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- New Yahoo News/YouGov poll: Biden expands lead to 8 points as voters blame Trump for COVID-19 carelessness and chaotic debate
- He tried to carjack 4 people in a row, police say, but all the victims fought back
- Photos Show Why Miami Public Schools Could Be the Next Ron DeSantis Coronavirus Debacle
- Starbucks has begun rolling out glow-in-the-dark cups for Halloween— and people are already reselling them online
- CDC revises guidance, says COVID-19 can spread through virus lingering in air
- Greg Abbott: Criminal allegations against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton "raise serious concerns"
- Sen. Ron Johnson Says He Will Vote in Person to Confirm Barrett Despite Testing Positive for Coronavirus: ‘I’ll Go in a Moon Suit’
- Cuomo orders New York schools in coronavirus hot spots to close tomorrow
- As Trump fell ill, Republican report praised his leadership on pandemic response
- After $5 million bank heist, 26 years in hiding, being found in Hialeah, ‘The Ghost’ dies
- Judge blocks Iowa directive on absentee ballot applications
- A fired Amazon employee led a protest in front of Jeff Bezos' $165 million Beverly Hills mansion over workers' wages and job protections
- Seven bodies found in northern Italy, France after violent storms
- South Korean minister apologises after husband breaks Covid rules for yacht-shopping trip to US
- SNL skewers Trump for Supreme Court Covid superspreader event as Jim Carrey joins cast as Biden
- Merkel outraged over 'attempted murder' of Jewish student
- 'That makes no sense': Doctors say Trump is either getting overtreated for the coronavirus, which could be risky, or is more seriously ill than we know
- Republicans gripped by dread as multiple crises swirl
- Voters sue Republican Gov. Greg Abbott over his order to shutter ballot drop-off locations in Texas
- Microsoft plans $1 billion data center venture in Greece
- U.S. court orders Iran to pay $1.4 billion in damages to missing former FBI agent's family
- This Latino cartoonist is on a mission to defeat Trump in November
- Tasmanian devils return to Australian wild after 3,000 years
- Fired Amazon employee arrested for allegedly issuing false refunds
- John Hagee, prominent megachurch pastor, ill with COVID-19
- Police are searching for a man who they say used an anti-gay slur before punching someone filming a TikTok
- Turkey stirring the pot? Why Armenians, Azeris are fighting again.
- Chemical weapons watchdog ready to assist Russia in Navalny case
- Researchers find 'Queen of the Ocean' ancient great white shark off Nova Scotia coast
- Thousands of coronavirus cases were not reported for days in the UK because officials exceeded the data limit on their Excel spreadsheet
- Hurricane Delta? New tropical storm is 'strengthening' and could make landfall on Gulf Coast this week, forecasters say
- 'That should never have happened': Secret Service agents attack Trump over hospital drive-by
- Texas congressman calls on state attorney general to resign
- Cities under fire as Armenia-Azerbaijan fighting intensifies
- Republicans panic that congressional COVID eruption will derail SCOTUS confirmation vote
- Saudi business leader urges boycott of goods from 'hostile' Turkey
- WH press secretary Kayleigh McEnany tests positive for COVID-19, a day after speaking to reporters without a mask
- Rapidly strengthening Delta could cross Yucatan Peninsula as a Category 3 hurricane
- Apple is suing a recycling firm for $23 million, claiming it resold iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches instead of breaking them down
- Why Trump's steroid treatment might be a 'red flag' about his condition
- Rochester mayor pleads not guilty in campaign finance case
- Biden said he warned governors not to endorse him to prevent retaliation from the Trump administration
- Louie Gohmert joins three other Texas Republicans in vote against House resolution condemning QAnon
Posted: 04 Oct 2020 09:31 AM PDT |
He tried to carjack 4 people in a row, police say, but all the victims fought back Posted: 05 Oct 2020 01:37 PM PDT |
