| Biden delivers confident assessment: ‘We’re going to win this race’ Posted: 06 Nov 2020 08:08 PM PST  Democratic nominee Joe Biden addressed the nation Friday as his lead over President Trump continued to grow in the presidential election's key battleground states.
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| Kamala Harris’ husband Douglas Emhoff shares heartfelt congratulations photo: ‘So proud of you’ Posted: 07 Nov 2020 10:06 AM PST  On Saturday morning, as jubilant Democrats celebrated Joe Biden's election win across the country, vice president-elect Kamala Harris' husband Douglas Emhoff tweeted his congratulations to his wife for her historic achievement. Ms Harris is the first woman, and the first woman of colour, to hold the position, also making her the most high-ranking female official in the country's history.
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| Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Several Others Have COVID Posted: 06 Nov 2020 08:12 PM PST  White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has contracted COVID-19—weeks after an outbreak infected a slew of Trumpworld figures, including the president.Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson and Trump campaign aide Nick Trainer have also tested positive, according to Bloomberg. At least two other White House staffers are also ill, according to multiple media reports.The news comes just two weeks after Meadows shockingly admitted on television that the Trump administration has decided it is "not going to control the pandemic."And it broke on a day that the United States set a new record for coronavirus cases, tallying another 122,000 positive tests as hospitalizations soar.As The Daily Beast has reported, Meadows has aggressively shunned masks and has mocked others for taking precautions in the midst of a pandemic that has killed more than 230,000 Americans."You guys, with all your masks... You look very different than you used to," he snarked at reporters trying to ask him questions as he walked—maskless—indoors with Jared Kushner in June.> White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, to reporters: "You guys, with all your masks... You look very different than you used to." > @politico's @JakeSherman: "We're just trying not to die." > pic.twitter.com/aD7KvgHNLH> > — David Gura (@davidgura) June 9, 2020White House journalists have identified Meadows as one of the administration officials they feel is endangering the health of those around him."It's absolutely outrageous," one prominent correspondent told the Daily Beast last month."They have literally put lives in jeopardy, they have put people's health in jeopardy—there's no other way to describe it when you have multiple White House staffers getting sick with COVID and they're still not taking precautions. I don't know how else to describe it other than it's just reckless and shows a lack of regard for other human beings—especially the press."Mark Meadows Might Be the Second Most 'Reckless' Man in the White HouseMeadows has even questioned the effectiveness of masks, even though scientific studies have proven they slow the spread of the virus."If masks is the panacea for everything, if that's the way that we open back our economy and get everybody back to work, I will gladly wear my mask each and every day if that's what makes the difference. And it doesn't," he said in September.When COVID-19 broke out in Vice President Mike Pence's office last month, Meadows reportedly tried to keep it secret. Pressed about that, he tried to justify it by saying that he did not believe "sharing personal information is something we should do."His illness was announced the night before Joe Biden was declared the 46th president of the United States and just moments after the former vice president addressed the nation about the status of vote-counting and spoke movingly about the toll the coronavirus had exacted in the last eight months.Bloomberg reported that Meadows was with Trump at campaign headquarters on Tuesday and was back on Wednesday. He was not wearing a mask either time.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.
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| Erdogan tells Putin that Armenia must negotiate over Nagorno-Karabakh Posted: 07 Nov 2020 11:56 AM PST  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Saturday that Armenia must be convinced to negotiate in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan and called for a peaceful resolution, the Turkish Presidency said. At least 1,000 people have died in nearly six weeks of fighting in and around Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous enclave internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan but populated and controlled by ethnic Armenians.
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| 2020 presidential election: Watch Biden and Harris acceptance speeches live Posted: 07 Nov 2020 04:52 AM PST  Yahoo News is providing complete coverage, with live updates and reaction to Biden's historic win.
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| It’s simple to enter the visa lottery for a free green card. But you better hurry Posted: 07 Nov 2020 12:52 PM PST  Up to 55,000 foreign nationals and their families from around the world will have a chance to legally immigrate to the United States with a green card in 2022, thanks to one of the simplest visa programs.
