| New York attorney general unveils investigation into Trump company's finances Posted: 24 Aug 2020 03:33 PM PDT  Court documents made public on Monday reveal that the New York attorney general's office is conducting a wide-ranging investigation into alleged financial improprieties at President Trump's real estate company and is accusing the business of trying to stall the probe.
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| Sydney Sutherland: Suspect in death knew victim and joined search party Facebook group Posted: 24 Aug 2020 02:40 PM PDT  The farmer accused of killing Arkansas resident Sydney Sutherland was known to the victim and joined a Facebook group dedicated to finding her after she went missing.Sutherland was last seen running on State Highway 18, near Newport, Arkansas, on Wednesday, and the 25-year-old's body was found on Friday following a two day search involving helicopters and K-9 units, according to the Daily Mail.
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| Jerry Falwell Jr. and Liberty University: What we know Posted: 25 Aug 2020 11:26 AM PDT  Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. went back and forth over resigning Monday.
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| The man who recorded an officer shooting Jacob Blake criticized police for 'constantly' giving Black people 'reasons not to let you guys protect and serve' Posted: 25 Aug 2020 10:08 AM PDT  Raysean White told CNN he was disturbed by witnessing Blake's shooting and similar incidents with police leave Black Americans "scared for our lives."
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| New Hubble image captures comet Neowise after journey around sun Posted: 25 Aug 2020 12:15 PM PDT  Most comets break apart under the intense heat of the sun — but Neowise remained intact.
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| 'I'd Like to Punch You in the Mouth.' Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro Enraged by Reporter's Question About Payments to His Wife Posted: 25 Aug 2020 02:33 AM PDT  Yet despite mounting scandals, polls suggest right-wing leader's popularity is on the rise
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| Lovecraft Country Is Packed With Supernatural Symbolism Posted: 25 Aug 2020 02:56 PM PDT |
| Wife of Miami police officer dies after being trapped in his patrol car for hours Posted: 25 Aug 2020 11:35 AM PDT  A Miami police officer's wife died after becoming trapped in the back of his patrol vehicle for several hours during a hot afternoon, police said Monday.
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| Bahamas Paradise settles, will pay crew $875,000 for months of work without wages Posted: 25 Aug 2020 09:06 AM PDT  Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line crew members may finally get paid after months of working without wages on the company's Florida-based ships.
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| Trump's election fraud claims 'not feasible,' says top Kentucky elections official Posted: 24 Aug 2020 02:01 AM PDT  "When I ran for this office last year, I cited 22 specific cases of recent election fraud convictions," said Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams, a Republican. "It does happen, but it doesn't happen on a widespread basis when it does happen. It typically happens in a small town."
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| Scott Peterson death penalty overturned by California Supreme Court Posted: 24 Aug 2020 01:55 PM PDT  The justices said the trial judge "made a series of ... errors" in Peterson's high-profile 2004 trial for killing his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson.
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| China protests at U.S. spy plane watching drills Posted: 25 Aug 2020 06:47 AM PDT |
| 'The forest ... is resetting': California wildfires burned hundreds of ancient redwoods, but much of the forest seems to have survived the blaze Posted: 24 Aug 2020 09:48 PM PDT  A wildfire ravaged through the historic Big Basin Redwood State Park Monday, taking down hundreds of ancient trees in a fiery blaze.
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| Judge won’t dismiss Lee statue lawsuit; case heads for trial Posted: 25 Aug 2020 01:33 PM PDT  A lawsuit seeking to prevent Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's administration from removing an enormous statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee can proceed, a judge ruled Tuesday, clearing the way for a trial in the fall. Richmond Circuit Court Judge W. Reilly Marchant rejected much of the state's motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a group of property owners along the residential boulevard where the statue is situated. The decision at least further delays Northam's plan, which he announced in early June, citing the pain felt across the country about the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died under the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer as he struggled to breathe.
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| A Saudi dissident suing Twitter over a massive 2016 hack says the platform's incompetence got multiple whistleblowers killed Posted: 25 Aug 2020 06:42 AM PDT  Ali al-Ahmed told Business Insider that his sources in were exposed when Saudi spies unwittingly employed by Twitter accessed his account.
