| Trump supporters like me are concerned by Biden's win. But there's still some hope. Posted: 07 Nov 2020 09:30 AM PST  I vote Republican because that party — and President Donald Trump — have a demonstrated commitment to anti-socialism. Biden can still show us that.
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| 'We're seeing more than ever': white shark populations rise off California coast Posted: 06 Nov 2020 03:00 AM PST  CSU Long Beach shark lab has tagged a record amount of white sharks, signaling a healthy ecosystem – and warmer watersChris Lowe is no longer surprised when he sees drone footage of juvenile white sharks cruising near surfers and swimmers in southern California's ocean waters.Lowe directs the shark lab at California State University, Long Beach, and for the past 12 years he's been monitoring populations of juvenile white sharks off the southern California coast with tags, drones and planes. This year, Lowe has already tagged a record 38 sharks, triple the number that were tagged last year. "Normally they'd be leaving by now, but instead we are seeing more sharks than ever."Two years ago, Lowe was asked by the state to investigate in more detail what sharks are doing along the beaches and how they behave in proximity to people – research that officials hope will help predict where and when the sharks show up and will help educate the public about the animals.White sharks have been affected by humans for more than a century. Commercial fisheries caught them for years (many a fish taco was probably shark, Lowe said) and sharks' primary adult food – marine mammals – has been hunted to the brink of extinction.California moved to protect its white shark population in 1994, and has seen its numbers rise steadily since. In southern California, most sharks spotted near beaches are juveniles.White sharks are born at 4.5 to 5ft long, and grow a foot each year for their first five years of life. They love southern California's shallows because the water is warmer (young sharks lack the ability to retain heat in colder waters), safer from predators and full of their preferred food: stingrays. When they reach 10ft, they switch food sources to marine mammals like seals, and they spend more time away from the shoreline.Lowe studies the animals from the land, in the water and from the skies.He works closely with lifeguards, who are on the frontlines during the summer and fall beach season. His team also goes out to tag sharks, when they try to surgically implant the animals' back with a finger-sized acoustic transmitter that connects with listening stations all along the coastline.> Heading out to look for baby white sharks to tag w/ Dr. Chris Lowe of CSULB's shark lab. pic.twitter.com/UMNqhlHLwz> > — Jill Replogle (@jillrep) June 28, 2017The acoustic stations display where the sharks are spending their time, and they allow the research team to track individual sharks for years – even when they cross the southern border with Mexico to Baja California. Some of the transmitters will last for a decade. "It's a little like how you get a bill at the end of the month for a toll road," said Lowe. "We use the same technology – the only difference is we get the bill, they don't."> New animations by @native.illustrator showing how our passive acoustic telemetry shark tracking tech works. sharkspies trackingnotslacking pic.twitter.com/W5zzna4TAZ> > — Chris Lowe (@CSULBsharklab) September 18, 2020In addition to tagging and tracking, the team also uses an autonomous underwater robot that can rise up and down and looks like a torpedo. It carries a full set of oceanographic sensors on its nose and a video camera. The robot allows the researchers to make high-resolution three-dimensional maps, and study why sharks are hanging out where they are: is it because there are more stingrays, warmer water, or fewer people?Aerial drones are the team's final piece of tech – the researchers fly drone surveys from the San Diego border with Mexico to Santa Barbara, to identify sharks' location and size, and to see when they are close to people. "We can go through and count how many people are in the water, surfers, fishers, paddle boarders, and plot the distance to any shark," Lowe said.Lowe has found that not only are there more kid-sharks in the waters, they're around longer, too. Juvenile white sharks typically leave California waters for Baja California in the fall, and return in the spring, but that pattern has been changing – probably due to warmer waters and an abundance of food. "We may have white sharks here year-round," he said.Up in Monterey Bay in northern California, David Ebert, who directs the Pacific Shark Research Center at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, has seen a similar rise in numbers of juvenile white sharks off the coast.Ebert recalled taking a helicopter ride in 2015 over the Monterey Bay and being astounded by what he saw from the sky: little sharks hanging out in small groups, right off the beach.On one hand, the growing presence of the juveniles is a good sign, he said, because it shows the ecosystem is clean and there is enough food to support the sharks. But it also points to how the climate crisis, and warmer ocean temperatures, can shift the range of the animals. Southern California used to be at the northern limit of their range, and now it might be in the middle, Ebert said.Even with more sharks in the water, Ebert said humans have little to fear from the juveniles. Since 1950, when the state started keeping records, there have been on average only three or four attacks a year in California, Ebert says – even as the state population has swelled from 15 million to 40 million. "There are so many people in the water: you have paddle boards, kayaks, wetsuits, but the number of attacks hasn't really changed. That tells you that people are not on the menu, they're not out here hunting people.""They're an amazing animal to see in person," he added. "I think it's one of those rare wildlife experiences, you can spend your whole life out there on the water and never see one."Lowe, too, said that generally when he sees sharks swimming around people, the people have no idea – and the sharks generally don't care.He and his team now hope to create a shark forecast – "it's going to be a sharky week!" – that can help educate beachgoers about the sharks in California's waters. Lowe said he could see a future where lifeguards can post signs about where the juveniles are hanging out, alongside information about the tides and waves. He says that if you happen to see a group of sharks on the beach, it's actually a cause for celebration: "They are keeping the stingray population down, and they generally don't care about people."
