| Why Trump should wait until after the election to announce a COVID-19 vaccine Posted: 04 Sep 2020 02:32 PM PDT  In recent days, experts have become increasingly convinced — and alarmed — that President Trump is pushing to cut corners and rush the release of a COVID-19 vaccine before Nov. 3 to improve his chances in the election.
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| A Texas woman's body caught on fire after she used an 'off-brand' hand sanitizer and lit a candle in her home Posted: 05 Sep 2020 12:22 PM PDT  The mother of three ended up in an intensive care unit with major burns after her body and home caught on fire, according to local news.
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| Soldier from Key West killed in military vehicle crash in Texas Posted: 04 Sep 2020 12:51 PM PDT  A decorated U.S. Army soldier from Key West was killed in a military vehicle crash in Texas last week, according to reports by the Army Times and Stars and Stripes .
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| Jessica Krug will not teach this semester, George Washington University says Posted: 05 Sep 2020 03:51 AM PDT  Jessica Krug admitted in a blog post that she was a white Jewish woman from Kansas City.
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| California's oldest state park, home to iconic redwoods, expects to close for year due to fires Posted: 04 Sep 2020 06:55 PM PDT  The California State Parks Department has confirmed to USA TODAY that Big Basin Redwoods State Park is expected to close for a year due to wildfires.
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| Mexico's largest cartel 'arming consumer drones with explosives' in turf war Posted: 05 Sep 2020 08:07 AM PDT  Mexico's fastest growing drug cartel has developed drones laden with C4 explosives in the latest sign the country is losing control of an escalating cartel warfare. Fears are growing that the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) are morphing into narco terrorism as Mexico deals with a bloody battle for territory and drug supply routes into the US. Mexico's General Attorney's Office reported finding drones and the components needed to weaponise them during a search and seizure operation, and is now pursuing terrorism charges against the fast rising CJNG. CJNG split off from the Sinaloa Cartel, belonging to now-US prisoner Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, around 2010, and today it has expanded its territorial control over nearly the entire country in an escalating wave of violence with rival organisations. While both Mexico and the United States have actively arrested and extradited hundreds of cartel members and leaders, over the years the strategy has only caused cartels to fragment and regroup in new, often more violent, organisations. El Chapo, who famously broke out of prison twice, on Saturday appealed against his life sentence handed down a year ago by a US court for trafficking hundreds of tons of narcotics into the country. The end of El Chapo far from spelled the end of cartel violence in Mexico.
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| Biden lashes out at Trump over reports the president called military service members 'suckers' and 'losers' Posted: 04 Sep 2020 11:53 AM PDT  Speaking to reporters on Friday, former Vice President Joe Biden slammed President Trump over an Atlantic magazine story that reported he called members of the U.S. military "suckers" and "losers," asking, "Who the heck does he think he is?"
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| A massive 164-feet deep crater suddenly opened up on Siberia's Arctic tundra and it could be the result of an explosion triggered by climate change, scientists say Posted: 05 Sep 2020 06:48 AM PDT  The crater was accidentally discovered by a Russian film crew as they were flying over the Yamal peninsula on an unrelated assignment.
