| 'His standard playbook': How Trump spent the week of the DNC on counterprogramming Posted: 19 Aug 2020 03:46 PM PDT  As leaders on both sides of the political aisle criticized Donald Trump while praising Joe Biden at this week's virtual Democratic National Convention, the president did his best to steal the spotlight with a range of calculated counter-programming events and statements.
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| Chief: Tennessee officers broke down door of innocent family Posted: 20 Aug 2020 07:57 AM PDT  Three white Tennessee police officers have had their police powers suspended after they broke down the door of an innocent Black family early Tuesday morning. Metro Nashville Police Chief John Drake ordered a full investigation of the incident by the department's Office of Professional Accountability. "No innocent family in Nashville, anywhere, should be subjected to what the mother and her two children went through on Tuesday morning," Drake said in a news release.
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| Hong Kong: US suspends extradition treaty over national security law Posted: 20 Aug 2020 01:14 AM PDT  Three treaties between the US and Hong Kong were suspended, the latest move to pressure China.
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| Sen. Bill Cassidy tests positive for COVID-19, has 'mild symptoms' Posted: 20 Aug 2020 03:42 PM PDT  Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), a physician from Baton Rouge, shared on Thursday that he tested positive for COVID-19 and has "mild symptoms."The 62-year-old is the second senator to announce they tested positive for the virus; in March, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) revealed he had tested positive but was asymptomatic. Cassidy is quarantining at his home in Louisiana, and said in a statement he is "strictly following the direction of our medical experts and strongly encourage others to do the same."Cassidy is regularly spotted wearing a mask both at public events and while on Capitol Hill, and said he was tested after being notified on Wednesday that he had been exposed to someone infected with the virus. Earlier in the day, Cassidy, who is up for re-election in November, visited a veterans hospital in Shreveport, where he posed for photos with officials.More stories from theweek.com 5 bitingly funny cartoons about the Democratic National Convention A confused Kirsten Dunst asks Kanye West why he put her on his campaign poster Joe Biden's incomparable presidential odyssey
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| Brooklyn mother traveling with 6 children forced off JetBlue flight when her 2-year-old daughter wouldn't wear mask Posted: 19 Aug 2020 06:59 PM PDT  NEW YORK - A Brooklyn mother traveling alone with her six children was forced off a JetBlue flight in Orlando, Florida, Wednesday when her 2-year-old daughter wouldn't wear her mask. Flight attendants ordered Chaya Bruck of Midwood to get off the Newark, New Jersey-bound plane after her daughter Dina refused to keep the face covering on - and when the desperate mom tried to explain the tot ...
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| Pompeo warns Russia, China against ignoring move to reimpose U.N. sanctions on Iran Posted: 19 Aug 2020 03:16 PM PDT  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Russia and China not to disregard the reimposition of all United Nations sanctions on Iran, which President Donald Trump has directed him to trigger at the U.N. Security Council in New York on Thursday. Pompeo will meet with Indonesia's U.N. Ambassador Dian Triansyah Djani - council president for August - to submit a complaint about Iran's non-compliance with a 2015 nuclear deal, even though Washington quit the accord in 2018.
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| These Black Lives Matter Protesters Had No Idea How One Arrest Could Alter Their Lives Posted: 19 Aug 2020 07:15 AM PDT  Young protesters, particularly those of color, arrested at protests can face chilling consequences
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| How Steve Bannon allegedly duped Trump’s supporters into funding ‘lavish lifestyle’ with a ‘fraudulent’ border wall campaign Posted: 20 Aug 2020 06:01 AM PDT  Thousands of Donald Trump's supporters were duped by his former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon and others into supporting an online crowdfunding effort to build the president's long-promised border wall, federal prosecutors have alleged.The indictment of Mr Bannon, Brian Kolfage, Andrew Badolato and Timothy Shea was the result of what prosecutors described as an illegal scheme which "defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors, capitalising on their interest in funding a border wall to raise millions of dollars, under the false pretence that all of that money would be spent on construction" along the US-Mexico border.
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| Portland riots rage as protesters set fires, attack government building Posted: 19 Aug 2020 06:03 AM PDT  Protesters lit fires, threw rocks and smashed windows at county government offices in Portland, Ore., on Tuesday, prompting police to declare a riot, after weeks of mostly peaceful antiracism demonstrations.
