Mali coup: Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta flies to UAE

Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta was toppled by the military in August after mass protests against his rule.

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California hiker dies as record heat wave and wildfires scorch state

Temperatures reached 121 degrees in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Woodland Hills.

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Amid theft and accusations of sabotage, Haiti struggles to turn on the lights

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Businessman racially discriminated by wife who made Australia rant, tribunal rules

An Australian businessman has been awarded a payout of more than £100,000 after winning a racial discrimination case against his British wife who said she hated his country's "mentality", a tribunal has ruled. Duncan Bendall took his wife, Fiona, and their company The Female Social Network (TFSN) to an employment tribunal claiming he was discriminated against because he is a man and due to his nationality when he was pushed out of the firm. He also claimed unfair dismissal after she ousted him following the breakdown of their marriage. An employment judge awarded him more than £100,000 for race discrimination and unfair dismissal, but rejected his claims he was fired due to his gender. The tribunal heard Mr Bendall received an email from his wife three months before he was sacked in August last year in which she said: "I hate Australian mentality and you have it [in] droves just sh**…And DO NOT say you are a founder in MY business MY efforts ever again You Leech - you don't even believe in women or have ever stuck your neck out." Mr Bendall claimed he was dismissed as a result of his gender and nationality, and told the panel his wife "kept treating Australia as an inferior race" despite the couple living there for 15 years. He told the hearing: "It just made me feel small and like she was putting me down. It seemed she was only saying all this because now she was back in England. "The board had clearly chosen to back an English female and remove an Australian male." The tribunal heard Mr Bendall and his ex-wife, 42, set up a company called Bendalls in Australia in 2004, before setting up The Female Social Network in 2016. It then became a global company and the couple have been pictured with Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York at the UK launch last June.

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Short-Handed Bucks Hold Off Heat to Force Game 5

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Orca That Carried Dead Calf for 17 Days Gives Birth Again

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Lou Brock, Baseball Hall of Famer Known for Stealing Bases, Dies at 81

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Ashe Stadium Again Turns Into an Arena of the Absurd

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Kamala Harris walks back Biden's call for a nationwide mandate to wear a mask

Instead of a nationwide mandate as initially suggested, the Biden administration would push a "standard" to wear a mask, Harris said.

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Northeastern University Dismisses 11 Students, Without Returning Their $36,500 Tuition Fees, for Violating COVID-19 Rules

The Boston university dismissed the students they were caught gathering at a hotel

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Mexico says 122,765 extra people died during pandemic in 'excess deaths' study

Mexico has recorded 122,765 deaths more than would be expected during the pandemic up to August, the health ministry said on Saturday in a report on excess mortality rates, suggesting Mexico's true coronavirus toll could be much higher. Mexico has recorded 67,326 confirmed coronavirus deaths and 629,409 cases, the world's fourth highest death toll from the virus that has infected more than 26 million people around the globe. Mexico's government has often said the real number of infected people is likely to be significantly higher than the confirmed cases due to the low levels of testing.

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China tries to flip the pandemic script, starring a 'reborn' Wuhan

China is recasting Wuhan as a heroic coronavirus victim and trying to throw doubt on the pandemic's origin story as it aims to seize the narrative at a time of growing global distrust of Beijing.

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Atlantic basin expected to become 'quite active' this week

Following the dissipation of Omar, the Atlantic basin will pick up right where it left off in this record-setting season, with several features being monitored for tropical development this week."The eastern Atlantic is going to become quite active during the next few days," AccuWeather Hurricane Expert Dan Kottlowski said. One area being monitored is a broad low pressure system located over 1,000 miles to the west of the Cabo Verde Islands. The National Hurricane Center has designated this low as Invest 92L, indicating that this feature has the potential for tropical development."As 92L tracks to the west early this week, it will be within an area of relatively light wind shear and warm water, which should allow it to become better organized and develop into a tropical depression, then tropical storm," Kottlowski said.CLICK HERE FOR THE FREE ACCUWEATHER APPThe system will track generally to the west or west-northwest across the Atlantic and may pass close to or just north of the Lesser Antilles late in the week."All residents and interests of the Lesser Antilles, especially the Leeward Islands should closely monitor the progression of this evolving tropical system," Kottlowski said. Another area of concern is a robust tropical wave expected to emerge off the coast of western Africa on Sunday."This tropical wave is projected to become well organized as it moves off the coast and may quickly take on tropical characteristics, potentially by the time it crosses over or near the Cabo Verde Islands early this week," Kottlowski said.Regardless of how quickly this wave organizes, a period of drenching and gusty downpours is expected across the Cabo Verde Islands from Monday into Tuesday."Another strong tropical wave is projected to emerge from the African Coast Thursday," Kottlowski said.Farther west, a weak tropical wave over the Caribbean Sea has a low chance of development, but could bring an uptick in showers and thunderstorms across southern Hispaniola and Jamaica over the next few days.The next tropical storm names on the list for 2020 in the Atlantic are Paulette and Rene. Since one or both of these storms could form within the next week, there is a significant chance more early formation records will fall and join Cristobal, Edouard, Fay, Gonzalo, Hanna, Isaias, Josephine, Kyle, Laura, Marco, Nana and Omar as top of the list for early formation for their respective letters.Early formation record holders are Philippe, which formed on Sept. 17, 2005, and Rita, which formed on Sept. 18, 2005.Early this summer, AccuWeather meteorologists predicted a hyperactive peak hurricane season, which is now underway. AccuWeather meteorologists are calling for up to 24 tropical storms and up to 11 hurricanes in total this season.These numbers mean that the Greek alphabet will have to be utilized for tropical storm names, which was only done in one other season: 2005.Keep checking back on AccuWeather.com and stay tuned to the AccuWeather Network on DirecTV, Frontier and Verizon Fios.

