| 'What a despicable man': Schumer rips into Trump for saying the coronavirus death toll would be lower if the US ignored Democratic states Posted: 17 Sep 2020 01:22 PM PDT  Sen. Chuck Schumer took to the floor to denounce the president's comments on taking out the "blue states" because they had "tremendous death rates."
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| Fact check: If the vice president becomes president, House speaker doesn't become new VP Posted: 17 Sep 2020 03:19 PM 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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| Poll shows major decline in support for BLM movement across US over last three months Posted: 17 Sep 2020 11:33 AM PDT  Pew Research Centre survey compared results from June and September
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| Wilfred might form in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday. It’s the last name on the list. Posted: 17 Sep 2020 04:24 AM PDT  If the system turns into Wilfred, it would be the 21st named storm.
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| Mexico asks U.S. for answers about alleged migrant detention abuse Posted: 16 Sep 2020 08:10 PM PDT  Mexico said on Wednesday said it had formally requested a report from U.S. authorities regarding alleged negligent practices in U.S. immigration detention centers, citing accusations of sexual abuse and unauthorized hysterectomies. The request come after a complaint by a whistleblower nurse alleging that detainees in a Georgia immigration detention facility had improperly received hysterectomies and other gynecological procedures. The complaint did not specify the nationality of the affected detainees.
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| Deputy fired over Florida school massacre to get job back Posted: 16 Sep 2020 08:09 AM PDT  A Florida sheriff's deputy who was fired for his inaction during a school shooting that left 17 dead has been reinstated with back pay by an arbitrator who ruled that the sheriff missed a deadline for dismissing the deputy. An arbitrator ruled this week that Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony acted 13 days too late when he fired deputy Josh Stambaugh last year for his conduct during the February 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported. It is unknown exactly how much Stambaugh will receive in back pay, but he earned more than $150,000 in 2018, including overtime.
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| Emirates airline to produce kosher meals as Israel beckons Posted: 17 Sep 2020 04:16 AM PDT  The Emirates airline group unveiled plans Thursday to produce kosher meals in keeping with Jewish dietary rules, two days after the UAE and Israel signed a deal to normalise ties.
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| New York City mayor Bill de Blasio furloughs himself, 500 staff as budget deficit sky-rockets Posted: 17 Sep 2020 02:26 AM PDT  New York City mayor Bill de Blasio has announced he will furlough almost 500 members of his staff, including himself and his wife, for one week in an effort to close a huge budget deficit that has emerged from the coronavirus lockdown. All 495 people who work for Mr de Blasio at City Hall will take a week of unpaid leave at some point between October 2020 and March 2021, according to reporting from the New York Times. The economic shutdown has led to the city suffering a $9bn (£6.9bn) loss of revenue, leading to a $7bn (£5.4bn) cut in the city's annual budget. While the furlough scheme will only save about $860,000 (£663,000), Mr de Blasio says it has a symbolic purpose of demonstrating willingness to make personal sacrifices. The mayor is currently locked in negotiations with labour unions over payroll savings.
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| Russia's space agency chief declares Venus a "Russian planet" Posted: 17 Sep 2020 11:43 AM PDT  With scientific evidence of possible life on the 2nd planet from the sun renewing public interest, the Roscosmos chief would like to remind everyone who got there first.
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| A Chinese virologist claimed the coronavirus was 'intentionally' released. Turns out, she works for a group led by Steve Bannon. Posted: 17 Sep 2020 08:02 AM PDT  A strange paper claims China engineered and released the coronavirus. Its authors work for a group once led by the former Trump strategist Steve Bannon.
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| Hawaii to allow pre-travel testing program to travelers to avoid 14-day quarantine period Posted: 17 Sep 2020 07:33 AM PDT  Hawaii Gov. David Ige said on Wednesday the state's pre-travel testing program would give travelers the option of potentially avoiding a 14-day quarantine period on arrival to the state.
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| Mysterious brain found wrapped in foil on Lake Michigan beach, police say Posted: 17 Sep 2020 06:40 AM PDT  "I popped it open and it looked like a chicken breast — kind of."
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| University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student apologizes for falsely claiming to be Black Posted: 17 Sep 2020 04:23 PM PDT  The student has stepped down as a co-president of the school's graduate student union and a job as a teaching assistant.
