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Iowa newspaper breaks its tradition, endorses Steve King's Dem opponent

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The editorial board of an Iowa newspaper broke with tradition on Friday and endorsed the Democratic opponent to incumbent Rep. Steve KingSteven (Steve) Arnold KingGOP lawmakers say Steve King’s loss could help them in November The Hill’s Campaign Report: Biden on the cusp of formally grasping the Democratic nomination The Hill’s 12:30 Report: Sights and sounds from the protests MORE (R).

“Those were not easy words for us to write,” the editorial board of the Sioux City Journal wrote.

The Journal said it previously endorsed King, an eight-term congressman, because the board thought he was an “honest, principled family man,” who would reflect his constituents in Iowa’s 4th district.

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“In spite of the criticisms we also shared in those endorsements, we believed King’s strengths were enough to make him a better choice for this district than the Democratic challengers he faced in past elections,” the editorial board wrote.

But King’s challenger, Democrat J.D. Scholten, has strengths of his own, the group wrote.

“With a candidate of Scholten’s caliber on the ballot, we decided we wouldn’t overlook, again, the concerns we have shared about King in the past in making an endorsement in this race this year,” the newspaper wrote.

King has been criticized by the newspaper for his “inflammatory or questionable” comments in the past, the Journal wrote.

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He faced backlash earlier this month after endorsed a Toronto mayoral candidate described as a white supremacist after appearing on a podcast produced for a neo-Nazi website.

“That wasn’t the first time King was tied, by his words or actions, to such intolerant ugliness,” the newspaper wrote.

Scholten has outfundraised King in the last two years, bringing in more than $1.4 million, but King had a 10-point lead in a September poll from Emerson College.

They also face a Libertarian Party nominee, Charles Aldrich, in the Nov. 6 election.

“If underdog Scholten springs an upset, we hope he remembers this remains largely a conservative, Republican district and we urge him to take accordingly moderate positions on issues of the day,” the editorial board wrote.

Scholten thanked the newspaper on Twitter Saturday for the endorsement, saying it was reflecting the district.

The Hill has reached out to the King campaign for comment.

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Global Poll Reveals Surging Fear of Climate Crisis and US Power Under Trump

September 15, 2020 | News | No Comments

While a rapidly rising number of people across the globe are worried about the climate crisis—prompting warnings from scientists, demands for robust action, and sweeping legislative proposals such as the Green New Deal—there are also mounting concerns about the United States in the era of President Donald Trump, according to new polling from the Pew Research Center.

The survey results, released Monday, show that while U.S. power and influence still isn’t the primary worry among people beyond the United States, concern about it has skyrocketed since Trump took office. As Pew’s report (pdf) noted, “In 2013, only a quarter across 22 nations saw American power as a major threat to their country, but that jumped substantially to 38 percent in 2017, the year after Trump was elected president, and to 45 percent in 2018.”

The report also pointed out “a strong connection” between seeing the U.S. as a threat and lacking confidence in Trump, particularly “among America’s traditional allies, such as Canada, the U.K., and Australia, where overall views of the U.S. and its president have plummeted in recent years.” A majority of those polled from Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Tunisia, South Korea, Japan, and Indonesia as well as nearly half from Canada, France, Germany, and Greece expressed concern over U.S. power in 2018.

As the global community frets about the United States flexing its geopolitical muscles under Trump—from ditching the Paris climate agreement and global treaties to backing an effort to overthrow the Venezuelan government—Pew also found that both Americans and people around the world perceive the human-caused climate crisis as a top security risk. In half of the 26 nations where the survey was conducted from May to August of 2018, the greatest number of respondents selected climate change as posing a major threat.

“Since 2013, worries about the climate threat have increased significantly in 13 of the countries where data are available,” according to Pew. “In 2013, well before the Paris climate agreement was signed, a median of 56 percent across 23 countries surveyed said global climate change was a major threat to their country. That climbed to 63 percent in 2017, and in 2018 it stands at 67 percent.”

In the United States, Canada, Mexico, France, Germany, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom, Kenya, and South Africa, the number of people concerned about the climate crisis has soared, rising by double-digits over just five years. Across Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa—which are increasingly at risk for extreme weather exacerbated by rising temperatures—climate change has continuously ranked as a top concern.

Although the largest portion of Americans said they are worried about cyberattacks—aligned with the global trend of rising cybersecurity concerns—59 percent of U.S. respondents expressed alarm over human-caused climate change. While the majority of Americans in this poll and other recent surveys recognized the dangers of the global crisis, Pew found that “there are sharp ideological and partisan divides in Europe and North America” between those who are and are not concerned.

