| New York City has already had more shootings in 2020 than in the whole of 2019 Posted: 03 Aug 2020 04:33 AM PDT  New York City has recorded more shootings so far in 2020 than the whole of last year, authorities have confirmed.There were 777 shootings between January and 2 August 2020, compared with 776 in 2019, according to figures compiled by the New York Post, and later confirmed by New York Police department (NYPD).
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| Homicides Spike in 50 Largest Cities across Nation Posted: 03 Aug 2020 09:04 AM PDT  Homicides and gun violence have spiked in major cities around the country since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, spurred by an economic recession and unrest that arose from protests against police brutality.Across the nation's 50 largest cities, homicides are up 24 percent this year, totaling 3,612 so far, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of police department data. In 36 of those cities, the homicide rate increased by double digits.Shootings have also surged, but other kinds of violent crime have declined, including robberies, which sank 11 percent across the 41 cities that provided such data.Chicago saw the largest jump in homicides, reporting more than 400 more homicides than last year, an increase of more than 50 percent. Philadelphia and New York City came in just behind the country's third-largest city, both tallying more than 200 more homicides this year. Along with Chicago, Austin and Fort Worth, Tx. saw the largest increase in murders.The staggering increase in violence comes after months of protests against police departments that have included calls to defund and dismantle departments in Minneapolis, where the police custody death of George Floyd sparked national outrage. Homicides in Minneapolis have nearly doubled, with 41 homicides compared to 21 by this time last year.Police and crime experts have attributed the spike in violence to a variety of factors, including a rise in gang violence, an economic recession caused by the shutdown of businesses, and the lack of activity during the pandemic by social institutions that historically help tamp down crime, such as churches and schools.Meanwhile, lockdown orders that have kept residents in their homes may help explain the decline in robberies and rapes, since burglars are less likely to target a home with residents inside, and fewer potential victims were on the streets, experts said. The rise in shootings and murders was particularly stark in disadvantaged neighborhoods rather than the sites of protests against racism and police brutality in many cities.The homicide rate in the nation's major cities is still a far cry from the crime levels of previous decades, such as in 1990, when New York City recorded a total of 2,262 murders.
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| See Inside Zaha Hadid’s Revolutionary Oeuvre Posted: 03 Aug 2020 01:32 PM PDT |
| A California couple were arrested on hate-crime charges after they yelled 'white power' during an episode of road rage, police say Posted: 02 Aug 2020 01:14 PM PDT  They yelled "white power" and "only white lives matter" at a Black man and his girlfriend in a racist altercation on the road on July 22, police said.
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| Iran has been covering up its coronavirus death toll, according to BBC investigation which says the true figure is almost 3 times higher Posted: 03 Aug 2020 03:34 AM PDT  Both coronavirus deaths and cases are significantly higher than Iran is publicly reporting, according to government figures seen by the BBC.
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| Emeritus Pope Benedict, 93, 'extremely frail' after visiting dying brother Posted: 02 Aug 2020 09:25 PM PDT  Former Pope Benedict XVI became seriously ill after visiting his sick brother in Germany in June and is "extremely frail", according to a report in the German Passauer Neue Presse newspaper on Monday. Benedict, 93, is suffering from erysipelas of the face, a virus that causes a rash and episodes of severe pain, the newspaper reported, citing the former pontiff's biographer, Peter Seewald. "According to Seewald, the Pope emeritus is now extremely frail," the report said. "His thinking and his memory are quick, but his voice is hardly audible at the moment." Mr Seewald reportedly visited Benedict in Rome on Saturday to present him with his biography. "At the meeting the emeritus Pope, despite his illness, was optimistic and declared that if his strength increased again he would possibly take up his pen again," the paper said. Benedict visited his sick brother, Georg, in Germany in June, marking his first trip out of Italy since his shock resignation in 2013. Georg Ratzinger died two weeks later, aged 96.
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| Splash Mountain log flume ride sinks at Disney World's Magic Kingdom Posted: 03 Aug 2020 01:57 PM PDT  Walt Disney World's Splash Mountain hit rough waters Sunday as Twitter users posted video of a submerged log flume ride they were in moments earlier.
