| Police identify bodies found in suitcases on Seattle beach by teens recording TikTok Posted: 10 Jul 2020 01:26 PM PDT  The bodies were found by a group of teenagers who were led to the beach by the Randonautic app.
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| Trump's planned order on 'dreamer' immigrants will not include amnesty -White House Posted: 10 Jul 2020 03:57 PM PDT  "This does not include amnesty," White House spokesman Judd Deere said in a statement, after Trump said in a television interview his planned order would include a road to citizenship for such immigrants, known as "Dreamers." In the interview with Spanish-language TV network Telemundo, Trump said his executive order would involve Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the program that protects hundreds of thousands of such immigrants from deportation.
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| Letters to the Editor: Joe Biden is probably picking the 2024 Democratic nominee. Choose wisely Posted: 10 Jul 2020 03:00 AM PDT  Biden's pick for vice president could be the Democratic nominee in four years. That person must be able to win then.
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| 4 Flight Attendants Evaluated At BWI After Spirit Airlines Flight Reports Medical Emergency Posted: 10 Jul 2020 08:33 AM PDT  Four flight attendants were evaluated at Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshal Airport Friday morning after a Spirit Airlines flight reported a medical emergency. Katie Johnston reports.
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| Coronavirus: What are the numbers out of Latin America? Posted: 09 Jul 2020 05:28 AM PDT  New cases have been rising sharply in Brazil and Mexico, along with other countries in the region.
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| United and American Airlines are cancelling flights to Hong Kong over a requirement that crew members get tested for COVID-19 on arrival Posted: 09 Jul 2020 09:22 AM PDT  American and United Airlines were both set to resume limited flying to Hong Kong this week, but postponed it due to COVID-19 test requirements.
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| Dr. Bernice King and Mayor Michael Tubbs on How Universal Basic Income Can Help Address the Racial Wealth Gap Posted: 09 Jul 2020 11:55 AM PDT  Dr. Bernice King and Stockton, Calif. Mayor Michael Tubbs discussed racial wealth gap and environmental injustice in a TIME 100 Talks panel
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| Supremes: NY Can Get Trump’s Tax Returns, but Not House Dems Posted: 09 Jul 2020 07:13 AM PDT  President Donald Trump is not immune from turning over his tax returns and other financial records to the Manhattan district attorney, the Supreme Court has ordered in a ruling that has enraged the president. In a 7-2 decision, the court sided with Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, who asked for eight years of Trump's business and personal tax records to help an investigation into whether Trump and his company violated state laws in connection with hush-money payments to women who allegedly had affairs with the president.The ruling sent the case back to the lower courts, however, meaning Trump's legal team could still try to delay the release of his records before the case is ultimately resolved. Trump reacted angrily to the decision, condemning it as "political prosecution" before vowing to "keep fighting in a politically corrupt New York."In a separate ruling that also came in at 7-2 among the justices, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress cannot subpoena a broader range of tax and financial records that House Democratic investigators had requested.Trump has been refusing to release his tax returns for years, overturning the precedent set by the last six presidents. Both of the court cases have been fought tooth and nail by the president, who argued the cases lacked legitimate legislative purpose and were driven by partisan intent.In a statement released after the decision in the office's case, Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance said, "This is a tremendous victory for our nation's system of justice and its founding principle that no one—not even a president—is above the law. Our investigation, which was delayed for almost a year by this lawsuit, will resume, guided as always by the grand jury's solemn obligation to follow the law and the facts, wherever they may lead."In Trump v. Mazars, a case consolidated with Trump v. Deutsche Bank, three House committees argued it was within their constitutional authority to issue Trump a subpoena to obtain several years worth of personal financial documents and records from Mazars, his accounting firm. The committees, including the Committee on Oversight and Reform that issued the subpoena in mid-2019 to Mazars, argued the documents were part of an investigation into government ethics and conflicts of interest in the Executive Branch. Part of the investigation, the committee argued, included "the accuracy of statements made by the president on various financial discloses." In the Deutsche Bank case, the House Committee on Financial Services and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence issued subpoenas to the bank and Capital One for records into Trump, his family, and the Trump Organization as part of an investigation into any links or coordination between the Russian government, or any other foreign actors, that may have influenced the 2016 U.S. elections. The investigations by the two committees also focused on Russian money laundering. The subpoenas came after Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen testified that the president had previously exaggerated his wealth in order to seek loans from several banks, including Deutsche. Cohen also provided financial documents showing Trump's personal assets between 2011 and 2013 to prove his allegations during his February 2019 testimony to the House Oversight Committee.Trump's team swiftly fought back against the subpoenas, asking a federal judge in New York to block the banks from complying and arguing that the subpoenas open the door to allow Congress to seek legislative powers beyond their job description. But federal judges in New York and Washington, D.C.