| Trump's national security adviser pushes back at top general, says troops won't be home by Christmas Posted: 16 Oct 2020 12:55 PM PDT  O'Brien's comments Friday were not the first time he has said the United States would draw down its forces in Afghanistan to 2,500 by January.
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| Outrage boils over in Kansas City after video captures arrest of pregnant Black woman Posted: 16 Oct 2020 10:37 AM PDT  A Kansas City woman gave birth on Friday, just over two weeks after she was thrown to the ground by police in an altercation at an event commemorating a murder victim.
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| A Kansas man was arrested on suspicion of threatening to kidnap and kill the mayor of Wichita over the city's mask mandate Posted: 17 Oct 2020 08:46 AM PDT  Mayor Brandon Whipple said he believed that the threat against his life from was credible and not just "some guy popping off on social media."
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| Decapitated French teacher warned not to show Prophet Muhammad images before attack Posted: 17 Oct 2020 06:54 AM PDT  "We said to the teacher it was not good to show photos like this and that it would cause a huge problem," student Martial Lusiela told NBC News.
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| Thailand blocks Change.org as petition against king gains traction Posted: 16 Oct 2020 03:22 AM PDT  The petition had called for the king to be declared persona non grata in Germany.
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| Almost all of Wisconsin is classified as a COVID 'hot spot' Posted: 16 Oct 2020 12:42 PM PDT  Officials in the state report some hospitals have already reached 90 percent capacity in their intensive care units.
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| Illegally raised deer gores woman out walking her dog, Colorado officials say Posted: 16 Oct 2020 05:21 PM PDT  The deer jabbed the woman's abdomen with its antlers, officials said.
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| Trump won 81 percent of white evangelicals in 2016. Ralph Reed says he’ll do better this year. Posted: 16 Oct 2020 03:07 PM PDT  "I think polling is at this point, it's a discredited science," Reed said.
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| Watchdog group accuses Amy Coney Barrett of “unconscionable cruelty” in teen rape case Posted: 16 Oct 2020 03:23 PM PDT  Barrett decided to overturn a $6.7M jury award to a teen allegedly raped in a jail run by ex-Sheriff David Clarke
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| Utah landlord evicted an 18-year-old woman for disturbing the peace in her apartment after she shared suicidal thoughts with her roommates, reports say Posted: 17 Oct 2020 12:26 PM PDT  The woman was given six days to move out after her landlord said she interfered with her roommates' "quiet enjoyment" of their apartment.
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| Rapper who bragged about getting rich off unemployment benefits in music video arrested for $1.2 million scheme, federal prosecutors say Posted: 17 Oct 2020 12:53 PM PDT  Rapper Nuke Bizzle attempted to "exploit" California's Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program helping those who lost their job during the pandemic.
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| Armenia, Azerbaijan announce humanitarian truce Posted: 17 Oct 2020 02:06 PM PDT  Armenia and Azerbaijan said Saturday they had agreed a "humanitarian truce" from midnight (2000 GMT) in a new attempt to quell nearly three weeks of fighting over a disputed region.
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| Poultry firm denies any link to US Senator of same name who mocked Kamala Harris Posted: 17 Oct 2020 01:35 PM PDT  Perdue Chicken assures angry customers it has no links to Georgia politician
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| During Iowa Senate debate, Ernst has difficulty answering a question about soybean prices Posted: 16 Oct 2020 08:16 AM PDT  During the Iowa Senate debate with Democratic candidate Theresa Greenfield on Thursday, Republican Sen. Joni Ernst has trouble answering a question posed to her about soybean prices.
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| 'Big pile' of eels dumped in NYC park; impact not yet known Posted: 17 Oct 2020 06:41 AM PDT  Andrew Orkin was taking a break from his evening jog to sit by Prospect Park Lake when he turned around and was startled to see a tangle of wriggling snakes. There are no plans to eradicate the eels.
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| Trump tweets fake news story from satirical conservative website Posted: 16 Oct 2020 09:07 AM PDT  President Trump on Friday tweeted a fake news story published by the Babylon Bee, a satirical website for Christian conservatives, mocking Twitter for blocking users from sharing an unconfirmed report about Joe Biden's son.
