| Biden, in fiery speech, goes after Trump's coronavirus response Posted: 17 Jun 2020 12:41 PM PDT  An impassioned former Vice President Joe Biden hammered the president's coronavirus response in a speech Wednesday, lambasting Donald Trump's recent remarks suggesting that cases would go down if the country stopped testing.
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| Leaked CDC document contradicts Pence claim that U.S. coronavirus cases 'have stabilized' Posted: 17 Jun 2020 12:55 PM PDT  Even as Vice President Mike Pence wrote that U.S. coronavirus cases "have stabilized," the CDC circulated a document warning that infections have increased more than 18 percent.
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| Atlanta Police Walk Out over Murder Charge as Mayor Admits Morale is ‘Down Tenfold’ Posted: 18 Jun 2020 05:56 AM PDT  A number of Atlanta police officers did not show up for their Wednesday-night shifts in protest of murder charges brought against a former officer who shot and killed Rayshard Brooks after he resisted arrest.Hours after Fulton County district attorney Paul L. Howard said officer Garrett Rolfe would be charged with felony murder, Atlanta police union spokesman Vince Champion told NBC News that officers had decided to walk off the job and go silent on radios to protest the decision."This is not an organized thing, it's not a blue flu, it's not a strike, it's nothing like that. What it actually is, is officers protesting that they've had enough and they don't want to deal with it any longer," he said.In an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Champion added that "there are officers saying they are not going to leave the precinct unless to help another officer. Some are walking off and sitting in their personal vehicles."The Atlanta Police Department released a statement after Champion's comments, calling claims that officers were walking off the job "inaccurate.""The department is experiencing a higher than usual number of call outs with the incoming shift," the police explained. "We have enough resources to maintain operations & remain able to respond to incidents."> Earlier suggestions that multiple officers from each zone had walked off the job were inaccurate. The department is experiencing a higher than usual number of call outs with the incoming shift. We have enough resources to maintain operations & remain able to respond to incidents.> > -- Atlanta Police Department (@Atlanta_Police) June 18, 2020But Atlanta police scanner traffic conflicted with the statement. "We are not answering 911 calls right now due to personnel issues," a police dispatcher said Wednesday.In announcing the charges against Rolfe on Wednesday, Howard said that the Atlanta Police Department's initial account of events — that Rolfe shot Brooks because he appeared ready to fire a taser that had been wrestled from one of the officers — was inaccurate."We concluded that Mr. Brooks was running away at the time that the shot was fired," the district attorney said. Howard also told reporters that the taser had already been discharged twice, rendering it unusable, and said the officers would have known that.Howard added that Rolfe's former partner Devin Brosnan, who was also at the scene where Brooks was shot, would testify against his former partner. Howard said that after Brooks was shot in the back by Rolfe while fleeing arrest, Rolfe kicked him and Brosnan stood on his shoulders."There is an Atlanta policy that requires that the officers have to provide timely medical attention to Mr. Brooks, to anyone who is injured," Howard said. "But after Mr. Brooks was shot, for a period of two minutes and 12 seconds, there was no medical attention applies to Mr. Brooks."But Brosnan's attorney Don Samuel denied Howard's account of events, saying his client had not agreed to be the state's witness and did nothing wrong."The decision to initiate charges by the Fulton County DA's office is irrational, unethical and obviously based on factors which should have nothing to do with the proper administration of justice," Samuel said in a statement.Howard, who said his office was able to bring charges after reviewing eight videos of the incident, is locked in a reelection battle and faces multiple civil sexual-harassment lawsuits and is being criminally investigated by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation for funneling nonprofit funds to boost his salary.Following the announcement of charges, the GBI — which is conducting a separate investigation of the shooting — said it was "not aware of today's press conference before it was conducted" and was "not consulted on the charges filed by the District Attorney."> Despite today's occurrence, the GBI will complete its mission of completing an impartial and thorough investigation of this incident and we will submit the file, once completed, to the Fulton County District Attorney's Office. (2/2)> > Full statement ⬇️:https://t.co/Cfnboi9DCu> > -- GA Bureau of Investigation (@GBI_GA) June 17, 2020In an interview on CNN Wednesday night, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms warned that police morale "is down ten-fold.""This has been a very tough few weeks in Atlanta and with the tragedy of Mr. Brooks, and then on top of that the excessive force charges that were brought against the officers involved with the college students," Bottoms explained. "There's a lot happening in our city, and the police officers are receiving the brunt of it quite frankly."> Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms says morale in her city's police department "is down ten-fold" amid reports officers are calling in sick tonight.> > "We expect our officers will keep their commitment to our communities," she added. https://t.co/yHd6ZAY3vs pic.twitter.com/XsrvktkItX> > -- Cuomo Prime Time (@CuomoPrimeTime) June 18, 2020
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| State media: Iran test fires cruise missiles in naval drill Posted: 18 Jun 2020 02:13 AM PDT  Iran test fired cruise missiles in a naval exercise in the Gulf of Oman and northern Indian Ocean, state media reported Thursday. The report by the official IRNA news agency said the missiles destroyed targets at a distance of 280 kilometers (170 miles). It said the tests took place during a naval drill by Iran's navy in the Gulf of Oman and Indian Ocean.