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| Clinesmith Guilty Plea: Using a ‘Digraph’ to Conceal a Massive Deception of the Court Posted: 25 Aug 2020 03:30 AM PDT  Author's Note: This is the second of a three-part series (see Part 1).Kevin Clinesmith's lies and document doctoring, which resulted in his guilty plea to a felony false-statement charge last week, were prompted by what turned out to be the worst-case scenario, for both him and the FBI.To recap, we are focusing on June 2017, when the FBI was preparing to submit an application for a fourth 90-day warrant to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. The "SSA," a supervisory special agent at FBI headquarters whom we met in Part 1, was to be the affiant on that application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). Not assigned to Crossfire Hurricane until December 2016, the SSA had not been involved in the investigation when the bureau opened it five months earlier. He was personally unaware that, months before the first Page FISA warrant was sought in October 2016, the CIA had informed the FBI about Page's years of work as a CIA informant, authorized by the agency for "operational contact" with Russians. Though the SSA was not on the investigative team, he had been the headquarters official assigned to swear to the truth of the renewal warrant applications in January and April 2017. He thus knew that the bureau heavily relied on Page's prior years of contact with Russians in portraying Page to the FISC as a clandestine agent of Moscow, at the center of a suspected Trump-Russia espionage conspiracy.The SSA became alarmed when Page, while vehemently denying that he was a spy for Russia, publicly claimed that he'd been a U.S. government intelligence source against Russia. The SSA realized that if Page was telling the truth, it would "seriously impact the predication of our entire investigation."That was not the half of it. When the SSA asked Kevin Clinesmith, the bureau's point man for contact with the CIA, to check on Page's claims, Clinesmith faced the worst-case scenario, not only because Page was telling the truth, but because the FBI had every reason to know -- before it began seeking surveillance warrants from the FISC eight months earlier -- that Page had indeed been a CIA informant. Moreover, Clinesmith, a lawyer in the FBI branch that reviewed FISA applications, had been involved from the start.The Clinesmith case is the story of how, despite being alerted that it had peddled falsehoods under oath to a federal court, the bureau mendaciously doubled down, obtaining a fourth FISA warrant by concealing from the court Page's status as a CIA informant.The 'Digraph'In his false-statement charge against Clinesmith, Connecticut U.S. attorney John Durham does not allege that the former bureau lawyer was personally aware, prior to the first FISA warrant application, that Page had been a CIA informant. But Clinesmith certainly was told about it in June 2017, before the FBI applied for the fourth warrant. He was also told that the CIA had informed the FBI about Page's status back in August 2016. Despite having that information, the bureau's investigative team had never disclosed it to the FISC in applying for the first three warrants. Disclosing it now -- while mulishly seeking a fourth warrant against Page -- would be humiliating.But that was the dilemma: Either admit that corruption or incompetence explained an inexcusable concealment of information from the FISA court, or try to concoct some rationalization that could harmonize the FBI's representations with the contradictory CIA information, even if that required obfuscation. Sadly, when one studies the inexcusable conduct of the Trump-Russia probe, it is not surprising that Clinesmith went with the second option. The bureau, abetted by the Justice Department, desperately wanted to convince itself that there was no need to make an embarrassing disclosure. In that mindset, silence (i.e., doing nothing) is orders of magnitude easier to rationalize than a confession of inexplicable error that one knows will be met with condemnation."But wait a second," you're saying to yourself. "I've read about the case. As I understand it, the CIA told Clinesmith in an email that Page was a CIA source, and then Clinesmith altered the email to say Page was not a CIA source. There's no way to rationalize that. It's a black-and-white lie."Alas, things are never that straightforward. When intelligence agencies interact, opaque code is standard fare. And where there is coded language, which two different agencies might claim to construe slightly differently, there is opportunity for mischief -- especially if a lawyer is involved. Clinesmith and his superiors exploited that opportunity.And Clinesmith reprised the sleight of hand in last week's "I did it, but I didn't do it" guilty plea.Your Rosetta Stone for this legerdemain is the term "digraph." It refers to a two-letter designation that denotes some kind of status. A good example of a well-known digraph is CI, which means "confidential informant" in law-enforcement parlance.In connection with Clinesmith's case, we're talking about a digraph that the CIA uses in its intelligence reports. The digraph remains classified. We are not told what the two letters are in either the criminal information against Clinesmith or the DOJ inspector general's FISA abuse report (where most of the Clinesmith story is related at pages 