| Trump tells NYC to activate National Guard: 'The lowlifes and losers are ripping you apart!' Posted: 02 Jun 2020 09:44 AM PDT  After vowing Monday to deploy military force to restore order in states that fail to "dominate" unlawful demonstrations, President Trump on Tuesday all but ordered New York City to request help from the National Guard.
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| Police Identify German Man as Main Suspect in Madeleine McCann Disappearance Posted: 03 Jun 2020 12:14 PM PDT  Police in the U.K. have asked the public for help in tracking the movements of a 43-year-old German man identified as the main suspect in the mysterious disappearance of Madeleine McCann.Madeleine vanished from a hotel apartment in Praia da Luz on Portugal's Algarve coast in May 2007, while on holiday with her parents and twin siblings.It is the first time British police have identified a key suspect, and senior police officers described the breakthrough to the U.K.'s Telegraph as "significant." Friends of Kate and Gerry McCann told the newspaper it was the biggest development to date in a case often described as the most scrutinized missing persons case in modern history.Scotland Yard said in a statement that detectives had identified the 43-year-old German man, currently in prison in Germany on unrelated charges, as a suspect following a 2017 appeal on the 10th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance. New Break in Maddie McCann Case Centers on Killer PedophileOn Wednesday, they appealed for help from the public in tracking the German man's movements around the Algarve during the time Madeleine went missing.The man, whose name was not released due to German privacy laws, lived on and off in the Algarve between 1995 and 2008. At the time of Madeleine's disappearance, he was 30 years old and was living in a camper van in the area."He received a 30-minute phone call in Praia da Luz, the resort where the McCanns were on holiday, just an hour before the 3-year-old girl vanished," the statement said.Police are trying to track down the man on the other end of the phone call and took the unusual step on Wednesday of releasing the Portuguese mobile phone number the suspect was using as well as the number of the person who called him.Police also released images of the distinctive VW camper the suspect was living in, and a 1993 Jaguar saloon car that the suspect owned and re-registered in Germany under another person's name the day after Madeleine went missing. The Jaguar stayed in Portugal despite the man re-registering it in Germany. Scotland Yard said he was driving the camper around Praia da Luz in the days before Madeleine's disappearance and had been living it in for days or weeks.Madeleine's disappearance almost 13 years ago garnered an extraordinary amount of interest globally and led to a high-profile—but largely fruitless—search for answers.There has never been any trace of Madeleine since she vanished and no arrests have been made. British tabloids subjected the McCanns to vicious and baseless allegations of being involved in their daughter's disappearance—however investigators have maintained that it was a criminal act by a stranger.In a statement, Kate and Gerry McCann said they welcomed the appeal and thanked police. "All we have ever wanted is to find her, uncover the truth and bring those responsible to justice. We will never give up hope of finding Madeleine alive but whatever the outcome may be, we need to know, as we need to find peace."Detective Chief Inspector Mark Cranwell, who leads the task force set up by U.K. police to investigate the disappearance, said: "While this male is a suspect we retain an open mind as to his involvement and this remains a missing person inquiry."A similar public appeal for information was due to be made on German television on Wednesday. The suspect was described by police as white and in 2007 was believed to have been six feet tall, aged between 25 to early 30s, with short blond fair, a slim build, and fair skin. 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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| Voices captured on an NYC police scanner can be heard saying protesters should be shot and run over Posted: 03 Jun 2020 07:35 AM PDT  The scanner broadcast people saying, "Shoot those motherf---ers," and "Run them over," referring to protesters.
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| An 'ANTIFA' Twitter account that called for looting 'white hoods' was actually run by white nationalist group Identity Evropa Posted: 02 Jun 2020 07:18 AM PDT  Twitter said this isn't the first time that users linked to Identity Evropa have created fake accounts to spread "hateful content."
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| Greek demonstrators hurl firebombs towards U.S. embassy in Athens Posted: 03 Jun 2020 11:18 AM PDT  Demonstrators hurled firebombs in a march towards the U.S. Embassy compound in Athens on Wednesday in a protest over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Reuters journalists saw demonstrators throwing several flaming objects which erupted into flames on the street towards the heavily-guarded embassy in central Athens and police responding with rounds of teargas. Demonstrators were holding banners and placards reading "Black lives matter" and "I can't breathe".
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| Bar owner won't face charges in fatal shooting of Omaha protester Posted: 03 Jun 2020 03:25 AM PDT  In response to outrage on social media, the county attorney said there was no "racial tone" to conversations between the shooter and the victim.