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| Transgender activist wins Delaware state senate primary Posted: 15 Sep 2020 06:59 PM PDT  Transgender activist Sarah McBride won a Democratic state Senate primary in Delaware on Tuesday and is poised to make history as the first transgender person elected to the state's General Assembly. McBride, who interned at the White House during President Barack Obama's administration, made history at the 2016 Democratic National Convention by becoming the first transgender person to speak at a major party convention.
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| Newt Gingrich asks Fox News host if it's now 'verboten' to criticize George Soros, earns long stare Posted: 16 Sep 2020 08:55 PM PDT  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), an ally of President Trump, blamed George Soros on Fox News Wednesday for indirectly causing a recent rise in violence and property damage in some Democratic-run cities, claiming a slate of "progressive" district attorneys "overwhelmingly elected with George Soros' money" were letting criminals run wild. (Soros funds a political action committee that has backed reformist DA candidates since 2016, with some success, but he is hardly the only financial backer, as Fox News reports.)Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner told Gingrich it wasn't necessary to bring Soros into the discussion. Gingrich asked if mentioning Soros, a Jewish billionaire who survived Nazi occupation in his native Hungary, is now "verboten," the German word for "forbidden." Harris stared in silence for a long moment and changed the subject.> Newt Gingrich: "The number one problem in almost all the cities is George Soros-elected, left-wing, antipolice pro-criminal district attorneys..."> > Fox hos: "I'm not sure we need to bring George Soros into this."> > Newt: "Okay... So, it's verboten?"> > Long awkward silence. pic.twitter.com/tl4CgGcrzI> > — Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) September 16, 2020The FBI reported Tuesday that violent and property crime both dropped sharply in the first six months of 2020, with murders down 15 percent, rapes down 18 percent, and violent robbery down 7 percent versus a year earlier. Arson rose sharply, according to preliminary data, but violent crime overall dropped 5 percent in the Northeast, and by lesser amounts in the West and Midwest, AFP reports. Violent crime rose 2.5 percent in the South.More stories from theweek.com How a productivity phenomenon explains the unraveling of America How the Trump-Russia story was buried The conservatives who want to undo the Enlightenment
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| U.S. charges three Iranians over satellite tech firm hacking Posted: 17 Sep 2020 11:21 AM PDT  The indictments follow a flurry of recent actions against alleged Iranian cyber spies including the announcement, earlier on Thursday, that entities and individuals associated with an Iranian hacking group sometimes dubbed APT39 were being sanctioned by the Treasury Department. U.S. Assistant Attorney General John Demers said in a statement it was the third time in three days that alleged Iranian hackers had been indicted, calling out what he described as "yet another effort by a rogue foreign nation to steal the fruits of this country's hard work and expertise." The defendants, identified as Said Pourkarim Arabi, 34, Mohammad Reza Espargham, whose age is unknown, and Mohammad Bayati, 34, are alleged to have impersonated colleagues or academics to get their targets to download malicious software, prosecutors said.
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| Putin will try to kill Navalny again and the West will do little about it, NATO sources say Posted: 17 Sep 2020 08:07 AM PDT  "The moment he makes that calculation," a source says, "we will just know because Navalny is dead."
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| Without Details, Congress Looks to Punt on Spending Plan Posted: 16 Sep 2020 10:20 AM PDT  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer speak to the media after a meeting with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Capitol Hill in Washington on Aug. 5, 2020. With lawmakers yet again scheming how to keep the lights on, there's a lot of wiggle room in what is considered a "clean" extension these days in Washington. Negotiations between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin are focused on a so-called "clean" spending bill.
