| Elderly couple kidnapped, smuggled into Canada and held hostage by ‘cocaine ring' Posted: 07 Oct 2020 03:44 PM PDT  'My understanding from the family is that they're shook up, but doing fine,' says friend Justus Martin
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| Pence evades Roe v. Wade question by bringing up Soleimani, praising Barrett Posted: 07 Oct 2020 07:41 PM PDT  Vice President Mike Pence made it clear Tuesday night during the vice presidential debate that he is "pro-life" and "won't apologize for it." But he was more evasive on an earlier question about whether he would support his home state of Indiana banning all abortions, should Roe v. Wade get overturned by the Supreme Court.Pence began using his response time by addressing a topic related to a previous question -- the assassination of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, which was ordered by President Trump earlier this year -- and then, when turning back to the more recent query, he altered the topic slightly to praise Judge Amy Coney Barrett, whose nomination for the Supreme Court has raised speculation about the fate of Roe. But the vice president never explicitly addressed his stance on the matter. > Susan Page: "If Roe V. Wade was overturned what would you want Indiana to do? Would you want your home state to ban all abortions?"> > Pence: Let me talk about Soleimani... pic.twitter.com/ja6WYRo3QL> > -- Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) October 8, 2020More stories from theweek.com Mike Pence was the unlikely winner of the vice presidential debate The myth of Mike Pence's appeal Trump is shockingly bad at this
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| A Florida Keys girl was being attacked by pit bulls. Her neighbor is getting a medal Posted: 08 Oct 2020 02:08 PM PDT  When his neighbor was in danger one day in 2018, Donald Lowrie raced right into the fight. Now Lowrie, 50, is being celebrated as a national hero for rescuing the 8-year-old girl who was being attacked in her home by two pit bulls. Lowrie is one of 17 people awarded the 2020 Carnegie medal, which recognizes people who have risked their lives trying to save others.
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| Pham Doan Trang: Vietnam arrests leading pro-democracy blogger Posted: 07 Oct 2020 12:08 PM PDT  Pham Doan Trang is accused of anti-state activities, which could see her jailed for years.
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| "Jump ball": Cook Political Report shifts Lindsey Graham's Senate race to a "toss-up" Posted: 07 Oct 2020 07:47 PM PDT  "Jaime is peaking at exactly the right time, and he's got a deluge of money," a state Republican strategist says
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| Trump's spy chief declassified a slew of documents that national security veterans say were part of an effort to boost the president's Russia claims Posted: 06 Oct 2020 09:05 PM PDT  Former officials accused intelligence chief John Ratcliffe of selectively declassifying information that could compromise US sources and methods.
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| Harris attacks Trump for failing to condemn white supremacists: ‘It wasn’t like he didn’t have a chance. He didn’t do it and then he doubled down.’ Posted: 07 Oct 2020 08:06 PM PDT  Sen. Kamala Harris on Wednesday said that President Trump had had the opportunity to condemn white supremacy, but "he didn't do it — and then he doubled down."
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| Experts: Ballistics report shows Louisville officer was shot by Breonna Taylor's boyfriend, not by 'friendly fire' Posted: 08 Oct 2020 05:45 PM PDT  Experts say Breonna Taylor's boyfriend must have been the one to shoot a Louisville officer because no one else fired the same type of ammunition.
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| Facebook finds pro-Trump group helped make hundreds of accounts to spam comments with attacks on Biden Posted: 08 Oct 2020 10:39 AM PDT  Social media giant finds Turning Point USA enlisted marketing group for 'coordinated inauthentic behavior' campaign, Facebook says
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| Transgender woman's killing in Georgia marks "grim milestone" Posted: 07 Oct 2020 11:12 AM PDT  Felycya Harris, a beloved interior decorator and dancer, is being remembered by friends for her upbeat personality.