—both at the district and appeals court levels—repeatedly ruled against Trump and agreed with the argument that the subpoenas did not exceed Congress' power."It is simply not fathomable that a Constitution that grants Congress the power to remove a president for reasons including criminal behavior would deny Congress the power to investigate him for unlawful conduct—past or present—even without formally opening an impeachment inquiry," U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta wrote in the appeal court ruling in October. In December, the Supreme Court agreed to take up both cases in a combined hearing. In his January brief to the Supreme Court, the president slammed the "unprecedented" subpoenas and said a ruling siding with the House Committees would have implications for presidents seeking to keep their financial records private. Trump Sues House Oversight Chairman to Block Subpoena of His Financial RecordsTrump v. Vance is rooted in a New York grand jury investigation into whether Trump and his company violated state laws in connection with hush-money payments to several women who allegedly had affairs with the president. Vance is seeking eight years' worth of Trump's financial records and tax returns. The president has denied having affairs with these women, but Vance said the financial records were crucial to see if business records were falsified and if any tax laws were violated. Trump argued in federal district court in New York that he couldn't be subpoenaed in a criminal case because he is a sitting president. The president lost several bids last year in lower courts to stop the subpoenas, prompting the Supreme Court in December to agree to hear the case. Similar to his argument against the congressional committees, Trump argued that the legal move sought "to compel the production of an enormous swath of the president's personal financial information." His legal team slammed Vance for "pointedly refus[ing] to eliminate the president as a target for indictment."Judge Napolitano Schools Fox News on Trump's SCOTUS 'Defeat'Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Fox News host Tucker Carlson accused of echoing white supremacist slogan on air Posted: 09 Jul 2020 02:07 PM PDT  Fox News host Tucker Carlson has been accused of echoing a 14-word white supremacist phrase during one of his on-air segments.During a segment on his Monday evening show, Mr Carlson showed side-by-side images of Representative Ilhan Omar and Senator Tammy Duckworth, both of whom are Democrats on Capitol Hill and were born overseas.
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| UN official: 700 people died in Syrian camps for IS families Posted: 09 Jul 2020 10:30 PM PDT  The U.N. counterterrorism chief said his office received information that 700 people died recently in two camps in northeast Syria, where more than 70,000 mainly women and children connected to Islamic State fighters are detained in "very dire conditions." Vladimir Voronkov told a news conference Thursday that the people, including children, died of "lack of medicine, lack of food" at the al-Hol and Roj camps, which are overseen by Kurdish-led forces allied with the United States who spearheaded the fight against the extremist Islamic State group. Voronkov did not clarify when the 700 reportedly died or what the source of the information was.
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| "It's going to happen again," says former New Zealand PM Clark tasked with WHO COVID-19 review Posted: 09 Jul 2020 07:01 PM PDT  New Zealand's former prime minister Helen Clark warned if the world remained "flat-footed" in its response to pandemics it faces future economic, social and political crisis, after she was appointed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to lead a review of the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. WHO announced late on Thursday that Clark and Liberia's former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will lead a panel scrutinising the global response. The COVID-19 outbreak originated in China in late 2019 and has infected a reported 12.16 million people globally and 550,242 have died, according to a Reuters tally.
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| De Blasio: Black Lives Matter Protests Exempt from Large-Event Ban Posted: 10 Jul 2020 04:55 AM PDT  Mayor Bill de Blasio has canceled all large events in New York City through September, but will continue to allow Black Lives Matter protests in the city, he said."This is a historic moment of change. We have to respect that but also say to people the kinds of gatherings we're used to, the parades, the fairs — we just can't have that while we're focusing on health right now," de Blasio said during a CNN appearance Thursday night.While other areas, including Los Angeles, Seattle, and Miami-Dade County, Fla., have said protests in their cities may have contributed to the spread of the virus, New York has denied experiencing any surge in cases after weeks of protests sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. "Based on our health indicators, which measure hospital admissions, number of people in ICU and percentage of New Yorkers testing positive, we have seen no indication of an uptick in cases," Avery Cohen, de Blasio's deputy press secretary, told Fox News.Coronavirus cases in the city have been declining for weeks after spiking in mid-April. There have been 32,283 deaths in New York, more than any other state. The rule cancels street fairs, outdoor concerts, parades, and other big events, including the West Indian American Day Carnival in Brooklyn Labor Day weekend, the Dominican Day Parade in midtown Manhattan, and the San Gennaro festival in Little Italy.While religious events and press conferences will also be exempt from the ban, the city will deny all permits for street fairs, events stretching larger than one block or requiring a sound system and events in parks it believes will "unreasonably diminish public use.""As New York has begun its reopening process, accessible open spaces are more important than ever," said de Blasio in a statement. "While it pains me to call off some of the city's beloved events, our focus now must be the prioritization of city space for public use and the continuation of social distancing."
