white lives matter, Chinese lives matter, all lives matter, everybody's life matters," Ali Jr. said.
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| Trump snubs former EPA chief Pruitt in Tulsa visit Posted: 19 Jun 2020 07:58 AM PDT  When President Trump comes to Tulsa on Saturday for his first campaign event since the coronavirus shutdown, one person won't be there: Tulsa's own Scott Pruitt.
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| U.S. protests inspire calls to "defund the police" in the U.K. Posted: 19 Jun 2020 09:48 AM PDT  "It's really powerful that this discourse has entered the mainstream conversation here in the U.K., and it's inherently connected to the conversations that are happening across America," activist says.
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| John Bolton: Judge rejects Trump bid to ban ex-adviser's book Posted: 20 Jun 2020 10:19 AM PDT  A US judge denies the Trump administration's bid to halt publication of John Bolton's memoir.
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| Ten captured Indian soldiers released by China as evidence grows Beijing planned Ladakh ambush Posted: 19 Jun 2020 04:10 AM PDT  Ten Indian soldiers captured by China in Ladakh on Monday evening have been released, as evidence grows Beijing "meticulously planned" the ambush. The Indian Army has said no further troops are being held prisoner but 76 Indian soldiers remain injured, after Chinese troops attacked Indian forces with brutal weapons including nail-embedded rods. Indian intelligence agencies flagged the unusual movement of Chinese soldiers to bases on the Tibetan side of the Line of Actual Control, which separates the two superpowers, as early as February. Yet, Indian troops were slow to reinforce after the Himalayan spring snow due to the coronavirus and members of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) crossed the LAC and annexed 60 square kilometres of Indian territory at four locations - Pangong Tso Lake, Galwan River and Valley, Hot Springs and Demchok. Former leader of the opposition, Rahul Gandhi, tweeted today that it was "crystal clear" that the government was "fast asleep". The Indian Army has officially declared that 20 Indian soldiers were killed in clashes but on condition of anonymity, sources told the Telegraph this figure was 23, as three bodies were unidentifiable due to the injuries inflicted by the Chinese weapons. The Deccan Chronicle quoted intelligence sources today, saying the actual number of fatalities on the Indian side is as high as 40, as bodies fell in the Galwan River or are buried in deep snow on the mountainside.
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| Matt Gaetz Appears Alongside His Newly Revealed ‘Son’ on Tucker Carlson’s Show Posted: 18 Jun 2020 07:16 PM PDT  Hours after announcing that he has a 19-year-old Cuban "son," Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) appeared alongside the teen, Nestor Galban, on Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight to prove to a Democratic colleague with whom he's been feuding that he has a "non-white" child.Gaetz's revelation about Galban came on the heels of his extremely heated altercation with Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) during a congressional hearing on police reform, which flew off the rails when Gaetz exploded at Richmond for suggesting he didn't know what it's like to fear for a Black son."For all those wondering, this is my son Nestor. We share no blood but he is my life. He came from Cuba (legally, of course) six years ago and lives with me in Florida," Gaetz tweeted on Thursday morning. "I am so proud of him and raising him has been the best, most rewarding thing I've done in my life."The pro-Trump congressman also wrote that Nestor had just turned 19 and arrived when he was 12, adding that he was "triggered" by Richmond's remarks because he knows what it's like to "raise non-white kids." Gaetz's sudden announcement that he had a grown son, meanwhile, raised quite a few questions, especially considering he had never publicly disclosed this before Thursday.At the same time he appeared on Carlson's show, People published a report providing details on Gaetz's relationship to Galban. Gaetz admitted to People that he "did not formally adopt" Galban, stating that Galban moved in with him when he was 12 because Gaetz—then a state legislator—was dating Galban's older sister. "He is a part of my family story," Gaetz told People, adding that Nestor "is my son in every conceivable way, and I can't imagine loving him any more if he was my own flesh and blood." He declined to tell the magazine what Nestor's relationship was with his biological family at this time.Carlson, meanwhile, introduced the pro-Trump congressman on his program by asking him how he feels about Richmond telling him "you are not allowed to participate in the conversation because of your skin color."Saying his Democratic colleague's remarks were "offensive" because Richmond didn't know anything about his experience, Gaetz went on to say that "Nestor is the light of my life" and that he "couldn't imagine loving him anymore if he was my own flesh and blood.""I've raised him for the last six years, and he is the most remarkable young man," he added. "I am proud of him, and I am honestly embarrassed of the United States Congress that we have resorted to criticizing each other based on our race and the race of our children and I wish that we could be more productive going forward."After Gaetz said Galban had been raised to "treat everyone equally," Carlson wondered aloud if Galban had also learned those lessons in school, prompting Gaetz to reveal that Nestor was already mic'd up and ready to appear on-screen."What do you make of Cedric Richmond's attacks? Did you see all of this?" Carlson asked Galban."I did not see it because I was sleeping from my workout the night before," Nestor replied, adding that he woke up to the tweets on the altercation and Gaetz calling him about it."I think it's unfair to tell someone that they don't understand because they don't have—because of their racial color," he added. "While he is fighting for equality but if you tell someone to not get involved—he doesn't understand because of the color—you are being a hypocrite there."The Fox host applauded Galban's answer before snarkily noting that this is now something "you would be censured for," something Gaetz agreed with."I cannot believe that it's acceptable in the United States Congress for someone to tell someone else that they are fighting for their children more than they are. You have a son," Gaetz said. "How would you feel if someone said to you that they were fighting for your own family more than you were? That's why I got very upset."