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| Hong Kong to lead Tiananmen mourning despite virus vigil ban Posted: 03 Jun 2020 02:38 PM PDT  Hong Kong will Thursday lead global remembrance of China's deadly Tiananmen crackdown, with people lighting candles in neighbourhoods across the restless city after authorities banned a mass vigil because of the coronavirus. Open discussion of the brutal suppression is forbidden inside China, where hundreds -- by some estimates more than a thousand -- died when the Communist Party sent tanks on June 4, 1989 to crush a student-led demonstration in Beijing calling for democratic reforms. This year's vigil was forbidden on public health grounds with restrictions placed on more than eight people gathering in public, to combat the coronavirus.
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| West Virginia governor says he welcomes all, except Obama Posted: 03 Jun 2020 12:33 PM PDT  West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice on Wednesday said he would welcome any president to the state besides former President Barack Obama. The unprompted comment came during a coronavirus news conference in which the Republican governor took a phone call from President Donald Trump and sought to highlight his relationship with the commander-in-chief ahead of the coming primary election. "We should absolutely welcome all but, you know, maybe not Barack Obama," he said, smiling.
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| Missing Mexican congresswoman's body found a month after abduction Posted: 03 Jun 2020 10:33 AM PDT  * Anel Bueno, 38, was snatched in Pacific coast town * Area important for drug cartels is country's murder capitalThe body of a missing Mexican congresswoman has been found in a shallow grave more than a month after she was abducted by armed men while raising awareness about the coronavirus pandemic.Anel Bueno, a 38-year-old lawmaker from the western state of Colima, was snatched on 29 April in Ixtlahuacán, a town on a stretch of Mexico's Pacific coast that the drug trade has made one of the country's most murderous regions.Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador told reporters on Wednesday a suspect had been detained over the killing of Bueno, who was a member of his party, Morena."We still don't know the causes," López Obrador added.Indira Vizcaíno, a local politician from the same party, tweeted: "Your departure hurts me deeply – I'm saddened not just by the fact but by the cruelty."Vizcaíno, another López Obrador ally, said authorities were fighting to catch the killers "and bring justice – for this case and all of our country's victims".Ixtlahuacán is a 30-minute drive from Tecomán, a picturesque seaside town that has earned the unenviable reputation as Mexico's most murderous municipality because of its strategic position for drug smuggling cartels.In 2017 Tecomán's murder rate of a reported 172.5 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants resembled that of a war zone. Last year more than 100 clandestine cemeteries were found there containing the bodies of those who had dared cross the cartels.Colima is one of five Mexican states the United States state department urges travellers against visiting.Calderón sends in the armyMexico's "war on drugs" began in late 2006 when the president at the time, Felipe Calderón, ordered thousands of troops onto the streets in response to an explosion of horrific violence in his native state of Michoacán.Calderón hoped to smash the drug cartels with his heavily militarized onslaught but the approach was counter-productive and exacted a catastrophic human toll. As Mexico's military went on the offensive, the body count sky-rocketed to new heights and tens of thousands were forced from their homes, disappeared or killed.Kingpin strategySimultaneously Calderón also began pursuing the so-called "kingpin strategy" by which authorities sought to decapitate the cartels by targeting their leaders.That policy resulted in some high-profile scalps – notably Arturo Beltrán Leyva who was gunned down by Mexican marines in 2009 – but also did little to bring peace. In fact, many believe such tactics served only to pulverize the world of organized crime, creating even more violence as new, less predictable factions squabbled for their piece of the pie.Under Calderón's successor, Enrique Peña Nieto, the government's rhetoric on crime softened as Mexico sought to shed its reputation as the headquarters of some the world's most murderous mafia groups.But Calderón's policies largely survived, with authorities targeting prominent cartel leaders such as Sinaloa's Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán.When "El Chapo" was arrested in early 2016, Mexico's president bragged: "Mission accomplished". But the violence went on. By the time Peña Nieto left office in 2018, Mexico had suffered another record year of murders, with nearly 36,000 people slain."Hugs not bullets"The leftwing populist Andrés Manuel López Obrador took power in December, promising a dramatic change in tactics. López Obrador, or Amlo as most call him, vowed to attack the social roots of crime, offering vocational training to more than 2.3 million disadvantaged young people at risk of being ensnared by the cartels. "It will be virtually impossible to achieve peace without justice and [social] welfare," Amlo said, promising to slash the murder rate from an average of 89 killings per day with his "hugs not bullets" doctrine.Amlo also pledged to chair daily 6am security meetings and create a 60,000 strong "National Guard". But those measures have yet to pay off, with the new security force used mostly to hunt Central American migrants.Mexico now suffers an average of about 96 murders per day, with nearly 29,000 people killed since Amlo took office.During a 2018 interview with the Guardian, Vizcaíno backed one of the key pledges López Obrador made to Mexicans ahead of his election that year – that efforts to combat organised crime would start to tackle the social roots of crime and no longer "just be a matter of fighting fire with fire"."Crime rates aren't going up because the people feel like being bad. Crime rates are going up because people need to eat," Vizcaíno said at a restaurant in Colima's capital that was the scene of a 2015 assassination attempt on its ex-governor.Bueno had been attempting to raise awareness of Covid-19 prevention techniques when armed men swept into the area on pickup trucks and ordered her inside.During a 2018 interview Tecomán's mayor, Elías Lozano, blamed the bloodshed blighting the region on "the lack of honest politicians"."That's the root of it all. Politicians had the choice of deciding between staying on the sidelines or getting involved – and many decided to get involved because there were economic benefits," he said.
