| As COVID cases spike in Florida, Trump now says he's 'flexible' on convention format in Jacksonville Posted: 08 Jul 2020 08:46 AM PDT  With coronavirus cases exploding in Florida, the president now says he is "flexible" on plans to hold a large-scale, indoor Republican National Convention next month.
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| An Austin police officer appeared to grope a woman's breast after pulling her over for a traffic violation Posted: 09 Jul 2020 11:44 AM PDT  The Austin Police Department defended the officer's conduct, saying he followed the department's regulations and that no female officer was available.
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| NYPD forced to impose limit on officers filing for retirement amid 400% surge of personnel trying to quit Posted: 09 Jul 2020 12:44 PM PDT  The New York Police Department (NYPD) has reportedly limited the number of retirement applications it will allow, after it saw a surge in requests in the last couple of months.The NYPD announced on Wednesday that 179 officers filed for retirement between 29 June and 6 July – a 411 per cent increase on the 35 who retired in the same time period in 2019.
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| 'I feel threatened': Unmasked Florida man's viral Costco outburst cost him his job Posted: 08 Jul 2020 02:33 PM PDT  "He absolutely does not represent our values and no longer works at our agency," the CEO of Ted Todd Insurance said Tuesday.
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| Rare gorillas in Nigeria captured on camera with babies Posted: 08 Jul 2020 12:05 AM PDT  Conservationists have captured the first images of a group of rare Cross River gorillas with multiple babies in Nigeria's Mbe mountains, proof that the subspecies once feared to be extinct is reproducing amid protection efforts. Only around 300 Cross River gorillas were known to be alive at one point in the isolated mountainous region in Nigeria and Cameroon, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society, which captured the camera trap images in May. More color images were recovered last month. John Oates, professor emeritus at the City University of New York and a primatologist who helped establish conservation efforts for the gorillas more than two decades ago, was excited about the new images.
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| Evidence found of epic prehistoric Pacific voyages Posted: 09 Jul 2020 05:03 AM PDT  New evidence has been found for epic prehistoric voyages between the Americas and eastern Polynesia.
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| Militants kill BJP politician Wasim Bari and his family in Kashmir Posted: 08 Jul 2020 07:58 PM PDT  A Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party politician was killed along with his brother and father in Indian administered Kashmir, officials said on Thursday. Wasim Bari, 38, and his family were attacked by militants at his residence in north Kashmir's Bandipora district on Wednesday night. All three were shot at point-blank range and died on the way to hospital. Authorities have arrested all 11 police personnel who were guarding him for dereliction of duties. Mr Bari's residence is a few meters away from the police station. This is the first attack on BJP workers in Kashmir after abrogation of Article 370 on August 5, 2019, when India stripped off the disputed region's autonomy. The killing of Mr Bari, who is survived by his wife and sister, has sent shock waves across political circles in Kashmir. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has condemned the attack.
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| 'Scared for my life' but needing a salary: Teachers weigh risks of COVID-19 Posted: 09 Jul 2020 10:34 AM PDT  For teachers, the question is stark: Is the risk of catching COVID-19 worth continuing in a profession many love and need to fund retirement plans?
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| CDC says guidelines for reopening schools are 'not requirements' after Trump calls them 'impractical' Posted: 08 Jul 2020 11:16 AM PDT  After President Trump on Tuesday lashed out at what he called "impractical" and "expensive" guidelines for reopening schools published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the agency's director stressed that they are just guidelines, "not requirements."
