| British woman rescued in Bahamas amid fears Dorian's death toll will be 'staggering' Posted: 05 Sep 2019 09:18 PM PDT  A British woman who had been trapped beneath the rubble for days in one of Bahama's worst hit islands has been rescued by the Royal Navy. The unnamed woman was taken on board a ship and stabilised before being airlifted to hospital in Nassau, the capital of the island nation, where they were receiving treatment on Thursday night. She is one of the thousands of people who were awaiting rescue on the islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama, which have been largely flattened by Hurricane Dorian. The death toll on Thursday night stood at 30, but it is feared that it will be significantly higher as people search for their missing loved ones. "Let me say that I believe the number (dead) will be staggering," Health Minister Duane Sands was quoted by The Nassau Guardian as telling Guardian radio. "... I have never lived through anything like this and I don't want to live through anything like this again." The RFA Mounts Bay crew, which have been stationed in the Caribbean since June in preparation for hurricane season, have so far delivered shelter kits, ration packs and water. Damaged cars and trucks sit in a field following landfall by Hurricane Dorian, in the Bahamas Credit: Reuters The Royal Navy said its Wildcat helicopter also evacuated an American woman along with her two children and a baby to Nassau. The Wildcat will also be airlifting relief to outlying, cut off communities in liaison with the Royal Bahamian Defence Force and is stationed off Abaco. Distraught survivors described the horror of crossing unattended corpses as they made their way to safety. Hurricane Dorian barrels towards US after battering Bahamas, in pictures Ronnie Archer, 71, told The Telegraph many more of the hurricane's victims lay in the streets of Marsh Harbour, Abaco, while looters raid shops for food and water. "The morgue is full and there are bodies floating in the water," she said after being evacuated. "A friend of mine bumped into the body of a woman which was just floating in the streets. "There is now lots of looting happening. There are people taking rice, juice, everything they can get their hands on. I don't know if they are armed." An aerial view of damage caused by Hurricane Dorian is seen on Great Abaco Island Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images She was at her home of 30 years when the wind started to get stronger and stronger. "I sat in the wheelchair and I watched my house drop to pieces," she told this newspaper. "I heard a bang and I looked around and saw that the windows had blown in from the force. The next time that I looked up I saw the sky and I realised that the roof had gone." Her family, including a seven month old granddaughter, are staying behind to see what they can save as local officials confirmed reports of rampant looting. The United Nations estimates more than 76,000 people were in need of humanitarian relief after the most damaging storm ever to hit the Bahamas. The British Humanitarian and Disaster Relief team removing debris and providing aid assistance to the Islanders of Great Abaco Credit: Paul Halliwell/BRITISH MINISTRY OF DEFENCE Gaylele Laing broke down in tears and embraced her niece after she was rescued from Abaco on Thursday. As a diabetic who had run out of medicine she was given a priority evacuation, but she was barely able to speak as she revealed that she had to leave her family members, including her grandchildren aged 11 and 12 behind. The Treasure Quay resident told The Telegraph through tears: "It was terrible, there is total devastation, there is nothing left. "We hid in the bathroom as the eye of the storm passed and then the water surge came. We never expected it to be that bad. We had to break the window and swim to safety. The whole family, the kids included. At that point I thought we were going to die. "We did as much as we could to prepare and if we had known it was going to be that bad we would have left Abaco, we have been though hurricanes before but nothing like this. Everything is gone." Another survivor on the Abaco Islands, Ramond King, said he watched as swirling winds ripped the roof off his house, then churned to a neighbour's home to pluck the entire structure into the sky. Nothing is here, nothing at all. Everything is gone, just bodies," he said. A perfect storm | How climate change has made Hurricane Dorian worse Dorian continued to cause substantial damage as it hit the US coastal states of South and North Carolina on Thursday leaving 239,000 homes and businesses without power. The US National Hurricane Centre warned it remained a category 2 hurricane with winds reaching 110mph and the risk of life-threatening storm surges, winds and flash flooding. Tornadoes spun off by Dorian's outer bands were also reported along the coast, including Emerald Isle, North Carolina, where several homes were destroyed. The beach town said on its website that the tornado hit at around 9 am on Thursday leaving dozens of mobile homes upturned and power lines down. Charleston, in South Carolina had more than 100 roads closed due to severe flooding, with up to 20 inches of rain forecast to hit the historic port city. The map appeared to have been altered with a black marker to include Alabama Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Meanwhile Donald Trump, the US president, was mocked for showing a map of the storm's projected path that appeared to have been altered with a black marker pen to include the state of Alabama, which was never in harm's way. Mr Trump had incorrectly claimed in a tweet at the weekend that Alabama was one of the US states that could be hit by the hurricane, leading the National Weather Service to deny that in a tweet of its own. "Alabama will NOT see any impacts from Dorian. We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane Dorian will be felt across Alabama. The system will remain too far east," the National Weather Service in Alabama tweeted. When reporters later asked Mr Trump whether the chart had been altered with a pen, the president said: "I don't know; I don't know." But he doubled down on his claims, saying: "I know Alabama was in the original forecast, they thought it would get a piece of it".
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| White House officials, Washington Post spar over coverage of Trump Posted: 06 Sep 2019 11:53 AM PDT ![White House officials, Washington Post spar over coverage of Trump]( "White House officials, Washington Post spar over coverage of Trump") White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said on Twitter on Friday the Post had not reported on a Trump measure. Others pointed out that it had.