Photos Show Why Miami Public Schools Could Be the Next Ron DeSantis Coronavirus Debacle Posted: 05 Oct 2020 01:50 AM PDT MIAMI—Last week, a few days before Donald Trump revealed he came down with COVID-19, Karla Hernandez-Mats went on a coronavirus safety fact-finding mission in South Florida schools ahead of their reopening on Monday.The president of United Teachers of Dade, the local teachers union, Hernandez-Mats said she and her colleagues conducted surprise inspection visits at 17 Miami-area schools that suggested administrators were still scrambling to put safety measures in place.At Miami Springs Senior High, one of the 17 schools inspected, administrators initially refused to allow her colleague, United Teachers of Dade First Vice-President Antonio White, to enter the building and called a police resource officer on him, the union officials told The Daily Beast."When administrators act like that, their schools are usually not prepared," White said in an interview. "That was the case at Miami Springs."COVID-Skeptical Florida Guv Outdoes Himself, Lifts All Restrictions on Restaurants and BarsFor instance, the school appears to be supplying teachers with alcohol-free hand sanitizer, which may be ineffective in killing coronavirus, the union officials said, providing The Daily Beast with a photo of just that. (The Centers for Disease Control's COVID-19 guidance recommends people use hand sanitizer that is at least 60 percent ethanol-based or 70 percent isopropanol-based.) Union officials also provided photos showing decals marking 6-foot distance requirements that were already peeling off the sidewalks near the school's entrance, and desks arranged in such a way that does not allow for 6-foot social distancing.Reached by phone, Miami Springs principal Torossian said he was unaware of police being called on the union official and referred further questions to the school district's media relations department. Spokeswoman Jacquelyn Calzadilla did not specifically address what had occurred at Miami Springs, but she said "our school site administrators are working around the clock to ensure a safe return to the schoolhouse for our students and employees."The flap illustrates the daunting task facing the public school system in Miami-Dade County, which has been the epicenter of Florida's COVID-19 outbreak for most of the pandemic. More than 10,000 teachers and 133,000 students begin filing into 340 schools this week on a staggered schedule. This after the Miami-Dade School Board voted to resume in-person learning under pressure from Florida Education Commissioner Richard Cocoran, a Gov. Ron DeSantis appointee who threatened to cut the school district's funding if classes did not resume by early October.Miami-Dade's daily positivity rate rolling average for the 14 days ending on Oct. 4 stood at 4.78 percent, just below the 5 percent positivity rate that the World Health Organization recommends maintaining for two weeks before lifting shelter-at-home and social distancing protocols. During the same 14-day period, Miami-Dade reported 5,456 new cases, bringing its total to 172,205.School reopenings have been a mess of infection, quarantine, and closure across America in recent weeks. But conversations with teachers, labor leaders, and experts in South Florida painted a picture of Miami schools as a new guinea pig for epidemiological mayhem imposed on high from Tallahassee.This past Friday, Thais Alvarez returned to Norman S. Edelcup Sunny Isles Beach K-8 in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, for the first time since the pandemic forced the shutdown of school buildings across the country.Alvarez, 48, believes keeping students 6 feet apart is going to be nearly impossible in some cases, despite guidance that she and other staff do so. "While my classes are significantly smaller compared to other years, I have some with 16, 19, 21, and 22 students," she told The Daily Beast. "There is no way to do traditional social distancing given the square footage of my classroom."For her personal protection, Alvarez said, she received three six-packs of facemasks and a face shield from the principal's office, along with a large bottle of hand sanitizer placed on her desk. To bolster the official offerings, some of her students gave her packages of clorox wipes in recent days to sanitize surfaces, added Alvarez, who teaches sixth, seventh and eighth graders.The teacher's concerns over clean and sanitized classrooms and bathrooms have a history at Norman S. Edelcup going back to this spring. Alvarez provided The Daily Beast email exchanges she had with Assistant Principal Neal Stayton and Principal Melissa Mesa as far back as May describing grimy conditions inside her classroom and bathrooms on the fourth floor of the school. In a May 7 email, Alvarez complained that objects such as cabinets and desktop screens were caked in dust and floors went unswept throughout the school year. She also claimed the bathroom often ran out of soap and toilet paper before the school day ended, and that toilets were not cleaned for days.In email responses to Alvarez, Mesa acknowledged