| Evidence emerges for sex-assault allegation against Biden Posted: 29 Apr 2020 01:56 PM PDT  Former Senate staffer Tara Reade has alleged that presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993, a charge the former vice president's campaign denies.
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| U.S. death toll passes 60,000 mark Trump said would mark success in coronavirus fight Posted: 29 Apr 2020 12:54 PM PDT  Until recently, the president touted that projection as proof his administration's COVID-19 response was working.
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| WHO investigates link between coronavirus and syndrome that affects young kids Posted: 30 Apr 2020 07:04 AM PDT  "We are urgently conducting a surveillance study in the United Kingdom to establish what is going on," said Dr. Adam Finn.
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| Top coronavirus model predicts 100,000 dead by the end of the pandemic's 1st wave this summer Posted: 29 Apr 2020 04:21 PM PDT  By the end of the coronavirus's "first wave" this summer, America will likely have buried close to 100,000 victims of the disease, researchers predict.
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| California governor closes Orange County beaches Posted: 30 Apr 2020 04:38 PM PDT  Governor Gavin Newsom said the state is issuing a "hard close" of beaches in Orange County during the coronavirus pandemic.
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| The Oxford lab leading the race for a coronavirus vaccine says it hopes to get an idea of whether it works on humans in mid-June Posted: 30 Apr 2020 03:07 AM PDT  Human trials of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 began in Oxford on April 23 following successful tests on monkeys that were exposed to the coronavirus in late March.
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| Top European Union diplomat denies bowing to China pressure Posted: 30 Apr 2020 10:43 AM PDT  The European Union's top diplomat denied Thursday that his agency bowed to pressure from China and watered down a report that criticized the country's role in promoting disinformation about the coronavirus. In an April 24 article, the New York Times said EU officials had "softened their criticism of China" in a report on the way governments push disinformation during the pandemic because the officials were "worried about the repercussions" of angering one of the bloc's biggest trading partners. The article, backed by internal email correspondence, caused an uproar at the European Parliament, with EU lawmakers angry that the 27-nation bloc's reputation was at stake.
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| 'A near impossibility': Experts doubt North Korea's claim of zero coronavirus cases Posted: 30 Apr 2020 01:32 PM PDT  Experts say there's evidence of at least a small-scale COVID-19 outbreak in North Korea. And some fear Kim Jong Un's lockdown could spark a famine.
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| Pelosi Suggests Biden Does Not Need to ‘Directly’ Address Reade Allegation: ‘I’m Satisfied with How He Has Responded’ Posted: 30 Apr 2020 07:20 AM PDT  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) on Thursday dismissed the notion that vice president Joe Biden should "directly, publicly" respond to sexual-assault allegations made by his former Senate staffer, saying in an interview that she was "satisfied with how he has responded."Speaking to CNN, Pelosi defended Biden after she was asked if Biden should answer the allegation "head-on" and by "himself.""I'm satisfied with how he has responded," Pelosi said, adding she was "very proud to endorse him.""It's a matter that he has to deal with, but I am impressed with the people who worked for him at the time saying that they absolutely never heard one iota of information about this, nobody ever brought forth a claim or had anybody else tell them about such a claim," she stated.> Nancy Pelosi was asked on @CNN about the Biden sexual assault allegation and she defended him.> > "He's a person of great values, integrity, authenticity, imagination, and connection to the American people," Pelosi said, adding that she's "satisfied with how he has responded." pic.twitter.com/gaDt8Ki7oR> > -- Mike Brest (@MikeBrestDC) April 30, 2020While Biden's campaign has strongly denied the allegations of Biden's accuser, Tara Reade, the former vice president has not said anything publicly about the situation. The New York Times said Wednesday that talking points about the allegation that had been circulated by the campaign "inaccurately suggest" the paper concluded that Reade's claims were false.Reade has said that she complained about the incident to Biden staffers at the time, who have denied that she ever approached them. But last week, a 1993 clip from CNN's Larry King Live showed a woman calling in about "problems" her daughter had had with a U.S. senator. Reade, who had previously told The Intercept that such a tape existed, identified the woman as her mother. Earlier this week, one of Reade's former neighbors came forward and said Reade told her about details of the allegation in the mid-1990s.Biden's top female surrogates and prospective vice presidential candidates have also defended the former vice president. "I believe women deserve to be heard, and I believe that has happened here," former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said on Tuesday, apparently referencing the campaign's talking points about the Times article.Reade has said that she has been surprised by the dismissals of her claims in the "MeToo" era. News surfaced Wednesday that a letter asking Biden to address Reade's claims was drafted by national women's advocacy groups, only for the letter to not be publicly released after the Biden campaign learned of it."I was just hoping to get a fair and equal treatment," Reade told National Review. "But because it's Joe Biden I've been silenced or smeared."
