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Kamala Harris, shattering racial and gender barriers, makes history as first woman vice president

Posted: 07 Nov 2020 08:40 AM PST

Kamala Harris, shattering racial and gender barriers, makes history as first woman vice presidentSen. Kamala Harris made history three times Saturday as the first woman, first Black person and first Asian American to be elected to the vice presidency, according to the Associated Press, which called the race.


California students say they're 'deeply disappointed' after voters cast ballots against affirmative action

Posted: 08 Nov 2020 08:16 AM PST

California students say they're 'deeply disappointed' after voters cast ballots against affirmative action"It would have been a game-changer in increasing diversity and representation at UC," one student from UCLA said of the rejected Proposition 16.


Texas dog accidentally shoots owner after its paw got stuck in trigger of gun, tucked in the man's waistband

Posted: 08 Nov 2020 06:03 AM PST

Texas dog accidentally shoots owner after its paw got stuck in trigger of gun, tucked in the man's waistbandPolice said the dog owner had a lucky escape as the bullet passed clean his leg.


Biden: ‘We’re going to win this race with a clear majority of the nation behind us’

Posted: 06 Nov 2020 08:28 PM PST

Biden: 'We're going to win this race with a clear majority of the nation behind us'

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden addressed the nation on Friday as his growing lead in the presidential election's key battleground states appeared to have placed him on the path to victory.


Third World War a 'risk', the head of the military warns, as he calls on Government for long-term funding

Posted: 08 Nov 2020 09:55 AM PST

Third World War a 'risk', the head of the military warns, as he calls on Government for long-term fundingThere is a "risk" of a Third World War due to growing global uncertainty, the head of the military has warned, as he called on the Government to commit to "long term" funds for the armed forces. General Sir Nick Carter said that the increase in regional conflicts playing out across the world could ramp up into a "full-blown war". The Chief of the Defence Staff said that the world was a "very uncertain and anxious place" during the coronavirus pandemic and suggested that "you could see escalation lead to miscalculation". "We have to remember that history might not repeat itself but it has a rhythm and if you look back at the last century, before both world wars, I think it was unarguable that there was escalation which led to the miscalculation which ultimately led to war at a scale we would hopefully never see again," Sir Nick said. He told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday that the military also needed long-term investment from the Treasury in order to deliver on "modernisation". It comes after reports of a clash between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor on the issue of defence spending. Boris Johnson is said to have called for a £15 billion package of funding until 2025 while Rishi Sunak is in favour of a one year settlement worth £1.9 billion as part of the spending review. However, Sir Nick said negotiations with Downing Street and the Treasury were "going in a very constructive way". Confirming he would be seeking a multi-year package, he said: "Clearly we're going to argue for something like that because we need long-term investment because long-term investment gives us the opportunity to have confidence in modernisation."


Storm Eta hits Cuba after devastating Central America

Posted: 08 Nov 2020 07:35 AM PST

Storm Eta hits Cuba after devastating Central AmericaThe US National Hurricane Center warns of "significant, life-threatening" flooding in Cuba.


Israel’s missile defense chief on weapons collaboration with the US

Posted: 08 Nov 2020 05:00 PM PST

Israel's missile defense chief on weapons collaboration with the USHypersonics, lasers and missile interceptors are among the projects that America and Israel may work on as a team.


Lots of finger pointing as Honolulu rail runs out of money

Posted: 08 Nov 2020 07:24 AM PST

Lots of finger pointing as Honolulu rail runs out of moneySusan Galicha can see Honolulu's rail cars being tested on elevated tracks just minutes from her home. The rail line — one of the nation's most expensive per capita — may have to end a long way from both downtown and the hotel district in a nondescript light industrial area featuring a bus depot and a highway interchange. The latest cost estimate for the 20-mile (32-kilometer) rail line is $9.1 billion — nearly double the $5.5 billion budgeted at the time of the project's 2011 groundbreaking.


