When is bread not bread? When it comes from Subway.
That&#8217;s what Ireland&#8217;s Supreme Court has ruled, deeming the bread from the international sandwich chain has too much sugar in it and must therefore be considered a “confectionary.”
The ruling was important because it means the chain&#8217;s sandwiches do not qualify as a staple food, for which there is no value-added tax (VAT). The court rejected arguments by a Subway franchisee that the VAT should not apply to its takeaway products, including teas, coffees, and heated filled sandwiches, The Irish Independent <a href="https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/sandwiches-in-subway-too-sugary-to-meet-legal-definition-of-being-bread-39574778.html">reported</a>. That means the VAT of 13.5% applies if the sandwich on consumed on site.
&#8220;The five-judge court ruled the bread in Subway&#8217;s heated sandwiches falls outside that statutory definition because it has a sugar content of [10%] of the weight of the flour included in the dough,&#8221; the UK paper wrote. &#8220;The act provides the weight of ingredients such as sugar, fat and bread improver shall not exceed [2%] of the weight of flour in the dough.&#8221;
&#8220;It is not necessary,&#8221; the court said in its <a href="https://courts.ie/acc/alfresco/fad40678-a172-44c7-9f84-66f8c102c0f0/2020_IESC_60%20(Unapproved).pdf/pdf#view=fitH">ruling</a>, &#8220;to consider if this is indeed what is contemplated by the [VAT] Act when it refers to the supply of food and drink, including food and drink which has been heated et cetera, because the argument depends on the acceptance of the prior contention that the Subway heated sandwich contains &#8216;bread&#8217; as defined, and therefore can be said to be food for the purposes of the Second Schedule rather than confectionery. Since that argument has been rejected, this subsidiary argument must fail.&#8221;
Six varieties of Subway bread — Italian white bread, nine-grain multi-seed, Italian herbs and cheese, nine-grain wheat, hearty Italian, and honey oat — all do not qualify as &#8220;bread&#8221; because of their sugar content, the court ruled.
The case came before the high court after a Subway franchisee, Bookfinders Ltd, based in Tuam, County Galway, argued that the VAT on some of its takeaway products should not apply. But Justice Donal O&#8217;Donnell said because sandwiches do not contain &#8220;bread&#8221; as defined by the VAT law, it could not be said to be &#8220;food&#8221; for tax purposes.
&#8220;Staple foods like bread and milk are exempt from the tax, but non-essential foods that have been prepared, along with anything considered &#8216;discretionary indulgences&#8217; as the court ruling phrased it, are taxed,&#8221; Gizmodo <a href="https://gizmodo.com/irish-supreme-court-says-subway-bread-cant-legally-be-c-1845237048?utm_source=knewz">reported</a>. &#8220;That would mean things like ice cream and potato chips are taxed under the law as currently written, but it left open the question of whether a sandwich at Subway was an indulgence.&#8221;
&#8220;There was also dispute about whether hot and cold food should be treated differently, meaning that a cold sandwich would not be taxed and a heated meatball sub would be taxed. Hot beverages like coffee and tea are specifically exempt from the tax but there was a question of whether that applied to purchasing a dry tea bag versus someone at a restaurant handing you a hot cup of tea. The ruling devotes several pages to what Irish legislators intended to mean when they wrote the words &#8216;hot beverages&#8217; and &#8216;food and drink&#8217; over 40 years ago. It gets very complicated very quickly. Ultimately, the court found that cold sandwiches were technically exempt from the law,&#8221; Gizmodo wrote.
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President Donald Trump slammed Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) over allegations of voter fraud at a Wednesday rally, prompting shouts of “lock her up” from the crowd.
Trump spoke at a rally in Duluth, Minnesota, on Wednesday as his campaign pushes to flip the state red in the 2020 presidential election. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/haworth-trump-is-right-to-criticize-ilhan-omar-but-not-for-her-background">Omar</a> was caught up in a potential scandal earlier this week when a Minnesota man was caught on video allegedly harvesting ballots ahead of Omar’s primary election.
“What about Omar where she gets caught harvesting? What the hell is going on? I hope your U.S. attorney is involved. What is going on with Omar? I’ve been reading these reports for two years about how corrupt and crooked she is,” Trump said during his rally.
The crowd of supporters began to chant, “Lock her up! Lock her up!” as the president continued to criticize Omar. Trump has used Omar as a foil at past rallies, prompting similar reactions.
“Let’s get with it. Let’s get with it. I mean, frankly, harvesting is terrible but it is the least of the things that she has done. How the hell, then she tells us how to run our country, can you believe it? How the hell did Minnesota elect her? What the hell is wrong with you people?” Trump continued, getting some laughs from the crowd. “What the hell happened?”
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&quot;Biden will turn Minnesota into a refugee camp&quot; &#8212; Speaking in a state with one of the largest Somali populations in the country, Trump goads his fans into booing refugees, prompting &quot;lock her up!&quot; chants directed at Ilhan Omar <a href="https://t.co/dT2yuHxFDZ">pic.twitter.com/dT2yuHxFDZ</a>
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Self-described guerilla journalist James O’Keefe, who runs the investigative group Project Veritas, released a video on Sunday purporting to show how voter fraud by Liban Mohamed, the subject of the video, may have aided Omar in her primary race. Project Veritas <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/news/ilhan-omar-connected-cash-for-ballots-voter-fraud-scheme-corrupts-elections/">reported</a>:
