
The claim: Trump said he would go to prison if Biden were elected president A claim that President Donald Trump stated he would go to prison if Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden wins the election appears to be a satirical take on current events. Facebook user Warren Lynch posted to the claim to his account on Aug. 12. If you elect Joe Biden, I will go to prison.

The public quickly reached its verdict: Minneapolis police killed George Floyd. Video seen around the world shows him on the pavement, his neck pinned beneath the knee of Officer Derek Chauvin, pleading for his life — "I can't breathe" — until his body goes limp. Chauvin was charged with murder and three other officers — Thomas Lane and Alexander Kueng, who both helped hold down Floyd, and Tou Thao, who kept onlookers at bay — were charged as accomplices.

The International Space Station is experiencing a "slightly increased" leakage of air, NASA said Thursday. NASA said the leak "presents no immediate danger to the crew or the space station" and is currently within normal operating limits. However, due to the new increase, two cosmonauts and an astronaut living aboard the ISS will spend this weekend inside a Russian module to help locate the source.

The claim: Vice President Mike Pence said he would not debate Kamala Harris The claim, posted by Facebook user Dixie DeKalb's account on Aug. 16, contradicts statements by Mike Pence about the upcoming vice-presidential debate in October. "Pence said he won't debate Kamala!" DeKalb wrote, but there is no reference to when or where Pence purportedly made this declaration.

Fox News' Sean Hannity might fawn over President Trump on the air, but according to a new report, he strikes a bit of a ... different ... tone in private. An excerpt from CNN reporter Brian Stelter's book Hoax published by Vanity Fair on Thursday delves into the Fox News host's relationship with Trump, whom he frequently hosts on his show for prime-time interviews. Hannity is one of the network's most ardent Trump loyalists, but Stelter quotes an associate as saying that when he's not on the air, he "would tell you, off-off-off the record, that Trump is a bats--- crazy person."

Since death row isn't an option for serial killer and rapist Joseph DeAngelo, his victims want him sent to the toughest possible prison in California to live in daily terror of other inmates. State corrections officials said they must make their own evaluation about where and how the man known as the Golden State Killer can be housed. Others have made similar recommendations during hearings that resume Thursday with testimony from loved ones of victims killed by DeAngelo.

A person who visited a bar during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally last week has tested positive for coronavirus, according to the South Dakota Health Department. The individual was at One Eyed Jack's Saloon on Main Street in Sturgis from noon to 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 11, the health department said in an Aug. 18 news release. “I don't think anyone saw the photos out of Sturgis and said, 'That looks safe.'” New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu said during a press briefing, according to the Washington Post.

Teams of federal and local authorities have made more than 1,000 arrests, including suspects in 90 homicides, as part of a national crackdown on violent crime in nine U.S. cities, Attorney General William Barr said Wednesday. Barr's announcement comes more than a month after the Trump administration launched the enforcement effort, known as Operation Legend. Last week, Kansas City, Missouri, authorities announced the arrest of a suspect in the slaying of LeGend Taliferro, a 4-year-old boy for whom the effort was named, after about 200 federal agents had been dispatched to the city.

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Right as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was wrapping up her speech on Wednesday night's Democratic National Convention, current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted a meme of Lisa Simpson ripping up a speech and sobbing — evidently a nod to Clinton's passing lament about losing to Trump while beating him by nearly three million votes. As Simpsons fans noted — again — this gif is from the episode where Lisa loses her civic religion.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Thursday money stolen by corrupt officials should be returned, a day after it emerged that a key witness in his battle against corruption had accused former presidents, ministers and lawmakers of graft. The president's demand came after a photocopy of a 63-page declaration by Emilio Lozoya, a former chief executive of national oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), began circulating in Mexican media on Wednesday. In the document, which was seen by Reuters, Lozoya accused ex-presidents Felipe Calderon and Carlos Salinas of corruption, along with former president Enrique Pena Nieto, his ex-finance minister, Luis Videgaray, and more than a dozen others.

U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy announced Thursday that he has tested positive for the coronavirus and is experiencing some COVID-19 symptoms. The Republican senator, 62, who is running for reelection on Nov. 3, is experiencing “mild symptoms that began this morning,” from COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus, his spokesperson Cole Avery said. Cassidy, a physician from Baton Rouge who regularly wears a mask when in public, said in a statement that he was tested after being notified Wednesday night that he'd been exposed to someone infected with the virus.
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Disapproval of President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic has reached a new high, according to a recent CNN poll. Fifty-eight percent of Americans disapprove of Trump's COVID-19 response and 55 percent say they think the worst is yet to come in the pandemic. People who know someone who's contracted the virus had increased from 40 percent from a CNN poll in June to 67 percent.

Former President Barack Obama just delivered an all-timer at the Democratic National Convention, according to CNN's Wolf Blitzer. Blitzer on Wednesday night discussed the "truly unprecedented moment" that was Obama tearing into President Trump in his searing DNC speech as someone who "hasn't grown into the job because he can't," while warning voters not to "let them take away your democracy." Blitzer's CNN colleagues agreed Obama's speech was a remarkable moment, with Jake Tapper also calling it "unprecedented," as "I don't know that this has happened anytime in the last half century."

