Judge temporarily bans Detroit police from chokeholds, rubber bullets against protesters

U.S. District Court Judge Laurie Michelson partially granted a restraining order late on Friday after activist group "Detroit Will Breathe" alleged that the police had responded to peaceful demonstrations with "beatings, tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sound cannons, flash grenades, chokeholds, and mass arrests without probable cause." The group said such police tactics were violations of "First and Fourth Amendment rights", which include the practice of free speech, according to filings made in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

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'Get him out of here’: Donald Trump demanded UK ambassador leave US after leaked cables showed diplomat criticising him

Donald Trump demanded the removal of the UK’s ambassador to the US after leaked cables showed the diplomat criticising him, according to former US national security advisor John Bolton.Mr Trump ordered that Kim Darroch be made to leave Washington, Mr Bolton claims.

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Utah police frustrated with anti-law enforcement sentiment

After months of protests around the nation over racial injustice in policing, police groups in Utah say they have grown frustrated with rhetoric they describe as unfair and called for The Salt Lake Tribune to apologize after it published an editorial cartoon linking the Ku Klux Klan with law enforcement. Police supporters staged a protest outside the Tribune’s printing press Thursday night after the Utah Sheriffs’ Association, and Republican U.S. Rep Chris Stewart demanded that the paper retract the cartoon and apologize. Several police groups, including the state's Department of Public Safety, have condemned the use of KKK imagery to portray law enforcement officials.

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Lawyer of accused Kenosha shooter has troubled financial past, steps away from defense fund that raised $700K

Kyle Rittenhouse's attorney John Pierce, whose firm owes millions, has stepped away from the FightBack Foundation defense fund that raised $700,000.

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Osama bin Laden’s niece claims 9/11-inspired attack could happen if Trump loses the election

Osama bin Laden‘s niece has claimed that another 9/11-inspired attack could happen if Joe Biden is elected president, and she says only Donald Trump could prevent it.“ISIS proliferated under the Obama/Biden administration, leading to them coming to Europe. Trump has shown he protects America and us by extension from foreign threats by obliterating terrorists at the root and before they get a chance to strike,” Noor bin Ladin, 33, told the New York Post in her first-ever interview.

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Alleged Boogaloo members face terrorism charges in Minnesota

Two men who prosecutors say are members of an anti-government extremist group, who toted guns on Minneapolis streets during unrest following the death of George Floyd and spoke about shooting police, blowing up a courthouse and killing politicians, have been charged with federal terrorism counts. Michael Robert Solomon, 30, of New Brighton, Minnesota, and Benjamin Ryan Teeter, 22, of Hampstead, North Carolina, are members of the “Boogaloo Bois,” authorities say.

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Rochester, NY police union says officers acted by book in using hood in man's arrest

"They had to do exactly what they did," Rochester Police Locust Club President Michael Mazzeo told a news conference on Friday, adding that there was a "substantial amount of evidence to show why the protocols" used by the officers were employed. Prude, a 41-year-old Black man, died after an encounter with police in Rochester, New York, in March. Release of the video was followed by protests in Rochester, turning the city of 200,000 people in the northwest corner of the state into the latest flash point in a summer of civil unrest over racism and police brutality.

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2 more in Louisiana die from heat-related illness after Hurricane Laura

The current known deaths blamed on the hurricane, which came ashore Aug. 27, in the state is now 22. Five have died in Texas.

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Typhoon Maysak: North Korea vows to punish officials over 'casualties'

The ruling party says local officials are responsible for "dozens of casualties" in Typhoon Maysak,

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Trump demands firing of Fox News reporter who backed story he called dead US soldiers 'suckers'

President Donald Trump has called for the firing of Fox News' security correspondent after she backed a bombshell report alleged he branded dead US soldiers "suckers" and "losers".The right-wing news channel, which is broadly supportive of the president, spent much of Friday morning attacking the initial exclusive by The Atlantic, particularly its use of unnamed sources.