<blockquote>“Numbers don’t lie. Numbers don’t lie. You can see my car is full. All these here are absentees’ ballots. Can’t you see? Look at all these, my car is full. All these are for Jamal Osman&#8230; We got 300 today for Jamal Osman only,” said Liban Mohamed in a series of Snapchat videos posted July 1 and July 2 on his own Snapchat profile.
Mohamed said he was collecting the ballots to help his brother win the city’s Aug. 11 special election for a vacant Ward 6 city council race—which was held the same day as the primary for Omar’s MN-05 congressional seat. Ward 6 is the heart of the city’s Somali community and the Omar’s political base.</blockquote>
Omar spokesman Jeremy Slavin called the Project Veritas video a “coordinated right wing effort to delegitimize a free and fair election.”
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After the video dropped, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-minneapolis-police-looking-into-explosive-voter-fraud-allegations-involving-ilhan-omar">Minneapolis Police Department</a> announced it was investigating allegations of voter fraud.
“ALLEGATIONS OF VOTER FRAUD BEING EVALUATED,” the department tweeted, likely in regards to the Project Veritas video. “The MPD is aware of the allegations of vote harvesting. We are in the process of looking into the validity of those statements. No further information is available at this time on this.”
Trump initially reacted to news of the video on Twitter on Monday.
“This is totally illegal. Hope that the U.S. Attorney in Minnesota has this, and other of her many misdeeds, under serious review??? If not, why not??? We will win Minnesota because of her, and law enforcement. Saved Minneapolis &amp; Iron O Range!” Trump tweeted.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rigged-election-trump-responds-to-newest-project-veritas-video-alleging-cash-for-ballots-scheme">‘Rigged Election!’: Trump Responds To Newest Project Veritas Video Alleging ‘Cash For Ballots’ Scheme</a>
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Speaking to <a href="https://www.fingerlakesdailynews.com/2020/09/30/642307/">Finger Lakes Daily News</a>, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo defended himself from the charge that his policies caused more deaths from COVID-19 in nursing homes. In response to a question about the issue, Cuomo blamed the federal government, attacked Florida&#8217;s state government, claimed that New York “flattened the curve effectively,” and said, “It just never happened in New York, where we needed to say to a nursing home, ‘We need you to take this person even though they’re COVID positive.&#8217; It never happened.”
New York State has reported &#8220;more than 6,600 nursing home COVID-19 related deaths,&#8221; Finger Lakes Daily News reports, &#8220;but that number is likely much higher since New York does not include residents who initially contracted the virus at a nursing home but died after being transferred to a hospital.&#8221; State Senator Tom O’Mara has <a href="https://www.fingerlakesdailynews.com/2020/09/23/634040/">co-sponsored a bill</a> requiring the Department of Health to provide the accurate death toll from those in nursing homes. &#8220;He said many believe that number could be twice as high,&#8221; the Daily News notes.
The outlet asked Cuomo, “Governor, you said earlier that you lie down at night and you can sleep knowing that you saved lives. What would you say to New York residents who lost their loved ones in nursing homes due to your mandate back in late March regarding sending COVID-positive patients back to nursing homes?”
“Yeah, I would say, first of all, that’s not why they lost a loved one,” Cuomo protested. “Your premise, the premise of your question, is just factually wrong. People who were lost in nursing homes were lost because that’s where the virus preys. The virus preys on senior citizens. The virus was introduced in n this country in Washington, state of Washington in a nursing home. That’s who succumb to this virus, are immune-compromised senior citizens, and they’re predominantly located in nursing homes.”
“Number two: you look at the nursing home deaths in this state; do you know what number we are by percentage before you made that statement? We’re number 46 out of 50 states,” Cuomo continued, “And we had the worst problem, and we’re number 46 in terms of percentage of deaths in nursing homes.”
Citing a state <a href="https://www.health.ny.gov/press/releases/2020/2020-07-06_covid19_nursing_home_report.htm">in-house report</a>,  Cuomo continued, “And number three, there’s a whole report done with data: the way the virus got into nursing homes was from two possible carriers before we even knew about it. The staff, working staff at the nursing home, brought in the virus. Or, potentially, family members, before we stopped family visits, brought in the virus. And this happened at a time, back in February, when we didn’t even know that the virus was circulating in New York state. That’s how the virus got into the nursing home.”
Cuomo then segued to blaming the federal government: “But why didn’t we know the virus was in New York state? Because the federal government missed it. The federal government, that has the CDC, the NIH, they do international health care. They still thought the virus was in China. The president last night kept talking about China; no, it wasn’t in China. It was in China in December. It then went to Europe in January and February, and the people from Europe then came to New York and brought the virus. And the federal government totally missed that it came from Europe. The federal government didn’t do a travel ban until mid-March. By that time, three million Europeans had come here.”