Trump lost — so what happens to the GOP?

Posted: 07 Nov 2020 09:42 AM PST

Trump lost — so what happens to the GOP?The question of what happens to the Republican Party after the Trump presidency is not one that will be resolved by think tanks, symposiums or tidy theories. The most devoted and intense Republican partisans who vote reliably in primary elections will be the tail that wags the dog.


Jill Biden: Who is America’s next First Lady?

Posted: 07 Nov 2020 09:04 AM PST

Jill Biden: Who is America's next First Lady?For Dr Biden, who has four university degrees, says she plans on continuing to work full time as a community college professor even if her husband becomes the world's most powerful politician. If that plays out Dr Biden, who has five grandchildren, would become the first first lady to to have a career outside of the White House. "If we get to the White House, I'm gonna continue to teach," she told CBS News.


A televangelist who referred to the coronavirus as a 'privilege' has died from it

Posted: 07 Nov 2020 07:42 PM PST

A televangelist who referred to the coronavirus as a 'privilege' has died from it"This coronavirus may be a privilege, because I'll tell you right now, there is a much bigger judgment coming," televangelist Irvin Baxter once said.


Kamala Harris' Indian ancestral village celebrates her victory as she becomes Vice President of the United States

Posted: 08 Nov 2020 09:24 AM PST

Kamala Harris' Indian ancestral village celebrates her victory as she becomes Vice President of the United StatesThulasendrapuram, population 350, was the Indian home of Harris' maternal grandfather, P.V. Gopalan.


Letters to the Editor: Why oppose affirmative action? Obama explained it well

Posted: 07 Nov 2020 03:00 AM PST

Letters to the Editor: Why oppose affirmative action? Obama explained it wellIn his 2008 speech on race, then-candidate Obama explained why both Black people and white people feel dehumanized.


Cedric Richmond says "defund the police" cost Democrats seats in the House

Posted: 08 Nov 2020 07:45 AM PST

Cedric Richmond says "defund the police" cost Democrats seats in the HouseDemocrats will maintain their majority in the House, but lost seats this election.


Queen returns to London for private tribute to the fallen

Posted: 07 Nov 2020 10:07 AM PST

Queen returns to London for private tribute to the fallenIt was 97 years ago that her mother, then Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, laid her wedding bouquet on the grave of the Unknown Warrior. Almost a century later, this poignant gesture cannot have been far from the Queen's mind as she took part in an intensely personal and emotional service at the sacred tomb in Westminster Abbey. The monarch paid a private tribute to the fallen during a brief service held at her own request. Returning to London for the first time since March, the Queen, dressed in black and wearing a face mask for the first time, designed by Angela Kelly, was in good spirits, chatting animatedly to the Dean of the Abbey beforehand. Yet as she stood in sombre reflection at the poppy-lined grave in the centre of the cavernous Abbey, the monarch appeared lost in thought as she paid her own tribute.


States will eventually abolish the Electoral College. Here's why (and how).

Posted: 07 Nov 2020 03:00 AM PST

States will eventually abolish the Electoral College. Here's why (and how).The National Popular Vote would finally eliminate the false premise that the construction of our Electoral College was meant to protect small states.


Rep. Jim Jordan on election 'misconduct'

Posted: 07 Nov 2020 07:26 AM PST

Rep. Jim Jordan on election 'misconduct'Republican Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan reacts to the latest on the election on 'Fox & Friends Weekend.'


