| Bolton, who may hold impeachment bombshell, has a history of settling scores Posted: 28 Jan 2020 09:00 AM PST  John Bolton has many times before been at the center of a maelstrom that is in good part of his own making. And each time, he has somehow emerged eager for more.
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| Trump lawyers contradict one another as they conclude first phase of impeachment trial Posted: 28 Jan 2020 03:45 PM PST  The president's top White House lawyer has repeatedly told the Senate Trump did nothing wrong in withholding aid to Ukraine, even as other lawyers on his defense team directly contradicted that assertion over the last two days.
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| Putin pardons Israeli woman jailed in Russia on drug charges Posted: 29 Jan 2020 09:14 AM PST  Russian President Vladimir Putin has pardoned an Israeli woman who had been jailed on drug charges, the Kremlin said Wednesday. A presidential decree ordering Naama Issachar's release on "humanitarian principles" was effective immediately, the Kremlin said. The 26-year-old backpacker was arrested in April at a Moscow airport, where she was transferring en route from India to Israel.
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| Dylann Roof appeals death sentence for massacre at South Carolina black church Posted: 29 Jan 2020 05:33 AM PST  "Roof's crime was tragic, but this Court can have no confidence in the jury's verdict," says his appeal, filed with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday. A jury found Roof guilty of 33 federal charges, including hate crimes resulting in death, for the shocking mass shooting at the landmark Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in June 2015. Roof dismissed his defense attorneys just before trial and represented himself during jury selection.
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| China demands an apology from a newspaper for a satirical cartoon of a Chinese flag with coronavirus particles Posted: 28 Jan 2020 12:31 PM PST  China is outraged with a Danish newspaper for publishing a satirical cartoon of a Chinese flag with coronavirus particles in place of its stars.
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| Doorbell Cam Captures Chilling Audio of Kobe Bryant’s Crash Posted: 29 Jan 2020 04:17 AM PST  Chilling audio of Kobe Bryant's helicopter coming down in California was captured by a doorbell cam. Local resident Ronna Leavitt has provided the 43-second clip to investigators in which the Sikorsky S-76B chopper can be heard flying above her housing complex in Calabasas before it crashes with a thud into the surrounding hillside and the recording falls silent. Leavitt told ABC7 that the helicopter had flown above her housing complex and performed a U-turn before it crashed into the hillside, killing Bryant and eight others, including his daughter Gianna.Meanwhile, crash investigators have said that the chopper did not have a terrain awareness and warning system that could have provided critical information to the pilot about the mountainous area.The Federal Aviation Administration recommends the equipment on new choppers, and The Wall Street Journal quoted industry estimates of retrofitting the system at between $25,000 and $40,000. The helicopter was also not equipped with a flight data recorder or a cockpit voice recorder, according to reports.Federal investigators said the helicopter lost communications with air-traffic controllers when it climbed to 2,300 feet as the pilot attempted to avoid a cloud layer. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) officials said the helicopter then began a descending left turn and crashed into the hills of Calabasas at roughly 1,085 feet above sea level. The chopper was descending at more than 2,000 feet a minute in the moments before impact."Preliminary information is that the helicopter was in one piece when it impacted the terrain," a spokesperson told the Journal. "This is a pretty steep descent at high speed."Bill English, an investigator-in-charge with the NTSB, said, "It's important to realize that there's not one hill. It's a ravine with undulating terrain, so the small outcropping that had the main impact in it, the main impact was about 20 to 30 feet from the top of that small hill. But there are actually other higher hills surrounding it."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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| Historians: Sobibor death camp photos may feature Demjanjuk Posted: 28 Jan 2020 07:35 AM PST  Historians have presented a collection of photos kept by the deputy commander of the Nazis' Sobibor death camp that they say appears to include images of John Demjanjuk, the retired Ohio auto worker who was tried in Germany for his alleged time as a Sobibor guard. The collection unveiled Tuesday at Berlin's Topography of Terror museum comprises 361 photos as well as written documents illustrating Johann Niemann's career. Niemann was the deputy commander of Sobibor from September 1942 until he was killed on Oct. 14, 1943, in an uprising by Jewish inmates.
