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3,201 | The Russia Investigations: More Pleas More Charges â Any More Preparation? : NPR | Gates | Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller broke his own record this week for guilty pleas. On Tuesday Dutch attorney Alex van der Zwaan appeared in federal court and admitted he had lied to investigators about his contacts with Donald Trump's former campaign vice chairman Rick Gates .
On Friday Gates himself appeared before a federal judge and confirmed that he is changing his plea to guilty. He had been fighting the case brought against him and the former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort which alleged they laundered millions of dollars and broke other laws related to their work for clients in Ukraine.
Gates and Manafort have not been charged with conspiracy to defraud the U.S. by "impairing obstructing and defeating the lawful functions of the government through fraud and deceit for the purpose of interfering with the U.S. political and electoral processes." That was the charge Mueller leveled at 13 Russians and three Russian companies he says did interfere with the election.
Or the special counsel's office could be laying down one brick in a larger structure. At the very least Gates' future testimony against his longtime business partner raises the likelihood that Manafort could be convicted of some or all of the charges he continues fighting.
Manafort and his lawyers know this. So one of Mueller's strategies in getting Gates to turn state's evidence might be to persuade Manafort to do the same and tell what he knows about other people in the Trump campaign orbit.
Or evidence from Gates might be what the special counsel's office needs to build a case against Manafort for conspiring in the 2016 Russian interference effort. Or after years of working with Manafort Gates might have other evidence that would permit Mueller to bring new charges against Manafort.
Mueller announced a new indictment in Manafort's case on Friday evening. After Gates appeared in federal court Friday to enter his plea Manafort continued to maintain his innocence and said he remained committed "to defend myself against the untrue piled up charges contained in the indictments against me." | Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller broke his own record this week for guilty pleas. On Tuesday Dutch attorney Alex van der Zwaan appeared in federal court and admitted he had lied to investigators about his contacts with Donald Trump's former campaign vice chairman Rick Gates .
On Friday Gates himself appeared before a federal judge and confirmed that he is changing his plea to guilty. He had been fighting the case brought against him and the former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort which alleged they laundered millions of dollars and broke other laws related to their work for clients in Ukraine.
Gates and Manafort have not been charged with conspiracy to defraud the U.S. by "impairing obstructing and defeating the lawful functions of the government through fraud and deceit for the purpose of interfering with the U.S. political and electoral processes." That was the charge Mueller leveled at 13 Russians and three Russian companies he says did interfere with the election.
Or the special counsel's office could be laying down one brick in a larger structure. At the very least Gates' future testimony against his longtime business partner raises the likelihood that Manafort could be convicted of some or all of the charges he continues fighting.
Manafort and his lawyers know this. So one of Mueller's strategies in getting [TGT] might be to persuade Manafort to do the same and tell what he knows about other people in the Trump campaign orbit.
Or evidence from [TGT] might be what the special counsel's office needs to build a case against Manafort for conspiring in the 2016 Russian interference effort. Or after years of working with Manafort Gates might have other evidence that would permit Mueller to bring new charges against Manafort.
Mueller announced a new indictment in Manafort's case on Friday evening. After [TGT] appeared in federal court Friday to enter [TGT] plea Manafort continued to maintain his innocence and said he remained committed "to defend myself against the untrue piled up charges contained in the indictments against me." | 2Positive
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3,202 | Israel: We Caused 'Significant Harm' to Syrian Air Defenses | Benjamin Netanyahu | At the weekly cabinet meeting Sunday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the condition of both pilots had improved.
âWe wish both of them a quick and full recovery â the prime minister added.
Netanyahu also said that Israel âdealt severe blows to the Iranian and Syrian forces.â
âWe made it unequivocally clear to everyone that our rules of action have not changed one bit; we will continue to strike at every attempt to strike at us. This has been our policy and it will remain our policy â he added.
On Saturday Netanyahu had telephone conversations with both Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian President Vladimir Putin who have agreed that Israeli-Russian security coordination on Syria will continue.
Putin told Netanyahu to avoid âany steps which might trigger a new spiral of dangerous-for-all confrontation in the region â the state-owned TASS news agency said. | At the weekly cabinet meeting Sunday [TGT] said that the condition of both pilots had improved.
âWe wish both of them a quick and full recovery â [TGT] added.
[TGT] also said that Israel âdealt severe blows to the Iranian and Syrian forces.â
âWe made it unequivocally clear to everyone that our rules of action have not changed one bit; we will continue to strike at every attempt to strike at us. This has been our policy and it will remain our policy â he added.
On Saturday [TGT] had telephone conversations with both Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian President Vladimir Putin who have agreed that Israeli-Russian security coordination on Syria will continue.
Putin told [TGT] to avoid âany steps which might trigger a new spiral of dangerous-for-all confrontation in the region â the state-owned TASS news agency said. | 2Positive
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3,203 | Florida shooting: High school alumni rally to raise money for students | Christine Sylvest | Felicia Wivchar hugs her former classmate Christine Sylvest at an event in Washington D.C. to raise money for their former high school Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (Photo: Christal Hayes / USA TODAY)
WASHINGTON â Christine Sylvest looked around Tony and Joe's Seafood Place and saw a sea of maroon and silver.
Nearly 200 others who once walked the halls of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School flooded the restaurant Tuesday evening in the Georgetown area of Washington D.C. to raise money and support students and faculty at the school. It wasn't long before she saw a familiar face one she hadn't seen in about 22 years.
She and Felicia Wivchar both 39 graduated in 1996 when Parkland Fla. was still known as a safe tight-knit community and not as the home to a mass shooting that left 17 dead. Their smiles hugs and catching up turned bittersweet as they talked about the tragedy and where they were when they heard the news. | Felicia Wivchar hugs her former classmate [TGT] at an event in Washington D.C. to raise money for their former high school Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (Photo: Christal Hayes / USA TODAY)
WASHINGTON â [TGT] looked around Tony and Joe's Seafood Place and saw a sea of maroon and silver.
Nearly 200 others who once walked the halls of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School flooded the restaurant Tuesday evening in the Georgetown area of Washington D.C. to raise money and support students and faculty at the school. It wasn't long before she saw a familiar face one she hadn't seen in about 22 years.
She and Felicia Wivchar both 39 graduated in 1996 when Parkland Fla. was still known as a safe tight-knit community and not as the home to a mass shooting that left 17 dead. Their smiles hugs and catching up turned bittersweet as they talked about the tragedy and where they were when they heard the news. | 1Neutral
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3,204 | Anne Milgram : How Can Smarter Statistics Help Us Fight Crime? | Anne Milgram Anne | About Anne Milgram 's TED Talk
As New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram transformed the most dangerous city in her state. She changed a criminal justice system based on gut and instinct to one supported by data and statistics.
About Anne Milgram
Anne Milgram is a Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at New York University School of Law. At NYU Milgram is building a Criminal Justice Innovation Lab focused on using data and technology to transform the criminal justice system. | About Anne Milgram 's TED Talk
As New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram transformed the most dangerous city in her state. She changed a criminal justice system based on gut and instinct to one supported by data and statistics.
About Anne Milgram
Anne Milgram is a Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at New York University School of Law. At NYU Milgram is building a Criminal Justice Innovation Lab focused on using data and technology to transform the criminal justice system. | 2Positive
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3,205 | Domestic abusers and guns can be a deadly combination | Lisette Johnson | CLOSE Some GOP lawmakers in Washington appear willing to consider legislative restrictions to curb gun violence particularly in outlawing bump stocks which the Trump administration also wants to do through administrative action. (Feb. 26) AP
Lisette Johnson center is shown recently with her children Natalie and Graham. Natalie was 12 and Graham was about to turn 10 when their father shot their mother before killing himself in 2009. (Photo: Family photo)
If Virginia's 2016 law to enforce the gun restrictions was in effect when her husband shot her and killed himself Lisette Johnson says it would have likely prevented the tragedy. Even though police and courts still need to actively confiscate weapons â which is hardly the norm â Johnson said an "upscale abuser" like her husband would have likely turned his in.
"He didnât see himself as a criminal " she says.
Johnson never got a restraining order against her husband but had told him to get all of his guns out of the house. He did â except for the one he used to fire five bullets two of the four he fired at her are still inside her body.
Johnson now volunteers as a community advocate who helps connect victims with doctors and other services they might have been cut off from while in the throes of control by their violent partners. She helped one young women who was two weeks away from giving birth and hadn't had any prenatal visits because she had been prevented from going to the doctor.
Lisette Johnson who survived domestic abuse and being shot by her late husband is now an advocate for other victims. (Photo: Family photo) | CLOSE Some GOP lawmakers in Washington appear willing to consider legislative restrictions to curb gun violence particularly in outlawing bump stocks which the Trump administration also wants to do through administrative action. [TGT]
is shown recently with [TGT] children Natalie and Graham. Natalie was 12 and Graham was about to turn 10 when their father shot their mother before killing himself in 2009. (Photo: Family photo)
If [TGT] says [TGT] would have likely prevented the tragedy. Even though police and courts still need to actively confiscate weapons â which is hardly the norm â [TGT] said an "upscale abuser" like [TGT] husband would have likely turned his in.
"He didnât see himself as a criminal " [TGT] says.
[TGT] never got a restraining order against [TGT] husband but had told [TGT] to get all of [TGT] guns out of the house. [TGT] did â except for the one [TGT] used to fire five bullets two of the four [TGT] fired at her are still inside her body.
[TGT] now volunteers as a community advocate who helps connect victims with doctors and other services they might have been cut off from while in the throes of control by their violent partners. [TGT] helped one young women who was two weeks away from giving birth and hadn't had any prenatal visits because [TGT] had been prevented from going to the doctor.
Lisette Johnson who survived domestic abuse and being shot by her late husband is now an advocate for other victims. (Photo: Family photo) | 2Positive
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3,206 | Blue Jackets' Bobrovsky stops 35 shots shuts out Coyotes | Antti Raanta | "1-0 loss is always tough to take." -- Antti Raanta on the #Yotes loss to the #BlueJackets pic.twitter.com/89eT7MQslg FOX Sports Arizona (@FOXSPORTSAZ) December 10 2017
Antti Raanta started in goal for the Coyotes after missing seven games with an injury and was sharp in stopping 33 shots.
" We played hard " Arizona coach Rick Tocchet said. " We had some chances. We had a couple 2-on-1s a couple breakaways hit a crossbar so we had our chances to win the game."
Anderson got his team-leading 11th goal when he picked up a hard Panarin ricochet pass off the back wall skated around the net and snapped a shot over Raanta 's glove. | "1-0 loss is always tough to take." -- Antti Raanta on the #Yotes loss to the #BlueJackets pic.twitter.com/89eT7MQslg FOX Sports Arizona (@FOXSPORTSAZ) December 10 2017
[TGT] started in goal for the Coyotes after missing seven games with an injury and was sharp in stopping 33 shots.
" [TGT] played hard " Arizona coach Rick Tocchet said. " [TGT] had some chances. [TGT] had a couple 2-on-1s a couple breakaways hit a crossbar so [TGT] had [TGT] chances to win the game."
Anderson got his team-leading 11th goal when he picked up a hard Panarin ricochet pass off the back wall skated around the net and snapped a shot over Raanta 's glove. | 2Positive
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3,207 | CTE In Athletes Linked To Hits To The Head Even Without Concussions : Shots | Lee Goldstein | "We've had an inkling that subconcussive hits â the ones that don't [show] neurological signs and symptoms â may be associated with CTE " says Dr. Lee Goldstein an associate professor of psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine and the lead investigator on the study. "We now have solid scientific evidence to say that is so."
"It took us many years to do this " Goldstein says. "We see in our animals â even after a small number of hits even one â very early evidence of pathologies associated with CTE."
And they noted the brain pathology was unrelated to signs of concussion in the mice such as altered arousal and impaired balance. Goldstein says the scientists nailed what they wanted to â strong evidence linking head impact to CTE independent of concussion.
"I want to be very clear on this " Goldstein says. "This is in no way to minimize concussions."
Both Bailes and Goldstein are a big part of that evolution. Right now CTE can only be diagnosed after death but both scientists are working independently of each other on a test intended to detect CTE in living brains. Such a test would help determine how widespread the disease is and beyond that how to develop treatment.
In the meantime Goldstein hopes his study finds applications not just in football but in other sports like soccer and lacrosse where contact and collisions include hits to the head.
And beyond sports Goldstein says hits to the head affect the most vulnerable segments of society. He has a long list.
"Intimate partners who are having repetitive head injuries " he notes " domestic violence victims homeless children at risk people in our prison systems. [With] all of these people we need to take the focus off concussion and find out if they have injured brains." | "We've had an inkling that subconcussive hits â the ones that don't [show] neurological signs and symptoms â may be associated with CTE " says Dr. [TGT] an associate professor of psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine and the lead investigator on the study. "We now have solid scientific evidence to say that is so."
"It took us many years to do this " Goldstein says. "We see in our animals â even after a small number of hits even one â very early evidence of pathologies associated with CTE."
And they noted the brain pathology was unrelated to signs of concussion in the mice such as altered arousal and impaired balance. Goldstein says the scientists nailed what they wanted to â strong evidence linking head impact to CTE independent of concussion.
"I want to be very clear on this " Goldstein says. "This is in no way to minimize concussions."
Both Bailes and Goldstein are a big part of that evolution. Right now CTE can only be diagnosed after death but both scientists are working independently of each other on a test intended to detect CTE in living brains. Such a test would help determine how widespread the disease is and beyond that how to develop treatment.
In the meantime Goldstein hopes his study finds applications not just in football but in other sports like soccer and lacrosse where contact and collisions include hits to the head.
And beyond sports Goldstein says hits to the head affect the most vulnerable segments of society. He has a long list.
"Intimate partners who are having repetitive head injuries " he notes " domestic violence victims homeless children at risk people in our prison systems. [With] all of these people we need to take the focus off concussion and find out if they have injured brains." | 2Positive
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3,208 | Does the 7 | Chris Jordan | When I first heard about the 7-Minute Workout an app that promises the benefits of a sweaty bike ride and a trip to the gym in just a few minutes I thought it was all hype. But as it turns out the app well works you out. I tried it for the first time last year and I'm still hooked so I recently got in touch with Chris Jordan the director of exercise physiology at the Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute and the person behind the Johnson & Johnson Official 7 Minute Workout to get some insight into how it works. For me the app is perfect for weekends or when I can't make it to a yoga class or as something fun to do with a friend at home. View As: One Page Slides
It consists of 72 exercises like jumping jacks sit-ups and push-ups. Ten require nothing but your body and for others you'll need a chair that can support your weight. The latest version of the app lets you do each exercise along with Jordan .
The idea of a workout you can do in minutes was originally envisioned by Jordan an exercise physiologist. Here is personal trainer and study partner Brett Klika demonstrating one of the workouts. Sources: American College of Sports Medicine's Health & Fitness Journal YouTube
The concept behind the workout is interval training â short intense periods of exercise broken up by brief periods of rest. Jordan told me he based the workout on his experience as a fitness consultant for the US Air Force in Europe. Sources: International Journal of Cardiology ACSM's Health & Fitness Journal Sports Medicine
The approach is less time-consuming than a traditional workout but studies suggest it may be more beneficial for building muscle and protecting the heart. "High-intensity interval training can provide similar or greater benefits in less time than traditional longer moderate-intensity workouts " Jordan said. Sources: International Journal of Cardiology Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise | When I first heard about the 7-Minute Workout an app that promises the benefits of a sweaty bike ride and a trip to the gym in just a few minutes I thought it was all hype. But as it turns out the app well works you out. I tried it for the first time last year and I'm still hooked so I recently got in touch with [TGT] the director of exercise physiology at the Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute and the person behind the Johnson & Johnson Official 7 Minute Workout to get some insight into how it works. For me the app is perfect for weekends or when I can't make it to a yoga class or as something fun to do with a friend at home. View As: One Page Slides
It consists of 72 exercises like jumping jacks sit-ups and push-ups. Ten require nothing but your body and for others you'll need a chair that can support your weight. The latest version of the app lets you do each exercise along with Jordan .
The idea of a workout you can do in minutes was originally envisioned by Jordan an exercise physiologist. Here is personal trainer and study partner Brett Klika demonstrating one of the workouts. Sources: American College of Sports Medicine's Health & Fitness Journal YouTube
The concept behind the workout is interval training â short intense periods of exercise broken up by brief periods of rest. Jordan told me he based the workout on his experience as a fitness consultant for the US Air Force in Europe. Sources: International Journal of Cardiology ACSM's Health & Fitness Journal Sports Medicine
The approach is less time-consuming than a traditional workout but studies suggest it may be more beneficial for building muscle and protecting the heart. "High-intensity interval training can provide similar or greater benefits in less time than traditional longer moderate-intensity workouts " Jordan said. Sources: International Journal of Cardiology Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise | 2Positive
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3,209 | People continue to seek reported hidden treasure in the Rocky Mountains despite fatal attempts | Forrest Fenn | Many people have gone in search of a treasure allegedly hidden by New Mexico author and antiques dealer Forrest Fenn but for some the chase after an elusive prize has come at a dangerous price.
Fenn 87 claims he hid a treasure â estimated by some to be worth $2 million -- somewhere in the Rocky Mountains in 2010. The only way to find it he says is by reading a cryptic poem containing nine clues from his self-published 2011 memoir "The Thrill of the Chase." Part of the poem reads "Begin it where warm waters halt / and take it in the canyon down / not far but too far to walk / put in below the home of Brown."
A former military pilot turned wealthy antiques dealer Fenn told ABC News the main reason for creating this massive treasure hunt was to give people hope.
"In 1988 I was diagnosed with what everybody thought was terminal cancer " Fenn said. "But besides that we were going into a recession and lots of people losing their job despair was written all over the headlines and I just wanted to give some people hope."
Fenn claims he hid a bronze chest filled with gold coins and rare artifacts.
Because of the fluctuating price of gold Fenn said he isnât sure of the exact value "I don't even want to think in those terms. Writers about this treasure hunt have appraised it between $1 million and $5 million."
Fenn told ABC News he estimates that nearly 350 000 people have gone out searching. The treasure could be hidden anywhere in tens of thousands of square miles of territory out West from New Mexico to Montana. Aside from the poem Fenn has given few clues as to the treasureâs whereabouts but he says the treasure isnât anywhere dangerous.
Some skeptics think it's all a hoax but Fenn is quick to defend its authenticity.
"The treasure is real " he said. "The treasure is hidden where I put it."
Fenn said thousands of online forums videos and documentaries have fueled speculation with people obsessively pouring over Fenn 's prose-prompted clues to the point where he said he has received the occasional death threat.
" This one guy called me... he said 'Tell me where the treasure is right now. I'm going to kill you.'"
So far no one has been able to find it including Washington state resident Dal Nietzel who has made more than 65 search trip since he started looking in 2011.
Neitzel runs Thrill of the Chase a popular blog documenting his own quests and the quests of others. It also serves as a fan page for other Fenn afficiandos.
Cynthia Meacham also among those looking for Fenn 's treasure said she first found out about the treasure in 2013 and has made more than 100 trips near her New Mexico home.
The quest for Fenn âs hidden treasure comes with multiple dangers including bears and rough terrain. Several people have gone missing or died trying to find it.
In 2016 authorities found the remains of Randy Bilyeu whose family said he too went missing while searching for Fenn 's treasure. Bilyeuâs body was found north of the Cochiti Lake along the Rio Grande River. | Many people have gone in search of a treasure allegedly hidden by New Mexico author and antiques dealer [TGT] but for some the chase after an elusive prize has come at a dangerous price.
Fenn 87 claims he hid a treasure â estimated by some to be worth $2 million -- somewhere in the Rocky Mountains in 2010. The only way to find it he says is by reading a cryptic poem containing nine clues from his self-published 2011 memoir "The Thrill of the Chase." Part of the poem reads "Begin it where warm waters halt / and take it in the canyon down / not far but too far to walk / put in below the home of Brown."
A former military pilot turned wealthy antiques dealer Fenn told ABC News the main reason for creating this massive treasure hunt was to give people hope.
"In 1988 I was diagnosed with what everybody thought was terminal cancer " Fenn said. "But besides that we were going into a recession and lots of people losing their job despair was written all over the headlines and I just wanted to give some people hope."
Fenn claims he hid a bronze chest filled with gold coins and rare artifacts.
Because of the fluctuating price of gold Fenn said he isnât sure of the exact value "I don't even want to think in those terms. Writers about this treasure hunt have appraised it between $1 million and $5 million."
Fenn told ABC News he estimates that nearly 350 000 people have gone out searching. The treasure could be hidden anywhere in tens of thousands of square miles of territory out West from New Mexico to Montana. Aside from the poem Fenn has given few clues as to the treasureâs whereabouts but he says the treasure isnât anywhere dangerous.
Some skeptics think it's all a hoax but Fenn is quick to defend its authenticity.
"The treasure is real " he said. "The treasure is hidden where I put it."
Fenn said thousands of online forums videos and documentaries have fueled speculation with people obsessively pouring over Fenn 's prose-prompted clues to the point where he said he has received the occasional death threat.
" This one guy called me... he said 'Tell me where the treasure is right now. I'm going to kill you.'"
So far no one has been able to find it including Washington state resident Dal Nietzel who has made more than 65 search trip since he started looking in 2011.
Neitzel runs Thrill of the Chase a popular blog documenting his own quests and the quests of others. It also serves as a fan page for other Fenn afficiandos.
Cynthia Meacham also among those looking for Fenn 's treasure said she first found out about the treasure in 2013 and has made more than 100 trips near her New Mexico home.
The quest for Fenn âs hidden treasure comes with multiple dangers including bears and rough terrain. Several people have gone missing or died trying to find it.
In 2016 authorities found the remains of Randy Bilyeu whose family said he too went missing while searching for Fenn 's treasure. Bilyeuâs body was found north of the Cochiti Lake along the Rio Grande River. | 1Neutral
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3,210 | The Battle against Islamic State | Raqqa | Smoke rises after an air strike during fighting between members of the Syrian Democratic Forces and Islamic State militants in Raqqa Syria August 15 2017. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/File Photo
In the end IS suffered its most decisive defeat and watched their self-proclaimed caliphate evaporate in Iraq then in Syria as Kurdish-led forces retook Raqqa ISâs urban stronghold there.
The battle for Raqqa which became ISâs operational base in Syria had a different feel to it as U.S.-backed Kurds and Arabs in the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) tightened their siege.
In the weeks before Raqqaâs fall in October young female SDF fighters faced off against hardened militants and suffered losses. But that did not curb their enthusiasm and some said they would eventually like to join Kurdish PKK militants in Turkey and help advance their 33-year-old insurgency there.
After ISâs defeat in Raqqa Raqqa residents formed a council to run the city but they had no budget when it was first set up just residents streaming into their tin run-down headquarters demanding everything from instant jobs to getting their damaged farmland back.
The Kurdish groups who led the fight against Islamic State in its former capital Raqqa must now navigate a complex peace to avoid ethnic tension with the cityâs Arab majority and to secure critical U.S. aid.
So life for Raqqa âs victors will remain fraught with risk. | Smoke rises after an air strike during fighting between members of the Syrian Democratic Forces and Islamic State militants in Raqqa Syria August 15 2017. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/File Photo
In the end IS suffered its most decisive defeat and watched their self-proclaimed caliphate evaporate in Iraq then in Syria as Kurdish-led forces retook Raqqa ISâs urban stronghold there.
The battle for Raqqa which became ISâs operational base in Syria had a different feel to it as U.S.-backed Kurds and Arabs in the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) tightened their siege.
In the weeks before Raqqaâs fall in October young female SDF fighters faced off against hardened militants and suffered losses. But that did not curb their enthusiasm and some said they would eventually like to join Kurdish PKK militants in Turkey and help advance their 33-year-old insurgency there.
After ISâs defeat in [TGT] formed a council to run the city but they had no budget when it was first set up just residents streaming into their tin run-down headquarters demanding everything from instant jobs to getting their damaged farmland back.
The Kurdish groups who led the fight against Islamic State in its former capital [TGT] must now navigate a complex peace to avoid ethnic tension with the cityâs Arab majority and to secure critical U.S. aid.
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3,211 | Louisville must vacate basketball title NCAA denies appeal | Greg Postel | LOUISVILLE Ky. (AP) â Louisville officials are not happy with the NCAA's decision that mandates the school vacate its 2013 men's basketball championship in the wake of an embarrassing sex scandal and interim President Greg Postel did not hide his disappointment.
It's the first time a Division 1 men's basketball program has been stripped of a national title. While acknowledging the scandal was unacceptable Postel believes the school's cooperation with the NCAA should have counted for more than it did.
"I cannot say this strongly enough: We believe the NCAA is simply wrong " Postel said Tuesday. "We disagree with the NCAA ruling for reasons we clearly stated in our appeal. And we made a strong case â based on NCAA precedent - that supported our argument."
Postel doesn't feel the punishment fits the violations.
"From Day One the university has admitted that the actions of the former operations director and any others involved under previous leadership were offensive and inexcusable " Postel said in his statement. "That is why we apologized immediately cooperated fully with the NCAA self-imposed penalties that were appropriate to the offenses and made significant changes to ensure incidents like this never happen again.
University of Louisville interim President Dr. Greg Postel speaks to the media during a news conference Tuesday Feb. 20 2018 in Louisville Ky. Louisville must vacate its 2013 men's basketball title following an NCAA appeals panel's decision to uphold sanctions against the men's program in the sex scandal case. The Cardinals will have to vacate 123 victories including the championship and return some $600 000 in conference revenue from the 2012-15 NCAA Tournaments. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
University of Louisville interim President Dr. Greg Postel answers questions during a press conference Tuesday Feb. 20 2018 in Louisville Ky. Louisville must vacate its 2013 men's basketball title following an NCAA appeals panel's decision to uphold sanctions against the men's program in the sex scandal case. The Cardinals will have to vacate 123 victories including the championship and return some $600 000 in conference revenue from the 2012-15 NCAA Tournaments. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley) | LOUISVILLE Ky. (AP) â Louisville officials are not happy with the NCAA's decision that mandates the school vacate its 2013 men's basketball championship in the wake of an embarrassing sex scandal and interim [TGT] did not hide [TGT] disappointment.
It's the first time a Division 1 men's basketball program has been stripped of a national title. While acknowledging the scandal was unacceptable [TGT] believes the school's cooperation with the NCAA should have counted for more than [TGT] did.
"I cannot say this strongly enough: [TGT] believe the NCAA is simply wrong [TGT] said Tuesday. " [TGT] disagree with the NCAA ruling for reasons [TGT] clearly stated in [TGT] appeal. And [TGT] made a strong case â based on NCAA precedent - that supported [TGT] argument."
[TGT] doesn't feel the punishment fits the violations.
"From Day One the university has admitted that the actions of the former operations director and any others involved under previous leadership were offensive and inexcusable [TGT] said in [TGT] statement. "That is why [TGT] apologized immediately cooperated fully with the NCAA self-imposed penalties that were appropriate to the offenses and made significant changes to ensure incidents like this never happen again.
[TGT] speaks to the media during a news conference Tuesday Feb. 20 2018 in Louisville Ky. Louisville must vacate its 2013 men's basketball title following an NCAA appeals panel's decision to uphold sanctions against the men's program in the sex scandal case. The Cardinals will have to vacate 123 victories including the championship and return some $600 000 in conference revenue from the 2012-15 NCAA Tournaments. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)
[TGT] answers questions during a press conference Tuesday Feb. 20 2018 in Louisville Ky. Louisville must vacate its 2013 men's basketball title following an NCAA appeals panel's decision to uphold sanctions against the men's program in the sex scandal case. The Cardinals will have to vacate 123 victories including the championship and return some $600 000 in conference revenue from the 2012-15 NCAA Tournaments. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley) | 2Positive
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3,212 | Two Days After Deadly Las Vegas Shooting No One Is Gambling At The Hotel Where The Gunman Opened Fire | Charlene | LAS VEGAS â Charlene and her boyfriend were asleep in their room at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino when at 3 a.m. there was a sudden banging on the door. Dazed they thought it must be someone in another room. But the pounding continued.
When they finally answered the door a SWAT team barged into the room.
" They were going room to room " Charlene who declined to provide her last name told BuzzFeed News Tuesday afternoon. " They searched the room the closet. They looked all around and then they were gone." The entire ordeal Monday morning lasted only a few minutes. When it ended Charlene turned on the TV and learned that Stephen Paddock had opened fire from the broken windows of another suite raining bullets down on a concert and killing at least 58 people in the deadliest shooting in modern US history. The attack has prompted an outpouring of support and mourning but at the hotel Paddock used as his perch its turned the once lively casino on the Las Vegas Strip into a virtual ghost town.