Biden Camp: AOC Won’t Be Disappointed by ‘Incredibly Progressive and Aggressive’ Agenda

Posted: 08 Nov 2020 09:42 AM PST

Biden Camp: AOC Won't Be Disappointed by 'Incredibly Progressive and Aggressive' AgendaThe Biden team is promising that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) will not be disappointed by the president-elect's "incredibly progressive and aggressive agenda" once he takes office.Asked by NBC host Chuck Todd whether the New York progressive would be "disappointed or not when she sees the agenda of the Biden administration in the first six months," Biden's campaign communications director Kate Bedingfield answered in the negative."No. I think that Vice President Biden campaigned on an incredibly progressive and aggressive agenda," Bedingfield responded Sunday on NBC. "Take a look, for example, at his climate plan. It's the boldest, biggest climate plan that's ever been put forward by a nominee running for president and now a president-elect. He's going to make good on those commitments. He spent time during this campaign bringing people together around this climate plan.""It's a big, aggressive plan," she continued. "It's the perfect example of the kind of big effort that he is going to make to meet this moment and meet these crises we're in."Ocasio-Cortez expressed frustration in a New York Times interview published Saturday, several days after the general election, that Democrats frequently fail to keep their more progressive promises after they win elections.The Democratic party has been "extremely hostile to anything that even smells progressive," the 31-year-old self-described "democratic socialist" lamented told the Times.Democrats "learned that progressive policies do not hurt candidates," she declared, adding that "sponsoring the Green New Deal was not a sinker."In a CNN interview on Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez said she believes Biden won the election in part because he worked to unify progressives and more moderate members of the Democratic Party.


Prayers of gratitude for election of 'daughter of India' Harris as U.S. Vice President

Posted: 08 Nov 2020 02:06 AM PST

Prayers of gratitude for election of 'daughter of India' Harris as U.S. Vice PresidentIndians burst firecrackers on Sunday and offered prayers of gratitude over the election of Kamala Harris as the next U.S. vice president, declaring it a proud moment for Indian-Americans. Harris, born to an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, both of whom immigrated to the United States to study, made history by becoming the first woman to win election to the post. At her ancestral village in southern India, about 14,000 km (8,700 miles) from Washington D.C., children clutched posters of Harris as people gathered at a Hindu temple to thank the gods for the victory that she and President-elect Joe Biden won.


Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Several Others Have COVID

Posted: 06 Nov 2020 08:12 PM PST

Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Several Others Have COVIDWhite House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has contracted COVID-19—weeks after an outbreak infected a slew of Trumpworld figures, including the president.Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson and Trump campaign aide Nick Trainer have also tested positive, according to Bloomberg. At least two other White House staffers are also ill, according to multiple media reports.The news comes just two weeks after Meadows shockingly admitted on television that the Trump administration has decided it is "not going to control the pandemic."And it broke on a day that the United States set a new record for coronavirus cases, tallying another 122,000 positive tests as hospitalizations soar.As The Daily Beast has reported, Meadows has aggressively shunned masks and has mocked others for taking precautions in the midst of a pandemic that has killed more than 230,000 Americans."You guys, with all your masks... You look very different than you used to," he snarked at reporters trying to ask him questions as he walked—maskless—indoors with Jared Kushner in June.> White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, to reporters: "You guys, with all your masks... You look very different than you used to." > @politico's @JakeSherman: "We're just trying not to die." > pic.twitter.com/aD7KvgHNLH> > — David Gura (@davidgura) June 9, 2020White House journalists have identified Meadows as one of the administration officials they feel is endangering the health of those around him."It's absolutely outrageous," one prominent correspondent told the Daily Beast last month."They have literally put lives in jeopardy, they have put people's health in jeopardy—there's no other way to describe it when you have multiple White House staffers getting sick with COVID and they're still not taking precautions. I don't know how else to describe it other than it's just reckless and shows a lack of regard for other human beings—especially the press."Mark Meadows Might Be the Second Most 'Reckless' Man in the White HouseMeadows has even questioned the effectiveness of masks, even though scientific studies have proven they slow the spread of the virus."If masks is the panacea for everything, if that's the way that we open back our economy and get everybody back to work, I will gladly wear my mask each and every day if that's what makes the difference. And it doesn't," he said in September.When COVID-19 broke out in Vice President Mike Pence's office last month, Meadows reportedly tried to keep it secret. Pressed about that, he tried to justify it by saying that he did not believe "sharing personal information is something we should do."His illness was announced the night before Joe Biden was declared the 46th president of the United States and just moments after the former vice president addressed the nation about the status of vote-counting and spoke movingly about the toll the coronavirus had exacted in the last eight months.Bloomberg reported that Meadows was with Trump at campaign headquarters on Tuesday and was back on Wednesday. He was not wearing a mask either time.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.


