Politics

July 23, 2020
Caitlin Johnstone: In post-Iraq invasion world, it’s absolutely insane to blindly believe the US narrative on China

My social media notifications have been lighting up over the last few days, with virulent Chinagaters sharing a video which purports to show Uighur Muslims being loaded onto a train...

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July 23, 2020
Russia’s flash military exercise: Here’s how it REALLY works

Russia has just wrapped up a massive ‘sudden' check-up of its military's combat readiness. The abrupt exercise prompted some to talk about it being a message for Russia's squabbling neighbors...

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July 23, 2020
Former doctor sentenced for role in conspiracy, fraud

A former oral surgeon in Mississippi has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for participating in a pharmacy scheme prosecutors say bilked more than $400 million...

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July 23, 2020
Ex-utility exec pleads guilty to $1B fraud in South Carolina

Nearly three years after leading a failed project to build two nuclear reactors in South Carolina, an executive in charge of the construction pleaded guilty Thursday to taking more than...

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July 23, 2020
Kentucky coal operator files for bankruptcy protection

A coal operator headquartered in Kentucky, which bought assets from Blackjewel LLC after the company went bankrupt last year, has now filed for bankruptcy protection. Rhino Resource Partners announced Wednesday...

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July 23, 2020
Black nurses association wins order against its founder

A minority nursing association has won a temporary restraining order against its founder in Mississippi federal court amid a lawsuit over the rights to group's trademark, website and other intellectual...

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July 23, 2020
Judge orders Michael Cohen to be released from prison

A judge ordered the release from prison of President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer on Thursday, saying he believes the government retaliated against him for planning to release a book...

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July 23, 2020
FBI: Researcher being harbored at Chinese consulate in SF

The FBI believes the Chinese consulate in San Francisco is harboring a Chinese researcher who is charged in federal court in California with lying about her military background. Tang Juan...

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July 23, 2020
Monitor calls on US to stop detaining migrant kids in hotels

A court-appointed monitor for immigrant youth called on the U.S. government to stop detaining children as young as 1 in hotels before expelling them to their home countries, saying the...

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July 23, 2020
Brexit mastermind Nigel Farage is looking to repeat the impossible by helping Italy liberate itself from the EU’s shackles

British politician Farage has been revealed as a behind-the-scenes figure in advising a new ‘Italexit' party that will campaign for a return of Italy's sovereignty, fuelled by a rising tide...

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July 23, 2020
Judge: Seattle City Council’s ban on police devices stands

A federal judge has ruled that he will allow a recent ordinance approved by the Seattle City Council that bars police from using tear gas, pepper spray and other crowd...

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July 23, 2020
‘White Fragility’ is an exhausting, dull, racially obsessed book that only serves to deepen divisions

Robin DiAngelo's bestseller just proves that the woke intersectional left is equally unhealthily obsessed with race as the alt-right white nationalists they claim to despise. ‘White Fragility: Why It's So...

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July 23, 2020
Hawaii Ironman event canceled out over coronavirus concerns

The annual Ironman World Championship in Hawaii has been canceled for the first time in its 43-year history. The competition is considered one of the most important Ironman triathlon events....

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July 23, 2020
AP, Sony reach deal for new still and video cameras

The Associated Press says it has reached a deal with Sony Electronics to exclusively equip its photojournalists with new video and still cameras over the next two years. The AP...

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July 23, 2020
Pandemic tough on Argentina’s already overworked care givers

Even before the new coronavirus hit, Argentina's health care workers were struggling, most of them often working more than 12 hours a day at multiple jobs to make ends meet...

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July 23, 2020
VIRUS DIARY: Pandemic life, captured digitally (literally)

In journalism, when we're trying to explain a complicated story, we often start with raw data. How many? How much? How long? How far? I decided to use this same...

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July 23, 2020
Charlotte, Mecklenburg County ban late-night alcohol sales

Officials in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County and a handful of other towns are restricting alcohol sales after 11 p.m. to help fight the spread of the coronavirus. The Charlotte Observer reports...

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July 23, 2020
Fewer people file for unemployment benefits in Florida, but claims rise in rest of U.S.

While fewer people filed for jobless benefits in Florida last week, unemployment claims unexpectedly rose across the rest of the U.S., signaling the country's economic picture remains grim amid the...

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July 23, 2020
Fox taking fans to the ballgame with a virtual crowd

Fox will be taking viewers out to the ballgame by adding a virtual crowd in parks during its baseball telecasts this season. The network revealed on Thursday that it will...

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July 23, 2020
Many more likely sought jobless aid as virus surges back

With the nation gripped by an alarming resurgence of coronavirus cases, the U.S. government will provide its latest report Thursday on the layoffs that have remained stuck at an elevated...

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July 23, 2020
Southwest’s 2Q adj. loss tops $1B on weak travel demand

Southwest posted an adjusted loss of $1.5 billion in its second quarter as severely diminished air travel demand continues to pound the industry amid the coronavirus pandemic. Airlines have suffered...

