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A report commissioned by U.S. European Command considers the hypothetical premise of a Russian land grab on NATO's eastern flank. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 22nd October 2020 at 18:46 (about 33 minutes ago)
A Minnesota judge has dismissed a third-degree murder charge filed against the former Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee against George Floyd?s neck, but the more serious second-degree murder charge remains. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 22nd October 2020 at 18:46 (about 33 minutes ago)
In an interview with National Public Radio?s public editor today, Terence Samuel, managing editor for news, explained why readers haven?t seen any stories about the New York Post?s Hunter Biden email scoop.?We don?t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don?t want to waste the listeners? and readers? time on stories that are just pure distractions,? Samuel reasoned. ?And quite frankly, that's where we ended up, this was . . . a politically driven event and we decided to treat it that way.?Samuel, sadly, speaks for much of the media, which has ignored or dismissed the emails out of hand. In her 60 Minutes interview with the president (released preemptively by the White House), Lesley Stahl vigorously denies that Joe Biden is in the midst of a scandal. When the New York Post story broke, the New York Times immediately followed up -- with a piece on the Post?s reporting.For his part, Samuel fails to explain what journalistic standards he employs to ascertain what does and doesn?t constitute a ?waste of time.? The New York Post?s reporting, after all, has now been corroborated by an on-the record source, Tony Bobulinski, a former Hunter Biden business partner and Navy veteran. The emails that Bobulinski says are ?genuine? purport to detail a business arrangement in which the Biden family ?aggressively leveraged the Biden family name to make millions? from foreign entities.How is that ?not really a story??There is more and more reason to credit the veracity of those emails, or at a minimum, suggest that they warrant more thorough investigation. We have what appears to be a signed receipt from the computer repair shop in Delaware, demonstrating that Hunter?s laptop and hard drive were obtained legally. We know that the laptop in question is being held in connection to an FBI money-laundering investigation. The director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe, says that the emails in questions aren?t part of a Russian disinformation campaign and the FBI hasn?t contradicted him.Yet, the managing editor of one of the nation?s largest publicly funded media organization believes emails possibly implicating a presidential frontrunner in having benefitted from deals involving his shady son who was leveraging the family name and proximity to power for millions are nothing but a distraction. Nobody would apply that standard to stories about influence-peddling, foreign contacts, or foreign financial interests on the part of Donald Trump?s family -- nor should they. To the contrary, not only has the press properly treated Trump family business interests as newsworthy, they have frequently disregarded even the most minimal journalistic standards to issue breathless reports about them.In contemporary media parlance, ?distraction,? like ?Russian disinformation,? is a euphemism for any story that harms the prospects of the Biden candidacy. Too many journalists seem to live in terror of being blamed for reporting stories that might influence voters to reelect Donald Trump. As of this writing, National Public Radio is running headlines such as, ?Here?s Where The Threat Of Militia Activity Around The Elections Is The Highest? and ??Borat? Sequel Grabs A Political News Cycle ? At Least Momentarily.? Surely NPR?s audience could handle a careful explanation of why Hunter Biden?s laptop held emails and texts alleging that his father, the Democratic Party?s presidential nominee, was taking a 10 percent cut from energy deals involving the Chinese communists.Of course, National Public Radio is free to cover whatever news it deems important. But if it runs interference for the preferred presidential candidate of the editors, it should do so without the $250 million provided by taxpayers every year. As it is, NPR programming largely caters to sensibilities of the urban liberals. And that demographic happens to have the financial resources to ensure that NPR remains a vibrant source of left-wing news and entertainment without the federal government chipping in.Until that time, however, taxpayers have every right to expect organizations such as NPR hold the powerful accountable without partisan favor ? and that goes for both Donald Trump and Joe Biden. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 22nd October 2020 at 18:46 (about 33 minutes ago)