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| Trump says ex-aide Flynn to be 'exonerated' despite guilty plea Posted: 30 Apr 2020 03:17 PM PDT  President Donald Trump said Thursday that his former national security advisor Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying about his Russia contacts, would be absolved by a Washington court, calling FBI investigators in his case "filthy cops." Trump said fresh documents that surfaced in Flynn's case showed he was mistreated and should be freed by a court currently weighing his sentence. "Now we have to see what's going to happen but General Flynn was treated like nobody ... in this country should be treated."
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| Indiana Postal Worker Shot Dead After Refusing to Deliver Mail to Man With Aggressive Dog: Court Docs Posted: 30 Apr 2020 11:36 AM PDT  An Indiana man charged with murdering a U.S. postal worker this week admitted he confronted her because his mail delivery had been suspended due to his "aggressive dog," prosecutors said.Tony Cushingberry-Mays, 21, was charged with second-degree murder, assaulting a federal employee, and discharging a firearm during a crime for the death of Angela Summers, a 45-year-old postal worker who was gunned down Monday afternoon during her mail delivery route in east Indianapolis, according to the United States District Court of Southern Indiana.The mother-of-one, who had joined the U.S. Postal Service in 2018, died in the hospital. According to federal law, killing an on-duty federal employee can be punishable by death or a life sentence. To date, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says four postal workers have been killed during workplace homicides in the last seven years. "Angela was such a joy to be around, she was such a breath of fresh air. This is the worst thing that's happened in my career," Paul Toms, president of the National Association of Letters Carriers' Indianapolis branch, told The Daily Beast on Wednesday. "This is a federal crime, but more importantly this is a senseless crime that should have never happened. It breaks my heart." Summers, a city carrier assistant at the USPS Linwood Indianapolis Post Office, was delivering mail at about 4 p.m. Monday when she bypassed Cushingberry-Mays' home in compliance with a suspension that had been put in place until he contained his dogs, according to court documents obtained by The Daily Beast. An angry Cushingberry-Mays approached Summers on his neighbor's front porch, standing about 6 feet away, and repeatedly asked her for the mail.Both Toms and a witness who spoke to WTHR said Cushingberry-Mays was allegedly upset about not getting his COVID-19 stimulus check when he confronted Summers.Summers, however, could not deliver his mail "because she was having a problem with the dog at his residence," the complaint said, adding that Summers had reported "several issues" with the dog, which had resulted in mail being held.Prosecutors said the USPS Linwood Indianapolis Post Office last sent a letter to the Cushingberry-Mays residence on April 13 indicating they would have to pick up mail from the post office.Toms said that, in compliance with USPS guidelines, Summers had reported an issue with dogs at the home. After three warning letters were sent, mail had been blocked from the home for about two weeks and "wasn't even given to Angela that day of the incident.""She was just following protocol, and the Postal Service curtailed the mail. It was not her fault that she didn't have the mail that day," Toms said. "My understanding is that she tried to explain that the mail could be picked up at another location and an argument ensued. I heard she was called horrible, horrible names." The postal worker's response triggered an argument, escalating to the point that Summers had to use pepper spray on the 21-year-old. "Cushingberry-Mays then pulled his handgun from the right side of his waistband (no holster), pointed his handgun at the letter carrier, and fired one shot at the letter carrier," the criminal complaint states. "He acknowledged the mace was not deadly but led to discomfort from his asthma."According to the complaint, Cushingberry-Mays admitted in a Tuesday interview with police that he ran away after shooting Summers, first going to his aunt's house before hiding the gun in the garage at his mother's. He told authorities "he did not mean to kill the letter carrier but wanted to scare her," according to court documents.Immediately after the shooting, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service launched an investigation and offered a $50,000 reward for any information leading to an arrest. It's not clear if Wednesday's arrest was made due to information obtained through the reward. "U.S. Postal Inspectors are charged with ensuring the safety and security of USPS employees, and that is a charge that we do not take lightly," Felicia George, USPI Detroit Division Acting Inspector in Charge, said in a statement. "Anyone who threatens, assaults, or otherwise harms a postal employee fulfilling her critical mission will be apprehended and held fully accountable."Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Jewish leadership organisation hits out at Sir Keir Starmer after two Labour MPs attend conference call with expelled activists Posted: 30 Apr 2020 08:20 AM PDT  A Jewish leadership organisation has hit out at Sir Keir Starmer after it emerged that two Labour MPs had taken part in a conference call which included activists expelled from the party over alleged anti-Semitism. The Board of Deputies of British Jews has called on the new Labour leader to take "swift and decisive action" after former shadow home secretary Diane Abbott and serving frontbencher Bell Ribeiro-Addy took part in the event. Marie van der Zyl, the Board's president, claimed the pair's actions were a breach of the 10 anti-Semitism pledges that Sir Keir had signed up to during the Labour leadership contest earlier this year. One of the pledges states clearly that any Labour politician or member that campaigns or provides a platform for people suspended or expelled over anti-Semitism should themselves be suspended. In a clear warning to Sir Keir, Ms van der Zyl added: "It is completely unacceptable that Labour MPs, and even ordinary members, should be sharing platforms with those that have been expelled from the Party for anti-Semitism. "We would urge Labour to take swift and decisive action to show that this is a new era, rather than a false dawn."
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| How COVID-19's US fatalities compare to America's worst flu seasons Posted: 30 Apr 2020 04:42 PM PDT  Deaths in the United States from the novel coronavirus topped more than 62,000 Thursday, making it deadlier than any flu season since 1967, according to data compiled by Reuters.The only deadlier flu seasons were in 1967 when about 100,000 Americans died, 1957 when 116,000 died and the Spanish flu of 1918 when 675,000 died, according to the CDC.The United States has the world's highest coronavirus death toll; so far more than 1,079,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 have occurred in the U.S., with 62,603 deaths, while 127,950 people having recovered, according to the latest statistics Thursday night.The comparison to the Spanish flu recalls when an infectious disease expert told AccuWeather early in March about what may lay ahead, noting the outbreak could have a historically unprecedented impact on life across the globe."This pathogen has all the signs of being 'the big one,'" Dr. Bryan Lewis, a professor at the Biocomplexity Institute at the University of Virginia, told AccuWeather on March 3. "When current estimates for COVID-19 are compared to the 1918 pandemic, they are eerily similar. The outcomes will likely be different given modern medicine; however, the impact on society and its functioning is likely to be significant."The 1918 influenza pandemic, sometimes called the Spanish Flu pandemic, is the most severe pandemic in recent history. An estimated 500 million people - or one-third of the world's population - became infected and the number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with roughly 675,000 in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Health care workers look on as four members of Hill Air Force Base's 388th Fighter Wing fly in formation over University of Utah Hospital Thursday, April 30, 2020, in Salt Lake City. The flyover was a "thank you" to health care workers, first responders, military members and essential personnel, as well as those who are staying home to help "flatten the curve" during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) As for this year's flu season, it was historically long, but not as deadly as past seasons.At 22 weeks, it was the longest above-baseline flu season in at least 20 years of CDC records. Last year was the previous longest at 20 weeks.A total of 19,932 laboratory-confirmed influenza-associated hospitalizations were reported between Oct. 1, 2019, and April 18, 2020, according to the CDC. That's the second-highest total - there were 30,453 in 2017-18 - since such figures were first kept during the 2009-10 flu season.The CDC's estimate of flu-related deaths this season is a broad range of 24,000 - 62,000, with final estimates to be determined in the future.Keep checking back on AccuWeather.com and stay tuned to the AccuWeather Network on DirecTV, Frontier and Verizon Fios.
