PoliticsYahoo NewsThe Trumps are refusing to turn over the keys to the Bidens — and Michelle and Barack Obama have had enough
Two days after Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton after the 2016 election, then-President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama welcomed the president-elect and the incoming first lady, Melania Trump, to the White House, a gesture symbolizing the peaceful transfer of power to a man who had launched his candidacy by spreading the lie that Obama was born in a foreign country. Now, two weeks after Election Day and more than a week after the 2020 election was called for Joe Biden by independent observers, Trump is refusing to concede defeat, challenging the results with baseless claims of voter fraud and ordering officials not to cooperate with the transition. And the Obamas are over it.
WorldINSIDERA 61-year-old British diplomat jumped into a river in China to save a 24-year-old woman who fell in
A British diplomat dove into a river to rescue a woman from the water. 61-year-old Stephen Ellison, a British diplomat in China, rescued a 24-year-old student who was drowning in the river on Saturday morning, outlets including the BBC and the Guardian reported. Ellison received praise for his actions after video of the incident was shared online.
U.S.The WeekGeorgia recount reportedly finds more than 2,600 ballots that weren't tallied
Georgia's recount may have given President Trump a slight boost, but not nearly enough to affect the presidential election's outcome in the state, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Monday. The recount uncovered more than 2,600 ballots in Georgia's Floyd County that weren't initially tallied, which could give Trump about 800 new votes, Floyd County's Republican Party chair Luke Martin told the AJC. President-elect Joe Biden's lead in the state is currently around 14,000, so those votes seemingly won't alter the result, especially since Martin said that while the uncounted ballots are "very concerning" there does not appear to be a "widespread issue."
U.S.The Daily BeastDelaware Teens Lured a Classmate Into the Woods—Then Murdered Her With a Baseball Bat: Prosecutors
A Delaware teenager has been charged with murder after allegedly luring her classmate into the woods and beating her to death with the girl's ex-boyfriend, prosecutors said. Annika Stalczynski, 17, was arrested on Monday after a New Castle County grand jury indicted her on several charges—including first-degree murder, possession of a deadly weapon during commission of a felony, and conspiracy—for Madison Sparrow's Oct. 2 slaying, according to the Delaware Attorney General's office. Prosecutors allege Stalczynski, along with Sparrow's ex-boyfriend, 19-year-old Noah Sharp, conspired to lure the teenager to the woods behind Maclary Elementary School, before they ambushed and fatally beat her with a metal baseball bat.
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Breonna Taylor grand juror says prosecutors wanted to give cops a 'slap on the wrist'
A woman who sat on the Breonna Taylor grand jury said she believes their investigation was incomplete and that prosecutors wanted to give police “a slap on the wrist and close it up.
WorldBusiness InsiderIsrael's stunning assassination of an Al Qaeda chief inside Iran suggests a major deal was cut with the US
The assassination of an Al Qaeda commander in Tehran by an Israeli hit squad would only have been undertaken at the request of American intelligence services, sources tell Insider. Mounting an operation like the one that killed Abu Mohammed al Masri can take years of preparation. Mossad will select Israelis with perfect Farsi language skills and they will train their entire careers for a single mission, our sources say.
U.S.The IndependentBlack Californian family confronted by ‘racist white neighbour’ brandishing a taser: ‘Act like white people’
A black family living in California's Discovery Bay area have accused their white neighbour of using racial slurs during a confrontation where she also brandished a taser in her hand. The video of Geritt Jones and his sister Jarielle Jones's argument with their neighbour, identified in US media as Adana Dean, was posted on Twitter and Instagram by Ms Jones on 17 November and has since gone viral. Surveillance camera footage and a mobile phone video, filmed by a member of the Jones family, show Ms Dean waving a taser in her left hand and carrying her dog in her right hand, complaining on Geritt Jones's doorstep about their dog attacking hers.
