| Pelosi warns Democrats the election may be decided by the House — where the GOP holds an edge Posted: 28 Sep 2020 09:14 AM PDT  If the Electoral College is tied, each state delegation gets a single vote. Republicans currently control 26
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| South Carolina TV anchor hit man with beer bottle in fight over politics, police say Posted: 28 Sep 2020 01:54 PM PDT  The victim was left with cuts on his face, police said.
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| Dr. Fauci warns the US is ‘not in a good place’ on Covid-19 as cases rise in parts of the country Posted: 28 Sep 2020 12:11 PM PDT  'Now's the time actually to double down a bit,' nation's leading infectious disease expert warns in new interview
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| Intermittent fasting alone does not boost weight loss and could cause loss of muscle, according to a new study Posted: 28 Sep 2020 08:00 AM PDT  A small study found that, without calorie restriction, intermittent fasting did not have much impact on weight, and put people at risk of weight gain.
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| US threatens to close Baghdad embassy unless Iraq halts militia attacks Posted: 28 Sep 2020 06:47 AM PDT  Five Iraqi civilians were killed on Monday by rocket fire targeting Baghdad airport, where US troops are stationed, Iraqi officials said, days after the United States warned it would withdraw its diplomats Iraqi unless authorities rein in militia attacks. Three children and two women from the same family died and two other children were wounded when a Katyusha rocket fell on their home, the army said. The incident was the deadliest yet in a series of attacks targeting American interests in the country. On Saturday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi in a phone call that the US would close its Baghdad embassy unless Iraq stopped Iran-backed militias from striking American installations, according to Iraqi officials. A "strong and violent" response would follow against the groups responsible for the attacks, the Iraqi officials reported Mr Pompeo as saying . Attacks on US targets in Iraq have increased since the United States killed top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in an audacious drone strike in Baghdad in January. The capital's heavily fortified Green Zone has been targeted in at least 19 rocket and mortar attacks this month, while convoys serving the US-led international coalition against Islamic State have been attacked two dozen times, most recently on Sunday when an improvised explosive device hit vehicles transporting military equipment in southern Iraq. A roadside bomb targeted a British convoy in Baghdad this month, the first such attack against western diplomats in years, while a British soldier was killed alongside two Americans at camp Taiji north of Baghdad in March. Since taking office in May, Mr Kadhimi has vowed to rein in rogue militias. He assumed the premiership with US support but his western ally is dissatisfied with his cautious approach to militias, many of which are backed by Iran. As Mr Khadimi visited Washington last month, unknown gunmen carried out a string of attacks on Iraqi activists linked to the US consulate in Basra, which was widely interpreted as an attempt by militiamen to discredit the premier. The administration of US President Donald Trump has adopted a "maximum pressure" strategy towards Iran and with up to 5,000 US soldiers remaining in Iraq, there are fears withdrawing diplomats could prefigure US military strikes on Iranian interests. The Baghdad embassy is one of the largest American diplomatic missions worldwide and closing it would take months. The process could be halted if the US is satisfied with Iraq's response. "For now, gauging credibility of US threat to close embassy can't be distinguished from a real threat or a bluff," wrote Ramzy Mardini, a researcher on Iraq at the University of Chicago.
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| Positive COVID-19 test rates top 25% in some U.S. Midwest states Posted: 27 Sep 2020 02:54 PM PDT  The positivity rate has risen to 26% in South Dakota, up from 17% the previous week, according to the analysis using testing data from The COVID Tracking Project. The World Health Organization considers rates above 5% concerning because it suggests there are more cases in the community that have not yet been uncovered. Several states such as New York, Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine have positive test rates of less than 1%.
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| Governor seeks review of police protest response in Oregon Posted: 28 Sep 2020 12:00 AM PDT  Criticism of the law enforcement response to a protest in Portland late Saturday into early Sunday prompted Oregon Gov. Kate Brown to ask authorities to review "any alleged incidents" involving their officers. "Journalists and law enforcement officers have difficult jobs to do during these demonstrations, but I do still believe that we can protect free speech and keep the peace," Brown tweeted.