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| The architect of Sweden's no-lockdown plan suggested the strategy was a mistake based on what we now know about the coronavirus Posted: 03 Jun 2020 06:21 AM PDT  State epidemiologist Anders Tegnell said if Sweden had had the knowledge it had today, its response would have likely been harsher.
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| PPP loan program accidentally paid some small-business owners twice Posted: 03 Jun 2020 02:40 PM PDT  "Everyone is just flying by the seat of their pants," said one small-business owner.
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| Cuomo lashes out at New York mayor and police after night of violence sees Macy's looted Posted: 02 Jun 2020 08:09 AM PDT  Manhattan's flagship Macy's store was among dozens of businesses hit by looters on Monday evening, as a nighttime curfew in New York failed to prevent widespread looting in the city.While peaceful protests and marches over the police killing of George Floyd were taking place across the city, roving groups caused chaos in Midtown, smashing their way into shops and stealing merchandise.
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| Cyclone Nisarga: India's Mumbai escapes worst cyclone in decades Posted: 03 Jun 2020 01:38 PM PDT  India's financial capital narrowly escapes Cyclone Nisarga, as nearby areas bear the brunt.
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| Boris Johnson Offers Hong Kong Residents Refuge, Path to U.K. Citizenship if China Cracks Down Posted: 03 Jun 2020 07:43 AM PDT  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Tuesday that the United Kingdom is ready to offer refuge and citizenship to nearly three million Hong Kong citizens should China implement a restrictive national security law that is currently pending."Many people in Hong Kong fear their way of life — which China pledged to uphold — is under threat," Johnson wrote in an op-ed published Wednesday in the South China Morning Post, which is based in Hong Kong. "If China proceeds to justify their fears, then Britain could not in good conscience shrug our shoulders and walk away."Johnson said that Beijing's new national security law violates the terms of the Sino-British Joint Declaration, the agreement the UK reached with China after Hong Kong returned to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.The prime minister wrote that if necessary, Britain will allow Hong Kong residents who hold British National Overseas passports to come to the UK for a "renewable period of 12 months and be given further immigration rights, including the right to work, which could place them on a route to citizenship." The move would be "one of the biggest changes in our visa system in British history," Johnson added.Currently, about 350,000 Hong Kong residents hold such passports and another 2.5 million would be eligible for them, the prime minister said.China last month approved national security laws that would allow Beijing to wield expanded power over Hong Kong. Pro-Democracy activists and other critics say the national security laws would effectively scrap the "one country, two systems" policy that has allowed Hong Kong its political freedoms and civil liberties despite still being technically governed by China.China claims that the laws, which have not yet been implemented, are necessary to crack down on separatism, subversion, terrorism, and foreign intervention in Hong Kong in the wake of the pro-democracy protests against Beijing. The measure would also allow China's state security agencies to operate in the territory, although details of the legislation have not yet been released.China has also argued that the agreement between China and Hong Kong no longer applies."The U.K. has had no sovereignty, governance or supervision over Hong Kong since its return (to Chinese rule)," China's foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said Tuesday. "Therefore, the British side has no right to cite the Sino-British Joint Declaration to make irresponsible remarks on Hong Kong affairs and interfere in China's internal affairs."
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| Iranian professor acquitted of sanctions busting leaves U.S., Zarif says Posted: 01 Jun 2020 10:02 PM PDT  An Iranian professor imprisoned in the United States after being acquitted of stealing trade secrets has left the country and is on his way back to Iran, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in an Instagram post on Tuesday. Dr. Sirous Asgari is in the air on a flight back to Iran.
