| Trump: 'George Washington would have had a hard time beating me before the plague came in' Posted: 11 Aug 2020 09:37 AM PDT  President Trump suggested that even an opponent as formidable as the nation's first commander in chief would have had difficulty unseating him before the coronavirus pandemic.
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| Police officers set dog on black man and say ‘good boy, good boy’ as it bites his leg Posted: 12 Aug 2020 10:08 AM PDT  A police dog in Salt Lake City was ordered to attack an African American man who was on his knees with his hands in the air.Police officers arrived at Jeffery Ryans's house in April in Salt Lake City, Utah, after they responded to a call made by someone who said they had heard him arguing with his wife, according to the Daily Mail.
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| This is what it looks like in Sturgis, South Dakota, where hundreds of thousands of unmasked bikers are partying like the coronavirus isn't real Posted: 12 Aug 2020 01:01 PM PDT  Bikers at the Sturgis Rally say they're enjoying the freedom and crowds they haven't been able to experience elsewhere during the pandemic.
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| Air Force helicopter hit by gunfire over Virginia, crew member injured Posted: 12 Aug 2020 11:47 AM PDT |
| Pro Poker Player Was Bound, Sexually Assaulted, ‘Lit on Fire’ After Motel Meeting Posted: 12 Aug 2020 09:29 AM PDT  Susie Zhao, the professional poker player whose charred remains were found in a remote Michigan park in July, was allegedly bound with zip ties and sexually assaulted before she was "lit on fire until she died" after meeting with a convicted sex offender, according to new court documents. Zhao, 33, was last seen around 5:30 p.m. on July 12 by her mother, the White Lake Township Police Department previously told The Daily Beast. The next day, her "badly burned" body was discovered at around 8:05 a.m. in a parking lot near the Pontiac Lake Recreation Area, about an hour outside of Detroit. Last week, Jeffrey Bernard Morris, 60, was charged from his hospital bed with first-degree premeditated murder. Authorities discovered the convicted sex offender allegedly met Zhao in a motel room the night before her body was found. Morris, who is homeless and has a "lengthy criminal history" is currently in jail after being denied bail. A Pro Poker Player Was Found 'Badly Burned.' Was She Murdered Over Gambling?"This is not the end of the investigation into Susie's death but the beginning of the pursuit of justice for her and her family," White Lake Township Detective Chris Hild said in a press conference. "We can only hope that where we are today brings some level of comfort to the healing process."In new court documents, first obtained by WXYZ, authorities revealed what occurred the night the pro poker player, known on the circuit as "Susie Q," went missing. Cell phone records indicate Morris and the rising poker star first met on July 12. In an interview with police the night of his arrest on July 31, Morris admitted to picking up Zhao on Watkins Lake Road before they both checked into the Sherwood Motel at around 9:26 p.m. Morris told investigators the pair left the motel at some point to buy some alcohol and that Zhao left the motel at around midnight and took everything with her. Cell phone records, however, show the 33-year-old's phone didn't leave the motel until around 5 a.m on July 13, according to the court documents. Surveillance footage near the motel and cell phone records also show Morris left the room at around 5 a.m., before driving to a secluded section of the Pontiac Lake Recreation area—where Zhao was found. Court documents say that evidence suggests Morris was at the 3,745-acre park for about seven minutes. When Zhao was found the following morning, she was identified by fingerprints and was bound with zip ties. She had been sexually assaulted with a large object before being "lit on fire until she died," the court documents state. A spokesperson for the Oakland County Medical Examiner told The Daily Beast that Zhao's cause of death is currently unknown, pending an autopsy and toxicology results. When authorities pulled Morris over on a warrant in Ypsilanti weeks later, investigators found several hairs and other evidence with possible bloodstains. They also found duffle bags with a fitted bed sheet that appeared to have blood on it and a wooden baseball bat that also appeared to have a bloodstain. The items were taken to Oakland County Crime Lab for testing. Authorities are now scrambling to understand the motive behind the "mysterious death" that occurred just weeks after Zhao moved back to her home state of Michigan from California on June 9. Two childhood friends of Zhao previously told The Daily Beast that the poker player bounced between several cities—including Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Florida—both for her job and because she was "a jet-setter." According to PokerNews.com, Zhao was successful in the professional worker world, garnering several deep runs in the World Series of Poker Main Event—placing 90th in 2012 to earn $73,805. Over the course of her career, Zhao won $224,671, according to the poker database The Hendon Mob. Despite earlier speculation, authorities have said there is no evidence that Zhao's death was connected to her gambling."I don't think there was ever anything else that she wanted to do. She was playing poker from a very young age," Meredith Rogowski, a childhood friend, told The Daily Beast. "It was not a surprise. She was very bold and did whatever she wanted to do. Whenever we talked about her job, she was very nonchalant. But I do know it was exhausting to be in that world—it was long hours and some of the people she met weren't always genuine."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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| Coronavirus may spread farther than 6 feet indoors Posted: 12 Aug 2020 04:25 AM PDT  A classroom simulation shows how the spread of the virus is significantly cut down simply by placing ventilation near a teacher.