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| Biden VP short-listers jockey as search enters final round in secrecy Posted: 03 Aug 2020 02:01 AM PDT  Some of the contenders are in the dark about their interviews with Biden — including whether they will be done in person or virtually.
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| Biden urged not to debate Trump so president doesn't have another platform to 'lie' Posted: 03 Aug 2020 02:43 AM PDT  Republican strategist Joseph Pinion and Democratic political analyst Kelly Hyman react.
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| Obama targets Texas in first round of 2020 endorsements Posted: 03 Aug 2020 10:11 AM PDT  Former President Barack Obama unveiled his first round of 2020 endorsements on Monday, and he's got his eyes on Texas, at least at the local level.Obama is endorsing 27 Democratic candidates in Texas, including 19 for the state House, where Democrats need to win nine seats to grab the majority. The focus seems to make sense for Obama, The New York Times notes, because Texas districts will be redrawn after the 2020 census, and Democrats want to gain a foothold before that happens. The former president has made it a priority to back candidates whom the National Democratic Redistricting Committee has labeled key to the redistricting process.He decided to stay out of Texas' Senate race between incumbent Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and his Democratic challenger MJ Hegar, however. Obama similarly avoided other key Senate races in Republican states, including Montana, Kentucky, and Georgia, where his public support may not provide a boost, or could even prove harmful.> What's missing? Some key red state Senate races, including MT, KY, GA and TX where it is less clear that Obama's public backing would be a benefit.https://t.co/9rIjcI7SvE> > — Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) August 3, 2020In races at the national level, Obama endorsed 52 Democratic House candidates and five for the Senate in battleground states, and he's set to announce a second wave of endorsements for states who have yet to hold their primaries. Read more at The New York Times.More stories from theweek.com The most damning inside portrait of the Trump administration yet 5 brutally funny cartoons about Bill Barr's brand of justice Why Democratic voters might stay home on Election Day
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| Annual Sturgis rally expecting 250K, stirring virus concerns Posted: 02 Aug 2020 06:48 AM PDT  Sturgis is on. The message has been broadcast across social media as South Dakota, which has seen an uptick in coronavirus infections in recent weeks, braces to host hundreds of thousands of bikers for the 80th edition of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. More than 250,000 people are expected to rumble through western South Dakota, seeking the freedom of cruising the boundless landscapes in a state that has skipped lockdowns.
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| Mexico crime: Mexican police seize alleged oil theft crime boss The Sledgehammer Posted: 02 Aug 2020 06:54 PM PDT  "The Sledgehammer" is caught after releasing a bizarre, tearful video declaring war on security forces.
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| The Maryland county where Barron Trump attends school ordered private schools to stay closed until October, but the governor overrode the decision Posted: 03 Aug 2020 10:44 AM PDT  In rejecting the Montgomery County order, Gov. Larry Hogan said it was "overly broad and inconsistent with the powers" of the county health officer.
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| She got the virus. Then she was fired. Some sick workers left in cold by employers. Posted: 03 Aug 2020 07:45 AM PDT  McDonald's and Marriott franchises are among hundreds of businesses that have illegally denied paid sick leave during the pandemic, records show.
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| Gym owners defy pandemic orders, break into own business closed by state and reopen it Posted: 02 Aug 2020 02:33 PM PDT  Authorities closed the gym Monday, when they charged the owners with contempt and disorderly persons offenses.
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| Anxious WHO implores world to 'do it all' in long war on COVID-19 Posted: 03 Aug 2020 03:44 AM PDT  The World Health Organization warned on Monday that there might never be a "silver bullet" for COVID-19 in the form of a perfect vaccine and that the road to normality would be long, with some countries requiring a reset of strategy. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and WHO emergencies head Mike Ryan exhorted nations to rigorously enforce health measures such as mask-wearing, social distancing, hand-washing and testing. The WHO head said that, while the coronavirus was the biggest health emergency since the early 20th century, the international scramble for a vaccine was also "unprecedented".
