| 'The long knives are out': The Pentagon purge may be less about a Trump plan than end-of-presidency chaos and revenge Posted: 13 Nov 2020 12:33 PM PST  A series of personnel changes placing Trump loyalists in key Defense Department positions has sparked rumors of plans for dramatic action in the waning days of his presidency, but a number of former national security officials see it more as the chaotic final days of an outgoing administration.
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| Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene, supporter of QAnon, denounces House mask requirement Posted: 13 Nov 2020 11:14 AM PST  Amid a raging coronavirus pandemic, the incoming Republican freshman said she "proudly told my freshman class that masks are oppressive."
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| Hurricane watches and warnings issued for stronger Tropical Storm Iota, in record season Posted: 13 Nov 2020 05:09 AM PST  Tropical Storm Iota, which formed in the central Caribbean Sea on Friday and marking the 30th named storm in a record-breaking hurricane season., is forecast to turn into a hurricane before approaching Central America next week. Central America is already reeling from Eta hitting Nicaragua as a Category 4 hurricane last week.
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| Project Veritas could face legal liability for postal worker's ballot fraud allegations, experts say Posted: 14 Nov 2020 03:00 AM PST  Project Veritas accused the Washington Post of witness intimidation after it ran an article debunking ballot claims
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| In California: Newsom bemoans attending dinner; travel discouraged Posted: 13 Nov 2020 05:58 PM PST  Plus: College football and COVID-19, Trump breaks a record, and has the pandemic made San Francisco more affordable?
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| 20 million Americans will get a COVID vaccine this year, administration says Posted: 13 Nov 2020 03:40 PM PST  The Trump administration promised that 20 million Americans would receive a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year.
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| Philippines' Duterte absolves police chief over lockdown birthday party Posted: 14 Nov 2020 06:11 AM PST  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday cleared his newly appointed police chief of any violation of rules when he celebrated his birthday in May during one of the world's strictest coronavirus lockdowns. In a national address, Duterte defended police chief Debold Sinas, promoted on Monday Nov. 9 to national police commander from Manila police boss, and noted his appointee's achievements despite a social media stir over perceived special treatment. Sinas had led anti-drug operations in which thousands of people were killed.
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| Trump walks away from Covid briefing refusing to take questions about the election Posted: 13 Nov 2020 02:22 PM PST  They were his first public remarks in nearly a week
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| Kamala Harris, Joe Biden send out wishes for happy Diwali Posted: 14 Nov 2020 03:58 PM PST  Diwali, one of the most important holidays in India, symbolizes new beginnings and the triumph of good over evil, and light over darkness.
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| Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, Muslim media figure, says she was singled out after arrest at Newark Airport Posted: 14 Nov 2020 02:40 PM PST  Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, a New Brunswick native, was booted from an American Airlines plane at after a white male filed a complaint against her.
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| 4-year-old boy in Texas loses mom and dad to Covid Posted: 14 Nov 2020 02:57 PM PST  "Just this morning he told me that he wishes he had his mom back and he just wanted her back," Raiden Gonzalez's grandmother said. "I just told him that they're now angels watching over us."
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| Trumpworld's faux-intellectual grifters are helping him debase democracy with bogus 'voter fraud' claims. And Republicans rake in the cash. Posted: 14 Nov 2020 05:28 AM PST  Internet "skeptics" are amplifying Trump's fake voter fraud claims. The GOP is using it to raise campaign funds.
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| US military flew terminally ill Bahrain premier to America Posted: 12 Nov 2020 09:18 PM PST  The U.S. military flew Bahrain's terminally ill prime minister to America for hospital care two months before his death, the State Department acknowledged Friday, underlining the importance of the island kingdom. The care offered to Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa came just after the U.S. military similarly flew Kuwait's late ruling emir to the same Mayo Clinic hospital in Minnesota. Both countries host major U.S. military bases in the region and are considered major non-NATO allies, granting them military and economic privileges with America.
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| A local news anchor in Milwaukee was suspended after he asked why 2020 took Alex Trebek but not Mitch McConnell Posted: 14 Nov 2020 09:51 AM PST  "2020 takes Alex Trebek but leaves Mitch McConnell?" Perry, who anchors the 5 and 10 p.m. newscasts wrote. "Just end already."