A spokesperson for MGM Resorts International which owns Mandalay Bay said that business at the hotel was "not slowing down " and that "itâs still too early to gauge near term impacts." The spokesperson added that the company is providing counseling to hotel employees and guests and said it was "standard practice" for companies to forbid their employees to speak to the media. Still the vacant silence was unmissable at Mandalay Bay. Kelly Powers a self-described Vegas regular who arrived at the hotel from Houston on Monday night said the employees she had interacted with seemed to be suffering. "I think they're traumatized " she said. "I think they're wondering why this happened why it happened here." Charlene â the woman whose room was stormed by SWAT officers â and Powers were both among a handful of people passing the time Tuesday afternoon playing the slots. They had their run of the place but Charlene said that as empty as the casino was it was actually an improvement over a day earlier. "It was eerie " she said. "It was empty all day Monday." Charlene who is visiting from Canada said that after the shooting guests were placed on lockdown in their rooms and did not receive information from the hotel about what was going on. When some tried to descend the elevators they were told by police to return to their rooms. "We couldn't go anywhere and we couldn't do anything we had no direction " Charlene said adding they had to remain in their room until around noon Monday. When they finally were allowed to leave their room and enter the casino there were no employees in sight. "Nothing was open there was no staff" Charlene recalled. "It was kind of in shambles." Despite the chaos hotel patrons remained mostly optimistic Tuesday. Powers praised the staff "for trying to do their jobs" and Charlene said she doesn't fault the resort for what happened Sunday night. "I'm not going to blame them " Charlene said. "I would come back." | LAS VEGAS â [TGT] were asleep in [TGT] room at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino when at 3 a.m. there was a sudden banging on the door. Dazed they thought it must be someone in another room. But the pounding continued.
When [TGT] finally answered the door a SWAT team barged into the room.
" They were going room to room " [TGT] who declined to provide [TGT] last name told BuzzFeed News Tuesday afternoon. " They searched the room the closet. They looked all around and then they were gone." The entire ordeal Monday morning lasted only a few minutes. When it ended [TGT] turned on the TV and learned that Stephen Paddock had opened fire from the broken windows of another suite raining bullets down on a concert and killing at least 58 people in the deadliest shooting in modern US history. The attack has prompted an outpouring of support and mourning but at the hotel Paddock used as his perch its turned the once lively casino on the Las Vegas Strip into a virtual ghost town.
A spokesperson for MGM Resorts International which owns Mandalay Bay said that business at the hotel was "not slowing down " and that "itâs still too early to gauge near term impacts." The spokesperson added that the company is providing counseling to hotel employees and guests and said it was "standard practice" for companies to forbid their employees to speak to the media. Still the vacant silence was unmissable at Mandalay Bay. Kelly Powers a self-described Vegas regular who arrived at the hotel from Houston on Monday night said the employees she had interacted with seemed to be suffering. "I think they're traumatized " she said. "I think they're wondering why this happened why it happened here. [TGT] . [TGT] had [TGT] run of the place but [TGT] said that as empty as the casino was it was actually an improvement over a day earlier. "It was eerie " [TGT] said. "It was empty all day Monday." Charlene who is visiting from Canada said that after the shooting guests were placed on lockdown in their rooms and did not receive information from the hotel about what was going on. When some tried to descend the elevators they were told by police to return to their rooms. "We couldn't go anywhere and we couldn't do anything we had no direction [TGT] said adding they had to remain in their room until around noon Monday. When they finally were allowed to leave their room and enter the casino there were no employees in sight. "Nothing was open there was no staff [TGT] recalled. "It was kind of in shambles." Despite the chaos hotel patrons remained mostly optimistic Tuesday. Powers praised the staff "for trying to do their jobs" and [TGT] said [TGT] doesn't fault the resort for what happened Sunday night. "I'm not going to blame them [TGT] said. "I would come back." | 2Positive
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3,213 | EU offers Brexit transition but UK must 'accept rules' | Michel Barnier | Ministers from the 27 other states took just two minutes in Brussels to endorse new instructions to their negotiator Michel Barnier who will launch talks soon with the aim of sealing a transition package within a couple of months.
Pressed on how that might work Barnier said the offer was principally in Britainâs interests and not open to significant negotiation:
âThe United Kingdom must acknowledge these rules of the game and accept them from the outset â he told reporters.
European Union's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier attends a meeting of European Union Home/European affairs ministers in Brussels Belgium January 29 2018. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
Barnier said this timetable was still subject to May and her ministers agreeing a plan among themselves and presenting it to Brussels -- and also depends on finalizing many issues on the divorce treaty.
Barnier said: âI want to remind you without agreement on all the withdrawal issues there is no transition.â
He also made clear that talks on the future relationship might start after an EU summit in late March -- but only if May spells out what she wants in time for Brussels to put together its own responses. An outline trade package could then be agreed by the time the divorce and transition deal is ready in October.
Showing some willingness to be flexible the EU ministers are open to extending the transition period if need be to reach a trade pact -- though Barnier warned it could not be very long -- and also voiced a will to endorse Britain concluding trade agreements with other countries before the transition ends. | Ministers from the 27 other states took just two minutes in Brussels to endorse new instructions to their negotiator [TGT] who will launch talks soon with the aim of sealing a transition package within a couple of months.
Pressed on how that might work Barnier said the offer was principally in Britainâs interests and not open to significant negotiation:
âThe United Kingdom must acknowledge these rules of the game and accept them from the outset â he told reporters.
European Union's chief Brexit negotiator [TGT] attends a meeting of European Union Home/European affairs ministers in Brussels Belgium January 29 2018. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir
Barnier said this timetable was still subject to May and her ministers agreeing a plan among themselves and presenting it to Brussels -- and also depends on finalizing many issues on the divorce treaty.
Barnier said: âI want to remind you without agreement on all the withdrawal issues there is no transition.â
He also made clear that talks on the future relationship might start after an EU summit in late March -- but only if May spells out what she wants in time for Brussels to put together its own responses. An outline trade package could then be agreed by the time the divorce and transition deal is ready in October.
Showing some willingness to be flexible the EU ministers are open to extending the transition period if need be to reach a trade pact -- though Barnier warned it could not be very long -- and also voiced a will to endorse Britain concluding trade agreements with other countries before the transition ends. | 2Positive
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3,214 | Jury Deliberations Begin In Kate Steinle's Murder Trial : The Two | Garcia Zarate | San Francisco prosecutors say that 45-year old Jose Ines Garcia Zarate a homeless man who had been deported multiple times intentionally fired the single shot that killed the 32-year old Steinle as she was walking arm-in-arm with her father on July 1 2015.
Defense attorneys for Garcia Zarate say he has no history of violence and that the shooting was an accident. They argue that Garcia Zarate found the handgunâa .40 caliber Sig Sauerâwrapped in a cloth under his seat on the pier and that the gun discharged as he was handling it.
The defense says the single shot ricocheted off the concrete ground about 12 to 15 feet away from Zarate and then traveled another 78 feet or more before striking Steinle in the back. A city crime scene inspector told the jury that the defendant aimed the gun in Steinle's direction seeking to strike her.
The gun had been stolen four days earlier from the parked car of a visiting off-duty Bureau of Land Management ranger. The prosecution and defense agree that there is no evidence linking Garcia Zarate to that robbery.
As KQED's Alex Emslie told All Things Considered the case hangs on whether the jury concludes that Garcia Zarate intentionally shot Steinle as the prosecution argued or that it was a tragic accident as the defense contends.
Garcia Zarate who is reported to have no more than a second grade education had been deported five times and was scheduled for a sixth deportation after serving a 46-month federal prison term for felony re-entry to the United States. But instead of deporting him federal authorities transferred him to San Francisco on a warrant for a 20-year old marijuana charge. San Francisco prosecutors eventually dropped the charge because evidence in the case had been destroyed. The Sheriff's Department released Garcia Zarate under its sanctuary city policy that directs local law enforcement to ignore federal detainer requests. The Steinle killing happened about two-and-a-half months after Garcia Zarate was released. | San Francisco prosecutors say that 45-year old Jose Ines Garcia Zarate a homeless man who had been deported multiple times intentionally fired the single shot that killed the 32-year old Steinle as she was walking arm-in-arm with her father on July 1 2015.
[TGT] say [TGT] has no history of violence and that the shooting was an accident. They argue that [TGT] found the handgunâa .40 caliber Sig Sauerâwrapped in a cloth under [TGT] seat on the pier and that the gun discharged as [TGT] was handling it.
[TGT] says the single shot ricocheted off the concrete ground about 12 to 15 feet away from Zarate and then traveled another 78 feet or more before striking Steinle in the back. A city crime scene inspector told the jury that the defendant aimed the gun in Steinle's direction seeking to strike her.
The gun had been stolen four days earlier from the parked car of a visiting off-duty Bureau of Land Management ranger. The prosecution and defense agree that there is no evidence linking [TGT] to that robbery.
As KQED's Alex Emslie told All Things Considered the case hangs on whether the jury concludes that Garcia Zarate intentionally shot Steinle as the prosecution argued or that it was a tragic accident as [TGT] contends.
[TGT] who is reported to have no more than a second grade education had been deported five times and was scheduled for a sixth deportation after serving a 46-month federal prison term for felony re-entry to the United States. But instead of deporting him federal authorities transferred him to San Francisco on a warrant for a 20-year old marijuana charge. San Francisco prosecutors eventually dropped the charge because evidence in the case had been destroyed. The Sheriff's Department released [TGT] under its sanctuary city policy that directs local law enforcement to ignore federal detainer requests. The Steinle killing happened about two-and-a-half months after [TGT] was released. | 0Negative
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3,215 | Medical field plays catch | Jacob Bilstein | The California wildfires were still raging last fall as Jennifer Bilstein and her 15-year-old son inched their way down Highway 101 a two-hour drive in ordinary times that took four hours through the smoke-filled air and yellow sky. She was determined to get Jacob to his doctor's appointment on time.
It was his second visit to the adolescent gender clinic where Jacob - a shy boy with pink cheeks a cowlick and black oversize glasses - was being medically evaluated to begin taking testosterone.
He had already gone through puberty as a girl an experience that made him conclude he had been born into the wrong gender. "I was always uncomfortable calling myself 'she' or 'her ' " he explained. "It made my skin crawl."
At 13 Jacob - then called Samantha - had informed his mother sending her the news in a Facebook message after being dropped off at school one morning in Ukiah one of Northern California's iconic hippie towns.
As she spoke her child studied his hands legs swinging back and forth under the examining table. "But the reality is that Jacob 's my child and regardless of gender or whatever my child always comes first in my life " she said. "And realistically it's not about me. It's about Jake."
It is also one of the busiest encompassing four disciplines: Medical mental health patient advocacy and legal services. Although surgery is not available at the center its clinicians maintain close ties with local surgeons to whom they refer patients upon request. On the day that Jacob arrived for his appointment the examining rooms were filled with 15 elementary schoolchildren adolescents and teenagers who had traveled from as far away as Hawaii and Sweden and as nearby as the Bay Area. All were seeking a change in their physical sex characteristics to align with their gender identity.
Family Photo Jacob Bilstein went through puberty as a girl named Samantha. Jacob Bilstein went through puberty as a girl named Samantha. (Family Photo) (Family Photo) | The California wildfires were still raging last fall as Jennifer Bilstein and her 15-year-old son inched their way down Highway 101 a two-hour drive in ordinary times that took four hours through the smoke-filled air and yellow sky. She was determined to get Jacob to his doctor's appointment on time.
It was his second visit to the adolescent gender clinic where Jacob - a shy boy with pink cheeks a cowlick and black oversize glasses - was being medically evaluated to begin taking testosterone.
He had already gone through puberty as a girl an experience that made him conclude he had been born into the wrong gender. "I was always uncomfortable calling myself 'she' or 'her ' " he explained. "It made my skin crawl."
At 13 Jacob - then called Samantha - had informed his mother sending her the news in a Facebook message after being dropped off at school one morning in Ukiah one of Northern California's iconic hippie towns.
As she spoke her child studied his hands legs swinging back and forth under the examining table. "But the reality is that Jacob 's my child and regardless of gender or whatever my child always comes first in my life " she said. "And realistically it's not about me. It's about Jake."
It is also one of the busiest encompassing four disciplines: Medical mental health patient advocacy and legal services. Although surgery is not available at the center its clinicians maintain close ties with local surgeons to whom they refer patients upon request. On the day that Jacob arrived for his appointment the examining rooms were filled with 15 elementary schoolchildren adolescents and teenagers who had traveled from as far away as Hawaii and Sweden and as nearby as the Bay Area. All were seeking a change in their physical sex characteristics to align with their gender identity.
[TGT] went through puberty as a girl named Samantha. [TGT] went through puberty as a girl named Samantha. (Family Photo) (Family Photo) | 1Neutral
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3,216 | Otto Porter Jr. longtime âcar guy â takes in the Washington Auto Show | Otto Porter Jr. | Washington Wizards forward Otto Porter Jr.âs first car was a 1993 Honda Accord. He and his father had to replace the transmission just so he could drive it to and from school in Morley Mo. Those days as an amateur mechanic have turned into a lifelong love for cars and Wednesday Porter attended his first Washington Auto Show both as featured guest and as an automobile aficionado.
âThatâs how deep into cars I am â Porter said after sharing the story of repairing the â93 Accord during his senior year. âI am a car guy myself. My family is big on it.â
Before checking out the exhibits Porter signed autographs during the auto showâs Washington Wizards day. Porter said he owns three cars including a 1969 Plymouth Roadrunner as well as a white Nissan GT-R that he had wanted ever since watching the first installment of âThe Fast and The Furiousâ series.
Nightrunner Internationalâ¦. A post shared by Otto Porter Jr. (@ottodayporter22) on Dec 14 2017 at 4:35pm PST
âThatâs my baby â Porter said. âVery amazing car.â
Porter whose scored 25 points on Tuesday in a win over the Oklahoma City Thunder (his highest total in a month) doesnât get to work on cars much now as he plays in his fourth season in the league. However Porter has designs of returning to his love on a full-time basis after retiring from basketball.
âMaybe one day open my own shop back home â Porter said. | Washington Wizards forward [TGT] âs first car was a 1993 Honda Accord. He and his father had to replace the transmission just so he could drive it to and from school in Morley Mo. Those days as an amateur mechanic have turned into a lifelong love for cars and Wednesday Porter attended his first Washington Auto Show both as featured guest and as an automobile aficionado.
âThatâs how deep into cars I am â Porter said after sharing the story of repairing the â93 Accord during his senior year. âI am a car guy myself. My family is big on it.â
Before checking out the exhibits Porter signed autographs during the auto showâs Washington Wizards day. Porter said he owns three cars including a 1969 Plymouth Roadrunner as well as a white Nissan GT-R that he had wanted ever since watching the first installment of âThe Fast and The Furiousâ series.
Nightrunner Internationalâ¦. A post shared by [TGT] (@ottodayporter22) on Dec 14 2017 at 4:35pm PST
âThatâs my baby â Porter said. âVery amazing car.â
Porter whose scored 25 points on Tuesday in a win over the Oklahoma City Thunder (his highest total in a month) doesnât get to work on cars much now as he plays in his fourth season in the league. However Porter has designs of returning to his love on a full-time basis after retiring from basketball.
âMaybe one day open my own shop back home â Porter said. | 2Positive
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3,217 | High | Kim Yo Jong | The nuclear-armed North has gone on a charm offensive over the Games sending athletes cheerleaders and performers and with leader Kim Jong Unâs sister Kim Yo Jong attending the opening ceremony.
But Kim Yo Jong had no interaction with US Vice President Mike Pence at the opening ceremony just over two weeks ago even though they were just a few seats apart. According to the US a planned meeting between the delegations from Washington and Pyongyang the following day was cancelled at short notice by the North Koreans.
Moon also did not immediately accept an invitation passed on by Kim Yo Jong from her brother to a summit in Pyongyang saying the right conditions must be created.
Kim is blacklisted under Seoulâs unilateral sanctions against the North meaning he is subject to an assets freeze.
Kim Yo Jongâs trip at the start of the Games â the first visit to the South by a member of the Northâs ruling dynasty since the Korean War ended in 1953 â made global headlines.
Pyongyang denounced his comments Sunday with KCNA carrying a statement from the Northâs Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee saying Pence would discover âwhat quagmire his crazy remarks threw the US and himself intoâ. | The nuclear-armed North has gone on a charm offensive over the Games sending athletes cheerleaders and performers and with leader Kim Jong Unâs sister [TGT] attending the opening ceremony.
But [TGT] had no interaction with US Vice President Mike Pence at the opening ceremony just over two weeks ago even though they were just a few seats apart. According to the US a planned meeting between the delegations from Washington and Pyongyang the following day was cancelled at short notice by the North Koreans.
Moon also did not immediately accept an invitation passed on by Kim Yo Jong from her brother to a summit in Pyongyang saying the right conditions must be created.
Kim is blacklisted under Seoulâs unilateral sanctions against the North meaning he is subject to an assets freeze.
[TGT] trip at the start of the Games â the first visit to the South by a member of the Northâs ruling dynasty since the Korean War ended in 1953 â made global headlines.
Pyongyang denounced [TGT] comments Sunday with KCNA carrying a statement from the Northâs Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee saying Pence would discover âwhat quagmire [TGT] crazy remarks threw the US and [TGT] intoâ. | 2Positive
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3,218 | House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte Will Not Seek Re | Bob Goodlatte | Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) chairman of the House Judiciary Committee will not seek re-election in 2018 he announced Thursday ending a 13-term run representing Virginiaâs solid-red Sixth Congressional District.
Goodlatte made his decision known via Twitter thanking his constituents and in a longer statement posted on his website:
Itâs been an honor to serve #VA06 â thank you for your support and trust. Itâs time to step aside. Iâve decided I will not seek re-election. â Bob Goodlatte (@BobGoodlatte6) November 9 2017
âWith my time as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee ending in December 2018 this is a natural stepping-off point and an opportunity to begin a new chapter of my career and spend more time with my family particularly my granddaughters â Goodlatte wrote adding:
A reliable conservative vote and a former immigration lawyer Goodlatte took the reins at the powerful Judiciary Committee in 2013. Immigration and Border Security being one of the Judiciary Committeeâs subcommittees had been the most prominent issue dealt with there at the time. He has been a consistent border security hawk and ally of President Donald Trumpâs immigration agenda.
In perhaps his most important move as chairman Goodlatte made known that 2013âs so-called âGang of Eightâ amnesty bill would have a tough time in his committee contributing to the political pressure that prevented the bill from passing the Senate and thereby stopping the âpath to citizenshipâ that would potentially have added tens of millions of Democratic voters to the rolls.
Goodlatte later warned against the Obama administrationâs encouragement of the so-called âunaccompanied minorâ surge in these pages working in the House to oppose President Barack Obamaâs continual attempts at executive amnesty.
Other major issues during Goodlatte âs tenure as judiciary chairman included human trafficking legislation government wiretapping authorization and efforts to combat so-called âovercriminalizationâ from administrative regulation.
With Goodlatte âs departure the stakes are raised for 2018âs GOP primary in his district. With a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R+13 VA-6 is a prime target for solid conservatives looking to carry on Goodlatte âs legacy. | [TGT] will not seek re-election in 2018 [TGT] announced Thursday ending a 13-term run representing Virginiaâs solid-red Sixth Congressional District.
[TGT] made [TGT] decision known via Twitter thanking [TGT] constituents and in a longer statement posted on [TGT] website:
Itâs been an honor to serve #VA06 â thank you for your support and trust. Itâs time to step aside. Iâve decided I will not seek re-election. â Bob Goodlatte (@BobGoodlatte6) November 9 2017
âWith my time as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee ending in December 2018 this is a natural stepping-off point and an opportunity to begin a new chapter of my career and spend more time with my family particularly my granddaughters â [TGT] wrote adding:
A reliable conservative vote and a former immigration lawyer [TGT] took the reins at the powerful Judiciary Committee in 2013. Immigration and Border Security being one of the Judiciary Committeeâs subcommittees had been the most prominent issue dealt with there at the time. He has been a consistent border security hawk and ally of President Donald Trumpâs immigration agenda.
In perhaps his most important move as chairman [TGT] made known that 2013âs so-called âGang of Eightâ amnesty bill would have a tough time in his committee contributing to the political pressure that prevented the bill from passing the Senate and thereby stopping the âpath to citizenshipâ that would potentially have added tens of millions of Democratic voters to the rolls.
[TGT] later warned against the Obama administrationâs encouragement of the so-called âunaccompanied minorâ surge in these pages working in the House to oppose President Barack Obamaâs continual attempts at executive amnesty.
Other major issues during [TGT] âs tenure as judiciary chairman included human trafficking legislation government wiretapping authorization and efforts to combat so-called âovercriminalizationâ from administrative regulation.
With [TGT] âs departure the stakes are raised for 2018âs GOP primary in his district. With a Cook Partisan Voting Index of R+13 VA-6 is a prime target for solid conservatives looking to carry on Goodlatte âs legacy. | 1Neutral
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3,219 | U.S. rapper Eminem wins copyright case against NZ political ads | Eminem | SYDNEY (Reuters) - A New Zealand political party has been ordered to pay more than $400 000 to U.S. rapper Eminem for using music similar to his 2002 hit "Lose Yourself" in a television commercial to help win a national election.
The track played during the National Party's successful 2014 election campaign and titled "Eminem Esque" was found by a New Zealand court to have "substantially copied" Lose Yourself.
"This decision is a warning to sound-alike music producers and their clients everywhere " Adam Simpson director of Simpsons Solicitors who acted for Eminem âs music company Eight Mile Style said in a statement.
"It was no coincidence that the works sounded the same and the undeniable inference to be drawn from the evidence is that the composer of Eminem Esque had 'Lose Yourself' in front of him at the time of composition " the court added. | SYDNEY (Reuters) - A New Zealand political party has been ordered to pay more than $400 000 to U.S. rapper [TGT] for using music similar to his 2002 hit "Lose Yourself" in a television commercial to help win a national election.
The track played during the National Party's successful 2014 election campaign and titled " [TGT] Esque" was found by a New Zealand court to have "substantially copied" Lose Yourself.
"This decision is a warning to sound-alike music producers and their clients everywhere " Adam Simpson director of Simpsons Solicitors who acted for [TGT] âs music company Eight Mile Style said in a statement.
"It was no coincidence that the works sounded the same and the undeniable inference to be drawn from the evidence is that the composer of [TGT] Esque had 'Lose Yourself' in front of him at the time of composition " the court added. | 2Positive
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3,220 | Now that the âThor: Ragnarokâ director has conquered the world whatâs next? | Taika Waititi | Director Taika Waititi with Tessa Thompson (in costume as Valkyrie) on the set of âThor: Ragnarok .â (Disney/Marvel Studios)
IF EVEN a modest mainstream hit can turn Hollywood into your oyster than Taika Waititiâs universe is now a string of pearls.
Waititi has been on the industryâs radar for more than a decade since his first film release the 2004 short âTwo Cars One Night â scored an Oscar nomination (a short that later begot the feature film âBoyâ). But he was in no hurry to make big-budget movies like his somewhat subversive new âThor: Ragnarok â which has grossed more than $430 million worldwide.
Unlike other Marvel directors such as James Gunn and the Russo brothers Waititi has such an uncommon approach to directing a superhero movie that he might not even accept a shot at a sequel if Disney and Team Feige offered. It wasnât even Thor as character or story that particularly attracted the New Zealand native to saying yes to entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
âWhen I think of the comics not muchâ is appealing Waititi tells The Postâs Comic Riffs of the Thor stories. âOther than heâs basically an alien he has access to these different worlds and thatâs a cool way of [taking] the audience on an interesting adventure. He can fly in outer space and ⦠meet these crazy characters that youâd never see on Earth.â
(As for the Thor visuals as opposed to the comics stories Waititi does acknowledge: âAll these â70s comic books were so bright and colorful with these splash pages and bold art. ⦠It was a conscious decision to embrace that Jack Kirby artâ in âRagnarok.â)
When talking with Waititi you get the sense that he would get easily bored if he stuck with one genre or franchise for too long. As a kid he says he was attracted to painting and writing and theater and music and filmmaking simply became a way to integrate all those passions. As a 42-year-old filmmaker his interests seem creatively free-ranging and voracious.
All those elements work winningly in such indie films of his as âEagle vs. Sharkâ and âWhat We Do in the Shadowsâ (both co-starring Clement) as well as âHunt for the Wilderpeople â and even his early mockumentary short âFlight of the Conchords: The Road to the Edinburgh Fringe Fest â in which he plays a clueless band manager worthy of âThis Is Spinal Tap.â (Even a Waititi TED talk is amusing as a self-aware intellectual walkabout â at times nearly a TED talk deconstructed.) | Director [TGT] with Tessa Thompson (in costume as Valkyrie) on the set of âThor: Ragnarok .â (Disney/Marvel Studios)
IF EVEN a modest mainstream hit can turn Hollywood into your oyster than [TGT] âs universe is now a string of pearls.
Waititi has been on the industryâs radar for more than a decade since his first film release the 2004 short âTwo Cars One Night â scored an Oscar nomination (a short that later begot the feature film âBoyâ). But he was in no hurry to make big-budget movies like his somewhat subversive new âThor: Ragnarok â which has grossed more than $430 million worldwide.
Unlike other Marvel directors such as James Gunn and the Russo brothers Waititi has such an uncommon approach to directing a superhero movie that he might not even accept a shot at a sequel if Disney and Team Feige offered. It wasnât even Thor as character or story that particularly attracted the New Zealand native to saying yes to entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
âWhen I think of the comics not muchâ is appealing Waititi tells The Postâs Comic Riffs of the Thor stories. âOther than heâs basically an alien he has access to these different worlds and thatâs a cool way of [taking] the audience on an interesting adventure. He can fly in outer space and ⦠meet these crazy characters that youâd never see on Earth.â
(As for the Thor visuals as opposed to the comics stories Waititi does acknowledge: âAll these â70s comic books were so bright and colorful with these splash pages and bold art. ⦠It was a conscious decision to embrace that Jack Kirby artâ in âRagnarok.â)
When talking with Waititi you get the sense that he would get easily bored if he stuck with one genre or franchise for too long. As a kid he says he was attracted to painting and writing and theater and music and filmmaking simply became a way to integrate all those passions. As a 42-year-old filmmaker his interests seem creatively free-ranging and voracious.
All those elements work winningly in such indie films of his as âEagle vs. Sharkâ and âWhat We Do in the Shadowsâ (both co-starring Clement) as well as âHunt for the Wilderpeople â and even his early mockumentary short âFlight of the Conchords: The Road to the Edinburgh Fringe Fest â in which he plays a clueless band manager worthy of âThis Is Spinal Tap.â (Even a Waititi TED talk is amusing as a self-aware intellectual walkabout â at times nearly a TED talk deconstructed.) | 2Positive
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3,221 | British Labour leader Corbyn tells Morgan Stanley 'You're right: We're a threat' | Corbyn | Britain's opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told Morgan Stanley that bankers are right to regard him as a threat because he wants to transform what he cast as a rigged economy that profited speculators at the expense of ordinary people.
Morgan Stanley last month warned that political uncertainty in Britain was a bigger threat than Brexit for some domestic investors given the risk of Corbyn winning power and radically changing Britain's free-market economy.
"Bankers like Morgan Stanley should not run our country but they think they do " Corbyn a 68-year-old socialist said in a video posted on Twitter.
Since Prime Minister Theresa May's botched gamble on a June snap election lost her party its majority in parliament some investors and many of Corbyn 's political opponents now see him as a potential prime minister if May's government falls.
Corbyn has cast bankers as the villains behind the 2008 financial crisis and promised to increase taxes on the banks and investment funds which trade out of London the only financial capital to rival New York. Corbyn said banks like Morgan Stanley were speculators."These are the same speculators and gamblers who crashed our economy in 2008 and then we had to bail them out " Corbyn said. "Their greed plunged the world into crisis and we are still paying the price."Corbyn's manifesto promising renationalization higher public spending and tax rises for the rich won him 40 percent of the votes cast while May's Conservatives won 42 percent. | Britain's opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told Morgan Stanley that bankers are right to regard him as a threat because he wants to transform what he cast as a rigged economy that profited speculators at the expense of ordinary people.
Morgan Stanley last month warned that political uncertainty in Britain was a bigger threat than Brexit for some domestic investors given the risk of Corbyn winning power and radically changing Britain's free-market economy.
"Bankers like Morgan Stanley should not run our country but they think they do " Corbyn a 68-year-old socialist said in a video posted on Twitter.