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| Joe Biden embraces 'love of my life' Jill Biden after speech, probably doesn't say he's 'Joe Biden's husband' Posted: 18 Aug 2020 08:37 PM PDT  Newly minted Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden shared a sweet moment with his wife, Jill Biden, after she closed out Tuesday night's Democratic National Convention with her keynote speech about herself, her husband, and their life together. "Hi everyone, I'm Jill Biden's husband," the former vice president said after giving his wife a hug. Or maybe he said "I'm Joe Biden's husband"?> In tender moment, Joe Biden embraces Jill Biden following her keynote DemConvention remarks.> > "I'm Jill Biden's husband...You can see why she's the love of my life and the rock of our family." https://t.co/g2aifw44ZR pic.twitter.com/yEM18SMx2l> > — ABC News (@ABC) August 19, 2020If you listen closely, Biden said "Jill," maybe with the same slight regional accent Jill Biden sometimes showcased in her speech. "You can see why she's the love of my life and the rock of our family," he clearly added. "She never gives herself much credit, but the truth is she's the strongest person I know."More stories from theweek.com Joe Biden is already planning a failed presidency 5 brutally funny cartoons about Trump's assault on the Post Office The elephant in the room at the DNC
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| California wildfires chase people from homes into smoky air Posted: 19 Aug 2020 04:49 AM PDT  Crews worked in blistering heat Wednesday to beat back wildfires that ignited across Northern California, sending thousands of people from their homes into smoky air, briefly halting traffic on an interstate and killing a pilot on a firefighting mission. Hundreds of fires were burning across California, including 23 major fires or groups of fires that Gov. Gavin Newsom blamed on "extraordinary weather" and "all of these lightning strikes." Five to seven people were injured in a fire in Stanislaus County, southeast of San Francisco, Sheriff Jeff Dirkse told the Sacramento Bee.
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| There’s another salmonella outbreak (not the onion one). First recalls: Target and Aldi Posted: 20 Aug 2020 07:27 AM PDT  Another salmonella outbreak was announced Wednesday night by the CDC, this one linked to peaches produced by Wawona Packing Company.
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| History Keeps Proving John Kerry Wrong Posted: 19 Aug 2020 11:30 AM PDT  It took approximately 20 seconds for former secretary of state John Kerry to drop the first flagrant lie in his Democratic National Convention speech on Tuesday, when he claimed that the Obama administration's so-called Iran deal had "eliminated the threat of an Iran with a nuclear weapon." It didn't get any better from there.Kerry knows well that sunset provisions in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) provided Iran's government with a pathway to building nuclear weapons in a few years. He knows well that Israel uncovered a giant cache of documents with instructions on how to jumpstart a program to build a nuclear arsenal, which undermined both the spirit and the rationale of the nonproliferation agreement Iran signed. He knows that Iran was developing ballistic-missile programs meant to deliver nuclear weapons.Kerry's big accomplishment was to destroy a sanctions program that was working, thereby saving the Islamic Republic from economic ruin. This allowed the Islamist government to strengthen its proxies in Syria, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Yemen, and Iraq.Now Kerry says Trump "doesn't know how to defend the troops"? Well, I'm not sure that the man who oversaw the billions in direct cash payments to a government that had a hand in murdering and maiming hundreds of American troops has the moral authority to level that criticism. Kerry himself acknowledged that sanctions relief would likely end up in the coffers of Iran's Revolutionary Guard -- now a designated terror group. Surely, then, he knew that the pallets of euros and Swiss francs he was shipping to Tehran in an unmarked cargo plane would also find their way to the groups triggering conflicts across the Middle East -- not to mention subjugating people at home.While many argued for a maximum-pressure campaign against the Islamic Republic, Kerry preferred the no-pressure route. The Iran deal, in fact, often seemed to be the Obama administration's top obsession. Nothing would stand in the way. And while the media echo chamber was misleading the public at home, Kerry was placating Russia and allowing a humanitarian disaster to unfold in Syria in an effort to save the deal.Around the time the Obama administration was chasing an Iran deal, the Syrian government, backed by the Islamic Republic, was crossing the president's Red Line and gassing civilians. Michael Doran, a former senior director of the National Security Council, noted that from the beginning of the crisis Obama "showed deference to Iran on the nuclear front" and "the same deference to the Iranian interest in Syria." Even when the Unites States began funding rebel forces in Syria, the administration reportedly wouldn't allow Iranian's ally to be touched.When pressed on the matter by some Syrian civil-society workers in London, then Secretary Kerry snapped, "What do you want me to do, go to war