| Jeffrey Epstein: ‘Shrieking and yelling heard from cell’ on day of alleged sex trafficker’s death Posted: 13 Aug 2019 03:02 PM PDT  Shrieking and yelling were heard coming from Jeffrey Epstein's cell on the morning of his death, it has been reported.People nearby heard a commotion characterised as shouting, shrieking and yelling in a report by CBS News.The broadcaster cited unnamed sources, who added that guards at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre (MCC) in New York had tried to revive the alleged sex trafficker."Breathe, Epstein, breathe," they were reported as having said during the effort.It came as pressure mounted on prison authorities in the wake of Epstein's apparent suicide on Saturday.Jerrold Nadler, the Democratic chairman of the House judiciary committee, sent a scathing letter to the acting director of federal prisons, complaining that the "competency and rigour of our criminal justice system has been marred".Along with other politicians he demanded answers from Hugh Hurwitz on the prison's suicide-prevention policies, information on the guards on duty and whether video cameras were in use.On Monday, Donald Trump's attorney general said he was angry and appalled to have learned of Epstein's death and blasted the MCC for "serious irregularities".William Barr added that the investigation into Epstein's alleged sex-trafficking activities would continue and that "any co-conspirators should not rest easy".MCC has also been criticised for low staffing levels and failing to make regular checks on Epstein, according to an official who was not authorised to speak on the matter.Mr Barr has asked the Justice Department's internal watchdog to investigate Epstein's death.The former financier was already a registered sex offender, having pleaded guilty in 2008 to Florida state charges of unlawfully paying a teenage girl for sex.Additional reporting by agencies
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| Kamala Harris hits back at NRA after group criticizes her gun control proposals Posted: 12 Aug 2019 04:15 PM PDT  Sen. Kamala Harris earlier this year said if elected president, she would take executive actions to ban the importation of AR-15-style weapons into the U.S. and expand background check requirements.
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| 5 children killed in fire at Pennsylvania day care center Posted: 12 Aug 2019 06:34 AM PDT  A day care center where children could stay overnight as their parents worked was ravaged Sunday by a fire that killed five and sent the owner to the hospital, authorities said. The victims in the lakeside city of Erie, Pennslyvania, ranged in age from 8 months to 7 years, Chief Guy Santone of the Erie Fire Department said. At least four of the victims were staying overnight at the residential house that had been turned into a day care center, Erie Chief Fire Inspector John Widomski told the Erie Times-News.
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| Saudi woman activist rejects release deal tied to denying torture: family Posted: 13 Aug 2019 08:49 AM PDT  Prominent Saudi women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul has rejected a proposal to secure her release from prison in exchange for a video statement denying reports she was tortured in custody, her family said on Tuesday. Hathloul, along with at least a dozen other women's rights activists, were arrested over a year ago as Saudi Arabia ended a ban on women driving cars, which many of the detainees had long campaigned for. Some of the women appeared in court earlier this year to face charges related to human rights work and contacts with foreign journalists and diplomats, but the trial has not convened in months.
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| Charlottesville Survivor Blasts Terry McAuliffe’s ‘Ahistorical’ Book About Deadly Attack Posted: 13 Aug 2019 01:52 AM PDT  Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyFormer Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe's new book, Beyond Charlottesville, tries to tackle the issues of white supremacy that resulted in a deadly neo-Nazi rally in August 2017. But the book isn't a hit with everyone in its namesake city.Beyond Charlottesville centers on Unite the Right, the 2017 white supremacist rally where a neo-Nazi drove his car into a crowd of anti-racist protesters, killing one. Two state troopers also died in a helicopter crash while monitoring the rally. Activists and independent investigators criticized the police response to the rally, claiming that miscommunications between a variety of police forces allowed the event to devolve into violence. McAuliffe's book omits context about the bureaucratic chaos—and at points is outright wrong, critics say."The book is about racism and white nationalism, the rise of it in the country," McAuliffe told The Daily Beast. "I talk about the issues we've had in Virginia. As I always say, horrible as Charlottesville was, the one benefit was it did rip off the scab on racism and we need to have a frank discussion."But some survivors of the Unite the Right car attack say McAuliffe's version of the story isn't completely frank. Some of those survivors have interrupted McAuliffe's book talks, including an event at D.C.'s Politics and Prose earlier this month."The story he's telling in Beyond Charlottesville is ahistorical. It's not accurate," Anna Malinowski, one of the protesters, told The Daily Beast.A report this week in Charlottesville's Daily Progress, the city's sole daily newspaper, highlighted some of the inaccuracies, from small factual errors, to larger issues of framing.In Beyond Charlottesville, McAuliffe says he "knew without a doubt that we'd done everything we could at the state level to prepare for Charlottesville, but obviously somewhere in the implementation and coordination, those plans went off the rails."But, as the Daily Progress noted, an official Charlottesville investigation revealed a high level of dysfunction at the local and state levels, including miscommunication between local and state police forces during the rally.The Progress also took issue with McAuliffe's explanation for why it took so long for state officials to declare a state of emergency. (McAuliffe wrote that he was waiting for the city to declare an unlawful assembly, which in fact they had declared during the previous night's torchlit march, and again on the rally's second day, in addition to a local state of emergency.). In the book, McAuliffe also describes calling Charlottesville's then-mayor Mike Signer and recommending he ban guns from the rally area, a move Signer could not legally make. Signer objected to elements of the book in his own op-ed for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. "It's well-written and contains a powerful personal condemnation of white supremacy that deserves attention. However, it also contains errors and omissions," Signer wrote, accusing McAuliffe of shifting too much blame onto the city.The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia released a similar critique."Governor McAuliffe's book is yet another example of a politician's effort to pass the buck of responsibility when there was a clear failure of leadership," the ACLU of Virginia told the Progress in a statement. "The leaders had ineffective and uncoordinated plans for managing the protest."Survivors and investigators blamed some of the day's chaos on poor police coordination between too many agencies."They pretty much brought in the cavalry when they found out there would be a lot of white nationalists there. There were Virginia State Police, there were National Guard, there were city and county police," Malinowski, who narrowly avoided being hit by the car, said. "There was lots of fighting going on that was incited by the white supremacists, and the police basically did nothing either to prevent