| 'Cheap shot': Sanders fires back when Bloomberg goes after 'socialism' Posted: 19 Feb 2020 08:22 PM PST  Michael Bloomberg attacked Sen. Bernie Sanders at Wednesday's debate in Las Vegas, with the billionaire former New York City mayor claiming the self-described democratic socialist's ownership of multiple homes makes him a hypocrite.
|
| Rohrabacher confirms he offered Trump pardon to Assange for proof Russia didn't hack DNC email Posted: 20 Feb 2020 05:14 AM PST  Former congressman Dana Rohrabacher confirmed to Yahoo News he told Julian Assange President Trump would pardon him if he turned over information proving Russians weren't the source of Democratic emails published by WikiLeaks.
|
| Americans stranded at Pakistan airport after cruise ship was denied entry to multiple countries over coronavirus fears Posted: 20 Feb 2020 02:00 PM PST  A plane full of Americans and Canadians was stranded on a tarmac at an airport in Karachi, Pakistan, for several hours on Thursday after it was turned away from multiple countries due to fears of the coronavirus, according to a family member of two of the passengers.
|
| CDC is preparing for the 'likely' spread of coronavirus in the US, officials say Posted: 21 Feb 2020 12:43 PM PST  While coronavirus has not spread in the United States, CDC officials said they're preparing for the coronavirus to become a pandemic.
|
| South Korea accepted that its efforts to stop the coronavirus from infecting the country failed and says it's pivoting to containment Posted: 21 Feb 2020 02:55 AM PST  Cases of the coronavirus in South Korea have tripled. The government says it must now take a different approach.
|
| A recurring Biden campaign story about being arrested in South Africa is full of inconsistencies Posted: 21 Feb 2020 02:40 PM PST  Former Vice President Joe Biden has a pretty good tale to share — but it may be a little tall.Biden, who is running for president, has been spicing up his recent campaign stump speeches with a story of how he was arrested while in South Africa trying to see Nelson Mandela, The New York Times reports. But that recollection of events has only recently come to light, and it was reportedly omitted from Biden's 2007 memoir that detailed his escapades in the country around that time.During recent campaign speeches, Biden says he "had the great honor" of meeting Mandela and "of being arrested with our U.N. ambassador on the streets of Soweto." As Miami Herald reporter Alex Daugherty points out, Soweto is a ways away from Robben Island, where Mandela's maximum security prison was located.> Adding to @katieglueck's story is Biden's quote doesn't make geographical sense. "I had the great honor of being arrested with our U.N. ambassador on the streets of Soweto trying to get to see him on Robbens Island." Soweto is almost 900 miles away from Robben Island https://t.co/WtlZMdkexq> > — Alex Daugherty (@alextdaugherty) February 21, 2020The arrest, which has seemingly only been brought up publicly by Biden in the last few weeks, was not found referenced anywhere by readily available news outlets, per the Times.The U.S. ambassador to the U.N. from 1977 to 1979 was Andrew Young. While Young reportedly acknowledged going to South Africa with Biden, he said he was never arrested in the country, and he told the Times he didn't think Biden had been arrested there either."I don't think there was ever a situation where congressmen were arrested in South Africa," Young told the Times, although he did say some people were being arrested in Washington.The story, which was seemingly nonexistent before a few weeks ago, has been told three times on the trail as Biden heads into Nevada and South Carolina, where he needs to pull in big numbers in order to counteract a lackluster showing in Iowa and New Hampshire.Word of advice: there are other ways to make yourself look tough to voters that don't include broadcasting a trip to the slammer.More stories from theweek.com Bernie Sanders' subtle warning to the Democratic Party How much will Medicare-for-all save Americans? A lot. Former CIA Director John Brennan says 'we are now in a full-blown national security crisis'
|