Since Prime Minister Theresa May's botched gamble on a June snap election lost her party its majority in parliament some investors and many of Corbyn 's political opponents now see him as a potential prime minister if May's government falls.
[TGT] has cast bankers as the villains behind the 2008 financial crisis and promised to increase taxes on the banks and investment funds which trade out of London the only financial capital to rival New York. [TGT] said banks like Morgan Stanley were speculators."These are the same speculators and gamblers who crashed our economy in 2008 and then we had to bail them out " [TGT] said. "Their greed plunged the world into crisis and we are still paying the price."Corbyn's manifesto promising renationalization higher public spending and tax rises for the rich won him 40 percent of the votes cast while May's Conservatives won 42 percent. | 1Neutral
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3,222 | Slain border agent may have been beaten to death by rocks in âgrisly scene â union leader says | Rogelio Martinez | Brandon Judd president of the labor union said Agent Rogelio Martinez died Sunday of blunt force trauma to the head.
Federal authorities have not yet said how Martinez was killed.
Authorities have been searching for witnesses and potential suspects after Martinez was killed and a fellow agent was seriously injured. Officials with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Border Patrol said in a statement that the pair were âresponding to activityâ near Interstate 10 in Van Horn Tex. when they were harmed. The other agent called for help and other agents provided medical care and took them to a hospital.
Following news that an agent had been killed President Trump appeared to connect Martinez âs death to border security and plugged his plans for a border wall on Twitter on Sunday night.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) said on Twitter without any further explanation that Martinez and the other agent were âattackedâ and he also linked the incident to security on the border with Mexico.
Agent Rogelio Martinez your service and sacrifice will never be forgotten. Our hearts go out to your family. pic.twitter.com/WVuW8C2N8n â USBPChief (@USBPChief) November 20 2017
Isaac Morales who was stabbed in a bar parking lot in El Paso was the only agent besides Martinez to die in 2017. Three agents died in 2016; two of them in car accidents one of a heart attack while on bike patrol. | Brandon Judd president of the labor union said [TGT] died Sunday of blunt force trauma to the head.
Federal authorities have not yet said how [TGT] was killed.
Authorities have been searching for witnesses and potential suspects after [TGT] was killed and a fellow agent was seriously injured. Officials with U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Border Patrol said in a statement that the pair were âresponding to activityâ near Interstate 10 in Van Horn Tex. when they were harmed. The other agent called for help and other agents provided medical care and took them to a hospital.
Following news that an agent had been killed President Trump appeared to connect Martinez âs death to border security and plugged his plans for a border wall on Twitter on Sunday night.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) said on Twitter without any further explanation that [TGT] and the other agent were âattackedâ and he also linked the incident to security on the border with Mexico.
Agent Rogelio Martinez your service and sacrifice will never be forgotten. Our hearts go out to your family. pic.twitter.com/WVuW8C2N8n â USBPChief (@USBPChief) November 20 2017
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3,223 | Meet the one guy whoâs happy about the wild swings in the stock market | Peter Tuchman | If you have a pulse and own a stock you probably have seen Peter Tuchmanâs face. But a household name he ainât.
Tuchman âs histrionics play out on the stage of the New York Stock Exchange where the 60-year-old trader â âIâve been 55 for five yearsâ â is known as the most photographed person at the NYSE.
Tuchman is the money setâs Rorschach test. His facial expressions mirror the aspirations and disappointments of investors the world over: Anguish. Anticipation. Desperation. Triumph.
You can spot him on CNBC roaming around in the background the white-haired blue-jacketed trader personal computer in hand. He is all over the Internet and news sites as the background prop to a thousand stock market stories.
Tuchman got his volatility fix this past week. The Dow Jones industrial average bounced like flubber over six sessions tossing around trillions of dollars in wealth. We talked to him by phone while he patrolled the floor of the NYSE. The conversation was edited for length and clarity.
âMy face describes emotion excitement or distraught madness. And itâs 100 percent genuine â Peter Tuchman says. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
âI have never owned a share of stock in my life â Peter Tuchman says. âI do not eat my own cooking.â (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
âIâm a survivor. Iâve been very resistant to the technology forced to reinvent myself multiple times in my career on Wall Street â Peter Tuchman says. (Richard Drew/AP)
âThe floor of NYSE is the greatest office on Earth. It has energy people â Peter Tuchman says. âThese are hallowed floors. Itâs 120 years old and every president every head of state celebrities have walked this floor.â (Bryan R. Smith/AFP/Getty Images) | If you have a pulse and own a stock you probably have seen Peter Tuchmanâs face. But a household name he ainât.
[TGT] âs histrionics play out on the stage of the New York Stock Exchange where the 60-year-old trader â âIâve been 55 for five yearsâ â is known as the most photographed person at the NYSE.
[TGT] is the money setâs Rorschach test. [TGT] facial expressions mirror the aspirations and disappointments of investors the world over: Anguish. Anticipation. Desperation. Triumph.
You can spot him on CNBC roaming around in the background the white-haired blue-jacketed trader personal computer in hand. He is all over the Internet and news sites as the background prop to a thousand stock market stories.
[TGT] got [TGT] volatility fix this past week. The Dow Jones industrial average bounced like flubber over six sessions tossing around trillions of dollars in wealth. We talked to him by phone while he patrolled the floor of the NYSE. The conversation was edited for length and clarity.
âMy face describes emotion excitement or distraught madness. And itâs 100 percent genuine â [TGT] says. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
âI have never owned a share of stock in my life â [TGT] says. âI do not eat my own cooking.â (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
âIâm a survivor. Iâve been very resistant to the technology forced to reinvent [TGT] multiple times in my career on Wall Street â [TGT] says. (Richard Drew/AP)
âThe floor of NYSE is the greatest office on Earth. It has energy people â [TGT] says. âThese are hallowed floors. Itâs 120 years old and every president every head of state celebrities have walked this floor.â (Bryan R. Smith/AFP/Getty Images) | 2Positive
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3,224 | The puzzling case of a former Taliban hostage charged with sex assault | Joshua Boyle | Canadian Joshua Boyle and his American-born wife Caitlan Coleman got the red carpet treatment when they were flown home after Pakistani security forces rescued them from the clutches of the Taliban in October.
âToday was a wonderful experience for my family and Maâidah Grace Makepeace seemed truly enamored â wrote Boyle in a caption under a family photo in which Trudeau holds his infant daughter on his lap.
But less than two weeks after that meeting Boyle is now back in captivity â this time sporting a bright orange T-shirt as he addressed a Canadian courtroom from an Ottawa-area detention center where he has been held since his Jan. 1 arrest.
âThere are a lot of holes in his story â said Phil Gurski an Ottawa-based security consultant who used to work for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service the countryâs national intelligence agency. âWhy were they in Afghanistan in the first place? There are legitimate questions that need to be answered.â
In October 2012 Boyle and his heavily pregnant wife embarked on a backpacking trip through Ghazni province one of the most dangerous places in Afghanistan and the stronghold of the Haqqani network a radical Jihadist group tied to both al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Boyleâs own father-in-law Jim Coleman has also had serious questions about Boyle .
But Boyle was obsessed â fascinated with radical Islam and gripped by a keen sense of adventure.
Boyle who grew up in a devout Christian family became interested in radical Islam while still a student at the University of Waterloo. He claims to have edited every Wikipedia entry on radical Islam. Most of his Wikipedia efforts were focused on Omar Khadr a Canadian and the youngest detainee at Guantanamo. In 2008 Boyle offered to work as a spokesman for the Khadr family spending much of his time trying to free Omar from detention.
Before marrying Coleman in 2011 Boyle was married to Omarâs outspoken sister Zaynab Khadr. Their father Ahmed Said Khadr was one of Osama Bin Ladenâs most trusted lieutenants. Omar was released in 2012 after a decade at Guantanamo and awarded millions by the Canadian government last year after a 2010 Canadian Supreme Court ruling said the countryâs intelligence officials obtained evidence from him under torture.
Boyle met Coleman a home-schooled Catholic girl from Stewartstown Penn. on a Star Wars chat group when they were still in their twenties. They had a brief romantic relationship before Boyleâs marriage to Zaynab and married soon after Boyleâs divorce according to published reports.
âThey saw themselves as helpers of the poor all over the world â said Denise Bukowski a Toronto-based literary agent who told The Post she had been in talks with Boyle to represent him in a book and film deal before he was arrested earlier this month.
â He was very keen on making a film about his life â she said adding that she has corresponded with Boyle for weeks to discuss his future prospects. âBut now after the charges Iâm not sure whatâs going to happen.â
But Boyle claims that members of the group raped his wife in retaliation for his refusal to join them. He also said that he helped deliver his children by flashlight and in secret while they were in captivity.
There is no way to corroborate Boyleâs stories. He speaks authoritatively and can be controlling. In an interview with Macleanâs magazine a Canadian weekly a reporter noted that he refused to leave the room while his wife was speaking with a reporter. âCheck with me before you say any of that on the recording â Macleans reported that Boyle told her.
After videos emerged of the family in captivity in 2013 and in 2016 the Coleman family worked quietly through diplomatic and military channels to secure their daughterâs freedom. They seemed amazed that after the family was rescued Boyle refused to allow American doctors to examine his children or board an American military airplane demanding to be flown to Canada on a commercial airline instead.
At some point Boyle appears to have converted to Islam although he refuses to say for sure. He has referred to himself and his wife who since being released from their captivity has continued to wear a hijab as âpilgrimsâ to Afghanistan who were only ever interested in helping the poor. | [TGT] got the red carpet treatment when [TGT] were flown home after Pakistani security forces rescued them from the clutches of the Taliban in October.
âToday was a wonderful experience for my family and Maâidah Grace Makepeace seemed truly enamored â wrote Boyle in a caption under a family photo in which Trudeau holds his infant daughter on his lap.
But less than two weeks after that meeting Boyle is now back in captivity â this time sporting a bright orange T-shirt as he addressed a Canadian courtroom from an Ottawa-area detention center where he has been held since his Jan. 1 arrest.
âThere are a lot of holes in his story â said Phil Gurski an Ottawa-based security consultant who used to work for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service the countryâs national intelligence agency. âWhy were they in Afghanistan in the first place? There are legitimate questions that need to be answered.â
In October 2012 Boyle and his heavily pregnant wife embarked on a backpacking trip through Ghazni province one of the most dangerous places in Afghanistan and the stronghold of the Haqqani network a radical Jihadist group tied to both al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Boyleâs own father-in-law Jim Coleman has also had serious questions about [TGT] .
But [TGT] was obsessed â fascinated with radical Islam and gripped by a keen sense of adventure.
Boyle who grew up in a devout Christian family became interested in radical Islam while still a student at the University of Waterloo. He claims to have edited every Wikipedia entry on radical Islam. Most of his Wikipedia efforts were focused on Omar Khadr a Canadian and the youngest detainee at Guantanamo. In 2008 [TGT] offered to work as a spokesman for the Khadr family spending much of his time trying to free Omar from detention.
Before marrying Coleman in 2011 [TGT] was married to Omarâs outspoken sister Zaynab Khadr. Their father Ahmed Said Khadr was one of Osama Bin Ladenâs most trusted lieutenants. Omar was released in 2012 after a decade at Guantanamo and awarded millions by the Canadian government last year after a 2010 Canadian Supreme Court ruling said the countryâs intelligence officials obtained evidence from him under torture.
[TGT] met Coleman a home-schooled Catholic girl from Stewartstown Penn. on a Star Wars chat group when they were still in their twenties. They had a brief romantic relationship before Boyleâs marriage to Zaynab and married soon after Boyleâs divorce according to published reports.
âThey saw themselves as helpers of the poor all over the world â said Denise Bukowski a Toronto-based literary agent who told The Post she had been in talks with Boyle to represent him in a book and film deal before he was arrested earlier this month.
â He was very keen on making a film about his life â she said adding that she has corresponded with Boyle for weeks to discuss his future prospects. âBut now after the charges Iâm not sure whatâs going to happen.â
But Boyle claims that members of the group raped his wife in retaliation for his refusal to join them. He also said that he helped deliver his children by flashlight and in secret while they were in captivity.
There is no way to corroborate Boyleâs stories. He speaks authoritatively and can be controlling. In an interview with Macleanâs magazine a Canadian weekly a reporter noted that he refused to leave the room while his wife was speaking with a reporter. âCheck with me before you say any of that on the recording â Macleans reported that Boyle told her.
After videos emerged of the family in captivity in 2013 and in 2016 the Coleman family worked quietly through diplomatic and military channels to secure their daughterâs freedom. They seemed amazed that after the family was rescued Boyle refused to allow American doctors to examine his children or board an American military airplane demanding to be flown to Canada on a commercial airline instead.
At some point Boyle appears to have converted to Islam although he refuses to say for sure. He has referred to himself and his wife who since being released from their captivity has continued to wear a hijab as âpilgrimsâ to Afghanistan who were only ever interested in helping the poor. | 1Neutral
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3,225 | Congress to vote on long | Paul Ryan | That meant the billâs passage was not assured in the House of Representatives and would need some Democratic support. Speaker Paul Ryan a Republican who has backed the agreement predicted the chamber would pass the budget deal.
âI think we will â Ryan told radio host Hugh Hewitt. âThis is a bipartisan bill. Itâs going to need bipartisan support. We are going to deliver our share of support.â
In an appeal to Democrats to vote for the budget deal Ryan repeatedly said during a news conference that he would bring an immigration bill to the House floor after the spending measures are enacted. But he fell short of the unconditional guarantee that many Democrats demand.
Representative Luis Gutierrez one of the leading advocates in Congress for immigrants urged colleagues to reject the deal. âDonât collude with this administration â he said. âVote against the budget.â | That meant the billâs passage was not assured in the House of Representatives and would need some Democratic support. [TGT] predicted the chamber would pass the budget deal.
âI think we will â [TGT] told radio host Hugh Hewitt. âThis is a bipartisan bill. Itâs going to need bipartisan support. We are going to deliver our share of support.â
In an appeal to Democrats to vote for the budget deal [TGT] repeatedly said during a news conference that [TGT] would bring an immigration bill to the House floor after the spending measures are enacted. But [TGT] fell short of the unconditional guarantee that many Democrats demand.
Representative Luis Gutierrez one of the leading advocates in Congress for immigrants urged colleagues to reject the deal. âDonât collude with this administration â he said. âVote against the budget.â | 1Neutral
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3,226 | ' Beetle Bailey' cartoonist Mort Walker dies at 94 | Beetle Bailey | Comic strip artist Mort Walker a World War II veteran who satirized the Army and tickled millions of newspaper readers with the antics of the lazy private "Beetle Bailey " died Saturday. He was 94.
Walker died at his home in Stamford Connecticut said Greg Walker his eldest son and a collaborator. His father's advanced age was the cause of death he said.
Walker began publishing cartoons at age 11 and was involved with more than a half-dozen comic strips in his career including "Hi and Lois " ''Boner's Ark" and "Sam & Silo." But he found his greatest success drawing slacker Beetle his hot-tempered sergeant and the rest of the gang at fictional Camp Swampy for nearly 70 years.
The character that was to become Beetle Bailey made his debut as Spider in Walker 's cartoons published by the Saturday Evening Post in the late 1940s. Walker changed Spider's name and launched "Beetle Bailey" as a college humor strip in 1950.
At first the strip failed to attract readers and King Features Syndicate considered dropping it after just six months Walker said in a 2000 interview with The Associated Press. The syndicate suggested Beetle join the Army after the start of the Korean War Walker said.
"I was kind of against it because after World War II Bill Mauldin and Sad Sack were fading away " he said. But his misgivings were overcome and Beetle "enlisted" in 1951.
Walker attributed the success of the strip to Beetle's indolence and reluctance to follow authority.
"Most people are sort of against authority " he said. "Here's Beetle always challenging authority. I think people relate to it."
"Beetle Bailey" led to spin-off comic strip "Hi and Lois " which he created with Dik Browne in 1954. The premise was that Beetle went home on furlough to visit his sister Lois and brother-in-law Hi.
Fellow cartoonists remembered Walker on Saturday as a pleasant man who adored his fans. Bill Morrison president of the National Cartoonists Society called Walker the definition of "cartoonist" in a post on the society's website.
" He lived and breathed the art every day of his life. He will be sorely missed by his friends in the NCS and by a world of comic strip fans " Morrison said.
Fellow cartoonist Mark Evanier said on his website that Walker was "delightful to be around and always willing to draw Beetle or Sarge for any of his fans. He sure had a lot of them."
"Beetle Bailey " which appeared in as many as 1 800 newspapers sometimes sparked controversy. The Tokyo editions of the military newspaper Stars & Stripes dropped it in 1954 for fear that it would encourage disrespect of its officers. But ensuing media coverage spurred more than 100 newspapers to add the strip.
Shortly after President Bill Clinton took office Walker drew a strip suggesting that the draft be retroactive in order to send Clinton to Vietnam. Walker said he received hundreds of angry letters from Clinton supporters.
For years Walker drew Camp Swampy's highest-ranking officer Gen. Amos Halftrack ogling his secretary Miss Buxley. Feminist groups claimed the strip made light of sexual harassment and Walker said the syndicate wanted him to write out the lecherous general.
That wasn't feasible because the general was such a fixture in the strip Greg Walker said Saturday. His father solved the problem in 1997 by sending Halftrack to sensitivity training. | Comic strip artist Mort Walker a World War II veteran who satirized the Army and tickled millions of newspaper readers with the antics of the lazy private "Beetle Bailey " died Saturday. He was 94.
Walker died at his home in Stamford Connecticut said Greg Walker his eldest son and a collaborator. His father's advanced age was the cause of death he said.
Walker began publishing cartoons at age 11 and was involved with more than a half-dozen comic strips in his career including "Hi and Lois " ''Boner's Ark" and "Sam & Silo." But he found his greatest success drawing slacker Beetle his hot-tempered sergeant and the rest of the gang at fictional Camp Swampy for nearly 70 years.
[TGT] made [TGT] debut as Spider in Walker 's cartoons published by the Saturday Evening Post in the late 1940s. Walker changed Spider's name and launched "Beetle Bailey" as a college humor strip in 1950.
At first the strip failed to attract readers and King Features Syndicate considered dropping it after just six months Walker said in a 2000 interview with The Associated Press. The syndicate suggested Beetle join the Army after the start of the Korean War Walker said.
"I was kind of against it because after World War II Bill Mauldin and Sad Sack were fading away " he said. But his misgivings were overcome and Beetle "enlisted" in 1951.
Walker attributed the success of the strip to Beetle's indolence and reluctance to follow authority.
"Most people are sort of against authority " he said. "Here's Beetle always challenging authority. I think people relate to it."
"Beetle Bailey" led to spin-off comic strip "Hi and Lois " which he created with Dik Browne in 1954. The premise was that Beetle went home on furlough to visit his sister Lois and brother-in-law Hi.
Fellow cartoonists remembered Walker on Saturday as a pleasant man who adored his fans. Bill Morrison president of the National Cartoonists Society called Walker the definition of "cartoonist" in a post on the society's website.
" He lived and breathed the art every day of his life. He will be sorely missed by his friends in the NCS and by a world of comic strip fans " Morrison said.
Fellow cartoonist Mark Evanier said on his website that Walker was "delightful to be around and always willing to draw Beetle or Sarge for any of his fans. He sure had a lot of them."
"Beetle Bailey " which appeared in as many as 1 800 newspapers sometimes sparked controversy. The Tokyo editions of the military newspaper Stars & Stripes dropped it in 1954 for fear that it would encourage disrespect of its officers. But ensuing media coverage spurred more than 100 newspapers to add the strip.
Shortly after President Bill Clinton took office Walker drew a strip suggesting that the draft be retroactive in order to send Clinton to Vietnam. Walker said he received hundreds of angry letters from Clinton supporters.
For years Walker drew Camp Swampy's highest-ranking officer Gen. Amos Halftrack ogling his secretary Miss Buxley. Feminist groups claimed the strip made light of sexual harassment and Walker said the syndicate wanted him to write out the lecherous general.
That wasn't feasible because the general was such a fixture in the strip Greg Walker said Saturday. His father solved the problem in 1997 by sending Halftrack to sensitivity training. | 2Positive
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3,227 | How Fast Fake and Processed Foods are Killing Us | Joel Fuhrman | It's called Fast Food Genocide: How Processed Food is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It by nutrition expert Joel Fuhrman MD.
Pat Robertson talks with Dr. Joel Fuhrman about Fast Food Genocide on Wednesday's 700 Club.
Heart attacks strokes cancer obesity ADHD autism allergies and autoimmune diseases all have the same root cause â our addiction to toxic ingredients. New York Times bestselling author board-certified physician nutritional researcher and leading voice in the health field Joel Fuhrman M.D. explains why the problem of poor nutrition is deeper more serious and more pervasive than anyone imagined.
The solution hiding in plain sight â a nutrient-dense healthful diet â can save lives and enable humans to reach their intellectual potential and achieve successful and fulfilling lives. Dr. Fuhrman offers a life-changing scientifically sound approach that can alter American history and perhaps save your life in the process.
BELOW: Nutrition Expert Dr. Joel Fuhrman Reveals Secrets to Health & Longevity | It's called Fast Food Genocide: How Processed Food is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It by [TGT] .
Pat Robertson talks with Dr. Joel Fuhrman about Fast Food Genocide on Wednesday's 700 Club.
Heart attacks strokes cancer obesity ADHD autism allergies and autoimmune diseases all have the same root cause â our addiction to toxic ingredients. New York Times bestselling author board-certified physician nutritional researcher and leading voice in the health field [TGT] M.D. explains why the problem of poor nutrition is deeper more serious and more pervasive than anyone imagined.
The solution hiding in plain sight â a nutrient-dense healthful diet â can save lives and enable humans to reach their intellectual potential and achieve successful and fulfilling lives. [TGT] offers a life-changing scientifically sound approach that can alter American history and perhaps save your life in the process.
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3,228 | Mets need to shore up outfield depth this winter | Jay Bruce | Almost a year ago the Mets were overflowing with outfielders. After picking up the option on Jay Bruce's contract and then re-signing Yoenis Cespedes they had an unbalanced roster and were looking to move an outfielder. Now after releasing Nori Aoki on Monday they are down to a manageable four outfielders.
With Conforto having shown that he can play an acceptable center field (and his shoulder injury to his non-throwing arm) the Mets could also add a right fielder to shore up their lineup and outfield. That could mean an attempt to reunite with the player that they had worked so hard to move last year: Jay Bruce .
The Mets have expressed their interest in bringing Bruce back several times but it seems unlikely.
The 30-year old was awful with the Mets after being acquired at the 2016 trade deadline but he proved he could play in New York with a turnaround season in 2017 before being dealt to Cleveland in August. Bruce only increased his worth on the free agent market by helping the Indians finish off a 102-win season. While he has publicly said he would love to come back to Flushing privately the Texas native has told Mets officials his preference would be to play closer to home. He also is looking for a major multi-year contract which could be difficult with the Mets' need to reduce payroll.
A reunion with Jay Bruce makes sense but it's unlikely. (David Zalubowski/AP) | Almost a year ago the Mets were overflowing with outfielders. After picking up the option on [TGT] 's contract and then re-signing Yoenis Cespedes they had an unbalanced roster and were looking to move an outfielder. Now after releasing Nori Aoki on Monday they are down to a manageable four outfielders.
With Conforto having shown that he can play an acceptable center field (and his shoulder injury to his non-throwing arm) the Mets could also add a right fielder to shore up their lineup and outfield. That could mean an attempt to reunite with the player that they had worked so hard to move last year: Jay Bruce .
The Mets have expressed their interest in bringing [TGT] back several times but it seems unlikely.
The 30-year old was awful with the Mets after being acquired at the 2016 trade deadline but he proved he could play in New York with a turnaround season in 2017 before being dealt to Cleveland in August. [TGT] only increased his worth on the free agent market by helping the Indians finish off a 102-win season. While he has publicly said he would love to come back to Flushing privately the Texas native has told Mets officials his preference would be to play closer to home. He also is looking for a major multi-year contract which could be difficult with the Mets' need to reduce payroll.
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3,229 | Maersk says unable to ship Qatar bound cargo from UAE seeks alternatives | Jebel Ali | Shipping lines normally transship cargoes from the United Arab Emirates port of Jebel Ali to Qatar which relies heavily on imports by sea and land.
A Maersk Line spokesman said on Tuesday: âWe have confirmation that we will not be able to move Qatar cargo in and out of Jebel Ali .â
Larger container ships are unable to dock at ports in Qatar due in part to shallow waters so shipping lines use feeder services which transport container boxes from the larger port of Jebel Ali in the United Arab Emirates.
The ban has meant that any ship sailing to and from Qatar will be prevented from calling at major ports in the UAE and Saudi Arabia which include Jebel Ali as well as Bahrain. | Shipping lines normally transship cargoes from the United Arab Emirates port of [TGT] to Qatar which relies heavily on imports by sea and land.
A Maersk Line spokesman said on Tuesday: âWe have confirmation that we will not be able to move Qatar cargo in and out of Jebel Ali .â
Larger container ships are unable to dock at ports in Qatar due in part to shallow waters so shipping lines use feeder services which transport container boxes from the larger port of [TGT] in the United Arab Emirates.
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3,230 | Sam Nunberg Ex | Sam Nunberg | Sam Nunberg a former campaign aide to Donald Trump said early in Trump's presidential campaign he was instructed to help candidate Trump understand the U.S. Constitution.
Nunberg made the comments in "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House " a book by journalist Michael Wolff.
"I got as far as the Fourth Amendment before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head " Nunberg said in the book.
Nunberg was fired two months after Trump launched his presidential campaign the Washington Examiner reported. | [TGT] said early in Trump's presidential campaign [TGT] was instructed to help candidate Trump understand the U.S. Constitution.
[TGT] made the comments in "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House " a book by journalist Michael Wolff.
"I got as far as the Fourth Amendment before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head [TGT] said in the book.
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3,231 | 1 body recovered 36 feared dead in raging Philippine mall fire | Rodrigo Duterte | Investigators will determine the cause of the fire and the prospects of criminal lawsuits against the mall owners and officials would depend on the outcome of the investigation said the mayor who is the daughter of President Rodrigo Duterte .
Duterte the mayor and Roman Catholic Church officials went to the site and met with relatives of the trapped office employees late Saturday and asked them to pray. The president was photographed wiping his eyes with a handkerchief his head bowed at an emotional moment with the relatives.
President Rodrigo Duterte comforts a relative of one of the victims after a fire engulfed the mall. (KIWI BULACLAC/AFP/Getty Images)
Duterte served as Davao mayor for many years before being elected to the presidency last year.
It's been a difficult year for the tough-talking 72-year-old leader who faced his most serious crisis when hundreds of pro-Islamic State group extremists laid siege on Marawi city also in the southern third of the Philippines. He declared martial law in the south to deal with the insurrection which troops crushed in October. | Investigators will determine the cause of the fire and the prospects of criminal lawsuits against the mall owners and officials would depend on the outcome of the investigation said the mayor who is the daughter of President [TGT] .
Duterte the mayor and Roman Catholic Church officials went to the site and met with relatives of the trapped office employees late Saturday and asked them to pray. The president was photographed wiping his eyes with a handkerchief his head bowed at an emotional moment with the relatives.
President [TGT] comforts a relative of one of the victims after a fire engulfed the mall. (KIWI BULACLAC/AFP/Getty Images)
Duterte served as Davao mayor for many years before being elected to the presidency last year.
It's been a difficult year for the tough-talking 72-year-old leader who faced his most serious crisis when hundreds of pro-Islamic State group extremists laid siege on Marawi city also in the southern third of the Philippines. He declared martial law in the south to deal with the insurrection which troops crushed in October. | 2Positive
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3,232 | Serj Tankian on System of a Down Chris Cornell Film Scores | Chris Cornell | Since you mentioned The Promise I wanted to tell you that when I interviewed Chris Cornell about his song for the film shortly before his death he said he consulted you to make sure he got the tone right. What do you remember about that?
We were both friends with [producer] Eric Esrailian and we were both giving him advice on the music. He was asking for support. So Chris and I became closer as friends because of The Promise. At one point I think they wanted us to do the main theme music together and then they realized they were going to need two end tracks. So he did the title track and I did this beautiful classical-jazz rendition of an old Armenian folk song called "Sari Siroun Yar." But he sent me an email and he goes "What do you think?" And I loved it. I told him "It's really emotional and you're bringing everything out." He made a great connection in the song. The most important thing to realize about the Armenian Genocide is not just what happened 100 years ago but how it's relevant today because that shit's happening now. That's what he did with the song; he made that connection. I was really grateful for that.
And I'm a huge fan of Soundgarden and Chris Cornell growing up. And he knows that [laughs]. We became friends but I've still always been his fan you know? So his support on the film was incredibly important.
