| US lawyer says Prince Andrew subjecting Epstein victims to ‘torture test’ Posted: 03 Jul 2020 02:08 AM PDT  The Duke of York's silence on Jeffrey Epstein was akin to a "torture test" for his victims, said a US lawyer.Attorney Gloria Allred said that Prince Andrew was "avoiding and evading" US authorities as Epstein's ex-girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, appeared in court accused of facilitating his sexual exploitation of underage girls.
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| Five ways Hong Kong has changed under China's security law Posted: 03 Jul 2020 07:51 PM PDT  Beijing's new national security law for Hong Kong is the most radical shift in how the semi-autonomous city is run since it was handed back to China by Britain in 1997. China's authoritarian leaders say the powers will restore stability after a year of pro-democracy protests and will not stifle freedoms. A key pillar of Hong Kong's success has been an independent judiciary, insulated from mainland China's party-controlled courts and their conviction rates of around 99 percent.
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| Why U.S. F-35s, Stealth Bombers and Attack Drones Could Fail in a War Posted: 04 Jul 2020 01:00 AM PDT  Fighter jets, stealth bombers, attack drones and air-traveling missiles all need to "operate at speed" in a fast-changing great power conflict era. What that means is that "sensor to shooter" time (how fast data can go from a sensor to a war-fighter) needs to be drastically sped up. Without that speed, warfighters won't be able to react as quickly to threats and it will be harder to win.
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| 'How the hell are we going to do this?' The panic over reopening schools Posted: 04 Jul 2020 04:00 AM PDT  The CDC issued additional guidance this week on safely reopening schools, with infections spiking in the South and West.
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| Copenhagen's Little Mermaid labelled 'racist fish' Posted: 03 Jul 2020 03:24 AM PDT  Denmark woke up on Friday to the words "racist fish" scrawled across the base of the "Little Mermaid", the bronze statue honouring Hans Christian Andersen's famous fairy tale that perches on a rock in the sea off a pier in Copenhagen. "We consider it vandalism and have started an investigation," a spokesman for the Copenhagen police said. Protesters of the Black Lives Matter movement around the world have in recent months rallied against statues of historical figures who played a role in racist oppression, such as slave traders and colonialists.
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| 5 Americans who flew by private jet to Italy were reportedly denied entry due to the EU ban on visitors from countries with high coronavirus infection rates Posted: 04 Jul 2020 04:47 AM PDT  Officials on the island of Sardinia expressed frustration at having to exclude the US travellers after their long flight, said reports.
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| Judge blocks Portland police from using physical force against journalists Posted: 03 Jul 2020 05:49 AM PDT  As protests originally sparked by the death of George Floyd continue in Portland, Oregon, a US District Court has issued a two-week restraining order barring the Portland Police Bureau from arresting journalists and legal observers or using force against them.The order comes after the police arrested journalists who were covering a protest on Tuesday. One of them, Lesley McLam, was taken into custody.
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| For nearly 160 years, St. George has been known as Utah's 'Dixie.' The name is all over the city. Is it time to change? Posted: 02 Jul 2020 10:48 PM PDT  The word "Dixie" is everywhere in St. George, Utah. The controversy over its Confederate ties is back in the public eye — but it's not a new debate.
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| The Science Behind Your Favorite Fireworks Posted: 04 Jul 2020 10:00 AM PDT |
| USCIS has had to slow down during the pandemic. Some immigrants will benefit from this Posted: 04 Jul 2020 11:54 AM PDT  The coronavirus crisis and the budget shortfall the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is facing, somehow have turned in favor of immigrants with open processes, who must support their visa, green card and citizenship applications with more evidence or documents.
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| It Would Cost Trillions: The Day North Korea Collapses Posted: 03 Jul 2020 02:30 AM PDT  The prospect of a peaceful Korean Unification, however remote it seems, would be a historical event worth planning for. While preparing for the worst, we should hope for the best. Hoping for the best means there is a scenario where North Korea's collapse and regime change occur miraculously, opening doors to South Korea and the West to take over North Korea in what one hopes would be a peaceful absorption. As unlikely as this sounds, it is important to remember that it is not without historical precedent.
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| Alleged email scammer who flaunted wealth on Instagram to face charges Posted: 03 Jul 2020 12:18 PM PDT  Ramon Olorunwa Abbas routinely posted about luxury cars, private jets and globe trotting with celebrities to his 2.4 million followers.
