| 'Get the hell out of our uniforms': It's getting hard to tell who are the real law enforcement as camouflaged Feds crack down on protests Posted: 22 Jul 2020 03:14 PM PDT  "That uniform represents the cloth of our nation for people who don't draw overtime," retired US Army Gen. Russel Honoré told MSNBC.
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| The son of a parent convicted in the college admissions scandal says he 'didn't care' where he went to school and his dad was 'way too invested' Posted: 22 Jul 2020 02:24 PM PDT  David Sloane, Matteo Sloane's father, was sentenced to four months in prison in September for his role in the college admissions scandal.
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| Chicago violence: Fourteen mourners shot outside funeral home Posted: 22 Jul 2020 09:12 AM PDT  The shooting comes amid a surge in violence and a threat by President Trump to send in federal agents.
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| Fox News Host Confronts Kellyanne Conway on Trump’s Sudden Mask Embrace Posted: 22 Jul 2020 08:51 AM PDT  Kellyanne Conway went on Fox News Wednesday morning to heap praise on her boss for what news anchors have been calling his "new tone" in the previous day's coronavirus task force briefing—his first in several months. She was met with some unexpectedly tough pushback from host Martha MacCallum. "I think it was incredibly important for the president of the United States to provide information to the public, not confrontation with some press people there who were asking questions that had nothing to do with the development of vaccines and therapeutics," Conway said, perhaps alluding to the question about alleged sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell that prompted Trump to admit he's met her "numerous times over the years" and to say, "I wish her well." When the White House counselor started lecturing "all those people out there who are resisting wearing a mask," telling them, "you'll get your liberties back sooner if you wear your mask," MacCallum cut in to press her on why it's taken so long for the president to arrive at this messaging. Kayleigh McEnany Urges Fox News Viewers to 'Follow Trump's Lead' on Masks"But Kellyanne, I guarantee you there are people at home who will listen to that and say, why didn't the White House have this message for all of us two months ago?" MacCallum asked pointedly. "Why now? Why wasn't this pushed and emphasized and encouraged by the president back then when it might have made even more of a difference?" "The president did say in April if people want to wear a mask, they should wear a mask," Conway replied, though that is not exactly a ringing endorsement of the basic safety precaution. She then pivoted, as Trump did in his Chris Wallace interview last weekend, to blaming health officials who "early on" said it "wouldn't help." That guidance, of course, was revised long before the president first wore a mask in public this month. Conway then revealed that just yesterday in the Oval Office, Dr. Deborah Birx had to explain to the president that the research is conclusive that wearing cloth masks helps stop the spread of the virus. Noting that Trump, unlike most Americans, has the luxury of getting tested and receiving rapid results daily, Conway said, "We know that the president is COVID-negative, we don't know that about the rest of the country. So we're asking people to wear masks." Kellyanne Conway Loses It Over Mary Trump Book on Fox NewsRead 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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| Why Divers Are Venturing Deep Inside a Baffling Blue Hole Posted: 22 Jul 2020 05:30 AM PDT  What could they find down there?
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| A couple is finally going home after their 5-day Caribbean vacation turned into a 5-month coronavirus lockdown Posted: 22 Jul 2020 03:21 PM PDT  Turks and Caicos closed its borders in March to stop the spread of the coronavirus, stranding tourists who were visiting the islands.
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| A doctor wore 6 face masks at once while testing his oxygen levels, and found he could still breathe perfectly Posted: 22 Jul 2020 04:38 AM PDT  Maitiu O Tuathail, an Irish doctor, confronted a common complaint from people who don't want to wear masks: the false belief that masks block oxygen.
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| White House: Trump sometimes tested for coronavirus more than once a day Posted: 21 Jul 2020 09:42 AM PDT  At a briefing on Tuesday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said President Trump at times is tested for the virus more than once daily.
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| Pence 'absolutely' would send his children back to school despite spreading risk Posted: 21 Jul 2020 11:52 AM PDT  Vice President Mike Pence says he and second lady Karen Pence would send their children back to school in the fall, claiming they would be unconcerned about them contracting coronavirus."We wouldn't hesitate to send them back to school," Mr Pence told reporters during a visit to hard-hit South Carolina.
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| US Navy’s top officer reveals grim new details of the damage to Bonhomme Richard Posted: 22 Jul 2020 12:53 PM PDT  Fire and flooding left 11 of 14 decks damaged.