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| Can’t find Lysol disinfectant spray? Here’s what to buy instead Posted: 12 Aug 2020 06:31 AM PDT  Lysol products were approved by the EPA for protecting against the coronavirus, making them hard to find. Here are cleaning wipes and spray you can buy right now.
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| Op-Ed: If Biden wins, don't expect Trump to accept defeat and head for the exit Posted: 12 Aug 2020 05:00 AM PDT  The only way to guarantee Trump doesn't ignore election results is a Biden win so decisive it's apparent on election night.
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| Thunderstorms have hospitalized 52K Americans for breathing issues, study says. Why? Posted: 11 Aug 2020 10:46 AM PDT  As global warming continues, more respiratory hospitalizations are expected.
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| South Dakota's Noem to build security fence around residence Posted: 12 Aug 2020 12:22 PM PDT  South Dakota officials said Wednesday they plan to build a security fence budgeted for $400,000 around the official governor's residence to protect Gov. Kristi Noem. Noem's office did not give specifics on any threats, but her spokeswoman Maggie Seidel said her security team recommended the fence. Noem's administration had proposed the fence last year, but she abandoned the plan.
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| 3 charged with threatening R. Kelly accusers Posted: 12 Aug 2020 12:58 PM PDT  Federal prosecutors announced charges Wednesday against three men accused of threatening and intimidating women who have accused R&B singer R. Kelly of abuse, including one man suspected of setting fire to a vehicle in Florida.
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| The UK is laying off 6,000 workers on its contact tracing scheme after reports detailed how they spent weeks watching Netflix, barbecuing, and doing quizzes Posted: 11 Aug 2020 02:14 AM PDT  The UK currently pays 18,000 tracers to call people and alert them if they have been in contact with anyone who has tested positive for COVID-19.
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| Mother says son with autism was 'kicked out' of church by priest Posted: 11 Aug 2020 01:47 PM PDT  Julia Vicidomini said her son, Nicholas, was instructed to leave the church after he dropped a toy.
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| Ghislaine Maxwell says she is being mistreated in jail and that she should be taken out of solitary confinement Posted: 11 Aug 2020 01:13 PM PDT  Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell, who is in jail awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, want her released into her jail's general population.
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| Agnes Chow: Hong Kong activist hailed as the 'real Mulan' Posted: 12 Aug 2020 04:09 AM PDT  The 23-year-old democracy activist arrested under a new security law is a folk hero to her supporters.
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| In These Uncertain Hours, the Classic Cool of a Gentleman’s Watch Endures Posted: 12 Aug 2020 05:00 AM PDT |
| Factbox: Who is speaking at the Democratic National Convention - and why Posted: 11 Aug 2020 10:14 AM PDT  Here is a look at the speakers who will be featured during the four nights of virtual programming kicking off on Monday. The first night of programming represents an effort to display the country's full ideological spectrum uniting behind Biden's candidacy. Senator Bernie Sanders, a prominent liberal who fought the centrist Biden for the Democratic nomination, and Republican former Ohio Governor John Kasich, a two-time presidential candidate, will tell voters why they both support Biden as an alternative to Republican President Donald Trump.