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| Exclusive: Trump Administration Denied Iran Coronavirus Prisoner Swap Posted: 02 Jun 2020 08:22 AM PDT  "The United States has tried to deport Sirous Asgari since December 2019, but the Iranian government repeatedly has held up the process," State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus told the National Interest. "As the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed today, Mr. Asgari is not and has never been a participant in any prisoner swap with Iran."
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| Vegas officer on life support after attack during protests Posted: 02 Jun 2020 08:15 AM PDT  A police officer was on life support Tuesday after being shot during a protest on the Las Vegas Strip, the latest in a handful of attacks on police amid demonstrations across the country over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The 29-year-old officer in Las Vegas was shot as police tried to disperse a large crowd of protesters in front of a casino shuttered because of the coronavirus. At about the same time and less than three miles (4.8 kilometers) away, police outside a federal courthouse shot a protester who was wearing a black tactical vest and armed with two handguns and a rifle.
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| 'You are here profiting off of our f------ pain': A New York City woman gives a powerful speech to demonstrators looting and destroying neighborhoods during George Floyd protests Posted: 01 Jun 2020 09:06 PM PDT  "So as you're out here, be f------ responsible. Have a f------- plan. You can protest all you want but the sh-- just saw take place," the woman said.
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| 'It's just our time': Ferguson elects first black, female mayor 6 years after Michael Brown's death Posted: 03 Jun 2020 08:17 AM PDT  Ella Jones has been elected Ferguson's first black, female mayor. Her victory came amid continued protests over George Floyd's death.
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| Mystery Officers Patrolling D.C. Streets Are From Federal Prisons Posted: 03 Jun 2020 12:38 PM PDT  The Justice Department has sent special operations teams from the Bureau of Prisons to support the Trump administration's response to protests in Washington, D.C., and Florida. In a statement to The Daily Beast, a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson confirmed that they had deployed Crisis Management Teams in response to the protests. The teams include Special Operations response teams, "which are highly trained tactical units capable of responding to prison disturbances, and providing assistance to other law enforcement agencies during emergencies." Officers from the Bureau's Disturbance Control Teams, which "specialize in crowd control scenarios," have also been deployed.Speculation about the presence of special response teams from the agency grew online as residents and reporters noted the presence of law enforcement officials wearing tactical equipment placed around the city, many of whom refused to identify which agency they worked for.In one photo shared by MSNBC correspondent Garrett Haake, officers with shields labeled "corrections" and a shirt with an apparent Federal Bureau of Prisons Disturbance Control Team patch formed a perimeter preventing protesters from approaching the White House. Twitter users also noted officers wearing uniforms with logos for the Bureau of Prisons Special Operations Response Team stationed by the Washington Convention Center on K Street."Per the request of the Attorney General, the BOP has dispatched teams to Miami, Florida, and Washington, D.C.," the bureau said.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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| Protester arrested after telling police he loves and respects them Posted: 02 Jun 2020 01:07 PM PDT  Givionne "Gee" Jordan Jr. was heard on video telling officers: "We gotta stop living in fear. I am not your enemy. You are not my enemy."
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| Seattle protesters are using umbrellas to block pepper spray and tear gas, mirroring tactics used by the Hong Kong pro-democracy demonstrations Posted: 03 Jun 2020 03:37 AM PDT  Seattle anti police-brutality protesters showed up with umbrellas as a shield, and also as a potential new symbol in defiance of police action.
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| America could move weapons stored on British soil if UK persists with Huawei, US senator warns Posted: 02 Jun 2020 11:56 PM PDT  America could move weapons stored on British soil if the UK allows Huawei to build its 5G network, a US senator has warned. Tom Cotton, the Republican senator for Arkansas who was called as a witness before the Defence Select Committee, warned that the case for America keeping some US Air Force assets, such as F-35 fighters, in the UK could be weakened if it goes ahead with Huawei, as it would pose a security risk. "We have to make a decision about deploying those [F-35 fighters] to many countries," Senator Cotton said. "Obviously if you no longer have Huawei in your network then F-35 fighters can be based in your country under my legislation. "That does not mean I would drop my legislation… my legislation is about Huawei and the threat Huawei poses to our airmen and our aircraft." He added that allowing Huawei in UK infrastructure could "give PLA [China's People's Liberation Army] hackers a window into our military logistics operations", which he said could put US forces and American weapons systems based in England "at dangerous risk".
