| Bolton's book gets OK from judge, but he may have to turn over his profits, national security lawyer predicts Posted: 20 Jun 2020 07:57 AM PDT  Former national security adviser John Bolton will likely be forced to give all earnings from his controversial new book to the U.S. Treasury, if government lawyers succeed in convincing a federal judge that Bolton violated government rules by moving forward with publication without final sign-off by officials vetting the memoir for classified information, according to a top national security lawyer.
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| Temperature hits 100 F degrees in Arctic Russian town Posted: 21 Jun 2020 06:01 AM PDT  A Siberian town with the world's widest temperature range has recorded a new high amid a heat wave that is contributing to severe forest fires. The temperature in Verkhoyansk hit 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 F) on Saturday, according to Pogoda i Klimat, a website that compiles Russian meteorological data. The town is located above the Arctic Circle in the Sakha Republic, about 4,660 kilometers (2,900 miles) northeast of Moscow.
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| Tallahassee police say suspect confessed to kidnapping and killing student, 19, and volunteer, 75 Posted: 21 Jun 2020 11:04 AM PDT  Aaron Glee Jr. said he imprisoned one of the victims, Oluwatoyin Salau, for days in his home and sexually assaulted her, according to court documents.
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| China claims disputed valley where Chinese, Indian troops engaged in a deadly brawl Posted: 20 Jun 2020 01:51 AM PDT  The confrontation in the Galwan Valley, part of the disputed region along the Himalayan frontier, was the deadliest in 45 years.
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| Seattle shooting: One person shot dead inside autonomous protest zone Posted: 20 Jun 2020 10:19 AM PDT  Seattle police have launched a murder investigation after one person was shot dead and another critically injured inside the city's self-declared autonomous protest zone.The shooting occurred in the early hours of Saturday morning, Seattle police said in a statement. They added that a 19-year-old man died from his injuries and another male remains in hospital with life-threatening injuries.
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| Because of the virus, dads mark Father's Day from a distance Posted: 21 Jun 2020 02:49 PM PDT |
| Letters to the Editor: Immigrant children living in fear is a disgrace. So is Congress' failure to help Posted: 21 Jun 2020 03:00 AM PDT  That Congress has been unable to help the children of immigrants brought here illegally shows its glaring inability to solve major problems.
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| US judge allows release of ex-Trump aide Bolton's book Posted: 20 Jun 2020 12:46 PM PDT  A US judge refused Saturday to block the release of a tell-all book in which President Donald Trump's former national security advisor describes him as corrupt and incompetent. With John Bolton's book already widely shipped to stores for sale next week, Judge Royce Lamberth wrote that it is too late for a restraining order sought by the Trump administration to halt the process. The DC district court judge said Bolton appeared to have failed to obtain written White House agreement that his memoir contained nothing classified.
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| 6 staffers setting up for Trump rally test positive for the coronavirus Posted: 20 Jun 2020 02:58 PM PDT  President Trump's campaign says six staff members helping set up for his Saturday night rally in Tulsa, Okla., have tested positive for coronavirus.
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| What's next for Louisville police officer Brett Hankison after Breonna Taylor's death? Posted: 21 Jun 2020 10:49 AM PDT  Louisville's interim police chief took a first step toward firing officer Brett Hankison on Friday, but that doesn't mean it's guaranteed to happen.
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| Beijing to set up new security office in Hong Kong Posted: 20 Jun 2020 09:33 AM PDT  China's new law for the territory will also override any conflicting local law, state media says.
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| The WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic 100 days ago. In a little over 3 months, the virus has left devastation in its wake and doesn't show signs of stopping yet. Posted: 19 Jun 2020 11:02 PM PDT  As of June 19, the coronavirus has infected nearly 8.5 million people, and the death toll surpassed 450,000.
