| Trump says a President Biden would get 'no ratings' Posted: 13 Jul 2020 07:42 AM PDT  President Trump, whose halting leadership in the face of the coronavirus pandemic Americans increasingly question, boasted Monday about his one undisputed success: his ability to command media attention.
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| US Postmaster General tells postal workers to leave mail behind if it slows down their route Posted: 14 Jul 2020 02:47 PM PDT  The US Postal Service is in a financial crisis, and is now instructing workers to avoid logging overtime — even if it means leaving mail behind.
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| Parents of slain Atlanta girl plead for help to find killer Posted: 12 Jul 2020 09:32 PM PDT  The parents of an 8-year-old Atlanta girl slain near the site of an earlier police killing pleaded for the public to help find whoever was responsible as their lawyers announced more reward money. "Please don't use the word snitch," the girl's father, Secoriey Williamson, said Monday, addressing anyone who might have leads. Total reward money now stands at $50,000, said one of the attorneys, Mawuli Davis.
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| Philippines to use police in house-to-house searches for COVID-19 cases Posted: 14 Jul 2020 05:59 AM PDT  Philippine authorities and police will carry out house-to-house searches for COVID-19 patients to prevent wider transmission, a minister said on Tuesday, amid soaring death and infection numbers and some areas returning to a stricter lockdown. Interior Minister Eduardo Año urged the public to report cases in their neighbourhoods, warning that anyone infected who refused to cooperate faced imprisonment. The tough approach comes during a week where the Philippines recorded Southeast Asia biggest daily jump in coronavirus deaths and saw hospital occupancy grow sharply, after a tripling of infections since a tough lockdown was eased on June 1 to allow more movement and commerce.
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| Protests after Pennsylvania police officer filmed kneeling on man’s head and neck Posted: 13 Jul 2020 12:35 AM PDT  A video of a black man being restrained by police kneeling on his head and neck in Pennsylvania has provoked outrage, with many comparing it to footage of the killing of George Floyd.The incident took place outside a hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania on Saturday and was filmed by a passer-by. One video, less than 30 seconds long, shows three white officers holding the man on the ground.
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| Remains of Aztec palace, house built by Hernán Cortés found near Mexico City plaza Posted: 14 Jul 2020 12:06 PM PDT  Mexican officials said the remains of the Aztec palace and house built by Hernán Cortés were found near the Plaza del Zócalo.
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| Blame game? Cuomo takes heat over NY nursing home study Posted: 13 Jul 2020 09:39 PM PDT  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is facing blistering criticism over an internal report that found a controversial state directive that sent thousands of recovering coronavirus patients into nursing homes was "not a significant factor" in some of the nation's deadliest nursing home outbreaks. Scientists, health care professionals and elected officials assailed the report released last week for flawed methodology and selective stats that sidestepped the actual impact of the March 25 order, which by the state's own count ushered more than 6,300 recovering virus patients into nursing homes at the height of the pandemic.
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| How might China react to the UK's Huawei decision? Posted: 14 Jul 2020 07:51 AM PDT  China has repeatedly threatened to retaliate if the UK Government reversed its decision on Huawei, with relations already under strain after Boris Johnson offered citizenship to up to three million people from Hong Kong fleeing tough new security laws. The Chinese government has not hinted what measures are being considered, but ongoing diplomatic spats with British allies including the US, Australia and Canada reveal a wide-ranging playbook. A key factor is how quickly China might be willing to allow relations with the UK to deteriorate. In the US, Canada and Australia, political elements have been critical of China for several years, while the UK is only now starting to push back against China's ambitions, said Kitty Smyth, the founder of Jingpinou, a UK consultancy specialising in China. Therefore, China may be "more likely to want to build on those pockets of support, rather than erode all relationships with the UK entirely", she added. Still, some level of reprisal is likely to take place as Beijing's swagger has grown with its new "wolf warrior" style of diplomacy, taking a much harder line in defiance of what it views as the West trying to diminish its place on the world stage.
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| Trump identifies another hoax: The coronavirus Posted: 13 Jul 2020 08:26 AM PDT  "The most outrageous lies are the ones about Covid 19," wrote game show host Chuck Woolery in a tweet promoted by the president.
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| US Air Force F-16 fighter jet crashes at New Mexico base, marking service's fifth fighter jet crash since May Posted: 13 Jul 2020 08:33 PM PDT  The pilot was able to eject safely and is being treated for minor injuries, the base said Monday evening.
