| Senate Republicans secure impeachment witness who flagged concern about Hunter Biden Posted: 22 Jul 2020 01:06 PM PDT  George Kent, who testified last year about Trump allies' efforts to influence Ukraine, has agreed to sit for an interview as early as Friday.
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| A couple is finally going home after their 5-day Caribbean vacation turned into a 5-month coronavirus lockdown Posted: 22 Jul 2020 03:21 PM PDT  Turks and Caicos closed its borders in March to stop the spread of the coronavirus, stranding tourists who were visiting the islands.
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| The son of a parent convicted in the college admissions scandal says he 'didn't care' where he went to school and his dad was 'way too invested' Posted: 22 Jul 2020 02:24 PM PDT  David Sloane, Matteo Sloane's father, was sentenced to four months in prison in September for his role in the college admissions scandal.
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| Fox News Host Confronts Kellyanne Conway on Trump’s Sudden Mask Embrace Posted: 22 Jul 2020 08:51 AM PDT  Kellyanne Conway went on Fox News Wednesday morning to heap praise on her boss for what news anchors have been calling his "new tone" in the previous day's coronavirus task force briefing—his first in several months. She was met with some unexpectedly tough pushback from host Martha MacCallum. "I think it was incredibly important for the president of the United States to provide information to the public, not confrontation with some press people there who were asking questions that had nothing to do with the development of vaccines and therapeutics," Conway said, perhaps alluding to the question about alleged sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell that prompted Trump to admit he's met her "numerous times over the years" and to say, "I wish her well." When the White House counselor started lecturing "all those people out there who are resisting wearing a mask," telling them, "you'll get your liberties back sooner if you wear your mask," MacCallum cut in to press her on why it's taken so long for the president to arrive at this messaging. Kayleigh McEnany Urges Fox News Viewers to 'Follow Trump's Lead' on Masks"But Kellyanne, I guarantee you there are people at home who will listen to that and say, why didn't the White House have this message for all of us two months ago?" MacCallum asked pointedly. "Why now? Why wasn't this pushed and emphasized and encouraged by the president back then when it might have made even more of a difference?" "The president did say in April if people want to wear a mask, they should wear a mask," Conway replied, though that is not exactly a ringing endorsement of the basic safety precaution. She then pivoted, as Trump did in his Chris Wallace interview last weekend, to blaming health officials who "early on" said it "wouldn't help." That guidance, of course, was revised long before the president first wore a mask in public this month. Conway then revealed that just yesterday in the Oval Office, Dr. Deborah Birx had to explain to the president that the research is conclusive that wearing cloth masks helps stop the spread of the virus. Noting that Trump, unlike most Americans, has the luxury of getting tested and receiving rapid results daily, Conway said, "We know that the president is COVID-negative, we don't know that about the rest of the country. So we're asking people to wear masks." Kellyanne Conway Loses It Over Mary Trump Book on Fox NewsRead 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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| Rudy Giuliani promotes long-debunked image of Ilhan Omar ‘at al-Qaeda training camp’ Posted: 22 Jul 2020 07:11 AM PDT  Rudy Giuliani has once again posted misinformation about Rep. Ilhan Omar on social media, sharing a meme that falsely claimed the congresswoman was seen at a terrorist training camp.The president's personal lawyer tweeted a debunked meme that included a photo of a woman holding a gun, along with a caption that falsely claimed the woman was Ms Omar (D—Mn).
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| After fatal UK crash, 'anomaly' over U.S. diplomatic immunity is removed Posted: 22 Jul 2020 04:10 AM PDT  Britain has agreed with the United States to remove an "anomaly" which allowed the wife of a U.S. official to claim diplomatic immunity from criminal prosecution after she was involved in a road accident in which 19-year-old Briton Harry Dunn was killed. The crash last August has caused friction between London and Washington after Britain criticised the United States for refusing to extradite Anne Sacoolas.