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| LA County sheriff tells deputies to 'look out for each other' as search for suspect in Compton shooting continues Posted: 17 Sep 2020 10:22 AM PDT  'This is going to cause us to be a lot more concerned about when we approach vehicles when we're out there on the streets,' says sheriff Alex Villanueva
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| Isis leader gave intelligence to the US leading to deaths of al Qaeda fighters, new documents show Posted: 17 Sep 2020 05:01 AM PDT  The current Isis leader gave intelligence to US forces leading to strikes on al-Qaeda, newly released files show. Documents released on Thursday suggest Muhammad Sa'id Abdal-Rahman al-Mawla gave information after his arrest in 2008 on dozens of fellow jihadists as well as the structure of al Qaeda in Mosul. He allegedly provided names for 68 al-Qaeda fighters including 19 from photographs. Three Tactical Interrogation Reports released by the Combating Terrorism Centre (CTC) allege al-Mawla, who at the time was an al-Qaeda judge, identified leading figures behind assassinations, kidnappings and the production of improved explosive devices, used to kill coalition forces. One jihadist was a Moroccan national called Abu Jasim Abu Qaswarah. Thought to be the second-in-command of al-Qaeda in Iraq at the time, he was killed by US forces eight months after al-Mawla named him as a member of the terrorist group.
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| Hurricane Sally topples crane, wrecking huge piece of new Florida bridge, photos show Posted: 16 Sep 2020 12:56 PM PDT  "It's going to take a considerable amount of time to clean up from this."
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| Coronavirus: What are the numbers out of Latin America? Posted: 16 Sep 2020 03:16 AM PDT  Some countries are beginning to see a drop in new daily cases, but the numbers are rising in others.
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| Trey Gowdy: Democrats are 'terrified' of their base Posted: 16 Sep 2020 08:03 PM PDT  Mob rule, socialism, and lawlessness: The new extreme Democratic party exposed.Mob rule, socialism, and lawlessness: The new extreme Democratic party exposed.
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| Ex-Pence adviser says Trump bungled virus; she's for Biden Posted: 17 Sep 2020 02:21 PM PDT  A former adviser to Vice President Mike Pence who served on the White House coronavirus task force says President Donald Trump once suggested that COVID-19 might be a good thing because it would stop him from having to shake hands with "disgusting people." Olivia Troye is the latest former member of the Trump administration to speak out against him and urge voters to deny him a second term. Trump said Thursday that he did not know Troye, who was Pence's homeland security adviser.
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| Reports: Barr told prosecutors to consider charging violent protesters with sedition Posted: 16 Sep 2020 07:43 PM PDT  During a phone call last week with federal prosecutors, Attorney General William Barr said they should consider charging anyone who committed a violent crime during recent protests with sedition, people familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times on Wednesday.This was a very unusual suggestion, as the federal sedition law is rarely invoked, and his proposal startled some people on the call, the Times reports. Federal prosecutors have so far charged more than 200 people with violent crimes related to the protests, with most accused of arson or assaulting federal officers.Research by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project shows that more than 93 percent of the anti-racism and anti-police brutality protests over the summer were peaceful, the Times reports. FBI officials have said most people who committed violent acts during the demonstrations took advantage of the situation, using the protests as an opportunity to get aggressive, and police departments reported far-right and far-left fringe groups were involved. Barr, meanwhile, has insisted most of the violence was caused by left-wing agitators.Two people briefed on the matter told the Times Barr has also asked members of the Justice Department's civil rights division to look into whether any criminal charges can be filed against Jenny Durkan, the Democratic mayor of Seattle, for allowing citizens to set up a police-free protest zone near downtown. Durkan and President Trump repeatedly clashed on the best way to handle the situation.More stories from theweek.com How a productivity phenomenon explains the unraveling of America How the Trump-Russia story was buried The conservatives who want to undo the Enlightenment
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| U.S. Senate panel delays vote on aircraft certification reforms Posted: 16 Sep 2020 06:47 AM PDT  The U.S. Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday postponed consideration of a bill to overhaul how the Federal Aviation Administration certifies new airplanes in the wake of two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes. The decision to delay the vote on the bill followed the release earlier on Wednesday of a U.S. House report that found the crashes were the "horrific culmination" of failures by Boeing Co and the FAA. Boeing's 737 MAX has been grounded since March 2019 following crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that together killed 346 people and prompted investigations into the plane's design, development and certification.
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| Federal judge blocks Postal Service changes that slowed mail Posted: 17 Sep 2020 01:53 PM PDT  "The states have demonstrated the defendants are involved in a politically motivated attack on the efficiency of the Postal Service," said Washington District Judge Stanley Bastian.
