The father of a Palestinian toddler who was killed in an arson attack on his home a week ago, which was blamed on Jewish extremists, has died from wounds he suffered in the same incident.

The mayor of the West Bank village of Duma, where the family lived, Abdel Salam Dawabsheh, confirmed the death, AP reported. A relative of the family said the family had received news from Israel's Soroka Medical Center that the toddler's father, Saad Dawabsheh, had died. The funeral will take place on Sunday.

The attack, early on the morning of July 31, saw unidentified Israeli assailants hurl a Molotov cocktail into a window of Saad Dawabsheh's home. His 18-month-old son, Ali Dawabsheh was killed in the blaze, while his other son, 4, and his wife were seriously injured.

The arsonists left inscriptions on the wall, saying: "Long live the Messiah" and "Revenge" on the wall of the house. Jewish extremists attacking Palestinian homes, Christian churches, mosques and government buildings have typically use the suspected "price tag" tactic. They believe the Israeli government is not doing enough to support their cause.

The US Coastguard has managed to lose 4,000 pounds of cocaine after making the biggest bust of its kind off California's shores. A successful raid on a self-made submarine used to smuggle drugs last month ended with part of the cargo sinking into the abyss.

After seizing a "self-propelled semi-submersible vessel" with 16,000 pounds of cocaine on board, the authorities loaded some 12,000 pounds off it to take it to shore. The rest of the illegal cargo sunk, authorities claimed, as the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Stratton from Alameda was towing the sub to shore.

"After removing 12,000 pounds of the narcotics aboard, the crew of Stratton attempted to tow the vessel to shore as evidence," the Coast Guard said in a press release. "However, the semi-submersible began taking on water and sank."


The lost illegal cargo now allegedly lies under some 13,000-feet of water.

A lawyer for a former Utah State University fraternity member who is accused of multiple rapes said in the courtroom on Thursday that the accusers are just girls who got drunk and now regret having sex with his client.

According to Salt Lake City's Fox 13 News, defense attorney Shannon Demler was responding to testimony by two women who said that Jason Brian Relopez sexually assaulted them in USU's Sigma Chi fraternity house.

"Regret the next day of doing something stupid when you're drunk doesn't make rape, and it doesn't make aggravated sexual assault," Demler told the court, sparking outrage.

One of the women, a 19-year-old who met Relopez at a barbecue said that she went back to his bedroom at the fraternity house to kiss, but once alone, Relopez slapped her, then punched her and choked her as he repeatedly raped her in spite of her protests.

German farmers have been hit hard by the Russian food embargo. Their approximate losses range from 600 to 800 million euros, Der Tagesspiegel wrote.

The Russian export market is "virtually lost" for Germany, the president of the German Farmers' Association Joachim Rukvid said, calling on the German authorities to make "every effort" to re-establish friendly relations with Russia.

According to him, German farmers are suffering heavy losses due to the embargo.

"After the introduction of sanctions, exports to Russia fell by half, reaching almost 900 million euros," Rukvid said, adding that the Russian export market had been one of Germany's largest only a couple of years ago.

An earlier article discussed London Guardian revelations about Chicago police operating an "off-the-books (Homan Square) interrogation compound" - a "nondescript warehouse" using "CIA black site" practices.

Police brutality victims are lawlessly arrested, detained, denied access to lawyers, and tortured during secret interrogations. From September 2004 to July 2015, only three arrestees were visited by attorneys.

Unless all others waived their constitutional right, the facts show Chicago police lied saying "any individual who wishes to consult a lawyer will not be interrogated until they have an opportunity to do so."

"An arrestee or person-in-custody will be notified as soon as practicable upon the arrival at the police facility of his or her legal representative."

On August 5, the Guardian published a follow-up article titled "Chicago police detained thousands of black Americans at interrogation facility."

A Guardian FOIA lawsuit revealed "overwhelming racial disparity" affecting Blacks unfairly, often for alleged offenses too minor to matter, never warranting detention and brutal interrogations.

In a stunning example of how elected officials serve the interests of the corporatocracy, San Francisco Mayor Ed Hall suggested Wednesday that City Hall might soon feature digital advertisements.

Hall's plan is to allow corporations to bid for advertising space on the east side of San Francisco's City Hall, where digital light displays could help attract revenue for the city. The technology for these displays would be privately funded by the company Osbcura Digital, which vows to spend $1.5 million on installation.

The proposal stems from a July 27th letter from Real Estate Director of the city John Updike, who wrote to the city's Board of Directors:

"We believe this display option can enhance special events held at City Hall, the Main Library and the Asian Art Museum, thus affording the city's General Fund a revenue opportunity from event sponsors."

Newly revealed documents have shown that at least 3,500 Americans have been detained inside a Chicago police warehouse, 82 percent of whom were black. The site has been described by some as a secret interrogation facility.

The Guardian reported in February that Chicago police were detaining people for days on end at a secret compound known as Homan Square - a facility which some lawyers have compared to the black sites operated by the CIA to interrogate terrorists.

Now, five months after its initial report, the media outlet has obtained records which provide more insight into Homan Square.

The information disclosed in the documents - obtained by the Guardian through the Freedom of Information Act - has raised concerns of civil rights violations.

The Environmental Protection Agency is warning residents to keep away from a river in Colorado after accidentally spilling mine waste water into it.

The EPA was investigating the abandoned Gold King Mine on Wednesday together with the state Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety, when they triggered the release of the waste into Cement Creek, a tributary of the Animas River in San Juan County.

Ironically, the initial goal was to find a safe way to pump out the wastewater and treat it.

While the Fed is digesting what the X-13 Arima seasonally adjusted payrolls number means for the future of US interest rates, the devastation of the US labor force continues.

In what was an "modestly" unpleasant July payrolls report, yet somewhat better than June's flagrant disappointment, the fact is that the number of Americans not in the labor force rose once again, this time by 144,000 to a record 93,770,000 million, with the result a participation rate of 62.6% which remains at a level more indicative of the September 1977 economy.

America will miss Jon Stewart. But it's fair to say we miss him already, because his America is gone. The political climate — angrier, more bitter, more violently divided — is radically different from the one he signed up to make fun of. Political satire, as Stewart defined it on The Daily Show, requires him to appear equally tough on the left and the right. But that means he has to pretend there's such a thing as a moderate center.

If his show got more predictable in the past few years — making the same jokes every night about the same Fox News/Tea Party bullshit — that's because America did too. And it clearly took a toll on him. "Watching these channels all day is incredibly depressing," he said recently. "I live in a constant state of depression."

Stewart was a strange fit for The Daily Show, an already thriving franchise when he took over in 1999. His specialty was a sort of good-natured bro humor. He didn't do topical material. He looked uncomfortable in a suit and tie. If he'd ever had a political opinion, he kept it to himself. The transition was clumsier than anyone wants to remember. But there was a moment, early on in those first few months, when you could see things change — in retrospect, this was one of the pivot points of 21st-century TV culture. Stewart was doing a bit about the NYPD — then wracked by a scandal in which at least one cop sexually assaulted and tortured a black man with a toilet plunger — and its "CPR" motto: "Courtesy, Professionalism, Respect." Stewart said, "Although many officers tragically mistake it for 'Cram Plunger in Rectum.' "

Then he winced — not a comedian's wince, not a jokey "sorry, folks" wince, just a reflexive flinch that said, "Wow, that was not fun at all." You could see he hated himself for that line, hated the handful of people in the audience who laughed — and was already telling himself, "Yeah, this is exactly what I'm not doing from now on."