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| Lisa Montgomery to be first female federal inmate executed in 67 years Posted: 17 Oct 2020 12:17 PM PDT  * Brandon Bernard also faces execution for separate killing * Attorney general Bill Barr cites 'heinous murders'The US is set to execute a female federal inmate for the first time in 67 years, Donald Trump's justice department has said.Lisa Montgomery, who strangled a Missouri woman in 2004 and stole her unborn baby, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at the US penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, on 8 December.Montgomery, whose lawyers have long argued she has brain damage from beatings as a child and suffers from psychosis and other mental conditions, will become the first woman executed by the US government since Bonny Brown Heady in December 1953. Heady was convicted of kidnapping and killing the six-year-old heir of an automobile tycoon. With her boyfriend, she was executed in a gas chamber.The attorney general, William Barr, announced the decision to proceed with the execution of Montgomery, 52, in a statement that also detailed a 10 December execution date for Brandon Bernard, 40, who with two accomplices was found guilty of the murder of two church ministers in Texas in 1999.Barr said the crimes were "especially heinous murders". Montgomery, who sliced open the belly of Bobby Jo Stinnett and took her daughter, is the only woman among 55 federal inmates awaiting execution, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.Under Barr, seven executions of federal prisoners have taken place since July. Before that, only three inmates had been executed since the restoration of the federal death penalty in 1998, the Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and another in 2001, the other two years later.In state prisons, 16 women have been executed since a 1976 supreme court decision lifted a moratorium on the death penalty across the US. The most recent was in September 2015, when Kelly Renee Gissendaner received a lethal injection in Georgia for the 1997 murder of her husband.Montgomery's attorney, Kelley Henry, attacked Barr's decision as an "injustice"."In the grip of her mental illness, Lisa committed a terrible crime," Henry, an assistant public defender in Nashville, Tennessee, said in a statement. "Yet she immediately expressed profound remorse and was willing to plead guilty in exchange for a life sentence with no possibility of release."Lisa Montgomery has long accepted full responsibility for her crime, and she will never leave prison. But her severe mental illness and the devastating impacts of her childhood trauma make executing her a profound injustice."Now 16, Stinnett's daughter, Victoria Jo, was raised by her father. In 2004, Montgomery's husband said he was unaware the baby his wife brought home was not theirs."I had no idea," Kevin Montgomery said. "I sure hope [the Stinnett family] get as much support from their church and community as I have because we are all going to need it."
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| A Kentucky postal worker who trashed over 100 absentee ballots was fired and could face federal charges Posted: 17 Oct 2020 12:12 PM PDT  The report comes at a time of heightened anxiety over voting, amplified by President Donald Trump's widely debunked claims of rampant fraud.
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| Missing Hong Kong protester Alexandra Wong 'was held in mainland China' Posted: 17 Oct 2020 12:21 PM PDT  "Grandma Wong" says she was detained by mainland police and forced to renounce her activism.
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| Turkey reportedly test-fires S-400 air defense system Posted: 16 Oct 2020 07:09 AM PDT  NATO member Turkey has tested its Russian-made S-400 air defense system, Turkish media reported, raising the specter of a new standoff with the United States.
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| Farmer who went viral after carving Biden-Harris message into his soybean field says there’s more to the story Posted: 16 Oct 2020 11:25 AM PDT  North Dakota voter reveals why he decided to share a message of support for the Democrats after Donald Trump's trade wars cost his farm 'a lot of money'
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| Reports: Japan to release Fukushima's nuclear waste water into sea Posted: 16 Oct 2020 05:40 AM PDT  Japan will release over 1 million metric tons of water contaminated from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster into the sea, media reports said Friday.
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| Trump should face manslaughter charges for his "reckless" handling of COVID-19: former prosecutor Posted: 16 Oct 2020 07:28 AM PDT  "He is responsible for their deaths," former Manhattan District Attorney's Office prosecutor Robert Gottlieb says
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| 'Log off! Log off!' teacher orders students when sexual assault livestreamed during first grader's remote learning class Posted: 17 Oct 2020 01:27 PM PDT  CHICAGO - An 18-year-old man out on bond for a gun case was held without bail after he livestreamed himself during a sexual act with a 7-year-old first grader on break from her Chicago Public Schools remote learning class on Thursday prosecutors said. Catrell A. Walls, of the West Chesterfield neighborhood on the South Side, was arrested Thursday afternoon shortly after 3:30 p.m., after he was ...
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| Analysis: Arrest of ex-army chief puts Mexican president's plans under siege Posted: 17 Oct 2020 03:07 AM PDT  The spectacular fall from grace of Mexico's previous armed forces supremo has raised awkward questions about the president's reliance on the military to fight drug gangs and manage an increasing portfolio of vital civilian infrastructure. Thursday's arrest of former Defense Minister Salvador Cienfuegos in the United States at the Los Angeles airport on drug trafficking charges sent shockwaves through the political establishment and embarrassed a once highly trusted institution. It threatens to sour government relations with the military, which since President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador assumed power in December 2018 has been tasked not just with reducing violence, but also managing ports and even building an airport.
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| A USPS worker suspected of throwing away bags full of mail posted about the QAnon conspiracy theory Posted: 16 Oct 2020 04:06 PM PDT  A Pittsburgh-area mail carrier suspected of discarding garbage bags of undelivered mail appears to be a QAnon conspiracy theorist.
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| Pakistan stops bid to smuggle endangered falcons Posted: 17 Oct 2020 07:36 AM PDT  The falcons are on the endangered species list and are said to be worth almost £1m.
