| Kamala Harris, shattering racial and gender barriers, makes history as first woman vice president Posted: 07 Nov 2020 08:40 AM PST  Sen. Kamala Harris made history three times Saturday as the first woman, first Black person and first Asian American to be elected to the vice presidency, according to the Associated Press, which called the race.
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| California students say they're 'deeply disappointed' after voters cast ballots against affirmative action Posted: 08 Nov 2020 08:16 AM PST  "It would have been a game-changer in increasing diversity and representation at UC," one student from UCLA said of the rejected Proposition 16.
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| A 73-year-old Texas man was accused of stealing posts from 'hundreds' of political campaign signs for 3 years, police say Posted: 08 Nov 2020 12:32 PM PST  The Collin County Sheriff Office said "Republican, Democrat, and Independent have had hundreds of T-posts holding their campaign signs stolen."
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| Letters to the Editor: Stop reporting ballot counts as if Biden and Trump are still in a race Posted: 08 Nov 2020 03:00 AM PST  Voting is over. What's going on now is merely determining who won, not who is "in the lead" or "closing in" on victory.
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| Texas dog accidentally shoots owner after its paw got stuck in trigger of gun, tucked in the man's waistband Posted: 08 Nov 2020 06:03 AM PST  Police said the dog owner had a lucky escape as the bullet passed clean his leg.
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| Lots of finger pointing as Honolulu rail runs out of money Posted: 08 Nov 2020 07:24 AM PST  Susan Galicha can see Honolulu's rail cars being tested on elevated tracks just minutes from her home. The rail line — one of the nation's most expensive per capita — may have to end a long way from both downtown and the hotel district in a nondescript light industrial area featuring a bus depot and a highway interchange. The latest cost estimate for the 20-mile (32-kilometer) rail line is $9.1 billion — nearly double the $5.5 billion budgeted at the time of the project's 2011 groundbreaking.
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| Trump lost — so what happens to the GOP? Posted: 07 Nov 2020 09:42 AM PST  The question of what happens to the Republican Party after the Trump presidency is not one that will be resolved by think tanks, symposiums or tidy theories. The most devoted and intense Republican partisans who vote reliably in primary elections will be the tail that wags the dog.
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| Biden adviser: Presidential campaign 'was less consultant-driven than any' in 'modern history' Posted: 08 Nov 2020 05:00 AM PST  President-elect Joe Biden's path to victory wasn't an easy one — at one point, early in the Democratic primaries, it even seemed like he could wind up an afterthought — but he ultimately emerged as the projected winner Saturday. And it appears that sticking to his own personal vision during his campaign, even if it seemed unpersuasive at times to other Democrats, is at least part of what pushed him over the line, The New York Times reports."It was his campaign," Anita Dunn, one of his closest advisers, told the Times. "It was less consultant-driven than any presidential campaign in modern history."Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) recalled hearing Biden's original pitch for the White House back in 2019, before he announced his candidacy. Casey said he wasn't convinced by Biden's messaging "about the soul of the country," especially at a time of intense ideological division across the United States. "I was worried at the time at the time that it wasn't hard-hitting enough," Casey told the Times, but he admitted the former vice president "was prescient in his ability, even in the primaries when almost nobody else was doing it, to say, 'We have to bring the country back together.'" Read more at The New York Times.More stories from theweek.com Fox News brings Trump to his knees Lindsey Graham warns GOP will 'never win' a presidential race if party doesn't 'fight back' in 2020 The day the world stopped paying attention to Donald Trump
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| AOC said she might quit politics, as some centrist Democrats blame progressives for House losses, NYT says Posted: 07 Nov 2020 08:01 PM PST  "I don't even know if I want to be in politics," she told The New York Times. She said the Democratic party has been hostile to progressive causes.
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| Letters to the Editor: Why oppose affirmative action? Obama explained it well Posted: 07 Nov 2020 03:00 AM PST  In his 2008 speech on race, then-candidate Obama explained why both Black people and white people feel dehumanized.
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| Rep. Jim Jordan on election 'misconduct' Posted: 07 Nov 2020 07:26 AM PST  Republican Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan reacts to the latest on the election on 'Fox & Friends Weekend.'