PoliticsThe WeekTrump campaign will pay $3 million for a seemingly hopeless recount in 2 Wisconsin counties
President Trump's campaign is spending $3 million on a recount that won't change his fate. Trump's campaign shifted from requesting a full recount in Wisconsin to paying for a recount in just Milwaukee and Dane counties on Wednesday. The Trump campaign said it chose those counties as they were home to the "worst irregularities" in the vote count, though there's no evidence that's true.
U.S.USA TODAYWisconsin police officer who fatally shot three people in the last five years is resigning
Joseph Mensah, the Wauwatosa police officer who has been suspended since July in the aftermath of his third fatal shooting, is resigning from the department effective Nov. 30. The Wauwatosa Common Council entered into a separation agreement with Mensah Tuesday night. Mensah, who has been suspended since July 15, has shot and killed three people in the line of duty in the last five years.
U.S.Business InsiderThe story of the first special-ops mission deep inside Afghanistan just weeks after 9/11, from troops who were there
In mid-October 2001, just a few weeks after the September 11 attacks, US special-operations forces went deep behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. On October 19, 2001, only a few weeks after the September 11 terrorist attacks, American commandos struck back in Afghanistan. A task force composed of Delta Force operators, Rangers, and Night Stalkers conducted two simultaneous raids deep inside the territory of the Taliban, which had hosted Al Qaeda, the terrorist group behind the attacks.
U.S.Miami HeraldThey had sex off a Florida highway in the middle of the day. Passing drivers interrupted
One Florida couple found out the hard way that getting romantic while cars zoom by can spoil the mood quickly. According to a police report from the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, Amber Gormley and Shawn McClelland were arrested Tuesday after “many drivers” observed them having intimate relations on the side of a road in Largo, near St. Petersburg, around 2 p.m. After they were read their rights, the “offender” admitted he performed acts of a sexual nature upon Gormley, the report says.
HealthThe TelegraphHuman ageing process biologically reversed in world first
The ageing process has been biologically reversed for the first time by giving humans oxygen therapy in a pressurised chamber. Scientists in Israel showed they could turn back the clock in two key areas of the body believed to be responsible for the frailty and ill-health that comes with growing older. As people age, the protective caps at the ends of chromosomes – called telomeres – shorten, causing DNA to become damaged and cells to stop replicating.
U.S.NBC NewsMissing 9-year-old boy found alive after three day search in woods
A 9-year-old boy was found safe wearing no jacket or shoes by a creek bed in Tennessee on Tuesday after a three-day search in the woods. Jordan Gorman was discovered on Tuesday at around 3 p.m. underneath a shelter made out of tarp, three-quarters of a mile away from his home in Cheatham County, Tennessee, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said. TBI initially sent out an Endangered Child Alert on Sunday before raising it to an Amber Alert on Monday afternoon.
EntertainmentBusiness InsiderA sex worker says she's earning $35,000 a month thanks to the US Army's thirsty tweets going viral
The official Twitter account for the US Army's Fort Bragg posted some thirsty tweets at an OnlyFans sex worker in October. Now that sex worker has become one of OnlyFans' top performers. She told Insider she earned about $7,000 a month before the tweets but had since been on track to earn $35,000 a month.
U.S.USA TODAYIn California: Masks are now required in public; Project Roomkey gets $62 million
Plus: California lawmakers go to Maui, indoor restaurants are riskiest for COVID-19 transmission and a music festival is postponed for the third time. In California brings you top Golden State stories and commentary from across the USA TODAY Network and beyond. Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a new and expanded mandate on masks this week.
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PoliticsThe WeekTrump is reportedly upset Biden will steal his coronavirus vaccine thunder
Recent COVID-19 vaccine developments are undoubtedly good news for Americans and the world. For the past few months, Trump had reportedly been dreaming up ways he could promote a COVID-19 vaccine once it was released. Trump also reportedly wanted to hold a news conference where he'd "read from a list of headlines, articles, and TV coverage that had either underestimated him or raised doubts about Operation Warp Speed's timeline," per The Daily Beast.
