| ‘We’re losing, dude, and we’re going to get really hurt’: Trump Jr believes father will be defeated by Biden, report says Posted: 25 Aug 2020 03:40 PM PDT  Donald Trump Jr is reportedly concerned that his father may not win re-election come November.The New York Times reported the claim on Tuesday.
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| 2 New Jersey cops admitted they dressed in disguises and vandalized the cars of a man who filed complaints against them Posted: 26 Aug 2020 10:55 AM PDT  The two Asbury Park cops, who smashed car windows, pleaded guilty to criminal fourth-degree criminal mischief. They can't work as officers anymore.
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| Three workers trapped 20 feet underground die in sewer manhole, Indiana officials say Posted: 25 Aug 2020 12:50 PM PDT  The men were working at a school facility, officials say.
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| Vehicle collision with Russians injures 4 U.S. troops in eastern Syria Posted: 26 Aug 2020 02:57 PM PDT  In the most violent skirmish in months between U.S. and Russian forces in Syria, a vehicle collision in the eastern part of the war-torn country left American troops with concussions, two U.S. officials said Wednesday.
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| Viral videos show Black Lives Matter protesters confronting diners in Washington, D.C. Posted: 26 Aug 2020 02:16 PM PDT  Black Lives Matter protesters faced online backlash after video captured a group confronting diners at a restaurant in Washington, D.C.
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| ‘Putin’s Chef’ Threatens to Destroy Alexei Navalny in the Courts if He Survives Poisoning Posted: 26 Aug 2020 06:31 AM PDT  A notorious ally of Vladimir Putin says he will use Russia's corrupt courts to destroy Alexei Navalny financially if the stricken opposition leader ever recovers from a chemical agent believed to have been slipped into his tea.Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was sanctioned by the U.S. for financing online efforts to distort the 2016 presidential election, used a company to buy out debts owed by Navalny so that he could increase the financial pressure on the anti-corruption campaigner.He chose the moment that Navalny was at his weakest—unconscious in a hospital bed—to make the announcement. "I intend to strip this group of unscrupulous people of their clothes and shoes," Prigozhin said.Navalny, the leading opponent of President Putin's government, is in a coma in a Berlin hospital, where German doctors say they found evidence of cholinesterase inhibitors in his body, which could indicate the use of weapons-grade nerve agents.Prigozhin got the nickname "Putin's chef" because of the success of his catering company, but his empire, which includes billions of dollars in Russian government contracts, stretches well beyond food preparation. The U.S. government accuses him of funding the Internet Research Agency, an online troll farm that helped to get Donald Trump elected president. Prigozhin is also accused of financing Wagner, a private army used by the Kremlin for some of its most nefarious overseas missions, but he denies any involvement.On Tuesday night, his company Concord announced that it would do everything it could to collect a court-ordered fine of 88 million rubles (around $1.2 million) that he bought from Moskovsky Shkolnik (Moscow Schoolboy), a company Navalny was found guilty of defaming in a video report, according to the Moscow Times. Prigozhin was quoted as saying on Concord's social-media accounts Wednesday, "If comrade Navalny kicks the bucket, I personally don't intend to persecute him in this world. I'll put this off for an indefinite time and then I'll compensate myself to my pleasure." He added that if Navalny survives, he would be liable "according to the full severity of Russian law" to pay off his court-ordered debt.Navalny was rushed to a hospital in Omsk last week after losing consciousness on a flight back to Moscow, after campaigning against Putin in local elections.Ivan Zhdanov, a key ally of Navalny and director of his Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), has claimed that Putin must have authorized the suspected poisoning. "He hates what the FBK does too much, exposing him and his entourage."The Kremlin brushed off the accusation as "hot air" and stood by earlier reports from a Siberian hospital where Navalny was first treated that said no evidence of poisoning had been found. 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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| A woman says that the 19-year-old Kansas House candidate who admitted to revenge porn choked and slapped her within the last year Posted: 26 Aug 2020 08:53 AM PDT  Kansas House candidate Aaron Coleman admitted to bullying and harassing girls in middle school. His ex says he assaulted her in the last year.