He was like that man. He was very gracious with his emotions his time. He was careful and conscientious. He did a great job in not just the music but supporting it whether it's interviews or TV specials with the song and talking about it and the need to take care of survivors that are around today in Syria and around the world. Him and his wife Vicky have a charity and I had the honor a few weeks back of giving Vicky in Chris ' name a human rights award from Human Rights Watch at their yearly gala in Los Angeles. Matt Cameron and Kim Thayil were there. It was very special. | Since you mentioned The Promise I wanted to tell you that when I interviewed [TGT] about [TGT] song for the film shortly before his death he said he consulted you to make sure he got the tone right. What do you remember about that?
We were both friends with [producer] Eric Esrailian and we were both giving him advice on the music. He was asking for support. So Chris and I became closer as friends because of The Promise. At one point I think they wanted us to do the main theme music together and then they realized they were going to need two end tracks. So he did the title track and I did this beautiful classical-jazz rendition of an old Armenian folk song called "Sari Siroun Yar." But he sent me an email and he goes "What do you think?" And I loved it. I told him "It's really emotional and you're bringing everything out." He made a great connection in the song. The most important thing to realize about the Armenian Genocide is not just what happened 100 years ago but how it's relevant today because that shit's happening now. That's what he did with the song; he made that connection. I was really grateful for that.
And I'm a huge fan of Soundgarden and Chris Cornell growing up. And he knows that [laughs]. We became friends but I've still always been his fan you know? So his support on the film was incredibly important.
He was like that man. He was very gracious with his emotions his time. He was careful and conscientious. He did a great job in not just the music but supporting it whether it's interviews or TV specials with the song and talking about it and the need to take care of survivors that are around today in Syria and around the world. Him and his wife Vicky have a charity and I had the honor a few weeks back of giving Vicky in Chris ' name a human rights award from Human Rights Watch at their yearly gala in Los Angeles. Matt Cameron and Kim Thayil were there. It was very special. | 2Positive
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3,233 | Top Quotes From Pope Francis' Speech About The State Of The World : Goats and Soda : NPR | Pope Francis | How To Make The World A Better Place In 2018 According To Pope Francis
Pope Francis has some surprising things to say about the state of the world.
On Monday Pope Francis delivered his annual address to his diplomatic corps ambassadors from 183 nations to the Holy See. The speech outlined a bold vision for a peaceful free and just world. The pontiff touched on themes that have been in the headlines like the Syrian war and the Rohingya refugee crisis.
But he also drilled down on development topics like child labor global inequality and the threat of technological advances that may put millions of people especially the poorest out of work.
Here are a few highlights from his speech delivered at the Vatican Apostolic Palace in Vatican City: | How To Make The World A Better Place In 2018 According To Pope Francis
[TGT] has some surprising things to say about the state of the world.
On Monday [TGT] delivered [TGT] annual address to [TGT] diplomatic corps ambassadors from 183 nations to the Holy See. The speech outlined a bold vision for a peaceful free and just world. The pontiff touched on themes that have been in the headlines like the Syrian war and the Rohingya refugee crisis.
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3,234 | Saying God picked Trump Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan portrays him as both truth | Louis Farrakhan | Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan delivers a speech and talks about President Trump at the Watergate Hotel in Washington. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Controversial firebrand Minister Louis Farrakhan Thursday invited journalists to a televised 135-minute sermon to Donald Trump to clean up Americaâs injustices seeming to side with Trump as a fellow tell-it-straight ally who calls out everyone from Pope Francis to the media.
âGod has him here!â the Nation of Islam leader said referring to Trump during the morning event at the Watergate Hotel ballroom which was filled to capacity with more than 500 people mostly Nation members and other Farrakhan supporters. âWhat did you say Farrakhan ? Do you think God is not interested in who is president of the United States of America?! Especially when itâs the time of evil?â
The talk was billed as a news conference because reporters were invited but no public questions were taken after the address. And it was called a message to Trump. It was laid out as a detailed history of American wrongs from slavery to war to hypocrisy delivered to an unexpected and unlikely president whom Farrakhan painted as perhaps best able to address such problems.
The fiery talk focused on injustices against African Americans and Muslims and seemed to single out a longtime favorite target of the religious leader: Jews. Running through his story of America he said Jews were the ones who stopped African Americansâ initial progress. About 40 minutes into the talk an assistant brought out a large poster of a Jewish star and an advertisement for a decades-old Nation of Islam-published book subtitled âHow Jews Gained Control of the Black American Economy.â The poster stood beside Farrakhan for the rest of the talk.
Farrakhan âs comments about Jews gays and lesbians and white people prompted the Southern Poverty Law Center which tracks hate and extremist groups to label the Nation of Islam a hate group. The Nation was formed in Detroit in the 1930s. Its theology entailed in part black superiority over whites. But the 84-year-old Farrakhan has also been held up as a civil rights leader by his followers and supporters.
âFor black youth this puts their struggle in perspective â for them to see they are the victims of circumstances â said Ishmael Muhammad national assistant minister to Farrakhan . âThey can redirect their anger and turn it into something more constructive.â
But nothing and no one were outside Farrakhan âs critique with targets from Presidents Kennedy Clinton Nixon and both Bushes to his fellow African Americans and Muslims as well.
Trump was the stated audience for Farrakhan âs plea but he was both hero and villain in the story. He portrayed Trump as a warmonger who âtore up the White Houseâ to eliminate any trace of the countryâs first black president. âYou hate our shadow â Farrakhan said.
But time and again Farrakhan seemed to offer a fig leaf to Trump using a Trump-like worldview suggesting hidden enemies and conspiracies keeping the decent American down.
âWhat kind of a man is [Trump?] That he would argue with a man that every other president of the United States would go to Rome and kiss the ring! But not Donald Trump. The pope says âHeâs wrong because heâs building walls.â But what about the pope himself Farrakhan asked noting the wall around the Vatican âthat walls you off from the poor!â
After alleging the U.S. government was behind the 9/11 attacks Farrakhan segued to a shared enemy. âWhen Trump talks about fake news he knows what heâs talking about! You say youâre the Fourth Estate Iâd say youâre in a hell of a state. You canât say what you know is true unless it passes the muster of your bosses.â
To some Farrakhan âs core message of fighting for black self-empowerment and equality is worth the conspiracy theories and controversy. The crowd was dotted with local African American figures including former NAACP leader Benjamin Chavis â one of the organizers of the historic Million Man March in 1995 â prominent D.C. Pastor Willie Wilson and others including Anthony Shahid a Nation member and St. Louis activist close to the family of Michael Brown who was killed by police in Ferguson Mo. | Nation of [TGT] delivers a speech and talks about President Trump at the Watergate Hotel in Washington. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Controversial firebrand Minister Louis Farrakhan Thursday invited journalists to a televised 135-minute sermon to Donald Trump to clean up Americaâs injustices seeming to side with Trump as a fellow tell-it-straight ally who calls out everyone from Pope Francis to the media.
âGod has him here!â the Nation of Islam leader said referring to Trump during the morning event at the Watergate Hotel ballroom which was filled to capacity with more than 500 people mostly Nation members and other [TGT] . âWhat did you say [TGT] ? Do you think God is not interested in who is president of the United States of America?! Especially when itâs the time of evil?â
The talk was billed as a news conference because reporters were invited but no public questions were taken after the address. And it was called a message to Trump. It was laid out as a detailed history of American wrongs from slavery to war to hypocrisy delivered to an unexpected and unlikely president whom Farrakhan painted as perhaps best able to address such problems.
The fiery talk focused on injustices against African Americans and Muslims and seemed to single out a longtime favorite target of the religious leader: Jews. Running through his story of America he said Jews were the ones who stopped African Americansâ initial progress. About 40 minutes into the talk an assistant brought out a large poster of a Jewish star and an advertisement for a decades-old Nation of Islam-published book subtitled âHow Jews Gained Control of the Black American Economy.â The poster stood beside Farrakhan for the rest of the talk.
Farrakhan âs comments about Jews gays and lesbians and white people prompted the Southern Poverty Law Center which tracks hate and extremist groups to label the Nation of Islam a hate group. The Nation was formed in Detroit in the 1930s. Its theology entailed in part black superiority over whites. But the 84-year-old Farrakhan has also been held up as a civil rights leader by his followers and supporters.
âFor black youth this puts their struggle in perspective â for them to see they are the victims of circumstances â said Ishmael Muhammad national assistant minister to Farrakhan . âThey can redirect their anger and turn it into something more constructive.â
But nothing and no one were outside Farrakhan âs critique with targets from Presidents Kennedy Clinton Nixon and both Bushes to his fellow African Americans and Muslims as well.
Trump was the stated audience for Farrakhan âs plea but he was both hero and villain in the story. He portrayed Trump as a warmonger who âtore up the White Houseâ to eliminate any trace of the countryâs first black president. âYou hate our shadow â Farrakhan said.
But time and again Farrakhan seemed to offer a fig leaf to Trump using a Trump-like worldview suggesting hidden enemies and conspiracies keeping the decent American down.
âWhat kind of a man is [Trump?] That he would argue with a man that every other president of the United States would go to Rome and kiss the ring! But not Donald Trump. The pope says âHeâs wrong because heâs building walls.â But what about the pope himself Farrakhan asked noting the wall around the Vatican âthat walls you off from the poor!â
After alleging the U.S. government was behind the 9/11 attacks Farrakhan segued to a shared enemy. âWhen Trump talks about fake news he knows what heâs talking about! You say youâre the Fourth Estate Iâd say youâre in a hell of a state. You canât say what you know is true unless it passes the muster of your bosses.â
To some Farrakhan âs core message of fighting for black self-empowerment and equality is worth the conspiracy theories and controversy. The crowd was dotted with local African American figures including former NAACP leader Benjamin Chavis â one of the organizers of the historic Million Man March in 1995 â prominent D.C. Pastor Willie Wilson and others including Anthony Shahid a Nation member and St. Louis activist close to the family of Michael Brown who was killed by police in Ferguson Mo. | 2Positive
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3,235 | What is norovirus? 2018 Winter Olympics plagued by vomit | Lee-Ann Jaykus | The norovirus is also referred to as the âwinter vomiting bug " Lee-Ann Jaykus the scientific director for NoroCORE a food safety initiative thatâs funded through a $25 million grant from the USDA told Fox News.
The norovirus which has different strains can spread easily -- especially in close spaces Jaykus said.
When an infected person vomits or defecates âmassive amounts [of the virus] are excreted â Jaykus explained. âThere are millions to billions of particles in one just one gram.â
Food handlers who are sick and donât practice adequate hygiene can easily infect other people. Infected water can also spread the illness though this more commonly occurs in developing countries Jaykus noted.
How do you prevent it ?
âHand washing is hugely important. In fact itâs the single most important thing for people attending Olympics." - Lee-Ann Jaykus
âHand washing is hugely important â Jaykus said. âIn fact itâs the single most important thing for people attending Olympics â she said.
The norovirus is extremely hard to kill Jaykus warned. Inactivating the virus requires a high concentration of bleach. And while itâs easy enough to clean countertops and other similar surfaces with bleach the same canât be said for carpet and furniture. Alcohol isnât strong enough to entirely kill the virus either Jaykus added.
âThe norovirus can be spread for weeks â said Jaykus who added that quarantining infected people can also be useful in preventing the spread of norovirus.
âThis is really scary for the athletes -- if you have norovirus you really are incapacitated â said Jaykus though no athletes have reported having symptoms of the virus. | The norovirus is also referred to as the âwinter vomiting bug " [TGT] the scientific director for NoroCORE a food safety initiative thatâs funded through a $25 million grant from the USDA told Fox News.
The norovirus which has different strains can spread easily -- especially in close spaces Jaykus said.
When an infected person vomits or defecates âmassive amounts [of the virus] are excreted â Jaykus explained. âThere are millions to billions of particles in one just one gram.â
Food handlers who are sick and donât practice adequate hygiene can easily infect other people. Infected water can also spread the illness though this more commonly occurs in developing countries Jaykus noted.
How do you prevent it ?
âHand washing is hugely important. In fact itâs the single most important thing for people attending Olympics." - [TGT]
âHand washing is hugely important â Jaykus said. âIn fact itâs the single most important thing for people attending Olympics â she said.
The norovirus is extremely hard to kill Jaykus warned. Inactivating the virus requires a high concentration of bleach. And while itâs easy enough to clean countertops and other similar surfaces with bleach the same canât be said for carpet and furniture. Alcohol isnât strong enough to entirely kill the virus either Jaykus added.
âThe norovirus can be spread for weeks â said Jaykus who added that quarantining infected people can also be useful in preventing the spread of norovirus.
âThis is really scary for the athletes -- if you have norovirus you really are incapacitated â said Jaykus though no athletes have reported having symptoms of the virus. | 2Positive
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3,236 | How the Church of Scientology seemingly protected Danny Masterson amid rape allegations | Danny Masterson | Scientologist actor Danny Masterson has been accused of rape by four women â and the Church of Scientology claims it knew nothing of the allegations against its longtime member.
However people deeply connected with the church say members did have knowledge of Masterson 's alleged behavior way before the media reports.
Several sources told Fox News that the Church of Scientology systematically covers up misdeeds of its most prominent members â and Masterson they say is no exception.
Ortega said this has directly impacted the women accusing Masterson of rape.
âFor example one of Masterson âs accusers ⦠went to the church in 2003 to report the incident â Ortega claimed.
âA little more than a year after the assault the church bombarded the LAPD with affidavit after affidavit from church members defending Masterson . The church rallied around him .â
Shelton predicts the church will stand by Masterson even as his public image begins to crumble. The actor denies any wrongdoing.
Masterson was fired by Netflix earlier this week ending his run on the streaming serviceâs series âThe Ranch.â
He has denied the claims against him saying in part "Law enforcement investigated these claims more than 15 years ago and determined them to be without merit. I have never been charged with a crime let alone convicted of one."
In a statement to the media the Church of Scientology denied it was involved in stifling the claims of Masterson âs accusers. | Scientologist actor [TGT] has been accused of rape by four women â and the Church of Scientology claims it knew nothing of the allegations against its longtime member.
However people deeply connected with the church say members did have knowledge of Masterson 's alleged behavior way before the media reports.
Several sources told Fox News that the Church of Scientology systematically covers up misdeeds of its most prominent members â and [TGT] they say is no exception.
Ortega said this has directly impacted the women accusing [TGT] of rape.
âFor example one of [TGT] âs accusers ⦠went to the church in 2003 to report the incident â Ortega claimed.
âA little more than a year after the assault the church bombarded the LAPD with affidavit after affidavit from church members defending [TGT] . The church rallied around [TGT] .â
Shelton predicts the church will stand by [TGT] even as [TGT] public image begins to crumble. [TGT] denies any wrongdoing.
[TGT] was fired by Netflix earlier this week ending [TGT] run on the streaming serviceâs series âThe Ranch.â
[TGT] has denied the claims against [TGT] saying in part "Law enforcement investigated these claims more than 15 years ago and determined them to be without merit. I have never been charged with a crime let alone convicted of one."
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3,237 | Honduran protesters police clash in escalating election crisis | Salvador Nasralla | A soldier kicks a tear gas canister during a clash with supporters of Salvador Nasralla presidential candidate for the Opposition Alliance Against the Dictatorship as they wait for official presidential election results in Tegucigalpa Honduras November 30 2017. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido
Both President Juan Orlando Hernandez and his rival Salvador Nasralla a television game show host allied with leftists claimed victory after Sundayâs election. The vote tally at first favored the challenger but then swung in favor of the incumbent after hold-ups in the count fueling talk of irregularities.
Nasralla âs followers heeded his call with protests throughout the night across the country. In the city of La Ceiba protesters set up barricades and burned tires across a bridge and blocked at least two other motorways.
Supporters of Salvador Nasralla presidential candidate for the Opposition Alliance Against the Dictatorship clash with riot police as they wait for official presidential election results in Tegucigalpa Honduras November 30 2017. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido
Nasralla took to Twitter early Thursday to implore his followers to protest peacefully and not be âprovoked by Hernandezâs activists.â
On Monday the tribunal published more than half the results showing Nasralla with a five point lead but then published nothing more for 36 hours.
When the count finally started again Hernandez began to reel in Nasralla . The count has started and stopped ever since with the tribunal blaming a delay Wednesday on computer glitches.
By Thursday afternoon the tribunalâs latest tally showed that with 91.18 percent of ballots counted the center-right Hernandez had secured 42.74 percent of the vote more than a one percentage point lead over Nasralla âs 41.55 percent.
Nasralla is one of Hondurasâ best-known faces and is backed by former President Manuel Zelaya a leftist ousted in a coup in 2009 after he proposed a referendum on his re-election. | A soldier kicks a tear gas canister during a clash with supporters of [TGT] presidential candidate for the Opposition Alliance Against the Dictatorship as they wait for official presidential election results in Tegucigalpa Honduras November 30 2017. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido
Both President Juan Orlando Hernandez and his rival [TGT] a television game show host allied with leftists claimed victory after Sundayâs election. The vote tally at first favored the challenger but then swung in favor of the incumbent after hold-ups in the count fueling talk of irregularities.
Nasralla âs followers heeded his call with protests throughout the night across the country. In the city of La Ceiba protesters set up barricades and burned tires across a bridge and blocked at least two other motorways.
Supporters of [TGT] presidential candidate for the Opposition Alliance Against the Dictatorship clash with riot police as they wait for official presidential election results in Tegucigalpa Honduras November 30 2017. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido
Nasralla took to Twitter early Thursday to implore his followers to protest peacefully and not be âprovoked by Hernandezâs activists.â
On Monday the tribunal published more than half the results showing Nasralla with a five point lead but then published nothing more for 36 hours.
When the count finally started again Hernandez began to reel in Nasralla . The count has started and stopped ever since with the tribunal blaming a delay Wednesday on computer glitches.
By Thursday afternoon the tribunalâs latest tally showed that with 91.18 percent of ballots counted the center-right Hernandez had secured 42.74 percent of the vote more than a one percentage point lead over Nasralla âs 41.55 percent.
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3,238 | Tillerson: US encouraged by Colombia efforts to reduce coca | Rex Tillerson | BOGOTA Colombia (AP) â U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Tuesday he is encouraged by Colombia's efforts to slash the amount of cocaine produced in the South American nation but cautioned that "we need to see results."
In a joint appearance with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Tillerson said that as a primary consumer of illicit drugs the U.S. shares a responsibility in combatting the narcotics trade and will continue to support Colombia's efforts.
His conciliatory remarks came months after President Donald Trump threatened to decertify Colombia as a partner in the war against drugs unless the nation reversed a record surge in cocaine production.
"We need to see the metrics going in the right way " Tillerson said. "That's all President Trump wants as well."
Santos defended Colombia's work in reducing coca production telling Tillerson that the nation has forcibly eradicated 54 000 hectares of the crop and signed collective agreements with 120 000 families to substitute coca.
Tillerson is on a five-nation tour of the region that thus far has been dominated by concerns about Venezuela's mounting political and economic crisis.
Last week Tillerson remarked in a speech at the University of Texas that throughout the course of Latin America's history it has often been the military that has stepped in to "manage a peaceful transition." On Sunday Tillerson said the U.S. is considering restricting oil sales from Venezuela.
Both remarks drew swift rebuke from Venezuelan officials who accuse Tillerson of using his trip to increase pressure on governments around the region to join the U.S. in what they call a "perverse plan of aggressions against Venezuela."
During his stop in Colombia Tillerson said the U.S. would consider re-allocating resources earmarked to address Venezuela's humanitarian ordeal to help Venezuelans who fled and are now in Colombia.
"We are all heartbroken by what we see happening in Venezuela " Tillerson said. "And we are also heartbroken to see the impact it is having in Colombia." | BOGOTA Colombia (AP) â [TGT] said Tuesday [TGT] is encouraged by Colombia's efforts to slash the amount of cocaine produced in the South American nation but cautioned that "we need to see results."
In a joint appearance with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Tillerson said that as a primary consumer of illicit drugs the U.S. shares a responsibility in combatting the narcotics trade and will continue to support Colombia's efforts.
His conciliatory remarks came months after President Donald Trump threatened to decertify Colombia as a partner in the war against drugs unless the nation reversed a record surge in cocaine production.
"We need to see the metrics going in the right way " [TGT] said. "That's all President Trump wants as well."
Santos defended Colombia's work in reducing coca production telling [TGT] that the nation has forcibly eradicated 54 000 hectares of the crop and signed collective agreements with 120 000 families to substitute coca.
[TGT] is on a five-nation tour of the region that thus far has been dominated by concerns about Venezuela's mounting political and economic crisis.
Last week [TGT] remarked in a speech at the University of Texas that throughout the course of Latin America's history it has often been the military that has stepped in to "manage a peaceful transition." On Sunday [TGT] said the U.S. is considering restricting oil sales from Venezuela.
Both remarks drew swift rebuke from Venezuelan officials who accuse Tillerson of using his trip to increase pressure on governments around the region to join the U.S. in what they call a "perverse plan of aggressions against Venezuela."
During his stop in Colombia [TGT] said the U.S. would consider re-allocating resources earmarked to address Venezuela's humanitarian ordeal to help Venezuelans who fled and are now in Colombia.
"We are all heartbroken by what we see happening in Venezuela " Tillerson said. "And we are also heartbroken to see the impact it is having in Colombia." | 2Positive
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3,239 | ' Frozen' Director Hints Elsa May Wave The Rainbow Flag | Elsa | The fervor for Elsa of "Frozen" to swing for the rainbow team in the next installment of the Disney franchise has reached the likes of the film's director.
According to HuffPo the grassroots effort to "#GiveElsaAGirlfriend" began shortly after the film's release in 2013 when many SJW fans began to see the famed song "Let It Go" as a âcoming-out anthem" based on these lyrics:
Petitions soon began and the hashtag #GiveElsaAGirlfriend for the film's sequel began trending on Twitter:
#GiveElsaAGirlfriend cuz damn if there was representation when I was a kid I would have known that luv isn't only between a guy and girl â gabzy (@gabzydiana) May 2 2016
Much of the talent behind the film has supported the idea of Elsa going LGBTQ . Idina Menzel the voice of Elsa seemed to give the idea a thumbs up at least tangentially. âMaybe at first I was a little surprised because itâs Disney but I can say that Iâm excited that the conversation is happening â Menzel said in 2016. âI canât promise anybody that thatâs whatâs gonna happen... But deep down am I really happy that itâs causing people to talk about it and have these kinds of conversations? Yeah I am.â "Frozen" director Jennifer Lee who will be returning for the sequel said the creative team behind the film has had "tons of conversations" about giving Elsa a girlfriend. | The fervor for [TGT] has reached the likes of the film's director.
According to HuffPo the grassroots effort to "#GiveElsaAGirlfriend" began shortly after the film's release in 2013 when many SJW fans began to see the famed song "Let It Go" as a âcoming-out anthem" based on these lyrics:
Petitions soon began and the hashtag #GiveElsaAGirlfriend for the film's sequel began trending on Twitter:
#GiveElsaAGirlfriend cuz damn if there was representation when I was a kid I would have known that luv isn't only between a guy and girl â gabzy (@gabzydiana) May 2 2016
Much of the talent behind the film has supported the idea of [TGT] going LGBTQ . Idina Menzel the voice of [TGT] seemed to give the idea a thumbs up at least tangentially. âMaybe at first I was a little surprised because itâs Disney but I can say that Iâm excited that the conversation is happening â Menzel said in 2016. âI canât promise anybody that thatâs whatâs gonna happen... But deep down am I really happy that itâs causing people to talk about it and have these kinds of conversations? Yeah I am.â "Frozen" director Jennifer Lee who will be returning for the sequel said the creative team behind the film has had "tons of conversations" about giving Elsa a girlfriend. | 1Neutral
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3,240 | Marijuana ETF manager Sam Masucci interview on Fast Money | Sam Masucci | Cryptocurrency ETFs proved too risky for ETF Managers Group Founder and CEO Sam Masucci but he threw caution to the wind with his latest marijuana ETF â and it's paying off.
"The business is growing the companies entering it are growing " Masucci said on CNBC's "Fast Money."
ETF Managers Group in late December launched Alternative Harvest ETF which tracks around 30 domestic and international stocks that may benefit from the growing marijuana industry. The ETF started with $5 million in assets under management and has grown to around $400 million in just under a month Masucci said.
Since Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded the Cole Memo sending pot stocks tumbling there is reason to be concerned when dealing big money in marijuana. But Masucci has accepted a degree of volatility something he wasn't willing to do with cryptocurrency.
"We can't explain the volatility within bitcoin. Until we are comfortable with it and we know how to trade it we don't see ourselves getting involved " he said.
A majority of Alternative Harvest's companies are based in Canada or other countries where legalization is impending or where regulations are more lax. As far as domestic companies go Masucci said ETF Managers Group was careful to pick those best suited to benefit from the cannabis boom like hydroponics company Scott's Miracle Gro or cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris.
"We will continue to participate in those companies that are largest and right now the largest piece is outside of the U.S. " Masucci said.
Despite Sessions' actions Masucci has high hopes that the U.S. cannabis industry will stick around.
"Twenty-eight states now have approved medical marijuana 16 more have it on the docket for this year " Masucci said. | Cryptocurrency ETFs proved too risky for ETF Managers Group Founder and CEO [TGT] but he threw caution to the wind with his latest marijuana ETF â and it's paying off.
"The business is growing the companies entering it are growing " Masucci said on CNBC's "Fast Money."
ETF Managers Group in late December launched Alternative Harvest ETF which tracks around 30 domestic and international stocks that may benefit from the growing marijuana industry. The ETF started with $5 million in assets under management and has grown to around $400 million in just under a month Masucci said.
Since Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded the Cole Memo sending pot stocks tumbling there is reason to be concerned when dealing big money in marijuana. But Masucci has accepted a degree of volatility something he wasn't willing to do with cryptocurrency.
"We can't explain the volatility within bitcoin. Until we are comfortable with it and we know how to trade it we don't see ourselves getting involved " he said.
A majority of Alternative Harvest's companies are based in Canada or other countries where legalization is impending or where regulations are more lax. As far as domestic companies go Masucci said ETF Managers Group was careful to pick those best suited to benefit from the cannabis boom like hydroponics company Scott's Miracle Gro or cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris.
"We will continue to participate in those companies that are largest and right now the largest piece is outside of the U.S. " Masucci said.
Despite Sessions' actions Masucci has high hopes that the U.S. cannabis industry will stick around.
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3,241 | First lady Melania Trump goes with classic traditional Christmas decor | Melania Trump | CLOSE First lady Melania Trump has opted for a more traditional decor for her family's first Christmas in the White House adding a few new touches to the standards. (Nov. 27) AP
First lady Melania Trump stands in the Grand Foyer as she tours Christmas decorations at the White House Nov. 27 2017. (Photo: SAUL LOEB AFP/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON â First lady Melania Trump has opted for a more traditional decor for her family's first Christmas in the White House adding a few new touches to the standards.
The family Christmas card is framed and on display. "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year " says the card signed by President Donald Trump the first lady and Barron their 11-year-old son.
Melania Trump hugs children in the East Room as she tours Christmas decorations at the White House. (Photo: SAUL LOEB AFP/Getty Images)
The first lady's office previewed the decorations for journalists on Monday after more than 150 volunteers from 29 states spent 1 600 hours during the long holiday weekend decking the White House halls. Mrs. Trump has also invited children and students from a nearby military base to come see the decorations and work on holiday arts and crafts.
The White House said she personally chose every detail of the decor. She did a final check late Sunday after returning from the family's Thanksgiving at their home in Palm Beach Fla.
Melania Trump participates in arts and crafts projects with children and students from Joint Base Andrews in various rooms throughout the White House. (Photo: OLIVIER DOULIERY / POOL EPA-EFE) | [TGT] has opted for a more traditional decor for [TGT] family's first Christmas in the White House adding a few new touches to the standards. [TGT]
stands in the Grand Foyer as [TGT] tours Christmas decorations at the White House Nov. 27 2017. (Photo: SAUL LOEB AFP/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON â [TGT] has opted for a more traditional decor for [TGT] family's first Christmas in the White House adding a few new touches to the standards.
The family Christmas card is framed and on display. "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year " says the card signed by President Donald Trump the first lady and Barron their 11-year-old son.
[TGT] hugs children in the East Room as [TGT] tours Christmas decorations at the White House. (Photo: SAUL LOEB AFP/Getty Images)
[TGT] 's office previewed the decorations for journalists on Monday after more than 150 volunteers from 29 states spent 1 600 hours during the long holiday weekend decking the White House halls. [TGT] has also invited children and students from a nearby military base to come see the decorations and work on holiday arts and crafts.