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| RNC chair calls for voter 'irregularities' to be reviewed DESC: Posted: 06 Nov 2020 02:27 PM PST 
RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel on Friday urged that voter "irregularities" be reviewed in the presidential election.
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| The Army Is Looking at Changing Up the Size of Its Infantry Squads Posted: 06 Nov 2020 11:17 AM PST |
| Heavy fighting near key town in Karabakh Posted: 07 Nov 2020 08:03 AM PST  Armenia reported Saturday that "fierce combat" with Azerbaijani forces took place overnight near the town of Shusha, a key stronghold in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
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| She Killed Her Grandpa and Stuffed Him in a Tool Box, Cops Say Posted: 06 Nov 2020 08:45 PM PST  A New Mexico woman has been accused of drugging her veteran grandfather to death, stuffing his body in a big tool box, and telling people that he was living at a fictional nursing home.Candy Jo Webb, 27, went on the lam after a neighbor found A.J. Harden's decomposed remains in mid-October, and investigators began asking questions, according to court papers.But she was tracked to Jacksonville, Florida, where U.S. marshals picked her up on Thursday. She's being held on a charge of first-degree murder and awaiting extradition to New Mexico, police said Friday.A criminal complaint against Webb says that police learned Harden, 82, was dead when a resident of Fort Sumner, Chad Abeyta, noticed a foul odor coming from a tool box dumped on property near his home and made the grisly discovery.The remains were severely decayed, but a medical appointment card with Harden's name was found in the pocket of the clothing. Then investigators discovered that Harden had a link to the burial ground: his granddaughter had once lived on the property with her boyfriend, Shawn Perkins.As The Eastern New Mexico News reported earlier this week, Webb told police that she took her 82-year-old grandfather to to a nursing home in Wellington, Texas, in the spring but needed to look up the name of the facility.The next day, police spoke to the dead man's grandson, Arron Harden, who said he had not seen his grandfather, that Webb would not say where he was, and that she had obtained a restraining order keeping him away from the home.When investigators pressed Webb on A.J.'s whereabouts, she said he was at the "Shady Oaks" retirement home in Fort Worth—which does not exist, according to court papers.Webb ghosted the cops, who turned their attention to her boyfriend, Garrett Beene. He revealed that Webb told him Harden died in his sleep and she called the fire department to take his body away, but police said no emergency call was ever made.A day later, Beene contacted police through his attorney with a different story: Webb allegedly told him that her grandfather asked her to kill him so she gave him a fatal dose of Xanax and Ambien. Beene said he didn't believe her and accused her of doing it so she could have his lake house. Perkins, the ex-boyfriend, had told police that Harden regularly gave Webb money.An obituary said Harden grew up in Fort Sumner, served in the Navy, got married, and became a truck driver. In his later years, he and his wife ran a hamburger stand."An amazing man with a beautiful heart," friend Denise Beck wrote on his condolence page.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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| Eta aims torrential rain at South Florida Posted: 07 Nov 2020 09:26 AM PST  The tropical depression may brush the region Sunday, and residents were warned to pay attention to forecasts and warnings.
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| Trump supporters like me are concerned by Biden's win. But there's still some hope. Posted: 07 Nov 2020 09:30 AM PST  I vote Republican because that party — and President Donald Trump — have a demonstrated commitment to anti-socialism. Biden can still show us that.
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| Democrats "devastated" and reflective after House GOP exceeds expectations Posted: 07 Nov 2020 05:36 AM PST  House Republicans were able to knock off at least five Democratic incumbents they had targeted in 2020.
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| Hong Kong police set up a hotline for people to snitch on those breaching China's draconian national security law, and it got more than 1,000 calls within hours Posted: 07 Nov 2020 12:56 AM PST  China imposed the security law for Hong Kong on June 30, giving itself new powers to crack down on dissent in all forms.
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| Shipbuilding: Here today, gone tomorrow Posted: 07 Nov 2020 04:00 AM PST  Industry well remembers the 1990s when costs drove the Navy to slash the Seawolf-class sub order from 29 hulls to just three, with no immediate replacement vesse ready to keep the lines hot.
