| Three arrested after paint thrown on NYC Black Lives Matter mural Posted: 17 Jul 2020 10:05 PM PDT  This time, blue paint was used to vandalize the city-approved mural on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue.
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| Opinion: The Supreme Court — again — shamefully makes it hard for Americans to vote Posted: 17 Jul 2020 03:00 AM PDT  In a Florida case, the justices block a ruling in favor of felons who served their time
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| China coronavirus: 'Wartime state' declared for Urumqi in Xinjiang Posted: 18 Jul 2020 08:44 AM PDT  Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, has a small number of infections but strict counter-measures.
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| Anthony Fauci said New York is an example of how to 'correctly' confront soaring coronavirus cases Posted: 18 Jul 2020 02:23 PM PDT  New York City is slated to enter Phase 4 of its reopening on July 20, three months after the city counted a peak of 10,000 new cases per day.
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| National Museum of African American History apologizes for chart listing attributes of 'whiteness' after criticism from Donald Trump Jr and the conservative media Posted: 18 Jul 2020 04:39 AM PDT  The National Museum for African American History and Culture listed rational thought and hard work as traits of white culture.
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| New Amphibious Assault Ship USS Tripoli Joins the U.S. Navy Posted: 17 Jul 2020 10:28 AM PDT  At 844 feet long, Tripoli is designed to land Marines by air and operate the F-35 fighter.
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| It's too late for masks alone to turn the tide on coronavirus. Why the U.S. needs to lock down hot spots right away. Posted: 17 Jul 2020 09:16 AM PDT  Masks are necessary to combat America's resurgent coronavirus pandemic. But they may no longer be enough. Patterns from countries that are faring much better than the U.S. suggest we won't bring the virus to heel until we start locking down hot spots as well.
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| Three white men charged in killing of Black jogger in Georgia plead not guilty Posted: 17 Jul 2020 07:47 AM PDT  Ahmaud Arbery, 25, who was killed on Feb. 23 just outside the coastal town of Brunswick, became a touchstone in cross-country protests over racial and social justice in the United States. A former law enforcement officer, Gregory McMichael, 64, and his son Travis, 34, are charged with murder and aggravated assault. Police say Gregory McMichael saw Arbery jogging through his neighborhood outside of Brunswick and believed he looked like a burglary suspect.
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| Iran estimates up to 25 million virus cases since outbreak Posted: 18 Jul 2020 03:47 AM PDT  Iran's president Saturday estimated as many as 25 million Iranians could have been infected with the coronavirus since the outbreak's beginning, and urged the public to take the pandemic seriously, the state-run IRNA news agency reported. President Hassan Rouhani cited a new Iranian Health Ministry study in offering the unprecedentedly high number of infections. Rouhani also said he believes an additional 30-35 million people could be infected in coming months, again without citing the basis for his estimate.
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| Goya boycott, say Latinos, is about Trump's 'hate,' not politics Posted: 18 Jul 2020 03:25 AM PDT  "Puerto Ricans, Dominicans and Mexican Americans — we made that company," one former customer said. "It hurt me, coming from Goya."
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| Pentagon bans Confederate flag in way to avoid Trump's wrath Posted: 17 Jul 2020 11:28 AM PDT  In a carefully worded policy, the Pentagon is banning Confederate flags from military installations without using the word "ban" to avoid openly contradicting President Trump, who has defended people's rights to display it.
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| New York City enters final reopening phase as California, Florida, and Texas cases surge Posted: 17 Jul 2020 02:43 PM PDT  New York City has reached a major milestone in its COVID-19 fight.Once the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, New York City will move to its final phase of reopening on Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced Friday. Malls, gyms, and cultural institutions will remain closed, as will indoor dining, but most other businesses can reopen with appropriate social distancing measures.At the peak of its pandemic, New York state often saw hundreds of COVID-19 deaths per day, but reported 10 deaths on Friday. Coronavirus hospitalization totals in the state dropped to 765, the lowest they've been since mid-March, and less than one percent of COVID-19 tests came back positive in the last 24 hours, Cuomo also said Friday.Meanwhile across the south and west of the U.S., things are going the other direction. California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said Friday most schools will not reopen in the state, a decision Los Angeles and San Diego public schools made earlier this week. Newsom has also scaled back reopenings and closed bars and other businesses in surging counties.Florida recorded 128 new deaths from COVID-19 in the past day on Friday afternoon, its fourth day of death tolls over 100. And in Texas, FEMA sent in extra body bags and refrigerated trucks to prepare for a surging death toll. Still, governors in both states have resisted shutting down businesses again.More stories from theweek.com What Americans are finally learning about freedom Has Trump incidentally squashed his own argument about the Supreme Court? Marco Rubio mistakenly tweets a picture of Elijah Cummings alongside tribute to John Lewis
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| Powerful House chair Eliot Engel defeated by progressive newcomer Jamaal Bowman in stunning upset Posted: 17 Jul 2020 11:39 AM PDT  Rep. Eliot Engel, who served decades in Congress, was defeated by a political newcomer in a stunning upset showing the power of the progressive wing.