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| Turkey plans more military bases in north Iraq after offensive: official Posted: 18 Jun 2020 12:41 AM PDT  Turkey plans to set up more temporary military bases in northern Iraq after stepping up its strikes against Kurdish militants there, a senior Turkish official told Reuters, saying the effort would ensure border security. Ankara launched two separate operations in northern Iraq against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) on Sunday and Tuesday, in response to what it said was an increase in militant attacks on Turkish army bases along the border between the countries.
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| Paulinho Paiakan: Amazon indigenous chief dies with coronavirus Posted: 18 Jun 2020 05:37 AM PDT  Paulinho Paiakan was best known for the fight against the Belo Monte hydroelectric project in Brazil.
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| 'It got ugly': What happened when Black Lives Matter protests came to small town Ohio Posted: 18 Jun 2020 09:01 AM PDT  In Bethel, Ohio, peaceful protesters were seen by some as no different than looters. Here, the protesters' message was a challenge to a way of life.
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| The US wants to kill part of an 8,000 mile-long undersea cable linking Hong Kong with LA over China spying fears Posted: 18 Jun 2020 02:17 AM PDT  A DOJ committee is worried a cable connecting the US with Hong Kong could be vulnerable to hacking by the Chinese government.
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| Five bombshells about Trump from Bolton's book Posted: 17 Jun 2020 01:17 PM PDT  Excerpts from former national security adviser John Bolton's book about his time in the Trump administration paint a damning view of the president as a "stunningly uninformed" man.
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| US employers step up anti-unionization efforts as pandemic spurs activism Posted: 18 Jun 2020 03:45 AM PDT  The coronavirus crisis is making organization efforts difficult for unions and bosses seem keen to take advantageDuring the coronavirus pandemic, employers have opposed unionization elections even as workers' activism over safety protections, job security and wages has increased in the face of an economic shutdown and health fears.But the pandemic has created difficult conditions for workers to organize elections in – something many employers appear to have taken advantage of, despite the wave of labor activism sweeping the US.The number of resolved union election cases at the National Labor Relations Board dropped from 84 in March 2020 to 13 in April 2020 as the pandemic raged. Several of the delayed union elections then had petitions withdrawn or have yet to be scheduled. During the pandemic, union election petitions have declined significantly. According to the NLRB, union representation case intake in April 2020 decreased by 67.6% compared with April 2019.The NLRB initially froze all union elections, while permitting mail-in ballot elections if employers and workers agreed to proceed. The board lifted the freeze on 6 April, after 116 union elections were delayed, and several other groups of workers had petition hearings postponed.For many workers, the need to have a union has never been greater.Monica Luna, an associate at a T-Mobile retail store in Del Rio, Texas for nearly three years, filed for a union election with the NLRB in April 2020 in response to working conditions during the pandemic and the lack of job security as T-Mobile is shuttering stores around the US."A week and a half after, our district manager started making appearances and we started having union avoidance meetings," said Luna.Her retail store remained opened entirely throughout the pandemic, yet her pay of $13 an hour remained the same. "I think it's funny [that] all of a sudden we're trying to form a union, and the district manager showed up and stayed for the week, was buying us food, giving his opinion regarding the union, trying to give us facts, saying if we didn't pay dues we could get fired."A T-Mobile spokesperson said in an email: "We as a company have the right to educate our employees about the facts around union representation so they can make informed decisions."The Communications Workers of America lost the election. Organizer Tim Dubnau put the defeat down to the anti-union meetings and frequent intervention from the district manager, while organizers were