it or stop it while it was happening."At the D.C. protest this month, Malinowski and other protesters accused McAuliffe of "using black folks as political currency" and not paying attention to what they say are white supremacists in law enforcement.They also objected to McAuliffe's plan to donate some proceedings to the Virginia State Police Association. This last point is of particular contention between the former governor and the Charlottesville activists.At least one person at the D.C. protest chanted "cops and Klan go hand in hand," a slogan popular among some activists on the left. They mean some of the chant literally (a number of law enforcement officers have been found to have white supremacist ties) and some of it more figuratively, in the context of police brutality against people of color. (After Unite the Right, many Charlottesville locals turned an eye to stop-and-frisks by the city's police, which disproportionately affect minorities in the city.)McAuliffe's book also addresses structural racism. But he said the chant was beyond the pale."They call the KKK and the police the same thing and that, to me, is very disrespectful to all law enforcement," McAuliffe said. "Everybody had the same goal that day, and it was to keep everybody safe. But to call police the KKK is highly offensive, highly disrespectful."Malinowski and others said the money would be better spent on survivors, some of whom have struggled to pay medical bills, or to make rent after injuries from the car attack pushed them into unemployment. Matthew Christensen, who recently served as an advocate for victims of the attack, said the problem is the result of a complicated victim support system, which sees many survivors relying on a private victims' fund called Heal Charlottesville. "I have a Master's in social work," Christensen said. "Some of the bureaucracy we were working with was difficult for me. For anyone else, especially people dealing with trauma, it'd be exponentially more difficult."Survivors can technically apply for a state fund that compensates victims of crimes. But that system only pays out in cases of "last resort," and has redirected survivors to the Heal Charlottesville fund. As of June, the fund had expended all its funds, a spokesperson told The Daily Beast. Since the protests, McAuliffe said he would split the book's proceeds between the police association, the Heather Heyer Foundation (as originally planned), and the Heal Charlottesville Fund."I say to anybody: if you've got outstanding bills, all of us—the whole community, the whole state —ought to be involved in assisting," he said. "We reached out to a couple of the groups, which is somewhat surprising to me because the main one, [the administrators of the Heal Fund], said they have a surplus left and they have no claims in front of them."(The Heal Fund told The Daily Beast it does not have a surplus, although it has secured money for survivors' ongoing claims.)McAuliffe said his book was especially timely as President Donald Trump launches Twitter attacks against legislators of color. "It's a very opportune time to have this big discussion on where we go as a nation, because we are so split today as a country," he said. "The hatred and the racism and what's going on in the country today needs to be addressed and we need to have a conversation. We need elected officials to do something about it."Malinowski, meanwhile, said the book was too late."The only thing he should be saying is 'I messed up, I should have done more to protect these people,' and he's not saying that. He's trying to be the hero in his book."Editor's note: this story has been updated to clarify the recipients of McAuliffe's book proceeds.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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| Hong Kong airport cancels flights as Carrie Lam warns of 'path of no return' Posted: 13 Aug 2019 03:06 AM PDT  Pro-democracy protesters forced flight cancellations in Hong Kong for the second day in a row as the city's chief executive Carrie Lam warned mass demonstrations were pushing the city "into an abyss." One of the world's busiest airports halted check-ins for departing flights at 4.30pm as protesters again flooded terminals, lining up luggage trolleys at the security checkpoint and blocking people trying to catch their flights. Arriving flights were still expected to land as the evening set in. Activists have now occupied the airport for five consecutive days as mass demonstrations in Hong Kong enter their third month, despite pleas from city authorities for public order to be restored. "Let's set aside differences and spend one minute to look at our city and our home," said Ms Lam on Tuesday morning in a direct appeal to protesters. "Could we bear to push it into an abyss where everything will perish?" "Violence, no matter if it's using violence or condoning violence, will push Hong Kong down a path of no return," she said, at times appearing to be on the verge of tears, saying that "sincere dialogue" could begin only once chaos ended and calm returned. Carrie Lam defended the conduct of police in 'extremely difficult circumstances' Credit: Reuters Ms Lam's repeated refusals to make any concessions or show sympathy toward protesters, some of whom have been injured as police shoot tear gas and rubber bullets, has only upset them more and boosted public support for the activists plunging the city into its worst political crisis in decades. Chris Patten, the last governor under British colonial rule, said that Hong Kong was "close to the abyss", because Ms Lam refused to withdraw a controversial extradition bill "I think there is a degree of frustration and anger at the government refusing to give any sensible ground at all, which probably provokes more violence," Mr Patten told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. He urged Boris Johnson to take a firmer line with Beijing, and to put pressure on visiting National Security Advisor John Bolton for US help. Tom Tugendhat, chairman of the foreign affairs committee, said the UK should extend citizenship rights to Hong Kong citizens. Quite a moment between @jamespomfret from @Reuters and Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam. Lam evades his question, then says "I have already answered the question." pic.twitter.com/6pUmyuLB5A— Andrew Peng (@TheAPJournalist) August 13, 2019 Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights urged Hong Kong on Tuesday to exercise restraint and investigate evidence of its forces firing tear gas at protesters in ways banned under international law. The White House has also urged "all sides" to avoid violence in Hong Kong. Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, on Monday praised protesters for standing up to the Chinese Communist Party, warning that the "world is watching" for any violent crackdown by authorities. By Tuesday evening, most airport shops and restaurants had closed, leaving hungry visitors stuck in the airport to line up at a hot water dispenser to heat instant noodles purchased from a convenience store that remained open. Alice Leung, 20, said she supported the protesters despite being forced to cancel her trip to Taipei. "Hong Kong people are angry, so they want to go to the airport to make some noise and let people from other countries know what's happening." "We had debated about cancelling our trip," said Nicole Macarchuk, visiting from San Francisco, who had seen an official travel advisory from the US government about the protests. In an attempt to get from Hong Kong to their next stop in Vietnam, the family of 4 held 12 boarding passes with three airlines, all of which were severely delayed. "But everything was prepaid, and we were looking forward to coming...bad educated guess, unfortunately." Protesters hold papers of conscience, left, and justice Credit: PHILIP