| Biden lawyers say Trump won’t win the election in Supreme Court Posted: 10 Nov 2020 04:05 PM PST  Lawyers for President-elect Joe Biden derided the slew of lawsuits filed by President Trump's campaign since Election Day, calling them "meritless," and asserted Tuesday that Biden will take office in January.
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| Analysis: Putin draws Erdogan a red line on Russia's southern flank with Karabakh deal Posted: 10 Nov 2020 09:24 AM PST  Russian President Vladimir Putin has brokered a Nagorno-Karabakh peace deal that locks in territorial gains for Turkey-backed Azerbaijan. In doing so, he has thwarted a stronger Turkish presence in a region Moscow views as its backyard. Six weeks of heavy fighting between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces over the enclave have tested Moscow's influence in the South Caucasus, a swath of the former Soviet Union it views as vital to defending its own southern flank.
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| MSNBC cuts off correspondent as he replies ‘s***’ and ‘f***’ to anchor question about transition Posted: 10 Nov 2020 01:01 PM PST  Ken Dilanian quickly apologises for swearing live on air
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| FBI arrests Cincinnati councilman after undercover agents reveal 'brazen' bribery scheme, feds say Posted: 10 Nov 2020 01:47 PM PST  Undercover FBI agents and at least two whistleblowers helped to unravel the pay-to-play scheme, prosecutors say.
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| Belarus nuclear plant stops power output soon after opening Posted: 10 Nov 2020 06:56 AM PST  Belarus' first nuclear power plant stopped generating electricity the day after it was formally opened by President Alexander Lukashenko and some of its equipment needs to be replaced, a Belarusian official told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Lukashenko inaugurated the Russian-built and -financed Astravyets plant on Saturday. The plant stopped producing power Sunday because some electrical equipment broke down, according to Oleg Sobolev, a consultant at the Belarusian Emergency Ministry's department of nuclear and radiation safety.
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| Dominic Raab urged to boycott G20 over Saudi Arabia's bid to evict Bedouin tribe from homeland Posted: 10 Nov 2020 05:26 AM PST  Dominic Raab is facing calls to boycott the G20 summit in Saudi Arabia over the Kingdom's attempts to drive a Bedouin tribe from their homeland to make way for a futuristic "megacity". In a letter to the foreign secretary, British lawyers representing the tribe said Mr Raab had a "moral imperative" to stand up for the Howeitat tribe, which has inhabited northwestern Saudi Arabia for hundreds of years but is now being ordered to leave the area. "The Howeitat Tribe are the victims of ongoing serious human rights violations by the Saudi Arabian government," wrote Rodney Dixon QC, in a letter seen by the Telegraph. "[They] are now in the process of being forcibly removed from their homeland by the Saudi Arabian authorities." The tribe is being cleared from the area so that construction can begin on Neom, a $500bn (£377bn) city of skyscrapers, self-driving cars and robot dinosaurs next to the Red Sea. The project is the brainchild of Mohammad bin Salman, the Crown Prince and de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, and the centrepiece of his Vision 2030 business reforms.
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| South Africa's Ramaphosa warns of racial division after school clash Posted: 10 Nov 2020 05:31 AM PST  President Ramaphosa warns against racial polarisation after parents and activists clash.
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| Gretchen Whitmer turns down prospect of Biden cabinet role Posted: 08 Nov 2020 10:55 PM PST  Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has requested the president-elect Joe Biden leave her name out of consideration when he assembles his first cabinet. Ms Whitmer was understood to be on the shortlist of candidates for Mr Biden's running mate before he picked Kamala Harris, and is among the favourites to be given a cabinet role instead.
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| These Are the Most Beautifully Designed Outdoor Dining Experiences in America Posted: 10 Nov 2020 01:48 PM PST |
| The Trump campaign has identified 14,000 votes in Pennsylvania it wants to invalidate. That's still less than Biden's victory margin. Posted: 10 Nov 2020 01:56 PM PST  President-elect Joe Biden is 45,000 votes ahead in Pennsylvania. Even if President Donald Trump's allegations were true, he'd still lose.
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| 2 suspected QAnon supporters were arrested after the discovery of a Hummer full of rifles and pistols near a Philadelphia ballot-counting center Posted: 09 Nov 2020 11:28 AM PST  QAnon supporters and other far-right extremists have appeared at nationwide protests as they refuse to accept President-elect Joe Biden's projected win.
