| Mark Zuckerberg says he personally told President Trump that some of his 'rhetoric was problematic' Posted: 04 Sep 2020 08:11 AM PDT  Facebook's new election policies will apply to the president. Trump's campaign responded by saying he's being "silenced by the Silicon Valley Mafia."
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| A shark latched onto a Florida man’s arm and decided to stay awhile, video shows Posted: 04 Sep 2020 11:58 AM PDT  A small shark hung onto a Florida beachgoer's arm relentlessly over the weekend, and the victim acted like it was no big deal.
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| Jacob Blake makes court appearance from hospital bed Posted: 04 Sep 2020 04:11 PM PDT  The black man whose shooting by police triggered protests faces charges unrelated to that incident.
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| 19 Black families purchase 96 acres of land to create a 'safe haven' for Black people Posted: 03 Sep 2020 02:51 PM PDT  Nineteen Black families purchased more than 96 acres of land in Georgia to create a safe space free of oppression. Eventually, they hope to grow the area into an incorporated, self-sustaining community.
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| Fort Hood soldier dies after collapsing at the Texas base Posted: 04 Sep 2020 09:59 AM PDT |
| Remains of sailor killed in Pearl Harbor returned home Posted: 03 Sep 2020 09:34 AM PDT  Navy Fireman First Class Hadley Heavin, 23, was on the USS West Virginia when torpedoes and bombs destroyed the battleship on December 7, 1941.
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| Part of Trump’s border wall at risk of collapse just months after it was built Posted: 04 Sep 2020 06:57 AM PDT  Part of the Trump administration's border wall between the US and Mexico is at risk of collapsing just months after it was constructed, new engineering reports claim.The border wall, constructed at the shore of Rio Grande, which forms part of the border between the US and Mexico, is at risk of collapsing due to construction flaws, new reports to be filed in federal court this week allege.
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| 2 'fat-phobic' Airbnb hosts have been slammed for banning guests weighing over 220 pounds Posted: 04 Sep 2020 03:40 AM PDT  "Specifying a certain weight is fat-phobic as it's discriminating against people who have a larger body," fat activist Lindsay McGlone said.
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| 8 kids rescued across US after North Carolina cop infiltrates child porn chat group Posted: 03 Sep 2020 01:13 PM PDT  A 5-year-old was rescued on an oil rig in the North Sea after her father was implicated, prosecutors said.
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| Japan bracing for dangerously powerful typhoon Posted: 04 Sep 2020 03:15 AM PDT  Japan is bracing for a dangerously powerful typhoon approaching its southern regions this weekend on the heels of an earlier storm that injured dozens of people in the country and on the Korean Peninsula. Typhoon Haishen, or Sea God in Chinese, could bring nearly unprecedentedly severe rain, rough waves and high tides to Okinawa and Kyushu by early Sunday, Japan Meteorological Agency officials said. Agency weather forecaster Yoshihisa Nakamoto, in a televised news conference, urged people in the typhoon's path to take precautions and secure extra stocks of water, food and other necessities.
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| Iranian judge in Romania committed suicide, prosecutors say Posted: 04 Sep 2020 06:50 AM PDT  A fugitive Iranian judge whose corpse was found in a Bucharest hotel in June had committed suicide by jumping from a hotel's 5th floor, Romanian prosecutors said on Friday. Gholamreza Mansouri, 52, fled corruption charges in Iran last year, one of several judges accused during a high-profile trial. European pro-democracy groups had also accused him of human rights violations.
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| Joe Biden says QAnon supporters should get a mental health check while calling the conspiracy theory ‘totally bizarre’ Posted: 04 Sep 2020 03:18 PM PDT  Joe Biden has said that the far-right conspiracy group QAnon should get a mental health check before the president has an opportunity to dismantle the Affordable Care Act.The Democratic presidential candidate made the comment during a campaign speech in Wilmington, Delaware, on Friday after he was asked what he thought about the conspiracy group.
