| Trump lashes out at Cindy McCain after she endorses Biden Posted: 23 Sep 2020 06:32 AM PDT  "Never a fan of John," the president tweeted. "Cindy can have Sleepy Joe!"
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| Ted Cruz blocks resolution honoring Ginsburg after Tucker Carlson pushes conspiracy theory about her Posted: 24 Sep 2020 09:54 AM PDT  "I think Justice Ginsburg would easily see through the legal sophistry," Chuck Schumer says of Cruz's objection
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| State Supreme Court rules against Parkland families on Broward Schools’ liability Posted: 24 Sep 2020 11:29 AM PDT |
| European Union refuses to recognise Belarusian president following dubious vote and police violence Posted: 24 Sep 2020 02:39 AM PDT  The European Union in a rare show of unity on Thursday said that it won't recognise Alexander Lukashenko as the legitimate leader of Belarus. Mr Lukashenko's landslide victory in August's rigged vote sparked protests that were reignited on Wednesday after Mr Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus for 26 years, held a clandestine swearing-in ceremony. Mr Lukashenko's security forces led a ferocious crackdown on opposition protests in the days following the elections. Hundreds of people have reported injuries, torture or mistreatment at the hands of law enforcement. The EU's diplomatic chief said in a statement on Thursday that the ceremony and "the new mandate claimed by Alexander Lukashenko lack any democractic legitimacy." "This 'inauguration' directly contradicts the will of large parts of the Belarusian population, as expressed in numerous, unprecedented and peaceful protests since the elections, and serves to only further deepen the political crisis in Belarus." The tough stance on Mr Lukashenko comes just a few days after European foreign ministers failed to agree on potential sanctions on Belarus after Cyprus blocked the plan, citing the lack of joint EU action against Turkey. Thousands of Belarusians took to the streets of capital Minsk and other cities on Wednesday evening to protest against Mr Lukashenko's rule.
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| Investigators say they found thousands of child porn images in the home of a popular kids' YouTuber Posted: 24 Sep 2020 11:50 AM PDT  The science educator behind the popular children's YouTube channel "The Happy Scientist" has been indicted on child pornography charges.
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| Cruise lines are willing to follow 74 'best practices' to sail again, including mandating passengers wear masks and get tested 1 to 5 days before departure Posted: 23 Sep 2020 11:02 AM PDT  The Healthy Sail Panel sent the report to the CDC, who has until next Monday to comment. The plan has 74 points that allow for cruises to restart.
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| Seoul: North Korea kills S. Korean official, burns his body Posted: 23 Sep 2020 07:44 PM PDT  South Korea said Thursday that North Korean troops fatally shot a South Korean government official who may have attempted to defect and set his body on fire after finding him on a floating object near the countries' disputed sea boundary. According to Seoul, the man disappeared from a government ship that was checking on possible unauthorized fishing in an area south of the boundary on Monday, a day before he was found in North Korean waters. Later in the day, a North Korean navy boat came and opened fire at him, South Korea's Defense Ministry said.
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| ‘They cover my shrapnel wounds’: Veteran Senate candidate responds to critics using photo of her tattoos Posted: 24 Sep 2020 01:36 PM PDT  After a Republican super PAC in Texas posted a photo of Senate candidate MJ Hegar featuring her tattoos and calling her a "radical," Hegar had a quick response on Twitter: the tattoos covered shrapnel wounds she received as an Air Force helicopter pilot in Afghanistan. A pro-Cornyn Super PAC is using a photo of my tattoos to make me seem "radical."
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| Expect a clear outcome to the election, Biden senior adviser says Posted: 23 Sep 2020 02:25 PM PDT  Senior Biden adviser Bob Bauer says he has faith in election officials who are working hard around the country. Bauer does not expect a contested outcome.
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| Man who drove into California protesters used vineyard as 'tactical training camp,' officials say Posted: 23 Sep 2020 09:16 PM PDT  Benjamin Hung, 28, is accused of possessing a machete, a Glock and other weapons in his truck and driving into a crowd of racial justice protesters in Pasadena.
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| Pablo Escobar: Money hidden in wall found in drug lord's house Posted: 24 Sep 2020 05:49 AM PDT  A plastic bag with money worth $18m (£14m) is found in a wall by one of the drug lord's nephews.
