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- William Barr discovers that he is not immune to Trump's wrath
- Nurse who spoke at RNC arrested for shooting woman in the stomach
- Ben Sasse: Democrats ending filibuster and expanding Supreme Court would be 'suicide bombing' of government
- Supporter at right-wing 'Patriot Rally' shot dead after macing a TV security guard at Denver protest
- Australian navy ship tows unexploded bomb out to sea
- Nigeria dissolves special police unit after protests: presidency
- 'The Big Burn' of 1910 transformed wildland firefighting. Will 2020 do the same?
- Three dead as hundreds of wildfires ravage the Middle East
- How Australia-China relations have hit 'lowest ebb in decades'
- Wisconsin is battling America's worst coronavirus outbreak, and the state's broken politics are partly to blame
- Storm-ravaged Louisiana takes stock of Delta damage
- Democrats’ Silence on Court Packing Could Cost Them Senate Control
- Huckabee: Biden might want to read the Constitution when it comes to presidential powers
- A 30-year-old British woman traveling through London airport was arrested after more than $2.5 million was found in her luggage, reports say
- 'We won!': Nigeria dissolves feared police unit after protests
- Federal prosecutors did a dry run of family separations in Texas and found that children younger than 12 shouldn't be taken away from their parents
- Israel to 'immediately' bring over 2,000 Ethiopian Jews
- State AG fires investigator accused of 'disrespectful' conduct over waitress's BLM pin
- Kamala Harris faces sexism and racism as online commenters label her ‘Black Hillary’
- Immigrant family deceived by ICE, father facing deportation
- Trump news: President attacks ‘unscientific lockdowns’ and slams Biden in White House speech
- Iraqi militias say they have halted anti-U.S. attacks
- Thailand crash: Bus collides with train, killing 18
- A Black man is suing a Texas city for $1 million after he was tied to police on horseback during an arrest
- Jewish reporter says he was beaten up and called a Nazi by Orthodox Jews in New York City amid tensions over new coronavirus lockdowns
- Taiwanese detained in China 'confesses' on state TV
- Spanish Canary Islands overwhelmed by migrant arrivals after Covid forces Morocco to seal border
- Judge blocks Texas governor’s order closing remote ballot drop sites
- 'I could be one of the diers': Trump recognized own mortality after COVID-19 diagnosis, according to a report from New York Magazine
- Transcript: Don McGahn on "Face the Nation"
- U.S. troops in Germany see their fate as critical, and at stake, in presidential election
- Church burns altar where priest had sex with two women, Louisiana archbisohp says
- Gingrich on the state of the 2020 race
- Hong Kong police arrest smuggling group for helping speedboat fugitives
- Canary Islands sees biggest migrant surge since 2006
- Belarus' authoritarian leader visits his foes in prison
- Biden-Harris hay bale display in Massachusetts set on fire 24 hours after it was finished
- Killer Mike's majority Black and Latin-American owned online bank already has 'tens of thousands' on the waiting list
- Federal judge throws out Trump challenge to Pennsylvania voting
- Lake Shore Drive traffic diverted after woman shot in vehicle near Navy Pier: police
- A 33-year-old Texas man may have posed as a Black man when he killed the mother of his 1-year-old child, authorities say
- Florida won’t be releasing new coronavirus cases and deaths on Saturday. Here’s why
- Tehran to impose fines for virus regulation breaches as caseload soars
- Netherlands records second highest case increase in Europe despite faith in 'intelligent' lockdown
- Taliban denies endorsing Donald Trump
- WHO discourages lockdowns as U.S. hospitalizations continue climb; 11 states set records for new COVID-19 cases
- Postmaster General Louis DeJoy donated more than $685,000 to the Republican National Convention
- How to watch October's spectacular Orionids meteor shower
William Barr discovers that he is not immune to Trump's wrath Posted: 10 Oct 2020 08:31 AM PDT |
Nurse who spoke at RNC arrested for shooting woman in the stomach Posted: 11 Oct 2020 05:46 AM PDT Amy Ford, a West Virginia nurse who spoke at this year's Republican National Convention, was arrested on Saturday after shooting a woman in the stomach in her hometown. Ford, 39, who was identified as Amy Thorn in the court filing, was charged with malicious or unlawful assault after shooting a woman in her abdomen in Williamson, West Virginia. The victim has been identified by WSAZ -TV as Jonda Whitt. |