unable to meet with workers due to concerns of spreading the virus.Activists and labor unions and several elected officials in Congress have been pushing for the NLRB to develop procedures to hold union elections electronically, citing employer opposition to mail-in ballot elections and the urgency of safety protections for workers who risk exposure to coronavirus.As union elections resumed during the pandemic, several employers have continued to oppose unionization efforts through captive audience meetings and pushes to postpone or delay elections.Mission hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, has been fighting with nurses working to join National Nurses United, with the hospital pushing for an in-person voting election and to expand the bargaining unit from 1,600 nurses to all nurses, nurse practitioners and nurse anesthetists in the county.The hospital has also argued to postpone the election until after the pandemic, while hiring union avoidance consultants, the Crossroads Group, to hold anti-union meetings with workers and managers through the pandemic."We're still waiting for the NLRB to announce who will be able to vote and when and how the vote will take place," said Sarah Kuhl, a registered nurse at Mission Health's oncology department.Kuhl noted the hospital is still pushing for an in-person election vote, while anti-union meetings continue, and management distributes anti-union flyers. "Our cases of Covid-19 here in Asheville are increasing and staff members have been impacted, so an in-person vote would be irresponsible to patients and staff."A Mission hospital spokesperson told the Guardian: "We respect every colleague's right to decide for themselves whether they desire union representation or not. However, we do not believe unions benefit our facilities, our colleagues, and most importantly our patients."Rose Turner, organizing director at UFCW local 1529, filed a petition for a union election in Byhalia, Mississippi, as soon as the board lifted the election freeze on 6 April to represent workers at Hearthside Food Solutions, the largest private bakery in the US which packages cereal for Kellogg's.Immediately following the petition filing, Hearthside hired a union avoidance firm to hold regular meetings with workers to deter them from voting for the union. The vote was scheduled to be held via mail-in ballot due to the pandemic, but Hearthside Food Solutions pushed to hold a manual election and the NLRB agreed.The union won the election in a 62 to 47 vote."I've been with the union for over 30 years. That was the hardest election I ever experienced," said Turner, citing the difficulty for the union to hold meetings and speak to workers ahead of the vote. "In the end, we prevailed."Epic Academy College Prep and Hearthside Food Solutions did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
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| Neighbors in Georgia teamed up to protect a group of Black teens after a police officer pointed a gun at them Posted: 17 Jun 2020 01:05 PM PDT  The officer pointed the gun at the teens while responding to a 911 call about a group of teenagers fighting in a store parking lot and holding a gun.
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| 3.6 preliminary magnitude earthquake strikes Alum Rock Posted: 17 Jun 2020 11:29 AM PDT  DID YOU FEEL IT? A 3.6 preliminary magnitude earthquake has struck 4.9 miles southwest of Alum Rock.
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| Atlanta police department morale "is down ten-fold," mayor says Posted: 18 Jun 2020 04:31 AM PDT  Eight officers have resigned from the Atlanta Police Department this month.
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| UK's Johnson, France's Macron to discuss coronavirus, Brexit: Johnson's spokesman Posted: 18 Jun 2020 05:01 AM PDT  Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron will most likely talk about the global fight against the novel coronavirus and Britain's future relationship with the European Union at talks later on Thursday. "President Macron is visiting London to mark an important event in the shared history of our two countries and to commemorate the sacrifices made during the Second World War," Johnson's spokesman told reporters. "But it is also an opportunity for the PM and the president to discuss a range of other issues and I expect them to talk about the global fight against coronavirus and also for our future relationship with the European Union to come up."