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| Watch a Koala Recover After Being Injured in the Australian Bushfires Posted: 28 Jan 2020 02:27 PM PST  He is expected to fully recover
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| African nations take first measures to stop spread of Chinese virus Posted: 29 Jan 2020 10:58 AM PST  African states, including the continent's biggest economy Nigeria, on Wednesday said they had begun to introduce measures aimed at stopping the spread of the new coronavirus. No verified infection has been reported to date in sub-Saharan Africa, but elsewhere countries have stopped flights to China and airlifted their citizens out of the area where the virus emerged. People arriving from China or any country with a "major outbreak" of the disease are advised to stay at home for at least two weeks if they develop any symptoms, according to the advisory issued by Health Minister Osagie Ehanire.
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| Donald Trump is ‘just wrong’ about the economy, says Nobel Prize-winner Joseph Stiglitz Posted: 29 Jan 2020 12:20 PM PST  In a newly released interview, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz disagreed with Trump's contention that the economy has lifted up working-class Americans.
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| GOP Rep. Doug Collins announced a Senate bid. The Republican Party was not thrilled. Posted: 29 Jan 2020 07:23 AM PST  Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) launched his Senate bid Wednesday, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee was far from pleased.It's not a surprise that Collins, a staunch President Trump supporter, is entering the ring and forcing a standoff with the incumbent Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.), who was appointed to finish the term of former Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) after Isakson resigned last year for health reasons.But the Republican Party doesn't want a race within its own ranks. Per Politico, a standoff in Georgia could jeopardize the Republican effort to hold the Senate majority, and the establishment is sticking with Loeffler. The NRSC released an angry statement in response to Collins' announcement, bluntly calling the congressman's decision-making shortsighted and selfish and accusing him of putting the party's greater prospects at risk. > NEW statement from @NRSC ED @KevinMcLaughlin on Doug Collins' selfish and shortsighted decision to enter the GA Senate ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/BizAEPW0Yv> > -- Jesse Hunt (@JJHunt10) January 29, 2020More stories from theweek.com It's 2020 and women are exhausted Did John Bolton actually do Trump a favor? The 3 kinds of Republicans that Bolton's testimony would reveal
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| Police find mom of 2 missing kids in Hawaii with husband Posted: 28 Jan 2020 06:39 AM PST  Police say a mother of two missing kids has been found in Hawaii along with her new husband, but there's still no sign of the children in the cross-country investigation, which includes several mysterious deaths.
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| WHO lauds Chinese response to virus, says world 'at important juncture' Posted: 29 Jan 2020 08:47 AM PST  The World Health Organization (WHO) praised China on Wednesday for its efforts to tackle the coronavirus outbreak, but voiced "grave concern" about person-to-person spread in three other countries which led it to summon its Emergency Committee again. The panel of 16 independent experts will meet behind closed doors on Thursday for the third time in a week to consider whether the epidemic now constitutes a global emergency. There are 6,065 cases worldwide, all but some 70 in China, with 132 deaths in China, according to the latest WHO figures.
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| The Trump administration failed to convince the UK to ditch Huawei and its other allies aren't listening either Posted: 29 Jan 2020 02:57 AM PST  The UK defied Trump to permit Huawei limited access to its 5G network.
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| Husband accused of killing Jennifer Dulos in dire condition Posted: 29 Jan 2020 06:30 AM PST  Fotis Dulos, who had been facing the threat of having his bond revoked, was taken to a New York hospital for treatment of carbon monoxide poisoning after being found unresponsive Tuesday inside a vehicle in the garage of his house in suburban Hartford. "Candidly, his medical condition is dire," defense attorney Norm Pattis told reporters after a court hearing Wednesday in Stamford related to the bond for Dulos. Connecticut State Police detectives went to the home in Farmington on Wednesday afternoon with a search warrant.
