- PoliticsPolitico
‘They let him get away with murder’: Dems tormented over how to stop Bernie
With Bernie Sanders gaining steam a week before the Iowa caucuses, tormented Democrats are second-guessing what they say was a hands-off strategy against the Vermont senator in the 2020 primary. They fear a repeat of 2016 is in the making — when mainstream Republicans scoffed at the idea that Donald Trump could ever win the nomination, until he became unstoppable — only this time from the left. The Republican money people were laughing at Trump when he came down the escalator and they kept laughing at him for way too long, until 'holy crap' he's winning primaries,” Matt Bennett, co-founder of Third Way told POLITICO.
- WorldBloomberg
China Demands Apology From Danish Newspaper Over Virus Cartoon
“We express our strong indignation and demand that Jyllands-Posten and [cartoonist] Niels Bo Bojesen reproach themselves for their mistake and publicly apologize to the Chinese people,” the embassy said in a statement posted on its website. When asked to comment, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen avoided any direct reference to Jyllands-Posten's cartoon. “I have nothing to say on the matter other than [to note that] we have a very strong tradition in Denmark not just for freedom of speech for also for freedom of satire, and we'll continue to have that in the future,” she said, according to multiple news media including Politiken.
- U.S.The Independent
South Carolina shooting: Two dead and four wounded after gunman opens fire in bar
Two people are dead and at least four are wounded following a shooting at a South Carolina bar on Sunday morning. The Darlington County Coroner's Office identified Dicaprio Collins, 21 and Bryan Robinson, 29 as the victims of the shooting at Mac's Lounge in Hartsville, South Carolina. Hartsville Police confirmed in a Monday morning Facebook post that they had two suspects in custody in connection with the shooting.
- U.S.Associated Press
Wildfire threatens homes on Australian capital's outskirts
A wildfire sparked by a military helicopter helping firefighting efforts was blazing out of control and threatening homes on the outskirts of Australia's capital on Tuesday as fire danger escalated across the country's southeast. The fire had spread over 8,000 hectares (19,000 acres) since it was started by a transport helicopter landing light that ignited grass in a national park south of Canberra on Monday afternoon, authorities said. The village of Tharwa was under threat with drifting embers starting spot fires ahead of the fire front.
- WorldCBS News
Wisconsin family trapped in Wuhan amid coronavirus outbreak
The United States will evacuate some Americans in Wuhan on a flight out of the quarantined city Wednesday morning as concern over the spread of the coronavirus continues. Sam Roth, a Wisconsin father, is doing everything he can to help get his family get out of Wuhan. Priority for the State Department's chartered flight out of Wuhan will be given to those at greatest risk, the government said.
- CelebrityBusiness Insider
Government records show that Kobe Bryant's helicopter used to be owned by the state of Illinois
Andrew D. Bernstein/NBA Classic/Getty Images The basketball legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, and seven other people were killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday. Bryant was known to get around using a private helicopter, most recently a Sikorsky S-76B. The helicopter was owned and operated by a company called Island Express, Federal Aviation Administration records show, and was previously owned by the state of Illinois. Visit Insider's homepage for more.
- U.S.The Guardian
British man dies in US immigration detention in Florida
A British man has died while being held in US immigration detention in Florida, the Guardian has confirmed. The death was first reported by BuzzFeed News, which said the man was 39 years old and that the cause was initially attributed to asphyxiation due to hanging. “Our staff are in contact with the US authorities following the death of a British man in Florida,” said a spokeswoman for the Foreign Office in London.
- StylePopular Mechanics
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WorldAFPHow the world discovered the Nazi death camps
Images of what the Allies found when they liberated the first Nazi death camps towards the end of World War II brought the horror of the Holocaust to global attention. Many of the ghastly pictures were at first held back from the broader public, partly out of concern for those with missing relatives. The concentration and extermination camps were liberated one by one as the Allied armies advanced on Berlin in the final days of the 1939-1945 war.