As the Pew report outlines:

Additionally, the researchers found, “a slight education divide on the threat of climate change exists in many European and North American countries surveyed, where those with more education are more inclined to say it is a threat than those with less education.”

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'The Climate Is a Disaster': Fourth Week of Student-Led Strike as Tens of Thousands March in Belgium

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As many as 35,000 Belgian students walked out of classrooms in Brussels, Liège, and Leuven in the fourth straight week of protests to pressure policymakers to pursue bolder measures in response to the human-made global climate crisis.

Students across the globe have joined the climate strike movement inspired by 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, and are calling on politicians to heed the increasingly urgent warnings from scientists that the international community must immediately phase out fossil fuels and enact other ambitious measures to drive down greenhouse gas emissions.

“The climate is a disaster,” 15-year-old demonstrator Allison Debonte told Reuters, adding that she worries her children won’t be able to live in Brussels because of the climate crisis.

“It’s our planet and the generation before us hasn’t done anything,” added Julian Rume, 17. “In 20, 30 years, we will all be migrants, we’ll all be moved out of our planet.”

Brussels, where an estimated 12,500 students marched on Thursday, is considered the de facto capital of the European Union, as home to several EU institutions. The young strikers have condemned those in power across Europe for failing to cut emissions and transition to renewable energy.

“They left us a planet in a bad shape so it is our job to change that,” 17-year-old marcher Manon Wilmart told the Associated Press. “But we can do it. We are younger and we know that we can do it. We are in the mood to change the climate, to change everything.”

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A 16-year-old named Pauline, in an interview with  Deutsche Welle, was optimist that progress is on the horizon: “Me and my friend, we already try to do everything for the climate. I think there is now a lot of attention on this issue. So I really think that the countries will start to mobilize and change something.”

Participants and supporters from cities across Belgium shared updates on social media with the hashtags #ClimateStrike and #YouthForClimate:

The actions on Thursday followed an estimated 35,000 students who marched in Brussels last week and about 160,000 protesters in Belgium and France over the weekend.

Thunberg’s protests outside the Swedish Parliament last year have garnered her, and the broader youth demand for climate action, international attention—enabling the teenager last week to tell the billionaires attending the World Economic Forum to their faces that they’re among some the specific individuals responsible for the climate crisis. She highlighted the protests in Belgium on Twitter and Instagram on Thursday:

Meanwhile, in several other cities around the world, students plan to continue the strike on Friday, with organizers sharing details on social media using the hashtag #FridaysForFuture:

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Chelsea Manning Faces Contempt Hearing After Refusal to Answer Grand Jury Questions

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Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning expressed no regrets Thursday when she revealed that she faces a contempt hearing— and possible jail time—after declining to answer a grand jury’s questions.

Manning appeared before a grand jury Wednesday after being subpoenaed, apparently to discuss her 2010 disclosure of government and military documents about the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to Wikileaks.

The subpoena came about three months after federal prosecutors in Virginia’s Eastern District, where the former Army intelligence analyst was called to testify, inadvertently revealed that they had filed sealed charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

She said after the hearing that she had been offered immunity in exchange for testifying, but that she instead had answered each question with the following statement:

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“In solidarity with many activists facing the odds, I will stand by my principles,” Manning said after the hearing. “I will exhaust every legal remedy available. My legal team continues to challenge the secrecy of these proceedings, and I am prepared to face the consequences of my refusal.”

Manning said the grand jury questioned her about her disclosure to Wikileaks, which was also the focus of her questioning in 2013 when she was court-martialed. Manning was convicted and sentenced to 35 years in prison for her disclosure—which helped expose war crimes by the U.S.—but her sentence was commuted in 2017 by President Barack Obama.

The whistleblower now faces a contempt trial on Friday. She acknowledged as much in her statement, saying that, “The court may find me in contempt, and order me to jail.”

Supporters of Manning applauded her steadfast refusal to help prosecutors to incriminate her and convict Assange and denounced the secretive grand jury hearing and the U.S. government’s continued efforts to punish her.

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Fulfilling Vow to Run 2020 Campaign Differently, Sanders Campaign Claims 70% of Top Leadership Now Women

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Facing previous criticism that his campaign team during his 2016 presidential run was “too white” and “too male,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) received praise on Tuesday after it was reported his campaign has hired a diverse slate of high-caliber women for key posts on his 2020 leadership team.

As journalist Natalie Gontcharova of Refinery29 was the first to report, the Sanders campaign now claims that “every single one of its teams — management, political, policy, organizing, communications, advance, digital, and fundraising — has women, and predominantly women of color, in leadership positions. Overall, the national leadership team is around 70% women.”