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| Russia Would Bet On America In A U.S.-China Naval War Posted: 29 Jan 2020 08:44 AM PST  China lacks power projection and reconnaissance capabilities.
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| Kobe Bryant death: Nearby door cams capture noise of fatal helicopter crash Posted: 29 Jan 2020 09:46 AM PST  Door cams from the neighbourhood adjacent to the site of the crash that killed NBA legend Kobe Bryant have captured audio of the helicopter's final seconds.Google Nest devices on the doors of homes in the Los Angeles suburb of Calabasas recorded the sound of the rotor blades of the twin-engine Sikorsky S-76B.
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| As coronavirus spreads, Biden says Trump is 'the worst possible person' to keep America safe Posted: 28 Jan 2020 12:45 PM PST  As evidence, Biden cited Trump's response to the 2014 Ebola epidemic. Earlier, Trump tweeted that "it will all work out well." Trump's potential Democratic rivals, however, are not so sure. The second is about Trump's leadership.
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| Parnas Lawyer: Giuliani Delivered Graham Letter Calling for Sanctions on Ukrainian Officials Posted: 29 Jan 2020 01:25 AM PST  In late 2018, Rudy Giuliani said he delivered an unusual missive to Sen. Lindsey Graham, according to the lawyer of one of his ex-associates: a letter calling for sanctions on a host of Ukrainian government officials, including one widely viewed in the West as a brave reformer and another who helmed the company where Hunter Biden was a board member.Joseph Bondy, the attorney for Lev Parnas, an indicted Florida businessman involved in the U.S.-Ukraine saga, told The Daily Beast that Giuliani showed his client the letter and told him he delivered it to Sen. Graham (the letter misspelled the South Carolina Republican's first name as "Lingsey"). Bondy said Giuliani also showed Parnas a second, similar letter addressed to Sigal Mandelker, who at the time was a top official at the Treasury Department. The letters, which The Daily Beast reviewed, claim that an eclectic mix of Ukrainian political figures and businesspeople were part of an alleged "organized crime syndicate." The letters claim that the individuals were "actively involved in the siphoning of funds appropriated by the American government for aid to Ukraine." And they claim that the alleged crime syndicate used those funds to buy black-market military parts from a Russian company under U.S. sanctions. All the while, they say, Ukraine's then-prosecutor general (Giuliani ally Yuriy Lutsenko) couldn't fight the crime because then President Petro Poroshenko wouldn't let him take the case to court."It concerns me, as should any fellow American, that a taxpayer's money is rudely been stolen in Ukraine [sic]," reads the letter to Mandelker.The letter-writer introduces himself in the letter addressed to Mandelker as a Ukraine-born U.S. citizen named Michael Guralnik who graduated from the Soviet Military Academy and was "a 10-year veteran of the Soviet Army." The letter to Graham, meanwhile, also bears Guralnik's name but contains no introduction. It arrived a month before Giuliani tried to help former Ukrainian top prosecutor Viktor Shokin travel to the U.S. and meet with Graham, Bondy said. A few weeks before the date of the Guralnik letter, Giuliani sent Graham a letter of his own asking his staff to help three unnamed Ukrainians get visas so they could come to the U.S. and share information about the Bidens. The State Department did not give Shokin a visa. The letters say that the "only way" to "stop this syndicate" is to sanction the individuals involved. Both letters list 12 people, along with phone numbers for some of them. Included on the list are Mykola Zlochevskiy, the head of the scandal-plagued Ukrainian company where Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden was a board member; Valeriya Gontareva, the head of the National Bank of Ukraine from mid-2014 to mid-2017; and Kateryna Rozhkova, who was her deputy. Graham and Giuliani did not respond to repeated requests for comment, and it was not immediately clear if lawmakers ever even considered the sanctions. A spokesperson for Graham did not respond to a request for comment. Mandelker did not comment on the record for this report. When contacted, Guralnik hung up the phone and texted, "Do not call any more."The inclusion