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Australian navy ship tows unexploded bomb out to sea Posted: 10 Oct 2020 05:50 PM PDT Australian navy divers have removed an unexploded 45-kilogram (100-pound) bomb on a reef off the southeastern coast and a ship towed it to deeper waters because it posed a "significant risk" to the public. The bomb was found by a fisherman on Elizabeth Reef near Lord Howe Island, about 550 kilometers (340 miles) off New South Wales state. |
Nigeria dissolves special police unit after protests: presidency Posted: 11 Oct 2020 07:37 AM PDT |
'The Big Burn' of 1910 transformed wildland firefighting. Will 2020 do the same? Posted: 11 Oct 2020 03:04 AM PDT |
Three dead as hundreds of wildfires ravage the Middle East Posted: 11 Oct 2020 05:26 AM PDT Hundreds of massive wildfires ravaged parts of the Middle East over the weekend, forcing thousands to flee their homes. In Syria, the hardest-hit country, three people were killed according to the health ministry. On Friday, the first day of the renewed fires, the health ministry said that 70 people in Latakia province alone had been taken to the hospital with breathing difficulties. The fires continued to spread across the west coast of the country over the weekend, but were brought under control on Sunday according to state media. Mohammed Hassan Qatana, Syria's health minister, told a local radio station on Friday that the fires were the worst in Syria's history. In neighbouring crisis-hit Lebanon, firefighters were tackling blazes in the north, centre and south of the country, backed up by military helicopters. According to the state news agency, fires in villages in the south of the country triggered the explosions of land mines along the border with Israel. |
How Australia-China relations have hit 'lowest ebb in decades' Posted: 11 Oct 2020 04:40 PM PDT |
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Storm-ravaged Louisiana takes stock of Delta damage Posted: 11 Oct 2020 11:14 AM PDT After Hurricane Delta ripped through Louisiana on Friday, residents, having waited out the storm elsewhere, returned on Sunday to survey damage to their homes. Delta made landfall near the town of Creole on Friday evening as a Category 2 hurricane, packing sustained winds of 100 miles per hour (160 km per hour). Hurricane #Delta makes landfall near Creole, Louisiana, at 6:00 PM CDT as a category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. |
Democrats’ Silence on Court Packing Could Cost Them Senate Control Posted: 11 Oct 2020 03:49 PM PDT Joe Biden is refusing to answer questions about whether he and his party would support packing the Supreme Court and ending the Senate filibuster. Indeed, on Friday a reporter said to him, "Sir I've got to ask you about packing the courts. I know that you said yesterday you aren't going to answer the question until after the election. But this is the No. 1 thing that I've been asked about from viewers in the past couple of days. . . . Don't the voters deserve to know where you stand?"Biden replied, "No, they don't deserve -- I'm not going to play his [Trump's] game."Biden seems to think that all he has to do to occupy the Oval Office in January is run out the clock and avoid angering his activist left-wing backers close to the election.Court packing may not be the deciding issue in the presidential race. But it could be in close Senate races where several Democratic candidates are imitating Biden's silence and being pummeled for it by effective GOP opponents.In Maine, Democratic candidate Sara Gideon won't rule out backing a court-packing plan. Colorado Democrat John Hickenlooper gave an embarrassing non-answer in his debate this past week with Republican senator Cory Gardner. Iowa Democrat Theresa Greenfield was once opposed to court packing but now can't be pinned down on the issue in her race against GOP senator Joni Ernst.The chances of Democrats winning a Senate majority for Democrats are up in the air because of court packing.The irony is that their candidates are taking all this abuse over an idea that is unlikely to happen. Yet it may nonetheless cost them control of the Senate.Let's look at the state of