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| Fourth night of protests in Portland as National Guard deployed Posted: 06 Nov 2020 08:27 AM PST  Two arrests were made after a gathering of more than 100 protestors was broken up
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| Thieves 'take €600,000 worth of luxury goods' from Paris home of Saudi princess Posted: 07 Nov 2020 09:02 AM PST  Thieves stole €600,000 worth of luxury goods from the home of a Saudi princess in Paris, a source close to the case said on Friday, including designer bags and fur coats. The 47-year-old princess, who had been away on holiday in the South of France and had not set foot in the opulent apartment in Paris's 8th arrondissement since August, discovered on returning that bags, watches, jewellery and furs were missing. The princess, whose name has not been revealed, was hospitalised on Thursday in a state of shock, and prosecutors have opened a formal investigation which will be handled by the Paris police force's special anti-organised crime unit. But it was unclear if there had been a break-in, according to Le Parisien newspaper. The thief or thieves appear to have entered the apartment, situated near the swanky Avenue George V in the heart of the French capital, without using force, the source said, adding that the bounty included more than 30 Hermes bags worth between €10,000 and €35,000 each and a Cartier watch worth €8,000. A spare set of keys to the home was also missing. Paris has seen a spate of luxury thefts in recent years, and it is not the first time that members of the Saudi royal family have been targets. In 2018, a Saudi princess reported that hundreds of thousands of euros' worth of jewellery had been stolen from her room at the Ritz, and in 2016, an unidentified female member of the Saudi royals claimed she was robbed of a €1 million watch while walking near the Louvre. In a headline-grabbing incident in 2014, a Saudi prince lost hundreds of thousands of euros in cash and diplomatic documents during an armed attack on his convoy as it travelled through the city.
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| Fighting nears key town as Azerbaijani forces advance in Karabakh Posted: 07 Nov 2020 03:30 AM PST  Explosions sound in the distance as Kamo Hayrapetyan kneels to pray at the Holy Saviour Cathedral in Nagorno-Karabakh's historic town of Shusha.
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| USPS finds 1,700 ballots in Pennsylvania mail facilities after sweep Posted: 06 Nov 2020 03:38 AM PST  The U.S. Postal Service said about 1,700 ballots had been identified in Pennsylvania at processing facilities during two sweeps Thursday and were being delivered to election officials.
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| Jacob Blake accepts plea bargain, dropping sexual assault charges Posted: 07 Nov 2020 08:55 AM PST  Jacob Blake, a Black recovering after being shot in the back by Wisconsin police officers earlier this year, had been facing charges of sexual assault prior to his shooting. Prosecutors decided to drop two of those charges on Friday in exchange for a guilty plea to lesser charges. Blake, 29, back in May was accused of one count of third-degree sexual assault and one count of criminal trespass, according to New York Times.
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| Fox News host Tucker Carlson says Biden and Harris want Americans 'drinking Starbucks every day from now until forever' in a baseless monologue about uniformity Posted: 07 Nov 2020 09:08 AM PST  On the Tucker Carlson Tonight show, the Fox News host claimed, without citing any evidence, that the Biden administration "demands obedience."