“And why New York? Because that’s where the flights from Europe come,” Cuomo went on. “They come to New York, primarily; JFK, Newark airport, etc. So that’s how the virus got into nursing homes. If you’d like to actually understand some facts, I’ll have them send you a full report that was done, and then you’ll be able to help people with some facts.&#8221;
He continued: “Ignorance doesn’t help grieving people. The rule that the state had, which was from the CDC guidance, right? The state didn’t make it up; they were following the CDC guidance. Now you can say, &#8216;Well, the state health department was stupid to follow the federal guidance,&#8217; and you may have a point there. But the rule said the nursing homes can’t discriminate on the basis of COVID. The law also said a nursing home cannot accept a person who they cannot treat effectively while protecting the other residents. That’s the law. The point of the two rules was, if hospitals became overwhelmed, which was a real possibility, if not probability early on, we’d have to discharge people from hospitals and they’d have to go back to nursing homes. And that’s why the anticipatory rule was you can’t discriminate against a COVID-positive person. But you’d have to be able to take care of them without infecting other people. And if you can’t do that, you can’t accept them.”
“That situation never came to be in New York state because we flattened the curve so effectively we always had available hospital beds,&#8221; Cuomo boasted. &#8220;So we never scrambled for beds, and we never needed nursing home beds because we always had hospital beds. So it just never happened in New York, where we needed to say to a nursing home, ‘We need you to take this person even though they’re COVID positive.’ It never happened. We had extra beds. We had extra beds at Javits; we had extra beds at emergency hospitals that we put up all across the state. So it just never happened that we needed a nursing home to take a COVID-positive person. It never happened.”
Cuomo then attacked Florida: “You know where it did happen? In Florida. Florida today is doing exactly that. They’re forcing nursing homes to take COVID-positive patients because they need the beds in the hospitals. We never got near hospital capacity.”
He concluded, “So I understand the political time; I understand Trump; I understand where you are, but a loved one, having someone who lost a loved one, saying to them, ‘Well, this was a government mess-up; it was unnecessary; your mother could be alive; your father could be alive; your grandmother could be alive,&#8217; it’s just incorrect, untrue, and frankly, it’s mean.”
Comparisons between Democrat-led New York and Republican-led Florida&#8217;s handling of the virus have been made frequently. A timeline of their responses based on media reports pushes back on some of Cuomo&#8217;s narrative regarding how his state handled its nursing home policy and successfully &#8220;flattened the curve&#8221; compared to Florida:
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Other states look to follow NY&#39;s lead in admitting Covid-positive patients into their nursing homes. Florida issues its stay at home order (12/14) <a href="https://t.co/DLKjOGM2vd">pic.twitter.com/DLKjOGM2vd</a>
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler warned California Gov. Gavin Newsom that his recent executive order to ban sales of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035 is unrealistic, and possibly illegal.
Wheeler sent the warning to the Democratic governor in a letter on Monday. The EPA head said that Newsom’s order seemed “mostly aspirational,” but warned that following through with parts of the order would first require permission from the federal government.
“Your recent Executive Order (EO) establishing a goal that 100 percent of new vehicle sales be zero emission by 2035 raises serious questions regarding its legality and practicality,” Wheeler began. “While the EO seems mostly aspirational and on its own would accomplish very little, any attempt by the California Air Resources Board to implement sections of it may require California to request a waiver to U.S. EPA.”
“Beyond the significant questions of legality and the fact that consumer demand for the type of vehicle you would mandate has never met the aspirations of California’s political leadership, your state is already struggling to maintain reliable electricity for today’s demands,” Wheeler continued. “California’s record of rolling blackouts – unprecedented in size and scope – coupled with recent requests to neighboring states for power begs the question of how you expect to run an electric car fleet that will come with significant increases in electricity demand, when you can’t even keep the lights on today.”
Wheeler pushed Newsom to solve California’s power and emissions issues through cutting regulations rather than adding to them.
“By setting realistic goals and maintaining a comprehensive awareness of impacts to the economy, we have achieved tangible environmental progress while improving the lives and livelihoods of our citizenry. I urge you to step away from commitments to singular technologies,” Wheeler said. “While it is tempting for federal or state agencies to regulate with a particular technology in mind, it is far more productive to provide innovators the freedom to develop the technologies of tomorrow.”
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Newsom signed an executive order on Sept. 23 with the goal of banning the sale of new gas-powered vehicles within 15 years to cut down on air pollution and reach the state’s goals for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
“This is the most impactful step our state can take to fight climate change,” Newsom said in a statement at the time. “For too many decades, we have allowed cars to pollute the air that our children and families breathe. Californians shouldn’t have to worry if our cars are giving our kids asthma. Our cars shouldn’t make wildfires worse – and create more days filled with smoky air. Cars shouldn’t melt glaciers or raise sea levels threatening our cherished beaches and coastlines.”