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| Cops’ Most Deranged Lies and Bizarre Claims About the Protests Posted: 18 Jun 2020 01:03 AM PDT  Protesters are not filling ice cream containers with concrete. Shake Shack employees are not putting bleach in milkshakes. And buses full of anti-fascists are not about to descend on a small town near you.That's just what police are saying.As protests over racial justice and police brutality unfold across the country, police departments are taking to social media to tell their side of the story. The trouble is, they're frequently wrong—and sometimes so wildly so that it begs the question of why they even bother.Christopher Slobogin, director of Vanderbilt University's criminal justice program, said cops can be mistaken, just like everyone. But sometimes police lie because they view themselves as in opposition to criminals, who also lie."It's possible that police concoct lies because even though they know what they're saying isn't true, they believe the lie is in service of a greater good," Slobogin told The Daily Beast. "If cops are convinced that, overall, they're in the right, what's a little lying here and there? I think that's human nature, not just cops. But the problem, the cops have the power, they have the weapons, and people in authority tend to believe them."New York Cops Beat Protesters for Crime of Being ThereWhat follows is a smattering of the most impactful, egregious, or just plain weird fibs, panicky projections, falsehoods, or exaggerations about protests to come from cops, their spokespeople, and their unions in recent weeks. Dairy DisinfoThe New York City Police Benevolent Association, which represents city police officers, claimed this week that workers at Shake Shack had put a bleach-like substance in officers' milkshakes. The PBA—which joined a similar claim made by the Detectives' Endowment Association—cited no evidence, aside from officers' apparent gastrointestinal distress after they purchased Shake Shack's notoriously heavy drinks while on the job. An official NYPD investigation quickly cleared Shake Shack workers of wrongdoing. No Concrete ProofNew York City police also claimed internally this month that protesters were filling ice cream containers with concrete—presumably to throw at cops as projectile weapons—and leaving them at a construction site. Twitter users quickly noted that, not only was the concrete in coffee cups instead of ice cream containers, but that mixing concrete samples in coffee cups is standard practice for construction workers. The cups were even labeled with workers' notes on the concrete composition. The construction site where the cups were apparently recovered even had a permit for concrete work. Phantom Brick PilesIn Brooklyn, NYPD hyped up a rumor about protesters gathering brick piles to throw during protests. "This is what our cops are up against," NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea tweeted, parroting the rumor, which has also been promoted by President Donald Trump. "Organized looters, strategically placing caches of bricks & rocks at locations throughout NYC." Reporting by The Daily Beast and other outlets cast doubt on those claims, pointing out that they were near a construction site, and nowhere near protests. Time TravelOn Monday, New York City's Sergeants Benevolent Association (another police union) tweeted a video of protesters running through a Brooklyn street and throwing things at a cop car. "This was tonight," the SBA tweeted, "Flatbush Ave Brooklyn." The tweet also implied that a program that discourages unnecessary arrests was responsible for the chaos. In fact, there was no chaos that night in Brooklyn. The video was from May, and that area of Flatbush Avenue had long been calm, reporters covering the protests noted. Murder BusIn Columbus, Ohio, police tweeted evidence of what they said was a clear violent scheme: a bus full of rocks, clubs, and a meat cleaver. "There was a suspicion of supplying riot equipment to rioters," Columbus Police tweeted. "Charges pending." In fact, Columbus Alive reported, police had stumbled across a colorfully painted circus bus. The frightened circus troupe told the outlet that the "clubs" were juggling clubs, the rocks were crystals, and the meat cleaver was pulled from the troupe's cooking utensils. "Yeah, there's a hatchet on the bus—with a bunch of wood sitting next to a wood-burning stove," the bus's owner said, noting that the vehicle was literally his house. Technically Tear GasU.S. Park Police offered an oft-changing explanation for firing irritants at protesters in Washington D.C.'s Lafayette Park in order to clear it for a Trump photoshoot in early June. Police initially denied using "tear gas" in a statement, then walked that back, claiming that, technically, the projectiles were "smoke canisters and pepper