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| Nigeria's Zamfara state offers repentant bandits cows for AK-47s Posted: 17 Jul 2020 09:09 AM PDT  Zamfara state's governor uses an original ploy to deal with a recent wave of bandit attacks.
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| 2 men charged in July 4 'attempted lynching' at Indiana lake Posted: 17 Jul 2020 09:17 AM PDT  Two men were charged Friday in an alleged assault against a Black man who was seen in a viral video being held against his will in the woods near an Indiana lake on the Fourth of July.
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| Justice Ginsburg says cancer has returned, but won't retire Posted: 17 Jul 2020 09:15 AM PDT  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Friday she is receiving chemotherapy for a recurrence of cancer, but has no plans to retire from the Supreme Court. The 87-year-old Ginsburg, who has had four earlier bouts with cancer including pancreatic cancer last year, said her treatment so far has succeeded in reducing lesions on her liver and she will continue chemotherapy sessions every two weeks "to keep my cancer at bay."
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| China's western city Urumqi enters 'wartime mode' after reporting 16 coronavirus cases Posted: 17 Jul 2020 06:26 PM PDT  Urumqi, the capital of China's far western region of Xinjiang, has gone into "wartime mode" and launched an emergency response plan after the city reported 16 new coronavirus cases on Friday. It urged people not to make unnecessary trips outside the city and ordered infection tests for anyone who needed to leave Urumqi, aiming to prevent the spread of the virus. On its official Weibo account on Saturday the regional government said all recent new infections and asymptomatic cases reported in the autonomous region were in Urumqi.
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| Rep. Justin Amash confirms he won't seek re-election to Congress Posted: 17 Jul 2020 05:55 AM PDT  Amash, who has served in Congress since 2011, announced in July 2019 that he was leaving the Republican Party.
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| Prosecutor in Jodi Arias murder case agrees to be disbarred Posted: 18 Jul 2020 12:36 PM PDT  A former Arizona prosecutor known for winning a conviction in the Jodi Arias murder case agreed on Friday to be disbarred in an ethics case in which he was accused of sharing the identity of an Arias juror and sexually harassing female law clerks in his office.
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| The once humble pickup has gone full-on luxury — here are my favorite swanky features Posted: 18 Jul 2020 08:30 AM PDT  Today's full-size pickups can easily hang with Audi, BMW, and Mercedes when it comes to luxury appointments.
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| Chuck Woolery's spokesman confirms his son has COVID-19 Posted: 16 Jul 2020 08:06 PM PDT  Days after tweeting that "everyone is lying about COVID-19," former Love Connection host Chuck Woolery confirmed through a spokesman that his son has tested positive for the virus."Chuck's son is fine and asymptomatic," Mark Young told CNN. Young also said that Woolery deactivated his Twitter account on Wednesday due to the "abuse he has received from thousands of intolerant people," but will return one day.On Sunday, Woolery declared on Twitter that "the most outrageous lies are the ones about COVID-19. Everyone is lying. The CDC, Media, Democrats, our Doctors, not all but most, that we are told to trust. I think it's all about the election and keeping the economy from coming back, which is about the election. I'm sick of it." His conspiracy theory was retweeted the next morning by President Trump.Woolery released a new episode of his podcast Blunt Force Truth on Thursday, and was on the defensive, saying he never called COVID-19 "a hoax" or said "it's not real," just that "we've been lied to." Woolery also said it was "an honor to have your president retweet what your thoughts are and think it's important enough to do that."More stories from theweek.com What Americans are finally learning about freedom Has Trump incidentally squashed his own argument about the Supreme Court? Marco Rubio mistakenly tweets a picture of Elijah Cummings alongside tribute to John Lewis
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| Portland protesters hit with tear gas and snatched into unmarked vans as federal officers crack down Posted: 17 Jul 2020 06:14 AM PDT  Federal law enforcement officers sent to quell demonstrations in Portland, Oregon last night used tear gas on hundreds of protesters at the city's federal courthouse.It comes amid an escalating row with the federal government over the need to impose "law and order" on the streets, with the city's mayor at odds with the Department of Homeland Security.