of Gontareva and Rozhkova's names is notable. In 2016, Gontareva oversaw the Ukrainian government's decision to seize control of a bank that belonged to oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky. Ukrainian officials alleged that Kolomoisky and his allies had misappropriated billions from the bank. Kolomoisky has pushed to regain control of the bank, even as the FBI has investigated him for financial crimes. And in the wake of her decision, Gontareva has faced death threats and danger. Her home was vandalized, and someone left a coffin with her likeness inside it outside the Central Bank offices, as The Washington Post reported. Years after the nationalization of the bank, the danger persists. In August 2019, she was hit by a car in London and hospitalized. The next month, her home in Ukraine was burned down, per the Kyiv Post. Gontareva's fight to reform Ukraine's financial sector won her devoted allies in the West, who saw her as one of Kyiv's few genuine reformers. Kolomoisky, meanwhile, is an intimidating figure to many in Ukraine, and some have alleged he has ordered contract killings. He also funded a private militia that fought Russian-backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine. His connection to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has also long raised eyebrows; the TV show that boosted Zelensky's public profile aired on a TV channel that Kolomoisky owns, and one of Kolomoisky's former lawyers is now a senior aide to Zelensky (Giuliani and U.S. officials have raised concerns with Zelensky's team about that aide, Andriy Bohdan). Jordan Libowitz, a spokesperson for the government watchdog organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, told The Daily Beast that the Guralnik letters mean Giuliani should answer more questions about his Ukraine work."While we can't obviously speak to the veracity of these claims, it does seem to look more and more like Rudy Giuliani is incredibly deeply involved with some seriously shady business in Ukraine and we need more information, not only on his activities, but his activities and those of his associates on behalf of or benefiting Donald Trump," he said. "As bad as these things look on their face, they're so much worse if you consider the involvement of the president of the United States. There is so little we know, but enough to know that we need to know a lot more." Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. 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| 'Getting a little squirrely': Americans stuck in Wuhan are bored, hungry for coronavirus info Posted: 29 Jan 2020 02:44 PM PST  Amid the coronavirus outbreak, hundreds of Americans were unable to secure a seat on a flight out of Wuhan or chose to stay behind with family.
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| GOP Rep. Doug Collins launched a Senate bid and the Republican Party was not thrilled Posted: 29 Jan 2020 11:41 AM PST  Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga., announced his Senate bid Wednesday, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee was far from pleased.
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| 'It's hysteria': Asian students at Arizona State University say they're being treated differently after a case of the Wuhan coronavirus was confirmed there Posted: 29 Jan 2020 03:21 PM PST  A case of the coronavirus was confirmed at Arizona State University on Sunday, and Asian students have felt backlash ever since.
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| Ex-children's doctor charged with abusing adoptive daughter Posted: 29 Jan 2020 12:58 PM PST ![Ex-children's doctor charged with abusing adoptive daughter]( "Ex-children's doctor charged with abusing adoptive daughter") A former emergency room doctor at Children's Hospital Wisconsin, charged with physically abusing a newborn he was adopting with his wife, denies he did anything wrong and wants the case dismissed next month. The case is receiving tremendous scrutiny by the medical community around the county, with physicians disagreeing on what exactly caused the injuries to the adoptive daughter of 39-year-old John M. Cox and his wife, Sadie Dobrozsi, a pediatric oncologist at Children's. They have hired more than a dozen experts to question the conclusions from Children's physicians, whose initial investigation led to Cox's charges eight moths ago. NBC News first reported Cox's story Monday.