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| Breached levees trap thousands as flooding in China worsens Posted: 21 Jul 2020 04:19 AM PDT  Breached levees have trapped more than 10,000 people in an eastern Chinese town as flooding worsens across much of the country, local authorities said Tuesday. High waters overcame flood defenses protecting Guzhen, a town in Anhui province, on Sunday, the provincial government said on its official microblog. Flood waters rose as high as 3 meters (10 feet), the official Xinhua News Agency quoted Wang Qingjun, Guzhen's Communist Party secretary, as saying.
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| Detroit police officer charged with felony assault after rubber bullets fired at journalists Posted: 21 Jul 2020 11:03 AM PDT  If convicted, 32-year-old corporal Daniel Debono could be sentenced to up to four years in prison.
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| US public increasingly skeptical of Covid-19 death toll, poll finds Posted: 21 Jul 2020 08:48 AM PDT  * Axios-Ipsos poll shows 31% believe true number is smaller * US has nearly 4m cases and more than 140,000 deathsSkepticism is growing in the United States about the accuracy of publicly reported numbers for Covid-19 deaths, according to Axios-Ipsos polling published on Tuesday.Thirty-one percent of respondents in the survey said they believe the number of Americans dying from Covid-19 is in reality smaller than public data portrays. Skepticism was up from 23% in May.Skepticism about coronavirus statistics was heavily correlated with media consumption habits, the poll found. A 62% majority of Fox News watchers said the statistics are overblown, while 48% who reported no main news source thought so. Only 7% of CNN and MSNBC watchers thought so.Denialism around the virus is growing at a time when the US faces an unprecedented emergency of exploding case numbers and when the urgency is acute for coordinated action to prevent an uncontrollable outbreak, epidemiologists say.Covid-19 death statistics are compiled by the federal government and by independent outlets from reports filed by hospitals and medical examiner or coroner's offices. The official coronavirus death toll is in fact likely to undershoot the actual toll because many serious Covid-19 patients suffer from underlying conditions that might appear as the cause of death on a death certificate, public health experts advise.The United States has confirmed more than 3.8m coronavirus cases and more than 140,000 deaths from Covid-19. More than 60,000 new cases were recorded on Monday, about four times the figure for all of Europe.Donald Trump has repeatedly dismissed the pandemic as a threat, saying again in an interview on Sunday that the virus would simply disappear.Republicans have been sowing doubt about coronavirus statistics for at least two months. The White House recently moved to make coronavirus figures more opaque, ordering hospitals to submit data on cases and deaths to the Department of Health and Human Services, led by a Trump loyalist, instead of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.With approval of his handling of coronavirus at an all-time low of 38% as the November election looms, Trump faces a political existential crisis in the pandemic. He planned to hold his first White House briefing on the virus in many months on Tuesday.
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| California GOP leaders to consider ousting two anti-Trump Republicans Posted: 22 Jul 2020 06:00 AM PDT  Conservative activists hope to expel two leaders of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project from the state GOP over their support for Democrat Joe Biden.
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| Sen. Wyden: Trump’s plan to send federal troops to other cities is to drum up his base support Posted: 21 Jul 2020 04:04 PM PDT  Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss the ongoing confrontations between federal agents and protesters in Portland and weighs in on President Trump's plans to send federal troops to other cities, including Chicago and New York.
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| Fauci says Biden and campaign 'know better' than to reach out to him Posted: 22 Jul 2020 11:08 AM PDT  When asked if Biden has reached out to him, Fauci said, "No. I mean I think they know better. That I'm in a sensitive position."
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| A doctor wore 6 face masks at once while testing his oxygen levels, and found he could still breathe perfectly Posted: 22 Jul 2020 04:38 AM PDT  Maitiu O Tuathail, an Irish doctor, confronted a common complaint from people who don't want to wear masks: the false belief that masks block oxygen.