According to Gontcharova, the ten new female staffers include (emphasis added):

The new staffers follow last month’s announcement of Sanders’ national co-chairs, who include: former Ohio state and Our Revolution president Sen. Nina Turner, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif), and Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen. Over the weekend, the Sanders campaign also announced that staff workers would be unionized.

Tuesday’s news of the fresh hires was met with congratulations for many of the well-known progressive journalists, organizers, and scholars headed to the campaign as well as a nod to Sanders for taking concrete step towards fulfilling his promise to build a much more diverse and representative team:

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New Study Suggests Late-Stage Capitalism Stripping Humanity of Simple Joy: Frequent Sex

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A new study conducted in the United Kingdom has found current generations of adults—in part due to the “sheer pace of modern life”—are having less sex than their predecessors.

In other words, the grind of late-stage capitalism is stripping humanity of one of its unique (though not exclusive) features: screwing for fun.

The study—among the largest of its kind ever undertaken—analyzed the sexual lives and habits of over 34,000 men and women ages 16 to 44 in the UK and found a dramatic drop in the frequency of sexual activity this century.

“Using data from the British National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal),” a summary of the report explained, “researchers found a general decline in sexual frequency in Britain between 2001 and 2012, with the biggest falls seen among over 25s and married or cohabiting couples.”

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“Several factors are likely to explain the declines, but one may be the sheer pace of modern life,” said Kaye Wellings, the study’s lead author and a professor of sexual health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, in a statement.

“It is interesting,” Wellings added, “that those most affected are in mid-life, the group often referred to as the ‘u-bend’ or ‘sandwich’ generation. These are the cohorts of men and women who, having started their families at older ages than previous generations, are often juggling childcare, work and responsibilities to parents who are getting older.”

In 2016, a study out of the London School of Economics showed that overall happiness in the modern economy would be more improved by less anxiety and love than increasing levels of income, but that doesn’t account for the manner in which the modern economy continues to mount financial anxieties on younger generations in terms of lower wages, increased debt, and few social services designed to alleviate stress or provide better health outcomes.

While Wellings acknowledged that the study was not intended to pinpoint the “cause” for these patterns of sexual behavior, nor did it determine any single reason for the drop in sexual activity among various age groups, she said the study does explore the intersection between happiness, stress, and sexual intercourse.

“What is important to well-being is not how often people have sex but whether it matters to them,” Welling said. “More than half of the men and women taking part in the study said they would prefer to have sex more often, which could partly stem from unfavourable comparisons with what they think is the norm.”

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“Most people believe that others have more regular sex than they do themselves,” she explained, adding that she hopes the study will help to dispell some of those myths.

“Many people are likely to find it reassuring that they are not out of line,” she said.

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Norris: Sensitivity of McLaren’s car ‘making life difficult’

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Lando Norris says McLaren has a lot of work to do with its car, the Briton making the most of a poor weekend at Mugello.

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Norris avoided the thrills and spills in Sunday’s chaotic Tuscan Grand Prix, keeping himself out of trouble to finish sixth, a result that the Briton believes maximized his team’s potential at a venue where it struggled to get to grips with a particularly sensitive MCL35.

While teammate Carlos Sainz qualified ninth, Norris failed to make the Q3 cut for the first time this year, results that coupled with Sunday’s performance reflected McLaren’s struggle for pace at the challenging Mugello track.

The overall underperformance surprised the Woking-based outfit after Sainz’s impressive showing at Monza a week earlier.

“It was very difficult to drive,” said Norris, reflecting on his MCL35’s behavior. “The conditions were very similar to yesterday and weren’t suiting our car, so it was very difficult.

“We’ve got a lot of work to do with the car, even though some races we’ve been very fast, but it seems so sensitive to different conditions and different track surfaces and so on, and it makes our life a lot more difficult.

“We came here thinking we were going to be pretty quick, we had a lot of confidence and it went away pretty much straight away,” he added.

“We have to understand this car even more, even though we’ve had it for a while and had some good results.

“F1 cars are not easy to figure out, and from my side, the mechanics, the engineers all have to continue to push and do even better.”

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Norris believes circumstances rather than pace allowed him to add 8 points to his tally, a result that surpassed his expectations.

“We just stayed out of the crashes and the rubbish and we did a lot better than we were expecting,” he said after Sunday’s race.

“So as much as it was a long and tough race, I was very happy… We didn’t have the pace today, but I think we made the most of a pretty poor weekend, so hopefully the next one can be a little bit better.”

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Romney going door to door to boost support for Republicans in Utah

September 14, 2020 | News | No Comments

Senate candidate and former Republican presidential nominee Mitt RomneyWillard (Mitt) Mitt RomneyMilley discussed resigning from post after Trump photo-op: report Trump on collision course with Congress over bases with Confederate names Attorney says 75-year-old man shoved by Buffalo police suffered brain injury MORE has been going door to door in Utah to boost voter interest for other GOP candidates.