FONG/AFP On Monday, thousands crowded into the airport to express anger at the police for using escalating force to disperse crowds. Over the weekend, tensions ramped up significantly as officers shot tear gas into subway stations for the first time after mass demonstrations began early June. More than 600 arrests have been made in connection with the protests. Some wore eye patches, waving signs that said "Hong Kong is not safe" and "Shame on the police," to grow public awareness after a woman thought to have been shot by a beanbag round in her right eye was hospitalised. Other protesters chanted, "Democracy is a good thing!" in a nod toward concerns that freedoms long enjoyed in the former British colony were eroding under Beijing's rule. Hong Kong protests | Read more Protesters first took to the streets against an extradition proposal that would have sent suspects to face trial in mainland China, where the Communist Party controls the courts. The extradition bill was suspended by city leaders - but not formally withdrawn, leading demonstrators to worry that left room for lawmakers to quickly table and pass the legislation in the future. Demands have since expanded to include broader political reforms, such as direct leadership elections. Airlines are dealing with a backlog of stranded passengers as all departing and arriving flights were cancelled Monday by the afternoon, and hundreds of additional flights were cancelled Tuesday morning. A pro-democracy protester holds a placard Credit: PHILIP FONG/AFP The airport occupations comes amid ominous signs from Beijing that the government is considering military intervention – a move that raises fears of a bloody Tiananmen Square-style bloody crackdown in 1989. Chinese state media outlets have released videos showing armoured personnel and trucks purportedly driving through Shenzhen, a Chinese city that borders Hong Kong. Beijing officials continue to escalate their rhetoric, denouncing the demonstrations as "serious criminal acts with sprouts of terrorism emerging." "Terrorism is a term to remind Hong Kong people that the People's Liberation Army is an option," said Ivan Choy, a political scholar and professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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| Family sues Glenview nursing home over video of aides taunting woman, 91, with dementia; aides charged and fired Posted: 13 Aug 2019 07:27 AM PDT  Two nursing home aides in north suburban Glenview have been fired and charged after a Snapchat video showed them taunting a 91-year-old woman with dementia. Her family is now taking legal action.
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| Devastating photos show the damage of Typhoon Lekima, which left at least 44 people dead and forced 1 million to evacuate in China Posted: 11 Aug 2019 09:55 PM PDT  A million people were evacuated from their homes and thousands of flights were cancelled across major airports in China.
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| The Conspiracy Theories about Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Don’t Make Much Sense Posted: 12 Aug 2019 09:17 AM PDT  It was almost heartening. For a change, Americans on the left and right were united: Both sides rushed to hint that a dark conspiracy must have been behind the death of Jeffrey Epstein in his jail cell Saturday morning.The editor of Mother Jones, Clara Jeffery, called Epstein's death "sketchy as sh**." Claire McCaskill, the former Democratic senator from Missouri and current MSNBC pundit, said, "Something stinks to high heaven. How does someone on suicide watch hang himself with no intervention? Impossible. Unless . . ." Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe said, "You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to see an evil coverup to protect lots of powerful men here. You'd have to be bizarrely naïve not to." "How Russian," said Joe Scarborough.On the right, professional B.S. merchant Mike Cernovich said the suicide explanation "just does not make sense." Lou Dobbs said, "Epstein should have been at least on Arkanside Watch," hinting that one Clinton or another assisted in securing Epstein's exit from this world. National-security pundit John Schindler, who markets himself as an anti-Trump conservative and has 272,000 Twitter followers, wrote, "So there's no video of Epstein's so-convenient-for-some-major-VIPs demise. Inside a facility with cameras everywhere. And nobody, of course, saw anything. Gosh, who could have seen this coming?" President Trump, naturally, got in on the action with a retweet:National-security pundit Susan Hennessey summed up the madness elegantly: "My timeline is half people being shocked and appalled that the president is promoting nonsense conspiracy theories about Epstein's death and half people offering their own nonsense conspiracy theories about it. (Occasionally these are the same people.)"Indeed: After Jeffery referred to Epstein's death as "sketchy as sh**," her magazine tweeted this comment, "That Donald Trump would push a conspiracy theory implicating the Clintons in Jeffrey Epstein's death is not surprising. This behavior is what first made him a conservative star in the first place."If Epstein didn't commit suicide, he was murdered. But how exactly is this supposed to have worked? He was found dead in a cell he shared with no one. How did he die, if not by his own hand?At this point the imaginations of our very creative class of conspiracy theorists seem to dry up. If someone other than Epstein was responsible for his own death, who was it? Could a guard have murdered Epstein and made it look like a suicide? Is there any amount of money that would persuade a federal prison guard to put himself on the hook for a murder charge, in a case involving an infamous prisoner whose death would surely draw immense scrutiny, in a facility that has lots of cameras?Okay, so maybe it wasn't a prison guard. Maybe one or more guards were simply paid to look the other way while some hired hand did the foul deed. This scenario is even harder to believe. Some hit man got in and out of a tightly guarded facility undetected? I don't know too many hit men, but I rather think they like to do their work in the shadows, not in a place that is under 24/7 surveillance. Any guard who looked the other way for money would have been an accomplice to murder.Maybe it was someone on the inside other than a guard, such as a fellow prisoner? The reason we think killing a prison inmate is easy to get away with is that we've all seen a lot of movies in which it is. Crime families have lots of associates behind bars, right? And the Clintons (or the Trumps) are much like a crime family? Not really, no. Whatever you think of our leading political families, whatever corners they may cut in search of tax breaks or foundation donations or making emails inaccessible, they don't have a lot to do with the kinds of people who are in the federal holding pen in downtown Manhattan. We may toss around the phrase "the Clinton mafia," but let's not let colorful metaphors turn us into idiots. There isn't an actual Clinton mafia, supported by a network of violent criminals behind bars in all the major jails. Hillary Clinton can't just put the word out on the street that somebody in the Metropolitan Correctional Center needs to stop breathing and expect a loyal thug to step up brandishing a bedsheet noose. If somebody wanted Epstein out of the way, it would have been far easier to take him out before he went to jail.Do we need answers about Epstein's death? Of course. But the explanation will probably turn out to be that a guard fell asleep, a rule wasn't followed, oversight was poor, or other stupid mistakes were made. Unlike any of the Epstein conspiracy theories, my master theory — that the federal government is incompetent — is exceedingly easy to believe.