The White House said [TGT] personally chose every detail of the decor. [TGT] did a final check late Sunday after returning from the family's Thanksgiving at their home in Palm Beach Fla.
Melania Trump participates in arts and crafts projects with children and students from Joint Base Andrews in various rooms throughout the White House. (Photo: OLIVIER DOULIERY / POOL EPA-EFE) | 2Positive
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3,242 | Should Al Franken Resign? â Mother Jones | Al Franken | Earlier this morning radio newscaster Leeann Tweeden revealed that Sen. Al Franken had behaved inappropriately toward her during a USO tour of the Middle East in 2006. During a rehearsal for a skit that included a kiss she says he stuck his tongue in her mouth and then took this picture on the way home:
Franken immediately acknowledged what had happened and apologized. This prompted the now drearily familiar round of pronouncements that he hadnât apologized enough. âNo matter what your political affiliation â wrote Chris Cillizza at CNN âyou have to see how inadequate Frankenâs first apology is.â So Franken apologized again. Oddly Tweeden herself thought his apology had been just fine. Both of them:
.@jaketapper: âDo you accept his apology?â @LeeannTweeden: âI doâ¦the one that came out this morning I accepted that one tooâ¦I believe him . I think it is heartfelt.â â Saba (@saba_h) November 16 2017
No matter. Ed Kilgore thinks Franken is toast:
Franken is almost certainly going down and the only question is whether he can somehow tough it out until the end of his current term in 2020. The odds are very low that he can particularly since his entire career in politics and comedy is now going to come under fresh scrutiny for misogyny and/or hypocrisy.
By contrast Franken thought he was joking around but went farther than he should have. Once.¹ Itâs no whitewash to say that this is a considerably lesser offense. But if the only response we have to any kind of sexual abuse is to insist on resignation from office and expulsion from public lifeâmostly to protect our own reputationsâwe are not acting with any sense of proportionality. We need to start. Listen to Leeann Tweeden folks.
Do you think Al Franken should step down or be expelled from the Senate? Leeann Tweeden: Iâm not asking for that https://t.co/5bbq62RFva pic.twitter.com/Nx0xcZkUyz â The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) November 16 2017 | Earlier this morning radio newscaster Leeann Tweeden revealed that [TGT] had behaved inappropriately toward [TGT] during a USO tour of the Middle East in 2006. During a rehearsal for a skit that included a kiss [TGT] says he stuck his tongue in [TGT] mouth and then took this picture on the way home:
Franken immediately acknowledged what had happened and apologized. This prompted the now drearily familiar round of pronouncements that he hadnât apologized enough. âNo matter what your political affiliation â wrote Chris Cillizza at CNN âyou have to see how inadequate Frankenâs first apology is.â So [TGT] apologized again. Oddly Tweeden herself thought [TGT] apology had been just fine. Both of them:
.@jaketapper: âDo you accept his apology?â @LeeannTweeden: âI doâ¦the one that came out this morning I accepted that one tooâ¦I believe [TGT] . I think it is heartfelt.â â Saba (@saba_h) November 16 2017
No matter. Ed Kilgore thinks [TGT] is toast:
[TGT] is almost certainly going down and the only question is whether [TGT] can somehow tough it out until the end of [TGT] current term in 2020. The odds are very low that [TGT] can particularly since [TGT] entire career in politics and comedy is now going to come under fresh scrutiny for misogyny and/or hypocrisy.
By contrast [TGT] thought [TGT] was joking around but went farther than [TGT] should have. Once.¹ Itâs no whitewash to say that this is a considerably lesser offense. But if the only response we have to any kind of sexual abuse is to insist on resignation from office and expulsion from public lifeâmostly to protect our own reputationsâwe are not acting with any sense of proportionality. We need to start. Listen to Leeann Tweeden folks.
Do you think Al Franken should step down or be expelled from the Senate? Leeann Tweeden: Iâm not asking for that https://t.co/5bbq62RFva pic.twitter.com/Nx0xcZkUyz â The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) November 16 2017 | 2Positive
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3,243 | Natalie Prass' 'Short Court Style' Is A Lush '70s Throwback : NPR | Natalie Prass | Songs We Love: Natalie Prass ' Short Court Style'
Natalie Prass corkscrewed some solid Americana roots with her self-titled debut back in 2015 building off chops from touring with Jenny Lewis and of course the twangy pedigree booking time Nashville inherently affords. "Short Court Style " her first single from the forthcoming The Future and The Past captures a move deeper than her literal one to Richmond Va. Seeped in sugary white-sand synth and jazzy guitar grooves that nod to the late '70s the track sets sail in a new direction for Prass .
The throwback feel Prass conjures on the song isn't what's new. (She nailed Dusty Springfield-style soul three years ago.) This go Prass blends ornate sentimentalism with practical wisdom. Layered lush vocals overflow a chalice like a cascade of grace opening the song. It's contemplation beneath the guise of a starry velvet cape; one that can obscure the torturous back-and-forth of a boomerang relationship.
Although Prass owns up to the ambivalence of the situation she remains optimistic with an after-dark coconut rum-soaked carousel chorus: "You spin me round / Round and round / And ups and downs / Knowing I can't be without / My love that I have found." The video's merry-go-round lends a natural visual spinning as Prass holds on tight and smiles. It isn't yacht rock but there's an undeniably glitzy nautical component.
"Short Court Style" is a departure that given the critic sweetheart status of Natalie Prass could be seen as a risk. However here we find Prass shedding Disney princess comparisons and instead gloving up to pole-vault across soft sands with The Future and The Past. | Songs We Love: Natalie Prass ' [TGT]
corkscrewed some solid Americana roots with [TGT] self-titled debut back in 2015 building off chops from touring with Jenny Lewis and of course the twangy pedigree booking time Nashville inherently affords. "Short Court Style " her first single from the forthcoming The Future and The Past captures a move deeper than her literal one to Richmond Va. Seeped in sugary white-sand synth and jazzy guitar grooves that nod to the late '70s the track sets sail in a new direction for Prass .
The throwback feel [TGT] conjures on the song isn't what's new. ( [TGT] nailed Dusty Springfield-style soul three years ago.) This go [TGT] blends ornate sentimentalism with practical wisdom. Layered lush vocals overflow a chalice like a cascade of grace opening the song. It's contemplation beneath the guise of a starry velvet cape; one that can obscure the torturous back-and-forth of a boomerang relationship.
Although [TGT] owns up to the ambivalence of the situation [TGT] remains optimistic with an after-dark coconut rum-soaked carousel chorus: "You spin me round / Round and round / And ups and downs / Knowing I can't be without / My love that I have found." The video's merry-go-round lends a natural visual spinning as [TGT] holds on tight and smiles. [TGT] isn't yacht rock but there's an undeniably glitzy nautical component.
"Short Court Style" is a departure that given the critic sweetheart status of [TGT] could be seen as a risk. However here we find [TGT] shedding Disney princess comparisons and instead gloving up to pole-vault across soft sands with The Future and The Past. | 2Positive
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3,244 | Robert Mueller investigates Flynn involvement in alleged Gulen plot | Michael Flynn Jr. | Flynn who is President Trump's former national security adviser and his son Michael Flynn Jr. were allegedly were involved in a plan to deliver Fethullah Gulen to the Turkish government which views Gulen as a political enemy and has pressed the U.S. for his extradition The Journal reported. In exchange Flynn and Flynn Jr. would be paid as much as $15 million.
Flynn â who was forced out of his White House job this year after revelations that he had misled officials about his conversations with the Russian ambassador â reportedly discussed the plan with Turkish government representatives last December. The meeting caught the attention of FBI who have questioned at least four people about it.
Flynn 's other associations with Turkey have drawn the interest of investigators including $530 000 in earnings from a Dutch firm with ties to the Turkish government.
More: Michael Flynn faces legal peril in Washington. In his Rhode Island hometown he 's revered. | Flynn who is President Trump's former national security adviser and [TGT] were allegedly were involved in a plan to deliver Fethullah Gulen to the Turkish government which views Gulen as a political enemy and has pressed the U.S. for his extradition The Journal reported. In exchange Flynn and [TGT] would be paid as much as $15 million.
Flynn â who was forced out of [TGT] White House job this year after revelations that [TGT] had misled officials about [TGT] conversations with the Russian ambassador â reportedly discussed the plan with Turkish government representatives last December. The meeting caught the attention of FBI who have questioned at least four people about it.
Flynn 's other associations with Turkey have drawn the interest of investigators including $530 000 in earnings from a Dutch firm with ties to the Turkish government.
More: Michael Flynn faces legal peril in Washington. In his Rhode Island hometown he 's revered. | 2Positive
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3,245 | 'Serial stowaway' got past TSA spent night at O'Hare before flight to London: Prosecutors | Marilyn Hartman | Marilyn Hartman 66 faces a felony theft charge in connection with flying to the United Kingdom on a British Airways jet without a $2 400 plane ticket and a misdemeanor trespass charge in connection with getting into the airport illegally. In a hearing Saturday afternoon a judge ordered her released on her own recognizance but ordered her to undergo psychiatric treatment and stay away from OâHare and any British Airways planes.
Hartman also will be required to have an ankle monitor until the conclusion of her case.
âThere is no pun intended for your client but she is a flight risk given the number of offenses â Judge Stephanie K. Miller said to Hartmanâs court-appointed attorney.
Dressed in a dark gray sweater and wearing black-framed eyeglasses Hartman said nothing during the hearing but her lips curled into a smile after the judge granted her release.
Hartman used her hair to hide her face and walk past two federal TSA Precheck agents who were checking boarding passes around 2 p.m. on Jan. 14 at O'Hare prosecutors said Saturday.
After entering a security checkpoint she then went to a terminal and tried to board a plane to Connecticut but as she tried to âdart aroundâ another passenger in line she was stopped by a flight agent and told to sit down Assistant Stateâs Attorney Maria McCarthy told the court.
Hartman got onto a shuttle bus to the International Terminal and slept there overnight prosecutors said.
The next day Hartman managed to get past British Airways ticket agents and a Customs and Border Patrol officer and onto a plane prosecutors said. She sat in an empty seat and flew to Londonâs Heathrow Airport but when she showed her documents to a Customs agent she was identified as someone who entered England without proper documentation McCarthy said.
Hartman of the 100 block of Hamelitz Court in Grayslake was flown back to OâHare and Chicago police and other officials were waiting for her when she arrived prosecutors said. She later admitted to boarding the London-bound flight without buying a ticket McCarthy added.
Hartman âs movements through the airport were captured on high-definition surveillance video according to authorities.
The TSA is investigating how Hartman was able to get through security a spokesman said in a statement Friday.
This is Hartman âs first arrest in Chicago since 2016 but she has a long history of trying to sneak onto airplanes.
Hartman was given probation when she originally was sentenced after pleading guilty in a February 2016 trespassing charge but she was sentenced to 364 days in jail a few weeks later according to court records. She was credited for 23 days already served and could have spent less than six months in jail if given credit for good behavior according to court records.
At the time she was sentenced to jail Hartman had been living at a mental health facility on the Near North Side before violating the terms of her probation by leaving the facility and going to OâHare.
Hartman has been detained several times across the country for trying to bypass airport security. In a court filing after her arrest in July 2015 at O'Hare on trespass charges Cook County prosecutors described Hartman as a "serial stowaway." She told NBC-Ch. 5 in December 2015 that she "may have" boarded planes without a ticket eight times.
Hartman also has three misdemeanor convictions for similar crimes in California McCarthy said. | [TGT] faces a felony theft charge in connection with flying to the United Kingdom on a British Airways jet without a $2 400 plane ticket and a misdemeanor trespass charge in connection with getting into the airport illegally. In a hearing Saturday afternoon a judge ordered [TGT] released on [TGT] own recognizance but ordered [TGT] to undergo psychiatric treatment and stay away from OâHare and any British Airways planes.
[TGT] also will be required to have an ankle monitor until the conclusion of [TGT] case.
âThere is no pun intended for your client but [TGT] is a flight risk given the number of offenses â Judge Stephanie K. Miller said to Hartmanâs court-appointed attorney.
Dressed in a dark gray sweater and wearing black-framed eyeglasses [TGT] said nothing during the hearing but [TGT] lips curled into a smile after the judge granted [TGT] release.
[TGT] used [TGT] hair to hide [TGT] face and walk past two federal TSA Precheck agents who were checking boarding passes around 2 p.m. on Jan. 14 at O'Hare prosecutors said Saturday.
After entering a security checkpoint she then went to a terminal and tried to board a plane to Connecticut but as she tried to âdart aroundâ another passenger in line she was stopped by a flight agent and told to sit down Assistant Stateâs Attorney Maria McCarthy told the court.
[TGT] got onto a shuttle bus to the International Terminal and slept there overnight prosecutors said.
The next day [TGT] managed to get past British Airways ticket agents and a Customs and Border Patrol officer and onto a plane prosecutors said. She sat in an empty seat and flew to Londonâs Heathrow Airport but when she showed her documents to a Customs agent she was identified as someone who entered England without proper documentation McCarthy said.
[TGT] was flown back to OâHare and Chicago police and other officials were waiting for [TGT] when [TGT] arrived prosecutors said. [TGT] later admitted to boarding the London-bound flight without buying a ticket McCarthy added.
[TGT] âs movements through the airport were captured on high-definition surveillance video according to authorities.
The TSA is investigating how [TGT] was able to get through security a spokesman said in a statement Friday.
This is Hartman âs first arrest in Chicago since 2016 but [TGT] has a long history of trying to sneak onto airplanes.
[TGT] was given probation when [TGT] originally was sentenced after pleading guilty in a February 2016 trespassing charge but [TGT] was sentenced to 364 days in jail a few weeks later according to court records. [TGT] was credited for 23 days already served and could have spent less than six months in jail if given credit for good behavior according to court records.
At the time [TGT] was sentenced to jail [TGT] had been living at a mental health facility on the Near North Side before violating the terms of her probation by leaving the facility and going to OâHare.
[TGT] has been detained several times across the country for trying to bypass airport security. In a court filing after [TGT] arrest in July 2015 at O'Hare on trespass charges Cook County prosecutors described [TGT] as a "serial stowaway." She told NBC-Ch. 5 in December 2015 that she "may have" boarded planes without a ticket eight times.
[TGT] also has three misdemeanor convictions for similar crimes in California McCarthy said. | 2Positive
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3,246 | Chicago's proposed Tiger Woods | Beau Welling | With lead designer Tiger Woods getting treatment for a sleep disorder and dependency on pain medication TGR Design President Bryon Bell and senior design consultant Beau Welling appeared Wednesday to discuss the plan.
" We believe in catering the golf experience to a wide swath of people â juniors elderly avid players not-so-avid players " Welling said. "One of Tiger's tenets is playability. How can we bring more people out to the golf course and allow them to have fun?"
" We asked ourselves : How can we maximize the experience on the lake?" Welling said. "The holes are going to be absolutely spectacular. (No.) 12 will have a peninsula green water right left and long with a marquee snapshot of downtown Chicago. And it could be windy."
⢠The design has five par-3s and three par-5s because that's what suited the land. Welling has worked with Woods since designing a practice range and putting course in 2005 at the Tiger Woods Learning Center in Anaheim Calif.
Beau Welling senior design consultant with Tiger Woods Design walks us through the proposed Jackson Park/South Shore course. (Teddy Greenstein/Chicago Tribune) Beau Welling senior design consultant with Tiger Woods Design walks us through the proposed Jackson Park/South Shore course. (Teddy Greenstein/Chicago Tribune) SEE MORE VIDEOS
"It's very much Tiger Woods " Welling said of the Chicago routing. " He is very passionate about golf design and gets very involved. He has definite ideas about what he wants to accomplish and I view my job as being a conduit to take his ideas and filter that into (the plan)."
"One of the things Tiger believes in strongly is width (of fairways) " Welling said. "Width makes it way more playable keeps speed of play flowing. And it's more fun. Who wants to lose a golf ball? I don't care if you're wealthy or not no one likes to lose a golf ball. | With lead designer Tiger Woods getting treatment for a sleep disorder and dependency on pain medication TGR Design President Bryon Bell and senior design consultant Beau Welling appeared Wednesday to discuss the plan.
" We believe in catering the golf experience to a wide swath of people â juniors elderly avid players not-so-avid players " Welling said. "One of Tiger's tenets is playability. How can we bring more people out to the golf course and allow them to have fun?"
" [TGT] asked [TGT] : How can [TGT] maximize the experience on the lake?" Welling said. "The holes are going to be absolutely spectacular. (No.) 12 will have a peninsula green water right left and long with a marquee snapshot of downtown Chicago. And it could be windy."
⢠The design has five par-3s and three par-5s because that's what suited the land. Welling has worked with Woods since designing a practice range and putting course in 2005 at the Tiger Woods Learning Center in Anaheim Calif.
Beau Welling senior design consultant with Tiger Woods Design walks us through the proposed Jackson Park/South Shore course. (Teddy Greenstein/Chicago Tribune) Beau Welling senior design consultant with Tiger Woods Design walks us through the proposed Jackson Park/South Shore course. (Teddy Greenstein/Chicago Tribune) SEE MORE VIDEOS
"It's very much Tiger Woods " Welling said of the Chicago routing. " He is very passionate about golf design and gets very involved. He has definite ideas about what he wants to accomplish and I view my job as being a conduit to take his ideas and filter that into (the plan)."
"One of the things Tiger believes in strongly is width (of fairways) " Welling said. "Width makes it way more playable keeps speed of play flowing. And it's more fun. Who wants to lose a golf ball? I don't care if you're wealthy or not no one likes to lose a golf ball. | 2Positive
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3,247 | Taylor Swift Showed up to an English Super Fan's House | Taylor Swift | Taylor Swift seen on the streets of Manhattan on September 7 2016 in New York City.
Taylor Swift seen on the streets of Manhattan on September 7 2016 in New York City. James DevaneyâGC Images
Taylor Swift might just have met her biggest fan yet â and pulled off one of her biggest surprises while she was at it.
Lara didnât seem to hear her continuing to express her gratitude to Swift crying through tears to say: âI have to say thank you for everything youâve actually made my life so much better.â | [TGT] seen on the streets of Manhattan on September 7 2016 in New York City.
[TGT] seen on the streets of Manhattan on September 7 2016 in New York City. James DevaneyâGC Images
[TGT] might just have met [TGT] biggest fan yet â and pulled off one of [TGT] biggest surprises while [TGT] [TGT] was at [TGT] .
Lara didnât seem to hear her continuing to express her gratitude to [TGT] crying through tears to say: âI have to say thank you for everything youâve actually made my life so much better.â | 2Positive
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3,248 | States Set Aside Millions Of Dollars For Crime Victims. But Some Gun Violence Survivors Donât Get the Funds They Desperately Need. | Ernest Edmonds | On the morning of December 13 2015 Ernest Edmonds Jr. was leaving a club in Newark when he says a man asked him for a cigarette. According to Edmonds the man tried to rob him and as he fought back he heard a loud crack. Looking down he saw red blooming through the stripes of his Houston Astros baseball jersey. He then blacked out. Hours later police found Edmonds on the ground with a cut lip and a gunshot wound to the back. Halfway down the block an officer discovered his hat lighter and watch in a pool of blood.
Edmonds 35 awoke from a coma several weeks later to find he was paralyzed from the waist down. The bullet had pierced his back only to be stopped by his spine.
âFigure you got 32 33 years of walking and then youâre just not walking anymore â he said âItâs completely different.â Before the shooting heâd lived in his cousinâs peach-colored house in East Orange New Jersey. Thirteen steps led to the front porch. Then two more flights to reach his bedroom. Now reliant on a wheelchair Edmonds wondered How am I going to do this?
At the physical rehabilitation center Edmonds heard there was financial assistance for crime victims like him . He searched online and found a phone number for New Jerseyâs Victims of Crime Compensation Office. In his state eligible victims may receive up to $2 500 in relocation expenses and up to 104 weeks of lost earnings among other benefits.
Edmonds says he would use the money to pay for his own place and make up for lost income. âI need it so much â he said. âIt could help me getting into a wheelchair-accessible apartment. It could help with a lot of backed-up bills. I canât do for my kids like I used to.â Since he was a teenager Edmonds worked for a family-operated construction business where he said he made around $650 per week. He now has to make a$766.25 disability check last the whole month.
Demetrius Freeman for The Trace A shooting in 2015 left Ernest Edmonds Jr. paralyzed and isolated. He misses attending family gatherings and picking his sons up from school. He's now staying in the living room of his mother's apartment but hopes to move into a wheelchair-accessible home of his own soon.
After talking to New Jerseyâs compensation office Edmonds received a blank application and started to fill it out. The application asks crime victims to include supporting documentation including copies of itemized receipts bills insurance information and work pay stubs. âItâs like a list of 15 things that theyâre asking for and I was only able to obtain like six of them â Edmonds recalled. Stuck he set the form aside.
One morning last November Edmonds shifted on a special mattress prescribed to help prevent bedsores. His makeshift bedroom had taken over the dining room of his cousinâs house where swathes of fabric covered the windows. He used a claw-grabber to lift a bottle of Sprite from a nearby table. Cloying incense mixed with smoke from Edmondsâ cigarettes which he chain-smoked; talking about what had changed since the shooting made him feel stressed.
âIt's like a prison in here. He can't get out he can't move around â said Nicole Edmonds â younger sister. â He might as well board up the windows and soak away.â
The shooting transformed Edmonds â life. He lost the ability to bathe or dress on his own. While living in his cousinâs house he rarely left except for doctorâs appointments and then he needed two or three people to bump him in his wheelchair down the front steps. To get something from his old room his cousin would have to FaceTime him from the third floor. âBeing dependent on so many people I think thatâs the hardest thing â he said. âWithout my family my sister seeing my children I really might have given up.â
Last spring a former roommate saw Edmonds struggling and encouraged him to restart the victim compensation process. They filled out the application together and enlisted the help of a local lawyer. Still there were roadblocks â Edmonds could not easily go down to the police department to get the incident report so he had to wait months for the detective to bring it to him . At one point someone stole his phone and he lost all his contacts including the number for the lawyer.
December marked the two-year anniversary of his shooting. That month he moved to his motherâs apartment where there are no steps to get in the front door. He can move around more easily there but itâs still hard to take a shower on his own; the counters and cabinets are not built for someone in a wheelchair. On Christmas Day he stayed home and watched basketball while his family celebrated at his grandmotherâs house. Afterward his sister brought him a plate of food.
As of this articleâs publication his application had not yet been submitted. | On the morning of December 13 2015 [TGT] was leaving a club in Newark when [TGT] says a man asked [TGT] for a cigarette. According to Edmonds the man tried to rob [TGT] and as he fought back he heard a loud crack. Looking down he saw red blooming through the stripes of his Houston Astros baseball jersey. He then blacked out. Hours later police found Edmonds on the ground with a cut lip and a gunshot wound to the back. Halfway down the block an officer discovered his hat lighter and watch in a pool of blood.
Edmonds 35 awoke from a coma several weeks later to find he was paralyzed from the waist down. The bullet had pierced his back only to be stopped by his spine.
âFigure you got 32 33 years of walking and then youâre just not walking anymore â he said âItâs completely different.â Before the shooting heâd lived in his cousinâs peach-colored house in East Orange New Jersey. Thirteen steps led to the front porch. Then two more flights to reach his bedroom. Now reliant on a wheelchair Edmonds wondered How am I going to do this?
At the physical rehabilitation center Edmonds heard there was financial assistance for crime victims like him . He searched online and found a phone number for New Jerseyâs Victims of Crime Compensation Office. In his state eligible victims may receive up to $2 500 in relocation expenses and up to 104 weeks of lost earnings among other benefits.
Edmonds says he would use the money to pay for his own place and make up for lost income. âI need it so much â he said. âIt could help me getting into a wheelchair-accessible apartment. It could help with a lot of backed-up bills. I canât do for my kids like I used to.â Since he was a teenager Edmonds worked for a family-operated construction business where he said he made around $650 per week. He now has to make a$766.25 disability check last the whole month.
Demetrius Freeman for The Trace A shooting in 2015 left [TGT] paralyzed and isolated. [TGT] misses attending family gatherings and picking [TGT] sons up from school. [TGT] 's now staying in the living room of [TGT] mother's apartment but hopes to move into a wheelchair-accessible home of [TGT] own soon.
After talking to New Jerseyâs compensation office Edmonds received a blank application and started to fill it out. The application asks crime victims to include supporting documentation including copies of itemized receipts bills insurance information and work pay stubs. âItâs like a list of 15 things that theyâre asking for and I was only able to obtain like six of them â Edmonds recalled. Stuck he set the form aside.
One morning last November Edmonds shifted on a special mattress prescribed to help prevent bedsores. His makeshift bedroom had taken over the dining room of his cousinâs house where swathes of fabric covered the windows. He used a claw-grabber to lift a bottle of Sprite from a nearby table. Cloying incense mixed with smoke from Edmondsâ cigarettes which he chain-smoked; talking about what had changed since the shooting made him feel stressed.
âIt's like a prison in here. He can't get out he can't move around â said Nicole Edmonds â younger sister. â He might as well board up the windows and soak away.â
The shooting transformed Edmonds â life. He lost the ability to bathe or dress on his own. While living in his cousinâs house he rarely left except for doctorâs appointments and then he needed two or three people to bump him in his wheelchair down the front steps. To get something from his old room his cousin would have to FaceTime him from the third floor. âBeing dependent on so many people I think thatâs the hardest thing â he said. âWithout my family my sister seeing my children I really might have given up.â
Last spring a former roommate saw Edmonds struggling and encouraged him to restart the victim compensation process. They filled out the application together and enlisted the help of a local lawyer. Still there were roadblocks â Edmonds could not easily go down to the police department to get the incident report so he had to wait months for the detective to bring it to him . At one point someone stole his phone and he lost all his contacts including the number for the lawyer.
December marked the two-year anniversary of his shooting. That month he moved to his motherâs apartment where there are no steps to get in the front door. He can move around more easily there but itâs still hard to take a shower on his own; the counters and cabinets are not built for someone in a wheelchair. On Christmas Day he stayed home and watched basketball while his family celebrated at his grandmotherâs house. Afterward his sister brought him a plate of food.
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3,249 | Exclusive: Lebanon believes Saudi holds Hariri demands return | Saad al-Hariri | BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon believes Saad al-Hariri is held in Saudi Arabia from where he resigned as prime minister two top Lebanese government officials said amid a deepening crisis pushing Lebanon onto the frontlines of a power struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
FILE PHOTO: Lebanon's prime minister Saad al-Hariri gestures during a press conference in parliament building at downtown Beirut Lebanon October 9 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File Photo
In a televised statement indicating deep concern at Hariri âs situation his Future Movement political party said his return home was necessary to uphold the Lebanese system describing him as prime minister and a national leader.
Hariri âs shock resignation read out on television from Saudi Arabia came as a shock even to his aides and embroils Lebanon further in a regional contest between Riyadh and Tehran.
Hariri âs exit fueled wide speculation that the Sunni Muslim politician long an ally of Riyadh was coerced into stepping down by Saudi Arabia as it seeks to hit back against Iran and its Lebanese Shiâite ally Hezbollah.
In his resignation speech Hariri denounced Iran and Hezbollah for sowing strife in Arab states and said he feared assassination. His father a veteran former prime minister was killed by a bomb in 2005.
âKeeping Hariri with restricted freedom in Riyadh is an attack on Lebanese sovereignty. Our dignity is his dignity. We will work with (foreign) states to return him to Beirut â said the senior Lebanese official speaking on condition of anonymity because the government had yet to declare this position.
Saudi Arabia says Hariri resigned because Hezbollah which was included in Hariri âs coalition government had âhijackedâ Lebanonâs political system.
Hariri aides had until Thursday denied he was under house arrest but took a dramatically different tone after a meeting of the Future Movement convened at Haririâs Beirut residence on Thursday.
Hariri âs aunt Bahia sat next to Siniora as he read the statement. The party stood behind his leadership it said.
Hariri came to office last year in a political deal that made the Hezbollah-allied Christian politician Michel Aoun head of state and produced a coalition government grouping most Lebanese parties including Hezbollah.
Saudi Arabia blessed the government at the time but has been fiercely critical of the Hariri-led government since he stepped down saying it failed to act against Hezbollah whose guerrilla army is far more powerful than the weak state.
FILE PHOTO: Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri attends a general parliament discussion in downtown Beirut Lebanon October 18 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File Photo
Saudi Arabia had wanted Hariri to take a tougher stance toward Hezbollah and he failed to do so the fourth source said. â He was functioning as if it is business as usual so the Saudis had to accelerate the process and to force a resignation.â
Hariri flew to Saudi Arabia last Friday.
