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Howard Dean says enthusiasm for Biden doesn't matter because voters have 'had it' with Trump

Posted: 17 Aug 2020 02:38 PM PDT

Howard Dean says enthusiasm for Biden doesn't matter because voters have 'had it' with TrumpRegardless of what happens at the Democratic National Convention this week, Howard Dean said he has no doubt that Democrats will vote in high numbers this fall during the presidential election.


People stranded on rooftops by rain, flooding in China

Posted: 18 Aug 2020 03:25 AM PDT

People stranded on rooftops by rain, flooding in ChinaAuthorities deployed helicopters in western China on Tuesday to rescue people stranded by flooding as heavy rain swelled the Yangtze and other rivers to dangerous levels, state media reported. Neighboring Sichuan province and Chongqing municipality both declared the highest-level flood control emergency, a first for Sichuan. In Sichuan, water lapped at the toes of the Leshan Giant Buddha — a towering 8th-century statue carved into a mountainside — for the first time since at least 1949, a government scenic management committee said.


Car-sized asteroid just made the closest fly-by of Earth on record

Posted: 18 Aug 2020 02:16 PM PDT

Car-sized asteroid just made the closest fly-by of Earth on recordAstronomers didn't even know about the asteroid until after it had already crossed our path.


De Blasio’s Wife Employs Six Undisclosed Taxpayer-Funded Staffers: Report

Posted: 18 Aug 2020 07:19 AM PDT

De Blasio's Wife Employs Six Undisclosed Taxpayer-Funded Staffers: ReportNew York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's wife, Chirlane McCray, employs at least six staffers whose salaries are paid by taxpayers but are not listed on her official staff roster.The city's first lady's office officially includes eight staffers who all together receive a collective $1.1 million in salaries, The City reported. However, McCray's staff numbered a total of 15 people for much of this year, but the recent departure of a staff member brought the total down to 14 people.The unlisted staffers include several who make six-figure salaries, including communications advisor Felicia Lee, whose $140,000 salary is paid by New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and director of policy Grace Choi, who makes $130,000 paid by the city's Department of Social Services. A social media manager whose salary is paid by the city's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications, as well as two other low-level staffers paid by the mayor's office, were also not listed on McCray's official staff roster. A second speechwriter was also put on a different payroll.Additionally, McCray in February hired a videographer with a $70,000 salary that was paid by the Department of Health. The videographer filmed her "Baking with the First Lady" clip that was posted in April as the pandemic ripped through New York City and residents observed stay at home orders.McCray, who has said she is considering running for Brooklyn borough president, is a highly involved volunteer for New York City and is not paid by the government. She runs the ThriveNYC program, which works to enhance mental health services for New Yorkers.The news of McCray's undisclosed staffers comes as her husband's administration prepares to lay off 22,000 city workers in October due to the fiscal crisis in the city caused by the coronavirus pandemic.


A man broke into an aquatic center in Arizona, got trapped in a water slide support pipe, and died before rescuers could get to him

Posted: 18 Aug 2020 09:24 AM PDT

A man broke into an aquatic center in Arizona, got trapped in a water slide support pipe, and died before rescuers could get to himA 31-year-old man identified by the Scottsdale Police Department as Ryan Kelly died at Eldorado Aquatic and Fitness Center on Monday.


Coronavirus in 'sustained decline' in Mexico, top official says

Posted: 18 Aug 2020 09:55 AM PDT

Coronavirus in 'sustained decline' in Mexico, top official saysThe coronavirus pandemic is now in "sustained decline" in Mexico after a significant drop in fatalities during the past week, the government's coronavirus czar Hugo Lopez-Gatell said on Tuesday. In the week through Aug. 17, Mexico's health ministry recorded 4,020 additional fatalities from the virus, a decline of almost 20% from the previous seven-day period. Deputy Health Minister Lopez-Gatell and President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador have made a series of declarations about how the government is winning the fight against the virus, even as the pandemic continues to hit new records in Mexico.