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| Why are COVID-19 cases in kids rising? It's mostly the adults around them Posted: 12 Aug 2020 03:07 PM PDT  The pediatric cases are a direct reflection of what's happening in their surrounding communities, experts said.
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| Salmonella in shrimp ignites a recall at Costco, Fresh Market, BJ’s Wholesale and others Posted: 12 Aug 2020 03:24 PM PDT  The FDA found salmonella in shrimp imported by Kader Exports, causing a recall of various frozen shrimp products, including those sold under the house brands Costco, BJ's Wholesale and Tops grocery chains.
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| US contractor told Lebanese port official of chemicals risk Posted: 11 Aug 2020 02:16 PM PDT  About four years before the Beirut port explosion that killed dozens of people and injured thousands, a U.S. government contractor expressed concern to a Lebanese port official about unsafe storage there of the volatile chemicals that fueled last week's devastating blast, American officials said Tuesday. There is no indication the contractor communicated his concerns to anyone in the U.S. government. The cable, labeled sensitive but unclassified, dealt largely with the Lebanese responses to the blast and the origins and disposition of the ammonium nitrate, which ignited to create an enormous explosion.
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| Cop posted "Kill em all" on protest livestream, investigation finds Posted: 11 Aug 2020 07:43 PM PDT  The CSPD police chief chose not to fire Sergeant Wrede, calling his actions "an isolated incident of an error in judgment."
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| 13 Clever-Approved Bookshelves That’ll Make You Look Smart Posted: 12 Aug 2020 07:00 AM PDT |
| A man was forcibly carried out of an Arizona grocery store after he screamed profanities at an employee over face mask requirements Posted: 11 Aug 2020 05:08 PM PDT  "You are a bunch of idiots wearing masks. You know it's not real," the man yelled in a video that went viral.
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| China retaliates against US sanctions with its own, targeting 11 US citizens in ongoing political skirmish Posted: 10 Aug 2020 09:07 PM PDT  "That is little more than an effort to distract attention from its wholesale assault on the rights of the people of Hong Kong," Kenneth Roth said.
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| Mexico: Ex-President Enrique Peña Nieto accused of corruption and bribery Posted: 11 Aug 2020 10:37 PM PDT  Prosecutors open an investigation after allegations made by the ex-head of the state oil company.
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| Fox News host baselessly claims that 'something's going to happen' to Joe Biden, forcing her colleague to walk her comment back Posted: 12 Aug 2020 03:59 PM PDT  "I have a sense that something's going to happen before the election, and he's not even going to be on the ticket," she said.
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| McConnell urges White House, Democrats to restart COVID-19 stimulus talks Posted: 12 Aug 2020 07:54 AM PDT  Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell accuses Democrats of 'playing hardball' against Americans who need help; Chad Pergram reports from Capitol Hill.
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| Delay routine dental checkups, WHO urges, until COVID risk is known Posted: 11 Aug 2020 06:57 AM PDT  Dental patients and staff need to be protected from any potential infection by aerosol-generating procedures, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, as dentists return to work in areas where the COVID-19 pandemic is easing. "WHO guidance recommends in case of community transmission to give priority to urgent or emergency oral cases, to avoid or minimise procedures that may generate aerosol, prioritise a set of clinical interventions that are performed using an instrument and of course to delay routine non-essential oral health care," Benoit Varenne, a WHO dental officer, told a news briefing. The WHO last month released general guidelines on the transmission of the coronavirus which acknowledged some reports of airborne transmission, but stopped short of confirming that the virus spreads through the air.
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| Man held on $1 million bond in shooting that allegedly sparked looting in Chicago Posted: 11 Aug 2020 02:55 PM PDT  CHICAGO - The man whose shooting by police in Englewood on Sunday allegedly sparked looting in downtown Chicago was ordered held on a $1 million bond Tuesday. Latrell Allen allegedly shot at police officers, who returned fire, wounding him, touching off a series of events that ended in chaos in some of the city's top shopping districts, authorities have said. He was being pursued because he ...
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| These states require travelers to self-quarantine or present negative COVID-19 test Posted: 12 Aug 2020 09:37 AM PDT  States are opening back up, but some still require or recommend visitors self-quarantine for two weeks. Find out where.
