| Trump's acting Homeland Security chief was excoriated by a GOP senator as he stumbled over basic questions on coronavirus preparation Posted: 25 Feb 2020 02:42 PM PST  "You're supposed to keep us safe. And the American people deserve some straight answers on the coronavirus," GOP Sen. John Kennedy said to Wolf.
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| Lori Vallow's niece knows where missing kids are, is involved in doomsday cult, ex alleges Posted: 25 Feb 2020 12:01 PM PST  The Idaho mom's niece is a member of a "cult" whose members were "killed off like flies," ex claims. Vallow has also been accused of holding doomsday beliefs.
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| ‘I’m Coming for You’: Biden Threatens Gun Makers at South Carolina Rally Posted: 25 Feb 2020 06:41 AM PST  Joe Biden warned gun manufacturers during a speech in South Carolina on Monday night that "I'm coming for you, and I'm taking you down."Biden has cast himself as a relative moderate in recent months on gun-control. His campaign's gun control plan, which was released in October, proposed reinstating an "assault-weapons ban" and universal background checks, but would not force the current owners of semiautomatic rifles to sell the guns to government, as a number of his opponents proposed.While he's avoided aggressively targeting gun owners, Biden has previously emphasized his commitment to holding gun manufacturers liable when one of their products is used in the commission of a crime."A guy has 12 assault weapons with bump stocks, which means you can fire it faster. You can pull the trigger faster," Biden said last week during a CNN town hall, referencing the Las Vegas hotel shooting. "Why in God's name should anyone, anyone, anyone, anyone be able to own that? It's just wrong, and we've got to — and I promise you, as president, I am going to get these guys."> I promise you that if I am elected president, we will hold gun manufacturers accountable for the carnage they have caused. pic.twitter.com/b1HLGdFyeF> > -- Joe Biden (Text Join to 30330) (@JoeBiden) February 24, 2020As Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) has risen in the polls, Biden has taken to criticizing the Vermont lawmaker's early career record on gun control, pointing out that Sanders, who was endorsed by the NRA in his 1990 congressional race, voted against gun control legislation on a number of occasions as a young House member."It's just flat-out immoral, it's just flat-out immoral," Biden said Thursday at a meeting with members of the anti-gun group Moms Demand Action in Nevada. "You know, committed Republicans and some Democrats — like Bernie Sanders — voted five times, five times against background checks and waiting periods; notwithstanding the fact that millions of people were denied having access to weapons of destruction because they didn't qualify."
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| Trump official says coronavirus death rate same as flu – despite it being 100 times worse Posted: 25 Feb 2020 02:34 PM PST  In congressional testimony today, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf claimed that the mortality rate for coronavirus is similar to the flu, both at about 2 per cent.In response, Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana asks: "Are you sure of that?"
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| A California man drove his Jeep off the roof of a six-level parking garage and crashed into a McDonald's, police say Posted: 23 Feb 2020 06:49 PM PST  Police say a California man drove a Jeep off a parking garage and into a McDonald's. Two people dove out of the car before it crashed.
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| Italian hikers rescued in Alaska after visiting infamous bus Posted: 24 Feb 2020 03:04 PM PST  An Italian man suffering from frostbite and four other tourists were rescued in the Alaska wilderness after visiting an abandoned bus that has become a lure for adventurers since it was featured in the "Into the Wild" book and movie. Alaska State Troopers say the five Italians were rescued Saturday from a camp they set up after visiting the dilapidated bus on the Stampede Trail near the interior town of Healy. The hikers were found 13 miles from the trailhead, Trooper spokesman Tim DeSpain said.
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| Fake News or Reality? Did F-35s from Israel Fly Over Iran? Posted: 25 Feb 2020 01:30 AM PST  Could that be true?
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| U.S. Supreme Court turns away religious bias claim against Walgreens Posted: 24 Feb 2020 06:52 AM PST  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to Walgreens, turning away an appeal by a fired former Florida employee of the pharmacy chain who asked not to work on Saturdays for religious reasons as a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The justices declined to review a lower court ruling in Darrell Patterson's religious discrimination lawsuit that concluded that his demand to never work on Saturday, observed as the Sabbath by Seventh-day Adventists, placed an undue hardship on Walgreens. Patterson, who had trained customer service representatives at a Walgreens call center in Orlando, was fired in 2011 after failing to show up for work on a Saturday for an urgent training session.