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| MSNBC's election guru Steve Kornacki has moved on to analyzing Thanksgiving Posted: 10 Nov 2020 07:47 AM PST  MSNBC's election week chartthrob Steve Kornacki has undoubtedly been going through big board withdrawal ever since Joe Biden was declared the president-elect on Saturday. The nice people at Today, though, decided to throw him a bone -- or perhaps more aptly, a turkey drumstick -- and asked him to analyze a map of national Thanksgiving trends on the show Tuesday.You could practically see the lights turn back on in Kornacki's eyes. "This is going to be such a fun break for me, I'm so used to doing this electoral map," he said, flipping over to a map that broke down the most popular Thanksgiving side dishes by state.Kornacki proceeded to walk through the Today show hosts' home states, noting that many belonged to "stuffing country" in the northeast. Craig Melvin cut in, though, with the million dollar question: "Steve, can you get us to 270 using the Thanksgiving map?""This is an election that would be going to the House of Representatives," Kornacki quipped, before thoughtfully adding that "mashed potatoes get California. That's a lot of electoral votes…" > With just 16 days until Thanksgiving, @stevekornacki returns to the big board to break down the most popular sides dishes in every state. pic.twitter.com/q6NldeTp1V> > -- 3rd Hour of TODAY (@3rdHourTODAY) November 10, 2020More stories from theweek.com Trump wants to be forced out Trump's aggressive assault on election integrity is reportedly making some of his outside lawyers queasy 3 Latino politicians considered top contenders to fill Kamala Harris' Senate seat
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| Friend who bought rifle Kyle Rittenhouse used in Kenosha shooting charged Posted: 10 Nov 2020 03:58 AM PST  A 19-year-old Kenosha man has been charged with giving Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, the rifle he used to kill two people during August unrest in Kenosha
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| Moscow to close bars and restaurants overnight as Russia's COVID-19 cases climb Posted: 10 Nov 2020 02:59 AM PST  Bars, clubs and restaurants in Moscow face two months of overnight closures to reduce the spread of COVID-19, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Tuesday, as Russia's daily tally of cases exceeded 20,000. Russia is already testing two vaccines against the virus and is on the cusp of registering a third, President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday, adding that all of the country's vaccines were effective. Russia is rolling out its Sputnik V vaccine for domestic use despite the fact that late-stage trials have not yet finished, and on Monday said it was more than 90% effective, following earlier comments by vaccine developers Pfizer Inc and BioNTech, who said the same of their experimental COVID-19 vaccine.
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| SpaceX Crew Dragon cleared for weekend launch Posted: 10 Nov 2020 02:40 PM PST  The Crew-1 launch marks the first NASA- and FAA-certified orbital flight by a commercially developed spacecraft.
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| Masks don't just protect you from spreading Covid. They protect you from getting it, too, CDC says Posted: 10 Nov 2020 02:23 PM PST  "Adopting universal masking policies can help avert future lockdowns," the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
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| Tropical Storm Theta is record-breaking 29th storm of 2020 — and there could be more Posted: 09 Nov 2020 07:41 PM PST  Tropical Storm Theta formed in the Atlantic Monday night. It poses no threat to land but was notable nonetheless, making 2020 a record-breaking hurricane season.
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| Melania Trump refuses to meet with Dr. Jill Biden: report Posted: 10 Nov 2020 12:00 PM PST  President Donald Trump has made headlines due to his unwillingness to graciously concede the election to projected winner Joe Biden. Now it appears his wife, First Lady Melania Trump, is following in her husband's footsteps by reportedly refusing to meet with Dr. Jill Biden. According to the reports, not only has FLOTUS refused to congratulate the soon-to-be new first lady or set up a meeting – a customary pleasantry that was extended to her by Michelle Obama – she is also posting messages on social media that seem to echo her husband's sentiments that he was cheated during the election.
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| Eta hits the Florida Keys and is expected to become hurricane Posted: 09 Nov 2020 02:02 PM PST  A strengthening Tropical Storm Eta made landfall in the Florida Keys on Sunday night, days after leaving scores of people dead and over 100 missing in Mexico and Central America.