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| Russians killed in missile test blast were working on 'new weapons' Posted: 12 Aug 2019 09:34 PM PDT  Russia's nuclear agency chief on Monday confirmed that five scientists killed last week were developing "new weapons" and vowed to continue testing despite the explosion. The accident took place at an Arctic military facility on the coast of the White Sea on Thursday, but Russian authorities only admitted its nuclear nature on Saturday. The explosion caused a spike in radiation levels.
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| Deadly explosion at Russian test site involved nuclear power source, reports say Posted: 12 Aug 2019 09:17 AM PDT  An explosion at a Russian base that killed at least five people last week involved a small nuclear reactor, state nuclear officials said.
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| Suspect in student death charged separately with child porn Posted: 13 Aug 2019 10:35 AM PDT  A tech worker accused of killing a Utah college student was charged Tuesday with 19 unrelated counts of sexual exploitation of a minor after investigators said they discovered child pornography on his computer. Ayoola Ajayi had images of children as young as 4, prosecutors said in charging documents. Investigators took the computer as part of the investigation into the death of 23-year-old University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck.
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| Airline leaves group of children as young as eight ‘unaccompanied overnight after flight delayed’ Posted: 13 Aug 2019 06:34 AM PDT  Hudson Hoyt was ecstatic for his first time at Camp New Friends.The 8-year-old, who lives in Beaverton, Oregon, flew east in early August for the camp's week-long summer program outside of Charlottesville, Virginia, specifically for children with neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder that causes tumours to grow on nerve tissue.It was a dream experience for Hudson - at least, until the return flight home via American Airlines, for which point Hudson's mother says he and eight other unaccompanied minors from the camp were temporarily stranded, deprived of food and met with conditions so poor it's made her son reluctant to fly again."I felt scared," Hudson, who suffers from anxiety, said in an interview with The Washington Post. "When the plane stopped moving, I was afraid I was never going to see my mum again."The first plane arrived late for a layover in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to Hudson's mother, Kristie Hoyt, and the children were rushed to their Portland, Oregon, flight without stopping for food. But then the second plane was stalled by delays that were not communicated to the parents. First, fuel spilled on the tarmac. Then, she learned that the airline needed to find replacements for the pilot and co-pilot, who had worked too many hours.When Ms Hoyt asked for a direct phone number for someone with American Airlines who could keep her updated on the children's situation, the mother says she was denied. Updates came after a 12-year-old in the group called her and gave the phone to a flight attendant. The airline never reached out to her directly, she says, even though she was listed as the contact for two children on the trip.With their flight delayed until the next morning, the children's' problems worsened at the Charlotte airport. They stayed overnight in an unaccompanied-minor room, where some of the kids had to sleep on the floor because there were not enough beds and furniture, Ms Hoyt said. Hudson and his friends still hadn't eaten a full meal since breakfast at camp that morning, and the vending machines inside didn't work.Some of the children on the flight required medication with a full meal to prevent seizures and migraines, she says.Ms Hoyt detailed the saga in Facebook posts."American Airlines, how are you okay with leaving 9 unaccompanied children all with medical needs on a plane for over 5 hours and not giving their parents updates?" she wrote Friday night. "Or allowing the kids access to electricity to charge their phones to talk to their parents? You are disgraceful! And harming these children!"After their overnight stay at the airport, Hoyt says the children were rushed onto a plane at about 6am. The children did not receive breakfast aboard the plane as promised, she said, even when the takeoff time was delayed again because "the catering service wasn't delivered."The confusion came to a head when the kids arrived in Portland and the mother was asked to sign for a child who was not hers.In all, Ms Hoyt said the children went more than 24 hours without a full meal. In a 5am text from her son, which she later posted to Facebook, Hudson wrote: "[Our] plane has not take off yet I [have] not had lunch dinner or breakfast."After his adoption, Hudson has struggled with anxiety and abandonment issues, something his mother says they are working to overcome. She and other parents say they were never contacted by the airline, even though American Airlines' policy requires staffers to "call the contacts on the unaccompanied minor form" in the event of a delay or cancelled flight.Kelley Phillips, identified by KATU as another child on the plane, told the network she and her friends had "limited" access to the bathroom and were only provided with snacks."The only thing we had were crackers and soda, which isn't good because we need real food to be able to take our medication," she said.American Airlines issued a public statement of apology and attributed the overnight delay to a mechanical problem. It said the children were kept "safe and comfortable" in the care of airline personnel."Our team is in the process of reaching out to the families involved and sincerely apologises for this travel experience. We will be reviewing with our teams internally to understand how we can do better next time," the airline wrote.Hudson, she said, wants to go back to camp but now has trepidation about flying. After meeting with a counsellor Monday, however, they've narrowed that scope to American Airlines flights, specifically."We're just trying to work through the trauma of it," she said.The Washington Post
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| Latest: Hong Kong police: 5 arrested after airport protests Posted: 13 Aug 2019 02:24 PM PDT  Hong Kong police say they have arrested five people for unlawful assembly, assaulting police officers and possessing weapons after a second day of mass protests at the city's airport. Officials said in a statement that some protesters detained, harassed and assaulted a traveler and a journalist, and obstructed ambulance workers from taking the two men to the hospital. Hong Kong's busy airport was the latest setting for large-scale pro-democracy protests that have rocked the city for months, with authorities canceling dozens of flights on Monday and Tuesday.
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| Ohio teen who had 10,000 ammo rounds arrested for threatening ‘every’ agent, FBI says Posted: 13 Aug 2019 10:26 AM PDT  An Ohio teen was arrested on Wednesday after making a number of threats to law enforcement online, officials say.
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| 'The saddest dive of my life': A diver's before-and-after photos reveal the death of a coral reef Posted: 13 Aug 2019 06:02 AM PDT  As our planet and its oceans warm, coral reefs worldwide are experiencing bleaching — when the corals expel their food source and turn ghostly white.
