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Susan B. Anthony museum declines Trump's pardon of the women's suffrage icon

President Trump on the centennial of the ratification 19th Amendment signed a pardon for the women’s suffrage icon Susan B. Anthony, who was arrested in 1872 for casting a ballot when women were not legally allowed to vote.

“She was never pardoned,” Trump said during a ceremony celebrating the 100th anniversary of the amendment that gave women the right to vote.

“What took so long?” Trump asked.

But some historians argue the women’s suffrage activist would have rejected the pardon, saying accepting the presidential clemency would have admitted guilt.

In response to the news Tuesday, the National Susan B. Anthony Museum and House in Rochester, New York, took to Twitter to decline the pardon on her behalf.

“On news of a presidential pardon for Susan B. Antony on August 18,2020: Objection! Mr. President, Susan B. Anthony must decline your offer of a pardon today!” the tweet from the museum said.

In a Twitter thread, the museum said Anthony called her trial for voting the “greatest outrage History ever witnessed.” She was not allowed to speak in her own defense because she was a woman. The judge in her trial also dismissed the jury and pronounced her guilty.

“She was outraged to be denied a trial by jury. She proclaimed, ‘I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty,’” the museum wrote. “To pay would have been to validate the proceedings. To pardon Susan B. Anthony does the same.”

Historians said Anthony was proud of her arrest to draw attention to the cause for women’s rights and never paid the fine.

The museum said the best way to honor Anthony and other suffragists is to ensure that every person in the U.S. has access to the ballot box.

“If one wants to honor Susan B. Anthony today, a clear stance against any form of voter suppression would be welcome,” the museum said.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/512997-susan-b-anthony-museum-declines-trumps-pardon-of-the-womens

Russian hospital claims Putin critic Navalny wasn't poisoned, bars his medevac to Germany

The Russian opposition leader who is in a coma, possibly after being poisoned, is reportedly not being allowed to transfer out of a state-run hospital.

Alexei Navalny, prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was hospitalized this week after he suddenly became ill on a flight to Moscow from Siberia, and his spokesperson said that "We suspect that Alexei was poisoned by something mixed into [his] tea." On Friday, Navalny's spokesperson said he is not being permitted to transfer out of the state-run hospital where he's being treated, describing this refusal to let him leave as "an attempt on his life," CBS News reports. Doctors from Germany already arrived with the intention of transferring Navalny, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The hospital is claiming that Navalny's condition is too unstable for him to be transferred, The New York Times reports. Doctors also claim that "no poisons or traces of their presence" were found in Navalny's body and that "we do not believe that the patient has suffered poisoning," asserting that he suffered from "a sudden drop in blood sugar" due to a "metabolic disorder," per CBS.

But Navalny's wife, Yulia Navalnaya, alleges that officials aren't allowing him to be transported out of the hospital because they hope "to make the chemical substance that is in Alexey's body disappear," CNN reports. She added that "we of course cannot trust this hospital and we demand for Alexey to be given to us, so that we could have him treated in an independent hospital whose doctors we trust." Navalny's spokesperson also said, per the Journal, that the Russian doctors, "of course, didn’t make the decision, but the Kremlin did."

https://news.yahoo.com/russian-hospital-claims-putin-critic-124600626.html

Frenchman dies, 9 injured in luxury hotel inferno in Spain

MADRID (AP) — A French tourist died in a fire at a luxury hotel in southern Spain and nine other people were injured Friday while trying to escape the flames, police said.

Video footage shared on social media showed people escaping the fire at the Sisu Boutique Hotel in Puerto Banus, Marbella, through windows and climbing down several stories of the building’s lattice facade.

It took more than three hours to extinguish the raging blaze, which broke out at 6 a.m. (0400 GMT), Malaga province’s civil protection agency said.

A National Police spokeswoman in the province confirmed that the only victim was a Frenchman who was staying at the hotel. The officer wasn’t authorized to be named in media reports.

Around 100 guests and employees were evacuated from the hotel as well as residents from a nearby building, authorities said.

https://www.wavy.com/news/world/frenchman-dies-9-injured-in-luxury-hotel-inferno-in-spain/

Erdogan Unveils Turkey’s Biggest Ever Natural Gas Discovery

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey has found 320 billion cubic meters of natural gas in the Black Sea, its biggest ever energy discovery, and hopes to begin production by 2023.

The Fatih drilling ship located the deposit in the so-called Tuna-1 field, Erdogan said Friday in a much-trailed press conference in his Istanbul palace. Exploration is continuing in other fields, he said.

The lira reversed earlier gains against the dollar after the announcement. It was down 0.3% as of 3:42 p.m. in Istanbul. The Borsa Istanbul 100 index also gave up gains and fell as much as 1.8%, possibly reflecting disappointment over the size of the find.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/erdogan-unveils-turkeys-biggest-ever-natural-gas-discovery/ar-BB18dqrS