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New Mexico governor to sheriffs: Enforce gun law or resign

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 03:14 PM PST

New Mexico governor to sheriffs: Enforce gun law or resignNew Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a red-flag gun bill Tuesday that will allow state district courts to order the temporary surrender of firearms, and she urged sheriffs to resign if they still refuse to enforce it. Flanked by advocates for stricter gun control and supportive law enforcement officials at a signing ceremony, Lujan Grisham said the legislation provides law enforcement authorities with an urgently needed tool to deter deadly violence by temporarily removing firearms from people who pose a threat to themselves or others. "If they really intend to do that, they should resign as a law enforcement officer and leader in that community," she said.


Detectives eye Yellowstone in missing Idaho kids case

Posted: 24 Feb 2020 05:30 PM PST

Detectives eye Yellowstone in missing Idaho kids casePhone records show Tylee Ryan visited Yellowstone with her mother, uncle and brother JJ ‪on September 8, according to court documents.


A Daily Beast reporter was doxxed after publishing a story about Bernie Sanders' campaign staffer's harassing tweets

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 08:31 AM PST

A Daily Beast reporter was doxxed after publishing a story about Bernie Sanders' campaign staffer's harassing tweetsAs Sen. Sanders cements his position as the 2020 frontrunner, focus has turned to the online behavior of his supporters. He disavowed them on Monday.


Trump news — live: President mocked and markets slide as CDC issues grave warning over potential coronavirus pandemic

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 08:24 AM PST

Trump news — live: President mocked and markets slide as CDC issues grave warning over potential coronavirus pandemicA Donald Trump press conference in India descended into a bitter row with CNN reporter Jim Acosta on Tuesday after the president criticised the journalist's network and the latter replied: "I think our record on delivering the truth is a lot better than yours sometimes."Trump has meanwhile secured a lucrative arms deal with the fellow superpower's prime minister Narendra Modi, a venture he risked putting in jeopardy by refusing to eat any of the vegetarian delicacies – notably broccoli samosas - laid out for him at the Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad on Monday afternoon.


A California man drove his Jeep off the roof of a six-level parking garage and crashed into a McDonald's, police say

Posted: 23 Feb 2020 06:49 PM PST

A California man drove his Jeep off the roof of a six-level parking garage and crashed into a McDonald's, police sayPolice say a California man drove a Jeep off a parking garage and into a McDonald's. Two people dove out of the car before it crashed.


Fake News or Reality? Did F-35s from Israel Fly Over Iran?

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 01:30 AM PST

Fake News or Reality? Did F-35s from Israel Fly Over Iran?Could that be true?


U.S. Supreme Court turns away religious bias claim against Walgreens

Posted: 24 Feb 2020 06:52 AM PST

U.S. Supreme Court turns away religious bias claim against WalgreensThe U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to Walgreens, turning away an appeal by a fired former Florida employee of the pharmacy chain who asked not to work on Saturdays for religious reasons as a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The justices declined to review a lower court ruling in Darrell Patterson's religious discrimination lawsuit that concluded that his demand to never work on Saturday, observed as the Sabbath by Seventh-day Adventists, placed an undue hardship on Walgreens. Patterson, who had trained customer service representatives at a Walgreens call center in Orlando, was fired in 2011 after failing to show up for work on a Saturday for an urgent training session.


Italian hikers rescued in Alaska after visiting infamous bus

Posted: 24 Feb 2020 03:04 PM PST

Italian hikers rescued in Alaska after visiting infamous busAn Italian man suffering from frostbite and four other tourists were rescued in the Alaska wilderness after visiting an abandoned bus that has become a lure for adventurers since it was featured in the "Into the Wild" book and movie. Alaska State Troopers say the five Italians were rescued Saturday from a camp they set up after visiting the dilapidated bus on the Stampede Trail near the interior town of Healy. The hikers were found 13 miles from the trailhead, Trooper spokesman Tim DeSpain said.