that custodial staff were supposed to clean bathrooms, including toilets, on a daily basis. But the principal explained that the school district only allocates one custodian per floor and that, based on the workload, the custodian assigned to Norman S. Edelcup's fourth floor could only provide a full-service cleaning once a week. Mesa also noted that if the custodian missed work or went on vacation, it would take longer for full-service cleanings to take place."Please communicate custodial concerns with Mr. Stayton and myself throughout the school year and we will do what we can to assist you," Mesa wrote back on May 7. "Please know that the health and safety of all our faculty, staff and students is of paramount concern to us as well."When she returned to campus on Friday, Alvarez claimed the bathrooms looked the same to her and that her classroom did not appear any cleaner than the start of previous school years, when floors are stripped and waxed."I can't speak to the future," she added. "But if my past experience is any indication, it's going to be a dog and pony show in front of the cameras. Behind the scenes, it's going to be the complete opposite."Alvarez's bosses at Norman S. Edelcup referred inquiries to school district's chief spokeswoman Daisy Gonzalez-Diego, who did not specifically answer questions about the middle-school teacher's complaints."Miami-Dade County Public Schools administrators and school site personnel are following all recommended health and safety protocols to ensure our schoolhouses are secure and welcoming environments where children can thrive under the instruction of our inspirational educators," Gonzalez-Diego said in an email statement. "We also understand that beyond the academic benefits, in-person schooling provides children the social, emotional, and motivational support they need."But on a Facebook page administered by school district employees, dozens of teachers are sharing similar stories about their schools. One teacher posted photos of her classroom's moldy ceiling tile and moldy air conditioning vents. The Daily Beast obtained a screenshot of a text message from another teacher complaining that no one had provided her with masks, hand sanitizer, and wipes. The teacher claimed to work at iPrep Academy, which is adjacent to the school district's headquarters and whose principal is none other than Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho."The office made me feel uncomfortable as if I were asking for something difficult to get when I thought they had plenty in store," the text message read.In an emailed statement, Miami-Dade Public Schools said all teachers at iPrep Academy received bags containing personal protective equipment. Gonzalez-Diego also explained that the school district prioritized resources to increase existing inventories of cleaning supplies and purchase large quantities of personal protective equipment, among other precautions. "With these investments, our schools are now equipped with sufficient PPE and sanitization supplies to safely welcome our students and employees back to the schoolhouse for the 2020-2021 school year," Gonzalez-Diego said.Likewise, on Sept. 30, Superintendent Carvalho sent a letter to all school district employees that read: "Rest reassured that comprehensive measures have been undertaken and will continue to be implemented as a means of ensuring a safe and healthy working environment for all. There is an overall heightened awareness and adherence to prescribed cleaning practices in order to reduce the risk of exposure to our employees."Regardless of how well prepared it is, the school district has been forced to rush things because Carvalho and the school board caved to Education Commissioner Corocan's threats, Hernandez-Mats, the union official, argued. Cocoran, a Republican former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, is a staunch ally of Gov. DeSantis and President Trump, who have advocated reopening schools as part of their push to resume normal life even as health experts across the country warn Florida is about to experience another surge once flu season kicks into high gear.Schools Touted by DeSantis Now in a Quarantine Nightmare"Obviously, this is very troubling how they are getting pressure from Gov. DeSantis, who is falling in line with Trump, telling him to reopen schools," Hernandez-Mats said. "They are succumbing to political pressure instead of doing what is right to ensure the health and well-being of the students and the people who work in those schools with those kids."Gonzalez-Diego did not comment on Hernandez-Mats' criticisms of