Notices by Flipboard News Desk (newsdesk@flipboard.social)

A former police officer in Ohio was found guilty for the fatal 2020 shooting of an unarmed Black man. A jury took under three days to convict Adam Coy for the murder of 47-year-old Andre Hill, who was holding a cellphone and a set of keys when he was shot four times after Coy ordered him to emerge from a darkened garage. Read more from news-abc@flipboard.com.

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#Ohio #Justice #CriminalJustice #BLM #Police #Policing

Rumors, misleading allegations and outright lies about voting and fraud are flooding online spaces in unprecedented numbers just two days ahead of the U.S. election. @BBCNews has more, including where the posts are coming from: https://flip.it/FbH5kR
#News #WorldNews #USA #Election #Politics #USPolitics

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged his country’s allies to stop “watching” and take steps before North Korean troops deployed in Russia engage in the battlefield. Al Jazeera reports: https://flip.it/p5WSpI
#News #WorldNews #Ukraine #Russia #War #UkraineRussiaWar

Texas hospitals must now ask patients whether they’re in the U.S. legally. Here’s how it works.

@AssociatedPress reports: "Critics fear the change could scare people away from hospitals in Texas, even though patients are not required to answer the questions to receive medical care. The mandate is similar to a policy that debuted last year in Florida."

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#Texas #Immigration #Migrants #USPolitics #Politics

The biggest typhoon to directly hit Taiwan in nearly 30 years has made landfall on the island’s eastern coast. Before making landfall, Typhoon Kong-rey hit sustained winds of 200kph, the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane. Schools and businesses closed and residents emptied supermarkets as the storm approached the country. The typhoon has killed at least one person and injured 70 so far, authorities say. Read more from @BBCNews.

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#Taiwan #Storm #Typhoon #Climate #Weather #Asia

When the LA Times' owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, killed its endorsement of Kamala Harris, he also quashed a multi-part series, tentatively called "The Case Against Trump," @TheWrap says. So far, three staffers — editorial writer Karin Klein, Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Green and editorials editor Mariel Garza have quit over the lack of endorsement, with Klein calling Soon-Shiong a "chickensh**." To date, the LA Times Guild is the only institution from the paper that has commented publicly. Here's more — free registration may be required to read the full article.

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#LATimes #Politics #USPolitics #DonaldTrump #Media #Journalism

“If Mr. Trump returns, we will open multiple bottles of champagne,” Hungary’s far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said during a news conference. It is unusual for European leaders to weigh in on elections in the United States, but former President Donald Trump and Orbán have had an openly friendly relationship. The fondness isn’t shared by other Republicans. Read more from @CBSNews.

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#Trump #Orban #Hungary #Europe #Republicans

Mark Prompakdee, a 71-year-old retiree who lives in the Twin City mobile home park in Florida with his older brother, spent Hurricane Helene camping out in a parking lot on higher ground. With no family or friends who can take them in and Hurricane Milton approaching, he says he has no other choice but to do it again. “They’re saying, ‘Get out of here,’” Prompakdee said. “Where?” Read more from NBC News.
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#Hurricane #Milton #Florida #Storm #Helene

Weather forecaster AccuWeather has estimated that the financial damages due to Hurricane Helene are $225 to $250 billion, doubling their figure from last week’s Florida landfall, dwarfing the economic costs of Sandy in 2012 and Harvey in 2017. The number is estimated by calculating the cost of rebuilding homes, businesses and infrastructure on top of the loss of economic output. Read more from The @Grist.

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#Helene #NorthCarolina #Tennessee #Hurricane #Economy

In a new court filing, U.S. special counsel Jack Smith says former President Donald Trump and his allies “resorted to crimes” in an attempt to keep him in power after losing the 2020 election. He also blames Trump’s rhetoric for fomenting violence, saying he is responsible for “the tinderbox that he purposely ignited on January 6.” Read more from @abc.

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#Trump #Crime #Election #2020 #JackSmith #January6th

A research team in the United Kingdom identified a new blood group system called MAL in which proteins called antigens are missing from red blood cells. They also developed a test to identify patients who fall into the blood group, which would allow for better blood transfusions and could potentially save thousands of lives a year. Read more from @BBCNews.

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#Blood #Health #Medicine #Research #Doctor

Florida's new COVID-19 booster guidance is straight-up misinformation.

From CBS News: "In what has become a pattern of spreading vaccine misinformation, the Florida health department is telling older Floridians and others at highest risk from COVID-19 to avoid most booster shots, saying they are potentially dangerous. Clinicians and scientists denounced the message as politically fueled scaremongering that also weakens efforts to protect against diseases like measles and whooping cough."

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For more fact checks, follow @fact-check-ElectionCentral

#COVID19 #COVID #Misinformation #FactCheck #Florida #Desantis #PublicHealth

Donald Trump says crime is soaring in America, and that immigrants are to blame. But the data tell another story.

From the Los Angeles Times: "Violent crime shot up across the country at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 while Trump was president, but has since come down sharply. Studies for years have shown that immigrants are less likely than U.S.-born citizens to be incarcerated for committing crimes."

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For ongoing coverage, follow @immigration-AxiosNews

#Trump #FactCheck #Debate #Immigration #Crime #USPolitics #Politics #News

A well-known pastor in the Philippines was arrested on Sunday in a massive police operation on a church compound, ending a weeks-long hunt that transfixed the nation. Pastor Apollo Carreon Quiboloy, a close ally of former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, is accused of child abuse and sex trafficking, and is on the FBI’s Most Wanted List for money laundering in the U.S. NPR has more.

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#Philippines #Asia #Pastor #FBI #Justice

About 140 homes in a coastal Southern California city are still without power after landslides have led to electric and gas services being shut off and warnings issued to evacuate. “This is an ever-changing crisis as we navigate through this, and we need to be prepared,” Rancho Palos Verdes City Manager Ara Mihranian says. Read more from NBC News.

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#California #Landslide #NaturalDisasters #Evacuation

"Barack and Michelle Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, delivering back-to-back speeches that eviscerated Donald Trump and urged Americans to reject the Republican nominee once and for all."

CNN has seven takeaways from the 2nd night of the DNC: https://flip.it/2F_6Fm

For ongoing coverage, follow @2024-white-house-ElectionCentral

#DNC #Democrats #USPolitics #Politics #Obama #Harris #Trump #News

Less than three months before election day, U.S. presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are battling over the election’s biggest issue: the economy. BBC News has more:
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#News #Politics #USA #Election #KamalaHarris #DonaldTrump

Russia struggles to repel deep incursion by Ukraine.

"Reports suggest that Ukrainian troops are operating more than 10km (six miles) inside Russia - the deepest cross-border advance by Kyiv since Moscow launched a full-scale invasion in February 2022," according to BBC News.

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For ongoing coverage, follow @ukraine-thenewsdesk

#Ukraine #Russia #UkraineWar #RussiaUkraineWar #Putin #News

Former Trump campaign attorney Jenna Ellis has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in the 2020 election subversion case involving fake electors in Arizona for then-President Trump. In exchange, nine felonies against her including fraud, forgery and conspiracy will be dismissed. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes says the agreement provides a “significant step forward” in the case. Read more from The Hill.

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#Trump #Arizona #2020 #Election #Fraud

Two people were reportedly killed when security forces fired gunshots and tear gas to quell mass protests across Nigeria. Thousands, mostly young people, are rallying against the country’s worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation. AP reports: https://flip.it/.ZbM3T
#News #WorldNews #Nigeria #Africa