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| How South Korea’s Coronavirus Outbreak Got so Quickly out of Control Posted: 24 Feb 2020 12:37 AM PST  South Korea now has the highest number of coronavirus cases outside mainland China
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| Trump Says No Country Has Helped Him Win Elections, Slams Schiff Posted: 25 Feb 2020 07:27 AM PST  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said he doesn't want help from any country to win re-election and accused House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff of leaking news that U.S. authorities believe Russia is trying to help Bernie Sanders win the Democratic nomination."I don't want help from any country," Trump said at a news conference in New Delhi on Tuesday, concluding a two-day trip to India. "And I haven't been given help from any country."The remarks suggested that the president still disputes official U.S. conclusions that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help secure his election. In June, he said in an interview with ABC News that he would at least listen to foreigners who claimed to have damaging information on his political opponents.Sanders, a Vermont senator, confirmed last week that American intelligence officials had briefed him in January on Russian efforts to help his campaign. He didn't reveal the briefing until after the Washington Post reported Friday that Trump and other lawmakers on Capitol Hill had been informed of the Russian interference in the campaign.Trump suggested that Democrats led by Schiff leaked news of the briefing in order to keep Sanders from winning the party's nomination."I think it's disgraceful, and I think it was leaks from the Intelligence Committee, House version, and I think that they leaked it. I think probably Schiff leaked it," he said Tuesday, without citing any evidence for his claim.Schiff previously has denied Trump's assertion."Bernie is probably winning and it looks like he's winning, and he's got a head of steam, and they maybe don't want him for obvious reasons," Trump said. "So they don't want him, so they put out a thing that Russia is backing him."Trump has long disputed the U.S. intelligence community's finding that Russia sought to covertly boost his campaign in 2016. "I get it, I get the game better than anybody," he said.(Updates with Schiff tweet in seventh paragraph.)To contact the reporters on this story: Justin Sink in Washington at jsink1@bloomberg.net;Jordan Fabian in Washington at jfabian6@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Alex Wayne at awayne3@bloomberg.net, Joshua GalluFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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| San Francisco's mayor has declared a state of emergency as the coronavirus continues to spread Posted: 25 Feb 2020 03:42 PM PST  Mayor London Breed said the city was "taking the necessary steps to protect San Franciscans from harm."
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| Secretary of State Pompeo appeared to coordinate with Giuliani on Ukraine, new documents show Posted: 24 Feb 2020 12:59 PM PST  A trove of documents released on Friday by the State Department to American Oversight make clear that Rudy Giuliani — who was acting as Trump's personal attorney — pressed American diplomats to consider the information he'd unearthed in Kyiv about corruption. Though the documents released amount to fewer than a dozen pages of emails, they nevertheless show aides to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo unambiguously receptive to Giuliani's overtures.
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| A rare, 'cryptic' rainbow snake was spotted in a Florida forest for the first time since 1969 Posted: 25 Feb 2020 07:13 AM PST  A rainbow snake, also known as an "eel moccasin," was spotted in Florida's Ocala National Forest for the first time in five decades.
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| New Mexico governor to sheriffs: Enforce gun law or resign Posted: 25 Feb 2020 03:14 PM PST  New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a red-flag gun bill Tuesday that will allow state district courts to order the temporary surrender of firearms, and she urged sheriffs to resign if they still refuse to enforce it. Flanked by advocates for stricter gun control and supportive law enforcement officials at a signing ceremony, Lujan Grisham said the legislation provides law enforcement authorities with an urgently needed tool to deter deadly violence by temporarily removing firearms from people who pose a threat to themselves or others. "If they really intend to do that, they should resign as a law enforcement officer and leader in that community," she said.
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| The Deadly Reason Why Nuclear Missile Submarines Are Called "Boomers" Posted: 24 Feb 2020 03:00 PM PST  Vessels of death.
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| 'D.C. Sniper' Malvo can seek parole after change in Virginia law Posted: 24 Feb 2020 12:46 PM PST  Lee Boyd Malvo, who was 17 when he took part in the deadly 2002 "D.C. Sniper" shooting spree in the Washington area, will get a chance to seek parole in Virginia following a change in state law enacted on Monday, preempting a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the matter. The change, signed by Democratic Governor Ralph Northam, allows people like Malvo, now 35, who were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for offenses committed before age 18 to ask for release after 20 years. Malvo, who is incarcerated in a supermax state prison in Virginia's Wise County, and an older accomplice, John Allen Muhammad, were convicted in the shootings in which 10 people were killed.
