| ICE to launch 'Citizens Academy' to teach civilians about 'targeted arrests' Posted: 13 Jul 2020 10:24 AM PDT  Operating with broad authority and minimal oversight, ICE's enforcement and removal operations have become increasingly aggressive under the Trump administration.
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| Michigan partygoers test positive for COVID-19 after July 4th lake bash; 43 cases tied to house party Posted: 13 Jul 2020 01:06 PM PDT  "This is a very clear example of how quickly this virus spreads," a Michigan health official said after 43 COVID-19 cases were tied to a house party.
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| Judge seeks more details on Trump's clemency for Roger Stone Posted: 13 Jul 2020 09:16 AM PDT  A federal judge on Monday demanded more information about President Donald Trump's decision to commute the prison sentence of longtime ally Roger Stone. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered that the parties provide her by Tuesday with a copy of the executive order that commuted Stone's sentence.
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| It’s so hot at Death Valley National Park that cars are breaking down Posted: 13 Jul 2020 01:34 PM PDT  It's the hottest place on Earth for a reason.
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| Sen. Ted Cruz 'Consistent With Airline Policy' After Being Photographed Maskless on American Airlines Flight Posted: 13 Jul 2020 10:04 AM PDT  American Airlines customers are required to wear face coverings while on board flights
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| U.S. rejects China's resource claims in South China Sea Posted: 13 Jul 2020 12:34 PM PDT  The United States on Monday rejected China's disputed claims to offshore resources in most of the South China Sea, a move that may further sour the fraught ties between the world's largest two economies. China has offered no coherent legal basis for its ambitions in the South China Sea and for years has been using intimidation against other South Asian coastal states, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement. "We are making clear: Beijing's claims to offshore resources across most of the South China Sea are completely unlawful, as is its campaign of bullying to control them," said Pompeo, a prominent China hawk within the Trump administration.
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| Ousted U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman: Deal Barr Offered ‘Could Be Seen as a Quid Pro Quo’ Posted: 13 Jul 2020 04:21 PM PDT  The federal prosecutor whom Attorney General Bill Barr ousted in June told House investigators that he was alarmed at the way Barr attempted to replace him, saying that "the "irregular and unexplained actions by the Attorney General raised serious concerns for me," according to a transcript of the closed-door interview released by the House Judiciary Committee on Monday. Geoffrey Berman, formerly the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, was brought in for a closed-door session of the Judiciary Committee on July 9 to talk about the events surrounding Barr's public announcement on June 19 that Berman had "stepped down" from his post, even though the U.S. attorney made clear to Barr multiple times that he was not stepping down. The late-night announcement by Barr immediately sparked confusion and raised questions about his involvement in a crucial prosecutor's office. The next day, Berman said he would leave the job when Barr agreed to let his deputy take over as acting U.S. attorney, as opposed to Craig Carpenito, the U.S. attorney for the district of New Jersey, whom Barr wanted to install in the position until the Trump administration's pick, Securities and Exchange Commission chief Jay Clayton, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate.Berman, who at SDNY handled sensitive investigations into Trumpworld figures such as Rudy Giuliani, did not comment specifically to the Judiciary Committee on what he believed Barr's motivations to be, and he studiously avoided any questions about how specific SDNY probes might have factored into the situation. But Berman made clear that the attorney general's preferred plan would have slowed and complicated the work of the office, and he raised several questions challenging Barr's handling of the process. Trump Thought He'd Picked His Perfect U.S. Attorney in Geoffrey Berman. He Was Very Wrong."Why did the attorney general say that I was stepping down when he knew I had neither resigned nor been fired?" Berman asked rhetorically, in response to questions from Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY). "Why did the attorney general not tell me the actual reason he was asking me to resign instead of saying that it was to get Clayton into the position? And why did he announce the appointment of Craig Carpenito as acting U.S. attorney when Audrey Strauss was the logical and normal successor?""Replacing me with someone from outside the district would have resulted in the disruption and delay of the important investigations that were being conducted," Berman said later. "I was not going to permit that. And I would rather be fired than have that done." At numerous points, Berman expressed his dismay at Barr's wish to install Carpenito—who would have retained his previous job in New Jersey—in the job instead of Berman's top deputy, Strauss, a move he said violated 70 years of precedent at SDNY.According to his opening statement that was obtained by The Daily Beast last Thursday, Berman said that during a private meeting in New York that Barr called to open