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An official Democratic primary mail-in ballot and secrecy envelope for the Pennsylvania primary in Pittsburgh.
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The FBI and the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania said they are investigating “potential issues with a small number of mail-in ballots at the Luzerne County Board of Elections,” according to a statement Thursday.
Authorities said they had recovered nine military ballots that had been discarded and that seven of the ballots had been cast for President Trump. Two ballots had been resealed in envelopes and are in the custody of federal investigators.
Pennsylvania State Police and the FBI have been working to get answers and conducting interviews, the statement said.
The potential voting irregularities in Pennsylvania came to light after Trump mentioned them, off hand, in an interview with a Fox radio host Thursday.
“We have to be very careful with the ballots,” the president told reporters later, according to a news pool report. He described what he called a “scam” where ballots had been found in the trash. The president has been criticizing the integrity of this year’s election for months.
“We want to make sure the election is honest, and I’m not sure that it can be,” Trump continued.
Highly unusual situation
Voting rights experts and Justice Department veterans immediately reacted to the unusual press statement from U.S. Attorney David J. Freed.
Justin Levitt, a law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, said the timing of the announcement alone raises many questions.
“It is the vital duty of government not to announce partial facts and ‘potential issues’ in pending investigations,” Levitt said in an email interview. “Indeed, it’s quite improper to announce the fact of an inquiry. And grotesquely improper to announce whom the ballots were cast for, as if that mattered in the investigation.”
On the other hand, Levitt said, it would not be improper to investigate if local officials were refusing to set aside and count valid ballots. But it’s not clear that’s what happened, he added.
Levitt said the Trump Justice Department had issued guidance in 2017 requiring that “any criminal investigation by the department must be conducted in a way that minimizes the likelihood that the investigation itself may become a factor in the election.”
Matt Wolking, who handles rapid response communications for the Trump campaign, highlighted the probe and concluded, “Democrats are trying to steal the election.”
BREAKING: FBI finds military mail-in ballots discarded in Pennsylvania. 100% of them were cast for President Trump.
Democrats are trying to steal the election. https://t.co/Sx9nbqBScr
— Matt Wolking (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@MattWolking) September 24, 2020
The county in Pennsylvania where authorities said they were investigating the ballots supported Trump in the 2016 election.
Matthew Miller, a former press spokesman for President Barack Obama’s Justice Department, said in a tweet that the U.S. Attorney’s press release amounted to an “in-kind contribution” to the Trump reelection campaign, since it amplified the president’s allegations about the dangers of mail-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic.
This is an ongoing investigation where there is no public interest reason to override the usual policy of not commenting – and especially not to say for whom the ballots were cast. An unprecedented in kind contribution to the president’s campaign. https://t.co/Tqy2hSlBba
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) September 24, 2020
Federal officials said they launched the probe at the request of the Luzerne County, Pa., district attorney, Stefanie Salavantis. She leads a working group on the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice, which is spearheaded by Attorney General Bill Barr.
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Twitter got a little animated over a recent discovery a man made while searching for an apartment.
In a post on the social media platform, a user shared that he was hunting for an apartment and came across an unusual sight – a refrigerator painted to look like Stewie Griffin from the animated television show “Family Guy.” To make the situation even stranger, the listing apparently did not make mention of the cartoonish addition.
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“Hunting for apartments and nowhere in the unit description do they address the refrigerator painted to look like Stewie from Family Guy?” the person wrote online, along with photos of the full-size kitchen appliance.
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Those on the platform were excited by the addition and encouraged the man to take it.
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Apparently the fridge had been painted by the previous tenant, who called the Stewie fridge “her son” and said it had made her “very happy.” Unfortunately for the mom of cartoon fridge characters, she said she was unable to take him with her.
The person viewing the apartment did not say if he had placed a deposit, but did confirm that the fridge comes with it.
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Luckily the original owner of the fridge found someone to appreciate her artistic sensibilities – unlike one woman who claims she has been unable to sell her home due to her unique interior design style.
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]]>NEW YORK — The CDC is warning of “unusual or aggressive rodent behavior” among rats, starved by the coronavirus pandemic lockdown.
Health officials say the rodents have gone so far as cannibalism and eating their young after food sources such as restaurants that they rely upon shut down.
“Some jurisdictions have reported an increase in rodent activity as rodents search for new sources of food. Environmental health and rodent control programs may see an increase in service requests related to rodents and reports of unusual or aggressive rodent behavior,” the CDC wrote.
Residents and businesses are urged to take preventive measures to eliminate conditions that may attract and support rodent presence.
Those actions include sealing up access into buildings, removing debris and heavy vegetation, keeping garbage in tightly covered bins, and removing pet and bird food from their yards.
The CDC provides more information and guidelines on its website.
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]]>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning that rodents are becoming increasingly aggressive as they scavenge for food amid a mass closure of restaurants caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
In an advisory posted to its website, the health agency noted that rodents rely on food and waste generated at commercial establishments such as restaurants. Closures and limits on service have caused rodents to search for new sources of food and to exhibit more erratic behavior.
The CDC said some areas have reported “an increase in rodent activity” and that environmental health and rodent control programs should be prepared for more calls about “unusual or aggressive rodent behavior.”
Residents and business owners can prevent attracting rodents by sealing up access to their homes or buildings, removing debris and heavy vegetation, keeping garbage in tightly covered bins, and removing pet food, the CDC advised.
The agency also noted the need for following established protocols when cleaning up after rodent infestations in order to prevent exposure to rodent-borne diseases.