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| Rush Limbaugh: coronavirus a 'common cold' being 'weaponised' against Trump Posted: 25 Feb 2020 05:43 AM PST  * Rightwing shock jock rails at 'effort to bring down Trump' * More than 2,700 people have died from virus worldwideThe coronavirus outbreak is being "weaponised" by the media to bring down Donald Trump when in fact it is simply a version of the "common cold", the conservative radio host and presidential medal of freedom recipient Rush Limbaugh claimed on Monday.His comments were widely condemned: more than 80,000 people are known to have contracted the virus worldwide and 2,700 are known to have died. Authorities are struggling to cope in China, Iran, Italy and Tenerife.The World Health Organization has not yet declared the outbreak, which originated in China, a pandemic.On Tuesday, Professor Mary-Louise McLaws, an infection control expert who has advised the WHO, told the Guardian: "Part of the reason for declaring a pandemic, if they do declare one, would be to get the critical mass on board to take it seriously and not ignore symptoms, and to get the finances required to help tackle and control it."There are more than 50 known cases in the US, subject to quarantine. In India on Tuesday, Trump downplayed stock market falls in response to the outbreak, praised China for its response, and said coronavirus was "a problem that is going to go away". But on Monday, his administration asked Congress for $1.8bn to boost its own response.Limbaugh's conspiracy theorist take is that the outbreak is being used by the media to discredit a president who earlier this month honoured the rightwing shock jock during the State of the Union address."It looks like the coronavirus is being weaponised as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump," Limbaugh said on his Monday show. "Now, I want to tell you the truth about the coronavirus. I'm dead right on this. The coronavirus is the common cold, folks."The drive-by media hype of this thing as a pandemic, as the Andromeda strain, as, 'Oh, my God, if you get it, you're dead' … I think the survival rate is 98%. Ninety-eight per cent of people get the coronavirus survive. It's a respiratory system virus."Limbaugh has used his platform on talk radio to campaign to attack liberals, often causing controversy with extreme rightwing views on abortion, feminism and race.Earlier this month, he revealed that he has advanced lung cancer.According to the Guardian's guide to the coronavirus, it "can cause pneumonia. Those who have fallen ill are reported to suffer coughs, fever and breathing difficulties. In severe cases there can be organ failure. As this is viral pneumonia, antibiotics are of no use. The antiviral drugs we have against flu will not work. Recovery depends on the strength of the immune system. Many of those who have died were already in poor health."Limbaugh said: "It probably is a ChiCom laboratory experiment that is in the process of being weaponised."That was a reference to a baseless theory spread in the US by figures including a Republican senator, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, that the coronavirus may have originated in Chinese biological weapons research.In the US, Limbaugh claimed, "the way [coronavirus] is being weaponised is by virtue of the media, and I think that it is an effort to bring down Trump, and one of the ways it's being used to do this is to scare the investors, to scare people in business."It's to scare people into not buying Treasury bills at auctions. It's to scare people into leaving, cashing out of the stock market – and sure enough, as the show began today, the stock market – the Dow Jones Industrial Average – was down about 900 points, supposedly because of the latest news about the spread of the coronavirus."The Dow fell by 1,000 points on Monday, its worst fall in two years.The media's response to the coronavirus story has indeed attracted criticism for sensationalism and stoking public fear.Speaking to Time magazine earlier this month, for example, Rutgers journalism professor Steven Miller said: "It's just amazing how quickly word about this [coronavirus] has spread, the intensity of the coverage. It seems to me that the coronavirus is being covered in more sensationalistic terms than Ebola in 2018."
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| Iran health minister falls ill on camera Posted: 25 Feb 2020 09:50 AM PST  Video shows Iran's deputy health minister suffering symptoms of the coronavirus at a press conference before being diagnosed.