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| A televangelist who referred to the coronavirus as a 'privilege' has died from it Posted: 07 Nov 2020 07:42 PM PST  "This coronavirus may be a privilege, because I'll tell you right now, there is a much bigger judgment coming," televangelist Irvin Baxter once said.
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| Kamala Harris husband: Meet Douglas Emhoff, the lawyer set to become America’s first Second Gentleman Posted: 07 Nov 2020 04:52 PM PST  Vice-president elect Kamala Harris is already making history — becoming the first woman of colour to be elected to the role. Mr Emhoff heaped public praise on his wife as the Biden/Harris campaign celebrated election victory on 7 November, after an agonising days-long wait for key swing states to be declared. Mr Emhoff's path to the White House has not been as clear cut as Ms Harris.
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| French moderate imam requests extra police protection amid death threats over support for Macron Posted: 08 Nov 2020 06:06 AM PST  One of France's highest profile imams has appealed to President Emmanuel Macron for increased police protection after receiving "thousands" of death threats over his condemnation of terrorist attacks. Hassen Chalghoumi, imam of the Paris suburb of Drancy and a leading Muslim moderate, said he had received a torrent of new threats since he spoke out against the beheading of a French teacher last month. Mr Chalghoumi described Samuel Paty, the teacher murdered after showing his class cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, as a "martyr for freedom of expression, and a wise man who has taught tolerance, civilisation and respect for others". As president of the Conference of Imams of France, Mr Chalghoumi has worked to improve relations between Muslims and Jews. He supports France's ban on the face veil and has called for tolerance of caricatures of the prophet. The 48-year-old Tunisian-born imam has lived under police guard since Islamic State called for his "execution" following the 2015 Paris attacks. He now believes the danger has risen sharply with the surge in threats on social media. An Arabic post on Twitter said: "We urge true Muslims of France to allow Chalghoumi to join the history teacher and also become a martyr of the nation." Another post intercepted on the Telegram messaging service described Mr Chalghoumi as "your new target" and called on followers to "execute him because he is filthier than those French infidels".
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| 'It's a slaughter,' doctors say of new coronavirus wave Posted: 07 Nov 2020 07:25 AM PST  Coronavirus hospitalizations have been rapidly climbing, leading to concerns that we may once more see what we saw over the spring and early summer: crowded intensive care units, overwhelmed hospitals, deaths that could have been prevented.
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| Gottlieb says Biden to take office at likely "apex" of coronavirus surge Posted: 08 Nov 2020 09:25 AM PST  Gottlieb predicted the nation will see a record number of hospitalizations this week.
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| ‘Jeopardy!’ host Alex Trebek dead at 80 Posted: 08 Nov 2020 10:09 AM PST  "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek has died at the age of 80 after a diagnosis of stage IV pancreatic cancer, the game show announced on Sunday.
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| Hurricane warning issued for Florida Keys as strengthening Eta takes aim Posted: 08 Nov 2020 07:47 AM PST  Eta emerged from Cuba and into the warm waters of the Florida Straits on Sunday where restrengthening of the storm is expected to occur prior to its third strike on land -- this time, in the Florida Keys as a 1 on the AccuWeather RealImpact™ Scale for Hurricanes. Eta made the second landfall of its lifespan thus far after striking east-central Cuba Sunday morning as a strong tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 65 mph. The storm's first landfall was at Category 4 hurricane strength in Nicaragua last week. Hurricane watches and warnings are in effect for the Florida coast from Deerfield Beach to Bonita Beach and the Florida Keys from Ocean Reef to the Dry Tortugas, including Florida Bay. Tropical storm warnings are also in effect for portions of Florida, Cuba and the northwestern Bahamas. As of 7 p.m. EST Sunday, Eta was centered 90 miles south of Miami, Florida, with maximum sustained winds of 65 mph. Present movement is to the northwest at 14 mph. Satellite imagery on Sunday showed Eta less organized than a day prior due to interaction with Cuba as well as southwesterly wind shear, or the change in direction and/or speed of winds at increasing heights in the atmosphere. The wind shear was whisking the storm's robust thunderstorms north and east of the center of the storm. This satellite imagery from Sunday morning, Nov. 8, 2020, shows Eta emerging from the northern coast of Cuba. (CIRA at Colorado State/GOES-East) But, forecasters say that as the storm continues to move away from Cuba and conditions become more conducive for strengthening, Eta could reach Category 1 hurricane strength (maximum sustained winds of 74-95 mph) just prior to or after a projected landfall in the Florida Keys Sunday night. Regardless of exact intensity, South Florida will endure heavy rainfall, strong winds, storm surge flooding and isolated tornadoes. The Florida Keys and Peninsula have largely dodged impacts amid a record-setting Atlantic hurricane season, which has spawned 28 named systems. If Eta does in fact make landfall in