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| Outdoor Dinging Decor That's Sure to Bring Joy to Any Table Posted: 10 Jul 2020 05:00 AM PDT |
| This aviator just became the US Navy's first Black female fighter pilot Posted: 10 Jul 2020 08:54 AM PDT  "Very proud of LTJG [Madeline] Swegle," a senior Navy official wrote. "Go forth and kick butt."
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| No regrets: wounded Hong Kong police vow to keep enforcing law Posted: 09 Jul 2020 10:02 PM PDT  Nine months ago he was burned by corrosive liquid hurled during anti-government protests, but Hong Kong police officer Ling says he has no regrets and remains devoted to being a law enforcer. Officers like Ling have formed the spear tip of Beijing's pushback against huge and often violent pro-democracy protests in the restless finance hub. Now the police have been given expanded powers under a sweeping new national security law imposed by Beijing that aims to crush the democracy movement once and for all.
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| 1986 cold case on ‘Dateline’ now has arrest in teen’s disappearance, Indiana cops say Posted: 09 Jul 2020 11:33 AM PDT  The missing teen mystery was featured by "Dateline" in March.
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| Michael Cohen, Trump's ex-lawyer, ordered back to jail Posted: 09 Jul 2020 03:37 PM PDT  He had been released from prison to home confinement over coronavirus concerns.
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| Gun violence disproportionately affects minorities. Data shows it's getting worse. Posted: 09 Jul 2020 06:51 AM PDT  Communities of color have endured the weight of COVID-19, the recession and social unrest. They're also bearing the brunt of a surge in gun violence.
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| 'I would be very careful in the middle of the street': Drivers have hit protesters 66 times since May 27 Posted: 09 Jul 2020 11:56 AM PDT  There have been at least 66 incidents of cars driving into protesters from May 27 to July 6, according to Ari Weil, a terrorism researcher.
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| Gilead analysis shows remdesivir reduced coronavirus death risk, more studies needed Posted: 10 Jul 2020 06:02 AM PDT  Remdesivir has been at the forefront of the global battle against COVID-19 after the intravenously administered medicine helped shorten hospital recovery times, according to data in April from a separate U.S. government trial. In the latest analysis, Gilead said it analyzed data from 312 patients treated in its late-stage study and a separate real-world retrospective cohort of 818 patients with similar characteristics and disease severity. Gilead's late-stage study evaluated the safety and efficacy of five-day and 10-day dosing durations of remdesivir in hospitalized patients.
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| Explained: The battle over Turkey’s Hagia Sophia Posted: 10 Jul 2020 07:39 AM PDT  [NFA] Turkey's Hagia Sophia served as one of the most exalted seats of Christian and then Muslim worship in the world. As Megan Revell explains, that means any change to its status will have a profound impact on followers of both faiths.
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| The Best Smart Technology for Your Socially Distanced Summer Posted: 10 Jul 2020 10:04 AM PDT |
| Jared Kushner said the US would be 'really rocking again' by July. 7 states are shutting back down, and new COVID-19 cases have set records 6 times in July's first 10 days. Posted: 10 Jul 2020 01:59 PM PDT  In Kushner's confident Fox & Friends appearance back in April, he also proclaimed the US was "on the other side of the medical aspect" of the virus.
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| Hong Kong shuts schools as new virus cases increase Posted: 10 Jul 2020 01:48 AM PDT |
| Heat advisory issued as South Florida prepares to break temperature records Posted: 09 Jul 2020 05:21 PM PDT  If Thursday felt unbearably hot in South Florida, Friday has turned the broiler up a notch.