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| Pelosi, Mnuchin reach agreement to avert a government shutdown, still at an impasse on COVID-19 deal Posted: 04 Sep 2020 03:01 AM PDT  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin have reached an informal deal to prevent the federal government from shutting down on Oct. 1, USA Today and Politico report. The agreement would extend existing funding levels until after the Nov. 3 election, probably through mid-December. Mnuchin and Pelosi came to their understanding on Tuesday while talking on the phone about a COVID-19 economic relief bill, USA Today reports. The two sides are still billions of dollars apart on a COVID-19 package.Pelosi and Mnuchin did not "explicitly discuss" folding COVID-19 relief into the continuing resolution and also "did not rule it out," USA Today says. Congress has only a few weeks to pass any legislation before the election, and the compressed time frame might "force lawmakers' hands" on a COVID-19 bill, says George Washington University political scientist Sarah Binder. Either way, "nobody really wants to be blamed" for the "catastrophic blow" of another government shutdown in the middle of a pandemic."When senators return next week, they are expected to vote on the GOP's 'skinny' (i.e. stripped-down) COVID relief bill — they're going to call it 'targeted,' because some think skinny sounds bad," Politico reported Wednesday. ("It would be more appropriate to call it 'emaciated,'" Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Thursday.) "Remember: This bill is not meant to become law, but rather to serve as a marker for where Senate Republicans stand when negotiations begin in earnest," Politico adds. "Senate Republicans have yet to garner 51 votes for anything, so this is a step in the right direction for them."And things can still go awry with the Pelosi-Mnuchin plan to avert a government shutdown. "There are, at most, 11 days in session for the two sides to pass government funding, and solve the stimulus riddle that's had Pelosi, Mnuchin, and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows tied up for months," Politico notes. "That's not much time."More stories from theweek.com 2020 Kentucky Derby horse names, ranked Fox News journalist Trump wants fired over reports on his alleged U.S. troops insults: 'My sources are unimpeachable' John Bolton 'didn't hear' Trump's reported comments disparaging troops but says they're not out of character
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| A Ukrainian airline banned a passenger for life after she opened a jet's emergency exit door and walked around on the wing Posted: 04 Sep 2020 08:51 AM PDT  Passengers reportedly heard the passenger complain that she was "too hot" and opened the emergency exit to cool down.
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| 'Not a white guy named Edison': Biden claims a black man invented the light bulb Posted: 04 Sep 2020 08:37 AM PDT  During his visit to Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Thursday, Democratic candidate Joe Biden claimed that a "black guy invented the lightbulb, not a white guy named Edison".Mr Biden made the claim in a section of a speech delivered at the Grace Lutheran Church following his meeting with the family of Jacob Blake, the black man shot seven times by a police officer in August.
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| Chinese students face increased scrutiny at US airports Posted: 04 Sep 2020 04:23 PM PDT  As US-China relations sour further, some young Chinese visitors are being accused of technology theft.
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| No sign of end to Far East anti-Kremlin rallies after nearly two months Posted: 05 Sep 2020 07:08 AM PDT  Weekly rallies against the Kremlin in Russia's Far East showed no sign of ending after nearly two months, with around 10,000 people taking to the streets on Saturday in one of the longest-lasting movements of provincial discontent of the Putin era. Residents of Khabarovsk started holding weekly rallies after the July 9 detention of Sergei Furgal, the region's popular governor, over murder charges he denies.
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| Armed men arrested after traveling from Missouri to Kenosha to 'see for themselves,' FBI says Posted: 05 Sep 2020 11:46 AM PDT  Michael Karmo and Cody Smith were arrested near Kenosha on gun possession charges.
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| Trump's new coronavirus adviser uses made-up statistics and false claims to praise White House pandemic response Posted: 04 Sep 2020 01:05 PM PDT  In recent days, Dr. Scott Atlas has eclipsed Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx as Trump's most visible, and presumably trusted, coronavirus adviser.
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| A massive wave capsized a cargo ship loaded with 6,000 cattle off the coast of Japan, said surviving crew member Posted: 05 Sep 2020 12:26 AM PDT  The Gulf Livestock 1, with 43 crew onboard, sent a distress signal from the East China Sea on Wednesday night after it was caught up in Typhoon Masak.
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| Hurricane Center watching 3 systems. But that’s not why Labor Day could bust in Miami Posted: 05 Sep 2020 06:01 AM PDT  The National Hurricane Center is eyeing several systems in the Atlantic.