Secretary of State Pompeo appeared to coordinate with Giuliani on Ukraine, new documents show

Posted: 24 Feb 2020 12:59 PM PST

Secretary of State Pompeo appeared to coordinate with Giuliani on Ukraine, new documents showA trove of documents released on Friday by the State Department to American Oversight make clear that Rudy Giuliani — who was acting as Trump's personal attorney — pressed American diplomats to consider the information he'd unearthed in Kyiv about corruption. Though the documents released amount to fewer than a dozen pages of emails, they nevertheless show aides to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo unambiguously receptive to Giuliani's overtures.


Pete Buttigieg appears to mimic Barack Obama almost exactly in campaign speech video comparison

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 02:31 AM PST

Pete Buttigieg appears to mimic Barack Obama almost exactly in campaign speech video comparisonPresidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has been accused of plagiarising Barack Obama in several campaign speeches.In a compilation video featuring side-by-side comparisons of the two men's speeches, Mr Buttigieg is shown using almost the exact same words as Mr Obama on multiple occasions.


Roger Stone Judge Scolds Trump, Allies Over Claims of Jury Bias

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 03:49 PM PST

Roger Stone Judge Scolds Trump, Allies Over Claims of Jury Bias(Bloomberg) -- Three of the jurors who convicted Republican operative Roger Stone for lying to Congress and witness tampering testified that political bias played no role in their decision, pushing back against Stone's contention that he deserves a new trial.U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson did not issue a ruling at the end of a Tuesday hearing on Stone's request. But the judge said a juror's social media posts criticizing President Donald Trump did not necessarily mean she was biased against Stone, who was convicted in November and sentenced last week to three years and four months in prison.At the beginning of the hearing in Washington, the judge sharply criticized the president and "false" news reports for promoting claims of bias she said could endanger jurors. "The risk of harassment and intimidation of any juror who may testify in the hearing later today is extremely high," Jackson said, adding that "the jury has even been publicly criticized by the President of the United States."The notion that Stone's trial was tainted by left-leaning jury members, particularly the foreperson, has been promoted aggressively by Trump and right-wing media in recent days. The president, who has also hinted he may pardon his longtime ally, tweeted further on the issue Tuesday.At the beginning of the hearing, Jackson specifically criticized Fox News' Tucker Carlson for falsely claiming an Obama administration official was placed on Stone's jury and that another juror was married to a "Deep State" bureaucrat. The judge also noted that Carlson had accused the foreperson of being an "anti-Trump zealot" and broadcast her Twitter handle during his program.Jackson allowed Stone's lawyer, Seth Ginsberg, to question the foreperson and two other jurors in the case. Ginsberg said the foreperson lied on her jury questionnaire when she denied having opinions on federal law enforcement agencies or Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election. The charges against Stone stem from testimony he gave a congressional committee also probing Russian meddling.Ginsberg said the foreperson had written Facebook posts supportive of the Mueller investigation and had also retweeted a CNN contributor who criticized Stone's supporters for complaining about his arrest while remaining silent on police shootings of African Americans.If such views had been known, Ginsberg said, the foreperson would have been excused from the jury.Read More: Roger Stone Gets Over Three Years in Jail for Trump Cover-UpGinsberg questioned the foreperson about social media posts dating back to 2017 in which she criticized Trump policies. In one post, she suggested Trump supporters wanted to keep people of color out of the U.S.But Jackson told Ginsberg he was making an assumption that the juror was biased against Stone based on her more general views on issues like immigration or racism. "Having an opinion about Trump's policies doesn't mean she can't fairly and impartially judge the evidence on Roger Stone," the judge said.Two other jurors testified that the foreperson did not pressure anyone to give a particular verdict and conducted the deliberations in an impartial manner. One of the jurors said the foreperson even pressed the panel to consider one of the charges more carefully after they were ready to give a guilty verdict.The foreperson has been widely attacked online for tweeting support for four prosecutors who resigned from the case when their tough sentencing recommendation for Stone was revised downward by senior Justice Department officials. Jackson said at the beginning of the hearing that the juror had done nothing wrong by stating her opinion.One of the four prosecutors, Michael Marando, appeared at the hearing Tuesday to answer Jackson's questions about the jury selection process. The judge also asked one of the prosecutors why they hadn't Googled the potential Stone jurors.Googling Jurors"I think it's a regular practice for lawyers these days to Google potential jurors, isn't it?" the judge asked. The prosecutor replied that it "just didn't happen" and suggested it might have been a "cost and strategy" issue.Jackson, an Obama appointee, hasn't been receptive to Stone's earlier allegations of bias. A previous request for a new trial -- based on claims that a different juror was biased -- was denied on Feb. 5. Over the weekend, she rejected his claim that she herself was biased and denied his request to argue his latest motion before another judge.She expressed a measure of skepticism about his latest request on Tuesday, noting that his filing was somewhat hyperbolic."Like the motion for recusal, it's marked by a tone that I haven't seen previously in pleadings in this case and was particularly reliant on adjectives," Jackson said.(Adds detail from hearing)To contact the reporter on this story: Erik Larson in New York at elarson4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: David Glovin at dglovin@bloomberg.net, Anthony LinFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.