the discussion, the attorney general praised his performance as U.S. attorney but said the Trump administration wanted Clayton to take the SDNY post. Berman said Barr tried to lure him away by dangling other offers—to head the Department of Justice's civil rights division and, later, the SEC—but Berman declined. Barr told him that if he did not resign, he would be fired. "I believe the attorney general was trying to entice me to resign so that an outsider could be put into the acting U.S. attorney position at the Southern District of New York, which would have resulted in the delay and disruption of ongoing investigations," Berman told the Judiciary Committee.At one point in the interview, GOP committee attorney Steve Castor asked if Barr had laid out to Berman a set of actions that would have allowed him to keep his job—if there was any "quid pro quo for you getting to keep your job."Berman said no, and he confirmed that Barr did not mention any specific SDNY investigations—Castor raised Jeffrey Epstein and Guiliani-related probes—in pressuring him to leave. But Berman did say Barr's offering of other positions could have been construed as a quid pro quo."You know, he wanted me to resign to take a position. I assume you could call that a quid pro quo. You resign and you get this, that would mean quid pro quo," said Berman. Asked to clarify those comments later, he said it wasn't his term but reiterated that "it could be seen as a quid pro quo, his offering me a job in exchange for my resignation." Berman is a rare U.S. attorney in that he was not confirmed by the Senate but was appointed by the judges of SDNY to hold the position in April 2018. Berman insisted that, as he was a court-appointed prosecutor, neither Barr nor President Trump had the authority to fire him before the Senate confirmed a successor, but some past legal precedent has indicated the president can fire a court-appointed U.S. attorney. Trump has said he had nothing to do with Berman's ouster. 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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| 'Not a Welcoming Name': Calls to Drop 'Plantation' Gain Steam Nationwide Posted: 12 Jul 2020 08:28 AM PDT  When Dharyl Auguste was 3 years old, he and his parents packed all of their belongings and left their home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to immigrate to the United States.The family settled initially in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, before moving to nearby Sunrise. When it was time for Auguste to attend middle school, he and his parents relocated again, this time to Plantation, Florida. Auguste welcomed the move, he said, because it was easier for him to see his friends and access public transportation.But something was not right in Plantation."It often came up as a topic between me and friends, and we all had the same feeling that it's not a welcoming name," Auguste, 27, said.In the weeks since the George Floyd protests began, neighborhoods and subdivisions across the country have removed the word "plantation" from their names. In June, Rhode Island -- known formally as the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations -- announced that it would drop the second half of its official name from state documents and websites. (State lawmakers have introduced legislation that would put a name-change referendum on the ballot in November.)Inspired by the social unrest spurred by the death of Floyd, a Black man who died after a Minneapolis police officer pinned him to the ground by the neck for more than eight minutes, Auguste started a petition to change the name of Plantation."I was at home sitting in awe as our nation was going through a social awakening," he said in an interview this past week. According to Auguste, images of toppled monuments to slaveholders and Confederate generals fueled him to take action. The petition he created June 7 has been signed more than 11,000 times.Strictly speaking, the word "plantation" refers to a large group of plants or trees in a settlement. But the association with slavery is inescapable."We can't ignore the image conjured by the word 'plantation,'" Gov. Gina Raimondo of Rhode Island said last month. "We can't ignore how painful that is for Black Rhode Islanders to see that and have to see that as part of their state's name. It's demoralizing. It's a slap in the face. It's painful."Gabriela Koster, who moved to Plantation, Florida, in 2006, agrees."I have been saying for 15 years that I do not think it's an appropriate name for our city," Koster said. "I don't think it serves us well."Koster, 42, who raised her three children in Plantation, described the city as vibrant but said its name dulled some of the city's luster.But Lynn Stoner, the mayor of Plantation, does not necessarily share this opinion."If we change the name, it doesn't change the mindset of what people indicate the problem is," Stoner said. "I think it is just the optics."Stoner has lived in Plantation for 50 years, and she proposed instead that residents be educated on the "racial components and diversity in the community.""I'm more about the education piece," Stoner said at a City Council meeting July 1, during which she also suggested that residents be taught about what should be considered offensive and why. "I feel like changing the name doesn't change the philosophies -- I think that's where the bigger issue is."At the meeting, Stoner criticized an interview that Auguste had recently given on CNN, saying that "he didn't do real well." (She later apologized.) She also asked Auguste during the meeting whether she should use the term "African Americans" or "Blacks"; claimed that the first time she "ever really saw" Black people was when she moved to Plantation; and said that the last three people she had hired were not white.She added that she was taught to treat everyone equally.In response to Stoner's comments, Auguste told the mayor that just because the city's name represented the status quo it did not mean it should stay that way."I'm sure that was the same mentality when slavery was ended," Auguste said. "We have to be more than not racist -- we have to be anti-racist."Because the city of Plantation wasn't incorporated until 1953, many -- including Stoner -- believe that its name is exempt from the correlation with slavery."This isn't just about Black people," the mayor said in an interview Tuesday. "It is about how Black people and people from other countries all relate to each other."Across the country, people are working to change the names of neighborhoods, developments and subdivisions that include the word "plantation." In Hilton Head, South Carolina, efforts to change the names of gated communities and resorts are unequivocally about Black people. Beaufort County, which includes the island of Hilton Head, was founded in 1711. Before the Civil War, there were more than 20 plantations on the island where slave labor produced cotton, indigo, sugar cane, rice and other crops, according to the local government.Today, Hilton Head is a resort town with developments and gated communities whose names often have the word "plantation" in them."It has been co-opted to mean a gated community in the area," said Marisa Wojcikiewicz, who started a petition last month to change the names of the resorts and gated communities. "It is very strange, to say the least, considering that the island is inextricably linked to the plantation economy."According to Wojcikiewicz, whose petition has over 8,000 signatures, a manager of the Hilton Head Plantation development had not entirely shot down the idea of changing the name of the development. Wojcikiewicz said she was surprised to find that some residents of the developments, who are mostly white, older and affluent, supported changing the name.Peter Kristian, general manager of the Hilton Head Plantation property owners association, did not respond to requests for comment on Friday.In Plantation, Florida, Auguste has two options to get the city to change its name. The City Council can vote to have a referendum added to the November ballot for the name change or Auguste can go door to door to collect signatures from at least 10% of the city's 94,000 residents, which would compel a City Council review. In Hilton Head, because the developments and resorts are privately owned, the onus is on the owners and investors to make any name changes.Most people don't want to be told that something they are doing is wrong, according to Wojcikiewicz, particularly when they have never given any thought to how it might be hurtful."Many people are afraid to admit that they were blind to the fact that it is racist," she said. "They think a plantation is this beautiful, expansive, green, calm, Southern idyllic life that everyone wishes they could have. We have deluded ourselves."This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2020 The New York Times Company
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| AOC suggests NYC crime spike linked to unemployment and parents shoplifting to feed children Posted: 13 Jul 2020 07:34 AM PDT  New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has insisted that spikes in New York crime are not related to police budget cuts but people needing to pay rent and feed their children.In a virtual town hall meeting on Thursday, reported by The Hill, AOC was questioned about the significant rise in crime in the city.
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| French man accused of molesting hundreds of children dies in Indonesia Posted: 13 Jul 2020 04:22 AM PDT  Francois Camille Abello, 65, died in a suspected suicide in his cell in Jakarta, police say.
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| Nelson Mandela's daughter Zindzi Mandela dies at 59 Posted: 13 Jul 2020 03:43 AM PDT  Zindzi Mandela, daughter of Nelson Mandela, has died, a spokesperson for the African National Congress said on Monday. She was 59.
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| 'Moving target': Schools deal with new plans, Trump demands Posted: 12 Jul 2020 05:52 AM PDT  Last week, President Donald Trump and his administration demanded schools fully reopen right away, calling for new guidance from federal health officials and slamming schools that want to bring students back for only a few days a week. Here is a look at what several school districts are planning and discussing. Like many schools, the Forth Worth Independent School District in Texas will give parents a choice between in-person and remote learning.
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| Hamburg sex workers demand Germany's brothels reopen Posted: 12 Jul 2020 03:01 AM PDT  Prostitutes demonstrated in Hamburg's red light district late on Saturday evening demanding that Germany's brothels be allowed to reopen after months of closure to curb the spread of coronavirus. With shops, restaurants and bars all open again in Germany, where prostitution is legal, sex workers say they are being singled out and deprived of their livelihoods despite not posing a greater health risk. "The oldest profession needs your help," read a notice held up by one woman in a brothel window in the Herbertstrasse, which was flooded with red light after being dark since March.