balls." Nevertheless, reporters for D.C.'s WUSA9 recovered tear gas casings from the scene—and as Vox noted, "tear gas" can be a broad term, sometimes referring to the pepper projectiles Park Police admitted to using. Attorney General William Barr also falsely claimed that pepper spray "is not a chemical irritant. It's not chemical." The Washington Post's fact-checking department awarded the claim "four Pinnochios," which is the maximum number of Pinnochios. A Bad TripPolice in Buffalo, New York, became the focus of national ire after they were filmed pushing a 75-year-old man to the ground, causing him to lose consciousness and bleed from the head. But before the video went viral, Buffalo Police offered a different characterization of the incident. "During [a] skirmish involving protestors, one person was injured when he tripped & fell," police said in a statement. The video would later reveal that the man was alone when he calmly approached officers. He has a fractured skull and is still unable to walk, his lawyer said this week. Small Biz ShakedownAfter protesters took over a six-block area in Seattle, the city's police claimed—without evidence—that the activists were extorting businesses in the area. Police appeared to walk back that claim several days later, after the local business association and prominent businesses in the area said they'd seen no indication of the alleged protection racket. Some businesses even said they were volunteering with the protests. The Antifa ExpressMultiple police departments have promoted a hoax about anti-fascists coming to their towns by the busload to wreak havoc. In Oregon, Curry County Sheriff John Ward shared a Facebook post warning that "3 buss loads of ANTIFA protestors are making their way from Douglas County headed for Coquille then to Coos Bay." Hundreds of locals reportedly stood outside with guns overnight awaiting the menace that never came.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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| What happened when Black Lives Matter came to a notorious KKK town in Texas Posted: 17 Jun 2020 04:33 PM PDT  The town of Vidor, in east Texas, has a reputation. It's the kind of reputation that causes its residents to pause when someone asks where they're from.For years it was known as a sundown town — a place where non-whites were threatened with violence if they stayed after dark, and where they were barred from living through intimidation and discriminatory practices. It has a long history of Ku Klux Klan activity, and was once described by a local magazine as "the most hate-filled town in Texas."
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| Trump's lack of self-esteem results in 'dangerous' decisions, psychoanalyst says Posted: 17 Jun 2020 04:51 PM PDT  A prominent psychoanalyst who specializes in understanding narcissistic personalities says that President Trump suffers from a grievous lack of self-esteem.
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| China shuts schools and cancels flights as Beijing reports an 'extremely grave' surge in new coronavirus cases Posted: 18 Jun 2020 03:32 AM PDT  Beijing had reported no locally transmitted cases for 57 consecutive days until a flurry of cases emerged last week,
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| Taiwan unveils plan to help Hong Kongers looking to leave Posted: 18 Jun 2020 05:14 AM PDT |
| Indian MPs demand government take revenge on China after photographs emerge of spiked club used in clash Posted: 18 Jun 2020 04:44 AM PDT  Indian MPs on Thursday demanded the government take revenge on China amid a wave of public fury over Chinese troops' use of nail-studded rods in the lethal border clash earlier this week. On Monday night Chinese troops ambushed an unarmed Indian patrol in the Galwan Valley in Ladakh, a piece of contested territory China had allegedly agreed to withdraw its forces from. Doctors carrying out post mortem examinations on the 23 Indian fatalities told the Telegraph their injuries were consistent with weapons embedded with nails or barbed wire.
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| Chinese fighter jets buzz Taiwan again, stoking tensions Posted: 18 Jun 2020 12:07 AM PDT  Chinese air force aircraft approached Taiwan on Thursday for the fifth time in 10 days, before being warned away by Taiwanese fighters, the island's air force said, in a further ratcheting up of tensions across the sensitive Taiwan Strait. The Chinese J-10 and J-11 fighter aircraft flew into the southwestern part of Taiwan's air defence identification zone in the morning, Taiwan's air force said in a statement. Taiwanese fighters, which regularly patrol the air space around the Chinese-claimed island, warned the Chinese aircraft over the radio, whereupon they left Taiwan's air defence zone, it added, without giving further details.