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| China passes amendments outlawing insulting national flag Posted: 17 Oct 2020 03:52 AM PDT  The Standing Committee of China's congress on Saturday passed amendments to a law that will criminalize the intentional insulting of the national flag and emblem, after anti-government protesters in Hong Kong last year desecrated the Chinese flag. According to the newly amended National Flag and National Emblem Law, which will take effect on Jan. 1, those who intentionally burn, mutilate, paint, deface or trample the flag and emblem in public will be investigated for criminal responsibility. The law also states that that national flag must not be discarded, displayed upside down or used in any manner that impairs the dignity of the flag.
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| Federal judge accuses Trump administration lawyers of 'straight up dishonesty' in case over COVID-19 outbreak among detained immigrants Posted: 15 Oct 2020 07:09 PM PDT  The judge ordered ICE to slash the jailed population at its Adelanto Processing Center, where dozens of detainees have contracted the coronavirus.
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| Guthrie asks Trump why he'd tweet "a lie" about Biden Posted: 16 Oct 2020 09:06 AM PDT  At a town hall Thursday, Guthrie challenged the president on a conspiracy theory he tweeted about Biden, about QAnon and whether he took a COVID test on the date of his debate with Biden.
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| Woman convicted of cutting pregnant woman’s body open before kidnapping baby to be executed Posted: 17 Oct 2020 04:16 AM PDT  Lisa Montgomery used rope to strangle woman who was eight months pregnant
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| U.S. Senate to vote this week on 'skinny' pandemic relief bill, PPP funds Posted: 17 Oct 2020 02:53 PM PDT  The U.S. Senate will vote on Wednesday on a $300 billion Senate Republican coronavirus relief bill that is far below the estimated $2 trillion that Democrats have demanded. The bill, dubbed a "skinny" relief bill for its pared-down funding, was already rejected https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-usa-congress/u-s-senate-to-vote-on-republican-coronavirus-aid-bill-opposed-by-democrats-idUSL1N2G61U6 by Democrats in September and is again expected to fail. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement Saturday that the vote would follow a standalone vote on additional Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds on Tuesday.
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| Murdered 2-year-old inspires new Florida law Posted: 16 Oct 2020 05:00 PM PDT  Florida signed Jordan's Law to prevent this happening to another child. A Florida mother may never see the outside of a prison again after she was sentenced today in the murder of her own son, but his legacy will live on in a law inspired by his short life. Charisse Stinson, 23, was sentenced to 50 years in prison after killing her son in 2018, per WFLA News.
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| New Texas rule lets social workers turn away clients who are LGBTQ or have a disability Posted: 17 Oct 2020 11:59 AM PDT  Social workers called the change "incredibly disheartening," while Gov. Greg Abbott's office said it was necessary
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| CIA, other spy agencies gathered intel on Rudy Giuliani's dealings with alleged Russian agents Posted: 16 Oct 2020 11:14 AM PDT  The U.S. wasn't spying on Giuliani, but on people with whom he talked, including Andrii Derkach, identified by the Treasury Department as a Russian agent.
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| Boeing is using a 'scorched earth' strategy to keep evidence away from lawyers representing 737 Max crash victims, lawyer says Posted: 17 Oct 2020 03:00 AM PDT  189 people died when a Lion Air Boeing 737 Max plane crashed in October 2018, and 157 more died in the Ethiopan Airlines crash in March 2019.
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| These photos show the intense smoke from Colorado's largest wildfire ever Posted: 17 Oct 2020 09:22 AM PDT  The Cameron Peak Fire ignited in mid-August and has grown to more than 270 square miles. These photos show the intensity of the state's largest fire.
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| Ex-Mexico army chief arrested in LA on drugs, money charges Posted: 15 Oct 2020 07:26 PM PDT  Former Mexican defense secretary Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, who led the country's army for six years under ex-President Enrique Peña Nieto, has been arrested on drug trafficking and money laundering charges at Los Angeles International Airport, U.S. and Mexican sources said Thursday. Two people with knowledge of the arrest said Cienfuegos was taken into custody on a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration warrant. One of the people said the warrant was for drug trafficking and money laundering charges.
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| Trump news - live: Trump attacks kidnap plot victim Gretchen Whitmer as campaign heads to Wisconsin and Michigan Posted: 17 Oct 2020 03:20 PM PDT  Both states break records for coronavirus cases as nation enters third 'surge'
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| Former UK PM Blair accused of breaking quarantine rules after U.S. trip: Sunday Telegraph Posted: 17 Oct 2020 02:56 PM PDT  Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been accused of breaking UK COVID-19 restrictions after failing to self-isolate for two weeks following a two-day trip to the United States, the Sunday Telegraph reported. The newspaper said it had obtained pictures showing Blair, who served as prime minister from 1997 to 2007, leaving a London restaurant 10 days after his return from Washington last month. The Sunday Telegraph said it understood that Blair appealed to Whitehall officials for special dispensation from the COVID-19 rules, but that he was not issued with the formal exemption letter he would have needed to avoid a 14-day isolation period.
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