the Keys as a hurricane, it would be the first such storm to do so in November since Hurricane Kate in 1985, according to Philip Klotzbach, a Colorado State University meteorologist. "Beyond Cuba, Eta is expected to take a westward turn Sunday night into Monday as it moves into the Florida Straits and across the Keys," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Dan Pydynowski said. CLICK HERE FOR THE FREE ACCUWEATHER APP Officials have been asking Floridians to take precautions ahead of the storm. Crews spent Thursday cleaning storm drains in Miami Beach in anticipation of Eta. Meanwhile, the city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, distributed free sandbags to residents on Friday. In preparation for the storm, the City of Miami's COVID-19 Mobile Testing Unit (MTU) and Mobile Testing Unit Call Center will be closed Monday, Nov. 9. Operations are expected to resume on Tuesday, Nov. 10. Soaking rain was already beginning to move across South Florida Sunday morning, and rain and wind will only increase heading into Monday as Eta closes in. Eta, likely as a strong tropical storm (maximum sustained winds 37-73 mph) or Category 1 hurricane strength, will bring wind gusts of 60-70 mph across South Florida and the Florida Keys, with an AccuWeather Local StormMax™ of 90 mph, into Monday. This can cause damage to trees and power lines and cause any loose objects such as lawn furniture and trash cans to become dangerous projectiles. A more broad swath of 40- to 60-mph wind gusts is expected to extend into central Florida by early Monday, especially along the coastal regions, with localized damage possible. Heavy rain from Eta, totaling 4-8 inches across a broad area of South Florida with an AccuWeather Local StormMax™ of 16 inches, is expected to cause flooding problems, particularly in poor-drainage areas. "In Miami, the heavy rain combined with strong and persistent easterly (onshore) wind will likely lead to more significant flooding in immediate coastal areas," Pydynowski said. Forecasters expect a 1- to 3-foot storm surge to batter coastal areas of southwestern and South Florida, with locally higher amounts around Miami. Coastal concerns will be just as high even far away from the center of the storm as persistent and strong easterly winds push water onshore along the east coast of Florida. A storm surge watch is in effect from Golden Beach to Bonita Beach, including Biscayne Bay, while a storm surge warning is in effect for the Florida Keys from Ocean Reef to the Dry Tortugas, including Florida Bay. "In addition, due to a strong easterly (onshore) flow between Eta and a large high pressure area centered farther north over the mid-Atlantic states, minor coastal flooding and beach erosion can occur along the beaches of Georgia, South Carolina and southern North Carolina around times of high tide through Monday," Pydynowski said. As is typically the case with tropical systems, there will be the risk of an isolated tornado or two being spawned in any rainbands north and east of the center of the storm. Due to the threat for heavy, flooding rainfall, damaging winds, storm surge and a number of other economic factors, Eta will be a 1 on the AccuWeather RealImpact™ Scale for Hurricanes for Florida. The RealImpact™ Scale is a 6-point scale with ratings of less than one and 1 to 5. In contrast to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, which classifies storms by wind speed only, the AccuWeather RealImpact™ Scale is based on a broad range of important factors. Localized downpours will continue to pester the Sunshine State Monday night into Tuesday, but the center of Eta is expected to drift far enough westward to limit damaging wind impacts by that point. It is at this point that Eta's path becomes a bit less clear. "Late in the week, a non-tropical storm moving through the eastern United States could draw Eta northward across the southeastern U.S.," Pydynowski said. In this scenario, another U.S. landfall would be in play, this time somewhere along the upper Gulf Coast. "However, if Eta misses the connection with this non-tropical storm passing to its north, Eta may then remain in the Gulf of Mexico into the upcoming weekend. At that point, it is possible Eta could continue to meander in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, perhaps drifting slowly to the west or even to the south," Pydynowski said. A drift to the south and west could bring rain and wind to western Cuba later Monday into Tuesday, with a brush of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula possible. The storm may then sit and swirl over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico for several days. As a result of the possibilities that remain on the table with Eta's path this week, all interests from western Cuba to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and the southeastern U.S. should closely monitor the forecast in the coming days. Eta has already made history and matched the strength of the strongest storm of the tumultuous 2020 hurricane season -- Hurricane Laura -- when its winds peaked at 150 mph prior to slamming Central America earlier last week. Eta joined the ranks of eight other tropical systems in the Atlantic this season and underwent rapid strengthening, which is defined by a tropical system that experiences an increase in its maximum sustained winds by 35 mph within 24 hours. Its winds increased from 70 mph to 150 mph -- just shy of Category 5 strength -- in just 24 hours. Hurricane season doesn't officially end until Nov. 30. Keep checking back on AccuWeather.com and stay tuned to the AccuWeather Network on DirecTV, Frontier and Verizon Fios.