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| Russia to U.S: Cancel extradition request for executive held in Italy Posted: 06 Sep 2019 07:10 AM PDT ![Russia to U.S: Cancel extradition request for executive held in Italy]( "Russia to U.S: Cancel extradition request for executive held in Italy") Russia has demanded that the United States cancel a request to extradite a Russian state executive from Italy where he was arrested last month at Washington's request on suspicion of industrial espionage, calling it illegal. Alexander Korshunov, director for business development at Russia's United Engine Corporation (UEC), was detained at an airport in Naples on Aug. 30 after Washington issued a warrant for his arrest.
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| Trial opens of US cop who killed neighbor in his own apartment Posted: 06 Sep 2019 09:14 AM PDT  A white policewoman went on trial in Dallas Friday for shooting and killing a black man in his own apartment, having mistaken it for hers. Exactly one year after Amber Guyger, 31, killed Botham Shem Jean, 26, jury selection in the racially charged murder case began in the Texas city. Guyger's attorneys have sought to move the case to another jurisdiction, on grounds that potential jurors in Dallas may already have strong views on the case, given the heavy media coverage it has fuelled.
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| Kamala Harris Supports Mandatory Buyback of Assault Weapons Posted: 06 Sep 2019 03:18 PM PDT ![Kamala Harris Supports Mandatory Buyback of Assault Weapons]( "Kamala Harris Supports Mandatory Buyback of Assault Weapons") (Bloomberg) -- Kamala Harris said Friday she supports a mandatory buyback of military-style assault weapons, taking a more aggressive position than her main rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination."I think it's a good idea," she told reporters after a campaign event in Londonderry, New Hampshire."We have to work out the details -- there are a lot of details -- but I do" support a forced buyback, Harris said when asked about the policy. "We have to take those guns off the streets."Harris's higher-polling rivals Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren back banning sales of semi-automatic rifles like those used in recent mass shootings but stop short of calling for a forced buyback of guns already owned. Beto O'Rourke has said he would require owners of such weapons to sell them to the government.A recent Quinnipiac poll found that 49% of Americans oppose a mandatory buyback of assault weapons while 46% favor the idea. But among Democrats, 71% support the idea while just 23% are against it.To contact the reporter on this story: Sahil Kapur in Washington at skapur39@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Wendy Benjaminson at wbenjaminson@bloomberg.net, Laurie Asséo, Joe SobczykFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| Hong Kong Braces for Another Weekend of Protests Despite Extradition Bill Withdrawal Posted: 06 Sep 2019 02:56 AM PDT  Protesters say that the extradition bill's withdrawal was too little, too late
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| 'I don’t see any path for Biden to win the nomination without South Carolina' Posted: 06 Sep 2019 02:01 AM PDT  The former vice president is betting it all on the black vote.
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| Jeffrey Epstein accuser denies Prince Andrew photo is a 'fake' in letter to the Duke of York Posted: 06 Sep 2019 11:47 AM PDT  Lawyers for the Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre have denied claims that a photograph showing the Duke of York with his hand around her waist is a fake. Two attorneys for Ms Roberts wrote to Prince Andrew in a letter dated Tuesday to push back on "troubling" suggestions that the image was doctored. Their letter countered comments from "sources close to" the Duke which circulated in the UK press recently suggesting he is taller and has "much chubbier" fingers than in the photograph. Ms Roberts Giuffre has claimed she was made to have sex with the Duke when she was 17 after being recruited by Epstein, a US financier and multimillionaire. The Duke has always vehemently denied the allegation. Ms Roberts Giuffre's lawyers, Brad Edwards and David Boies, wrote: "While your recent press statements indicate your sincere desire to help the victims of sexual abuse, we are concerned that certain statements attributed to you (which we hope do not reflect your actual views) are quite inconsistent with a desire to deal responsibly with the serious allegations that have been made. "We now see, for instance, a troubling assertion attributed to you that a well-documented photograph depicting you, Virginia Roberts Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell in each other's company is a 'fake'." Jeffrey Epstein in 2017 Credit: New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File They also request a meeting with the Duke to discuss the photograph and Ms Roberts Giuffre, suggesting a meeting in New York, London or another venue could be arranged. The lawyers noted they had approached the Duke years ago for a meeting about the "long-held photograph", writing: "We were puzzled and, we must admit, disappointed that you did not cooperate at that time. They added: "Nevertheless, given your new attention to the subject and your pledge to cooperate, we renew our request for your cooperation." The photograph first emerged in 2011 when the Mail on Sunday published the image and detailed Ms Roberts Giuffre's account of meeting Prince Andrew. It is said to have been taken at the home of Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of media tycoon Robert Maxwell, in London in 2001, when Ms Roberts Giuffre was 17. The allegation against the Duke is facing renewed attention after Epstein, 66, killed himself in prison last month following an arrest over sex trafficking of underage girls. Prince Andrew was one spotted at the door of Jeffrey Epstein's New York home in 2010 Credit: Mail on Sunday/2010 by Mail on Sunday The Duke released a statement last month saying it was "a mistake and an error" to see Epstein after the financier had pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution in 2008. The Duke said he did not "see, witness or suspect any behavior of the sort that subsequently led to his arrest and conviction". He added: "I deplore the exploitation of any human being and would not condone, participate in, or encourage any such behaviour." Epstein's death in prison has triggered an investigation in the US Department of Justice given he had been taken off suicide watch just days before. Guards who were meant to be checking in on him every 30 minutes failed to do so. He was also meant to have another prisoner sharing his cell but was alone. US prosecutors have vowed not to drop the investigation despite Epstein's death, insisting that if there are any co-conspirators in his crimes they will be brought to justice. A Buckingham Palace spokesman declined to comment on the letter. The spokesman reissued a previous statement: "It is emphatically denied that The Duke of York had any form of sexual contact or relationship with Virginia Roberts. Any claim to the contrary is false and without foundation."