- U.S.National Review
Pro-Life Dem Confronts Buttigieg over Party’s Commitment to Abortion: ‘We Have No Part in the Party’
South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg was confronted by a pro-life Democratic voter over the party's position on abortion during a Fox News town hall event on Sunday. “I am a proud pro-life Democrat,” audience member Kristin Day said. “Would you support more moderate platform language [regarding abortion] in the Democratic Party to ensure that the party of diversity and inclusion really does include everybody?” Currently, the Democratic party platform supports abortion up to nine months into pregnancy.
WorldYahoo News VideoTaliban says it gunned down U.S. military plane in Afghanistan, killing all personnel onboard
The Taliban said it had shot down a U.S. military plane in the central Afghan province of Ghazni on Monday, killing all personnel onboard.
- CelebrityReuters
Weinstein accuser's ex-roommate backs up sexual assault allegation
The former roommate of Mimi Haleyi, one of the women who has accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, took the stand on Tuesday in the former Hollywood mogul's rape trial. Elizabeth Entin told jurors that Haleyi, visibly upset, told her in the summer of 2006 that Weinstein forced oral sex on her. "I said, 'Miriam, that sounds like rape,'" Entin testified, using Haleyi's full first name.
- WorldThe National Interest
A Dangerous Game: Russia and America Keep Flying Their Planes Near Each Other's Borders
U.S. Air Force F-22 stealth fighters and supporting aircraft on both days peacefully intercepted the Russian planes. The Russian bombers and fighters remained in international airspace and at no time did the aircraft enter United States or Canadian sovereign airspace,” North American Aerospace Defense Command reported. Two pairs of F-22s and an E-3 airborne early warning and control system from North American Aerospace Defense Command positively identified and intercepted a total of four Tupolev Tu-95 bombers and two Su-35 fighters entering the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone on May 20,” noted the command, which also is known by its Cold War acronym “NORAD.
- U.S.Associated Press
Man accused of killing estranged wife in critical condition
A Connecticut man charged with murdering his estranged and missing wife was rushed to the hospital and is in critical condition Tuesday after being found him in his garage in distress. Fotis Dulos was discovered when officers went to his house for a well-being check because he was late for a bond hearing in the case accusing him of murdering Jennifer Dulos, Farmington police Lt. Tim McKenzie told reporters. Officers converged on Dulos' stately home in Farmington on Tuesday, and confusion ensued because Dulos' attorney, Norm Pattis, and others initially said that he was dead.
U.S.Business InsiderThe helicopter that carried Kobe Bryant and 8 others before crashing on a hillside did not have a black box on board, investigators say
The helicopter that crashed while carrying Kobe Bryant and eight others on Sunday did not have a black box, officials from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced on Monday afternoon. The recording device was not required for the aircraft. NTSB board member Jennifer Homendy said the helicopter circled for 12 minutes while awaiting clearance from air traffic controllers.
- BusinessDefense News
Navistar loses lawsuit against US Army and Oshkosh over vehicle buys
The U.S. Court of Federal Claims has ruled in favor of the U.S. Army's decision to go with only one source for its Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles for more than 10 years, denying Navistar's lawsuit brought against the service and FMTV-maker Oshkosh Defense for not competitively procuring the vehicle. Following the Army's initial five-year contract to buy FMTVs from Oshkosh, the service chose a sole-source procurement route with the company, arguing it didn't have time to reopen competition because of urgent needs. Since 2009, the Army has spent more than $6 billion on FMTVs from Oshkosh.
WorldAFPHistorians unveil rare photos of Sobibor death camp
Hundreds of newly discovered photographs, including some taken at the Sobibor death camp, represent a "quantum leap" in research into Nazi crimes against humanity, historians at the Berlin museum Topography of Terror said Tuesday. Historians said the "exceptional collection" provided unprecedented insights into the Sobibor camp in German Nazi-occupied Poland, about which little is known even 75 years after the end of World War II. The trove, consisting of 361 black-and-white photos and several written documents, also includes photos believed to show convicted Nazi guard John Demjanjuk, who denied ever being at Sobibor.