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| Trump: Doctors Were ‘Very Surprised’ I ‘Aced’ Cognitive Test Posted: 09 Jul 2020 08:20 PM PDT  President Donald Trump boasted on Thursday night about a cognitive test he took during a Walter Reed physical, telling Fox News host Sean Hannity that doctors were "very surprised" that he "aced" it while calling on former Vice President Joe Biden to take the same test.Calling in to close confidant Hannity's primetime program, both the president and the Fox News star began openly questioning Biden's mental fitness and suggesting he is suffering from cognitive decline.After Hannity aired a montage of selectively edited clips to characterize Biden as senile, and Trump described the former vice president as "brainwashed," the conservative host brought up Biden's recent claim that he "can hardly wait" to test his cognitive capability against Trump's."Now he apparently says that he has many cognitive tests," Hannity said. "He's tested all the time, cognitively. Maybe he'll release those records and maybe he'll release his medical records."(For the record, Biden said he's "been tested and I'm constantly tested," and that all anyone has to do is "watch me," suggesting he means that the real world tests him.)Hannity wondered aloud if Biden has been trying to figure out a way to avoid debating the president, a recent right-wing talking point that has gained steam recently, prompting Trump to say "yes" before going on a tangent."But he meant the COVID tests. He didn't mean cognitive. He meant COVID," Trump declared.After Hannity insisted Biden said "cognitive," Trump continued to argue that the ex-veep meant coronavirus tests—Biden has said he hadn't taken a COVID-19 test yet—but that Biden was "confused by the question and the words and everything else but he didn't take a cognitive test because he couldn't pass one."The president went on to say that he took a cognitive test "very recently" in order to prove to those questioning his mental acuity that he was "all there." (It appears Trump is talking about the Montreal Cognitive Assessment he took during his 2018 physical exam, which he passed.)"I proved I was all there because I aced it," Trump bellowed. "I aced the test and he should take the same exact test. A very standard test.""I took it at Walter Reed, a medical center, in front of doctors, and they were very surprised," he continued. "They said, that's an unbelievable thing. Rarely does anybody do what you just did. But he should take that same test."The president would go on to say that Biden "has been totally taken over" and it's "because he doesn't understand what's going on" before once again claiming that Biden "wants to get out of the debates."Last month, the Biden campaign announced that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee would be participating in the three scheduled presidential debates this fall.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| U.S. has not yet decided how it will retaliate to France digital tax: Mnuchin Posted: 09 Jul 2020 07:42 AM PDT  The United States has not yet finalized a decision on how it will respond to France's digital tax, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in an interview with CNBC on Thursday. Washington had been in talks with the European Union over the taxes on digital giants like Alphabet's Google, Amazon and Facebook, but Mnuchin called for a break in the negotiations in June.
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| 'UK faces mobile blackouts if Huawei 5G ban imposed by 2023' Posted: 10 Jul 2020 02:00 AM PDT  BT and Vodafone warn that users will face days without a mobile signal if a 2023 ban is imposed.
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| Texas carries out its first execution during pandemic after Supreme Court gives go-ahead Posted: 09 Jul 2020 04:52 AM PDT  Texas has executed its first death row inmate since it first confirmed a case of coronavirus after a Supreme Court ruling allowed his execution to go ahead.Billy Joe Wardlow, 45, was sentenced to death in 1993 for a robbery and murder in which he and his girlfriend tried to rob 82-year-old Carl Cole of his truck using a .45-calibre gun. Mr Wardlow fired the gun in a struggle, and Cole was killed; the couple were arrested two days later.
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| Hundreds of US Postal Service delivery trucks are catching fire as they continue to outstay their 24-year life expectancy Posted: 10 Jul 2020 10:26 AM PDT  Two separate engineering firms hired to determine the cause of the fires were unable to really find a pattern.
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| Huge sandbar party on Fourth of July may have spread COVID-19, Michigan officials say Posted: 10 Jul 2020 04:03 PM PDT  The holiday weekend on the lake kept law enforcement busier than any of the previous 10 years.
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| Bear Opens Front Door, Attacks Homeowner In Aspen Posted: 10 Jul 2020 09:11 AM PDT  A black bear entered an Aspen home through the front door early Friday and severely injured the homeowner, officials with Colorado Parks and Wildlife said.
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| Protester: Man pulls gun on anniversary of flag’s removal Posted: 10 Jul 2020 09:58 AM PDT  Counterprotesters said a passing driver pointed a gun at them Friday and said "All Lives Matter," as competing groups gathered in front of South Carolina's capitol building to mark the five-year anniversary of the state's removal of the Confederate battle flag from Statehouse grounds. The driver stopped in the middle of the road and stuck his middle finger out at several demonstrators who were on a road median shortly before noon, protester Kamison Burgess told The State newspaper.