The top Lebanese government official speaking on condition of anonymity said: âLebanon is heading toward asking foreign and Arab states to put pressure on Saudi Arabia to release Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri.â | BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon believes [TGT] is held in Saudi Arabia from where [TGT] resigned as prime minister two top Lebanese government officials said amid a deepening crisis pushing Lebanon onto the frontlines of a power struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
FILE PHOTO: Lebanon's prime minister Saad al-Hariri gestures during a press conference in parliament building at downtown Beirut Lebanon October 9 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File Photo
In a televised statement indicating deep concern at [TGT] âs situation his Future Movement political party said his return home was necessary to uphold the Lebanese system describing him as prime minister and a national leader.
[TGT] âs shock resignation read out on television from Saudi Arabia came as a shock even to his aides and embroils Lebanon further in a regional contest between Riyadh and Tehran.
[TGT] âs exit fueled wide speculation that the Sunni Muslim politician long an ally of Riyadh was coerced into stepping down by Saudi Arabia as it seeks to hit back against Iran and its Lebanese Shiâite ally Hezbollah.
In his resignation speech Hariri denounced Iran and Hezbollah for sowing strife in Arab states and said [TGT] feared assassination. [TGT] father a veteran former prime minister was killed by a bomb in 2005.
âKeeping Hariri with restricted freedom in Riyadh is an attack on Lebanese sovereignty. Our dignity is his dignity. We will work with (foreign) states to return him to Beirut â said the senior Lebanese official speaking on condition of anonymity because the government had yet to declare this position.
Saudi Arabia says Hariri resigned because Hezbollah which was included in Hariri âs coalition government had âhijackedâ Lebanonâs political system.
Hariri aides had until Thursday denied he was under house arrest but took a dramatically different tone after a meeting of the Future Movement convened at Haririâs Beirut residence on Thursday.
Hariri âs aunt Bahia sat next to Siniora as he read the statement. The party stood behind his leadership it said.
Hariri came to office last year in a political deal that made the Hezbollah-allied Christian politician Michel Aoun head of state and produced a coalition government grouping most Lebanese parties including Hezbollah.
Saudi Arabia blessed the government at the time but has been fiercely critical of the Hariri-led government since he stepped down saying it failed to act against Hezbollah whose guerrilla army is far more powerful than the weak state.
FILE PHOTO: Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri attends a general parliament discussion in downtown Beirut Lebanon October 18 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File Photo
Saudi Arabia had wanted Hariri to take a tougher stance toward Hezbollah and he failed to do so the fourth source said. â He was functioning as if it is business as usual so the Saudis had to accelerate the process and to force a resignation.â
Hariri flew to Saudi Arabia last Friday.
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3,250 | Tom Petty Heartbreakers frontman who sang 'Breakdown ' 'Free Fallin' and other hits dies at 66 | Tom Petty | Tom Petty was that rare classic rocker who didnât turn into a nostalgia act. As a singer songwriter guitarist and band leader Petty excelled through four decades of acclaimed albums and concerts that hewed to a narrow but brilliantly realized vision of rock ânâ roll.
Petty 66 died Monday after being taken to UCLA Medical Center for cardiac arrest Sunday night. His death was confirmed Monday night by his familyâs spokeswoman according to the Los Angeles Times. The singer-songwriter lived in Malibu Calif.
Along the way he and the Heartbreakers rode out the fickle ebb and flow of pop trends to carry the torch for guitar-based rock inevitably selling out stadiums around the world no matter what kind of music was atop the pop charts at the time. The band was on the road over the summer to celebrate its 40th anniversary including a sold-out concert at Wrigley Field in June. Petty acknowledged he was something of a purist with a narrow definition of what rock should be â âItâs like jazz or folk or blues â take it too far and it isnât any of those things â he once told the Tribune. âWe see these banners at some of our shows: âGreatest rock ânâ roll band in the world.â And sometimes I think weâre the only one. There arenât many left.â
That âwonât back downâ mentality â which later spawned one of his greatest songs â was forged while growing up in Gainesville Fla. Born in 1950 Petty had a difficult relationship with his insurance-salesman father who never understood his sonâs lack of interest in sports and passion for the arts. The young Petty was smitten with music after meeting Elvis Presley as a child through the auspices of a relative working on one of Presleyâs movie sets and later seeing the Beatles perform on âThe Ed Sullivan Show.â He took guitar lessons from a future member of the Eagles Don Felder and began playing in a series of bands while working dead-end jobs â everything from washing dishes to digging graves.
âMusic was a safe place to be â Petty told the Tribune in 2002. âI think that in many ways I had a pretty tough childhood and the music actually became a safe haven for me. That was where I escaped to. It really is the only true magic Iâve found in this world. Most magic is a trick of some kind. But music is actually a healing thing. It has this power to heal and inspire and to lift you right up.â
Petty then cut a demo with Campbell Tench bassist Ron Blair and drummer Stan Lynch that led to a record deal and the release of Petty and the Heartbreakersâ self-titled 1976 debut album. Later one of Pettyâs heroes â the Byrdsâ McGuinn â recorded a cover of âAmerican Girl â which emulated the Byrdsâ chiming guitar-driven sound. | [TGT] was that rare classic rocker who didnât turn into a nostalgia act. As a singer songwriter guitarist and band leader [TGT] excelled through four decades of acclaimed albums and concerts that hewed to a narrow but brilliantly realized vision of rock ânâ roll.
[TGT] died Monday after being taken to UCLA Medical Center for cardiac arrest Sunday night. [TGT] death was confirmed Monday night by [TGT] familyâs spokeswoman according to the Los Angeles Times. The singer-songwriter lived in Malibu Calif.
Along the way he and the Heartbreakers rode out the fickle ebb and flow of pop trends to carry the torch for guitar-based rock inevitably selling out stadiums around the world no matter what kind of music was atop the pop charts at the time. The band was on the road over the summer to celebrate its 40th anniversary including a sold-out concert at Wrigley Field in June. [TGT] acknowledged [TGT] was something of a purist with a narrow definition of what rock should be â âItâs like jazz or folk or blues â take it too far and it isnât any of those things â [TGT] once told the Tribune. âWe see these banners at some of our shows: âGreatest rock ânâ roll band in the world.â And sometimes I think weâre the only one. There arenât many left.â
That âwonât back downâ mentality â which later spawned one of his greatest songs â was forged while growing up in Gainesville Fla. Born in 1950 [TGT] had a difficult relationship with [TGT] insurance-salesman father who never understood [TGT] sonâs lack of interest in sports and passion for the arts. [TGT] was smitten with music after meeting Elvis Presley as a child through the auspices of a relative working on one of Presleyâs movie sets and later seeing the Beatles perform on âThe Ed Sullivan Show.â [TGT] took guitar lessons from a future member of the Eagles Don Felder and began playing in a series of bands while working dead-end jobs â everything from washing dishes to digging graves.
âMusic was a safe place to be â [TGT] told the Tribune in 2002. âI think that in many ways I had a pretty tough childhood and the music actually became a safe haven for [TGT] . That was where I escaped to. It really is the only true magic Iâve found in this world. Most magic is a trick of some kind. But music is actually a healing thing. It has this power to heal and inspire and to lift you right up.â
[TGT] then cut a demo with Campbell Tench bassist Ron Blair and drummer Stan Lynch that led to a record deal and the release of [TGT] and the Heartbreakersâ self-titled 1976 debut album. Later one of Pettyâs heroes â the Byrdsâ McGuinn â recorded a cover of âAmerican Girl â which emulated the Byrdsâ chiming guitar-driven sound. | 2Positive
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3,251 | Well | Charlie Frye | Amateur surfer Charlie Frye is lucky to be alive after punching a shark in the face using a maneuver he once saw a surf champion use he said.
Frye and three of his doctor friends were surfing Monday off Avoca Beach which is 90 miles north of Sydney.
âI felt something on my shoulder like a big thud â Frye told 9News. âThe shark's head come out of the water and I just punched the shark in the face.â
At first Frye didnât realize his puncture wounds were bleeding. His friends then drove him to a hospital which is where they all also worked he said.
If he ever meets Fanning Frye said he âowes him a beer.â | Amateur surfer [TGT] is lucky to be alive after punching a shark in the face using a maneuver [TGT] once saw a surf champion use [TGT] said.
[TGT] and three of [TGT] doctor friends were surfing Monday off Avoca Beach which is 90 miles north of Sydney.
âI felt something on my shoulder like a big thud â [TGT] told 9News. âThe shark's head come out of the water and I just punched the shark in the face.â
At first [TGT] didnât realize his puncture wounds were bleeding. His friends then drove him to a hospital which is where they all also worked he said.
If [TGT] [TGT] ever meets Fanning [TGT] said he âowes him a beer.â | 2Positive
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3,252 | Paul Ryan rips Donald Trump remarks as 'textbook definition of racist comment' | Paul Ryan | (CNN) House Speaker Paul Ryan ripped Donald Trump's recent remarks saying a judge presiding over a lawsuit involving his business was biased because of his Mexican heritage as "the textbook definition of a racist comment."
As he stood surrounded by community activists and top House GOP members Ryan admitted Tuesday that the firestorm over Trump 's comments was undercutting his own push to roll out a positive policy agenda for his party. He said he wouldn't defend Trump but instead would concentrate on his agenda project.
"I disavow those comments " Ryan said.
Pressed on whether he regretted his own endorsement of Trump that came last week Ryan added "I regret those comments he made."
"It's absolutely unacceptable " Ryan said. But he stood by by his support for the controversial business mogul. "Do I think Hillary Clinton is the answer? No I do not."
Continued GOP angst about the fallout from Trump 's comments cast a major shadow over Ryan 's months of work crafting a detailed agenda plan for his party.
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Ryan said ultimately he has more in common on the policy issues of the day with Trump and better odds of getting those proposals enacted into law.
Ryan who was making his third visit to the City of Hope House of Help center in an impoverished Washington neighborhood stressed the success stories of those who have overcome addiction and other problems and become productive members of the community. | (CNN) [TGT] ripped Donald Trump's recent remarks saying a judge presiding over a lawsuit involving his business was biased because of his Mexican heritage as "the textbook definition of a racist comment."
As he stood surrounded by community activists and top House GOP members [TGT] admitted Tuesday that the firestorm over Trump 's comments was undercutting his own push to roll out a positive policy agenda for his party. He said he wouldn't defend Trump but instead would concentrate on his agenda project.
"I disavow those comments [TGT] said.
Pressed on whether [TGT] regretted [TGT] own endorsement of Trump that came last week [TGT] added "I regret those comments [TGT] made."
"It's absolutely unacceptable [TGT] said. But [TGT] stood by by [TGT] support for the controversial business mogul. "Do I think Hillary Clinton is the answer? No I do not."
Continued GOP angst about the fallout from Trump 's comments cast a major shadow over [TGT] 's months of work crafting a detailed agenda plan for [TGT] party.
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[TGT] said ultimately [TGT] has more in common on the policy issues of the day with Trump and better odds of getting those proposals enacted into law.
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3,253 | Stephen Curry learns golf isnât an indoor game | Stephen Curry | Stephen Curry is turning 3s into âforeâ!
The Warriors star who moonlights as a professional golfer confessed to practicing his swing in a hotel room Thursday which unsurprisingly did not end well. Curry posted a photo of the damage on his Instagram account which showed a shattered glass table and shards of glass scattered over the chair and carpet.
âWhen you feel like youâre on the @pgatour so you gotta get some swings going in the hotel room #idiot â he wrote.
The two-time NBA MVP made his professional golf debut last August competing on the Web.com Tour in the Ellie Mae Classic. Though he missed the cut after finishing the first two rounds 8-over and 11 strokes off the mark Curry gave the world a taste of his dual athletic talent. Out of the 156-man field he finished ahead of four players.
While Curry may have to reprove himself on the links he shouldnât have to worry about the incident causing any damage to his bank account. The 29-year-old signed the first $200 million contract in NBA history last June keeping him in Golden State through the 2021-22 season. | [TGT] is turning 3s into âforeâ!
The Warriors star who moonlights as a professional golfer confessed to practicing his swing in a hotel room Thursday which unsurprisingly did not end well. [TGT] posted a photo of the damage on [TGT] Instagram account which showed a shattered glass table and shards of glass scattered over the chair and carpet.
âWhen you feel like youâre on the @pgatour so you gotta get some swings going in the hotel room #idiot â he wrote.
The two-time NBA MVP made his professional golf debut last August competing on the Web.com Tour in the Ellie Mae Classic. Though he missed the cut after finishing the first two rounds 8-over and 11 strokes off the mark [TGT] gave the world a taste of [TGT] dual athletic talent. Out of the 156-man field he finished ahead of four players.
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3,254 | 4 Ways to Improve the Tax Bill | Bill | The Senate-passed tax bill is a policy triumph that will provide a shot of performance-enhancing drugs to the veins of the economy. It 's not perfect but with the combined effect of cutting business tax rates eliminating the state and local tax deduction and repealing the Obamacare individual mandate tax we are at the precipice of the biggest conservative policy victory since the Reagan years.
If Republicans were wise the House would vote immediately to approve the Senate bill and get it to President Donald Trump's desk for signing before anything can go wrong. (Think Obamacare repeal fiasco.)
The Senate bill changes the rules for capital gains taxation. It requires shareholders to sell their oldest shares in a company before their newest purchased shares. The older the share the larger the taxable capital gain.
Worse under the Senate bill there is an exception for mutual funds and other institutional funds. Companies such as Fidelity and Vanguard would be exempt from the tax but not the little guy who wants to buy and sell stock on his own. Unfair. Kill it. | The Senate-passed tax bill is a policy triumph that will provide a shot of performance-enhancing drugs to the veins of the economy. It 's not perfect but with the combined effect of cutting business tax rates eliminating the state and local tax deduction and repealing the Obamacare individual mandate tax we are at the precipice of the biggest conservative policy victory since the Reagan years.
If Republicans were wise the House would vote immediately to approve the Senate bill and get it to President Donald Trump's desk for signing before anything can go wrong. (Think Obamacare repeal fiasco.)
The Senate bill changes the rules for capital gains taxation. It requires shareholders to sell their oldest shares in a company before their newest purchased shares. The older the share the larger the taxable capital gain.
Worse under the Senate bill there is an exception for mutual funds and other institutional funds. Companies such as Fidelity and Vanguard would be exempt from the tax but not the little guy who wants to buy and sell stock on his own. Unfair. Kill it. | 2Positive
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3,255 | Black Friday cheat sheet: 5 things to look for as you shop | Trae Bodge | âThereâs really no pattern when it comes to toy discounts â said Trae Bodge a shopping analyst. âMy advice is if you see a discount on something thatâs on your list: Get it because it might sell out.â
âTVs reliably are always very deeply discounted on Black Friday and Cyber Monday â says Bodge . Best Buy for example is offering 50-inch Sharp TVs for $179.99 while Walmart has marked down 65-inch curved TVs by Samsung to $997.99.
âApple is known for not offering promotions but retailers are finding their way around that with gift cards â Bodge said.
âBlack Friday is a great time to stock up on fall clothing â Bodge said. But donât worry if you forget a thing or two: Cold-weather apparel and accessories she said tend to be discounted throughout December.
âAnything that sits on the counter youâll see good deals on â Bodge said. âToasters slow cookers and food processors have become a popular category especially at department stores.â
And while these might not be the flashiest items on your shopping list Bodge says they can make forreliable holiday presents - particularly for someone you may not know very well. | âThereâs really no pattern when it comes to toy discounts â said [TGT] . âMy advice is if you see a discount on something thatâs on your list: Get it because it might sell out.â
âTVs reliably are always very deeply discounted on Black Friday and Cyber Monday â says [TGT] . Best Buy for example is offering 50-inch Sharp TVs for $179.99 while Walmart has marked down 65-inch curved TVs by Samsung to $997.99.
âApple is known for not offering promotions but retailers are finding their way around that with gift cards â [TGT] said.
âBlack Friday is a great time to stock up on fall clothing â [TGT] said. But [TGT] worry if you forget a thing or two: Cold-weather apparel and accessories [TGT] said tend to be discounted throughout December.
âAnything that sits on the counter youâll see good deals on â [TGT] said. âToasters slow cookers and food processors have become a popular category especially at department stores.â
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3,256 | Conditions That Form More Hurricanes Also Protect U.S. Study Finds | Kossin | But at the same time conditions near the coastal United States are the opposite: colder water which provides less energy to a hurricane and more wind shear which tends to rip a storm apart. So although more hurricanes may form in the open ocean as they approach land they are more likely to weaken. This protective barrier as Dr. Kossin called it does not exist in the Caribbean.
Dr. Kossinâs research found that in the most recent quieter period from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s hurricanes that did form were up to six times more likely to intensify rapidly near land with wind speeds increasing more than 15 miles an hour over six hours.
Although it is difficult to single out any one factor in the evolution of a particular hurricane Dr. Kossin said that Hurricane Andrew a Category 5 storm that devastated South Florida in 1992 was an example of a storm that intensified rapidly during the latest quiet period.
Dr. Kossin agreed that more research was needed especially on how global warming might affect this protective buffer zone.
A lessening of the protective barrier during periods of greater activity would mean that even more damaging hurricanes could hit the Eastern United States. âThat would be a very unsettling prospect â Dr. Kossin said. | But at the same time conditions near the coastal United States are the opposite: colder water which provides less energy to a hurricane and more wind shear which tends to rip a storm apart. So although more hurricanes may form in the open ocean as they approach land they are more likely to weaken. This protective barrier as Dr. Kossin called it does not exist in the Caribbean.
Dr. Kossinâs research found that in the most recent quieter period from the late 1960s to the mid-1990s hurricanes that did form were up to six times more likely to intensify rapidly near land with wind speeds increasing more than 15 miles an hour over six hours.
Although it is difficult to single out any one factor in the evolution of [TGT] said that Hurricane Andrew a Category 5 storm that devastated South Florida in 1992 was an example of a storm that intensified rapidly during the latest quiet period.
[TGT] agreed that more research was needed especially on how global warming might affect this protective buffer zone.
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3,257 | Vince Staples Believes He Deserves All The Grammys But He Isn't Holding His Breath : The Record : NPR | Vince Staples | Vince Staples Believes He Deserves All The Grammys But He Isn't Holding His Breath
Vince Staples is impossible to categorize. A Southern Cali MC who prides himself on his Long Beach bona fides while eschewing the prototypical gangsta rap tag with which he's often mis-labled he's a natural at bucking the status quo. Yet he also sees clear divisions between art and commerce that lead him to question how institutions choose to define â or fail to distinguish â the two.
So when Staples found himself the subject of a recent Grammy campaign â initiated by Uproxx hip-hop editor Aaron Williams who likened the EDM sonics of Staples ' 2017 LP Big Fish Theory to "a post-apocalyptic pinball machine" â he was less interested in discussing whether or not his album is Grammy-worthy than he was in questioning the very construct upon which the Recording Academy recognizes and rewards genre-bending artists of color.
But Staples ' argument is bigger than hip-hop. It's a critique rooted in the racial dynamic that has kept black artists in the industry categorically separate and unequal since the inception of "race music."
In a sense Staples is the kind of artist the academy tends to clamor over â a major-label signee who subverts mainstream convention. While his peers chase after collaborations with bankable trap producers his album credits are filled with left-field collaborators Kilo Kish and Zack Seckoff a young unknown producer largely responsible for Big Fish Theory's industrial-driven electronics.
No doubt Staples prizes his creative idiosyncrasies: "Hitchcock in my modern day / Where the f*** is my VMA? / Where the f*** is my Grammy?" as he raps on Big Fish Theory's "Homage."
The message is the easiest part of this whole thing. The hard part of music is designing the product and marketing the product â figuring out what it looks like what it sounds like what it feels like who to sell it to and how to get them to believe that it's more important than themselves . When you've figured that out that's when you become a star.
But yeah let's really talk about it. If we really want to have a Vince Staples Grammy campaign someone tell me why I can't be in every genre that my music is kind of reminiscent of? Because the argument within hip-hop is that my music doesn't sound hip-hop enough.
My only request is that it be broadened because it's no reason I shouldn't be nominated for everything we just spoke about. It's no reason I shouldn't be nominated for a packaging Grammy. It's no reason because the conceptual nature of my cover and the way that it looked is a great idea for a compact disc. Usually people go all out and put 50 pictures and give you a suitcase full of stuff to win a packaging Grammy. But it's not really about the design of it itself. It's no reason I shouldn't be nominated for that. It's no reason I shouldn't be nominated for electronic and alternative and Rap Album of the year because if we're pushing creativity and we're doing it get to be creative and to create new things I don't know what's newer than what Vince Staples is doing. And that's my only conversation. | [TGT] Believes [TGT] Deserves All The Grammys But [TGT] Isn't Holding [TGT] Breath
Vince Staples is impossible to categorize. A Southern Cali MC who prides himself on his Long Beach bona fides while eschewing the prototypical gangsta rap tag with which he's often mis-labled he's a natural at bucking the status quo. Yet he also sees clear divisions between art and commerce that lead him to question how institutions choose to define â or fail to distinguish â the two.
So when [TGT] found himself the subject of a recent Grammy campaign â initiated by Uproxx hip-hop editor Aaron Williams who likened the EDM sonics of [TGT] 2017 LP Big Fish Theory to "a post-apocalyptic pinball machine" â he was less interested in discussing whether or not his album is Grammy-worthy than he was in questioning the very construct upon which the Recording Academy recognizes and rewards genre-bending artists of color.
But [TGT] argument is bigger than hip-hop. It's a critique rooted in the racial dynamic that has kept black artists in the industry categorically separate and unequal since the inception of "race music."
In a sense [TGT] is the kind of artist the academy tends to clamor over â a major-label signee who subverts mainstream convention. While his peers chase after collaborations with bankable trap producers his album credits are filled with left-field collaborators Kilo Kish and Zack Seckoff a young unknown producer largely responsible for Big Fish Theory's industrial-driven electronics.
No doubt Staples prizes his creative idiosyncrasies: "Hitchcock in my modern day / Where the f*** is my VMA? / Where the f*** is my Grammy?" as he raps on Big Fish Theory's "Homage."
The message is the easiest part of this whole thing. The hard part of music is designing the product and marketing the product â figuring out what it looks like what it sounds like what it feels like who to sell it to and how to get them to believe that it's more important than themselves . When you've figured that out that's when you become a star.
But yeah let's really talk about it. If we really want to have a Vince Staples Grammy campaign someone tell me why I can't be in every genre that my music is kind of reminiscent of? Because the argument within hip-hop is that my music doesn't sound hip-hop enough.
My only request is that it be broadened because it's no reason I shouldn't be nominated for everything we just spoke about. It's no reason I shouldn't be nominated for a packaging Grammy. It's no reason because the conceptual nature of my cover and the way that it looked is a great idea for a compact disc. Usually people go all out and put 50 pictures and give you a suitcase full of stuff to win a packaging Grammy. But it's not really about the design of it itself. It's no reason I shouldn't be nominated for that. It's no reason I shouldn't be nominated for electronic and alternative and Rap Album of the year because if we're pushing creativity and we're doing it get to be creative and to create new things I don't know what's newer than what Vince Staples is doing. And that's my only conversation. | 2Positive
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3,258 | Will Paul Vallas challenge Rahm? | Illinois Paul Vallas | What if Paul Vallas runs for mayor of Chicago?
Vallas should have run for mayor long ago. He should have been elected governor but narrowly lost to the Democratic machineâs choice Rod Blagojevich in the 2002 primary. Rod promised Illinois he would be a paragon of virtue and the party hacks sold Blago as a reformer. Roland Burris got into the Democratic primary pulled black votes away from Vallas and later as a reward was Blagoâs hand-picked choice to become senator.
So how did that reform work out for Chicago and Illinois ?
In the years since Vallas has spent much of his time working to improve public education particularly for minorities and spent years working in tough school systems from Chicago to Philadelphia in Bridgeport Conn. and New Orleans. He also spent much time working in Haiti.
Most recently he âs been chief administrative officer at Chicago State University put there by Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner even though Vallas ran as Democrat Pat Quinnâs running mate in the 2014 election.
Vallas has recently established residency in Chicago the city where he was born and raised his children. He and his wife the parents of cops are empty nesters now and are leaving the southwest suburbs. He just signed a lease in Lincoln Park Vallas confirmed to me Tuesday.
Establishing residence isnât just about moving into the city. Itâs about planting a flag setting a marker and itâs already being whispered about in political circles with Vallas â strengths and weaknesses discussed all of it laid out against the backdrop of the race for governor.
So I called Vallas to ask about his move back to Chicago and what it means for the 2019 mayoral race. Though he confirmed his new residency â and said he changed his drivers license to reflect his new Chicago address â he said he hasnât yet moved in. Thatâll take a week or so.
Is he in? Is he out? Vallas said he didnât want to talk about that. Yet.
OK I told him so Iâll talk about it.
And as you read this Iâd assume he âll send out his spinners to drop oppo research against Vallas in the news. He âs got to kill him off now because he canât handle Paul Vallas in a race for mayor. | What if Paul Vallas runs for mayor of Chicago?
Vallas should have run for mayor long ago. He should have been elected governor but narrowly lost to the Democratic machineâs choice Rod Blagojevich in the 2002 primary. Rod promised Illinois he would be a paragon of virtue and the party hacks sold Blago as a reformer. Roland Burris got into the Democratic primary pulled black votes away from Vallas and later as a reward was Blagoâs hand-picked choice to become senator.
So how did that reform work out for Chicago and Illinois ?
In the years since Vallas has spent much of his time working to improve public education particularly for minorities and spent years working in tough school systems from Chicago to Philadelphia in Bridgeport Conn. and New Orleans. He also spent much time working in Haiti.
Most recently he âs been chief administrative officer at Chicago State University put there by Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner even though Vallas ran as Democrat Pat Quinnâs running mate in the 2014 election.
Vallas has recently established residency in Chicago the city where he was born and raised his children. He and his wife the parents of cops are empty nesters now and are leaving the southwest suburbs. He just signed a lease in Lincoln Park Vallas confirmed to me Tuesday.
Establishing residence isnât just about moving into the city. Itâs about planting a flag setting a marker and itâs already being whispered about in political circles with Vallas â strengths and weaknesses discussed all of it laid out against the backdrop of the race for governor.
So I called Vallas to ask about his move back to Chicago and what it means for the 2019 mayoral race. Though he confirmed his new residency â and said he changed his drivers license to reflect his new Chicago address â he said he hasnât yet moved in. Thatâll take a week or so.
Is he in? Is he out? Vallas said he didnât want to talk about that. Yet.
OK I told him so Iâll talk about it.
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3,259 | Markelle Fultz reportedly 'cannot raise his arms' to shoot because of shoulder injury | Markelle Fultz | Markelle Fultz has struggled shooting the ball both in the preseason and regular season.
According to his agent Fultz had his shoulder drained after an injury that is apparently so bad that he "literally cannot raise up his arms to shoot."
It's unclear if Fultz will miss any time with the injury but the Philadelphia 76ers ought to be cautious with their No. 1 draft pick.
One week into his NBA career Philadelphia 76ers rookie Markelle Fultz is reportedly dealing with a shoulder injury that sounds worrisome.
According to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski Fultz the No. 1 pick of the 2017 draft had his right shoulder drained one week before the season because of a shoulder injury.
Fultz's agent Raymond Brothers told Wojnarowski that Fultz "literally cannot raise up his arms to shoot the basketball." Brothers said Fultz wanted to play through the pain for the team.
The injury has apparently completely changed the way Fultz shoots the ball something the NBA world started to notice in the preseason. Fultz who shot 47% from the field in college and 41% from three was suddenly pushing the ball in front of him most noticeably on free throw attempts.
Biggest problem with Fultz free throw is that he starts it at shoulder height. Needs to start at waist level for rhythm and POWER pic.twitter.com/CExnUgao4r â BBALLBREAKDOWN (@bballbreakdown) October 9 2017
It's only gotten worse during the season. Fultz is averaging 6.0 points per game on 33% shooting and has not yet attempted a three-pointer. His free throw shooting hasn't gotten any better either as he's shooting 50% on 12 attempts.
Markelle Fultz free throw shooting form is hard to watch.
During preseason 76ers coach Brett Brown said he thought Fultz 's shoulder was bothering him more than he let on. However the 76ers apparently did not think the injury was bad enough to have Fultz sit.
The effects have been obvious. Fultz was the consensus No. 1 pick in the draft for his ability to play both guard positions. Fultz can handle the ball get to the rim and break down defenses or play off the ball and spread the floor with his shooting. Yet through four games Fultz hasn't taken a shot beyond 14 feet. | [TGT] has struggled shooting the ball both in the preseason and regular season.
