| Trump brags he 'made Juneteenth very famous' despite learning about it just last week Posted: 18 Jun 2020 10:10 AM PDT  President Trump credited himself on Wednesday for bringing attention to the holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States after receiving pressure from African-Americans over scheduling a campaign rally on that day.
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| The deaths of George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks have soured the already strained relationship between Black people and the police Posted: 18 Jun 2020 08:38 PM PDT  The retired professor Delores Jones-Brown says her husband's motto is,"Don't call the police to this house unless somebody's dying."
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| Factbox: China's new national security proposals for Hong Kong riddled with uncertainty Posted: 19 Jun 2020 01:29 AM PDT  China's plans to impose new national security laws on Hong Kong are raising widespread fears the legislation could lead to profound changes in the former British colony. WILL MAINLAND CHINA'S POWERFUL SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES BE ABLE TO TAKE ENFORCEMENT ACTION IN THE CITY? The initial resolution of the National People's Congress raises the prospect that officers from such agencies could be based in the city for the first time if needed on national security cases.
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| Galwan Valley: The fake news about India and China's border clash Posted: 19 Jun 2020 08:48 AM PDT  With feelings running high between the two Asian nations, plenty of misleading content has been shared.
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| Slave's grave vandalized in UK city in apparent retaliation Posted: 18 Jun 2020 08:33 AM PDT  British officials said Thursday the grave of an enslaved African man has been vandalised in an apparent "retaliation attack" after protesters in the city of Bristol toppled the statue of a prominent slave trader. Two headstones in memory of Scipio Africanus, who lived in Bristol in the 18th century, were smashed. A message scrawled in chalk nearby called for the statue of Edward Colston to be put back or "things will really heat up."
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| Just 39 migrant kids avoided expulsion at the border in May Posted: 18 Jun 2020 03:42 PM PDT  U.S. officials at the southern border carried out 1,001 arrests of unaccompanied migrant children in May. Just 39 were allowed to stay.
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| Senate confirms Trump's pick to the D.C. Circuit Posted: 18 Jun 2020 11:34 AM PDT  Senate Republicans and the conservative legal community lauded Trump's decision to nominate Justin Walker.
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| Indian families demand justice as they await bodies of soldiers killed in clash with China Posted: 18 Jun 2020 01:38 AM PDT  In their last phone conversation, Neha Ojha, the wife of an Indian soldier, said she laughed off her husband's idea to name their daughter Snow White because he received the news of her birth while patrolling a snow-covered valley on the border with China. Sixteen hours later, Ojha was informed that her husband was among 20 soldiers killed by Chinese troops in the disputed Galwan Valley. The Indian army on Thursday began handing over the bodies of the soldiers killed in the fight - the worst clash in over half a century between the nuclear-armed neighbours.
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| McEnany says she will not wear a face mask at Trump’s Tulsa rally Posted: 19 Jun 2020 11:31 AM PDT  At a press conference on Friday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany says she will not wear a face mask at President Trump's campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla., on Saturday. The CDC recommends that adults wear face coverings to stop the spread of coronavirus.
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| 'Into The Wild' bus removed from Alaska wilderness Posted: 19 Jun 2020 02:24 AM PDT  Tourists hiking to the remote area to visit the bus were getting into difficulties, officials said.
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| Seattle police union expelled from large labor group Posted: 18 Jun 2020 08:27 AM PDT  The largest labor group in the Seattle area has expelled the city's police union, saying the guild representing officers failed to address racism within its ranks. The vote Wednesday night by the King County Labor Council to exclude the Seattle Police Officers Guild comes after weeks of protests in the city over police brutality and racism following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. It's also significant as the labor council is politically influential.
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| Honduras says its president has been hospitalized with COVID-19. Many don't believe it Posted: 18 Jun 2020 05:29 PM PDT  President Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras is a polarizing figure who has been named in a U.S. drug trafficking case. He says he has the coronavirus. Some don't believe him.
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| In US Military First, the Air Force has Picked a Woman as Top Enlisted Leader Posted: 19 Jun 2020 11:14 AM PDT  Bass emerged as "the consensus choice from more than a dozen finalists from across the Air Force's global operation."
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| Trump describes coronavirus testing as 'overrated' and calls for less if virus reemerges Posted: 18 Jun 2020 11:18 AM PDT  Trump's decision to blame increases in coronavirus cases on testing is likely to be a central theme in how he explains his handling of the crisis this year.