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| German study finds no evidence coronavirus spreads in schools Posted: 13 Jul 2020 09:47 AM PDT  Schools do not play a major role in spreading the coronavirus, according to the results of a German study released on Monday. The study, the largest carried out on schoolchildren and teachers in Germany, found traces of the virus in fewer than 1 per cent of teachers and children. Scientists from Dresden Technical University said they believe children may act as a "brake" on chains of infection. Prof Reinhard Berner, the head of pediatric medicine at Dresden University Hospital and leader of the study, said the results suggested the virus does not spread easily in schools. "It is rather the opposite," Prof Berner told a press conference. "Children act more as a brake on infection. Not every infection that reaches them is passed on." The study tested 2,045 children and teachers at 13 schools — including some where there have been cases of the virus. But scientists found antibodies in just 12 of those who took part. "This means that the degree of immunization in the group of study participants is well below 1 per cent and much lower then we expected," said Prof Berner. "This suggests schools have not developed into hotspots." The study was carried out at schools in three different districts in the region of Saxony.
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| South Africa's 9 million smokers were faced with cold turkey when the government banned cigarette sales in March as a coronavirus measure. Now Big Tobacco is fighting back. Posted: 12 Jul 2020 09:03 AM PDT  Cigarettes have become the top illicit drug, more profitable than cocaine and heroin, analysts told AP.
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| Yemeni Houthis say they hit Saudi oil facility in drone, missile attack Posted: 13 Jul 2020 02:59 AM PDT  "The strike was accurate," a Houthi military spokesman said.
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| Man, 37, who died from coronavirus had dismissed pandemic ‘hype’ on Facebook Posted: 13 Jul 2020 02:23 AM PDT  An Ohio man who died of Covid-19 had repeatedly posted on Facebook about his scepticism of the outbreak – and a tweet containing a montage of his posts is now going viral.Richard Rose, 37, died at home in Port Clinton on 4 July just days after he tested positive for Covid-19. The montage of his posts spreading on social media, which has been viewed 3.5 million times, shows that he tested positive and was quarantined on 1 July, when he was already viewing symptoms.
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| New Zealand mosque shooter dismisses lawyers to represent himself at sentencing Posted: 12 Jul 2020 09:29 PM PDT  The gunman behind New Zealand's Christchurch mosque shootings sacked his lawyers on Monday and opted to represent himself, raising fears he would use a sentencing hearing next month to promote his white-supremacist views. Australian national Brenton Tarrant will be sentenced on August 24 on 51 murder convictions, 40 of attempted murder and one of terrorism arising from last year's massacre, the worst mass shooting in New Zealand's modern history. He has pleaded guilty to the charges. At a pre-sentencing hearing on Monday, High Court judge Cameron Mander allowed Tarrant's lawyers, Shane Tait and Jonathan Hudson, to withdraw from proceedings at the request of their client. However, the judge ordered "standby counsel" to be available next month in case Tarrant - who appeared in the Christchurch court via video link from an Auckland prison - changes his mind. New Zealand Muslim Association president Ikhlaq Kashkari questioned Tarrant's motives, saying victims could be re-traumatised if the gunman were allowed to spout far-right rhetoric from the dock. "My first concern when I read this was 'Oh my God, what's this guy up to, is he going to use this as a platform to promote his views and thoughts?'," he told AFP. "A lot of people are still going through trauma and this was seen as one of those events that would give them closure. I hope it's not going to be something that will trigger more pain instead."
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| Coronavirus immunity can start to fade away within weeks, according to a new study which puts a 'nail in the coffin' in the idea of herd immunity Posted: 13 Jul 2020 05:10 AM PDT  The study by King's College London, the first COVID-19 study of its kind, is the latest to cast doubt over the concept of so-called herd immunity.
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| Woman races across 4 lanes of traffic, dives into canal to save child, Oregon cops say Posted: 13 Jul 2020 11:58 AM PDT  The toddler's grandmother has been cited for child neglect.
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| New York mayor 'heartbroken' over shooting death of one-year-old Posted: 13 Jul 2020 10:49 AM PDT  Toddler Davell Gardner Jr. was killed and three men were wounded on Sunday after two gunmen opened fire at a family cookout in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York media reported, citing New York police. "It's just horrifying," de Blasio said at a news conference to discuss the coronavirus. Davell's shooting was one of 11 incidents in which 16 people in New York were shot over the weekend, WABC television reported.