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| 2 dead after shooting at North Dakota air base Posted: 02 Jun 2020 02:12 PM PDT  A shooting on Monday left two airmen dead at the Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota, the military said. The base's emergency services members responded to the shooting, which occurred at 4:30 a.m. Officials said there is no risk to other personnel, and the shooting remains under investigation.
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| Retired officer, ex-college athlete among victims of unrest Posted: 02 Jun 2020 01:21 AM PDT  One man was a retired St. Louis police captain checking on his friend's shop. Another was the beloved owner of a Louisville barbecue restaurant who provided free meals to officers. The deaths, as well as widespread peaceful protests, have at times been overshadowed by the shocking images of heavy-handed police tactics, vandalism and arson.
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| Minneapolis After the George Floyd Riots: A Tragedy Told in Pictures Posted: 03 Jun 2020 05:24 AM PDT  Many local business owners in Minneapolis are still struggling after their restaurants and stores were vandalized during the protests. Some still have their windows and entrances boarded up to keep out the violent protesters.
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| George Floyd protests: All four former police officers face new charges as demonstrations continue nationwide Posted: 03 Jun 2020 01:50 PM PDT  Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has announced new charges against all four former officers involved in the death of George Floyd.The attorney general announced charges against Thomas Lane, Tou Thao and J Alexander Kueng, the three officers seen alongside Derek Chauvin, an officer who kneeled on Mr Floyd's neck for over eight minutes before his death, according to charging documents.
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| Leaked documents reveal China withheld crucial information about the coronavirus at the start of the outbreak Posted: 02 Jun 2020 05:45 AM PDT  China didn't publish the coronavirus genome until over a week after its scientists decoded it, according to a new investigation.
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| Joe Biden pulls Julián Castro into campaign, asks for help to 'tackle police reform' Posted: 02 Jun 2020 01:21 PM PDT  As a Democratic presidential candidate, Castro put out a stand-alone police reform plan and cited names of police violence victims in his campaign speeches.
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| Finland's PM says she hopes to give birth while in office Posted: 03 Jun 2020 01:10 PM PDT  Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin, the world's youngest leader at 34, told a magazine she would like to have a child while in office, which would make her only the third elected head of government to give birth while in power in modern times. "I am very much hoping for an addition to the family, a little sibling for Emma," her 2-year-old daughter, Marin told Me Naiset magazine in an interview. Marin took the reigns of Finland's centre-left five-party coalition in a sudden move at the end of last year, after her predecessor from her Social Democratic Party, Antti Rinne, stepped down.
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| Minneapolis Police union president said he has been involved in three shootings, 'and not one of them has bothered' him Posted: 02 Jun 2020 11:07 PM PDT  Lt. Bob Kroll said in an April interview that he and the majority of Minneapolis Police Officers' Federation's board have been involved in police shootings.
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| Libya pro-unity govt forces reseize Tripoli int'l airport: spokesman Posted: 03 Jun 2020 12:27 PM PDT  Forces backing Libya's unity government said Wednesday they had reseized Tripoli international airport after heavy fighting with rival troops supporting strongman Khalifa Haftar. "Our forces have fully liberated Tripoli International Airport," said Mohamad Gnounou, spokesman for forces backing the Government of National Accord in a statement. The airport, in a strategic area on the capital's southern edges, has been closed since 2014 and had been seized by pro-Haftar forces last year.
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| Las Vegas reopening starts tonight despite George Floyd protests. Here's what's on tap Posted: 03 Jun 2020 07:57 AM PDT  The casinos and attractions of Las Vegas, closed for 2½ months by coronavirus concerns, are scheduled to open Thursday.