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| Discarded puppy Locky's luck turns in Moscow lockdown Posted: 30 Apr 2020 11:38 AM PDT  A month ago, Locky the mongrel puppy was left abandoned on the side of a road with her mother and six siblings. A month on she lies cradled in the arms of her new owner, thanks to an online scheme launched during Moscow's coronavirus lockdown. When the coronavirus restrictions made it impossible for prospective owners to pop by to adopt the animals, volunteers started posting videos of them online.
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| Transgender fire chief files discrimination suit over firing Posted: 29 Apr 2020 11:00 AM PDT  A transgender fire chief has filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the small Georgia city where she led the fire department for more than a decade, then was fired 18 months after she began coming to work as a woman. Rachel Mosby says her firing last summer by the city of Byron not only cost her wages and retirement benefits, but also tarnished her reputation. The lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Macon says city officials fired Mosby "based on her sex, gender identity, and notions of sex stereotyping."
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| American plans to shrink, says no hubs will close: 'No way to overstate the gravity of this situation' Posted: 30 Apr 2020 12:24 PM PDT  The airline is retiring more than 100 jets earlier than planned and says more may be ahead as it grapples with a dearth of passengers.
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| Biden Campaign Operatives Have Accessed the Senate Files He Now Refuses to Release Posted: 30 Apr 2020 11:11 AM PDT  Biden campaign operatives have reportedly accessed the former vice president's archived Senate files, which may contain information shedding light on Tara Reade's allegation that Biden sexually assaulted her when she worked for him as a Senate aide.Operatives with the presumptive Democratic nominee's campaign accessed Biden's records, which are housed at the University of Delaware, in the spring of 2019, just after he announced his candidacy for president in late April, Business Insider reported. The University of Delaware said no one has accessed them since mid-March, when the university library closed due to the pandemic.Reade went public shortly afterwards on March 25 with graphic details of her claim. She alleged that in 1993 when she was a Senate staff assistant, she was told by a top staffer to bring Biden a duffel bag in a Senate building, and when she met with him he pinned her against a wall and penetrated her with his fingers while forcibly kissing her. In early April of last year, before he announced his run for the Democratic nomination, Reade alleged along with several other women that Biden had touched her inappropriately.Biden deposited his Senate archive at the University of Delaware in 2012. Initially, the university promised to open the archive two years after Biden's last day in public office. However, in April 2019 hours before Biden announced his presidential campaign, the university decided to keep the archive closed until December 31, 2019 or until Biden retires from public life.Reade has said that she suspects the archives from Biden's 36 years as senator may contain notes and other personnel records, including a sexual harassment complaint she filed. Reade said she complained about harassment from Biden to three top staffers, who deny ever hearing about the allegation. However, several interns remember Reade losing her intern supervision responsibilities around that time.Ted Kaufman, Biden's chief of staff at the time, "took notes" during a meeting she had with him about the harassment, Reade told Business Insider."He's now denying that we ever had the meeting, and I watched him take notes. Those notes would be in my personnel file, along with sick days or any kind of extra notes that I turn in," she said.Reade is calling for the release to the public of the Senate files, which are due to be released two years after Biden leaves public life."I believe it will have my complaint form, as well as my separation letter and other documents," she said. "Maybe if other staffers that have tried to file complaints would come to light - why are they under seal? And why won't they be released to the public?"