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| Affirmative action debate ignores Asian American community college students Posted: 08 Oct 2020 06:34 AM PDT  As California votes on affirmative action, nearly half the state's AAPI students who start off at community colleges would benefit, advocates say.
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| McConnell to Defend Barrett from ‘Self-Parodying’ Media’s Attacks on Her Faith: ‘Definition of Discrimination’ Posted: 07 Oct 2020 08:34 AM PDT  Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell is set to blast critics of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett's religious views in planned remarks on the Senate floor on Wednesday, calling the media's attacks on her Catholic beliefs the "definition of discrimination."The Kentucky Republican plans to call the "ongoing attacks by Senate Democrats and the media" a "disgrace," according to Politico Playbook."Only our self-parodying liberal media would call it a scandal that a young person in graduate school found community in shared religious beliefs and met their future spouse," McConnell's planned remarks say. "Most Americans would call that a beautiful story. … Every Supreme Court Justice in history has possessed personal views. Judges have a job to do and they swear to do it impartially.""It is the definition of discrimination to assert that Justice Barrett's particular faith makes her uniquely unqualified for this promotion," the statement concludes.The 48-year-old Notre Dame law professor and conservative Catholic mother of seven children, including two adopted children from Haiti, has been repeatedly attacked by Democrats and the media over her Catholic beliefs. Some have compared her purported membership in People of Praise to the dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale. Barrett's religious background was also center-stage in her 2017 confirmation hearing for the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals when Senator Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) criticized her religious views."Why is it that so many of us on this side have this very uncomfortable feeling that, you know, dogma and law are two different things? And I think whatever a religion is, it has its own dogma," Feinstein said. "The law is totally different, and I think in your case, professor, when you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you, and that's of concern."However, even some Democrats have criticized the party's scrutiny of Barrett's beliefs, including Senator Joe Manchin (D., W. Va.) who has said "religion should not enter into" the conversation over who would fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He said it's "awful to bring in religion." In an appearance on Fox News on Tuesday, McConnell defended Barrett, as well as his decision to go forward with her confirmation hearing on October 12 amid Democrats' calls to delay the hearing until it can be held in person."It's about time we quit talking about the process and talk about the nominee herself," he said. "[Barrett's' an absolute sterling choice. The president could not have picked a better nominee … Quintessentially American. It's a great success story."Vice presidential nominee Senator Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) called for the hearing to be delayed this week after a number of White House staff and Senate Republicans contracted the coronavirus. McConnell accused Democrats of using the outbreak as "another effort to delay the process on this outstanding Supreme Court nominee."The Senate minority leader said there is "nothing" that he can foresee preventing Barrett's confirmation ahead of the November 3 election. "We've been operating successfully with masking and social distancing since May," he said. "We're going to continue to operate. The American people are entitled to it and that's what we are going to do."
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| Crucial radar that failed during Laura is down for Delta. ‘You’re operating blindly.’ Posted: 07 Oct 2020 01:32 PM PDT  "When you lose data, when you lose radar like you did in Mobile and Pensacola, you have no idea what's happening, plus you have no record of what's occurred. You're operating blindly."
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| New York City set to impose new COVID-19 closures despite Orthodox Jewish protests Posted: 07 Oct 2020 11:34 AM PDT  New York City will begin enforcing new shutdown rules on businesses and schools in coronavirus hot spots on Thursday that have already triggered angry protests from a small contingent of Orthodox Jews in one of the affected areas. Mayor Bill de Blasio first announced his plan to tamp down outbreaks in parts of Brooklyn and Queens on Sunday after the rate of positive coronavirus tests in some neighborhoods exceeded 3% for seven straight days. De Blasio's decision to delineate the neighborhoods where closures would be enforced using postal ZIP codes drew scorn from New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a fellow Democrat with whom he has often feuded.