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| Utah police officer charged with assault for ordering K9 to bite Black man who was kneeling with his hands up, prosecutors say Posted: 17 Sep 2020 03:24 PM PDT  Salt Lake City police officer Nickolas Pearce is facing a second-degree felony assault charge after ordering his K9 to bite Jeffery Ryans on April 23.
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| E-scooter firm Voi blamed a suspended trial on the UK's 'antisocial behaviour issue' and said it will fit vehicles with identification plates Posted: 17 Sep 2020 06:41 AM PDT  A trial of 200 Voi electric scooters has been put on hold in a UK city, five days after it was launched. The company blamed "antisocial behaviour."
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| These 18 hand sanitizers have been added to FDA’s Do Not Use List in the past 19 days Posted: 16 Sep 2020 05:21 AM PDT  As the FDA's Do Not Use List of hand sanitizers grew by 18 to 183 over the last 19 days, it conjured the scent of South Florida summer as much as aloe or alcohol.
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| Hizbollah 'smuggling ammonium nitrate to Europe for attacks' says US counterterrorism official Posted: 17 Sep 2020 11:41 AM PDT  Hizbollah has smuggled caches of ammonium nitrate to Europe to use in attacks, a top US counterterrorism official has said. The Iran-backed Lebanese Shia group had moved ammonium nitrate through Belgium to France, Greece, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland, Ambassador Nathan Sales, Coordinator for Counterterrorism within the US Department of State, told reporters in a briefing on Thursday. Ammonium nitrate, a chemical compound often used for explosives which is also sold commercially for use as a fertiliser, caused the August explosion at a Beirut port which killed 190 people and wounded over 6,500. Some 2,750 tonnes exploded when a warehouse caught on fire. Hizbollah, which has a political and a militant wing, is in control of parts of the eastern Mediterranean port. "Today the US government is unveiling new information about Hezbollah's presence in Europe," Mr Sales said. "Since 2012, Hezbollah has established caches of ammonium nitrate throughout Europe by transporting first aid kits that contain the substance. I can reveal that such caches have been moved through Belgium to France, Greece, Italy, Spain and Switzerland."
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| Frosty air to visit portions of Midwest, Northeast Posted: 16 Sep 2020 07:52 AM PDT  Forecasters say the autumn weather preview earlier this week was just that, a glimpse into what's to come. A burst of chilly air will sweep from northern Canada through the north-central United States late this week and into the Northeast this weekend, bringing not only a dose of sweater and flannel weather but also some frosty consequences.Those hoping for fall weather like that which has been sampled in recent days are in luck, but temperatures are likely to trend even lower than those felt so far this season in many areas. The chill and accompanying frost and freeze could mark the end of the growing season in parts of the Upper Midwest and the interior Northeast.Even though the chilly air will pale in comparison to the blast that left people shivering in the Rockies and High Plains along with a snowfall early in September, some of the chilliest air of the season is forecast from the Upper Midwest to the Northeast in the coming days and can bring temperatures as low as 20 degrees below average. Frost on grass. (Jill Wellington/Pixabay) Low temperatures this time of year typically range from the lower to middle 40s F across the northern tier to the lower 60s over the central Plains and the mid-Atlantic coast to the middle 60s over the interior South.Temperatures could challenge record lows for the date in northern portions of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan prior to the end of the week and in portions of Pennsylvania and New York state this weekend. A freeze is forecast for International Falls, Minnesota; Ironwood, Wisconsin; and Houghton Lake, Michigan; with low temperatures ranging from the middle 20s to the lower 30s F. The low temperatures are 10-20 degrees below average for the middle of September.In Rochester, New York, daily low temperature records set from the early 1970s to the early 1990s will be challenged with readings forecast to dip into the lower to middle 30s on multiple nights.CLICK HERE FOR THE FREE ACCUWEATHER APPThe crisp, cool air will be felt farther to the south as well with low temperatures forecast to be in the 50s during the latter part of this week in St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri, and Omaha, Nebraska. Low temperatures in the 40s will be common in Detroit, around the Chicago suburbs, much of the Ohio Valley and the northern and western suburbs of the major Interstate-95 cities from Richmond, Virginia, to Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and New York City. Boston will slip into the 40s during some nights this weekend while temperatures stop in the lower 50s farther southwest along the I-95 zone through eastern Virginia. Frost is not expected in the large cities and metro areas that surround them in the Midwest and Northeast. However, in portions of the central Appalachians and interior New England, there will be the risk of a killing frost in the rural areas during Friday night and Saturday night with low temperatures forecast to be near the 32-degree mark and even a tad lower in some cases.The upcoming heavy frost follows a touch of light frost from early in the week in parts of the central Appalachians. The frosts are occurring one to three weeks ahead of average.Summer harvesting may need to be accelerated to avoid losses, and gardeners may