| Google Manager Arrested After Wife’s Body Found on Hawaii Beach Posted: 20 Feb 2020 11:06 AM PST  On Wednesday, distraught Google product manager Sonam Saxena spoke to a local Hawaii newspaper, pleading for help in finding his missing wife.The couple from Washington state, who had two young daughters, were on their annual family vacation to Hawaii when Smriti Saxena disappeared at around 10 p.m. on Tuesday. Sonam said he'd left his wife on a secluded beach south of Anaehoomalu Bay to take a 20-minute walk back to their Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort room to retrieve Smriti's asthma inhaler. When he returned, her purse and phone were there but she was gone."She got an asthma attack right there on the beach and she was feeling weak, he told West Hawaii Today. "So, I said, 'Hey, you know what? You stay here, you have your phone with you and I'll just go to the room grab your inhaler and pump and come back.'"Sonam pleaded for Big Island residents to help find Smriti. He even tweeted a message to Hawaii's governor and shared it with his LinkedIn network. "Can you please promote this tweet so that I can tell my daughters where their mom is," he wrote.However, on Wednesday, Hawaii Island Police arrested Sonam on one count of murder in the second-degree after a female body believed to be Smriti's was found near Anaehoomalu Bay in the district of South Kohala. An autopsy is scheduled to determine the cause of death.Smriti, a 41-year-old business program manager for Microsoft, was last seen on Tuesday night at the Lava Lava Beach Club in Waikoloa, police said. Her husband, a 43-year-old who works in Google's Seattle office as the head of product for Google's Cloud Deployment Manager, said they'd taken a stroll to the beach shortly after. He told West Hawaii Today that he was "disturbed" when he came back from fetching the asthma inhaler to find his wife missing. He said he rushed back to the hotel to check if she'd returned to the room before calling 911.Hawaii Police put out a missing persons alert for Smriti at about 1:30 a.m. the following morning, and discovered her body six hours later. By that afternoon, they had arrested Sonam.The pair had been married for 17 years with two daughters, aged 13 and 8. They celebrated the older daughter's birthday in Hawaii each year, Sonam had said. According to his LinkedIn, Sonam moved to Seattle from India in 2008 and worked for SkyKick and Microsoft before joining Google.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.
|
| A 15-month-old last seen in December was reported missing only this week Posted: 21 Feb 2020 10:21 AM PST  "This is a complicated case," the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation tweeted Thursday about the disappearance of Evelyn Mae Boswell. "Right now, our primary focus is finding Evelyn."
|
| 'Not good enough' Warren says of Bloomberg's non-disclosure agreement pledge Posted: 21 Feb 2020 01:25 PM PST  WASHINGTON/LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg said on Friday that his company has identified three women bound by non-disclosure agreements regarding his past conduct and that they would be released from their accords if they choose. In a statement, Bloomberg, who runs media conglomerate Bloomberg LP, said the agreements concern "comments they said I had made," and that the women should contact his company for a release. The agreements have been a source of fierce criticism from rival candidate U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, who called on Bloomberg to release the women from the agreements during the presidential debate in Las Vegas on Wednesday and again at a televised town hall on Thursday, saying she had drawn up a "release and covenant" that the former New York City mayor could use.
|
| Trump news: President rebuked by judge for 'totally inappropriate' tweets as Roger Stone met with ‘Lock Him Up’ chants following sentencing Posted: 20 Feb 2020 12:52 PM PST  Donald Trump was called out for his "totally inappropriate" tweets by the judge presiding over Roger Stone's trial as she handed down a 40-month sentence for the president's longtime friend, saying his crimes should cause universal "dismay and disgust".The comments came just before he took to the stage in Colorado Springs for a "Keep America Great Again" rally, as a part of a string of events he is doing this week across the country.
|
| Watch Out! U.S. Army Tanks Could Collapse Polish Bridges On Their Way to Battle Russia Posted: 20 Feb 2020 04:33 PM PST  The U.S. Army and its closest allies have a problem. The region of the world where they arguably are most likely to deploy its heaviest vehicles for high-tech combat also is peppered with flimsy old bridges that can't support the vehicles' weight.
|
| Inmate says in letter that he killed 2 molesters in prison Posted: 20 Feb 2020 07:08 PM PST  A California inmate serving a life sentence for murder confessed in a letter that he beat to death two child molesterswith another inmate's cane hours after a prison counselor ignored his urgent warning that he might become violent. In a letter to the Bay Area News Group, Jonathan Watson, 41, said he clubbed both men in the head on Jan. 16 at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in the small central California city of Corcoran. The first attack occurred after Watson became enraged that one of the sex offenders was watching a children's television show,the East Bay Times reported Thursday.