According to [TGT] agent [TGT] had [TGT] shoulder drained after an injury that is apparently so bad that [TGT] "literally cannot raise up [TGT] arms to shoot."
It's unclear if [TGT] will miss any time with the injury but the Philadelphia 76ers ought to be cautious with their No. 1 draft pick.
One week into his NBA career Philadelphia 76ers rookie [TGT] is reportedly dealing with a shoulder injury that sounds worrisome.
According to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski Fultz the No. 1 pick of the 2017 draft had his right shoulder drained one week before the season because of a shoulder injury.
Fultz's agent Raymond Brothers told Wojnarowski that Fultz "literally cannot raise up his arms to shoot the basketball." Brothers said [TGT] wanted to play through the pain for the team.
The injury has apparently completely changed the way [TGT] shoots the ball something the NBA world started to notice in the preseason. Fultz who shot 47% from the field in college and 41% from three was suddenly pushing the ball in front of him most noticeably on free throw attempts.
Biggest problem with Fultz free throw is that he starts it at shoulder height. Needs to start at waist level for rhythm and POWER pic.twitter.com/CExnUgao4r â BBALLBREAKDOWN (@bballbreakdown) October 9 2017
It's only gotten worse during the season. [TGT] is averaging 6.0 points per game on 33% shooting and has not yet attempted a three-pointer. [TGT] free throw shooting hasn't gotten any better either as [TGT] 's shooting 50% on 12 attempts.
Markelle Fultz free throw shooting form is hard to watch.
During preseason 76ers coach Brett Brown said he thought Fultz 's shoulder was bothering him more than he let on. However the 76ers apparently did not think the injury was bad enough to have [TGT] sit.
The effects have been obvious. [TGT] was the consensus No. 1 pick in the draft for his ability to play both guard positions. [TGT] can handle the ball get to the rim and break down defenses or play off the ball and spread the floor with his shooting. Yet through four games [TGT] hasn't taken a shot beyond 14 feet. | 1Neutral
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3,260 | Duke can make major statement as ACC Tournament opens | Duke | Duke took home the title last year and could become the first repeat winner since the Blue Devils won three straight (2009-11) but several teams need a memorable run far more.
No. 2 Duke
Weakness: Consistency. Duke suffered head-scratching losses to Boston College and St. Johnâs.
Star: Deng Adel (15.5 ppg 5.3 rpg) â The junior shined here last year scoring a team-high 21 points in a quarterfinal loss to Duke.
Strength: A high ceiling. B.C. has beaten Duke and Miami and lost to Virginia by one-point. | [TGT] took home the title last year and could become the first repeat winner since the Blue Devils won three straight (2009-11) but several teams need a memorable run far more.
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Weakness: Consistency. [TGT] suffered head-scratching losses to Boston College and St. Johnâs.
Star: Deng Adel (15.5 ppg 5.3 rpg) â The junior shined here last year scoring a team-high 21 points in a quarterfinal loss to [TGT] .
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3,261 | Rauner vetoes education funding bill over private school concerns | Rauner | Gov. Bruce Rauner on Monday vetoed a bill that was designed to clear the way for a major overhaul of how the state distributes dollars to public schools saying issues remain that would prevent about three dozen private schools from participating in a new scholarship program.
Rauner used his amendatory veto powers to rewrite the measure which sponsors said was requested by the Illinois State Board of Education so officials could move forward on a new school funding formula that would prioritize poor and needy schools.
While Rauner has listed the new funding formula as one of his top achievements as he seeks re-election the Republican governor said Monday that lawmakers failed to address a technicality that would prevent at least 36 Catholic and independent schools from benefiting from a new scholarship program heâs pushed.
âInclusivity was the spirit of this legislation to begin with and we simply must ensure that we follow through with the appropriate language to get the job done â Rauner said in a statement.
However supporters of the funding formula rewrite say Raunerâs veto could mean struggling schools left waiting on an influx of state dollars will have to wait even longer as legislators weigh the governorâs changes. Lawmakers can vote to accept the changes reject them with an override or choose not to take them up at all in which case the legislation would die.
âNot a single penny of the new money has been spent on school districts to date â said Sen. Andy Manar a Democrat from Bunker Hill in central Illinois who sponsored the funding changes. âBecause of this veto they are going to continue to wait for the very thing Bruce Rauner is taking credit for on television â equitable school funding.â
Rauner spokeswoman Rachel Bold said it was âunfairâ for critics to say the amendatory veto would delay implementation of the new funding formula saying the board of eduction âcontinues to work on the new funding formulaâ and money is âstill several months from being sent out.â
An education board spokeswoman declined to comment saying the agency is âevaluating the impactâ of the governorâs proposed changes.
Raunerâs issue centers on language that would require nonpublic schools to be ârecognizedâ by the board of education to participate in the tax program. He says that eligibility should be expanded to schools that are âregisteredâ with the board.
Though Rauner eventually embraced the new school funding formula last summer he initially vetoed the proposal saying it amounted to a âbailoutâ for Chicago Public Schools. While CPS still got a major cash infusion with Raunerâs signature on the funding rewrite the governor also claimed a win with the tax credit program which he said would give families more choices in picking schools.
Lt. Gov. Sanguinetti sticks with Gov. Rauner despite disagreements »
Rauner spends night in Quincy veterans home plagued by deadly water problems »
Rauner lays out how second term will be different blames Emanuel for first-term failures » | [TGT] on Monday vetoed a bill that was designed to clear the way for a major overhaul of how the state distributes dollars to public schools saying issues remain that would prevent about three dozen private schools from participating in a new scholarship program.
[TGT] used [TGT] amendatory veto powers to rewrite the measure which sponsors said was requested by the Illinois State Board of Education so officials could move forward on a new school funding formula that would prioritize poor and needy schools.
While [TGT] has listed the new funding formula as one of his top achievements as he seeks re-election the Republican governor said Monday that lawmakers failed to address a technicality that would prevent at least 36 Catholic and independent schools from benefiting from a new scholarship program heâs pushed.
âInclusivity was the spirit of this legislation to begin with and we simply must ensure that we follow through with the appropriate language to get the job done â [TGT] said in a statement.
However supporters of the funding formula rewrite say Raunerâs veto could mean struggling schools left waiting on an influx of state dollars will have to wait even longer as legislators weigh the governorâs changes. Lawmakers can vote to accept the changes reject them with an override or choose not to take them up at all in which case the legislation would die.
âNot a single penny of the new money has been spent on school districts to date â said Sen. Andy Manar a Democrat from Bunker Hill in central Illinois who sponsored the funding changes. âBecause of this veto they are going to continue to wait for the very thing [TGT] is taking credit for on television â equitable school funding.â
[TGT] spokeswoman Rachel Bold said [TGT] was âunfairâ for critics to say the amendatory veto would delay implementation of the new funding formula saying the board of eduction âcontinues to work on the new funding formulaâ and money is âstill several months from being sent out.â
An education board spokeswoman declined to comment saying the agency is âevaluating the impactâ of the governorâs proposed changes.
Raunerâs issue centers on language that would require nonpublic schools to be ârecognizedâ by the board of education to participate in the tax program. He says that eligibility should be expanded to schools that are âregisteredâ with the board.
Though [TGT] eventually embraced the new school funding formula last summer [TGT] initially vetoed the proposal saying it amounted to a âbailoutâ for Chicago Public Schools. While CPS still got a major cash infusion with Raunerâs signature on the funding rewrite [TGT] also claimed a win with the tax credit program which [TGT] said would give families more choices in picking schools.
Lt. Gov. Sanguinetti sticks with [TGT] despite disagreements »
Rauner spends night in Quincy veterans home plagued by deadly water problems »
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3,262 | ICE chief blames mayorâs warning for 800 missed arrests | Homan | Thomas Homan US Immigration and Customs Enforcementâs acting director told Fox News that the mayorâs warning on Twitter was âbeyond the paleâ and compared her to a gang lookout who tells people when a police car is arriving. Homan said the Justice Department is looking into whether Schaaf obstructed justice.
It was unclear how many people would have eluded capture without the mayorâs warning but Homan squarely blamed her for 800 and said her actions jeopardized officer safety.
âThereâs over 800 significant public safety threat criminals these are people who are here illegally and committed yet another crime been convicted of a crime â he told Fox. â She gave them warning and thereâs 800 that we were unable to locate because of that warning so that communityâs a lot less safe than it would have been.â
Homan âs statement of 800 missed targets â plus the 150 arrests â in only three days suggests an unusually large operation by the agencyâs standards. Two weeks ago it arrested 212 in a five-day operation in the Los Angeles area. A Texas operation in February resulted in 145 arrests over seven days.
Asked about Homan likening her to a gang lookout she said the âTrump administration is trying to distract the American people convince them that these immigrants are dangerous people. That could not be further from the truth and it is based in racism.â
The warring words are the latest sign of escalating tension between California officials and the Trump administration over immigration enforcement and âsanctuaryâ jurisdictions. Homan vowed that immigration agents would have a stronger presence in California since a state law took effect in January to sharply limit cooperation between state and local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities.
Dozens of protesters marching outside the agencyâs offices in San Francisco after Homan spoke chanted âShut down ICE!â David Chiu a Democratic state assemblyman said Trump âhas declared war on our immigrant communities.â
Homan in announcing the arrests late Tuesday renewed his warning that Californiaâs limits on cooperating with ICE in local jails will lead to a bigger presence of immigration agents on the streets. | [TGT] told Fox News that the mayorâs warning on Twitter was âbeyond the paleâ and compared her to a gang lookout who tells people when a police car is arriving. [TGT] said the Justice Department is looking into whether Schaaf obstructed justice.
It was unclear how many people would have eluded capture without the mayorâs warning but [TGT] squarely blamed [TGT] for 800 and said [TGT] actions jeopardized officer safety.
âThereâs over 800 significant public safety threat criminals these are people who are here illegally and committed yet another crime been convicted of a crime â [TGT] told Fox. â She gave them warning and thereâs 800 that we were unable to locate because of that warning so that communityâs a lot less safe than it would have been.â
Homan âs statement of 800 missed targets â plus the 150 arrests â in only three days suggests an unusually large operation by the agencyâs standards. Two weeks ago it arrested 212 in a five-day operation in the Los Angeles area. A Texas operation in February resulted in 145 arrests over seven days.
Asked about [TGT] likening [TGT] to a gang lookout [TGT] said the âTrump administration is trying to distract the American people convince them that these immigrants are dangerous people. That could not be further from the truth and it is based in racism.â
The warring words are the latest sign of escalating tension between California officials and the Trump administration over immigration enforcement and âsanctuaryâ jurisdictions. [TGT] vowed that immigration agents would have a stronger presence in California since a state law took effect in January to sharply limit cooperation between state and local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities.
Dozens of protesters marching outside the agencyâs offices in San Francisco after [TGT] spoke chanted âShut down ICE!â David Chiu a Democratic state assemblyman said Trump âhas declared war on our immigrant communities.â
[TGT] in announcing the arrests late Tuesday renewed [TGT] warning that Californiaâs limits on cooperating with ICE in local jails will lead to a bigger presence of immigration agents on the streets. | 2Positive
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3,263 | Man accused of dismembering dead wife in front of kids charged in Calif. killing | Justin Rey | The Desert Sun reports that Justin Rey was charged Wednesday with murder in the death of Sean Ty Ferel. The Palm Springs California man disappeared in May 2016 after vacationing with Rey . Three months later Rey crashed Ferel's vehicle in Los Angeles. Ferel's body hasn't been found but his blood was in the trunk and his belongings were found in an Arizona storage unit that Rey had rented.
Rey allegedly used Ferel's credit cards cash personal financial information and car "for his own benefit" after the killing according to the murder charges obtained by CBS affiliate KCTV.
Rey is jailed on $1 million bond in Kansas on child endangerment charges. He 's also charged with abandonment of corpse in Missouri where his wife died in a hotel in October apparently after giving birth in a bathtub. Rey his then-pregnant wife Jessica Monteiro Rey and their two-year-old daughter checked in to the Kansas City hotel in September and were staying there for several weeks before the woman's death.
Missouri and Kansas court records don't say how she died and Rey provided conflicting information. Rey said that his wife committed suicide after giving birth and also that she died during or after childbirth according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by the Kansas City Star.
After the woman's death he said he placed her body on the bed and took pictures of himself and the children with her body the paper reports. He said he stayed with the newborn and toddler in the room for two more days before he moved her back to the bathtub where he allegedly dismembered her body with the children present.
Rey put some of her body parts in a large cooler a Kansas City police detective wrote in the probable cause statement. He used a stove to boil parts that wouldn't fit in the cooler and flushed some of remains down the toilet the statement says.
Hotel management said Rey tried to disguise his voice as a woman's when he called the front desk to check out on Oct. 23 the statement says. Surveillance video footage shows him pulling a red cooler with a black bag on top through the hotel while pushing a stroller with a toddler walking beside him .
Police found the remains on Oct. 24 inside a cooler and tote at a U-Haul Moving and Storage facility in nearby Lenexa Kansas after Rey slept there with the children. Emergency responders checked on the children who were later taken to a hospital. The affidavit says the baby wasn't wearing adequate clothing and had an eye infection.
After Rey was arrested and put in a police vehicle he was asked about his wife's whereabouts. He responded that she had died several days earlier and was in the cooler and one of the totes which he had been trying to remove from the storage unit according to the Kansas court records.
During a court appearance earlier this month Rey was removed after a screaming rant against authorities. The Kansas City Star reports an irate Rey yelled that Johnson County authorities were trying to take his children after his wife killed herself. A judge ordered him removed from the courtroom saying "That's enough."
"I don't care if it's enough because I have my children out there " Rey said according to KCTV. "Their mother just killed herself and you guys are going to kidnap my children our children." | The Desert Sun reports that [TGT] was charged Wednesday with murder in the death of Sean Ty Ferel. The Palm Springs California man disappeared in May 2016 after vacationing with [TGT] . Three months later [TGT] crashed Ferel's vehicle in Los Angeles. Ferel's body hasn't been found but his blood was in the trunk and his belongings were found in an Arizona storage unit that [TGT] had rented.
[TGT] allegedly used Ferel's credit cards cash personal financial information and car "for [TGT] own benefit" after the killing according to the murder charges obtained by CBS affiliate KCTV.
[TGT] is jailed on $1 million bond in Kansas on child endangerment charges. [TGT] 's also charged with abandonment of corpse in Missouri where [TGT] wife died in a hotel in October apparently after giving birth in a bathtub. Rey his then-pregnant wife Jessica Monteiro Rey and their two-year-old daughter checked in to the Kansas City hotel in September and were staying there for several weeks before the woman's death.
Missouri and Kansas court records don't say how she died and [TGT] provided conflicting information. [TGT] said that [TGT] wife committed suicide after giving birth and also that she died during or after childbirth according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by the Kansas City Star.
After the woman's death [TGT] said [TGT] placed her body on the bed and took pictures of [TGT] and the children with her body the paper reports. [TGT] said [TGT] stayed with the newborn and toddler in the room for two more days before [TGT] moved her back to the bathtub where [TGT] allegedly dismembered her body with the children present.
[TGT] put some of [TGT] body parts in a large cooler a Kansas City police detective wrote in the probable cause statement. He used a stove to boil parts that wouldn't fit in the cooler and flushed some of remains down the toilet the statement says.
Hotel management said [TGT] tried to disguise [TGT] voice as a woman's when [TGT] called the front desk to check out on Oct. 23 the statement says. Surveillance video footage shows him pulling a red cooler with a black bag on top through the hotel while pushing a stroller with a toddler walking beside him .
Police found the remains on Oct. 24 inside a cooler and tote at a U-Haul Moving and Storage facility in nearby Lenexa Kansas after [TGT] slept there with the children. Emergency responders checked on the children who were later taken to a hospital. The affidavit says the baby wasn't wearing adequate clothing and had an eye infection.
After [TGT] was arrested and put in a police vehicle he was asked about his wife's whereabouts. He responded that she had died several days earlier and was in the cooler and one of the totes which he had been trying to remove from the storage unit according to the Kansas court records.
During a court appearance earlier this month [TGT] was removed after a screaming rant against authorities. The Kansas City Star reports an irate Rey yelled that Johnson County authorities were trying to take his children after his wife killed herself. A judge ordered him removed from the courtroom saying "That's enough."
"I don't care if it's enough because I have my children out there " [TGT] said according to KCTV. "Their mother just killed herself and you guys are going to kidnap my children our children." | 0Negative
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3,264 | Virginia House of Delegates Districts Won by Ralph Northam but Still Controlled by Republicans: Top Targets in 2019 | Ralph Northam | For a handy reference the following â per VPAP â are Virginia House of Delegates districts won by Ralph Northam on November 7 but either lost by Democrats or in legal limbo at the House level. Clearly all (or most) of these districts should be targets for Democrats in 2019. Del. Tim Hugo (R) in particular should be very very worried given that his district went by over 10 points to Ralph Northam ! Note that these Republicans might also want to seriously consider âtacking to the centerâ in their voting patterns (e.g. on Medicaid expansion environmental issues etc.) but theyâre probably too ideologically right wingnut to do that. Weâll seeâ¦
HD 62 â Del. Riley Ingram (R) defeated Democrat Sheila Bynum-Coleman here (by a 12 163-11 344 margin) while Ralph Northam won the district 49.5%-49.4%
HD 76 â Del. Chris Jones (R) was unopposed while Ralph Northam won the district 49.8%-49.2%.
HD 83 â Del. Chris Stolle (R) defeated Democrat David Rose-Carmack here (by a 13 173-10 077 margin) while Ralph Northam won the district 50.3%-48.3%.
HD 28 â Del. Bob Thomas (R) apparently defeated Democrat Joshua Cole here by just 82 votes pending litigation while Ralph Northam won the district 50.8%-47.8%.
HD 27 â Del. Roxann Robinson (R) defeated Democrat Larry Barnett here by just 128 votes while Ralph Northam won the district 50.9%-47.6%.
HD 84 â Del. Glenn Davis (R) defeated Democrat Veronica Coleman here (by a 10 835-10 093 margin) while Ralph Northam won the district 52.1%-46.7%.
HD 100 â Del. Rob Bloxom (R) defeated Democrat Willie Randall here (by an 11 720-10 720 margin) while Ralph Northam won the district 52.7%-46.3%.
HD 40 â Del. Tim Hugo (R) defeated Democrat Donte Tanner here by just 106 votes while Ralph Northam won the district 54.7%-44.4%.
HD 94 â Ralph Northam won the district 56.0%-42.7% while the House of Delegates race currently is in limbo between Democrat Shelly Simonds and Republican David Yancey. | For a handy reference the following â per VPAP â are Virginia House of Delegates districts won by [TGT] on November 7 but either lost by Democrats or in legal limbo at the House level. Clearly all (or most) of these districts should be targets for Democrats in 2019. Del. Tim Hugo (R) in particular should be very very worried given that his district went by over 10 points to [TGT] ! Note that these Republicans might also want to seriously consider âtacking to the centerâ in their voting patterns (e.g. on Medicaid expansion environmental issues etc.) but theyâre probably too ideologically right wingnut to do that. Weâll seeâ¦
HD 62 â Del. Riley Ingram (R) defeated Democrat Sheila Bynum-Coleman here (by a 12 163-11 344 margin) while [TGT] won the district 49.5%-49.4%
HD 76 â Del. Chris Jones (R) was unopposed while [TGT] won the district 49.8%-49.2%.
HD 83 â Del. Chris Stolle (R) defeated Democrat David Rose-Carmack here (by a 13 173-10 077 margin) while [TGT] won the district 50.3%-48.3%.
HD 28 â Del. Bob Thomas (R) apparently defeated Democrat Joshua Cole here by just 82 votes pending litigation while [TGT] won the district 50.8%-47.8%.
HD 27 â Del. Roxann Robinson (R) defeated Democrat Larry Barnett here by just 128 votes while [TGT] won the district 50.9%-47.6%.
HD 84 â Del. Glenn Davis (R) defeated Democrat Veronica Coleman here (by a 10 835-10 093 margin) while [TGT] won the district 52.1%-46.7%.
HD 100 â Del. Rob Bloxom (R) defeated Democrat Willie Randall here (by an 11 720-10 720 margin) while [TGT] won the district 52.7%-46.3%.
HD 40 â Del. Tim Hugo (R) defeated Democrat Donte Tanner here by just 106 votes while [TGT] won the district 54.7%-44.4%.
HD 94 â [TGT] won the district 56.0%-42.7% while the House of Delegates race currently is in limbo between Democrat Shelly Simonds and Republican David Yancey. | 2Positive
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3,265 | Kelvin Gastelum knocks out Michael Bisping in less than 3 minutes in Shanghai | Kelvin Gastelum | The quickest turnaround in Michael Bisping's storied UFC career resulted in the quickest loss of his career as he was knocked out in less than three minutes by Kelvin Gastelum on Saturday.
For Bisping (30-9) it's his second loss in three weeks. The future Hall of Famer surrendered his middleweight title to Georges St-Pierre in a submission loss at UFC 217 in New York. He agreed to face Gastelum on short notice when his original opponent Anderson Silva was flagged with a potential doping violation.
"I just want to say congratulations to Kelvin Gastelum " Bisping said. "Job well done tonight. I was enjoying myself and he caught me with a good shot.
It was the southpaw's stinging left hand that got the job done again on Saturday. Gastelum opened with a hard kick to the body which certainly caught Bisping's attention. But the primary weapon in his offense has always been the left hand which he landed shortly after slipping a right cross from Bisping.
Bisping's legs went out from under him on the shot and Gastelum followed with strikes. Referee Marc Goddard stepped in immediately.
Afterward Gastelum called out interim champion Robert Whittaker. Whittaker (19-4) won the interim title last summer and was expected to unify the belts against St-Pierre however St-Pierre has already expressed interest in moving down in weight.
"This is the biggest one of my career " Gastelum said. "I have a huge amount of respect for Bisping for stepping up. | The quickest turnaround in Michael Bisping's storied UFC career resulted in the quickest loss of his career as he was knocked out in less than three minutes by [TGT] on Saturday.
For Bisping (30-9) it's his second loss in three weeks. The future Hall of Famer surrendered his middleweight title to Georges St-Pierre in a submission loss at UFC 217 in New York. He agreed to face Gastelum on short notice when his original opponent Anderson Silva was flagged with a potential doping violation.
"I just want to say congratulations to [TGT] " Bisping said. "Job well done tonight. I was enjoying myself and he caught me with a good shot.
It was the southpaw's stinging left hand that got the job done again on Saturday. Gastelum opened with a hard kick to the body which certainly caught Bisping's attention. But the primary weapon in his offense has always been the left hand which he landed shortly after slipping a right cross from Bisping.
Bisping's legs went out from under him on the shot and Gastelum followed with strikes. Referee Marc Goddard stepped in immediately.
Afterward Gastelum called out interim champion Robert Whittaker. Whittaker (19-4) won the interim title last summer and was expected to unify the belts against St-Pierre however St-Pierre has already expressed interest in moving down in weight.
"This is the biggest one of my career " Gastelum said. "I have a huge amount of respect for Bisping for stepping up. | 2Positive
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3,266 | Defending Against This Season's Deadly Flu : Shots | Randy Bergen | "We're seeing the worst of it right now " said Dr. Randy Bergen a pediatrician who is leading Kaiser Permanente-Northern California's anti-flu effort. "We're really in historic territory and I just don't know when it's going to stop." (Kaiser Health News which produces California Healthline is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.)
"Some protection is better than no protection " Bergen said "but it's certainly disappointing to have a vaccine that's just not as effective as we'd like it to be.
If you are sick cover your cough and stay home from work if you can Bergen said. Remaining hydrated eating nutritious foods and exercising can also help strengthen your immune system.
The hallmarks of flu are fever and body aches that accompany cough and congestion Bergen said.
Kaiser Permanente doctors now are being advised to prescribe antiviral drugs like Tamiflu â given as a pill or for kids an oral suspension â even without a lab test for influenza Bergen said. According to a report in The Los Angeles Times however Tamiflu supplies are running low.
And Bergen cautioned that these medications are only partly effective reducing the time of illness by just a day or two. | "We're seeing the worst of it right now " said Dr. [TGT] a pediatrician who is leading Kaiser Permanente-Northern California's anti-flu effort. "We're really in historic territory and I just don't know when it's going to stop." (Kaiser Health News which produces California Healthline is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.)
"Some protection is better than no protection " Bergen said "but it's certainly disappointing to have a vaccine that's just not as effective as we'd like it to be.
If you are sick cover your cough and stay home from work if you can Bergen said. Remaining hydrated eating nutritious foods and exercising can also help strengthen your immune system.
The hallmarks of flu are fever and body aches that accompany cough and congestion Bergen said.
Kaiser Permanente doctors now are being advised to prescribe antiviral drugs like Tamiflu â given as a pill or for kids an oral suspension â even without a lab test for influenza Bergen said. According to a report in The Los Angeles Times however Tamiflu supplies are running low.
And Bergen cautioned that these medications are only partly effective reducing the time of illness by just a day or two. | 0Negative
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3,267 | The three MVPs who were traded following their prolific season | Giancarlo Stanton | Giancarlo Stanton is just the third reigning MVP to get traded. The common thread in all three cases? All three were salary dumps.
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Giancarlo Stanton is just the third MVP to be traded after his MVP season. (Joe Skipper/Getty Images)
Marlins slugger claimed NL MVP with 59 home runs (22 more than he 'd ever hit before) and 132 RBI. But the nearly $300 million he is owed is out of the Marlins' league so baseball's all-time leaders in salary dumps did what they do best shipping him to the Yankees for Starlin Castro and two minor-leaguers. | [TGT] is just the third reigning MVP to get traded. The common thread in all three cases? All three were salary dumps.
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[TGT] is just the third MVP to be traded after [TGT] MVP season. (Joe Skipper/Getty Images)
Marlins slugger claimed NL MVP with 59 home runs (22 more than [TGT] 'd ever hit before) and 132 RBI. But the nearly $300 million [TGT] is owed is out of the Marlins' league so baseball's all-time leaders in salary dumps did what they do best shipping [TGT] to the Yankees for Starlin Castro and two minor-leaguers. | 2Positive
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3,268 | John Kelly willing to resign over Rob Porter scandal: Reports | John Kelly | Chief of staff John Kelly reportedly expressed a willingness to resign over the Rob Porter scandal.
Kelly initially defended Porter then said he was "shocked" by the new allegations.
Rumors have begun swirling around the fate of John Kelly the White House chief of staff who has found himself at the center of a firestorm in recent days amid allegations that a top Trump administration staffer had abused his ex-wives.
Kelly expressed to Trump on Friday that he was willing to resign over the ordeal sources close to Trump told ABC News. The New York Times also reported that Kelly told West Wing officials that he was willing to resign.
It's unclear whether Trump will ask for his resignation. Sources familiar with the situation told ABC they didn't believe Kelly 's departure was imminent.
Rob Porter the former White House staff secretary resigned on Wednesday after news outlets published his ex-wives' allegations. But the scandal continued to build after news surfaced that Kelly and others in the White House knew for months about the accusations â and built up Porter's role within the West Wing anyway.
White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley told CNN that Kelly has not offered his resignation.
But Trump is reportedly furious with Kelly over his handling of the issue. Kelly issued a statement after the allegations were first published by the Daily Mail on Tuesday vehemently praising Porter as a "man of true integrity and honor."
"I was shocked by the new allegations released today against Rob Porter " Kelly said. "There is no place for domestic violence in our society."
Kelly is on shaky ground
Trump was so infuriated by the ordeal he even phoned Reince Priebus the previous chief of staff who was ousted after he also attracted Trump's ire to vent about Kelly The New York Times reported.
Regardless Trump is actively considering who might replace Kelly as chief of staff. He has floated names like Mick Mulvaney the current Office of Management and Budget director as well as top economic adviser Gary Cohn Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina and Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California The New York Times and ABC News reported.
Kelly was already on shaky ground in recent days and weeks after he made headlines over controversial comments about immigrants and border security.
In one instance he suggested that some of the young unauthorized immigrants who had not enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program were "too lazy to get off their asses."
Several weeks earlier Kelly said in a Fox News interview that Trump was not "fully informed" about immigration issues when he promised in his 2016 campaign to build a wall along the US-Mexico border. Kelly also said Trump had since "evolved" on the issue. | [TGT] reportedly expressed a willingness to resign over the Rob Porter scandal.
[TGT] initially defended Porter then said [TGT] was "shocked" by the new allegations.
Rumors have begun swirling around the fate of John Kelly the White House chief of staff who has found himself at the center of a firestorm in recent days amid allegations that a top Trump administration staffer had abused his ex-wives.