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Judge orders US to stop detaining migrant children in hotels

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to stop detaining immigrant children in hotels before expelling them from the United States, saying the much-criticized practice skirted “fundamental humanitarian protections." U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee ruled that the use of hotels as long-term detention spaces violates a two-decade-old settlement governing the treatment of immigrant children in custody. Immigration agencies since March have expelled 148,000 people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border under an emergency declaration citing the pandemic.

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Some Democrats warn Trump may use 'red mirage' to prematurely declare victory while absentee ballots are being counted

Democrats are trouncing Republicans in absentee voting requests. But that means Donald Trump could lead in Election Day votes that are reported first.

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The U.S. Open Descends Into Pandemic Precaution Chaos

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Armed men arrested after traveling from Missouri to Kenosha to 'see for themselves,' FBI says

Michael Karmo and Cody Smith were arrested near Kenosha on gun possession charges.

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Army soldier dies in training at Fort Hood, the latest death at troubled Texas base

The soldier died as U.S. senators seek hearings into the Army base.

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Fundraising page for salon owner who exposed Pelosi raises $140,000 in just two days

A fundraising campaign set up on behalf of the owner of the San Francisco salon at the centre of a controversy with house speaker Nancy Pelosi has raised more than $140,000 (£106,150) in just two days.The GoFundMe page, that describes itself as the official and only valid fundraiser for the owner of eSalon, Erica Kious, was set up by former Nevada State GOP chairman Amy Tarkanian on Wednesday and is looking to raise $300,000 (£226,990).

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Texas Governor Declares a Victory Over COVID. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has already seen his state’s reopening waylaid by a resurgent coronavirus pandemic this summer, so a recent tweet from the governor that seemed to indicate he could be ready to do it all over again has alarmed local officials.“I’m concerned about how far he goes,” Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, a Democrat, told The Daily Beast. “I’ll have to wait and see where he goes.”The dynamics are just the latest in ongoing tensions between the red state governor and local blue leaders. In a tweet Monday, Abbott touted that he “said last month that Texas wouldn’t have anymore lockdowns—despite demands from mayors & county judges insisting on,” such a move. “Since my last orders in July, Covid numbers have declined—most importantly hospitalizations,” Abbott said in the tweet. “I hope to provide updates next week about next steps.” The governor’s tweet came in response to an account called “Deep in the Heart of Texas” tweeting at Abbott that “those of us in the restaurant industry need this clarity in our future,” after pointing to a video of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis saying earlier that day “we will never do any of these lockdowns again.” No other details were given by the governor and a spokesperson for Abbott did not respond to requests for comment seeking more information. The stakes for Abbott are high in Texas after the state’s reopening capsized this summer and cases surged, hitting nearly 10,800 new daily cases on July 15, according to state data. That same month, some Democratic leaders called for the governor to give them the power to do local stay at home orders.The state’s situation may have improved since then, but Peter Jay Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine, said Texas still has “a pretty high level of transmission.” “I don’t know what the goals are then by rolling back,” Hotez said. “There’s no victory here. There’s still a very poor quality of life in the metro areas in Texas.” As of Wednesday, the state’s test positivity rate stood at 8.98 percent, according to state health data, while hospitalizations in the state had fallen from nearly 10,900 on July 22 to 4,075 as of Thursday’s report with the daily new case number coming in at 3,899. And with those numbers in mind, the upcoming flu season is seen as another challenge that wouldn’t be made easier if the state reopens too quickly. “Whether it’s Texas or not… I don't really understand why we would consider relaxing any type of public health measures that we have in place like masking and distancing and certain high risk areas being off limits, more or less, until we get past the flu season at least,” said Dr. Rodney E. Rohde, professor and chair of the clinical laboratory science program at Texas State University. Texas Just Hit 10,000 COVID Deaths, and It’s ‘Flying Blind’A handful of elected officials and public health experts stated bluntly that now isn’t the time for the governor to make a reopening push, with the possible reopening of bars in the state a major worry for some like Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins. “If the governor opens bars back up, or makes masking permissive rather than a requirement then he’ll squander the gains that we’ve worked so hard for and the community has sacrificed so long for and we’ll be right back in the mess that we were in a month after Open Texas,” Jenkins, a Democrat, warned. The Houston area in particular has been hit hard by the coronavirus, and in Harris County the risk level is still listed as severe, meaning there is “a severe and uncontrolled level of COVID-19,” according to the county’s website. As The Daily Beast previously reported in July, a surge in cases were flooding the area’s health care system as calls for a lockdown became more persistent. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, who in mid-July called for a two-week shutdown, picked the governor apart in a statement this week about the Republican’s handling of the pandemic pointing to “disastrous” results following the state’s reopening in May as he worried about the future. “And now that numbers are better like in April, the governor is about to embark on the same course again,” Turner, a Democrat, said. “It is frustrating that he is making decisions that impact all of us without including local officials in the process. The State is about to repeat its mistake, expecting a different result.”After Texas began reopening in May, Abbott’s reopening push fell apart in late June as the state’s coronavirus situation worsened and he halted the state’s re-opening over concerns about hospitalizations and new cases. In the days to come, the Republican also closed bars, limited restaurant capacity and made a statewide mask executive order for “counties with 20 or more positive COVID-19 cases,” according to a July 2 statement from the governor’s office. More than 40 counties are exempt from the order, according to the Texas Division of Emergency Management. When both policies and behaviors in Texas became more relaxed in early May that led to “alarming increases in cases and hospitalizations,” in some places the following month Lauren Ancel Meyers, the director of the University of Texas at Austin COVID-19 modeling consortium, told The Daily Beast. The stricter policies and change in behavior that came about because of that then slowed transmission of the virus, Meyers said. “The longer we hold on to the precautionary behavior and the policies the more we will see cases and hospitalizations continue to decline,” Meyers said. “It’s reasonable to consider changes in policy that may provide some economic and social relief, however, only if done with extreme caution and really strong messaging around the responsibility we all have to take precautions when we're going out in public, to not go out in public if we or anyone in our household even has the slightest symptom of COVID. ” While some local officials were clearly troubled by what could come from Abbott’s office next week, Deaf Smith County Judge D.J. Wagner welcomed the idea of easing statewide restrictions. “Oh absolutely,” the Republican said. “Yeah, we’ve got to get on with life.” That wasn’t a feeling shared on the Texas/Mexico border by Maverick County Judge David Saucedo. The local Democrat warned that he didn’t think “we’re out of the woods yet,” and lamented that numbers in border communities have been “pretty high.”“In my community, I'm seeing that we’re still a hotspot,” Saucedo said. “…After every holiday we’ve seen an uptick in cases go up and we don’t want to get into that danger zone again.”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.