with Russia?" Obama officials -- led by Kerry -- long peddled this false choice: the Iran deal or war. Well, we are no longer a party to Iran deal, and there is no war. Meanwhile, there is a highly weakened Iran, and there are growing alliances among our Sunni allies and Israel.Kerry would continue to entertain Iranian officials even after he was out of government. When Trump ordered a drone strike of the terrorist Qasem Soleimani, a man who masterminded the killing of American soldiers and thousands of Iraqi civilians, Kerry said the world was in "no way at all" safer, and claimed that Trump was risking an "outright war." All Iran did was launch a performative counterstrike.Kerry was wrong about Iran. Kerry was also wrong about Israel -- a nation he doesn't ever seem to consider an "ally" in his speeches about Obama's alleged foreign-policy successes. And when the U.S. embassy was about to be moved to Jerusalem, Kerry warned it would lead to "an explosion" in the Middle East -- more specifically, "an absolute explosion in the region, not just in the West Bank and perhaps even in Israel itself, but throughout the region." Moreover, Kerry declared, it would have a serious and negative repercussions on relations between Israel and the Arab world, making peace far less likely.Of course, outside of some typical Palestinian noise, the opposite has happened. Only recently, Israel and the United Arab Emirates agreed to a historic deal that normalized relations between them. They were no doubt partly brought together by the Obama administration's unprecedented coddling of the mullahs. Other Arab Gulf states are expected join the UAE, though it is well-known that many of them already have clandestine working relationships with Israel. This week, Sudan, the third-largest Arab nation, announced it was close to reaching its own peace deal with the Jewish state.All of this seems pretty significant. It would surely have been massive news if the Obama administration had helped forge the pacts. Right now, though, Obama has one more Nobel prize than he does a peace agreement. And time keeps proving John Kerry wrong.
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| Opinion: The Boston Marathon bombing was a horrific crime, but Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should not be executed Posted: 20 Aug 2020 03:00 AM PDT  The Justice Department must decide whether to appeal a court decision blocking a death sentence of the surviving Boston Marathon bomber. It should not.
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| 'At some point, we obviously will be gone.' Trump declines to give timetable for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq Posted: 20 Aug 2020 10:37 AM PDT  President Trump discussed U.S. troop levels in Iraq during an Oval Office meeting Thursday with the country's new prime minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi.
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| The International Space Station has sprung 'a small air leak,' so a NASA astronaut and 2 cosmonauts are hunkering down to help find and repair it Posted: 20 Aug 2020 10:24 AM PDT  NASA said the space station's typical air-leak rate is "slightly increased" above normal but "presents no immediate danger to the crew" or the ISS.
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| At least 2 people fighting California's raging fires die as thousands flee homes Posted: 20 Aug 2020 12:23 PM PDT  "We are experiencing fires the likes of which we haven't seen in many, many years," Gov. Gavin Newsom said.
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| Body cam footage shows Phoenix police restraining a man on asphalt in 100-degree heat who later died Posted: 20 Aug 2020 02:08 PM PDT  Phoenix police launched an internal investigation and released footage showing the arrest of Ramon Lopez, 28, who died in hospital shortly afterward.
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| Former Navy Seal who killed Osama bin Laden is banned from Delta Air Lines after not wearing mask Posted: 20 Aug 2020 01:26 PM PDT  The former Navy Seal who shot and killed Osama bin Laden has sparked controversy online after he bragged about not wearing a face mask on a recent flight – a claim that has banned him from Delta Air Lines.Robert O'Neill, 44, a former US Navy SEAL Team Six member, tweeted an image of himself on a flight where he was seen smiling in his seat without a mask.
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| Trump asks Supreme Court to let him block critics from following him on Twitter Posted: 20 Aug 2020 09:31 AM PDT  Trump, who now has more than 85 million Twitter followers, prompted the court battle in 2017 by blocking some users from following his account.
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| Barr to announce milestone of 1,000 arrests in Operation LeGend nationwide Posted: 19 Aug 2020 06:12 AM PDT  Operation LeGend was launched last month and brought more than 200 federal agents to Kansas City to help stem violent crime.
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| DNC: Security guard who blurted ‘I love you’ to Biden last year nominates him for president Posted: 19 Aug 2020 01:41 PM PDT  Standing in front of an elevator, Brittany gave her pitch to the DNC, saying "I take powerful people up on my elevator all the time. ... But in the short time I spent with Joe Biden, I could tell he really saw me."