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| Mysterious seeds sent from China to the US identified by the USDA Posted: 03 Aug 2020 08:11 AM PDT  The mysterious seed packs from China that hundreds of Americans received in the mail have been identified, according to the US Department of Agriculture.Federal officials warned those who received the seeds not to plant them over fears that some may be invasive species and could destroy native plants and insects.
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| After Missing for 9 Days, Teenager Found Safe Near Washington State Mountain Pass Posted: 02 Aug 2020 12:37 PM PDT  Authorities located 18-year-old Gia Fuda just before they were about to start winding down their rescue efforts
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| The housing crisis is here Posted: 02 Aug 2020 02:55 AM PDT  The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web:This summer's housing market is split into two alternate realities, said Heather Long at The Washington Post. Realtors' cellphones have been "ringing with eager buyers" looking to flee urban areas for the suburbs while mortgage interest rates are at record lows. One house on the market outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, "received 26 offers the initial weekend it was for sale." For renters, on the other hand, the outlook is grim. A federal eviction moratorium expired last week, meaning that many tenants could have only 30 days to pony up what they owe landlords or get kicked to the curb. This week, Congress signaled it would extend the moratorium to give renters more breathing room while debating whether to extend other aid, such as unemployment benefits and stimulus checks — some of "the few lifelines renters had during the pandemic."The eviction wave has already started, said Will Parker at The Wall Street Journal. The national moratorium only covered tenants in buildings with federally backed mortgages. States passed their own eviction limits, but some, such as Texas, have already let them expire. In a sign of things to come, attorneys in Houston are seeing "long lines at courthouses, sometimes people standing shoulder to shoulder" awaiting eviction hearings. "Stuck between tenants who can't, or simply won't, pay up and banks that still expect mortgage payments every month," landlords are also feeling the squeeze, said Tim Logan at The Boston Globe. In Massachusetts, a fifth of the landlords say "they don't know how they will pay their bills this year." That will only get worse if the state extends its eviction ban without help for property owners.There's a simple reason for this recession's "uneven" effect on the housing market, said Joy Wiltermuth at MarketWatch. The median income for homebuyers today is $93,000, while renters are substantially poorer and "householders earning less than $35,000 a year have been hit hardest by lost wages since early May." Just don't assume wealthier homeowners are bulletproof, said Keith Jurow, also at MarketWatch. Since 2016, "mortgages offered to high-income borrowers who could afford the monthly payments seemed the least risky of all." Origination of jumbo loans — mortgages that are too big to be backed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac — skyrocketed. But now many high-income borrowers are in trouble, too. As of mid-June, "11.8 percent of all jumbo loans were in forbearance" — twice as many as in April, and a higher share than for standard mortgages."Perhaps this is all starting to sound like a redux of the mid-2000s housing crisis," said Derek Thompson at The Atlantic. "It's not." In many ways, it is the opposite. Back then, "foreclosures soared" and single-family homes stood empty in the suburbs. Now there is an undersupply of suburban housing and a hot market in new construction. The problem today is in the cities, where the pandemic has accelerated a crisis of affordability. "Without income, renters can't pay rent and utilities. Without monthly payments, landlords and other companies can't make mortgages and bond payments." Housing costs in cities have been approaching a crisis for years; thanks to the pandemic, that crisis is here, and "dangerously close to spiraling out of control."This article was first published in the latest issue of The Week magazine. If you want to read more like it, you can try six risk-free issues of the magazine here.More stories from theweek.com The most damning inside portrait of the Trump administration yet 5 brutally funny cartoons about Bill Barr's brand of justice Why Democratic voters might stay home on Election Day
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| Prison raid mars relative calm in Afghanistan after ceasefire Posted: 03 Aug 2020 03:16 PM PDT  At least 29 people were killed in a raid on an Afghan prison claimed by the Islamic State group, officials said Monday, as the country waited to see if a government ceasefire with the Taliban would rupture after its formal expiration. Fighting finally ended at mid-afternoon at the jail in the eastern city of Jalalabad, where about 1,700 IS and Taliban inmates were being held. IS's news outlet Amaq said its fighters were behind the raid that had started with a suicide car bomb attack, and saw more than 1,000 inmates escape before most of them were recaptured.
