Big Time News Blog: 06/19/20

Friday, June 19, 2020

My 11-Year-Old Came Up With a Better Government

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Iran slams U.N. nuclear watchdog resolution, says it worked with body

Iran's Foreign Ministry on Friday blasted a resolution by the U.N. nuclear watchdog IAEA, saying Tehran has cooperated with the body, in a statement by state media. "While Iran has the highest level of cooperation with the IAEA, the issuance of a resolution by the Board of Governors is a completely unconstructive and disappointing step," ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said in the statement.

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Michael Gove warns Northern Irish voters will reject EU over bureaucratic customs rules

Michael Gove has warned Northern Ireland will vote to break away from EU customs rules if Brussels is too "bureaucratic" about enforcing the new border in the Irish Sea. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster told MPs on a scrutiny committee that there would be "unfettered access" of Northern Irish products to mainland Britain. Pressed on whether that meant no exit declarations on goods travelling to the mainland, he said, "absolutely". Michel Barnier said at the end of the fourth round of Brexit negotiations that avoiding exit declarations on goods moving from Northern Ireland was "incompatible with the legal commitments accepted by the UK" in the Northern Irish Protocol. Mr Gove, a cabinet minister, warned a heavy-handed approach would mean voters deciding against continued alignment with EU rules in the Stormont Vote planned for four years' time. The British Government secured the vote to bring democratic accountability in negotiations with the EU, which ended in a deal to put a customs border in the Irish Sea rather than on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, which is an EU member. "If the protocol is seen to be working, it's more likely the alignment provisions can be accepted," Mr Gove said, "if it's the case that it were imposed in an over bureaucratic and burdensome manner that would lead inevitably, I think, to a greater degree of disquiet." "When it comes to goods moving from Northern Ireland into the rest of the United Kingdom, the situation will be exactly the same. Come what may," Mr Gove said before admitting there would be additional checks on British goods going to Northern Ireland.

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Trump threatens Tulsa protesters as mayor lifts curfew

The president’s top advisers repeatedly referenced the potential for violence on the streets this weekend.

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Garrett Rolfe, the officer charged with killing Rayshard Brooks, was accused of covering up a police shooting of a Black man in 2015

Former Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe faces 11 charges in connection to the June 12 fatal shooting of Rayshard Brooks.

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In US Military First, the Air Force has Picked a Woman as Top Enlisted Leader

Bass emerged as "the consensus choice from more than a dozen finalists from across the Air Force's global operation."

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Pompeo warns Europeans against 'rogue actor' China

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday warned Europeans they are abandoning democracy if they embrace China, in a scathing denunciation of Beijing two days after he held talks on trans-Pacific friction. Pompeo was speaking publicly for the first time since meeting for nearly nine hours Wednesday in Hawaii with a top Chinese official, Yang Jiechi, on the soaring tensions between the United States and China.

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Seattle police union expelled from large labor group

The largest labor group in the Seattle area has expelled the city's police union, saying the guild representing officers failed to address racism within its ranks. The vote Wednesday night by the King County Labor Council to exclude the Seattle Police Officers Guild comes after weeks of protests in the city over police brutality and racism following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. It's also significant as the labor council is politically influential.

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Factbox: China's new national security proposals for Hong Kong riddled with uncertainty

China's plans to impose new national security laws on Hong Kong are raising widespread fears the legislation could lead to profound changes in the former British colony. WILL MAINLAND CHINA'S POWERFUL SECURITY AND INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES BE ABLE TO TAKE ENFORCEMENT ACTION IN THE CITY? The initial resolution of the National People's Congress raises the prospect that officers from such agencies could be based in the city for the first time if needed on national security cases.

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Iran test fires cruise missiles resistant to ‘electronic war,’ says naval chief

Iran test fired cruise missiles in a naval exercise in the Gulf of Oman and northern Indian Ocean, state media reported Thursday.

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How A Chinese Basketball Star Got China Its First Aircraft Carrier

Beijing did pay for the $20 million value of the carrier—but argued that it couldn’t cover other costs because he lacked receipts.

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The Doom Where It Happened

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Mike Pompeo Dishonors the State Department

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W.H.O. Warns of ‘Dangerous Phase’ of Pandemic as Outbreaks Widen

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To White People Who Want to Be ‘One of the Good Ones’

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Fact check: Images of witches, 'Amish' supposedly at Floyd protest are out of context

Among the viral images of George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests are misleading claims about groups that support the movement.

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Slave's grave vandalized in UK city in apparent retaliation

British officials said Thursday the grave of an enslaved African man has been vandalised in an apparent “retaliation attack” after protesters in the city of Bristol toppled the statue of a prominent slave trader. Two headstones in memory of Scipio Africanus, who lived in Bristol in the 18th century, were smashed. A message scrawled in chalk nearby called for the statue of Edward Colston to be put back or “things will really heat up.”

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Two Jet Pilots from Carrier Roosevelt Safe After Ejecting in Philippine Sea

An F-A-18F Super Hornet assigned to the carrier Theodore Roosevelt took a swim in the Philippine Sea.

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Turkey, Iran summoned over bombing of Kurdish rebels in Iraq

Baghdad on Thursday summoned ambassadors from Turkey and Iran over their countries’ separate military operations this week targeting Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, calling the attacks an affront to Iraq’s sovereignty. In an airborne-and-land operation dubbed “Operation Claw-Tiger,” Turkey airlifted troops into northern Iraq on Wednesday to root out the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, which it says maintains bases across the border in Iraq.

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Nazis used red triangles to mark political prisoners. That symbol is why Facebook banned a Donald Trump reelection campaign ad.

Political prisoners filled Nazi concentration camps, and they were marked with red triangles. Learn the history of the symbol.

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