AOC said she might quit politics, as some centrist Democrats blame progressives for House losses, NYT says

Posted: 07 Nov 2020 08:01 PM PST

AOC said she might quit politics, as some centrist Democrats blame progressives for House losses, NYT says"I don't even know if I want to be in politics," she told The New York Times. She said the Democratic party has been hostile to progressive causes.


Beijing loyalists target Hong Kong judges after protester acquittals

Posted: 07 Nov 2020 07:04 PM PST

Beijing loyalists target Hong Kong judges after protester acquittalsThe acquittal of dozens of Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters -– often accompanied by withering court criticism of police –- has triggered a backlash from Beijing loyalists demanding an overhaul of a judicial system long known for its independence.


I saw Donald Trump’s presidency come crashing down at Four Seasons Total Landscaping

Posted: 08 Nov 2020 10:54 AM PST

I saw Donald Trump's presidency come crashing down at Four Seasons Total LandscapingIt ended with his personal lawyer in the parking lot of a landscaping company, struggling to be heard over a man in his underpants shouting about George Soros. The president had spent much of the intervening period making grave and entirely unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud, but even so he was unusually quiet. Journalists from around the world who had gathered in Philadelphia, most of whom had spent the last four days transfixed by moving maps on CNN, were eager for stimulation, and perhaps as a side note to see evidence of massive election fraud the president and his lawyers had alleged.


Three states pass amendments that 'only citizens' can vote

Posted: 07 Nov 2020 07:10 AM PST

Three states pass amendments that 'only citizens' can voteVoters in Colorado, Florida and Alabama passed ballot measures Tuesday that codify what is already law: That only U.S. citizens 18 and older can vote. The amendments passed overwhelmingly in all three states, including by a nearly 8-to-1 ratio in Alabama and Florida. Before the 2020 election, North Dakota and Arizona were the only state constitutions that specified non-citizens could not vote in state or local elections.


Joe Biden is only the fifteenth Vice President in history to become President

Posted: 07 Nov 2020 08:20 PM PST

Joe Biden is only the fifteenth Vice President in history to become PresidentBiden also is the second president ever to be elected not immediately following their term as vice president.


Bolivians decorate skulls with sunglasses and cigarettes to honor the dead

Posted: 08 Nov 2020 08:17 AM PST

Bolivians decorate skulls with sunglasses and cigarettes to honor the deadBolivians celebrated the Day of Skulls over the weekend, a colorful tradition rooted in ancient indigenous beliefs that is meant to bring good fortune and protection by honoring the dead. Known as "ñatitas," the skulls are decorated and paraded to the cemetery a week after All Saints Day. The festival this year coincides with the inauguration of Bolivia's new President Luis Arce, which caps a turbulent year for the Andean country that has been rattled over the last year by political upheaval and the coronavirus pandemic.


Army, Marines Want New Machine Guns to Replace the M240 and 'Ma Deuce'

Posted: 07 Nov 2020 11:56 PM PST

Young murder victim helps solve her own cold case

Posted: 07 Nov 2020 08:09 PM PST

Young murder victim helps solve her own cold caseThe 1979 case of a murdered 18-year-old baffled local police officers for decades, until they got a break from evidence Michelle Martinko left behind.


I visited a Delta's airport lounge during the pandemic and couldn't believe how luxurious and close to normal the experience was

Posted: 08 Nov 2020 05:04 AM PST

I visited a Delta's airport lounge during the pandemic and couldn't believe how luxurious and close to normal the experience wasDelta has kept most of the luxuries in its Sky Clubs including a full-service bar, hot food buffet, and near-endless spread of snacks and fresh food.