Hikers horrified as teen slips, plunges off rocks in South Dakota, officials say

Posted: 17 Aug 2020 12:12 PM PDT

Hikers horrified as teen slips, plunges off rocks in South Dakota, officials sayVideo shows hikers screaming as the teen tumbles from Falling Rock.


'Ask the family of Herman Cain,' DNC chair Perez says when asked opinion of live Trump campaign events

Posted: 18 Aug 2020 09:23 AM PDT

'Ask the family of Herman Cain,' DNC chair Perez says when asked opinion of live Trump campaign eventsDemocratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez invoked Herman Cain, who died of COVID-19, when asked about Trump's live campaign events.


Belarus President Sends SOS to Putin, Tells Protesters: You’ll Have to Kill Me to Get New Elections

Posted: 17 Aug 2020 03:45 AM PDT

Belarus President Sends SOS to Putin, Tells Protesters: You'll Have to Kill Me to Get New ElectionsThis doesn't sound like a man who's going to go quietly. Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko warned protesters Monday that he will not give in to their demands for a new presidential election—unless they assassinate him.Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in the capital city of Minsk over the weekend to protest against the disputed elections held earlier this month. Protesters have been infuriated by alleged poll-rigging and police violence at the ensuing protests, but Lukashenko has defied any suggestion that the vote could be re-run."We held elections already. Until you kill me, there will be no other elections," he was quoted by Belarusian media as saying during a visit to a tractor plant Monday morning. "You should never expect me to do something under pressure... They [new elections] won't happen."Lukashenko did appear to suggest that he would consider some kind of constitutional reform or even power-sharing but insisted his hand would not be forced by the protests. The man known as Europe's last dictator also reportedly told the workers that protesters had been tortured over the past week because they had attacked police. As the president spoke to what he must have thought would be a friendly audience, the workers chanted "Leave," and heckled him. Lukashenko, in the midst of an unprecedented public humiliation, eventually told the crowd he had finished and they could now shout, as he turned and stormed off stage.Lukashenko, Putin's Dictatorship Mentor, Moves to Crush the OppositionLukashenko's incendiary comments came after reports over the weekend that he had appealed to Vladimir Putin for help in saving his 26-year presidency. In calls to the Kremlin on Saturday and Sunday, he reportedly begged for assurance that Russia would help out with military assistance against unspecified external threats.The Kremlin later confirmed that Moscow would help in line with its collective military pact. However, Putin has not yet publicly backed Lukashenko, as the Russian president apparently waits to see how the protests and labor strikes play out this week and whether Lukashenko's position becomes completely untenable.Kremlin-watchers believe Lukashenko remaining in power but in a diminished capacity is Putin's favored outcome.The protests are showing no signs of slowing down. On Monday, state television staff walked out in protest against censorship and the election results. A bizarre state TV broadcast that went out early Monday morning showed nothing but empty news desks.The main challenger in the disputed presidential election released a new video Monday morning to say that she was prepared to take over the country's leadership after the wave of protests.Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, who left for Lithuania after she publicly denounced the contested election results, only stood for election after other candidates, including her husband, were jailed.She reportedly said, "I did not want to be a politician. But fate decreed that I'd find myself on the frontline of a confrontation against arbitrary rule and injustice... I am ready to take responsibility and act as a national leader during this period."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.


No immediate ruling on motion to dismiss Lee statue lawsuit

Posted: 18 Aug 2020 06:11 AM PDT

No immediate ruling on motion to dismiss Lee statue lawsuitA judge heard arguments Tuesday but did not immediately rule on whether to dismiss a lawsuit challenging Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's plans to remove an enormous statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee along Richmond's famed Monument Avenue. An injunction issued in the lawsuit currently prevents Northam's administration from moving forward with plans announced after the death of George Floyd to take down the bronze equestrian statue of Lee. Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring is seeking to have the lawsuit tossed and the injunction dissolved.


Up to 300 Pizza Hut locations are set to close in the aftermath of the chain's largest franchisee filing for bankruptcy

Posted: 17 Aug 2020 09:25 AM PDT

Up to 300 Pizza Hut locations are set to close in the aftermath of the chain's largest franchisee filing for bankruptcyNPC International announced it also plans to sell its Pizza Hut business, currently consisting of 20% of all Pizza Hut locations in the US.