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| Robert Mueller breaks his silence and condemns Trump for commuting Roger Stone's sentence Posted: 12 Jul 2020 12:09 PM PDT  US special counsel defends his investigation into allegations of corruption during 2016 electionThe former special counsel Robert Mueller made a rare move on Saturday to publicly defend his two-year investigation into allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election – and to castigate Donald Trump's decision to commute Roger Stone's prison sentence.Mueller wrote an opinion article for the Washington Post [paywall] published under the headline "Roger Stone remains a convicted felon, and rightly so"."The work of the special counsel's office – its report, indictments, guilty pleas and convictions – should speak for itself," he wrote."But I feel compelled to respond both to broad claims that our investigation was illegitimate and our motives were improper, and to specific claims that Roger Stone was a victim of our office ..."Stone was prosecuted and convicted because he committed federal crimes. He remains a convicted felon, and rightly so."Trump commuted Stone's sentence on Friday night, sparking outrage from Democrats and some senior Republicans.Stone was a former campaign adviser to the president, convicted in November 2019 of seven crimes including obstruction of justice, lying to Congress and witness tampering.He was sentenced in February to 40 months in prison and was due to surrender on Tuesday, until the president commuted his sentence.Speaking on Sunday to CNN's State of the Union, the House speaker Nancy Pelosi said Democrats in the House will pursue legislation to restrict clemency powers related to the president's own conduct. "It's a threat to our national security," she said.The 2017-19 Mueller investigation uncovered evidence of communications between Stone and WikiLeaks related to the release of hacked Democratic party emails during the 2016 election, discovered in a separate inquiry into Russian intelligence officers charged with hacking the emails and staging their release.The partially released Mueller report in April 2019 described Russian efforts to tamper with the election and the Trump campaign's receptivity to certain "Russian offers of assistance to the campaign".It outlined actions by Trump that may have amounted to obstruction of justice and concluded: "While this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him."Mueller also concluded he did not have the power to charge Trump even if he thought it was warranted.Mueller wrote: "The special counsel's office identified two principal operations directed at our election: hacking and dumping Clinton campaign emails, and an online social media campaign to disparage the Democratic candidate."We also identified numerous links between the Russian government and Trump campaign personnel – Stone among them. We did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian government …"The investigation did, however, establish that the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome. [And] that the campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts."> Russia's actions were a threat to America's democracy> > Robert MuellerTrump has repeatedly attempted to discredit Mueller and his investigations.Mueller has kept his counsel since he testified in Congress in July last year. It was a muted affair, and many perceived Trump was emboldened in his efforts to seek assistance in his current election campaign from the Ukraine.This led to the historic impeachment of the president, and Trump's ultimate acquittal by the Senate earlier this year.On Saturday Mueller wrote: "Russia's actions were a threat to America's democracy. It was critical that they be investigated and understood." 'Historic corruption' – RomneyRepublicans largely stayed silent on the issue on Saturday, however Utah Senator Mitt Romney, who was also the lone GOP senator to vote to convict the president during his impeachment trial earlier this year, attacked Trump's move."Unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president," Romney tweeted.Senator Pat Toomey, of Pennsylvania, a Republican, also called the move to commute the sentence a mistake.Toomey pointed to the backing that the US attorney general, William Barr, had given to the Stone prosecution. Barr, who has faced allegations of using the justice department to defend the president and his associates, had said earlier this month that he regarded the prosecution of Stone as "righteous".But most Republicans who did speak out about the decision supported it. Senator Lindsey Graham, a Trump confidant, said Stone was convicted of a nonviolent, first-time offense and the president was justified in commuting the sentence.Graham, chair of the Senate judiciary committee, tweeted on Sunday that he would now grant Democrats' request to call Mueller to give evidence to the committee, as he was willing to defend the Russia investigation in a newspaper.Graham is leading an investigation by Republicans on the judiciary committee into the origins of Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election and links to the Trump campaign, and alleged misconduct by US intelligence officials.Democrats say the investigation is a move to appease President Trump ahead of November's election.• Associated Press contributed to this report. Additional reporting by Mark Oliver.
