PoliticsBusiness InsiderTrump tells supporters 'you'll never see me again' if he loses to Biden
At a campaign rally in North Carolina Saturday, President Donald Trump told attendees they'll never see or hear from him again if he loses the election to Joe Biden. In a June interview, Trump refused to say whether he would accept the results of the 2020 election if he did not emerge the winner. Trump made similar remarks in 2016 when he rivaled Hillary Clinton for the presidency: "I don't think I'm going to lose, but if I do, I don't think you're ever going to see me again, folks," Trump said.
U.S.Miami HeraldBoss lures maids to home, chains 1 to bed; other dies trying to escape, TX cops say
After two maids were lured to their boss' home Saturday, one died trying to escape and the other was found chained to a bed, Texas police say. Both women worked as house cleaners at 59-year-old Jose Soriano's Liberty County residence, KPRC reported. The two women went to Soriano's home, but when they arrived, police said he sexually assaulted one of them and chained her by the ankle to the bed with a rope tied around her neck, KTRK reported.
HealthReutersUK's Johnson to levy 10,000 pound fine on COVID-19 rule-breakers
People in England who break new rules requiring them to self-isolate if they have been in contact with someone infected with COVID-19 will face a fine of up to 10,000 pounds ($12,914), Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Saturday. The rules will apply from Sept. 28 to anyone in England who tests positive for the virus or is notified by public health workers that they have been in contact with someone infectious. "People who choose to ignore the rules will face significant fines," Johnson said in a statement.
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Florida governor seeks new penalties for violent protesters
The state of Florida is going to get tough on people who engage in violence during protests, Florida's Republican governor said Monday in announcing new legislation. Gov. Ron DeSantis said his proposed legislation will impose felony-level penalties on anyone who damages property, causes injury or destroys public property during a protest. “Recently in our country we have seen attacks on law enforcement, we've seen disorder and tumult in many cities,” DeSantis said.
PoliticsBusiness InsiderNancy Pelosi wonders how top Facebook employees can 'look themselves in the mirror' because they 'make money off poison'
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed Facebook during a new interview with The New York Times' Kara Swisher. Pelosi said she holds Facebook "very accountable" for posts on the platform in support of QAnon, a right-wing conspiracy theory that claims, in part, that Democratic Party leaders are involved in child sex trafficking. "I don't know how the Facebook board of directors or their top employees can look themselves in the mirror," Pelosi said.
U.S.LA TimesArmed and Black. How a group of men licensed to carry guns say they are seeking racial justice
Before he drove to the grocery store parking lot, Romeal Taylor did the same thing he's done every day this summer — he holstered his 9-millimeter handgun to the waistband of his gym shorts until he could feel it hug his right hip. When he arrived at the store in north Minneapolis he spotted six other Black men, some in tactical gear, armed with Glock 23s and Smith & Wesson M&Ps. The ad hoc group of about two dozen men — including a retired firefighter, a healthcare worker and a veteran — formed in the days after George Floyd's killing in response to the local NAACP chapter putting out a call for residents in predominantly Black north Minneapolis to protect small businesses from destruction as fires and unrest engulfed the city.
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U.S. charges New York police officer with acting as illegal agent of China
A New York City Police Department officer has been charged with acting as an illegal agent of China and other offenses, the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday. Baimadajie Angwang, 33, was arrested earlier Monday and was due to appear in federal court in Brooklyn later in the day, the department said in a statement. Angwang reported to officials of the Chinese consulate about the activities of Chinese citizens in the New York area and assessed potential intelligence sources for the Chinese government within the Tibetan community in New York and elsewhere, the statement said.
PoliticsThe Week'Remarkable' new data shows decline in on-time mail delivery after DeJoy took over as postmaster general
New data obtained by The Guardian provides a more specific look at how the changes implemented by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy affected the U.S. Postal Service's on-time first-class mail delivery rate after he took over the role in June. In what North Carolina A&T history professor and former postal worker Philip Rubio described as a "remarkable graphic illustration," The Guardian shows that rates plummeted not long after DeJoy stepped in. The USPS was delivering first-class mail on time about 93 percent of the time during most of the first half of 2020, just shy of its 95 percent goal, and was averaging nearly 91 percent at the moment of leadership transition.