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| Judge bans Detroit police tactics against protesters Posted: 05 Sep 2020 11:23 AM PDT  A federal judge late Friday temporarily barred Detroit police from using tear gas, rubber bullets, batons, shields, chokeholds or sound cannons against peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters after a group accused the city for excessive force. U.S. District Court Judge Laurie Michelson partially granted a temporary restraining order filed Monday by Detroit Will Breathe against the city of Detroit, accusing police of using excessive force to deter protesters from practicing their free speech rights.
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| China complicit in bypassing UN sanctions to launder North Korean money, report suggests Posted: 03 Sep 2020 10:47 PM PDT  A new investigation into companies trading in the Chinese city of Dandong, on the border with North Korea, has shed a spotlight on Pyongyang's global money laundering networks and raised fresh questions about China's complicity in bypassing United Nations sanctions against Kim Jong-un's regime. "The Billion Dollar Border Town," a report published on Friday by the Royal United Services Institute, reveals how companies in Dandong, in China's northeast Liaoning province, have allegedly helped North Korean entities construct complex sanctions evasion networks across various jurisdictions. Data obtained by researchers indicated a small core of 150 companies was involved in $2.9 billion worth of shipments between September 2014 and February 2017, at a time when North Korea was escalating its nuclear and weapons programmes and the UN imposed wide-ranging sanctions in response. As a result, these 150 companies alone could have accounted for around 20 per cent of North Korea's total reported global trade value in that time period. "These include multiple Dandong firms being involved in coal and iron imports even as ever more stringent measures on such commodities were imposed by the UN Security Council in 2016 and 2017," said Joseph Byrne, a research analyst at RUSI's Proliferation and Nuclear Policy Team, and one of the report's authors.
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| Texas mom severely burned after hand sanitizer catches fire Posted: 04 Sep 2020 03:40 AM PDT  "It's something that you never want your kids to see," Kate Wise said.
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| India crosses four million coronavirus cases with record surge Posted: 04 Sep 2020 11:38 PM PDT  India's total coronavirus cases surged beyond 4 million with a record rise on Saturday, making it the third country in the world to surpass that mark, following the United States and Brazil. India added 86,432 cases of the new virus on Saturday, a global daily record, according to data from the federal health ministry. The jump to more than 4 million cases comes only 13 days after India reached 3 million cases, accelerating sharply from the more than 100 days it took to increase by the previous 1 million.
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| Disabled protester in wheelchair accuses Portland police of trying to ‘break his arms’ while arresting him Posted: 04 Sep 2020 09:37 AM PDT  A disabled protester arrested by Portland police while in his wheelchair, has accused officers of "trying to break" his arms.Dustin Brandon, 35, who is also a comedian and cannabis-rights campaigner, said he was was arrested for the first time this week, despite having attended almost each of the near 100 nights of protests, triggered by the killing by Minneapolis police of George Floyd.
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| A car plowed through Black Lives Matter protesters in Times Square, and the NYPD had to deny accusations it was one of its unmarked vehicles Posted: 04 Sep 2020 03:06 AM PDT  The police told local media that the driver was involved in a separate pro-Trump rally that crossed paths with the Black Lives Matter protesters.
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| Kentucky congressman defends teen accused in protest deaths Posted: 04 Sep 2020 03:12 PM PDT |
| A Florida congresswoman was blocked from visiting two USPS mail sorting facilities amid concerns for delayed mail delivery Posted: 05 Sep 2020 08:44 AM PDT  "Denying Congress access to the facilities is denying the vital public oversight of our mail system," Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz told NBC News.
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| Four years later, some Pennsylvania Trump fans still fired up Posted: 04 Sep 2020 09:30 AM PDT  In pro-Donald Trump areas of Pennsylvania, long a state Democrats thought they could rely on, some supporters of the Republican president say they are more enthusiastic than ever, and will work to reelect the incumbent who they say kept his promises.
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| Chris Stirewalt reacts to Biden answering reporter questions: ‘Shamefully embarrassing’ Posted: 04 Sep 2020 11:38 AM PDT  Fox News political editor Chris Stirewalt weighs in on former Vice President Joe Biden delivering remarks on 'the economic crisis that has been worsened' by Trump and answering reporter questions.