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| Mexico City lets bars open as restaurants to boost economy Posted: 11 Aug 2020 07:40 AM PDT  "I repeat, the bars are not opening," said Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum, stressing they are opening as establishments that serve food and follow social distancing measures.
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| Suspects in recent Chicago looting will likely bail out of jail quickly; Kim Foxx weighs in Posted: 12 Aug 2020 10:44 AM PDT  Suspects in this week's looting across Chicago will likely bail out of jail quickly.
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| Trump campaign tweets mugshots of alleged criminals, all of them Black, to claim Biden is pro-crime Posted: 11 Aug 2020 12:10 PM PDT  Trump campaign Twitter account @TrumpWarRoom has tweeted and retweeted some questionable things in the past. Lately, it's been all systems go against former Vice President Joe Biden, who is set to oppose President Trump in November's election.The latest effort to bring down Biden is a series of tweets that seem to claim Biden is pro-crime. In a blog post, the campaign points to Biden staffer's donations to bail funds amid the nationwide protests against police brutality. The campaign highlighted four alleged "regular criminals," all of them Black, who were supposedly freed from jail thanks to Biden.> Remember Willie Horton? > > President Trump's campaign is tweeting mugshots of black people to attack Joe Biden. pic.twitter.com/ursYZoXv5b> > — Chris Megerian (@ChrisMegerian) August 11, 2020The mugshots were posted alongside rhetorical questions like "Does Joe Biden regret his campaign putting women in danger?" The donations to the bail fund were made by individual staffers, not by the Biden campaign as a whole. Still, the post asserts the streets are now less safe "thanks in part to the Biden campaign."The Trump campaign's strategy was quickly denounced as racist fearmongering. The Washington Post's Philip Bump pointed out that Biden himself is only loosely connected to the bailouts, and that it's not clear those pictured have been convicted of the crimes listed. Given Trump's insistence on respecting "due process," it seems like a significant oversight.More stories from theweek.com Trump has pretty much eliminated daily intelligence briefings. Biden has already started receiving them. The case against American truck bloat Kamala Harris hammers Trump's coronavirus 'failure' in 1st speech as VP candidate
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| MBS is stamping out the final threat to his rule, bringing an end to his 3-year coup marked by power grabs, forced disappearances, and assassinations Posted: 12 Aug 2020 08:23 AM PDT  Crown Prince Mohammed is gunning for Saad al-Jabri and Mohammed bin Nayef, but they are old friends of the US, who want answers from the kingdom.
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| Taiwan says discussing purchase of U.S. mines, cruise missiles Posted: 12 Aug 2020 10:00 AM PDT  Taiwan is in discussions with the United States on acquiring underwater sea mines to deter amphibious landings as well as cruise missiles for coastal defense, Taiwan's de facto ambassador to United States said on Wednesday. Speaking to the Washington's Hudson Institute think tank, Hsiao Bi-khim said Taiwan was facing "an existential survival issue," given China's territorial and sovereignty claims over the island and needed to expand its asymmetric capabilities. Hsiao said Taipei was currently working with the United States on acquiring a number of hardware capabilities, including cruise missiles that would work in conjunction with Taiwan's indigenous Hsiung Feng missile system to provide better coastal defense.
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| Somalia prison: Deadly shootout after al-Shabab militants attempt escape Posted: 11 Aug 2020 09:31 AM PDT  At least 20 people are killed in a heavy shootout at a jail in Mogadishu, officials say.
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| An admitted KKK leader has been sentenced to 6 years in prison after driving a truck through a crowd of protesters in June Posted: 12 Aug 2020 11:48 AM PDT  A Virginia man who boasted to police of his Ku Klux Klan rank was sentenced to six years in prison after driving his truck into a crowd of protesters.
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| Party with 400 people shut down during students’ first weekend back at ECU, cops say Posted: 12 Aug 2020 01:14 PM PDT  Police say the number of parties was still a far cry from past opening weekends at East Carolina University.