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| Joe Kennedy's once-promising Massachusetts Senate primary challenge might be a bust, polls show Posted: 26 Aug 2020 12:54 PM PDT  Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-Mass.) doesn't look like he'll be getting a promotion after all.When Kennedy announced his Democratic primary challenge to Sen. Ed Markey, there seemed to be a chance his more centrist bid might pan out, and he even got House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) endorsement. But more and more polls keep putting Markey back on top, including two released Wednesday just days before primary ballots are counted.Markey, a progressive and co-author of the Green New Deal, has the support of 52 percent of likely Massachusetts Democratic Primary voters, a poll from the UMass Lowell Center for Public Opinion shows. Just 40 percent said they'd vote for Kennedy, putting Markey safely over Kennedy even if the 6 percent of undecided voters in the poll went in the challenger's favor.Another poll released Wednesday from the progressive think tank Data for Progress meanwhile gives Markey an 8-point advantage over Kennedy. Markey gets 46 percent support to Kennedy's 38 among likely Democratic primary voters, though a large 16 percent said they remain undecided.Earlier, albeit limited, polls indicated Markey and Kennedy's race was close, and some even gave Kennedy a sizable lead. Massachusetts' Senate primary election is Sept. 1, and early voting is already open.UMass Lowell surveyed 800 likely Massachusetts Democratic primary voters online from Aug. 13-21, with a 4.1 percent margin of error. Data for Progress surveyed 732 likely Massachusetts Democratic primary voters between Aug. 24 and 25 using text-to-web and panel responses, with a 4 percent margin of error.More stories from theweek.com Trump's RNC role is a much bigger mistake than Republicans realize Trump calls for drug tests before presidential debates Karen Pence is the RNC's most fascinating person
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| Coast Guard Watch Opens Fire After 8-Foot Shark Crashes Swim Call Posted: 26 Aug 2020 10:49 AM PDT  There is a reason the Navy and Coast Guard post armed guards on shark watch during swim calls.
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| 'We appreciate you guys': Wisconsin police in armored vehicles thanked armed militia and gave them water bottles Posted: 26 Aug 2020 02:34 PM PDT  "We got to save a couple, but we'll give you a couple," a voice from the law enforcement speaker said. "We appreciate you guys, we really do."
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| ‘Catastrophic’ Laura is now a Category 4 hurricane. Here’s what that means Posted: 26 Aug 2020 07:24 AM PDT  Forecasters say people in Laura's path should brace for "devastation."
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| Only Native American on federal death row executed Posted: 26 Aug 2020 04:27 PM PDT  Lezmond Mitchell's execution for his part in a 2001 double murder has renewed a debate over tribal sovereignty.
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| Kyle Rittenhouse, 17-year-old charged in Kenosha protest shootings, considered himself militia, social media posts show Posted: 26 Aug 2020 02:01 PM PDT  Kyle Rittenhouse, charged with shooting three people during a Kenosha protest, thought of himself as a militia member, according to social media posts
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| Israel keeps up Gaza strikes after Qatar joins mediation bid Posted: 26 Aug 2020 12:09 AM PDT  Israeli warplanes struck a Hamas target in Gaza overnight, the military said Wednesday, even as a Qatari envoy joined efforts to broker an end to the almost three-week flare-up.