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| Police Chief: Arrested Looters in NYC Are Immediately Released Because of Bail-Reform Law Posted: 02 Jun 2020 03:01 PM PDT  Most of the looters and rioters arrested by the NYPD over the past several days are immediately released as a direct result of New York's new bail-reform law, New York City police chief Terrence Monahan told the New York Post on Tuesday.While the city police made over 650 arrests on Monday night alone, Monahan said that "just about all of them" will be released without bail."We had some arrests in Brooklyn where they had guns, [and] hopefully [Brooklyn district attorney] Eric Gonzalez will keep them in, [but] I can't guarantee that'll happen," Monahan said. "But when it comes to a burglary [at] a commercial store, which is looting, they're back out. . . . Because of bail reform, you're back out on the street the next day. You cannot be held on any sort of bail. I spoke to [Manhattan district attorney] Cy Vance about that, he told me there's nothing he can do."New York's bail-reform law, which went into effect earlier this year, eliminates the bail requirement for suspects accused of most misdemeanors, including burglary and stalking. Suspects in violent felonies are still required to post bail. Even before the law was adopted, New York law forbade judges from considering many suspects' potential danger to the community before setting bail.New York City has seen widespread rioting and looting during demonstrations sparked by the death of George Floyd, an African-American man who was killed during a confrontation with white police officers in Minneapolis, Minn. The NYPD has stated that organized groups of "anarchists" are targeting stores in wealthy neighborhoods, especially in lower and midtown Manhattan. On Tuesday, Governor Andrew Cuomo slammed both the NYPD and Mayor Bill de Blasio for their handling of the riots."The police in New York City were not effective at doing their job last night. Period," Cuomo told reporters. He also floated the idea of "displacing" de Blasio, but immediately retracted the suggestion, saying it would create a "chaotic situation in the midst of an already chaotic situation, that doesn't make sense."Chief Monahan told the Post that he was "extremely outraged" by Cuomo's remarks."I'm watching my men and women out there dealing with stuff that no cop should ever have to deal with, bricks, bottles, rocks, hit in the face with bottles and continuing to go forward to make an arrest," Monahan said. "For a governor to be sitting in his office saying that we're not doing a good job -- I'm outraged."
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| Why The Middle East Fears Russia's Alpha Group Commandos Posted: 03 Jun 2020 09:41 AM PDT  A 2018 report recommended just that.
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| Democratic Rep. Eliot Engel caught on hot mic amid unrest: 'If I didn't have a primary, I wouldn't care' Posted: 02 Jun 2020 04:18 PM PDT  It comes as the New York congressman has faced his toughest primary since being elected Congress in 1988.
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| Washington man has some surprise guests: about 60 protesters Posted: 02 Jun 2020 03:22 PM PDT  Rahul Dubey had some unexpected guests Monday night — about 60 in all — as a tense nation's capital continued to grapple with the fallout from the death of George Floyd while in police custody. Inside, pandemonium ensued as some of the screaming protesters hit by pepper spray sought relief for their eyes with milk and water. "The whole time he didn't think of himself," said one of the protesters, a 22-year-old Virginia man named Meka who declined to give his last name.
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| One of America's most popular police trainers is teaching officers how to kill with fear-based warrior tactics Posted: 02 Jun 2020 02:53 PM PDT  Dave Grossman's overly aggressive style prepares law enforcement officers for a job under siege, where they're "at war" on the streets.
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| Israelis fear West Bank annexation will spark Palestinian uprising Posted: 03 Jun 2020 08:59 AM PDT  Most Israelis think their government's plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank will spark a Palestinian uprising but around half favour going ahead anyway, a poll showed Wednesday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to take steps towards annexation as soon as July 1, despite widespread international condemnation. The move forms part of a broader peace plan published by the United States, although Washington has not publicly backed Netanyahu's timetable.
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| Putin declines British invitation to take part in coronavirus summit: Kremlin Posted: 03 Jun 2020 03:13 AM PDT  Russian President Vladimir Putin does not plan to take part in an online summit on a possible coronavirus vaccine being organised by the British government this week, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. Putin received an invitation to take part in the summit from British Prime Minister Boris Johnson last week, the Kremlin had said. Scheduled to take place on June 4, the Global Vaccine Summit 2020 is designed to mobilise resources needed to ensure universal availability of the vaccine against the novel coronavirus.
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| Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore apologizes after saying George Floyd's death is on the 'hands' of looters Posted: 02 Jun 2020 07:41 PM PDT  LAPD Chief Michel Moore is facing calls to resign after saying George Floyd's death is on the 'hands' of looters. He apologized the same day.
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| At It Again: Russia's Black Sea Fleet Conducts Fresh Exercises Posted: 03 Jun 2020 11:42 AM PDT  Deterrence never stops.
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| McEnany responds to Esper’s opposition to using military for protests Posted: 03 Jun 2020 12:27 PM PDT  White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany responded to questions Wednesday on whether President Trump still has confidence in Defense Secretary Mark Esper after he opposed Trump on using the military to quell protests across the country.
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| Online clothing retailer Stitch Fix is laying off 1,400 California employees and instead hiring in lower-cost cities like Austin and Minneapolis Posted: 02 Jun 2020 03:08 PM PDT  The San Francisco-based company said the layoffs are not related to the pandemic, but the health crisis has dealt a blow to the retail industry.
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