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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| EU extends Russian sanctions over Ukraine: Merkel Posted: 19 Jun 2020 06:34 AM PDT  The European Union has agreed to extend punishing sanctions against Russia over the conflict in Ukraine by six months, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday. The measures over Russia's role in the conflict were first imposed after Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine in 2014 and have been renewed every six months ever since. Germany and France have repeatedly sought to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine.
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| Maryland police chief latest to face reckoning amid protests Posted: 19 Jun 2020 01:06 PM PDT  A Maryland police chief resigned this week within hours of a court filing that portrayed his department, one of the state's largest, as an agency poisoned by a racist culture. A complaint cited by the filing said a Prince George's County police sergeant had a personalized license plate with an acronym for a vulgarity directed at President Barack Obama. A lieutenant derided Black Lives Matter protesters in comments quoted in a New York Times article.
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| Rayshard Brooks' Final Hour Was a Jarring Panorama of Policing Posted: 19 Jun 2020 05:13 AM PDT  ATLANTA -- From beginning to end, the encounter between Rayshard Brooks and two Atlanta police officers lasted 41 minutes and 17 seconds. For the first 40 minutes, it looked like a textbook example of policing.The officers treated Brooks, 27, with respect. They were cordial as they asked about his night and how much he had had to drink. They calmly guided him through a series of sobriety tests.Then things went dangerously awry, and Brooks became yet another African American man to die at the hands of police.The encounter -- veering from calm to fatal and captured on video from multiple angles -- has become the subject of intense scrutiny. There is vigorous debate over a host of decisions, big and small, that the two officers made last Friday night in a Wendy's parking lot, where Brooks had fallen asleep in the driver's seat in the drive-thru lane."It's at the point where the officer places his hands on him that things go south in a fraction of a second," said Kalfani Ture, an assistant professor of criminal justice at Quinnipiac University who said he had viewed the video footage more than three dozen times. "So you have to pay attention to the minutiae of details -- you have to try to understand decision-making, but you also have to pick out best practices."Understanding what went wrong, he said, is a crucial step in helping police do their jobs better and ease tensions with communities of color.As the officers moved to arrest Brooks, whose Breathalyzer test registered a .108, above the legal limit to drive in Georgia, he bolted from their grasp, hit an officer, grabbed the other's Taser, fired it and took off running.Officer Garrett Rolfe discharged his own Taser and reached for his 9-millimeter Glock handgun as Brooks turned and discharged the stolen Taser again. Rolfe fired, striking Brooks twice in the back.Brooks was 18 feet and 3 inches away when the first shot was fired. Prosecutors said that as Brooks lay dying, Rolfe kicked his bleeding body, and the other officer, Devin Brosnan, stood on his shoulder. Neither offered medical assistance for more than two minutes, prosecutors said.On Wednesday, the Fulton County district attorney, Paul L. Howard Jr., charged Rolfe, who had been fired from the Atlanta Police Department, with 11 criminal counts, including murder and aggravated assault. Brosnan, who is on administrative duty, was charged with three counts, including aggravated assault and violations of oath.The decision to file charges came five days after the fatal encounter, which has led to the resignation of the city's police chief and the mayor's announcement of a series of measures to overhaul how and when police officers use force. The shooting came amid nationwide protests over police brutality and systemic racism that followed the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.President Donald Trump weighed in briefly this week, telling Sean Hannity of Fox News that people should not resist police officers. He also said he hoped Rolfe "gets a fair shake because police have not been treated fairly in our country."Some observers have said the shooting death of Brooks could have been avoided if the two officers, who are white, had declined to arrest him. According to the footage from Brosnan's body camera, Brooks maintained that he had not had more than two drinks that night.But he also made a suggestion: "I can just go home."It seemed like a simple request. "Why didn't they just let him go home?" Brooks' father, Larry Barbine, asked in an interview with The Toledo Blade.Ture, a former law enforcement officer, said he likely would have written a citation but not taken Brooks to