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| Polish conservative Duda re-elected president, deeper EU rifts likely Posted: 12 Jul 2020 10:16 PM PDT  Polish President Andrzej Duda has won five more years in power on a socially conservative, religious platform in a closely fought election that makes renewed confrontation with the European Union's executive likely. Final results from Sunday's presidential election runoff showed Duda, 48, won with 51.03% of the vote, the National Election Commission said. Liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trzaskowski got 48.97%.
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| St Louis couple who pointed guns at Black Lives Matter protesters 'almost always in conflict with others', report says Posted: 13 Jul 2020 03:19 PM PDT  The white couple who were photographed pointing guns at protesters in St Louis, have been revealed to have had several conflicts over their property in recent years, from a number of lawsuits to the smashing of children's beehives.Personal-injury attorneys Mark and Patricia McCloskey were seen standing outside their home holding a handgun and a rifle at Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters who were walking down their street on 28 June.
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| This Tennessee doctor caught coronavirus at a meeting about coronavirus. He nearly died. Posted: 14 Jul 2020 04:45 PM PDT  Dr. Daniel Lewis, the chief medical officer of a hospital in East Tennessee, nearly died after catching coronavirus. His recovery took months.
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| Trump: ‘More White People’ Are Killed by Cops and How Dare Anyone Suggest Blacks Have it Bad Posted: 14 Jul 2020 02:10 PM PDT  Following weeks of nationwide protests over a spate of police killings of Black people, President Donald Trump has claimed that "more white people" actually die at the hands of law enforcement.The president made the comment after appearing to briefly lose it when asked about the hot button topic in a CBS News interview."Why are African-Americans still dying at the hands of law enforcement in this country?" host Catherine Herridge asked, prompting the president to immediately recoil."So are white people. So are white people! What a terrible question to ask," he huffed. "So are white people."Studies have shown that Black men are about 3.5 times more likely than white men to die in police custody. White men were killed by the police in the highest numbers between 2013 and 2017, but white people account for a greater percentage of the U.S. population than Black people, according to a Harvard study.Trump has made white grievance politics and the culture war a centerpiece of his re-election push in recent weeks, defending Confederate memorials and military bases named after Confederate generals even as he derides those who took part in anti-racism protests as "bad, evil people" seeking to destroy the country. Beyond that, he's targeted the only full-time Black NASCAR driver, Bubba Wallace, falsely accusing him of perpetrating a hate-crime "hoax" after a suspected noose was discovered in his garage at Alabama's Talladega Superspeedway last month. Trump took to Twitter to demand that Wallace should "apologize" after the FBI concluded the noose was not a hate crime, but Wallace was not the one who reported it to begin with.Amidst what has become a nationwide reckoning over racism in the country, Trump has veered off in the other direction and refused to acknowledge that racism is a problem. In fact, perhaps the most telling response he has offered to the racism issue at the heart of the protests was a recent retweet of a video showing a Trump supporter arguing with protesters and yelling "white power." 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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| Police across Virginia are searching for people who are putting up offensive flyers calling on residents to 'pray for white Americans in 2020' Posted: 14 Jul 2020 11:36 AM PDT  The flyers, packaged in ziplock bags with bird seeds, were placed in mailboxes and called for "100% Americanism."
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| Four more states added to New York quarantine order, Cuomo says Posted: 14 Jul 2020 08:12 AM PDT  Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday ordered those arriving in New York from an additional four states to quarantine for 14 days to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus. The newly added states - Minnesota, New Mexico, Ohio and Wisconsin - were all seeing 'significant' community spread of the virus, Cuomo said in a statement. Travelers arriving in New York from a total of 22 U.S. states are now required to quarantine for 14 days, according to Cuomo's order which was first issued in June.
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| 'We absolutely have to': Pelosi willing to cancel August recess for deal on another coronavirus relief package Posted: 14 Jul 2020 12:37 PM PDT  Speaker Nancy Pelosi will delay or cancel Congress' August recess if negotiators need more time to reach a deal on a coronavirus relief package that is expected to include a renewal of beefed-up unemployment benefits and more federal assistance to state governments in order to address the Covid-19 pandemic."We absolutely have to. We also have to come to an agreement. The timetable is the timetable of the American people needing their unemployment insurance, their direct payments, their assistance for rent and mortgage foreclosure forbearance," and other federal aid programmes Democrats have proposed, Ms Pelosi said in an interview with CNN on Monday.