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| Senator Whitehouse Slams FBI for Lack of Transparency around ‘Tanked’ Kavanaugh Sex Assault Probe Posted: 10 Nov 2020 11:21 AM PST  Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) slammed the FBI for not investigating sexual assault allegations against Justice Brett Kavanaugh, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday.The hearing itself was organized by Committee head Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) to interview former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe regarding the origins of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. However, Whitehouse criticized the Republicans on the committee for not looking into other allegations of wrongdoing involving the FBI and Justice Department."We have what appears to have been a tanked FBI investigation into the Kavanaugh hearings, and I've asked questions about that, to which I've had no answer whatsoever," Whitehouse said. "We're highly selective in what we choose to look into, and we've been extremely solicitous of the stonewalling and non-responsiveness of this Department of Justice."Whitehouse went on to argue that Senate Republicans had established a precedent during the Trump administration whereby the FBI could simply ignore requests for information issued by the minority, and suggested this precedent would come back to haunt them during the Biden administration.The FBI investigated allegations of sexual assault against Kavanaugh by Christine Blasey Ford, but found "no corroboration" of those allegations, according to a summary of the report released by then-Judiciary head Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa).During the 2018 confirmation hearings, Whitehouse also released a report detailing an allegation of rape against Kavanaugh. However, after the FBI investigated that allegation, the accuser admitted that the story was false.Democrats on the committee have vociferously opposed President Trump's nominations to the Supreme Court, including Kavanaugh himself as well as Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett. With the confirmation of all three, conservative justices hold a 6-3 majority on the Court bench.During Barrett's confirmation hearings in late October, Whitehouse portrayed the nominee as a "judicial torpedo" who would strike down the Affordable Care Act.
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| Air Force general charged with sexually assaulting civilian, could be court-martialed Posted: 10 Nov 2020 01:31 PM PST  The Air Force has charged a two-star officer with sexual assault, opening the possibility of the first court-martial for a senior officer in 73 years.
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| Blocking Taiwan at WHO will increase hostility to China, premier says Posted: 09 Nov 2020 09:10 PM PST  China's efforts to block Taiwan's participation at the World Health Organization (WHO) during the coronavirus pandemic will only increase the world's hostility towards the country, the island's premier said on Tuesday. Chinese-claimed but democratically run Taiwan says its inability to fully access the WHO, because of China's objections, has created a gap in global pandemic prevention. China and the WHO say that is untrue.
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| Map: These are the states that have agreed to a plan to replace the Electoral College Posted: 10 Nov 2020 07:07 AM PST  Colorado became the latest state to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, now one of 15 states and D.C.
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| The 'war on drugs' may be a bigger problem than the drugs themselves, experts say Posted: 10 Nov 2020 08:13 AM PST  Voters in seven states and DC voted on Tuesday to decriminalize or legalize a variety of drugs, ending the practice of using punishment as treatment.
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| Trump’s evangelical adviser, Bishop Harry Jackson Jr., has died at 66 Posted: 10 Nov 2020 06:03 AM PST  Jackson, the senior pastor at Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland, was a conservative prison reform advocate. Bishop Harry Jackson Jr., an evangelical advisor to President Donald Trump and senior pastor at Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Maryland, died Monday at 66. The church released a statement after his death, saying, "It is with a heavy heart that we notify you that our beloved Bishop Harry R. Jackson, Jr. has transitioned to be with the Lord on November 9, 2020."
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| Dem Senator Joe Manchin Vows to Vote against Packing Court, Eliminating Filibuster Posted: 10 Nov 2020 05:01 AM PST  Senator Joe Manchin (D., W.V.) vowed to oppose ending the filibuster and packing the Supreme Court in a Monday interview on Fox News, two actions many Democrats have called for over the past several months.Former president Obama has voiced support for ending the filibuster as a "Jim Crow relic" even though he himself used it to stall the confirmation of Justice Samuel Alito in 2006. During and after the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett in October, progressive Democrats pressured more moderate colleagues to support packing the court, or expanding the number of justices on the bench.However, Manchin promised in his interview with Bret Baier not to support potentially drastic moves by other Democrats. The comments were significant because if the Republican senators from Georgia are both defeated in runoff elections, the Senate will likely be tied at 50-50. In that case, Manchin would be able to scrap initiatives by simply withholding his support."I commit to you tonight, and I commit to all of your viewers and anyone else who's watching…when they talk about packing the courts, or ending the filibuster, I will not vote to do that," Manchin said. "Brett, this system, this Senate is [such a] unique body in the world. It was made to work together in a bipartisan way, and once you start breaking down those barriers, then you lose everything."Manchin also denounced support by members of his own party for efforts to "defund the police" and even to institute Medicare for All, which he said was practically impossible to pay for."I'm a proud moderate conservative Democrat. Maybe there's not many of us left but I can tell you what this country wants is moderation," Manchin said. "It was wrong for this many people to be split, for us not to be able to have a mess that didn't scare the bejeezus out of people and when you're talking about basically the Green New Deal and all this socialism, that's not who we are as a Democratic Party."The West Virginia senator has stuck with Democrats on a number of key issues, including voting for President Trump's impeachment and against the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett. However, Manchin broke with Democrats to vote for Senator Tim Scott's police reform bill, and also voted to confirm Trump nominees Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch to the Court.