want to protect sensitive flowers or bring them indoors to preserve their longevity. Patchy cloud cover may be enough to prevent a frost on one or more nights over the interior Northeast, but there is no guarantee the clouds will hold through the night.The frosty conditions could also accelerate the process of leaves changing colors in some areas.As temperatures sink to chilly levels at night, fog is likely to develop in the river valleys and limit visibility enough to slow travel for a few hours during the late-night and early-morning hours.And it won't be crisp just during the night. Daytime highs have already been suppressed in recent days due to high-level smoke from Western U.S. wildfires dimming the sun's intensity. As steering winds cause the smoky air aloft to drop southward, the origins of the air alone will create cool conditions during the daytime, even where the sun shines brightly overhead.At the peak of the cool air, highs will be in the 50s across the northern tier to end this week and could be held to the upper 40s over the higher elevations of the Northeast this weekend.Highs are forecast to be in the lower to middle 60s around Chicago and New York City. The temperature could struggle to top 70 in Atlanta late this weekend to early next week as the cool air settles into much of the Southeastern states.The push of chilly air will follow rain from Sally in the Southeast and along the mid-Atlantic coast to end this week. There are indications that the cool weather pattern will hold in much of the Eastern states into next week with the potential for Hurricane Teddy to continue to drift northwest of Bermuda and possibly approach northern New England or Atlantic Canada at some point.The circulation around Teddy, which is a large hurricane and a non-tropical storm that develops offshore will work to keep cool air into the Northeast. Conditions are likely to get rather windy along the coast, but well inland, especially over the central Appalachians, there may continue to be fog and frost events where winds remain light.Keep checking back on AccuWeather.com and stay tuned to the AccuWeather Network on DirecTV, Frontier and Verizon Fios.
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| Comey to testify before Senate panel weeks before election Posted: 17 Sep 2020 10:54 AM PDT  Former FBI Director James Comey will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 30, appearing just a month before the presidential election as Republicans have tried to make the case that he and his agency conspired against Donald Trump in 2016. Comey, whom Trump fired in May 2017, will be a featured witness in Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham's investigation into the origins of the Justice Department's Russia probe.
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| Report: CDC testing guidance was published despite objections from scientists Posted: 17 Sep 2020 05:09 PM PDT  In August, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was criticized for releasing guidance saying it wasn't necessary to test people without coronavirus symptoms who had been in close contact with an infected person for more than 15 minutes. Several people with knowledge of the matter told The New York Times this recommendation was not written by CDC scientists and was posted online over their strenuous objections.A federal official told the Times "that was a doc that came from the top down," referring to the Department of Health and Human Services and the White House Coronavirus Task Force. "That policy does not reflect what many people at the CDC feel should be the policy." The document was "dropped" into the CDC's public website, bypassing the agency's scientific review process, and contained several "elementary errors," one official said.The Trump administration's testing coordinator, Adm. Brett Giroir, told the Times on Thursday the original draft was written by the CDC, but over the course of about a month, it was read and commented on by multiple people, including CDC Director Robert Redfield and members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. Giroir said he doesn't know why the guidance didn't go through the CDC's typical scientific review, adding that this "certainly was not any direction from me whatsoever."A federal official with knowledge of the matter told the Times a new version of the testing guidance is expected to go up on the CDC's website on Friday, but this also hasn't undergone the agency's typical internal review for scientific documents, and Health and Human Services officials are now revising it. All of this comes as the CDC faces scrutiny over whether it is maintaining its independence amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed nearly 200,000 Americans. Read more at The New York Times.More stories from theweek.com How a productivity phenomenon explains the unraveling of America How the Trump-Russia story was buried The conservatives who want to undo the Enlightenment
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| Ukraine and Belarus argue over Hasidic Jewish pilgrims stranded at border Posted: 16 Sep 2020 07:22 AM PDT  Ukraine accused Belarus on Wednesday of trying to escalate a row over 2,000 Hasidic Jewish pilgrims stranded at a border crossing after Ukrainian border guards did not allow them to enter due to coronavirus restrictions. Relations between Kyiv and Minsk soured after Ukraine joined the European Union in not recognising the result of last month's election that handed Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko a sixth term in office. The crisis unfolding in Minsk has pushed Lukashenko back closer to traditional ally Moscow, which remains at loggerheads with Ukraine over Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea and the conflict in Ukraine's eastern Donbass region.