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| California making 'a lot of progress' on reopening theme parks, but Gov. Newsom isn't ready to say when Posted: 03 Sep 2020 11:02 AM PDT  California is making "a lot of progress" toward reopening Disneyland and other theme parks, Gov. Gavin Newsom says. But he isn't ready to talk dates.
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| A Florida high school student was charged with a cyberattack that caused chaos during the first week of online classes Posted: 04 Sep 2020 07:57 AM PDT  The attack crashed the district's online learning platform and blocked students from logging on during the first week of online classes.
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| Image of Palestinian under Israeli soldier's knee sparks outrage Posted: 04 Sep 2020 08:09 AM PDT  Footage of an Israeli soldier throwing a Palestinian activist to the ground and kneeling on his neck has sparked outrage in the Palestinian territories and beyond.
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| President Trump "celebrated" teen gunman, lieutenant governor says Posted: 04 Sep 2020 08:29 AM PDT  "He's virtually celebrated this person who has killed two people on our city streets and severely injured another," he told "CBS This Morning" co-host Anthony Mason Friday.
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| White woman charged with hate crime over beach confrontation Posted: 04 Sep 2020 04:26 AM PDT  A white woman has been charged with a felony hate crime after she initiated a confrontation with a group of Black men.
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| Trooper arrested after video shows him ripping off protester’s mask in Tennessee Posted: 04 Sep 2020 12:13 PM PDT  Harvey Briggs was fired after video of the incident went viral.
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| Macron decries 'Islamic separatism,' defends blasphemy Posted: 04 Sep 2020 04:13 AM PDT  French President Emmanuel Macron criticized Friday what he called "Islamic separatism" in his country and those who seek French citizenship without accepting France's "right to commit blasphemy." Macron defended satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that helped inspire two French-born Islamic extremists to mount a deadly January 2015 attack on the paper's newsroom. The weekly republished the images this week as the trial began of 14 people over the attacks on Charlie Hebdo and on a kosher supermarket.
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| El Salvador granted favours to jailed gang leaders, report says Posted: 04 Sep 2020 05:37 PM PDT  The jailed leaders were asked to reduce violence and support the president, a media report says.
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| Iowa Sen. Ernst suggests COVID-19 deaths inflated, later issues clarification Posted: 03 Sep 2020 04:38 AM PDT  The Republican lawmaker's comments echoed a baseless conspiracy about the virus. Her state is a pandemic hot spot.
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| IAEA inspects one of two sites in Iran after long stand-off Posted: 04 Sep 2020 07:39 AM PDT  Iran has let the U.N. nuclear watchdog inspect one of the two sites it agreed last week to grant access to after a protracted standoff, while Tehran's stockpile of enriched uranium has risen further, quarterly reports by the agency said on Friday. The International Atomic Energy Agency inspected one of the sites and took environmental samples there, one of the two reports obtained by Reuters said, referring to samples aimed at detecting traces of nuclear material that may have been present. The agency's inspectors will visit the other site "later in September 2020 on a date already agreed with Iran, to take environmental samples", the report said.
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| Typhoon Maysak: Ship with 43 crew and nearly 6,000 cattle missing off coast of Japan Posted: 02 Sep 2020 07:20 PM PDT  More than 40 crew members were missing after a ship carrying cattle from New Zealand to China capsized in stormy weather in the East China Sea, the Japanese coastguard said on Thursday. A lone crew member from the Gulf Livestock 1 had been rescued so far. Three vessels, four airplanes and two divers were taking part in the search, the coastguard said. The ship, with a cargo of nearly 6,000 cattle, sent a distress call from the west of Amami Oshima island in southwestern Japan on Wednesday as Typhoon Maysak lashed the area with strong winds and heavy seas. Sareno Edvarodo, a 45-year-old chief officer from the Philippines, was rescued on Wednesday night, Japan's coastguard said. By Thursday evening, he was still the only person rescued so far, a coastguard official said, adding the bodies of some cattle had been recovered. The crew of 43 was made up of 39 people from the Philippines, two from New Zealand, and two from Australia, the coastguard said.