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| Louisville anti-racism protests resume amid tensions over Breonna Taylor ruling Posted: 23 Sep 2020 08:08 AM PDT  Louisville braced for a second night of unrest on Thursday after two policemen were shot and wounded during protests over a grand jury's decision not to bring homicide charges against any of the officers involved in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. Police Chief Robert Schroeder, whose department has been assisted by state police officers and Kentucky National Guard troops helping to enforce a nighttime curfew, said he expected demonstrations to go on through the weekend and for some time. The two police officers shot on Wednesday were expected to recover, he said, and a suspect was taken into custody, one of 127 people arrested during the protests, most for curfew violations or disobeying failure-to-disperse orders.
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| Qantas put fully stocked bar carts from its retired 747s up for sale for more than $1,000, and they're already all sold out Posted: 23 Sep 2020 12:16 PM PDT  Qantas packed the bar carts full of wine, snacks, and candy, and sold them for more than $1,000 each.
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| US hits Iran court, judges with sanctions over wrestler Posted: 24 Sep 2020 02:24 PM PDT  The Trump administration on Thursday hit an Iranian revolutionary court and several judges with sanctions in part for their role in the conviction and execution of a young wrestler. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo imposed the sanctions on two judges with Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of Shiraz as well as three prisons where he said human rights abuses were rampant. Pompeo said Judge Seyyed Mahmoud Sadati was being hit for his involvement in the case of 27-year-old wrestler Navid Afkari who was executed earlier this month despite worldwide appeals for clemency, including from President Donald Trump.
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| Trump advisor diagnosed with head cancer following leave of absence Posted: 24 Sep 2020 03:06 PM PDT  Michael Caputo has been diagnosed with metastatic head and neck cancer, spokesperson says
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| In wake of Gardner's suicide, special prosecutor offers new details about events leading up to James Scurlock shooting Posted: 23 Sep 2020 03:39 PM PDT  One day before Jake Gardner fatally shot James Scurlock outside his bar in downtown Omaha, President Trump threatened to send the military to Minneapolis in response to violent clashes between police and protesters following the death of George Floyd in police custody, tweeting "when the looting starts, the shooting starts."
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| Democrats worry Feinstein can’t handle Supreme Court battle Posted: 23 Sep 2020 09:41 AM PDT  Colleagues fear the oldest senator may struggle to lead Democrats on the Judiciary Committee.
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| Low tide reveals WWII-era bomb on beach near resort town in UK Posted: 24 Sep 2020 11:11 AM PDT  The World War II era explosive was found on a beach north of Weston-Super-Mare, a popular seaside vacation town in the Bristol Channel.
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| Camp Lejeune Marines Warned to Stop Running in the Dark After 4 Coyote Attacks Posted: 24 Sep 2020 07:15 AM PDT  Three Marines and a sailor have been bitten by a coyote on the loose at Camp Lejeune.
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| Coronavirus corruption in Kenya: Officials and businesspeople targeted Posted: 24 Sep 2020 07:13 AM PDT  Millions of dollars meant for buying Covid-19 medical supplies are alleged to have been misused.
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| South Florida ICE detainees required to go attend court regardless of whether they have COVID Posted: 24 Sep 2020 04:00 AM PDT  Immigration detainees in South Florida are being required to attend court hearings with other migrants even if they have COVID-19, two sources with the Department of Justice confirmed Wednesday.
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| Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny mocked Putin for suggesting that he poisoned himself Posted: 23 Sep 2020 11:08 AM PDT  Putin's critics and opponents have routinely been poisoned and some have been killed. Navalny is seemingly the latest victim.
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| Nearly 500 pilot whales stranded in Australia; 380 dead Posted: 22 Sep 2020 07:20 PM PDT  More pilot whales were found stranded in Australia on Wednesday, raising the estimated total to nearly 500, including 380 that have died, in the largest mass stranding ever recorded in the country. Authorities had already been working to rescue survivors among an estimated 270 whales found Monday on a beach and two sand bars near the remote coastal town of Strahan on the southern island state of Tasmania. Another 200 stranded whales were spotted from a helicopter on Wednesday less than 10 kilometers (6 miles) to the south, Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service Manager Nic Deka said.