play in Senate races. Democratic senator Doug Jones is badly trailing his GOP opponent in Alabama. That's one seat gone. Michigan Democratic senator Gary Peters is up only 47 percent to 44 percent in the latest CBS Battleground poll. That's a seat in jeopardy. Republican have a long-shot chance of winning in Minnesota, where Democratic senator Tina Smith leads by 8.5 points in the RealClearPolitics average of polls.Let's assume Democrats lose Alabama and keep Michigan and Minnesota. They will have to take back four GOP-held seats to win a tie in the Senate. That tie could then be broken by Kamala Harris if the Biden-Harris ticket wins.But with only 50 senators, Democrats would need the vote of West Virginia's Joe Manchin to pass court packing and end the filibuster. Manchin is a moderate Democrat who may not be susceptible to pressure. He isn't up for reelection until 2024 when he will be 77 and might retire. Manchin has bluntly said that he opposes court packing and abolishing the filibuster. Arizona Democratic senator Kyrsten Sinema has also said she opposes court packing.If the filibuster remains in place, Democrats would be unlikely to pass a bill admitting either the District of Columbia or Puerto Rico as a state as a means of gaining additional senators.And unless they nuke the filibuster, Democrats can't move forward on their other liberal legislative priorities such as the Biden version of the Green New Deal, gun control, taxpayer financing of campaigns, restricting independent political speech, and weakening ballot integrity protections.It would be arduous for Democrats to deal with a Majority Leader McConnell to win Senate confirmation of every judge and cabinet member.But Democrats would find it almost as painful to deal with Joe Manchin as the swing vote in the Senate. There's not enough pork barrel that can be shipped to West Virginia to attempt to rent Joe Manchin's vote on big issues.So, to govern without Manchin's vote, and to have a chance to enact their agenda, Democrats need at least 51 senators. So, assuming a loss in Alabama, they have to beat five Republican incumbents.Democrats think there are three races they're likely to win: Maine, Colorado, and Arizona.But of the next closest six races, they must win at least two. That may not be easy.North Carolina's Senate race has been upended by reports that Democratic nominee Cal Cunningham, a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve, had an affair with the wife of Jeremy Todd, a junior officer with whom he served. The U.S. Army Reserve Command is investigating Cunningham for a possible violation of the Code of Military Justice. Todd has called on Cunningham to leave the race.South Carolina, Georgia, Iowa, Montana, and Alaska are the other races where Democrats could pull off an upset.But five of those six races are in deep-red states that consistently vote Republican in most statewide elections.Iowa is a swing state where anything could happen.Republicans in all six states are telling voters that a Democratic Senate majority will unleash plans to pack the Supreme Court, undermine Second Amendment rights, ram through the Green New Deal by regulatory edict, and impose a radical cultural agenda.Democrats who might be able to defeat a GOP incumbent if the race were about other issues might lose if the race becomes focused on an idea as unpopular as court packing.Moderate voters who are thinking about voting for Biden because they dislike Trump may well be scared by the radical idea of packing the Supreme Court.If Biden were a less cautious, and less party-trained politician, he might rethink his silence on court packing. He could take a lesson from Bill Clinton, who convinced moderate voters that he wasn't a knee-jerk liberal when he condemned rapper "Sister Souljah" for her anti-police lyrics.After all, Biden opposed court packing as recently as last year, in two Democratic-primary debates. He would simply be returning to a position he has held for more than 15 years.But I predict he won't do it. He has consistently shown an inability to break with his party's base.But what will happen if key Democratic Senate candidates take the same stance as Biden even though they are running in largely red states? The last time court packing was attempted -- by Franklin Roosevelt, in 1937 -- it stirred up passionate opposition and contributed to Democrats' losing eight Senate