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| Pence 'absolutely' would send his children back to school despite spreading risk Posted: 21 Jul 2020 11:52 AM PDT  Vice President Mike Pence says he and second lady Karen Pence would send their children back to school in the fall, claiming they would be unconcerned about them contracting coronavirus."We wouldn't hesitate to send them back to school," Mr Pence told reporters during a visit to hard-hit South Carolina.
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| Betsy DeVos just crossed another line. She's an ongoing danger to teachers and students. Posted: 22 Jul 2020 05:11 AM PDT  Schools must look inward, assess local COVID-19 conditions and ignore pressure from DeVos. They have authority over whether to reopen. She doesn't.
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| China vows 'forceful counter-attack' in escalating row with Britain over Hong Kong Posted: 21 Jul 2020 02:33 AM PDT  China threatened a "forceful counter-attack" on Tuesday in response to Britain's announcement that it would suspend its extradition treaty with Hong Kong following Beijing's introduction of a national security law for the former British colony. On Monday, British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told parliament the extradition treaty would be suspended immediately and an arms embargo would be extended to Hong Kong.
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| Greek former minister charged over pharmaceutical probe Posted: 22 Jul 2020 02:53 PM PDT |
| Labour Admits It Smeared Jewish Whistleblowers Under Jeremy Corbyn Posted: 22 Jul 2020 03:28 AM PDT  The British Labour Party has admitted it defamed Jewish whistleblowers who spoke to the BBC Panorama program about anti-Semitism in the party under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn.The program featured a number of Jewish whistleblowers who condemned the party's practices on anti-Semitic complaints under the direction of Corbyn, claiming that several high ranking officers in the party interfered with investigations into alleged perpetrators who were members of the party. Labour responded at the time by accusing those who participated in the program of just being "disaffected former staff" who harbored "personal and political axes to grind" and made malicious and false claims in order to damage the party.Seven of the whistleblowers and the Panorama program presenter John Ware then sued Labour for defamation. In Ware's suit, he claims that Labour defamed him when they accused him and his team of "deliberate and malicious representations designed to mislead the public."Labour's 28-page complaint to the BBC complained that the program contained "the tendentious and politically slanted script; the bias in the selection of interviewees; and the failure to identify the political affiliations or records of interviewees in a highly controversial, sensitive and contested subject produced a programme that was a one-sided authored polemic."Allegations of anti-Jewish racism dogged the Labour Party under Corbyn, although he always denied it. One Jewish lawmaker quit the party over his failings, he was linked to anti-Semitic speakers and Facebook posts, and he was widely condemned for failing to drive anti-Semitic members out of the party.Jeremy Corbyn, the U.K. Labour Leader, Was In Three Secret Anti-Semitic Facebook GroupsOn the day that Keir Starmer was elected to replace him, the new Labour leader announced that convincing the Jewish community that the party had changed was his top priority. He said he would root out anti-Semitism in the party. The latest step in that process was to retract their incendiary complaint made to the BBC, and admit they had defamed and mistreated the whistleblowers. "We acknowledge the many years of dedicated and committed service that the Whistleblowers have given to the Labour Party as members and as staff," the statement, issued Wednesday, reads. "We unreservedly withdraw all allegations of bad faith, malice and lying. We would like to apologise unreservedly for the distress, embarrassment and hurt caused by their publication. We have agreed to pay them damages."The statement goes on to admit that anti-Semitism within Labour has "been a stain" on the party in recent years. "It has caused unacceptable and unimaginable levels of grief and distress for many in the Jewish community, as well as members of staff."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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| 'This is not a dictatorship': Portland protesters push back harder against Trump, federal agents Posted: 22 Jul 2020 01:29 PM PDT  President Donald Trump sent federal agents to Portland to crack down on protesters. His move appears to have backfired and energized activists.
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| 'Get the hell out of our uniforms': It's getting hard to tell who are the real law enforcement as camouflaged Feds crack down on protests Posted: 22 Jul 2020 03:14 PM PDT  "That uniform represents the cloth of our nation for people who don't draw overtime," retired US Army Gen. Russel Honoré told MSNBC.