|
| Coronavirus: Chance to contain outbreak is 'narrowing' says WHO Posted: 20 Feb 2020 06:16 PM PST  Britons will fly back and arrive in Wiltshire 'Dominoes falling' in shipping as virus grips China's economy Ukrainian protesters attack bus carrying China evacuees Covid-19 symptoms: what to look for and how to treat it Subscribe to The Telegraph, free for 30 days Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, has said he is concerned that the chance to contain the coronavirus outbreak was "closing". Although the number of cases outside China remained relatively small, the World Health Organization is worried about clusters of infections that have no clear link to China. Speaking at a press briefing earlier today, Dr Tedros said: "I believe the window of opportunity is still there, but that the window is narrowing." It comes as four die and 18 test positive for the virus in Iran as authorities struggle to trace the source of the outbreak after it emerged that none of the diagnosed patients have traveled to China or been in contact with anyone who had.
|
| Chinese researchers just confirmed that patients can transmit the coronavirus without showing symptoms. A woman passed it to 5 relatives. Posted: 21 Feb 2020 03:58 PM PST  A woman tested positive for the coronavirus but she never became physically ill. Her family members, however, developed fevers.
|
| Ilhan Omar’s Challenger Is Literally on the Run From the Law Posted: 21 Feb 2020 01:35 AM PST  It's not unheard-of for members of Congress to resign their seats because of serious legal trouble. Now Republican House candidate Danielle Stella is trying to achieve the inverse: getting elected to Congress while being wanted by the law. Stella, one of the five Republicans competing for the right to take on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) in November, has been wanted for months on an arrest warrant for felony shoplifting. Even while facing arrest, though, she's managed to achieve a respectable fundraising haul—nearly $84,000 as of the end of 2019—and built up a following on social media, where, well, she's made some waves. Stella first stirred the pot in July over tweets suggesting she supports the QAnon conspiracy theory, which claims that Trump is engaged in a ceaseless secret war against high-ranking pedophile-cannibals in the halls of power. At the same time, The Guardian reported that she had been arrested twice in the Minneapolis area's Hennepin County on shoplifting charges, including an allegation that she stole $2,300 from Target. Stella insisted she didn't break the law. According to records, though, Stella failed to show up for multiple October court hearings about her alleged felony. After Stella missed another hearing, a judge issued a still-outstanding warrant for her arrest. "We can confirm that she does have an active felony theft warrant in Hennepin County," a spokesman for the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office told The Daily Beast. Stella didn't respond to requests for comment. Stella's primary rivals have watched her mounting legal woes with surprise. Lacy Johnson, an entrepreneur who has raised nearly $500,000 in his own bid for the Republican nomination, said that negative headlines about Stella could undermine whoever eventually faces Omar in the general election. The eventual Republican nominee already faces a steep challenge in the district, which heavily favors Democrats."Candidates are reflections of the party in a way, and it's not a good reflection of the party in a sense," Johnson said. "But now, being in politics, you do learn that people do have all kinds of ways of looking at things." Sheriff's deputies aren't the only ones interested in Stella's whereabouts. Questions about her location flared anew over the weekend, when a conspiracy theorist with 50,000 YouTube subscribers claimed with no evidence during a livestream that Stella was in some unspecified danger at a hotel in Osceola, Wisconsin. Callers from across the country deluged the Osceola hotel with calls, and police were called to the scene. A spokeswoman for the Osceola Police Department declined to share an incident report about the event, citing an open investigation. Stella is facing obstacles beyond the courtroom, too. In November, Twitter suspended her campaign account after she repeated a fringe allegation that Omar is an Iranian government asset and claimed that Omar "should be tried for treason and hanged" if the allegation was true. Despite all the legal attention, Stella continues to operate her campaign—at least online. In addition to raising money for her campaign, Stella has posted messages to her supporters on Facebook and Instagram, including promotional memes about QAnon. As a candidate himself, Johnson said that anyone facing an arrest warrant would no doubt face complications while running for office. How, for example, could they show up for debates in the face of police pressure? "I wouldn't even run if I was on the run from the police," Johnson said. How the Ilhan Omar Marriage Smear Went From Fever Swamp to TrumpRead 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.