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| Drug-Smuggling Cat Escapes High-Security Sri Lankan Prison Posted: 03 Aug 2020 04:05 AM PDT  A cat that was detained at Sri Lanka's high-security Welikada Prison on suspicion of smuggling drugs to inmates has escaped, according to local media reports in Aruna.The feline delinquent was detained last week with two grams of heroin, two SIM cards and a memory chip hidden in a plastic bag tied to its collar on the prison grounds. Police suspect that the drug traffickers who trained the cat are part of the same cartel that was caught using an eagle to smuggle drugs in a suburb of Colombo. The menagerie of accomplices were associated with the underworld crime boss Angoda Lokka.Lokka died while hiding from the authorities in early July, according to local media. A man and a woman, aged 30 and 19, were arrested Sunday for illegally cremating him and forging identity documents, according to the New Indian Express.While there is no stipulation for animal arrest under Sri Lankan law, police were hoping the cat could lead them to the smugglers' den, the media reports suggest. The cat reportedly scampered out of its holding room and escaped through a fence when prison guards came in to feed it.Last week, police raided a farm owned by an associate of Lokka and found an air-rifle, bullets and the eagle previously seen delivering drugs. Prison authorities say they have noted an increase in people trying to smuggle drugs, cellphones and chargers into the prison in recent weeks, allegedly to sell within the prison system. Authorities say they are not searching for the narco cat.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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| These 43-square-foot pods were originally for travelers to take a nap at the airport, but now the company is selling them for $50,000 each Posted: 02 Aug 2020 06:00 AM PDT  NapCity's pods are modular and customizable, starting at $50,000.
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| GOP dread over possible Kobach nomination in Kansas Posted: 02 Aug 2020 03:54 AM PDT  Republicans fear that Democratic meddling has helped to erase Roger Marshall's lead in this week's primary, potentially costing the party a Senate seat and perhaps its majority.
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| Bower Studios and West Elm Reprise a Partnership With This New Collection Posted: 03 Aug 2020 09:30 AM PDT |
| Russia says suspected mercenaries detained by Belarus were going to Latin America Posted: 03 Aug 2020 07:02 AM PDT  A Russian diplomat said on Monday a group of more than 30 suspected Russian mercenaries detained in Belarus last week were only passing through Minsk and were on their way to an unnamed Latin American state. Belarusian authorities have said they suspect the men entered their country to plot "acts of terrorism" and destabilise it before an Aug. 9 presidential election. The Russian state says it does not use mercenaries.
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| Who is Karen Bass? Posted: 02 Aug 2020 01:48 PM PDT  Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., has been mentioned as a potential running mate for former VP Joe Biden, who has vowed to pick a woman as his vice president.
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| Amazon region: Brazil records big increase in fires Posted: 01 Aug 2020 08:51 PM PDT  Images from space show there were nearly 7,000 in July - a rise of 28% on the same period last year.
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| Virginia gov faces new hurdle in bid to remove Lee statue Posted: 03 Aug 2020 07:51 AM PDT  A judge dismissed a legal challenge Monday that had been blocking Virginia officials from removing a towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from the state's capital city, but he immediately imposed another injunction against dismantling the figure. The new 90-day injunction bars Gov. Ralph Northam's administration from "removing, altering, or dismantling, in any way" the larger-than-life statue of Lee on a prominent Richmond avenue while claims in a lawsuit filed by local property owners are litigated. Now covered in graffiti, the Lee monument has become a focal point and gathering spot amid Richmond's sustained anti-racist protests since the police custody death in Minnesota of a Black man, George Floyd.