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| India warns China to stay out of Kashmir dispute as crisis intensifies Posted: 12 Aug 2019 03:15 AM PDT  India has issued a warning to China to stay out of the dispute over Kashmir's status, after Pakistan said it would take the issue to the United Nations Security Council with the support of Beijing. The remarks by the Indian foreign minister, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, came after his Pakistani counterpart visited China in a bid to seek allies for a UN resolution against New Delhi for revoking Kashmir's autonomy. Mr Jaishankar flew to Beijing himself to meet China's top diplomat, Wang Yi, saying at the talks that "the two nations should ensure that it was important that differences between us, if any, should not become disputes". China's foreign ministry said in a statement later that it had taken a "principled" stand on "unilateral" actions by India, and had urged New Delhi to play a constructive role in regional peace and stability. But India's Ministry of External Affairs bluntly said decisions on Kashmir were "an internal matter concerning the territory of India". "India does not comment on the internal affairs of other countries and similarly expects other countries to do likewise," the ministry added. Kashmir China has described India's revocation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status, in place since Partition in 1947, as "unacceptable" and a threat to its territorial sovereignty. As well as the dispute between India and Pakistan, China also claims a strip of Kashmir, Aksai Chin. Following Friday's meeting between Mr Wang and the Pakistani foreign minister, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, the Chinese diplomat expressed grave concern about the situation in Kashmir, the cause of two wars between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan. Mr Wang had assured Mr Qureshi that Beijing would continue to support Pakistan to safeguard its legitimate rights and interests, his ministry said in a statement. Kashmir itself on Monday remained under a communications blackout and a police curfew, with information still difficult to come by or verify. The Indian government said it was easing restrictions yesterday, and that the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha had been observed largely peacefully. It also condemned as "irresponsible" a series of tweets by Pakistani officials, including Prime Minister Imran Khan, which likened the Indian government to "Nazis" and "fascists". The row spilled over into a Los Angeles beauty event, where former Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra was accused of "encouraging nuclear war" over an Instagram caption in which she wrote "Jai Hind", meaning "victory to India" and included the hashtag IndianArmedForces. Referring to the post from February, an audience member at a beauty panel told Chopra: "You are a Unicef ambassador for peace and you're encouraging nuclear war against Pakistan. There's no winner in this." Chopra said: "War is not something that I'm really fond of, but I am patriotic." The woman, who named herself on Twitter as Ayesha Malik, was handed the microphone during the Q&A; portion of a BeautyCon panel featuring Chopra. The exchange was caught on camera. Ms Malik said: "It was kind of hard hearing you talk about humanity, because as your neighbour, a Pakistani, I know you're a bit of a hypocrite." The actress, a Unicef ambassador, was accused of fuelling tensions with a tweet backing Indian armed forces and exclaiming "Jai Hind" (Victory to India) Credit: John Sciulli/Getty Ms Malik added: "As a Pakistani, millions of people like me have supported you in your business of Bollywood." Staff then grabbed the microphone away. Chopra, who is married to US pop star Nick Jonas, replied: "I hear you. Whenever you're done venting. Got it? Done? Okay, cool." The 37-year-old said "war is not something that I'm really fond of, but I am patriotic", adding "but I think that all of us have a sort of middle ground that we all have to walk". She added: "The way you came at me right now, girl, don't yell. We're all here for love. Don't yell. Don't embarrass yourself."
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| Tokyo urges caution for Japanese travelers to South Korea Posted: 13 Aug 2019 06:31 AM PDT  Tokyo issued a travel advisory to Japanese citizens visiting South Korea, ahead of crucial anniversaries this week, urging them to be cautious about safety as ties between the neighbours worsen over trade and historical issues. South Korea commemorates girls and women forced to work in Japan's wartime brothels on August 14 and marks August 15 as a national day of liberation from Japanese rule, which ran from 1910 to 1945. Japan's foreign ministry advised Japanese residents in South Korea and visitors to be careful and avoid areas in which Japan-related protests and gatherings are expected to be held on Wednesday and Thursday.
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| DHS in a ‘Mad Scramble’ to Catch Up With Domestic Terror Posted: 13 Aug 2019 01:50 AM PDT  Timothy A. Clary/AFP/GettyIt wasn't that long ago that senior Department of Homeland Security officials shied away from focusing on domestic terrorism, often fearing political backlash. The White House pushed the sprawling department to focus overwhelmingly on immigration enforcement, at the expense of just about everything else. DHS veterans told reporters that white supremacist terror was the FBI's issue, not theirs. When a DHS analyst warned of far-right violence in 2009, congressional Republicans bellowed in protest, with a lasting chilling effect. Under the Trump administration, the department disbanded a group of intelligence analysts focused on domestic terrorism. Cybersecurity staffers got shipped to the border. In the days after the massacre at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, leading DHS minds focused on the migrant caravan. And, as NBC reported, the administration cut funding for DHS grants designed to prevent radicalization.But as white supremacists have terrorized communities around the country, senior officials at DHS have tried to step up their work against the threat. They fought to get that counter-radicalization money back, for instance. A consensus within the department slowly began to form: DHS exists to fight terrorism—even when those terrorists are American. Then came the El Paso shooting, which left 22 people dead in the Texas border city. That's when, in the words of one senior DHS official, "the dam broke.""There were robust conversations before El Paso," added that official, who spoke anonymously to discuss internal talks. "Acting DHS Sec. Kevin McAleenan has been very clear that this is a top priority for the Department, as Nielsen had also previously stressed. But the conditions are different now. We will ensure the Department is doing everything possible with existing capabilities and resources, and seek more capabilities and resources as needed. And more will be needed."Since the shootings in El Paso and Dayton that left 31 people dead, DHS officials are working overtime to find ways to ramp up domestic terrorism prevention efforts, according to four DHS officials familiar with the situation. But it's not easy, sources said; over the last two years, the department has maximized resources focused on border security, and it's already strained. "These two shootings have caused a mad scramble where they are pulling every publication and book off the shelf in an attempt to figure out what they can do to address this problem," said one former DHS official. Senior DHS leadership had a call on Saturday night after the El Paso shooting and then again on Sunday afternoon, after a second shooter killed 10 people in Dayton. The violence was spiraling. So McAleenan directed senior officials to start a working group to assess what DHS was doing about domestic terrorism and what more it could do immediately, according two sources familiar with the situation. The department's advisory council is supposed to speak with McAleenan about domestic terrorism prevention this week, one of those sources said.It's too soon to tell if El Paso will be a turning point for DHS. But just taking a serious look at what the department is doing to fight domestic terrorism and what more it can do—that marks a significant moment, especially when many in the White House remained laser-focused on stopping the flow of immigrants. "People are scrambling," said a current DHS official. And they aren't alone. The Daily Beast reported last week that the National Counterterrorism Center, another 9/11-era counterterror institution, has also quietly amped up its work fighting domestic terror. DHS, meanwhile, heightened its efforts last week after President Trump condemned white supremacy