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| ‘A beautiful soul’: Mourners gather to remember 15-year-old victim of Texas shooting Posted: 06 Sep 2019 03:31 PM PDT  Upwards of 1,000 people gathered in Odessa to mourn15-year-old Leilah Eliana Hernandez, the youngest person to die in Saturday's shooting rampage
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| 'Bye, Mom. I love you!' Family torn apart in aftermath of Hurricane Dorian Posted: 06 Sep 2019 05:42 AM PDT  On the Abacos Islands of the Bahamas, Alicia Cook held her daughters, Lacy, 8, and Lyric, 4, close -- and then, surrounded by devastation as far as the eye could see, said a heart-wrenching goodbye to her girls.The sisters soon boarded a helicopter with their aunt to be evacuated to Nassau, the capital city of the Bahamas. Their parents would be staying behind, as there was no room for them on the helicopter."Bye, Mom. I love you!" one of the girls called from the helicopter."I had to send them with my sister. I couldn't fit. My babies, I had to send them. This is just a disaster. Everything's gone. There's just so much heartache and death everywhere. I just don't know what we're going to do," Cook told AccuWeather correspondent Brandon Clement through tears. "[I'm] leaving my hearts. Don't know when I'll see them again." Alicia Cook hugs her daughter Lyric as they say goodbye. Cook and her husband are having their two daughters evacuated from the Abacos Islands after Hurricane Dorian. (Brandon Clement) The family of four survived Hurricane Dorian, which dealt a historic blow to the Bahamas on Sunday, Sept. 1, when it made landfall as Category 5 hurricane. With sustained winds of 185 mph at the time of landfall, Hurricane Dorian was tied for the second most powerful hurricane by wind speed in the Atlantic basin since 1851 behind Hurricane Allen in 1980 with 190 mph winds.The death toll in the Bahamas has risen to around 30 and is expected to rise as search and rescue operations continue.Cook told Clement that she had to get her children off of the island, which was in a state of "total devastation." The flight was paid for by the Discovery Land Company, a real estate developer that is currently sharing resources like private helicopters.The powerful winds of Hurricane Dorian had stripped even concrete buildings of their integrity. Supposedly sturdy buildings were broken like pottery pieces, the long bent fingers of rebar stripped of the concrete and exposed."This isn't cheap construction. This is one-inch rebar [reinforcement bar], eight-inch-thick concrete, just pulverized," Clement said while filming.That's just what the buildings in the Abaco Islands are after Dorian: pulverized.A woman stood crying on the second story of a building: the walls and roof having been torn away during the Category 5 storm. Around the skeleton of the house lay the carnage of debris, trees stripped of all leaves and an overturned boat. The beach is nowhere in sight. A pickup truck and an SUV were strapped to a barge to keep them tied down. Though battered, they remain remain in place. The same could not be said of the beached boat. A handful of small boats were deposited on the shore, a few landing at the doorsteps of houses. A pickup truck and an SUV were strapped to a barge to keep them tied down. The vehicles were damaged during the storm, and the boat they were aboard beached. (Brandon Clement) Some of the cars on the island made it out of the storm with just some shattered glass, while others sit partially submerged in ponds of water that have yet to recede. Footage shows residents of the Bahamas walking down a street, their belongings in plastic bags. The still partially flooded road is littered with tree debris and downed power poles."I've been through many, many hurricanes and seen devastation, but nothing ever, ever compared to this," Cook said. "I've never even experienced anything -- I watched movies and I see this on the news, but you don't know it until you go through it. You lose everything in an instant. Just everything you've ever worked for, your whole life's gone," Cook said. "Just what do you do? And nobody should have to go through this. It's like a bad dream. You just can't wake up."The people of the Bahamas pick through what has become marshes of debris, trying to find any of their belongings that they could salvage.Clement stopped to speak with a woman who had been looking around the remains of her home, trying to find a scrap of the life that had been torn from her by Dorian: a backpack with her passport. People in the Bahamas scour through the wreckage that Hurricane Dorian left behind in its wake, trying to find any of their belongings they can savage. This woman was looking for a backpack with her passport in it, which she had lost in the chaos of the storm. (Brandon Clement) "Harbour View Marina collapsed, and the water came to my roof," a woman told Clement, standing in front of the demolished walls of her baby blue house. She, her son, her best friend and two others staying with her escaped out the back window and clung to a Suzuki until the eye passed two hours later."It was awful," the woman said after Clement asked what it had been like. While hanging on for their lives, a young boy with them suffered a five-inch gash in the back of his head and fell unconscious. She said debris beat up against them all, bruising them.When the water subsided and the worst of the wind calmed, Dorian had left behind a skeleton of what she once had."I have nothing. Everything is gone. It's either there," the woman said, gesturing off at the debris to one side of her, "there ..." she gestured to more debris behind her. "And I don't know, it's just awful," she said, beginning to cry. Homes flattened by Hurricane Dorian are seen in Abaco, Bahamas, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. The storm's devastation has come into sharper focus as the death toll climbed to 20 and many people emerged from shelters to check on their homes. (AP Photo/Gonzalo Gaudenzi) "I've been through many of a hurricane, this was, I don't know. A tidal wave, a tornado, a hurricane, everything in one," she said. "I've never seen anything like this in my life. It's just devastating. I don't know if we'll ever come back from it. I don't know if I want to leave, if I want to stay. I don't know."For the Cook family, the aftermath of Dorian brought the most heartache as they said their goodbyes. After the helicopter doors slammed shut, Cook and her husband watched as the craft lifted off, taking their children away from the carnage left behind by Dorian.Reporting by Brandon Clement and Jonathan Petramala in the Bahamas.