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| China suspends HK extradition treaty with New Zealand Posted: 03 Aug 2020 02:46 AM PDT  China suspended Hong Kong's extradition treaty with New Zealand on Monday amid a row with Western nations protesting against a tough new security law that Beijing imposed on the city. New Zealand is the latest to join a string of Western powers -- including Canada, Britain, Australia and Germany -- that have suspended extradition treaties with Hong Kong since the controversial law was introduced in late June.
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| Doomsday Mom Told Me to Lie to Cops Because Grandma Wanted to ‘Kidnap’ Son: Pal Posted: 03 Aug 2020 04:34 PM PDT  A month after lying to authorities about the whereabouts of Lori Vallow's 7-year-old boy at his mom's behest, Melanie Gibb demanded answers from her best friend."I had to move him somewhere else," Vallow explained during a Dec. 8 phone call with her new husband, Chad Daybell, and Gibb. "The danger is that there are people after me.""If you knew, it would put you in danger," Daybell interjected, with a laugh. "I'm not telling nobody where he is so I can keep him as safe as possible. So nobody has to be questioned about it, so he can be safe." About a month earlier, Vallow had asked Gibb not to talk to the cops about her son J.J.'s whereabouts, suggesting that the 7-year-old's grandmother wanted to kidnap him, the friend testified Monday during a preliminary hearing in the case against Daybell. Family Says Bodies Found at Doomsday Home Are Missing KidsIn the recorded call—which was played in Fremont County Courthouse on Monday—Vallow said that J.J. was "safe and happy," but refused to disclose whether she would return to Idaho."I did exactly what I thought the Lord was instructing me to do," Vallow said, just after asking whether Gibb was recording the call. "I promise you I have done nothing wrong in this case." Daybell, 52, is accused of hiding evidence when authorities began to investigate the disappearance of Vallow's two children, J.J and Tylee Ryan, who were found dead this summer. Daybell and Vallow, who are members of a community of doomsday preppers and were married two weeks after Daybell was widowed, have not been charged in the deaths of the two children. Both, however, are facing charges related to the investigation. The fourth witness of the day, Gibb testified about her relationship with Vallow, whom she once considered a "best friend" after meeting the mother-of-two at church in Arizona. She added that her relationship with Daybell, whom she has known for "three to four years," was centered around his relationship with Vallow and some of the doomsday books he had written. Authorities say J.J. and Ryan, 17, had not been seen since September, but they weren't registered as missing until November. In June, investigators found the two children's remains—one "tightly" wrapped in plastic and the other badly burned—in the backyard of Daybell's home. Gibb testified she last saw Ryan in July or August 2019 in Arizona and had assumed she was in college when she traveled to visit Vallow in Idaho in September. During that trip, Gibb said she saw Daybell and Vallow acting "affectionately," holding hands and kissing—even though the doomsday writer was still married to his ex-wife. At the end of the weekend, Gibb said Vallow revealed that she had lied to J.J's grandmother, Kay Woodcock, and told her "she had breast cancer" in order to persuade her to take care of the autistic 7-year-old.Two months later, Gibb said she was "shocked" when she received a phone call from Daybell in the "late morning" warning her not to answer a future call from the Rexburg Police Department inquiring about J.J. Detective Recalls Gut-Wrenching Moment Doomsday Mom's Kids Were Found"Hi Melanie, this is Chad. The Rexburg Police are going to call you. Don't pick up," Daybell told Gibb on Nov. 26, adding that authorities were at Vallow's house looking for the child. Daybell told her Vallow was going to tell authorities J.J. was with her, and Gibb said she asked, "JJ is not at Kay's house?" "He said no," she testified. "I asked him if he was nervous and he said, 'Yes.'"About an hour later, Gibb said Vallow called her, stating that everything was "fine" and that she wanted to protect J.J. from his grandmother, whom she accused of wanting to "kidnap him."Gibb stated that despite feeling "horrible," she followed her friend's wishes and didn't answer calls from Idaho authorities because she believed the 7-year-old was in danger. Later, she said she spoke to a Gilbert police detective, Ryan Pillar, falsely telling him that she had been with J.J but that the child was back with Vallow. Upset that her friend was "misleading and manipulative," Gibb said that she decided to record her conversation with Vallow to assist in the ongoing police investigation. While the call between Gibb and Vallow fluctuates between scriptures and questions about J.J, Vallow gets angry at the suggestion she did anything that could hurt her son. "You know me, Mel. It sounds like you've been influenced by someone dark," Vallow said, stressing that police were working with J.J.'s grandmother in a "dark capacity." "I'm sorry that you don't want me to protect my children." Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet 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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| An impassioned obituary for a 79-year-old coronavirus victim blames Trump for his death, then calls out Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and people who refused to wear masks Posted: 03 Aug 2020 02:41 PM PDT  "Dave did everything he was supposed to do, but you did not," David W. Nagy's widow wrote in her husband's obituary.