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| 'Utter devastation': Three dead as multiple wildfires in California explode in size Posted: 28 Sep 2020 04:30 PM PDT  "This was pretty devastating," one official said. "Just literally hundreds and hundreds of homes devastated with nothing standing."
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| California governor signs law requiring trans inmates to be housed by gender identity Posted: 28 Sep 2020 07:53 AM PDT  The law requires inmates to be asked how they identify, then they must be housed accordingly. Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law on Saturday that will require California prisons to house transgender inmates according to their gender identity. The law requires officers to privately ask inmates if they identify as transgender, nonbinary or intersex.
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| The Senate could vote to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court just days before the presidential election Posted: 26 Sep 2020 09:06 PM PDT  Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Lindsey Graham laid out a timeline for the confirmation process, saying he hopes to begin hearings on October 12.
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| Veteran facing border wall scam charges with Steve Bannon: ‘Not a penny’ was taken Posted: 28 Sep 2020 04:30 PM PDT  When 'Build the Wall' amputee veteran Brian Kolfage was arrested, officers forbade use of prosthetic legs, now he plans to sue
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| Alabama town removes statue of Confederate soldier in the middle of the night Posted: 28 Sep 2020 03:34 PM PDT  The town will pay a $25,000 fine for removing the 115-year-old monument
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| British Museum 'won't remove controversial objects' from display Posted: 28 Sep 2020 05:10 AM PDT  Cultural institutions received a letter from the government warning them not to remove artefacts.
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| Commentary: We need to talk about those Breonna Taylor T-shirts Posted: 28 Sep 2020 11:51 AM PDT  Recent events have sparked a surge in Black Lives Matter merchandise. It can be difficult to conclude where proceeds from these products actually go.
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| Wine country wildfire forces hundreds of evacuations Posted: 28 Sep 2020 05:51 AM PDT  A wind-driven wildfire erupted on Sunday in the heart of Northern California's Napa Valley wine country and spread across nearly 2,000 acres, forcing the evacuation of a hospital and hundreds of homes, authorities said.
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| $20M settlement reached in police killing of handcuffed man Posted: 28 Sep 2020 09:23 AM PDT  A Maryland county has agreed to a $20 million settlement with the family of a man who was handcuffed in a patrol car when a police officer shot and killed him, a county official said Monday. The Prince George's County police officer who killed William Green in January was arrested on charges including second-degree murder and has a trial scheduled for next year. Michael Owen Jr., who was a 10-year veteran of the police department, has been jailed since his arrest.
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| How Covid has affected Asian American multigenerational homes Posted: 28 Sep 2020 03:00 AM PDT  "I think many of us come from cultures where putting family and community before yourself is highly valued."
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| Saudi Arabia says it busted terrorist cell trained by Iran's Revolutionary Guards Posted: 28 Sep 2020 12:08 PM PDT |
| Trump reportedly considered choosing Ivanka as his running mate in 2016 Posted: 28 Sep 2020 06:35 AM PDT  President Trump was reportedly eyeing a potential Trump-Trump ticket in 2016.According to an upcoming book by former Trump deputy campaign manager Rick Gates, Trump suggested naming his daughter Ivanka Trump as his running mate in 2016, The Washington Post and Bloomberg report."I think it should be Ivanka," Trump reportedly said. "What about Ivanka as my VP?"Gates writes that "we all knew Trump well enough to keep our mouths shut and not laugh" at the idea, per Bloomberg, as Trump went on to say that his daughter is "bright, she's smart, she's beautiful, and the people would love her!"In fact, according to Bloomberg, the book describes how Trump brought up this idea numerous times over the following weeks, and Gates said it became clear to advisers "just how serious he was about putting his politically inexperienced daughter just a heartbeat from the presidency." The campaign reportedly conducted polling on the potential pick, and Gates writes that by July 2016, the idea "started to catch some momentum." Ultimately, though, Ivanka Trump herself shot it down, according to Gates."She went to her father and said, 'No, Dad. It's not a good idea,'" Gates writes, per Bloomberg. "And he capitulated."Other alternative running mates who reportedly were considered include former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, but Gates writes that Trump "had already told us, privately, that he thought 'there was something wrong and off' with Newt." While Ivanka would ultimately become an adviser to her father in the White House, the campaign in the end went with then-Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as the 2016 running mate, despite the fact that, according to Gates, Trump had previously referred to Pence as a "loser."More stories from theweek.com Trump literally can't afford to lose the election Trump avoids tax return questions as he brings yet another truck to the White House The bigger truth revealed by Trump's taxes
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| Tow company sold vehicles of Texas military members while they were on duty, feds say Posted: 28 Sep 2020 04:29 PM PDT  One of the service members was at basic training when his car was towed, officials say.