Some California lawmakers criticized the governor’s announcement.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-governor-bans-sale-of-new-gas-powered-cars-beginning-in-2035">The Daily Wire</a> reports:
<blockquote>The governor’s executive order received pushback from Democratic Assemblymember Jim Cooper, who pointed out how electric vehicles are inaccessible to most Californians.
“The EV’s pictured in today’s signing of the EO cost more than $50k each. How will my constituents afford an EV? They can’t. They currently drive 11-year-old vehicles. This doesn’t even take into account the strain an all electric vehicle fleet will have on our state electric grid,” tweeted Cooper.</blockquote>
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According to a Daily Beast report this week, numerous episodes from several shows on the cable network Adult Swim have been deemed “problematic.” As a result, they have been permanently removed from the network and its streaming outlets, including HBO Max. 
The affected shows are the raunchy, adult-oriented animated comedies: The Boondocks, Aqua Teen Hunger, and The Shivering Truth. 
As reported by the Daily Beast, the episodes were pulled without warning or announcement. Their absence was only later noticed by users on <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AquaJail/comments/hegbvg/shake_like_me_removed_from_hbo_max/">Reddit</a>. “Eagle-eyed Redditors first noted the absence of Aqua Teen Hunger Force’s Season 6 episode &#8216;Shake Like Me&#8217; from the series’ page on HBO Max in June.” 
The premise of one indicted joke, from the Aqua Teen Hunger Force’s “Shake Like Me,” is that a black man becomes radioactive and proceeds to bite another character, transferring to him stereotypically African American traits and mannerisms. 
As the Daily Beast added, a second guilty offender was an episode called “Boston,” which parodied a real-life <a href="https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2017/01/31/looking-back-at-the-boston-mooninite-panic-10-years-later">bomb scare</a> that was tied to the animated series’ feature film release in 2007. 
The Adult Swim network defended its decisions in a statement, claiming the offending episodes have been “permanently retired due to cultural sensitivities,” adding that they have no plans to air them again. “When Adult Swim transitions series to a new platform &#8230; we determine what episodes are selected through creative and cultural filters and our standards and practices policies. Oftentimes these decisions are made in collaboration with the show’s creators.” 
According to the report, a representative added that Adult Swim also axed an episode from another of the network’s shows, The Shivering Truth, again citing “sensitivity around current events.” 
Moreover, the Daily Beast reported that Aaron McGruder, the creator of The Boondocks, declined to comment. 
This incident wasn’t HBO’s first foray into the censorship of “unsavory content.” Last June, Comedy Central’s widely popular animated show, South Park, began streaming on HBO Max. However, HBO announced that in accordance with fundamentalist Islamic laws forbidding the depiction of Muhammad it would omit five episodes from the show’s canon that both depicted and satirized the Muslim prophet. Conversely, no such distinctions were made by HBO for crass humor hurled at Christian, Mormon, or Buddhist faiths.
Lately, networks pulling old episodes to abide by progressive platitudes and woke tenets has become a broader trend. Just last summer, at the behest of Tina Fey, Hulu pulled various episodes of 30 Rock (which reportedly contained depictions of blackface) from streaming. At the same time, Google Play and the iTunes both made them unavailable for purchase. Additionally, Hulu removed episodes from another show, Scrubs, for the same transgression. As noted by a Variety <a href="https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/adult-swim-episodes-retired-cultural-sensitivities-1234786221/">report</a>, “Netflix has also removed an episode of Bob Odenkirk and David Cross’ 2015 comedy series ‘W/Bob and David’ that featured Cross in blackface.”
Such recent deletion of “offensive content” has not been limited to television shows. Last June, HBO Max temporarily removed the classic 1939 film adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind, before restoring it with an addendum, clarifying the film’s historical context to soften the its outmoded depictions of race. HBO Max followed suit with another indelible 20th-century classic, Mel Brook’s acerbic Western spoof, Blazing Saddles. In efforts to explain the historical context and Brooks’ humor, the network went as far as to hire University of Chicago professor Jacqueline Stewart to deliver a public service announcement at the beginning of the film, warning viewers of potentially offensive context – presumably advising that such a violent macabre of sarcasm and wit should be viewed with a real adult.
As wisely suggested by the <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AquaJail/comments/hegbvg/shake_like_me_removed_from_hbo_max/">top Reddit comment</a> in the Daily Beast’s report, if you love a film, a TV series – or even a music record or a book – buy a physical copy. Unlike its conveniently streamed counterpart, the hard copy cannot be tampered or manipulated to conform to new trends or radical demands. If tomorrow’s publishers suddenly decide that adding a disclaimer to Gone with the Wind’s film adaption wasn’t sufficient, they will add a disclaimer to the novel – and there’s no reason to think they’re going to stop there.
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HBO Max Goes Woke, Deletes Episodes From Shows Deemed ‘Problematic’