|
| Police chief walked home in underwear after being fired Posted: 20 Feb 2020 08:00 AM PST  A police chief stripped down to his underwear and walked home through a snowstorm after being fired by officials in New Hampshire.
|
| Stone’s sentencing to begin after judge refuses new trial request Posted: 20 Feb 2020 03:39 AM PST  Roger Stone, a longtime ally of President Trump and a self-described political dirty trickster, is set to be sentenced on Thursday for his attempts to sabotage a congressional investigation that posed a political threat to the president.
|
| Democrat Warren, worried campaign will run out of cash, taps $3 million loan Posted: 20 Feb 2020 09:37 PM PST  NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren raised more money than most of her Democratic presidential rivals in the weeks before the Iowa caucuses, but spent so heavily that her campaign took out a $3 million loan fearing she would run out of cash. Warren raised $10.4 million in contributions in January -- more than former Vice President Joe Biden's $9 million and former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg's $6 million -- but ended the month with only $2.3 million in cash, according to disclosures filed on Thursday. All of the presidential hopefuls were required to submit financial disclosures on Thursday, public documents that offer insights into how they are managing their multi-million campaign operations.
|
| Family of man killed by trooper seeking more than $10M Posted: 20 Feb 2020 08:38 AM PST  Relatives of a black Connecticut man killed by a state trooper are seeking more than $10 million in wrongful death damages from state and local police, according to legal notices filed Thursday. Lawyers for the family of Mubarak Soulemane, 19, asked the state claims commissioner for permission to sue the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection and top state police officials including Public Safety Commissioner James Rovella for $10 million. West Haven's counsel, Lee Tiernan, said the town's policy is not to comment on pending litigation.
|
| Airport worker with no license takes plane for spin near D.C., almost crashes, feds say Posted: 20 Feb 2020 01:53 PM PST  Ryan Guy Parker allegedly "bounced" the landing and spun out when he touched down at the end of one harrowing flight.
|
| More than 100 wild animals in China died from poisoning in a mass die-off seemingly triggered by coronavirus disinfectant Posted: 21 Feb 2020 11:42 AM PST  Animal activists also shared distressing photos on Weibo: bloodied animals, a man hitting a dog with a stick, and an officer poking a lifeless dog.
|
| The Culinary Union of Nevada takes a pass on endorsing – here's why that may be a winning political strategy Posted: 21 Feb 2020 04:34 AM PST  A picket line outside the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas proved to be a hot ticket for most Democratic hopefuls aiming to pick up a vote or two ahead of the Nevada caucuses.Elizabeth Warren turned up with donuts to support workers demanding a union contract, while fellow presidential candidates Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer also found time in their busy schedules to meet workers, pose for pictures and express solidarity.One candidate notable by his absence was Bernie Sanders. The reason may be related to a recent dust-up between the Vermont senator's campaign and the Culinary Workers Union Local 226, known in Las Vegas as "the Culinary."Concern about damage to Sanders and the eagerness of his rivals to curry favor with the Culinary underscores the importance of the union in Nevada. Moreover, the political clout the Culinary possesses serves as an example of how unions can prosper at a time when legislators and politicans are working to limit labor rights.So who is the Culinary backing in the Nevada Democratic caucus? Nobody.The flash point in the Culinary's decision not to endorse was the "Medicare for All" proposals of Sens. Sanders and Warren.In a leaflet distributed to members, the union stated that Sanders' plan would "end Culinary Health Care" – the generous zero-deductible plan that serves 55,000 Culinary members and 70,000 of their dependents.Some of Sanders' backers countered that the union had betrayed progressive values by protecting its members while sacrificing higher standards of care for all working-class families. Online, the fight quickly turned ugly. The Vermont senator disavowed supporters who "attack trade union leaders" during a televised debate with other candidates, but not before being accused by Pete Buttigieg of being "at war" with the Culinary.The online fracas harkened back to an old trope about labor unions that is relentlessly exploited by employers: that they don't care about workers, only themselves and their own power. Which side are unions on?The spotlight on union power in Nevada comes at a time of debate within the labor movement over whether it needs to turn away from "business unionism" in order to survive. Business unionism, which organizes around specific goals for employees rather than a wider class struggle, was the dominant orientation of the labor movement in the U.S. though much of the 20th century.Some labor historians like Nelson Lichtenstein and David Montgomery point to business unions' tendency to take care of their own rather than organizing new workforces as a primary reason for the decline of the labor movement to its current nadir, representing just 6.2% of the private sector workforce from nearly 35% in the 1950s.They have argued that in order to attract more members, unions need to adopt the tactics and strategies of new social movements and become engaged in political struggles for broad-based changes that affect all workers, not just those in unions.In a recent book, I