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| Republicans condemned for promoting ‘Notorious ACB’ shirts days after Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death Posted: 27 Sep 2020 02:11 PM PDT  Democratic senator says the point of the shirt was 'to stick a finger in the eye of Ginsburg's grieving family and anyone mourning her loss'
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| Meng Wanzhou: The PowerPoint that sparked an international row Posted: 28 Sep 2020 12:36 AM PDT  The top Huawei executive's closely watched extradition case returns to court on Monday.
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| Teacher says he can no longer teach kindergarten after parent complained about tattoos Posted: 28 Sep 2020 11:54 AM PDT  Local educational authorities said students under six "could be frightened" by the appearance of a teacher with tattoos.
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| 'Motherf-----': Former Mueller prosecutor describes the moment his team nailed Paul Manafort for financial fraud Posted: 28 Sep 2020 03:14 PM PDT  Another prosecutor "let out a freewheeling hoot" when she saw the evidence, Weissmann writes. "If this holds up," Weissmann told them, "he's dead."
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| Pakistan's top court accepts appeal by Daniel Pearl's family Posted: 27 Sep 2020 09:18 PM PDT  Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday accepted an appeal by the family of slain American journalist Daniel Pearl seeking to keep a British-born Pakistani man on death row over the beheading of the Wall Street Journal reporter. The court delayed until next week hearing the appeal over the lower-court acquittal of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who had been on death row since his conviction in 2002 over Pearl's killing. The Supreme Court ordered Sheikh to remain in custody but Faisal Siddiqi, the lawyer for Pearl's family, told The Associated Press on Monday the court will decide next week whether Sheikh will remain imprisoned during the course of the appeal, which could be years.
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| NYPD officers charge at group of protesters and diners, arresting people on sidewalk Posted: 27 Sep 2020 11:04 AM PDT  Police say they "responded to a large disorderly group obstructing vehicular traffic," but video of the incident appeared to show a different scene.
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| Anti-Trump and former GOP strategists join Hispanic groups targeting Florida voters Posted: 28 Sep 2020 01:50 PM PDT  The effort to defeat President Donald Trump in Florida and mobilize the Hispanic vote for former Vice President Joe Biden has led to some strange bedfellows.
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| Police officer who choked black man during stop will never serve again Posted: 28 Sep 2020 02:46 PM PDT  Officer captured on camera saying he had choked Desmond Marrow
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| The South African cleric taking on the church over a rapist priest Posted: 27 Sep 2020 05:58 PM PDT  Reverend June Major has gone on hunger strike twice to demand that the church take action against her alleged attacker who still practises as a priest
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| Lindsey Graham Hints There is ‘More Damning’ Information about the Russia Investigation to be Released Posted: 28 Sep 2020 06:10 AM PDT  Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) on Sunday said to "stay tuned" for more "damning" information after he released records showing the main source for the Steele dossier had previously been the subject of an FBI counterintelligence investigation for his connections with Russian intelligence."There's a day of reckoning coming just stay tuned, and there's more coming, there's something else coming, more damning than this believe it or not," said the chairman of the Judiciary Committee in an appearance on Fox News.As part of the Senate panel's probe into the Russia investigation, Graham released declassified documents that showed the FBI had investigated Igor Danchenko, British former intelligence officer Christopher Steele's main source for his dossier, as a possible "threat to national security" a decade ago as a result of his connections with Russian intelligence.The declassified information was revealed to Graham in a letter last week sent by attorney general William Barr, in which the AG referenced what Graham may be hinting at. "I have also alerted the Director of National Intelligence to certain classified information in the possession of the intelligence community, also brought to my attention by [U.S. Attorney John] Durham, which bear upon the FBI's knowledge concerning the reliability of the dossier," Barr said in his letter. "Mr. Durham confirms that the disclosure of that information would not interfere with his investigation, and the Department otherwise defers to the DNI concerning the handling of this information."Durham is leading an investigation into the Russia investigation on behalf of the Justice Department.On Sunday Graham spoke about alleged wrongdoing in the Russia investigation saying there was "three buckets," including whether there was "any legitimate reason" for special counsel Robert Mueller to be investigating Trump's campaign for a crime involving Russia."In 2017, there was no evidence that anybody on the Trump campaign was working with the Russians," Graham said.The other two areas of concern are how the FBI may have misled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court to obtain warrants to wiretap a member of President Trump's team and the case against Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn.