San Francisco's mayor has declared a state of emergency as the coronavirus continues to spread

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 03:42 PM PST

San Francisco's mayor has declared a state of emergency as the coronavirus continues to spreadMayor London Breed said the city was "taking the necessary steps to protect San Franciscans from harm."


A rare, 'cryptic' rainbow snake was spotted in a Florida forest for the first time since 1969

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 07:13 AM PST

A rare, 'cryptic' rainbow snake was spotted in a Florida forest for the first time since 1969A rainbow snake, also known as an "eel moccasin," was spotted in Florida's Ocala National Forest for the first time in five decades.


Why is Iran's reported mortality rate for coronavirus higher than in other countries?

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 04:52 PM PST

Why is Iran's reported mortality rate for coronavirus higher than in other countries?Iran's reported mortality rate for the illness — about 16 percent — surpasses the rate for other countries by a dramatic margin.


The Deadly Reason Why Nuclear Missile Submarines Are Called "Boomers"

Posted: 24 Feb 2020 03:00 PM PST

The Deadly Reason Why Nuclear Missile Submarines Are Called "Boomers"Vessels of death.


'D.C. Sniper' Malvo can seek parole after change in Virginia law

Posted: 24 Feb 2020 12:46 PM PST

'D.C. Sniper' Malvo can seek parole after change in Virginia lawLee Boyd Malvo, who was 17 when he took part in the deadly 2002 "D.C. Sniper" shooting spree in the Washington area, will get a chance to seek parole in Virginia following a change in state law enacted on Monday, preempting a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the matter. The change, signed by Democratic Governor Ralph Northam, allows people like Malvo, now 35, who were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for offenses committed before age 18 to ask for release after 20 years. Malvo, who is incarcerated in a supermax state prison in Virginia's Wise County, and an older accomplice, John Allen Muhammad, were convicted in the shootings in which 10 people were killed.


Arizona congressional candidate suspends campaign after overdosing on heroin: 'I'm not going to hide from this'