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| Democrats: We Gotta Readjust, and Fast, to Have a Shot in Georgia Posted: 06 Nov 2020 10:00 AM PST  If the Democrats' Senate candidates are going to take the majority, they're going to need to do something in Georgia that they haven't done elsewhere in 2020: win.Hyped and well-funded Democratic candidates for Senate fell short this week everywhere from Iowa and Montana to South Carolina and Maine, prompting disappointment and soul-searching over strategy from Democrats who'd come into November very optimistic about taking the majority.Democratic candidates fell behind in Alaska and North Carolina, though those races are not yet called, so the party is increasingly focused on Georgia's two Senate contests, which look to head to January 5 runoffs. As of Friday morning, at least one race is guaranteed: the special election between Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) and Democrat Raphael Warnock. The other, where Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) faces Democrat Jon Ossoff, has not been called yet, but with Perdue under 50 percent, both campaigns are preparing for the January rematch.That the battle for Senate is going into overtime allows each side to make adjustments and possibly apply lessons from this week's election. For Democrats, the discussion is focusing on the nuts and bolts of campaign strategy: how to allocate resources, what kinds of ads to run, and how to organize for getting out the vote—all of which are drastically more fraught decisions during a deadly pandemic that has upended everything, including politics."We're already having conversations about what we can do differently," said Howard Franklin, a Georgia Democratic strategist. "Running in the dead of winter will be harder because of cold weather and COVID-19… We haven't yet come up with a suitable substitute for in-person canvassing, meet-and-greets, and getting people together in ways that pay heed to the pandemic."Phone banking, texting campaigns, and remote events have all made organizing easier in the COVID-19 era. But knocking on voters' doors and holding in-person events are, normally, among the most powerful ways to galvanize support. While Republicans have continued those tactics as normal—and are expected to do so in Georgia over the next two months—Democrats have largely stopped due to concerns over the coronavirus that the GOP clearly does not share.In some places where results on Nov. 3 were disappointing for Democrats, that discrepancy has mattered. In Texas, for example, there's already been a backlash to Democrats' heavy reliance on phone and digital tactics of getting out the vote in the lead-up to an election where Republicans bested them across the board.'Too Close to Call': Georgia Officials Announce a RecountIn a series of tweets on Friday morning, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) said "the decision to stop knocking doors is one people need to grapple with and analyze." Her colleagues, Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), "never stopped," she said, "and they may very well have helped deliver a Biden presidency" because they drove such high voter turnout in their heavily Democratic districts situated in presidential battleground states.And generally, top Democrats are warning that, in light of this week's results, a serious reconsideration of campaign strategy will be required in order to win in Georgia. "We're going to have to sit down and take a serious look at how to run these senatorial campaigns in Georgia,'' Rep. Jim Clyburn (R-SC), the number three Democrat in the House, told USA Today on Friday. "We're not going to win these campaigns if we run those the way we ran Biden's campaign.""It's going to take more than a virtual campaign," said Clyburn. "It's going to take more than television. We're not going to win this campaign by television."How Democrats thread the needle of pandemic politicking in Georgia could very well affect the outcome, and control of the Senate, as much as any of the campaign ads that go viral or are blanketed on TV airwaves 24/7. Officials and operatives in the party want to adhere to public health guidelines but realize that in order to win, they're going to have to get creative about ways to reach voters directly, and in a safe way.Nikema Williams, the chair of the Georgia Democratic Party and the congressmember-elect in Georgia's 5th District, said, "We're not going to do anything that puts voters at risk or canvassers or organizers at risk.""The best way to influence elections is direct voter contact," said Williams. "We also know that the Democratic Party believes in science, and we believe in keeping people safe in the process."But threading that needle effectively will become even more urgent given the tsunami of cash that is about to hit Georgia, both from the campaigns themselves and from outside donors and special interests looking for a chance to sway the Senate one way or the other. Democrats in Georgia have looked at the existing onslaught of ads in their own state—and in others where Democrats fell short—as ineffective."There is a problem we have in politics," said Nabilah Islam, a progressive organizer in Georgia who previously ran for Congress this year. "You raise a lot of money, but you're talking at people—you're not talking with them." Islam said Democrats should focus on leaving literature at voters' homes, and find ways to tailor communications to diverse populations that will cut through the noise broadcast by repeated ads."Communicating in different languages is going to be key, just making it feel really local," said