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| The proof is in the sewage: hundreds of Yosemite visitors may have had coronavirus Posted: 22 Jul 2020 02:00 AM PDT  No one had tested positive via nasal swabs, but researchers' investigation tells a different storyYosemite national park officials suspect that hundreds of visitors this summer may have had Covid-19 thanks to an unorthodox approach – testing sewage.The San Francisco Chronicle reported last week that the county health department has been collecting untreated wastewater flowing from the idyllic Yosemite Valley for testing. Prior to this effort, according to the Chronicle, no one had tested positive for the virus through nasal swab testing at the park's health clinic. Scientists at a lab called Biobot Analytics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have examined the sewage water to determine if there are traces of genetic material from Sars-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, in the human feces. From the traces in a given sample, they can estimate how many people passing through Yosemite might be infected with Covid-19 at that time."It just struck me as a really good idea," said the Mariposa county health official Dr Eric Sergienko. He said that while the county was testing and monitoring local residents, "we really did not have a really good way of monitoring our visitors for Covid-19."The county began testing the wastewater from the Yosemite Valley, where thecelebrated granite Half Dome is located, in June. Based on their findings, health officials believe that an estimated 170 people in the park the week of the Fourth of July may have been infected with the coronavirus. The following week, that number dropped to 60.In the neighboring community where wastewater is also tested, the estimate went down from 60 to 50 over that same two-week period. "For me that suggests that indeed the volume that we saw on the Fourth was directly related to visitors to the area," says Sergienko.For now, Mariposa county will continue testing the sewage water every week, and maintaining safety protocols currently in place.The park closed its gates in March – partly, according to Sergienko, to avoid straining the local healthcare system with sick travelers. Now, the park requires visitors to make reservations to get in and has cut attendance by about half of what it was in June 2019. The park works closely with neighboring counties to implement safety measures. But since the national parks are under federal jurisdiction, it cannot force visitors to wear masks, for example.Kristen Brengel of the National Parks Conservation Association, a non-partisan group that advocates to protect national parks, said this decision came from the top. "The political appointees of the interior department have made it clear they do not want to make masks mandatory in parks. They're doing this by choice." Most parks are only able to recommend that visitors wear masks.Brengel also says crowding at popular outdoor sites is a risk to visitor and employee health. Photos on the Yellowstone national park's Facebook page show crowds lined up for its famous geysers, with about half the people wearing masks. In Yosemite, timed entry is helping space out crowds, and Brengel says a handful of other parks, including Denali national park and reserve and Rocky Mountain national park are implementing this tactic.The National Park Service did not return a request for comment, but a public health update on its website asks visitors "to be our partner in adopting social distancing practices when visiting parks".
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| Couple with coronavirus placed under house arrest after refusing to commit to staying home Posted: 21 Jul 2020 02:34 AM PDT  A Kentucky couple who declined to sign health department documents on self-isolation were put under house arrest because one tested positive with Covid-19.Elizabeth Linscott and her husband, Isaiah, told a local news station that Hardin County authorities arrived at their home last week to install ankle monitors.
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| US Navy’s top officer reveals grim new details of the damage to Bonhomme Richard Posted: 22 Jul 2020 12:53 PM PDT  Fire and flooding left 11 of 14 decks damaged.
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| Two men, one woman arrested in connection to Florida fishing murders Posted: 22 Jul 2020 12:07 PM PDT  Top suspect has 230 felony charges; Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd speaks out.
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| U.S. records over 1,000 coronavirus deaths in a single day for first time since early June Posted: 21 Jul 2020 04:14 PM PDT  After weeks of declining fatalities, there were more than 5,200 U.S. COVID-19 deaths in the week ended July 19, up 5% from the previous seven days, a Reuters analysis found. Nearly 142,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, a toll that experts warn will likely surge following recent record spikes in case numbers and an alarming rise in hospitalizations in many states. While some of the increase in new cases can be attributed to more testing, hospitalizations, which are not tied to testing numbers, began to surge in late June as well.