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| Coronavirus concerns may have kept Trump from meeting newly-elected GOP lawmakers in person at White House Posted: 14 Nov 2020 08:19 AM PST  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) set up a visit to the White House for newly-elected Republican lawmakers Friday evening, but they didn't get a chance to meet President Trump in person, Politico reports.The president did reportedly send his regards to the newcomers, but the fact that he stayed out of the spotlight raised some eyebrows.> Weird @playbookplus note: "LAST NIGHT, MCCARTHY took the newly elected Republicans to the White House...INTERESTING TO NOTE: President DONALD TRUMP did not come down to meet the group. He did send his well wishes."> > -- Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) November 14, 2020As it turns out, further reporting revealed Trump probably wasn't standing anyone up, but, in a bit of twist, likely stayed away because the group hadn't been tested for COVID-19 prior to their arrival. > UPDATE to Playbook: MCCARTHY himself didn't go to the W.H. w the new freshmen Republicans -- but his team organized, attended. POTUS didn't go down to say hi, and that could be because the group of newly elected GOP lawmakers was not tested for Covid @ WH, per several sources.> > -- Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) November 14, 2020More stories from theweek.com 7 scathingly funny cartoons about Trump's refusal to concede Trump is reportedly 'very aware' he lost the election but is putting up a fight as 'theater' Texas senator suggests it's too soon to declare Biden the winner because Puerto Rico is still counting votes
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| Minneapolis business owner on city’s crime spike: We don’t have help like before Posted: 13 Nov 2020 04:59 AM PST  The Minneapolis city council members and police chief clash over funding; Salon owner Flora Westbrooks shares with 'Fox & Friends' how her business was impacted during the riots.
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| Fauci said the US has 'no appetite' for lockdowns but mask wearing and distancing could be enough, the day after a Biden advisor called for a weeks-long lockdown Posted: 13 Nov 2020 04:37 AM PST  Dr. Anthony Fauci told "Good Morning America" that taking steps like mask wearing and social distancing means that a lockdown might not be needed.
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| Murder and mayhem: How South African farming became a 'full-scale war' Posted: 14 Nov 2020 04:56 AM PST  When armed men broke into their farm in Free State province on Wednesday night, Mark Regal and his wife were already on high alert. Just the day before, their neighbour and fellow farmer Eddie Hills had died in hospital, a week after being stabbed in a robbery in which his father was tied up and shot. Aware that they too could lose more than just their property, Mrs Regal returned fire and killed one of the intruders, police said. But Mr Regal, 50, was overpowered and killed, the seventh farmer to be murdered in the province in six weeks. The spate of killings has inflamed racial tensions in South Africa, with the Free State's white farming community accusing the ANC-ruled government of doing little to help. Trouble first flared with last month's grisly murder of farm mechanic, Brendin Horner, 21, whose body was found tied by a noose to a fence near his cottage. When two suspects appeared in court a week later in the tiny town of Senekal, a white mob stormed the building, attempting to avenge Mr Horner's death on the spot.
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| Fact check: Claim that Pennsylvania case is proof of ‘dead people’ voting is under investigation Posted: 13 Nov 2020 05:48 PM PST  While Pennsylvania's ballot tracker shows a recorded mail-in ballot for a Denise Ondick, officials have yet to determine this was voter fraud.
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| ‘It cost him his life.’ Suspect drowns trying to flee Doral police Posted: 13 Nov 2020 10:15 AM PST  A man died early Friday morning after running from police and jumping into a canal in Doral.
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| An adults-only luxury resort in the Maldives is offering guests to book a year's worth of unlimited stays in 2021 for $30,000 Posted: 14 Nov 2020 01:16 PM PST  The Anantara Veli resort in the Maldives deal allows 2 guests to book unlimited stays at an overwater bungalow in 2021 for $30,0000.
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| Secret intelligence exists that ‘would cast Trump in very negative light’, warns ex-FBI chief Posted: 14 Nov 2020 06:54 AM PST  'It's almost incomprehensible to me that he would want that information out,' says Andrew McCabe
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| 11-year-old boy killed in Atlanta drive-by shooting Posted: 14 Nov 2020 10:10 AM PST  What started as a day of celebration ended with an unimaginable tragedy that took the life of an 11-year-old boy. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Connie Sims took his son, Tyrell Sims, to the mall on the afternoon of Nov. 6 to celebrate him passing an exam. Later that evening, Tyrell went to play in the front yard with his friend after helping his friend's grandmother decorate for Christmas, according to his father.