Islam. "There's a knowledge gap between the consultants who do these ads and the communities on the ground. You can run really great ads, but they need to be in ways these communities typically receive information."The Warnock campaign says it intends to mobilize voters safely and in a variety of ways, from digital to in-person, including contactless drops of campaign literature. Employing these processes during the election, the Warnock campaign said it reached one million Georgia voters before the Nov. 3 election.In a briefing on Friday, the Ossoff campaign said it planned to build the strongest field operation in Georgia history. "I think we have figured out safe ways to campaign in person," said Ellen Foster, Ossoff's campaign manager. "Every tactic is on the table, and we'll implement what we think is safe in the coming weeks."For some key outside groups backing the two candidates, in-person canvassing remains off the table for now. Representatives for Planned Parenthood Votes and Georgia Conservation Voters, for example, said that was not in their plans.Barbara Luttrell, a spokesperson for Planned Parenthood Votes, said that she is confident Georgians will have all the information they'll need about the runoff—which in itself is a crucial task, given that Democrats typically see turnout drop among less habitual voters in a January contest. "They will have no doubt that their vote matters now more than ever," said Luttrell.But others feel that there is a way to make those valuable, personal interactions with voters happen safely during COVID-19. "At the end of the day, you can text people, you can send them things in the email, but if there's an opportunity to knock on the door and leave a piece of literature, or knock on that door and back up 12 feet, that is very important," said Clay Middleton, a DNC member from South Carolina who is helping to strategize for Georgia's Senate races.The nature of the runoff makes this even more crucial, said Middleton. "Now you know what the vote goal needs to be. You need to do better than what you did on Tuesday," he said. "It's important that you get your voters back out, and you go after people who did not vote for you… the only way you can do that is on the ground."Both Democratic senatorial candidates will look to improve their vote shares, but their paths to the runoff were quite different. Warnock will face Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) after the two emerged as the top vote-getters in a primary with two-dozen candidates. The Democrat notched 33 percent of the vote to Loeffler's 26 percent, and both will compete to build on those numbers.Ossoff, meanwhile, will get a head-to-head match with Sen. David Perdue (R-GA). In the first round of voting, in which a Libertarian candidate was on the ballot, Perdue missed the 50 percent threshold to avoid a runoff by just a few thousand votes. Ossoff, meanwhile, got nearly 48 percent of the vote, as the tally continued coming in Thursday night. At the same time, Biden and President Donald Trump were in a tight race to win Georgia's 16 electoral votes and, according to Georgia's secretary of state, appeared to be headed for a recount.While Ossoff was able to outraise and outspend Perdue in the 2020 cycle, according to the most recent campaign finance reports, he still lacked the numbers that some other Democratic challengers across the nation enjoyed. And while Warnock got more in contributions from donors than Loeffler, according to the FEC records through mid-October, the incumbent loaned her campaign millions to boost her run.Their totals are paltry compared to other, less successful, challengers. Amy McGrath, who challenged Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in Kentucky, and Jaime Harrison, who ran against Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) in South Carolina, raised close to a combined $200 million for their bids. Both lost, by 20 points and 10 points, respectively.McConnell and Graham, of course, are supervillains to Democrats, who spurred countless donations to their challengers from liberals around the country. Asked about the difference in donor interest, John Jackson, the chairman of the DeKalb County Democratic Committee, touted Harrison's run, noting the importance the race could have in helping South Carolina Democrats moving forward."I think the money sent to McGrath in Kentucky was definitely money that would have been better spent in Georgia," Jackson said. "McGrath didn't come close to beating McConnell, and maybe that money sent to us would have been put to better use. But that is spilt milk at this point."Democrats in Georgia are optimistic that, despite the challenges with organizing and their historic disadvantages in a runoff, Biden's strength means that Georgia is quite winnable—and that Democrats could really secure the Senate majority there."We have the perfect opportunity," said Williams, the state party chair. "We fully expect Georgia to be the center of the political universe. We have proven with presidential margins that we are a battleground… it's possible for us to change the balance of power in the U.S. Senate."Wendy Davis, a DNC member in Georgia, said, "I'm not naive. Runoffs are not historically our best moments... but there is nothing about 2020 that has been typical."Davis, who also serves on the Rome City Commission, predicted "ample resources," for the campaign that was likely to come."I think we will probably break records for whatever records Jaime Harrison might have just set in South Carolina. I can't imagine that every interest group on every side of every issue won't be jumping in here with both feet, especially if it looks like the balance of who has the majority in the U.S. Senate lies with these two U.S. Senate seats," Davis said.As Democrats consider how to use what will be considerable resources, Islam urged Democrats to keep their eyes on what matters most in moving voters."These runoff elections have to be very personal," she said. "What I mean by that is, we're each other's neighbors, we're asking each other to vote. It can't be someone from somewhere else trying to bum rush you into voting."