argue that the Culinary bridges this traditional divide between business and social unionism.The union has been successful despite Nevada being a "right-to-work" state where employees don't have to pay union dues to join a workforce and receive benefits. Culinary has grown its membership by touting the benefits that a strong union can bring, such as 24-hour health clinics, back-pay awards totaling hundreds of thousands dollars, and protections that have seen the return of terminated workers. At the same time, the Culinary has made political engagement a cornerstone of its value, both to its members and the wider public. In the 2016 election, the union knocked on more than 250,000 doors and was instrumental in getting Democrats elected to the state legislature, the governor's office, and the U.S. House and Senate in Nevada.The social movement aspect of the union's work is also seen in other policy areas that it used to compare the candidates: organizing rights and immigration reform. Policy changes on these issues will benefit members of the union, which include large numbers of recent immigrants. But it would also help many low-wage workers outside of the union. A brave face on JanusUnder President Trump, the National Labor Relations Board appears more intent on finding ways to limit labor rights than expand them. And the labor movement faced a major setback in 2018 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Janus v. ASCME that nonunion public sector workers could not be compelled to pay dues for services they receive. After that decision, the Culinary shows how the labor movement can adapt to the hostility of employers, government agencies and courts.It has been facing these headwinds for more than 80 years in Nevada. Today, Culinary members have wages and health care that are the envy of nonunion workers in the hospitality industry. But that standard came only as a result of historic strikes and hard-fought campaigns with multinational corporations like MGM Resorts and Caesars Entertainment.Other locals of the Culinary's parent union Unite Here have backed Sanders, including in Boston. The Los Angeles local co-endorsed Sanders and Warren. But they are in states with very different politics than Nevada.The Culinary has always had a good sense of where the electorate is in Nevada, sometimes leading the union to endorse Republicans like former two-term Gov. Kenny Guinn. And it has been successful at helping to keep Nevada blue in the last three presidential elections, countering one of the more predictive variables for how a state will vote for president – whether or not it has a right-to-work law. My research has shown a correlation between right-to-work laws in red states and a vote for the Republican candidate for president. In the last election, Nevada and Virginia were and the only states to buck that trend. Far from being a referendum on Medicare for All, the Culinary's non-endorsement returns the focus where they want it: getting the biggest turnout possible to meet the union's goals of immigration reform, workers' rights and better health care. The mixture of business and social unionism that made the Culinary a political force in Nevada can now serve as a model for other unions in the post-Janus era.[Expertise in your inbox. Sign up for The Conversation's newsletter and get a digest of academic takes on today's news, every day.]This article is republished from The Conversation, a nonprofit news site dedicated to sharing ideas from academic experts.Read more: * Something Democrats and Republicans have in common: Exaggerated stereotypes about both parties * When presidential campaigns end, what happens to the leftover money?Ruben J. Garcia does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
|
| Bear strolling around California city sparks media feeding frenzy Posted: 21 Feb 2020 08:32 AM PST  It's not that unusual to find bears wandering around towns and cities across the U.S., especially when those cities are right next to the hills where those bears live. But one not-so-unusually lumbering around Monrovia, California, on Thursday and Friday has sparked some atypical curiosity in the bear-friendly city.The large, nameless bear has been spotted slowly making his way through yards and blocking traffic since Thursday night, not doing much besides sniffing out trash.> NOT YOUR AVERAGE BEAR: A large bear was spotted roaming the streets of Monrovia, California, seemingly taking in the sights, enjoying the amenities of residents' backyards, and not minding all the attention at all. https://t.co/E6KoREtsXn pic.twitter.com/Eo5PdTHDee> > — ABC News (@ABC) February 21, 2020Nothing fazed the bear — not even a man getting way too close with his cell phone or some barking dogs behind a fence.> A BEAR-Y GOOD STROLL: A bear strolled through a neighborhood in Monrovia, California on Friday. People came out to see the bear as it wandered through yards and got close to two barking dogs! Check out the bear's morning adventure. pic.twitter.com/xu4urom4nR> > — CBS Newspath (@cbsnewspath) February 21, 2020The bear eventually fell asleep in someone's backyard, reporter for local station KNX1070 Craig Fiegener learned from the California Fish and Wildlife Department. Officials from the department were planning to sneak into the yard, extend the bear's nap with a tranquilizer dart, and then return him to the woods where he belongs.More stories from theweek.com Bernie Sanders' subtle warning to the Democratic Party How much will Medicare-for-all save Americans? A lot. A recurring Biden campaign story about being arrested in South Africa is full of inconsistencies
|
| This Fighter Jet Is The Biggest Threat To Russia's Su-57 Stealth Fighter (Not the F-35) Posted: 21 Feb 2020 05:55 AM PST  And it's not American.