PoliticsUSA TODAY OpinionGinsburg flap shows Supreme Court, justices are too important
That shift matters because, for longer than I have been alive, all sorts of very important societal issues, from desegregation to abortion to presidential elections and state legislative districting — have gone to the Supreme Court for decision. Supreme Court nominations and confirmations didn't used to mean much — Louis Brandeis was the first nominee to actually appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee — because the Court, while important, wasn't the be-all and end-all of so many deeply felt and highly divisive issues. Now it very much is.
WorldBusiness InsiderLeaked files contain more evidence of Kremlin links to one of the biggest donors to Boris Johnson's Conservative party
The husband of a major donor to Boris Johnson's Conservative party has allegedly been secretly funded by a Russian oligarch with close links to Vladimir Putin, according to leaked files. Lubov Chernukhin, the party's biggest female donor, has paid to spend time with each of the last three prime ministers, having played a tennis match with Boris Johnson. Leaked financial documents shared with the BBC and other news organisations show that her husband Vladimir Chernukhin was given £6.1 million, originally by a Russian politician and oligarch called Suleyman Kerimov who faced sanctions from the US because of his close links with the Kremlin.
U.S.The IndependentBull rider killed in Texas rodeo
A bull rider and Oklahoma State University (OSU) student has been killed at a competition that took place in Texas last week. Rowdy Lee Swanson was thrown from his bull at the ProRodeo in Mineral Wells, Texas, reported ABC News. It was unclear what specific injuries Swanson suffered at the event organised by the Palo Pinto County Livestock Association.
U.S.BBCNew York among three 'anarchist' cities named by White House to lose funds
The Trump administration has named three cities that are slated to lose federal funding after the White House accused them of tolerating crime. New York City, Portland and Seattle are on the list of "anarchist cities" that Trump officials say have failed to stem crime linked to a summer of protests. It follows a memo from Mr Trump earlier this month, threatening the move.
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Sen. Josh Hawley: I will only vote for a justice who understands that Roe v. Wade was 'wrongly decided'
Josh Hawley, R-Mo. a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on the battle over the Supreme Court vacancy.
PoliticsThe WeekIlhan Omar says no Republicans have even privately condemned death threats against her
They include public threats from Republicans set to join her in the House in January — and absolutely no condemnation from congressmembers on the other side of the aisle, she tells the The New York Times Magazine. In an interview with the Times, Omar discussed "hateful" attacks against her from Fox News' Tucker Carlson, as well as the rise of Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican House candidate in a far-right Georgia district who held a gun next to a photo of Omar's "Squad" in a campaign video. Greene's video is just one of many "dangerous" people spouting "bizarre, ill-informed conspiracies" about Omar and other Democrats and "terrorizing so many of us," Omar said.
U.S.USA TODAY'It was so terrifying': Bobcat wildfire destroys homes, LA nature center; 6 in hard-hit Oregon accused of starting blazes
A wildfire burning through a swath of Los Angeles County for more than two weeks remained virtually unchecked Monday as fire managers struggled to gather resources needed to douse the inferno. The Bobcat Fire is one of scores of major fires burning across the West – including Oregon, where at least six people have been accused of igniting some of the blazes. The Bobcat Fire has burned more than 160 square miles in and around the Angeles National Forest, destroying an unknown number of homes and an iconic nature center.
WorldAssociated PressAsia Today: India adds 87K cases, New Zealand easing rules
India recorded nearly 87,000 new coronavirus infections in the past 24 hours as it edged closer to the United States in having the most reported cases in the world. The Health Ministry also Monday reported 1,130 deaths in the past 24 hours, taking the total reported fatalities to 87,882. India now has over 5.4 million reported cases, and the nation of 1.3 billion people is expected to become the pandemic's worst-hit country within weeks, surpassing the United States, which has 6.8 million.