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| 'That is an act of tyranny': Seattle mayor fires back at AG Barr after he threatened to have her arrested Posted: 17 Sep 2020 09:05 AM PDT  Democrat mayor accuses attorney general of carrying-out 'abuse of power' under Donald Trump
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| Texas deputies, including those who killed Javier Ambler, reportedly got steakhouse gift cards for using force Posted: 17 Sep 2020 02:10 PM PDT  Sheriff's office leaders rewarded deputies who used force with steakhouse gift cards, according to two former employees.
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| Saint Paul, Minnesota, will give some residents $500 per month for the next year and a half in a seminal basic-income pilot Posted: 17 Sep 2020 12:24 PM PDT  The Saint Paul city council voted on Wednesday to approve funding for a basic-income trial. The money will start being distributed this fall.
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| Rudy Giuliani on New York City grappling with a financial crisis Posted: 17 Sep 2020 04:27 AM PDT  Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani weighs in on Mayor Bill de Blasio, staff members taking unpaid furlough, on 'Fox & Friends First.'
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| Kayleigh McEnany reveals there's finally a Trump healthcare plan — but the details are secret Posted: 16 Sep 2020 04:38 PM PDT  "If you want to know, come work here at the White House," McEnany tells CNN's Kaitlan Collins
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| Divers in SE Asia may have found US submarine lost in WWII Posted: 15 Sep 2020 10:02 PM PDT  Divers have found what they believe is the wreck of a U.S. Navy submarine lost 77 years ago in Southeast Asia, providing a coda to a stirring but little-known tale from World War II. The divers have sent photos and other evidence from six dives they made from October 2019 to March this year to the United States Naval History and Heritage Command for verification that they have found the USS Grenadier, one of 52 American submarines lost during the conflict. The 1,475-ton, 307-foot long Grenadier was scuttled by its crew after bombs from a Japanese plane almost sent them to a watery grave.
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| Hurricane Sally weakens to tropical storm, brings 'historic flooding' to U.S. Gulf Coast Posted: 16 Sep 2020 03:09 AM PDT  Hurricane Sally uprooted trees, flooded streets and cut power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses on Wednesday as it brought what the U.S. National Hurricane Center called "historic and catastrophic" flooding to the Alabama-Florida coast. Sally, which made landfall early on Wednesday near Gulf Shores, Alabama, as a Category 2 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of intensity, was downgraded in the afternoon to a tropical storm as maximum sustained winds dropped to 70 miles per hour (113 kph).
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| Portland protesters burn Maga hats and guillotine giant teddy bear on eve of Trump convention Posted: 17 Sep 2020 01:46 AM PDT  More than 12 weeks on, and Portland's protests are only becoming more rancorous
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| Biden goes viral after playing 'Despacito' at Florida campaign stop, as he tries to win Latino voters Posted: 16 Sep 2020 10:21 AM PDT  The viral moment came as Biden, who is fighting to win over Latino voters, made his first campaign stop in the critical battleground state of Florida.
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| Eyeing China, Pentagon plans larger, 'more lethal' navy Posted: 16 Sep 2020 02:36 PM PDT  Secretary of Defense Mark Esper announced Wednesday an ambitious plan to expand the US Navy with a range of unmanned and autonomous ships, submarines and aircraft to confront the growing maritime challenge from China.
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| Driver launches car across drawbridge as it starts to rise, Michigan police say Posted: 17 Sep 2020 07:39 AM PDT  A witness said the driver blew out all four of his tires.
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