Pelosi: Democrats willing to cut COVID-19 bill in half to get a deal

Posted: 18 Aug 2020 02:41 PM PDT

Pelosi: Democrats willing to cut COVID-19 bill in half to get a deal U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Tuesday that Congressional Democrats are willing to cut their COVID-19 relief bill in half to get an agreement on new legislation with the White House and Republicans.


Former CIA officer charged with spying for China

Posted: 17 Aug 2020 10:54 PM PDT

Former CIA officer charged with spying for ChinaIt is the latest espionage arrest at a time of growing tension between Washington and Beijing.


NYC mayor to move 13,000 homeless out of Manhattan hotels after residents' complaints

Posted: 18 Aug 2020 09:17 AM PDT

NYC mayor to move 13,000 homeless out of Manhattan hotels after residents' complaintsThousands of homeless in New York who had been given rooms at vacant hotels during the coronavirus outbreak are to be moved following complaints from residents. Bill de Blasio, the city's mayor, launched a program which saw the government pay 139 empty hotels to house some 13,000 homeless for $175 (£132) per person per night, to avoid Covid-19 outbreaks in overcrowded homeless shelters. However, local residents of Manhattan's Chelsea and the Upper West Side neighbourhoods say the decision has made streets more dangerous, complaining that intoxicated men are congregating on the street without masks, using drugs in public and getting into violent disputes. Others have reported incidents of assault and public exposure. "We see people inebriated, there are registered sex offenders," Alison Morpurgo, a member of the group Upper West Siders for Safer Streets, told NBC New York. "Sometimes I go running in the morning and I'll see needles on the ground," said the mother-of-three.


Falklands or Malvinas?

