| Pro-abortion-rights group is all in for Biden but warns about 'gender stereotypes' in VP coverage Posted: 10 Aug 2020 05:25 PM PDT  The head of NARAL Pro-Choice America told Yahoo News on Monday that the organization is "pulling out all the stops" to keep President Trump from being reelected, allocating $32 million to elect Joe Biden.
|
| Seattle's first Black female police chief announced her resignation after the city council voted to cut the department's budget and ax dozens of jobs Posted: 11 Aug 2020 03:12 AM PDT  Carmen Best announced her resignation hours after the city council voted to reduce the department's $409 million budget by $3.5 million on Monday.
|
| US Border Patrol agent arrested and charged with trafficking over 350,000 pills believed to be fentanyl Posted: 10 Aug 2020 07:00 PM PDT  The suspect drove to the airport and unloaded two duffel bags into another vehicle. Officials later found nearly $330,000 in his home.
|
| Map: State-by-state breakdown of coronavirus travel restrictions Posted: 11 Aug 2020 11:25 AM PDT  U.S. states and territories are making new rules for travelers. Find which ones across the United States have implemented travel restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19.
|
| Iran closes down newspaper after expert doubts official coronavirus tolls Posted: 10 Aug 2020 07:38 AM PDT  Iran shut down a newspaper on Monday after it quoted a former member of the national coronavirus taskforce as saying the country's tolls from the epidemic could be 20 times higher than official figures, state news agency IRNA reported. "The Jahan-e Sanat newspaper was shut down today for publishing an interview on Sunday," the newspaper's editor-in-chief, Mohammadreza Saadi, told IRNA. On Sunday, the newspaper published an interview with Mohammadreza Mahboubfar, in which he said: "The figures announced by the officials on coronavirus cases and deaths account for only 5% of the country's real tolls".
|
| 'Terror crocodiles' with teeth the size of bananas once roamed North America preying on dinosaurs Posted: 11 Aug 2020 10:12 AM PDT  "Terror crocodiles" which had teeth the size of bananas and could reach 33 feet in length once roamed North America preying on dinosaurs, according to a new study. Researchers say the Deinosuchus, which means "terror crocodile", was the largest predator in its ecosystem when it roamed the earth between 75 to 82 million years ago, outweighing the largest predatory dinosaurs which existed at the same time. The new study, published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, revisited fossil specimens of the gigantic creatures and found the Deinosuchus had teeth "the size of bananas", capable of taking down even the very largest of dinosaurs. It also confirmed that the predators grew to as much as 33ft in length, making them nearly as long as some city buses. Researchers also found that there were at least three species of Deinosuchus, two of which lived along western America from Montana to northern Mexico.
|
| Biden VP pick: Kamala Harris chosen as running mate Posted: 11 Aug 2020 01:28 PM PDT  The California senator is the first black woman to be chosen as a running mate.
|
| Louisville police said protesters, who have been marching against Breonna Taylor's death for more than 70 days, can no longer use public roads Posted: 10 Aug 2020 04:46 AM PDT  A handful of people have been arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and blocking a roadway since the ban started, local media reported.
|
| Michael Flynn's efforts to force federal judge to dismiss case faces a skeptical appeals court Posted: 11 Aug 2020 02:40 PM PDT  At issue is whether a federal district judge abused his discretion when he appointed a third party to challenge DOJ's bid to drop its prosecution of Flynn.
|
| Hong Kong newspaper raided, tycoon detained under new law Posted: 09 Aug 2020 06:44 PM PDT  Hong Kong authorities arrested media tycoon Jimmy Lai on Monday, broadening their enforcement of a new national security law and stoking fears of a crackdown on the semi-autonomous region's free press. Police were seen carting away boxes of what they said was evidence at Lai's pro-democracy Next Digital headquarters. In the evening, police arrested pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow Ting on charges of inciting secession under the same law, according to tweets by fellow activist Nathan Law, who left Hong Kong for Britain soon after the law took effect.
|
| Schumer says Democrats ready for coronavirus aid talks, if Republicans move Posted: 10 Aug 2020 01:22 PM PDT  U.S. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said on Monday that Democrats are ready to return to the negotiating table over coronavirus relief, if Republicans would agree to a larger bill than they have been willing to accept up to now. Last week, Schumer used similar language to urge White House negotiators to agree to a legislative package at least $1 trillion larger than the $1 trillion bill that Senate Republicans have already proposed.