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| A poultry farm in Maine received shipments of chicks that were dead on arrival. It's blaming the post office. Posted: 19 Aug 2020 08:48 PM PDT  "It's one more of the consequences of this disorganization, this sort of chaos they've created at the post office," Rep. Chellie Pingree said.
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| Why U.S. intelligence findings undermine the Trump administration's Beijing-centric coronavirus narrative Posted: 19 Aug 2020 01:37 PM PDT  American officials familiar with a new internal report conducted by U.S. intelligence agencies said the findings affirm previous claims that local officials in Wuhan and Hubei Province hid coronavirus information from Beijing at the beginning of the pandemic, The New York Times reports.The U.S. report certainly doesn't exculpate the central government from wrongdoing, which occurred at all levels of the Chinese Communist Party, but it does make for a more nuanced reading of the pandemic's origins and complicates the Trump administration's narrative pinning the spread of the virus directly on Beijing's malfeasance.Michael Pillsbury, a China Scholar at the Hudson Institute who informally advises Trump, said "it makes a huge difference" if Wuhan officials were actually shielding the central government from key information. If Chinese President Xi Jinping wasn't primarily responsible for any cover-ups, Pillsbury told the Times, then his subordinates likely had not engaged in "total deceit" on the coronavirus. That could reopen a door for "good-faith negotiations" between Washington and Beijing that have stalled in large part due to divisions over the virus.Pillsbury, for what it's worth, is a proponent of the U.S. competing with China, but also wants the U.S. to stick to the January trade agreement signed by Trump and Xi. Read more at The New York Times.More stories from theweek.com 5 bitingly funny cartoons about the Democratic National Convention Joe Biden is already planning a failed presidency Kamala Harris' grand finale involved awkward pointing, an empty auditorium, and a Zoom mistake
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| California wildfires: Helicopter pilot dies after crash while fighting massive blaze Posted: 19 Aug 2020 05:16 PM PDT  A pilot battling a fire in central California died after his helicopter crashed on Wednesday morning. Crews have been battling wildfires in the state and thousands of people were under orders to evacuate as hundreds of fires blazed across California amid a blistering heatwave now in its second week. Cal Fire said in a statement that the helicopter crashed while fighting a wildfire in western Fresno County while on a water dropping mission. The pilot was the only one on board. As fires raged across the state, smoke over San Francisco and the Bay Area, with atmospheric testing revealing that Northern California's air quality is currently the worst in the world. Authorities have told residents to stay inside and shut their windows. Governor Gavin Newsom has blamed "this extraordinary weather we're experiencing and all of these lightning strikes" for 367 known fires, including 23 major fires or groups of fires. He said the state has recorded nearly 11,000 lightning strikes in 72 hours. Police and firefighters went door-to-door before dawn on Wednesday in a frantic scramble to warn residents to evacuate as fire encroached on Vacaville, a city of about 100,000 between San Francisco and Sacramento. At least 50 structures were destroyed, including some homes, and 50 damaged.
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| A lawyer for a police officer charged in George Floyd's death says Floyd 'killed himself' by dying from an overdose and a heart condition Posted: 20 Aug 2020 08:18 AM PDT  The lawyer for Thomas Lane, a former Minneapolis police officer, said the cops charged in George Floyd's death were just "doing their jobs."
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| Mauritius to scuttle oil-spill tanker, Japanese owner apologises Posted: 18 Aug 2020 11:47 PM PDT  Mauritius said on Wednesday it planned to scuttle the Japanese-owned bulk carrier that ran aground off its shores and spilled oil over pristine waters and fragile coral reefs. The MV Wakashio struck a coral reef off the Indian Ocean island on July 25 and began spilling oil on Aug. 6, prompting the government to announce a state of environmental emergency. The spill spread over a vast area of endangered corals, affecting fish and other marine life in what some scientists have called the country's worst ecological disaster.
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| Coronavirus cases reported in fraternities, sororities at 2 universities Posted: 19 Aug 2020 11:58 AM PDT  Auburn University and North Carolina State reported the outbreaks Tuesday, a day after Oklahoma State University began its semester with an entire sorority under quarantine.
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| An overwhelming majority of Americans say the US response to coronavirus makes them feel embarrassed Posted: 19 Aug 2020 07:49 AM PDT  A strong majority of Americans (58%) in a new poll disapproved of President Donald Trump's handling of the pandemic; 68% expressed embarrassment.