jail, particularly given the presence of the coronavirus in many detention facilities."I'd have said, 'Mr. Brooks, I'll offer you a ride wherever you want to go, however, I'm going to take your vehicle keys,' " Ture said. "If I was so concerned I might even tow the vehicle. But I might not even take Mr. Brooks to jail."But other experts said that for decades, police have been told that society wants law enforcement to take a zero-tolerance approach to drunken driving, the No. 1 cause of death on U.S. roadways."Like with so many other social problems, we put officers at the forefront of dealing with DUI," said Seth Stoughton, a former police officer who teaches law at the University of South Carolina. "So it should be no surprise that officers arrest someone for DUI. That's what we've been telling them to do for a long time."Vince Champion, southeast regional director for the International Brotherhood of Police Officers, the Atlanta police union, said there were limits to an officer's discretion.Champion said he once let an inebriated driver walk home a short distance and the man was struck and killed. His supervisor, who had approved the move, was demoted, he said. Such episodes can lead to lawsuits."We've had to go away from trying to be nice," he said.After Brooks went through a field sobriety test and the Breathalyzer test -- both of which came after he was unable to identify which county he was in and gave a seemingly implausible explanation about how he had arrived at the Wendy's -- Rolfe decided to arrest him."All right, I think you've had too much to drink," he said, moving to cuff Brooks, according to the video footage. "Put your hands behind your back for me."In his news conference announcing the criminal charges against the officers, Howard said they had violated the Police Department's policy because Brooks "was never informed he was under arrest for driving under the influence."Verbally notifying people that they are about to be arrested accomplishes multiple goals, experts say. It is a way to show respect and courtesy, which increases public confidence in police. And it is also tactical -- it helps slow the interaction down to eliminate surprises.When people are not told what to expect -- particularly intoxicated people -- they can react in ways that an officer might misinterpret as resisting, when in fact the person is simply startled."In many situations, officers should tell someone what is happening because you don't want the person to react in surprise and the officers to take that surprise as resistance," Stoughton said.When Brooks lurched away from the two officers as they moved to cuff him, they hung on, and the three fell into a heap on the pavement, fighting and struggling.Video footage shows Brooks seizing a Taser from Brosnan and striking Rolfe. In a statement this week, the lawyers representing Brosnan said Brooks used the Taser on their client around this point.After a few moments, Brooks broke free of the officers. As Brooks ran away, Rolfe fired a Taser at him, a violation of department rules that prohibit firing at a fleeing suspect, prosecutors said.Seconds later, mid-stride, Brooks turned and fired the Taser at Rolfe, who was close on his heels.Three gunshots can be heard, and Brooks falls.Howard said that Rolfe, before opening fire, must have known that the Taser that Brooks had taken had already been fired twice -- and that this model of Taser was only capable of two shots.Several policing experts agreed that Rolfe should have known that Brooks was not a deadly threat, but for other reasons.Brooks was running, and it seemed like escaping the situation was his only goal, some experts said. And although Georgia officers are taught that Tasers are a deadly threat because they can disable officers long enough for their guns to be seized, that threat is diminished when a second officer is present as backup.Use of force should be proportional to the threat, the experts said.But whether the officer should have known how many times the Taser had been fired -- or could have reacted quickly enough to that knowledge -- was a separate question."That's a high expectation in the middle of a fight, that an officer is going to know every single fact that we get to see after the fact with an analysis of the video," said Roberto Villaseñor, a former police chief in Tucson, Arizona, and a member of former President Barack Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing."There's a lot of things that occur in a dramatic, volatile situation that you might not be aware of," he continued. "You have adrenaline pumping; you've got fear working; you've got the fight-or-flight syndrome going on -- you've got a lot of things that are affecting your perceptions."Noah H. Pines, a lawyer for Rolfe, said in a statement this week that the shooting was justified and that the responsibility was squarely at Brooks' feet."When Mr. Brooks chose to attack two officers, to disarm one of them," Pines said in the statement, "he took their lives, and his own, into his hands. He took the risk that their justified response might be a deadly one."But on CNN on Monday, Stacey Abrams, Georgia's former Democratic candidate for governor, called it "murder.""At no point did he present a danger that warranted his death," she said of Brooks. "And that's what we're talking about. A murder because a man made a mistake, not a mistake that would have cost the police officer his life but a mistake that was caused out of some form of dehumanization of Rayshard Brooks."This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2020 The New York Times Company
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| Citing 'problems' receiving a ballot, Trump campaign manager acknowledges he didn't vote in '16 Posted: 19 Jun 2020 11:05 PM PDT  Parscale, then a Texas resident, oversaw Trump's digital operation in 2016 and became the campaign manager in 2018.