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| Atlanta police department morale "is down ten-fold," mayor says Posted: 18 Jun 2020 04:31 AM PDT  Eight officers have resigned from the Atlanta Police Department this month.
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| Europe scrambles to save Iran nuclear deal as Trump insists key part of accord is scrapped Posted: 19 Jun 2020 09:17 AM PDT  Western European diplomats are working on how to save the Iran nuclear accord in a day of important developments on the issue which saw Tehran censured by the UN nuclear watchdog, and the US reiterate its demand that a key part of the deal is scrapped.Foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany - three signatory states to the agreement - met in Berlin to formulate a strategy for the next crucial months with Iran and its nuclear programme under focus.
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| Coronavirus Beijing: Why an outbreak sparked a salmon panic in China Posted: 18 Jun 2020 03:46 AM PDT  Beijing is seeing a rise in virus cases - but is frozen salmon really the cause?
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| Man arrested in shooting of eight people outside San Antonio bar Posted: 18 Jun 2020 08:18 PM PDT  All of the victims are expected to survive. The shooting happened after a group was denied entry to a bar because they were inebriated.
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| Poland accuses Putin of re-writing history over WWII surrender jibe Posted: 19 Jun 2020 12:09 PM PDT  Poland has accused Vladimir Putin of manipulating history after he wrote an article claiming the pre-war Polish government threw "its own people under Hitler's machine of destruction". The article comes out just a week before Mr Putin is to host the annual Victory Day parade previously cancelled because of the coronavirus outbreak, and ahead of a nationwide vote that could allow him to stay in power until 2036. Mr Putin has used the Soviet Union's decisive contribution to defeating Nazi Germany in 1945 as an argument to justify Russia's special place in the world. Dwelling on the events of 1939 Mr Putin writes that Poland only has itself to blame for the Nazi invasion of September. "The blame for the tragedy that Poland then suffered lies entirely with the Polish leadership, which had impeded the formation of a military alliance between Britain, France and the Soviet Union and relied on the help from its Western partners, throwing its own people under the steamroller of Hitler's machine of destruction," he states. Later, he says Red Army units were sent into "the so-called Eastern Borderlines" instead of writing that the Soviet Union invaded Poland under the terms of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Poland reacted furiously. Stanislaw Zaryn, director of the National Security Department of the Polish prime minister's office, said: "It is not the first time the Russian president has manipulated history with the goal to present a false picture of WWII. "Russia's continued 'memory war' aims to whitewash the disgraceful Soviet past, erase from collective memory the fact that during the war Stalin and Hitler colluded with each other, and underpin the myth of the Soviet Union as a sole conqueror of Nazi Germany." While Russian authorities in the 1990s publicly condemned and apologised for multiple crimes committed by the Soviet regime, the Kremlin in recent years has sought to defend its wartime record, arguing among other things that a 1939 non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and Germany, carving up Europe into spheres of influence, was a necessary evil.
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| Florida reports record-high spike in coronavirus cases and a 'plunging' median age of infection Posted: 19 Jun 2020 12:48 PM PDT  Despite the surge, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he wouldn't issue a statewide order requiring face masks.
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| Washington state mayor says Black Lives Matter movement is ‘domestic terrorism’ after her home was vandalized Posted: 18 Jun 2020 08:32 AM PDT  Mayor Cheryl Selby of Olympia, Washington, is now calling the Black Lives Matter moment 'domestic terrorism' after her home was vandalized.
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| Elderly Black Lives Matter protester injured by police and trolled by Trump in hiding after death threats Posted: 19 Jun 2020 08:21 AM PDT  Martin Gugino, the protester shoved to the ground by Buffalo police officers during the George Floyd protests, is recuperating in a secret location due to threats he's received.Mr Gugino's attorney said on Thursday that his client had received "concerning and threatening messages and one letter" since he was assaulted by police officers in Buffalo.
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| Turkey, Iran summoned over bombing of Kurdish rebels in Iraq Posted: 18 Jun 2020 08:42 AM PDT  Baghdad on Thursday summoned ambassadors from Turkey and Iran over their countries' separate military operations this week targeting Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, calling the attacks an affront to Iraq's sovereignty. In an airborne-and-land operation dubbed "Operation Claw-Tiger," Turkey airlifted troops into northern Iraq on Wednesday to root out the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, which it says maintains bases across the border in Iraq.
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| Photos show famed hidden treasure found after 10-year search Posted: 18 Jun 2020 05:00 AM PDT  Forrest Fenn posted three photos on his blog, saying the bronze chest filled with gold, jewels, and other valuables is indeed his famed treasure.