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| National Parks Are Getting Trashed During COVID-19, Endangering Surrounding Communities Posted: 22 Jul 2020 12:19 PM PDT  National parks across the country are seeing an influx of first-time visitors who are leaving litter and refusing to social distance.
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| Detroit police officer charged with felony assault after rubber bullets fired at journalists Posted: 21 Jul 2020 11:03 AM PDT  If convicted, 32-year-old corporal Daniel Debono could be sentenced to up to four years in prison.
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| Federal Agents ‘Beaten Back’ Into Portland Courthouse by 2,000 Protesters, Including Parent Groups Posted: 21 Jul 2020 04:12 AM PDT  An estimated crowd of 2,000 people participating in the protests in Portland, Oregon, "tore open the doors of a federal courthouse and then beat back the agents inside" in the early hours of Tuesday morning, a journalist on the scene reported on Twitter. Bellingcat writer Robert Evans posted multiple videos online that appeared to show federal agents shooting what are assumed to be non-lethal projectiles at protesters, including a parents group, Wall of Moms, out of "murder holes" in a wooden structure built around the courthouse to protect it. The new clashes represent a further escalation in the conflict between protesters and federal agents sent into the city by the Trump administration. Trump praised federal law enforcement agents on Monday, saying they were doing a "fantastic job" in Portland and said he planned to replicate the response in other major U.S. cities led by Democratic mayors and escalate the crisis. 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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| Betsy DeVos just crossed another line. She's an ongoing danger to teachers and students. Posted: 22 Jul 2020 05:11 AM PDT  Schools must look inward, assess local COVID-19 conditions and ignore pressure from DeVos. They have authority over whether to reopen. She doesn't.
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| A new survey found that 53% of Bay Area tech workers are concerned they'll be laid off as the tech industry continues to be hit hard by the coronavirus crisis Posted: 22 Jul 2020 10:54 AM PDT  The tech industry has been hit hard in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, with major tech firms like Uber, Airbnb, and Lyft laying off workers.
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| Can you visit Baja now? Maybe. Here's what you need to know Posted: 22 Jul 2020 07:00 AM PDT  State and U.S. authorities urge against nonessential trips, but Los Cabos is reopening.
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| Explainer: What are the main areas of tension in the U.S.-China relationship? Posted: 22 Jul 2020 04:13 PM PDT  U.S. President Donald Trump has accused China of a lack of transparency about the coronavirus, which first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan late last year. Trump said Chinese officials "ignored their reporting obligations" to the World Health Organization about the virus - that has killed hundreds of thousands of people globally - and pressured the U.N. agency to "mislead the world." China says it has been transparent about the outbreak and the WHO has denied Trump's assertions that it promoted Chinese "disinformation" about the virus.
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| Rudy Giuliani promotes long-debunked image of Ilhan Omar ‘at al-Qaeda training camp’ Posted: 22 Jul 2020 07:11 AM PDT  Rudy Giuliani has once again posted misinformation about Rep. Ilhan Omar on social media, sharing a meme that falsely claimed the congresswoman was seen at a terrorist training camp.The president's personal lawyer tweeted a debunked meme that included a photo of a woman holding a gun, along with a caption that falsely claimed the woman was Ms Omar (D—Mn).
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| Two men, one woman arrested in connection to Florida fishing murders Posted: 22 Jul 2020 12:07 PM PDT  Top suspect has 230 felony charges; Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd speaks out.
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| Sydney police 'asked woman to remove tampon' in strip-search Posted: 21 Jul 2020 10:13 PM PDT  A review into police conduct during five controversial strip-searches has called for an official apology.
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| Another Fort Hood soldier found dead, the fourth this year near Texas post Posted: 22 Jul 2020 10:10 AM PDT  Pvt. Mejhor Morta, 26, is one of at least four Fort Hood soldiers whose bodies were found near the post this year.