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| Trump news - US president struggles with series of words during Mount Rushmore speech as Pence calls him 'my father' in campaign ad Posted: 04 Jul 2020 06:49 AM PDT  Donald Trump accused "angry mobs" of trying to erase US history by removing statues in a dark and divisive Independence Day speech on Friday evening from Mount Rushmore.Painting himself as a bulwark against left-wing extremism, the US president barely mentioned the coronavirus pandemic, despite the country that setting a new record for confirmed new cases, as he struggled to correctly pronounce a series of words.
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| WHO sees first results from COVID drug trials within two weeks Posted: 03 Jul 2020 08:26 AM PDT  The World Health Organization (WHO) should soon get results from clinical trials it is conducting of drugs that might be effective in treating COVID-19 patients, its Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday. "Nearly 5,500 patients in 39 countries have so far been recruited into the Solidarity trial," he told a news briefing, referring to clinical studies the U.N. agency is conducting. "We expect interim results within the next two weeks."
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| Locals remain anxious amid India-China border stand-off Posted: 03 Jul 2020 12:46 AM PDT  Even as tensions are rising, locals along the border are worried their land is at stake.
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| Two women fight for lives after driver ploughs into preparations for anti-racism rally in Seattle Posted: 04 Jul 2020 06:52 AM PDT  SEATTLE (AP) _ Two women were struck by a car whose driver sped through a protest-related closure on a freeway in Seattle, authorities said early Saturday. A 24-year-old woman from Seattle suffered critical, life-threatening injuries and a 32-year-old woman from Bellingham had serious injuries, Washington State Patrol Capt. Ron Mead said. The driver, a 27-year-old man from Seattle, was in custody, Mead said, adding that impairment was not considered a factor. Charges remain under investigation, as does the motive and point of entry onto the interstate, but Mead said the unnamed man faced multiple felony charges and was suspected to have come on the wrong way on a ramp. Mead said troopers did not know whether it was a targeted attack. Video on social media showed a white car traveling at a high rate of speed navigate around two vehicles positioned across the lanes as a barrier. The car careened toward a small crowd of protesters on the freeway, striking two people who flew into the air before landing on the ground. A nearly two-hour-long Facebook livestream captioned "Black Femme March takes I-5" from Diaz Love ended abruptly; with about 15 seconds left, shouts of "Car!" can be heard as the camera starts to shake before screeching tires and the sound of impact are heard. The Associated Press could not immediately reach her. Seattle has been the site of prolonged unrest following the May 25 police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which sparked nationwide protests. Dozens of people were arrested this past week in connection with protests as demonstrations continue after authorities cleared the "Capitol Hill Occupied Protest" zone Wednesday morning. Mead said at the press conference that protesters had shut down the interstate for 19 days in a row. He emphasized that the freeway is "simply not a safe place" for pedestrians, and said he hoped protesters would cease what he termed "unlawful behavior" in blocking the interstate. "My hope is, as a result of this tragedy, protesters will reconsider their desire to be on the interstate because I cannot guarantee their safety, plain and simple," Mead said. Protesters were on the freeway for more than an hour before the car drove around the blockade around 1:36 a.m., Mead said. The state patrol tweeted out two pictures of the driver's car, a white Jaguar with significant damage to its bumper and windshield. Seattle police tweeted that they were assisting with the scene, as southbound lanes of the freeway remained closed for investigation.
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| Biden narrows list of vice presidential contenders Posted: 03 Jul 2020 09:09 AM PDT  Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden has narrowed his reported list of vice presidential contenders, with several black women in contention; Jacqui Heinrich reports on the latest.
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| Ethiopian pop star's murder reveals political rifts Posted: 03 Jul 2020 05:41 PM PDT  Firaol Ajema and his friends, dressed in black T-shirts, have been meeting each afternoon in recent days to listen to the music of Ethiopian pop star Hachalu Hundessa. The homemade shirts bearing the dead singer's portrait and the slogan "I am also Hachalu" are their way of honouring the man whose murder Monday sparked violence that killed nearly 100 and highlighted Ethiopia's simmering ethnic tensions. "We haven't been able to properly mourn," said Firaol, a university student in the town of Legetafo outside Addis Ababa, where security has been tight since the killing.
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| Russia Has a Nuclear Missile That Can Kill Nearly Anything on the Planet Posted: 04 Jul 2020 07:00 AM PDT  How? Think range.
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| Michael Cohen may have violated the terms of his prison release by eating out at a restaurant in Manhattan Posted: 04 Jul 2020 06:50 AM PDT  The New York Post obtained photos showing Cohen, Trump's former lawyer, eating out with his wife and another couple in Manhattan Thursday night.
