• McConnell fires back at 'Moscow Mitch' attacks by Democrats

    Primed for Russia-related attacks from his detractors at Kentucky's premier political event, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Saturday it's fitting for Democrats to wear "Moscow Mitch" shirts depicting the communist-era hammer and sickle. After all, McConnell reasoned, Democrats are from the party pushing for the Green New Deal and Medicare for all. Democrats broke into "Moscow Mitch" chants as they heckled the sixth-term Republican senator during the stump-style speaking at the Fancy
  • Salvadoran family mourns death of young father across U.S. border

    Like many Salvadoran migrants before them, Marvin Gonzalez and his eight-year-old daughter Joselyn set off from their farm surrounded by corn and sugarcane one morning in early July with dreams of better lives in the United States.Gonzalez, 32, planned to reunite the girl with her mother in North Carolina, and later send for his current wife from El Salvador.The two made it across the U.S. border in late July.
  • Prepare for a More Authoritarian China

    With the onset of China’s economic reforms in the late 1970s, a widespread belief took hold in the United States and throughout the Western world that establishing robust economic relations with the “new China” would lead to gradual political liberalization. That belief persisted even after the communist government’s June 1989 bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. Most proponents of increased diplomatic, political, and economic engagement wi
  • Here's What Russia Thinks About the Future of America's Aircraft Carriers

    The 2019 iteration of the naval exercise Sea Breeze, which brought together nineteen nations (mostly from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and thirty-two ships, ended in the Ukrainian port of Odesa on July 12. The exercise was apparently conducted without incident. The Black Sea has indeed become fraught with tension since the November 2018 Kerch Strait skirmish, which witnessed Russia’s violent seizure of three Ukrainian vessels, whose crews remain in Russian captivity.If some nati
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  • US prosecutors accuse Honduran president of drug conspiracy

    U.S. federal prosecutors have accused the Honduran government of essentially functioning as a narco-state, with the current and former presidents having received campaign contributions from cocaine traffickers in exchange for protection.The filing comes just months after other U.S. federal court documents showed the current president and some of his closest advisers were among the targets of a Drug Enforcement Administration investigation, casting further doubt on the United States' assertion th
  • New Under Night In-Birth Game Announced at EVO 2019

    A new entry in the Under Night In-Birth fighting game series was announced at EVO 2019 Saturday. Under Night In-Birth Exe: Late will introduce a new character, and will launch in early 2020, according to Gematsu.
    The new Under Night In-Birth game was announced at the end of the Under Night In-Birth:Late grand finals at EVO 2019. Developer French Bread and publisher Arc System Works and Aksys Games did not confirm what platforms the game would come to, but a previous leak of the game listed PS4 a
  • Ex-trooper pleads to manslaughter in MSU athlete's death

    A former Mississippi Highway Patrol officer has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2017 death of a Mississippi State University track athlete but will not face prison time.Kyle Lee entered the plea Friday in Oktibbeha County Circuit Court, news outlets reported.Lee faced a culpable negligence manslaughter charge for the death of 22-year-old Kaelin Kersh, who was killed when Lee's police unit hit the car in which she was a passenger.
  • Jeremy Corbyn's leadership has 'radicalised' some Labour members into attacking Israel and Jews, report finds

    Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour party has "radicalised" some members so they are now publicly attacking Israel and Jews, according to a report. A dossier submitted to an official inquiry reveals how a series of Labour members became "obsessed" with Israel after Mr Corbyn's election.  In one case a party member who made no public Facebook comments about Israel before the leadership campaign is now posting more than 300 times per year on the issue, including a claim that "Zionists ..
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  • McDonald's employee fired after allegedly turning away paramedics: 'We don't serve badges here'

    A McDonald's employee was fired after she allegedly refused to serveparamedics Wednesday night, WFTS reports
  • Five dead, several injured after powerful quake rocks Indonesia

    Five people died and several were injured after a powerful undersea earthquake rocked Indonesia's heavily populated Java island, triggering a brief tsunami warning, the national disaster agency said Saturday.The 6.9 magnitude quake on Friday evening sent residents fleeing to higher ground, while many in the capital Jakarta ran into the streets.An official from Indonesia's national disaster agency warned the quake could generate a tsunami as high as three metres (10 feet), but the alert was lifte
  • Russia’s Military Admits It Needs Western Technology