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| 'Send me a text': Obama calls on Americans to get in touch with thoughts on US election Posted: 24 Sep 2020 05:49 AM PDT  Former president has been campaigning for Joe Biden
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| ‘That’s on You!’: Whoopi Goldberg Blasts Trump Fans for Spreading COVID Posted: 23 Sep 2020 09:30 AM PDT  Whoopi Goldberg had one piece of advice for former Vice President Joe Biden ahead of next Tuesday's debate with President Donald Trump."All Joe has to say is, 'I may look sleepy, I may be sleepy, but I didn't let 200,000 people die in the middle of a pandemic,'" The View moderator said on Wednesday after playing a clip from Trump's massive outdoor rally in Pennsylvania from the night before.As Sunny Hostin put it, "It looks like COVID-Palooza." She added, "No masks, no social distancing, everybody crammed together and Donald Trump doesn't care. He doesn't care. He's actually still downplaying it. He's saying that not that many people are vulnerable. I know people who have died from the coronavirus. Those people died!"At another rally in Ohio on Monday, Trump went on a misleading rant about how young people can survive COVID-19 that ended with the outrageous statement: "It affects virtually nobody."When Joy Behar asked why Trump supporters "risk their lives" to see him speak in person, Meghan McCain answered, "That I don't understand, and you should talk to Herman Cain's family about that, I don't know," referring to the former GOP presidential candidate who died from the virus after attending Trump's rally in Tulsa.Kayleigh McEnany Struggles to Defend Trump Claim That COVID 'Affects Virtually Nobody'But Goldberg wasn't done taking those Trump fans to task, not just for risking their own health but by putting everyone else in danger as well."A lot of people feel like they are powerless, they have no power, but you know what the great equalizer has been?" she asked. "Because the COVID-19 virus kills Black people, white people, Asian people—it doesn't care who you vote for. Herman Cain learned that lesson and it was not a good one.""You going out like that is only really going to come back and bite you. Because if you go home and take somebody out because you weren't smart enough to put a mask on, you can't sue him," Goldberg added of Trump. "You can't sue the guy in the White House. That's on you. If you go home and somebody dies on your watch, that's on you!""You don't want to carry stuff home," she continued. "But I guess y'all who are out there thinking it doesn't matter, you know, we'll see how you do in the upcoming days."'The View' Blows Up After Meghan McCain Defends Mitch McConnell's Supreme Court 'Hypocrisy'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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| She asked her neighbor to wear a mask in the elevator. Then came the attack, police say Posted: 24 Sep 2020 09:37 AM PDT  A Florida woman was arrested at her Jensen Beach condominium after she allegedly attacker her neighbor in an elevator
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| Column: How Democrats could curb a conservative SCOTUS without court-packing - Frankel Posted: 23 Sep 2020 12:39 PM PDT  President Donald Trump and Republicans in the U.S. Senate are barreling forward with plans to lock down conservative control of the U.S. Supreme Court for decades to come. The president has said he will announce his nominee on Saturday to fill the seat of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. According to an upcoming California Law Review article, The Supreme Court and the 117th Congress, Congress can home in on how the Supreme Court decides which cases to hear.
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| 124 immigrant children held in 3 Phoenix hotels under Trump policy, court records show Posted: 24 Sep 2020 04:35 AM PDT  A federal judge has given the Trump administration until Sept. 28 to stop the practice of holding immigrant children in hotels for prolonged periods.
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| Pregnant woman rescues husband from shark attack in Florida Posted: 24 Sep 2020 11:24 AM PDT  Margot Dukes-Eddy dived into the water to save her husband "without hesitation", police say.
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| Trump unveils his America First Healthcare Plan Posted: 24 Sep 2020 03:08 PM PDT  In a speech delivered in North Carolina on Thursday, President Trump outlined his "vision" for affordable, high-quality health care called the America First Healthcare Plan.
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| 'Alexa, I'm being pulled over': Ring announces a new camera for the car that can record police interactions Posted: 24 Sep 2020 10:34 AM PDT  Just say "Alexa, I'm being pulled over" and the camera can record the interaction and alert specified contacts.
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| ‘Good guys are demonized, criminals are canonised’: One of the officers in Breonna Taylor raid speaks out in fiery email Posted: 22 Sep 2020 07:02 PM PDT  A state of emergency has been declared ahead of an expected announcement from the state's attorney general
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| Sanders tells Fox that Trump doesn’t plan to exit: He doesn't expect "any type of transfer of power" Posted: 24 Sep 2020 08:38 AM PDT  Americans "will question that final result" because of the increased use of mail-in ballots, Sarah Sanders claims
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| Neighbor angry over kids playing near his yard kills their grandma, Colorado cops say Posted: 23 Sep 2020 01:30 PM PDT  "If I could take a bullet for her, I would have."