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| China's UK envoy warns Britain to avoid lectures over human rights Posted: 28 Sep 2020 10:56 AM PDT  China's ambassador to London has told Britain that it will suffer "setbacks" in its relationship with Beijing if it continues to raise issues about human rights. The warning came after a junior Foreign Office minister took Beijing to task at a Chinese embassy function on Monday, held to mark the 71st anniversary of the People's Republic. In his remarks, James Duddridge said that while Britain wanted to retain good relations with China, it was also concerned about Beijing's erosion of democracy in Hong Kong and its treatment of the Muslim Uighur minority in Xinjiang. Mr Duddridge's comments drew a cool response from Liu Xiaoming, the Chinese ambassador, who is understood to have replied pointedly that as Hong Kong was no longer under British rule, Beijing was not obliged to listen to British concerns. Mr Liu added that China's policies in Xinjiang, where the government has been accused of putting up to two million people into "re-education" camps, were designed to combat terrorism. Unless Britain and China observed a policy of "non-interference" in each other's internal politics, he continued, their relationship "would suffer setbacks or even retrogression." Mr Liu, 64, who has been China's envoy to London since 2010, is one of a new generation of Chinese diplomats who have eschewed the low profile traditionally favoured by their predecessors. Earlier this year, he hinted that some Chinese companies might pull out of Britain after the government reversed its decision to allow telecoms giant Huawei a key role in the 5G network. Last year, he also criticised the then Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, over his support for pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong, saying the protests were "a matter about breaking laws". His robust reply to Mr Duddridge's comments, which were made during an online gathering of guests, will be seen as a further indication of how relations between London and Beijing have cooled. Traditionally, routine diplomatic functions are not seen as forums where political differences are aired. Other Chinese ambassadors have already taken up a much more aggressive tack than Mr Liu, developing what become known as "wolf-warrior" diplomacy - a new, assertive dialogue to remind the world that China is now a superpower. Named after a Chinese film in which Beijing's troops defeat US enemies in Africa and Asia, the "wolf warrior" tactic was pioneered by Zhao Lijian, until last year China's envoy to Pakistan. In July last year, he got in a vicious Twitter spat with Susan Rice, a former advisor to Barack Obama, about China's treatment of Uighur Muslims, in which he suggested America improve its own record on race relations. It culminated in Ms Rice urging the Chinese government to recall him to Beijing.
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| Former paramilitary leader deported to Colombia Posted: 28 Sep 2020 12:04 PM PDT |
| Sen. Johnson: Hunter Biden and his businesses raked in $4.2M Posted: 27 Sep 2020 07:59 AM PDT  Senate Homeland Security Committee chairman Ron Johnson joins 'Sunday Morning Futures.'
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| Bombshell NYT report: Trump writes off money he gives to Ivanka by calling her a "contractor" Posted: 28 Sep 2020 01:37 AM PDT  "Nine Trump entities have written off at least $95,464 paid to a favorite hair and makeup artist of Ivanka Trump"
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| How can you safely have a Thanksgiving meal? CDC has tips for families during COVID-19 Posted: 28 Sep 2020 11:06 AM PDT  Here's what health officials say about dinners and travel for the upcoming holiday.
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| Suspect in downing of flight MH17 denies any involvement Posted: 28 Sep 2020 02:03 AM PDT  One of four suspects on trial for the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 has denied any involvement with firing or supplying the missile allegedly used in its destruction, a lawyer said in court on Monday. MH17 was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down by a missile fired from territory held by pro-Russian rebels during fighting in eastern Ukraine, international investigators say. One defendant, Oleg Pulatov, has instructed a lawyer to defend him.