A 73-year-old Texas man was accused of stealing posts from 'hundreds' of political campaign signs for 3 years, police say

Posted: 08 Nov 2020 12:32 PM PST

A 73-year-old Texas man was accused of stealing posts from 'hundreds' of political campaign signs for 3 years, police sayThe Collin County Sheriff Office said "Republican, Democrat, and Independent have had hundreds of T-posts holding their campaign signs stolen."


Hundreds of African migrants reach Canary Islands

Posted: 08 Nov 2020 07:09 AM PST

Hundreds of African migrants reach Canary IslandsMore than 1,600 African migrants have landed on Spain's Canary Islands over a two-day period, a rate last seen a decade ago, emergency services said. The body of one person who had died during the perilous journey was recovered by rescuers in waters near the island of El Hierro, the Canary Islands emergency services said. Another person was airlifted by helicopter to a local hospital for an unspecified health problem. More than 1,000 arrived Saturday alone on the islands of Gran Canaria, Tenerife and El Hierro, after setting out on around 20 barely seaworthy craft, a spokeswoman for the Canary services told AFP.


'It's a slaughter,' doctors say of new coronavirus wave

Posted: 07 Nov 2020 07:25 AM PST

'It's a slaughter,' doctors say of new coronavirus waveCoronavirus hospitalizations have been rapidly climbing, leading to concerns that we may once more see what we saw over the spring and early summer: crowded intensive care units, overwhelmed hospitals, deaths that could have been prevented.


Couple who waved guns at St Louis protesters sue news photographer

Posted: 08 Nov 2020 01:55 PM PST

Couple who waved guns at St Louis protesters sue news photographerA St Louis couple facing felony charges for waving guns at Black Lives Matter protesters who marched near to their home have alleged that a photographer trespassed onto their property to capture the confrontation. Mark and Patricia McCloskey, who are both attorneys in their 60s, filed a lawsuit in the St Louis Circuit Court against photographer Bill Greenblatt and United Press International, who provided the photo for publications. The McCloskeys are also suing Redbubble, an online marketplace for print-on-demand products that has carried merchandise featuring the image of the couple.


Letters to the Editor: Joe Biden has won. Democracy just dodged a major bullet

Posted: 07 Nov 2020 09:38 AM PST

Letters to the Editor: Joe Biden has won. Democracy just dodged a major bulletThe election has been called. Joe Biden is the president-elect. Readers welcome is victory and say our democracy needs to heal now.


Officials report rampant fraud in Paycheck Protection Program

Posted: 08 Nov 2020 12:18 PM PST

Georgian police fire water cannon at protesters who say polls were rigged

Posted: 08 Nov 2020 08:11 AM PST

Georgian police fire water cannon at protesters who say polls were riggedDozens were injured when Georgian police fired water cannon against hundreds of protesters who gathered outside the Central Election Commission (CEC) on Sunday to support an opposition call for a rerun of Oct. 31 parliamentary elections which they say were rigged. Police said protesters tried to storm the CEC building. "As the protesters used violent methods and did not obey the instructions of the police, the Interior Ministry used proportional force within its powers," the ministry said in a statement.