|
| Ron Johnson Subpoenas FBI Director Wray in Probe of Crossfire Hurricane Origins Posted: 10 Aug 2020 06:14 AM PDT  Senator Ron Johnson (R., Wisc.) subpoenaed FBI director Christopher Wray last week for documents pertaining to the Russia investigation.Johnson, who chairs the Senate Homeland Security Committee, issued the subpoena as part of the committee's probe into the origins of the Russia investigation, dubbed Crossfire Hurricane by the FBI.The subpoena, obtained by Fox News, demands that Wray make available "all records related to the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. This includes, but is not limited to, all records provided or made available to the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Justice for its review.""The FBI has already been producing documents and information to the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which are directly responsive to this subpoena," the FBI told Fox. "As always, the FBI will continue to cooperate with the Committee's requests, consistent with our law enforcement and national security obligations."Both the Homeland Security committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee are conducting investigations into the origins of the Crossfire Hurricane probe, whose stated aim was to uncover alleged collusion between Russian operatives and 2016 Trump-campaign officials. Intelligence officials have already declassified various documents pertaining to Crossfire Hurricane as part of the Judiciary Committee's investigation.Many of those documents were uncovered by DOJ inspector general Michael Horowitz as part of his own investigation into the FBI's applications for FISA warrants to surveil former Trump-campaign adviser Carter Page. Horowitz found "at least 17 significant errors or omissions in the Carter Page FISA applications."
|
| Biden teases VP pick: 'Are you ready?' Posted: 10 Aug 2020 05:03 AM PDT  Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden is expected to announce his running mate this week, teasing a reporter on Sunday by asking, "Are you ready?"Biden has said he will choose a woman as his vice presidential pick, with Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and former National Security Adviser Susan Rice having emerged as frontrunners. Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and California Rep. Karen Bass have also been floated by analysts as potential picks."[Biden] has a very difficult decision to make … but it's almost an embarrassment of riches," Howard University political science professor Niambi Carter told USA Today, while others have worried that Biden's delay has made his choice "messier than it should be" and pitted "women, especially Black women, against one another." Check out the seven candidates The Week's Matthew Walther believes have the best chance here.More stories from theweek.com Donald Trump is trying to steal the election Susan Rice conspicuously left off DNC speakers list ahead of Biden's veep announcement Alyssa Milano reveals hair loss from COVID-19
|
| 100 arrested, 13 officers injured after Chicago crowds clash with police Posted: 10 Aug 2020 04:33 PM PDT  Hundreds smashed windows, stole from stores and clashed with police in Chicago's Magnificent Mile shopping district and other parts of downtown.
|
| The 1918 Flu Pandemic Killed Hundreds of Thousands of Americans. The White House Never Said a Word About It Posted: 11 Aug 2020 07:00 AM PDT  President Wilson never uttered a single public statement about the pandemic, which killed about 675,000 Americans
|
| German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas confronts Pompeo over pipeline sanctions Posted: 10 Aug 2020 10:07 AM PDT  German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said Monday he has personally told U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of his "dismay" over a warning by three Republican senators who threatened sanctions against a German port operator for its part in a pipeline project with Russia.
|
| Coronavirus found on frozen seafood in China Posted: 11 Aug 2020 02:43 AM PDT |
| Lebanon government resigns amid explosion fallout Posted: 10 Aug 2020 03:39 AM PDT  Lebanon's government resigned during a cabinet meeting on Monday to discuss early elections following last week's catastrophic explosion in Beirut, the country's health minister has said. "The whole government resigned," Hamad Hassan told reporters at the end of the meeting. Prime Minister Hassan Diab was expected to travel to the presidential palace to "hand over the resignation in the name of all the ministers," Mr Hassan said. Pressure has mounted on the government to step down amid growing anger from a public that holds it accountable for the explosion that damaged half the capital last Tuesday. Three ministers had already offered their resignations ahead of the meeting, while Foreign minister Nassif Hitti resigned the day before blast, warning the country was at risk of becoming a failed state and the government seemed incapable of reform. Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni, a key negotiator with the International Monetary Fund over a rescue plan to help Lebanon exit a financial crisis, prepared his resignation letter and brought it with him to a cabinet meeting, a source close to him said.
