- Coronavirus updates: Miami Beach parties as state's death toll surges; Trump convention celebration in jeopardyIn the U.S., more than 66,000 new cases of the coronavirus were confirmed and 941 deaths were reported Thursday. Here's today's latest news.
read more ...1 hour ago - River Nile dam: Sudan blasts 'unilateral' move as Ethiopia dam fillsAs talks fail with Ethiopia, Sudan says water levels drop downstream and Egypt demands "clarification".
read more ...4 hours ago - UK says Russia tried to meddle in election by leaking U.S. trade documentsBritain said on Thursday that Russia sought to interfere in the 2019 general election by illicitly acquiring sensitive documents relating to a planned free trade agreement with the United States and leaking them on social media. "It is almost certain that Russian actors sought to interfere in the 2019 General Election through the online amplification of illicitly acquired and leaked
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- Polish president fooled by Russian phone pranksters claiming to be UN secretary generalA Russian prankster posing as the U.N. secretary-general managed to reach Poland's president on the telephone and rendered him speechless with questions about Ukraine, Russia and his reelection on Sunday. The prankster, Vladimir Kuznetsov, known as Vovan, posted a recording of the 11-minute call on YouTube. President Andrzej Duda's office confirmed Wednesday that it was authentic. At various points in
read more ...1 day ago - Kanye West Drops Out of 2020 Presidential RaceKanye West is dropping his 2020 presidential bid less than two weeks after it began, according to a New York Magazine report.“He’s out,” West’s adviser Steve Kramer told The Intelligencer.The 43-year-old rapper had hired Kramer, a "get-out-the-vote specialist," to help get onto ballots by gathering signatures in Florida and South Carolina after he announced in a July 4th tweet that
read more ...1 day ago - TikTok teens dress up as grandmas and use medical masks to buy boozeWhen God closes a door he opens a window. Teenagers have lost out on many of life’s experiences due to the coronavirus pandemic, but an enterprising few have at least found a way to get drunk and buy alcohol without the need for a fake ID. Members of ‘Gen Z’ worldwide are taking advantage of mandatory mask wearing in public
read more ...1 day ago - Florida Man Pulls Gun, Makes Death Threat In Mask Argument At Walmart
Things got heated at a Walmart store in Royal Palm Beach when an unmasked man pulled a gun on a masked shopper in an apparent confrontation over wearing a facial covering. Katie Johnston reports.
read more ...1 day ago - 'I didn't do it': Executed federal prisoner used final words to plead innocenceThe first man executed by the US federal government in 17 years protested his innocence in his final words before his sentence was carried out on Tuesday.Asked if he wanted to give a final statement before the lethal injection procedure, Lee reportedly said “I bear no responsibility for the deaths of the Mueller family.”
read more ...1 day ago - Young activists, localists top Hong Kong pro-democracy pollsYoung activists and localist candidates dominated Hong Kong’s unofficial pro-democracy primaries over the weekend, with hundreds of thousands of people voting despite warnings the election could violate the territory's new security law imposed by Beijing. Candidates who topped the polls were in their 40s or younger in every constituency and included prominent pro-democracy activists Joshua Wong and Jimmy Sham, who
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