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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| Bannon's lawyer drops him after comments suggesting Fauci should be beheaded Posted: 06 Nov 2020 02:38 PM PST  President Trump's former chief strategist Stephen Bannon, who was arrested over the summer for alleged fraud, has lost his lawyer after suggesting that Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray should be beheaded.Lawyer William Burck on Friday "abruptly moved to drop" Bannon as a client after the former Trump strategist suggested violence against Fauci and Wray, The New York Times reports. Burck reportedly did not provide an explanation as to why he was doing so. A judge will have to approve change, the Times notes."Mr. Bannon is in the process of retaining new counsel," a letter to the court reportedly said.The move came after Bannon said during his online show that Trump should fire Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Wray, director of the FBI, at the start of a second term should he win re-election, and then suggested he would like both to be killed."I'd actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England," Bannon said. "I'd put the heads on pikes. Right? I'd put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats. You either get with the program or you're gone."Twitter has also permanently suspended Bannon's show's account over the remarks, while YouTube removed a video of the comments for violating its policy against "inciting violence," CNN reports.Bannon was arrested and hit with charges in August for allegedly defrauding donors to an online "Build the Wall" fundraising campaign. He has pleaded not guilty.Fauci has spoken out about receiving death threats against him and his family during the COVID-19 pandemic, telling 60 Minutes in October that the "very fact that a public health message to save lives triggers such venom and animosity to me that it results in real and credible threats to my life and my safety" is "sad."More stories from theweek.com Trump's motorcade greeted by jeering Biden supporters near White House as he returns from playing golf Fox News brings Trump to his knees The day the world stopped paying attention to Donald Trump
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| Second Mexican state to enter highest coronavirus alert level Posted: 06 Nov 2020 05:16 PM PST  A second Mexican state will from next week enter the highest level of coronavirus alert as authorities bid to contain a recent jump in infections in the north of the country, the health ministry said on Friday. The northern state of Durango will as of Monday join Chihuahua, a neighboring region on the U.S. border, in the red alert phase following an increase in hospitalizations. Most of Mexico's 32 regional governments are currently at the lower orange or yellow alert levels.
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| How many US presidents have lost a second term? All the one-term presidents Posted: 06 Nov 2020 04:49 AM PST  Only ten presidents have failed to win re-election
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| 3 quakes shake Alaska's largest city, but no damage reports Posted: 07 Nov 2020 08:54 AM PST |
| Cruise companies hope for dialogue with Key West after voters ban big ships Posted: 06 Nov 2020 03:00 AM PST  More than 60% of Key West voters sent a message to the cruise industry on election day: keep your big ships away from our city.
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| Major US media news outlets called the presidential race for Biden on Saturday Posted: 07 Nov 2020 09:33 AM PST  The AP, along with networks including CNN, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, and Fox News, all made the call for the vice president on Saturday.
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| Jubilant Biden supporters party outside the White House and stick up signs mocking ‘loser’ Trump Posted: 07 Nov 2020 11:36 AM PST  Bicyclists raised and pumped their fists and whooped their approval down the middle artery of Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House as honking cars zipped by, many with Biden-Harris signs raised aloft through their overhead windows and blaring celebratory tunes like "Please Don't Stop the Music". There was a particularly loud chorus of voices when the song gets to the line "No time for losers", one of Mr Trump's favourite words for his political opponents but one that now applies to him.
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| U.S. Postal Service delivered 40,000 votes nationwide Thursday: lawyer Posted: 05 Nov 2020 09:49 PM PST  The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) delivered about 40,000 ballots on Thursday as it continues to conduct court-ordered twice-daily sweeps before various state deadlines to receive ballots, a lawyer said Friday. In a court filing early Friday, USPS said 1,076 ballots, had been found at the USPS Philadelphia Processing and Distribution Center. About 300 were found at the Pittsburgh processing center, 266 at a Lehigh Valley facility and others found at other Pennsylvania processing centers.