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| Coronavirus updates: GOP senators consider $600 extension; US orders 100 million vaccine doses from Pfizer; California cases top NY Posted: 22 Jul 2020 03:52 PM PDT  The U.S. has placed an order for 100 million doses of a vaccine candidate being developed by Pfizer. Latest COVID-19 news.
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| Mike Pompeo said US intelligence shows the head of WHO was 'bought by the Chinese government,' according to reports Posted: 22 Jul 2020 04:56 AM PDT  Pompeo accused WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of being "bought" by China, in a private meeting with UK MPs.
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| Real estate is a seller's market as sales soar by 21 percent — but renters worry they will be left behind Posted: 22 Jul 2020 01:21 PM PDT  The coronavirus has made roomier homes with backyards in the suburbs more appealing — driving up prices and triggering bidding wars.
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| Uganda - where security forces may be more deadly than coronavirus Posted: 22 Jul 2020 04:54 PM PDT  No-one has died from Covid-19 in Uganda, but 12 people have allegedly been killed by security officers.
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| INDOPACOM head wants Aegis Ashore in Guam by 2026 Posted: 22 Jul 2020 09:44 AM PDT  The missile defense capability would form the "backbone" of Adm. Phil Davidson's highest priority: a new defense system around the American territory.
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| NYT Reporter: Intel Officials Believe Russians Using Hunter Biden Allegations to Distract from Election Interference Posted: 22 Jul 2020 11:10 AM PDT  New York Times reporter Julian Barnes implied on Tuesday that some intelligence officials believe that the Kremlin is fanning corruption allegations against Joe Biden's son Hunter in order to "obscure" Russia's ongoing election interference attempts.During an MSNBC interview, host Nicole Wallace referred to Russian disinformation campaigns that she said appear to have "infected" the House Intelligence Committee, asking Barnes, "What access to any information or briefings do Democrats really have?""Russia uses these disinformation campaigns to deflect from what they did in 2016," Barnes, who reports on national security for the Times, responded. "A lot of intelligence officials believe the sort of Burisma accusations that are being revived are once again trying to obscure what Russia is up to."On Monday, top congressional Democrats led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi released a letter alleging a foreign disinformation campaign aimed at influencing the 2020 presidential election and interfering with Congress. The letter included few specifics, but Democrats demanded an FBI briefing to warn members of Congress about the threat. Officials familiar with an addendum to the letter said it referred to a potential Russian attempt to harm Biden's presidential campaign, Barnes reported for the Times.Barnes continued that he believes Democrats published the letter because "the only remedy that really works is the resilience of a population, and a population can only be resilient if they know what's going on. So much of this stuff is secret, falls into bitter, partisan divisions, but it's important for voters not to be affected by the disinformation campaign, and that requires talking about it, putting some of this stuff out in the open, realizing when it is being done to the American public."Hunter Biden was appointed to Burisma's board in 2014 while his father was vice president and resigned from the board in April of last year.During a July 25 phone call with Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, President Trump asked Zelensky to help his administration investigate allegations that Biden used his position as vice president to help Burisma avoid a corruption probe soon after his son was appointed to the board— a controversy that became the focal point of the impeachment probe against Trump.In spring, 2016, Biden called on Ukraine to fire the prosecutor who had been investigating the energy company paying his son. The vice president threatened to withdraw $1 billion in U.S. military aid to Ukraine if the country did not fire the prosecutor, who was accused by the State Department and U.S. allies in Europe of being soft on corruption.
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| Cigarette butt helps solve 35-year-old murder cold case Posted: 21 Jul 2020 05:02 AM PDT  A man has been charged with murder in a case spanning more than three decades thanks to the DNA on a cigarette butt.Prosecutors on Monday submitted a first-degree murder charge against Oklahoma inmate Earl Wilson for the 1985 death of Paul Aikman.