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| A 'higher than usual' number of Atlanta police officers call out after former colleague charged with murder over the killing of Rayshard Brooks Posted: 17 Jun 2020 07:43 PM PDT  The Atlanta Police Department said it was experiencing a "higher than usual" number of call outs Wednesday night.
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| Police taking 'excessive' data from mobile phones Posted: 18 Jun 2020 04:40 AM PDT  The UK's data protection watchdog warns victims may be deterred from reporting crime.
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| Ten captured Indian soldiers released by China as evidence grows Beijing planned Ladakh ambush Posted: 19 Jun 2020 04:10 AM PDT  Ten Indian soldiers captured by China in Ladakh on Monday evening have been released, as evidence grows Beijing "meticulously planned" the ambush. The Indian Army has said no further troops are being held prisoner but 76 Indian soldiers remain injured, after Chinese troops attacked Indian forces with brutal weapons including nail-embedded rods. Indian intelligence agencies flagged the unusual movement of Chinese soldiers to bases on the Tibetan side of the Line of Actual Control, which separates the two superpowers, as early as February. Yet, Indian troops were slow to reinforce after the Himalayan spring snow due to the coronavirus and members of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) crossed the LAC and annexed 60 square kilometres of Indian territory at four locations - Pangong Tso Lake, Galwan River and Valley, Hot Springs and Demchok. Former leader of the opposition, Rahul Gandhi, tweeted today that it was "crystal clear" that the government was "fast asleep". The Indian Army has officially declared that 20 Indian soldiers were killed in clashes but on condition of anonymity, sources told the Telegraph this figure was 23, as three bodies were unidentifiable due to the injuries inflicted by the Chinese weapons. The Deccan Chronicle quoted intelligence sources today, saying the actual number of fatalities on the Indian side is as high as 40, as bodies fell in the Galwan River or are buried in deep snow on the mountainside.
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| Two Jet Pilots from Carrier Roosevelt Safe After Ejecting in Philippine Sea Posted: 18 Jun 2020 09:40 AM PDT  An F-A-18F Super Hornet assigned to the carrier Theodore Roosevelt took a swim in the Philippine Sea.
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| U.S. slaps sanctions on Mexican firms, individuals linked to Venezuelan oil trade Posted: 18 Jun 2020 11:43 AM PDT  The United States on Thursday blacklisted Mexico's Libre Abordo and a related company, accusing them of helping Caracas evade U.S. sanctions in the first formal action by the U.S. Treasury Department against Mexican firms involved in trading Venezuelan oil. The Treasury said in a statement it imposed sanctions on three individuals, eight entities and two vessels for activities related to a network attempting to skirt U.S. sanctions on Venezuela aimed at ousting President Nicolas Maduro.
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| Trump threatens Tulsa protesters as mayor lifts curfew Posted: 19 Jun 2020 08:12 AM PDT  The president's top advisers repeatedly referenced the potential for violence on the streets this weekend.
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| Rise in coronavirus cases in L.A. puts Latinos at even greater risk, doctors say Posted: 19 Jun 2020 02:06 PM PDT  "We can't let the discrimination of this pandemic continue this way," a clinic director said.
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| Colombian army rescues abducted Swiss and Brazilian tourists Posted: 18 Jun 2020 08:53 PM PDT  The Swiss and Brazilian tourists were kidnapped by dissidents from the former Farc rebel movement.
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| Mark Zuckerberg just got called out by more than 70 employees of his philanthropic initiative who are demanding the charity make big changes to combat systemic racism Posted: 18 Jun 2020 10:39 AM PDT  The rare activism within a major charity comes days after Zuckerberg-funded scientists slammed his inaction on controversial Trump Facebook posts.
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| Cyprus says common EU migration deal 'imperative' Posted: 18 Jun 2020 09:37 AM PDT |
| The officer accused of killing Rayshard Brooks was moved to a different jail over security concerns Posted: 19 Jun 2020 11:19 AM PDT  Garrett Rolfe, who was scheduled to appear in court today, has moved correctional facilities due to security concerns.
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| After week of Supreme Court defeats, Trump says he’ll release new shortlist of potential justices Posted: 18 Jun 2020 09:10 AM PDT  "Based on decisions being rendered now, this list is more important than ever before," the president tweeted.
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| Fact check: Images of witches, 'Amish' supposedly at Floyd protest are out of context Posted: 19 Jun 2020 09:09 AM PDT  Among the viral images of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests are misleading claims about groups that support the movement.
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