seats and 62 House seats in the 1938 midterm elections.Nationally, only 34 percent of registered voters in a new YouGov poll support expanding the number of justices on the Supreme Court. In red states where Democrats need to beat GOP incumbents, support for such an extreme idea is clearly well below that.Indeed, polls show strong support for a "Keep Nine" amendment that simply says, "The Supreme Court of the United States shall be composed of nine Justices." The amendment has been endorsed by nine former Democratic state attorneys general. Three of those former AGs recently wrote in the New York Daily News that, in regard to court packing, "we can think of few threats more serious to the future of constitutional checks and balances that have preserved our Republic for the last two centuries." They reminded their readers that the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg called increasing the number of justices on the Supreme Court a "bad idea."It's unlikely that the silent Senate candidates running as Democrats this year will break with Biden and oppose court packing. Biden apparently believes he can get away with his evasive maneuvers. But it may be a different story for his fellow Democrats further down the ticket.If Democrats end up electing Joe Biden, they will have succeeded in turning the presidential race into a referendum on President Trump's personality. But if they fail to win the Senate, it will be because of an issue they wisely avoided endorsing in their party platform: overturning a 151-year-tradition of having nine justices on the Supreme Court.By stubbornly remaining silent on something that wasn't even part of their agenda a few months ago, they may convince voters they really are the radicals they are accused of being. It could cost them the Senate. |
Huckabee: Biden might want to read the Constitution when it comes to presidential powers Posted: 11 Oct 2020 05:24 AM PDT |
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'We won!': Nigeria dissolves feared police unit after protests Posted: 11 Oct 2020 09:24 AM PDT |
Posted: 09 Oct 2020 10:53 PM PDT |
Israel to 'immediately' bring over 2,000 Ethiopian Jews Posted: 10 Oct 2020 01:08 AM PDT |
State AG fires investigator accused of 'disrespectful' conduct over waitress's BLM pin Posted: 10 Oct 2020 12:40 PM PDT |
Kamala Harris faces sexism and racism as online commenters label her ‘Black Hillary’ Posted: 11 Oct 2020 05:00 AM PDT |
Immigrant family deceived by ICE, father facing deportation Posted: 11 Oct 2020 12:04 PM PDT |
Trump news: President attacks ‘unscientific lockdowns’ and slams Biden in White House speech Posted: 10 Oct 2020 02:24 PM PDT |
Iraqi militias say they have halted anti-U.S. attacks Posted: 11 Oct 2020 05:10 AM PDT An array of Iran-backed Iraqi militia groups have suspended rocket attacks on U.S. forces on condition that Iraq's government present a timetable for the withdrawal of American troops, one of the groups said on Sunday. A spokesman for Kataib Hezbollah, one of the most powerful Iran-backed militia groups in Iraq, said the groups were presenting no set deadline, but that if U.S. troops "insisted on staying" they would unleash much more violent attacks. Washington, which is slowly reducing its 5,000 troops in Iraq, threatened last month to shut its embassy unless the Iraqi government reins in Iran-aligned militias that have attacked U.S. interests with rockets and roadside bombs. |
Thailand crash: Bus collides with train, killing 18 Posted: 11 Oct 2020 12:35 AM PDT |
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Taiwanese detained in China 'confesses' on state TV Posted: 11 Oct 2020 08:12 AM PDT |
Spanish Canary Islands overwhelmed by migrant arrivals after Covid forces Morocco to seal border Posted: 11 Oct 2020 06:12 AM PDT Tighter control of its coastline and borders by Morocco during the Covid-19 crisis has led to the largest migrant arrival numbers in the Canary Islands for more than a decade, with local politicians warning the Spanish government that they cannot cope with the influx. In around 48 hours between Thursday night and Saturday more than 1,000 migrants used small boats to reach the archipelago, a dangerous crossing of Atlantic waters where the minimum distance from the island closest to the African continent, Fuerteventura, is around 60 miles. The Red Cross said that all of the 1,015 migrants who reached the islands on 37 boats would survive, although some were showing signs of hypothermia and exhaustion. The migrants have also been tested for coronavirus. Earlier this year Spain and Morocco agreed to boost cooperation on the detection of migrants attempting to cross the Strait of Gibraltar. |