|
| 'Enemies of the people': Coronavirus evacuees endure hostile return to Ukraine Posted: 21 Feb 2020 01:21 PM PST  Julia Volok says some of her fellow passengers expected a warm welcome on their arrival in Ukraine after finally being evacuated from the epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic in China's Hubei province this week. Instead Volok, a 26-year-old Chinese-language student, and her fellow evacuees found their buses being pelted with projectiles by protesters on Thursday as they approached the sanatorium where they have started a mandatory two-week quarantine. Despite repeated reassurances from the government that there was no danger, the protesters feared being infected by the virus.
|
| 59 Hong Kong police quarantined after meal with virus colleague Posted: 21 Feb 2020 02:05 AM PST  Dozens of Hong Kong police officers have been placed in quarantine after attending a banquet with a colleague who later tested positive for the new coronavirus, officials said Friday. The news prompted celebrations among some pro-democracy protesters, a vivid illustration of how deeply polarised the city has become after months of rallies and thousands of arrests last year. Health officials said four officers as well as the infected policeman's wife and mother-in-law showed symptoms of illness.
|
| Housing crisis: Berkeley law would put renters first Posted: 20 Feb 2020 12:48 PM PST  The mayor of Berkeley, California, proposed a new housing policy Thursday aimed at giving renters first dibs when a property goes up for sale, as the state battles a severe housing shortage and homelessness that Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared his top priority. Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin announced a proposed ordinance to give renters "the first refusal and right to purchase" when their apartment buildings or rented homes are put on the market. Berkeley's city council will vote on the idea later this month.
|
| At least 5 people in China have disappeared, gotten arrested, or been silenced after speaking out about the coronavirus — here's what we know about them Posted: 20 Feb 2020 08:06 AM PST  Wuhan doctor Li Wenliang, who died of the new coronavirus, was initially censored by police. He wasn't the only whistleblower to go silent.
|
| Who has qualified for the South Carolina Democratic debate so far? Posted: 20 Feb 2020 11:01 PM PST  To appear onstage in Charleston on February 25, Democratic candidates have to meet a delegate or polling threshold.
|
| Donald Trump dismisses US intelligence briefing warning Russia is working to boost his re-election Posted: 20 Feb 2020 05:38 PM PST  Donald Trump has dismissed a US intelligence assessment that Russia is meddling in the 2020 election to help his re-election as a Democrat "hoax", amid a row over a briefing with Congress last week. "Another misinformation campaign is being launched by Democrats in Congress saying that Russia prefers me to any of the Do Nothing Democrat candidates who still have been unable to, after two weeks, count their votes in Iowa," the president tweeted, adding "Hoax number 7!" It comes after America's top election security official, Shelby Pierson, warned the House Intelligence Committee that the Kremlin was interfering in the 2020 presidential campaign to aid Mr Trump's re-election in a classified briefing on February 13. More than two dozen Democrats and Republicans sit on the committee, and the details of the briefing are thought to have been related to Mr Trump. The US president was furious with his acting director of national intelligence (DNI), Joseph Maguire, and his aides for speaking to Congress and accused them of being "disloyal", according to the Washington Post.