U.S. voters have cast more than 47 million votes for the Nov. 3 presidential election, eclipsing total early voting from the 2016 election with 12 days to go, according to data compiled by the U.S. Elections Project. The surge comes after many states have expanded mail-in voting and in-person early voting as a safe way to vote during the coronavirus pandemic and amid voter eagerness to weigh in on the political future of Republican President Donald Trump, who is facing a stiff challenge from Democrat Joe Biden. Biden leads Trump in national opinion polls, although surveys in crucial battleground states indicate a tighter race. #
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Mexico announced Thursday it has reached a deal with the United States to pay the shortfall in its annual contribution of water from border-area rivers by giving the U.S. Mexico's rights to water held in border dams that normally supply cities and towns downstream. The agreement announced Thursday allows Mexico to meet the Oct. 24 deadline which, if missed, could have endangered a cross-border water sharing treaty that greatly benefits Mexico. Mexican officials has also worried the water debt could have become an issue in the upcoming U.S. elections. #
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?There must be accountability for the lying and deaths ? this is just the start,? says anti-Trump conservative group #
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?I looked down and the snake had a big catfish in his mouth,? the man said. ?I thought it was awesome.? #
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Tynette Housley, 73, was cited on misdemeanor charges of illegal possession of wildlife and illegally feeding wildlife. #
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Jehovah's Witnesses do not vote, run for public office, serve in the military, or take "any action to change governments." #
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President Trump and CBS anchor Leslie Stahl sparred over the Hunter Biden laptop revelations during an interview that was to be aired Sunday on 60 Minutes but was instead uploaded directly to social media in an unedited form by the White House on Thursday.A former business partner of Hunter Biden, Tony Bobulinski, provided the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday with documents exposing the business relationship between the Biden family and now-defunct Chinese oil company CEFC. Bobulinski said in a statement that Hunter Biden and uncle James Biden "aggressively leveraged the Biden family name" in their business dealings.Additionally, the New York Post revealed a trove of documents purportedly discovered on a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden. The FBI is in possession of the laptop and is using it as part of a money laundering investigation that began last year.The president dug into the allegations during his interview with Stahl, which was originally set to be aired on Sunday.> This exchange between Trump and Lesley Stahl is insane. She repeatedly insists the Biden laptops ?can?t be verified? so reporters shouldn?t talk about it.> > Trump asks her why it can?t be verified.> > Her answer: ?Because it can?t be verified.? pic.twitter.com/cf9hcSGnrm> > -- Anders Hagstrom (@Hagstrom_Anders) October 22, 2020"This is the most important issue in the country right now?" Stahl asks about two-thirds of the way into the interview."It's a very important issue to find out whether a man's corrupt who's running for president, who's accepted money from China, and Ukraine, and from Russia," Trump responds. "Take a look at what's going on, Leslie, and you say that shouldn't be discussed??I think it's one of the biggest scandals I've ever seen, and you don't cover it.""Well because it can't be verified," Stahl says. "I'm telling you?""Of course it can be verified," Trump interjects. "Excuse me, Leslie, they found a laptop?""It can't be verified," Stahl repeats.Earlier in the interview, Stahl also said there was "no evidence" that the FBI spied on the 2016 Trump campaign."The biggest scandal was when they spied on my campaign. They spied on my campaign," Trump said."There's no evidence of that," Stahl responded."Of course there is, it's all over the place. Leslie, they spied on my campaign and they got caught," Trump went on."Sir, let me tell you something. This is 60 Minutes, and we can't put on things that we can't verify," Stahl said.The White House released 37 minutes of uncut footage from the interview after Trump accused Stahl of bias. CBS slammed the decision in a press release on Thursday."The White House's unprecedented decision to disregard their agreement with CBS News and release their footage will not deter 60 MINUTES from providing its full, fair and contextual reporting which presidents have participated in for decades," the network said in a statement. " Few journalists have the presidential interview experience Lesley Stahl has delivered over her decades as one of the premier correspondents in America and we look forward to audiences seeing her third interview with President Trump." #