Posted: 18 Aug 2020 03:30 AM PDT

Falklands or Malvinas?On August 4, Argentina, the world's biggest deadbeat, announced that it had reached a deal with its creditors on its $65 billion worth of defaulted debt. The next day, the United Nations Decolonization Committee — the C24 — unanimously passed a resolution urging the United Kingdom and Argentina to resolve their differences over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands. Or, are they the Malvinas?For 187 years, the United Kingdom has controlled the Falkland Islands, a small archipelago off the coast of Argentina populated by 3,480 Falklanders. Argentina claims that the Falklands are part of Argentina and, in fact, are not even the Falklands, but the Malvinas. These claims have resulted in the U.K. and Argentina coming to blows. In 1982, the Argentines met their match in the person of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The Iron Lady was in no mood to be pushed around by Argentina. After being challenged by Argentina, she sent part of the British fleet down to the Falklands for a ten-week undeclared war that resulted in 900 casualties. In the end, the Falklands remained the Falklands.With the swearing in of President Alberto Fernandez on December 10, 2019, it became clear that Argentina would once again attempt to seize control of the territory. Indeed, Fernandez formally established the National Council of Affairs Relating to the Malvinas, South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime spaces on July 28. Its goal: to establish territorial control of the Falkland Islands for Argentina, once and for all.Just what advantages do the Falkland Islands provide Argentina?  Admittedly, since the "war," the Islands' small population diversified its economy away from its traditional (and unsatisfactory) dependence on sheep farming and British subsidies into fishing, thanks to a massive expansion in the Islands' fishing rights in 1986. Fishing now makes up between 50-60 percent of total GDP, and a tourism industry has developed. Nevertheless, the Falklands still rely on communications and supplies from neighboring nations to survive, and its annual GDP is only about $370 million. That said, Britain maintains a strong military presence on the archipelago and has recently declared that its new "multi-role combat aircraft," the Typhoon, will be employed there for defensive purposes in the near future.So, it seems that Argentina is entangling itself in a fight against a superior military power over a territory that provides little economic value. This, however, is a superficial reading of reality. While patriotic, populist sentiments in Buenos Aires flare up from time to time as a distraction from Argentina's domestic economic problems, that is only part of the current story. The crux of the recent Argentine challenge is found beneath the surface of the sea.Oil exploration and the discovery of hydrocarbon reserves around the Falkland Islands have accelerated considerably since 2012. Oil companies from Britain and Argentina are now vying intensely for hydrocarbon control. In 2015, an Argentine judge ordered the seizure of goods and assets worth $156,432,000 belonging to British multinationals drilling in the Falkland Islands, claiming it an "unlawful assertion of jurisdiction over the Falkland Islands' continental shelf." In 2019, the Argentine government issued a stern warning to British drilling companies Rockhopper PLC and Premier Oil over drilling on the shelf, claiming that they were violating international law. The formation of the National Council of Affairs Relating to the Malvinas, South Georgia, South Sandwich Islands and the surrounding maritime spaces is a clear reassertion by Argentina that the hydrocarbons and minerals of the Falkland Islands belong to Argentina in its own right.How should the conflicting claims over sovereignty and property rights be settled? Years ago, after the U.K–Argentina dust-up, Sir Alan Walters — Mrs. Thatcher's economic guru — and I developed a transparent market solution that bestowed voting rights upon the settlers of the Falkland Islands. This plan was delivered to Mrs. Thatcher by Sir Alan. We advocated a binding referendum in which qualified Falklanders would vote on whether to uphold the status quo (British rule) or to agree to an Argentine take-over. If the required super-majority of Falklanders (say, 80 percent) voted in favor of Argentine rule, the United Kingdom would peacefully transfer administration of the islands to the Argentine government. It's time for our proposal to be resurrected.Unlike the 2013 referendum, when Falklanders voted 1,513 to 3 in favor of remaining a U.K. overseas territory, the Walters-Hanke referendum would require compensation from Argentina to the Falklanders — who are English speakers and British by custom, institutions, and loyalties — should they choose to transfer sovereignty over their lands and resources to Argentina. The referendum would be designed so that Argentina would offer a cash incentive if the islanders voted in favor of Argentina's rule. Prior to the referendum, Argentina would deposit an amount (say, $20,000,000) in escrow in Swiss accounts for every person who can prove their Falkland Islands citizenship.If 80 percent of the Falklanders agreed to Argentine citizenship, Argentine sovereignty, and a name change from the Falklands to the Malvinas, the funds in escrow would be transferred directly to each Falklander. Since the archipelago has a population of roughly 3,480, the total escrowed amount would be $69.6 billion.The best way for the United Kingdom and Argentina to bury the hatchet about the Falklands is to embrace a market-based referendum in which the Falklanders themselves decide their own destiny.


Andrew Cuomo undercuts Democrats' message on coronavirus

Posted: 17 Aug 2020 07:26 PM PDT

Andrew Cuomo undercuts Democrats' message on coronavirusNew York Governor Andrew Cuomo spoke during the first night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention Monday. As was expected, he attacked President Trump's abysmal performance on containing the coronavirus pandemic. Our "current federal government is dysfunctional and incompetent," he said, correctly.Unfortunately, Cuomo is perhaps the single least credible person in the entire country to make this criticism. As I have outlined in detail previously, Cuomo frittered away weeks bickering with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio while the virus was spreading like wildfire in the New York City metro area, only locking down his state after it was too late. And as we have since learned, his decision to force nursing homes to accept COVID-19 cases almost certainly caused thousands and thousands more infections and deaths.Though New York has since largely gotten the outbreak under control, Cuomo's initial performance was a world-historical catastrophe. His state has the second-highest rate of COVID-19 fatalities of any in the country (just behind New Jersey, which was essentially part of the same outbreak). If it were its own country New York would have by far the highest death rate in the world. In a sense, Governor Cuomo was right to say, "government matters and leadership matters." His record is an object lesson in what happens when that job is done poorly.More stories from theweek.com TV networks are reportedly afraid of giving the RNC too much airtime, so they cut the DNC's time short too Bill Clinton is getting sidelined at the DNC Cuba Gooding Jr. accused of rape in lawsuit


Fleischer: Wise for Trump to have his foot on the gas during the DNC

Posted: 18 Aug 2020 10:41 AM PDT

Fleischer: Wise for Trump to have his foot on the gas during the DNCPresident Trump can't afford to lay low during the Democrat National Convention, Fox News contributor Ari Fleischer says as the president hits the campaign trail.