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| A New York couple drowned on their Turks and Caicos honeymoon four days after their wedding, report says Posted: 07 Nov 2020 05:09 PM PST  According to Newsday, 35-year-old, Mohammad Malik and 29-year-old, Dr. Noor Shah riptides caused the couple to drown during their honeymoon.
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| Kamala Harris' Indian ancestral village celebrates her victory as she becomes Vice President of the United States Posted: 08 Nov 2020 09:24 AM PST  Thulasendrapuram, population 350, was the Indian home of Harris' maternal grandfather, P.V. Gopalan.
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| Two Virginia men arrested near Philadelphia vote-counting facility did not have permits to carry weapons Posted: 07 Nov 2020 10:00 AM PST  Two men were charged after arrests Thursday near the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia's ballot-counting facility.
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| Third World War a 'risk', the head of the military warns, as he calls on Government for long-term funding Posted: 08 Nov 2020 09:55 AM PST  There is a "risk" of a Third World War due to growing global uncertainty, the head of the military has warned, as he called on the Government to commit to "long term" funds for the armed forces. General Sir Nick Carter said that the increase in regional conflicts playing out across the world could ramp up into a "full-blown war". The Chief of the Defence Staff said that the world was a "very uncertain and anxious place" during the coronavirus pandemic and suggested that "you could see escalation lead to miscalculation". "We have to remember that history might not repeat itself but it has a rhythm and if you look back at the last century, before both world wars, I think it was unarguable that there was escalation which led to the miscalculation which ultimately led to war at a scale we would hopefully never see again," Sir Nick said. He told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday that the military also needed long-term investment from the Treasury in order to deliver on "modernisation". It comes after reports of a clash between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor on the issue of defence spending. Boris Johnson is said to have called for a £15 billion package of funding until 2025 while Rishi Sunak is in favour of a one year settlement worth £1.9 billion as part of the spending review. However, Sir Nick said negotiations with Downing Street and the Treasury were "going in a very constructive way". Confirming he would be seeking a multi-year package, he said: "Clearly we're going to argue for something like that because we need long-term investment because long-term investment gives us the opportunity to have confidence in modernisation."
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| Jill Biden: Who is America’s next First Lady? Posted: 07 Nov 2020 09:04 AM PST  For Dr Biden, who has four university degrees, says she plans on continuing to work full time as a community college professor even if her husband becomes the world's most powerful politician. If that plays out Dr Biden, who has five grandchildren, would become the first first lady to to have a career outside of the White House. "If we get to the White House, I'm gonna continue to teach," she told CBS News.
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| Bolivians decorate skulls with sunglasses and cigarettes to honor the dead Posted: 08 Nov 2020 08:17 AM PST  Bolivians celebrated the Day of Skulls over the weekend, a colorful tradition rooted in ancient indigenous beliefs that is meant to bring good fortune and protection by honoring the dead. Known as "ñatitas," the skulls are decorated and paraded to the cemetery a week after All Saints Day. The festival this year coincides with the inauguration of Bolivia's new President Luis Arce, which caps a turbulent year for the Andean country that has been rattled over the last year by political upheaval and the coronavirus pandemic.