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| Acting DHS head says U.S. doing 'great job' getting economy back up Posted: 21 Jun 2020 06:41 AM PDT  The Trump administration is doing "a great job" reopening the country after lockdowns to contain the novel coronavirus outbreak, Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf said on Sunday, as infections continued to spike in some key states. Wolf told NBC's "Meet the Press" program that the White House coronavirus task force was continuing to meet daily and the Centers for Disease Control had issued guidance to states on how to flatten the curve, including use of face masks.
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| Trump campaign told police to remove peaceful protester arrested outside Tulsa rally Posted: 20 Jun 2020 01:41 PM PDT  At the request of Donald Trump's campaign, police arrested an Oklahoma demonstrator on live television moments after she was seen praying outside the president's rally, though she said she had a ticket to attend.Sheila Buck, who was wearing an "I Can't Breathe" T-shirt to memorialise black Americans killed by police, was accused of "trespassing" by Tulsa officers who dragged her away from the city's BOK Centre on Saturday.
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| Britons in Dubai sell possessions and return home as coronavirus ends expat dream Posted: 20 Jun 2020 05:24 AM PDT  Dubai's expat community groups are full of bargains; everything from cars to gym subscriptions. The fire sales are a result of expats left jobless by the UAE's coronavirus lock-down. Among them, thousands of British expats are trying to scrape back the pennies before they are forced to leave a place many call home. The coronavirus lockdown has upended the lives of thousands of expats, turning their dream of a life abroad into a nightmare of uncertainty. Thousands have been made redundant, with strict visa regulations forcing them to return to the UK, with little time to catch their breath. It's almost 11 years since Selina Dixon traded her claustrophobic commute from Surrey into Central London for her expat dreams of Dubai. "I was spending four hours a day on the train," she tells The Telegraph. The fashion marketer left behind the early morning drizzle and commuter grind, for a new life in the UAE. One which promised year-round sun, tax-free salaries, and the opportunity of adventure. "It's not about the glitz and glamour, whoever has been fortunate enough to live here know there is much more behind the façade," she says. An estimated 240,000 Britons call the UAE home, working as everything from air hostesses to teachers. Dixon was made redundant a few weeks ago, now she is living off her meagre savings. In weeks her visa will expire, and she wont be able to renew it unless she finds a new job. "Every day you wake up, you're looking on LinkedIn. Speaking to contacts and your network, but then you have to be mindful there are so many people going through this." With thousands of people flying in and out of the UAE every day in normal times, the country was always vulnerable to Covid-19. A stringent lockdown saw swathes of the economy shut. Though some 40,000 cases of the virus have been registered, Dubai is slowly beginning to open up, yet the economic recovery will likely take many years. Ninety per cent of the UAE's population are expats, and a study out this month by Oxford Economics, a quantitative analysis firm, estimates that the country of nine million could lose up to 900,000 jobs, and some 10 per cent of its population – British expats are likely to be among the worst affected. At least part of the difficulty lies in the UAE's Kafala – or sponsorship - system. A visa scheme wherein residency is tied to your job. Companies may sponsor a foreigner for residency as long as they employ them, but the moment someone becomes unemployed, a count-down begins on the expiry of their visa. As Dixon says, "Dubai is a place that without a visa - it's difficult." Though the government has announced some visa waivers, those who have lost their jobs since March 1st have thirty days to find a new job, or their visas become invalid, and they will be hit with daily fines. It means that those like Dixon may be forced to return to the UK for the first time in years. "It was not a choice that I was ready to make, but one that I may have to make." "I've been away [from the UK] for ten years, I'm going to have to start from scratch. Whilst I have the experience, it's the network in the UK I'll struggle with."
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| George Soros conspiracy theories surge as protests sweep US Posted: 21 Jun 2020 05:34 AM PDT  George Soros, the billionaire investor and philanthropist who has long been a target of conspiracy theories, is now being falsely accused of orchestrating and funding the protests over police killings of Black people that have roiled the United States. Amplified by a growing number of people on the far right, including some Republican leaders, online posts about Soros have skyrocketed in recent weeks. The Hungarian-American, who is Jewish, has also been the subject of anti-Semitic attacks and conspiracy theories for decades.