247–56, with the SSA referred to as "SSA 2"). We are informed only that the digraph denotes an American who has been approved by the CIA for "operational contact" with a foreign power.When you encounter "[digraph]," then, understand that it is a CIA term, defined as an American who is tasked by the CIA to have contact with certain foreigners and who wittingly reports the resulting intel back to the CIA. To understand the game that Clinesmith is playing, it is vital to remember this definition of digraph. The key to his defense is to feign confusion about the term's meaning -- conflating it, as we shall see, with nonvoluntary sources who unwittingly give information to the CIA.Was Page a Source 'in Any Capacity'?In June 2017, the SSA asked Clinesmith to find out whether Page was a CIA "source." The government's published allegations do not say whether the SSA and Clinesmith discussed the digraph, at least initially. There is reason to believe that, in the days that followed, the SSA reviewed the classified documents about Page that the CIA had provided to the bureau in August 2016. As we shall see in due course, the SSA and Clinesmith eventually discussed the digraph in an important instant-message exchange.Before emailing the CIA, did Clinesmith consult with his superiors at the FBI General Counsel's Office, or with the Crossfire Hurricane investigative team, which would have had access to the classified documents about Page previously provided by the CIA? The government's published allegations do not tell us. But we do know that, by the time he sent his June 15, 2017, email to the CIA official who was his point of contact at the agency (the CIA "liaison"), Clinesmith had at least heard of the digraph. That's because, in that email, Clinesmith wrote that the bureau needed "some clarification on Carter Page" because there "is an indication that he may be a '[digraph]' source."After noting that this could be something the FBI would need to explain to the FISC when applying for the next renewal of the Page FISA warrant, Clinesmith went on to pose two questions to the CIA liaison (my italics):> 1) Source Check / Is Page a source in any capacity? …> > 2) If he is, what is a "[digraph]" source (or whatever type of source he is)?Clinesmith's second question created the opening for him to claim, in the false-statement case brought by Durham, that he, and the FBI generally, were in the dark about the digraph's meaning. It is based on this sowing of confusion that he now claims not to have intended to deceive anyone.The CIA liaison's email in response to Clinesmith is not a model of clarity. It is clear enough for us to grasp that Clinesmith is now lying, but not so clear that Clinesmith would think it futile to kick some dust in our eyes. The liaison wrote that the CIA uses> the [digraph] to show that the encrypted individual . . . is a [U.S. person]. We encrypt the [U.S. persons] when they provide reporting to us. My recollection is that Page was or is . . . [digraph] but the [documents previously provided by the CIA] will explain the details. If you need a formal definition for the FISA, please let me know and we'll work up some language and get it cleared for use. [Emphasis added.]The Game: Conflating Digraph with Encryption and Incidental SurveillanceNote that Clinesmith did not ask about encryption; the CIA liaison raised it. We know, however, that the FBI uses encryption in intelligence reporting. That's because we've been through the great unmasking controversy.As I've detailed, "masking" involves what's known as incidental surveillance. That is when an American citizen unwittingly stumbles into an intelligence-collection operation by interacting with either a covert informant who reports intelligence to the FBI, or a suspected foreign agent whom the FBI is monitoring (often under FISA). As a result of such interactions, the FBI acquires information from the American citizen, even though the American citizen is not the target and is not wittingly providing information to U.S. intelligence. To protect the American's privacy (because the American is not a suspect and there was no court order targeting the American's communications), the FBI and other intelligence agencies mask -- conceal -- the American's identity. To do that, instead of using the American's name, they substitute some designation -- it could be a phrase (such as "U.S. Person 1") or a symbol (such as a digraph).In that sense, the concealment of the identity of an American who unwittingly passes information to U.S. intelligence agencies could be likened to encryption.Now, can you see what happened here?The last thing Clinesmith wanted was to be told by the liaison that Page was a witting CIA source. He was looking for some reason, any reason, to avoid learning that -- a concept the law refers to as conscious avoidance, or willful blindness. Probably without realizing she was doing it, the liaison gave Clinesmith the out he was looking for by using the word encrypt. Clinesmith proceeded to seize on encryption as a rationale for interpreting the digraph as an analogy to the FBI's masking situation -- where the bureau, in writing reports, encrypts the identity of an American who is incidentally monitored and does not intentionally provide information to the U.S. government.Manifestly, this is not an honest reading of what the CIA liaison said. And Clinesmith knows it. The liaison was not talking about all circumstances in