    When Western nations imposed economic sanctions after Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, Moscow had an answer: Russia would substitute domestic products for foreign imports.But Russia’s defense industry is still using imported parts despite the government ban, according to Russia’s top prosecutor.“Import substitution in the defense industry remains a problem," warned Prosecutor-General Yuri Chaika. "Instances of non-compliance with the ban to purchase foreign equipmen
  • Police detain hundreds at Moscow opposition protest

    Police detained over 800 people at an opposition gathering in Moscow on Saturday, as authorities upped the pressure on top Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny by launching a criminal probe into his anti-graft group.Crowds walked along the capital's central boulevards in a protest "stroll" over the refusal by officials to let opposition candidates run in September polls for city parliament seats -- a local issue that has turned into a political crisis.Most of those candidates and opposition leaders, in
  • Video Game Deep Cuts: Fortnite World Cup's Fire-y Youngblood

    This week's roundup includes Epic's Fortnite World Cup, analyses of Nintendo's new Fire Emblem and Wolfenstein: Youngblood, as well as time loops in games, Candyland, Elsinore and lots more besides....
  • U.S. Defense Secretary says he favors placing missiles in Asia

    U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Saturday that he was in favor of placing ground-launched, intermediate-range missiles in Asia relatively soon, a day after the United States withdrew from a landmark arms control treaty. Esper's comments are likely to raise concern about an arms race and could add to an already tense relationship with China. "Yeah, I would like to," Esper said, when asked whether he was considering placing such missiles in Asia.
  • Will Israel’s New Missile Defense System Stop Iran if a War Begins?

    Israel’s new Arrow 3 anti-missile system has just passed a major milestone.Not in Israel, but 6,000 miles away in Kodiak, Alaska. The Arrow 3 test on July 28 comes just days after Israel’s arch-enemy Iran itself tested a new ballistic missile.“Flight Test Arrow-01 demonstrated the Israeli Arrow Weapon System’s ability to conduct a high altitude hit-to-kill engagement,” said the U.S. Missile Defense Agency announcement. “Interceptor tests were conducted th
  • Day care worker charged after four toddlers suffer broken legs

    A Florida day care worker was charged with child neglect two months after fourtoddlers were found with leg fractures, the Northwest Florida Daily Newsreports
  • Celebrities, royals and politicians brace themselves as court orders release of explosive Jeffrey Epstein files

    In Room 270, the records management unit, on the second floor of an imposing granite and marble courthouse in lower Manhattan, 167 documents totaling more than 2,000 pages are being kept under lock and key. But they are about to be unsealed and made public - making a host of important people around the world, including celebrities, politicians and royals, very nervous. The files contain explosive allegations in the case of Giuffre v Maxwell, in which Virginia Giuffre, a woman who claims to have
  • Did Israeli F-35 Stealth Fighters Really Bomb Iraq?

    Israel’s F-35 stealth fighters are positively supernatural: here, there and everywhere. In 2018, the Israeli Air Force claimed its new F-35s had attacked Iranian targets in Syria. Also in 2018, Arab press made dubious claims that IAF F-35s had flown over Iran.Now comes reports that Israeli F-35s have attacked Iranian targets in Iraq, according to Arab media.Western diplomatic sources allegedly the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that on July 19, “Tel Aviv carried out an airstr
  • Mass Shooting Kills 20 at El Paso Walmart: Gunman ‘Started Shooting Everyone, Aisle by Aisle,’ Witness Says

    Justin Hamel/The Daily BeastEL PASO—A lone gunman killed at least 20 people inside a crowded Walmart on Saturday morning, according to eyewitnesses and officials. “A day that would’ve been a normal day for someone to leisurely go shopping, turned into one of the most deadly days in the history of Texas. Lives were taken who should still be with us today. Twenty innocent people from El Paso have lost their lives, and more than two dozen more are injured,” Texas Governor Gr
  • Fortnite Fans Have Harsh Words for Season 10's Mechs

    The B.R.U.T.E. mech is one of the most prominent additions to Fortnite Battle Royale Season 10, and it hasn't taken long for fans to express just how much they dislike it and other changes that have come to Fortnite's latest season.
    The B.R.U.T.E is a two-person bipedal vehicle where one player controls its movement while the other is in charge of its weapons - though a single player can operate it alone by switching between moving and attacking. Capable of firing powerful missiles and shot
  • AP Interview: Jesse Jackson slams 'dangerous' Trump rhetoric

