| 'We already have one Mitt Romney': Trump Jr and Rand Paul among conservatives calling for Liz Cheney to be ousted Posted: 21 Jul 2020 09:55 AM PDT  First it was just a handful conservative rabble-rousers calling out House GOP Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney on Tuesday for defying Donald Trump on the coronavirus pandemic, foreign affairs decisions, and other matters.Then Senator Rand Paul piled on, retweeting Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz' message calling for her removal and writing that the Wyoming congresswoman's behaviour was "unacceptable."
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| What we know about the manhunt for killers of three Florida friends on fishing trip Posted: 20 Jul 2020 06:56 PM PDT  Florida police are offering a $30,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of suspects who killed three friends on a fishing trip in Florida.
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| US charges Chinese Covid-19 research 'cyber-spies' Posted: 21 Jul 2020 02:03 PM PDT  The justice department charges two men targeting companies researching coronavirus treatments.
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| American views on race relations have changed dramatically, NBC News/WSJ poll finds Posted: 21 Jul 2020 03:21 AM PDT  Support grows for national anthem protests and removal of Confederate statues in the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
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| Japan approves dexamethasone as coronavirus treatment Posted: 21 Jul 2020 04:49 PM PDT  Japan's health ministry has approved dexamethasone, a cheap and widely used steroid, as a second treatment of COVID-19 after a trial in Britain showed the drug reduced death rates in hospitalised patients. The ministry included dexamethasone as an option for treatment along with antiviral drug remdesivir in a recent revision to its handbook. In results announced last month, a trial by researchers in the United Kingdom showed dexamethasone as the first drug to save lives of COVID-19 patients in what scientists said was a major breakthrough in the coronavirus pandemic.
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| Majority of economists say $600 unemployment boost should be extended or increased for rest of the year Posted: 21 Jul 2020 01:34 PM PDT  Republican lawmakers have cast doubt on extending the $600 per week boost to unemployment insurance during ongoing coronavirus relief bill negotiations, but economists think it should remain at least for the rest of year, a new survey shows.The FiveThirtyEight survey, conducted in partnership with the Initiative on Global Markets at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, polled 33 economists on whether the federal benefits should continue at the same rate, increase, decrease, or lapse completely for the rest of year. A plurality think it should stay the same, and a majority support keeping it as is or increasing, while only 7 percent back getting rid of the benefits altogether.> Another IGM survey of economists -- this one, of quantitative macroeconomic economists -- finds that they generally believe best thing for economy would be to continue or *increase* the $600 federal UI top-up https://t.co/yGuukWD51V pic.twitter.com/Ec1hp8Ex00> > — Catherine Rampell (@crampell) July 21, 2020Going forward, though, the most popular idea among the surveyed economists was to tie the unemployment insurance rate to key economic indicators, so that the benefit gradually decreases as the economy improves. Read the full results here and check out more analysis of the study at FiveThirtyEight.More stories from theweek.com The GOP's rising tide of unpopularity Trump officials, top Republicans split over what to put in coronavirus relief bill: 'What in the hell are we doing?' Serena Williams' 2-year-old daughter is now the youngest owner in pro sports
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| Top Democrats ask FBI to brief Congress on disinformation threats Posted: 20 Jul 2020 02:12 PM PDT  Democratic leaders on Monday made public a letter they sent a week ago to the FBI requesting the agency brief all members of Congress about efforts by foreign governments to spread disinformation ahead of the 2020 election.
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| Face shields did not protect people from the coronavirus in an outbreak in Switzerland, but masks did, health officials say Posted: 21 Jul 2020 08:05 AM PDT  Health officials in Switzerland caution against wearing a face shield without a mask after a recent outbreak of coronavirus.
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| Chinese hackers charged in theft of trade secrets also probed for coronavirus research, DOJ says Posted: 21 Jul 2020 11:02 AM PDT  The accused hackers, both Chinese citizens, worked for their own benefit and at the direction of Chinese intelligence services, the DOJ said.
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| Seattle sued by family of man killed in autonomous protest zone Posted: 21 Jul 2020 02:09 PM PDT  The man, who was shot in the city's autonomous zone, allegedly was not provided medical treatment.
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| Protesters set fire at Portland courthouse Posted: 20 Jul 2020 04:40 PM PDT  Protesters outside the U.S. courthouse in Portland, Ore., set a fire in the building's entryway early Monday.
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| Hong Kong protesters gather on anniversary of mob attack Posted: 21 Jul 2020 05:47 AM PDT  Small groups of Hong Kong pro-democracy demonstrators gathered on Tuesday to mark the first anniversary of an attack in a train station by an armed crowd wearing white shirts, and demanded justice for victims of the violence and broader freedoms. The Yuen Long attack, and the police's apparent failure to prevent it, exacerbated tensions during protests last year, plunging the global financial hub into its deepest crisis since Hong Kong returned from British to Chinese rule in 1997. Scattered individuals around the Yoho mall and Yuen Long train station chanted slogans including "Hong Kong independence, the only way out".