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| I clerked for Ruth Bader Ginsburg while raising a young child. She was a model of empathy. Posted: 23 Sep 2020 09:28 AM PDT  As a young law professor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg hid her second pregnancy beneath baggy clothing. Her legal work meant I never needed to do the same.
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| U.S.-Trained Forces Are Raping Women in Cameroon—and Rebels Are Beheading Them Posted: 24 Sep 2020 03:01 AM PDT  IKOM, Nigeria—Lucy was contemplating closing early for the day when soldiers—believed to be from the Cameroon government's notorious Rapid Intervention Battalion (BIR)—stormed her shop in the northwestern Cameroon town of Bamenda at the end of August, dragged her outside, asked her to take off the shirt she was wearing, and forced her to sit on the bare ground for hours."When I asked them what I had done wrong, one of them gave me a terrible slap and began to kick me all over my body," Lucy, who sells foodstuffs close to a market in Bamenda, told The Daily Beast via telephone. "I thought the soldiers were going to kill me."On the same day Lucy was brutalized by government forces in Bamenda, about 80 other women—mostly traders at the local food market—were detained at a police station for three days, many of them beaten and wounded by soldiers who were searching for English-speaking separatists following the killing of a police officer days before."The soldiers entered the food market unannounced and began to forcefully remove everybody to the mobile police station," said Lucy, who wanted to be identified by just her first name. "They looted and destroyed shops and ordered every woman to sit on the ground. The weather was so hot and some women collapsed as a result of the heat."Slaughtered Because They Spoke EnglishScores of women have been assaulted and abused by both Cameroonian government forces and English-speaking separatists in the northwest and southwest Anglophone parts of Cameroon since violence erupted in the two regions, along the long Nigerian border, more than three years ago.Reports of sexual violence against women have grown in recent months, mostly perpetrated by BIR soldiers who've received lots of financial support from the United States in recent years. Last year, Human Rights Watch documented how two BIR soldiers raped a 22-year-old mother in the northwest and how a 23-year-old woman and a 17-year-old girl in the same home were raped in front of two children by three BIR soldiers who accused them of hiding separatists. Women have also been assaulted while fleeing from their communities."Soldiers stopped us as we were heading to the [Nigerian] border and forced us to take off our clothes," a 17-year-girl, who fled the Cameroonian town of Akwaya with her 25-year-old sister to the Ogoja refugee settlement in Nigeria, told The Daily Beast. "They began to touch our private parts and were about to rape us when they heard gunshots, which made them leave us and run away."In recent years, the Cameroonian military—including the BIR—has relied heavily on the U.S. for funding. Since 2014, America has given more than $220 million to Cameroon in security assistance—including $700,000 spent so far this year on assisting the country's military and police.Created in 2001 by the Cameroonian government to tackle armed bandits on its northern border with Chad and Nigeria and its eastern border with the Central African Republic, the BIR soon began to stray from its original mission—allegedly committing a number of human-rights atrocities including extrajudicial killing of civilians suspected to work for Boko Haram militants in northern Cameroon.The elite army unit, which is better trained and equipped than the regular Cameroonian army, is overseen by retired Israeli officers who report directly to President Paul Biya. These officers were recently accused of living extravagantly. One of them was reported to have bought properties worth about $32 million in New York and Los Angeles, and spent his holidays in luxury resorts in the Bahamas, costing $20,000 per night.But the rapid reaction force isn't the only group that has targeted women and girls in western Cameroon. Armed separatists have assaulted and murdered women amid intensifying violence and growing calls for secession of the northwest and southwest regions.In an astonishing video widely shared on social media last month, three suspected separatist fighters in the southwestern town of Muyuka were seen beating and dragging a woman whom the government later identified as Confort Tumassang, a 35-year-old mother of four. Her hands were tied behind her back and Tumassang, who was accused of collaborating with the military, could be heard in the clip begging for mercy. She was then beheaded and her body abandoned in the street. The incident, which occurred on Aug. 11, came during the same period that reports of sexual assault perpetrated by separatists on women in Anglophone communities began to grow."My 17-year-old cousin was raped by two rebels on her way to the market." Helen, a 25-year-old hairdresser in Muyuka, told The Daily Beast via telephone. "They beat her up and threatened to kill her before eventually raping her."The U.S.