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| Pakistani who killed American in court says he was given gun Posted: 20 Aug 2020 09:52 AM PDT  A Pakistani man charged with the killing of a U.S. citizen inside a court in the country's restive northwest has claimed he had an accomplice, a lawyer who managed to sneak the gun into the building and give it to him, the police said Thursday. The American, Tahir Naseem, was gunned down in public last month in the city of Peshawar where he was on trial for blasphemy following his arrest two years ago after he had allegedly declared himself Islam's prophet. The U.S. State Department said Naseem had been "lured to Pakistan" from his home in Illinois and entrapped by the country's controversial blasphemy law, which international rights groups have sought to have repealed.
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| Fact check: If the vice president becomes president, House speaker doesn't become new VP Posted: 20 Aug 2020 11:20 AM PDT  If Joe Biden is elected but unable to serve a full term, Kamala Harris would become president. Nancy Pelosi, as speaker, wouldn't automatically be VP.
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| Washington tourist breaks quarantine and spends part of Hawaii vacation in jail, cops say Posted: 19 Aug 2020 04:54 PM PDT  Hawaii requires travelers to quarantine for 14 days when they arrive to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
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| Wildfires hit Northern California, threaten to destroy thousands of homes Posted: 20 Aug 2020 08:45 AM PDT  Wildfires spread across Northern California on Thursday, threatening thousands of homes.
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| As wildfires sweep through California, COVID-19 impacts the state's ability to rely on inmate fire crews Posted: 19 Aug 2020 10:46 PM PDT  California is dealing with a shortage of inmate fire crews to battle the extreme conditions.
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| Greece denies illegally pushing migrants back to sea after New York Times investigation found 1,000 cases Posted: 20 Aug 2020 06:33 AM PDT  Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has denied renewed claims of illegal pushbacks of asylum-seekers at sea and accused Turkey of peddling "misinformation" about his country's "tough but fair" border management. "If there's any incident that needs to be explored, if there's any exaggeration at any given point, I'm going to be the first to look into it," Mitsotakis told CNN late Wednesday. "Greece is a country that respects the rule of law, we've granted asylum to tens of thousands of people," the PM said. The New York Times on August 14 said Greece was "abandoning" migrants at sea for the Turkish coastguard to rescue. It said it had interviewed survivors from five such episodes, and cited additional evidence from independent watchdogs, two academic researchers and the Turkish coastguard. Based on its research, the Times said more than 1,000 asylum seekers had been "dropped at sea" since March. Mitsotakis said the reports "essentially originate from Turkey". "Some of these reporters who do these types of exploratory journalism should be more careful in checking their sources," he said. "These types of reports are also an insult to our coastguard (which) has saved literally tens of thousands of refugees and migrants at sea, and our islands have always provided shelter to those in greater need," Mitsotakis said.
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| White House press secretary compares teachers to 'meat packers' and dismisses safety concerns Posted: 20 Aug 2020 10:37 AM PDT  After comparing teachers to "meat packers," McEnany said, "We've gotta protect our children, and that means getting them back to school."
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| InfoWars Reporter Hailed As a Deep State Victim. The Cops Say She Just Robbed Her Mom. Posted: 20 Aug 2020 01:27 AM PDT  When InfoWars correspondent Millie Weaver was arrested last week, her supporters claimed she was the victim of a "deep state" prosecution of a truth-telling journalist. By Tuesday afternoon, they had raised more than $170,000 to help her fight the charges. In reality, Weaver wasn't some heroine at the vanguard of a fight against nefarious government agents. Instead, she was arrested on charges of robbing her own mother, according to newly released court documents from police and prosecutors. But despite the less dramatic plot, Weaver's backers are still laying claim to her victimhood status. And she does not appear inclined to give the money back.On Friday, Weaver livestreamed her arrest at her Ohio home by sheriff's deputies in Portage County. She claimed she didn't know why she was being arrested, complained that she had not been warned via the mail that she was about to be indicted, and insisted–as she was being arrested—that she was on the cusp of a major professional moment. "I was literally about to break huge breaking news right now and I'm being arrested and I have no idea why," Weaver said on her livestream.Alex Jones and Infowars Ordered to Pay $100K in Court Costs for Sandy Hook CaseSoon after the arrest, one of Weaver's supporters published "Shadow Gate," a convoluted "documentary" in which Weaver and a handful of oddball characters allege a deep-state conspiracy among government contractors alleged to be the puppet masters behind American politics. And soon after that, Weaver's right-wing allies quickly claimed that the damaging secrets in "Shadow Gate" were what prompted the authorities to descend on her. Blaze TV host Elijah Schaffer claimed Weaver had been arrested "for allegedly obtaining leaked government documents." Attorney Robert Barnes, who has represented InfoWars in the past, claimed that Weaver's arrest was probably "criminalizing journalism that obtains information from whistleblowers."Ezra Levant, the head of conservative Canadian outlet Rebel News, set up a GoFundMe page in Weaver's name. With Weaver in jail, the donations began pouring in.