which the CIA encrypts an American's identity; she was referring to the very specific situation when the CIA uses the digraph in question -- the digraph that Clinesmith expressly asked about. She said the CIA uses this digraph when those Americans "provide reporting to us."Let's be clear on that. The liaison did not say the CIA uses the digraph "when we incidentally get information from an unwitting American who is communicating with a target we're surveilling." She said the CIA uses the digraph when these Americans "provide reporting to us." The commonsense inference is the direct, intentional transmission of information to the agency.But the liaison did not leave it at that. To ensure that she was communicating the concept accurately, she added two other things. First, she told Clinesmith to consult the documents the CIA had already given the FBI months earlier, which laid out that Page was a witting source authorized for operational contact with Russians. And second, the liaison offered to provide Clinesmith a definition of digraph so the term could be conveyed accurately to the FISC.But again, that was the last thing Clinesmith was interested in. In writing back, he basically tells the liaison: Never mind, we've got this. He was not going to give the liaison a chance to correct his distortion of the word encrypt, his studied obtuseness. Instead, Clinesmith claimed that the FBI was digging into the CIA documents (though he later conceded to the IG that he did not do so -- he assumed that someone would dig into them). More significantly, he stated, "I think the definition of the [digraph] answers our questions." He was talking, of course, about the way he chose to construe what the liaison said about "digraph," not what she actually said.Holes in Clinesmith's StoryIt is not clear with whom at the FBI, if anyone, Clinesmith consulted to come up with his story. He admitted that he shared the CIA liaison's email -- without first tampering with it -- with one of the Crossfire Hurricane case agents and a different supervisory agent (not the SSA) assigned to the Mueller special-counsel team. But in doing so, Clinesmith provided no context or comment. The case agent apparently took it as a request to pull the CIA documents (which Clinesmith claims not to recall reviewing).Clinesmith also sent an instant message to his direct supervisor (the chief of the national-security branch of the FBI General Counsel's Office), claiming he'd been informed by the CIA that Page was a "U.S. subsource of a source" -- i.e., an American who was not a witting informant but who was in incidental contact with (and thus a source of information for) a witting informant.This is the same tale that Clinesmith told the Justice Department's inspector general. Naturally, given that the email from the CIA liaison neither stated nor conveyed the impression that Page had been an unwitting source of a CIA informant, the IG asked Clinesmith where that explanation came from. Apparently flustered, Clinesmith said he couldn't be sure, but thought it might have come from phone conversations with the liaison -- conveniently unrecorded, of course.Yet, the liaison did not recall having any phone conversations with Clinesmith. Nor is there any reason to believe there was such a conversation: The email exchange shows that, although the liaison offered to discuss the matter further, Clinesmith demurred -- having calculated that he could sow confusion about the digraph by exploiting the liaison's use of the word encrypt. Most significantly, according to the IG, the liaison says she never told Clinesmith that Page was an unwitting source; indeed, she maintained that "her email stated just the opposite."In any event, Clinesmith had come up with his story to conceal Page's status as a CIA informant. But would he be able to get it past the SSA?End of Part 2.
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| Mount Rushmore climber plunges 100 feet off George Washington’s head, officials say Posted: 25 Aug 2020 10:04 AM PDT  The climber will be fined $1,500.
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| Gun-toting couple who aimed at unarmed black protesters complain they face charges and not the ‘mob’ Posted: 24 Aug 2020 02:00 PM PDT  A couple from St Louis who earned notoriety after pointing guns at unarmed black protesters have complained that they face criminal charges, and not "the mob" they claim threatened them.Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who were photographed brandishing semi-automatic guns at protesters who walked near their home during a June demonstration for racial justice following the killing of George Floyd, face charges of unlawful use of a weapon.
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| Taliban attacks Afghan base as Pakistan pushes for talks Posted: 25 Aug 2020 08:34 AM PDT  A Taliban-claimed suicide attack killed at least three people in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday as neighbouring Pakistan pushed for delayed peace talks to begin.
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| Jerry Falwell Jr. says he was blackmailed because of wife's affair Posted: 24 Aug 2020 09:28 AM PDT  Jerry Falwell Jr., currently on a leave of absence as the leader of evangelical Liberty University, has released a statement saying that he is seeking help for the "emotional toll" from an affair his wife had with a man who he says later threatened his family.