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| A 'higher than usual' number of Atlanta police officers call out after former colleague charged with murder over the killing of Rayshard Brooks Posted: 17 Jun 2020 07:43 PM PDT  The Atlanta Police Department said it was experiencing a "higher than usual" number of call outs Wednesday night.
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| The black congresswoman who's helping Biden pick his running mate Posted: 17 Jun 2020 05:41 PM PDT  "If we want to transform this country, this is the time to recognize ... the leadership of black women," Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester said recently. "We won't be taken for granted."
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| 68 Outdoor Patio Ideas and Designs for Backyards and Rooftops Posted: 18 Jun 2020 10:17 AM PDT |
| Trump's attacks on mail-in voting hurt Republican chances — including his own, says former GOP Gov. Ridge Posted: 17 Jun 2020 01:50 PM PDT  President Trump is hurting the electoral chances of Republicans in the fall elections, and likely even his own, by making false claims that voting by mail is not secure, said former Pennsylvania Gov. and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge.
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| Hundreds of Chinese troops reportedly hunted down dozens of Indian soldiers and beat them with batons wrapped in barbed wire Posted: 17 Jun 2020 10:44 AM PDT  The deadly fight on Monday evening reportedly took place on a narrow ridge, in the dark, roughly 14,000 feet above sea level.
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| Hong Kong's 'rebel' tycoon Jimmy Lai has no regrets Posted: 18 Jun 2020 12:39 AM PDT  Millionaire media tycoon Jimmy Lai knows his support for Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests could soon land him behind bars, but the proudly self-described "troublemaker" says he has no regrets. "I'm prepared for prison," the 72-year-old told AFP from the offices of Next Digital, Hong Kong's largest and most rambunctiously pro-democracy media group. Few Hong Kongers generate the level of vitriol from Beijing that Lai does.
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| 'Career criminal' arrested over 100 times accused of attacking 92-year-old woman Posted: 17 Jun 2020 07:57 PM PDT  Raymond Arroyo breaks down this week's Seen and Unseen on 'The Ingraham Angle.'
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| New Zealand tightens gun laws further in response to mass shooting Posted: 17 Jun 2020 11:27 PM PDT |
| Prosecutors charge police, push reforms amid Floyd protests Posted: 17 Jun 2020 09:20 PM PDT  Prosecutors across the country are defying traditionally cozy relationships with police departments, swiftly charging officers with murder, assault and other crimes following protests over the death of George Floyd and dropping charges against demonstrators. "Prosecutors realize that they're being watched," said Mark Dupree Sr., district attorney for Kansas' Wyandotte County, which includes Kansas City.
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| Sweden 'surprisingly slow' at achieving herd immunity, study finds Posted: 17 Jun 2020 09:49 AM PDT  Sweden's state epidemiologist has said the country has been "surprisingly slow" at achieving herd immunity. The death toll in Sweden passed 5,000 on Wednesday and the Scandinavian nation has one of the highest mortality rates in the world at 487 per 1m population, approximately ten times higher than neighbouring Norway. Yet an analysis by Werlabs AB of 50,000 tests showed that only 14 per cent of those living in the Stockholm region tested positive for coronavirus antibodies. In Bergamo, considered to be the epicentre of Italy's deadly outbreak, about 57 per cent of people had antibodies. The UK's Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance estimated that 60 per cent of people would need to be infected to achieve herd immunity from the novel coronavirus. Sweden chose not to implement a strict lockdown, running contrary to many other countries worldwide. Schools, shops and restaurants have all remained open during the course of 2020.
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| FAA explains why it's taking so long to fix the grounded Boeing 737 jetliner Posted: 17 Jun 2020 01:26 PM PDT  It's been over a year since the jet that figured in two crashes was last flown. On Wednesday, FAA chief Stephen Dickson gave the Senate an update.
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| Five reasons an arsenal plane isn’t the best choice for rebalancing America’s long-range strike forces Posted: 18 Jun 2020 04:57 AM PDT  There are two basic approaches to conducting long-range strikes. Today's force does not have the right balance.