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| Trump won't join a WHO-organized coronavirus vaccine development effort. That could leave the US in the lurch if domestic candidates fail. Posted: 03 Sep 2020 11:51 AM PDT  The US won't participate in COVAX, an international effort to develop and distribute a coronavirus vaccine. That could backfire.
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| Why were police at Breonna Taylor's home? Here's what an investigative summary says Posted: 04 Sep 2020 06:00 AM PDT  The reason for targeting Breonna Taylor's apartment for a search warrant after midnight has been a key question since she was fatally shot.
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| DC Police release body camera footage from fatal shooting Posted: 03 Sep 2020 12:31 PM PDT  Police in the nation's capital on Thursday released body camera footage from the officer who fatally shot a Black teenager a day earlier, leading to protests outside Mayor Muriel Bowser's home and a police station. Deon Kay, 18, was shot in the chest Wednesday afternoon in the midst of a foot pursuit with police officers. The officer turns around, sees Kay running a few feet behind him and fires a single shot into Kay's chest.
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| Video shows the college professor who pretended to be Black attacking the NYPD, accusing it of brutalizing 'our' people at BLM protests Posted: 04 Sep 2020 03:20 AM PDT  GWU professor Jessica Krug admitted to assuming Black heritage throughout her career, despite being a white Jewish woman from Kansas City.
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| Russia defies West as NATO urges cooperation over Navalny Posted: 04 Sep 2020 07:53 AM PDT  Russia defied threats of new Western sanctions Friday in a staring match over the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, as NATO demanded Moscow uncover its Novichok nerve agent programme.
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| McEnany begins WH briefing criticizing Pelosi for hair salon visit, shows video on loop Posted: 03 Sep 2020 11:40 AM PDT  White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany opened Thursday's White House press briefing by criticizing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after a video surfaced showing Pelosi inside a salon without a mask, which violates local health guidelines.
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| The Justice Department is reportedly preparing to file antitrust charges against Google Posted: 03 Sep 2020 01:11 PM PDT  Google controls about 90% of web-search traffic, dominates online advertising, and is already the target of antitrust action led by 50 states.
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| 'We ended that problem': Trump mocks Biden at rally for going to Kenosha to meet Jacob Blake family Posted: 03 Sep 2020 04:44 PM PDT  Donald Trump has chided his Democratic opponent Joe Biden for visiting Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Thursday, where the former vice president met with the family of Jacob Blake, the 29-year-old man who was shot in the back seven times by local police.The president also doubled down on his suggestion that Americans try to vote twice, which is illegal, if they are worried their mail-in ballots will not be counted.
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| 3 deaths, 147 coronavirus cases now tied to Maine wedding Posted: 04 Sep 2020 12:57 PM PDT  The three people who died as a result of the outbreak did not attend the wedding.
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| One killed, three people wounded in Miami-area shooting, police say Posted: 04 Sep 2020 03:18 AM PDT  One man was killed and three others wounded in what Miami-Dade County police say was a drive-by shooting late Thursday night.
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| Alleged Boogaloo members face terrorism charges in Minnesota Posted: 04 Sep 2020 03:41 PM PDT  Two men who prosecutors say are members of an anti-government extremist group, who toted guns on Minneapolis streets during unrest following the death of George Floyd and spoke about shooting police, blowing up a courthouse and killing politicians, have been charged with federal terrorism counts. Michael Robert Solomon, 30, of New Brighton, Minnesota, and Benjamin Ryan Teeter, 22, of Hampstead, North Carolina, are members of the "Boogaloo Bois," authorities say.
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| 'Mama, I need you': She was on her deathbed after being run over by a car, but COVID-19 rules kept her family from visiting Posted: 04 Sep 2020 03:02 AM PDT  Family members are angry they were not able to help Emily Murkerson through the last painful week of her life in a Florida hospital.
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| Another record-breaking heat wave is building in the West Posted: 03 Sep 2020 10:24 AM PDT  In some areas the heat will be even more intense than the historic heat wave just a couple of weeks ago.