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| French government defends ‘freedom’ of topless sunbathing Posted: 26 Aug 2020 12:21 AM PDT |
| Biden seemingly didn't get a convention polling bump — and his lead is sliding in some swing states Posted: 26 Aug 2020 07:13 AM PDT  Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden shouldn't get too comfortable. It's been a few days since the end of the Democratic National Convention, and as FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver notes, Biden hasn't seen a typical post-DNC bump in his polling numbers. And while he was once handily leading in several states Hillary Clinton surprisingly lost in 2016, those advantages are starting to slip as well.Clinton lost Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in 2016 — three states that were usually seen as reliably Democratic before that election. Even as of late August 2016, Clinton had a clear lead over Trump in those states: 9 points in Michigan, 9.2 in Pennsylvania, and 11.5 in Wisconsin. But while Biden still has leads in those states, just as he did a month ago, those advantages have narrowed to below Clinton's margins.> Swing state polls on August 25th:> > Pennsylvania > • 2016: Hillary +9.2 > • 2020: Biden +5.7> > Michigan > • 2016: Hillary +9.0 > • 2020: Biden +6.7> > Wisconsin > • 2016: Hillary +11.5 > • 2020: Biden +6.5 > > Florida > • 2016: Hillary +2.9 > • 2020: Biden +4.8> > https://t.co/oJFSBQcvK3 https://t.co/7DibWSRCSb> > — Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) August 25, 2020Nationally, Biden still has a wide 8.8 point lead over Trump, according to FiveThirtyEight's polling average — even higher than the 5.7-point lead Clinton had at this point in 2016. But as Clinton herself has recognized, national popular votes don't matter when the Electoral College gets in the way.More stories from theweek.com Trump's RNC role is a much bigger mistake than Republicans realize Trump calls for drug tests before presidential debates Karen Pence is the RNC's most fascinating person
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| RNC speaker booted after sharing a blatantly anti-Semitic message hours before the event began Posted: 26 Aug 2020 02:42 AM PDT  Republicans have frequently attacked Democrats in recent years for supposed cases anti-Semitism
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| Jurassic Park or Florida? Researchers just captured 3 huge ‘alligator snapping turtles’ Posted: 26 Aug 2020 10:42 AM PDT  Awww, how cute. Not really.
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| Oil tankers breaching U.S. sanctions to secretly ship Iranian oil Posted: 26 Aug 2020 03:29 AM PDT  A maritime research firm described a complex "ballet" performed by Iranian and foreign vessels to flout U.S. sanctions.
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| The Best Duvet Covers That Are Also Better for the Planet Posted: 26 Aug 2020 12:58 PM PDT |
| Kenosha shooting: Video appears to show gunman approaching police Posted: 26 Aug 2020 09:22 AM PDT  At least two people were killed and one was injured by a gunman at a protest Tuesday night in Kenosha, Wis., over the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Video of the incident appears to show a man with a rifle falling to the ground as protesters ran toward him. He then fires multiple shots at several people nearby. The footage later shows the gunman approaching police on the scene with raised arms, though it does not show if he was detained by police.
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| Disneyland 'ready' to reopen when California allows, parks chief says Posted: 26 Aug 2020 01:23 PM PDT  Disney's theme parks chief said the company is ready to reopen Disneyland as soon as California officials establish health and safety guidelines.
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| India indicts Pakistani militant in 2019 Kashmir bombing Posted: 26 Aug 2020 01:46 AM PDT  India's anti-terrorism agency named a Pakistan-based militant leader as the prime mastermind of a 2019 car bombing in Indian-controlled Kashmir that killed 40 Indian soldiers and brought the nuclear-armed rivals to the brink of war. The National Investigation Agency filed a charge sheet on Tuesday that named Masood Azhar, chief of Jaish-e-Mohammed, and 19 others among the accused. "The investigation has revealed that the Pulwama attack was the result of a well-planned criminal conspiracy hatched by Pakistan-based leadership of terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammad," the document says.
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| Letters to the Editor: Does Louis DeJoy think so many Americans are easily fooled about the Postal Service? Posted: 25 Aug 2020 03:00 AM PDT  Postmaster General Louis DeJoy expects Americans to think the removal of sorting machines will improve USPS efficiency. That's absurd.