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| Two Virginia men arrested near Philadelphia vote-counting facility did not have permits to carry weapons Posted: 07 Nov 2020 10:00 AM PST  Two men were charged after arrests Thursday near the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia's ballot-counting facility.
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| Kamala Harris’ husband Douglas Emhoff shares heartfelt congratulations photo: ‘So proud of you’ Posted: 07 Nov 2020 10:06 AM PST  On Saturday morning, as jubilant Democrats celebrated Joe Biden's election win across the country, vice president-elect Kamala Harris' husband Douglas Emhoff tweeted his congratulations to his wife for her historic achievement. Ms Harris is the first woman, and the first woman of colour, to hold the position, also making her the most high-ranking female official in the country's history.
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| Erdogan tells Putin that Armenia must negotiate over Nagorno-Karabakh Posted: 07 Nov 2020 11:56 AM PST  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Saturday that Armenia must be convinced to negotiate in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict with Azerbaijan and called for a peaceful resolution, the Turkish Presidency said. At least 1,000 people have died in nearly six weeks of fighting in and around Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous enclave internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan but populated and controlled by ethnic Armenians.
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| Here is how Miami-Dade is preparing for Eta’s coming heavy storm rain, winds Posted: 06 Nov 2020 03:27 PM PST  Tropical Storm Eta is on track to soak South Florida as it moves through the Florida Keys early next week. In light of this, Miami-Dade County is making several emergency preparations.
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| While Trump wonders about "missing" military ballots, they appear to boost Biden in Pennsylvania Posted: 06 Nov 2020 08:12 PM PST  Trump allegedly scorned fallen American soldiers as "losers and "suckers." Now, he's concerned about military votes
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| The Army Is Looking at Changing Up the Size of Its Infantry Squads Posted: 06 Nov 2020 11:17 AM PST |
| RNC chair calls for voter 'irregularities' to be reviewed DESC: Posted: 06 Nov 2020 02:27 PM PST 
RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel on Friday urged that voter "irregularities" be reviewed in the presidential election.
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| A New York couple drowned on their Turks and Caicos honeymoon four days after their wedding, report says Posted: 07 Nov 2020 05:09 PM PST  According to Newsday, 35-year-old, Mohammad Malik and 29-year-old, Dr. Noor Shah riptides caused the couple to drown during their honeymoon.
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| It’s simple to enter the visa lottery for a free green card. But you better hurry Posted: 07 Nov 2020 12:52 PM PST  Up to 55,000 foreign nationals and their families from around the world will have a chance to legally immigrate to the United States with a green card in 2022, thanks to one of the simplest visa programs.
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| Trump-to-Biden transition is already unhinged and it won't get better: Mastio and Lawrence Posted: 07 Nov 2020 11:57 AM PST  One thing we have learned from watching Trump these last four years is that he never reaches bottom. There is always something worse he can do.
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| Hong Kong police set up a hotline for people to snitch on those breaching China's draconian national security law, and it got more than 1,000 calls within hours Posted: 07 Nov 2020 12:56 AM PST  China imposed the security law for Hong Kong on June 30, giving itself new powers to crack down on dissent in all forms.