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| Labour Admits It Smeared Jewish Whistleblowers Under Jeremy Corbyn Posted: 22 Jul 2020 03:28 AM PDT  The British Labour Party has admitted it defamed Jewish whistleblowers who spoke to the BBC Panorama program about anti-Semitism in the party under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn.The program featured a number of Jewish whistleblowers who condemned the party's practices on anti-Semitic complaints under the direction of Corbyn, claiming that several high ranking officers in the party interfered with investigations into alleged perpetrators who were members of the party. Labour responded at the time by accusing those who participated in the program of just being "disaffected former staff" who harbored "personal and political axes to grind" and made malicious and false claims in order to damage the party.Seven of the whistleblowers and the Panorama program presenter John Ware then sued Labour for defamation. In Ware's suit, he claims that Labour defamed him when they accused him and his team of "deliberate and malicious representations designed to mislead the public."Labour's 28-page complaint to the BBC complained that the program contained "the tendentious and politically slanted script; the bias in the selection of interviewees; and the failure to identify the political affiliations or records of interviewees in a highly controversial, sensitive and contested subject produced a programme that was a one-sided authored polemic."Allegations of anti-Jewish racism dogged the Labour Party under Corbyn, although he always denied it. One Jewish lawmaker quit the party over his failings, he was linked to anti-Semitic speakers and Facebook posts, and he was widely condemned for failing to drive anti-Semitic members out of the party.Jeremy Corbyn, the U.K. Labour Leader, Was In Three Secret Anti-Semitic Facebook GroupsOn the day that Keir Starmer was elected to replace him, the new Labour leader announced that convincing the Jewish community that the party had changed was his top priority. He said he would root out anti-Semitism in the party. The latest step in that process was to retract their incendiary complaint made to the BBC, and admit they had defamed and mistreated the whistleblowers. "We acknowledge the many years of dedicated and committed service that the Whistleblowers have given to the Labour Party as members and as staff," the statement, issued Wednesday, reads. "We unreservedly withdraw all allegations of bad faith, malice and lying. We would like to apologise unreservedly for the distress, embarrassment and hurt caused by their publication. We have agreed to pay them damages."The statement goes on to admit that anti-Semitism within Labour has "been a stain" on the party in recent years. "It has caused unacceptable and unimaginable levels of grief and distress for many in the Jewish community, as well as members of staff."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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| Fauci says Biden and campaign 'know better' than to reach out to him Posted: 22 Jul 2020 11:08 AM PDT  When asked if Biden has reached out to him, Fauci said, "No. I mean I think they know better. That I'm in a sensitive position."
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| Bolivia police recover 420 dead in possible COVID-19 cases Posted: 21 Jul 2020 06:02 PM PDT  A special police unit collected 420 bodies over the preceding five days in two Bolivian cities, and 80% to 90% of the deceased were thought to have succumbed to COVID-19, authorities said Tuesday. Col. Ivan Rojas, director of the special crime-fighting force, said his officers recovered the bodies from streets, vehicles and homes in the capital, La Paz, and in Bolivia's biggest city, Santa Cruz. Bolivia's Institute of Forensic Investigations said that nationally from April 1 through Sunday, its workers had recovered 3,016 bodies of people in possible COVID-19 cases.
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| U.S. gives China 72 hours to shut Houston consulate, Trump says other closures 'always possible' Posted: 22 Jul 2020 12:51 AM PDT  The United States gave China 72 hours to close its consulate in Houston amid accusations of spying, marking a dramatic deterioration in relations between the world's two biggest economies. The U.S. State Department said on Wednesday the Chinese mission in Houston was being closed "to protect American intellectual property and Americans' private information." President Donald Trump said in answer to a question at a news briefing it was "always possible" other Chinese missions could be closed too.
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| Portland protesters tear-gassed again as crowd size grows Posted: 21 Jul 2020 03:18 AM PDT  Flash bangs and pepper balls were also deployed on the seventh straight night tear gas was used.
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| Depression over central Atlantic could soon become Tropical Storm Gonzalo, forecasters say Posted: 21 Jul 2020 03:27 PM PDT  ORLANDO, Fla. - Tropical Depression Seven formed on Tuesday between the African coast and the Lesser Antilles, according to the National Hurricane Center's 5 p.m. advisory. The depression could be upgraded to Tropical Storm Gonzalo later Tuesday or Wednesday, the NHC said. Located more than 1,400 miles from the Cabo Verde Islands, maximum sustained winds are 35 mph with higher gusts. There's ...