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| World facing 'pandemic era' with barrage of new diseases to come Posted: 04 Sep 2020 05:26 AM PDT  Covid-19 is a sign that humanity has entered a "pandemic era" and is likely to face a cascade of other dangerous diseases, the US government's top infectious disease expert has warned. Human activity is greatly contributing to the emergence of new diseases and scientific advances will not alone be able to stop them, warned Anthony Fauci and epidemiologist David Morens. The emergence of potentially deadly viruses, like SARS in 2002 from a civet cat, MERS in 2012 from a camel, and now Covid-19, is likely to continue. These recent viruses skipping from animals to humans suggests they "are only the latest examples of a deadly barrage of coming coronavirus and other emergences," the authors wrote in Cell, a scientific journal. Pandemics have arisen throughout human history, but as societies get larger and more complicated " we create an endless variety of opportunities for genetically unstable infectious agents to emerge". The authors from National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said while that situation was not new, "we now live in a human-dominated world in which our increasingly extreme alterations of the environment induce increasingly extreme backlashes from nature". The new coronavirus has upended life in the past eight months and killed well over 800,000 people and infected more than 26 million. Those figures are thought to be extensive undercounts, while lockdown precautions to halt its spread put economies into hibernation and caused huge financial losses. A vaccine is thought to be months off, with some health officials saying it is not expected for at least a year. Yet the authors argue that medical advances may not be enough to fend off a coming wave of diseases. "Science will surely bring us many life-saving drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics," the paper said. "However, there is no reason to think that these alone can overcome the threat of ever more frequent and deadly emergences of infectious diseases." The arrival of the pandemic was a reminder that "in a human-dominated world, in which our human activities represent aggressive, damaging, and unbalanced interactions with nature, we will increasingly provoke new disease emergences", the paper said. Dr Fauci has become a household name in the US for his analysis and guidance during the pandemic, but has frequently been at odds with Donald Trump. The paper said that humanity remained at risk for the foreseeable future. "Covid-19 is among the most vivid wake-up calls in over a century. It should force us to begin to think in earnest and collectively about living in more thoughtful and creative harmony with nature, even as we plan for nature's inevitable, and always unexpected, surprises," it concluded.
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| Democrats bash decision to reject Miami Heat’s offer of AA Arena as an early-voting site Posted: 05 Sep 2020 11:30 AM PDT  Two of Miami-Dade's leading Democratic candidates stood on a street corner outside the AmericanAirlines Arena on Saturday and denounced Mayor Carlos Gimenez's decision to reject the Miami Heat's offer to use the facility as an early-voting site and instead use a nearby museum with easy access to the city's Metromover system.
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| India open to raising duties on auto imports to boost local production Posted: 04 Sep 2020 07:58 AM PDT  India is open to raising duties on auto imports in a phased manner in a bid to boost domestic production, a minister said on Friday, as the country's car industry set a target to halve imports of components within five years. Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said raising duties was "not a bad idea" to discourage automakers from importing car kits, comprised of partially or completely knocked down vehicles, and using India only as an assembly base to get market share there. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government wants companies to reduce imports, increase domestic production and play a bigger role in the global supply chain in an effort to make the country more self-reliant.
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| Ohio woman falsely called police on Black man using his phone, said he was carrying a gun Posted: 05 Sep 2020 08:40 AM PDT  A woman had called the Ravenna Police Department from a dentist's office across the street and said a man was sitting in a black Mustang with a gun.
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| Driver speeds through Black Lives Matter protesters in Times Square Posted: 04 Sep 2020 03:49 AM PDT  At least two people were reportedly injured by a car speeding through a Black Lives Matter demonstration in New York City last night after the police separated protesters from supporters of Donald Trump.It follows a series of similar incidents across the US where trucks and cars have been deliberately driven into protests — with far-right groups and activists recommending the tactic to each other and spreading memes featuring offensive slogans like "All Lives Splatter".