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5 boats sink at Trump boat parade on Texas' Lake Travis

According to the sheriff's department, the wake in the water was caused by "many, many" boats on the water.

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Coronavirus rising in 22 U.S. states

As little as three weeks ago, cases were increasing in only three states, Hawaii, Illinois and South Dakota, according to an analysis comparing cases for the two-week period of Aug. 8-22 with the past two weeks. On a percentage basis, South Dakota had the biggest increase over the past two weeks at 126%, reporting over 3,700 new cases. Health officials have linked some of the rise to hundreds of thousands of motorcyclists who descended on Sturgis, South Dakota, for an annual rally in August.

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Democrat Biden adds former rival Buttigieg, ex-Obama officials to transition team

Joe Biden's presidential campaign on Saturday added former Democratic primary rival Pete Buttigieg, along with senior officials who served under President Barack Obama, to an expanded White House transition team. Biden added four new co-chairs to the team led by his longtime ally Ted Kaufman: New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, former Obama economic adviser Jeffrey Zients, Louisiana Representative Cedric Richmond and his campaign adviser Anita Dunn.

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Schools in Japan are back in session amid coronavirus pandemic

There's nothing typical about school now for students at an elementary school in northeast Tokyo.

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Bill Barr is acting like Trump's attack dog, not his attorney general