-Backed Military Slaughters Women and Children in CameroonRape has become one of the most common forms of violence against women in the conflict in the western Cameroon. A study last year by the Rural Women Center for Education and Development, a Cameroonian non-profit group, revealed that at least 300 school-age girls from the northwest region became pregnant after being raped by suspected separatist fighters or government soldiers, and that many victims terminated their pregnancies with unsafe or crude abortions. Following the revelation, Cameroon government officials noted that the actual number could be much higher, as many girls involved in the practice do so in hiding."It is obviously clear that rape has become a weapon of war in the conflict in western Cameroon," Eno Edet, a human rights lawyer and advocate in Cross River State—which is hosting the vast majority of Cameroonian refugees in Nigeria—told The Daily Beast. "There are dozens of Cameroonian girls in refugee settlements here in Cross River with stories of sexual assault perpetrated by separatists or government forces back in their country."Cameroon's western regions descended into conflict in 2016 when the government repressed peaceful protests by English speakers against perceived marginalization. It turned into a full war when separatists declared western Cameroon an independent nation in October 2017. Over 3,000 civilian deaths have been recorded, along with dozens of soldiers killed by separatists. More than 700,000 Anglophone Cameroonians have been displaced during the crisis, and at least 52,000 people are currently taking refuge in Nigeria.As The Daily Beast previously reported, Anglophones make up about 20 percent of Cameroon's population of 26 million. In February 1961, the United Nations organized a referendum in which English-speaking Cameroonians, then under British rule, voted to rejoin Francophone Cameroon. Both merged on Oct. 1, 1961, and inherited a constitution which recognized the country as a federation of two states with "the same status." But not long after the reunification, things began to change. Then-President Ahmadou Ahidjo, a Francophone, replaced the two federal states with six regions. He appointed federal inspectors of each region and gave them more power than locally elected politicians. Ahidjo followed up by discarding the currency used by the Anglophones. He refused to recognize Cameroon's membership of the Commonwealth, and he abolished federalism altogether through a national referendum.Incumbent President Paul Biya, also a Francophone, succeeded Ahidjo in November 1982 and began to introduce policies similar to that of his predecessor. In 1983, he split the Anglophone region into the Northwest and Southwest provinces. A year later he changed the country's official name to the Republic of Cameroon, as it was known as when it was a Francophone territory, and removed the second star from the flag that had stood as a representation of the Anglophone region.Many prominent figures in Cameroon's western region from time to time condemned the policies of the Biya administration as they affect the western region, but when the government went ahead to appoint French-speaking magistrates in Anglophone courts, many believed he had gone too far.Unfortunately, the conflict that followed has crippled social amenities and left much of the Anglophone region in ruins. But it is the frequent targeting of women and girls by major players in the war that leaves many in English-speaking communities worried."We are living in fear because women are becoming victims of rape every day," said Helen, the hairdresser in Muyuka. "The other day, it was my cousin [who was raped]. Tomorrow, it could be another innocent woman. No woman is safe here."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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| Italy may adopt targeted closures against coronavirus: PM to paper Posted: 23 Sep 2020 10:33 PM PDT  Italy may apply well-targeted closures where necessary to contain the spread of the new coronavirus while another general lockdown is unlikely, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte told la Stampa daily in an interview. "Today the situation in Italy is certainly better than in other European countries, and we are better prepared - even as a health system - to face a possible resurgence of the spread of the virus," Conte told the paper. "At present I exclude the possibility of a general lockdown; there could be - if necessary - well-targeted closures."
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| Mysterious beaked whale smashes mammal diving record Posted: 24 Sep 2020 08:06 AM PDT  A Cuvier's beaked whale stays under water for almost four hours, leaving scientists puzzled.
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| Ring's new tiny drone can autonomously fly around your home and send alerts if it detects intruders, fire, or emergencies while you're away Posted: 24 Sep 2020 10:31 AM PDT  The Ring Always Home Cam is a small indoor camera that can fly around to keep tabs on your house while you're away.