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| Hong Kong Disneyland to close again on July 15 due to coronavirus, a month after reopening Posted: 13 Jul 2020 11:32 AM PDT  Hong Kong Disneyland will shut down again on Wednesday because of the coronavirus, only a month after it reopened, Disney said Monday.
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| Ghislaine Maxwell tried to run away when the FBI arrived at her New Hampshire house to arrest her, prosecutors say Posted: 13 Jul 2020 11:36 AM PDT  When law enforcement arrived at Maxwell's home, she fled deeper into the massive estate, prosecutors wrote in opposition to her bail request.
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| Harvard's international students are begging the school to let them come to campus in the fall, citing fears of being stuck in unstable home environments if they're forced to leave the US Posted: 13 Jul 2020 12:38 PM PDT  Between Harvard going fully remote in the fall and new ICE guidelines, international students face being deported and worry about keeping up.
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| A squirrel tested positive for the bubonic plague in Colorado. Are people at risk? Posted: 13 Jul 2020 01:31 PM PDT  The bacteria that causes the bubonic plague is naturally occurring in Colorado.
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| Minority U.S. diplomats face bias entering own country - group Posted: 13 Jul 2020 09:11 AM PDT  Retired U.S. diplomats on Monday accused the Customs and Border Patrol of a "deeply troubling pattern" of discrimination and harassment against Black, Hispanic and other minority members re-entering their own country. The American Academy of Diplomacy, which groups former U.S. officials in international affairs, urged Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in a letter to order a review of incidents, "ensure equal treatment" of minority U.S. diplomats and make clear their mistreatment is "unacceptable."
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| Labour handed initial findings of anti-Semitism inquiry by Britain's equalities watchdog Posted: 13 Jul 2020 11:27 AM PDT  A report into Labour's handling of anti-Semitism has been submitted to the party by Britain's equality watchdog, as Jewish campaigners urged Sir Keir Starmer to act on its findings. More than 12 months after launching a statutory inquiry into whether the party acted unlawfully in dealing with complaints, the Equality and Human Rights Commission has handed Labour a draft version of its report. While Labour has refused to comment on its contents, the report will address allegations that the party under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership failed to tackle anti-Semitism within its ranks. It is also likely to single out leadership figures and senior officials over their role in the crisis, which overshadowed much of Mr Corbyn's tenure as leader. In a statement released on Monday, the Labour Party said: "Antisemitism has been a stain on the Labour Party in recent years. "It has caused unacceptable and unimaginable levels of grief and distress for many in the Jewish community, as well as members of staff. "Tackling anti-Semitism within the Labour Party is a priority and we are determined to take the further action necessary to begin restoring trust with the Jewish community. "We are committed to cooperating fully with the commission's investigation and implementing its recommendations when the final report is published." Labour will now have 28 days to respond to the draft report, before the EHRC publishes a final version, now not expected until the Autumn. Individuals singled out in the report will also be contacted in order to respond to its findings. The inquiry comes almost two years after the charity the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism (CAA) formally referred Labour to the watchdog over allegations of "institutional anti-Semitism." Gideon Falter, chief executive of the CAA, claimed that under Mr Corbyn's leadership the party "became institutionally anti-Semitic," adding that it "must be forever changed after this episode so this can never happen again. "Those responsible remain in the Party and must be held to account if Sir Keir Starmer is to tear antisemitism 'out by its roots', as he has promised," he continued. "The EHRC's report is a pivotal moment in this corrective process." His comments were echoed by the Jewish Labour Movement, which said: "We hope that when it is published, it will provide the kind of impartial and independent scrutiny required to force the party to comply with its duties under the Equality Act and toward our members."
