| Trump: Kamala Harris 'could never be your first woman president' Posted: 08 Sep 2020 05:11 PM PDT  Entering the home stretch of his reelection campaign, President Trump told supporters in North Carolina Tuesday that Democrat Kamala Harris "could never be your first woman president."
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| Sturgis motorcycle rally was a 'superspreader event' Posted: 08 Sep 2020 11:27 AM PDT  A month after 460,000 motorcycle enthusiasts converged on Sturgis, S.D., researchers have found that thousands have been sickened across the nation, leading them to brand the rally a "superspreader" event that will involve more than $12 billion in health care costs.
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| 9 Color Blocking Ideas for a Bright, Cheery Home Posted: 09 Sep 2020 08:56 AM PDT |
| A mom called 911 to help her 13-year-old with autism, Utah police shot him Posted: 09 Sep 2020 06:47 AM PDT  A Utah woman called 911 because her son was having a mental health episode. Police shot him, injuring his shoulder, ankles, intestines and bladder.
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| US Attorney General William Barr says Operation Legend in Chicago has resulted in 500 arrests Posted: 09 Sep 2020 09:18 AM PDT  US Attorney General William Barr gave an update on Operation Legend in Chicago Wednesday morning, with more than 500 people arrested and federal charges against 124 suspects.
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| Spanish police arrest virus-infected surfer Posted: 09 Sep 2020 06:48 AM PDT  Spanish police said Wednesday they had arrested a woman who went surfing when she should have been in quarantine after testing positive for the new coronavirus.
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| Fauci says it's 'unlikely' there will be a coronavirus vaccine before the US election, despite the CDC asking states to be prepared by November Posted: 09 Sep 2020 03:10 AM PDT  Dr. Anthony Fauci said that judging by current development schedules, a successful vaccine would be more likely be ready by the end of 2020.
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| Can the worst California wildfire season on record get worse? Officials say yes Posted: 09 Sep 2020 12:17 PM PDT  The largest wildfire complex in California state history would give firefighting crews a year-long headache. Two such blazes would seem catastrophic. But three?"This is crazy," California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) Captain Richard Cordova told CNN.Complicating matters is the timing of the state's massive wildfire outbreak. Not only situated within the pandemically-upended 2020, which has left firefighting crews shorthanded, but also the amount of wildfire season that remains ahead. The state's three largest blazes all ignited over the summer and have burned through August into September, but the height of wildfire season typically arrives later in the fall."We haven't even got into the October and November fire season, and we've broken the all-time record," Cordova said. "It concerns us because we need to get these firefighters off these lines and get them breaks from battling these wildfires." Flames burn at a home leveled by the Creek Fire along Highway 168 on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020, in Fresno County, Calif. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) As of Wednesday morning, California wildfires have burned over 2.9 million acres since the year began. That total eclipsed the previous high for a single year, which was previously held by the 2018 season, during which over 1.9 million acres burned.The majority of burnt acreage this year has come from the three complex fires burning throughout the state. Known as the LNU Lightning Complex, the SCU Lightning Complex and the CZU August Lightning Complex fires, the three blazes have combined to burn over 1.1 million acres.Each blaze was ignited by lightning strikes during the second week of August, and each has destroyed over 350,000 acres. For context, during last year's entire wildfire season, 259,823 acres burnt.The LNU Complex, burning in the counties of Napa, Sonoma, Lake, Yolo and Solano, and the SCU Complex, burning in the counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, San Joaquin, Santa Clara and Stanislaus, are both largely contained. However, the CZU August Complex fire, burning in Glenn, Lake, Mendocino, Tehama and Trinity counties, is currently just 24% contained, according to Inciweb. Flames shoot from a window as the Bear Fire burns through the Berry Creek area of Butte County, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. The blaze, part of the lightning-sparked North Complex, expanded at a critical rate of spread as winds buffeted the region. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) Gusty winds earlier this week further complicated fire conditions for the August Complex, according to officials."Northeast winds are expected throughout the day with strong gusts up to 40 mph," officials said on Tuesday morning, adding that a red flag warning would remain in effect through 8 a.m. Wednesday with potential for rapid fire growth and widespread smoky conditions. The difficult conditions followed after extreme heat and gusty winds fanned the flames of the complex on Sunday. That heavy smoke, along with the smoke from fires in other states such as Colorado and Oregon, has wafted across the country and shown up on satellite images over states in the Southeast, such as Alabama and Mississippi.The largest fire currently burning outside of the Complex Fires is the Creek Fire, which has exploded to more than 160,000 acres with 0% containment in just five days since igniting on Sept. 5. Since starting near Big Creek and Huntington Lake in Fresno County, it jumped the San Joaquin River and immediately began impacting populated areas over the weekend.The rapid growth of the fire caught many by surprise and has required hundreds of emergency evacuations, including dozens of campers who thought they were in a safe area. According to the Sacramento Bee, the fire has taken down over 4,000 structures and caused eight deaths. In the town of Big Creek, authorities estimate that half of the homes in the area have been destroyed by the blaze. Two men take out their belongings on wheel barrows during a mandatory evacuation due to the Creek Fire Monday, Sept. 7, 2020, in Auberry, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez) Cal Fire Chief Thom Porter told CNN that the fire has been spreading so quickly that its new acreage destruction is enough to cover New York City's Central Park every half hour."We have 150 million trees that died in the southern Sierra several years ago, and those are fueling the Creek Fire, which is the biggest and most concerning fire to us right now," Porter told CNN Tuesday.Another fire, known as the Willow Fire, was ignited in Yuba County on Tuesday night, according to an official statement from Cal Fire Asst. Deputy Director Daniel Berlant. Located near the town of Dobbins, the fire has already forced evacuations of 3,000 residents in Loma Rica despite its relatively small size.Berlant added that another fire, the Bear Fire, was greatly fueled by Tuesday's weather conditions."The Bear Fire, which is part of the North Complex, spread rapidly yesterday due to Red Flag conditions and moved towards multiple communities east of Oroville and forced more evacuations," he said. "While Red Flag Warnings remain in effect across much of the state, winds are expected to weaken as we go through the day [Wednesday]."In addition to howling winds gusting greater than 50 mph at times on Wednesday, relative humidity values were expected to remain in the single digits and teens amid the bone-dry conditions, he added. Even though winds are expected to ease by Thursday, seasonal warmth and arid conditions will keep the fire danger high as fuel remains tinder-dry into the weekend. In this Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020, file photo, a helicopter prepares to drop water at a wildfire in Yucaipa, Calif. A couple's plan to reveal their baby's gender at a party went up in smoke Saturday at El Rancho Dorado Park in Yucaipa, when a pyrotechnical device they used sparked a wildfire that has burned thousands of acres. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File) Over the weekend, the El Dorado Fire ignited after an accident involving a pyrotechnic smoke machine was used at a gender reveal party in San Bernardino County. As of Wednesday morning, the fire had burnt over 11,000 acres and forced evacuations in Mentone and Yucaipa.Some of the other notable fires in the state are the Apple Fire in Riverside County, the Lake Fire in Los Angeles County and the Sheep Fire in Plumas County. All three have burned at least 29,000 acres and are 95% contained. While the record-breaking temperatures from the weekend and the notably gusty winds from earlier in the week are unlikely to return, the chances of Mother Nature providing any firefighting assistance are slim, AccuWeather meteorologists say.In place of those gusty winds will be the return of warmer air, not the chance of precipitation that so many residents are looking for."As the storm system across the Rockies lifts northeastward, an expanding ridge of high pressure will once again set up across the West Coast, resulting in above-average temperatures from Seattle to San Diego by late week and through the weekend," AccuWeather Meteorologist Brandon Buckingham said.Smoky conditions are likely to persist across the Golden State and other areas of the West as the air mass remains stagnant, he added. Continued poor air quality is likely.Keep checking back on AccuWeather.com and stay tuned to the AccuWeather Network on DirecTV, Frontier and Verizon Fios.
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| India in shock over 86-year-old grandmother's rape Posted: 09 Sep 2020 03:22 AM PDT  Police have arrested a man in his 30s for the rape and assault of the woman in Delhi.