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| Feds decline to charge FBI agent who killed kidnap victim Posted: 04 Sep 2019 06:20 PM PDT  Federal authorities will not charge an FBI agent who fatally shot a hostage during a rescue attempt in Houston last year, a U.S. attorney's spokesman said Wednesday. Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said in a statement that her office initially deferred the case to federal authorities because it involved an FBI agent. "Now that the U.S. Attorney's Office has declined to file federal charges, the District Attorney's Office has an independent obligation to present this matter to a local grand jury to determine if state criminal charges are warranted," Ogg said Wednesday.
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| Police: Family worried after finding military weapons in elderly couple's Montgomery County home Posted: 06 Sep 2019 10:37 AM PDT  Family members helping an elderly couple clean out their home became concerned when they discovered multiple military ordnance items and firearms inside, police said.
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| Sarah Huckabee Sanders Whines ‘Women Attack Me Relentlessly’ in Fox News Contributor Debut Posted: 06 Sep 2019 09:17 AM PDT  "Ladies and gentlemen, she's a Fox News contributor!" That's how Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy introduced former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who made her debut as a paid pundit for the network Friday morning. She spent most of her 10-minute appearance fawning over President Donald Trump and feeling sorry for herself. Sanders began by dismissing concerns over the soft September jobs numbers. "Look, I think at the end of the day, there's no question that the president and his administration have turned the country around and put it on the right track," she said, arguing that "we are doing better under this president than we have in the previous eight years." Those assertions went unchallenged by the Fox hosts. When Doocy suggested that some believed "we needed a magic wand" to turn manufacturing around in this country, Sanders chimed in with, "Well, we found one in President Trump." Even when some time Trump critic Brian Kilmeade raised mild concerns over the trade war with China, Sanders said the president was doing everything right. Newsmax Enlists Bill O'Reilly's Longtime Right-Hand Man for War on Fox NewsLater, Doocy brought up the infamous incident when Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant in Virginia and wondered whether she is "still taking heat when you go out to eat" now that she's left the White House. "Sometimes," she answered with a laugh. "It usually depends on where I am in the country." Sanders said she has had no problems in her native Arkansas but it's "hit or miss" in New York City. While she said she hasn't been asked to leave any restaurants recently, people do sometimes say "nasty" things to her."What I always find interesting is, 99 percent of the people that come over to say something negative and to attack you are women," Sanders added, saying she finds that "very startling" from a "group of people that claim to be the champions of women empowerment." "I'm only the third woman and the first mom to ever be the White House press secretary," she continued, "and yet women attack me relentlessly instead of being proud that we have more women doing those types of jobs." "But you're out of the administration!" Doocy replied incredulously. "I am, but they still see me as someone who is a very pro-Trump supporter," Sanders said. "I'm not going to change my position." With that in mind, Sanders offered a small preview of what readers can expect from her upcoming White House memoir. "My experience was extremely positive," she said, "my book will be positive." We all know how that approach worked out for her predecessor Sean Spicer. 'Fox & Friends' Host Brian Kilmeade: Trump 'Never Should Have Said' Mexico Would Pay for WallRead more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet 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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| NASA Stumped by Weird Green Blobs Posted: 06 Sep 2019 08:25 AM PDT  What are they doing up there?
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| Hurricane Dorian updates: After making landfall in North Carolina, the storm is moving up the coast. At least 30 people have died in the Bahamas. Posted: 06 Sep 2019 02:45 PM PDT  Hurricane Dorian is moving away from North Carolina and Virginia. The storm passed over North Carolina's Outer Banks at 8:35 a.m. ET on Friday.
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| Pope Francis says it is ‘an honour that the Americans attack me' Posted: 06 Sep 2019 03:28 AM PDT  In an offhand remark on the papal plane en route to Mozambique, Pope Francis acknowledged the sharp opposition he has faced from conservative Catholic detractors in the United States, calling it an "an honour that the Americans attack me".His remark came at the start of a six-day trip to Africa, as the pope shook hands in the back of the plane with a French reporter who handed him a copy of his new book How America Wanted to Change the Pope.
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| Florida inmate says beating by guards left her paralyzed Posted: 05 Sep 2019 02:00 PM PDT  A female inmate at a Florida prison is suing the state corrections agency, saying she was left paralyzed after being beaten by four guards. Cheryl Weimar and her husband, Karl, said in their lawsuit that her civil rights were violated when she was nearly beaten to death by guards last month at the Lowell Correctional Institution in Ocala, Florida. Weimar was left with a broken neck and is now a paraplegic because of the guards' use of force, according to the lawsuit.