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U.S.The IndependentWoman filmed attacking Native American group opposing border wall construction
Video taken this past weekend shows a woman attacking members of a Native American tribe protesting against president Donald Trump's border wall. The Instagram post shows the woman grappling with protesters and slapping two of them while hurling obscenities. The footage was taken in San Diego County, California, where a “small indigeous initiative that is rooted in prayer” is defending the lands of the Kumeyaay people.
PoliticsThe TelegraphDonald Trump suggests Democrats fabricated Ruth Bader Ginsburg's dying wish
Donald Trump questioned Ruth Bader Ginsburg's dying wish that her replacement on the Supreme Court be chosen by the next US president as he vowed to announce a nominee by the end of the week. Mr Trump suggested without evidence that Democrats had concocted Justice Ginsburg's deathbed statement during an interview with his favourite news programme Fox & Friends on Monday. “I don't know that she said that, or if that was written out by Adam Schiff, and Schumer and Pelosi,” Mr Trump told the network, referring to three of the top Democrats in Congress, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, senator Chuck Schumer and congressman Adam Schiff.
PoliticsThe WeekMcConnell unexpectedly rejects Democrats' funding bill, leaving U.S. on the verge of government shutdown
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky. rejected the government funding resolution House Democrats introduced Monday, leaving the U.S. government on the verge of a shutdown. The current government funding package only lasts another nine days, so on Monday, Democrats released a draft resolution that would extend in through Dec. 11.
U.S.The Independent'You ain't from here': Black man hits out at Portland protesters in heated exchange
Footage uploaded to Twitter on Sunday night - which has since gone viral - appears to show the man, who says he is from the city, remonstrating with the protesters, some of whom are white. The man, dressed in a pair of shorts, a T-shirt and a cap, accused the group of not being from Portland, which has been at the centre of demonstrations following the death George Floyd, a black man who was killed while in police custody in Minneapolis in May. Based man railing the #Portland kids for not even being from the area.
PoliticsINSIDERTrump asked a group of women at his campaign rally if their husbands 'are OK' with their attendance
President Donald Trump on Saturday night asked a group of women if their husbands were aware they were at his campaign event in Fayetteville, North Carolina. "I hope your husbands are OK with it," Trump said. In the speech, he also promised to nominate a woman to the Supreme Court to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died Friday.
WorldAssociated PressOn 75th anniversary of UN, its chief appeals for peace
Born out of World War II's devastation to prevent the scourge of conflict, the United Nations marked its 75th anniversary Monday with an appeal from Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to preserve the longest period in modern history without a military confrontation between the world's most powerful nations. The U.N. chief told the mainly virtual official commemoration that “it took two world wars, millions of deaths and the horrors of the Holocaust for world leaders to commit to international cooperation and the rule of law,” and that commitment produced results. “A Third World War — which so many had feared — has been avoided,” Guterres said.
PoliticsThe IndependentBiden warns confirming Supreme Court justice before election would cause ‘irreversible damage’ and promises to nominate a Black woman if he wins
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden warned Republicans that rushing a vote to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court before the election would cause “irreversible damage”, and vowed to nominate a black woman to take her seat. The last thing we need is to add is a constitutional crisis that plunges us deeper into the abyss, deeper into the darkness. If we go down this path, I predict it will cause irreversible damage,” he said in a speech in Philadelphia.
PoliticsSalonTrump supporters try to obstruct early voters at polling site in Virginia
Trump supporters Getty/Elijah Nouvelage On Saturday, lines to vote early in Fairfax County, Virginia — an affluent, left-trending area including the suburbs of Washington, D.C. — reached enormous lengths, with many voters telling reporters that they were spurred to vote by the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. But Trump supporters showed up at the early voting site to protest, as well. Photos and videos by Washington Informer reporter Anthony Tilghman show Trump supporters blocking the path to the early voting site, standing together waving Trump flags and chanting "Four more years!"
“The SAT is emblematic of higher education’s failure to keep up with the times...Just the stuff that systemic racism thrives on.”
“These tests create unnecessary stress for young people already dealing with mental health challenges.”
“Dropping the SAT requirement makes it harder for colleges to compare applicants against a common standard.”
“The best predictor of college success overall is a simple one: high school grades.”
“What matters more is a broader push to help minority students get better educations.”