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| Ben Sasse Calls for Repealing 17th Amendment, Eliminating Popular-Vote Senate Elections Posted: 09 Sep 2020 06:00 AM PDT  Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) called to repeal the 17th Amendment on Tuesday, which would eliminate the requirement that U.S. senators be elected by popular votes.In a Wall Street Journal op-ed titled "Make the Senate Great Again," Sasse called for an end to the amendment, among other changes to the Senate "aimed at promoting debate, not ending it." He also recommended abolishing standing committees, requiring senators to show up for debates, implementing 12-year term limits, and requiring senators to live together in dorms when in Washington."What would the Founding Fathers think of America if they came back to life?" Sasse wrote. "Their eyes would surely bug out first at our technology and wealth. But I suspect they'd also be stunned by the deformed structure of our government. The Congress they envisioned is all but dead. The Senate in particular is supposed to be the place where Americans hammer out our biggest challenges with debate. That hasn't happened for decades—and the rot is bipartisan."Before the 17th Amendment was ratified in 1913, Article I of the Constitution mandated that each state legislature vote to send two senators to Washington. Sasse argues that returning control to state legislatures would be a way of increasing local control in the Senate in a time of polarization and nationalization in politics."Different states bring different solutions to the table, and that ought to be reflected in the Senate's national debate," he wrote. "The old saying used to be that all politics is local, but today—thanks to the internet, 24/7 cable news and a cottage industry dedicated to political addiction—politics is polarized and national. That would change if state legislatures had direct control over who serves in the Senate."The Nebraskan Senator also suggested ridding the Senate of cameras because in the presence of cameras, Senators "aren't trying to learn from witnesses, uncover details, or improve legislation. They're competing for sound bites.""Without posturing for cameras, Republicans and Democrats cooperate on some of America's most complicated and urgent problems," he wrote.
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| Lukashenko reportedly tells Russian TV the U.S. is orchestrating the Belarus protests Posted: 08 Sep 2020 02:11 PM PDT  In his first sit-down interview since anti-government protests swept the nation, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko made a slight concession, The Guardian reports — the so-called "last dictator in Europe," who has held his post for 26 years, acknowledged he "may have sat in the president's chair a little too long." But, other than that, he denied responsibility for the unrest, instead pointing a conspiratorial finger at the United States, and reiterated that he does not plan on stepping down.Lukashenko reportedly told members of the Russian media — whom The Guardian notes did not appear to subject the ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin to tough questioning — that he believes Washington is orchestrating the protests via the messaging app Telegram from centers in Poland and the Czech Republic, using the situation as a dry run, more or less, for a similar operation in Russia for the future.The claims are unsubstantiated and dismissive of Belarus' growing, internal, and organic opposition movement that is seeking change from the autocratic regime in Minsk, although Lukashenko accused what he described as a class of "young bourgeois" in Belarus who "want power" of stirring up trouble, as well. Read more at The Guardian, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and RT.More stories from theweek.com The true Election Day nightmare scenario DHS whistleblower says he was told to stop providing Russia intelligence analysis, downplay threat of white supremacy More than half of households in 4 largest U.S. cities struggled financially during pandemic, poll shows
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| More than a dozen police chiefs faced backlash – and left – after George Floyd's death. Here's a list. Posted: 09 Sep 2020 04:51 PM PDT  George Floyd's death sparked a wave of protests. Here's a list of police chiefs who have have been fired, resigned or abruptly retired since then.
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| An influencer who traveled to Rwanda to work with gorillas says she was locked up for 4 days after a false-positive COVID test Posted: 08 Sep 2020 03:30 AM PDT  Charly Jordan said she was quickly taken to a hotel to isolate when her test came back after a few days.
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| The prehistoric megalodon shark had fins as big as human adults and heads the length of cars, according to new research Posted: 09 Sep 2020 05:51 AM PDT  Megalodons, the largest sharks ever to roam Earth's oceans, had heads the size of cars and 5-foot dorsal fins.