and domestic terrorism. For more than two years, according to current and former DHS officials, the White House has directed the department to rev up its efforts to deal with the mass flow of migrants into the country. Now, department officials are looking to elevate the mission to prevent domestic terrorism by leveraging existing resources and surging capabilities from throughout the department, according to another senior DHS official. It's not dissimilar to the concept the department uses in responding to a natural disaster, the official added. The number of people involved is smaller, but it draws from people all across the department. They're also putting together an action plan looking at the growing threat from domestic terrorism, according to multiple DHS sources. "To ensure our communities are safe, we are focusing efforts on enhancing our prevention and preparedness, and creating response assets in communities so they will be better able to mitigate risk and respond to these kinds of events when they do occur," McAleenan said in a statement to The Daily Beast. "So far we've reached thousands of people in communities around the country, educating them about indicators of radicalization or mobilization to violence. Community awareness can play a major role in preventing an attack."But significant turnover among senior DHS leadership has complicated its efforts to help state and local law enforcement partners. "Trying to find someone in charge at DHS overall—it's been hard lately!" said one senior state law enforcement official who requested anonymity to speak candidly. "Since DHS has been in existence, it's always been fairly chaotic. But this is probably the longest it's been with so many people in acting positions."The department's effort to increase its focus on domestic terrorism has left officials in DHS playing catch up. One official said some of the individuals working overtime do not have domestic terrorism experience, as most have spent their careers on international terrorism."That's a bit of a challenge," said the official.The challenge hasn't gone unnoticed. "This scramble is a direct result of the fact that notwithstanding concerns raised by some in DHS over the past several years, there have been no serious planning efforts by the department to focus on [domestic terrorism]," said John Cohen, former deputy undersecretary for intelligence and analysis at DHS. "That's due in large part because of the insistence by the White House that the department first and foremost focus on immigration and border security."The Daily Beast reported on DHS' decision to disband a group of domestic terror analysts just days before McAleenan took office. Soon after, the secretary directed a review of all DHS efforts to combat targeted violence and domestic terrorism, including programs funded by federal grants doled out to the department in 2017, a department spokesperson said. "Given the proof-of-concept nature of these programs, DHS was not prepared until earlier this year to make an assessment of their efficacy," a spokesperson for the department said, adding that McAleenan directed the department to request more funds for domestic terrorism prevention for fiscal year 2020. Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. 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| General orders ethics review of US special operations forces Posted: 12 Aug 2019 02:20 PM PDT ![General orders ethics review of US special operations forces]( "General orders ethics review of US special operations forces") The head of U.S. Special Operations Command has ordered an ethics review of his commando forces, in the wake of a number of recent incidents of bad behavior and criminal allegations against troops. Army Gen. Richard Clarke said that "recent incidents have called our culture and ethics into question and threaten the trust placed in us." And, he said the review will focus on how the command recruits special operators, how it educates and trains the force and how it addresses ethical failures when they occur. Ken McGraw, a spokesman for Special Operations Command, said Monday that Clarke ordered the review last Friday and expects it will be complete by the end of November.
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| Shooting of two ICE offices in San Antonio was a ‘targeted attack,’ FBI officials say Posted: 13 Aug 2019 02:37 PM PDT  An ICE official blamed "misinformation" spread about the agency by politicians, media and activists.
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| Watch a Tesla Model 3 on Autopilot crash into a parked truck and burst into flames Posted: 12 Aug 2019 06:03 PM PDT  A Tesla Model 3 burst into flames over the weekend after crashing into a tow truck parked on a highway shoulder. The incident occurred in Moscow and the driver -- named Alexei Tretyakov -- noted that the car was on Autopilot at the time of the crash. Incidentally, Tretyakov made a point of noting that his hands were on the steering wheel at the time, per Tesla's guidelines. As to the specifics of the crash, Tretyakov said he was driving at about 60 miles per hour when he abruptly collided with a tow truck that had escaped his line of sight for some reason. Shortly thereafter, the Tesla caught fire with the flames ultimately destroying the car entirely. Incidentally, there were also two explosions that rattled the car following the accident. At the time of the incident, Tretyakov was in the car with his family. Thankfully, Tretyakov managed to escape with only a broken leg while the rest of his family -- which included two children in the back -- managed to escape with just a few minor bruises. The collision itself was captured on video and can be seen below. If you watch closely, you'll note that the Model 3 didn't veer to the left or do anything unusual. If anything, the Model 3 was exactly in the middle of the lane as it approached a tow truck that was jutting out from the shoulder of the road into the highway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0ZUB5jvffo A more detailed video of the aftermath, along with the resulting fire and explosion, can be seen below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reTFVSlXTfA Another angle of the incident, along with the aftermath of the fire, can be seen via the video below. https://youtu.be/usHzST-tw40
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| China Says No ‘Mercy’ for Hong Kong Demonstrators, Promises to Quash Protests Posted: 12 Aug 2019 03:38 PM PDT  China on Monday vowed a severe response to pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong who confronted police and shut down the international airport, saying the demonstrators were engaging in "terrorist activities.""This type of violent criminal activity must be resolutely combated according to the law, with no hesitation or mercy," stated China's Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office spokesman, Yang Guang, according to state media.Hong Kong has been roiled by protests throughout the summer, originally sparked by outrage over an extradition law that Hong Kong residents say would allow Chinese authorities to effectively "kidnap" them on little evidence. The concern over the law soon ballooned into fear that China plans to throw out its "One Country, Two Systems" policy regarding Hong Kong.Over the weekend, about 5,000 protesters swarmed Hong Kong International Airport, causing the major travel hub to shut down and cancel all flights."If we allow these types of terrorist activities to continue, then Hong Kong will slide into a bottomless abyss," China's Liaison Office in Hong Kong said.China has accused the U.S. of inciting the protests."The U.S. has been making various Hong Kong-related accusations that are wanton, fact-distorting, and inflammatory," said Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying. "Some senior U.S. politicians and diplomatic officials met and engaged with anti-China rabble-rousers in Hong Kong, criticized China unreasonably, propped up violent and illegal activities, and undermined Hong Kong's prosperity and stability."VIEW GALLERY: Hong Kong Airport ProtestSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell dismissed that charge, warning China that "the world is watching.""The people of Hong Kong are bravely standing up to the Chinese Communist Party as Beijing tries to encroach on their autonomy and freedom," McConnell wrote on Twitter. "Any violent crackdown would be completely unacceptable."President Trump, who is trying to broker a trade deal with China, was criticized for calling the protests "riots," a characterization Beijing has embraced."Societies are best served when diverse political views are respected and can be freely and peacefully expressed," a White House spokesman said. "The United States urges all sides to refrain from violence."