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| El Salvador murder rate plummets; study says gangs may have informal pact with government Posted: 08 Jul 2020 07:56 AM PDT |
| Tucker Carlson Doubles Down on Duckworth Attacks, Calls Her a ‘Coward’ and ‘Fraud’ Posted: 07 Jul 2020 06:30 PM PDT  A night after saying Iraq War veteran Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) hates America, Fox News host Tucker Carlson doubled down on his attacks, describing the Purple Heart recipient who lost her legs in combat as a "coward" and "fraud."During his Monday night broadcast, the primetime conservative star played an abbreviated clip of Duckworth saying there should be a "national dialogue" over the possible removal of statues, touting it as proof that she supposedly wants to "get rid of George Washington" while questioning her patriotism."You're not supposed to criticize Tammy Duckworth in any way because she once served in the military," he added. "Most people just ignore her. But when Duckworth does speak in public, you're reminded what a deeply silly and unimpressive person she is."Duckworth would quickly respond via Twitter, wondering if the longtime TV personality would "want to walk a mile" in her legs and then tell her whether or not she loves America.On Tuesday night, with Duckworth's fiery response still gathering tons of attention, Carlson fired back by once again calling her love of country into question. "Senator Duckworth was asked if we should tear down statues of George Washington," the Fox host said. "We played that for you last night and we noted how grotesque it was. Only someone who hates the country would suggest ripping down monuments to its founder."Claiming that the Democratic lawmaker was unable to disagree with his argument, Carlson then added: "Instead she questioned our right to criticize her at all since she was once injured while serving in the Illinois National Guard. That's what passes for an argument in modern identity politics."Repeatedly asserting that Duckworth believes that Washington is a "dead traitor," he went on to say that she has "contempt" for him despite the fact that he "paid his dues" in the military and was a "combat veteran." "George Washington was a genuinely great man," he sneered. "But to morons like Tammy Duckworth, Washington was just some old white guy who needs to be erased."He would go on to note that he reached out to Duckworth's team to see if she would come on his show for a "vigorous reasonable exchange" of ideas, but they declined unless Carlson was willing to issue a public apology."Keep in mind, she is also described as a hero," Carlson scoffed, adding: "Yet Duckworth is too afraid to defend her own statements on a TV show, what a coward. Tammy Duckworth is also a fraud."Carlson wrapped up his segment by calling the Illinois senator a "callous hack," accusing her of mistreating veterans, and then comparing her to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN)—a favorite target of Carlson's, who he regularly claims hates America.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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| Israel looked like a model for halting coronavirus. Here's how it 'lost its bearings.' Posted: 09 Jul 2020 01:31 AM PDT  "It has been several weeks since Israel's compass for handling the pandemic has lost its bearings," wrote the public health director in her resignation.
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| Joe Shapiro's widow says her late husband met Donald Trump in college Posted: 08 Jul 2020 07:40 PM PDT  Raw video: Pam Shriver says her late husband met Trump after he was already enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania.
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| Coronavirus: How New Zealand went 'hard and early' to beat Covid-19 Posted: 09 Jul 2020 04:41 PM PDT  What has been the strategy behind New Zealand's Covid-19 success?
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| Trump attacks Lindsey Graham after SCOTUS rulings Posted: 09 Jul 2020 08:48 AM PDT  "No Republican Senate Judiciary response," the president tweeted.
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| Rare Tsunami Formed In Chesapeake Bay During Monday's Storms, Forecasters Say Posted: 08 Jul 2020 10:26 AM PDT  A rare meteotsunami formed in the Chesapeake Bay as thunderstorms rolled through Maryland Monday night. According the The National Weather Service's Mt. Holly bureau the tsunami formed near Tolchester Beach in Kent County. Katie Johnston reports.
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| Texas executes inmate convicted of killing elderly man: Department of corrections Posted: 08 Jul 2020 05:38 PM PDT |
| As One of Russia’s Leading Journalists Is Charged With Treason, a Chill Settles Over the Press Posted: 08 Jul 2020 02:09 AM PDT  MOSCOW—When the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) arrested journalist Ivan Safronov on charges of "state treason" this week, many of his friends were quick to remember what happened to his father. Both men covered news about national defense and Russia's space program and were recognized as authorities in their field. The elder Safronov, who also was named Ivan, wrote for the newspaper Kommersant until one day in 2007 he plunged out of a window to his death.The younger Safronov never believed the official conclusion that his father committed suicide. Neither did colleagues at Kommersant. "Defenestration," pushing people out of windows and blaming accidents or suicide, is viewed as a common, if conspicuous, technique allegedly used by Russian security services for extrajudicial executions.The younger Safronov took up the banner of investigative reporting at Kommersant and became one of the country's leading defense correspondents in his own right, but just recently took a job as a senior adviser to Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Roscosmos, Russia's