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| Ousted Florida scientist Rebekah Jones’ whistleblower complaint takes aim at governor Posted: 17 Jul 2020 08:09 AM PDT  The former data scientist accuses Gov. Ron DeSantis' health agency of seeking to falsify statistics used to justify the state's reopening.
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| Kuwait's ruler, 91, admitted to hospital for medical checkup Posted: 18 Jul 2020 02:50 AM PDT  Kuwait's 91-year-old ruler was admitted to the hospital Saturday for a medical checkup and the country's crown prince temporarily took some of his powers in his absence, the oil-rich nation's state-run news agency reported. Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah was in "good health," the KUNA news agency said, citing a statement from the country's royal court minister. A later statement said Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah had assumed some of Sheikh Sabah's powers temporarily, without explaining why that was necessary.
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| SpaceX capsule carrying NASA astronauts slated for August 2 return Posted: 17 Jul 2020 09:38 AM PDT  The NASA astronauts who traveled to the International Space Station in SpaceX's first crewed flight in May are expected to return to Earth on Aug. 2 after spending two months in orbit, a NASA spokesman said on Friday. U.S. astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will gear up for the final benchmark test of SpaceX's so-called Demo-2 mission: a coordinated splashdown somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean that will cap NASA's first crewed mission from U.S. soil in nearly a decade. Since 2011, when the U.S. space shuttle program ended, NASA astronauts have had to hitch rides into orbit aboard Russia's Soyuz spacecraft.
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| Trump sours on online learning that his administration evangelized Posted: 17 Jul 2020 04:45 PM PDT  "Why do students have to go to a school building in the first place?" Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said in 2018.
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| 'Boogaloo' on the loose: Experts warn Congress about extremism on the right Posted: 17 Jul 2020 12:53 PM PDT  Authorities on extremism told Congress Thursday that far-right groups, not the radicals of antifa, currently pose the most serious threat of political violence in the U.S. — including attacks on the police.
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| Pentagon to Consider Stripping Names, Gender Pronouns from Selection Boards Posted: 17 Jul 2020 01:25 PM PDT  Defense Secretary Mark Esper said personnel leaders are eyeing options to eliminate unconscious bias from promotion boards.
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| Mexican drug cartel shows off uniformed troops with military weapons and armoured vehicles in video Posted: 18 Jul 2020 07:15 AM PDT  Mexico's top security official has said authorities are investigating a video which showed dozens of uniformed troops with military-grade weapons and armoured pickup trucks apparently connected to a major drug cartel.The video, which circulated on social media on Friday, appeared to be a show of power by members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) - one of Mexico's most powerful criminal groups.
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| India-Pakistan fighting in Kashmir kills 3, wounds 2 Posted: 18 Jul 2020 04:52 AM PDT |
| Details released about plane crash involving Earnhardt Jr. Posted: 18 Jul 2020 10:29 AM PDT  Dale Earnhardt Jr. and a pilot struggled to open a crashed airplane's wing emergency exit as the aircraft started to burn before the race car driver and his family managed to escape from the main door, according to new details about the 2019 accident.
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| U.S. aircraft carriers return to South China Sea amid rising tensions Posted: 17 Jul 2020 03:27 AM PDT  For the second time in two weeks, the United States has deployed two aircraft carriers to the South China Sea, the U.S. Navy said on Friday, as China and the United States accuse each other of stoking tensions in the region. The USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan carried out operations and military exercises in the contested waterway between July 4 and July 6, and returned to the region on Friday, according to a U.S. Navy statement. "Nimitz and Reagan Carrier Strike Groups are operating in the South China Sea, wherever international law allows, to reinforce our commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific, a rules based international order, and to our allies and partners in the region," Rear Admiral Jim Kirk, commander of the Nimitz, said in the statement.
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| Iran's plan to execute 3 protesters sparks huge backlash Posted: 17 Jul 2020 02:18 AM PDT  The young men are just a few of the recently convicted criminals to face the death sentence, as Iran seemingly tries to scare dissidents into silence.