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| Trump’s 2016 Campaign Listed Millions of Black Voters It Wanted to Stop From Voting, Leak Reveals Posted: 28 Sep 2020 10:00 AM PDT  LONDON—Over three million Black voters in key states were identified by President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign as people they had to persuade to stay at home on Election Day to help him reach the White House.The revelation comes from an enormous data leak obtained by the British news network Channel 4. It shows that, four years ago, the Trump campaign prepared files on almost 200 million American voters and separated some out into eight different categories. One such category, assigned to 3.5 million Black voters, was titled: "Deterrence."The leaked database was reportedly used by Trump's digital campaign team, which was critical to Trump's narrow victory. Channel 4 News has a track record of exposing the unethical practices of Cambridge Analytica—the now-defunct British digital black-ops firm that harvested the Facebook data of tens of millions of voters for the use of Team Trump.The leaked files show that Black Americans were disproportionately marked 'Deterrence' by the 2016 campaign, making up far more of the category when compared to general population stats. For example, in Georgia, Black people make up around a third of the population, but 61 percent of the Trump campaign's 'Deterrence' category there. The same pattern can be seen in data for North Carolina and Wisconsin.Cambridge Analytica's Real Role in Trump's Dark Facebook CampaignOverall, people of colour—labelled by the campaign as Black, Hispanic, Asian and 'Other' groups—made up 54 percent of the people in the 'Deterrence' category, according to Channel 4 News. In contrast, the lists of voters that the campaign wanted to encourage to head out to vote were mostly white. It's impossible to say how effective the tactics were, but research shows that, in 2016, Black turnout fell by eight points.The data does not offer a complete picture of exactly how the 'Deterrence' list was exploited, though it's likely that it was used to help the campaign micro-target people on Facebook in the months leading up to Election Day in 2016. The Daily Beast revealed two years ago that Team Trump used audience lists created by Cambridge Analytica to target "dark ads" on Facebook in the final months of the 2016 campaign.There's no public record of those "dark ads," which disappeared when the campaign stopped paying for them, and there's no public information on the lists that were used to target voters. However, Channel 4 does report that it found some evidence that Team Trump pushed ads at Black voters designed to damage opinions of Trump's rival, Hillary Clinton.One video ad showed Clinton talking about "super-predators" in 1996—a comment she apologized for in 2016 after the clip spread online. Channel 4 reports that Cambridge Analytica privately admitted that the campaign did target "AA," or African Americans, with what it called the "Predators video," though it's not known if the 'Deterrence' list was used.Trump Data Guru Officially Disqualified Over 'Shady' Campaign TacticsPresented with Channel 4's findings, Jamal Watkins, Vice President of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said: "We use data... but it's to motivate, persuade and encourage folks to participate. We don't use the data to say who can we deter and keep at home. That just seems, fundamentally, it's a shift from the notion of democracy."Watkins added: "It's not 'may the best candidate win' at that point it's 'may the best well-funded machine suppress voters and keep them at home thereby rigging the election so that someone can win'."An unnamed Facebook spokesperson said: "Since 2016, elections have changed and so has Facebook—what happened with Cambridge Analytica couldn't happen today." The company cited its new rules prohibiting voter suppression, and its searchable political ads library which means that ads don't just disappear from the network as they did in 2016.The Trump campaign didn't provide any comment.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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| Rebound and reflection in Wuhan as virus claims million lives Posted: 28 Sep 2020 12:51 AM PDT  As the coronavirus claimed its millionth life, people in Wuhan expressed sadness Monday at the continuing global impact of the pandemic -- more than nine months after it emerged in the central Chinese city.
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| White nationalist from Charlottesville rally nicknamed ‘Crying Nazi’ is charged with threatening to rape a woman Posted: 28 Sep 2020 02:45 PM PDT  Christopher Cantwell sent a series of threatening text messages in bid to uncover information about leader of a far-right group
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| Tucker Carlson says 'every story' about Jacob Blake and George Floyd is a lie, the same day a federal judge wrote that viewers don't take Carlson's statements seriously Posted: 26 Sep 2020 08:05 PM PDT  Carlson's allegations of dishonesty came after Fox News argued in court that he's prone to hyperbole, exaggeration, and "loose, figurative" language.