|
| Trump’s attorney general under fire for calling Black Lives Matter a ‘Bolshevik organisation’ with ‘fascistic’ tactics Posted: 11 Aug 2020 01:01 AM PDT  US attorney general Bill Barr made waves with a Fox News interview this weekend in which he called the Black Lives Matter movement "Bolshevik" and "fascistic" – and the fallout is still simmering.Host Mark Levin, who conducted the interview, is now pushing back against the mainstream media's coverage of the segment, accusing newspapers' fact checkers of lying about Black Lives Matter's true nature and declaring that journalists are in cahoots with "violent Marxists".
|
| 'If I die from the virus, it was just meant to be': 250,000 descend upon tiny South Dakota town for world-famous motorcycle rally Posted: 10 Aug 2020 11:37 AM PDT  Experts worry the rally, complete with a Smash Mouth concert, could overwhelm the rural area and create a superspreader event as people return home.
|
| Top Navy official: Sailor burnout a concern amid COVID-19 crisis Posted: 10 Aug 2020 02:53 PM PDT  Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday told NBC News the pandemic has forced ships to remain at sea for longer periods of time.
|
| Trump abruptly escorted from briefing after shooting near WH Posted: 10 Aug 2020 02:59 PM PDT  President Donald Trump was abruptly escorted by a U.S. Secret Service agent out of the White House briefing room as he was beginning a coronavirus briefing Monday afternoon. "There was an actual shooting and somebody's been taken to the hospital," Trump said. Trump said he was escorted to the Oval Office by the agent.
|
| Fossil of fearsome 'hell ant' that used tusk-like jaws to hunt its victims discovered in amber Posted: 10 Aug 2020 11:39 AM PDT  A 99-million year old fossil of a "hell ant" is giving researchers a glimpse into the behavior of these fearsome ancient insects, a new study reports.
|
| US health chief slams China over virus on Taiwan trip Posted: 11 Aug 2020 04:39 AM PDT  The coronavirus might have been stamped out more quickly had it emerged in democratic Taiwan instead of autocratic China, the US health secretary said Tuesday during a historic diplomatic trip to Taipei. Alex Azar's renewed criticism of China's handling of the pandemic is likely to further stoke already fiery tensions between the United States and China, where the disease first appeared late last year. "I believe it is no exaggeration to say that, if this virus had emerged in a place like Taiwan or the United States, it might have been snuffled out easily," he added.
|
| Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong Media Mogul Who Met With Pompeo and Pence, Arrested for ‘Collusion With Foreign Forces’ Posted: 10 Aug 2020 01:53 AM PDT  HONG KONG—The founder of a popular newspaper has been arrested by the Hong Kong Police Force, six weeks after Beijing passed a national-security law that carries a maximum penalty of life in prison for people deemed to have participated in acts of "secession, subversion, treason, or collusion with foreign forces" against the Chinese and Hong Kong governments.Trump Is Under Increasing Pressure to Blow Up His China Deal Before Election DayJimmy Lai, a media mogul who owns the broadsheet Apple Daily, is also a key financial contributor to Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp. In July 2019, Lai met with Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington to discuss the erosion of Hong Kong's autonomy and an extradition bill that drew massive protests. In the eyes of the Chinese Communist Party and its proxies in Hong Kong, that counts as colluding with foreign powers to destabilize the city—and in turn disrupting the party's grip on its political hierarchy.On Friday, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam and 10 other government officials were sanctioned by the United States for paring away the freedoms of people who reside in the city. Lam is "directly responsible for implementing Beijing's policies of suppression of freedom and democratic processes," the Treasury Department said.The 10 a.m. raid on Apple Daily's newsroom involved 200 police officers, who searched the premises without a warrant and blocked access to reporters from most news outlets, in particular barring all foreign news providers. Apple Daily's own journalists, however, stayed in their office building and activated their livestreams. Plainclothes officers went through cubicles, rifling through papers at reporters' and editors' desks. Stacks of light blue plastic crates were filled with printed materials and rolled out of the building, then loaded onto police vehicles.> Can you imagine the newsrooms of @nytimes or @guardian encounter something like this? After HK police arrested @JimmyLaiApple, hundreds of police were sent to Apple Daily office without the search warrant. pic.twitter.com/mia12rSYyP> > — Joshua Wong 黃之鋒 �� (@joshuawongcf) August 10, 2020Behind one of the police's cordon lines, a placard read in yellow text on a black background—colors of Hong Kong's pro-democracy and anti-government movements—"Who's afraid of the truth?"The police cordon was lifted at around 3 p.m.As a city of finance and trade, support from people who believe in the same cause comes in charts, tickers, and cash investments. The share price of Next Digital, Lai's company that publishes Apple Daily, tanked by 17 percent shortly after the police raid began. But then Hongkongers threw in their backing for Lai by placing bullish orders on the stock, nearly tripling its price by 3 p.m.So far, Lai