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| Dubai seeks to attract wealthy foreign retirees as expats leave Posted: 03 Sep 2020 01:25 AM PDT  Dubai is seeking to attract wealthy foreign retirees as the economy of the Middle East trade and tourism hub reels from the coronavirus pandemic and low oil prices, prompting many expatriates to leave. It will grant visas renewable every five years to resident expatriates and foreigners over the age of 55 who fulfil specific financial conditions, the government media office said. To be eligible, they must have a monthly income of at least 20,000 dirhams ($5,445) or 1 million dirhams in cash savings, or 2 million dirhams worth of property in Dubai.
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| 3 former GOP governors, including Michigan's Rick Snyder, endorse Biden Posted: 03 Sep 2020 05:49 AM PDT  Another group of Republicans is endorsing Democrat Joe Biden on Thursday, this one made up of nearly 100 former governors and lawmakers. The "Republicans and Independents for Biden" group is headed by former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman — who already endorsed Biden at the Democratic National Convention — and its members include former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld and, more surprisingly, former two-term Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R), who left office in 2019. About a fifth of the group is Michigan Republicans, including former congressmen Joe Schwarz and Dave Trott."Having worked with Joe Biden and Donald Trump when I was governor, I believe Biden is the clear choice to put our country back on a positive path," Snyder told Reuters. He elaborated in a USA Today op-ed, explaining that Trump "lacks a moral compass" and governs like "a bully," and "being a bully and being strong are not the same thing."The economy — once the president's ace card — has been strong under Trump, but "it reminds me of the old expression that it is better to be lucky than smart," Snyder said. "Some regulatory reforms have been helpful. But his tax reform was a failure." And despite "some good agreements" in foreign policy, he added, "overall, our nation is no longer respected as a leader on world affairs." Snyder assured his party that "while I am endorsing Joe Biden for president, I am still a Republican who also will be publicly supporting Republican candidates at the local, state, and federal level.""Republicans and Independents for Biden" is affiliated with the Lincoln Project, a group of GOP operatives working to defeat Trump. Other anti-Trump GOP groups include 43 Alumni for Biden, made up of hundreds of officials who worked for George W. Bush, and Former Republican National Security Officials for Biden. Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh told Reuters that Trump has unprecedented support among "real Republican voters."More stories from theweek.com John Bolton 'didn't hear' Trump's reported comments disparaging troops but says they're not out of character Rose McGowan vows to 'expose' Alexander Payne after he denies misconduct allegations Trump administration reportedly orders military newspaper Stars and Stripes to shut down
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| Texas Governor Declares a Victory Over COVID. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Posted: 04 Sep 2020 12:55 AM PDT  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has already seen his state's reopening waylaid by a resurgent coronavirus pandemic this summer, so a recent tweet from the governor that seemed to indicate he could be ready to do it all over again has alarmed local officials."I'm concerned about how far he goes," Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, a Democrat, told The Daily Beast. "I'll have to wait and see where he goes."The dynamics are just the latest in ongoing tensions between the red state governor and local blue leaders. In a tweet Monday, Abbott touted that he "said last month that Texas wouldn't have anymore lockdowns—despite demands from mayors & county judges insisting on," such a move. "Since my last orders in July, Covid numbers have declined—most importantly hospitalizations," Abbott said in the tweet. "I hope to provide updates next week about next steps." The governor's tweet came in response to an account called "Deep in the Heart of Texas" tweeting at Abbott that "those of us in the restaurant industry need this clarity in our future," after pointing to a video of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis saying earlier that day "we will never do any of these lockdowns again." No other details were given by the governor and a spokesperson for Abbott did not respond to requests for comment seeking more information. The stakes for Abbott are high in Texas after the state's reopening capsized this summer and cases surged, hitting nearly 10,800 new daily cases on July 15, according to state data. That same month, some Democratic leaders called for the governor to give them the power to do local stay at home orders.The state's situation may have improved since then, but Peter Jay Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine, said Texas still has "a pretty high level of transmission." "I don't