major space agency. Rogozin told the TASS news agency on Tuesday that Safronov "did not have any access to classified information," and that he knew Safronov as an honest and professional man. Nonetheless, Safronov is alleged to have turned over national defense secrets to someone from what was initially reported as an unnamed "NATO country."Even One-Person Protests are Too Much for Vladimir PutinSafronov's lawyer, Ivan Pavlov, who specializes in treason cases, told The Daily Beast the allegations presented to the court "said that Czech intelligence had recruited Safronov in 2012 and that in 2017 he'd received a task from them to collect and pass information on Russian weapons sold to Africa. I believe they mean Egypt. The investigators surely do not admit that they accuse Safronov of his journalistic work." Pavlov said his client looked strong, brave and very much interested in all details of his case. "He asked me what to expect," Pavlov said. "Two of my five clients accused of treason are under house arrest, two are in prison. They all face up to 20 years of prison."Early Tuesday morning investigators searched the home of Safronov's friend, Taisya Bekbulatova, formerly with Kommersant and the independent publication Meduza and now editor-in-chief of Holod (Cold). Bekbulatova was denied access to her attorney during her interrogations, according to the Mediazona news website.By the afternoon, authorities at the Lefortovo court let a few reporters in to take photographs of Safronov, who was locked in the courtroom's cage.In the meantime, journalists were protesting one by one as "single pickets" (observing government regulations and social distancing) outside the historic headquarters of Soviet and Russian secret police, including the FSB, on Lubyanka Square. They held banners that said, "Journalism is not a crime." More than two dozen from five different publications were detained.All of this comes just as Vladimir Putin has engineered constitutional changes allowing him to remain, in effect, president for life. And nearly every day Russia hears of threats, arrests, investigations against independent journalists who might challenge his authority or the actions of his government. On Monday a Russian court found journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva guilty of "justifying terrorism" in one of her articles. The reporter for Radio Free Europe has to pay a large fine. But the state treason charges leveled against Safronov are a much more serious charge and signal greatly increased pressure on the press. Vladimir Solovyev, editor of Russia's only independent TV channel, Rain, told The Daily Beast, "We called our television show today 'They Have Come to Get Us.' We are outraged to see our friend and colleague Safronov being accused of ridiculous things." Solovyev said he would only believe the charges "if I see very precise detailed evidence." But in treason and espionage cases that kind of solid information is rarely made available to the public.Just a few years ago state treason charges were rare in Russia. From 1997 to 2008 there were only two or three cases a year. But eight people were charged with such crimes last year alone, and just a few weeks ago a Russian scientist was accused of passing secrets to China."We hear that FSB is in the process of releasing a law that would ban us from publishing anything about the FSB without an official approval signed by the FSB," says journalist Kirill Kharatyan, formerly with the business paper Vedomosti, where he was Safronov's editor.Footage broadcast of armed men taking Safronov away shocked independent journalists here n Russia. Andrei Soldatov, author of several important books about Russian intelligence operatives and occasional contributor to The Daily Beast, noted that before 2012 Russian journalists could not be charged with treason, since by definition independent reporters had no access to state secrets. "The FSB is making it clear to us that things are different now," Soldatov told us after Safronov's arrest. "I can think of only one reason: to point out to us which important topics are now closed to the public."Just like his father before him, 30-year-old Ivan Safronov covered the life of the Russian military and space industry workers objectively, starting nearly every piece with the words, "As Kommersant has learned." His scoops were well-sourced and drew a lot of attention. He carefully checked every piece of information on every story, whether he reported on a "superjet" catching fire, or a manager at Roscosmos stealing state money, or on the growing Russian military contingent in the Central African Republic. But in April last year Safronov published an explosive story about possible changes in Vladimir Putin's court: the director of Russia's foreign intelligence service (SVR), Sergei Naryshkin, coming to replace Valentina Matvuyenko as speaker of the Federation Council, the upper chamber of Russian parliament. The Kremlin denied the story and Safronov had to quit Kommersant, allegedly under pressure from the paper's owner, billionaire Alisher Usmanov. But Kommersant did not kill the story. It can still be found on its website.Safronov continued to report his sharp in-depth stories for Vedomosti until March of this year before finally taking the job at Roscosmos. "I have a feeling that Ivan was under constant pressure from threats," Safronov's former editor Kharatyan told The Daily Beast. "So he thought he would be safer if he got a job at a state agency, that that would protect him. But obviously that did not help."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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| Army Reviewing 'Confederate Memorial' Featuring Slaves at Arlington National Cemetery Posted: 09 Jul 2020 06:44 AM PDT  The presence of a huge memorial to the Confederacy at Arlington National Cemetery is under review.