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| Vietnam bracing for Typhoon Vamco as death toll in Philippines rises to 53 Posted: 13 Nov 2020 09:34 PM PST  Vietnam was bracing for Typhoon Vamco to make landfall in the country's central coast early on Sunday, as the death toll in the Philippines rose to 53 from that country's deadliest storm this year. Packing winds of up to 165 kph (103 mph), Vamco is forecast to hit a swathe of Vietnam's coast from Ha Tinh to Quang Ngai province, the government's weather agency said on Saturday. "This is a very strong typhoon," Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said, warning provinces in Vamco's projected path to prepare for its impact. The provinces plan to evacuate 468,000 people by the end of Saturday, state media cited the government's disaster management authority as saying. Vietnam is prone to destructive storms and flooding due to its long coastline. Vamco will be the 13th storm that affects the Southeast Asian country this year, where more than 160 people have been killed in natural disasters triggered by a series of storms since early October.
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| Lawyers for 1st woman to face federal execution in decades have Covid, seek delay Posted: 14 Nov 2020 09:52 AM PST  Her lawyers say in a lawsuit that they are ill because Attorney General Bill Barr "recklessly scheduled Mrs. Montgomery's execution in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic."
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| Thousands of Georgians rally in Tbilisi to protest election results Posted: 14 Nov 2020 08:55 AM PST  Thousands of protesters rallied in the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Saturday to back opposition calls for a re-run of the Oct. 31 parliamentary election they say was rigged. According to official results, the ruling Georgian Dream party won 48.23% of the vote, with the largest opposition party, the United National Movement (UNM), taking 27.18%. Eight opposition parties including the UNM have said they would boycott parliament.
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| Sudan to host Russian military base Posted: 13 Nov 2020 01:12 PM PST  The naval logistics center in Sudan will be Russia's first military base in Africa since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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| Haiti is running low on fuel again as sweet deal with fuel supplier turns sour Posted: 13 Nov 2020 04:27 PM PST  Another sweet deal has gone sour in Haiti.
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| Trump plans “vote-count rallies” to “wreck” Fox News in bid to launch competing network: report Posted: 12 Nov 2020 08:32 PM PST  Trump reportedly considers launching a "cheaper" streaming-only MAGA platform over an "expensive" cable channel
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| Acting DHS chief Chad Wolf is reportedly planning a 'boondoggle' December tour of Latin America, a coronavirus hotspot, for no apparent reason Posted: 13 Nov 2020 02:47 AM PST  Latin America is currently home to one in three global coronavirus deaths. The Washington Post first reported on the intended trip.
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| Appeals court rules against El Paso's shutdown order amid Covid surge Posted: 13 Nov 2020 08:07 PM PST  There can only be "one captain of the ship," judge says in ruling in favor of the state.
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| Suburban Philadelphia voters surge with verve to oust Trump Posted: 14 Nov 2020 08:33 AM PST  Voters in Philadelphia's suburbs have whipped up wave after wave of anti-Donald Trump sentiment since 2016, hurling perhaps their biggest rebuke yet to the Republican this month. With turnout well above the state average, the four growing Pennsylvania counties hugging Philadelphia provided a decisive margin for former Vice President Joe Biden, lifting the Democrat to victory in the battleground state and to the presidency. Much of the credit in suburban Philadelphia goes to Democrats' turnout.
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| Chicago boy, 12, shot while picking up school supplies with father Posted: 13 Nov 2020 06:49 PM PST  A 12-year-old boy is lucky to be alive after he was shot multiple times in Chicago while shopping for school supplies with his father. Lamar Davis was sitting in a parked car in the city's Lawndale area on Wednesday, when a maroon SUV pulled up, rolled down a rear window and someone opened fire with a .45-caliber handgun, per the Chicago Tribune. "He was just sitting there in the car and someone shot him," Lamar's mother, Melissa Robinson, told the Chicago Tribune.
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| Fed officials differ over economy's risks as coronavirus surges Posted: 13 Nov 2020 05:49 AM PST  For St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, the current surge in U.S. coronavirus cases can be controlled and the economy recover if households are just nudged in the right direction, exhorted in a 'this-time-we-mean-it' push to wear masks and take other steps that health officials have urged since March. New York Fed President John Williams says a full recovery will have to wait for a vaccine, with the health crisis putting a "question mark" on the economy until then. Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari on Friday re-upped his support for a temporary lockdown to try to slow the spread and reduce deaths in an overwhelmed healthcare system, predicted a muted recovery if the virus remains uncontrolled.
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| Report: Trump asked about plan to subvert Electoral College Posted: 13 Nov 2020 07:09 AM PST  President Trump asked his aides about a plan to subvert the Electoral College, the New York Times reported on Thursday.
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