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| 'We suffer in silence': coronavirus takes heavy toll on Brazil's army of gravediggers Posted: 22 Jul 2020 02:45 AM PDT  Alcoholism and depression 'part and parcel' for those who bury the bodies of Covid-19 victims – more than 80,000 so farMiguel Braga has done many things in life: sold lollipops, hawked cleaning products, guarded cars. This year, as Covid-19 shook Brazil, he turned his hand to burying bodies."Someone has to do it," said the 30-year-old father-of-two, who earns £200 ($250) a month carving 2-metre x 1-metre resting places into the caramel-coloured soils of Latin America's largest cemetery.Dramatic aerial images of Vila Formosa have travelled the world in recent months – perhaps the most potent symbol of Brazil's deadly failure to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control.Less attention has been paid to its silent army of gravediggers, the final combatants in a lost war being fought against an illness that has killed more than 80,000 of Braga's fellow citizens."The gravediggers are the invisible men of the pandemic," said Rafael Vilela, a Brazilian photographer who has been documenting their travails.In São Paulo alone, where Vila Formosa is located, more than 20,000 people are known to have died, meaning that if the state was a country it would rank as one of the world's 10 worst hit, ahead of Iran, Peru and Russia.Even in normal times, life is a battle for the 300 or so gravediggers who work in the state capital's 22 cemeteries. "Alcoholism and depression are part and parcel of our work," admitted Manoel Norberto, one of the directors of their union.But this year has been particularly tough. Official figures – which confirm what gravediggers have been reporting anecdotally for months – show that in the first half of 2020 there was a 40% jump in burials compared with the same period of 2019, with 46,484 compared to 33,246 last year.In May, São Paulo's worst month, 9,796 burials were conducted, up from 5,799 last year – a rise of 69%. In June, 8,925 people were buried, compared with 5,884 last year."My shrink is a pack of cigarettes and a beer after work," said Braga, after another punishing 11-hour shift during which he helped with more than 50 burials."The energy's heavy. My wife says I toss and turn in bed. Sometimes I talk in my sleep," he added. "But I'm a cool guy – for me, it's a job just like any other."Braga was raised in a notoriously rough favela on the east side of São Paulo, the son of a metalworker and a maid. Growing up in the 1990s, when the city was notorious for police violence, he witnessed countless atrocities. "I come from a violent place, I've seen many corpses in the streets. This is something that's part of my reality," he said.Even so, recent months have been painful at Vila Formosa, an 800,000 sq metre burial ground so vast that even some gravediggers have not fully explored it.One Sunday in May, at the peak of São Paulo's crisis, Braga helped bury 80 bodies in one shift, nearly all victims, or suspected victims, of Covid-19. Some weeks, workers have had to open 500 new graves, creating a total of 8,000 new resting places since the epidemic began."We suffer in silence," admitted Luiz Silva, a veteran gravedigger, who said he and his colleagues felt a mix of sadness and angst at their work. "We're afraid because we don't know if we'll be infected too."Paulo Lotufo, a University of São Paulo epidemiologist, hailed gravediggers as the unsung heroes of the pandemic: amateur disease detectives who helped grieving families while simultaneously helping track the virus's progression and impact across Brazil.Lotufo said it had been São Paulo's overburdened gravediggers who first alerted him to the calamity in March, when the official death toll there was only about 20.When the Amazon city of Manaus was plunged into chaos in April, it was again exhausted cemetery workers who raised the alarm, reporting more than a hundred daily burials rather than the usual 30."They're my travelling companions," Lotufo said of Brazil's gravediggers, arguing that their frontline observations were now more crucial than ever as much of the country reopened and politicians massaged Covid-19 statistics to convince citizens the crisis was controlled.Braga's observations suggest the city of São Paulo may be through the worst, with the virus now advancing across its rural interior, as well as Brazil's south and midwest. Some days, only 30 or 40 burials were taking place at Vila Formosa, the gravedigger said.For all the heartbreak and suffering, Braga said watching the ceremonies of different faiths – a snapshot of Brazil's religious diversity – was a moving experience."Followers of [the Afro-Brazilian religion] Candomblé throw popcorn on to the coffins to purify the dead. Umbanda followers seem to incorporate sacred entities. The evangelicals sing, but say it is only the flesh that is departing. And the Catholics chant prayers, which is what gives me goosebumps."Braga is an infrequent churchgoer, despite his wife being an evangelical pastor – but working as a gravedigger he found it impossible not to reflect on the fragility of human existence."I watch all these bodies being buried, with or without Covid, and I realize that we're all just worthless," he said."It doesn't matter if you're stupid or smart, if you've got money or not, if you're handsome or ugly. The earth swallows us all."Additional reporting by Tom PhillipsSome of the names in this report have been changed to protect identities
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| The lawyer accused of attacking a federal judge's family in New Jersey is also a suspect in another fatal shooting, FBI says Posted: 22 Jul 2020 12:21 PM PDT  Roy Den Hollander carried out both attacks in July disguised as a delivery driver, a law enforcement official told the Associated Press.