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| Israel's 'kamikaze' drones give Azerbaijan advantage over Armenia Posted: 07 Oct 2020 05:58 AM PDT  Israel has handed Azerbaijan the upper hand in its war with Armenia over the breakaway enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh by selling it drone weapons Armenian forces have little defence against. In the recent flare-up of fighting, Azerbaijan has used Israeli-made 'kamikaze drones' that can take out Armenian tank and artillery positions dug into Nagorno-Karabakh's mountainous terrain. Because they held strategic high ground, the tanks and artillery had previously made the enclave's defences almost impossible for Azerbaijani forces to recapture. This might bring an end to nearly 30 years of rough stalemate in the conflict, which began in 1988 when Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh fought to secede from Azerbaijan. The drones – also known as 'loitering drones' – can circle a target for hours and then dive down to self-destruct with a payload of explosives. While Israel maintains diplomatic relations with both Muslim-majority Azerbaijan (although it a secular state) and Christian Armenia, their sale has now become a contentious issue. Last week, Armenia withdrew its ambassador to Israel in protest at "Israel's supply of ultra-modern weapons to Azerbaijan". The move was seen by diplomats as a tacit admission that Armenian forces are suffering heavy losses in the conflict, which has already claimed at least 260 lives. Commanders in Nagorno-Karabakh have confirmed at least 160 military deaths, while Azerbaijan has not given out casualty figures.
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| Slippery Mike Pence shows he's no different than Trump Posted: 07 Oct 2020 09:58 PM PDT  On Wednesday night, perhaps the most theoretically consequential vice-presidential debate in history took place. Kamala Harris represented a probable successor to Joe Biden, who at 78 would be the oldest first-term president in history.Meanwhile, Vice President Mike Pence may well have to take over in a matter of days for President Trump, who is sick with COVID-19, 74 years old, obese, and has heart disease. Indeed, Pence himself quite possibly also has the virus. He was present at the likely super-spreader event, and though he has tested negative, it can take several days for the disease to progress enough to be detected. (Pence also looked ill, with bloodshot eyes that may be a symptom of infection.)Yet the debate told the American people very little about how either of them would govern as president. Harris evaded her fair share of questions, but Pence was worse by far. He dodged practically every single question, and lied constantly about nearly every subject of discussion. If he does indeed become president, we know what to expect: more of the same.Pence is not as boorish and uncouth as Trump, but he is every bit the dissembler. His signature debate technique is to refuse to answer any question, either by bringing up different topics entirely or by throwing up a lot of chaff. Then when his opponent makes any point, true or otherwise, he smarmily shakes his head while saying "that's not true." It's what he did with Tim Kaine four years ago and it's what he did this time.Three topics in particular stood out. When the moderator asked about whether Trump's Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barrett would overturn Roe vs. Wade, Pence pivoted to Iran, and then to a maudlin pity party about an imaginary parade of liberal attacks against Barrett's religion. It was clear he did not want to speak his true belief, that abortion should be illegal — probably because that position is horribly unpopular.When the moderator brought up the subject of whether climate change was causing weather disasters, Pence immediately pivoted to claiming that the Trump administration had kept U.S. air and water clean. "I'm proud of our record on environment and conservation," he said. (It appears some conservative messaging consultant has advised Republicans that air and water polls well, as this has become their go-to deflection line lately). On the one hand, traditional pollution of air and water — like smog or sewage leaks — has nothing to do with climate change, which is indeed implicated in much extreme weather (the kind that is predicted to get worse the higher temperatures get). On the other, Pence was lying through his teeth about air and water quality. His administration is in bed with every polluting industry, and has rolled back rules on big corporations poisoning both air and water. Sure enough, measured quality of both has nosedived under Trump rule.Finally, when the moderator asked Pence if he and Trump would respect the results of the election if they lose, Pence dodged again. "I believe in my heart that President Trump will be re-elected for four more years," he said. Then he moved on to crackpot accusations that Democrats had somehow attempted to "overturn the results of the last election." The plain fact is that Trump, Pence, and the rest of the wretched Republican Party are currently attempting to cheat their way to victory through legal chicanery, preventing people from voting, wrecking the Post Office, hysterical lies about voter fraud, threats of violence, and so on. Pence is clearly on board with the party line that democracy only counts if Republicans win.Donald Trump's erratic personality and world-historical failure as president has tended to obscure how similar the rest of his party is to him, at bottom. Indeed, he isn't even the first dimwitted Republican celebrity to hold the highest office in the land. Mike Pence may be better at aping the norms of normal politics, but his ability to smoothly lie and dissemble about any subject on cue shows that he would be every bit the threat to America's constitutional government as his boss. In the forthcoming election, I recommend voting against the pair of them.More stories from theweek.com Mike Pence was the unlikely winner of the vice presidential debate The myth of Mike Pence's appeal Trump is shockingly bad at this
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| 'Every reason to be optimistic': Carnival Corp. CEO expects to resume US sailing before year end Posted: 08 Oct 2020 10:12 AM PDT  Arnold Donald, the CEO of Carnival Corp., expects that the company's cruise lines will be sailing by the end of the year in U.S. waters.