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| Portland Protesters Set Fire to Base of Elk Statue During 46th Consecutive Night of Demonstrations Posted: 13 Jul 2020 10:04 AM PDT 
During a night of unrest in Portland, Oregon, on Sunday, July 12, protesters set fire to an empty fountain and the base of an elk statue that was recently removed during protests in the area. During clashes on July 11, one protester, named as Donavan La Bella, was hospitalized after he was shot in the head with an impact munition, the Portland Tribune reported. Mayor Ted Wheeler has announced that US Marshals will investigate the incident. Protesters gathered on July 12, the 46th consecutive day of protests in Portland, to call for justice for La Bella, local media reported. The Oregonian reported that a “120-year-old statue of an elk” that sat atop the David P. Thompson Fountain was removed from downtown Portland after protesters damaged its base by setting it on fire during July 1 demonstrations. This video shows a figure lying on the base as fire burns in the empty fountain beneath on Sunday night. Credit: Drew Hernandez via Storyful
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| Former veteran hospital nursing assistant pleads guilty to murder charges in string of insulin deaths Posted: 14 Jul 2020 02:34 PM PDT  Reta Mays was charged with seven counts of second-degree murder.
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| Confederate statues stored at Richmond waste water plant Posted: 14 Jul 2020 02:30 PM PDT  At least some of the Confederate monuments that have been recently removed from places of prominence in Richmond, Virginia, are being stored on the grounds of a waste water treatment plant, photographs show. Photos taken this week by The Associated Press and Richmond Times-Dispatch show a collection of statues and other large objects under tarps at the facility just outside the city's downtown. On July 1, Mayor Levar Stoney ordered the immediate removal of all Confederate statues on city property in Richmond, a onetime capital of the Confederacy.
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| California tosses 100,000 botched mailed-in ballots for presidential primary Posted: 14 Jul 2020 04:54 AM PDT  Most of the discounted votes arrived late, while others were lacking signatures.
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| I'm from Florida. Our coronavirus crisis doesn't surprise me Posted: 14 Jul 2020 03:37 AM PDT  'America's weirdest state' offers an extreme case of the country's broader failure to take the pandemic seriouslyI have spent the past three months in my home state of Florida, during which time I've watched it become the hottest of coronavirus hotspots on the planet. This week began with the announcement that the state registered over 15,000 new infections in a single day, which was almost 3,000 more daily cases than any state previously had recorded since the pandemic began. If Florida was a country, according to Reuters, it would have the world's fourth-highest tally of new Covid-19 cases over that 24-hour span, trailing only the US, Brazil and India.Florida has a well-deserved reputation as America's weirdest state, so perhaps the pandemic punishment being meted out to us right now shouldn't come as a shock. A 1948 Fortune magazine study observed: "Florida is a study in abnormal psychology, useful in signaling the … hidden derangements of the national mood." A lot of bad trends in American life find their most bizarre and refined forms in the Sunshine state, which is why "Florida Man" has become shorthand for the bad behavior of too many state residents. As far as the present pandemic is concerned, the simplest and most convincing explanation for why Florida is experiencing an explosion of Covid-19 cases it that it is an extreme case of the broader American failure to take the pandemic seriously.Considerable blame rests with the state's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis. A former member of the House Freedom Caucus, the most slavishly pro-Trump faction in Congress, he won election as governor in 2018 largely on the strength of the president's endorsement as well as campaign ads that showed him teaching his children how to build walls and recite "Make America Great Again".Unsurprisingly, he followed Trump's lead in minimizing the seriousness of the pandemic. Florida was one of the last states to impose a stay-at-home order, in early April, and began reopening little more than a month later. A state data scientist responsible for tracking the spread of the virus was fired when, she claimed, she wouldn't manipulate the data to show sufficient recovery from the pandemic to justify further easing of restrictions.Even now, DeSantis is aggressively pushing for schools to reopen next month, on the grounds that if big-box stores like Walmart and Home Depot can resume operations successfully, then so can schools. Teachers object that schools are smaller and more crowded spaces, and that few customers spend eight hours a day in the stores. But perhaps DeSantis is channeling the dystopian future vision of the film Idiocracy, in which higher education has been taken over by stores like Costco.DeSantis, to his credit, allowed some of the hardest-hit cities and counties to delay reopening and require masks in some public settings – unlike the Republican governors of Texas and Arizona, who blocked any pandemic restrictions more stringent than those imposed by the state (both governors have backtracked). He also seems, in hindsight, to have been unfairly pilloried by the media for allowing beaches to stay open, in view of current opinions on the lower risk of outdoor transmission.