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| She Killed Her Grandpa and Stuffed Him in a Tool Box, Cops Say Posted: 06 Nov 2020 08:45 PM PST  A New Mexico woman has been accused of drugging her veteran grandfather to death, stuffing his body in a big tool box, and telling people that he was living at a fictional nursing home.Candy Jo Webb, 27, went on the lam after a neighbor found A.J. Harden's decomposed remains in mid-October, and investigators began asking questions, according to court papers.But she was tracked to Jacksonville, Florida, where U.S. marshals picked her up on Thursday. She's being held on a charge of first-degree murder and awaiting extradition to New Mexico, police said Friday.A criminal complaint against Webb says that police learned Harden, 82, was dead when a resident of Fort Sumner, Chad Abeyta, noticed a foul odor coming from a tool box dumped on property near his home and made the grisly discovery.The remains were severely decayed, but a medical appointment card with Harden's name was found in the pocket of the clothing. Then investigators discovered that Harden had a link to the burial ground: his granddaughter had once lived on the property with her boyfriend, Shawn Perkins.As The Eastern New Mexico News reported earlier this week, Webb told police that she took her 82-year-old grandfather to to a nursing home in Wellington, Texas, in the spring but needed to look up the name of the facility.The next day, police spoke to the dead man's grandson, Arron Harden, who said he had not seen his grandfather, that Webb would not say where he was, and that she had obtained a restraining order keeping him away from the home.When investigators pressed Webb on A.J.'s whereabouts, she said he was at the "Shady Oaks" retirement home in Fort Worth—which does not exist, according to court papers.Webb ghosted the cops, who turned their attention to her boyfriend, Garrett Beene. He revealed that Webb told him Harden died in his sleep and she called the fire department to take his body away, but police said no emergency call was ever made.A day later, Beene contacted police through his attorney with a different story: Webb allegedly told him that her grandfather asked her to kill him so she gave him a fatal dose of Xanax and Ambien. Beene said he didn't believe her and accused her of doing it so she could have his lake house. Perkins, the ex-boyfriend, had told police that Harden regularly gave Webb money.An obituary said Harden grew up in Fort Sumner, served in the Navy, got married, and became a truck driver. In his later years, he and his wife ran a hamburger stand."An amazing man with a beautiful heart," friend Denise Beck wrote on his condolence page.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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| No presidential candidate in modern history has refused to concede, but there's no law that requires it Posted: 06 Nov 2020 06:31 AM PST  If Joe Biden wins, will Donald Trump concede? A concession speech isn't in U.S. law or the Constitution; it's a time-honored voluntary gesture.
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| Shipbuilding: Here today, gone tomorrow Posted: 07 Nov 2020 04:00 AM PST  Industry well remembers the 1990s when costs drove the Navy to slash the Seawolf-class sub order from 29 hulls to just three, with no immediate replacement vesse ready to keep the lines hot.
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| Thieves 'take €600,000 worth of luxury goods' from Paris home of Saudi princess Posted: 07 Nov 2020 09:02 AM PST  Thieves stole €600,000 worth of luxury goods from the home of a Saudi princess in Paris, a source close to the case said on Friday, including designer bags and fur coats. The 47-year-old princess, who had been away on holiday in the South of France and had not set foot in the opulent apartment in Paris's 8th arrondissement since August, discovered on returning that bags, watches, jewellery and furs were missing. The princess, whose name has not been revealed, was hospitalised on Thursday in a state of shock, and prosecutors have opened a formal investigation which will be handled by the Paris police force's special anti-organised crime unit. But it was unclear if there had been a break-in, according to Le Parisien newspaper. The thief or thieves appear to have entered the apartment, situated near the swanky Avenue George V in the heart of the French capital, without using force, the source said, adding that the bounty included more than 30 Hermes bags worth between €10,000 and €35,000 each and a Cartier watch worth €8,000. A spare set of keys to the home was also missing. Paris has seen a spate of luxury thefts in recent years, and it is not the first time that members of the Saudi royal family have been targets. In 2018, a Saudi princess reported that hundreds of thousands of euros' worth of jewellery had been stolen from her room at the Ritz, and in 2016, an unidentified female member of the Saudi royals claimed she was robbed of a €1 million watch while walking near the Louvre. In a headline-grabbing incident in 2014, a Saudi prince lost hundreds of thousands of euros in cash and diplomatic documents during an armed attack on his convoy as it travelled through the city.
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| The futuristic US Army goggles built to make soldiers unstoppable in the dark are almost ready for troops to take into combat Posted: 07 Nov 2020 05:21 AM PST  The US Army hopes its new mixed-reality heads-up display will give its soldiers an edge on future battlefields. Check out what all it can do.
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| Joe Biden says ‘time to put the anger and the harsh rhetoric behind us’ in first statement as president elect Posted: 07 Nov 2020 11:47 AM PST  Joe Biden has urged America to "put the anger and the harsh rhetoric behind us", in his first comments as the nation's president-elect. The former vice president is due to speak at a victory party in Wilmington, Delaware, on Saturday evening, where he will be joined him Kamala Harris, his running mate and now the vice-president elect. In a brief statement, the 77-year-old repeated the themes he had spoken of during his campaign for the White House, and in the days since election day, as the nation waited for a result.