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| ‘Something’s wrong with Donald Trump’: New ad from Republican group that drove president into a fury questions his health Posted: 17 Jun 2020 05:47 AM PDT  Days after he was shown struggling to descend a gentle ramp at the West Point graduation ceremony, Donald Trump has been hit with a new attack ad drawing attention to what it says is evidence of his poor and declining health.The 45-second video comes from the Lincoln Project, a group formed by longtime Republican campaign strategists who view the president's re-election as a risk to the future of the US.
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| An Epidemiologist Explains Why Protesting Racism During a Pandemic is Important Posted: 18 Jun 2020 04:15 AM PDT  Racism within health systems can lead to worse outcomes for people of color.
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| US-China row moves underwater in cable tangle Posted: 17 Jun 2020 11:15 PM PDT  In another sign of growing tension, a high-speed internet cable looks set to be blocked by the US.
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| U.S. homebuilding rises moderately; jump in permits hints at green shoots Posted: 17 Jun 2020 05:49 AM PDT  U.S. homebuilding increased less than expected in May, but a strong rebound in permits for future home construction suggested the housing market was starting to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis along with the broader economy. Starts for the volatile multi-family housing segment jumped 15.0% to a pace of 299,000 units.
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| Look at the facts in the Rayshard Brooks case. The George Floyd killing was different. Posted: 18 Jun 2020 04:02 AM PDT  There is no shortage of police misconduct due to racism. But claiming it where it may not exist weakens the righteous cause of stamping it out.
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| Coronavirus' return to Beijing disrupts life and rattles nerves Posted: 18 Jun 2020 01:59 PM PDT  While residents of China's capital feel like they're living under "soft lockdown," it's still a limited outbreak, and authorities are determined to keep it that way.
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| Months into virus, biggest one-day case spike worries Iran Posted: 16 Jun 2020 11:09 PM PDT  Months into Iran's fight against the coronavirus, doctors and nurses at Tehran's Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital still don a mask, a disposable hazmat suit and a double layer of latex gloves every day to attempt to contain a pandemic that shows no signs of slowing. Iran reported its first coronavirus cases and deaths on the same day in February — the Middle East's first and biggest outbreak of the virus — yet it only recently saw its highest single-day spike in reported cases, followed soon by the highest daily death toll in months. The spikes, which came after a major Muslim holiday last month, have renewed fears about a potential second wave of infections sweeping across Iran.
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| ‘He’s now showing us every day what we have to lose’: Rep. James Clyburn on Trump’s Tulsa rally Posted: 17 Jun 2020 02:14 PM PDT  South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn tells Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff that President Trump's decision to hold a rally in Tulsa on the day after the 99th anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre, one of the worst examples of racial violence in United States history, should send a message to Black men who voted for Trump in 2016.
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| Revival Rugs Launches Debut Furniture Collection Posted: 18 Jun 2020 12:32 PM PDT |
| Brutal details emerge of India soldier 'ambush' on contested border with China as Modi tries to calm tension Posted: 17 Jun 2020 02:19 AM PDT  As the sun began to set over the Himalayan peaks, Colonel Santosh Babu and his unarmed platoon of 50 Indian soldiers on Monday set off on a patrol across the strategically crucial Galwan Valley in Ladakh. Their mission was probably the most important in recent Indian history - to ascertain whether Chinese troops had withdrawn, as per an agreement between senior army officers from the two nations, from territory which had previously been administered by India for decades. Instead, to their surprise, what Colonel Babu's men found were temporary Chinese all-weather tents and roughly enemy 100 soldiers waiting at a location called Patrolling Point 14. Despite being outnumbered, the Indian soldiers confronted the Chinese troops. Some started to remove the tents, sparking a long and brutal man-to-man brawl that has brought the two superpowers to the brink of war. In an initial clash, Colonel Babu and two other soldiers were killed. Soon after 17 Indian troops met the same fate, many either falling or being pushed off a ledge into the freezing waters of the Galwan River below.
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