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Disney is laying off nearly 30,000 workers after months of limited operations and, in the case of its California locations, forced closures in its theme parks.
Disney’s head of parks Josh D’Amaro sent a memo to employees on Tuesday outlining the need for significant staffing cuts necessitated by the pandemic and ensuing lockdowns. Strict social distancing regulations have cut deep into the company’s bottom line, especially as its California Adventure and Disneyland theme parks in Anaheim, California, remain completely shut down, according to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/29/disney-to-layoff-28000-employees-as-coronavirus-slams-theme-park-business.html">CNBC</a>.
“Earlier this year, in response to the pandemic, we were forced to close our businesses around the world. Few of us could have imagined how significantly the pandemic would impact us — both at work and in our daily lives,” D’Amaro wrote. “We initially hoped that this situation would be short-lived, and that we would recover quickly and return to normal. Seven months later, we find that has not been the case. And, as a result, today we are now forced to reduce the size of our team across executive, salaried, and hourly roles.”
Disney is planning to cut 28,000 full-time and part-time employees, thousands of which have been furloughed for months with healthcare coverage but no salary or hourly wages. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disney-reports-devastating-hit-in-income">Disney</a> has not said how the cuts will be distributed across its various parks, though Disney emphasized the impacts <a href="http://dailywire.com/news/newsom-orders-another-california-lockdown-bars-restaurants-churches-gyms">California’s lockdown policies</a> have had on its business, according to CNBC.
“For the last several months, our management team has worked tirelessly to avoid having to separate anyone from the company,” D’Amaro said. “We’ve cut expenses, suspended capital projects, furloughed our cast members while still paying benefits, and modified our operations to run as efficiently as possible, however, we simply cannot responsibly stay fully staffed while operating at such limited capacity.”
“As heartbreaking as it is to take this action, this is the only feasible option we have in light of the prolonged impact of COVID-19 on our business, including limited capacity due to physical distancing requirements and the continued uncertainty regarding the duration of the pandemic,” he added.
The staffing cuts represent roughly 13% of Disney’s pre-pandemic workforce of 223,000 employees. Disney stock dropped 1% on Wednesday following the news, according to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/disneys-parks-cant-stand-on-pandemics-middle-ground-11601485547">The Wall Street Journal</a>.
The pandemic has hit the amusement industry particularly hard. Even at Disney’s parks in states that are free of onerous coronavirus regulations, traffic at the locations is still at low. Foot traffic at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/disney-announces-plans-to-re-open-theme-parks-next-month-face-masks-required">Disney’s theme parks</a> in Orlando, Florida, is down about 80% from one year ago, according to analysts at Deutsche Bank.
The company is negotiating with union representatives on moving forward with downsizing.
“Thank you for your dedication, patience and understanding during these difficult times. I know that these changes will be challenging,” D’Amaro said. “It will take time for all of us to process this information and its impact. We will be scheduling appointments with our affected salaried and non-union hourly employees over the next few days. Additionally, today we will begin the process of discussing next steps with unions.”
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California Lockdown Is Costing Thousands Of Disney Workers’ Jobs, Company Says