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July 23, 2020
Biden, Obama pair in socially distanced video to decry Trump

Joe Biden is releasing a video of his first in-person meeting with Barack Obama since the coronavirus outbreak began, enlisting the former president to help slam his successor's response to...

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July 23, 2020
OpenTable partners with colleges to manage student dining

OpenTable is partnering with colleges to help them manage dining areas as students return to campus during the coronavirus pandemic. The San Francisco-based restaurant reservation service said it's offering its...

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July 23, 2020
South Florida home sales dropped in June, but pending transactions are up

Miami-Dade and Broward experienced a dip in year-over-year residential transactions in June. But it's not all gloom and doom: Pending sales increased year-over-year, a sign of activity increasing since April....

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July 23, 2020
Amber Heard wrapping up evidence in Johnny Depp libel trial

Amber Heard is wrapping up her evidence in Johnny Depp's libel case against a British tabloid over allegations of domestic violence, further accusing her ex-husband of abusing her when he...

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July 23, 2020
5 Things to Know for Today

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. MAYOR OF PORTLAND TEAR GASSED BY FEDS Mayor Ted Wheeler, a Democrat,...

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July 23, 2020
Why are coins hard to find during the pandemic?

Why are coins hard to find during the pandemic? The Federal Reserve has seen a significant decline of coins in circulation because people are not spending them as regularly at...

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July 23, 2020
A New York writer asked ‘LA Twitter’ where she should live. It didn’t go well

It was totally an innocent question. She promises. Taylor Lorenz, a New York Times Style reporter known for cheeky but astute explainers on online youth culture, tweeted an innocuous query...

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July 23, 2020
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, a Black housing crisis gets worse

Veronica Sance's rent for her one-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles' Crenshaw district ate roughly half her paycheck as a receptionist in the entertainment industry. Then, Sance said, she was wrongfully...

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July 23, 2020
Honduras supera los mil muertos y los 36,000 contagiados por coronavirus

Honduras ha superado en las ultimas horas las mil victimas mortales por coronavirus, mientras que el numero total de personas contagiadas de COVID-19 se situa ya por encima de las...

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July 23, 2020
If the COVID-19 shutdown didn’t kill your business, trying to reopen might

Tom Fox, owner of Martini Cleaners in Burien, Wash., has doubts about the future of business casual. Dress shirts, slacks and other office garb made up more than half of...

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July 23, 2020
Repuntan los despidos en EEUU por pandemia

Las peticiones semanales de subsidio por desempleo en Estados Unidos revirtieron durante la semana que finalizo el 18 de julio la tendencia de los ultimos meses, al elevarse por primera...

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July 23, 2020
Tenants keeping up rent payments during pandemic, but wave of evictions could loom

Even before he lost both of his part-time jobs in March, Jose Alvarez-Castillo was just barely getting by. The 21-year-old senior at UCLA was sharing a three-bedroom apartment with six...

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July 23, 2020
1 in 5 US workers collects unemployment benefits. Without the extra $600, many say they’ll struggle to buy food, pay bills

For 39 years, Joseph Aleman spent baseball season hawking beer at Wrigley Field, trekking through the stands with 25 pounds of cold brews strapped to his back. He loved the...

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July 23, 2020
Now muzzle RT as part of the UK’s ’new normal’? Clearly Starmer hasn’t heard that a free press is a hallmark of a democratic state

Labour leader Keir Starmer has asked PM Boris Johnson to “look again” at the licensing for RT to broadcast in the UK, showing that however authoritarian we think the Tories...

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July 23, 2020
Wednesday Sports in Brief

BASEBALL TORONTO (AP) — The state of Pennsylvania won't allow the Toronto Blue Jays to play at PNC Park in Pittsburgh amid the coronavirus pandemic, health officials announced Wednesday, becoming...

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July 23, 2020
‘Scientists’ said Brits won’t stay home because of ‘behaviour fatigue’, and pushed Project Fear. Now most don’t want to go to work

The behavioural science-informed insight that citizens would suffer ‘fatigue' and thus would not comply with government-imposed lockdowns unless ‘nudged' to do so has proven that behavioural science is as scientific...

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July 23, 2020
WNBA Commissioner confident season will be successful

WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert believes the measures that the league has taken to ensure the players are safe as they work toward their season have been effective. Engelbert said on...

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July 23, 2020
The Latest: India sets another daily record for virus cases

NEW DELHI — India has recorded 685 virus deaths in the past 24 hours, as well as 444 previously unreported fatalities, bring the nationwide death toll from the pandemic to...

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July 23, 2020
Emigrants send dollars home to Mexico — and virus warnings

In the weeks he spent flat on his back in his Brooklyn bunk, wracked with pain and struggling to breathe, Axayacatl Figueroa could think of nothing but the small town...

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