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| Swing District Dem Says ‘No One’ Left in the Presidential Race Will Be ‘Helpful’ in Her Reelection Posted: 25 Feb 2020 08:44 AM PST  Representative Lauren Underwood (D., Ill.) said at an event on Monday that "no one" running for the Democratic presidential nomination would be helpful to her in the 2020 general elections."Some people are neutral and some people are not and no one in my opinion that's running on the Democratic ticket is helpful to me in my race," Underwood told an audience at the City Club of Chicago, responding to a question about whether the rise of Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) would hurt down-ticket Democrats in November. Underwood's response drew a murmur from the crowd."I guess that's controversial," Underwood said when she perceived the audience's reaction. "I view [the] presidential candidates as neutral at best or very difficult at worst."Underwood represents Illinois's 14th congressional district, which traditionally votes Republican. The freshman representative managed in 2018 to unseat three-term incumbent Representative Randy Hultgren, a Republican, by five percentage points.Sanders, the most progressive candidate in the Democratic primaries, is leading the race after winning the Nevada Caucuses and New Hampshire Primary, while taking a close second place in the Iowa Caucuses. The Vermont senator's rise in the primaries is worrying more moderate Democrats who feel President Trump will defeat him in the November elections.Sanders has also caused controversy among Florida Democrats following his repeated praise of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. Florida has one of the largest concentrations of Cuban immigrants in the U.S., many of them refugees who fled the communist country."I find Senator Bernie Sanders' comments on Castro's Cuba absolutely unacceptable. The Castro regime murdered and jailed dissidents, and caused unspeakable harm to too many South Florida families," Representative Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D., Fla.) tweeted on Monday. "To this day, it remains an authoritarian regime that oppresses its people, subverts the free press, and stifles a free society."
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| U.S. officials: Four more Diamond Princess passengers have coronavirus; U.S. cases at 57 Posted: 25 Feb 2020 02:45 PM PST  Four more passengers from the Diamond Princess have tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of Americans infected to 40.
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| Tom Steyer has paid more than $40,000 to rent a property owned by Jim Clyburn's daughter Posted: 24 Feb 2020 06:49 AM PST  Billionaire Tom Steyer is facing some criticism over his spending in South Carolina, a state where his Democratic presidential campaign is making some legitimate headway.Some people have even accused him of trying to buy votes from the state's African-American voters, which Steyer and many others have adamantly denied, The New York Times reports. One thing that's been particularly scrutinized is the Steyer campaign's rental agreement with a company owned by Jennifer Clyburn Reed, the daughter of Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), the highest-ranking African American in Congress whose endorsement is considered key in South Carolina. Since October, the Steyer campaign has paid more than $40,000 to the company to rent one of its properties as its state headquarters in Columbia, South Carolina. A California-based bank founded by Steyer, meanwhile, has loaned $1 million to a Columbia-based bank that has one of Clyburn's sons-in-laws on its board.The campaign has brushed off the accusations of trying to procure political favor from the Clyburn family, arguing Steyer is simply committed to hiring local organizers and investing in local businesses to get his grassroots operations running. "The question isn't why Tom is doing this," Steyer spokesman Benjamin Gerdes said in a statement. "The real question is why isn't every other candidate doing it?"The politically-active Reed called the accusations of vote-buying "disturbing" and seemed a bit annoyed that people think she merely serves as a surrogate for her father. "I'm an adult," she told the Times. "There is no connection. My father has his business and I have mine. We do not vote the same way."Besides, it's probably all a moot point — both Reed and Clyburn seem likely to back former Vice President Joe Biden. Read more at The New York Times.More stories from theweek.com Harvard scientist predicts coronavirus will infect up to 70 percent of humanity Children seem remarkably resilient to coronavirus The Trump administration is reportedly fighting over coronavirus spending
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| Egypt executes eight men over church bombings: sources Posted: 25 Feb 2020 03:52 AM PST  Egypt has executed eight men sentenced to death over deadly attacks claimed by the Islamic State group on churches and a police checkpoint, judicial and medical sources said Tuesday. The convicts, whose final appeal against the death penalty was denied in May last year, were put to death at dawn on Monday, the sources said.
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| Pakistani woman accused of blasphemy seeks asylum in France Posted: 25 Feb 2020 04:38 AM PST  A Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy after spending eight years on death row in Pakistan, and who faced death threats from Islamic extremists, said she is going to request asylum in France. Asia Bibi will receive her diploma Tuesday as a Citizen of Honor of the city of Paris, a title she was awarded in 2015. Bibi has lived in Canada since she was released by Pakistan last year.
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| Coronavirus: Donald Trump's Very Own Hurricane Katrina Moment? Posted: 25 Feb 2020 11:30 AM PST  "We are asking the American public to prepare for the expectation that this might be bad," an official with the Center for Disease Control said today. There are currently 14 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the United States.
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| A Wrongfully Convicted Kansas Man Who Spent 23 Years in Prison Is Awarded $1.5 Million Posted: 25 Feb 2020 10:02 AM PST  Lamonte McIntyre was convicted and sentenced to two terms of life in prison for the murder of Donald Ewing and Doniel Quinn back in 1994. The two victims had been shot in the middle of the day while they sat in their car
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| Carnival, Royal Caribbean, and Norwegian Cruise Line are taking a financial beating from the coronavirus — here's how much the companies predict it will hurt earnings this year Posted: 25 Feb 2020 10:03 AM PST  Carnival Corp., Royal Caribbean Cruises, and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings have predicted that the coronavirus will hurt their earnings this year.