know what the goals are then by rolling back," Hotez said. "There's no victory here. There's still a very poor quality of life in the metro areas in Texas." As of Wednesday, the state's test positivity rate stood at 8.98 percent, according to state health data, while hospitalizations in the state had fallen from nearly 10,900 on July 22 to 4,075 as of Thursday's report with the daily new case number coming in at 3,899. And with those numbers in mind, the upcoming flu season is seen as another challenge that wouldn't be made easier if the state reopens too quickly. "Whether it's Texas or not… I don't really understand why we would consider relaxing any type of public health measures that we have in place like masking and distancing and certain high risk areas being off limits, more or less, until we get past the flu season at least," said Dr. Rodney E. Rohde, professor and chair of the clinical laboratory science program at Texas State University. Texas Just Hit 10,000 COVID Deaths, and It's 'Flying Blind'A handful of elected officials and public health experts stated bluntly that now isn't the time for the governor to make a reopening push, with the possible reopening of bars in the state a major worry for some like Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins. "If the governor opens bars back up, or makes masking permissive rather than a requirement then he'll squander the gains that we've worked so hard for and the community has sacrificed so long for and we'll be right back in the mess that we were in a month after Open Texas," Jenkins, a Democrat, warned. The Houston area in particular has been hit hard by the coronavirus, and in Harris County the risk level is still listed as severe, meaning there is "a severe and uncontrolled level of COVID-19," according to the county's website. As The Daily Beast previously reported in July, a surge in cases were flooding the area's health care system as calls for a lockdown became more persistent. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, who in mid-July called for a two-week shutdown, picked the governor apart in a statement this week about the Republican's handling of the pandemic pointing to "disastrous" results following the state's reopening in May as he worried about the future. "And now that numbers are better like in April, the governor is about to embark on the same course again," Turner, a Democrat, said. "It is frustrating that he is making decisions that impact all of us without including local officials in the process. The State is about to repeat its mistake, expecting a different result."After Texas began reopening in May, Abbott's reopening push fell apart in late June as the state's coronavirus situation worsened and he halted the state's re-opening over concerns about hospitalizations and new cases. In the days to come, the Republican also closed bars, limited restaurant capacity and made a statewide mask executive order for "counties with 20 or more positive COVID-19 cases," according to a July 2 statement from the governor's office. More than 40 counties are exempt from the order, according to the Texas Division of Emergency Management. When both policies and behaviors in Texas became more relaxed in early May that led to "alarming increases in cases and hospitalizations," in some places the following month Lauren Ancel Meyers, the director of the University of Texas at Austin COVID-19 modeling consortium, told The Daily Beast. The stricter policies and change in behavior that came about because of that then slowed transmission of the virus, Meyers said. "The longer we hold on to the precautionary behavior and the policies the more we will see cases and hospitalizations continue to decline," Meyers said. "It's reasonable to consider changes in policy that may provide some economic and social relief, however, only if done with extreme caution and really strong messaging around the responsibility we all have to take precautions when we're going out in public, to not go out in public if we or anyone in our household even has the slightest symptom of COVID. " While some local officials were clearly troubled by what could come from Abbott's office next week, Deaf Smith County Judge D.J. Wagner welcomed the idea of easing statewide restrictions. "Oh absolutely," the Republican said. "Yeah, we've got to get on with life." That wasn't a feeling shared on the Texas/Mexico border by Maverick County Judge David Saucedo. The local Democrat warned that he didn't think "we're out of the woods yet," and lamented that numbers in border communities have been "pretty high.""In my community, I'm seeing that we're still a hotspot," Saucedo said. "…After every holiday we've seen an uptick in cases go up and we don't want to get into that danger zone again."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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| Does $27 million have a smell? That’s how this agent found it, U.S. Customs says Posted: 03 Sep 2020 05:02 AM PDT  A $27 million smuggling operation got sniffed out Saturday before the ferrying boat could reach the U.S. Virgin Islands, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Puerto Rico said.
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