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| A Florida corrections officer is charged with the beating death of an inmate Posted: 10 Nov 2020 12:52 PM PST  Michael Riley Jr., became a Florida Department of Corrections officer in 2019, one month after Christopher Howell became a Corrections inmate at Lake Correctional Institution. Howell was scheduled to do three years, at the most.
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| COVID-related hospital overcrowding has gotten so bad the Utah governor has issued a state of emergency Posted: 09 Nov 2020 12:29 PM PST  Utah Gov. Gary Herbert said "our hospitals are full" in a video to residents about the issued state of emergency due to coronavirus uptick.
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| Deadly Tropical Storm Eta targets Florida, would be state's first landfall of historic hurricane season Posted: 08 Nov 2020 06:57 PM PST  Eta targeted Florida after storming through Central America as a Category 4 hurricane, triggering deadly mudslides that destroyed entire villages.
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| Destruction of murder hornets nest doesn't end threat Posted: 10 Nov 2020 03:09 PM PST  When scientists in Washington state destroyed the first nest of so-called murder hornets found in the U.S., they discovered about 500 live specimens in various stages of development, officials said Tuesday. Among them were nearly 200 queens that had the potential to start their own nests, said Sven-Erik Spichiger, an entomologist leading the fight to kill the hornets. Asian giant hornets, an invasive pest not native to the U.S., are the world's largest hornet at 2 inches (5 centimeters) long, and a predator of other insects, including the honey bees that pollinate many of the crops in Washington's multi-billion-dollar agriculture industry.
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| AOC lashes out at Democratic party over lack of support: ‘I didn’t even know if I would run for re-election’ Posted: 08 Nov 2020 08:50 PM PST  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said that she might quit politics if Democrats continue to be "hostile" towards progressive causes. In an interview with The New York Times, shortly after president-elect Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 election, AOC admitted that she wasn't even initially sure if she was going to run for reelection this year.
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| Woman arrested for illegally boarding plane at O'Hare Posted: 08 Nov 2020 08:33 PM PST  A woman was arrested Sunday morning for illegally boarding a plane at O'Hare International Airport.
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| Landscaping company at centre of farcical Trump press conference launches merchandise line Posted: 09 Nov 2020 02:21 AM PST  A small landscaping company in Philadelphia has begun selling merchandise today after finding global fame as the location of a briefing from Donald Trump's lawyers. Four Seasons Total Landscaping, located in between a crematorium and a sex shop, was the unlikely venue for a press briefing in which the outgoing president's attorney Rudy Giuliani pressed Mr Trump's unsubstantiated claims about voter fraud.
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| Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris' husband leaves job at powerhouse law firm DLA Piper Posted: 10 Nov 2020 01:52 PM PST  Emhoff took a leave of absence from the law firm, DLA Piper, in August, after now President-elect Joe Biden, a Democrat, named Harris as his running mate. Biden, who faced off against President Donald Trump, on Nov. 3, captured the presidency on Saturday.
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| Minneapolis Considering Bringing in More Police to Combat Violent Crime after Officers Quit During Unrest: Report Posted: 10 Nov 2020 03:39 PM PST  Minneapolis is reportedly considering bringing in supplemental police officers to assist the city's police department as the city deals with an uptick in violent crime and a shortage of officers after a large number left during the unrest that gripped the city over the summer.Officers from the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office and Metro Transit Police would work with the Minneapolis Police Department to combat violent crime specifically if the proposal is approved by Mayor Jacob Frey and City Council, the Star Tribune reported Monday.The mayor has indicated his support for the plan, which is projected to cost the city nearly $497,000.The officers would be part of Joint Enforcement Teams with city police that would form by November 15 and remain in operation through the end of the year, according to the plan."We're not gonna be having these people out taking bicycle theft reports. These are going to be people out combating crime issues," John Elder, a spokesman for Minneapolis police, told the paper.The proposed plan to call in additional officers comes as the city grapples with a surge in violence crime as well as a thinning police force after many officers left the department in the wake of the death of George Floyd and the unrest that followed, some officers filing PTSD claims. Floyd, a black man, died in police custody in Minneapolis after a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes, including after Floyd passed out.Violent crime is up in Minneapolis more than 20 percent compared to this time last year, according to Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo. The department is also bracing for about $12 million in cuts.After Floyd's death, the city faced mounting calls to overhaul and defund the police department. The Minneapolis City Council in June announced that a veto-proof majority had voted to dissolve the department, a proposal opposed by both the mayor and Arradondo.The mayor has called for "sweeping structural reform" of the department but has resisted calls to defund the city's police force.