Katharine the great white shark resurfaces off US east coast

Posted: 07 Nov 2020 08:16 AM PST

Katharine the great white shark resurfaces off US east coastTransmitter attached to dorsal fin of shark with Twitter following had not sent a definitive message for a year and a halfKatharine, a 14ft-plus great white shark with a Twitter following, appeared again off the US east coast this week. A transmitter attached to her dorsal fin had not sent out a definitive message for a year and a half.The transmitter that was attached off Cape Cod in August 2013 is roughly half the size of an iPhone and is meant to ping whenever the shark breaks the ocean surface.Great whites can go for long periods without surfacing. Katharine did so off South Carolina in May 2019, according to a map maintained by Ocearch, the group tracking her. This spring, Ocearch said it thought Katharine might have been heard from "about 200 miles off the coast of Virginia". But on Monday, the group said she had definitely been recorded, hundreds of miles off the same state.In a post to the Ocearch Facebook page, Dr Bryan Franks of Jacksonville University wrote: "Katharine is alive and well … Katharine pinged in multiple times yesterday, confirming it was not a fluke."Tags used on Atlantic white sharks "normally only send data to us for five years", Franks said, which meant it was "very unusual for us to hear from a shark for this length of time, and it's exactly the type of data that we are looking for to help put together the puzzle pieces or her life, and other [north-west] Atlantic great white sharks like her."Katharine showed movement patterns indicative of being a reproductively mature female white shark with trips during some winters out into the open ocean."Her tracks over the past seven years up and down the coast from Cape Cod to Florida and with long forays to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and the offshore Atlantic, may cover the movements of two or three cycles of pregnancy and birth of her pups."She has already provided an incredible dataset with more than 1,700 locations, covering 37,000 miles of ocean since the day she was tagged. It will be fascinating to see where her next moves may be."Some have criticised Ocearch's use of social media to publicise their work. Others point out that it raises the profile of a vital conservation effort.Katharine was named for Katharine Lee Bates, the 19th-century lyricist who wrote America the Beautiful. After the shark resurfaced at an ugly time for American democracy, her Twitter account began tweeting again."Miss me?" Katharine asked her 62,000 followers, adding, in reference to the coronavirus pandemic: "So everyone knows YES I was wearing a mask when I came up."In response to a user who suggested she had resurfaced in time for the presidential election, she wrote: "I mean. I was chasing a fish, but I'll roll with it."On Friday, with the election result stuck in a midnight zone of vote counting and partisan warfare, she added: "Safe to come up again? Ya'll are having a crazy week up there."In fact, Katharine is not the most popular great white on Twitter. An account for a shark called Mary Lee has 132,000 followers. According to Ocearch, her transmitter has not pinged since June 2017.


DOJ Paralegal Leaked Informant Names to Drug Traffickers Who Outed Them on ‘Haterz & Snitches’ FB Page

Posted: 07 Nov 2020 08:04 AM PST

DOJ Paralegal Leaked Informant Names to Drug Traffickers Who Outed Them on 'Haterz & Snitches' FB PageAn Iowa paralegal working for the Department of Justice admitted to illegally revealing the identities of at least two cooperating witnesses in a federal drug trafficking investigation, providing the highly-sensitive information to someone who subsequently posted the informants' names, addresses, and phone numbers to a "stop snitching" Facebook page with nearly 10,000 members.Danielle N. Taff, 37, pleaded guilty Friday to one count of computer fraud. She was a contractor in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Iowa between June 2017 and June 2018.Taff is from Ankeny and, according to a Facebook page that appears to belong to her, has three children and a soft spot for Jesus, reality TV, and morel mushrooms.In early 2018, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Iowa Department of Narcotics Enforcement opened an investigation into a meth trafficking ring operating in Iowa and Arizona, according to court filings. Confidential reports, records, and documentation used by investigators was stored on a shared computer drive maintained by the U.S. Attorney's Office.The data was kept in a sub-folder named after the lead defendant in the case, and getting to it required some effort, said investigators. That May, Taff accessed the shared drive and pulled up a chemical analysis report, a search warrant, and transcripts of interviews between law enforcement and two individuals assisting the feds. Taff then used her cell phone to take some 30 pictures of the documents on her monitor.Taff "had no official, work-related reason" to view the non-public records, said prosecutors, "nor was she authorized to access them. In order to access them, the defendant searched through multiple layers of folders and subfolders, all of which were located under a parent folder for criminal files."She then met two friends for lunch, identified in court filings as "Person 1" and "Person 2." Taff showed the pair the photos, and let Person 1 take pictures of them. Later, Person 1 contacted Taff on Facebook Messenger, saying that they "forgot" to photograph one of the documents Taff had. She went to see Person 1, who got the shot they said they needed.Person 1 subsequently shared the pictures with nine more people, outing the two cooperating witnesses as "snitches." A few months after that, 27 of the 30 photos Taff took showed up on the "des moines haterz & snitches" Facebook group—a private group boasting 9,900 members. "Exposing the truth n keepin it real," the group's description page says.Taff at first told investigators that Person 1 photographed the images on her phone without permission while she was in the bathroom. She later admitted this wasn't true.The government's case was delayed for more than a year after the witnesses' names were exposed.Taff, who is free on bond pending sentencing, faces up to five years behind bars. Her attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.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.