> Florida's subtropical climate is an irresistible inducement to hedonismIt's also clear that Florida, like the country as a whole, failed to shut down to the extent and duration necessary to contain the spread of the virus, or to wear masks and practice social distancing to the extent that was routine in most societies where the virus was successfully brought under control. During the first two months I was down here, I rarely saw as many as half of the customers (and in some cases staff) in supermarkets and drugstores wearing masks. Groups of teenagers thronged the shopping malls as if the pandemic was a thing of the past.Bars, nightclubs, movie theaters, gyms, massage parlors, nail salons and a host of other transmission-friendly environments reopened in early June, with distancing restrictions more or less ignored. Floridians who chafed at weeks of restrictions made up for lost time by partying down with a kind of feral intensity, to judge by local social media, at any rate. Florida's subtropical climate is an irresistible inducement to hedonism, and many of the young people who crowded into bars and nightclubs believed that they had nothing to fear from the virus. Health officials have linked more than 150 Covid-19 cases to a single bar in Orlando. (DeSantis subsequently banned on-premise alcohol consumption at establishments that derive more than half of their income from alcohol sales.)There could be some other factors peculiar to Florida that explain the virulence of the pandemic's spread here. Partisanship is hard-edged here, and not wearing a mask has become a mark of Republican tribal identity. Many conservatives I know (particularly men) consider mask-wearing to be an infringement upon their constitutional freedom. Skepticism of science and experts, along with ingrained contrarianism – some otherwise sane Floridians I know resolutely maintain that the virus is a hoax, or no worse than seasonal flu – surely plays a role in some cases as well.The state government's handling of the pandemic has proved shockingly inadequate, largely because the previous Republican administration sabotaged its institutional capacities. It took weeks and even months for laid-off Floridians to get unemployment relief, largely because the online system was designed to make it harder for workers to receive benefits so that the previous governor (now a senator), Rick Scott, could claim lower jobless numbers.Floridians historically have shown a ferocious individualism and an unwillingness to abide by state government restrictions. In addition, the severe economic damage inflicted by the shutdown surely has made people more willing to engage in magical thinking about how the dangers of the virus have been inflated by the media and the establishment, including the mistaken belief that hot weather prevents virus spread.> The inability of too many Floridians to distinguish between reality and fantasy is part of what's frustrating about this placeTwo-thirds of Florida's residents (and nearly all of its tourists) come here from somewhere else, which may cut against the collective sense of social responsibility that's more widespread in more settled communities and societies. And masks are indeed uncomfortable in Florida's heat and humidity, as visitors to a reopened Disney World are finding out.The pandemic laid bare the incompetence of the Trump administration, which took much too long to put widespread testing in place and has yet to implement contact tracing on the scale that's needed. But the pandemic has also shown the weakness of America's federal structure and its insufficient state capacity relative to other developed countries, where governments have implemented more uniform and effective national responses. Perhaps one of the pandemic's legacies will be greater citizen insistence on competent government.I've spent most of my adult life outside Florida, but I share the affectionate exasperation that many Floridians feel for their state. It's not like anywhere else, for both good and ill. The New York Times recently interviewed a couple who visited the reopened Disney World and shared their belief that the park's reopening "was the first thing that made us feel like we could leave our house and still feel safe". Why? Because "it's Disney". The inability of too many Floridians to distinguish between reality and fantasy is part of what's frustrating about this place, but their irrepressible optimism makes me hope we will get through this pandemic without losing too many more of them.