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| Suspected associate of El Chapo's sons flees Mexico City prison Posted: 29 Jan 2020 02:31 PM PST ![Suspected associate of El Chapo's sons flees Mexico City prison]( "Suspected associate of El Chapo's sons flees Mexico City prison") Three prisoners wanted by the United States for their links to drug trafficking, including an alleged associate of the sons of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, on Wednesday escaped from a Mexico City prison, authorities said. Mexico and the United States, its most important trade partner, have been looking for ways to address the escalating security situation as well as clamp down on illegal drug and arms trade. Mexican authorities said the prisoners escaped from a penitentiary in southern Mexico City on Wednesday morning, possibly with the help of prison staff.
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| This Picture Is North Korea, China, Iran and Russia's Worst Military Nightmare Posted: 28 Jan 2020 09:00 PM PST  Imagine 52 F-35s coming at you.
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| Federal agency says it doesn't track foreign spending at Trump Hotel Posted: 28 Jan 2020 05:26 PM PST  The federal government doesn't know how much money foreign governments and entities have spent at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, a GSA official testified Tuesday.
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| Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin is open to calling Hunter Biden as an impeachment witness Posted: 29 Jan 2020 06:14 AM PST  Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) isn't scared, and he doesn't think his fellow Democrats should be either.Manchin on Wednesday suggested he's open to calling Hunter Biden as a witness in the impeachment trial. "Being afraid to put anybody that might have pertinent information is wrong, no matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican," he said during in an interview with MSNBC's Willie Geist. "If it's relevant then it should be there."> Senator Manchin says he's open to calling Hunter Biden... https://t.co/gmJyr6GbFX> > — Robert Costa (@costareports) January 29, 2020Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, has been present in President Trump's impeachment saga since the beginning. It was, after all, the Ukrainian gas company upon whose board he sat that Trump wanted Ukraine to investigate. Recently, there's been some theorizing that if former National Security Adviser John Bolton is brought into testify during the Senate trial, Republicans could counter by bringing in the younger Biden.Democrats have largely decried the idea, but Manchin doesn't appear to share the majority of his party's perspective. He did, however, say he thinks Hunter Biden would be able to "clear himself" if he does testify.More stories from theweek.com It's 2020 and women are exhausted Did John Bolton actually do Trump a favor? The 3 kinds of Republicans that Bolton's testimony would reveal
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| Senate and John Roberts face possibility of epic tie on witnesses Posted: 29 Jan 2020 03:25 PM PST ![Senate and John Roberts face possibility of epic tie on witnesses]( "Senate and John Roberts face possibility of epic tie on witnesses") The spotlight will fall on the chief justice if the Senate deadlocks on a critical trial vote.
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| Texas attorney general evades gay marriage case for beliefs Posted: 29 Jan 2020 03:09 PM PST ![Texas attorney general evades gay marriage case for beliefs]( "Texas attorney general evades gay marriage case for beliefs") The Texas attorney general is not defending a state agency being sued for punishing a judge who refuses to marry same-sex couples because the state's actions conflict with his views of the Constitution. Attorney General Ken Paxton's office is not representing the Texas Commission on Judicial Misconduct, which issued a warning to McLennan County Justice of the Peace Dianne Hensley last year. Paxton would have been expected to represent the commission as part of his charge to defend state agencies, the Houston Chronicle reported.
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| Mom accused of smothering her 3 kids indicted on murder charges Posted: 28 Jan 2020 04:20 PM PST  Court records say Rachel Henry told police that she sang to her children while she smothered them to death.
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| Mitt Romney violated Senate rules by drinking chocolate milk Posted: 29 Jan 2020 04:03 AM PST  Sen. Mitt Romney, a Utah Republican, was caught drinking chocolate milk out of a bottle on the Senate floor on Tuesday afternoon — a breach of the Senate impeachment trial rules.