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| Moderna COVID-19 vaccine appears to work as well in older adults in early study Posted: 26 Aug 2020 07:42 AM PDT  The latest data from an early Phase I study includes an analysis from 20 additional people detailing how the vaccine performed in older adults. The analysis looked at subjects given the 100-microgram dose being tested in the much larger Phase III trial. Moderna said the immune responses in those aged between ages 56 and 70, above age 70 and those 18 to 55-years-old were similar.
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| ‘Catch-up’ stimulus checks to be sent out soon, IRS says. Here’s who will get them Posted: 26 Aug 2020 09:23 AM PDT  About 50,000 people will receive the payments, the IRS says.
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| Nikki Haley tried to argue the U.S. isn’t racist — but she just proved the opposite point Posted: 26 Aug 2020 02:55 AM PDT  "America is not a racist country. This is personal for me," said ex-UN Ambassador Nikki Haley
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| Congolese poacher accused of killing 500 elephants sentenced to 30 years' hard labour Posted: 26 Aug 2020 10:15 AM PDT  A poacher who is believed to be responsible for the deaths of more than 500 elephants will spend the next 30 years in forced labour after he was convicted of ivory trafficking and attempting to kill park rangers in the Republic of Congo. Mobanza Mobembo Gérard has been dubbed 'the butcher of Nouabale Ndoki' National Park, a swathe of rainforest two and a half times the size of Greater London which stretches across the Congo Republic's borders into the Central African Republic and Cameroon. It is believed that Gérard, 35, first started hunting expeditions in 2008 and soon led a team of around 25 poachers through the bush to kill hundreds of rare forest elephants with military-grade weapons. The poaching chief, who is originally from the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, was convicted last week by a court in the Congo Republic's Sangha region, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WSC), an NGO. The Telegraph understands that Gérard has been surrounded or imprisoned several times by rangers over the last three years but has always managed to either shoot his way out or escape prison. His trial and sentencing marked the first criminal conviction of a wildlife trafficker in the Republic of Congo. Previously, environmental crimes were tried in civil courts and incurred a maximum sentence of five years. Gérard will also be required to pay damages of $68,000 (£51,710) to injured rangers. "This detention is a major first in the battle against poaching and illegal smuggling of wildlife products," said Richard Malonga, the head of WCS Congo which works in the Nouabale Ndoki park. "This creates opportunities to criminalise acts of poaching, and punish poachers even more severely." The sentence "sends an extremely strong message that wildlife crime will not be tolerated and will be prosecuted at the highest levels," WCS regional director Emma Stokes said in a statement on Monday. Nouabale Ndoki National Park in the north of the Congo Republic was created in 1993 and was named as a UNESCO world heritage site in 2012. It is a rare sanctuary in central Africa for endangered forest elephants, gorillas and chimpanzees. A hundred years ago, there were an estimated 10 million elephants who roamed across Africa's savvanahs and forests. But thanks to the lucrative ivory trade, poaching has decimated the continent's elephant population. There are now only an estimated 350,000 elephants left in Africa and approximately 10 to 15,000 of them are killed every year for their ivory tusks. Most of the ivory is shipped to East Asia where a booming middle class use it in jewellery, ornaments and sometimes in traditional Chinese medicine. China has historically been the biggest buyer of ivory but demand there has reportedly fallen significantly since Beijing banned the ivory trade at the end of 2017. However, last week wildlife conservationists, rangers and safari tour guides told The Telegraph that poaching and bushmeat hunting has been surging across parts of Eastern and Southern Africa since the world went into lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus. Rangers in Kenya, another major wildlife sanctuary, told the newspaper that the pandemic has wrought havoc on many rural communities who often depend on tourism revenue to put food on the table. With the tourism revenue almost completely gone, the rangers said that many people were turning to bushmeat hunting or commercial poaching to feed their families.
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| Fact check: 'Sharia patrol force' won't roam Minneapolis if police force is dismantled Posted: 26 Aug 2020 12:18 PM PDT  A distortion of one state representative's unfounded claims led some to believe a 'Sharia patrol force' will soon police Minneapolis. It won't.