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| Pentagon resumes rare earths funding program after review Posted: 21 Jul 2020 03:06 PM PDT  The Pentagon on April 22 awarded Australia's Lynas Corp and privately held MP Materials funding for rare earths separation facilities in Texas and California, respectively. Reuters reported in late April that a Chinese company's minority stake in MP Materials, which owns the only U.S. rare earths mine and is majority-controlled by a Chicago hedge fund, had prompted concerns from U.S. government scientists.
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| China's top COVID-19 vaccine candidate showed weak results among older Phase II test subjects Posted: 21 Jul 2020 03:40 AM PDT  China's CanSino Biologics reported preliminary results of its Phase II COVID-19 vaccine trial Monday, and there was promising news. But it was overshadowed by the results of the Oxford University-AstraZeneca vaccine, also published Monday in the journal The Lancet. Both vaccines, among the top contenders in the global race for a coronavirus immunization drug, produced strong immune responses with only minor side effects, but older trial participants showed significantly weaker responses in the CanSino trial, suggesting two doses may be needed.CanSino's vaccine appears "pretty weak compared to other vaccine candidates (to the extent that comparisons are possible)," said Prof. John Moore at Weill Cornell Medical School. However, comparing the immune response among different vaccines is tricky, he added, "like judging a beautiful baby photo contest when every mom uses a different Instagram filter."The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and CanSino's candidate both use genetically deactivated adenoviruses that mimic the new coronavirus and stimulate an immune response. But while Oxford's vaccine uses an adenovirus found in chimps, CanSino relies on an adenovirus that causes the common cold in humans. Monday's CanSino study "revealed that people who had previously been exposed to the cold virus showed weaker immune responses to the coronavirus vaccine — presumably because their immune systems zeroed in on the familiar component of the vaccine, the weakened cold virus, rather than SARS-CoV-2," Politico explains.CanSino and Oxford-AstraZeneca already have large-scale Phase III trials underway to judge their vaccines' efficacy, and CanSino's is the only COVID-19 vaccine approved for use, though approval is limited to China's military. Monday's reports show that "each of these vaccines is worth taking all the way through to a Phase III study," Dr. Peter Jay Hotez, a vaccine researcher at the Baylor College of Medicine, tells The New York Times. "That is it. All it means is 'worth pursuing.'"More stories from theweek.com CNN's Brianna Keilar cuts off live interview with 'lying' Trump campaign official 39 Miami police officers to form mask enforcement unit Serena Williams' 2-year-old daughter is now the youngest owner in pro sports
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| Another Fort Hood soldier found dead, the fourth this year near Texas post Posted: 22 Jul 2020 10:10 AM PDT  Pvt. Mejhor Morta, 26, is one of at least four Fort Hood soldiers whose bodies were found near the post this year.
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| Kellyanne Conway rewrites the history of Trump's call to 'liberate' states from lockdowns and claims certain governors 'blew past' his recommendations Posted: 22 Jul 2020 02:34 PM PDT  The president insisted in April that he had "total" authority to order states to reopen and used his bully pulpit to pressure states to do so.
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| Scientists report that airborne coronavirus is probably infectious Posted: 22 Jul 2020 02:03 AM PDT  Scientists have known for several months the new coronavirus can become suspended in microdroplets expelled by patients when they speak and breathe, but until now there was no proof that these tiny particles are infectious. A new study by scientists at the University of Nebraska that was uploaded to a medical preprint site this week has shown for the first time that SARS-CoV-2 taken from microdroplets, defined as under five microns, can replicate in lab conditions. This boosts the hypothesis that normal speaking and breathing, not just coughing and sneezing, are responsible for spreading COVID-19 -- and that infectious doses of the virus can travel distances far greater than the six feet (two meters) urged by social distancing guidelines.
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| Nazi eagle in Uruguay auction 'should go to museum' Posted: 22 Jul 2020 07:53 AM PDT  A US Holocaust centre warns that a bronze eagle in Uruguay could be bought by white supremacists.
