The Phony Coronavirus Class War

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Glorious Chicken on the Grill

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Jailed Saudis Seek Influence in Washington to Counter Crown Prince

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Un adolescente lucha contra un nuevo síndrome relacionado con el coronavirus

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Trump plan 'historic', peace deals crucial: Israel foreign minister

Israel's new foreign minister said Monday that US President Donald Trump's Middle East peace proposal offered an "historic opportunity" but that regional peace deals must be maintained during its implementation. Gabi Ashkenazi, who became the Jewish state's top diplomat when a new unity government was sworn in on Sunday, made the comments at a transition ceremony in Jerusalem. "The plan will be promoted responsibly and in coordination with the United States, while maintaining peace agreements and the strategic interests of Israel," Ashkenazi said according to a copy of his remarks seen by AFP.

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FBI: US naval base attack 'motivated by Al-Qaeda'

The Saudi Air Force officer who killed three Americans in Florida spoke to the terror group in Yemen.

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13 People Shot, With One in Critical Condition, at Louisiana Memorial Service

The memorial service was apparently for Dominique James, who was recently murdered

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Huge fentanyl haul seized in Asia's biggest-ever drugs bust

Myanmar police say they have seized a huge haul of liquid fentanyl - the first time the dangerous synthetic opioid that is ravaging North America has been found in Asia’s Golden Triangle drug-producing region. In a sign that Asia’s drug syndicates have moved into the lucrative opioid market, more than 3,700 litres of methylfentanyl was discovered by anti-narcotics police near Loikan village in Shan State in northeast Myanmar. The seizure of the fentanyl derivative was part of Asia’s biggest-ever interception of illicit drugs, precursors and drug-making equipment, including 193 million methamphetamine tablets known as yaba. At 17.5 tonnes, that is almost as much yaba as has been seized during the previous two years in Myanmar. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said the scale of the bust was unprecedented and Myanmar’s anti-drug authorities had “dismantled a significant network” during a two-month operation involving police and military. Also seized were almost 163,000 litres and 35.5 tonnes of drug precursors - substances that can be used to produce drugs - as well as weapons. There were more than 130 arrests.

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Government to make major revisions to PPP to give small businesses more flexibility

Gene Marks, CPA at The Marks Group, joins ‘America’s News HQ.’

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Donald Trump Jr. Smears Biden With Baseless Instagram Post

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's eldest son on Saturday posted a social media message suggesting Joe Biden was a pedophile, an incendiary and baseless charge that illustrates the tactics the president is turning to as he attempts to erase Biden's early advantage in key state polls.Donald Trump Jr., who is one of his father's most prominent campaign surrogates, put on Instagram a picture of Biden saying: "See you later, alligator" alongside an image of an alligator saying: "In a while, pedophile."When a reporter shared the Instagram post online, the younger Trump, echoing one of his father's tactics, wrote on Twitter that he was only "joking around" and noted that he had included emojis of a laughing face.Yet in the same Twitter post, he also reprised his original insinuation. He accused the former vice president of "unwanted touching" alongside a collage of photographs of Biden showing affection for children. The misleading images were mostly taken from public swearing-in ceremonies at the Capitol, where the former vice president warmly greeted lawmakers and their families.Biden has been accused by some adult women of inappropriate behavior but he has never faced any suggestion of misconduct with a child. Trump himself faces roughly two dozen accusations of sexual misconduct, and in the "Access Hollywood" tape from 2005 bragged about sexually assaulting women and grabbing them by their private parts.Trump Jr.'s inflammatory and baseless claim, which he shared with his 2.8 million Instagram followers, comes as his father and the reelection campaign have sought to weaken Biden and attack other perceived enemies with an onslaught of allegations and insinuations rarely seen in modern elections.The 73-year-old president has, for example, purchased a series of Facebook ads openly accusing his 77-year-old Democratic rival of being "old and out of it," as one of them puts it. And the president himself has said much the same, stating Thursday that Biden "doesn't know he's alive."Trump's scorched earth campaign strategy comes as little surprise -- he has broken an array of norms during his three years in office. But his offensive has taken on a new urgency as the country reels from the health and economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus, and Biden enjoys a modest lead in the battleground states that will decide the election.A spokesman for the president's campaign did not respond to an email message asking if they condone the younger Trump's message.Andrew Bates, a spokesman for Biden, said: "No repulsive, manipulative tactic will change the subject from how almost 90,000 Americans have paid for Donald Trump's coronavirus negligence with their lives and how the booming economy he inherited from the Obama-Biden administration is now suffering from Depression-level job losses."Trump Jr., 42, is affiliated with his family's real estate business. But he spends much of his time on his father's political efforts and is ubiquitous on social media, where he often posts barbed memes about Democrats that can go beyond even the president's accusations and insinuations. The eldest Trump son is also more of a dedicated conservative than his father and often gives voice to some of the more extreme elements of the right.Further, Trump Jr. is something of an early warning system for Republican lines of attack. For months, he has been posting material questioning Biden's mental acuity and accusing him of being "creepy," as he wrote again Saturday.In an interview with Axios earlier this year, Trump Jr. acknowledged his father sometimes calls him to tell him he's being "too aggressive" in his attacks.But the younger Trump said with a smile that he tells his father he "learned it by watching you" and claimed the president often is more jealous than irritated. "He just wanted the material. He was mad I beat him to the punch."This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2020 The New York Times Company

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The helicopter company that operated Kobe Bryant's fatal flight got more than $600,000 in coronavirus stimulus money from the Treasury Department

The funds, which went to Island Express Helicopters and other private aviation companies, were intended to prevent coronavirus-related layoffs.