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| Republicans reportedly inching toward blocking further impeachment witnesses Posted: 29 Jan 2020 03:03 PM PST  Republican senators are feeling increasingly certain they will be able to vote down a proposal to introduce new witnesses — like former National Security Adviser John Bolton — to President Trump's impeachment trial, The New York Times reports.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) reportedly told fellow Senate Republicans on Tuesday that he does not yet have enough votes locked down to prevent the approval of witnesses. However, the growing sentiment on Wednesday was that moderate Republicans who were possible contenders to side with Democrats in bringing new witnesses were beginning to feel comfortable moving forward without new evidence.Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) told reporters if Republicans get a majority vote against new witnesses, they'll move directly into a vote on whether to acquit Trump on both articles of impeachment.Read more at The New York Times.More stories from theweek.com It's 2020 and women are exhausted Did John Bolton actually do Trump a favor? The 3 kinds of Republicans that Bolton's testimony would reveal
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| Modi says India could defeat Pakistan 'in 10 days' Posted: 29 Jan 2020 05:24 AM PST  India is capable of making Pakistan "bite the dust" in less than 10 days in any new war with its arch-rival, according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The nuclear-armed neighbours have fought three wars, and last February came close to a fourth with tit-for-tat airstrikes sparked by an attack on Indian troops in Kashmir. Pakistan swiftly rejected the "belligerent rhetoric", calling Modi's comments "irresponsible and war-mongering".
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| China virus turns Macau into gambling ghost town Posted: 29 Jan 2020 12:07 AM PST  The Chinese territory of Macau has become a near-ghost town during what is typically the busiest time of year in the world's biggest casino hub, after authorities announced a raft of measures to keep visitors away and contain the new coronavirus. The local government late on Tuesday said it would curb its individual visit scheme through which visitors gain entry from mainland China, days after it suspended inbound package tours. The steps come as deaths from the coronavirus reached 132 in China on Wednesday with 1,500 new cases.
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| Biden-Tied Lobbyist Bought Island Property from Biden’s Brother, Gave Him Mortgage Loan Posted: 28 Jan 2020 06:28 AM PST  Financial records reviewed by Politico show that Joe Biden's brother James sold one of his three parcels of land in the U.S. Virgin Islands at a substantial profit to a well-connected lobbyist who then extended a mortgage to James on the remaining two parcels.In May 2005, James Biden purchased an acre of land on Water Island for $150,000. He then applied for and received an easement to divide the property into three plots, one of which he sold to lobbyist Scott Green — a decade-long Senate staffer for Joe Biden in the 1980s — for $150,000. James had initially purchased all three parcels for $150,000, meaning that he made his money back and was able to keep the majority of the one acre plot for himself.Green's lobbying firm, Lafayette Group — which features a photo of Green with Biden on its website and quotes Biden endorsing Green — earned two government contracts from the Federal Emergency Management Agency worth a total of $5.8 million on April 11, 2010.Three days later, Green extended a $133,300 mortgage to James Biden for his remaining Water Island property. Property records reviewed by Politico show that Green had "received full payment and full satisfaction" and released the mortgage in September 2013.Joe Biden and his family traveled to Water Island several times during his vice presidency, but did not stay on his brother's or Green's land, which remains undeveloped.Lafayette Group earned tens of millions of dollars in government contracts during the course of Biden's time as vice president. During his time in the Senate, Biden also advocated for a number of areas in which Green's lobbying intersected, including a broadband network for first responders and the non-profit Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program.
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| US Navy's SEAL Team 6 reportedly recovered 2 bodies and flight recorder from Afghanistan crash Posted: 28 Jan 2020 10:01 AM PST  The US Navy's elite SEAL Team 6 recovered two bodies from the wreckage site where a US Air Force aircraft crashed in Afghanistan on Monday.