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| Thomas Jefferson alongside Black great-grandson holds 'a mirror' to U.S. Posted: 04 Jul 2020 02:37 PM PDT  Shannon LaNier, a TV host in Houston, is pictured in a photo in Smithsonian Magazine alongside his direct ancestor, Thomas Jefferson.
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| Explainer: Strike capability, other military options on table after Japan's Aegis U-Turn Posted: 02 Jul 2020 07:14 PM PDT  Japan's decision to scrap two Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defence systems means it must find other ways to defend a 3,000-kilometre archipelago along Asia's eastern edge. In a surprise decision, defence minister Taro Kono recently halted the 2025 deployment of Aegis Ashore because booster rockets used to accelerate SM-3 Block IIA interceptor missiles might fall on communities in northern Akita and southern Yamaguchi prefectures. The expense of Aegis Ashore project also affected Kono's decision.
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| Sikh pilgrims in deadly Pakistan train crash Posted: 03 Jul 2020 07:10 AM PDT  At least 21 die as an express train hits a van carrying the pilgrims near the city of Lahore.
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| Mexico's COVID deaths pass 30,000, world's 5th highest total Posted: 04 Jul 2020 02:48 PM PDT  Mexico topped 30,000 COVID-19 deaths Saturday, overtaking France as the country with the fifth-highest death toll since the coronavirus outbreak began. Officials reported 523 more confirmed coronavirus deaths for the day, bringing the nation's total to 30,366 for the pandemic. Mexico's total confirmed infections rose by almost 6,000 to 251,165, about on par with Spain, the eighth highest caseload.
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| Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr's girlfriend, tests positive for Covid-19 Posted: 03 Jul 2020 08:00 PM PDT  Ex-Fox News presenter is key fundraiser for Trump re-election campaign and latest of president's circle to contract the diseaseUS records highest daily increase in coronavirus casesThe girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr, the US president's eldest son, has tested positive for the coronavirus, US media have reported.Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is a former Fox News television personality and a senior fundraiser for Donald Trump's re-election campaign, is just the latest person in Trump's inner circle to contract the potentially deadly virus. The news also comes as the US is experiencing a huge surge in coronavirus cases and amid withering criticism of the president's response to the crisis.Guilfoyle had travelled to be with Trump as he gave a high-profile speech in South Dakota but did not attend the event after getting the positive test result, the New York Times reported. She had not been in recent proximity to the president and Donald Trump Jr tested negative, the paper said.ABC News reported that Guilfoyle was asymptomatic.Trump has been widely condemned for downplaying the seriousness of the coronavirus crisis wracking the US which has now killed more than 120,000 Americans. Trump has refused to wear face masks, promoted unfounded conspiracy theories on the virus' origins and potential cures and for pushed for the rapid reopening of the American economy.Trump's event in South Dakota – like a recent campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma – has also alarmed public health experts for taking place during the pandemic and for playing little mind to social distancing protocols or other steps to avoid spreading the virus.
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| See it again! Air Force, Military planes fly over Boston on Fourth of July Posted: 04 Jul 2020 01:14 PM PDT  U.S. Air Force and U.S. Marine Corps flew over in five waves in what the defense department is calling a "Salute to great cities of the American Revolution."
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| Black family sues Hilton after white clerk calls police over hotel's own billing mistake Posted: 03 Jul 2020 01:02 AM PDT  A billing mistake by the hotel results in a dispute that led to police being called to the Hampton Inn. Now the guests are suing.
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| Iran's Military Is Armed to the Teeth with Lots of Missiles Posted: 04 Jul 2020 06:30 AM PDT  And it has built the region's largest missile force.
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| Scientists are studying poop to understand how COVID-19 spreads Posted: 03 Jul 2020 02:53 AM PDT  "One of the very few positive things that could come out of COVID-19 is that we recognize that there is data within our wastewater," said one researcher.
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| Somalia restaurant attack: Six killed by al-Shabab Posted: 04 Jul 2020 07:24 AM PDT  Militant group al-Shabab said it carried out the bomb explosion in the town of Baidoa.
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| Florida breaks record with 11,458 new virus cases. Miami-Dade and Broward hit highs, too Posted: 04 Jul 2020 08:33 AM PDT  Saturday's update on new confirmed COVID-19 cases from the Florida Department of Health reflected the state, Miami-Dade and Broward record new single-day highs, rocketing past previous peaks.
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| 'A dereliction of duty': Former CIA director says Trump has gone 'Awol' in handling of coronavirus Posted: 03 Jul 2020 04:46 PM PDT  Donald Trump has gone "Awol" in his leadership of the US through the coronavirus pandemic, former CIA Director and Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said in a scathing attack on the president."This president has essentially gone Awol from the job of leadership that he should be providing a country in trouble," Mr Panneta told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Wednesday, branding the situation a "major crisis".