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| States will eventually abolish the Electoral College. Here's why (and how). Posted: 07 Nov 2020 03:00 AM PST  The National Popular Vote would finally eliminate the false premise that the construction of our Electoral College was meant to protect small states.
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| Much of South Florida under hurricane watch as Tropical Storm Eta closes in on Cuba Posted: 07 Nov 2020 03:22 PM PST  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A large stretch of southern Florida from the Keys through Broward County are under a hurricane watch and tropical storm warning as Tropical Storm Eta closed in on central Cuba Saturday afternoon on a path toward Florida. The 4 p.m. advisory from the National Hurricane Center also placed Palm Beach County under a tropical storm warning. Eta was moving northeast at 16 mph ...
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| Army, Marines Want New Machine Guns to Replace the M240 and 'Ma Deuce' Posted: 07 Nov 2020 11:56 PM PST |
| Remembrance Sunday: NI family link to WWI unknown warrior Posted: 07 Nov 2020 10:40 PM PST  Linda McAuley tells the story of her family's involvement in repatriating the unknown warrior.
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| I visited a Delta's airport lounge during the pandemic and couldn't believe how luxurious and close to normal the experience was Posted: 08 Nov 2020 05:04 AM PST  Delta has kept most of the luxuries in its Sky Clubs including a full-service bar, hot food buffet, and near-endless spread of snacks and fresh food.
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| Beijing loyalists target Hong Kong judges after protester acquittals Posted: 07 Nov 2020 07:04 PM PST  The acquittal of dozens of Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters -– often accompanied by withering court criticism of police –- has triggered a backlash from Beijing loyalists demanding an overhaul of a judicial system long known for its independence.
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| James Clyburn: ‘defund the police’ slogan may have hurt Democrats at polls Posted: 08 Nov 2020 12:01 PM PST  Black South Carolina congressman likens mantra at BLM protests to radical messaging in civil rights efforts that eroded movementJames Clyburn, the House majority whip and Democratic "kingmaker" who played an outsized role in Joe Biden's successful presidential run, has said the "sloganeering" of the Black Lives Matter protests and other social justice efforts this summer might have hampered them at the polls.Clyburn, a Black South Carolina congressman and prominent figure in the civil rights movement, likened the "defund the police" mantra of certain activists to civil rights efforts in the 1960s, when some public support for the movement's objectives was eroded by radical messaging.Clyburn invoked memories of John Lewis, the civil rights icon who died this year."I came out very publicly and very forcibly against sloganeering," Clyburn said Sunday on CNN's State of the Union. "John Lewis and I were founders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. John and I sat on the House floor and talked about that defund the police slogan, and both of us concluded that it had the possibilities of doing to the Black Lives Matter movement and current movements across the country what Burn, Baby, Burn did to us back in the 1960s," Clyburn said.Burn, Baby, Burn became a street slogan during the Watts civil unrest of 1965 in Los Angeles, at the time the largest and costliest uprising of the civil rights era."We lost that movement over that slogan," he said.He added: "We saw the same thing happening here. We can't pick up these things just because it makes a good headline. It sometimes destroys headway."As an example, Clyburn cited the defeat of South Carolina US Senate hopeful Jaime Harrison, who ended up beaten comprehensively by the incumbent Republican Lindsey Graham in a race many had hoped he would win after he turned a longshot campaign into a real contest. "Jaime Harrison started to plateau when 'defund the police' showed up with a caption on TV, ran across his head," Clyburn said in a separate Sunday appearance on NBC's Meet the Press."That stuff hurt Jaime. And that's why I spoke out against it a long time ago. I've always said that these headlines can kill a political effort."Clyburn also attacked the Democratic party's "progressive" left wing, members of which have already broken ranks and fired the first shots in a looming battle for the future political direction of the party."Sometimes I have real problems trying to figure out what progressive means," he said.Clyburn's comments followed a salvo by left-wing rising star Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez who has taken the opposite position, reflecting deep rifts in Biden's victorious party as it prepares to reoccupy the presidency.In a no-holds-barred, post-election interview with the New York Times, she warned that if the Biden administration does not put progressives in top positions, the party would lose badly in the 2022 midterm elections.The leftwing New York congresswoman sharply rejected the notion that progressive messaging around the summer's anti-racism protests and more radical policies like the Green New Deal had led to the party's loss of congressional seats. She said the party needed to play to its core base of supporters, not reach out to centrists, or soft Republicans."If the party believes after 94% of Detroit went to Biden, after Black organisers just doubled and tripled turnout down in Georgia, after so many people organised Philadelphia, the signal from the Democratic party is the John Kasich won us this election? I mean, I can't even describe how dangerous that is," she said.Kasich is a former Republican governor of Ohio who campaigned for Biden, endorsing him as a centrist that moderate Republicans could get behind.