is the most high-profile figure in the pro-democracy movement to be arrested based on charges related to the national-security law. His two sons and four other people, including executives at Next Digital, were also taken into custody this morning. Police searched a restaurant operated by Lai's younger son, Ian, in the city's central business district.Earlier this year, Chinese state media outlet Global Times called Lai a "traitor," and said his tweets could "provide evidence of subversion" under the new national-security law.Lai's home is under near-constant surveillance by people who are presumed to be working for pro-Beijing organizations. Last September, masked men threw petrol bombs at his residence. The same happened in 2015. And two years before that, a man drove a car into the gate of Lai's residence, then left an ax and machete in the driveway as a warning to the media mogul.In 2008, Lai and a former Hong Kong Democratic Party chairman were the targets of an assassination plot. Ten triad members were arrested in mainland China for planning to shoot them.Hong Kong's press freedom is eroding at a rapid pace. Before Lai's arrest and the raid on Apple Daily, the Foreign Correspondents Club (FCC) in Hong Kong said foreign journalists were encountering unusual delays in their visa applications. And in 2018, the visa for The Financial Times' Asia news editor, Victor Mallet, was not renewed after he hosted a talk by a Hong Kong independence advocate at the FCC.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.
|
| ‘I can’t believe they’re really doing it’: Kanye West’s presidential bid supported by Republican operatives in five states Posted: 10 Aug 2020 08:14 AM PDT  Republican activists and operatives in at least five states have supported Kanye West's bid for the November presidential election, according to a report by The Washington Post.The report is the latest suggesting Republicans are purposely aiding West's bid in swing states in the hope that he will take votes away from Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
|
| A California judge ruled that Uber and Lyft have to classify their drivers as employees, not contractors Posted: 10 Aug 2020 01:49 PM PDT  Uber and Lyft are expected to appeal Monday's ruling, and have argued that reclassifying drivers as employees could wreak havoc on their businesses.
|
| Iran says European insurers should pay compensation for downed Ukrainian plane Posted: 10 Aug 2020 03:26 AM PDT  Iran will not compensate Ukraine International Airlines for its plane Tehran accidentally downed in January because the passenger jet was insured by European firms, the head of Iran's Central Insurance Organisation said on Monday. "The Ukrainian plane is insured by European companies in Ukraine and not by Iranian (insurance) companies," said Gholamreza Soleimani, according to the Young Journalists Club news website affiliated with state TV.
|
| African Americans have long defied white supremacy and celebrated Black culture in public spaces Posted: 11 Aug 2020 05:10 AM PDT  From Richmond to New York City to Seattle, anti-racist activists are getting results as Confederate monuments are coming down by the dozens.In Richmond, Virginia, protesters have changed the story of Lee Circle, home to a 130-year-old monument to Confederate General Robert E. Lee. It's now a new community space where graffiti, music and projected images turn the statue of Lee from a monument to white supremacy into a backdrop proclaiming that Black Lives Matter. This isn't a new phenomenon. I'm a historian of celebrations and protests after the Civil War. And in my research, I have found that long before Confederate monuments occupied city squares, African Americans used those same public spaces to celebrate their history. But those African American memorial cultures have often been overshadowed by Confederate monuments that dominate public space and set in stone a white supremacist story of the past. Black celebrationsIn the late 19th and early 20th centuries, African Americans had less power and money than whites did to erect statues to celebrate their past. Instead, they challenged white dominance of public space using holidays, parades, conventions, mass meetings and other events. Black people used public celebrations such as Juneteenth to tell a positive story about their history, debate and set political goals for the community, applaud the role of Black soldiers and workers, and create a legacy and cultural identity for Black men, women and children. These community celebrations helped guide Black protests and organizing after the Civil War and continue to inspire activists today. Here are just a few of the ways African Americans challenged white dominance in public spaces:• On July 4, 1866, Black people gathered in Richmond's Capitol Square and decorated the statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and George Mason with garlands and flags – a radical act that a reporter from the Richmond Dispatch fumed was "a liberty which no white man ever yet presumed to take with Virginia's great work of art." By claiming the Founding Fathers as their own, African Americans protested against their exclusion from public space and citizenship. • In 1867 Black men and women publicly assembled at a convention in Lexington, Kentucky, where political leader William F. Butler stated, "First we ha[d] the cartridge box, now we want the ballot box, and soon we will get the jury box. I don't mean with our fists, but by standing up and demanding our rights." Butler