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FBI Now Probing $300 Million Media Company Deal Linked To Steve Bannon: Report
The Huffington Post - 21 Aug 2020 02:35
The FBI and SEC launched an investigation after investors said they never received verification of their investments, sources told The Wall Street Journal.
Lori Loughlin sentenced to 2 months in prison in college admissions scandal
CBSNews - 21 Aug 2020 22:08
Actress Lori Loughlin has been sentenced to two months in prison for her role in the nationwide college admissions scandal. Her husband, designer Mossimo Giannulli, got a five-month sentence after the couple accepted a p...
Progressive Groups Are Getting More Selective In Targeting Incumbents. Is It Working?
FiveThirtyEight - 21 Aug 2020 17:47
In 2018, now-Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley shocked the political world by unseating 20-year incumbents in their Democratic primaries. And this year, the trend continued with progressives Marie Newman...
Trump Cooks Up Wacky New Birther Slam: Joe Biden Wasn't Born In Pennsylvania
The Huffington Post - 21 Aug 2020 03:42
Because the Democratic nominee moved out as a child, he really wasn't born in Scranton, the president told a perplexed Pennsylvania crowd.
California Fires Live Updates: 5 Dead as Blazes Spread
The New York Times - 21 Aug 2020 16:01
Northern California faces another day under siege, with the huge blazes ripping across the region still growing and still almost completely uncontained.
Berlin to rename 'Moor Street' after black philosopher Anton Wilhelm Amo
The Guardian - 21 Aug 2020 16:01
Campaigners welcome decision after years of protest against 'Mohrenstraße' name Berlin authorities have announced they are to rename Mohrenstraße ("Moor Street") in the city's Mitte district after the country's first b...
Watch Julia Louis-Dreyfus roast Trump while hosting the DNC
The Week - 21 Aug 2020 12:33
The emcee for the final night of the Democratic National Convention, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, tried something the previous three hosts had not: comedy. Not everybody loved her jokes, scattered throughout the two hours of vir...
Army searching for missing Fort Hood soldier Elder Fernandes
New York Post - 21 Aug 2020 02:59
Another Fort Hood soldier has gone missing. The Army on Thursday asked the public’s help in locating Sgt. Elder Fernandes of the troubled Killeen, Texas, military base. Fernandes, 23, hasn’t been seen or heard from s...
At least 12 shot overnight in NYC, including 2 fatally in the Bronx
New York Post - 21 Aug 2020 16:18
At least 12 people were shot across New York City early Friday, including two fatally in the Bronx, police said. Three people were shot at about 2 a.m. on East 179th Street in the Bronx, including a 60-year-old man shot ...
Alexei Navalny: plane leaves Germany to transport Putin critic after suspected poisoning
The Guardian - 21 Aug 2020 04:29
Russian opposition leader's aide urges hospital authorities not to interfere in efforts to take him out of the country for treatment Alexei Navalny's press secretary has urged Russian authorities not to interfere as supp...
Sturgis motorcycle rally attendees test positive for coronavirus
New York Post - 21 Aug 2020 03:59
Numerous people who attended a massive 10-day motorcycle rally in South Dakota that ended Sunday have tested positive for the coronavirus, health officials announced Thursday. Officials with the state Department of Healt...
Coronavirus: Job shortage sees 1,000 people chase one position
BBC - 21 Aug 2020 03:25
Data reveals vacancy adverts are down by 59% compared with last summer, with some areas down 80%.
Papua New Guinea bans Chinese mine staff 'given experimental Covid-19 vaccine'
The Guardian - 21 Aug 2020 03:03
Flight carrying workers from Chinese state-owned Ramu nickel mine cancelled by pandemic controller over concerns about vaccine trial A planeload of Chinese mine workers have been barred from entering Papua New Guinea, ov...
Postal Service hearing live updates: Postmaster general grilled over mail-in voting
ABC News - 21 Aug 2020 16:23
Senators grill embattled Postmaster General Louis DeJoy Friday amid uproar over President Trump attacks on mail-in voting.
Ex-SEAL involved in bin Laden raid banned from Delta
CBSNews - 21 Aug 2020 16:17
Robert O'Neill posted a maskless selfie with a vulgar caption, which gained widespread attention - including from Delta.
US faces threat of two Caribbean storms hitting simultaneously as hurricanes
The Guardian - 21 Aug 2020 16:07
Tropical Storm Laura currently lies at other end of Caribbean to a separate tropical depression A tropical storm and a tropical depression at opposite ends of the Caribbean were projected to possibly become hurricanes, m...
Argentines Seek Safety of U.S. Dollars, Despite Debt Deal
Wall Street Journal - 21 Aug 2020 15:57
Argentines are once again rushing to the safety of the U.S. dollar, a sign the country's deal with creditors to restructure $65 billion in foreign debt has failed to restore confidence in government policies.
Russian doctors say opposition leader Alexei Navalny wasn't poisoned
New York Post - 21 Aug 2020 15:45
Russian doctors treating opposition leader Alexei Navalny said they don't believe he was poisoned -- but they refused to transfer him to a German hospital.
Some California wildfires double in size as thousands flee homes
New York Post - 21 Aug 2020 15:27
Some of the dozens of wildfires sweeping across California more than doubled in size in just one day -- killing at least five.
R number rises in UK to between 0.9 and 1.1
Sky News - 21 Aug 2020 15:05
The R number in the UK has risen to between 0.9 and 1.1, the government's scientific advisory group (SAGE) says.
MPs call on UK to help whistleblower facing extradition to Monaco
The Guardian - 21 Aug 2020 15:00
Jonathan Taylor helped reveal how Dutch firm had paid multimillion-dollar bribes to secure oil industry contracts A cross-party group of MPs is urging the Foreign Office to support a corruption whistleblower who says he ...
UN-supported Libya government and rival authority call ceasefire
The Guardian - 21 Aug 2020 14:55
Development raises hopes of political solution as both sides call for end to oil blockade Libya's UN-supported government has announced a ceasefire across the oil-rich country and called for the demilitarisation of the s...