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| Court: School transgender bathroom policy unconstitutional Posted: 26 Aug 2020 10:34 AM PDT  A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that a Virginia school board's transgender bathroom ban is unconstitutional and discriminated against a transgender male student who was barred from using the boys bathrooms in his high school. The ruling is a victory for transgender rights advocates and Gavin Grimm, a former student at Gloucester High School who was required to use restrooms that corresponded with his biological sex — female — or private bathrooms. The Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the Gloucester County School Board violated Grimm's constitutional rights when it banned him from using the boys bathrooms.
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| Cissie Graham Lynch attacks trans rights in RNC speech Posted: 26 Aug 2020 06:29 AM PDT  Lynch, the granddaughter of late evangelical pastor Billy Graham, referred to transgender girls as "boys" in her Republican National Convention speech.
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| China warns of 'shadow' over ties with Australia, tells it to stop whining Posted: 26 Aug 2020 12:06 AM PDT  A top Chinese diplomat in Australia warned against a "shadow" over the two nations' ties on Wednesday, saying that Beijing was disappointed by a Chinese firm's failure to win Australian regulatory approval for a takeover deal. Tension between Australia and its main export market of China has risen in recent months, particularly after Canberra called for an international inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus. Wang Xining, China's deputy head of mission in Canberra, dismissed concerns about China's attempts to influence Australian politics, saying its views were candidly presented and did not affect people's choice of a political system.
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| Fauci warns against rushing approval of COVID-19 vaccine following report that Trump administration wants to do just that Posted: 24 Aug 2020 07:02 PM PDT  Dr. Anthony Fauci said the "one thing you would not want to see with a vaccine" is authorizing its use before it's been clinically proved to work.
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| A Florida man who thought the coronavirus was 'blown out of proportion' lost his wife to it Posted: 25 Aug 2020 07:38 AM PDT  Brian Lee Hitchens said he and his wife, Erin, had believed false claims circulating on social media that downplayed the disease COVID-19.
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| Trump's RNC role is a much bigger mistake than Republicans realize Posted: 26 Aug 2020 02:55 AM PDT  The Republican National Convention is lousy with Trumps. It's not just that the president will apparently be free associating for nearly an hour every evening ("Air Force One has more televisions than any plane in history. They've got them in closets, they've got them on ceilings, floors."). It's not just that his children and even some of their girlfriends and spouses have been given prominent speaking slots. It's that as an institution, the GOP has chosen to undergo a process of self-erasure, taking hours of free advertising that could have been anchored in touching up the party's brand or appealing to wavering Republicans and instead handing them heedlessly over to the president for him to butcher.That's an enormous mistake for a very simple reason: The Republican Party is more popular than Donald Trump and it will continue to exist long after he leaves office. Every minute that the party submits to his untreated logorrhea and his manic determination to showcase the central roles that nepotism and incompetence play in his administration is not only completely and inexplicably wasted but one that actively contributes to the looming possibility of an across-the-board walloping at the hands of Joe Biden and the Democrats in November.To understand why, you have to know what these conventions are for. In the distant past, they were where the difficult, behind-the-scenes work of selecting the nominee was done. In the post-reform era of binding primary and caucus results, the party conventions are mostly a long infomercial, designed to introduce the presidential and vice presidential nominees to the public, to showcase up-and-coming political stars, to haul out past presidents and losing nominees whose popularity generally grows with the passage of time to remind fence-sitters of what they like and admire about the party, and for incumbents to tout their policy achievements and second-term agendas.These are party affairs. The goal is not just to win the presidency but to boost the organization's fortunes in races up and down the ballot. They are supposed to be the first thing that voters who lean toward a party and are just tuning back into politics in time for the election to see. The goal is for those folks to watch the proceedings and think to themselves, "These people seem fine! I am okay with them running the country. Take my money."Obviously, neither President Trump nor Vice President Pence needs an introduction at this point. Trump has been squatting in our minds for so long that it would probably be impossible to evict him. There is only one living former Republican president, and he would surely rather paint portraits of Saddam Hussein all day than show up at this convention. The 2008 GOP nominee is dead, and his widow was featured at the Democratic National Convention last week. The 2012 nominee voted just eight months ago to remove President Trump from office for high crimes and misdemeanors