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| 5 Years Ago, New Horizons Reached Pluto—and We Never Stopped Learning Posted: 14 Jul 2020 11:25 AM PDT |
| U.S. calls Ghislaine Maxwell's bail request 'nothing,' urges no special treatment Posted: 13 Jul 2020 10:17 AM PDT  Ghislaine Maxwell cannot be trusted to be freed on bail while facing charges she helped advance Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse, and deserves no "special treatment" because she might contract COVID-19 in jail, U.S. prosecutors said on Monday. Prosecutors urged Maxwell's continued detention one day before her scheduled arraignment on charges she helped the late financier recruit and eventually abuse girls from 1994 to 1997, and lied about her role in depositions in 2016. Maxwell is in federal custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
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| Tulsa race massacre: Search continues for mass grave site from 1921 Posted: 14 Jul 2020 10:48 AM PDT  Archaeologists and dig crews have resumed the excavation of a suspected mass grave in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the site of one of the bloodiest episodes of racist violence in the US.A white mob terrorised hundreds of black Americans during a nearly two-day massacre on 31 May 1921. Armed white men, backed by Oklahoma officials and law enforcement, shot at black residents, bombed buildings and set them ablaze, destroying 35 blocks of homes, businesses, churches and schools in the city's prosperous Greenwood neighbourhood, known as Black Wall Street.
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| Pro-Police Agitators and Black Lives Matter Protesters Clash in Brooklyn Posted: 13 Jul 2020 05:51 PM PDT  The pro-police rallies came weeks after the New York City Council cut the NYPD's budget by $1 billion. The cuts came in light of national calls to defund police departments in response to the killing of George Floyd and other unarmed Black people at the hands of police officers.
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| Ruth Bader Ginsburg: US Supreme Court oldest justice treated for possible infection Posted: 14 Jul 2020 03:17 PM PDT  The 87-year-old undergoes a procedure to clean out a bile duct stent in Baltimore's hospital.
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| South Africa surpasses the UK in confirmed coronavirus cases Posted: 14 Jul 2020 12:56 PM PDT |
| Donald Trump Jr., Ted Cruz, and other top Republicans praise New York Times editor Bari Weiss' resignation letter slamming the paper Posted: 14 Jul 2020 02:31 PM PDT  Donald Trump Jr. claimed Weiss' resignation exposed the "rampant attacks on anyone who breaks from the far-left narrative."
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| Fact check: Rep. Ilhan Omar was not photographed at an al-Qaida training camp Posted: 14 Jul 2020 07:57 AM PDT  A photo claiming to be of Rep. Ilhan Omar was taken in 1978, four years before she was born. Social media posts claiming this are false.
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| An Airman Died After His Chute Opened While He Was Still in the Plane, Says New Report Posted: 14 Jul 2020 04:38 PM PDT  A report concluded that the unexpected deployment of a T-11R reserve parachute led to the death of Staff Sgt. Cole Condiff.
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| International students denied U.S. entry under new visa rules - court documents Posted: 12 Jul 2020 11:02 PM PDT  International students have already been denied entry to the United States under new Trump administration rules that bar them from the country if their schools hold all classes online amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a court document filed on Sunday. The "friend of the court" brief, written by dozens of universities and colleges, was filed in support of a lawsuit brought by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) seeking to block immigration rules issued on July 6 that blindsided academic institutions across the country. The brief said U.S. immigration authorities were "already preventing returning students from re-entering the country" and cited the case of a DePaul University student returning from South Korea who was denied at San Francisco International Airport.
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| Pandemic pulls Latin America's trans community into the spotlight Posted: 13 Jul 2020 09:17 AM PDT |
| Romance scam: US woman freed after year as hostage in Nigeria Posted: 13 Jul 2020 04:46 AM PDT  The 46-year-old woman from Washington DC was held for more than a year and lost $48,000, police say.
