AP-US-ELECTION-2020-SEPT-11
Comforting households, warning foes: Biden, Trump mark 9/11
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden marked the nineteenth anniversary of the Sept. 11 assaults at memorials Friday, and their variations in fashion have been sharply on show. Trump vowed in a speech on the Shanksville, Pennsylvania, web site the place hijacked Flight 93 crashed in a discipline, that America will “at all times struggle again.” In New York, in the meantime, Biden laid a wreath after attending the annual commemoration at Floor Zero and comforted members of the family of a number of individuals who died within the Twin Towers. He did the identical later in Pennsylvania, although he and Trump by no means crossed paths. Vice President Mike Pence additionally visited the New York occasion, and Sen. Kamala Harris spoke just a few miles from the Pentagon.
SEPT 11 ATTACKS-LAWSUITS
US choose: Saudi royals should reply questions in 9/11 lawsuit
NEW YORK (AP) — A choose has dominated that two members of the royal household in Saudi Arabia must reply questions on who deliberate the Sept. 11 terror assaults in what attorneys for victims name a turning level in a long-running lawsuit. U.S. Justice of the Peace Decide Sarah Netburn ordered Saudi Arabia to make the pair and different Saudi witnesses obtainable for depositions within the swimsuit introduced by victims searching for billions of {dollars} in damages. The ruling was unsealed late Thursday. A lawyer for Saudi Arabia declined to remark Friday. Court docket papers say the members of the royal household embody Prince Bandar bin Sultan.
AP-US-TRUMP-RUSSIA-PROBE
Prosecutor trying into the origins of Russia probe resigns
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal prosecutor who was serving to lead the investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe has resigned from the Justice Division. Nora Dannehy was a prime prosecutor on a group led by U.S. Lawyer John Durham of Connecticut, who was appointed final yr to steer an investigation into how the FBI and different federal businesses got down to examine Russian interference within the 2016 presidential election and whether or not the Trump marketing campaign had coordinated with the Kremlin. A spokesman for the U.S. Lawyer’s workplace in Connecticut has confirmed Dannehy’s departure however declined to remark additional. The Hartford Courant first reported Dannehy’s resignation.
AP-US-GEORGE-FLOYD-INVESTIGATION
Prosecutors: Chauvin used neck restraints in previous arrests
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Prosecution paperwork within the case in opposition to 4 former Minneapolis cops charged within the loss of life of George Floyd present the white officer who pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck had seven prior incidents of utilizing neck or head and higher physique restraints on arrestees, together with 4 wherein prosecutors say he went too far. The doc was made public on the identical day that Chauvin and three different former officers appeared in court docket for a listening to on the prosecution’s request to carry a joint trial, a protection request to maneuver the trial out of Minneapolis, and different points. Decide Peter Cahill took most points underneath advisement.
ELECTION 2020-QANON CANDIDATE
Challenger to QAnon supporter bows out of race in Georgia
ATLANTA (AP) — The Democratic opponent to a QAnon-supporting candidate for a U.S. Home seat in Georgia is dropping out of the race. Democrat Kevin Van Ausdal’s departure Friday clears a near-certain path to victory for Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene. Greene was already favored within the deep-red 14th Congressional District within the northwest a part of the state. She is on a rising listing of candidates who’ve expressed assist for QAnon, the far-right conspiracy idea common amongst some supporters of President Donald Trump. Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs says the window has handed for Democrats to interchange Van Ausdal on the poll.
AP-ML-EGYPT
Egypt journalist arrested over protection of detainee’s loss of life
CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian information outlet says one among its reporters, who reported on a younger man’s loss of life in police custody, has been detained on expenses of reporting faux information. The arrest of the journalist comes after the arrest of a number of different native reporters in current weeks, regardless of fears of the unfold of coronavirus in Egyptian prisons. The federal government has squeezed area for conventional media and stamped out practically all dissent as a part of a wide-ranging crackdown. The content material of state-owned media is tightly managed, whereas most privately owned information media within the nation has been acquired by Egyptian intelligence providers or supporters of the president.
OXYCONTIN-FDA REVIEW
Consultants: Revamped OxyContin hasn’t curbed abuse, overdoses
WASHINGTON (AP) — A panel of presidency advisers says there’s no clear proof {that a} harder-to-crush model of the painkiller OxyContin resulted in fewer drug overdoses. Purdue Pharma launched the revamped model of its blockbuster opioid a decade in the past, underneath fireplace for its function within the nationwide epidemic of drug habit. However the authorities had not beforehand reviewed knowledge on whether or not it truly lowered abuse and overdoses. The advisers to the Meals and Drug Administration on Friday stated knowledge from the drugmaker was too flawed and incomplete to indicate a transparent profit. The FDA will think about revising the drug’s labeling for medical doctors.
BC-FINANCIAL MARKETS
Tech falters once more as Wall Avenue ends worst week in months
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Avenue closed out its worst week since June with one other day of churning buying and selling Friday. The S&P 500 rose 0.1%, however solely after a roller-coaster day the place a acquire of 0.9% gave option to a lack of 0.9%. It saved swinging up and down after that, the newest examples of the lightning-quick shifts in momentum to rock Wall Avenue just lately. By way of the tumultuous week, the S&P 500 misplaced 2.5% to clinch its its first back-to-back weekly loss in 4 months. The Nasdaq composite, which incorporates lots of the celebrity tech shares which were the main focus of the market’s current promoting, misplaced 0.6%.
GEORGIA CHASE-DEADLY SHOOTING
Attorneys deny racial motive in Ahmaud Arbery slaying
ATLANTA (AP) — Attorneys for the white father and son charged with killing Ahmaud Arbery say their purchasers weren’t motivated by race after they armed themselves and chased after the younger Black man. Gregory and Travis McMichael have been jailed on homicide expenses since their arrests in Might, greater than two months after Arbery was shot whereas working of their neighborhood exterior Brunswick, Georgia. At a preliminary listening to in June, an investigator testified {that a} third man charged within the case stated Travis McMichael used a racist slur whereas standing over Arbery’s physique. Bob Rubin is an lawyer for Travis McMichael. He advised The Atlanta Journal-Structure he believes the witness lied about listening to a slur.
AP-US-PACIFIC-NORTHWEST-WILDFIRES
Dozens lacking as firefighters battle two giant Oregon fires
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Firefighters aided by helicopters dropping fireplace retardant and water are battling two giant wildfires that threaten to merge close to essentially the most populated a part of Oregon. Gov. Kate Brown advised a information convention Friday that dozens of individuals are lacking in Jackson County within the south and in Marion County, the place a fireplace continues to burn east of Salem. The Oregon Conference Heart in Portland was amongst buildings being reworked into shelters for evacuees. A change within the climate, with winds dropping and shifting course and humidity rising, vastly helped firefighters