A new rule forcing Germans to take their dog for a walk twice a day has unleashed a debate on whether the state can decide what is best for the country's 9.4 million pet canines. Agriculture Minister Julia Kloeckner announced this week she had taken expert advice and was introducing a law to ensure dogs go for a walk or run in the garden at least twice a day for a total of an hour. "Pets are not cuddly toys - their needs have to be considered," said Kloeckner, adding pets must get sufficient exercise and not be left alone for too long.

A Pakistani man charged with the killing of a U.S. citizen inside a court in the country's restive northwest has claimed he had an accomplice, a lawyer who managed to sneak the gun into the building and give it to him, the police said Thursday. The American, Tahir Naseem, was gunned down in public last month in the city of Peshawar where he was on trial for blasphemy following his arrest two years ago after he had allegedly declared himself Islam's prophet. The U.S. State Department said Naseem had been “lured to Pakistan” from his home in Illinois and entrapped by the country's controversial blasphemy law, which international rights groups have sought to have repealed.

Since Ghislaine Maxwell's arrest on charges of helping Jeffrey Epstein abuse underage girls, rumors have swirled about her ties to famous figures including Democratic power couple Bill and Hillary Clinton. On Tuesday, the Daily Mail published photos of former President Clinton receiving a neck massage from Chauntae Davies, one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims, during a stopover on his infamous 2002 trip to Africa with the deceased sex-trafficker. According to Davies, Maxwell was present for the voyage and encouraged Davies to give Clinton the massage.

A federal judge has dismissed Donald Trump's second attempt to block a criminal investigation into him by Manhattan prosecutor Cyrus Vance, who is seeking to subpoena eight years of the president's tax filings. "Under their theory of temporary absolute immunity, even if the President (presumably any president) while in office were to shoot a person in the middle of New York's Fifth Avenue, he or she would be shielded from law enforcement investigations and judicial proceedings of any kind, federal or state, until the expiration of the President's term," the federal judge wrote, denying the president's lawsuit motioning to end Mr Vance's investigation.

A strip of Venezuela's western coastline boasting pristine beaches and fragile ecosystems like mangroves and coral reefs could take more than half a century to fully recover from the environmental impacts of a recent oil spill, a researcher said on Wednesday. The country's opposition-controlled National Assembly last week opened an investigation to determine the causes and consequences of the oil slicks that began washing up on the Caribbean coast of western Falcon state in early August. "We project that the negative consequences on ecosystems and their components could last for 50 years or more," Julia Alvarez, a biologist with Venezuela's SVE ecological society, told reporters.

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Two Venezuelan nationals on a Learjet taxiing to a takeoff from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Saturday were charged with smuggling in Fort Lauderdale federal court on Monday. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the criminal complaint, agents found Luis Alberto Patino Linares and Gregori Jerson Mendez Palacios were about to take off with 18 assault/bolt action rifles with optics; six shotguns; 58 semi-automatic pistols; 63,000 rounds of ammunition; body armor; a firearm silencer/suppressor; $20,312 in U.S. cash; and $2,618.53 in endorsed checks. The criminal complaint says they were in the United States on B1/B2 non-immigrant visas, used for those visiting for business or tourism.

Saudi Arabia said Wednesday it would not follow the United Arab Emirates and establish diplomatic ties with Israel until the Jewish state had sealed a peace accord with the Palestinians. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan told reporters on a visit to Berlin that "peace must be achieved with the Palestinians" on the basis of international agreements as a condition for any normalisation of relations with Israel. The surprise Israel-UAE deal last week is only the third such accord Israel has struck with an Arab country, after Egypt and Jordan, and raises the prospect of similar accords with other pro-Western Gulf states.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he will push the United Nations to reimpose sweeping international sanctions against Iran – setting up a contentious fight with U.S. allies that could leave his administration more isolated than ever. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will travel to New York Thursday to formally trigger the process of trying to restore the sanctions, which were suspended under the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. For starters, the Trump administration withdrew the United States from the Iran deal two years ago – a move Trump has repeatedly touted.

A Maersk oil tanker has been anchored off the coast of Malta for two weeks after rescuing 27 migrants, including a child and a pregnant woman, with authorities in Malta and Tunisia denying the vessel entry, the company said on Wednesday. The crew of Maersk Etienne, an oil tanker owned by Denmark's Maersk Tankers, rescued the migrants following a request from Maltese officials on August 4, the company said. The migrants' wooden dinghy that had been at sea for days sank immediately after the rescue operation, according to Maersk Tankers.

“Harris brings an unusual blend of social justice progressiveness and law-and-order conservatism.”
“It's hard to imagine Trump-skeptical independents now aching to pull the trigger for Biden with Kamala on the ticket.”
“If Biden wishes, he can delegate the daily barrage of rebukes against his opponent to her. Biden now can rise above the fray.”
“Voters viewed her as among the most qualified to be president on Day 1 — a key positive.”
“Here’s a reality check: Running mates have very little direct effect on voters.”