argued that Black men fought to maintain the Union, "but we were left without means of protecting ourselves….We need and must have the ballot box for that purpose." • A Baltimore procession in May 1870 celebrated the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, which guaranteed Black men the right to vote. The event had more than 12,000 participants and 20,000 spectators. Newspapers called the procession "vast and magnificent in its appointments, gorgeous in its decorations, and noble in its purposes." Participants carried banners reading, "Give us equal rights and we will protect ourselves," and "Equity and justice goes hand in hand." These and other African American celebrations asserted their right to public spaces where previously enslaved people might have needed passes or were supposed to be invisible. Monuments and powerFor both Black and white residents, the actions they took to commemorate their cultures demonstrated the importance of residential and commercial spaces, such as city parks, neighborhoods and shopping districts, and especially official civic spaces such as city halls or courthouses. White organizations raised hundreds of statues in public spaces, especially in the South, during the height of Confederate memorializing in the Jim Crow and civil rights eras.White supremacist groups such as the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected these Confederate monuments to, in their words, "correct history" by celebrating the Lost Cause, the idea that slavery was a benevolent institution and the Confederate cause was just. These monuments represented a way to remind African Americans that public spaces, public commemoration and public advancement were not for them. And while protests that Confederate flags and monuments do not belong in public spaces have grown stronger since 2015, resistance is not new. African Americans have been protesting against Confederate monuments since they were erected. In Charleston, South Carolina, Black citizens in the 1880s and 1890s mocked and defaced the original monument to John C. Calhoun, a South Carolina congressman and U.S. vice president, who defended slavery as a "positive good." Teacher and civil rights activist Mamie Garvin Fields remembered that as a child it seemed as if Calhoun's statue was "looking you in the face and telling you … I am back to see you stay in your place." She recalled bringing something to "scratch up the coat, break the watch chain, try to knock off the nose" – perhaps leading to its replacement in 1896 with a much taller monument. In 1923 the United Daughters of the Confederacy urged Congress to fund a monument "to the faithful slave mammies of the South" in Washington, D.C. The National Association of Colored Women mobilized several Black activist organizations in letter-writing campaigns, petitions and editorials and crushed the plan. The monument was never built. Turning awayWhite residents had the power to ignore Black residents' commemorative activities. Rather than watch the festivities or listen to Black speakers, they chose to leave town for the day, stay inside or express disgust among themselves. White people in Richmond celebrated the Fourth of July in the countryside, noted the Richmond Dispatch newspaper, "partly to enjoy the day's relaxation from business and partly to avoid the spectacle which they could not have avoided witnessing had they remained at home." The Baltimore American newspaper noted that those who were too "thin-skinned" to see Black residents celebrating the Fifteenth Amendment shut their doors, "presenting the appearance that 'nobody was in.'" White residents "refused to witness the procession, declaring they could not gaze upon such a humiliating scene." Remaking public spaceIn 2017, white supremacists gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia on Aug. 11-12 for the Unite the Right rally, ostensibly to protect a monument of Robert E. Lee. It was a battle over what vision of America would prevail in public space in the 21st century. [The Conversation's science, health and technology editors pick their favorite stories. Weekly on Wednesdays.]Chanting "White lives matter" and "Jews will not replace us," the white supremacists violently attacked counterprotesters. Today, the tables are turned. Anti-racism protesters are transforming public space by tearing down Confederate monuments or demanding their removal. Years of activism combined with these same types of activities – mourning, celebration of Black pasts, public demands for the future, politics in the streets – have led to the removal of many Confederate monuments, despite the violence and fury of white supremacists. Activists are telling a new story of African American history out of the relics of a white supremacist past, just as they did in public celebrations in the 19th century.This article is republished from The Conversation, a nonprofit news site dedicated to sharing ideas from academic experts.Read more: * What is intolerance fatigue, and how is it fueling Black Lives Matter protests? * Young Black Americans not sold on Biden, the Democrats or votingShannon M. Smith does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
|
| Trump says he is considering the ‘great battlefield’ at Gettysburg for his convention speech Posted: 10 Aug 2020 02:07 PM PDT  President Trump tweeted on Monday that he is choosing between two locations, Gettysburg, Penn. and the White House, for his speech accepting the Republican nomination, scheduled for the night of Aug. 27.