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| Two women charged with hate crimes after stealing child’s Make America Great Again hat Posted: 09 Sep 2020 11:32 AM PDT  Camryn Amy, 21, and Olivia Winslow, 21, were charged with robbery, conspiracy, endangering the welfare of a child
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| New Senate GOP coronavirus relief proposal lacks direct payment, drops unemployment boost to $300/week Posted: 08 Sep 2020 12:11 PM PDT  Senate Republicans on Tuesday unveiled their latest coronavirus relief bill proposal as negotiations between the White House and Democratic leaders flounder.The GOP's funding package is estimated to cost around $500 billion, well below the $2.2 trillion CARES Act that passed in March, and there aren't too many surprises in it — the bill wouldn't provide any direct payments to individuals and it would halve the weekly unemployment boost that expired in July. It does include additional money for the Payroll Protection Program and liability protections for schools and businesses amid efforts to reopen during the pandemic.> Some notables in the GOP coronavirus aid bill:> > -No $1,200 direct payment > -Unemployment insurance drops from $600 to $300/week. > -Liability shield for COVID-19-related personal injury claims https://t.co/UmmOBh2gtS> > — Chris Cioffi (@ReporterCioffi) September 8, 2020Despite earlier reports suggesting otherwise, Senate aides told Politico that Republicans are growing increasingly optimistic they'll get at least 51 of the 53 GOP votes later this week for a majority, though getting enough, if any, Democrats to reach 60 votes and avoid a filibuster remains a long-shot. Still, Republicans reportedly view the effort as a way to pressure Democrats into caving on their demands.Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) were unsurprisingly unimpressed with the bill — even before it was introduced they said it was only part of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) plan to help vulnerable GOP senators with a "check the box vote" and is "headed nowhere." Read more at Politico.More stories from theweek.com Trump said he wanted to 'play down' coronavirus risk in March despite knowing it's 'deadly stuff' The true Election Day nightmare scenario Cohen: Trump 'doesn't have a sense of humor,' isn't joking about being POTUS for '12 more years'
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| Venezuelan gas lines surge as Iranian tankers go undercover Posted: 08 Sep 2020 02:57 PM PDT  Gasoline shortages have returned to Venezuela, sparking mile-long lines in the capital as international concerns mounted Tuesday that Iran yet again may be trying to come to the South American nation's rescue. Three Iranian tankers that delivered gasoline to Venezuela earlier this year have turned off their location tracking devices for up to three weeks, raising suspicions among global ship trackers that the tankers are again headed to Iran's ally. Iran uses cloaking to evade detection by the United States, which seeks to block shipments to Venezuela in a campaign aimed at forcing socialist President Nicolás Maduro from power.
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| It’s Almost Throw Blanket Season Posted: 09 Sep 2020 08:37 AM PDT |
| Army chief says combat is 'last resort' after Trump says military leaders seek to make defense contractors 'happy' Posted: 09 Sep 2020 09:50 AM PDT  On Monday, Trump said the "top people in the Pentagon" want "to do nothing but fight wars" so that defense contractors "stay happy."
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| Klamath National Forest fire threatening homes near California-Oregon border Posted: 08 Sep 2020 11:24 PM PDT  The Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office issued an evacuation order for the town of Happy Camp. Fires rages elsewhere in California and in Oregon.
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| Two Oregon men arrested for allegedly attacking counter-protesters at pro-Trump rally Posted: 08 Sep 2020 04:06 PM PDT  Two people were arrested for attacking counter-protesters during a pro-Trump rally outside the Capitol building in Salem on Labor Day.
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| Rochester Police department's entire command staff, including its chief, have resigned over the death of Daniel Prude Posted: 08 Sep 2020 02:54 PM PDT  Rochester, New York, Mayor Lovely Warren announced that the police department's command staff was resigning during a city council meeting Tuesday.
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| A Florida jogger kept his cool while cops detained him. Then, they offered him a job Posted: 09 Sep 2020 08:58 AM PDT  Florida jogger detained by cops offered job by sheriff
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| Lukashenko's love of being photographed with guns suggests he might be worried about the loyalty of his inner circle Posted: 09 Sep 2020 08:47 AM PDT  Western security experts believe Lukashenko wants to be sure he is never the only unarmed man in the room, just in case his inner circle gets ideas.
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| Ohio governor forced to deny rumors of ‘coronavirus camps’ as unfounded conspiracy theories go viral Posted: 08 Sep 2020 02:11 PM PDT  Mike DeWine calls conspiracy theory 'crazy' and 'ridiculous'
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| Trump to announce US troop withdrawals from Iraq, Afghanistan Posted: 08 Sep 2020 09:25 PM PDT  US President Donald Trump will announce further troop withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan in the next few days, a senior administration official said Tuesday.
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| 52 rescued as wildfires consume California Posted: 08 Sep 2020 04:30 AM PDT  "Words cannot even begin to describe the devastation of this community," a resident said.
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| McEnany: Democrats playing politics with American lives by sowing doubt over vaccine Posted: 08 Sep 2020 05:25 AM PDT  White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany responds to Joe Biden's accusation that Trump is politicizing the coronavirus vaccine.