    The Rev. Jesse Jackson has condemned recent outbursts by President Donald Trump targeting lawmakers of color and inner cities as "dangerous, divisive and diversionary" and says he believes they are fueling white nationalist extremism.In an interview, the longtime civil rights leader called Trump's vilification of African Americans an attempt to divert the nation's attention from its real problems, including Russian election interference, border detentions and a tax cut benefiting the richest Ame
  • Italian Police Mistakes May Help American Teens in Cop Stabbing Case

    Ciro De Luca/ReutersOne week has passed since the brutal stabbing death of 35-year-old Italian Carabinieri police officer Mario Cerciello Rega, allegedly at the hands of two San Francisco teens, and the investigation seems to have gone awry. Rome Cops: American Teens Stabbed Police Officer to Death in Drug-Fueled FrenzyReporting that closed camera television footage is missing from the area where 19-year-old Finnegan Elder allegedly stabbed Rega 11 times has raised eyebrows. The manager of the p
  • Raccoon trapped in drain cover freed after two-hour firefighter rescue

    A team of firefighters spent two hours freeing a trapped racoon from a grate covering a drain.A passer-by spotted the animal in Massachusetts while travelling to work on Thursday and called the fire brigade.The team tried several methods to free the trapped animal, according to NBC News.Firefighters attempted to lubricate the racoon with soap, to allow it to slip through the grate.They also pulled the grate loose, compressed the racoon’s neck with medical gauze and called for an animal con
  • El Paso shooting: Up to 20 killed or injured in rampage at Texas shopping mall

    Up to 20 people have been killed or injured after a shooting at a mall in Texas.Officials in the city of El Paso said multiple people had been killed and many injured after the incident at the Cielo Vista Mall. Police said one suspect – a man – had been detained, after earlier reports said up to three had been seized. Police urged people to stay away from the scene as armed officials conducted a complete search, but said the incident was no longer “active”.“Right no
  • El Paso shooting: Rampage at Texas shopping mall leaves 20 dead as suspect named

    Twenty people have been killed and more than two-dozen injured after a shooting at a shopping complex in Texas – the latest act of deadly gun violence to shudder across the United States.Officials in the city of El Paso said multiple people had been killed and many injured after the incident at the Cielo Vista Mall, after a man with a rifle entered a Walmart and opened fire. Police said one suspect – a man – had been detained, after earlier reports said up to three had been sei
  • ‘I can’t describe a better father’: Community rallies for grieving man who left twins to die in hot NYC car

    Less than a week after leaving his twin one-year-old children to die, trapped in a hot car in the Bronx, Juan Rodriguez stood before dozens of his family and friends, and shook.With tears in his eyes, the 39-year-old sighed and hung his head in disbelief. A court officer brought him a cup of water. Then a chair.The room was silent but for those sighs, and the muffled conversation taking place in the corner between a judge and two attorneys.As he shook, dozens of family and friends waited for new
  • Here are the candidates who have qualified for the September Democratic debate in Houston - so far

    At present, only eight candidates have reached the required amount of support and funding to qualify for the next debate in Houston, Texas.
  • Cory Booker compares Trump 'spouting racism' to segregationists George Wallace and Bull Connor

    Sen. Cory Booker says why he thinks President Trump’s remarks are “deeply disturbing” and compares the strategy of “spouting racism” to the infamous segregationists George Wallace and Bull Connor.
  • Iraq's Yazidi women must abandon kids born in IS captivity

    Yazidi women and girls who were enslaved and raped by Islamic State militants have few choices.Five years ago Saturday, IS militants launched attacks on Yazidi villages in northern Iraq, kidnapping, enslaving and massacring thousands.In April, a month after the final military defeat of IS, Yazidi religious leaders made an apparent bid to protect the insular and still-grieving community by decreeing that they will embrace survivors of militant attacks.
  • Exiled Thai critic attacked with chemicals in Japan

    An exiled Thai critic of the country's military and monarchy said he was attacked in his home in Japan last month and believes Thai authorities were behind the incident, an accusation that was ridiculed by the kingdom's army chief.Pavin Chachavalpongpun, a 48-year-old associate professor at Kyoto University, said he was asleep with his partner when a man broke into their home last month at about 4 a.m. and sprayed the couple with a substance that burned their skin.Neither was seriously hurt, but
  • Woman undergoes quadruple amputation after being licked by pet dog

