Israeli police use water cannons on protesters, arrest 55

Israeli police used water cannons to disperse protesters in central Jerusalem and arrested at least 55 of them as clashes broke out overnight after thousands staged a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israelis have held a series of demonstrations in recent weeks calling on Netanyahu to resign, citing his trial on corruption charges and his fractious unity government's poor handling of the coronavirus pandemic. A smaller counterprotest in support of Netanyahu was held nearby, with the two camps separated by metal barricades and a large police presence.

Chinese researcher who took refuge in San Francisco consulate in U.S. custody, officials say

A Chinese researcher who took refuge from U.S. authorities at China's consulate in San Francisco is now in American custody and is expected to appear in court on Monday, U.S. Justice Department officials said. According to court filings in U.S. District Court in San Francisco this week, Juan Tang, who worked at the University of California, Davis, falsely claimed on her visa application that she had not served in the Chinese military.

Coronavirus: Why won't India admit how Covid-19 is spreading?

Experts say India's government must accept the virus is spreading there through community transmission.

Trump Brags About Siccing 75K ‘Tough’ Feds on Cities Like Chicago

President Donald Trump openly mused on Thursday night about sending tens of thousands of federal agents into major U.S. cities experiencing unrest, claiming he could “solve these problems so fast” if those cities just “invited” the 75,000 “tough” feds he supposedly has ready to go.Trump, who recently announced a “surge” of hundreds of FBI and Justice Department personnel into Chicago to ostensibly combat violent crime, mused openly about his recent “law and order” push with Fox News host and close confidant Sean Hannity.The president first brought up Portland, which is currently the scene of a federal crackdown on anti-racism protesters, boasting that he dispatched DHS agents and unmarked federal authorities “because they are anarchists.”“That is a level people haven’t seen,” the president bellowed. “But they are anarchists. They were going wild for 51 days. And we went in and they’ve done a great job. They were going to rip down the courthouse, a gorgeous federal courthouse. So we went in and we have been very, very strong.”After mocking Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler for getting tear-gassed by federal agents on Wednesday night, crowing that “they knocked the hell out of him,” Trump insisted that he wanted to “help the cities.” And what was his offer to mayors of cities such as Detroit and Chicago? “We’ll go into all of the cities, any of the cities,” the president declared. “We’re ready. We’ll put in 50,000, 60,000 people that really know what they’re doing. They’re strong. They’re tough. And we can solve these problems so fast, but as you know, we have to be invited in.”Trump went on to add that “at some point, we have to do something much stronger than being invited in.”Hannity, meanwhile, tied violence in large cities to Democratic leadership, wondering aloud if the president has a message to “people who boast and argue and say you don’t have a chance of winning New York, Illinois, California or Washington State?”Complaining that “liberal Democrats” aren’t “respecting the police,” Trump claimed Democratic governors and mayors are explicitly telling police to not fight crime.“They say not to do it,” the president huffed. “It is a philosophy. Let me tell you, if Joe Biden ever got in, the whole country would be like that.”Trump eventually circled back to Chicago, which has recently been a major focal point on Fox News programming, asserting that people tell him that “they can’t believe what is going on” before referencing a recent shooting in the city.“It’s a shame,” he exclaimed. “And we could solve it if they invited us in, we’d go in with 50,000 to 75,000 people. We would be able to solve it like you wouldn’t believe it, like quick.”Prior to settling for an expansion of Operation Legend when he announced his “surge,” the president privately wanted a Portland-style offensive in Chicago. Envisioning a “camera-ready show of force,” Trump wanted federal agents to flush out violent gang leaders and leave them “shaking in their boots.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

Climate expert suggests Biden will have to 'admit there will be tradeoffs' to reach zero carbon goal

Climate activists and scientists have generally received former Vice President Joe Biden's plan to eliminate U.S. carbon emissions by 2035 warmly, but there will likely be some backlash ahead, especially regarding a potential reliance on wind and solar alternatives, The Guardian reports.David Keith, a climate and energy expert at Harvard University who co-authored research in 2018 that found America's transition to solar and particularly wind would require up to 20 times more land area than previously thought, said windmills certainly shouldn't be abandoned moving forward, but suggested they could be limited. "You should tilt the energy system toward low land footprints, which means focusing on solar, nuclear, and carbon capture and storage, with wind at the margins," he told The Guardian.Keith added that if the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee defeats President Trump, the incoming Biden administration will need to "admit there will be tradeoffs for a shared national goal" and that "there will be local decisions people don't like" en route to an emission-free future.But while there are concerns about the effect renewable energy systems can have on land and biodiversity, Melissa Lott, a senior research scholar at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy, said the side effects of renewables are unequivocally worth getting to zero carbon. Read more at The Guardian.More stories from theweek.com Jared Kushner has reportedly refused to aid the House GOP's election wing America is coming apart. Europe is coming together. Longtime TV host Regis Philbin dies at 88

Australia says China's South China Sea claims are unlawful

White House denies Stephen Miller’s grandmother died from coronavirus, despite death certificate stating otherwise

The White House has denied top advisor Stephen Miller's grandmother died from the coronavirus - despite the death certificate stating otherwise.Mr Miller's 97-year-old grandmother died after his uncle David Glosser, the brother of the advisor's mother, first revealed the women contracted Covid-19.