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| Nebraska governor: Counties requiring masks ineligible for relief money Posted: 19 Jun 2020 09:36 AM PDT  A spokesman for the governor said that if counties "want CARES Act money, they have to be fully open"
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| North Korea prepares anti-South leaflets amid heightened tensions Posted: 19 Jun 2020 06:27 PM PDT  North Korea is gearing up to send propaganda leaflets over its southern border, denouncing North Korean defectors and South Korea, its state media said on Saturday, the latest retaliation for leaflets from the South as bilateral tensions rise. Enraged North Korean people across the country "are actively pushing forward with the preparations for launching a large-scale distribution of leaflets," which are piled as high as a mountain, said state news agency KCNA.
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| North Carolina protesters tear down Confederate statue and hang it by the neck from a post Posted: 19 Jun 2020 07:54 PM PDT  Protesters in North Carolina's capital pulled down parts of a Confederate monument Friday on night and hanged one of the toppled statues from a light post. Demonstrators used a strap to pull down two statues of Confederate soldiers that were part of a larger obelisk near the state capitol in downtown Raleigh, news outlets reported. Police officers earlier in the evening had foiled the protesters' previous attempt to use ropes to topple the statues. But after the officers cleared the area, protesters mounted the obelisk and were able to take down the statues. They then dragged the statues down a street and used a rope to hang one of the figures by its neck from a light post. The other statue was dragged to the Wake County courthouse, according to the News & Observer.
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| China Returns Ten Captured Soldiers as Indian Military Weighs Response to Border Clash Posted: 19 Jun 2020 10:32 AM PDT  China returned ten captured soldiers to India on Friday following deadly clashes between the two nations' militaries in the Himalayan border region, the Wall Street Journal reported.Two senior Indian officials told the Journal that China had released the captured soldiers unharmed, although the Indian military refused to publicly confirm or deny the action. India's defense establishment is reportedly weighing a response to the clashes in which 20 Indian soldiers were killed, although such a move has not yet been approved."Nobody is talking of a full-blown war or conflict but China needs to be unequivocally told that India is not a pushover, militarily or otherwise," a source told the Times of India. "It cannot keep on unilaterally changing the status quo in the border areas and nibbling away at our territory."The fight occurred in Ladakh, a region of Kashmir in the Himalayan mountains that is the subject of a long-running territorial dispute between India, China, and Pakistan."Both China and India are going to continue building up their presence on the border," Zack Cooper, a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute specializing in China, told National Review. "But China starts in a much stronger position because they have invested in the logistical infrastructure to move in large units much more quickly."The clashes on Monday evening saw Chinese and Indian soldiers fighting with rocks, fists, and clubs wrapped in barbed wire. India reported over 70 injured soldiers in addition to 20 killed, while China has not disclosed if its troops suffered any casualties.Agreements between China and India forbid soldiers manning the border to carry firearms, and there have been no deaths in clashes between the two militaries since 1975. Previous clashes in 1962 led to the Sino-Indian War of that year.Protests against China have flared up across India following the latest confrontation, with demonstrators calling to boycott Chinese goods."There is a lot of anger among Indians after the violent face-off killed our soldiers," Shahnawaz Hussain, a spokesman for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, told the Journal. "We are a responsible nation, but in a democracy people have their rights to express displeasure and anguish."