California&#039;s lockdown is causing Disney to cut 28,000 employees after its theme parks have remained closed for months, the company said.

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First Presidential Debate Between Donald Trump And Democratic Candidate Joe Biden

CNN Claims Biden Debate ‘Largely Accurate.’ Here Are 14 False Claims By Biden.

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On Tuesday evening, viewers suffered through the first Presidential debate between incumbent Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden. When the petty

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Two of the largest passenger airlines in the United States plan to furlough 32,000 employees this week unless Democratic leaders and Trump administration officials manage to reach an agreement on stimulus package talks. 
American Airlines plans to furlough over 19,000 works beginning on Thursday due to low demand for travel, but is willing to reverse itself should a stimulus deal be reached that includes $25 billion for the airline industry, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-passenger-airlines-layoffs-archive-airlines-9c8e6c0822c143a2bbac734f9cf1a6c5">Associated Press</a>, 
United Airlines, which plans to furlough over 13,000 jobs, also indicated that the employee furloughs would be canceled if Washington reached stimulus package deal soon, reports <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/thousands-of-airline-jobs-hang-in-the-balance-as-lawmakers-debate-aid-11601480824">The Wall Street Journal</a>. 
According to the Associated Press, the airline industry has been encouraging employees to take early retirements or severance packages in order to curb spending. However, the industry still employs a workforce larger than needed to meet current demand for flying, which is down 70% from last year and not expected to return to pre-coronavirus pandemic levels for at least three years. 
The airlines are requesting funding in order to keep their workers on payroll through March of 2021, reports AP. Congress previously provided the industry with $25 billion to avoid layoffs through September 2020.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) have been engaged in renewed coronavirus stimulus talks this week, after failing to reach an agreement back in August due to differences on the magnitude of desired spending. 
Democratic leadership had been using the Heroes Act, a $3.4 trillion dollar stimulus package passed in the House, as a point of negotiation. Republicans were intent on capping spending at $1 trillion, and even then, many GOP senators weren’t sold on it. 
Mnuchin said Wednesday evening that the Trump administration is on-board with new funding for airlines, but also suggested the president wouldn’t be willing to spend more than $1.5 trillion on another stimulus package, reports AP. 
During a Monday interview on MSNBC, Pelosi argued that because Democrats had lowered their spending by about $1 trillion, it was time for Republicans to “come up because we have to crush this virus,” according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/28/pelosi-mnuchin-final-attempt-covid-talks-422698">Politico</a>. 
The WSJ, citing Democratic aides, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/mnuchin-to-discuss-coronavirus-aid-counteroffer-with-pelosi-11601474043?mod=politics_lead_pos5">reports</a> that House Democrats originally planned to vote on the new spending bill on Wednesday, ahead of an expected recess, but have since postponed the vote to allow another day for the ongoing negotiations. 
“We found areas where we are seeking further clarification,” said Pelosi. “Our conversations will continue.”
On Wednesday evening, Mnuchin told reporters that the negotiators have made “a lot of progress over the last few days,” reports <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/09/30/congress-white-house-economic-stimulus/">The Washington Post</a>. 
“We still don’t have an agreement, but we have more work to do. And we’re going to see where we end up,” he said. 
The current Democratic-favored House bill, as it stands, has virtually no chance of passing the senate and has been dismissed by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as a political stunt, according to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/09/30/918718154/senate-approves-spending-stopgap-hours-ahead-of-shutdown-deadline?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=nprtopicspolitics">NPR</a>.  As such, a breakthrough in negotiations between Pelosi and Mnuchin will be necessary for a new stimulus package to have a chance at moving toward the president&#8217;s desk for signature. 
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Travelers At Airports As U.S. Airline Daily Traffic Falls

Two Major Airlines To Furlough 32,000 Workers, Cite Lack Of COVID-19 Relief

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Authorities arrested Deonte Lee Murray, a 36-year-old resident of Compton, California, as a suspect in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-suspect-arrested-charged-in-ambush-attack-on-la-sheriffs-deputies">ambush shooting of two Los Angeles Sheriff’s deputies</a> earlier this month, with one official saying in a press conference Wednesday that some members of the public provided “significant information” in the case leading up to the announcement of charges.
Kent Wegener, head of the sheriff’s homicide bureau, said that a weapon later recovered by authorities in an unrelated investigation provided “powerful” evidence that Murray was the alleged shooter of the two deputies.
However, Wegener also pointed to information from the public playing a role in the course of the investigation, which started on September 12 after two deputies, a 24-year-old male and a 31-year-old female, were shot multiple times.
“We had been doing interviews. We had received anonymous information, we had unsubstantiated, unverified information from the public, from the streets, that said, ‘This is your guy, this is the guy you want,’” said Wegener.
As The Daily Wire previously reported, the reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a suspect in the case reached six figures with the help of the Los Angeles City Council, and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reward-explodes-to-675k-for-suspected-shooter-of-ambushed-la-county-deputies">size of the reward dramatically increased</a> due to a variety of different funding sources, some of which were private.
Wegener said that some members of the public “will likely have some claim to that reward” if Murray is ultimately found guilty and also indicated that some of the information from the public was “significant.”
District attorney Jackie Lacey filed two attempted murder charges against Deonte Lee Murray, a 36-year-old Compton resident, for the ambush shooting of the two sheriff’s deputies who were sitting in their patrol car. She also called the evidence “strong.”
Murray was arrested two weeks ago in Compton for allegedly stealing a Mercedes Benz after shooting the driver. He faces an attempted murder charge for the incident, in addition to other charges, and up to life in state prison if convicted, said Lacey.
Authorities did not indicate a specific motive for the shooting of the two deputies, but Wegener said the alleged shooter “obviously hates policemen and he wants them dead.” He said Murray has previously been convicted on other charges, including sale and possession of narcotics, felony firearms possession, and making terroristic threats.
Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva said that both deputies are now home from the hospital but still face a lengthy recovery process, including reconstructive surgery.
He also praised law enforcement officers and bureaus for working to identify a suspect and members of the public and public officials for showing support for the two sheriff’s deputies, saying that the “outpouring of support was across the nation.”
“Sometimes from the worst comes the best, and this is an example of that,” he said.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-man-walked-into-los-angeles-police-station-assaulted-officer">Police: Man Walked Into Los Angeles Police Station, Assaulted Officer</a>
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Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva announces an arrest of the suspect in the ambush shooting of two on-duty deputies who were sitting in their marked patrol car at the Metro Blue Line station in Compton September 12, 2020.