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| Fact check: COVID-19 not falling below 'epidemic threshold' in near future Posted: 22 Jul 2020 11:36 AM PDT  The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread and worsen, despite some claims that recent statistics show the threat is going away.
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| Nazi eagle in Uruguay auction 'should go to museum' Posted: 22 Jul 2020 07:53 AM PDT  A US Holocaust centre warns that a bronze eagle in Uruguay could be bought by white supremacists.
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| Scientists report that airborne coronavirus is probably infectious Posted: 22 Jul 2020 02:03 AM PDT  Scientists have known for several months the new coronavirus can become suspended in microdroplets expelled by patients when they speak and breathe, but until now there was no proof that these tiny particles are infectious. A new study by scientists at the University of Nebraska that was uploaded to a medical preprint site this week has shown for the first time that SARS-CoV-2 taken from microdroplets, defined as under five microns, can replicate in lab conditions. This boosts the hypothesis that normal speaking and breathing, not just coughing and sneezing, are responsible for spreading COVID-19 -- and that infectious doses of the virus can travel distances far greater than the six feet (two meters) urged by social distancing guidelines.
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| NYT Reporter: Intel Officials Believe Russians Using Hunter Biden Allegations to Distract from Election Interference Posted: 22 Jul 2020 11:10 AM PDT  New York Times reporter Julian Barnes implied on Tuesday that some intelligence officials believe that the Kremlin is fanning corruption allegations against Joe Biden's son Hunter in order to "obscure" Russia's ongoing election interference attempts.During an MSNBC interview, host Nicole Wallace referred to Russian disinformation campaigns that she said appear to have "infected" the House Intelligence Committee, asking Barnes, "What access to any information or briefings do Democrats really have?""Russia uses these disinformation campaigns to deflect from what they did in 2016," Barnes, who reports on national security for the Times, responded. "A lot of intelligence officials believe the sort of Burisma accusations that are being revived are once again trying to obscure what Russia is up to."On Monday, top congressional Democrats led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi released a letter alleging a foreign disinformation campaign aimed at influencing the 2020 presidential election and interfering with Congress. The letter included few specifics, but Democrats demanded an FBI briefing to warn members of Congress about the threat. Officials familiar with an addendum to the letter said it referred to a potential Russian attempt to harm Biden's presidential campaign, Barnes reported for the Times.Barnes continued that he believes Democrats published the letter because "the only remedy that really works is the resilience of a population, and a population can only be resilient if they know what's going on. So much of this stuff is secret, falls into bitter, partisan divisions, but it's important for voters not to be affected by the disinformation campaign, and that requires talking about it, putting some of this stuff out in the open, realizing when it is being done to the American public."Hunter Biden was appointed to Burisma's board in 2014 while his father was vice president and resigned from the board in April of last year.During a July 25 phone call with Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, President Trump asked Zelensky to help his administration investigate allegations that Biden used his position as vice president to help Burisma avoid a corruption probe soon after his son was appointed to the board— a controversy that became the focal point of the impeachment probe against Trump.In spring, 2016, Biden called on Ukraine to fire the prosecutor who had been investigating the energy company paying his son. The vice president threatened to withdraw $1 billion in U.S. military aid to Ukraine if the country did not fire the prosecutor, who was accused by the State Department and U.S. allies in Europe of being soft on corruption.
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| On coronavirus, Trump insists the U.S. has the world's 'No. 1 low mortality rate.' He's wrong — and it's the wrong way to measure success. Posted: 21 Jul 2020 05:13 PM PDT  The problem with President Trump's new strategy is that his prized data point is a mirage — an illusion that dissolves under closer inspection, revealing the opposite of the "success" it's supposed to show.