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| 2 New Jersey police officers charged in vandalism-as-retaliation case Posted: 05 Sep 2019 03:44 PM PDT  Asbury Park officers Stephen Martinsen, 29, and Thomas Dowling, 26, face conspiracy, weapons and criminal mischief charges.
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| Mexico president says El Chapo's drug wealth should go to Mexico Posted: 05 Sep 2019 11:17 AM PDT  Mexico's president on Thursday welcomed a proposal to give the alleged fortune of drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the country's indigenous people, and said the wealth of Mexican criminals in the United States should be returned to Mexico. Jose Luis Gonzalez Meza, a lawyer for Guzman, said this week his client had proposed that billions of dollars in revenue that U.S. authorities had attributed to his business operations should be handed to indigenous communities in Mexico. Speaking at his regular morning news conference, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who earlier this year announced the creation of a "Robin Hood" institute to return ill-gotten wealth to the Mexican people, gave his approval to the idea.
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| Hong Kong protesters reject leader's concession with new rallies Posted: 06 Sep 2019 11:07 AM PDT  Thousands of Hong Kongers held rallies on Friday night, rejecting calls by the city's pro-Beijing leader to end their movement as the finance hub braces for another weekend of clashes, including a plan to disrupt the airport. Police fired brief volleys of tear gas and rubber bullets against a few hundred protesters who had gathered outside a police station in Mongkok district. The demonstrators later blocked roads, set barricades on fire and faced off with riot police before dispersing without any major new clashes.
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| Meghan McCain Pounces on Pam Anderson Over Julian Assange: ‘He’s a Cyberterrorist!’ Posted: 06 Sep 2019 09:55 AM PDT  Things got heated Friday on The View when conservative co-host Meghan McCain angrily confronted Baywatch star Pamela Anderson over Julian Assange, calling the WikiLeaks founder a "cyberterrorist" who has put America's security at risk.Anderson, who has repeatedly declared her love for Assange, told The View panel that Assange's health is "really deteriorating" since he was booted from the Ecuadorian embassy and imprisoned on conspiracy charges. "It's devastating that people have fallen for this smear campaign especially in America," she added. "I feel like an outsider looking in, looking at how America has embraced all this—this propaganda."Meghan McCain Clashes With 'View' Co-Hosts: 'I'm Not Living Without Guns'After the actress said that Assange—whom she calls the "most innocent man in the world"—really inspired her as an activist and that powerful people want to "keep him quiet," McCain jumped in to say Ecuador kicked him out of their embassy because he was "defecating everywhere.""That's a smear campaign—that's not true," Anderson shot back before asking what McCain would do if she were locked in a room for six years."Well, I wouldn't be a cyberterrorist, which he is," the conservative host retorted. "He hacked information. His leaks included classified documents that put our national security at risk, our military and the lives of spies and diplomats at risk."Anderson, meanwhile, countered by asking McCain how many people America's national security has "killed innocently" compared to WikiLeaks, prompting a moderate round of applause from the audience, including a whoop from one man."Oh calm down, sir!" McCain sneered back at the man.After Anderson contended that Assange has exposed war crimes and they need to be punished, she was challenged by the rest of the panel over her boyfriend's role in the 2016 election and whether she believed he was purposely helping Donald Trump win. Besides asserting that Assange isn't a Trump supporter and would have exposed information damaging to Trump if he had it, Anderson also insisted that Assange never put anybody at risk."He put people in danger by refusing to redact sensitive information including Social Security numbers and other private material," liberal co-host Joy Behar noted, causing Anderson to say The New York Times and others did the same thing.At the end of the segment, after Anderson said Assange isn't meddling in other countries' politics and is merely a "publisher" that "supports whistleblowers," McCain got in one final parting shot."He's a cyberterrorist. I'll say it! I'll say it!" McCain shouted towards the crowd. "I'm not going to stand by this. It's ridiculous."The segment concluded, meanwhile, with co-host Abby Huntsman saying they were going to have a "little bit of fun" with Anderson after the commercial break as McCain grumbled and sat with her arms crossed.Whoopi Goldberg Goes Off on Debra Messing: 'You Don't Have the Right!'Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet 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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| Southern US to feel like middle of summer as record heat builds into this weekend Posted: 06 Sep 2019 04:45 AM PDT  Record-challenging heat will make it feel like the middle of summer across the southern United States through the weekend.Dry conditions and plenty of sunshine will stretch from eastern Texas to Georgia on Saturday as an area of high pressure settles over the region.Temperatures across much of this area will climb into the middle to upper 90s F, while farther west in Louisiana and eastern Texas, highs are expected to peak near 100 F."In fact, record highs may be challenged in several locations, such as Dallas, Houston and Shreveport, Louisiana, just to name a few," AccuWeather Meteorologist Ryan Adamson said.Several cities from Texas to Florida set new record high temperatures for the date on Friday, including New Orleans and Miami. Sweltering heat will spread farther north across the Southeast on Saturday in the wake of Hurricane Dorian.Heat will peak in most places on Saturday with high temperatures ranging from the middle 90s along the Southeast coast to the lower 100s in eastern Texas.Normal highs for the beginning of September across this region range from the middle 80s to lowers 90s.It will feel even hotter across the region as AccuWeather RealFeel® Temperatures reach above 100 F. It may even feel as hot as 110 F away from the coast. Several record highs were tied or broken across the south on Thursday. In Vero Beach, Florida, which had been at risk from impacts from Dorian earlier in the week, the high temperature of 97 broke the old Sept. 5 record of 96 set back in 1996. New Orleans tied its record of 97; the last time the city hit 97 on Sept. 5 was in 2000.Those along the Southeast coast left without power in the wake of Dorian will need to take extra precautions, such as drinking plenty of water to stay hydrated and taking frequent breaks in the shade during strenuous activity.While Sunday will still be hot, the arrival of some spotty showers and thunderstorms can help to keep temperatures a couple of degrees lower from eastern North Carolina to the panhandle of Florida.Temperatures will remain on the higher side into the beginning of next week, but more widespread showers and thunderstorms will knock temperatures down by a couple degrees in most locations."Temperatures should fall below 100 degrees in most areas by Sunday and Monday," added Adamson, "but it will still likely be above normal for early September, with widespread mid-90s."Download the free AccuWeather app to keep track of temperature trends in your area. Keep checking back for updates on AccuWeather.com and stay tuned to the AccuWeather Network on DirecTV, Frontier and Verizon Fios.