|
| Ilhan Omar accuses Meghan McCain of hypocrisy towards 'Bernie bros' over online attacks Posted: 21 Feb 2020 10:35 AM PST  Representative Ilhan Omar has accused The View's Meghan McCain of hypocrisy for her opinions about Bernie Sanders supporters and their online attacks given her own social media behaviour."The same people who chastise the progressive movement regularly traffic in anti-Muslim smears and hate speech against me and those I represent," the freshman representative wrote in a tweet Thursday.
|
| A coast to coast storm ramps up for this weekend Posted: 21 Feb 2020 07:01 AM PST  After record-setting snow in the south on Thursday, Friday will be a much quieter day across the country before the next storm gets going this weekend.
|
| Meet Japan's Gestapo: The Kempeitai Secret Police That Americans Feared Posted: 21 Feb 2020 07:21 AM PST  The Kempeitai were the military police of the Japanese Imperial Army. Literally translated, the name means "Law Soldier Regiment." Westerners of 1930s generally called them "gendarmerie"
|
| Moscow says Russian official detained in Spain after U.S. request Posted: 21 Feb 2020 07:46 AM PST |
| Iowa Professor Bound and Gagged Husband Before His Death: Cops Posted: 20 Feb 2020 11:09 AM PST  An Iowa professor has been charged for allegedly gagging and binding her husband to a chair with rope for hours before his death, authorities said on Wednesday evening.Gowun Park, a 41-year-old assistant economics professor at Simpson College, was charged with first-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping in the death of her 41-year-old husband, Sung Nam, on Saturday, West Des Moines police told The Daily Beast. "Ms. Park's actions and in-actions were directly responsible for Mr. Nam's death. The injuries sustained by Mr. Nam were not self-inflicted," a criminal complaint obtained by the Des Moines Register says. "Ms. Park stated that the only people present during the duration of the events were her and her husband, Sung Woo Nam."California Woman Fabricated Firefighter Husband to Scam Donors: PoliceAuthorities allege Park bound her husband's hands and feet with zip ties before tying him to a chair in their West Des Moines home on Saturday between 10:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. Park then allegedly stuffed "an item of clothing" into Nam's mouth to prevent him from yelling in protest before finally using duct tape to place a towel over his head to cover his eyes.Several hours later, at about 5:05 p.m., police say Nam asked to be untied in distress, but his wife refused to free him. Gun finally called West Des Moines police officers at around 6:45 p.m., at which point deputies found Nam unresponsive with ligature marks on the front of his neck and throat. His wife was "performing CPR" on him, authorities said."Ms. Park made efforts to hide and conceal the binding items prior to the arrival of emergency personnel," the criminal complaint said. Nam was transported to UnityPoint Health-Iowa Methodist Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. The next day, Park emailed her students to say she was canceling classes for the following week and postponing their midterm because of a "personnel issue," according to the Des Moines Register. Park, who was hired at the small liberal-arts college in 2017, was arrested on Wednesday after faculty members saw deputies in her office. Air Force Major Charged With Murder After Missing Wife's Remains Found"I witnessed three police officers in the faculty member's office searching through papers and drawers," Brian Steffen, professor of multimedia communications, told the school's newspaper, The Simpsonian. "I did see police officers remove a computer from her office. I don't know whether they took other materials, but I did see them take a computer away."A Simpson College spokesperson told The Daily Beast that the school has suspended Park following her arrest and is cooperating with authorities during the ongoing investigation. As of Thursday afternoon, Park's staff profile page was removed from Simpson College's website, as was any mention of the assistant economics professor.Wife Kills Husband, Admits It in a Bar Bathroom"The recent news has left me and other classmates in shock," Kody Ricken, a sophomore and one of Park's advisees, told the student newspaper. "We never would have expected her to do anything like this."Park received her master's degree in economics from New York University in 2010 before teaching there as an adjunct professor for five years, a school spokesperson confirmed. She later received her doctoral degree in economics in 2017 from the City University of New York just before joining Simpson College faculty, according to alumni records. Park is being held on a $5 million bond at Dallas County Jail. It was not immediately known whether she has a lawyer. 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.