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| Rhea Chakraborty: Bollywood actor granted bail after nearly a month Posted: 07 Oct 2020 01:40 AM PDT  She was arrested in a drugs case related to the death of her actor-boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput.
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| Mitch McConnell admits White House has engaged in "risky behaviors" during Fox News interview Posted: 07 Oct 2020 12:23 PM PDT  "So you're saying you think the White House has taken too many risks?" Fox News host Martha MacCallum asked
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| U.S. sues Yale for alleged bias against Asian and white applicants Posted: 08 Oct 2020 03:27 PM PDT  The lawsuit escalates the Trump administration's push against affirmative action in admissions to elite universities, after it publicly supported a lawsuit by Asian-American students accusing Harvard University of discriminating against them. The Justice Department said Asian-American and white applicants were typically only one-eighth to one-fourth as likely to win admission to Yale as similarly qualified Black applicants.
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| 'He wouldn't have a chance': Trump pours cold water on suggestion Don Jr could run for NYC mayor Posted: 08 Oct 2020 08:41 AM PDT  Current mayor Bill de Blasio will be replaced next year
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| Strippers agreed to a private dance for $1,000, but the men wanted more, Miami Beach cops say Posted: 08 Oct 2020 12:37 PM PDT  A $1,000 private dance involving two hired strippers in a Miami Beach hotel room turned into a car chase and a shooting after the two women refused to have sex with their clients, Miami Beach police said.
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| Before attack, a Pakistani teen sought better life in France Posted: 07 Oct 2020 11:11 PM PDT  Ali Hassan was only 15 when he left Pakistan to be smuggled to Europe, following the path of his older brother and many other young men from his home country dreaming of a better life. Before the Sept. 25 attack, he proclaimed in a video he was seeking vengeance after the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo published caricatures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. Little is known about Hassan's time in France.
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| South Korean tower block engulfed in flames Posted: 08 Oct 2020 01:32 PM PDT  Hundreds fled the inferno in the city of Ulsan, with dozens affected by smoke inhalation.
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| New portrait of Queen Victoria's African goddaughter sheds light on forgotten Black history Posted: 08 Oct 2020 06:32 AM PDT  Sarah Forbes Bonetta, born to an African ruler as Aina, became Queen Victoria's goddaughter in the mid-19th century.
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| Hurricane Delta is expected to gain strength and size before slamming into Louisiana and Texas as a major hurricane on Friday Posted: 08 Oct 2020 03:40 PM PDT  Hurricane Delta is the 25th named storm of the 2020 hurricane season. That puts this year on track to have more named storms than any year on record.
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| US Army Europe and US Army Africa to merge as commander pins on fourth star Posted: 08 Oct 2020 11:40 AM PDT  The U.S. Army Europe commander pins on his fourth-star and brings U.S. Army Africa into the fold.