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| Ghislaine Maxwell loses bid to be moved into general population at U.S. jail Posted: 25 Aug 2020 10:50 AM PDT  A U.S. judge rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's request to be moved into the general population at the Brooklyn jail where she is awaiting trial on charges she aided the late financier Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of girls. Maxwell had objected to being treated worse than other pretrial inmates at the Metropolitan Detention Center, citing "onerous" conditions including round-the-clock surveillance, numerous body scans, and being isolated in her cell most of the time.
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| Jacob Blake moved to Kenosha, Wisconsin, because it was 'safer.' Now he's paralyzed from the waist down after police shot him 7 times in the back. Posted: 25 Aug 2020 03:13 AM PDT  Pictures of Jacob Blake, who was shot in the back by the police in Wisconsin, have emerged, along with details from his family and other loved ones.
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| Democratic convention fell flat with viewers. Republican convention may do the same. Posted: 25 Aug 2020 11:34 AM PDT  The Democratic National Convention failed to draw many viewers this year, making things look worse for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris than expected.
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| CDC reverses COVID-19 guidance, says testing may not be needed after exposure Posted: 25 Aug 2020 01:18 PM PDT  The change comes as experts continue to push for more testing, not less.
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| Three workers trapped 20 feet underground die in sewer manhole, Indiana officials say Posted: 25 Aug 2020 12:50 PM PDT  The men were working at a school facility, officials say.
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| RNC Speaker Cancelled After Boosting QAnon Conspiracy Theory About Jewish Plot to Enslave the World Posted: 25 Aug 2020 03:43 PM PDT  One of the speakers for the second night of the Republican National Convention was pulled from the program after The Daily Beast surfaced a tweet from her, earlier in the day, urging her followers to investigate a supposed Jewish plot to enslave the world."Do yourself a favor and read this thread," Mary Ann Mendoza, who is a member of the Trump campaign's advisory board, tweeted to her more than 40,000 followers Tuesday morning.> Do yourself a favor and read this thread. https://t.co/BfxVokBE3k> > — Angel Mom Mary Ann Mendoza��TEXT EMPOWER TO 88022 (@mamendoza480) August 25, 2020Mendoza, an "angel mom," was scheduled to speak Tuesday about her son's 2014 death at the hands of a drunk driver who was in the country illegally. But a Republican source familiar with the programming said the speech had been cancelled amid uproar over her tweet.Hours earlier, Mendoza had linked to a lengthy thread from a QAnon conspiracy theorist that laid out a fevered, anti-Semitic view of the world. In its telling, the Rothschilds—a famous Jewish banking family from Germany—created a plot to terrorize non-Jewish "goyim," with purported details of their scheme that included plans to "make the goyim destroy each other" and "rob the goyim of their landed properties." Fox Regular Claims George Soros 'Controls a Very Large Part' of the State DepartmentDrawing on more than a century's worth of anti-Semitic hoaxes and smears, the thread claimed that malevolent Jewish forces in the banking industry are out to enslave non-Jews and promote world wars. Riddled with QAnon references, the thread from Twitter user @WarNuse claimed that the Titanic had been sunk to protect the Federal Reserve, and that every president between John F. Kennedy and Donald Trump was a "slave president" in the thrall of a global cabal. The thread also promoted "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," an anti-Semitic hoax popular in Nazi Germany, and claimed that its allegations about a Jewish plot to control the world are real. "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is not a fabrication," the thread that Mendoza shared reads. "And, it certainly is not anti-semetic (sic) to point out this fact." After The Daily Beast published this article, Mendoza deleted her tweet and tweeted an apology "for not paying attention to the intent of the whole message." While Mendoza had initially urged her followers to read the thread, she claimed on Tuesday evening that she had not read all of the posts in the thread."That does not reflect my feelings or personal thoughts whatsoever," Mendoza tweeted.Though her speech was cancelled, the Mendoza episode is just the latest example of a convention speaker with a checkered background. As the Republican festivities enter their second night, several scheduled speakers have already been exposed for holding bizarre beliefs. Public school teacher Rebecca Friedrichs, who spoke at the convention on Monday, has claimed that public schools use their curricula