Public Provided ‘Significant’ Info In Ambush Shooting Of L.A. Sheriff’s Deputies, Says Official

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Authorities arrested Deonte Lee Murray as a suspect in the ambush shooting of two Los Angeles Sheriff’s deputies earlier this month.

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Sean Davis, co-founder of The Federalist, reported on Wednesday night that CIA Director Gina Haspel is reportedly blocking the declassification and release of critical documents related to the FBI&#8217;s surveillance of the Trump campaign in 2016.
&#8220;I can report here tonight that these declassifications that have come out, those weren&#8217;t easy to get out and there&#8217;s in fact far more waiting to get out,&#8221; Davis told Fox News host Tucker Carlson. &#8220;Unfortunately, those releases and declassifications, according to multiple sources I&#8217;ve talked to, are being blocked by CIA Director Gina Haspel, who herself was the main link between Washington and London as the London station chief for John Brennan&#8217;s CIA during the 2016 election.&#8221;
&#8220;Recall it was London where Christopher Steele was doing all this work,&#8221; Davis continued. &#8220;And I&#8217;m told that it is Gina Haspel personally who&#8217;s blocking continued declassification of these documents that will show the American people the truth of what actually happened.&#8221;
Davis said that he believes that one reason that certain U.S. officials are making it difficult to declassify documents is because they are &#8220;likely implicated by&#8221; the documents, adding that their careers could be damaged based on what is contained in the documents.
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Davis&#8217; report comes after Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified a document yesterday that stated U.S. officials had referred then-Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton for investigation to the FBI regarding her alleged &#8220;approval of a plan concerning U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private mail server.&#8221;
The news came in a letter that Ratcliffe sent to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Ratcliffe&#8217;s letter contained three major points:
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<li>In late July 2016, U.S. intelligence agencies obtained insight into Russian intelligence analysis alleging that U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians&#8217; hacking of the Democratic National Committee. The IC does not know the accuracy of this allegation or the extent to which the Russian intelligence analysis may reflect exaggeration or fabrication.</li>
<li>According to his handwritten notes, former Central Intelligence Agency Director [John] Brennan subsequently briefed President Obama and other senior national security officials on the intelligence, including the &#8220;alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on July 26, 2016 of a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by Russian security services.&#8221;</li>
<li>On 07 September 2016, U.S. intelligence officials forwarded an investigative referral to FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence Peter Strzok regarding &#8220;U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton&#8217;s approval of a plan concerning U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private mail server.&#8221;</li>
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&#8220;As referenced in his 24 September 2020 letter to your Committee, Attorney General [William] Barr has advised that the disclosure of this information will not interfere with ongoing Department of Justice investigations,&#8221; Ratcliffe added. &#8220;Additional declassification and public disclosure of related intelligence remains under consideration; however, the IC welcomes the opportunity to provide a classified briefing with further detail at your convenience.&#8221;
This story has been updated to include additional information.
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Senate Intelligence Committee Holds Hearing On Worldwide Threats

CIA Director Gina Haspel Blocking Declassifying Critical Documents Related To Russia Investigation, Report Says

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CIA&#039;s Haspel is reportedly blocking declassification and release of documents related to the FBI&#039;s surveillance of the Trump campaign in 2016.