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| Coronavirus Testing Czar Pushes Back on Trump’s Criticism of CDC Guidelines Posted: 12 Jul 2020 08:24 AM PDT  Adm. Brett Giroir, the Assistant Secretary for Health who also leads the administration's coronavirus testing efforts, on Sunday seemingly pushed back against President Donald Trump's recent criticism of the Centers for Disease Control's guidelines for reopening schools this fall.Last week, amid his aggressive pressure campaign to force all local school districts to fully reopen this fall despite a massive surge in coronavirus cases, President Donald Trump complained that the CDC's guidance on safely reopening schools was "very tough" and "expensive."Despite Vice President Mike Pence suggesting new recommendations would be issued in the following days, CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield contradicted the White House, noting that while there would be "additional reference documents" those documents "are not a revision of the guidelines.""Everyone wants to see kids back in school in the fall, but the big question is, how to do it safely," ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos asked Giroir on Sunday morning. "The president said he thinks the CDC guidelines are too tough and too expensive. Do you share that concern?""I think the CDC guidelines are really right on target," the White House coronavirus task force member replied. "And we all, you know, the CDC guidelines, we all work on it together. All the docs on the agency. And we feel they're pretty strong."While Giroir said that children missing classes does risk their "social and emotional health" and that it is important to get kids "physically back in school," they need to "get the virus under the control" before that can happen."When we get the virus more under control, then we can think about how we put children back in the classroom," he said. "It's a health reason to get them back in school, but it's got to be done carefully," the public health expert concluded. "The CDC guidelines are good. The guidelines aren't changing this week. These are guidelines that are amenable to school districts actually implementing them."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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| Royal descendants can keep temple full of riches, rules Indian Supreme Court Posted: 13 Jul 2020 10:24 AM PDT  One of the vaults in Kerala's Sri Padmanabhaswamy Temple contained $20bn (£16bn) worth of diamonds.
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| Asian American members of Congress on sustaining allyship long after Floyd protests Posted: 13 Jul 2020 11:27 AM PDT  "It takes an entire village to do the persistent discrimination against Black Americans in these police encounters, and you've got to reform the system. So that that doesn't keep happening," Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., told NBC Asian America.
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| Iranian officials urged to unite after nuclear plant blast Posted: 12 Jul 2020 11:00 AM PDT  Iran's supreme leader has addressed the country's parliament amid growing divisions and unanswered questions over the explosion at the Natanz nuclear facility earlier this month.
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| An Alaska Airlines flight was forced to land when a passenger threatened to kill everyone on board Posted: 13 Jul 2020 08:15 AM PDT  The Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Chicago turned around after a passenger became unruly and threatened to kill everyone on board.
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| Judge blocks federal executions; administration appeals Posted: 12 Jul 2020 09:02 PM PDT  A U.S. district judge on Monday ordered a new delay in federal executions, hours before the first lethal injection was scheduled to be carried out at a federal prison in Indiana. The Trump administration immediately appealed to a higher court, asking that the executions move forward. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said there are still legal issues to resolve and that "the public is not served by short-circuiting legitimate judicial process."
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| Kosovo president meets war crimes prosecutors to discuss charges against him Posted: 13 Jul 2020 04:26 AM PDT  Kosovo President Hashim Thaci arrived in The Hague on Monday for a meeting with prosecutors who last month indicted him for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity during Kosovo's 1998-99 uprising against repressive Serbian rule. Before entering the Specialist Chamber set up in 2015 to handle cases of war crimes during the revolt that eventually led to independence for Kosovo, Thaci told reporters he stood for "truth, reconciliation and peace".
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| Arizona's surge in virus cases has been "the worst" in the U.S. Posted: 13 Jul 2020 08:10 AM PDT  Another looming situation facing Arizona is the opening of schools set for next month.
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| Fact check: Trump campaign accused of T-shirt design with similarity to Nazi eagle Posted: 13 Jul 2020 10:10 AM PDT  A Trump campaign shirt is being criticized for having a design resembling a Nazi eagle. But there are uses of eagle imagery by the U.S. government.
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| Police officers' connection to communities they serve is broken. Here's how to repair it. Posted: 13 Jul 2020 03:00 AM PDT  It is imperative we focus on improving police conduct and their capacity for responding to the effects of trauma in communities they serve.
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| Javonni Carson: Nine-year-old shot four times while filming TikTok videos Posted: 13 Jul 2020 01:03 PM PDT  A fourth-grade boy shot four times in Atlanta was filming TikTok videos with his two siblings when an unknown gunman fired into a crowd during a drive-by shooting, his mother said.Javonni Carson, 9, who was one of three people injured in the attack, has undergone surgery and is expected to recover, mother Keyona Carson told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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| Florida mayor warns 'it won't be long' until hospitals hit capacity, as Florida sees record-high levels of new coronavirus cases Posted: 12 Jul 2020 10:48 AM PDT  Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Giménez aired concerns as South Florida shapes into the new epicenter of the pandemic, with cases and hospitalizations surging.
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