Posted: 24 Feb 2020 08:02 PM PST

Arizona congressional candidate suspends campaign after overdosing on heroin: 'I'm not going to hide from this'A Republican running for Congress in Arizona announced on Monday he is suspending his campaign following a heroin overdose last week.Chris Taylor is an Army veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan and a member of the City Council in Safford. He has a history of opioid addiction dating back to his high school years. "I'm not going to hide from this," Taylor told The Arizona Republic. "I'm not ashamed of what happened. I wish to sincerely apologize to the amazing people who have supported me."Taylor told NBC News he is seeking treatment for substance abuse, having relapsed "after having so many solid years in sobriety. I have to figure out where I went wrong. Thankfully I have every resource available to me through the Veterans Affairs Administration and I have the strongest support system one could dream of. The only thing I can do is face this head on in complete humility and put one foot in front of the other so that I can get the help needed to be the father and husband that my family deserves."Taylor was running in Arizona's 1st Congressional District, hoping to unseat Rep. Tom O'Halleran (D). In his campaign ads, Taylor promised to support President Trump, cut taxes, and defend the Second Amendment.More stories from theweek.com Acting DHS secretary falsely claims flu is just as deadly as the coronavirus Harvard scientist predicts coronavirus will infect up to 70 percent of humanity CDC warns Americans to prepare for coronavirus outbreak


A Wrongfully Convicted Kansas Man Who Spent 23 Years in Prison Is Awarded $1.5 Million

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 10:02 AM PST

A Wrongfully Convicted Kansas Man Who Spent 23 Years in Prison Is Awarded $1.5 MillionLamonte McIntyre was convicted and sentenced to two terms of life in prison for the murder of Donald Ewing and Doniel Quinn back in 1994. The two victims had been shot in the middle of the day while they sat in their car


Australian special forces probed for alleged Afghan war crimes

Posted: 24 Feb 2020 09:32 PM PST

Australian special forces probed for alleged Afghan war crimesAustralia is investigating more than 50 alleged war crimes by the country's special forces in Afghanistan, including the killing of civilians and prisoners, the military watchdog said Tuesday. An annual report by the Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force said 55 separate incidents were being investigated as part of a years-long probe into allegations Australian soldiers committed war crimes while serving in Afghanistan. The probe was launched in 2016 in response to what the watchdog called "rumours" of "very serious wrongdoing" over more than a decade by members of Australian special forces in Afghanistan.


Trump and his entourage fail to eat anything from special vegetarian menu prepared for them on India trip

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 04:28 AM PST

Trump and his entourage fail to eat anything from special vegetarian menu prepared for them on India tripDonald Trump and his entourage reportedly failed to eat a single item of a special vegetarian feast prepared for him during his trip to India.The American president and his wife, Melania, were presented with the menu during their visit to Gandhi Ashram in Ahmedabad, one of the former homes of the Indian independence hero.


Iran health minister falls ill on camera

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 09:50 AM PST

Iran health minister falls ill on cameraVideo shows Iran's deputy health minister suffering symptoms of the coronavirus at a press conference before being diagnosed.


Carnival, Royal Caribbean, and Norwegian Cruise Line are taking a financial beating from the coronavirus — here's how much the companies predict it will hurt earnings this year

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 10:03 AM PST

Carnival, Royal Caribbean, and Norwegian Cruise Line are taking a financial beating from the coronavirus — here's how much the companies predict it will hurt earnings this yearCarnival Corp., Royal Caribbean Cruises, and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings have predicted that the coronavirus will hurt their earnings this year.


No checkout needed: Amazon opens cashier-less grocery store

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 05:46 AM PST

No checkout needed: Amazon opens cashier-less grocery storeAmazon wants to kill the supermarket checkout line. The online retailing giant is opening its first cashier-less supermarket, where shoppers can grab milk or eggs and walk out without waiting in line or ever opening their wallets. It's the latest sign that Amazon is serious about shaking up the $800 billion grocery industry.


Warren hits Bloomberg for giving money to 'right-wing' Republicans - updates

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 05:46 PM PST

Warren hits Bloomberg for giving money to 'right-wing' Republicans - updatesElizabeth Warren revived her attacks on Michael Bloomberg with an emphasis on the money he has given to "right-wing" Republican candidates.


Valet accidentally shot in the face by Boston police at Brigham and Women's Hospital

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 12:23 PM PST

Valet accidentally shot in the face by Boston police at Brigham and Women's HospitalPolice were responding to a call of a person with a gun. The gun was later determined to be a replica and the suspect was fatally shot.