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Fox News anchor Chris Wallace expressed regret on Wednesday after the chaotic nature of the presidential debate he moderated on Tuesday was met with fierce criticism.
&#8220;I’m just sad with the way last night turned out,&#8221; Wallace said in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/business/media/chris-wallace-debate-moderator.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a phone interview with The New York Times</a> about the first square-off between President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden. He further characterized the tense 90-minute back-and-forth as &#8220;a terrible missed opportunity.&#8221;
Explaining how he &#8220;never never dreamt that it would go off the tracks the way it did,” Wallace also addressed the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-wallace-faces-intense-backlash-including-from-colleagues-over-bias-during-debate" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">widespread criticism of his moderating</a>. “I’ve read some of the reviews, I know people think, well, gee, I didn’t jump in soon enough,” he said, referring to Trump&#8217;s interruptions. “I guess I didn’t realize — and there was no way you could, hindsight being 20/20 — that this was going to be the president’s strategy, not just for the beginning of the debate but the entire debate.”
Claiming he is &#8220;a pro,&#8221; Wallace said he thought at the time, &#8220;I’ve never been through anything like this.&#8221; Claiming he attempted to &#8220;seize control&#8221; of the debate to keep it from going &#8220;completely off the tracks,&#8221; Wallace conceded that he is unsure if he succeeded, admitting he felt &#8220;desperation&#8221; when he tried to maintain decorum.
Wallace was unwilling to speak at length with the Times regarding his opinion of whether Trump was to blame for the heated tone of the event, saying simply, &#8220;To quote the president, &#8216;It is what it is.'&#8221;
The debate was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-panel-melts-down-post-debate-that-was-a-s-show-horrific-hot-mess-president-hit-new-low" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">widely panned</a> by both sides of the aisle. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-pollster-both-trump-and-biden-lost-first-debate" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">A focus group told Republican pollster Frank Luntz</a> that both sides lost, with some even saying they were encouraged not to vote at all.
“I have never had a session blow up where the participants were disappointed on both sides, where everyone was embarrassed and everyone was upset about what had happened,” Luntz <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/30/gop-pollster-frank-luntz-on-first-trump-biden-presidential-debate-.html">said</a> on CNBC on Wednesday.
Wallace also faced poor reviews, including from the president himself.
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-wallace-had-a-tough-night-trump-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Daily Wire reported</a>:
<blockquote>President Donald Trump criticized Fox News anchor Chris Wallace for his performance as Tuesday’s presidential debate moderator.
“Chris had a tough night,” Trump tweeted Wednesday morning. “Two on one was not surprising, but fun. Many important points made, like throwing Bernie, AOC PLUS 3, and the rest, to the wolves! Radical Left is dumping Sleepy Joe. Zero Democrat enthusiasm, WEAK Leadership!” [&#8230;]
Wallace in particular took heavy criticism from those claiming he failed to maintain control during the contentious 90 minutes during which he interrupted Trump repeatedly. [&#8230;]
Even some of his Fox News colleagues took Wallace to task. Fox &amp; Friends host Brian Kilmeade wrote, “Why is [Biden] allowed to interrupt? [Trump] is not.” Host Laura Ingraham said, “Biden seems to interrupt with impunity,” and host Greg Gutfeld described his laughing along with Biden as “not good.” Former host Bill O’Reilly said, “Chris Wallace doesn’t have the facts at his command about the Ukraine payments made to Biden’s son that Trump brought up. Big mistake by Mr. Wallace.”</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chris-wallace-had-a-tough-night-trump-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chris Wallace ‘Had A Tough Night,’ Trump Says</a>
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‘I’m Just Sad’: Debate Was ‘A Terrible Missed Opportunity,’ Chris Wallace Tells NYT

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Chris Wallace expressed regret on Wednesday after the chaotic nature of the presidential debate he moderated was met with fierce criticism.

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California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) signed legislation on Wednesday that will establish a nine-member state task force to study slavery and explore the potential avenues for reparations for African Americans.
“As a nation, we can only truly thrive when every one of us has the opportunity to thrive. Our painful history of slavery has evolved into structural racism and bias built into and permeating throughout our democratic and economic institutions,” said Newsom in a statement Wednesday afternoon.
“California’s rich diversity is our greatest asset, and we won’t turn away from this moment to make right the discrimination and disadvantages that Black Californians and people of color still face. While there is still so much work to do to unravel this legacy, these pieces of legislation are important steps in the right direction to building a more inclusive and equitable future for all,” added the governor.
Assemblymember Shirley Weber (D), the author of the legislation, argued in a statement Wednesday that California hasn’t “come to terms” with its historical role as it pertains to slavery.
“California has historically led the country on civil rights, yet we have not come to terms with our state’s ugly past that allowed slaveholding within our borders and returned escaped slaves to their masters,” said Weber.
The California constitution, passed in 1849, explicitly outlawed slavery and the region was admitted to the union as a free state in 1850. The Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-30/california-task-force-reparations-slavery-gavin-newsom-shirley-weber">reports</a> that slavery continued in California even after it entered the union, but does not provide figures or estimates as to how extensive slavery was during this time.
Weber was the force behind a recent law that will require hundreds of thousands of students in the California State University system to complete an ethnic studies requirement before graduating, starting in the 2023-2024 school year.
Newsom also signed legislation Wednesday that his office says will aim “to eliminate discrimination in jury selection” and prohibit the “use of race, ethnicity, or national origin to seek or obtain convictions or impose sentences” in the court system.
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Joined in a public video call by a number of California lawmakers and the rapper Ice Cube, the governor called the pieces of legislation particularly timely because of the presidential debate the evening before, although he didn’t elaborate on the comment.
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Thank you Governor <a href="https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GavinNewsom</a> for signing AB3121 <a href="https://t.co/PKUcMtXb69">https://t.co/PKUcMtXb69</a> and Thank you <a href="https://twitter.com/ADOSLosAngeles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ADOSLosAngeles</a> for bringing the bill to my attention so we could push from all angles.
— Ice Cube (@icecube) <a href="https://twitter.com/icecube/status/1311423255803174912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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