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| Trump abruptly postpones weekend campaign rally in New Hampshire Posted: 10 Jul 2020 10:25 AM PDT  His campaign, already wary of another low turnout, blamed the decision on an impending tropical storm.
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| Serbia's Vucic blames opponents for orchestrating violent protests Posted: 10 Jul 2020 01:39 PM PDT  Earlier in the day, Vucic said efforts by Germany and France to restart talks aimed at mending ties between Belgrade and Pristina were already paying off. "If he gives up Kosovo, Vucic is digging a grave for Serbia," said Milan, 22, a protester clad in a black shirt and face mask. In Paris, Vucic accused his political opponents of orchestrating the protests and said that if they continue it would be difficult to contain the coronavirus epidemic.
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| Netherlands takes Russia to European Court of Human Rights over MH17 downing in Ukraine Posted: 10 Jul 2020 07:03 AM PDT  The Dutch government will sue Russia in the European Court of Human Rights for its role in the crash of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17, shot down over eastern Ukraine in 2014. "Achieving justice for 298 victims of the downing of Flight MH17 is and will remain the government's highest priority," Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok said in a statement. "By taking this step today – bringing a case before the ECHR and thus supporting the applications of the next of kin as much as we can – we are moving closer to this goal." Russian officials had no immediate reaction to the announcement. Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was shot down by a missile on July 17, 2014, over rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine, in what came to be one of the most tragic episodes in the bloody separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine. Russia has stubbornly denied any role in supporting the rebels with troops or weapons. The Dutch-led joint investigative team has insisted that it was the Russian military that deployed a Buk missile launcher to eastern Ukraine that shot down the plane, a claim that the Kremlin has denied. The case is separate to the ongoing trial that opened in the Netherlands in March after Ukraine's Leonid Kharchenko and Russian separatist commanders, Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinskiy and Oleg Pulatov, were charged with destroying the aircraft and murdering all people on board. None of the men, who are in Russia or separatist-held eastern Ukraine, are attending the trial, and only Mr Pulatov has appointed counsel to defend him in court. Lawsuits by one country against another are extremely rare for the European Court of Human Rights, which typically deals with claims lodged by individuals against their country, and Friday's announcement highlights the Netherlands' frustration with Russia which has refused to cooperate with the Dutch investigation.
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| The Best Beach Towels That Aren’t Totally Boring Posted: 10 Jul 2020 07:58 AM PDT |
| Ford CEO dismisses employees' call for company to stop making, selling custom police vehicles and products Posted: 09 Jul 2020 07:43 AM PDT  Ford claims it accounts for almost two-thirds of police vehicle sales in the US, and employees are raising their voice internally.
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| Environmental Injustice Is Another Form of 'Assault on Black Bodies,' Says Sen. Cory Booker Posted: 09 Jul 2020 11:29 AM PDT  'The biggest determining factor of whether you live around toxicity is the color of your skin'
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| Official: Police justified in killing armed, fleeing man Posted: 09 Jul 2020 11:30 AM PDT  Two police officers in Utah were cleared Thursday in the death of an armed man shot at more than 30 times as he ran from police, a decision that prompted his grieving family to heighten their calls for systematic changes to law enforcement. The killing of Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal, 22, has become a rallying point for protesters in the state amid a national wave of dissent against police brutality. District Attorney Sim Gill said Palacios-Carbajal was struck 13 to 15 times as he ran away from Salt Lake City police officers who were investigating a gun-threat call and had yelled for him to drop a gun.
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| Jewish group slams Polish public TV for 'hateful' role in presidential race Posted: 10 Jul 2020 07:08 AM PDT  A leading Jewish group criticised Poland's public broadcaster on Friday for its "hateful" role in a tight presidential election race that pits the conservative incumbent against the liberal mayor of Warsaw. AJC Central Europe, an advocacy group, pointed to a report on public broadcaster TVP's flagship news show on Thursday that asked if opposition candidate Rafal Trzaskowski would "comply with Jewish demands", touching on the sensitive issue of Jewish property restitution. Home to one of the world's largest Jewish communities before World War Two, Poland is the only European Union country that has not legislated on restoring property to pre-war Jewish owners or their descendants, despite U.S. pressure.
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