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| Honduran lawmaker loses appeal in defamation case Posted: 21 Jul 2020 03:34 PM PDT |
| White House press secretary claims the media has 'tried to scare the American people' about the coronavirus, which has killed over 141,000 Americans and infected 3.8 million more Posted: 21 Jul 2020 10:13 AM PDT  McEnany told reporters "You never heard the other side of the health equation" on "what extended lockdowns do to the American people."
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| Trump administration sued by 23 states over plans to end health protections for transgender people Posted: 21 Jul 2020 10:34 AM PDT  The Trump administration is being sued by a coalition of Democratic state attorneys in response to its announcement that healthcare discrimination protections for transgender people will be overturned next month.The discrimination protections that were included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), implemented during the Obama administration, stated that people could not be discriminated against because of race, colour, national origin, sex, age or disability.
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| Report: Joe Biden may end up giving the only major Democratic convention speech from Milwaukee Posted: 20 Jul 2020 06:45 PM PDT  Joe Biden may be the only one at next month's convention who ends up giving a major speech from the host city of Milwaukee, the Daily Beast reported Monday.
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| Hours after the St. Louis couple who pointed guns at protesters were given felony charges, Missouri's attorney general said he's joining the case to get their charges dismissed Posted: 21 Jul 2020 02:48 AM PDT  Missouri AG Eric Schmitt, a Republican, said in an amicus brief Monday that Mark and Patricia McCloskey had a right to defend their property.
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| China’s Monstrous Abuse of Uighur Women Posted: 21 Jul 2020 08:53 AM PDT  Slavery and genocide are ancient bedfellows. I first became aware of this fact as a child while watching the opening number of DreamWorks's 1998 film, The Prince of Egypt. In the first five minutes of the movie, enslaved Hebrew men construct monuments to the Pharaoh as their wives beg for their infant sons' lives. All, save Moses, are ripped from their mothers' arms and tossed into the Nile.Of course, with 21st-century technology, crocodile-infested rivers are no longer needed to get rid of minority children. We have "medicine" for that.Last week, drone footage, verified by Western intelligence agencies, emerged from Northern China. It showed Uighur Muslims bound and blindfolded, with shaven heads, being loaded onto trains that were likely headed for detention camps. In a BBC interview, British journalist Andrew Marr demanded answers from Liu Xiaoming, the Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom. Xiaoming accused "so-called Western intelligence agencies" of making "false accusations against China." The population of Xinjiang had doubled in 40 years, he said, which clearly proved that "ethnic cleansing" and "so-called forced abortions" had not occurred. Marr, unconvinced, retorted, "According to your own local government statistics, the population growth in Uighur jurisdictions in that area has fallen by 84 percent between 2015 and 2018. 84 percent."How can that be so? A recent report by the Associated Press, compiling "government statistics, state documents and interviews with 30 ex-detainees, family members and a former detention camp instructor" gives an idea.Over the past four years, the Chinese government has spent tens of millions of dollars to violently hijack the functioning reproductive systems of minority women. In 2017, according to official directives uncovered by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, government officials backed by armed law-enforcement officers were instructed to "leave no blind spots," "contain illegal births and lower fertility rates," "test all who need to be tested," and "detect and deal with those who violate policies early."The AP report found that "having too many children" is a "major reason people are sent to detention camps," that "parents of three or more [children] are ripped away from their families unless they can pay huge fines," and that "police raid homes, terrifying parents as they search for hidden children." The report also contains shocking witness testimony: * "Tursunay Ziyawudun said she was injected until she stopped having her period, and kicked repeatedly in the lower stomach during interrogations. She now can't have children and often doubles over in pain, bleeding from her womb." * "Gulbahar Jelilova confirmed that detainees in her camp were forced to abort their children. She also saw a new mother, still leaking breast milk, who did not know what had happened to her infant. And she met doctors and medical students who were detained for helping Uighurs dodge the system and give birth at home." * Gulzia Mogdia was also forced to have an abortion when she became pregnant with her third child. "Medics inserted an electric vacuum into her womb and sucked her fetus out of her body," after which she was "taken home and told to rest, as [officials] planned to take her to a camp."Some survivors recalled being suddenly "force-fed birth control pills" and "injected with fluids." One had to recite her crimes ("I gave birth to too many children") whenever officials came near her cell. Another remembered that a pregnant woman in her camp's "class" had suddenly disappeared.In The Prince of Egypt, when Moses demands an explanation, Pharaoh retorts that the victims were "only slaves." Since slavery doesn't go down so well any more in the West, the Chinese government justifies its actions as a means of preventing terrorism, which is likewise blatant nonsense. These are victims of the state: innocent women and children, the most vulnerable members of an already vulnerable minority. As for the men, one Uighur, Abdushukur Umar, was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for the crime of having seven children. Umar's cousin, who fled China, said that Umar "spent all his time taking care of his family, he never took part in any political movements."In the past, Westerners have been too squeamish to issue a full-throated condemnation of China's inhumane population policies. During the era of the so-called one-child policy, sex-screening technology meant widespread gendercide, since baby girls were seen as less valuable. The Nobel economist Amartya Sen estimated that the policy resulted in 100 million aborted girls. Where was the feminist outcry then?For that matter, where is the outcry now? China's treatment of the Uighurs is reminiscent of the kind of abuse fictionalized in The Handmaid's Tale, yet even the AP report is replete with Western euphemisms, such as involuntary "birth control" and "population control." Get into the details and what the Egyptians did to the Israelites almost seems tame by comparison. Men and women of conscience in the West have a duty to call this out for what it is -- evil.