local cooperation with pressure from the state level. But Florida education department spokeswoman Taryn Fenske clapped back, arguing school unions like United Teachers of Dade want to dictate the type of learning environment students should have, instead of giving them a choice between online and face-to-face learning. "The union bosses are nothing but schoolhouse bullies who want to force everyone to make an identical decision," Fenske said. "They're just mad that we have no problem or hesitation with standing up for students and families, regardless of what the union demands." A spokesperson for DeSantis did not respond to a request for comment for this story.Florida International University infectious disease expert Mary Jo Trepka told The Daily Beast the sheer size of Miami-Dade's public school system makes it critically important that every school site has every possible precaution in place."It is not only critical that transmission be controlled within schools to protect students, teachers, and staff, but also because transmission within schools will fuel overall community transmission," Trepka said. "This could happen at a large scale… Even if only half are interacting in person, that is a lot of opportunities for transmission."Trepka said the danger of reopening schools in Miami-Dade was compounded by DeSantis' decision earlier this month to allow bars and nightclubs to reopen throughout the state. She said it's a recipe that could lead to another spike in coronavirus cases similar to what occurred during the summer, when local and state government officials first relaxed COVID-19 restrictions."I fear we will repeat the same situation now with the added problem of colleges resuming classes and the reopening of schools," Trepka said, noting that Florida's summer surge was initially driven by young people catching coronavirus."They ended up infecting older people," Trepka said. "Then, of course, we saw a lot of deaths."Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet 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. |
Posted: 04 Oct 2020 08:18 AM PDT |
CDC revises guidance, says COVID-19 can spread through virus lingering in air Posted: 05 Oct 2020 11:07 AM PDT The CDC guidance comes weeks after the agency published – and then took down – a similar warning, sparking debate over how the virus spreads. In Monday's guidance, CDC said there was evidence that people with COVID-19 possibly infected others who were more than 6 feet away, within enclosed spaces with poor ventilation. Under such circumstances, CDC said scientists believe the amount of infectious smaller droplet and particles, or aerosols, produced by the people with COVID-19 become concentrated enough to spread the virus. |
Posted: 05 Oct 2020 10:03 AM PDT |
Posted: 05 Oct 2020 12:50 PM PDT Senator Ron Johnson said Monday that he has no symptoms after testing positive for the coronavirus over the weekend and announced that he plans to vote in person on the Supreme Court nomination even if it means he has to wear a "moon suit.""I feel perfectly normal, I have not had any symptoms," Johnson said Monday during a radio interview on the Ross Kaminsky Show.Johnson's office announced Saturday that the Wisconsin Republican tested positive for Covid-19 on Saturday and was not experiencing any symptoms after he was exposed to an individual who also tested positive. The senator is currently quarantining for his third time since the U.S. outbreak began. His diagnosis came a day after President Trump announced that he and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for the coronavirus.Republican senators Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Mike Lee of Utah, both of whom serve on the Judiciary Committee, also announced last week that they had tested positive for the coronavirus.With the confirmation hearings of President Trump's Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett scheduled to begin on October 12, some Senate Democrats including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Dianne Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, have called for the upcoming hearings to be postponed to allow Barrett and senators who were potentially exposed to the virus to be tested and isolate.Johnson argued that Barrett's confirmation can proceed as long as the Senate takes the proper health and safety precautions."There's no reason we can't confirm Judge Barrett," Johnson said, cautioning that the confirmation hearings could be held "electronically," but voting remotely is "probably not possible" since the rules of the Senate would have to be changed."But If we have to go in and vote, I've already told leadership I'll go in a moon suit," Johnson said."Where there is a will, there's a way," Johnson said. "We can do these things." |