DNC adds Kerry Washington, Eva Longoria, Tracee Ellis Ross and Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Posted: 17 Aug 2020 02:23 PM PDT

DNC adds Kerry Washington, Eva Longoria, Tracee Ellis Ross and Julia Louis-DreyfusActresses Kerry Washington, Eva Longoria, Tracee Ellis Ross and Julia Louis-Dreyfus join an already star-studded lineup for the Democratic National Convention.


California requires ethnic studies for university system

Posted: 17 Aug 2020 08:40 PM PDT

These states require travelers to self-quarantine or present negative COVID-19 test

Posted: 18 Aug 2020 02:30 PM PDT

These states require travelers to self-quarantine or present negative COVID-19 testStates are opening back up, but some still require or recommend visitors self-quarantine for two weeks. Find out where.


FBI agents arrest Puerto Rican representative for alleged involvement in conspiracy to defraud to government

Posted: 17 Aug 2020 01:17 PM PDT

FBI agents arrest Puerto Rican representative for alleged involvement in conspiracy to defraud to governmentFBI agents have arrested Puerto Rico Representative María Milagros Charbonier over her alleged connection with a long-term conspiracy theory to defraud the government through means of bribery, theft, kickbacks and money laundering.A federal grand jury of the District of Puerto Rico returned a 13-count indictment against Ms Charbonier, as well as her husband Orland Montes-Rivera, their son Orland Gabriel Montes-Charbonier, and her assistant Frances Acevedo-Ceballos for their alleged participation in the conspiracy.


A same-sex infuencer couple are running a 'donor sperm giveaway' on Instagram, and people don't know how to feel

Posted: 17 Aug 2020 09:10 AM PDT

A same-sex infuencer couple are running a 'donor sperm giveaway' on Instagram, and people don't know how to feelWives Allie and Sam are giving their followers the chance to win "1 vial of donor sperm (of your choice)," with free shipping included.


Coronavirus: How many Covid-19 deaths is India missing?

Posted: 18 Aug 2020 02:53 AM PDT

Coronavirus: How many Covid-19 deaths is India missing?India's fatality rate has remained low as case counts rise. But that doesn't tell the whole story.


Jared Kushner says 'yes,' the US coronavirus death toll of 170,000 is a 'success story,' doubling down on comments from April

Posted: 17 Aug 2020 04:25 PM PDT

Jared Kushner says 'yes,' the US coronavirus death toll of 170,000 is a 'success story,' doubling down on comments from AprilWhen asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer if 170,000 coronavirus deaths in the US are a "success story," Jared Kushner immediately responded "Yes."


House Democrats consider new push on coronavirus relief

Posted: 18 Aug 2020 07:14 AM PDT

House Democrats consider new push on coronavirus reliefWith the House returning to deal with Postal Service funding, some Democrats are concerned about the stalemate over a bigger pandemic package.


China Looks to Leverage Coronavirus Vaccine Access to Secure Strategic Concessions from Other Nations

