PoliticsYahoo News'They only care about votes': As millions slip into poverty, voting may be the only leverage for a 2nd stimulus check
O'Brien, like millions of Americans across the country, is now dependent on the government to help make ends meet with a second stimulus bill. Earlier this month President Trump called on Congress to pass additional coronavirus relief measures, hours after initially announcing that he was calling off negotiations until after the November election. The House & Senate should IMMEDIATELY Approve 25 Billion Dollars for Airline Payroll Support, & 135 Billion Dollars for Paycheck Protection Program for Small Business,” Trump tweeted on Oct. 6.
U.S.Business Insider'We are the ones your children have nightmares about': A Maryland man has been charged with threatening to kidnap and kill Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
A Maryland man has been arrested and charged with threatening to kidnap and former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate, California Sen. Kamala Harris, according to law enforcement officials. On October 4, James Dale Reed allegedly left a threatening note on the doorstep of a Frederick home whose resident had erected Biden-Harris campaign signs in the front yard, a criminal complaint said. "This is a warning to anyone reading this letter if you are a Biden/Harris supporter you will be targeted," the note read in part.
U.S.TheGrioTrump supporter launches furious rant at Starbucks barista
This week a Trump supporter went viral for all the wrong reasons after video surfaced of her yelling anti-Black Lives Matter rhetoric at a Starbucks barista in Santee, California. The clip – which was taken by a concerned customer – shows the agitated woman getting into a heated war of words with barista Alex Beckom, 19, after being politely asked her to wear the Trump 2020 mask under her chin, correctly over her face. Instead of leaving quietly, the woman then accused the coffee shop employee of discriminating against her for her political views as a supporter of the president.
U.S.The GuardianRevealed: ex-members of Amy Coney Barrett faith group tell of trauma and sexual abuse
Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the supreme court has prompted former members of her secretive faith group, the People of Praise, to come forward and share stories about emotional trauma and – in at least one case – sexual abuse they claim to have suffered at the hands of members of the Christian group. In the wake of the allegations, the Guardian has learned that the charismatic Christian organization, which is based in Indiana, has hired the law firm of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan to conduct an “independent investigation” into sexual abuse claims on behalf of People of Praise.
PoliticsUSA TODAYFact check: Biden leveraged $1B in aid to Ukraine to oust corrupt prosecutor, not to help his son
The claim: Joe Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion from Ukraine to assist his son, Hunter Biden While former Vice President Joe Biden oversaw foreign policy in Ukraine, his son Hunter Biden served on the board of Burisma Holdings, the largest gas company in the fledgling democracy. Despite a recently concluded investigation by Senate Republicans that found no wrongdoing by the Bidens, claims to the contrary have continued to circulate on social media. "VP Biden threatened to withhold 1 billion dollars from Ukraine to save his son's job," reads a meme posted to Facebook by Secure America Now.
PoliticsBusiness InsiderUS voters are receiving threatening emails from foreign servers warning them to vote Trump 'or we will come after you'
Registered voters in Florida and Alaska have received threatening emails purporting to be from a far-right US group telling them: 'Vote for Trump on Election Day or we will come after you. The emails, which were obtained by outlets including the New York Times and CNN, appeared to come from an email address linked to the Proud Boys, a far-right US group. But metadata reviewed by CNN and the New York Times indicated that the emails had been sent from foreign servers, and the group's chairman said the email is 'definitely not' from them.
LifestyleINSIDERAt least 10 bodies were found by researchers in a dig searching for victims of the Tulsa Race Massacre
At least 10 bodies were found in an unmarked grave in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as researchers continue the search for victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Riots. One set of human remains and possibly a second were found Tuesday at the city-owned Oaklawn Cemetery in north Tulsa, where the July excavation previously ended unsuccessfully. "We are still analyzing what has come out of the ground at this point in time, and so no, unfortunately we have not been able to assess the trauma at this point in time, or potential trauma," Oklahoma state archaeologist Kary Stackelbeck said.
