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Detest crime charges contemplated over US jogger killing
The US justice department is contemplating federal detest crimes charges over the death of weaponless black jogger Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia in February.
Gregory McMichael and his son Travis, who are white, are fronting assissination and assault charges over the shooting.
The case provoked national fury when video of the death come into view last week.
Mr Arbery’s advocators have been using the hashtag #IRunWithMaud, sharing photos and running 2.23 miles (3.6km) for the day he died, 23 February.
Some confine demonstration gathering outside courthouses in Georgia and neighbouring Florida.
*Questions have been raised about why the police failed to charge the McMichaels for more than two months. The pair were detained on Thursday by the state bureau of investigation (GBI), two days after the video came to light.*
Gregory, 64, and Travis, 34, are in the imprisonment of the Glynn County Sheriff’s Department, officials said on Friday.
Justice officials in Georgia have promised to investigate why it took so long to take into custody the McMichaels.
GBI Director Vic Reynolds told reporters on Friday that “every stone will be turned over, I promise you”.
Source___BBC News
White House staff intructs to wear masks
White House staff have been instructed to wear masks when going in the West Wing after two aides confirmed Conoravirus positive
The instruction comes after an aide for Vice-President Mike Pence and a valet for President Trump fell ill.
Entering into the white house without a mask in the Rose Garden for a press orientation on Monday, however, the president said he did not need to follow the directive because he kept “far away from everyone”, and played down the White House infections.
“We have hundreds of people a day pouring into the White House” each day, he said. “I think we’re doing a good job containing it.”
Three members of the White House coronavirus task force went into self-isolation for two weeks after possible exposure to the illness.
They include Dr Anthony Fauci, who has become the public face of the fight against the pandemic in the US.
Mr Pence’s press secretary Katie Miller, the wife of Trump aide Stephen Miller, confirmed positive for the virus on Friday.
Mr Trump make note of the White House spread, saying it was “basically one person” who had the virus and that people who were in contact had since tested negative.
Source___BBC News
Coronavirus has built a fracture between the US and China that may take a generation to mend
The novel coronavirus has taken a lot of lives and livelihoods in both the United States and China.
But rather than bonding the two nations together to overcome the pandemic, it has sent their already stress relations on a rapid sinking spiral — and fanned the flames of a potentially dangerous strain of nationalism.
China has been denounced at home and abroad over its controling of the virus, especially during the initial escalation.
“Pushing back such criticism with increasingly fierce rhetoric, Beijing says it is merely “responding” to false accusations, particularly from the US.”
A few days later, US President Donald Trump refered the coronavirus the “Chinese virus,” putting the blame on China as the escalation began to take hold in major American cities.
But the ill feeling goes deeper than a mere war of words. “The Trump administration is reportedly drawing up plans to punish China for the pandemic — retaliation options include sanctions, canceling US debt obligations and drawing up new trade policies. Trump and several administration officials are also enlisting foreign allies to join the pressure campaign against China.”
Source___CNN
US unemployment results hit 33.3 million amidst virus
A further 3.2 million Americans search for unemployment benefits last week as the economic toll from the coronavirus pandemic continued to ascend.
The new applications brought the toll of jobless claims since mid-March to 33.3 million- or about 20% of the US workforce.
The toll of new claims confirmed each week by the Department of Labor has moderated since hitting a peak of 6.9 million in March.
But they remain extraordinarily high.
And the number of people having benefits has continued to rise, in spite recent moves to start re-opening in some parts of the country.
“The significant rise in continuing claims … is a little disappointing since it suggests few people are being recalled to work,” said Paul Ashworth, chief US economist at Capital Economics.
The impact has been felt through out the economy, disturbing medical practices, restaurants and administrative workers among many others.
Source___BBC News
US President DonaldTrump revolves hard away from fight against suppress pandemic
US President DonaldTrump revolves hard away from fight against suppress pandemic
No matter the speed that Corona Virus cases are escalating in many states and that governors are ignoring his guidelines about when it’s safe to open.
Trump is beckoning off “warnings by scientists” that the easing limitations taking place across the country could cause tens of thousands of fatalities.
The White House gave its plain sign yet Tuesday, just less than six months from Election Day and as the number of deaths in US topped 70,000, that it is moving from pandemic management to a message of renewal and an aggressive pitch for a second term.
“And Trump is thwarting oversight efforts of how he and his administration responded to the pandemic that could reveal failures that worsened the outbreak”.
Trump comply that “there’ll be more death” as the country opened but added “the virus will pass, with or without a vaccine. And I think we’re doing very well on vaccines but, with or without a vaccine, it’s going to pass, and we’re going to be back to normal.”
Vice President Mike Pence make it known to the public, the conversations about ascending back the administration’s coronavirus task force maybe around Memorial Day at the end of the month.
Officials said that advisers like Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx would in the forefront. But closing the task force would make experts whose science-based debates have sometimes not in line with Trump’s overly cheerful projections far less visible.
Source___CNN
Trump attests intelligence officials did not alert him of coronavirus until late January
President Donald Trump attested Sunday that the US intelligence community “did NOT bring up the CoronaVirus subject matter until late into January” and that “they only spoke of the Virus in a very non-threatening, or matter of fact, manner.”
CNN and other news outlets have reported that the President’s daily intelligence orientation included information about the coronavirus escalation in China and its potential to escalate to the United States as early as January 3.
It is not plain whether Trump — who infrequently reads the President’s Daily Brief put together by intelligence officials — read the information at the time or whether officials orientating the President in person brings out the issue.
The Washington Post also reported last week that US intelligence agencies put forward warnings about the coronavirus in more than a gigantic classified orientations made for the President in January and February.
Trump said Sunday night that he was first oriented about coronavirus on January 23 and affirmed the US intelligence agencies would be bringing forward a statement in the coming days.
“On January 23, I was told that there could be a virus coming in but it was of no real import. In other words it wasn’t, ‘Oh we gotta do something, we gotta do something.’ It was a brief conversation and it was only on January 23,” Trump said during a Fox News town hall.
Source___CNN
US blacklists China organisations over Xinjiang ‘Uighur abuse’
The US has blacklisted 28 Chinese organisations for their alleged involvement in abuses against ethnic Uighurs in China’s Xinjiang province.
The organisations are now on the so-called Entity List, which bars them from buying products from US companies without approval from Washington.
The 28 targets include both government agencies and technology companies specialising in surveillance equipment.
China reacted angrily, dismissing the US allegations as groundless.
“There is no such thing as these so-called ‘human rights issues’ as claimed by the United States,” said foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang. “These accusations are nothing more than an excuse for the United States to deliberately interfere in China’s internal affairs.”
It is not the first time the US has put Chinese groups under a trade ban.
A boat fired off in the California coast and claimed at least 8 lives
At the southern coast of California, a commercial dive vessel call “conception” sinks and fire off. A total of 39 people were said to be on board. According to CNN news 5 people were recused and 8 bodies were found while 26 people are still accounted for.
“Fire department crew were fighting the fire when the vessel sank 20 yards off shore in 64 feet of water.” Said US. Coast guard Capt. Monica Rochester.
The Los Angeles Times later reported that 15 bodies have been found so far since the Conception caught fire, citing a US Coast Guard official.
the search and rescue group continues to search for the rest.
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