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| Jubilant Biden supporters party outside the White House and stick up signs mocking ‘loser’ Trump Posted: 07 Nov 2020 11:36 AM PST  Bicyclists raised and pumped their fists and whooped their approval down the middle artery of Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House as honking cars zipped by, many with Biden-Harris signs raised aloft through their overhead windows and blaring celebratory tunes like "Please Don't Stop the Music". There was a particularly loud chorus of voices when the song gets to the line "No time for losers", one of Mr Trump's favourite words for his political opponents but one that now applies to him.
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| Democrats "devastated" and reflective after House GOP exceeds expectations Posted: 07 Nov 2020 05:36 AM PST  House Republicans were able to knock off at least five Democratic incumbents they had targeted in 2020.
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| Ethiopia vows to replace Tigray government as conflict escalates Posted: 07 Nov 2020 08:40 AM PST  Ethiopian lawmakers voted Saturday to replace the current government of the federal state of Tigray, after the army launched air strikes to destroy military assets in the region in a worsening internal conflict.
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| Second Mexican state to enter highest coronavirus alert level Posted: 06 Nov 2020 05:16 PM PST  A second Mexican state will from next week enter the highest level of coronavirus alert as authorities bid to contain a recent jump in infections in the north of the country, the health ministry said on Friday. The northern state of Durango will as of Monday join Chihuahua, a neighboring region on the U.S. border, in the red alert phase following an increase in hospitalizations. Most of Mexico's 32 regional governments are currently at the lower orange or yellow alert levels.
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| Trump administration fires three agency heads in wake of US election Posted: 07 Nov 2020 03:25 PM PST  The Trump administration has fired the heads of three federal agencies, in the wake of the 2020 US election. The administration fired Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Bonnie Glick, deputy administrator of the US Agency for International Development, and Neil Chatterjee, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
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| 'It was a failure': Furious House Democrats unload as leadership promises answers after election losses Posted: 05 Nov 2020 07:36 PM PST  House Democrats talked through the aftermath on a private caucus call, where lawmakers blamed the media, polling and one another for the losses.
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| Cruise companies hope for dialogue with Key West after voters ban big ships Posted: 06 Nov 2020 03:00 AM PST  More than 60% of Key West voters sent a message to the cruise industry on election day: keep your big ships away from our city.
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| Ancient skeleton find in Germany offers clues on prehistoric era Posted: 05 Nov 2020 07:12 PM PST  German researchers are piecing together the life of a prehistoric woman who died more than 5,000 years ago in the Neolithic period, after her skeleton was found during excavation works for wind turbines.
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| Littoral combat ship Detroit is being towed into port after another engineering failure Posted: 06 Nov 2020 11:31 AM PST  It's the latest setback for the hobbled LCS.
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| Ethiopian Prime Minister announces airstrikes in country's Tigray region Posted: 06 Nov 2020 09:19 AM PST  Abiy Ahmed said the airstrikes on multiple locations Tigray region "completely destroyed rockets and other heavy weapons."
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| Berlin's new $7 billion airport has finally opened after 9 years of delays, corruption allegations, and construction woes— see inside Posted: 07 Nov 2020 05:25 AM PST  The opening had been delayed nearly a decade but Berliners finally have their new airport. And from the looks of it, the wait was worth it.
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| WHO looks at mink farm biosecurity globally after Danish coronavirus cases Posted: 06 Nov 2020 03:08 AM PST  The World Health Organization is looking at biosecurity around mink farms in countries across the world to prevent further "spillover events" after Denmark ordered a national mink cull because of an outbreak of coronavirus infections in the animals. Maria van Kerkhove, the WHO's technical lead for COVID-19, told a briefing in Geneva on Friday that transmission of the virus between animals and humans was "a concern". The risk was much lower in other farm animals than mink, which appear to be much more susceptible to infection, a second WHO expert said.
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| Candace Owens: Joe Biden doesn't have the 'it factor' Posted: 06 Nov 2020 08:28 PM PST  'Blackout' author joins 'The Ingraham Angle' with reaction to Dem nominee's Friday night address.
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| Fox News host Tucker Carlson says Biden and Harris want Americans 'drinking Starbucks every day from now until forever' in a baseless monologue about uniformity Posted: 07 Nov 2020 09:08 AM PST  On the Tucker Carlson Tonight show, the Fox News host claimed, without citing any evidence, that the Biden administration "demands obedience."
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| Trump needs ‘time’ to process loss, Top Republican says Posted: 06 Nov 2020 10:48 AM PST  The former GOP senator also said Democrats should tone down their rhetoric
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| 3 quakes shake Alaska's largest city, but no damage reports Posted: 07 Nov 2020 08:54 AM PST |