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| White House Orders Hospitals to Bypass CDC Even as Agency Director Prepares for ‘the Most Difficult Times’ Posted: 14 Jul 2020 03:57 PM PDT  The White House is now requiring hospitals around the country to change how they report data on COVID-19 patients in a move that effectively bypasses the nation's largest public health agency. In a letter from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the agency mandated that hospitals send information on their COVID-19 patients directly to a database managed by HHS rather than the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The order outlining the alteration claims it will help federal agencies move from manual data entry to automated, which would streamline the collection and dissemination of coronavirus data for multiple federal agencies that will have access to the database. The document reads: "As of July 15, 2020, hospitals should no longer report the Covid-19 information in this document to the National Healthcare Safety Network site," a clearinghouse of data on infectious diseases operated by the CDC since 2008.The shift in data collection, long the responsibility of the CDC, arose after Dr. Deborah Birx, the chief medical officer on the White House's coronavirus task force, said in a conference call with hospital executives several weeks ago that healthcare facilities were not adequately reporting their data. CDC employees were shocked at the change, according to The New York Times.Some public health experts, though, said that the move is the latest in a long line of the Trump administration politicizing the pandemic and the science behind it.Nicole Lurie, former president Barack Obama's assistant secretary for preparedness and response, told the Times, "Centralizing control of all data under the umbrella of an inherently political apparatus is dangerous and breeds distrust. It appears to cut off the ability of agencies like C.D.C. to do its basic job." Trump disbanded a pandemic response team convened by his predecessor in 2018.Several days after the letter, CDC Director Robert Redfield offered a grim prognosis for the near future of the United States. In a webinar hosted by the Journal of the American Medical Association, he said, "I do think the fall and the winter of 2020 and 2021 are going to be probably one of the most difficult times that we experienced in American public health." His worry, he said, concerns a flu season that will arrive during the worst American health crisis in decades. The flu infects anywhere between 9 and 45 million Americans a year, hospitalizes hundreds of thousands, and kills tens of thousands, according to CDC estimates. Both viruses hitting simultaneously, Redfield said, poses the danger of overwhelming the American health system. The danger of an overtaxed healthcare system is not theoretical, he said, citing the high mortality rate in New York at the height of its struggle with the pandemic: "When you really look at the differential mortality across the country, it was quite significant—sometimes New York, 5, 6, 7, 8 percent—a lot of that mortality is driven by the stress of the health care system that the patients are in that are trying to be taken care of. So keeping the health care system from being overstretched is going to be really important, and the degree that we're able to do that will define how well we're able to get through the fall and winter." Redfield also spoke out about an issue that has been especially divisive amid the pandemic: face masks. "Masking is not a political issue; it's a public health issue, and it really is a personal responsibility for all of us." President Donald Trump donned a mask at a public appearance this weekend, one of the first times he has done so after repeatedly foregoing a mask in public settings and ignoring health guidelines. Despite the raging pandemic, Trump and his administration have taken an adversarial approach to the country's public health officials, contravening rather than supporting them in many cases. The White House released a list of all the times Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, had incorrect predictions about the virus this past weekend and cancelled his cable news appearances, apparently in retaliation for unfavorable assessments of the state of the country's public health. Though public health officials, principals, and university presidents have said the resumption of schools this fall will at best become a mixture of online and in-person classes, the commander-in-chief and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos have demanded nothing less than full reopening and every student at a desk. Vice President Mike Pence said in a press conference Tuesday, "We don't want CDC guidance to be a reason why people don't reopen their schools." Four former directors of the CDC spoke in no uncertain terms in a Tuesday Washington Post op-ed in which they warned, "No president ever politicized its [the CDC's] science the way Trump has. The administration is undermining public health." Coronavirus cases are surging across the country despite the president's overly optimistic assessment that the sickness will "go away." The United States hit new highs for daily positive COVID-19 cases multiple times last week, breaking its own record and the world's on subsequent days. More than 3.4 million people have contracted the disease, and over 130,000 people have died, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. 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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| 2020 Watch: How many more Americans will die from COVID-19? Posted: 13 Jul 2020 02:54 AM PDT  Coronavirus infections are exploding, the economic recovery is in jeopardy and Trump may have undermined his own "law and order" message by commuting the prison sentence of his friend and political adviser. Emboldened Democrats are trying to guard against overconfidence, even as they see real opportunities to expand Joe Biden's path to the White House in states like Georgia, Iowa and Ohio.
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| Airline contacts US senator over maskless photo Posted: 13 Jul 2020 09:07 PM PDT  American Airlines said Monday it had contacted Republican Senator Ted Cruz after he was seen without a mask on a flight, but he said he had only removed it to eat and drink. Health experts and scientists have called on politicians to set an example by wearing face coverings as the coronavirus rages across the United States. "While our policy does not apply while eating or drinking, we have reached out to Senator Cruz to affirm the importance of this policy," American Airlines said in a statement.
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| Young conservative women stand up to liberal mob Posted: 13 Jul 2020 08:27 PM PDT  Incoming Marquette freshman Samantha Pfefferle says she has been threatened over her pro-Trump TikTok post; political activist Savanah Hernandez targeted by Black Lives Matter protesters.
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| Delta CEO promises empty middle seats beyond September but admits, 'It's not going to last forever' Posted: 14 Jul 2020 05:11 PM PDT  Delta CEO Ed Bastian said the airline's surveys show blocked middle seats are the top reason travelers are buying Delta tickets today.
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