and presumably did not receive an invitation to Charlotte. The president's achievements in office, such as they were, have been obliterated by the coronavirus pandemic, the attendant economic collapse, and the general climate of extraordinary misery.So you can see why the RNC's organizers might have struggled a bit filling time with productive content. And you can't hide an incumbent president. This isn't some purple state Senate race where the candidate can studiously avoid saying the unpopular president's name or run ads that don't talk about the president or the party at all. But the convention organizers still missed a massive opportunity to remind Republicans and Republican-leaning independents that the party stands for something besides the whims of Donald Trump and his offspring. They didn't need to have this terribly unpopular, divisive president speak every single night, to grant him an infinity runway to do his ridiculous improv routine, and to stuff the program with other Trumps, their hangers on, and random culture war weirdos who are only famous on Pepe the Frog Twitter.The Republican Party still has a strong brand — or at least stronger than the president's. In a pre-pandemic January survey, Gallup found that the GOP had its highest public approval rating — 51 percent — since just after George W. Bush was re-elected in 2005. A summer 2019 Pew survey had the party's approval rating at 45 percent — several ticks above the president's. There's no question that President Trump's shambolic response to the COVID-19 disaster has dragged the party's reputation down with it, and that's reflected in some less bullish numbers in other surveys. Yet as an institution, it commands the loyalty of tens of millions of Americans, many of whom may not be particularly invested in Trumpism. The appeal of conservatism — small government, lower taxes, business-oriented policy, family values — will survive this presidency and remain indelibly associated with the Republican Party.President Trump? He's the least popular incumbent at this stage of his term since George H.W. Bush, who lost his re-election bid to Democrat Bill Clinton. Last week an AP-NORC poll pegged his approval rating at 35 percent. Voters disapprove of his handling of the coronavirus — destined to be the central issue of this campaign — by nearly a 2-1 margin.Turning the Republican National Convention into some kind of tacky, late-night public access Trump TV show also means that party elites at the highest levels appear to believe the president's bluster about how beloved he is by self-identified Republicans. Every other day, President Trump tweets out a statistic that he appears to have simply invented — that 96 percent of Republicans approve of his performance in office. In reality, the president's job approval with Republicans has generally been in the high 80s. Pew has pegged his average approval with Republicans over the course of his presidency at 87 percent. Convincing the 13 percent or so of self-identified Republicans who disapprove of Trump's job performance to nevertheless show up and vote for him is the key to his re-election.To do that you must convince these voters that President Trump is part of a structure that is larger and more enduring than he is. That's why Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.) and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley were featured on Monday, and why Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and Florida Lt. Governor Jeanette Nuñez were given slots last night. These are functionally normal people, the kind of Republicans you might think of as generic in the sense that you can probably guess what they would do in office and what they believe just by their party label. You might not love them, but you trust them not to deliberately loot the country. The RNC desperately needed more normal Republicans (whatever that means these days) and fewer Trumps. More Dan Crenshaws and fewer personal injury lawyers whose only claim to fame is blowing up Twitter with their gun-waving antics during a St. Louis Black Lives Matter protest.What they chose instead was to make it clear that President Trump and the Republican Party are the same thing, that this is not a Republican president, but rather the Republican president, that Trump's bizarre fixation on litigating media grievances, trolling his enemies, mainlining cable news shows, and owning the libs has indeed become the raison d'etre of the party itself. So while these proceedings might be full of cheap thrills for people who think Charlie Kirk is a profound thinker, they are a disaster for endangered Senate Republicans like Joni Ernst, who will need some subset of voters to be able to disentangle her performance in office from the president's. And perhaps most importantly, four nights of showcasing lunatics like Rudy Giuliani is highly unlikely to reverse President Trump's yawning deficit in the polls.As the election draws inexorably nearer, GOP elites are likely to regret this whole thing sooner rather than later.More stories from theweek.com Trump calls for drug tests before presidential debates Karen Pence is the RNC's most fascinating person Christopher Nolan fans plan to fly across the country to see Tenet
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| He was toting a machete when a Miami-Dade cop shot him. Still, some neighbors have questions. Posted: 26 Aug 2020 06:00 AM PDT  After Arcadio Hernandez was wrongfully diagnosed with pink eye at a hospital, he suffered catastrophic brain damage when an aneurysm in his head burst in 2010. A civil jury in Pasco County later awarded him $13.2 million in damages.