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| Pete Buttigieg appears to mimic Barack Obama almost exactly in campaign speech video comparison Posted: 25 Feb 2020 02:31 AM PST  Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has been accused of plagiarising Barack Obama in several campaign speeches.In a compilation video featuring side-by-side comparisons of the two men's speeches, Mr Buttigieg is shown using almost the exact same words as Mr Obama on multiple occasions.
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| Warren Buffett says 'I'm a Democrat,' and would have 'no trouble' voting for Bloomberg Posted: 24 Feb 2020 08:22 AM PST  Speaking on CNBC television, Buffett also said he agreed with some positions of Bernie Sanders, who is looking to cement his front-runner status in the U.S. Democratic presidential race. "I'm a Democrat, but I'm not a card-carrying Democrat," said Buffett, who said he has sometimes voted for Republicans, though he supported Democrat Hillary Clinton in her 2016 White House run.
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| Arizona congressional candidate suspends campaign after overdosing on heroin: 'I'm not going to hide from this' Posted: 24 Feb 2020 08:02 PM PST  A Republican running for Congress in Arizona announced on Monday he is suspending his campaign following a heroin overdose last week.Chris Taylor is an Army veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan and a member of the City Council in Safford. He has a history of opioid addiction dating back to his high school years. "I'm not going to hide from this," Taylor told The Arizona Republic. "I'm not ashamed of what happened. I wish to sincerely apologize to the amazing people who have supported me."Taylor told NBC News he is seeking treatment for substance abuse, having relapsed "after having so many solid years in sobriety. I have to figure out where I went wrong. Thankfully I have every resource available to me through the Veterans Affairs Administration and I have the strongest support system one could dream of. The only thing I can do is face this head on in complete humility and put one foot in front of the other so that I can get the help needed to be the father and husband that my family deserves."Taylor was running in Arizona's 1st Congressional District, hoping to unseat Rep. Tom O'Halleran (D). In his campaign ads, Taylor promised to support President Trump, cut taxes, and defend the Second Amendment.More stories from theweek.com Acting DHS secretary falsely claims flu is just as deadly as the coronavirus Harvard scientist predicts coronavirus will infect up to 70 percent of humanity CDC warns Americans to prepare for coronavirus outbreak
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| ACLU files suit to block "sanctuary cities" from outlawing abortion Posted: 25 Feb 2020 03:06 AM PST  In its filing, the ACLU claims the ordinances violate the constitution and mislead residents "as to whether individuals can in fact exercise their right to access abortion. "
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| Missing Tennessee toddler's grandmother and her boyfriend extradited after arrest Posted: 24 Feb 2020 11:11 AM PST  Evelyn Boswell, a Tennessee toddler who is 15 months old, was last seen in December. An Amber Alert was issued for her on Wednesday.
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| Crackdown on immigrants using public benefits takes effect Posted: 24 Feb 2020 10:04 AM PST  With new rules taking effect on Monday that disqualify more people from green cards if they use government benefits, droves of immigrants, including citizens and legal residents, have dropped social services they or their children may be entitled to out of fear they will be kicked out of the United States.
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| Sunk: How Sweden Sent America's USS Ronald Reagan to the Bottom of the Sea Posted: 24 Feb 2020 05:00 PM PST  (In a simulation.)
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| Coronavirus: White House adviser insists virus under control as CDC warns it is not Posted: 25 Feb 2020 01:45 PM PST  There are contradictory reports regarding the potential for widespread coronavirus infections in the US, with the White House economic adviser saying that investors need not fear an escalating number of cases.White House National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow told CNBC on Tuesday that "We have contained this. I won't say [it's] air-tight, but it's pretty close to air-tight."
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| Photos show what Italy is like under lockdown as the country becomes Europe's epicenter of the coronavirus with 283 cases reported in 4 days Posted: 25 Feb 2020 07:02 AM PST  Authorities have closed down 12 Italian towns as they try to stop the virus from spreading. Photos show what it looks like on the ground.