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| China vows revenge after U.S. orders consulate in Houston to close Posted: 22 Jul 2020 06:31 AM PDT  China is vowing retaliation after the U.S. ordered Beijing to close its consulate in Houston. China received the order on Tuesday, before reports that someone was burning documents in the courtyard of the consulate. The U.S. said the facility was ordered closed "to protect American intellectual property and Americans' private information."
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| Top Admiral in Pacific Defends Decision to Send Navy Carrier to Vietnam Posted: 22 Jul 2020 06:42 AM PDT  Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday told reporters last month that Davidson's decision to go into port was "sound."
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| The lawyer accused of attacking a federal judge's family in New Jersey is also a suspect in another fatal shooting, FBI says Posted: 22 Jul 2020 12:21 PM PDT  Roy Den Hollander carried out both attacks in July disguised as a delivery driver, a law enforcement official told the Associated Press.
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| Ethiopian Airlines cargo plane catches fire at Shanghai airport, no casualties Posted: 22 Jul 2020 03:16 AM PDT  An Ethiopian Airlines' Boeing 777 cargo plane caught fire while loading cargo at Shanghai Pudong International Airport on Wednesday, the airline said, adding that fire has been contained and none of the crew or ground staff were harmed. The cause of the incident was under investigation, Ethiopian Airlines said in a Facebook post. The aircraft was on a regular scheduled cargo service from Shanghai to Sao Paulo-Santiago, it added.
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| US hits Chinese companies with sanctions over alleged human rights abuses of Uighur Muslims Posted: 21 Jul 2020 01:33 AM PDT  The Trump administration has imposed trade sanctions on 11 Chinese companies complicit in human rights abuses against Uighur Muslims in the country's northwest.Monday's announcement increases pressure on Beijing over Xinjiang, where Muslim minorities are believed to have faced mass detentions, forced labour and other abuses.
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| Fact check: COVID-19 not falling below 'epidemic threshold' in near future Posted: 22 Jul 2020 11:36 AM PDT  The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread and worsen, despite some claims that recent statistics show the threat is going away.
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| A new survey found that 53% of Bay Area tech workers are concerned they'll be laid off as the tech industry continues to be hit hard by the coronavirus crisis Posted: 22 Jul 2020 10:54 AM PDT  The tech industry has been hit hard in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, with major tech firms like Uber, Airbnb, and Lyft laying off workers.
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| Tom Cotton and Ted Cruz may have just provided a glimpse into potential 2024 GOP primaries Posted: 22 Jul 2020 10:20 AM PDT  Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) presented very different views on how the Republican Party should handle debt going forward during a private lunch, which The Washington Posts suggests may have been a brief preview of the 2024 GOP primary.Cruz warned his colleagues against spending too much on the next round of coronavirus relief funding, claiming voters could rebel in November if the national debt keeps rising, the Post reports. "What in the hell are we doing?," he reportedly asked.But Cotton reportedly took the opposite stance, arguing the party needs to rack up debt if it wants to retain power. He reportedly made the case that spending big now would save money in the long run, because if Republican voters turn on the party for not protecting them during the economic crisis, Democrats will win back the Senate and spend more over a longer period of time.While this particular battle might look different by 2024, the Post notes that both Cruz and Cotton have aspirations of succeeding President Trump as the next Republican president and ideological squabbles like this will likely increase over the next couple of years between prominent members of the party. Read more at The Washington Post.More stories from theweek.com Pompeo tried to shake hands with a bunch of foreign leaders. They all turned him down. Joe Biden claims Trump is the first racist president. Critics point out other presidents owned slaves. Trump declares war on America
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| National Parks Are Getting Trashed During COVID-19, Endangering Surrounding Communities Posted: 22 Jul 2020 12:19 PM PDT  National parks across the country are seeing an influx of first-time visitors who are leaving litter and refusing to social distance.
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