QAnon' conspiracy theory creeps into mainstream politics

MILWAUKEE (AP) — President Donald Trump was more than halfway through his speech at a rally in Milwaukee when one of his hand gestures caught the eye of a supporter standing in the packed arena.

The 51-year-old woman believed the president had traced the shape of the letter “Q” with his fingers as a covert signal to followers of QAnon, a right-wing, pro-Trump conspiracy theory. She turned to the couple on her right and excitedly asked, “Did you see the ‘Q’?”

“He just did it?” asked Diane Jacobson, 63, of Racine, Wisconsin.

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Police break up protest over Fo Tan quarantine plan

Police on Sunday moved in to clear a crowd of Fo Tan residents who gathered to protest against the government's revival of a plan to use newly completed public housing estates for quarantine purposes.

The protest erupted after officials including Undersecretary for Health Chui Tak-yi met Sha Tin district councillors to discuss the use of the Chun Yeung Estate to house people who've been in contact with coronavirus patients.

The government said last month that it had put on hold work to prepare new public housing for quarantine purposes after fierce protests at an estate in Fanling, during which fires were started in one new building.

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Moon asks U.S. governors to back Korea peace process

President Moon Jae-in has asked United States governors to support Korea’s efforts to bring lasting peace to the peninsula, a message he delivered by video during a reception co-hosted by the country’s embassy in Washington.

“We now find ourselves with the noble task of completing the journey towards peace,” Moon said during the National Governors Association (NGA) event held in the U.S. capital. “I would like to ask for cooperation and support from all the governors gathered here so that the great alliance that our two countries have forged will be able to realize that vision.”

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Lindsey Graham says Giuliani info on Hunter Biden’s Ukraine dealings should go through DOJ

Sen. Lindsey Graham on Sunday said he would turn over any information that President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani uncovers about Hunter Biden and Ukraine to the Justice Department for vetting — because he doesn’t intend to become “the Republican Christopher Steele.”

“Here’s what I want to tell the president: I’m not going to be the Republican Christopher Steele,” Graham (R-SC) told CBS’ “Face the Nation,” referring to the former British spy whose dossier of unsubstantiated claims played a role in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

“Rudy Giuliani last night said he’s got the goods on Hunter Biden,” Graham said, adding he called Attorney General Bill Barr and Sen. Richard Burr, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, earlier Sunday and they told him to “take very cautiously anything coming out of the Ukraine against anybody.”

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