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| As Eastern Europe shrinks, rural Bulgaria is becoming a ghostland Posted: 21 Jul 2020 05:00 AM PDT  Since the fall of the Eastern Bloc, Bulgaria has lost more than one-fifth of its population — from nearly 9 million to about 7 million.
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| 'There's no corona in the water': Floridians are partying on boats to escape COVID-19, but it's only making the outbreak worse Posted: 21 Jul 2020 12:25 PM PDT  Florida is the third worst-hit state by the outbreak and has the most current coronavirus cases. Some reopening guidelines have been largely ignored.
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| Belarus presidential candidate sends her children abroad after threats Posted: 20 Jul 2020 07:14 AM PDT  The leading opposition presidential candidate in Belarus has sent her children abroad to an undisclosed location in the EU after receiving threats they would be taken away unless she quits the race, an opposition journalist said. Svetlana Tikhanouskaya launched her bid to unseat President Alexander Lukashenko in the Aug. 9 election after her husband, a popular anti-Lukashenko blogger, was arrested in May. On Sunday, she held her first official election campaign rally, attended by thousands of people.
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| ‘They just started whaling on me’: Veteran speaks out after video of federal officers beating him at Portland protests goes viral Posted: 20 Jul 2020 12:50 AM PDT  Christopher David, a 53-year-old disabled Navy veteran, was so angry at the sight of federal officers sweeping up protesters in the last few nights on the streets of Portland, Oregon, that he decided to go and talk to them about it.The city resident, who served more than eight years with the US Navy, got on a public bus on Saturday and headed to a protest in front of the city courthouse in the hope he could ask them some questions.
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| Vice President Mike Pence `wouldn't hesitate' to send his kids back to school Posted: 21 Jul 2020 01:55 PM PDT  Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday said he "wouldn't hesitate" to send his own children back to the classroom, despite the rise in coronavirus cases.
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| Biden says four Black women are on his VP list but won't commit to choosing one Posted: 20 Jul 2020 05:11 PM PDT  If elected, Biden, 77, would be the oldest president-elect, which has put an intense focus on his pick for a running mate.
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| Marine Corps Begins Shutdown of All Tank Battalions Posted: 21 Jul 2020 08:51 AM PDT  The end of the Marine Corps' tank missions has officially begun.
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| Mitch McConnell wants another round of stimulus checks for Americans Posted: 21 Jul 2020 11:57 AM PDT  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has begun negotiations with top congressional Democrats and the White House on another coronavirus bill. McConnell said he supports another round of stimulus checks for Americans as he believes the 'economy needs another shot of adrenaline.'
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| Anti-feminist lawyer, suspect in killing of judge's son, dead Posted: 20 Jul 2020 07:57 AM PDT  The FBI's Newark office said in a statement that attorney Roy Den Hollander was the sole suspect in the attack on the North Brunswick, New Jersey, home of Esther Salas that killed her 20-year old son and left her husband with gunshot wounds. Hollander was found earlier on Monday in an apparent suicide about 90 miles (145 km) north of New York City, the Daily Beast and other media reported, citing law enforcement sources. Investigators say a man dressed in a FedEx uniform approached the home and opened fire, killing the son, Daniel Anderl, and injuring her husband, 63-year-old defense attorney Mark Anderl.
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| Nile dam dispute: Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan agree to resume talks Posted: 21 Jul 2020 04:09 PM PDT  The Grand Renaissance Dam reservoir has been a source of huge diplomatic tension for almost a decade.