HealthAssociated PressVolunteers still needed to test variety of COVID-19 vaccines
Additionally, participants in the Moderna and Pfizer studies who originally got dummy shots would almost certainly be offered the real vaccine if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration allows emergency use. But no one knows how long protection would last, meaning those studies also must continue to track recipients somehow. It's one thing to be effective two months after your last vaccination and another thing to be effective a year” later, said Dr. Jesse Goodman of Georgetown University, a former director of the FDA's vaccine division.
ScienceReuters'SpaceX, this is Resilience': Four astronauts begin six-month stay on space station
Four astronauts riding a newly-designed spacecraft from Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX greeted their new crewmates aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday after successfully docking in a landmark achievement for private space travel. In NASA's first full-fledged mission ferrying a crew into orbit on a privately-owned spacecraft, the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule dubbed Resilience opened its hatch door shortly after 1 a.m. EST (0600 GMT), two hours after docking and 27 hours after launching atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
NewsBusiness InsiderParents whose children died in the 737 Max crashes are haunted by the plane's imminent return
The Boeing 737 Max plane has been certified to fly again by the US Federal Aviation Administration, 20 months after a second fatal crash by the plane brought its death toll to 346 people. Two parents who lost their children in the second crash told Business Insider that they are still grieving, and do not welcome the plane's return. They say they don't believe the plane is safe because Boeing didn't fundamentally redesign it and because the same agencies that certified the plane in the first place were the ones looking at it again.
PoliticsThe WeekPennsylvania Supreme Court reverses rare Trump legal victory
One of the rare legal victories President Trump's campaign picked up in its election challenge was taken away, dealing another blow to the increasingly long-shot effort. Pennsylvania's Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed a court order that required Philadelphia election officials to let observers within six feet of vote counters after the Trump campaign alleged observers were being kept too far away at 15 to 18 feet. The state's high court, in a 5-2 decision (two of the justices preferred to rule it as moot), said Pennsylvania law gives Philadelphia officials a lot of leeway to decide the rules for observers.
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Central America bears brunt of hurricane Iota
Hurricane Iota crashed into the coast of Nicaragua on Monday (November 16) packing winds of 155 miles (or 260 km) per hour. The U.S. National Hurricane Center has downgraded its power from a Category 5 to a 4. But Iota is still expected to do some serious damage.
PoliticsBusiness InsiderJoe Biden urged Congress to immediately pass a $3.4 trillion Democratic stimulus plan. But both parties have stopped negotiating.
President-elect Joe Biden pressed Congress to approve a $3.4 trillion stimulus plan to keep people and businesses afloat as virus cases spike nationwide. "If we can decide not to cooperate, we could decide to cooperate," Biden said on Monday. There are no negotiations on a new stimulus plan between Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill, and the gridlock doesn't appear to be ending anytime soon.
PoliticsThe IndependentPennsylvania attorney general says Rudy Giuliani is ‘sad to watch’
Pennsylvania's attorney general said that Rudy Giuliani's court performance on Tuesday - his first time arguing before a judge in almost 30 years - was "sad to watch", as Donald Trump's desperate attempts to argue voter fraud appeared to reach a crescendo. Mr Giuliani, 76, came out of court retirement to argue before Judge Matthew Brann in Williamsport that two voters living in Republican counties were not given the same chance as those in Democrat counties to fix errors on their mail-in ballots. "The best description of this situation is it's a widespread, nationwide voter fraud," said Mr Giuliani.
LifestyleUSA TODAY OpinionWhat employers have to know about grief: My son's death didn't come on my company's timeline
Time and freedom to grieve This is my grief. It is reexperiencing the horror and hopelessness of those two days, over and over again. It is the panic that strikes me when one of our surviving children isn't where I expect them to be.
“Donald Trump defeated Donald Trump.”
“The victory was a vindication of a style of American politics that many feared was gone forever.”
“Mr. Biden’s victory — and Mr. Trump’s defeat — is a testament to the resilience of American democracy.”
“Trump’s 2020 reelection bid was doomed by his boorish behavior. Time and again, he refused to act like a president.”
“Biden took the opportunity to unite the Democratic Party.”