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| Comet Neowise is a dazzling sight, but it's also a reminder of how woefully unprepared we are for dangerous asteroids Posted: 18 Jul 2020 05:50 AM PDT  A NASA telescope spotted Comet Neowise by sheer luck three months ago. If the comet were a killer asteroid, that may have been too late.
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| 'We'll see him in court': Atlanta mayor questions Georgia gov's 'bizarre' lawsuit over mask mandate Posted: 17 Jul 2020 06:32 AM PDT  Keisha Lance Bottoms said she thinks it's no coincidence Gov. Brian Kemp filed the suit after she pointed out President Trump violated the city's mask law.
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| A 10-year-old boy was dragged off a boat by a shark on the Australian coast Posted: 17 Jul 2020 02:03 PM PDT  The boy was left with arm, head, and chest injuries after the shark attack near Stanley, on northwest coast of Tasmania, Australia.
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| Minister: Iraq to face severe shortages as river flows drop Posted: 17 Jul 2020 08:27 AM PDT  Iraq's minister of water resources says his country will face severe water shortages if agreements are not forged with neighboring Turkey over Ankara's irrigation and dam projects that have decreased river inflows to Iraq's parched plains. Descending from the mountains of southeast Turkey and coursing through Syria and then Iraq before emptying out in the Persian Gulf, the Tigris and Euphrates rivers are Iraq's main water source and essential to for agriculture.
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| Republican senator criticised for suggesting Hispanic people less likely to follow coronavirus guidance Posted: 18 Jul 2020 05:24 AM PDT  A Republican senator has come under fire for suggesting Hispanic people in his state are less likely to wear masks and follow social distancing rules during the coronavirus pandemic.Thom Tillis, the junior senator for North Carolina, said during a virtual town hall on Tuesday that he had concerns about "less consistent adherence" with public health guidelines among the Hispanic population.
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| U.S. passenger flights to India can resume July 23 Posted: 17 Jul 2020 07:00 PM PDT  The government of India has agreed to allow U.S. air carriers to resume passenger services in the U.S.-India market starting July 23, the U.S. Transportation Department said on Friday. The Indian government, citing the coronavirus, had banned all scheduled services, prompting the U.S. Transportation Department in June to accuse India of engaging in "unfair and discriminatory practices" on charter air carriers serving India.
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| Oregon governor denounces 'blatant abuse of power' by federal police sweeping protesters off Portland streets Posted: 17 Jul 2020 07:49 AM PDT  The officers' nominal mission is to protect federal property from vandals, but civilians have reported being caught up in sweeps while doing nothing more than peacefully protesting or just being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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| The US Navy again has 2 carrier strike groups in the South China Sea as the US and China trade jabs Posted: 17 Jul 2020 12:16 PM PDT  The Navy says the exercises are unrelated to current events, but they come at a time of heightened tensions in the South China Sea.
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| Trump zings Biden for not having a boat parade Posted: 17 Jul 2020 01:51 PM PDT  Only one presidential candidate is getting a whole bunch of people to sail boats on his behalf.That's right, while supporters of President Trump put together boat parades in his honor on his birthday and the Fourth of July, former Vice President Joe Biden hasn't had any big boat bashes to support his candidacy. And as far as Trump sees it, that's a symbol of electoral prowess that deserves to be rubbed in Biden's face.> pic.twitter.com/xijqWWfSWx> > — Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) July 17, 2020Trump's campaign sent out a punnily titled campaign email on Friday, reading "NO BOAT PARADES: Enthusiasm for Joe Biden is Sinking." After all, "it's clear President Trump's voters will run through a brick wall to vote for him," the email reads, linking not to a video of a Trump supporter squaring up with some bricks, but to the Trump campaign's communication director on Fox News making the hyperbole. "Ain't nobody running through a brick wall to vote for Joe Biden — and he certainly won't be having a boat parade any time soon," the email finishes.> THOUSANDS gathered in South Carolina for a boat parade in support of President Trump this weekend.> > Americans traveled from 11 different states in what may have been the largest boat parade EVER!> > There has NEVER been a boat parade for Joe Biden! pic.twitter.com/mnE30rZI7C> > — Trump War Room - Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) July 7, 2020Unfortunately for Trump, a few thousand boaters turned voters won't make much of a splash on the electoral map.More stories from theweek.com What Americans are finally learning about freedom Has Trump incidentally squashed his own argument about the Supreme Court? Marco Rubio mistakenly tweets a picture of Elijah Cummings alongside tribute to John Lewis
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