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| The U.S. Army's New Marksman Rifle Is One Tough Gun. Here's Why. Posted: 19 Jun 2020 05:30 AM PDT  This month soldiers from the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division became the first combat soldiers to receive the new M110A1 Squad Designated Marksman Rifle (SDMR). The semi-automatic 7.62x51mm weapon was fielded to soldiers in the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team at Fort Stewart, Georgia.
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| Man arrested in shooting of eight people outside San Antonio bar Posted: 19 Jun 2020 10:31 PM PDT  All of the victims are expected to survive. The shooting happened after a group was denied entry to a bar because they were inebriated.
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| Trump Jr tells his father that Bin Laden endorsed Biden because it ‘would lead to the destruction of America’ Posted: 19 Jun 2020 07:13 AM PDT  Donald Trump claimed Osama Bin Laden backed Joe Biden's presidential bid and said he was withholding "very interesting" information about aliens in a recorded interview with his eldest son.The president's comments came in a Father's Day-themed interview streamed on the president's election campaign website, with Don Trump Jr, who hosts the podcast, 'Triggered'.
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| McEnany won't wear mask at Tulsa Trump rally Posted: 19 Jun 2020 12:05 PM PDT  The Centers for Disease Control recommends that Americans wear masks in public.
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| 'Into The Wild' bus removed from Alaska wilderness Posted: 19 Jun 2020 02:24 AM PDT  Tourists hiking to the remote area to visit the bus were getting into difficulties, officials said.
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| U.S. "not going to allow Russia and China to continue" increasing nuclear stockpiles, top negotiator says Posted: 19 Jun 2020 12:14 PM PDT  The U.S. is set to sit down with Russia and possibly China on Monday to discuss limiting all three countries' nuclear stockpiles. CBS News foreign affairs analyst Pamela Falk spoke to Ambassador Robert Wood, the U.S. top arms control negotiator, about his growing concerns over Russia and China's nuclear arsenals.
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| 'At a loss about what they're supposed to do': Police take on their own kind of protest Posted: 19 Jun 2020 10:17 AM PDT  As the national movement for police reform and racial justice grows, more police push back, saying the public has painted them with too broad a brush.
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| Harboring Hong Kong 'rioters' will harm Taiwan, China says Posted: 19 Jun 2020 08:08 PM PDT  Offering protection to "rioters" from Hong Kong will only harm Taiwan's people and is an interference in the Chinese-ruled city's affairs, China's government said, denouncing plans by Taiwan to help Hong Kongers who decide to flee to the island. Taiwan said on Thursday it will set up a dedicated office to help those thinking of leaving Hong Kong as Beijing tightens its grip on the former British colony, including planned new national security legislation. The new office begins operations on the sensitive date of July 1, the day Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule from Britain in 1997 with the promise of continued, wide-ranging freedoms under China's "one country, two systems" formula.
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| Police die enforcing Latin America's strictest lockdown as Peru's futile strategy unravels Posted: 19 Jun 2020 01:10 AM PDT  When Peru introduced one of Latin America's strictest lockdowns, national police brigadier David Rodriguez was sent to the streets of Lima to enforce the new guidelines. Just one month later the 55 year-old was struggling to breathe in the police clinic, pleading desperately on social media to be moved to an intensive care unit and for more oxygen. He died shortly after. "They're the ones sent out to protect others from the virus and they end up infected themselves," his daughter Krystell Rodriguez told The Telegraph. According to the country's interior minister, nearly 10,000 police officers have contracted Covid-19 on duty in the country and 170 have died. The numbers not only present a grim picture of Peru's futile fight against Covid-19, but also the tragedy at the heart of the surging crisis in Latin America, the global epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic.
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| Denver man accused of killing neighbor after argument involving racial slurs Posted: 19 Jun 2020 06:48 AM PDT  A Denver man is in jail after allegedly shooting his neighbor in the chest during an argument about where he parked his car.
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| Melania Trump commemorates the end of slavery from a gilded White House room while the president tweets threats at protesters Posted: 19 Jun 2020 08:44 AM PDT  First Lady Melania Trump released a video about Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the US, as her husband ignored it on social media.
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| California governor requires residents to wear face masks in most indoor, outdoor settings Posted: 19 Jun 2020 08:24 AM PDT  Gavin Newsom said he's issuing order now because too many people are going out in public without face coverings and coronavirus cases are increasing.