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| Wisconsin police officer rescues dog from burning house Posted: 08 Jul 2020 02:09 PM PDT |
| China’s Confucius Institutes Attempt to Rebrand Following Backlash Posted: 08 Jul 2020 09:35 AM PDT  China is attempting to rebrand Confucius Institutes following a worldwide backlash against the centers.Confucius Institutes, which are present on dozens of U.S. college campuses and at other foreign universities, carry the stated purpose of promoting Chinese language and culture. However, U.S. officials have singled out the institutes as propaganda centers that serve as an extension of China's "soft power."The Confucius Institute Headquarters in Beijing has changed its name to the "Ministry of Education Centre for Language Education and Cooperation." Additionally, the organization changed the name of its account on Chinese social-media app WeChat, although it is not clear if Confucius Institutes in other countries will themselves be renamed.The name change is "related to various kinds of pressure, but it is by no means succumbing to them," Sun Yixue, a professor at the International School of Tongji University in Shanghai, told the South China Morning Post. "It is a timely adjustment made by China to adapt to the new situation of world language and cultural exchanges, but this does not mean that all overseas Confucius Institutes should be renamed accordingly."Several American universities have shut their Confucius Institutes in the past several months, after the coronavirus pandemic led to increased public scrutiny of the U.S.-China relationship and Chinese influence on American campuses. Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are currently in the midst of an investigation into the institutes."We cannot allow a dangerous Communist regime to buy access to our institutions of higher education, plain and simple," Representative Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) said in a statement upon announcing the investigation in May. "We owe it to the American people to hold China accountable and to prevent them from doing further harm to our country."
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| US student visas: 'A lot of people I know are scared for the future' Posted: 09 Jul 2020 01:12 PM PDT  The US said some visas could be revoked because of coronavirus, leaving students confused and uncertain.
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| The United States does not want Cuba and Venezuela to buy on Amazon Posted: 09 Jul 2020 03:00 AM PDT  A minor nuisance that comes with U.S. sanctions is having to say goodbye to buying on Amazon.
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| Trump has 91% chance of winning second term, professor’s model predicts Posted: 08 Jul 2020 02:39 PM PDT  President Donald Trump has a 91 per cent chance of winning the November 2020 election, according to a political science professor who has correctly predicted five out of six elections since 1996."The Primary Model gives Trump a 91 percent chance of winning in November," Stony Brook professor Helmut Norpoth told Mediaite on Tuesday.
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| The authors of a study downplaying racism in police killings called their findings 'careless,' and retracted the paper Posted: 09 Jul 2020 12:23 PM PDT  Study authors Joseph Cesario and David Johnson said they wished they'd been more careful after people used their research out of context.
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| Pharmacy executives tied to deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak lose appeals Posted: 09 Jul 2020 03:45 PM PDT  A federal appeals court on Thursday cleared the way for prosecutors to seek longer prison sentences for a founder and supervisory pharmacist of a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy whose tainted drugs sparked a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak in 2012. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston upheld the racketeering and fraud convictions of Barry Cadden, New England Compounding Center's ex-president, and Glenn Chin, its former supervisory pharmacist.
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| Body of missing Connecticut school teacher who thought he had coronavirus found in waters off Long Island Posted: 08 Jul 2020 09:01 AM PDT  Gil Cunha, a Connecticut school teacher who has been missing since May 7, 2020 from his parents' home in West Haven, was found dead in the water off Long Island near Fire Island, New York. For three weeks prior to his disappearance, Gil had been self-quarantining in his room with COVID-19 symptoms. The West Haven Police Department and the Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad are investigating.