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| Phil Hogan to resign as EU trade commissioner after Irish golf dinner that broke Covid rules Posted: 26 Aug 2020 11:56 AM PDT  Irish EU Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan was set to resign on Wednesday night, his spokesman said, after days embroiled in a growing scandal for attending a golf dinner in Ireland's County Galway which breached coronavirus rules. Phil Hogan had offered a "fulsome and profound apology" but he struggled to defend his actions during an interview in Irish television (RTE) on Tuesday evening and has been forced to step down. Speaking on Wednesday, Mr Hogan said: "This evening I have tendered my resignation ... It was becoming increasingly clear that the controversy concerning my recent visit to Ireland was becoming a distraction from my work as an EU Commissioner and would undermine my work in the key months ahead. "I deeply regret that my trip to Ireland ... caused such concern, unease and upset." Pressure had been mounting after it was revealed he attended the event at the Oireachtas Golf Society in Galway on August 19 which resulted in a number of senior officials, including Ireland's agriculture minister, resigning from their jobs.
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| 'Our hands are tied': Local aid workers exposed in pandemic Posted: 26 Aug 2020 12:04 AM PDT  The coronavirus is exposing an uncomfortable inequality in the billion-dollar system that delivers life-saving aid for countries in crisis: Most money that flows from the U.S. and other donors goes to international aid groups instead of local ones. Now local aid workers are exposed on the pandemic's front lines with painfully few means to help the vulnerable communities they know so well. "Our hands are tied," a South Sudanese aid leader, Gloriah Soma, told an online event last month.
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| Greece, Turkey draw in allies in Mediterranean war games Posted: 26 Aug 2020 12:26 PM PDT  Greece and its EU allies held war games in the Mediterranean Wednesday while Turkey conducted drills with the US navy nearby, as the row between the two neighbours over gas and maritime borders ratcheted up another notch.
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| Groups sue Trump administration over rule on hunting in Alaska preserves Posted: 26 Aug 2020 03:29 PM PDT  Thirteen environmental groups sued the Trump administration on Wednesday seeking to overturn a rule allowing hunters in Alaska national preserves to bait bears, kill wolf pups in dens and engage in other controversial practices. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Anchorage, targets a National Park Service rule change made final in June, claiming it violates the agency's primary purpose. "The century-old governing mission of the National Park Service includes protecting America's ecosystems and wildlife, not turning lands into massive game farms," Jim Adams, Alaska regional director for the National Parks Conservation Association, a plaintiff in the case, said in a statement announcing the lawsuit.
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| Hundreds of university students have been suspended for violating COVID safety policies as cases rise across college campuses Posted: 25 Aug 2020 04:41 PM PDT  More than 220 students were suspended at Ohio State University for failing to observe guidelines, and at Syracuse University, 23 students were suspended for gathering on the campus's quad last week.
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| Letters to the Editor: Trump's convention is flagrantly breaking the law. Republicans, what will you do? Posted: 26 Aug 2020 01:53 PM PDT  From a secretary of State delivering a convention speech from Jerusalem to White House addresses, Trump is flouting the Hatch Act.
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