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| Illinois officials call to abolish history classes in the state until an 'alternative' is set up to highlight underrepresented groups Posted: 03 Aug 2020 01:38 PM PDT  Illinois Democratic State Representative LaShawn K. Ford is demanding the history of minority groups to be taught in state schools.
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| Birx: U.S. in 'new phase' of pandemic, with coronavirus 'extraordinarily widespread' Posted: 02 Aug 2020 08:17 PM PDT  Dr. Deborah Birx, coordinator of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, said on Sunday the United States is in a "new phase" of the coronavirus pandemic, and people in every corner of the country must take precautions, from wearing masks to practicing social distancing."What we are seeing today is different from March and April," she told CNN's Dana Bash on State of the Union. "It is extraordinarily widespread. It's into the rural as equal urban areas." For those who live in regions that are less populated, "you are not immune or protected from this virus," Birx continued. "If you're in multi-generational households, and there's an outbreak in your rural area or in your city, you need to really consider wearing a mask at home, assuming that you're positive, if you have individuals in your households with comorbidities."While Birx would not project how many Americans she believes will die of the virus this year, she said it is up to southern and western states where there are several hot spots to ramp up their mitigation efforts. "It's not super spreading individuals," she said. "It's super spreading events and we need to stop those. We definitely need to take more precautions."Every state has to have its own "dramatically tailored" approach to fighting the coronavirus, Birx added, with a "set of recommendations based on what we are seeing at the community level, what we are seeing relevant to hospitals." As of Sunday, there are more than 4.6 million reported cases of COVID-19 in the United States, and at least 154,449 Americans have died of the virus, according to the Johns Hopkins University coronavirus database.More stories from theweek.com The most damning inside portrait of the Trump administration yet 5 brutally funny cartoons about Bill Barr's brand of justice Why Democratic voters might stay home on Election Day
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| Spanish police launch investigation after DJ filmed spitting beer in to a crowd Posted: 03 Aug 2020 03:44 AM PDT  Police have launched an investigation after a video emerged of a DJ spitting beer onto dancers at a beach club in a Spanish resort as the country battled to reduce a spike in coronavirus cases. Video film showed a man spraying the crowd with beer then offering some dancers drinks from the same bottle at the club in Torremolinos, a destination popular with British tourists near Malaga in southern Spain. Many people dancing do not appear to be wearing masks according to the images which were shared widely on social media. One member of the Spanish DJ duo called Les Castizos was said to be the person who spat the beer at the crowd during part of their act. Police said they were investigating the pair for alleged "behaviour which does not abide by the measures of protection and security against coronavirus". Torremolinos council has closed the beach bar Kokun Ocean Club for 15 days after the video emerged.
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| Shoprite: Africa's biggest supermarket considers pulling out of Nigeria Posted: 03 Aug 2020 06:45 AM PDT  Shoprite is the latest high-profile South African retailer to struggle in the Nigerian market.
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| Orphaned toddler grows up in shadow of massacre, coronavirus Posted: 02 Aug 2020 07:40 AM PDT  An infant boy who survived a shooting last year that left his parents and 21 others dead now likes to thumb through picture books and dance to a Batman jingle with his grandmother, according to an uncle who helps care for the 1-year-old. It will be years before Paul Anchondo learns what happened to his parents in an event that many El Paso residents still struggle to comprehend, Tito Anchondo said. Anchondo's brother Andre and sister-in-law Jordan died in the shooting at a Walmart store.