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| Filing: Emails raise questions of execution drugs access Posted: 29 Jan 2020 11:25 AM PST  Two Tennessee inmates executed by electrocution and a third who has chosen to die in the electric chair next month were not informed about a problem with a lethal injection drug, even as they chose the chair and waived their rights to challenge execution methods, an attorney for death row inmates wrote in a court filing Tuesday. The filing includes a batch of heavily redacted emails from the state Department of Correction, including one that says there was a problem at one point with the compounded heart-stopping third drug in Tennessee's three-drug series, potassium chloride. The department said in an Aug. 8 email that the issue had been occurring and did not tell the men before letting them choose the electric chair, effectively waiving their legal rights to challenge lethal injection or electrocution, Supervisory Assistant Federal Public Defender Kelley Henry wrote in the filing.
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| Germany walks away from $2.5 billion purchase of US Navy’s Triton spy drones Posted: 27 Jan 2020 11:17 PM PST  Berlin will instead buy modified business jets untethered from drone-specific airspace restrictions over Europe.
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| House Democrat says John Bolton told him in September to 'look into' Marie Yovanovitch's ouster Posted: 29 Jan 2020 10:15 AM PST  Shortly before the Senate's impeachment trial resumes, another John Bolton revelation has arrived. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, revealed in a statement Wednesday that he spoke with Bolton, President Trump's former national security adviser, after his White House firing in September. In this conversation that occurred at Engel's request just one day before the impeachment inquiry was announced, Bolton evidently urged the committee to look into the ouster of Marie Yovanovitch, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. "On that call, Ambassador Bolton suggested to me — unprompted — that the committee look into the recall of Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch," Engel said. "He strongly implied that something improper had occurred around her removal as our top diplomat in Kyiv." > BREAKING: Rep. ENGEL reveals that BOLTON called him in September and told him to look into the Marie Yovanovitch ouster.> > The committees had already started an investigation into Ukraine matters, but Bolton appears to have supported their effort. >>> pic.twitter.com/a54uwGKkaL> > — Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) January 29, 2020Yovanovitch was removed as ambassador to Ukraine in May 2019, and she testified in the impeachment inquiry her ouster was a result of a smear campaign backed by Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani.This latest Bolton revelation comes after The New York Times reported on Sunday that the former national security writes in his upcoming book that Trump tied aid to Ukraine to investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son. Democrats want Bolton to be called to testify as part of the impeachment trial, and in his statement, Engel says he told his colleagues about this conversation and it "was one of the reasons we wished to hear from Ambassador Bolton, under oath, in a formal setting." More stories from theweek.com It's 2020 and women are exhausted Did John Bolton actually do Trump a favor? The 3 kinds of Republicans that Bolton's testimony would reveal
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| Jamaica earthquake: Huge 7.7-magnitude tremor hits off island’s coast Posted: 28 Jan 2020 11:30 AM PST  Warnings of a "hazardous" tsunami were issued for parts of the Caribbean after a huge earthquake struck.The US Geological Survey said the 7.7-magnitude quake hit off the northwest coast of Jamaica, prompting the US Tsunami Warning Centre to issue an alert for Jamaica, Cuba and the Cayman Islands.
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| More Japanese evacuated from China virus epicenter as death toll climbs Posted: 29 Jan 2020 02:36 PM PST  TOKYO/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A plane of Japanese evacuees from the virus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan arrived in Tokyo on Thursday as the total number of confirmed deaths from the newly identified pathogen in the country rose by 38 to 170 and infections also jumped. Chinese health authorities said there were 7,711 confirmed cases of infection as of the end of Wednesday, mostly in Hubei province where the death toll rose by 37 to 162. Infections have been reported in at least 15 other countries and, with the appearance of the first case in Tibet, in every province and region of mainland China.
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| Joe Biden has half the young voters Bernie Sanders does because of his 'anti-millennial' stance, but the boomer candidate says he cares 'like the devil' about them Posted: 29 Jan 2020 09:01 AM PST  In a New York Times interview, Joe Biden said that if millennials want to see a change in their economic situation, they need to get more involved.
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