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North Korea Declares Emergency After Suspected Covid-19 Case

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Hurricane Hanna makes landfall in Texas, with winds reaching 90 mph

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Live updates from weekend protests: Armed militia groups in Louisville; judge blocks Seattle's pepper spray ban

Kentucky's Attorney General pleaded with armed demonstrators to remain peaceful Saturday as opposing militia groups face off in downtown Louisville.

LAPD officer and soon-to-be father dies of COVID-19 complications

Officer Valentin Martinez, 45, was expecting twins with his partner and joined the force in 2007. The city's mayor has ordered flags to be lowered in his honor.

Viewer spots Florida reporter Victoria Price's cancer growth

After watching an on-air broadcast, an eagle-eyed viewer urged Victoria Price to see a doctor.

Miami's mayor asks people to wear face masks in their own homes to reduce the spread of coronavirus within families

Miami Mayor Francis Suarez warned that the family home had become the largest source of COVID-19 cases in the badly hit state.

North Korea's Kim says COVID-19 'could be said to have entered the country': KCNA

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened an emergency politburo meeting after a person suspected of having COVID-19 returned from South Korea after illegally crossing the border this month, state media said on Sunday. If confirmed, it would be the first case officially acknowledged by North Korean authorities, who have so far said the country has no confirmed cases of the new coronavirus. Kim declared a state of emergency and imposed a lockdown on the border city of Kaesong, calling it a "critical situation in which the vicious virus could be said to have entered the country," state news agency KCNA reported.

Grimes told Elon Musk to turn off his phone and that she 'cannot support hate' in a now-deleted tweet, after he tweeted that 'pronouns suck'

Grimes told her partner, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, to switch off his phone: "Please stop this. I know this isn't your heart."

Vietnam bans wildlife trade to curb risk of pandemics

Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued a directive to ban the Southeast Asian country's wildlife trade with immediate effect in order to reduce the risk of new pandemics, a government statement said. The directive bans imports of live wild animals and wildlife products, eliminates wildlife markets, and enforce prohibitions on illegal hunting and trading of wild animals, including online sales, according to the statement issued late on Thursday.

Surgeon General on safe school return: "We like to see positivity rates less than 10%"

With no specific benchmarks in place, the Surgeon General's comments provide the first concrete piece of advice for parents in deciding when it's safe to send their children back to school.

France expands free COVID-19 testing as infection rates rise

French health authorities are making COVID-19 tests available free of charge without prescription as they closely monitor an uptick in infections after the lifting of lockdown measures. PCR nasal swab tests, which detect COVID-19 infections caused by the novel coronavirus, will be freely available on demand under government orders published on Saturday. "We wouldn't describe this as a second wave, but what's clear is that for several days now we have seen a noticeable increase in the number of confirmed cases, which had been in decline for 13 weeks," Health Minister Olivier Veran said in an interview published in Le Parisien's Sunday edition.

James Carville still thinks Trump might pull out of race rather than risk a landslide defeat

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville said President Trump’s political standing appears to be in virtual free fall, as Republicans are increasingly panicked that he will cost them control of the Senate.

Stephen Miller says Trump administration won't stand for 'lawless assault' urged on by Portland's mayor

White House senior adviser Stephen Miller joins Tucker Carlson with insight on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'

ICE bans international students from entering U.S. for online classes

Out of more than 1,250 colleges in the U.S., 12% are switching to an online-only model this fall, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.

The federal ban on evictions ends today, leaving nearly 28 million Americans on the verge of losing their homes

The coronavirus crisis prompted states and the federal government to ban eviction so people don't lose their homes. Those bans are now expiring.

Goldman Sachs and Malaysia reach $3.9B settlement over 1MDB

Malaysia’s government said Friday it has reached a $3.9 billion settlement with Goldman Sachs in exchange for dropping criminal charges against the bank over bond sales that raised money for the 1MDB sovereign wealth fund, which was looted of billions of dollars in a massive scandal. Malaysian and U.S. prosecutors had alleged that the bond sales organized by Goldman Sachs provided one of the means for associates of ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak to steal billions over several years from a fund that was ostensibly set up to accelerate Malaysia’s economic development.

'It's the retweets that get you in trouble': Trump says he often regrets sending tweets

Donald Trump said he often regrets some of his tweets and admitted to not always paying much attention to who he retweets to his 84 million followers.“It’s not the tweets, it’s the retweets that get you in trouble," he said Friday in an interview with Barstool Sports at the White House.

Pompeo: U.S. engagement with China has failed

The secretary of state decried China as a dishonest global player and brutal domestic regime.

Judge: No immediate ruling on Robert E. Lee statue removal

A Richmond judge heard arguments Thursday but said he would not immediately issue a ruling in a lawsuit over Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s plans to remove an enormous statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Attorney Gen. Mark Herring’s office asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit and dissolve an existing injunction barring the removal of the statue from historic Monument Avenue. The lawsuit was filed by William C. Gregory, a descendant of signatories to a 1890 deed that transferred the statue, pedestal and ground they sit on to the state.