In a recent interview with CNN, Barr reached a new level of naked partisanship. Here are the worst examples Earlier this year a slew of distinguished lawyers signed an open letter to the Washington DC legal bar, asking it to investigate and discipline the US attorney general, William Barr, for possible ethical violations.The complaint charged him with violating his oath and the constitution by, among other things, representing “the personal and political interests of Donald Trump, not the interests of the United States”. It quoted a legal ethics professor, Stephen Gillers: “We don’t have an attorney general now. We have an additional lawyer for the president.”If Barr’s outrageous interview with CNN on Wednesday is anything to go by, the professional discipline complaint gave him too much credit.In his interview with Wolf Blitzer, Barr acted less like America’s highest law enforcement officer and more like a campaign press aide for Donald Trump.The distinction is extremely important. Lawyers deal in evidence and law. Campaign press spokesmen mimic their candidate’s talking points. Prosecutors are careful not to speak publicly about a criminal investigation. Campaign press aides make unfounded charges to dip into culture wars.This is not the way an attorney general should behave. After Watergate, Edward Levi affirmed that “our law is not an instrument of partisan purpose”. The next attorney general, Griffin Bell, proclaimed the justice department “a neutral zone” beyond politics.Barr lowered the bar even on his prior public appearances. Let’s look at five things he said. 1\. Mail-in votingTrump has continually attacked the post office and vote-by-mail. Barr amplified that sentiment on Wednesday, speculating that universal mail-in voting was “playing with fire”, “open to fraud and coercion” and “reckless and dangerous”. When Blitzer asked Barr how many mail-in voter fraud cases his justice department has prosecuted, however, Barr demurred: “I don’t know off the top of my head.”In fact, the evidence is clear: mail voting fraud is practically nonexistent. Utah, one of the most conservative states in the union, has had universal mail-in voting since 2012. Utah county’s Republican clerk reports that “there has not been a single prosecuted case of vote-by-mail fraud. And we’ve looked.”Out of billions of mail-in votes cast between 2000 and 2012, the University of California law professor Richard L Hasen recently found 491 cases of fraud nationwide among absentee ballots between 2000 and 2012. That would be a percentage under 0.000025.Indeed, in 2017, Trump set up a whole new election fraud commission to disprove the idea that Hillary Clinton legitimately vanquished him in the popular vote. The commission quietly disbanded without producing a shred of evidence of voter fraud. 2\. Foreign ballot interferenceIt gets worse. The president said in August that foreign countries might try to “grab batches” of vote-by-mail ballots from the US Postal Service. Barr, acting less like a lawyer and more like a propagandist, took it a step further. Consider this fearmongering exchange with Blitzer:> “If we use a ballot system, a system that states are just now trying to adopt, it leaves it open to counterfeiting,” Barr said.> > “Do you think a foreign country could do that?” Blitzer asked.> > “I think anybody could do that,” Barr said.> > “But have you seen any evidence that they’re trying to do that?” Blitzer asked.> > “No, but most things can be counterfeited,” Barr said.There was also this:> “You’ve said you’re worried a foreign country could send thousands of fake ballots” to US voters, Blitzer said. “What are you basing that on?”> > “As I’ve said repeatedly, I’m basing that on logic,” the attorney general replied.> > “But have you seen any evidence?” Blitzer pressed.> > “No,” Barr responded. 3\. Voting twiceIn North Carolina on Wednesday, Trump went from the ridiculous to the sublime, encouraging his supporters to vote both by mail and then in person, a clear violation of the law in that state.After Barr tried to make sense of the statement, Blitzer asked the AG if it was legal to vote twice. Barr’s answer? “I am not familiar with the law of the particular states.” Incredulous, the CNN host repeated the question, and the attorney general repeated his answer.We do expect lawyers to know, and to state unequivocally, that voting twice is election fraud, and against the law. It would amount to a class I felony in North Carolina. Apparently, knowing that was too much to ask of the attorney general of the United States. 4\. China, not RussiaBarr not only made statements for which he lacked evidence; he also made statements contradicting public evidence.We know that the president has done everything possible to deny Russian election interference. This year, he has taken to arguing that China is the one trying to steal the election – for his opponent.Singing from the same songbook, the attorney general did not hesitate to name China over Russia, when Blitzer asked him on Wednesday which country was the most aggressive election interferer in 2020. When Blitzer asked, “Not Russia?” Barr repeated, “China.” When Blitzer inquired about the basis for the AG’s opinion, Barr answered, “I’ve seen the intelligence,” and refused to say more.But what did Trump’s own Office of National Intelligence say? That Russia is using “active measures” to help Trump, while China “prefers” Biden because Trump is “unpredictable”, and that China is using more traditional foreign policy measures in Biden’s favor.There is a world of difference between active election interference and using diplomatic tools. Barr’s answer contradicted the intelligence community’s statement. 5\. Kenosha culture warWhen Blitzer asked Barr about the tragic shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, he repeated another Trump mantra. He denied that there was systemic racism in the US justice system and argued there was a “false narrative” that the country was in an “epidemic” of unarmed Black people being killed by police officers.He even suggested that if anything reforms of the past 60 years have built into them “a bias toward non-discrimination”.Barr veered from justice department regulations that prohibit prosecutors from commenting on cases before charges are filed when he talked about the Blake shooting. He alleged that Blake “had a weapon” and “was in the process of committing a felony”.Never mind that Blake had his three children in the car while he was supposedly committing that felony. Never mind that Blake’s family has said he did not have a weapon and that no one has reported seeing a weapon. Never mind that the police officer shot Blake seven times in the back while holding Blake’s T-shirt from behind.Barr’s CNN interview makes clear that he has trashed the scruples of his post-Watergate predecessors and sunk to the level of a common campaign flack. And it shows his worldview to be indistinguishable from that of the president he so dutifully serves.By devoting himself to promoting the president’s partisan aims, he disserves the interests of the American people that he is duty bound to represent. * Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell professor of jurisprudence and political science at Amherst College and the author of Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty. Dennis Aftergut is a former federal prosecutor who writes on national affairs

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Fraternal Order of Police national president on why his union is endorsing Trump for president

Patrick Yoes, national president of America's largest police union, joins 'CAVUTO Live.'

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Coronavirus live updates: San Diego State students forced indoors; Kentucky sets weekly records for most deaths, cases; US nears 190K deaths

Thousands of San Diego State University students have been ordered to stay indoors over Labor Day weekend. Speeding tickets soar. Latest news.

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Australia's COVID-19 epicenter extends hard lockdown till late September

Australia's coronavirus hot spot state of Victoria on Sunday extended a hard lockdown in its capital Melbourne until Sept. 28, as the infection rate has declined more slowly than hoped. The hard lockdown was ordered on Aug. 2 in response to a second wave of infections, that erupted in Melbourne. Australia's second most populous state has been the epicenter of a second wave of the novel coronavirus, now accounting for about 75% of the country's 26,282 cases and 90% of its 753 deaths.

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Opposing groups confront each other at Kentucky Derby protest

As the attorney general continues to investigate Taylor’s death, some protesters have called for the cancellation of the Kentucky Derby. On Saturday, protesters and counter-protesters took to the streets of Louisville near the famed Kentucky Derby horse race. A group of protesters for racial justice yelled, “Breonna Taylor,” while the group of about 200 pro-police demonstrators yelled, “Back the Blue,” according to a live update from WLKY News.

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Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Brock, who set a record with 118 stolen bases in 1974, has died at age 81

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