PoliticsThe Independent'No way': Trump tells rally crowd he wouldn't have come if he wasn't down in the polls
Addressing a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump told his supporters that “there's no way” he would have bothered to campaign there – had it not been for the coronavirus pandemic hurting his re-election prospects. “Four or five months ago when we started this whole thing before the plague came in, I had made it, I wasn't coming to Erie,” said Mr Trump. Mr Trump said he had to return to battlegrounds like Pennsylvania because of the damage caused to the economy by the pandemic.
WorldThe IndependentOutrage among Hindu groups as Kamala Harris's niece shares image of her photoshopped as goddess
Hindu groups in the US have expressed outrage at a morphed photo of the Hindu goddess Durga with Kamala Harris's face, after it was shared online by the vice presidential candidate's niece. Meena Harris, who has been very active on social media with support for her aunt Kamala for the upcoming election, said in a tweet which has now been deleted: “I am speechless, other than to say that the first day of Navratri was LIT.” Navratri is a nine-day Hindu festival, which is currently being celebrated, to worship the feminine deity Durga.
PoliticsSalonMitch McConnell admits he's blocking coronavirus bill — will media finally stop blaming Democrats?
For months, Congress has failed to pass a coronavirus relief bill, despite the widespread economic devastation and the fact that, under Donald Trump's malicious mismanagement, the pandemic has spiraled out of control, infecting 8.25 million people and killing more than 220,000, as of Wednesday morning. The mainstream media has firmly decided who they blame for the lack of a bill: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats who control the lower house of Congress. Blaming Democrats has been the dominant press narrative, even though it's been obvious from the get-go that Republicans don't want more relief legislation.
U.S.Miami Herald‘She hit her face!’ Watch a Delta passenger smack a flight attendant on board plane
This one involved a flight attendant and a passenger. “Chasing Atlanta” star Lauryn England was on a Delta flight from Miami to Atlanta on Monday night when all hell broke loose in the aisle right before takeoff. England was just feet away from the action and took video of a fight between a female passenger and flight attendant.
PoliticsUSA TODAY OpinionSenate vote on Supreme Court nominee would toss a can of gasoline into heated election
If Judge Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court is approved Thursday by the Judiciary Committee and Monday by the full Senate, it will mark a milestone. For the first time in more than a century, the majority of the court's nine members will have been selected by presidents who reached the Oval Office by losing the popular vote. Also novel is that this nomination is being rammed through in the midst of a presidential election, against 230 years of precedent.
BusinessAssociated Press5 takeaways from the government's lawsuit against Google
The Justice Department's lawsuit against Google alleging antitrust violations marks the government's most significant attempt to protect competition since its groundbreaking case against Microsoft more than 20 years ago. The lawsuit claims Google has abused its dominance in online search and advertising to stifle competition and harm consumers. After years of hemming and hawing over the matter, the U.S. government has now formally described Google as an illegal monopolist.
CelebrityThe IndependentTwitter goes wild for Sam Elliot's Joe Biden ad aired during World Series
Big Lebowski actor Sam Elliot caused a storm on Twitter, where users shared a Joe Biden advert he narrated. Titled "Go From There," the commercial, which aired as the 2020 World Series began on Tuesday, called on Americans to come together and to put their differences aside. As a piano rendition of the star spangled banner plays, Mr Elliot, whose appearances in "A Star is Born” and "The Big Lebowski" have made him a household name, says “'There is only one America.”
PoliticsUSA TODAYFact check: Photo claiming to show large Trump rally in Florida is of Swiss music festival
Fact check: Video claiming to show bikers praying for Trump at Walter Reed is from a South Africa protest Image is from a festival in Switzerland A reverse Google image search reveals that the photo is actually from a music festival called "Street Parade" in Switzerland. The original photo was taken in 2018 at a Zurich lake, according to Street Parade's website, where similar bird's-eye photos of the event are available. Related video: Presidential debate fact check The festival, which takes place every August but was canceled this year due to COVID-19, attracts "hundreds of thousands of dance fans from every continent," according to the event's about tab.
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PoliticsMiami HeraldDo we really want to go through this on a regular basis? Then no term limits on Supreme Court justices | Opinion
President Trump's nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court has ignited an expected, yet unfortunate, conflagration on the left. Most Americans, regardless of political party, recoil at that idea, which is why Joe Biden and Kamala Harris refuse to answer direct questions on the subject. Now their handmaids in the media and on Capitol Hill have recently trotted out another misguided proposal that they hope will be more popular — term limits for Supreme Court justices.