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| China vows 'forceful counter-attack' in escalating row with Britain over Hong Kong Posted: 21 Jul 2020 02:33 AM PDT  China threatened a "forceful counter-attack" on Tuesday in response to Britain's announcement that it would suspend its extradition treaty with Hong Kong following Beijing's introduction of a national security law for the former British colony. On Monday, British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told parliament the extradition treaty would be suspended immediately and an arms embargo would be extended to Hong Kong.
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| Powerful quake shakes Alaska towns, creates small tsunami Posted: 22 Jul 2020 12:33 AM PDT  A powerful earthquake off Alaska's southern coast shook sparsely populated coastal communities late Tuesday and prompted some residents to briefly flee to higher ground because of tsunami fears. There were no immediate reports of damage in the Alaska Peninsula and the tsunami warning was canceled after the magnitude 7.8 quake offshore created a wave of a less than a foot (30 centimeters). Residents in some small towns within a hundred miles (160 kilometers) of the quake reported very strong shaking and some shaking was felt more than more than 500 miles (805 kilometers) away in the Anchorage area, said Michael West, Alaska state seismologist.
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| Rape suspect accused of assaulting four Penn State students is arrested Posted: 21 Jul 2020 03:56 PM PDT  The cases, which spanned seven years, were solved using genetic genealogy, police said.
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| Coronavirus in India: 'PM Modi, please make men share housework!' Posted: 21 Jul 2020 09:18 PM PDT  After India's lockdown revealed some hard truths about housework, one woman set out to fix the gender gap.
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| Mike Pompeo said US intelligence shows the head of WHO was 'bought by the Chinese government,' according to reports Posted: 22 Jul 2020 04:56 AM PDT  Pompeo accused WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of being "bought" by China, in a private meeting with UK MPs.
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| "Our hospitals look like war zones": Texas hit hard by the coronavirus Posted: 21 Jul 2020 03:34 PM PDT  While cities like Dallas and Houston are seeing a decrease in positive cases and hospitalizations, virus-related deaths in the state are up 33% over the last 10 days.
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| Ethiopia's Abiy praises 'historic' start to dam filling Posted: 22 Jul 2020 07:26 AM PDT  Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Wednesday lauded the "historic" early filling of a massive dam on the Blue Nile River that has stoked tensions with downstream neighbours Egypt and Sudan. "The completion of the first round of filling is a historic moment that showcases Ethiopians' commitment to the renaissance of our country," Abiy, the 2019 Nobel Peace laureate, said in a statement read on state television. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has been a source of tension in the Nile River basin ever since Ethiopia broke ground on it in 2011.
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| Man stabs attacker in self defense in Brown Line station, police say Posted: 21 Jul 2020 09:47 AM PDT  The 45-year-old stabbed the 46-year-old in the upper chest in self-defense, police said.
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| Social distancing Canadians eye new sight at Niagara Falls: crowds of Americans Posted: 21 Jul 2020 04:39 PM PDT  The tourist hotspot of Niagara Falls has gained a new photo-op for social distancing Canadian visitors on board ferries taking them into the mist of the falls: crowds of Americans. Although cases of COVID-19 continue to rise across the United States, neighboring Canada has largely managed to contain the spread of the virus, helped by strict social distancing measures and mandatory masks in several jurisdictions. At the famous waterfalls on the U.S.-Canadian border, Canadian ferries are limited to just six passengers per boat, out of a 700 person capacity.
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| Condemned Tennessee inmate claims innocence, seeks DNA tests Posted: 22 Jul 2020 10:00 AM PDT  A Tennessee inmate scheduled to be executed in December asked a Shelby County court on Wednesday to order DNA testing of the evidence in his case. Pervis Payne has always maintained his innocence in the 1987 stabbing deaths of Charisse Christopher and her 2-year-old daughter, Lacie Jo. At the time of his trial, DNA testing of evidence was unavailable, and no testing has ever been done in his case.
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| Coronavirus updates: GOP senators consider $600 extension; US orders 100 million vaccine doses from Pfizer; California cases top NY Posted: 22 Jul 2020 03:52 PM PDT  The U.S. has placed an order for 100 million doses of a vaccine candidate being developed by Pfizer. Latest COVID-19 news.
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| Mexico archaeology: Pre-Hispanic ruins found on mountaintop Posted: 22 Jul 2020 05:16 AM PDT  Experts think the site, estimated to be 1,500 years old, was dedicated to the god of the underworld.
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