to "groom" children for sexual predators like Jeffrey Epstein. On Tuesday, Vice reported that anti-abortion activist and convention speaker Abby Johnson praised the idea of police racially profiling her biracial son as "smart." "Statistically, my brown son is more likely to commit a violent offense over my white sons," Johnson said in a video. Mendoza's tweet urging her followers to check out the anti-Semitic thread came on the eve of her Republican convention appearance. While the thread includes extensive anti-Semitism and references to QAnon, it also alleges that Hillary Clinton is a "Satanic High Priestess" and that Barack Obama's Washington home smells like sulfur — a reference to the idea, popular with InfoWars host Alex Jones, that Obama somehow smells like sulfur because he's connected to the devil and Hell.The Trump campaign and Mendoza didn't respond to requests for comment. Mendoza is also on the advisory board of We Build the Wall, the privately funded border wall effort whose leaders, including former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, were recently indicted for fraud.In addition to the thread she encouraged people to read, Mendoza also has posted her own tweets that push conspiracy theories about Democratic billionaire George Soros. One tweet from June 2019 claimed that Soros was pushing for more immigration to install a "one world government.""These are the violent types of people that SOROS, the ROTHCHILDS (sic) and the United Nations have NO problem using as pawns and uprooting them and bringing them to the USA to accomplish their ONE WORLD GOVT!" Mendoza tweeted.Mendoza has alleged that public health advice advocating for mask-wearing are using the "Soros playbook," and claimed that Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government's lead infectious disease expert, is paid by Soros.In a Sept. 2019 tweet, Mendoza called Soros, a Holocaust survivor, a "Nazi." "This Nazi is still at it & the progressives love him for it," she wrote. 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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| Sudan tells Pompeo it can't normalise Israel ties now Posted: 25 Aug 2020 11:09 AM PDT  Sudan said Tuesday it cannot establish diplomatic relations with Israel for now, dashing US hopes for a speedy breakthrough during a visit by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
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| Guam needs Aegis Ashore Posted: 25 Aug 2020 02:00 AM PDT  Aegis Ashore is not a perfect solution, but it provides the best hope for addressing urgent threats and creating the space for the additional capabilities that will undoubtedly be necessary.
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| Saba Sahar: Afghan actress and film director shot in Kabul Posted: 25 Aug 2020 07:50 AM PDT  Saba Sahar, an outspoken voice on women's rights, was on her way to work when a gunman opened fire.
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| North Korean leader Kim calls for prevention efforts against coronavirus, looming typhoon: KCNA Posted: 25 Aug 2020 03:35 PM PDT  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for prevention efforts against the novel coronavirus and a typhoon, state news agency KCNA said on Wednesday. An enlarged meeting of the politburo of the Workers Party took place amid a pandemic that is putting additional pressure on the North Korean economy, battered by recent border closures and flood damage. The meeting assessed "some defects in the state emergency anti-epidemic work for checking the inroads of the malignant virus", KCNA said in a statement.
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| ‘How can one person screw this up in just a few weeks’: Postmaster General DeJoy faces grilling from enraged Democrats ahead of 2020 election Posted: 24 Aug 2020 09:32 AM PDT  Postmaster General Louis DeJoy faced hours of an intense grilling by Democratic lawmakers on Monday who sought answers on why the US Postal Service underwent operational changes in recent weeks that have led to significant delays in delivery."After 240 years of patriotic service, how can one person screw this up in just a few weeks? I understand you bring private sector expertise. I guess we couldn't find a government worker who could screw it up this fast. It would take them a while," said House Oversight Committee Democrat Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts.
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| Teachers ‘executed’ in shooter drill sue Indiana sheriff’s office for trauma, injury Posted: 25 Aug 2020 03:08 PM PDT  Teachers were hurting and in pain but officers were "joking and laughing at them," the lawsuit says.
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| TikTok users review-bombed Trump's campaign app so hard that Apple had to reset its star-rating Posted: 24 Aug 2020 04:52 AM PDT  TikTok fans began review-bombing the Trump 2020 app on Apple's App Store in July after Trump signed an executive order targeting ByteDance.