- WorldThe Guardian
Canada's Chinese community faces racist abuse in wake of coronavirus
When Toronto resident Terri Chu tweeted that she and other Chinese mothers feared the “inevitable wave of racism” that would accompany the spread of coronavirus around the world, she didn't realize how visceral the reactions would be. Canada has so far seen three confirmed cases of the virus, which originated in China, but members of the country's Chinese community have already become the target of racism. What is the virus causing illness in Wuhan?
- PoliticsThe Independent
Trump impeachment: Rudy Giuliani was ‘spot on’, president’s lawyer tells Senate trial
Donald Trump's defence team has denied Rudy Giuliani was sent to Ukraine to do “a political errand” for the president, arguing the former New York mayor was “spot on” about corruption there and at home. The omission of any mention of Mr Giuliani as the Trump team spoke on Saturday for three hours, and then during its first two hours on Monday, was striking given the former New York City mayor's major role in the White House's Ukraine policy push. It fell to Jane Raskin, a lawyer who also represented Mr Trump during former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia election meddling investigation, to try to convince senators that Mr Giuliani was not sent to the Eastern European country to “dig up dirt” on US Democrats, including the Bidens.
- U.S.National Review
Biden-Tied Lobbyist Bought Island Property from Biden’s Brother, Gave Him Mortgage Loan
Financial records reviewed by Politico show that Joe Biden's brother James sold one of his three parcels of land in the U.S. Virgin Islands at a substantial profit to a well-connected lobbyist who then extended a mortgage to James on the remaining two parcels. In May 2005, James Biden purchased an acre of land on Water Island for $150,000. Green's lobbying firm, Lafayette Group — which features a photo of Green with Biden on its website and quotes Biden endorsing Green — earned two government contracts from the Federal Emergency Management Agency worth a total of $5.8 million on April 11, 2010.
- WorldReuters
Warning shots fired as migrants rush Serbia's border with Hungary
A Hungarian security officer fired three warning shots early on Tuesday after about 60 migrants tried to force their way through a checkpoint on the EU member state's southern border with Serbia, police said. Police said the group tried to enter the European Union at the Roszke crossing at about 0430 GMT, prompting the security officer on site to open fire. Prime Minister Viktor Orban subsequently ordered a steel fence erected along Hungary's frontier, curbing arrivals.
- WorldThe National Interest
The Israeli Army Is Unprepared for a Ground War with Iran and Hezbollah
The 319th Division, stationed in northern Israel, is short of equipment such as tanks, and the equipment it does have is in poor condition, according to an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) audit cited by Israeli news site Ynet. According to the audit's findings, 52 percent of combat vehicles are unfit for use and there is a 20 percent shortage of weapons and night-vision equipment for soldiers,” Ynet said. The auditors found that many armored vehicles were lacking during proper maintenance checks, with 68 of them sitting uncovered and unprotected against the elements.
- U.S.Associated Press
Indiana woman appealing conviction in fatal school bus crash
An Indiana woman convicted in a crash that killed three children who were crossing a highway to board a school bus is appealing her conviction, contending that the tragedy was “just an accident and not a crime, her attorney said Tuesday. A notice of appeal was filed Jan. 17 with the Indiana Court of Appeals on behalf of Alyssa Shepherd, 25, of Rochester. She was convicted in October by a Fulton County jury of three counts of reckless homicide, criminal recklessness and passing a school bus, causing injury.
- WorldBusiness Insider
5 million people left Wuhan before China quarantined the city to contain the coronavirus outbreak
Getty Images About 5 million people left Wuhan, China, before the lockdown last week, the city's mayor said Sunday. As of Monday, 81 people have died from Wuhan coronavirus, and more than 2,700 cases have been reported in mainland China. The virus has spread to 13 countries as well, with five confirmed cases in the US.
U.S.Yahoo News VideoSoldier killed, general wounded during Mexico drug plane raid
A Mexican soldier was killed and a general wounded Monday when traffickers opened fire on a military patrol that sought to intercept a drug plane as it landed on a roadway, officials said.
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