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| Ukrainian church leader who blamed COVID-19 on gay marriage tests positive Posted: 08 Sep 2020 02:21 PM PDT  Patriarch Filaret, a prominent Ukrainian Orthodox leader, blamed same-sex unions for the global coronavirus pandemic, which has killed thousands in Ukraine.
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| A scan of 10.3 million stars turns up no sign of aliens - yet Posted: 09 Sep 2020 02:31 PM PDT  Scientists have completed the broadest search to date for extraterrestrial civilizations by scanning roughly 10.3 million stars using a radio telescope in Australia, but have found nothing - not yet, at least. Seeking evidence of possible life beyond our solar system, the researchers are hunting for "technosignatures" such as communications signals that may originate from intelligent alien beings. Using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope in the outback of Western Australia, they searched for low-frequency radio emissions - frequencies similar to FM radio - from stars in the constellation of Vela.
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| Hundreds of Americans planted those alarmingly mysterious Chinese seeds. Others ate them. Posted: 08 Sep 2020 07:47 AM PDT  The same rules apply to a package of mysterious seeds found in your mail as do to a bag of fries discovered in a parking lot: As tempting as it is, don't open it, and most certainly do not eat what's inside.Unfortunately, dozens of Americans didn't follow those basic life instructions when they received unsolicited packets of seeds seemingly coming from China a few months ago. State governments were deluged with thousands of questions from people who'd gotten the seeds, and had no idea how to respond when some people said they'd eaten them, Vice reports.Vice's Jason Koebler requested records regarding the seeds from every state's department of agriculture, as well as from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and some USDA labs. From those records, Koebler found "tens of thousands of Americans received what they perceived to be Chinese mystery seeds in July." Many of them reasonably "panicked," quickly asking their governments what they should do, he wrote.Others maybe didn't panic enough. One woman in New Mexico called in to her state department of agriculture after reports of the mysterious seeds started circulating, and let it know that "like a dumbass, I planted them." "Everything that's in the garden where I planted them are having a hard time and are starting to die," she continued, asking for some advice. Officials told Vice they were overwhelmed with the number of calls, Facebook messages, and emails they'd gotten, and in several cases, had to figure out what to tell people who ate the seeds. Read more at Vice.More stories from theweek.com The true Election Day nightmare scenario Michael Cohen says Trump lied about sending investigators to Hawaii to look into Obama's birth certificate The Lincoln Project's inevitable ad on Trump's toxic comments on U.S. troops uses his own slurs against him
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| Woman votes topless after being told anti-Trump shirt violates New Hampshire law Posted: 09 Sep 2020 12:04 PM PDT  "Boom! The shirt's off, and she's standing there saying, 'How's this?'"
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| ACLU Staffer Attacks University for Accepting ‘Provocateur in Training’ Nick Sandmann Posted: 08 Sep 2020 07:23 AM PDT  An ACLU Kentucky communications associate criticized Transylvania University on Saturday for accepting Nick Sandmann, the high school student who sued major news outlets for their coverage of a controversial interaction he and several of his classmates had with a Native American activist."Does anyone else think it's a bit of a stain on Transylvania University for accepting Nick Sandman [sic]? I'm sure it's a "both sides" defense, but it's pretty counter to their mission and another instance of there not actually being equal sides to an issue," ACLU's Samuel Crankshaw said in a Facebook post first uncovered by Jonathan Turley."I think TU should accept anyone willing to have an open mind and engage in debate, regardless of their views. That's how we all learn," he continued. "But this kid clearly is a provocateur in training with no intention of learning. He exists only to troll, intimidate and play victim."An assistant professor and diversity scholar at the university, Dr. Avery Tompkins, commented on the post calling Sandmann's "public behavior and rhetoric atrocious and uninformed" and saying he would closely monitor Sandmann at the school."We can't not admit academically qualified students due to their political and personal views. If he ends up in my Intro class, fine. He might learn something that is actually based on research and evidence," he said.Tompkins said Sandmann is part of organizations with "anti-intellectualist views" and would likely "view me as part of some liberal brainwashing machine, but signing up for Transy and my class means he is required to learn that information, even if he disagrees."The professor continued: "If he were to cause problems by being disruptive, trolling, or engaging in unethical behavior of any kind, I would immediately document it (just like I would for any student doing the same thing)…and he would just be putting himself in a position for me to file a conduct report." The university said in a statement to National Review Tuesday that it would be reviewing the situation and that "Transylvania, like nearly every campus, is composed of those holding the full range