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| Putin Is Facing the Toughest Fight of His Presidency as Former USSR Goes up in Flames Posted: 08 Oct 2020 08:36 AM PDT  Tuesday, October 7, was Russian President Vladimir Putin's 68th birthday, and, in keeping with his Soviet-style personality cult, it would normally have been an occasion for Putin to bask in public fanfare. But this year was different. Putin is holed up at his residence outside Moscow, where he has been since early April, avoiding infection from the coronavirus that is again rampant in Russia, while unrest surges in three countries of the former Soviet Union, and France and Germany are pushing for new EU economic sanctions against Russia because of the poisoning of Russian democrat Alexei Navalny.In honor of Putin's birthday, the Russian news agency Tass released the final episode of a series entitled 20 Questions with Vladimir Putin, a special interview project to commemorate Putin's twenty years as leader. In this episode Putin does not discuss pressing economic issues or international affairs, but rather his hobbies, family and other personal matters. Significantly, while Putin mentions that he enjoys his "sweet" grandchildren, he also confesses to his interviewer that "when you occupy this position, sometimes it feels like you cease to be a human being and become nothing more than a mere function."Funeral for Reporter Who Set Herself on Fire Reawakens Russia's Passion to Stand up to PutinNo wonder Putin has begun feeling like an automaton. Bad things have been happening to Putin in battalions lately. On July 9, just as the number of coronavirus cases in Russia had begun to decline and the virus seemed under control, mass protests erupted in the Siberian district of Khabarovsk over the arrest on unsubstantiated murder charges of the popular governor, Sergei Furgal.The unrest in Khabarovsk, a cause for deep concern in the Kremlin, was soon overshadowed by events in Belarus, where the largest political rally in over a decade took place in Minsk on July 30 in support of the opposition presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. Opposition protests, accompanied by mass arrests, plunged Belarus into turmoil after Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, in power for 26 years, reported a landslide victory in the August 9 presidential elections. Despite a severe crackdown, the protests have continued. On October 4, 100,000 people marched in Minsk demanding Lukashenko's resignation.The events in Belarus, a neighboring country that serves as Russia's strategic buffer to NATO states, pose a huge dilemma for Putin. The overthrow of an authoritarian leader like Lukashenko by a grassroots democratic movement would set a dangerous example that Russians might at some point follow. But if the Kremlin sends paramilitary forces into Belarus to support Lukashenko, as Putin suggested last month might be done, such a move could result in more Western sanctions against Russia, which would further damage Russia's faltering economy.Adding to the Kremlin's troubles, a violent conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia erupted on September 27 over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, which lies in Azerbaijan, but is controlled by ethnic Christian Armenians who are backed by the Armenian government. Russia would like to put an end to what is the deadliest fighting between Azerbaijan and Armenia in 25 years, but both countries are ignoring appeals for a cease-fire.Just days later, a political uprising engulfed the Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan, yet another former Soviet republic. As with Belarus, claims of rigged elections ignited the turmoil. On October 5, following parliamentary elections the previous day, masses of demonstrators took to the streets, eventually seizing government buildings and the office of the president, Sooronbai Jeenbekov, who is now in hiding. Kyrgyzstan has seen years of political conflict, characterized more by fighting among elite rival groups and clans than by struggles for democracy, so the situation there is not comparable to that in Belarus, which has much greater implications for the Kremlin. Nonetheless, the Kremlin cannot ignore the chaos in a country that depends economically on Russia and houses a Russian military base.The spread of COVID-19, which has caused significant unemployment and economic disruption in Kyrgyzstan, contributed to the political discontent there, as it has elsewhere, including in Russia. (From January to September 2020, the number of bankruptcies of Russian citizens and individual entrepreneurs increased by 64.9 percent, to 77,000.) According to Russia's Levada-Center, a polling organization, Putin's approval ratings dropped to an