Rodents have posed problems for several cities in the U.S. amid the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
Washington, D.C., had nearly 500 calls regarding rodents during a 30-day period between March and April, according to NBC News.
Baltimore reportedly saw 11,000 “proactive” calls or online 311 requests about rats during the same period.
Chicago is also among the cities seeing rodents change their behavior as they search for food.
“As they look for food, people are noticing them more,” Robert Villamil, owner of Chicago-based Crow Pest Control Inc., told the Chicago Tribune. “Rats carry disease and they’re very unsightly, so it’s a big thing. People are wanting to take steps to keep rats away from their homes.”
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]]>- The newest observed coronavirus symptom is also the most harmful one and can appear in clients who do not even experience other symptoms.
- Doctors have actually discovered an increase in strokes caused by blood clots in young people, who may be reluctant to look for medical aid throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
- The blockage of arteries in the brain brought on by coronavirus embolisms might be dangerous if not dealt with promptly.
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Flu-like symptoms can be a sign of infection with the novel coronavirus these days. Not all clients show these signs. Cardiac arrest-like signs and neurological indications have actually been observed in other clients who may not have actually displayed the more usual COVID-19 indications.
It ends up there’s another serious coronavirus sign that individuals need to know about, and it may simply be the most dangerous of them all. That’s because it’s the sort of medical condition that might result in severe issues that aren’t connected to COVID-19, including unexpected strokes that affect the younger population.
Strokes are typical health complications with certain illness, but they typically occur with older patients. Physicians who have been dealing with COVID-19 patients observed a high occurrence of abrupt strokes in clients in their 30 s or 40 s who had no other conditions or even extreme cases of COVID-19
Reports a couple of days ago showed that blood clots might be the latest issue of the infection, and medical professionals who observed them in some clients weren’t sure how to treat them. Some medical professionals told Company Insider that blood-thinning drugs might work against these side-effects, while others thought about clot-busting medications used to treat strokes.
When a blood clot obstructs an artery in the brain, it will reduce the oxygenation of a brain location and this might have different results on the body. While it’s rarer in more youthful individuals, a stroke is a major condition that requires to be treated in a health center as quickly as possible.
” The virus seems to be triggering increased clotting in the large arteries, resulting in serious stroke,” Mount Sinai Health System neurosurgeon Thomas Oxley told CNN “Our report reveals a seven-fold increase in occurrence of sudden stroke in young clients during the previous two weeks. Most of these patients have no previous medical history and were at home with either moderate signs (or in 2 cases, no symptoms) of COVID.”
All of them tested positive for the novel coronavirus, and two of them delayed calling the ambulance. A minimum of one client has died and others remain in extensive care or in the stroke system. Someone went home but will require ongoing intensive care. As a comparison, the exact same group dealt with less than two people under 50 with large vessel stroke each month over the previous 12 months.
Anybody displaying indications of a stroke need to call 911 as quick as possible. The obstruction of a big artery in the brain will require a procedure called clot retrieval (see video at the end of this post), which has to be carried out within 6 to 24 hours from the event. Oxley states individuals must familiarize themselves with a simple mnemonic to self-diagnose a stroke and get fast treatment: FAST. “F for face drooping, A for arm weakness, S for speech difficulty and T for time to call 911,” CNN describes.
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Chris Smith began writing about gizmos as a pastime, and prior to he knew it he was sharing his views on tech things with readers around the globe. Whenever he’s not blogging about gadgets he badly fails to keep away from them, although he desperately attempts. That’s not necessarily a bad thing.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been the topic of health speculation in current days.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has been the topic of health speculation in recent days.
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That’s the challenging concern behind a flurry of current worldwide headings that have actually raised the possibility that the North Korean leader’s health is in jeopardy after he missed out on a major state occasion.
” No uncommon signs have been determined inside North Korea,” said Kang Min-seok, spokesperson for South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
The declaration came Tuesday after a couple of media outlets stoked issues that Kim had actually suffered a bad, possibly even lethal, turn in current days.
Day-to-day NK, a Seoul-based online publication that concentrates on stories north of the Demilitarized Zone, first reported that Kim was recuperating from heart surgical treatment undergone April 12– just days prior to he stopped working to appear at a yearly event celebrating the 108 th birthday of Kim Il Sung, his grandpa and the creator of North Korea’s long-ruling communist routine. The story cited numerous unnamed sources, though it was later fixed to clarify that the info had come from just one person. CNN followed Everyday NK with a report, mentioning unnamed U.S. officials, that suggests Kim may remain in “severe risk” after the treatment.
NPR has not individually validated either story.
Neither can South Korea’s federal government, it appears. On Tuesday, Kang dismissed reports of Kim’s disease, and unnamed authorities in South Korea’s governmental administration guaranteed the nation’s Yonhap News Agency that Kim “appears to be in normal activity.”
It bears mentioning that this is not the very first time observers have actually struggled to figure out the reality of the North Korean leader’s health, frequently the most carefully protected info in a nation that stays opaque to outsiders.
North Korea lately has actually raised eyebrows by declaring to have no coronavirus cases in the midst of an international pandemic that has impacted almost every other country in the world. More than a decade ago, in 2008, authorities there kept it under wraps when Kim’s father, Kim Jong Il, suffered a stroke. U.S. and South Korean intelligence services also apparently didn’t find out about his death in 2011 until North Korea formally revealed it 48 hours afterward.
Uncertainty dogs even the age of the male now in power, who is thought to be in his mid-to-late 30 s. Kim Jong Un likewise prompted widespread rumors beyond North Korea’s borders in 2014, when he apparently went through ankle surgical treatment and disappeared from public occasions for more than a month.
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