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| Mexico march demands justice for girls allegedly raped by police Posted: 12 Aug 2019 05:12 PM PDT  Protesters in Mexico City demanded justice Monday for two teenage girls who say police officers raped them, dousing the capital's security minister in pink glitter and smashing the glass doors of the local prosecutor's office. Shouting "Justice!", around 250 people, mostly women, took to the streets to protest the lack of punishment in the two cases, the latest to trigger outrage over the high rate of violence against women and girls in Mexico.
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| Bill Cosby's appeal to review handling of #MeToo case Posted: 12 Aug 2019 06:49 PM PDT  Bill Cosby's defense team argued Monday that the judge made an error by allowing five other accusers to testify during last year's trial.
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| Inventive Butternut Squash Recipes, From Stuffing to Soup Posted: 12 Aug 2019 07:21 PM PDT |
| Fourth NRA board of directors member resigns Posted: 12 Aug 2019 07:30 PM PDT  The move comes days after three members of the NRA board resigned, citing concerns over irresponsible spending by the organization's leaders.
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| The blast that killed 5 Russian engineers was apparently caused by another failed test of Putin's doomsday missile Posted: 12 Aug 2019 02:26 PM PDT  Russia's account of a deadly explosion that rocked a missile test site last week has been changing. It looks to be part of testing a new missile.
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| Kansas City, Kansas, police fatally shoot rifle-toting man Posted: 13 Aug 2019 01:32 PM PDT ![Kansas City, Kansas, police fatally shoot rifle-toting man]( "Kansas City, Kansas, police fatally shoot rifle-toting man") Kansas City, Kansas, police shot and killed a man on Tuesday who told a hotel manager that he had killed his wife and was heading to a popular shopping and restaurant area. The "very angry and distraught" man entered the Country Inn & Suites near the Legends Outlet shopping area said he had killed his wife, said Jacob Honeycutt, general manager of the business. You better call police,'" Honeycutt told The Associated Press.
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| 4-year-old dies after accidentally dousing herself with boiling water, Texas cops say Posted: 13 Aug 2019 07:44 AM PDT  A child is dead and a woman has been arrested after a tragic accident in Texas on Saturday.
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| Mexican former minister detained, deepening president's anti-graft quest Posted: 13 Aug 2019 05:53 AM PDT  A judge ordered a former Mexican Cabinet minister to be detained pending a trial over suspected losses to taxpayers, her lawyer said on Tuesday, opening a new front in President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's campaign to eradicate corruption. The detention of former social development minister Rosario Robles is likely to ramp up scrutiny of the administration of Lopez Obrador's predecessor, Enrique Pena Nieto, whose 2012-2018 presidency was plagued by graft scandals. Lopez Obrador has made rooting out corruption the cornerstone of his career, though he took office in December saying he did not want to rake through the past.
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| UPDATE 5-Hong Kong airport grinds to halt; China likens protests to terrorism Posted: 12 Aug 2019 12:40 AM PDT ![UPDATE 5-Hong Kong airport grinds to halt; China likens protests to terrorism]( "UPDATE 5-Hong Kong airport grinds to halt; China likens protests to terrorism") Hong Kong's airport halted flights on Monday, blaming demonstrators for the disruption, while China said the anti-government protests that have swept the city over the past two months had begun to show "sprouts of terrorism". The airport authority said it was working with airlines to resume flights from 6 a.m. on Tuesday, but the developments raised the stakes sharply after a weekend of skirmishes during which both activists and police toughened their stances.
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| Biden calls for reinstating assault weapons ban, buyback program Posted: 12 Aug 2019 07:53 AM PDT  Former vice president Joe Biden, the frontrunner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, called on Monday for reinstating a ban on assault weapons and including a buyback program to get them off the streets. In a column in The New York Times, Biden also called for stricter background checks for gun buyers and greater use of "smart-gun technology" that allows a weapon only to be fired by its authorized owner. "We have a huge problem with guns," Biden said in the article published about a week after mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, left 31 people dead.
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| 'It's not right': 7-year-old boy shot to death in St. Louis Posted: 13 Aug 2019 11:48 AM PDT !['It's not right': 7-year-old boy shot to death in St. Louis]( "'It's not right': 7-year-old boy shot to death in St. Louis") Xavier Usanga was supposed to start second grade Tuesday. Instead, grief counselors were consoling his would-be classmates at Clay Elementary School, after the 7-year-old boy became the 11th child killed by gunfire in St. Louis since June. Xavier was shot Monday afternoon while standing near a teenager and two other children on the city's north side.
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| Make it simple, Democrats: How to tell the Trump impeachment story and speed it up, too Posted: 13 Aug 2019 01:00 AM PDT  Centralize and simplify the impeachment narrative. Show how Trump's abuses relate to each other and how they started on the day he took his oath.