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| An antifa hoax about a 'peaceful flag burning to resist police' riled up right-wing groups in Gettysburg for no reason Posted: 04 Jul 2020 11:45 AM PDT  Despite local news outlets and independent fact checkers debunking claims of a flag burning planned for July 4th, some protesters still showed up.
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| President Trump's full speech at Mount Rushmore Posted: 04 Jul 2020 12:31 PM PDT  President Trump delivers remarks at the 2020 Mount Rushmore Fireworks Celebration.
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| More bodies found at Myanmar jade mine disaster Posted: 03 Jul 2020 02:21 AM PDT  Rescuers Friday pulled several bodies from the scene of a landslide which killed over 160 jade miners in northern Myanmar, many of them migrant workers seeking their fortune in treacherous open-cast mines near the China border. The disaster -- the worst in memory to strike Myanmar's notoriously dangerous jade mines -- ocurred on Thursday when a hillside collapsed in heavy monsoon rains. "The search and rescue missions continued today and we now have 166 bodies," the Myanmar Fire Services Department said in a Facebook post, raising the overnight toll by four.
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| Coronavirus outbreak among students at University of Washington's frat houses Posted: 03 Jul 2020 01:28 PM PDT  The school said Friday that it confirmed that at least 89 fraternity house residents, along with four other students, have tested positive for COVID-19.
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| LGBT Pride activists protest in Paris against racial injustice Posted: 04 Jul 2020 12:12 PM PDT  A pared-down LGBT Pride march drew thousands of people to the streets of Paris on Saturday, without the colourful trucks blasting out techno music but with powerful slogans demanding racial equality and protesting against police violence. The French capital's official Pride parade was postponed to November because of the coronavirus epidemic, but organisers decided to hold a march they said should be more politically driven and support the "Black Lives Matter" movement. "Because of COVID, the normal Pride parade had to be cancelled, but we managed to organise a Pride that is more political," a drag king and illustrator who gave her name as Saint Eugene told Reuters TV.
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| Duterte pleads for calm after police fatally shoot troops Posted: 03 Jul 2020 07:51 AM PDT  The Philippine president flew to the country's volatile south on Friday to plead with military forces not to retaliate following the fatal police shootings of four soldiers, including two officers, in violence the army chief called "a rubout." President Rodrigo Duterte pledged an impartial government investigation of Monday's violence in southern Jolo town and promised in a late-night address to military commanders, including army generals, that anyone found guilty will be punished. Duterte asked commanders to ensure their forces remain calm and added that police, like government troops, perform a vital role in maintaining law and order.
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| We’re so damaged that even if it ends well in November, all will not be well | Opinion Posted: 03 Jul 2020 11:00 AM PDT  Even if this ends well, it will not end well.
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| CNN reporter mugged at knifepoint live on air in Brazil Posted: 03 Jul 2020 01:31 AM PDT  A CNN journalist was mugged at knifepoint during a live broadcast in Brazil.Bruna Macedo and her team had set up near the Bandeiras Bridge in Sao Paulo on Saturday to report on rising water levels in the Tete River due to heavy rain.
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| If you're traveling, be aware of coronavirus-related restrictions in 17 states — this map shows the rules Posted: 03 Jul 2020 09:28 AM PDT  Here's a guide to which states require a 14-day quarantine or negative COVID-19 test for travelers, and which have reopened tourist attractions.
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| Iran: A Budding Drone Superpower? You Decide. Posted: 04 Jul 2020 09:27 AM PDT  The Iranian Defense Ministry announced that it has acquired three new drones that are capable of flying almost 1,000 miles and from an altitude of up to 45,000 feet
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| Crusading ex-cop's arrest sparks police pushback in Russia Posted: 02 Jul 2020 11:31 PM PDT  When police moved in to arrest Vladimir Vorontsov in May, they didn't bother to knock. Instead, two commando teams stormed the former policeman's top-floor apartment in southeast Moscow at around 7:00 am, one abseiling down the high-rise while the other broke down the door. "Our daughter thinks that bandits came and took daddy away," Aleksandra Vorontsova told AFP, describing the swoop on her husband, an activist for police labour rights.
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| Florida's new coronavirus cases break record, nearly tying New York's peak Posted: 04 Jul 2020 01:14 PM PDT  Florida reported 11,458 new coronavirus cases Saturday, it highest daily tally yet, nearly tying New York's high of 11,571 in April.
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