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| Powerful Vatican Cardinal Becciu resigns amid scandal Posted: 24 Sep 2020 11:27 AM PDT  The powerful head of the Vatican's saint-making office, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, resigned suddenly Thursday from the post and renounced his rights as a cardinal amid a financial scandal that has reportedly implicated him indirectly. The Vatican provided no details on why Pope Francis accepted Becciu's resignation in a statement late Thursday. In the one-sentence announcement, the Holy See said only that Francis had accepted Becciu's resignation as prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints "and his rights connected to the cardinalate."
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| Parents knowingly sent kids with coronavirus to school, Wisconsin officials say Posted: 24 Sep 2020 10:00 AM PDT  "A handful of irresponsible parents could be responsible for closing down entire school districts," the Washington-Ozaukee public health director said.
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| Ivanka Trump to meet pro-Trump police group in Minneapolis where George Floyd was killed Posted: 24 Sep 2020 06:47 AM PDT  Campaign visit comes on eve of four month anniversary of Floyd's killing
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| Kidnapped man grabs captor’s gun, forces her to drive him to ER, Colorado cops say Posted: 23 Sep 2020 09:39 AM PDT  Police said someone was heard screaming, "Give me the gun or I'm going to put a bullet in your head!"
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| GOP Sen. Cory Gardner stayed mum on meatpacking coronavirus outbreaks as he received industry donations Posted: 24 Sep 2020 02:14 PM PDT  Some of the biggest and most deadly COVID-19 outbreaks in the U.S. stemmed from the meatpacking industry. But Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) was reluctant to call for accountability, including when it came to a Colorado-based plant Gardner received donations from, Business Insider reports.Early in the pandemic, meatpacking factories' close quarters became home to massive COVID-19 outbreaks throughout the country. An outbreak at the JBS meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colorado led to at least 291 confirmed cases and six deaths — the biggest localized outbreak in the state. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) explicitly called for an investigation at the facility, as did a JBS employee union, which called out Gardner for failing to provide promised coronavirus tests for workers. But Gardner wouldn't discuss the situation with Business Insider, and similarly avoided questions about JBS in a local radio interview.Throughout his Senate career, Gardner has been one of the top recipients of donations from JBS; He has received $24,000 from the company over the years. This election cycle, he received the second most money from JBS of any senator, as well as the second largest contribution total from the meatpacking industry as a whole. Gardner is considered one of the most vulnerable senators this fall as he faces former Gov. John Hickenlooper (D).More stories from theweek.com America needs to hear the bad news first A mild defense of Republican hypocrisy on the Supreme Court Trump is the only one being honest about the Supreme Court fight
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| Jim Jordan Demands Answers from FBI Director on Whether He Is Probing Hunter Biden Allegations Posted: 24 Sep 2020 12:15 PM PDT  Representative Jim Jordan on Thursday sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray demanding that he provide answers on whether his agency is investigating allegations against Hunter Biden that appeared in a report by Senate Republicans this week.The report by investigators for the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs along with the Senate Finance Committee contained serious allegations of "potential criminal activity" against Hunter Biden, son of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, including that he allegedly received a wire payment of $3.5 million from the wife of the former mayor of Moscow. The 87-page report also claimed that the younger Biden had business associations with Chinese nationals linked to the Chinese Communist government and the People's Liberation Army and made payments to women who appeared to be linked to an Eastern European prostitution or human trafficking ring."We write to ask what investigative steps—if any—the Federal Bureau of Investigation has taken in response to the information in this report," Jordan wrote in his letter to Wray.The report "shows that the FBI has been aware of some alleged misconduct for years," and "detailed widespread concern within the Obama-Biden Administration about Hunter Biden's role on the board of Burisma Holdings," the Ohio Republican wrote.Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma, a Ukranian natural gas company, in 2014 after his father became vice president. In that role, court records suggested he earned at least $50,000 a month advising the energy company on "transparency, corporate governance and responsibility, international expansion and other priorities," according to Burisma. He resigned from the board in April of last year.A consulting firm representing Burisma Holdings, Washington-based Blue Star Strategies, at one point used the Biden name to leverage a meeting between the gas company and State Department officials, according to internal State Department email exchanges."The FBI suffered from a pattern of misconduct and politicization at the highest levels of the FBI during the Obama-Biden Administraton," Jordan wrote in his letter, adding that the "new revelations" in the Senate report "only add more concern about the FBI's actions."
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| McEnany on Trump's refusal to say he'll commit to peaceful transfer of power Posted: 24 Sep 2020 01:03 PM PDT  White House press secretary argues such questions are 'more fitting for Democrats.'
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