> What happened to MillieWeaver likely reflects local authorities weaponizing the theory in the Assange indictment, criminalizing journalism that obtains information from whistleblowers. This is why the Assange indictment threatens the First Amendment so dangerously.> > — Robert Barnes (@Barnes_Law) August 15, 2020Over the weekend, there was near-total silence from local authorities about the charges she faced. Indeed, when asked whether Weaver was arrested for her documentary, a county jail official only "laughed" in an interview with the Daily Dot. But official documents now show that Weaver's arrest had nothing to do with the deep state—unless the alleged conspiracy includes her own mother. Weaver is formally facing three felony charges for robbery, evidence tampering and obstruction of justice, as well as a misdemeanor domestic charge over an April family fight gone wrong. Weaver's husband, Gavin Wince, and her brother, Charles Weaver, are facing the same charges.The incident in question took place on April 25, when Millie Weaver began arguing with and insulting her mother, Felecia McCarron, according to a police report. McCarron started a recording on her phone, in an apparent attempt to catch Weaver, Weaver's brother, and Weaver's husband talking about her. The Weavers and Wince allegedly tried to take her phone away in a scuffle, and all three allegedly "wrestled Felicia to the ground." "Chuck grabbed Felicia's arm as Gavin grabbed the other," the report reads. "Millie joined in and they all threw Felicia to the ground and held her down."Judge in InfoWars Case Says She's Been Notified of Death Threats by The FBIThe trio succeeded in taking the phone, according to McCarron's account, in what constitutes the "robbery" Weaver is charged with. McCarron, who suffered a small abrasion in the scuffle, fled to a neighbor's house and called 911. While there, she saw Charles Weaver running to the back of the house, in what she took to be an attempt to hide her phone.When deputies arrived, the Weaver siblings and Wince claimed that McCarron suffered from mental issues and had in fact lost her phone days earlier, the report alleges. But deputies became suspicious of the trio, suspecting that they were making up the explanation on the spot. Further investigation proved that McCarron had been texting someone from her church on her phone shortly before the alleged robbery, meaning that she couldn't have lost it days earlier. By comparison, the deputies found McCarron's version of events believable."As Millie told the story, she paused numerous times and seemed to be thinking of the details as she spoke," the report reads. "The three would look at one another and pause, as if looking for the right answer before one would provide an answer."The trio's alleged attempts to lie to officers were so obvious to authorities that they were described as absurd. At one point, Weaver's brother Charles told an officer that he had run behind the house to check out a flooding issue, not to hide the phone. When the officer pointed out that there were no footprints in the mud to show that Weaver had gone behind the house, Charles countered that he had "jogged" — which supposedly wouldn't have left footprints. "I commented on the absurdity of their explanation," one deputy's account of the interview reads.Millie Weaver didn't respond to a request for comment. Wince and Charles Weaver, along with McCarron, couldn't be reached for comment. Even as the details about Weaver's case trickled out, her supporters continued to believe she had been somehow punished by the government for her "Shadow Gate" video. Roughly a dozen Weaver supporters gathered outside an Ohio courthouse Monday for Weaver's hearing, carrying signs that said "Shadow Gate" or "Free Millie Now." One claimed that Weaver had been "arrested for journalism." And while Weaver's arrest turned out to be related to an alleged robbery of her mother, rather than deep-state skulduggery, GoFundMe will still allow Weaver to receive the $170,000 she's raised so far. GoFundMe will offer donors refunds if they request them, according to a statement."In order to honor the intent of the fundraiser and pay legal fees related to this arrest, the funds will be transferred to Weaver's legal counsel," the statement reads. "This will ensure the money raised will only be used for the campaign's stated purpose."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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| Neilia Hunter Biden, the brains behind Joe Biden's first political victories Posted: 20 Aug 2020 05:02 AM PDT  Neilia Hunter Biden is known more for her tragic death, but she was "the brains" behind Biden's first Senate race.
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