all-time low of 59 percent when the coronavirus reached pandemic levels in April and May of this year, only to climb back up as the rates of infection declined. So the recent steep rise in Russia's coronavirus cases, with daily totals approaching the record high of 11,656 on May 11, is further cause for disquiet among Putin and his government.But of all the problems Putin faces as he continues to isolate, communicating with his political and military advisors mainly through video conferences, the most troubling may be that of Navalny, who the Kremlin failed to eliminate as planned on August 20. As with GRU defector Sergei Skripal, Russia's security services botched their job, and Navalny not only survived, but is speaking out publicly about the poisoning, which he attributes to Putin directly. And he is urging tougher western sanctions on members of Putin's inner circle. In a recent interview with Germany's Bild newspaper, cited by Radio Liberty, Navalny stressed that "the most important thing is to impose entry bans against those who profit from the regime and freeze their assets… They embezzle money, steal billions, and at the weekend they fly to Berlin or London, buy expensive apartments, and sit in cafes."Although the fearless Navalny plans to return to Russia once he has recovered from the poisoning to continue his opposition to the Putin regime, he does not pose an immediate political threat to Putin. According to an in-depth analysis last week by Levada-Center Deputy Director Denis Volkov, only one third of the 77 percent of Russians who had heard about Navalny's poisoning believe that it was a deliberate attack. Most think that it was a provocation by western security services or something Navalny did to himself. This is because of long-formed views of older Russians, who get their news on Russian state-controlled television, from which Navalny and other opposition politicians are banned. Navalny's audience comes from younger Russians who regularly consult the internet. Volkov points out that: "Russian television and the Internet do not just differ in interpretation, but present two different pictures of what is happening."But, Volkov says, this situation is changing: "For his supporters, Navalny is important, first of all, because he 'speaks the truth,' 'gives an alternative point of view,' 'fights against the authorities' and 'is not afraid.' Although Navalny gained his fame as the author of high-profile anti-corruption investigations, in his current image this characterization fades into the background. In the context of declining public support for top officials, his image as an alternative to the current government and its policies is becoming increasingly important. And this makes the Kremlin nervous."Volkov goes on to point out that Navalny's positive image is a result of his painstaking work on the internet, his effective team of like-minded colleagues and his network of regional headquarters: "For some of his supporters from the regions, Navalny was the first politician from Moscow whom they saw in person. All this allowed him to slowly but surely build up his authority." Although current Russian political views are dominated by the older generation, which is afraid of change and dislikes Navalny, it is only a matter of time, Volkov says, before the younger generation becomes more politically active.It is worth noting that Putin's birthday also marks the fourteenth anniversary of the as yet unsolved murder of Russian journalist and fierce Putin critic Anna Politkovskaya, who was gunned down in the stairwell of her Moscow apartment building on October 7, 2006. Referring to this "coincidence"—some say the killing was a birthday gift to Putin—St. Petersburg Parliamentary deputy Boris Vishnevsky, a member of the liberal Yabloko party, had this to say:"Today, sitting in his bunker, Putin will receive flattering congratulations from the stalwarts of his 'vertical' power base, who assure him that 'without Putin there will be no Russia.' But the event that happened on a previous October 7 [Politkovskaya's murder] will be remembered for a very long time. As well as Anna Politkovskaya herself. And today's event [Putin's birthday] will be forgotten as soon as the birthday boy loses power."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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| 2020 polls: Trump campaign in free fall with one of the worst debate swings in history and collapse in baby boomer support Posted: 07 Oct 2020 02:47 PM PDT  Seniors are walking away from the president, writes Michael Salfino
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| Correctional officer pressured female inmates into sexual activity, Mississippi cops say Posted: 08 Oct 2020 10:58 AM PDT  The jailer is now out of a job.