|
| Milne Ice Shelf: Satellites capture Arctic ice split Posted: 11 Aug 2020 07:22 AM PDT  The Planet Earth-observation company releases new imagery of Canada's broken Milne Ice Shelf.
|
| As fewer students choose to enroll in the wake of coronavirus, some colleges are promising tuition-free semesters Posted: 10 Aug 2020 09:15 AM PDT  Some colleges are making "ninth-semester-free" promises to students, as a new survey says many students may not enroll in the fall.
|
| Israel closes Gaza goods crossing after balloon attacks Posted: 10 Aug 2020 07:21 PM PDT  Israel will close its goods crossing with the Gaza Strip, authorities said Monday, after militants in the Hamas-run territory fired rockets into the Mediterranean and launched incendiary balloons towards the Jewish state. The Kerem Shalom crossing will be closed to all traffic except humanitarian equipment and fuel from Tuesday, COGAT, the defence ministry unit that oversees the crossings, said in a statement. The move comes in response to the "continued launching of incendiary balloons" from Gaza, it added.
|
| Big Tech Allies Join Biden Campaign Posted: 10 Aug 2020 07:07 AM PDT  The Biden campaign has enlisted several allies of big tech companies as part of its policy planning initiatives, the New York Times reported on Monday.While the campaign is facing pressure from more progressive advisers to take a combative stance against companies such as Apple, Facebook, and Amazon, a number of former consultants for and senior employees of those companies are now advising the campaign.The advisers include Avril Haines, a former Obama administration national security official who worked as a consultant for data-mining firm Palantir; Antony Blinken, a veteran of the Obama State Department and co-founder of lobbying firm WestExec, which has worked with Google; and Cynthia Hogan, a former lobbyist for Apple who is now part of Biden's vice-presidential selection team.Other veterans of the tech industry or consultants for tech companies have joined the Innovation Policy Committee, the Biden campaign's 700-person policy advisory team. The presence of big tech allies in the Biden campaign comes despite statements from Biden himself saying that internet companies should lose certain legal protections."Section 230 should be revoked, immediately should be revoked, number one," Biden said in a 2019 interview with the Times. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act gives legal immunity to internet companies if a third party publishes false or defamatory content on their platforms. Biden and other Democrats have complained that platforms such as Facebook allow the Trump campaign to spread misinformation.Matt Hill, a spokesman for the Biden campaign, denied that the presence of tech industry allies would make a Biden administration more amenable to those companies' concerns."Many technology giants and their executives have not only abused their power but misled the American people, damaged our democracy and evaded any form of responsibility," Hill told the Times. "Anyone who thinks that campaign volunteers or advisers will change Joe Biden's fundamental commitment to stopping the abuse of power and stepping up for the middle class doesn't know Joe Biden."
|
| Mother shares video of armed police surrounding black son after they assumed he was attacker when teen called 911 Posted: 10 Aug 2020 02:42 PM PDT  Multiple California police officers were filmed pointing guns at three African American teenagers who were were allegedly being threatened by a homeless man.The mother of one of the teenagers in the video, Tammi Collins, shared an 11-minute clip to her Instagram page, showing officers from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department aiming guns at them in Santa Clarita, California, on 7 August.
|
| Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai predicted that he would be arrested under China's new national security law, but said he would still stay and fight Posted: 10 Aug 2020 06:37 AM PDT  Lai predicted his arrest in May, when Beijing first outlined Hong Kong's draconian new law. He is the most high-profile arrest under this law so far.
|
| US revises UN resolution to extend UN arms embargo on Iran Posted: 11 Aug 2020 02:51 PM PDT |