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| Maxine Waters Foe Omar Navarro Gets Out of Jail And Attempts to Destroy Fellow Republican Posted: 09 Jul 2020 01:55 AM PDT  Pro-Trump internet personality Omar Navarro emerged from a six-month stint in jail on a stalking charge last month, and immediately registered to run for Congress. Navarro, a perennial challenger to Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), has registered to run for her seat again in 2022—assuming, perhaps logically, that Waters will once again prevail in her re-election request this November. But Navarro, who had nearly $50,000 in his campaign bank account as of March 31 even while he served his jail term, is not going to wait for those results before getting involved. He told The Daily Beast that he's going to send out mailers this election cycle denouncing Joe Collins, the Republican nominee currently running against Waters."Hey, I don't agree with him," Navarro told The Daily Beast. "I believe Maxine Waters is better than him."Asked for comment on Navarro's sour-grapes scheme to ruin Collins's already slim chances of winning this fall, Collins responded by accusing Navarro of having "daddy issues" without elaborating. "Omar Navarro is a joke," Collins told The Daily Beast. "He has the mentality of a four year old child throwing a temper tantrum and the testicular fortitude of a mouse." A Perennial Congressional Candidate Beloved by Trump World Was Just Arrested on Stalking ChargesThe scrapping between Collins and Navarro for the chance to lose to Waters highlights the odd incentives facing Republican challengers taking on famous incumbents in heavily Democratic districts. Running against Waters as a Republican would be a poor choice for anyone who actually wants to win. Indeed, Navarro has tried twice already, losing by more than 50 percentage points in 2016 and 2018. But for a GOPer interested in raising millions off of Waters's notoriety as a devoted Trump foe, and increasing his profile in the pro-Trump mediasphere, it works out great. Navarro raked in donations from low-dollar contributors and saw his stature on the online Trump right explode thanks to his quixotic earlier campaigns. Even the candidates themselves acknowledge the money that's at stake for whoever wins the right to face off against Waters. "The main reason Navarro is upset is because he's used to living off of his campaign donations and now he's facing the realization that, after being beaten by a real candidate with a shot at winning, he has to find a real job," Collins said in his email. For Navarro, that time in the bright lights of online Trumpy fame came to a halt when he was arrested in December in San Francisco after stalking ex-girlfriend and fellow Republican personality DeAnna Lorraine Tesoriero, who herself was running a doomed campaign against Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). Navarro eventually pleaded guilty to a stalking charge, and was sentenced to six months in San Francisco's jail, where he claims to have lost 30 pounds. Even while imprisoned in San Francisco, Navarro kept up his political profile. And he stayed on the ballot, losing the March Republican primary to Collins by a mere 250 votes—a 0.3 percent difference in the vote total. Undeterred by that loss, Navarro has tried to recast himself since being released from jail as the latest victim of deep-state prosecutors. While other Trump supporters who faced criminal charges were involved in international intrigue, however, Navarro has been faced with claiming that he was arrested on a local stalking charge because of some secret government scheme. "Full disclosure with you guys: in the past six months, yes, I have been in a county jail," Navarro told his more than 250,000 Twitter followers after being released from jail. Despite overwhelming evidence that Navarro violated Tesoriero's restraining order against him, including the fact that Navarro bashed Tesoriero to The Daily Beast in apparent violation of the order, Navarro claims that he only pleaded guilty because he would have become a "political prisoner" if he hadn't."I wouldn't have been judged by a jury of my peers, I would've been judged by a bunch of liberals, and they would have kept me locked up in there as a political prisoner," Navarro said in his Twitter video. "And that's not OK." While it might seem strange for the recently imprisoned Navarro to be confident he can win the 2022 primary to challenge Waters, he is aided by the fact that Collins has a bizarre history of his own.A Navy veteran, Collins has continuously switched parties since 2016, cycling between being a Democrat, a Republican, a member of the Green Party, and a member of the "Millennial Political Party." Collins has also filed a lawsuit over child support payments that is riddled with language echoing the nonsense legal language used by members of the far-right sovereign citizen movement. At one point in his lawsuit, in an apparent attempt to deploy a fringe legal theory, Collins claimed that his bodily fluids were worth $15 million—a bizarre detail Navarro has seized on in his campaign to bring down his rival. "You're the guy that's gonna take down Maxine Waters?" Navarro said in a video taunting Collins that he released in late June. "I'm sorry, but you're not gonna do that. And by the way, your bodily fluids are not worth $15 million." 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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| Virginia eliminates huge backlog of untested rape kits Posted: 08 Jul 2020 09:33 AM PDT |
| Arrests and police raids follow Russia's vote to let Putin rule for life Posted: 09 Jul 2020 06:10 AM PDT  An opposition governor was detained and several activists had their homes raided by the police on Thursday as Russia's latest crackdown on dissent gathers momentum. The flurry of arrests and criminal inquiries follow last week's vote in which nearly 78 percent endorsed constitutional amendments allowing Vladimir Putin to stay as president at least until 2036 when he turns 83. Sergei Furgal, the governor of the Khabarovsk region in Russia's Far East who beat a Kremlin candidate at the 2018 election, was arrested by camouflaged agents of Russia's top investigative body on Thursday morning and put on a plane to Moscow. The popular governor whose landslide win at the polls embarrassed the pro-Kremlin party, is accused of organising two contract killings as well as an attempted murder 15 years ago, according to the Investigative Committee, Russia's main federal investigating authority. Mr Furgal has not been charged with any crime. An unnamed source claiming to be linked to Mr Furgal says he has denied the allegations. Mr Furgal had been in Russian parliament for more than a decade before he won the Khabarovsk election in 2018, which has raised questions about the timing of the charges brought against him.