Sunk: How Sweden Sent America's USS Ronald Reagan to the Bottom of the Sea

Posted: 24 Feb 2020 05:00 PM PST

Sunk: How Sweden Sent America's USS Ronald Reagan to the Bottom of the Sea(In a simulation.)


Three more Chinese regions lower emergency response level as virus threat recedes

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 04:57 PM PST

Iran's deputy health minister says he has coronavirus

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 06:15 AM PST

Iran's deputy health minister says he has coronavirusIran's deputy health minister confirmed on Tuesday that he has tested positive for the new coronavirus, amid a major outbreak in the Islamic republic. Iraj Harirchi coughed occasionally and wiped sweat from his brow repeatedly during a news conference in Tehran on Monday with government spokesman Ali Rabiei. At the time, he denied a lawmaker's claim that 50 people had died from the virus in the Shiite shrine city of Qom, saying he would resign if the number proved accurate.


Rush Limbaugh: coronavirus a 'common cold' being 'weaponised' against Trump

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 05:43 AM PST

Rush Limbaugh: coronavirus a 'common cold' being 'weaponised' against Trump* Rightwing shock jock rails at 'effort to bring down Trump' * More than 2,700 people have died from virus worldwideThe coronavirus outbreak is being "weaponised" by the media to bring down Donald Trump when in fact it is simply a version of the "common cold", the conservative radio host and presidential medal of freedom recipient Rush Limbaugh claimed on Monday.His comments were widely condemned: more than 80,000 people are known to have contracted the virus worldwide and 2,700 are known to have died. Authorities are struggling to cope in China, Iran, Italy and Tenerife.The World Health Organization has not yet declared the outbreak, which originated in China, a pandemic.On Tuesday, Professor Mary-Louise McLaws, an infection control expert who has advised the WHO, told the Guardian: "Part of the reason for declaring a pandemic, if they do declare one, would be to get the critical mass on board to take it seriously and not ignore symptoms, and to get the finances required to help tackle and control it."There are more than 50 known cases in the US, subject to quarantine. In India on Tuesday, Trump downplayed stock market falls in response to the outbreak, praised China for its response, and said coronavirus was "a problem that is going to go away". But on Monday, his administration asked Congress for $1.8bn to boost its own response.Limbaugh's conspiracy theorist take is that the outbreak is being used by the media to discredit a president who earlier this month honoured the rightwing shock jock during the State of the Union address."It looks like the coronavirus is being weaponised as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump," Limbaugh said on his Monday show. "Now, I want to tell you the truth about the coronavirus. I'm dead right on this. The coronavirus is the common cold, folks."The drive-by media hype of this thing as a pandemic, as the Andromeda strain, as, 'Oh, my God, if you get it, you're dead' … I think the survival rate is 98%. Ninety-eight per cent of people get the coronavirus survive. It's a respiratory system virus."Limbaugh has used his platform on talk radio to campaign to attack liberals, often causing controversy with extreme rightwing views on abortion, feminism and race.Earlier this month, he revealed that he has advanced lung cancer.According to the Guardian's guide to the coronavirus, it "can cause pneumonia. Those who have fallen ill are reported to suffer coughs, fever and breathing difficulties. In severe cases there can be organ failure. As this is viral pneumonia, antibiotics are of no use. The antiviral drugs we have against flu will not work. Recovery depends on the strength of the immune system. Many of those who have died were already in poor health."Limbaugh said: "It probably is a ChiCom laboratory experiment that is in the process of being weaponised."That was a reference to a baseless theory spread in the US by figures including a Republican senator, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, that the coronavirus may have originated in Chinese biological weapons research.In the US, Limbaugh claimed, "the way [coronavirus] is being weaponised is by virtue of the media, and I think that it is an effort to bring down Trump, and one of the ways it's being used to do this is to scare the investors, to scare people in business."It's to scare people into not buying Treasury bills at auctions. It's to scare people into leaving, cashing out of the stock market – and sure enough, as the show began today, the stock market – the Dow Jones Industrial Average – was down about 900 points, supposedly because of the latest news about the spread of the coronavirus."The Dow fell by 1,000 points on Monday, its worst fall in two years.The media's response to the coronavirus story has indeed attracted criticism for sensationalism and stoking public fear.Speaking to Time magazine earlier this month, for example, Rutgers journalism professor Steven Miller said: "It's just amazing how quickly word about this [coronavirus] has spread, the intensity of the coverage. It seems to me that the coronavirus is being covered in more sensationalistic terms than Ebola in 2018."