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| Georgian police fire water cannon at protesters who say polls were rigged Posted: 08 Nov 2020 08:11 AM PST  Dozens were injured when Georgian police fired water cannon against hundreds of protesters who gathered outside the Central Election Commission (CEC) on Sunday to support an opposition call for a rerun of Oct. 31 parliamentary elections which they say were rigged. Police said protesters tried to storm the CEC building. "As the protesters used violent methods and did not obey the instructions of the police, the Interior Ministry used proportional force within its powers," the ministry said in a statement.
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| I saw Donald Trump’s presidency come crashing down at Four Seasons Total Landscaping Posted: 08 Nov 2020 10:54 AM PST  It ended with his personal lawyer in the parking lot of a landscaping company, struggling to be heard over a man in his underpants shouting about George Soros. The president had spent much of the intervening period making grave and entirely unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud, but even so he was unusually quiet. Journalists from around the world who had gathered in Philadelphia, most of whom had spent the last four days transfixed by moving maps on CNN, were eager for stimulation, and perhaps as a side note to see evidence of massive election fraud the president and his lawyers had alleged.
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| Young murder victim helps solve her own cold case Posted: 07 Nov 2020 08:09 PM PST  The 1979 case of a murdered 18-year-old baffled local police officers for decades, until they got a break from evidence Michelle Martinko left behind.
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| McCarthy: Republicans close enough to control House floor Posted: 08 Nov 2020 09:24 AM PST  Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., discusses ongoing legal battles of the election and Nancy Pelosi's bid for reelection as House speaker.
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| Cambodia shuts schools in capital area as virus precaution Posted: 08 Nov 2020 06:10 AM PST  Schools in Cambodia's capital and the surrounding area will be shut for two weeks as a precaution after Hungary's foreign minister tested positive for the coronavirus after visiting Cambodia last week, the Education Ministry said Sunday. Schools throughout Cambodia reopened last Monday after being closed since March due to the coronavirus, but with limited class sizes and hours. Public and private schools in Phnom Penh, the capital, and the surrounding province of Kandal will be closed again for two weeks, the Education Ministry said in a statement.
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| Berlin's new $7 billion airport has finally opened after 9 years of delays, corruption allegations, and construction woes— see inside Posted: 07 Nov 2020 05:25 AM PST  The opening had been delayed nearly a decade but Berliners finally have their new airport. And from the looks of it, the wait was worth it.
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| Queen returns to London for private tribute to the fallen Posted: 07 Nov 2020 10:07 AM PST  It was 97 years ago that her mother, then Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, laid her wedding bouquet on the grave of the Unknown Warrior. Almost a century later, this poignant gesture cannot have been far from the Queen's mind as she took part in an intensely personal and emotional service at the sacred tomb in Westminster Abbey. The monarch paid a private tribute to the fallen during a brief service held at her own request. Returning to London for the first time since March, the Queen, dressed in black and wearing a face mask for the first time, designed by Angela Kelly, was in good spirits, chatting animatedly to the Dean of the Abbey beforehand. Yet as she stood in sombre reflection at the poppy-lined grave in the centre of the cavernous Abbey, the monarch appeared lost in thought as she paid her own tribute.
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| Joe Biden will walk into the Oval Office facing a litany of weighty issues. Here's what they are. Posted: 08 Nov 2020 07:47 AM PST  Joe Biden's path to the White House was difficult. When he takes office, he faces challenges including the COVID-19 pandemic and economic turmoil.