of viewpoints.""There are two things that, as a university, we are not able to discuss: our students (without their permission) and personnel matters," the statement said. "In response to posts on social media and other websites over the Labor Day weekend, we reiterate that point. A review of the situation will be conducted expeditiously by the appropriate university officials."Tompkins later issued an apology for his comments in a statement: "I want to apologize for my mistake in singling out a student and any misunderstandings that arose from that.""One of my favorite things about working at a liberal arts institution is that our community has diverse perspectives," he continued. "All students, faculty and staff are able to engage in civil discourse with those whose views may be different from their own, and to learn about those views in an academic setting. I value and support these conversations with students, and I know that students value these conversations with their peers as well."Crankshaw had also accused Sandmann and his attorney of using their platforms to promote the QAnon conspiracy theory and criticized the teen for defending Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who allegedly shot and killed two people in Kenosha, Wis. while trying to defend local businesses from looters. "Having experienced the incredibly high standards Transy requires for admission and then holds its students to, this seems like a slap in the face. I hope some time in a real classroom changes him, but his twitter and public persona suggest otherwise," he concluded.Crankshaw defended his comments in a statement to National Review, saying, "The views I expressed on my Facebook page are my personal views that I shared on my personal time. I have a First Amendment right to express them just as Nick Sandmann has a First Amendment right to express his.""I will continue to express my views on my personal time," he added.ACLU Kentucky's deputy director Amber Duke defended Crankshaw's right to post his views on his personal accounts."These were personal views expressed on personal time on a personal Facebook account. The views in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the ACLU of Kentucky," Duke said. "As a stalwart defender of the First Amendment, the ACLU of Kentucky respects its employees' freedom to express themselves on their own time."Sandmann sued multiple major news outlets for defamation after he and his Covington Catholic High School classmates were portrayed as racist aggressors who harassed Nathan Phillips, an elderly Native American man, near the Lincoln Memorial on January 18 of last year. Video of the incident shows Phillips loudly beating a drum while a smirking 16-year-old Sandmann stood inches away.Though media reports said the students, who were attending the annual anti-abortion March for Life and wore "Make America Great Again" caps, initiated the confrontation, longer footage of the incident later revealed that Phillips approached Sandmann.
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| Injured army veteran pushes back after his image is used in anti-Trump ‘propaganda’ Posted: 09 Sep 2020 10:50 AM PDT  A US Army veteran has hit out at social media users for using photographs of him in attacks against president Donald Trump's alleged comments on veterans. Mr Trump has fiercely denied the article's claims. Posts began circulating on social media using the image of Bobby Henline, lone survivor out of five soldiers in an IED blast in Iraq, hitting out at the president's alleged comments, the veteran told Fox News in an interview.
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| New Jersey earthquake? 3.1-magnitude quake shakes people awake early Wednesday Posted: 09 Sep 2020 08:23 AM PDT  A 3.1 magnitude earthquake was confirmed to have struck in central New Jersey early Wednesday, jolting people awake.
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| The Biden campaign has taken over an Instagram fan account started by a 15-year-old Posted: 08 Sep 2020 04:53 AM PDT  The account now has 94,000 followers, and the teen behind it has been brought onto the campaign as an official volunteer.
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| Netanyahu slams Israeli police amid report about cover-up Posted: 08 Sep 2020 10:23 AM PDT  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at the country's law enforcement system on Tuesday, continuing a crusade to discredit those who have pressed corruption cases against him ahead of the resumption of his trial early next year. Netanyahu's latest tirade came in response to a report by Channel 12 TV alleging that police covered up a conflict of interest involving one of its senior investigators who was looking into alleged crimes committed by Netanyahu and his wife Sara. Speaking at an event meant to be focused on Israel's struggling battle against the coronavirus, Netanyahu was asked about the report and devoted a chunk of his time accusing the police of conspiring to oust him.
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| Actor Anthony Rapp sues Kevin Spacey for sexual misconduct in 1980s Posted: 09 Sep 2020 10:44 AM PDT  The suit, filed in New York state court in Manhattan, refers to the same alleged incident that Rapp first recounted in an October 2017 BuzzFeed interview that triggered Spacey's fall from grace in Hollywood. Spacey in 2017 said he did not remember the encounter Rapp described but added, "If I did behave then as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior." Spacey, now 61, came out as gay in 2017.
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