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| 2019 Honda Civic Type R vs. 1991 Acura NSX in Photos Posted: 06 Sep 2019 04:59 AM PDT |
| Fire foiled rescued attempts by California boat crew Posted: 05 Sep 2019 05:36 PM PDT  The crew of a scuba diving boat that sank off the coast of Southern California made several attempts to rescue the 34 people who were trapped below decks by fire, but intense flames drove them back and all perished, federal authorities said Thursday. All those lost in the Labor Day tragedy aboard the Conception were sleeping in a bunkroom below the main deck when fire broke out around 3 a.m. The captain and four crew were above and survived, and one of the searing questions was whether they tried to help the others before saving themselves. The crew members told investigators in "very lengthy, detailed, comprehensive interviews" what Jennifer Homendy, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, called a harrowing story of the moments after the fire erupted on the vessel.
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| At destroyed airport, Bahamians tell stories of survival and death Posted: 06 Sep 2019 10:17 AM PDT  After Hurricane Dorian destroyed her home in Central Pines, she needed food for her two-year-old daughter. What she found first, it turned out, was a bloated body by the store's entrance. Later, Smith and a friend went to a trailer park to check on a coworker who lived there.
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| Ex N.Korea prisoner says he was CIA spy: German media Posted: 06 Sep 2019 08:07 AM PDT  A former prisoner in North Korea has told German media that he used to spy for the CIA, seeking out nuclear secrets and taking pictures with a concealed wristwatch camera. In a TV report by public broadcaster NDR, South Korean-born US citizen Kim Dong-chul, 67, recounts his former espionage operations, arrest and the abuse and torture he suffered behind bars. Kim Dong-chul was one of three American detainees freed by Pyongyang in May 2018, in the lead-up to the first summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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| A$AP Rocky's Swedish lawyer was shot in the head and the shooting suspect is still at large Posted: 06 Sep 2019 09:46 AM PDT  The Swedish Police Authority wrote on its website that "several" people have been taken into custody for questioning in connection to the shooting.
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| The head of the Navy SEALs sacked 3 SEAL Team 7 leaders after team members were kicked out of Iraq Posted: 06 Sep 2019 05:00 PM PDT  Rear Adm. Collin Green removed three senior SEAL Team 7 leaders "due to a loss of confidence that resulted from leadership failures."
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| Hurricane Dorian vs. the Bahamas: How these popular destinations fared against the storm Posted: 05 Sep 2019 03:44 PM PDT  Paradise Island and private cays owned by cruise lines escaped relatively unscathed, but hotels and airports on Grand Bahama and the Abacos are closed.
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| Business class passenger racially abuses Asian crew member and demands to be served by 'white girl', court hears Posted: 06 Sep 2019 09:47 AM PDT  An IT consultant racially abused a female British Airways cabin crew member and demanded he be served only by a "white girl," a court has heard.Peter Nelson, 46, became irate after being woken up by Sima Patel-Pryke while flying business class from London's Heathrow to Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, jurors were told.
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| After Robert Mugabe's death, what next for Grace? Posted: 06 Sep 2019 10:02 AM PDT  Shorn of her late husband's protection, Grace Mugabe is likely to be feeling more than a little exposed as she begins her widowhood. Often derided as Zimbabwe's Lady Macbeth, her reputation for greed and her ruthless determination to succeed Robert Mugabe helped destroy both his presidency and her ambitions. For the military coup that overthrew Mr Mugabe in November, 2017 might never have taken place had he not let himself be persuaded to ditch his most loyal lieutenants in the ruling Zanu-PF party and make her his heir. Mrs Mugabe was by her husband's side when he died in Singapore and she will almost certainly be allowed pride of place during his funeral. But, after the mourning ends, her many enemies could well begin circling. Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe's president and the man who overthrew her husband, promised last year that the Mugabes would be "left in peace", but he pointedly ruled out granting them immunity. He is certainly no fan of the former first lady, accusing her of trying to kill him by poisoning his ice-cream as they jostled to be named Mr Mugabe's successor in the months before the coup. Out of deference to his former boss, President Mnangagwa left her alone. With him gone, he may be less circumspect. Few politicians or ordinary Zimbabweans would rally to her cause. From the moment the former typist, 40 years her husband's junior, married Mr Mugabe in 1996, excess seemed to follow excess. When white-owned farms were seized, ostensibly to be redistributed to the poor, she allegedly received 20 of the very best, becoming one of Zimbabwe's largest landowners. Mr Mugabe's three children adored their father, who lavished them with presents, such as luxury homes, and a fabulous lifestyle. In a country brought to penury by her husband's misrule, Mrs Mugabe's extravagance will not be forgotten quickly. Mr Mnangagwa would also welcome the distraction a trial of the former first lady would bring from the continuing financial woes Zimbabwe is suffering. Criminal charges would not come without risk, however. If Mrs Mugabe is placed in the dock, there is no knowing what uncomfortable secrets about Zimbabwe's ruling elite she may reveal.