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Taiwan says it did not receive WHO meeting invite, issue off the table for now

Despite strong efforts Taiwan did not get invited to this week's meeting of a key World Health Organization (WHO) body due to Chinese pressure, its foreign minister said on Monday, adding they had agreed to put the issue off until later this year. The decision drew prompt condemnation from the United States, which has been blaming China for covering up the early days of coronavirus outbreak and for refusing to share data about the virus with the rest of the world. Non-WHO member Taiwan had been lobbying to take part in a meeting later on Monday of WHO's decision-making body, the World Health Assembly, saying that to lock it out was to create a gap in fighting the coronavirus pandemic.

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Letter from Africa: Spare a thought for stranded migrants

Ismail Einashe writes that migrants are facing a tougher time since the outbreak of coronavirus.

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Felicien Kabuga captured: Africa's most wanted and the mastermind behind Rwandan genocide seized in Paris

French police seized the man regarded as the intellectual and financial mastermind behind the Rwandan genocide on Saturday, ending a transcontinental 26-year manhunt for “the Eichmann of Africa”. Félicien Kabuga, Africa’s most wanted fugitive, was arrested in the northern outskirts of Paris after a dawn raid on his flat in the commune of Asnières-sur-Seine. Officers said the 84 year-old had been living there under an assumed identity. French authorities released few details about the operation, beyond hailing the capture of “one of the world’s most wanted fugitives”. It is believed that a series of simultaneous raids were carried out on addresses across France, some linked to Kabuga’s children, to ensure that he did not escape. Those familiar with the investigation suggested that the operation, at least in terms of the painstaking intelligence work involved, had echoes of the Mossad mission to seize the Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann from Buenos Aires in 1960. The British security services played an “essential” role in the operation that led to Kabuga’s capture, according to United Nations prosecutors. So, too, did investigators in the United States, which has long had a $5 million (£4.1m) bounty on his head, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Luxembourg and Switzerland. Kabuga will not be sedated and spirited away to Rwanda in the way Eichmann was smuggled into Israel, where he was tried and hanged for his role as a primary architect of the Final Solution. Instead he will eventually be handed over to a United Nations tribunal to answer longstanding charges of crimes against humanity.

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Xi defends China's virus response, offers vaccine when ready

Chinese President Xi Jinping said Monday Beijing has been "transparent" throughout the coronavirus crisis, and offered to share a vaccine as soon as one was available -- as well as $2 billion in aid. Governments including the US and Australia have called in recent weeks for an investigation into the origins of the virus, which has become a flashpoint in deteriorating tensions between Washington and Beijing. Both US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have accused China of a lack of transparency over the issue, and repeatedly pushed the theory that the virus leaked from a Chinese maximum-security laboratory.

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A report circulating in Congress, which claims that China covered up a virus leak from a Wuhan lab, has been debunked

The Sierra Nevada Corporation claimed a "hazardous event" occurred at the Wuhan Institute of Virology last year. The theory is popular but unverified.

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Group of GOP state AGs calls on judge to dismiss Flynn case

A group of 15 Republican state attorneys general filed an amicus brief Monday supporting the Justice Department’s motion to drop its case against former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn. The group, led by Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, argues that U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan should immediately grant the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss all charges against Flynn because “the federal judiciary has no authority to make the executive branch pursue (or continue to pursue) a criminal conviction,” the filing says.

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Biden plans to pick a female running mate. Would it make a difference if she's black?

Analysis: The former vice president is undertaking a very public selection process.

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Rocket falls inside green zone in Baghdad, no casualties

A rocket landed on an empty house inside the heavily fortified green zone in Baghdad without causing any casualties, military statement said on Tuesday.

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Israel linked to cyberattack on Iranian port: Washington Post

Israel appears to be behind a cyberattack earlier this month on computers at Iran's Shahid Rajaee port that caused massive backups on waterways and roads leading to the facility, the Washington Post reported on Monday.

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Coronavirus deaths in Latin America exceed 30,000: Reuters tally

Deaths from the coronavirus in Latin America have surpassed 30,000, a Reuters tally showed on Monday. The figure represents 9.61% of all deaths worldwide, according to data compiled by Reuters.

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Brazil sees 674 new coronavirus deaths, world's third highest number of infections

Brazil recorded 674 new coronavirus deaths on Monday, the Health Ministry said, and announced a total of 254,220 confirmed cases, overtaking Britain to become the country with the third-highest number of infections behind the United States and Russia.

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Youths clash with police in Paris suburb of Argenteuil

Youths clashed with police into the early hours of Monday in a Paris suburb after the death of a young man in a motorcycle accident, which some in the community blamed on the police, Le Parisien newspaper and residents reported.

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