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| Fact Check: Joe Biden wants to eliminate new fracking permits, not all fracking Posted: 20 Jun 2020 01:17 PM PDT  A claim that former Vice President Joe Biden wants to ban fracking is not entirely true. He has publicly stated that he's opposed to a fracking ban.
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| Coronavirus: Is the pandemic getting worse in the US? Posted: 20 Jun 2020 03:16 AM PDT  Some states are seeing a spike in cases, but the White House says not to worry. So what's going on?
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| Biden campaign addresses his widening lead in the polls, VP search, Trump's push for more debates Posted: 21 Jun 2020 06:38 AM PDT  Senior adviser for the Biden campaign Symone Sanders joins 'Fox News Sunday.'
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| While Confederate statues come down, other symbols targeted Posted: 21 Jun 2020 11:20 AM PDT  Spectators in North Carolina's capital cheered Sunday morning as work crews finished the job started by protesters Friday night and removed a Confederate statue from the top of a 75-foot (232 meter) monument. Across the country, an initially peaceful protest in Portland, Oregon, against racial injustice turned violent early Sunday: Baton-wielding police used flash-bang grenades to disperse demonstrators throwing bottles, cans and rocks at sheriff's deputies near downtown's Justice Center. News outlets reported that work crews acting on the order of Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper removed the statue Sunday morning and began taking down the obelisk on which it stood.
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| North Korea threatens to pour 'leaflets of punishment' over South Korea Posted: 20 Jun 2020 04:35 AM PDT  "The South Korean authorities will face a really horrible time," North Korean state media said.
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| Protesters douse French health ministry with red paint Posted: 20 Jun 2020 02:08 AM PDT |
| AG Barr says Trump has fired Manhattan US attorney Geoffrey Berman after he refused to step down Posted: 20 Jun 2020 12:49 PM PDT  Berman said late Friday that he will not step down until the Senate confirms a presidentially appointed successor.
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| Navy Won't Reinstate Crozier, Holds 1-Star's Promotion Over Poor Decision-Making Posted: 21 Jun 2020 03:24 PM PDT  The Navy won't reinstate the captain who was fired after warning of a serious health crisis on his ship.
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| Rich Americans like me should use our money and influence to end systemic racism Posted: 20 Jun 2020 03:00 AM PDT  If wealthy Americans cared as much about equity for people of color as they did about tax cuts, this would be fixed. And it's in our interest to care.
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| Chile reports more than 7,000 virus deaths under new counting method Posted: 20 Jun 2020 10:54 AM PDT  Santiago (AFP) - Chile nearly doubled its coronavirus death toll Saturday to more than 7,000 under a new tallying method that includes probable fatalities from COVID-19.
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| Shooting in Seattle protest zone leaves 1 dead, 1 injured Posted: 20 Jun 2020 09:36 AM PDT  A pre-dawn shooting in a park in Seattle's protest zone killed a 19-year-old man and critically injured another person, authorities said Saturday. The shooting happened about 2:30 a.m. in the area near the city's downtown that is known as CHOP, which stands for "Capitol Hill Occupied Protest," police said. Video released later in the day by the Seattle Police appears to show officers arriving at the protest zone saying they want to get to the victim and entering as people yell at them that the victim is already gone.
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| Map: Track coronavirus deaths around the world Posted: 21 Jun 2020 08:39 AM PDT  Get the latest data on the human cost of this virus. Updated daily.
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| Biden aide begins forming U.S. presidential transition team Posted: 20 Jun 2020 11:24 AM PDT  A close adviser to former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has begun forming a team to oversee the transition if the Democratic presidential candidate wins November's election and unseats President Donald Trump, according to a statement on Saturday. Longtime Biden aide Ted Kaufman has recruited six people, including several former Obama administration officials, to an initial team that will later be expanded, a person familiar with the transition team said. Major party nominees set up transition teams before a general election to coordinate with the incumbent administration.