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| Putin Announces Russia Has Approved a Coronavirus Vaccine and That His Daughter Has Been Given a Shot Posted: 11 Aug 2020 02:30 AM PDT  Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Tuesday that his country has become the first to approve a coronavirus vaccine, and that his own daughter has received the shot. The vaccine is in production and millions of people, including teachers and front line health-care workers, will be given the shot beginning this month, he claimed. China has already authorized one vaccine for use in its military, ahead of definitive data that it is safe and effective. The Russian vaccine was reportedly given to the scientists who developed it as well as 50 members of the Russian military and a handful of other volunteers. Putin made the announcement during a televised video conference call with government ministers, saying: "This morning, for the first time in the world, a vaccine against the new coronavirus was registered," adding that his daughter was among those to be inoculated. 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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| Almost 10 per cent of coronavirus deaths were not related to Covid-19, PHE admits Posted: 12 Aug 2020 11:54 AM PDT  Nearly 10 per cent of coronavirus deaths reported by Public Health England (PHE) were not related to Covid-19, the body has admitted. The Department of Health has been urgently reviewing the way in which it records deaths after Oxford University noticed in July that former coronavirus patients were being included in mortality figures even if they had recovered and then died of something else. On Wednesday, the true extent of the problem emerged when PHE published a report showing that 3,664 people who had been included in 40,160 English coronavirus deaths did not have Covid-19 on their death certificate. It is also now clear that England's death rate has been diminishing far faster than official figures showed. Since the middle of June, at least half the reported deaths have not been due to coronavirus and have now been excluded from official figures. Experts said the figures explained why the daily death toll for England remained stubbornly high throughout June and July, in contrast to the other devolved nations and despite the Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures showing that deaths were rapidly falling. The numbers have now been adjusted, and it now appears that England may have had its first Covid-19 death-free day on August 6.
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| Venezuela inflation accelerating, parliament says Posted: 12 Aug 2020 02:22 PM PDT  Crisis-wracked Venezuela's yearly inflation rate rose to over 4,000 percent in July, the opposition-controlled parliament said on Wednesday. The National Assembly has been releasing inflation figures since 2017 due to a lack of data from the government of President Nicolas Maduro. July's inflation was 55 percent, up from the 19.5 percent in June, opposition legislator Alfonso Marquina said.
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| Trump criticizes Joe Biden's VP process, saying he disagreed with pledge to consider only women Posted: 12 Aug 2020 07:49 AM PDT  Trump declared Biden had "roped himself" into choosing a woman as a running mate and said he would have been "inclined to go a different route."
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| Air circulation can fight coronavirus transmission — or help it spread. Here's how to spot a faulty system. Posted: 12 Aug 2020 05:30 AM PDT  Air inside a building could carry coronavirus particles if it's not getting filtered or ventilated. Here are signs the air may not be safe.
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| Germany to Russia: we will protect our people, online and off Posted: 11 Aug 2020 03:05 AM PDT  The murder in a central Berlin park of a Georgian national, blamed by German prosecutors on the actions of a branch of the Russian state, has been a serious burden on relations between the two countries, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said. Speaking at a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, Maas said on Tuesday that Germany would do everything it could to protect its people, both in the online and offline spaces. "The murder in the Tiergarten, which prosecutors believe was commissioned by a Russian state organ, has seriously weighed on our relationship, so I made clear that we will defend the security of our people, both online and off," he said.
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| Seattle's first black police chief resigns over vote to defund the police Posted: 11 Aug 2020 01:29 AM PDT  The head of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) has abruptly stepped down after the city council voted 7-1 to cut the police budget – by less than 1 per cent.Carmen Best, the first black woman to head up the department, announced her decision in an email to staff, writing that "when it's time, it's time".
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| Appeals court seems wary of ordering dismissal of Flynn case Posted: 11 Aug 2020 11:21 AM PDT  A federal appeals court in Washington appeared inclined Tuesday to let a judge decide on his own whether to grant the Justice Department's request to dismiss the criminal case against former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn. Many members of the court expressed repeated skepticism at arguments from the Justice Department and Flynn's attorneys that a judge was not empowered to probe the motives behind the government's decision to abandon the prosecution of Flynn, who pleaded guilty as part of the special counsel's Russia investigation to lying to the FBI. The case will almost certainly persist for months if the court rejects Flynn's efforts to get a speedy dismissal and returns it to U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, who refused to immediately grant the department's request to drop the prosecution.
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