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| Hundreds of protesters, some carrying guns in the state Capitol, demonstrate against Michigan's emergency measures Posted: 30 Apr 2020 12:30 PM PDT  Protesters held signs, waved American flags and even carried firearms as lawmakers debated extending Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's state of emergency.
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| Roger Stone bought more than 200 fake Facebook accounts, which he used to run ads defending Roger Stone Posted: 30 Apr 2020 10:15 AM PDT  Stone, a longtime friend to Donald Trump, ran a sprawling network of fake Facebook accounts starting in 2016, according to newly unsealed FBI records.
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| Robber attacks 77-year-old woman with metal pipe to steal her pizza Posted: 29 Apr 2020 02:21 PM PDT  A man hit a 77-year-old woman on the head with a metal pipe, before stealing one of her pizzas.In a video, released by the Tucson police Department, a woman carrying two pizzas attempted to leave Peter Piper Pizza, in Arizona.
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| FBI docs suggest agents prepared to close Flynn case — then reversed course Posted: 30 Apr 2020 02:00 PM PDT  Michael Flynn's allies say the new filings offer more evidence that the FBI concocted its case against Trump's ousted national security adviser.
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| Cuban embassy in Washington struck by gunfire, suspect arrested Posted: 30 Apr 2020 06:43 PM PDT  A man armed with a high-powered assault rifle fired multiple rounds at the Cuban embassy in Washington early Thursday, authorities said, damaging the building and leading Havana to lodge a protest. Police arrested the suspect, identified as 42-year-old Alexander Alazo of Aubrey, Texas. "This morning at approximately 2:15 am, US Secret Service officers responded to the Embassy of Cuba following reports of shots fired," the Secret Service said in a statement.
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| Brexit trade talks face collapse unless EU abandon demands for continued access to UK fishing waters Posted: 30 Apr 2020 11:38 AM PDT  Brexit trade negotiations face collapse unless the EU abandons its demands for continued access to UK fishing waters, sources close to the talks have said. Brussels has called for EU boats to keep access under "existing conditions" as a price for the free trade agreement being negotiated by the two sides. The UK insists any fishing agreement must be separate from the trade deal with access negotiated annually in a similar fashion to Norway's agreement with the bloc. A UK source close to the negotiations said that the EU's red line would need to change, otherwise the talks could be terminated in June. "There are some fundamentals that we're not going to change, nor going to move on. Because they are not so much negotiating positions as they're sort of what an independent state does" the source said. "An independent state has independent control over coastal waters," the source added, "what we are wanting now is an EU understanding that we are not going to subordinate our laws to them in any areas". Michel Barnier accused Britain of wasting time in the trade negotiations, which have a deadline of the end of the year, after a round of talks last week. He criticised British negotiators for failing to present a text on fisheries for negotiations. UK sources said there was no point presenting a text when the two sides were "talking across each other". Downing Street has called on EU national leaders to intervene to break the deadlock in the talks but that is not expected to happen before June, when a joint conference will be held to evaluate progress towards the agreement. The source said that the UK would consider walking away in June and begin preparing for a no trade deal exit at the end of the transition period. "We do need to prepare for the end of the transition period, focus on that as well. If we don't look like we are going to get a deal that will become the primary focus of effort," the source said. The deadline to finalise the trade deal, which has come under pressure from the coronavirus pandemic, is the end of the year, when the Brexit transition period finished. The transition period deep-freezes UK membership of the Single Market and Customs Union. Boris Johnson has vowed to not extend the transition period, despite the EU being ready to negotiate a delay and despite the risk of the UK failing to agree a deal in time, which would mean trading on less advantageous WTO terms.
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| 80,000 cruise workers are still stuck aboard ships in US waters. Staff members say it's 'embarrassing' they're not allowed to disembark. Posted: 30 Apr 2020 01:34 PM PDT  Up to 80,000 crew members are stuck on 120 cruise ships on US waters, and it's unclear when they'll touch land again.