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PoliticsSalonDonald Trump is getting desperate — and his mental pathology is getting worse every day
Trump is headed to a rally in Pennsylvania, first lady Melania Trump was to join him, but does not feel well and is recovering from Covid-19, he last event was August's Republican National Convention speech at the White House. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Last Thursday evening at his town hall on NBC, Trump admitted that he had retweeted a QAnon conspiracy theory that the killing of Osama bin Laden was fake and had been staged by Barack Obama and Joe Biden. A bizarre conspiracy theory gone awry.
U.S.Business InsiderUSPS told its postal police officers to stand down, igniting concerns about mail-in ballot security and sparking another lawsuit against the agency
The USPS ordered its uniformed police officers to halt their patrol duties at the end of August, raising concerns about the security of mail-in ballots and sparking a lawsuit against the agency. "Why not wait until after the election to neuter the postal police," a union rep for the officers told The Wall Street Journal. The order came a day after Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testified to Congress that he would suspend sweeping changes until after the election following criticism they could delay ballot delivery.
U.S.The IndependentUS spies and diplomats accuse Trump administration of cover-up after mysteriously getting sick in Cuba, China and Russia
United States spies and diplomats have accused the Trump administration of refusing to investigate mysterious illnesses that happened to officials while abroad in Cuba, China and Russia, with some calling it a cover-up, the New York Times reported. Cases of a mysterious illness among Americans first were reported in Cuba in 2016. Officials reported hearing strange noises and felt symptoms of nerve damage and headaches.
PoliticsAssociated PressElection 2020 Today: Trump burns funds, GOP gets out vote
ON THE TRAIL: President Donald Trump will be in Pennsylvania. Now, with two weeks until the election, his campaign acknowledges it is facing difficult spending decisions at a time when Democratic nominee Joe Biden has flooded the airwaves with advertising. That has put Trump in the position of needing to do more of his signature rallies during the coronavirus pandemic while relying on an unproven theory that he can turn out infrequent voters who nonetheless support him at historic levels. 'RUNNING ANGRY': Trump has come out swinging against Dr. Anthony Fauci and polls that show Trump trailing Biden in key battleground states. The president is trying to buck up his team two weeks out from Election Day as he campaigns out West.
LifestyleINSIDERA balloon artist sparked a debate on TikTok after she revealed that she charged $300 for her creations
Small business owner Kelsey Onstott, who creates balloon art installations in the Houston, Texas area, has sparked a TikTok-wide controversy by sharing the pricing of her creations. After receiving negative comments about the pricing of her work, Onstott posted a video in which she challenged her critics to recreate her balloon moasics in 30 minutes using cheaper balloons. The clip racked up millions of views and thousands more critical comments — and some creators responded by making their own balloon videos.
PoliticsBusiness InsiderPelosi 'optimistic' of stimulus agreement with the White House before the weekend: 'Both sides are serious about finding a compromise'
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday said she was "optimistic" about the chances of agreeing to a stimulus deal with the White House before the weekend. A deal agreed to this week could become law before Election Day, she said. Pelosi said that she found "common ground" with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and that "both sides are serious about finding a compromise."
PoliticsThe IndependentTrump back on crucial Pennsylvania campaign trail as he picks bizarre fight with ‘60 Minutes'
Donald Trump made his seventh stop in Pennsylvania in as many weeks as he delivered dark-but-familiar warnings about his Democratic rivals hours after finding a new foe in 60 Minutes as he sought a battleground he described as the key to a possible second term. We're going to win. I think we're going to win so big,” the president told another large and densely packed rally, this time in Erie as he tries to keep a county with the same name in his column.
“Until solar and wind power take more of the energy load, I like not paying an arm and a leg to heat my house.”
“It is imperative to ramp down greenhouse gas emissions as quickly as possible.”
“Any kind of ban on fracking would cause severe damage to our stressed economy.”
“Climate scientists are urging us to leave all fossil fuels in the ground so that they’ll never be burned. That includes natural gas.”
“Any immediate economic repercussions to the economy can be offset if oil-and-gas companies are made to pay their fair share.”