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| United Airlines dished out $10,000 each to 9 passengers who were forced to downgrade from business class to 'Premium Plus' Posted: 25 Feb 2020 07:34 AM PST  United offered $10,000 travel vouchers to nine passengers who agreed to sit in "Priority Plus" rather than business class during an 11-hour flight from New Jersey to Hawaii.
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| Australian special forces probed for alleged Afghan war crimes Posted: 24 Feb 2020 09:32 PM PST  Australia is investigating more than 50 alleged war crimes by the country's special forces in Afghanistan, including the killing of civilians and prisoners, the military watchdog said Tuesday. An annual report by the Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force said 55 separate incidents were being investigated as part of a years-long probe into allegations Australian soldiers committed war crimes while serving in Afghanistan. The probe was launched in 2016 in response to what the watchdog called "rumours" of "very serious wrongdoing" over more than a decade by members of Australian special forces in Afghanistan.
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| Bloomberg girlfriend Diana Taylor on concerns over NDAs: 'Get over it...it was a bro culture' Posted: 25 Feb 2020 11:09 AM PST  The campaign later distanced itself from her comments after a "Women for Mike" rally in Texas.
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| Senate Rejects 20-Week Abortion Ban Posted: 25 Feb 2020 02:13 PM PST  The Senate on Tuesday rejected two Republican abortion bills, one that would outlaw abortions after 20 weeks and another that would attempt to raise the standard of care for newborns born alive after botched abortions.Senators voted 53 to 44 against a motion to proceed to debate on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, failing to reach the 60 votes required to overcome the Democratic filibuster against the measure.The bill, sponsored by Senator Lindsey Graham, would have made illegal all abortions performed after 20 weeks of pregnancy -- the point at which pro-life advocates argue science determines a fetus can feel pain -- with exceptions for when the life of the mother is in danger and for victims of rape and incest."There are only seven countries that allow wholesale abortions at the 20-week period, including China and North Korea," Graham said in a tweet before the vote. "The United States should NOT be in that club."President Trump voiced his support for the legislation in his State of the Union address last month."To defend the dignity of every person, I am asking Congress to pass legislation to prohibit the late-term abortion of children who can feel pain in the mother's womb," Trump said. "Let us work together to build a culture that cherishes innocent life."Also on Tuesday, Senate Democrats blocked a request by Republicans to vote on a separate bill, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which would require abortion providers to attempt to "preserve the life and health" of a fetus born alive after a botched abortion. The upper chamber voted 56 to 41 against ending the filibuster."I urge my colleagues to picture a baby that's already been born, that's outside the womb gasping for air," said the bill's sponsor, Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska, arguing that "nothing in this bill touches abortion access" and it is solely about protecting "babies that have already been born."
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| Hot Pockets heiress Michelle Janavs gets 5 months in prison in admissions scandal Posted: 25 Feb 2020 05:29 PM PST  A federal prosecutor said Hot Pockets heiress Michelle Janavs showed "flagrant disrespect for breaking the law and an attitude that she's untouchable."
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| Church shooter Dylann Roof staged death row hunger strike Posted: 25 Feb 2020 01:28 PM PST  A person familiar with the matter said Roof had been on a hunger strike but was no longer on one, as of this week. The person couldn't immediately provide specific details about the length of the hunger strike or whether medical staff needed to intervene. Roof wrote in his letter to the AP that he went on the hunger strike to protest the treatment he received from a Bureau of Prisons disciplinary hearing officer over earlier complaints that he was refused access to the law library and access to a copy machine to file legal papers.
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| A British Tank Army Expected to Last Just a Few Days Against the Russians Posted: 25 Feb 2020 02:30 AM PST  A cold war horror story: "We would have fought and probably all died," tweeted Nigel Price, a Cold War veteran of 3 Armored Division. "But we would have fought. And the enemy knew it. Deterrent worked."
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| Trump and his entourage fail to eat anything from special vegetarian menu prepared for them on India trip Posted: 25 Feb 2020 04:28 AM PST  Donald Trump and his entourage reportedly failed to eat a single item of a special vegetarian feast prepared for him during his trip to India.The American president and his wife, Melania, were presented with the menu during their visit to Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad, one of the former homes of the Indian independence hero.
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| Amazon is reportedly deleting some third-party listings that jack up surgical mask prices as the coronavirus creates a shortage Posted: 25 Feb 2020 04:49 PM PST  Amazon has removed some listings that raised prices on surgical masks amid a shortage caused by the coronavirus, according to Wired.
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| Kenya shuts slaughterhouses over loss of donkeys to China Posted: 25 Feb 2020 09:51 AM PST |