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| Scientists retract claim of finding tiniest dinosaur Posted: 03 Aug 2020 11:15 AM PDT  The "tiny, weird bird-like dinosaur" was not a dinosaur or a bird after all, according to a retraction of the research published in a prestigious journal
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| Verdict looms in killing of Lebanon ex-PM Hariri Posted: 03 Aug 2020 02:58 AM PDT  A UN-backed tribunal will give its verdict Friday on the 2005 murder of former Lebanese premier Rafic Hariri, but questions will remain over a long and costly trial whose suspects remain at large. Four alleged members of the Shiite Muslim fundamentalist group Hezbollah are on trial in absentia at the court in the Netherlands over the huge Beirut suicide bombing that killed Sunni billionaire Hariri and 21 other people. The judgment harks back to an event that changed the face of the Middle East, with Hariri's assassination triggering a wave of demonstrations that pushed Syrian forces out of Lebanon after 30 years.
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| Trump administration includes nearly $400m to remodel West Wing in coronavirus relief bill Posted: 03 Aug 2020 10:26 AM PDT  The Trump Administration wants to include $337m in its next coronavirus relief bill to pay for a renovation of the White Houses' West Wing.The administration says the work would "increase the White House campus's ability to detect, mitigate and alleviate external security and pandemic threats."
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| James Clyburn: Trump doesn't plan to 'give up the office' Posted: 02 Aug 2020 09:36 AM PDT  Rep. James Clyburn defended his recent comments saying President Trump "thinks that the American people will be duped by him, like the people of Germany was duped by Adolf Hitler."
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| I flew on Southwest Airlines during the pandemic and came away impressed by how well the largest low-cost US airline handled social distancing Posted: 02 Aug 2020 05:27 AM PDT  Southwest's passenger-friendly attitude to customer service made for a great experience and took the edges off of flying during a pandemic.
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| Joint U.S. military drills get thumbs down from Thais amid virus fears Posted: 03 Aug 2020 05:58 AM PDT  This month's joint U.S.-Thai military exercises in Thailand have drawn criticism from Thais on social media after authorities announced that dozens of visiting American troops would be undergoing their mandatory 14-day quarantine in Bangkok hotels. Thailand has been over two months without a local transmission and has kept infections to just over 3,300. It has closed borders and airspace to tourists to keep the virus out and allows entry only to Thai repatriates or foreigners with special permission.
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| Joe Biden's plan for universal preschool forgets key to children's success: Parents. Posted: 03 Aug 2020 02:01 AM PDT  Preschool attendance is voluntary. That means only children with motivated, engaged parents attend preschool to begin with.
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| Rep. Cuellar weighs in on Democrats, Republicans at odds over coronavirus relief package Posted: 02 Aug 2020 11:05 AM PDT  Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar discusses the coronavirus stimulus package and Biden's potential running mate on 'America's News HQ.'
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| Panama proposes flying Haitian migrants home after clash Posted: 03 Aug 2020 01:56 PM PDT  The government of Panama said Monday it has proposed giving some Haitian migrants flights back to their homeland after frustrations boiled over at the remote camps where they are stuck. The camps in Panama's southern Darien province also house some Cuban and African migrants, but about 80% of the 2,000 migrants there are from Haiti. Public Safety Minister Juan Pino said Monday he offered improved medical services or repatriation flights to the migrants, who want to travel overland to the U.S. border but cannot do so because of coronavirus restrictions.
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| Ningaloo Reef: Woman injured by humpback whale at Australian tourist spot Posted: 03 Aug 2020 05:06 AM PDT  The woman is in a "serious but stable condition" after being hit by the whale during a group swim.
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| Police officers should not be charged with Breonna Taylor's death, criminal law experts say Posted: 02 Aug 2020 11:16 AM PDT  Defense lawyers say LMPD officers had the right to defend themselves once Breonna Taylor's boyfriend shot at them
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