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| Greece hunts for culprits behind daubing of flag with red paint on flashpoint island Posted: 28 Sep 2020 03:43 AM PDT  Greek police are searching for whoever was responsible for daubing red paint on a giant Greek flag on Kastellorizo, the tiny Aegean island that is at the centre of the crisis between Athens and Ankara. The paint – the colour of the Turkish flag – was splashed all over the blue and white flag, which is etched into a hillside on the island, facing the Turkish coast. A drone that was launched around the same time as the attack took aerial photos of the desecrated flag and there were reports that it played the Turkish national anthem through a loudspeaker. Athens has demanded that Turkey also investigate the incident, saying it was an insult to Greek national honour. "The police and the army are investigating and we are waiting for them to tell us what they have found out," Michael Amygdalos, the deputy mayor of Kastellorizo, told The Telegraph on Monday. There were earlier reports that the paint had been dropped by the drone, but that was incorrect, he said.
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| Oil washes up along five-mile stretch of Florida beach in wake of Hurricane Sally Posted: 28 Sep 2020 07:55 AM PDT  It's unclear at this point if the submerged oil is from the 2010 oil spill that was stirred up from Hurricane Sally or if it is from another source.
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| John Oliver concedes sad defeat on the Supreme Court, urges Democrats to go big to save U.S. democracy Posted: 28 Sep 2020 04:05 AM PDT  Maybe there's some irony in a British immigrant preaching pro-democracy revolution in America, but these are strange times. The death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Oliver said on Sunday's Last Week Tonight, "was distressing enough" before President Trump rushed to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by "a liberal icon with an extremely conservative justice who's being called 'the female Antonin Scalia,'" Amy Coney Barrett, 48."Look, this has been a very dark week for a lot of people," Oliver said. "The Supreme Court is about to lurch to the right for the foreseeable future. And if things seem hopeless right now, it's because -- to be completely honest -- they basically are.""The fact is, when Barrett is confirmed, a president who lost the popular vote will have picked a quarter of the federal judiciary and a third of the Supreme Court, and his choices will have been rubber-stamped by a Senate Republican majority representing 15 million fewer people than the Democratic minority," Oliver said. "And if that sounds absurd to you, it's because it clearly is, especially when those courts have allowed Republicans to set wildly unpopular policy that wouldn't actually pass muster with voters." So what can be done?If the Democrats manage to win the White House and Congress, they need to go "bold" and enact "significant structural change," Oliver said. That's risky -- "expanding the court is a bit like doing yoga naked -- one way to dampen your enthusiasm for the idea is to picture Donald Trump doing it, too," he said -- but "it is past time for big change." Eliminating the Electoral College and granting statehood to Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, he argued, "would actually make our system more democratic.""The unavoidable truth here is that the system is already rigged, and its rigged in a way that has allowed a party without popular support to drastically reshape an entire branch of government for the foreseeable future by appealing almost exclusively to white voters in some of the least populous regions of the country," Oliver said. "That is not a mandate, and it's not democracy, it's a f---ing travesty. We're at the end of a generational battle, and the heartbreaking thing is, we lost.""But the next battle has to start right now," he said, and "we must be willing to fight tirelessly and with every tool and tactic at our disposal." Watch below. More stories from theweek.com Trump literally can't afford to lose the election Trump avoids tax return questions as he brings yet another truck to the White House The bigger truth revealed by Trump's taxes
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| Merkel says German coronavirus infections could hit 19,200 a day: source Posted: 28 Sep 2020 02:54 AM PDT  Chancellor Angela Merkel told leaders of her Christian Democrats (CDU) on Monday that coronavirus infection rate could hit 19,200 per day in Germany if the current trend continues but stressed that the economy must be kept running, a party source said. Infections have been rising in Germany for weeks. Data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany rose by 1,192 on Monday.
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| Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis: 'Bomb on donkey' used to ambush Borno governor Posted: 28 Sep 2020 09:11 AM PDT  Militants from an Islamic State-linked group strapped the animal with explosives in Borno state.
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