“I do get a, ‘What are you doing here? How did you arrive here?'” Romney told Fox News recently, when asked how he’s received as he goes from house to house.

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“Of course, the reaction changes from door to door. Some Democrats are not as enthusiastic as some Republicans,” Romney said. “But by and large a very big welcome.”

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The 2012 GOP presidential nominee is well-known in the state: The Salt Lake City Winter Olympics hired him as president and CEO when the 2002 games were in the midst of a revenue shortfall.

A spokesperson for Romney’s campaign told The Hill he campaigned for Davis County Commission candidate Lorene Kamalu and Utah House candidate Melissa Ballard.

Throughout the midterms, he has actively campaigned for other Utah Republicans, supporting 41 state and local hopefuls as well as nine national candidates.

Romney’s own Senate race has been relatively quiet, given poll numbers suggest he will win easily against his Democratic opponent, Jenny Wilson, with the election less than a week away.

“I think I’m the one guy who will be in the United States Senate — if I get there — that’s actually run for president and not planning on doing it again,” Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, told Fox.

“And as a result of that I think I have the freedom to really focus on issues that the people of our state care about and the people of our country care about.”

“That relates to our budget deficit, the amount of debt we have, as well as our immigration policies,” he said. “So there’s a lot I hope to be able to do.”

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Scott Walker puts Wisconsin National Guard cyber team on standby for Election Day

September 14, 2020 | News | No Comments

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) on Friday activated his state National Guard’s cybersecurity teams to be on standby for Tuesday’s midterms.

“Wisconsin voters should feel confident that the Wisconsin National Guard’s team is ready if needed to provide assistance on Election Day,” said Maj. Gen. Donald Dunbar in the National Guard’s announcement of the move.

“The governor’s executive order simply allows us to deploy those resources quickly.”

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Maj. Joy Staab of the Wisconsin National Guard told local ABC affiliate 27 News that the division has not been given any orders beyond remaining on alert.

“At this time we have no requests for support but in the event that we were requested to support we could more rapidly deploy service members, in this case our cyber security team,” Staab said. 

The officer added that this will be the first time the cybersecurity teams will come into use since their creation in 2016, though he noted that the activation is just precautionary. 

“We would rather be prepared to more rapidly deploy the troops and not use them if we don’t have to,” Staab said.

Though some warn that the U.S. is still subject to election meddling from outside forces, experts have said that states have been working to improve cybersecurity ahead of the elections.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies found last Tuesday that 40 states have invested over $75 million in improving election security.

Top Senate Democrat Mark WarnerMark Robert WarnerVirginia senator calls for Barr to resign over order to clear protests Trump asserts his power over Republicans Expanding tax credit for businesses retaining workers gains bipartisan support MORE (Va.), said Sunday that Americans can “vote with confidence” in Tuesday’s midterms, asserting that the elections will be protected from foreign threats.

“I think we’ve made great progress, particularly at the individual polling stations and with the tabulations of votes. So I think people should vote with confidence,” Warner said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

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Republican Riggleman defeats Dem in Virginia's 5th District

September 14, 2020 | News | No Comments

Republican Denver Riggleman defeated Democrat Leslie Cockburn to maintain GOP control of Virginia’s 5th District on Tuesday night.

The polls in the lead up to election night showed Cockburn and Riggleman locked in a tight race for the generally Republican district.

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Cockburn also scored an endorsement from former Republican Sen. John Warner (Va.) late last month, who said that while he was still a Republican, Cockburn was “an exceptional candidate.”

President TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE endorsed Riggleman in the race late last month.

The race was not without controversy: Cockburn earlier this year accused Riggleman of being a “devotee of Bigfoot erotica,” sharing photos attributed to his private Instagram of a nude Sasquatch with its genitals censored.

Riggleman denied that he was into “Bigfoot erotica,” claiming that his work is “really is an anthropological study on all the people who believe in Bigfoot and the different Bigfoot belief systems out there.”

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And Cockburn also had star power on her side: Her daughter, actress Olivia Wilde, knocked on doors for her mother last month.

Riggleman was picked as the Republican candidate in the race after Rep. Tom GarrettThomas (Tom) Alexander GarrettGOP rep calls on primary opponent to condemn campaign surrogate’s racist video Liberty University official to launch primary challenge to GOP’s Riggleman Female Dems see double standard in Klobuchar accusations MORE (R-Va.) announced that he would retire and seek treatment for alcoholism. Garrett initially said that he would run for reelection for the seat.

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