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| Trump tells Tulsa crowd he wanted to "slow down" COVID-19 testing, White House says he was joking Posted: 20 Jun 2020 08:54 PM PDT  "When you do testing to that extent ... you're going to find more cases, so I said to my people, 'Slow the testing down, please.'"
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| Meet the X-32: The Plane That Could Have Replaced the F-35 Posted: 20 Jun 2020 03:00 PM PDT  One for the history books.
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| Fact check: Cruise ships are registered abroad but they didn't seek a US bailout Posted: 20 Jun 2020 12:35 PM PDT  The claim that cruise ship companies register in foreign countries to avoid US taxes is true. But it's not true that they asked for COVID-19 bailout.
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| A strain of the coronavirus imported from Europe is most likely to blame for the outbreak in Beijing, WHO believes Posted: 20 Jun 2020 08:43 AM PDT  Experts believe that imported frozen foods used at the wholesale market could have been contaminated with the virus during packaging or transportation.
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| Angela Underwood Jacobs: We want to be able to live freely and safely Posted: 21 Jun 2020 07:14 AM PDT  Angela Underwood Jacobs, the sister of a federal protective officer who was killed during a protest for George Floyd that turned violent, joins 'Fox and Friends Weekend.'
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| Zimbabwe anti-corruption body starts audit of the rich Posted: 21 Jun 2020 06:53 AM PDT  The anti-corruption commission threatens to take people's assets if they cannot explain their origin.
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| Black Lives Matter wants to oust first Black Los Angeles DA Posted: 21 Jun 2020 10:17 AM PDT |
| Top US diplomat calls UN rights body 'a haven for dictators' Posted: 20 Jun 2020 08:54 AM PDT  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the decision by the U.N.'s top human rights body to commission a report on policing and race amid international protests spurred by George Floyd's death "marks a new low" and confirmed the Trump administration's decision to withdraw from the Human Rights Council in 2018. The council agreed Friday in Geneva to commission a U.N. report on systemic racism and discrimination against Black people while stopping short of ordering a more intensive investigation singling out the United States.
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| Saudi Arabia to lift nationwide curfew, resume economic activities from Sunday Posted: 20 Jun 2020 07:10 AM PDT  Saudi Arabia will end a nationwide curfew and lift restrictions on businesses from Sunday morning after three months of lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus, state news agency SPA quoted a source in the interior ministry as saying on Saturday. The curfew will be lifted as of 6 AM local time on Sunday. Restrictions will remain, however, for religious pilgrimages, international travel and social gatherings of more than 50 people.
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| 'I have not resigned': Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman fires back at Barr, who says he's leaving Posted: 19 Jun 2020 09:35 PM PDT  "I will step down when a presidentially appointed nominee is confirmed by the Senate. Until then, our investigations will move forward without delay or interruption," Berman said.
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| How Russia's MiG-21 Became The Most-Produced Supersonic Jet In Aviation History Posted: 21 Jun 2020 03:30 AM PDT  It's flown in more than 60 countries.
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| 'Feels very unfair': Families say cruise lines are using a 'technicality' to refuse refunds Posted: 21 Jun 2020 01:39 PM PDT  One cruiser reported canceling less than an hour before refund eligibility, but Royal Caribbean, Norwegian and others aren't budging on refunds.
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| Brazil has become the second country to surpass 1 million COVID-19 cases. It could soon exceed the US for infections and deaths. Posted: 20 Jun 2020 02:28 AM PDT  Brazil saw 54,771 new infections and 1,206 new deaths on Friday. Meanwhile, the US surpassed 2 million infections earlier in June.
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| In US Military First, the Air Force Has Picked a Woman as Top Enlisted Leader Posted: 21 Jun 2020 03:27 PM PDT  JoAnne Bass emerged as "the consensus choice from more than a dozen finalists from across the Air Force's global operation."
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