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| From Bill Clinton to Julius Caesar, here are 12 world leaders who were left-handed Posted: 12 Aug 2019 05:06 AM PDT  August 13 is International Left Handers Day. Though left-handers make up just 10% of the world, many of them have very important jobs.
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| Iran Says It Expects Tanker Held by U.K. to Be Released Soon Posted: 13 Aug 2019 08:24 AM PDT  (Bloomberg) -- Iran expects an oil tanker seized by the U.K. in the Strait of Gibraltar in July will be released soon, the semi-official Fars News agency reported Tuesday, a move that could help to ease concerns about the safety of shipping routes in the Middle East."Official and unofficial documents have been exchanged to resolve the matter and we hope the problem will be dealt with in the very near future," Fars cited Jalil Eslami, deputy for maritime affairs at Iran's Ports and Maritime Organization, as saying. The future of a U.K.-flagged tanker that Iran seized later in the Persian Gulf depends on "the necessary judicial processes," Eslami added.Iran's Grace 1 tanker was seized by the Royal Navy on suspicion it was sending crude oil to Syria in violation of European Union sanctions. Tehran denied breaking sanctions and two weeks later impounded the U.K.-flagged Stena Impero near the Strait of Hormuz, the world's most important chokepoint for oil.Gibraltar's Supreme Court is scheduled to hold its next hearing on the vessel on Thursday, according to the official Gibraltar news service in Spain. The current detention order for the ship expires late on Saturday, local media reported. A spokesperson for the U.K. Foreign Office said that the "ongoing investigation" into the Grace 1 was a matter for Gibraltar authorities. The tanker seizures and other suspected Iranian operations against shipping in the Persian Gulf region have inflamed a crisis between Iran and the West triggered by the Trump administration's decision to quit the multiparty nuclear deal with Iran a year ago and renew crippling economic sanctions. Iran has responded by abandoning some restrictions on uranium enrichment imposed by the 2015 accord.The frictions on the seas have led the U.S. and U.K. to mount a joint mission to protect commercial shipping lanes in the Middle East. Reports of Israeli involvement in that mission have drawn fire from Tehran, and on Tuesday, the commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corp's naval forces warned against "any illegal presence in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz, especially Israel's.""We in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps are in charge of providing security for the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf, and there is no need for strangers," Rear Admiral Alireza Tangsiri said, according to the semi-official Iranian Students' News Agency.Last week, Israel's Ynet website reported that Israel is providing intelligence and other, unspecified assistance to U.S.-led efforts to protect Persian Gulf shipping routes. It cited Foreign Minister Israel Katz's remarks to parliament's foreign affairs and defense committee.Israel considers Iran to be its most formidable enemy, due to its nuclear work, ballistic missile program and support for anti-Israel militant groups in the Middle East. Iranian officials have also referred multiple times to Israel's annihilation. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lobbied hard against the nuclear deal, and pressed President Donald Trump to abandon it.Israel has been striking Iranian targets in Syria over the past few years in an effort to limit the Islamic Republic's presence in its immediate neighborhood, and according to recent reports, has expanded those operations to hit Iranian-backed militias in Iraq.(Updates with Thursday hearing at Gibraltar court in fourth paragraph.)\--With assistance from Alex Morales and Charles Penty.To contact the reporter on this story: Arsalan Shahla in Tehran at ashahla@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Lin Noueihed at lnoueihed@bloomberg.net, Amy Teibel, Mark WilliamsFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| Shoplifter pointed gun at Walmart employees in Niles: police Posted: 12 Aug 2019 11:23 AM PDT  A Walmart store was robbed at gunpoint Sunday night in suburban Niles, according to the Niles Police Department.
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| Prosecco Grapes, Kiwi Pops, and More Easy Fruit Desserts Posted: 13 Aug 2019 02:23 PM PDT |
| Muslim pilgrims pray in Mecca as haj winds down without incident Posted: 13 Aug 2019 11:22 AM PDT ![Muslim pilgrims pray in Mecca as haj winds down without incident]( "Muslim pilgrims pray in Mecca as haj winds down without incident") Millions of haj pilgrims began heading back to Mecca for final prayers on Tuesday as the world's largest annual gathering of Muslims wound down without incident despite the logistical challenges and escalating regional tensions. Saudi Arabia stakes its reputation on its guardianship of Islam's holiest sites, Mecca and Medina, and its organisation of the pilgrimage. Pilgrims participated in a symbolic stoning of the devil, part of the haj rituals, in Jamarat before returning to Mecca, where the Grand Mosque filled with worshippers preparing to depart.
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| Norway mosque "terror attack" suspect remanded in custody Posted: 12 Aug 2019 10:20 AM PDT  A Norwegian man suspected of killing his stepsister and opening fire in a mosque near Oslo this weekend was remanded in custody Monday, suspected of murder, and a "terrorist act" that police say he filmed himself. The man, identified as 21-year old Philip Manshaus, appeared in the Oslo court with two black eyes and scrapes and bruises on his face, neck and hands, probably obtained when he was overpowered at the mosque. The Norway incident comes amid a rise in white supremacy attacks around the world.
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| President of Honduras says he faces no US criminal charges Posted: 13 Aug 2019 03:45 PM PDT  Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández offered assurances Tuesday that he faces no criminal charges in the United States and said recent allegations by U.S. federal prosecutors were based on drug traffickers trying to take revenge against him. Hernández came to Washington only days after prosecutors accused him of essentially running a narco-state and of having received campaign contributions from cocaine traffickers in exchange for protection. "That is an allegation from a drug trafficker in a separate trial," Hernández replied when The Associated Press asked him whether he faces formal charges in the United States.
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| Sun City woman attacked by alligator Monday night while walking her dog Posted: 13 Aug 2019 07:51 AM PDT  The gator bit her on the leg and wrist, according to SCDNR.
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| Massachusetts judge allowed to keep $181K salary amid federal charges for obstructing ICE Posted: 13 Aug 2019 01:34 PM PDT  In a reversal, a Massachusetts judge indicted for allowing an undocumented immigrant to evade ICE will be able to keep her $181,328 annual salary.
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