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| GOP Sen. David Perdue, Democrat Jon Ossoff headed for Georgia runoff Posted: 06 Nov 2020 06:31 PM PST  Georgia's Senate races will both remain up in the air until at least January.Both Sen. David Perdue (R) and Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff have failed to get a majority of the vote in Georgia's Senate race, The New York Times and The Associated Press project. They'll advance to a runoff race in January, as will the Georgia special Senate race between Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) and Democrat Rev. Raphael Warnock.With 98 percent of votes reported, Perdue secured 49.8 percent of the vote to Ossoff's 47.9 percent. With neither hitting 50 percent, Georgia election law moves the top two candidates to a runoff. In the other race, Warnock got 32.9 percent of the vote to Loeffler's 26 percent, with GOP Rep. Doug Collins getting another 20 percent. Both of these races will be vital in determining which party controls the Senate. North Carolina and Alaska's races still haven't been called, and at the moment both parties are projected to have 48 seats in the next Senate.Georgia's presidential results still haven't been called for either Democratic nominee Joe Biden or President Trump as of Friday evening. Biden has been building a lead in Georgia as more votes are counted, and a win there would put him just one Electoral College vote from victory.More stories from theweek.com Fox News brings Trump to his knees Lindsey Graham warns GOP will 'never win' a presidential race if party doesn't 'fight back' in 2020 The day the world stopped paying attention to Donald Trump
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| Couple who waved guns at St Louis protesters sue news photographer Posted: 08 Nov 2020 01:55 PM PST  A St Louis couple facing felony charges for waving guns at Black Lives Matter protesters who marched near to their home have alleged that a photographer trespassed onto their property to capture the confrontation. Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who are both attorneys in their 60s, filed a lawsuit in the St Louis Circuit Court against photographer Bill Greenblatt and United Press International, who provided the photo for publications. The McCloskeys are also suing Redbubble, an online marketplace for print-on-demand products that has carried merchandise featuring the image of the couple.
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| Katharine the great white shark resurfaces off US east coast Posted: 07 Nov 2020 08:16 AM PST  Transmitter attached to dorsal fin of shark with Twitter following had not sent a definitive message for a year and a halfKatharine, a 14ft-plus great white shark with a Twitter following, appeared again off the US east coast this week. A transmitter attached to her dorsal fin had not sent out a definitive message for a year and a half.The transmitter that was attached off Cape Cod in August 2013 is roughly half the size of an iPhone and is meant to ping whenever the shark breaks the ocean surface.Great whites can go for long periods without surfacing. Katharine did so off South Carolina in May 2019, according to a map maintained by Ocearch, the group tracking her. This spring, Ocearch said it thought Katharine might have been heard from "about 200 miles off the coast of Virginia". But on Monday, the group said she had definitely been recorded, hundreds of miles off the same state.In a post to the Ocearch Facebook page, Dr Bryan Franks of Jacksonville University wrote: "Katharine is alive and well … Katharine pinged in multiple times yesterday, confirming it was not a fluke."Tags used on Atlantic white sharks "normally only send data to us for five years", Franks said, which meant it was "very unusual for us to hear from a shark for this length of time, and it's exactly the type of data that we are looking for to help put together the puzzle pieces or her life, and other [north-west] Atlantic great white sharks like her."Katharine showed movement patterns indicative of being a reproductively mature female white shark with trips during some winters out into the open ocean."Her tracks over the past seven years up and down the coast from Cape Cod to Florida and with long forays to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and the offshore Atlantic, may cover the movements of two or three cycles of pregnancy and birth of her pups."She has already provided an incredible dataset with more than 1,700 locations, covering 37,000 miles of ocean since the day she was tagged. It will be fascinating to see where her next moves may be."Some have criticised Ocearch's use of social media to publicise their work. Others point out that it raises the profile of a vital conservation effort.Katharine was named for Katharine Lee Bates, the 19th-century lyricist who wrote America the Beautiful. After the shark resurfaced at an ugly time for American democracy, her Twitter account began tweeting again."Miss me?" Katharine asked her 62,000 followers, adding, in reference to the coronavirus pandemic: "So everyone knows YES I was wearing a mask when I came up."In response to a user who suggested she had resurfaced in time for the presidential election, she wrote: "I mean. I was chasing a fish, but I'll roll with it."On Friday, with the election result stuck in a midnight zone of vote counting and partisan warfare, she added: "Safe to come up again? Ya'll are having a crazy week up there."In fact, Katharine is not the most popular great white on Twitter. An account for a shark called Mary Lee has 132,000 followers. According to Ocearch, her transmitter has not pinged since June 2017.
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