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| Hillary Clinton Urges Biden Not to Concede ‘Under Any Circumstances’ in November Election Posted: 25 Aug 2020 06:53 AM PDT  After suffering a loss in the 2016 presidential election herself, Hillary Clinton is warning 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden not to concede "under any circumstances" in the upcoming election to avoid falling victim to Republican efforts to disrupt the vote count.In an interview with The Circus on Showtime, the former secretary of state accused Republicans of trying to "mess up" absentee balloting to gain "a narrow advantage in the electoral college." She claimed that in Wisconsin's primary in April, Republicans "did everything they could to mess up voting." "But because courts had ordered absentee ballots to be counted if they were postmarked on election day, Democrats actually won some important races there," she said. While Republicans had pushed back against Democratic governor Tony Evers' proposal to mail almost every voter in the state an absentee ballot application, more than 80 percent of GOP members in the Wisconsin Legislature voted by mail in April. Wisconsin Senate majority leader Scott Fitzgerald said in May that he opposed mailing people absentee ballot applications because the voter list had not been "cleaned up" to remove people who shouldn't be on there, primarily because they moved."Wisconsin has online registration, excuse-free absentee voting, early in-person voting, and Election Day registration, making it easier to vote in Wisconsin than most other states," Fitzgerald, who ultimately voted absentee in April himself, said.> Hillary Clinton has some advice for Joe Biden: Don't concede in a close race.> > The 2016 nominee sits down with @jmpalmieri and @sho_thecircus to urge Dems to pay close attention to GOP strategy. pic.twitter.com/REwfLf1QjS> > -- The Recount (@therecount) August 24, 2020While Democrats have been quick to push for mail-in voting amid the coronavirus pandemic, many Republicans have warned that voting by mail can leave elections open to widespread fraud or can lead to ballots being sent to people who have died and to incorrect addresses. Republicans' skepticism has led many Democrats to accuse the GOP of voter suppression."We have to have our own teams of people to counter the force of intimidation that the Republicans and Trump are going to put outside polling places," Clinton said, urging people to become poll workers in November. She later added, "Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances because I think this is going to drag out and eventually I do believe he will win if we don't give an inch and if we are as focused and relentless as the other side is."Earlier in the interview, Clinton also bitterly acknowledged the importance of the electoral college saying, "You can win 3 million more votes and still, you know, not get elected because of the electoral college."
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| For US Air Force pilots, the toughest training flights are going virtual Posted: 25 Aug 2020 01:56 PM PDT  A new virtual training environment will help Air Force pilots prepare for war against countries like Russia and China.
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| Gold-hunting diggers destroy Sudan's priceless past Posted: 23 Aug 2020 08:11 PM PDT  When a team of archaeologists deep in the deserts of Sudan arrived at the ancient site of Jabal Maragha last month, they thought they were lost. The site had vanished.
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| Phoenix to pay $475K to family after officer pointed a gun at them in viral shoplifting case Posted: 24 Aug 2020 11:40 AM PDT  Phoenix City Council is expected to approve a $475,000 payout to a couple after a police officer pointed a gun at the man and threatened to shoot him.
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| Chicago COVID-19 update; Dr. Arwady speaks on removal of Wisconsin from travel order Posted: 25 Aug 2020 09:56 AM PDT  Chicago public health officials will provide an update to the city's COVID-19 travel quarantine order Tuesday.
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| Trove of 1,000-year-old gold coins unearthed in Israel Posted: 24 Aug 2020 01:36 AM PDT  Israeli youths have unearthed hundreds of gold coins stashed away in a clay vessel for more than a thousand years. The treasure was discovered on Aug. 18, the Israel Antiquities Authority said on Monday, by teenagers volunteering at an excavation in central Israel where a new neighbourhood is planned to be built.
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| A white man shot at a group of Black Lives Matter activists on a 730-mile march from Wisconsin to DC. One protester was hospitalized and demonstrators refused to leave him behind. Posted: 25 Aug 2020 12:19 PM PDT  Frank Nitty, of Milwaukee, has been walking to Washington, DC for the 57th anniversary of the "I Have a Dream" speech. On Monday a supporter was shot.
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| Facebook blocks Thai access to group critical of monarchy Posted: 24 Aug 2020 11:45 PM PDT  The social media giant says it's preparing legal action after being ordered to block access in Thailand.
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| Andrew Pollack, father of school shooting victim, condemns 'restorative justice' at RNC Posted: 24 Aug 2020 07:20 PM PDT  Andrew Pollack's daughter Meadow was killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in 2018.
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| 'Obvious lie after obvious lie': Biden campaign blasts RNC as 'incoherent charade' Posted: 25 Aug 2020 03:10 PM PDT  The Democratic nominee shared media fact-checks on the GOP convention on health care, crime and COVID-19.
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