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| Amy Coney Barrett served as 'handmaid' in religious group Posted: 08 Oct 2020 12:10 PM PDT  Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett served as a "handmaid," the term then used for high-ranking female leaders in the People of Praise religious community.
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| China will exploit new sailing routes to the Atlantic and threaten UK interests, warns First Sea Lord Posted: 08 Oct 2020 10:14 AM PDT  The First Sea Lord has warned that China will exploit new sailing routes to the Atlantic that are being opened up as a result of melting polar ice caps. In a speech on board the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales Admiral Tony Radakin said the effects of climate change on the northern sea passage would create "new maritime trade routes across the top of the world" which would halve "the transit time between Europe and Asia". Admiral Radakin said: "When China sails its growing Navy into the Atlantic, which way will it come, the long route, or the short?" He cautioned that the free movement of "nations, their navies, and above all their merchant ships" could be put at risk when China starts to use these routes as it would "threaten this concept" of free maritime movement. "The world is getting more competitive, more contested," he added. "We will have to play our role in that world. As the High North becomes more open and accessible it's going to be more contested and competitive as well."
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| A federal judge has ordered Twitter to reveal the identity of an anonymous account linked to a conspiracy theory about murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich Posted: 08 Oct 2020 07:44 AM PDT  Since his death in 2016, Seth Rich has been the subject of a conspiracy that claims, without evidence, that he was killed as part of a cover up.
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| Disney slams California governor after he slows reopening of California theme parks Posted: 08 Oct 2020 10:09 AM PDT  Disney's chief medical officer pointed to the safe reopenings of its other parks after California Gov. Gavin Newsom slowed the reopening process.
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| Russia evacuates villages as huge blaze breaks out at arms depot Posted: 07 Oct 2020 05:50 AM PDT  Russian authorities evacuated more than 2,300 people from villages in the region of Ryazan on Wednesday and five people were taken to hospital after a blaze broke out at an ammunition depot, sending thick smoke belching into the air. Fires and explosions at ammunition depots have plagued the Russian army for years and drawn criticism of lax safety standards.
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| A transgender man is suing Amazon, claiming he was denied a raise after disclosing he was pregnant Posted: 07 Oct 2020 12:02 PM PDT  Shaun Simmons, a transgender man in New Jersey, told NBC News he was passed over for a promotion when he told his manager he was pregnant.
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| In San Francisco, voters to decide if noncitizens can serve on city boards Posted: 08 Oct 2020 04:00 AM PDT  The proposed amendment would allow noncitizens — including green card holders and undocumented residents — to serve on commissions and boards.
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| Trump demands debate schedule changes, Biden refuses Posted: 08 Oct 2020 10:55 AM PDT  US President Donald Trump and wants two face-to-face debates with challenger Joe Biden, his campaign said Thursday, nixing a proposed virtual encounter but calling for a final showdown just five days before election day.
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| Hurricane watches issued for northern Gulf Coast ahead of Hurricane Delta landfall Posted: 07 Oct 2020 08:18 AM PDT  Hurricane Delta, after battering the Yucatán Peninsula with 100-mph winds, re-emerged into the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday, where it could restrengthen into a Category 3 storm before making landfall on the northern Gulf Coast.
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| Murder suspect allegedly wore fake beard, Blackface makeup disguise during Texas shooting Posted: 07 Oct 2020 04:19 PM PDT  A murder suspect in Texas allegedly wore dark makeup and a fake beard to disguise himself as a Black person during a shooting. The Dallas Morning News reported Andrew Charles Beard created a disguise using a dark-brown shade of foundation and a fake beard to assume a new appearance for his violent crime. The 33-year-old allegedly shot and stabbed Alyssa Burkett, 24, as she entered her property manager job.
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| Surgeon General cited for taking photos in Hawaii park closed due to Covid-19 Posted: 08 Oct 2020 08:40 AM PDT  Mr Adam's lawyer says the surgeon general is not seeking special treatment regarding the citation
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