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| The futuristic US Army goggles built to make soldiers unstoppable in the dark are almost ready for troops to take into combat Posted: 07 Nov 2020 05:21 AM PST  The US Army hopes its new mixed-reality heads-up display will give its soldiers an edge on future battlefields. Check out what all it can do.
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| Three states pass amendments that 'only citizens' can vote Posted: 07 Nov 2020 07:10 AM PST  Voters in Colorado, Florida and Alabama passed ballot measures Tuesday that codify what is already law: That only U.S. citizens 18 and older can vote. The amendments passed overwhelmingly in all three states, including by a nearly 8-to-1 ratio in Alabama and Florida. Before the 2020 election, North Dakota and Arizona were the only state constitutions that specified non-citizens could not vote in state or local elections.
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| Ancient skeleton find in Germany offers clues on prehistoric era Posted: 05 Nov 2020 07:12 PM PST  German researchers are piecing together the life of a prehistoric woman who died more than 5,000 years ago in the Neolithic period, after her skeleton was found during excavation works for wind turbines.
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| Sexual assault charge against Jacob Blake dismissed in plea bargain agreement Posted: 06 Nov 2020 01:24 PM PST  He pleaded guilty to lesser charges of disorderly conduct and domestic abuse.
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| CNN's Van Jones cries on air as Biden wins election Posted: 07 Nov 2020 09:09 AM PST  As a winner in the 2020 presidential race was finally projected on Saturday, CNN's Van Jones emotionally celebrated the election of Joe Biden. CNN along with other major news outlets on Saturday morning projected that Biden will win Pennsylvania and capture enough electoral votes to win the presidency after several days of votes continuing to be counted in battleground states. The network soon after cut to Jones, who served as an adviser to former President Obama, and he choked up describing his joy over the news. "Well, it's easier to be a parent this morning," Jones said. "It's easier to be a dad. It's easier to tell your kids character matters. It matters. Telling the truth matters. Being a good person matters."Jones wiped away tears as he went on to say that "if you're Muslim in this country, you don't have to worry if the president doesn't want you here. If you're an immigrant, you don't have to worry if the president is going to be happy to have babies snatched away or send Dreamers back for no reason. This is vindication for a lot of people who have really suffered."The CNN commentator concluded by saying he's "sorry for the people who lost" the election, but he described Saturday as "good day for this country." > Van Jones was emotional talking about Joe Biden becoming the next President of the United States pic.twitter.com/KaqhSR4sHG> > -- Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 7, 2020More stories from theweek.com Trump's motorcade greeted by jeering Biden supporters near White House as he returns from playing golf Fox News brings Trump to his knees The day the world stopped paying attention to Donald Trump
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| Trump administration fires three agency heads in wake of US election Posted: 07 Nov 2020 03:25 PM PST  The Trump administration has fired the heads of three federal agencies, in the wake of the 2020 US election. The administration fired Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Bonnie Glick, deputy administrator of the US Agency for International Development, and Neil Chatterjee, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
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| WHO looks at mink farm biosecurity globally after Danish coronavirus cases Posted: 06 Nov 2020 03:08 AM PST  The World Health Organization is looking at biosecurity around mink farms in countries across the world to prevent further "spillover events" after Denmark ordered a national mink cull because of an outbreak of coronavirus infections in the animals. Maria van Kerkhove, the WHO's technical lead for COVID-19, told a briefing in Geneva on Friday that transmission of the virus between animals and humans was "a concern". The risk was much lower in other farm animals than mink, which appear to be much more susceptible to infection, a second WHO expert said.
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| First otter trapping season opens in South Dakota after 'threatened' species makes rebound Posted: 06 Nov 2020 09:51 AM PST  While river otters were once on the state's threatened species list, they've now rebounded enough to have a short trapping season on the east side of the state.
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