Cuomo orders New York schools in coronavirus hot spots to close tomorrow Posted: 05 Oct 2020 10:30 AM PDT |
As Trump fell ill, Republican report praised his leadership on pandemic response Posted: 05 Oct 2020 01:27 PM PDT |
After $5 million bank heist, 26 years in hiding, being found in Hialeah, ‘The Ghost’ dies Posted: 05 Oct 2020 08:36 AM PDT |
Judge blocks Iowa directive on absentee ballot applications Posted: 05 Oct 2020 02:50 PM PDT A judge blocked Iowa's secretary of state Monday from enforcing an order that barred counties from sending absentee ballot applications to voters with their personal information already filled in. Judge Robert Hanson sided with Democratic Party groups, who contended that Secretary of State Paul Pate exceeded his authority when he told counties that absentee ballot request forms must be blank when mailed to voters. Hanson ordered Pate to halt enforcement of his directive, which the judge said appeared designed to limit access to absentee voting. |
Posted: 05 Oct 2020 02:44 PM PDT |
Seven bodies found in northern Italy, France after violent storms Posted: 04 Oct 2020 10:15 AM PDT Seven bodies were found in a region straddling the French-Italian border near Nice on Sunday after torrential rains swept houses and roads away, officials in both countries said. Five of the bodies were discovered in northwestern Italy, including four washed up on the shore between the towns of Ventimiglia and Santo Stefano al Mare, near the French frontier. Two more were found in France, including a shepherd found by an Italian search and rescue team. |
South Korean minister apologises after husband breaks Covid rules for yacht-shopping trip to US Posted: 05 Oct 2020 02:47 AM PDT South Korea's foreign minister is under growing pressure to resign after her husband defied the ministry's travel advice and flew to the United States on Saturday. The public has been further enraged after it emerged that Lee Yill-Byung, a university professor and husband of Kang Kyung-wha, was travelling to the US to purchase a new yacht. Only essential overseas travel is permitted, at a time when many Koreans have lost their jobs due to the impact of coronavirus. The Chosun Ilbo newspaper accused Mrs Kang of "flagrant hypocrisy" after her ministry demanded that people skip this year's Chuseok holidays, the equivalent of Thanksgiving and the most important holiday on the Korean calendar, to stop the spread of the Covid-19. Mrs Kang, of the Left-leaning Democratic Party, was quoted as saying that people's "private lives are not an absolute right" as she ordered the public to stay at home. Local media have learned that her husband flew to Vietnam for a week in February, travelled to the French territory of Martinique shortly after returning and then went to Greece in June. |
SNL skewers Trump for Supreme Court Covid superspreader event as Jim Carrey joins cast as Biden Posted: 04 Oct 2020 12:21 AM PDT |
Merkel outraged over 'attempted murder' of Jewish student Posted: 05 Oct 2020 08:18 AM PDT |
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Republicans gripped by dread as multiple crises swirl Posted: 05 Oct 2020 01:42 AM PDT |
Voters sue Republican Gov. Greg Abbott over his order to shutter ballot drop-off locations in Texas Posted: 05 Oct 2020 09:41 AM PDT |
Microsoft plans $1 billion data center venture in Greece Posted: 05 Oct 2020 01:23 AM PDT Microsoft has announced plans to build three data center sites in greater Athens, providing a badly needed investment of up to $1 billion to the Greek economy which has been hammered by the pandemic. The news was announced Monday by the U.S. tech giant and Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis and follows nine months of confidential negotiations for an agreement that also includes digital-skills training programs for some 100,000 government and private sector workers as well as educators and students. "This significant investment is a reflection of our confidence in the Greek economy, in the Greek people and the Greek government," Microsoft President Brad Smith said at a ceremony held in the Acropolis Museum, facing the ancient site in central Athens. |
U.S. court orders Iran to pay $1.4 billion in damages to missing former FBI agent's family Posted: 05 Oct 2020 01:06 PM PDT |
This Latino cartoonist is on a mission to defeat Trump in November Posted: 05 Oct 2020 08:49 AM PDT |