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| Tesla employees reportedly fear having a meeting with Elon Musk the day after a SpaceX rocket test fails Posted: 10 Nov 2020 08:33 AM PST  Tesla employees will watch SpaceX launches and live in fear of Musk's bad mood if they fail, according to a new report from Vanity Fair.
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| FDA gives emergency authorization to drug that can keep COVID-19 patients out of the hospital Posted: 10 Nov 2020 10:00 AM PST  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized use of bamlanivimab, a drug that appears to protect infected people from getting very sick.
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| Guatemala landslide could be final resting place for many Posted: 09 Nov 2020 01:52 PM PST  Days after a landslide buried half the community of Queja in central Guatemala, rescuers have recovered only a handful of the more than 100 people believed to be buried there. The location is so remote and the conditions so perilous that Queja could become the latest in a string of Guatemalan disaster sites that become the final resting places of their victims. On Monday, the Guatemalan government said a total of 44 deaths had been confirmed and 99 people were still missing in floods and landslides across the country.
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| What next for Pence? Vice President ‘heading to Florida on personal trip’ as Trump refuses to concede Posted: 09 Nov 2020 09:23 PM PST  Vice President Mike Pence, who spent months on the campaign trail alongside his boss Donald Trump right up to the small hours of the morning after election day, now seems ready to take some time off. Mr Pence has kept a low profile since the results began turning against the Republican, and will now be heading to the holiday island of Sanibel, Florida on a "personal trip", according to the Associated Press. According to the Federal Aviation Administration, Mr Pence is expected to be in Florida until Saturday.
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| Hikers found a message dropped by a clumsy carrier pigeon more than a century ago Posted: 10 Nov 2020 09:19 AM PST  The note, likely written by a Prussian soldier, was well preserved and tucked inside an aluminum capsule.
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| Ejection Sequence Failed Before Deadly Fighter Jet Crash, Investigation Shows Posted: 09 Nov 2020 04:22 PM PST |
| Trump administration claims COVID-19 vaccine will be available for 'all Americans' by the spring Posted: 10 Nov 2020 07:09 AM PST  In a series of morning show appearances on Tuesday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar predicted that COVID-19 vaccines will be available for the general public by the spring. "We have anticipated that we will have enough vaccine by the end of December to have vaccinated our most vulnerable citizens in nursing homes and otherwise," Azar said on Today. "And by the end of January, enough for all health-care workers and first responders, and enough for all Americans by the end of March to early April."The Trump administration has historically painted an optimistic picture with its estimates of when a vaccine will be available, with President Trump having even suggested at one point that a vaccine would be available by Election Day. Experts have additionally warned that there are looming hurdles involved in the distribution of the eventual vaccine, from defining who qualifies as "high risk" or "essential workers," to the practicality of widely disseminating the product, given what Stat News describes as the "taxing storage requirements" of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine in particular.On Monday, though, there did come good news: The vaccine in development from Pfizer and BioNTech was found to be more than 90 percent effective against COVID-19 in a first interim analysis. And Azar's timeline additionally fits in with predictions from Stat about vaccines beginning to become available to Americans by the spring.While drug makers by comparison are prepared to disseminate 194 to 198 million doses of flu vaccine in the 2020-2021 season, experts say roughly 330 million Americans will need immunity to COVID-19 before herd immunity sets in. On Monday, Pfizer said it is prepared to deliver 50 million doses of its vaccine by the end of 2020, and ramp up production to 1.3 billion in 2021.More stories from theweek.com Trump wants to be forced out Trump's aggressive assault on election integrity is reportedly making some of his outside lawyers queasy 3 Latino politicians considered top contenders to fill Kamala Harris' Senate seat
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| Biden lines up ex-Google boss for White House role as Mark Zuckerberg could face hostile reception Posted: 10 Nov 2020 02:59 PM PST  Mr Biden has been a vocal critic of the social media giant
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| Russia brokers Armenia-Azerbaijan ceasefire, but only 1 side is happy Posted: 10 Nov 2020 07:39 AM PST  Putin calls it "fair" for both sides, but Armenia's leader calls the deal his "sin," says it was "painful" to sign, and now he's facing angry protests calling for his resignation.
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