    An American woman has lost her arms and legs after contracting a rare disease when an open cut was licked by one of her pet dogs. Marie Trainer complained of backache and nausea after returning home from a holiday at Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic. Initially, doctors in Canton, Ohio, believed she had been laid low by a tropical disease which she picked up in the Caribbean.   Mrs Trainer recalled feeling sick and lying down on a couch.    She was rushed to hospital as her tem
  • Whales die in new mysterious Iceland stranding

    Some 20 pilot whales have died stranded in mysterious circumstances on the south-western coast of Iceland, emergency services said Saturday, only two weeks after a similarly unexplained mass stranding had already killed dozens of the long-finned cetaceans.The dead whales, part of a group of 50 stranded whales, were discovered late Friday near Gardur, some 50 kilometres (31 miles) from the capital Reykjavik.According to Icelandic media, locals began rescue efforts to save the whales even before e
  • 7 dead, 31 rescued after boats capsize in Philippines

    At least seven people died and 31 others were rescued when three ferry boats separately capsized in bad weather Saturday between two central Philippine island provinces, the coast guard said.A search by the coast guard, police and villagers was underway.The dead included six women and a man, coast guard spokesman Armand Balilo said, adding that one of the ferry boats, M/B Chichi, was carrying at least 42 passengers.
  • Moscow police use force to end election protest, arrest 600

    Demonstrators were aiming to hold a march along the Boulevard Ring despite repeated warnings that police would take active measures against a protest.
  • India denies Pakistan's claims of illegal bombs amid renewed tensions over Kashmir

    KARACHI/ISLAMABAD, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Pakistan accused India on Saturday of using illegal cluster bombs, killing two civilians and wounding 11, in the contested Kashmir region that both countries claim.In the latest flare-up of tensions between the two countries, India denied it had used such weapons.Pakistan's military released images of what it said were bombs used by India during shelling along the contested border in Kashmir on July 30 and 31, and photos of civilians, including a 4-year-old b
  • 3 People Dead After Bluff Collapses at Southern California Beach

    'This is a naturally eroding coastline. There’s really no rhyme or reason'
  • 'Comfort woman' statue pulled from Japan exhibit after threats

    A controversial statue symbolizing "comfort women" was withdrawn from a Japanese art exhibition on Saturday after organizers received security threats, amid a resurgence of tensions between Japan and South Korea rooted in their bitter wartime past.Comfort women is a euphemism for those, many of them Korean, forced to work in Japan's World War Two brothels and is a highly emotional topic for people of both countries.Japan says the issue was settled by past agreements and apologies but many Korean
  • Hong Kong police fire tear gas at protesters in tourist district

    Hong Kong riot police fired tear gas on Saturday evening at pro-democracy protesters in a popular tourist district, as violence rocked the international finance hub once more despite increasingly stern warnings from China.Authorities in Hong Kong and Beijing this week signalled a hardening stance, including with the arrests of dozens of protesters, and the Chinese military saying it was ready to quell the "intolerable" unrest if requested.Officers with gas masks and shields charged at hundreds o
  • Maldives police arrest ex-vice president who fled to India

    Maldives police said Saturday that they arrested a former vice president who had sought asylum in India after fleeing the Indian Ocean archipelago nation to avoid questioning over the alleged embezzlement of state funds and were bringing him back to the Maldives.Former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb fled the Maldives and arrived by boat at southern India's Tuticorin port on Thursday.On Saturday, Maldives police confirmed that Adeeb had been arrested.
  • UK emergency workers race to cut water levels at damaged dam

    Emergency workers raced Saturday to lower water levels behind a damaged dam in northwest England as forecasters warned more bad weather is on the way.Pumps have reduced the water level in Toddbrook Reservoir by half a meter (20 inches) since Thursday, but authorities warn that pressure on the 180-year-old dam remains severe.A Royal Air Force helicopter continued precision drops of sandbags into a gaping hole on the dam, while specialist contractors placed concrete grouting around the bags to bin
  • America's New AC-130J Ghostrider Gunship Is a Beast