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A Florida congresswoman was blocked from visiting two USPS mail sorting facilities amid concerns for delayed mail delivery

"Denying Congress access to the facilities is denying the vital public oversight of our mail system," Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz told NBC News.

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Pope set to make first trip since pandemic to saint's town

Pope Francis is next month set to make what would be his first visit outside Rome since Italy was put under lockdown in early March when it became the first country in Europe to feel the full brunt of the coronavirus pandemic. The encyclical is expected to stress the value of brotherly relations during and after the pandemic, a theme Francis evoked repeatedly during the pandemic. The encyclical will be entitled in Italian “'Fratelli tutti' sulla fraternita' e l'amicizia sociale.”

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Mike Pence Visiting Pittsburgh Next Week

The Vice President will be in Export for a roundtable meeting with pro-life leaders.

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Judge bans Detroit police tactics against protesters

A federal judge late Friday temporarily barred Detroit police from using tear gas, rubber bullets, batons, shields, chokeholds or sound cannons against peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters after a group accused the city for excessive force. U.S. District Court Judge Laurie Michelson partially granted a temporary restraining order filed Monday by Detroit Will Breathe against the city of Detroit, accusing police of using excessive force to deter protesters from practicing their free speech rights.

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Macron decries 'Islamic separatism,' defends blasphemy

French President Emmanuel Macron criticized Friday what he called “Islamic separatism” in his country and those who seek French citizenship without accepting France’s “right to commit blasphemy.” Macron defended satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that helped inspire two French-born Islamic extremists to mount a deadly January 2015 attack on the paper's newsroom. The weekly republished the images this week as the trial began of 14 people over the attacks on Charlie Hebdo and on a kosher supermarket.

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