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| Analysis: China's rise takes the world into uncharted waters Posted: 03 Sep 2020 09:25 PM PDT  Twice in the 20th century, Japan challenged the West, first in a military-led attempt to become an imperial power and then as an industrial powerhouse. Now it is China's turn to take the global stage. Seventy-five years after Japan's surrender in World War II, and 30 years after its economic bubble popped, the emergence of a 21st century Asian power is shaking up the status quo.
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| Hundreds of bags of cannabis fell from the sky in Israel, dropped by a 'green drone' on a Tel Aviv square Posted: 05 Sep 2020 08:46 AM PDT  People rushed to scoop up the free cannabis that was scattered in Rabin Square, from a drone flown by a pro-legalization group.
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| El Salvador granted favours to jailed gang leaders, report says Posted: 04 Sep 2020 05:37 PM PDT  The jailed leaders were asked to reduce violence and support the president, a media report says.
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| 11 freshmen at Northeastern were dismissed for violating COVID-19 rules. Their $35,000 tuition won't be reimbursed. Posted: 04 Sep 2020 05:21 PM PDT  The students were dismissed after they were reportedly caught gathering without masks or socially distancing in a room designated for two people only.
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| Labour MP Dawn Butler condemned after praising Extinction Rebellion for 'excellent work' Posted: 05 Sep 2020 04:09 AM PDT  A Labour MP has been condemned after praising Extinction Rebellion for 'excellent work' after they blocked the printworks of most of Britain's major newspapers. Dawn Butler, the Member of Parliament for Brent, tweeted applause for the attack on the free press, after the blockade meant many were unable to receive their newspapers, including The Telegraph, this morning. Some questioned whether she would be sanctioned by the Labour leadership for her tweet, which was hastily deleted after she received thousands of angry replies. Conservative MP for Guildford Angela Richardson responded, tweeting: "Anyone who applauds this behaviour genuinely fails to understand the gravity of this action. It's utterly unacceptable."
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| FBI, spy agencies will not say if attending U.S. House election security briefing Posted: 04 Sep 2020 12:35 PM PDT |
| Mississippi AG drops case against Curtis Flowers, a Black man who was tried 6 times for same crime Posted: 04 Sep 2020 04:41 PM PDT  Mississippi's Attorney General Office is dropping its case against Curtis Flowers, a Black man who was tried six times for the same crime.
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| China's Xi promises more market opening at trade fair Posted: 04 Sep 2020 08:19 PM PDT  President Xi Jinping pledged to open China's service industries wider to foreign competitors as its first in-person trade fair since the coronavirus outbreak opened under intensive anti-disease controls. China will "relax market access for service industries" and "actively expand imports of high-quality services," Xi said at the China International Fair for Trade in Services. Most exhibitors from abroad are participating via the internet because Beijing has yet to relax curbs that bar most foreign visitors from the country.
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| 'Get him out of here’: Donald Trump demanded UK ambassador leave US after leaked cables showed diplomat criticising him Posted: 05 Sep 2020 09:19 AM PDT  Donald Trump demanded the removal of the UK's ambassador to the US after leaked cables showed the diplomat criticising him, according to former US national security advisor John Bolton.Mr Trump ordered that Kim Darroch be made to leave Washington, Mr Bolton claims.
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| If Biden doesn't win election in a landslide will Americans go to war? Posted: 05 Sep 2020 04:46 AM PDT  Should Americans be prepared for battle depending on the presidential election results? New York Post columnist Miranda Devine offers insight.
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| 'Assassins tried to kill my mother right in front of me, twice' Posted: 04 Sep 2020 05:23 PM PDT  Shuhra Koofi has witnessed two attempts to kill her mother Fawzia Koofi, a longstanding Taliban critic.
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