Dark history of transatlantic slavery traced through DNA study

A new DNA study published Thursday sheds fresh light on the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade, from the legacy of rape that can be seen in today's genetics to how disease likely decimated some groups forced to work in deadly conditions. The grim results from a paper, which appeared in the American Journal of Human Genetics, compiled genetic data from 50,000 consenting research participants from both sides of the Atlantic. It cross-referenced these with detailed records from slave ships that transported 12.5 million men, women and children between 1515 and 1865.

Trump keeps boasting he 'aced' a 'very hard' cognitive test: Here's one like it you can take — see if you can match him

Trump likely took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment. Its creator said it's not about IQ, but issues associated with things like Alzheimer's.

Derek Chauvin, ex-Minneapolis officer charged with killing George Floyd, now facing tax evasion charges

Derek Chauvin and his wife are accused of underreporting their income for years in Minnesota and failing to file state taxes some years.

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¿Podemos volver a infectarnos del coronavirus? Los expertos creen que es muy poco probable

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Split 5 to 4, Supreme Court Rejects Nevada Church’s Challenge to Shutdown Restrictions

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Washington Post Settles Lawsuit With Student in Viral Protest Video

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‘Mugged by Reality,’ Trump Finds Denial Won’t Stop the Pandemic

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Trump Signs Orders to Reduce Cost of Prescription Drugs

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Treasury Secretary Mnuchin says anyone who got a $1,200 stimulus check the first time is likely to get one again for the same amount

Democrats in Congress have pushed to include more people, like students, in this round of direct cash payments.

Trump's press secretary falsely claimed that children's cartoon 'Paw Patrol' was canceled due to anti-police sentiment

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany claimed that "cancel culture" resulted in the cancelation of "Paw Patrol." The show says that is false.

German court convicts men over 2018 gang rape of 18-year-old

The case, in which most of the 11 defendants were Syrian, added to tensions in Germany over migration. Prosecutors say the woman was offered an Ecstasy tablet in a disco in the southwestern city of Freiburg and her drink was spiked with an unknown substance, leaving her unable to fend off the assailants. The Freiburg state court convicted most of the defendants, who were aged 18 to 30 at the time of the time of the assault in October in 2018, of rape, news agency dpa reported.

Trump has dug himself into a deeper hole in Florida, highlighting how far he's slipped among seniors

Trump was already trailing Biden among seniors nationwide, but new polling shows a troubling trend for the president in his new home state of Florida.

German court convicts former concentration camp guard, 93

A German court on Thursday convicted a 93-year-old former SS private of being an accessory to murder at the Stutthof concentration camp, where he served as a guard in the final months of World War II. He was given a two-year suspended sentence. Bruno Dey was convicted of 5,232 counts of accessory to murder by the Hamburg state court, news agency dpa reported. Because he was only 17, and later 18, at the time of his alleged crimes, Dey’s case was heard in juvenile court.

Trump called the mayor of Portland 'pretty pathetic' for attending a protest, where he was booed by residents and then tear gassed by federal agents

The president mocked Mayor Ted Wheeler of Portland in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity on Thursday.

NASA will launch a balloon the size of a football stadium into the stratosphere

NASA will launch a telescope named ASTHROS and a balloon the size of a football stadium so researchers can study the formation of stars.

The body of professional poker player Susie 'Q' Zhao has been found charred in a Michigan park

Police are treating Zhao's death as a homicide, and say it is possible her death was connected to her career.

White House denies Stephen Miller’s grandmother died from coronavirus, despite death certificate stating otherwise

The White House has denied top advisor Stephen Miller's grandmother died from the coronavirus - despite the death certificate stating otherwise.Mr Miller's 97-year-old grandmother died after his uncle David Glosser, the brother of the advisor's mother, first revealed the women contracted Covid-19.

'Having a daughter does not make a man decent': Ocasio-Cortez criticizes Rep. Yoho for 'refusing responsibility' in his apology

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez addressed Rep. Ted Yoho's comments, saying his language was "dehumanizing" and criticizing his apology.

What Democrats and Republicans want in the next coronavirus relief package

Republicans and Democrats in Congress aim to pass a fourth coronavirus aid package before the end of the month, but they will have to overcome significant differences. The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives passed a $3.4 trillion virus relief bill in May. Republicans who control the Senate are expected to unveil a package later this week that will cost closer to $1 trillion, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday. Republican President Donald Trump's administration has weighed in with its own ideas as well.

Hamas West Bank leader freed from detention after 16 months: son

Israel on Thursday freed a senior leader of Hamas in the West Bank after imprisoning him without trial for 16 months, his son said. Hassan Yousef, a co-founder of the Palestinian Islamist group, was arrested on April 2 last year at his home near Ramallah in the occupied territory. "He is now at home and is in good health," his son Owais Yousef told AFP.

A.O.C. Unleashes a Viral Condemnation of Sexism in Congress

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‘Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.’ Didn’t Mean What Trump Hoped It Did

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Millions of Americans Are About to Lose Their Homes. Congress Must Help Them.

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