ACLU files suit to block "sanctuary cities" from outlawing abortion

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 03:06 AM PST

ACLU files suit to block "sanctuary cities" from outlawing abortionIn its filing, the ACLU claims the ordinances violate the constitution and mislead residents "as to whether individuals can in fact exercise their right to access abortion. "


Dems thwart Senate Republicans on 2 abortion-related bills

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 01:35 PM PST

Dems thwart Senate Republicans on 2 abortion-related billsSenate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a pair of Republican bills that would ban most late-term abortions and threaten prison for doctors who don't try saving the life of infants born alive during abortions. The measures have been defeated multiple times in recent years, but Senate Republicans pushed for renewed votes to allow GOP lawmakers to make an election-year appeal to conservative voters. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell accused Democrats of bowing to "the radical demands of the far left" to "drown out common sense" and the views of millions of Americans.


Missing Tennessee toddler's grandmother and her boyfriend extradited after arrest

Posted: 24 Feb 2020 11:11 AM PST

Missing Tennessee toddler's grandmother and her boyfriend extradited after arrestEvelyn Boswell, a Tennessee toddler who is 15 months old, was last seen in December. An Amber Alert was issued for her on Wednesday.


Elizabeth Warren says Kamala Harris and Kirsten Gillibrand regularly check in on her

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 12:16 PM PST

Elizabeth Warren says Kamala Harris and Kirsten Gillibrand regularly check in on herSen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is on good terms with some Democratic exes.While she can't claim to have raised thousands of dollars from ex-boyfriends, like Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) can, Warren has remained quite friendly with several ex-Democratic presidential candidates. In an interview with NBC News, Warren said she's texted nature photos with Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) shortly after he dropped out of the race, talked math with Andrew Yang, and kept in touch with former Housing Secretary Julián Castro, who has endorsed her run.But she says Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) have particular insight into what NBC News calls the "loneliness" of the campaign trail, something Warren described as like "living in a movie that is running at high speed with everything coming so quickly.""Kamala and Kirsten, in particular, ask me am I getting rest? Am I eating? And am I having some fun out there?," said Warren of her fellow women candidates. "It's a very personal experience to run. Running for president can be thrilling but also very lonely," she said. "The candidate stands alone."Warren even got back in good graces with former Rep. John Delaney (D-Md.) after taking him down a few pegs in one of the first debates. Delaney said her call to wish him well after he dropped out was "quite lengthy and quite in-depth" and showed "she's not entirely self-absorbed. She actually listens."Read more about Warren's relationship with her ex-competitors at NBC News.More stories from theweek.com Harvard scientist predicts coronavirus will infect up to 70 percent of humanity Donald Trump tells biographer he's the same now as he was in first grade Is Bernie Sanders the Democrats' Goldwater, Reagan, or Trump?


Democrats' strategy to stop Sanders could be fatally flawed

Posted: 24 Feb 2020 11:05 AM PST

Democrats' strategy to stop Sanders could be fatally flawedAs the results of the Nevada caucuses showed Sen. Bernie Sanders solidifying his status as a — or the — Democratic frontrunner, those in the party who fear his nomination mounted increasingly panicked calls for other candidates to drop out and allow the opposition to coalesce around a single challenger.