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| In Cuba, families fear shortages will worsen as coronavirus affects the economy Posted: 19 Jun 2020 12:11 PM PDT  "We cannot choose. We buy whatever appears in the stores," said one Havana resident.
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| Man shouts 'All Lives Matter' at Brooklyn barista in one man 'protest' over poster Posted: 19 Jun 2020 10:25 AM PDT  A man was caught on camera staging a one man All Lives Matter "protest" outside a coffee shop on Friday over a Black Lives Matter sign displayed in their window.Abraham "Avrumy" Knofler was filmed by a bystander outside Burly Coffee in the Bed-Stuy neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York City, on Thursday where he can be heard telling a barista that he was offended by the sign and chanting "All Lives Matter".
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| Factbox: China's new national security proposals for Hong Kong riddled with uncertainty Posted: 19 Jun 2020 01:29 AM PDT  China's plans to impose new national security laws on Hong Kong are raising widespread fears the legislation could lead to profound changes in the former British colony. WILL MAINLAND CHINA'S POWERFUL SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES BE ABLE TO TAKE ENFORCEMENT ACTION IN THE CITY? The initial resolution of the National People's Congress raises the prospect that officers from such agencies could be based in the city for the first time if needed on national security cases.
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| How A Chinese Basketball Star Got China Its First Aircraft Carrier Posted: 19 Jun 2020 02:00 AM PDT  Beijing did pay for the $20 million value of the carrier—but argued that it couldn't cover other costs because he lacked receipts.
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| Hungry neighbors cook together as virus roils Latin America Posted: 19 Jun 2020 06:04 AM PDT  An hour later, Arango, 43, is using a shovel to stir 30 gallons of sweet oatmeal in a stainless-steel pot over a fire of wood scraps alongside a cinder-block community center in the hills overlooking Peru's capital. Often operating with help from the Catholic Church and private charities, soup kitchens and community pots have become a symbol of the conundrum facing a region where most of the working population labors outside the formal economy. Economic shutdowns have forced poor Peruvians, Argentines and tens of millions of others to fall back on community-based efforts unseen in large numbers since crises like Peru's 1990s civil war or Argentina's financial crash two decades ago.
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| For the first time, Biden raises more cash in a month than Trump Posted: 20 Jun 2020 10:49 AM PDT  The $74 million the president, RNC and joint fundraising committees raised is a record for them in monthly fundraising.
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| Favourite to succeed Merkel blames new coronavirus outbreak on migrant workers Posted: 19 Jun 2020 06:53 AM PDT  The favourite to succeed Angela Merkel as German chancellor has come under fire after he appeared to blame migrant workers from Romania and Bulgaria for a new coronavirus outbreak. There is growing concern in Germany over the outbreak among workers at a pig slaughterhouse, which has fuelled the largest daily increase in new infections the country has experienced in almost a month, with 770 cases recorded on Thursday alone. But Armin Laschet, currently regional prime minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, dismissed concerns the outbreak had been caused by his decision to lift the lockdown in the state. "It's got nothing to do with it. Romanians and Bulgarians entered the country and the virus has come from there," Mr Laschet told reporters on Thursday. After his remarks were seized on by political rivals, including the foreign minister, Heiko Maas, who called them "extremely dangerous", Mr Laschet hastily backtracked. "It is forbidden to blame people of any origin for the virus. I want to make clear that this goes without saying for me and for the entire state government," Mr Laschet said. The outbreak at the Tönnies slaughterhouse in Rheda-Wiedenbrück has so far been successfully contained. The German military has been drafted in to set up a testing centre, some 7,000 staff have been place under quarantine and the production has been shut down. Altogether, there have been 730 cases confirmed at the slaughterhouse, and it is believed to account for more than 300 of the 770 new infections recorded on Thursday alone.
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| Air Force Probing Use of RC-26 Spy Plane in US Cities Posted: 19 Jun 2020 12:14 PM PDT  The investigation was prompted by lawmakers' concern over use of military equipment during protests across the country.
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| Professor who told student to 'anglicize' her name placed on leave Posted: 19 Jun 2020 02:08 PM PDT  "If I lived in Vietnam and my name in your language sounded like Eat a D---, I would change it to avoid embarrassment," the instructor allegedly wrote.
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