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| China discharges floodwater in Huai River Posted: 20 Jul 2020 12:56 AM PDT 
China on Monday (July 20) opened the sluices at Wangjiaba, a key hydrological station on the Huai River, to release flood pressure as water levels continued to surge in east China's Anhui province. Affected by the recent heavy rainfalls, the water level at Wangjiaba station on the main stream of the Huai River rose rapidly on Monday, exceeding 0.36 metres (1.18 ft.) above the warning level, reported by Xinhua. The surging water prompted local authorities to issue a red alert on Monday morning, the highest in the four-tier colour-coded warning system in China. According to the Huai River Commission of China's Ministry of Water Resources, China has again raised the flood emergency response on Monday in the Huai River region to Level I from Level II, the highest on its four-tier scale, after days of torrential downpours and amid expectations of further heavy rainfall.
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| Mary Trump: What Really Shocked Me About My Family and the KKK Posted: 21 Jul 2020 07:47 AM PDT  Mary Trump had a giant barrel of tea to spill about her family on today's episode of The New Abnormal by The Daily Beast.She claims her uncle Donald Trump "was protected at every turn from his incompetence, from his total inability to handle money." And the Republican Party picked up where the media and the investment banks left off. Remember her grandfather Fred, the family patriarch who got arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally? Mary was surprised by that news, but "not because my grandfather wasn't anti-Semitic."Nope, Mary was shocked her grandfather took time away from making money to join a KKK event. But of course, he was "perfectly happy being racist and anti-Semitic in his own house and his place of work."Mary Trump held nothing back as she spoke with Rick Wilson and Molly Jong-Fast. She even commented on Trump's sleeping habits, alleging that the late-night tweeter-in-chief doesn't sleep because "because Daddy wouldn't approve.""So that's maybe why he drinks 12 Diet Cokes a day and is up until three in the morning tweeting," she said.Tune in for more of the juicy details from behind the Trump family veil. Plus, hear The Nation's Elie Mystal discuss the passing of John Lewis—and the rise of a new generation of activists. And the hosts are back at the tough questions. Can Allen West turn Texas blue? Is Rick part of antifa? And is there anything—anything—Bill Barr hates more than graffiti? 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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| NYPD scraps traffic and homeless units and reassigns officers to fight rising gun crime Posted: 20 Jul 2020 03:06 PM PDT  The NYPD has cut traffic and homeless units to focus on rising gun violence following mayor Bill DeBlasio's move to defund police, according to reports.Senior police leadership transferred 114 members of the traffic congestion mitigation and 85 members of the homeless outreach units, according to official documents seen by The New York Post.
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| Out of Portland tear gas, an apparition emerges, capturing the imagination of protesters Posted: 19 Jul 2020 07:05 PM PDT  An iconic image has emerged on Twitter since early Saturday morning in Portland, when a woman wearing nothing but a mask and cap strode toward federal agents as they fired tear gas at protesters — a surreal image of human vulnerability in the face of an overpowering force.
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| Mawla the 'Destroyer', brutal new head of IS group Posted: 20 Jul 2020 07:59 PM PDT  With monikers as divergent as the "Professor" and the "Destroyer", the Islamic State group's new head has a reputation for brutality, but otherwise remains largely an enigma. Amir Mohammed Said Abd al-Rahman al-Mawla replaced Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi after his death in a raid by US special forces last October. Mawla was initially presented to the world by the Islamic State (IS) as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi -- a man about whom America and Iraq had little intelligence.
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| CDC: Antibody tests show virus rates 10 times higher than reported Posted: 21 Jul 2020 12:47 PM PDT  Still, most people in the U.S. have not been infected.
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| Disney World bans walking and eating after some guests used the move as a loophole to not wear masks Posted: 20 Jul 2020 07:46 AM PDT  Florida continues to bear the brunt of the United States' coronavirus outbreak, with more than 24,000 confirmed cases over the weekend.
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| The assistant charged with murdering Fahim Saleh used the tech CEO's credit card to buy balloons 2 days later, report says Posted: 20 Jul 2020 09:23 AM PDT  In security footage shared by the New York Post, Tyrese Haspil was seen buying birthday balloons from a store in Manhattan, the paper said.
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| Trump to deliver 'good news' at coronavirus briefings: White House Posted: 21 Jul 2020 07:55 AM PDT  When President Donald Trump resumes giving coronavirus briefings on Tuesday he will focus on his accomplishments and positive developments on treatments and vaccines, according to White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany. The briefings "may be daily," and typically will occur at 5 p.m. or 6 p.m. EDT (2100 or 2200 GMT), McEnany told Fox News. As the novel coronavirus began to rapidly spread in the United States this spring, Trump frequently crowded onto the press room dais with experts leading the fight against the disease and spent hours fielding questions and presenting his thoughts on how to treat infections.
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| Missing dog turns up almost 60 miles away at owner's old house Posted: 20 Jul 2020 08:52 AM PDT  A dog that went missing from its home in Kansas turned up almost 60 miles away at her owner's old house.Cleo, a four-year-old labrador, went missing from her house in Olathe, Kansas, on 12 July and turned up on her old porch in Lawson, Missouri, several days later.
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