French moderate imam requests extra police protection amid death threats over support for Macron

Posted: 08 Nov 2020 06:06 AM PST

French moderate imam requests extra police protection amid death threats over support for MacronOne of France's highest profile imams has appealed to President Emmanuel Macron for increased police protection after receiving "thousands" of death threats over his condemnation of terrorist attacks. Hassen Chalghoumi, imam of the Paris suburb of Drancy and a leading Muslim moderate, said he had received a torrent of new threats since he spoke out against the beheading of a French teacher last month. Mr Chalghoumi described Samuel Paty, the teacher murdered after showing his class cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, as a "martyr for freedom of expression, and a wise man who has taught tolerance, civilisation and respect for others". As president of the Conference of Imams of France, Mr Chalghoumi has worked to improve relations between Muslims and Jews. He supports France's ban on the face veil and has called for tolerance of caricatures of the prophet. The 48-year-old Tunisian-born imam has lived under police guard since Islamic State called for his "execution" following the 2015 Paris attacks. He now believes the danger has risen sharply with the surge in threats on social media. An Arabic post on Twitter said: "We urge true Muslims of France to allow Chalghoumi to join the history teacher and also become a martyr of the nation." Another post intercepted on the Telegram messaging service described Mr Chalghoumi as "your new target" and called on followers to "execute him because he is filthier than those French infidels".


GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw tells Marjorie Taylor Greene to 'start acting like a member of Congress'

Posted: 07 Nov 2020 11:01 AM PST

GOP Rep. Dan Crenshaw tells Marjorie Taylor Greene to 'start acting like a member of Congress'Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw tells Marjorie Taylor Greene that she's "a member of Congress now" and to "start acting like one" over election remarks.


AOC says she might quit politics: ‘I didn’t even know if I was going to run for re-election this year’

Posted: 08 Nov 2020 08:37 AM PST

AOC says she might quit politics: 'I didn't even know if I was going to run for re-election this year'Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said that she might quit politics if Democrats continue to be "hostile" towards progressive causes. In an interview with The New York Times, shortly after president-elect Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 election, AOC admitted that she wasn't even initially sure if she was going to run for reelection this year.


McCarthy: Republicans close enough to control House floor

Posted: 08 Nov 2020 09:24 AM PST

McCarthy: Republicans close enough to control House floorRep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., discusses ongoing legal battles of the election and Nancy Pelosi's bid for reelection as House speaker.


Gottlieb says Biden to take office at likely "apex" of coronavirus surge

Posted: 08 Nov 2020 09:25 AM PST

Gottlieb says Biden to take office at likely "apex" of coronavirus surgeGottlieb predicted the nation will see a record number of hospitalizations this week.


Coconuts and leaves are being accepted as tuition payment at a college in Bali, Indonesia, from students facing COVID-19 hardship

Posted: 08 Nov 2020 07:28 AM PST

Coconuts and leaves are being accepted as tuition payment at a college in Bali, Indonesia, from students facing COVID-19 hardshipStudents at Venus One Tourism Academy in Bali, Indonesia, pay tuition fees with coconuts, which the college uses to harvest virgin coconut oil.


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