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| Bill de Blasio: We've got to end the availability of assault weapons in this country Posted: 05 Sep 2019 06:04 PM PDT  Democratic presidential candidate and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes on gun control, discusses his campaign plans on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'
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| Mexican national shot by ICE in Tennessee recovering Posted: 06 Sep 2019 01:00 PM PDT ![Mexican national shot by ICE in Tennessee recovering]( "Mexican national shot by ICE in Tennessee recovering") A Mexican man shot while fleeing from immigration agents in Tennessee was recovering Friday, an attorney for his family said. Andrew Free said in an interview the man was shot in the stomach and elbow Thursday morning by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. Free and another attorney later negotiated with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the man surrendered Thursday afternoon.
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| U.S. Treasury warns anyone fueling Iran tanker risks being blacklisted Posted: 05 Sep 2019 01:33 PM PDT  The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday warned that anyone around the world who helps fuel Iranian vessels blacklisted by Washington runs the risk of being designated as well. The Treasury Department blacklisted the Adrian Darya, a tanker at the center of a confrontation between Washington and Tehran, on Aug. 30. Washington has warned that it would regard any assistance given to the ship as support for a terrorist group, namely, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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| America's 'democratic experiment' is inextricably tied to the history of slavery Posted: 05 Sep 2019 07:10 AM PDT  The year 1619 laid out rough boundaries of citizenship, freedom, and democracy that are still being policed'What we politely refer to as the 'legacy' of slavery is a political and economic system built on racial exploitation and the theft of black labor.' Photograph: Carlos Barría/ReutersThis year marks 400 years since enslaved Africans from Angola were forcibly brought to Jamestown, Virginia. This forced migration of black bodies on to what would become the United States of America represents the intertwined origin story of racial slavery and democracy. This year also marks what would have been the 90th birthday of Martin Luther King, the most well-known mobilizer of the civil rights movement's heroic period between 1954 and 1965.While Americans are quick to recognize Jamestown as the first episode of a continuing democratic experiment, the nation remains less willing to confront the way in which racial slavery proved crucial to the flourishing of American capitalism, democratic freedoms, and racial identity. The year 1619 laid out rough boundaries of citizenship, freedom, and democracy that are still being policed in our own time.Although we hardly remember this today, King often discussed how the imposing shadow of slavery impacted the civil rights struggle, perhaps most notably on 28 August 1963, during the March on Washington.Addressing a quarter of a million people in front of the Lincoln Memorial, King acknowledged racial slavery's uncanny hold on the American imagination. A century earlier, Abraham Lincoln, whom King called "a great American", signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Yet 100 years later, black people remained marginalized from the American dream. "Instead of honoring this sacred obligation," King said, African Americans had received a "bad check" – one that the nation would have to pay in full to overcome the tragic dimensions of a racial past that continued to constrain its future.King longed to reconcile the fundamental contradiction of American democratic traditions: the existence of racial slavery alongside individual freedom and liberty. What King interpreted as a contradiction, Malcolm X recognized as ironic symmetry. According to Malcolm, racial slavery in America helped to undergird a system of racial democracy that became the exclusive provision of whites.In his stinging denunciations of white supremacy and his bold support for revolutionary violence against anti-black racism, Malcolm often invoked African Americans' experience of 400 years of racial oppression. 2019 is the exact anniversary of the date that Malcolm often extolled in speeches, televised debates, and jaw-rattling interviews.Both Malcolm and Martin understood the intimate connection between the struggle for black dignity and citizenship during the civil rights and Black Power era and the movement to end racial slavery in the nineteenth century.Perhaps no single figure more elegantly represents that century's struggle over racial slavery, freedom, and citizenship than Frederick Douglass, whose reputation has swelled in the aftermath of the historian David Blight's recent Pulitzer-winning biography.A former enslaved African American from Maryland's Chesapeake Bay, Douglass narrated his escape from slavery to freedom as a journey emblematic of the nation's entire democratic experiment. A brilliant writer and public speaker, Douglass became the 19th century's most-photographed American, the nation's leading abolitionist, and a proponent of the violent overthrow of slavery by any means necessary. Douglass, no less than Abraham Lincoln, came to represent the freedom dreams that animated not only the struggle for black citizenship but the destiny of democracy.Racial slavery – a ruthless system of bondage closely tied to the rise of global capitalism – collapsed in 1865 only after the deaths of over 700,000 Americans in the civil war. Black soldiers' patriotism in the face of white supremacy was only begrudgingly, if ever, acknowledged by northern politicians. New constitutional amendments designed to settle the debate over black freedom by abolishing slavery and establishing birthright citizenship and the vote competed with the rise of political, economic, and racial terror against black Americans.Reconstruction between 1865 and 1896 found black women and men on the cutting edge of new interracial democratic experiments that helped to establish public education, historically black colleges, churches, businesses, civic groups, and mutual aid societies and elect black officials. Yet those triumphs were