Egypt executes eight men over church bombings: sources

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 03:52 AM PST

Egypt executes eight men over church bombings: sourcesEgypt has executed eight men sentenced to death over deadly attacks claimed by the Islamic State group on churches and a police checkpoint, judicial and medical sources said Tuesday. The convicts, whose final appeal against the death penalty was denied in May last year, were put to death at dawn on Monday, the sources said.


Coronavirus: Donald Trump's Very Own Hurricane Katrina Moment?

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 11:30 AM PST

Coronavirus: Donald Trump's Very Own Hurricane Katrina Moment?"We are asking the American public to prepare for the expectation that this might be bad," an official with the Center for Disease Control said today. There are currently 14 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in the United States.


United Airlines dished out $10,000 each to 9 passengers who were forced to downgrade from business class to 'Premium Plus'

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 07:34 AM PST

United Airlines dished out $10,000 each to 9 passengers who were forced to downgrade from business class to 'Premium Plus'United offered $10,000 travel vouchers to nine passengers who agreed to sit in "Priority Plus" rather than business class during an 11-hour flight from New Jersey to Hawaii.


South Korea is testing 200,000 members of a doomsday church linked to more than 60% of its coronavirus cases

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 02:20 AM PST

South Korea is testing 200,000 members of a doomsday church linked to more than 60% of its coronavirus casesIt is the latest drastic step taken by authorities in South Korea, where more people have caught the coronavirus than any nation other than China.


GOP lawmakers walk out after Oregon climate bill advances

Posted: 24 Feb 2020 11:01 AM PST

GOP lawmakers walk out after Oregon climate bill advancesRepublican senators slipped out of the Oregon State Capitol on Monday, preventing the state Senate from convening in an attempt to doom a bill aimed at stemming global warming. The walkout was a repeat of action the GOP took last year to kill similar climate change legislation, a maneuver that prompted threats of having state police forcibly return lawmakers to the Statehouse. The walkout threatens to derail the main legislation that Democrats had hoped to pass during a 35-day session: A bill to limit greenhouse gas emissions that threaten the planet.


Kenya shuts slaughterhouses over loss of donkeys to China

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 09:51 AM PST

U.S. officials: Four more Diamond Princess passengers have coronavirus; U.S. cases at 57

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 02:45 PM PST

U.S. officials: Four more Diamond Princess passengers have coronavirus; U.S. cases at 57Four more passengers from the Diamond Princess have tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of Americans infected to 40.


Firefighter who found brother in rubble dies of 9/11-linked cancer

Posted: 24 Feb 2020 07:09 PM PST

Firefighter who found brother in rubble dies of 9/11-linked cancerDaniel Foley, who helped find the remains of his firefighter brother in the rubble of the World Trade Center, died at the age of 46 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, officials said.


Syria regime kills 20 civilians, retakes symbolic town

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 01:24 PM PST

Syria regime kills 20 civilians, retakes symbolic townAt least 20 civilians died in Syrian regime strikes on targets including schools, a monitor said Tuesday, in a relentless advance on the country's last major opposition holdout that saw loyalists seize a symbolic town. Pro-regime bombing killed at least nine children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, as Russian-backed regime forces wage a fierce offensive to seize Idlib, the final major territory in Syria still controlled by rebels and jihadists. Regime strikes in Idlib, the main city in the densely populated, ever-shrinking enclave of the same name, killed a schoolchild and three teachers as well as two others, said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman.


Coronavirus: White House adviser insists virus under control as CDC warns it is not

Posted: 25 Feb 2020 01:45 PM PST

Coronavirus: White House adviser insists virus under control as CDC warns it is notThere are contradictory reports regarding the potential for widespread coronavirus infections in the US, with the White House economic adviser saying that investors need not fear an escalating number of cases.White House National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow told CNBC on Tuesday that "We have contained this. I won't say [it's] air-tight, but it's pretty close to air-tight."


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