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| Editorial: Tara Reade's allegation that Joe Biden assaulted her demands an independent investigation Posted: 30 Apr 2020 03:43 PM PDT  Believe all women? No, but take serious accusations seriously.
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| Outsiders consider possibility of chaos in North Korea Posted: 30 Apr 2020 01:41 AM PDT  North Korea's collapse has been predicted — wrongly— for decades. Others thought it would be during a 1990s famine or when national founder Kim Il Sung died in 1994. It's no surprise then that recent rumors that leader Kim Jong Un is seriously ill have led to similar hand-wringing.
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| Florida governor announces plans to reopen state Posted: 29 Apr 2020 02:55 PM PDT  DeSantis' announcement came as 350 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Florida, along with 47 new deaths.
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| Footage shows Chicago police shooting unarmed man twice on subway escalator Posted: 29 Apr 2020 07:44 AM PDT  Video released by the Civilian Office of Police Accountability have shown the moment Chicago police shot an unarmed man twice at a subway station.The footage from the Chicago Transit Authority and police body-cams demonstrate in detail how the shooting of Ariel Roman took place on 28 February after he was pulled up for violating a city ordinance.
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| Trump slams Obama administration over COVID-19 testing, even though it first appeared in humans last year Posted: 30 Apr 2020 11:00 AM PDT  Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office with New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, President Trump attacked the Obama administration for its lack of preparedness for the coronavirus pandemic, including inadequate testing. The COVID-19 virus first appeared in humans late last year, almost three years after President Obama left office.
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| Coronavirus hero Cuomo helped create New York's disaster Posted: 30 Apr 2020 08:11 AM PDT  Andrew Cuomo was slow to act as the coronavirus crushed New York, and his petty fights with Mayor Bill de Blasio caused unnecessary confusion.
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| 'Crazy beast' lived among last of dinosaurs Posted: 29 Apr 2020 11:44 PM PDT  The discovery that the badger-like animal lived alongside dinosaurs challenges ideas about mammals.
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| 14 Baking Supplies for Your New Bread-Making Hobby Posted: 30 Apr 2020 07:40 AM PDT |
| Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin tells Putin he has coronavirus Posted: 30 Apr 2020 10:00 AM PDT  Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin told President Vladimir Putin on Thursday that he had been diagnosed with the new coronavirus and was temporarily stepping down to recover. Mishustin, 54, suggested that First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov serve as acting prime minister in his absence. Putin, who was listening on a televised video conference, sighed when he heard the news, wished Mishustin a speedy recovery and said he agreed with the proposed replacement.
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| Newly engaged lesbian couple missing in North Carolina Posted: 30 Apr 2020 08:13 AM PDT  Stephanie Mayorga, 27, and Paige Escalera, 25, disappeared in mid-April under "suspicious" circumstances, according to the Wilmington Police Department.
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| 2 men detained in burning deaths of transgender women Posted: 30 Apr 2020 01:49 PM PDT  One of the men admitted to the double killings, saying it was done for "reasons of revenge."
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| Tara Reade allegations rattle Biden’s VP search Posted: 30 Apr 2020 01:30 AM PDT  'The job of being the vice presidential candidate is always hard and now it's just harder because of this. But they don't really have a choice,' said one Democrat.
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| Ghana's virus cases spike 10 days after lockdown is lifted Posted: 30 Apr 2020 09:57 AM PDT  Confirmed coronavirus cases in Ghana have surged above 2,000, increasing 24% in a matter of days, health officials announced Thursday, reflecting mostly test taken during a recent three-week lockdown in the West African country's two largest cities. African nations have now reported more than 37,400 cases, including 1,598 deaths, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. In South Africa, which has the continent's highest number of reported cases at 5,350, community health workers continued testing in Johannesburg.