|
| Authorities: 3 killed in rural West Texas small plane crash Posted: 20 Feb 2020 11:20 AM PST |
| 46,000-year-old bird found in Siberia Posted: 20 Feb 2020 07:46 PM PST  Along with the ancient bird, scientists are also studying an 18,000-year-old puppy and other extremely old specimens.
|
| Former national security adviser denounces the House's impeachment proceedings as 'grossly partisan' Posted: 20 Feb 2020 06:26 AM PST  Former national security adviser John Bolton on Wednesday denounced the House's impeachment proceedings against President Trump as "grossly partisan" and said his testimony would not have changed Trump's acquittal in the Senate, as he continued to stay quiet on the details of a yet-to-be-released book.
|
| Amy Klobuchar blanks Pete Buttigieg and avoids shaking his hand at the end of Democratic debate Posted: 20 Feb 2020 02:41 PM PST  At the end of a raucous Democratic primary debate in Las Vegas that saw multiple clashes between the six presidential hopefuls on stage, there seemed to be no love lost between two sparring partners in particular.Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar and the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg, traded blows over the former forgetting the name of the President of Mexico, and the latter's relative electoral inexperience, in a heated exchange.
|
| Trump's intelligence shakeup is reportedly tied to his loathing for Adam Schiff, bond with Devin Nunes Posted: 21 Feb 2020 04:37 PM PST  President Trump berated outgoing acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire on Valentine's Day because he was upset over an election security intelligence briefing for the House Intelligence Committee on Feb. 13, several major newspapers reported late Thursday. Trump was reportedly angry that Shelby Pierson, the election threat czar at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, had briefed lawmakers without his knowledge, and also that she had told them Russia is currently interfering in the 2020 election with the goal of helping Trump win re-election.Specifically, Trump was furious that Pierson had briefed House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), The Washington Post reports. "Trump erroneously believed that Pierson had given the assessment exclusively" to Schiff, and he "also believed that the information would be helpful to Democrats if it were released publicly." It isn't clear where Trump got the impression Schiff was the only person at the bipartisan briefing, but "Trump learned about Pierson's remarks from Rep. Devin Nunes (Calif.), the committee's ranking Republican and a staunch Trump ally," the Post reports. Nunes was at the briefing.Trump has "fixated on" Schiff, "pummeling him publicly with insults and unfounded accusations of corruption," since Schiff started leading Trump's impeachment, The New York Times reports. In October, Trump even "refused to invite lawmakers from the congressional intelligence committees to a White House briefing on Syria because he did not want Mr. Schiff there."Accounts differ on how much the election interference briefing weighed on Trump's decision to replace Maguire with Richard Grenell, a loyalist who is currently U.S. ambassador to Germany — the Post says the incident "ruined Maguire's chances of becoming the permanent intelligence chief," while two administration officials tell the Times the timing was coincidental and Maguire was never a contender — but "Trump's suspicions of the intelligence community have often been fueled by Nunes, who was with the president in California on Wednesday when he announced on Twitter that Grenell would become the acting director," the Post reports.Some of Maguire's top aides are leaving, too, including acting deputy DNI Andrew Hallman, the Times reports, paving the way for "Grenell to put in place his own management team." Kash Patel, the Nunes aide "who helmed efforts to push back against the FBI's Trump-Russia investigation, has just started working in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence," The Daily Beast reports.More stories from theweek.com Bernie Sanders' subtle warning to the Democratic Party How much will Medicare-for-all save Americans? A lot. Bloomberg says he'll release women from NDAs
|
| Fuel tanker explodes causing 'catastrophic' damage on Indianapolis interstate Posted: 20 Feb 2020 05:53 PM PST  The driver was able to get out of the tanker truck on his own and was met by three good Samaritans who helped usher him to safety.
|
| America's Marines Would Be The Tip Of The Spear In A War Against North Korea Posted: 21 Feb 2020 10:21 AM PST  These five weapons would see a lot of use.
|
| Son of powerful Mexican drug lord extradited to U.S. Posted: 21 Feb 2020 10:03 AM PST  U.S. law enforcement has described Rubén Oseguera-González, AKA El Menchito, as a former second-in-command of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
|