    The 30mm cannon in particular "almost like a sniper rifle. ... It's that precise, it can pretty much hit first shot, first kill," then-1st SOW commander Col. Tom Palenske told Millitary.com back in 2017, adding that the Ghostrider is "going to [be] the most lethal, with the most loiter time, probably the most requested weapons system from ground forces in the history of warfare."Brace yourselves: the Air Force's newest gunship is officially on the prowl downrange.The AC-130J Ghostrider gunship f
  • Snubbed by North Korea, Pompeo hits other Asian turbulence

    U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left Thailand on Saturday with his hopes for resuming nuclear talks with North Korea dashed, while facing an escalating trade war with China and a potentially devastating breakdown in relations between key American allies Japan and South Korea.After three days in Bangkok that the Trump administration had expected could herald an end to the impasse in North Korea negotiations, Pompeo instead departed without progress on that front as Pyongyang continued to laun
  • Iran Watch: Should Trump Fear Tehran's Last Missile Test?

    Iran does test medium-range ballistic missiles, although not commonly. What HappenedFor the first time since a standoff between the United States and Iran escalated into attacks on oil tankers, Iran has conducted a medium-range ballistic missile test. According to U.S. officials, Iran test-fired a Shahab-3 medium-range ballistic missile earlier this week that traveled 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) — distance enough to hit Saudi Arabia and come close to Israel.Iran's strategy in carrying out
  • Hiker scares off approaching cougar 'with Metallica music'

    A woman out hiking in woods says she scared off a cougar by playing Metallica music from her phone to it.Dee Gallant said the sound “saved the day” when the animal approached her.The 45-year-old was walking with her dog, Murphy, in Vancouver Island, Canada, when she spotted that they were being “stalked” by a cougar, CNN reported. As it approached, Ms Gallant yelled, and the big cat stopped moving forward but did not retreat.She waved her arms and shouted at the animal, s
  • US wants to quickly deploy new missiles in Asia: Esper

    Washington wants to quickly deploy new intermediate-range missiles in Asia, US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Saturday in a move likely to anger China.The new Pentagon chief said the US was now free to deploy the weapons following its withdrawal Friday from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty with Russia."Yes I would like to," Esper said when asked if the US was considering deploying new medium-range conventional weapons in Asia.
  • Hong Kong protesters block tunnel as marches continue in defiance of Beijing

    ar shopping district and blocked a major tunnel Saturday evening, defying increasingly stern warnings from China over weeks-long unrest that has plunged the city into crisis. The semi-autonomous southern Chinese financial hub has seen two months of protests and clashes triggered by opposition to a planned extradition law that quickly evolved into a wider movement for democratic reforms. Authorities in Hong Kong and Beijing this week signalled a hardening stance, including with the arrests of doz
  • UPDATE 1-US Defence Secretary says he favours placing intermediate-range missiles in Asia

    U.S. Defence Secretary Mark Esper said on Saturday that he was in favour of placing ground-launched, intermediate-range missiles in Asia relatively soon, a day after the United States withdrew from a landmark arms control treaty.Esper's comments are likely to raise concern about an arms race and could add to an already tense relationship with China."Yeah, I would like to," Esper said, when asked whether he was considering placing such missiles in Asia.
  • A$AP Rocky arrives back in US after release from Swedish prison amid looming assault verdict

    Rapper A$AP Rocky has returned to the US amid a looming verdict in an assault case against him in Sweden. The 30-year-old, whose real name is Rakim Mayers, was released from jail in southern Sweden on Friday by judges who are mulling a verdict against him and two other Americans that is expected on 14 August. Nearly a month after his arrest in Stockholm, Los Angeles media reported the artist was among a number of people shown emerging from a private plane at Los Angeles International Airport. Al
  • Democratic 2020 Candidates Inch Away From Medicare for All

    (Bloomberg) -- In April, many of the top Democratic presidential candidates eagerly lined up to co-sponsor Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All bill -- a vast restructuring of the U.S. health-care system that would go far beyond Obamacare.Senators Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand, along with Representatives Tim Ryan and Tulsi Gabbard, all co-sponsored the bill with an eye toward the upcoming presidential primaries.“It was a recognition that the center o
  • The Day That Obsessed Adolf Hitler

    Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyThis summer marked the centennial of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, on June 28, 1919. The treaty put a formal end to World War I, one of the deadliest military conflicts in history. Yet the anniversary went mostly unnoticed.That’s a shame because the treaty’s contents, and the reaction that they caused, were essential to paving the way for the ascent of Adolf Hitler and the rise of fascism in Europe.World War I broke out in the lat

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