Tasmanian devils return to Australian wild after 3,000 years Posted: 04 Oct 2020 08:46 PM PDT Tasmanian devils have been released into the wild on Australia's mainland 3,000 years after the feisty marsupials went extinct there, in what conservationists described Monday as a "historic" step. Aussie Ark, along with a coalition of other conservation groups, revealed on Monday that they had released 26 of the carnivorous mammals into a 400-hectare (1,000-acre) sanctuary at Barrington Tops, about 3.5 hours north of Sydney. Tim Faulkner, president of Aussie Ark, said the "historic" releases in July and September were the first steps in a project akin to the successful move to return wolves to Yellowstone National Park in the United States in the 1990s. After 16 years of work, including the establishment of mainland Australia's largest Tasmanian devil breeding programme, Faulkner said it was "incredible and surreal" to have reached the goal. "It's the stuff dreams are made of," he told AFP. |
Fired Amazon employee arrested for allegedly issuing false refunds Posted: 05 Oct 2020 11:20 AM PDT |
John Hagee, prominent megachurch pastor, ill with COVID-19 Posted: 05 Oct 2020 04:37 PM PDT |
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Turkey stirring the pot? Why Armenians, Azeris are fighting again. Posted: 05 Oct 2020 09:48 AM PDT |
Chemical weapons watchdog ready to assist Russia in Navalny case Posted: 05 Oct 2020 06:26 AM PDT The global chemical weapons watchdog, which has been asked by Germany to test samples of what Berlin says was a banned nerve agent used to poison a Russian opposition figure, said on Monday its experts would be prepared to assist Russia in the case. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said it had received a request from Moscow on Oct. 1 for help in the case of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, and was seeking clarification on what type of assistance Russia wanted. Navalny fell ill on a flight in Siberia on Aug. 20 and was flown to Germany for treatment. |
Researchers find 'Queen of the Ocean' ancient great white shark off Nova Scotia coast Posted: 05 Oct 2020 12:26 PM PDT |
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'That should never have happened': Secret Service agents attack Trump over hospital drive-by Posted: 05 Oct 2020 08:14 AM PDT |
Texas congressman calls on state attorney general to resign Posted: 05 Oct 2020 09:46 AM PDT A Republican congressman from Texas became the most prominent member of his party to call for the resignation of the state's Republican attorney general, Ken Paxton, after Paxton's top deputies reported him to law enforcement for alleged crimes including bribery and abuse of office. Rep. Chip Roy, who was previously Paxton's second in command in the attorney general's office, said in statement Monday that his former boss must step down "for the good of the people of Texas." The call for Paxton's resignation came days after seven senior lawyers in his office sent the head of human resources a letter saying they reported the attorney general to "the appropriate law enforcement authority" for potentially breaking the law "in his official capacity." |
Cities under fire as Armenia-Azerbaijan fighting intensifies Posted: 04 Oct 2020 02:06 PM PDT |
Republicans panic that congressional COVID eruption will derail SCOTUS confirmation vote Posted: 04 Oct 2020 05:30 AM PDT |
Saudi business leader urges boycott of goods from 'hostile' Turkey Posted: 04 Oct 2020 09:53 AM PDT |
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Rapidly strengthening Delta could cross Yucatan Peninsula as a Category 3 hurricane Posted: 05 Oct 2020 05:17 AM PDT |
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Why Trump's steroid treatment might be a 'red flag' about his condition Posted: 04 Oct 2020 11:25 AM PDT |
Rochester mayor pleads not guilty in campaign finance case Posted: 05 Oct 2020 09:12 AM PDT Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren, who has faced calls to resign over her city's handling of the suffocation death of Daniel Prude at the hands of police, pleaded not guilty Monday to campaign finance charges dating to her 2017 reelection campaign. "She welcomes the opportunity for the public to see whether the district attorney's charges hold water," attorney Joseph Damelio said outside court after the proceeding. Warren, leader of the Lake Ontario city of more than 200,000 people, was arraigned in Monroe County Court. |
Posted: 04 Oct 2020 08:15 AM PDT |
Louie Gohmert joins three other Texas Republicans in vote against House resolution condemning QAnon Posted: 05 Oct 2020 09:20 AM PDT |
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