challenged by violence, political betrayal, and legal and legislative assaults on black citizenship. In 1896, the supreme court's Plessy v Ferguson decision made segregation the law of the land and ushered in a dark period of history.Contemporary black-led social movements such as Black Lives Matter confront not only the racial ghosts of the Jim Crow south memorialized in popular culture. They face the larger specter of racial slavery that our society often still refuses to acknowledge. What we politely refer to as the "legacy" of slavery represents the evolution of a political and economic system built on racial exploitation, the theft of black labor, and the demonization and dehumanization of black bodies.What is all the more remarkable is the way in which black folk have embraced an expansive vision of democracy even when the nation refused to recognize it as legitimate. Ida B Wells, the 19th-century anti-lynching crusader, was a trailblazing social justice activist whose work anticipated the rise of mass incarceration in America. Ella Jo Baker, the founder of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), understood the sit-in movement to be less about gaining access to white lunch counters than about eradicating oppressive and anti-democratic systems that had flourished since the bullwhip days of antebellum slavery.Similarly, King's Letter From Birmingham Jail extolled the heroism of black schoolchildren jailed for violating Jim Crow laws in Alabama. Those young people, King argued, would be one day recognized as heroes for having transported the entire nation back to those "great wells of democracy" that were dug deep by the founding fathers.The relationship between slavery and freedom and our contemporary understanding of this history remains at the core of the American democratic experiment, one that has global reverberations for a sprawling communities of indigenous and immigrant people around the world who, in the best of times, have looked to America as a beacon of liberty. Barack Obama's extraordinary rise to the presidency in 2009 burnished the United States as a symbol of racially transcendent freedom even as Trump has tempered such celebrations as premature.Perhaps the most important lesson from Jamestown for the present is the indefatigable nature of the black freedom struggle. Courageous individual acts of resistance during slavery inspired collective rebellions that transformed American democracy. Yet this change, as we are painfully experiencing today, remains fraught with the weight of a history rooted in racial slavery. Contemporary debates over racial privilege, white supremacy, and identity politics flow from political, economic, and social relations that have become normalized by our history but are far from normal.Confronting slavery's indelible impact on conceptions of freedom, citizenship, and democracy offers us essential tools for confronting our contemporary age – what might be considered a Third Reconstruction – where efforts to embrace racial justice and an expansive vision of democracy compete alongside movements for racial bigotry rooted in ancient hatreds dressed up in new clothes. * Peniel E Joseph is the founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin
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| Gun Used in Texas Shooting Was Illegally Manufactured and Sold: REPORT Posted: 05 Sep 2019 02:19 PM PDT  Authorities believe the gun used in the drive-by shooting in Midland and Odessa, Texas this past weekend was illegally manufactured and sold by a Lubbock, Texas man, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is currently investigating a man who they believe illegally manufactured and sold the AR-15-style rifle that Seth Ator used to kill seven people and injure 22 more on Saturday, before he was shot and killed by police.Ator, 36, had previously attempted to purchase a gun from a licensed seller in January 2014, but failed the requisite background check because he'd been declared mentally unfit by a local court. A nationwide criminal-background check identified the court order and prevented the purchase, according to local authorities.If Ator did in fact purchase the weapon through a private transaction, its seller was under no obligation to conduct a background check, but could be held criminally liable if evidence emerges that he knew his prospective customer came to him due to a previous background-check failure.Authorities intercepted Ator outside of a movie theater, killing him only after he rampaged down a highway that links Midland and Odessa shooting indiscriminately.Partisan tensions over gun-control legislation have escalated in recent weeks following separate mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. Congressional Democrats continue to insist on universal-background-check legislation that would apply to private sales, a version of which passed the House earlier this year.Republicans, meanwhile, remain non-committal as Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell refuses to endorse specific legislation.
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| A Florida cop rescued a puppy from a flooded vehicle and named her 'Dorian' after the deadly hurricane Posted: 05 Sep 2019 12:46 PM PDT  Dorian was originally meant to be handed over to the Orange County Animal Services, but is now "living her best life" with the deputy who rescued her.
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| A US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt accidentally fired off a rocket over Arizona Posted: 06 Sep 2019 07:08 AM PDT  It happened again. This is the second time this year an A-10 has unintentionally released munitions in an area where it shouldn't have.
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| French first lady is 'truly ugly,' says Brazilian minister Posted: 05 Sep 2019 07:16 PM PDT  A Brazilian government minister said French first lady Brigitte Macron was "truly ugly" Thursday, only days after the country's president appeared to endorse an attack on her appearance. Brazil's economy minister Paulo Guedes said he agreed with President Jair Bolsonaro's comments about Macron's looks. Bolsonaro garnered criticism last week when he appeared to agree with a Facebook post that implied French President Emmanuel Macron's wife was not as attractive as his own wife Michele Bolsonaro.
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