Judge blocks Texas governor’s order closing remote ballot drop sites Posted: 10 Oct 2020 05:34 AM PDT |
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Transcript: Don McGahn on "Face the Nation" Posted: 11 Oct 2020 09:26 AM PDT |
U.S. troops in Germany see their fate as critical, and at stake, in presidential election Posted: 11 Oct 2020 01:30 AM PDT |
Church burns altar where priest had sex with two women, Louisiana archbisohp says Posted: 11 Oct 2020 01:15 PM PDT |
Gingrich on the state of the 2020 race Posted: 10 Oct 2020 05:45 PM PDT |
Hong Kong police arrest smuggling group for helping speedboat fugitives Posted: 09 Oct 2020 10:12 PM PDT |
Canary Islands sees biggest migrant surge since 2006 Posted: 10 Oct 2020 11:32 AM PDT More than 1,000 migrants reached the Canary Islands in the past 48 hours, the Red Cross said on Saturday, the largest number since a 2006 crisis in the archipelago. Beefed-up security on Morocco's Mediterranean coast is pushing traffickers and migrants south to risk the perilous crossing to the Canaries, located around 60 miles (97 km) to the west of the Atlantic coast, analysts and rights groups say. Between Thursday and Saturday, 1,015 migrants landed in 485 boats in the seven Spanish islands, a Red Cross spokesman said. |
Belarus' authoritarian leader visits his foes in prison Posted: 10 Oct 2020 09:26 AM PDT Belarus' authoritarian president on Saturday visited a prison to talk to opposition activists, who have been jailed for challenging his re-election that was widely seen as manipulated and triggered two months of protests. President Alexander Lukashenko spent more than four hours talking to his jailed political foes at the Minsk prison that belongs to Belarus' State Security Committee, which still goes under its Soviet-era name, KGB. Lukashenko's office said that "the goal of the president was to hear everyone's opinion." |
Biden-Harris hay bale display in Massachusetts set on fire 24 hours after it was finished Posted: 10 Oct 2020 02:01 PM PDT |
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Federal judge throws out Trump challenge to Pennsylvania voting Posted: 10 Oct 2020 01:35 PM PDT |
Lake Shore Drive traffic diverted after woman shot in vehicle near Navy Pier: police Posted: 11 Oct 2020 01:06 PM PDT |
Posted: 10 Oct 2020 08:08 PM PDT |
Florida won’t be releasing new coronavirus cases and deaths on Saturday. Here’s why Posted: 10 Oct 2020 02:25 PM PDT |
Tehran to impose fines for virus regulation breaches as caseload soars Posted: 10 Oct 2020 04:52 AM PDT |
Posted: 11 Oct 2020 05:53 AM PDT It prided itself on a successful 'intelligent' lockdown earlier this year, but criticism is growing in the Netherlands as infection rates near the top of European charts. Statistics suggest 20-30 year olds are driving the flare, which is acute in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague. On Sunday, the ECDC recorded the 14-day cumulative number of Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people as 345 in the Netherlands, with only Belgium and the Czech Republic higher. The UK's cumulative case number stands at 242. In a press conference on Friday, prime minister Mark Rutte was uncharacteristically prickly when urging 17.4 million Dutch people to follow the rules: a 10pm curfew for nightlife, facemasks advised in public spaces, three guests maximum in houses and an appeal to work from home. "We aren't keeping to the rules enough," said Mr Rutte. "There are too many people, young people but also other groups, who think it will be okay for them. But it's not okay: it's completely predictable that if lots of young people are infected, they infect their parents and then their grandparents." |
Taliban denies endorsing Donald Trump Posted: 11 Oct 2020 03:44 AM PDT |
Posted: 11 Oct 2020 12:00 PM PDT |
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy donated more than $685,000 to the Republican National Convention Posted: 11 Oct 2020 11:07 AM PDT |
How to watch October's spectacular Orionids meteor shower Posted: 10 Oct 2020 12:57 PM PDT |
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