Posted: 18 Aug 2020 11:04 AM PDT

China Looks to Leverage Coronavirus Vaccine Access to Secure Strategic Concessions from Other NationsTop Beijing officials are promising certain countries, with whom they have strategic partnerships, early access to China's imminent coronavirus vaccines as they seek to repair their global image following criticism over their failure to contain the initial outbreak of the virus.The countries China is working with to produce vaccines and provide early access include Russia, Pakistan, the Phillippines, Brazil, and Indonesia. The details of China's negotiations with the countries remain unknown but are believed to be related to recognition of Beijing's territorial claims in the South China Sea.China's Foreign Ministry has struck a deal with the Philippines to provide them with priority access to a coronavirus vaccine developed in China, the Wall Street Journal reported.Meanwhile, China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd., which is ostensibly privately owned, has reached an agreement with Brazil and Indonesia to cooperate in producing hundreds of millions of doses of its vaccine for use in those countries.In Pakistan, the China National Pharmaceutical Group has agreed to conduct clinical trials in the country, and Pakistan will receive doses for about one-fifth of its 220 million population.Russia's health ministry must still approve a deal to produce a vaccine in Russia that was developed by China's military and the China-based CanSino Biologics Inc.Of the six global vaccine candidates in the final phases of clinical trials involving people, three are being developed in China. Last month, the U.S. began the world's largest vaccine study involving 30,000 volunteers, who will test doses of a vaccine developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna.China was swiftly criticized by the U.S., Britain, and other western countries for allowing the coronavirus outbreak which began in the Chinese city of Wuhan to spill across the country's borders and infect the rest of the world, causing a global pandemic.The pandemic damaged ongoing trade negotiations between the U.S. and China as the Trump administration laid the blame on Beijing for the global crisis."They could have stopped the plague. They could have stopped it. They didn't stop it," Trump said last month.


Cindy McCain is the latest Republican to speak on Biden’s behalf at convention

Posted: 18 Aug 2020 04:11 PM PDT

Cindy McCain is the latest Republican to speak on Biden's behalf at conventionHer late husband, Sen. John McCain, was a longtime friend of the former vice president's and openly feuded with President Donald Trump.


Splintered militants rejoin Pakistani Taliban, vow holy war

Posted: 17 Aug 2020 05:08 AM PDT

Coronavirus live updates: Notre Dame pauses in-person classes; Chicago's Navy Pier to close early; Mississippi reports cases in 71 counties

Posted: 18 Aug 2020 04:03 PM PDT

Coronavirus live updates: Notre Dame pauses in-person classes; Chicago's Navy Pier to close early; Mississippi reports cases in 71 countiesCOVID-19 is close to becoming the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. Notre Dame pauses in-person classes. Mississippi cases. Latest updates.


Rapper who filmed girlfriend dying after taking drugs at Bestival has manslaughter conviction overturned

Posted: 18 Aug 2020 03:18 AM PDT

Rapper who filmed girlfriend dying after taking drugs at Bestival has manslaughter conviction overturnedRapper Ceon Broughton, who gave his girlfriend drugs at a music festival and then filmed her as she lay dying rather than getting help, has had his conviction for manslaughter quashed by the Court of Appeal. Louella Fletcher-Michie, the daughter of Holby City actor John Michie, died after taking the hallucinogenic class A drug 2-CP at the Bestival music festival in September 2017. Her 31-year-old boyfriend was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison after he was found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter in February last year. But the Court of Appeal overturned the conviction after his lawyers argued that the jury could not be sure Miss Fletcher-Michie would have survived if she had received medical attention.


Democrats backtrack and remove demand to end fossil fuel tax breaks from platform

Posted: 18 Aug 2020 03:30 PM PDT

Democrats backtrack and remove demand to end fossil fuel tax breaks from platformIn the midst of the convention, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) has dropped from its party platform a demand for no more oil and gas subsidies and tax breaks, Huffington Post reported on Tuesday.The statement - "Democrats support eliminating tax breaks and subsidies for fossil fuels, and will fight to defend and extend tax incentives for energy efficiency and clean energy" - originally appeared as an amendment to party demands last month and was approved, the report said.


'I totally am preparing to get sick': Teachers in coronavirus hotspots don't know when they'll feel safe returning to school

Posted: 17 Aug 2020 09:04 AM PDT

'I totally am preparing to get sick': Teachers in coronavirus hotspots don't know when they'll feel safe returning to schoolDespite plans to reopen, teachers in states like Texas and Florida told Insider that they're concerned about going back to the classroom.


Right-wing militia pulls out of event with New Mexico Republicans, citing 'blatantly racist' remarks from some speakers

Posted: 17 Aug 2020 08:42 PM PDT

Right-wing militia pulls out of event with New Mexico Republicans, citing 'blatantly racist' remarks from some speakersThe New Mexico Civil Guard, whose founder is a neo-Confederate with a swastika tattoo, said it does not want to


Gun Safety Issues Helped Democrats Flip Virginia's General Assembly in 2019. Is Texas Next?