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| Carrie Severino on Biden allegations: Democrats won't look into assault claims when it's someone they're politically interested in defending Posted: 30 Apr 2020 12:39 PM PDT  Top Democrats have remained silent about the recent sexual assault allegations made by former Biden staffer Tara Reade. Carrie Severino, founder of the Judicial Crisis Network, speaks with Fox News about the political hypocrisy.
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| Far too many patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in Georgia are black, new CDC data shows — a staggering 83% Posted: 30 Apr 2020 02:25 PM PDT  The findings highlight stark racial disparities in the coronavirus outbreak, reinforcing national data showing that black communities are hardest hit.
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| U.S. implicates Honduran president in drug trafficking as it seeks his help on immigration Posted: 30 Apr 2020 05:48 PM PDT  U.S. prosecutors accused a former commander of the Honduran police of importing tons of cocaine into the United States on behalf of the country's president, a Trump ally.
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| 'If you catch one, kill it': Mississippi fights back against invasive northern snakehead Posted: 30 Apr 2020 06:23 PM PDT  The toothy predator that is native to Russia and China, among other places, has a primitive lung that allows it to survive out of water for days.
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| 'Don't waste a minute': Chinese firm readies mass vaccine production Posted: 29 Apr 2020 08:34 PM PDT  A researcher in a lab coat in Beijing holds up the hopes of humanity in his fingers: "Coronavac", an experimental vaccine against the coronavirus that has upended the world. Sinovac Biotech, which is conducting one of the four clinical trials that have been authorised in China, has claimed great progress in its research and promising results among monkeys. While human trials have just started, the company says it is ready to make 100 million doses per year to combat the virus, which surfaced in central China late last year before spreading across the globe and killing more than 220,000 people.
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| 'Survival': Tenants, landlords brace for largest rent strike in decades Posted: 29 Apr 2020 06:05 PM PDT  "If banks are getting bailed out and corporations are getting bailed out, why aren't poor people getting bailed out?" one activist asked.
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| A New York City man stole $12,000 worth of coronavirus stimulus checks from mailboxes, cops say Posted: 30 Apr 2020 08:14 AM PDT  Police arrested Feng Chen, 31, after finding him looking in mailboxes and a medical collection bin in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood,
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| Pelosi says she's 'satisfied' with Biden's response to assault allegation even though he hasn't personally addressed it Posted: 30 Apr 2020 08:52 AM PDT  Former Vice President Joe Biden has not personally responded to a former staffer's allegations of sexual assault, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is still "satisfied with how he has responded."Pelosi spoke to CNN on Thursday about former Biden staffer Tara Reade's allegation that he sexually assaulted her in the 1990s. Biden hasn't responded to the allegations himself, though the campaign denies them.Asked if Biden should publicly and personally address the allegation, Pelosi said, "I do support Joe Biden. I'm satisfied with how he has responded. I know him. I was proud to endorse him." CNN's Alisyn Camerota noted, though, "To be clear, he hasn't addressed it. His campaign has addressed it, but he has not directly addressed it."Camerota then asked again, "Should he, directly, publicly, address it?" Pelosi dodged the question, saying "it's a matter that he has to deal with."Biden has been facing calls to address Reade's allegation himself in recent days, with The Washington Post's editorial board recently writing that "the way to signal he takes Ms. Reade's case seriously, and the cases of women like her seriously, is to go before the media and the public ready to listen and to reply."Biden's campaign has also been sending out talking points on how to address the Reade allegations, BuzzFeed News reported, which included a claim that The New York Times found that "this incident did not happen." The Times has clarified that this is not the case, with a spokesperson saying, "Our investigation made no conclusion either way." > .@SpeakerPelosi says she supports Joe Biden and is "satisfied with how he has responded" to a sexual assault allegation against him. https://t.co/HtLbqYaRAq pic.twitter.com/v3mH3jWXMc> > -- New Day (@NewDay) April 30, 2020More stories from theweek.com Trump's 'mission accomplished' moment Biden to address Tara Reade allegation on Morning Joe Radiohead's Thom Yorke debuts 'Plasticine Figures' from home on The Tonight Show
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