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| Florida’s coronavirus death rate is trending up again after rising hospitalizations Posted: 09 Jul 2020 02:01 PM PDT  It's too early to tell how much worse the death rate will get.
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| César Duarte: Fugitive Mexican ex-governor arrested in Miami Posted: 09 Jul 2020 03:56 AM PDT  César Duarte fled Mexico in 2018 after being accused of embezzling millions to fund a lavish lifestyle.
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| Ohio sheriff refuses to enforce governor's mask order: 'I'm not going to be the mask police' Posted: 09 Jul 2020 10:57 AM PDT  An Ohio sheriff said he won't enforce Governor Mike DeWine's order making face masks mandatory in states with high rates of Covid-19 infections.Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones appeared on CNN Wednesday and told anchor Brianna Keilar that while he wears a mask and is "good with that," he has no plans on enforcing the governor's mask order.
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| Black Americans report hate crimes, violence in wake of George Floyd protests and Black Lives Matter gains Posted: 08 Jul 2020 11:20 AM PDT  Across the U.S., Black people have reported incidents of alleged hate crimes and violent backlash as Black Lives Matter has gained broad support.
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| New York attorney general recommends reducing mayor's power over police Posted: 08 Jul 2020 12:52 PM PDT  New York Attorney General Letitia James recommended that New York City's mayor give up sole control over the city police commissioner's hiring, in a preliminary report released on Wednesday on her investigation into the policing of recent protests. "There should be an entirely new accountability structure for NYPD," James said in her report, which also recommended giving more power to the Civilian Complaint Review Board, a city agency that reviews police misconduct.
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| Why Iranians, rattled by suicides, point a finger at leaders Posted: 08 Jul 2020 11:11 AM PDT |
| Chechen leader blames foreign spies for slaying his critics Posted: 09 Jul 2020 05:04 AM PDT  The regional strongman leader of Russia's province of Chechnya on Thursday blamed unidentified foreign spy agencies for the recent killing in Austria of a Chechen man who criticized him. Ramzan Kadyrov claimed on his blog that the ethnic Chechen who was shot dead in a Vienna suburb over the weekend fell victim to "special services working against Russia and myself." The 43-year-old Chechen leader rejected allegations of his involvement in the slaying, saying that the killing in Vienna and earlier slayings of ethnic Chechens in Europe were performed by foreign spies to compromise him and tarnish Russia's image.
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| Soldier Makes History as First Woman to Join the Green Berets Posted: 09 Jul 2020 08:42 AM PDT  U.S. Army Special Operations Command would not identify the soldier, but confirmed that she graduated.
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| Border apprehensions rose in June, despite expulsions policy Posted: 09 Jul 2020 12:43 PM PDT  Border officials have carried out more than 70,000 expulsions of migrants under an emergency coronavirus order.
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| Should schools reopen? Pediatricians, politicians say yes — but teachers disagree Posted: 08 Jul 2020 11:22 AM PDT  President Donald Trump said "everybody wants it." Teachers unions are calling it "brazen" decision-making.
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| 'UK faces mobile blackouts if Huawei 5G ban imposed by 2023' Posted: 09 Jul 2020 05:47 AM PDT  BT and Vodafone warn that users will face days without a mobile signal if a 2023 ban is imposed.
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| California officer under investigation for allegedly sharing 'vulgar image' of George Floyd; NAACP San Diego calls for his firing Posted: 07 Jul 2020 07:03 PM PDT  A San Diego officer is under investigation for allegedly sharing an "altered photograph" of a "naked black male porn star" kneeling on George Floyd.
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| Pelosi rejects White House's $1 trillion price tag for pandemic relief Posted: 09 Jul 2020 09:59 AM PDT  "A trillion dollars is OK, that's an interesting starting point," she says.
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| Severe bread shortages loom for Syria as fresh U.S. sanctions grip Posted: 09 Jul 2020 04:13 AM PDT  Syria could face severe bread shortages for the first time since the start of the war, another challenge for President Bashar al-Assad as he grapples with an economic meltdown and fresh U.S. sanctions, a U.N. official, activists and farmers said. Any major disruptions to Syria's bread subsidy system could undermine the government and threaten a population highly dependent on wheat as rampant inflation drives up food prices. "There is already some evidence of people cutting out meals," said Mike Robson, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's Syria representative.
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