Posted: 18 Aug 2020 10:50 AM PDT

Gun Safety Issues Helped Democrats Flip Virginia's General Assembly in 2019. Is Texas Next?'The pandemic has exacerbated this crisis'


China welcomes Putin's proposed summit on Iran

Posted: 17 Aug 2020 02:44 AM PDT

China welcomes Putin's proposed summit on IranChina welcomed on Monday to Russian President Vladimir Putin's proposed summit of world leaders to avoid "confrontation" over a U.S. threat to trigger a return of all U.N. sanctions on Iran. The United States lost a bid on Friday to extend a U.N. arms embargo on Iran. Russia and China opposed extending the weapons ban, which is due to expire in October under a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.


Ohio police officer anonymously sues those who accused him of racist gesture

Posted: 18 Aug 2020 05:33 PM PDT

Ohio police officer anonymously sues those who accused him of racist gestureA Cincinnati police officer has sued several people who have accused him of racist behavior in the wake of the protests this summer.


World's largest naval exercise sparks more friction between US and China

Posted: 17 Aug 2020 03:14 AM PDT

World's largest naval exercise sparks more friction between US and ChinaThe world's largest naval exercise begins off the coast of Hawaii on Monday as diplomatic tensions escalate between the US and its allies and China over Beijing's territorial ambitions in the Indo-Pacific region. Several countries participating in the joint exercises, billed by the US navy as strengthening alliances to "ensure a free and open Indo-Pacific" have raised concerns about China's attempts to assert its control over critical trade routes and waterways. They include Australia, Japan, the Philippines and India. The coronavirus pandemic has forced the biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) event, hosted by the US Pacific Fleet, to scale down from 25 to 11 nations, about 20 ships and 5,300 personnel, and its drills, which will now only be conducted at sea, have been whittled down from the usual five weeks to two. However, the exercises have riled Beijing, which was not invited to participate, despite taking part in 2014 and 2016. China was disinvited in 2018 by the Trump administration which accused it of militarising disputed areas of the South China Sea.


Chinese diplomats return from Houston consulate shut by US

Posted: 17 Aug 2020 07:28 PM PDT

Chinese diplomats return from Houston consulate shut by USThe staff of the Chinese consulate in Houston that was ordered shut by the U.S. government has returned to China. Wearing face masks because of the coronavirus pandemic, they were greeted on the tarmac by Foreign Minister Wang Yi after disembarking from a chartered Air China flight in Beijing on Monday night. "You have resolutely safeguarded the core interests, the dignity of the country and the legitimate rights of China's overseas institutions under very difficult, even dangerous, conditions," he said.


Diamond and Silk suggest Fox News is racist for dumping them over COVID-19 conspiracies that were also embraced by white hosts like Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity

Posted: 17 Aug 2020 07:42 AM PDT

Diamond and Silk suggest Fox News is racist for dumping them over COVID-19 conspiracies that were also embraced by white hosts like Tucker Carlson and Sean HannityLynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson were hired by the network in late 2018 to make videos for Fox Nation. Their contract was ended in April 2020.


Scientists Just Discovered 11 New Penguin Colonies (From Space!)

Posted: 17 Aug 2020 11:00 AM PDT

Scientists Just Discovered 11 New Penguin Colonies (From Space!)It's a bird breakthrough.


Russia jails anti-Kremlin activist over Putin mannequin stunt

Posted: 18 Aug 2020 08:28 AM PDT

Carter Page: Clinesmith guilty plea is 'tip of the iceberg' in FBI wrongdoing

Posted: 18 Aug 2020 05:53 AM PDT

Carter Page: Clinesmith guilty plea is 'tip of the iceberg' in FBI wrongdoingFormer foreign policy adviser to President Trump Carter Page reviews what happened to him and talks about other FBI wrongdoing during his tenure with the administration. He says ex-FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith's hearing is a 'turning point for justice in our country.'


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