[TGT] expressed to Trump on Friday that [TGT] was willing to resign over the ordeal sources close to Trump told ABC News. The New York Times also reported that [TGT] told West Wing officials that [TGT] was willing to resign.
It's unclear whether Trump will ask for his resignation. Sources familiar with the situation told ABC they didn't believe [TGT] 's departure was imminent.
Rob Porter the former White House staff secretary resigned on Wednesday after news outlets published his ex-wives' allegations. But the scandal continued to build after news surfaced that [TGT] and others in the White House knew for months about the accusations â and built up Porter's role within the West Wing anyway.
White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley told CNN that [TGT] has not offered his resignation.
But Trump is reportedly furious with [TGT] over [TGT] handling of the issue. [TGT] issued a statement after the allegations were first published by the Daily Mail on Tuesday vehemently praising Porter as a "man of true integrity and honor."
"I was shocked by the new allegations released today against Rob Porter [TGT] said. "There is no place for domestic violence in our society. [TGT]
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Trump was so infuriated by the ordeal [TGT] even phoned Reince Priebus the previous chief of staff who was ousted after he also attracted Trump's ire to vent about [TGT] The New York Times reported.
Regardless Trump is actively considering who might replace [TGT] as chief of staff. He has floated names like Mick Mulvaney the current Office of Management and Budget director as well as top economic adviser Gary Cohn Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina and Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California The New York Times and ABC News reported.
[TGT] was already on shaky ground in recent days and weeks after [TGT] made headlines over controversial comments about immigrants and border security.
In one instance [TGT] suggested that some of the young unauthorized immigrants who had not enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program were "too lazy to get off their asses."
Several weeks earlier [TGT] said in a Fox News interview that Trump was not "fully informed" about immigration issues when he promised in his 2016 campaign to build a wall along the US-Mexico border. [TGT] also said Trump had since "evolved" on the issue. | 1Neutral
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3,269 | Pocahontas Warren Calls Fellow Senator a Slut » Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind! | Kirsten Gillibrand | Sen. Elizabeth âPocahontasâ Warren (D-Mass.) implied Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is a slut when she claimed President Trump was âslut shamingâ Gillibrand :
Does she not have a clue? Is âslut shamingâ even a terrible thing? In what traditional historical culture has sluttiness been valued as a high-standard for society?
And if Gillibrand isnât a slut then why does Pocahontas feel the need to defend her from âslut shaming?â Is she really that inept? Maybe so considering how she thinks she âs Native American.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren defended her Democratic colleague on Twitter going after Trump for attacking Gillibrand .
Defend her sluttiness?
The Trump tweet also led to other Democratic lawmakers taking on the president with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren calling Trumpâs remark that Gillibrand âwould do anything forâ donations âslut-shamingâ and Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal calling it a âsexist slur.â
Several female senators also rallied around Gillibrand including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) who pointedly asked Trump on Twitter whether he was trying to âbully intimidate and slut-shameâ Gillibrand.
In other words they felt the need to defend Gillibrand from âslut shaming.â | Sen. Elizabeth âPocahontasâ Warren (D-Mass.) implied [TGT] is a slut when [TGT] claimed President Trump was âslut shamingâ Gillibrand :
Does she not have a clue? Is âslut shamingâ even a terrible thing? In what traditional historical culture has sluttiness been valued as a high-standard for society?
And if Gillibrand isnât a slut then why does Pocahontas feel the need to defend her from âslut shaming?â Is she really that inept? Maybe so considering how she thinks she âs Native American.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren defended her Democratic colleague on Twitter going after Trump for attacking Gillibrand .
Defend her sluttiness?
The Trump tweet also led to other Democratic lawmakers taking on the president with Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren calling Trumpâs remark that Gillibrand âwould do anything forâ donations âslut-shamingâ and Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal calling it a âsexist slur.â
Several female senators also rallied around Gillibrand including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) who pointedly asked Trump on Twitter whether he was trying to âbully intimidate and slut-shameâ Gillibrand.
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3,270 | 'Choose Kind': Beverly kindergartner's school family spread acceptance of cranial facial conditions | Mary Cate Lynch | Among those in the audience were kindergartner Mary Cate Lynch as well as her parents Kerry and Chris Lynch; little sister Maggie; and grandparents Maureen and Bob Ryan.
Born with a cranial facial condition known as Apert syndrome Mary Cate has been at the forefront of a local campaign started by her mother to remind people of the importance of acceptance and kindness.
People are afraid of differences because they're mysterious and unfamiliar Kerry Lynch said.
Even she a nurse never had heard of Apert syndrome until her daughter was born she said.
"It's scary because it's an unknown. So I thought if I could make cranial facial syndrome a 'known ' that would not only help Mary Cate but everyone who's different " Kerry Lynch said.
Since her oldest daughter's birth Kerry Lynch has brought the "Choose Kind" message featured in "Wonder" into schools across the Chicago area. Mary Cate accompanies her .
Gary Middendorf / Daily Southtown Mary Cate Lynch center exits the AMC Theatre in Chicago Ridge on Friday after watching âWonderâ with fellow the students from Christ the King elementary school. Mary Cate Lynch center exits the AMC Theatre in Chicago Ridge on Friday after watching âWonderâ with fellow the students from Christ the King elementary school. (Gary Middendorf / Daily Southtown)
The book was published two months after Mary Cate was born.
"Somebody sent it to me when she was 6 months old. I read the back cover and then put it on my nightstand. I was not emotionally ready to read it " Kerry Lynch said.
Then she and Mary Cate were invited to Christ the King school. That was followed by an invitation to talk at Kolmar School in Oak Lawn.
"So I decided to read the book. I finished it in one day and cried my eyes out. I was just enthralled with it and its message. I knew a lot of it mirrored our life and what it will be like as Mary Cate grows up " Kerry Lynch said.
As the invitations rolled in Kerry Lynch began to give the book a shout-out wherever she delivered the "Choose Kind" message not that it needed her endorsement she said.
"The book kept picking up more and more momentum and became kind of a steppingstone and a good tool for teaching kindness. I'm amazed at how many kids and adults have read it " she said.
Because she loved how it shed light on cranial facial syndrome and the way it promoted empathy and kindness Kerry Lynch said she was nervous to see the movie. So often movies don't live up to their literary roots.
So when the sixth-grade class at Christ the King won a free screening through a contest sponsored by Lionsgate and The Gap Kerry Lynch accompanied the students to the theater two weeks ago. She saw it for the second time with Mary Cate on the field trip.
"They nailed it. They hit every important piece. You're laughing and crying tears of sadness and anger but also of happiness. The actors and actresses are great. And just the whole message is so important to the world we live in today " she said. | Among those in the audience were kindergartner [TGT] as well as [TGT] parents Kerry and Chris Lynch; little sister Maggie; and grandparents Maureen and Bob Ryan.
Born with a cranial facial condition known as Apert syndrome Mary Cate has been at the forefront of a local campaign started by her mother to remind people of the importance of acceptance and kindness.
People are afraid of differences because they're mysterious and unfamiliar Kerry Lynch said.
Even she a nurse never had heard of Apert syndrome until her daughter was born she said.
"It's scary because it's an unknown. So I thought if I could make cranial facial syndrome a 'known ' that would not only help [TGT] but everyone who's different " Kerry Lynch said.
Since her oldest daughter's birth Kerry Lynch has brought the "Choose Kind" message featured in "Wonder" into schools across the Chicago area. [TGT] accompanies [TGT] .
Gary Middendorf / Daily Southtown [TGT] exits the AMC Theatre in Chicago Ridge on Friday after watching âWonderâ with fellow the students from Christ the King elementary school. [TGT] exits the AMC Theatre in Chicago Ridge on Friday after watching âWonderâ with fellow the students from Christ the King elementary school. (Gary Middendorf / Daily Southtown)
The book was published two months after Mary Cate was born.
"Somebody sent it to me when she was 6 months old. I read the back cover and then put it on my nightstand. I was not emotionally ready to read it " Kerry Lynch said.
Then she and Mary Cate were invited to Christ the King school. That was followed by an invitation to talk at Kolmar School in Oak Lawn.
"So I decided to read the book. I finished it in one day and cried my eyes out. I was just enthralled with it and its message. I knew a lot of it mirrored our life and what it will be like as Mary Cate grows up " Kerry Lynch said.
As the invitations rolled in Kerry Lynch began to give the book a shout-out wherever she delivered the "Choose Kind" message not that it needed her endorsement she said.
"The book kept picking up more and more momentum and became kind of a steppingstone and a good tool for teaching kindness. I'm amazed at how many kids and adults have read it " she said.
Because [TGT] [TGT] loved how [TGT] shed light on cranial facial syndrome and the way [TGT] promoted empathy and kindness Kerry Lynch said she was nervous to see the movie. So often movies don't live up to their literary roots.
So when the sixth-grade class at Christ the King won a free screening through a contest sponsored by Lionsgate and The Gap Kerry Lynch accompanied the students to the theater two weeks ago. She saw it for the second time with Mary Cate on the field trip.
"They nailed it. They hit every important piece. You're laughing and crying tears of sadness and anger but also of happiness. The actors and actresses are great. And just the whole message is so important to the world we live in today " she said. | 2Positive
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3,271 | Kobe Steel admits data fraud went on nearly five decades CEO to quit | Kobe Steel | TOKYO (Reuters) - Kobe Steel Ltd admitted on Tuesday its data fraud has been going on nearly five decades and also revealed new cases of cheating highlighting the challenges facing the 112-year-old company mired in compliance failures and malfeasance.
Kobe Steel which supplies steel parts to manufacturers of cars planes and trains around the world admitted last year to supplying products with falsified specifications to about 500 customers throwing global supply chains into turmoil.
Kobe Steel also announced the resignation of Executive Vice President Akira Kaneko and temporary pay cuts for up to 80 percent of all internal directors and executive officers.
Kobe Steel President and CEO Hiroya Kawasaki attends a news conference in Tokyo Japan March 6 2018. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
PROBLEMS LONG ENTRENCHED
Kobe Steel said the data cheating started at least as early as the 1970s based on testimony from multiple sources interviewed by the external investigation team.
The company mapped out various preventive measures including setting up an external committee to oversee quality issues but those familiar with the company say its problems are entrenched.
Kobe Steel has had a series of scandals in the last dozen years including taking part in bid-rigging for a bridge project in 2005 failing to report income to tax authorities in 2008 2011 and 2013 and falsifying emissions data in 2006. Illegal political funding to candidates in local elections in 2009 also prompted the resignations of the then CEO and chairman.
The data fraud scandal though so far appears to have left Kobe Steelâs finances unscathed. In February the company reinstated a forecast for its first annual profit in three years for the year ending March 31.
But the company is also undergoing a U.S. Justice Department probe meaning it still faces legal and financial risk. A Japanese government-sanctioned seal of quality has been revoked on some of its product as well.
âThere is a pending risk for Kobe Steel as customers at home or abroad may cancel their contracts and take legal actions and the U.S. Justice Department may seek a penalty â said Makiko Yoshimura director at S&P Global Rating Japan. | TOKYO (Reuters) - [TGT] admitted on Tuesday [TGT] data fraud has been going on nearly five decades and also revealed new cases of cheating highlighting the challenges facing the 112-year-old company mired in compliance failures and malfeasance.
Kobe Steel which supplies steel parts to manufacturers of cars planes and trains around the world admitted last year to supplying products with falsified specifications to about 500 customers throwing global supply chains into turmoil.
[TGT] also announced the resignation of Executive Vice President Akira Kaneko and temporary pay cuts for up to 80 percent of all internal directors and executive officers.
Kobe Steel President and CEO Hiroya Kawasaki attends a news conference in Tokyo Japan March 6 2018. REUTERS/Toru Hanai
PROBLEMS LONG ENTRENCHED
[TGT] said the data cheating started at least as early as the 1970s based on testimony from multiple sources interviewed by the external investigation team.
The company mapped out various preventive measures including setting up an external committee to oversee quality issues but those familiar with the company say its problems are entrenched.
[TGT] has had a series of scandals in the last dozen years including taking part in bid-rigging for a bridge project in 2005 failing to report income to tax authorities in 2008 2011 and 2013 and falsifying emissions data in 2006. Illegal political funding to candidates in local elections in 2009 also prompted the resignations of the then CEO and chairman.
The data fraud scandal though so far appears to have left Kobe Steelâs finances unscathed. In February the company reinstated a forecast for [TGT] first annual profit in three years for the year ending March 31.
But the company is also undergoing a U.S. Justice Department probe meaning it still faces legal and financial risk. A Japanese government-sanctioned seal of quality has been revoked on some of its product as well.
âThere is a pending risk for [TGT] as customers at home or abroad may cancel their contracts and take legal actions and the U.S. Justice Department may seek a penalty â said Makiko Yoshimura director at S&P Global Rating Japan. | 2Positive
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3,272 | Theresa May urged to fire Boris Johnson by top UK politicians | Boris JohnsonLabour | London (CNN) Britain's beleaguered Prime Minister Theresa May has been urged to sack her Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson over his handling of the Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case.
On Sunday both Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and London Mayor Sadiq Khan called on May to fire Johnson -- who has been under increasing pressure since Iranian state TV claimed that his statements on the plight of the British-Iranian woman imprisoned in Tehran on charges of espionage confirmed her guilt .
Writing in the Observer on Sunday Corbyn took aim at Johnson calling for him to be relieved of his duties after "undermining our country" and "putting our citizens at risk."
Also on Sunday the UK Foreign Office told CNN that Johnson had held a "constructive" conversation with Richard Ratcliffe the husband of Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
Johnson has been on the defensive over the past week since being forced to correct remarks he made to a British parliamentary committee when he said that Zaghari-Ratcliffe who has been in jail since she was detained at Tehran airport in April 2016 had been teaching journalism during her visit to the country. Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her family have maintained that she was in Iran visiting family.
After Johnson 's original comments authorities in Iran filed further charges against Zaghari-Ratcliffe prompting fears her five-year sentence could be extended. On Wednesday Iranian state TV IRIB said Johnson amounted to an unintentional confession.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is set to visit Iran before the end of the year.
In his article Corbyn says that the "heartbreaking" case of Zaghari-Ratcliffe has left her future liberty in peril because of Johnson 's "serial bungling."
In a blunt final paragraph Corbyn added: "We've put up with him embarrassing and undermining our country through his incompetence and putting our citizens at risk for long enough. It's time for Boris Johnson to go."
Khan was similarly critical of Johnson his predecessor as mayor of London calling on him to "clarify the huge error he made" and help bring Zaghari-Ratcliffe back to the UK. | London (CNN) Britain's beleaguered Prime Minister Theresa May has been urged to sack her Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson over his handling of the Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case.
On Sunday both Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and London Mayor Sadiq Khan called on May to fire Johnson -- who has been under increasing pressure since Iranian state TV claimed that his statements on the plight of the British-Iranian woman imprisoned in Tehran on charges of espionage confirmed her guilt .
Writing in the Observer on Sunday Corbyn took aim at Johnson calling for him to be relieved of his duties after "undermining our country" and "putting our citizens at risk."
Also on Sunday the UK Foreign Office told CNN that Johnson had held a "constructive" conversation with Richard Ratcliffe the husband of Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
Johnson has been on the defensive over the past week since being forced to correct remarks he made to a British parliamentary committee when he said that Zaghari-Ratcliffe who has been in jail since she was detained at Tehran airport in April 2016 had been teaching journalism during her visit to the country. Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her family have maintained that she was in Iran visiting family.
After Johnson 's original comments authorities in Iran filed further charges against Zaghari-Ratcliffe prompting fears her five-year sentence could be extended. On Wednesday Iranian state TV IRIB said Johnson amounted to an unintentional confession.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is set to visit Iran before the end of the year.
In his article Corbyn says that the "heartbreaking" case of Zaghari-Ratcliffe has left her future liberty in peril because of Johnson 's "serial bungling."
In a blunt final paragraph Corbyn added: "We've put up with him embarrassing and undermining our country through his incompetence and putting our citizens at risk for long enough. It's time for Boris Johnson to go."
Khan was similarly critical of Johnson his predecessor as mayor of London calling on him to "clarify the huge error he made" and help bring Zaghari-Ratcliffe back to the UK. | 1Neutral
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3,273 | California Democrats snub Dianne Feinstein | Feinstein | DIANNE FEINSTEIN has served California as a senator for 25 years. She has raised $13m for her 2018 re-election bid; her closest competitor a state senator named Kevin de León has rustled up $434 000. So it was humiliating for Ms Feinstein when the California Democratic Party failed to endorse her at its annual convention in San Diego.
Results announced on February 25th revealed that just 37% of delegates voted for Ms Feinstein ; 54% chose Mr de León. Candidates need to win 60% of ballots to be awarded the partyâs endorsement. Ms Feinstein âs inability to garner that support will make her the first incumbent senator in decades to run in the Golden Stateâs primary on June 5th without official party backing.
The outcome of the convention was not entirely shocking. Viewed as a staunch moderate Ms Feinstein has never particularly appealed to Democratic activists of the sort who tend to serve as delegates. Much of Ms Feinstein âs ideology is progressive. She has fought zealously for gun control successfully getting an assault weapons ban signed into law in 1994. She put pressure on Barack Obama to declassify a 7 000-page Senate report about the use of torture by the CIA during the tenure of George W. Bush. But for some Democrats she is not reliably liberal enough. â She has never been the sweetheart of the rodeo â says Garry South a long-time democratic strategist in California.
In 1990 when she was running for California governor Ms Feinstein was booed at the state Democratic convention after expressing support for the death penalty. She voted to authorise the use of force in Iraq and for the Patriot Act a Bush-era law that expanded the authority of law enforcement agencies to spy on Americans. More recently progressive protestors gathered outside Ms Feinsteinâs San Francisco mansion to rail against her support of some of Donald Trumpâs cabinet nominees. â Feinstein show me some spine â read one demonstratorâs sign. âObstruct or go home â read another.
Ms Feinsteinâs age has also played a part in her failure to excite Democratic activists. The senator turns 85 this summer. If re-elected she would be 90 by the end of her term. Some Democrats think the time has come for her to step aside. As she wrapped up her speech at the convention music began playing to signal that her allotted time had elapsed. âI guess my time is up â Ms Feinstein remarked to which some members of the audience responded with a chant: âYour time is up! Your time is up!â After the convention results were announced Mr de León wrote in a Twitter post: âThe outcome of last nightâs endorsement vote is an astounding rejection of politics as usual. A signal to Washington that we stand shoulder-to-shoulder against a complacent status quo.â
The convention result is not necessarily a harbinger of things to come in the June primary or the November general election. California has a top-two primary system for state-wide elections; every eligible candidate from every party participates in the same primary. The top two contenders face off against one another in the general election regardless of their party affiliation. This year that will probably result in a general election that pits Ms Feinstein against Mr de León. Despite her lack of appeal among party activists Ms Feinstein still seems likely to prevail over her pugnacious rival among voters.
A survey published in January by the Public Policy Institute of California a polling group found that Ms Feinstein led Mr de León by nearly 30 percentage pointsâthough a third of voters were undecided. The same poll found that 45% of probable voters do not know who Mr de León is and 20% felt they didnât know enough about him to have an opinion. Only 7% said they had not heard of Ms Feinstein . And her war chest dwarfs Mr de Leónâs by a multiple of 27. For now it looks as though the establishment will remain just that. | DIANNE FEINSTEIN has served California as a senator for 25 years. She has raised $13m for her 2018 re-election bid; her closest competitor a state senator named Kevin de León has rustled up $434 000. So it was humiliating for Ms Feinstein when the California Democratic Party failed to endorse her at its annual convention in San Diego.
Results announced on February 25th revealed that just 37% of delegates voted for [TGT] ; 54% chose Mr de León. Candidates need to win 60% of ballots to be awarded the partyâs endorsement. [TGT] âs inability to garner that support will make [TGT] the first incumbent senator in decades to run in the Golden Stateâs primary on June 5th without official party backing.
The outcome of the convention was not entirely shocking. Viewed as a staunch moderate [TGT] has never particularly appealed to Democratic activists of the sort who tend to serve as delegates. Much of [TGT] âs ideology is progressive. [TGT] has fought zealously for gun control successfully getting an assault weapons ban signed into law in 1994. [TGT] put pressure on Barack Obama to declassify a 7 000-page Senate report about the use of torture by the CIA during the tenure of George W. Bush. But for some Democrats [TGT] is not reliably liberal enough. â She has never been the sweetheart of the rodeo â says Garry South a long-time democratic strategist in California.
In 1990 when [TGT] was running for California governor [TGT] was booed at the state Democratic convention after expressing support for the death penalty. [TGT] voted to authorise the use of force in Iraq and for the Patriot Act a Bush-era law that expanded the authority of law enforcement agencies to spy on Americans. More recently progressive protestors gathered outside [TGT] San Francisco mansion to rail against [TGT] support of some of Donald Trumpâs cabinet nominees. [TGT] show me some spine â read one demonstratorâs sign. âObstruct or go home â read another.
[TGT] age has also played a part in [TGT] failure to excite Democratic activists. The senator turns 85 this summer. If re-elected she would be 90 by the end of her term. Some Democrats think the time has come for her to step aside. As she wrapped up her speech at the convention music began playing to signal that her allotted time had elapsed. âI guess my time is up â [TGT] remarked to which some members of the audience responded with a chant: âYour time is up! Your time is up!â After the convention results were announced Mr de León wrote in a Twitter post: âThe outcome of last nightâs endorsement vote is an astounding rejection of politics as usual. A signal to Washington that we stand shoulder-to-shoulder against a complacent status quo.â
The convention result is not necessarily a harbinger of things to come in the June primary or the November general election. California has a top-two primary system for state-wide elections; every eligible candidate from every party participates in the same primary. The top two contenders face off against one another in the general election regardless of their party affiliation. This year that will probably result in a general election that pits [TGT] . Despite [TGT] lack of appeal among party activists [TGT] still seems likely to prevail over [TGT] pugnacious rival among voters.
A survey published in January by the Public Policy Institute of California a polling group found that [TGT] led Mr de León by nearly 30 percentage pointsâthough a third of voters were undecided. The same poll found that 45% of probable voters do not know who Mr de León is and 20% felt they didnât know enough about him to have an opinion. Only 7% said they had not heard of [TGT] . And [TGT] war chest dwarfs Mr de Leónâs by a multiple of 27. For now it looks as though the establishment will remain just that. | 1Neutral
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3,274 | Why I'm pledging to drink more water in February | Jennifer Ashton | ABC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton gave up alcohol for the month of January.
This month instead of "going dry " Ashton is focusing on increasing something in her diet: Water.
âI am like a camel â Ashton said today on âGood Morning America.â âMost days the only water I consume comes in the form of coffee which does count but it also can dehydrate you a little bit.â
âI have a bottle in my refrigerator and I make sure I go through two of them a day â Ashton said of her new habits.
Climbing on board with Ashton in this monthâs âGMAâ health wellness challenge are co-anchors Robin Roberts and Lara Spencer.
Ashton described drinking more water as an âeasy tweakâ that could have noticeable results.
Foods with the highest water content include fruits and vegetables like watermelon lettuce and broccoli according to Ashton . | ABC News chief medical correspondent [TGT] gave up alcohol for the month of January.
This month instead of "going dry [TGT] is focusing on increasing something in [TGT] diet: Water.
âI am like a camel â [TGT] said today on âGood Morning America.â âMost days the only water I consume comes in the form of coffee which does count but it also can dehydrate you a little bit.â
âI have a bottle in my refrigerator and I make sure I go through two of them a day â [TGT] said of [TGT] new habits.
Climbing on board with [TGT] in this monthâs âGMAâ health wellness challenge are co-anchors Robin Roberts and Lara Spencer.
[TGT] described drinking more water as an âeasy tweakâ that could have noticeable results.
Foods with the highest water content include fruits and vegetables like watermelon lettuce and broccoli according to [TGT] . | 2Positive
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3,275 | Rachel Maddow called out by fellow liberals for pushing anti | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC star Rachel Maddowâs latest anti-Trump conspiracy theory was so outlandish that even the dependably liberal HuffPost criticized it as "so flimsy that it could be debunked by a quick glance at a map."
On Thursday evening "The Rachel Maddow Show" opened with a somber 25-minute diatribe that attempted to connect the tragic ambush attack that killed four American soldiers in Niger to the latest version of President Trumpâs proposed travel ban which included the nation of Chad. Maddow essentially claimed that the inclusion of Chad which recently pulled its troops out of Niger in the revised travel ban resulted in extremist attacks such as the one that left four Americans dead.
The HuffPost which is so anti-Trump that it refused to even cover him in the political section during the early stages of his campaign published a story headlined "What the hell was this Rachel Maddow segment?" The MSNBC host proclaimed that Chadâs pullout from Niger "had an immediate effect in emboldening ISIS attacks " but the HuffPost easily shot down her theory.
Colby College Department of Government assistant professor Laura Seay told the HuffPost that "any expert" would have said Maddow 's conspiracy theory was "crazy" and the pullout of Chadian troops isnât necessarily related to the Trumpâs travel ban.
"Everybody that I know is appalled by this. I would like to think that Maddow 's researchers are more responsible " Seay told the HuffPost.
"The Rachel Maddow Show" declined to comment to HuffPost but the host addressed the situation on Friday nightâs episode.
"Over the course of the day today lots of people have been very upset with me for reporting that last night which is fine. I didnât know you cared. But the upset over my reporting doesnât mean that anything I reported wasnât true " Maddow said. "Everything I reported was true."
Maddow continued: "Now this doesnât mean that Chad withdrawing their troops was necessarily the cause of what happened to those U.S. troops who were ambushed. That ambush is being described by the Pentagon as a shock."
The HuffPostâs Willa Frej wrote that Maddow built "myths" using unrelated or unreliable information and "reduced the story so thoroughly that it lost any semblance of the larger truth."
Maddow has seen increased viewership as the triggered left tunes in to watch her condemn Trump on a nightly basis butit seems the MSNBC host this time went too far for one of the most liberal publications in America. | [TGT] was so outlandish that even the dependably liberal HuffPost criticized [TGT] as "so flimsy that [TGT] could be debunked by a quick glance at a map."
On Thursday evening "The Rachel Maddow Show" opened with a somber 25-minute diatribe that attempted to connect the tragic ambush attack that killed four American soldiers in Niger to the latest version of President Trumpâs proposed travel ban which included the nation of Chad. [TGT] essentially claimed that the inclusion of Chad which recently pulled its troops out of Niger in the revised travel ban resulted in extremist attacks such as the one that left four Americans dead.
The HuffPost which is so anti-Trump that it refused to even cover him in the political section during the early stages of his campaign published a story headlined "What the hell was this Rachel Maddow segment?" The MSNBC host proclaimed that Chadâs pullout from Niger "had an immediate effect in emboldening ISIS attacks " but the HuffPost easily shot down her theory.
Colby College Department of Government assistant professor Laura Seay told the HuffPost that "any expert" would have said [TGT] 's conspiracy theory was "crazy" and the pullout of Chadian troops isnât necessarily related to the Trumpâs travel ban.
"Everybody that I know is appalled by this. I would like to think that Maddow 's researchers are more responsible " Seay told the HuffPost.
"The Rachel Maddow Show" declined to comment to HuffPost but the host addressed the situation on Friday nightâs episode.
"Over the course of the day today lots of people have been very upset with me for reporting that last night which is fine. I didnât know you cared. But the upset over my reporting doesnât mean that anything I reported wasnât true " Maddow said. "Everything I reported was true."
Maddow continued: "Now this doesnât mean that Chad withdrawing their troops was necessarily the cause of what happened to those U.S. troops who were ambushed. That ambush is being described by the Pentagon as a shock."
The HuffPostâs Willa Frej wrote that Maddow built "myths" using unrelated or unreliable information and "reduced the story so thoroughly that it lost any semblance of the larger truth."
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3,276 | ' Barry Lyndon' on Criterion: Stanley Kubrick's Sumptuous Masterpiece | Barry Lyndon | Every time I watch Barry Lyndon my eye is immediately drawn to the candles. Theyâre in dozens of scenes in Stanley Kubrickâs 1975 classic historical drama sometimes as the only form of lightâa miraculous achievement of cinematography that required special camera lenses borrowed from NASA. With any Kubrick work thereâs a magisterial sense of control and overreach present in every frame an approach that helped make him the (sometimes clichéd) embodiment of the auteur filmmaker. In Barry Lyndon that attention to extravagant detail lies in those candles which can make the most epic manse feel chillingly intimate.
The behind-the-scenes features on the Criterion Collectionâs remastered release of Barry Lyndon out this month make it clear just what a struggle it was to light scenes with tiny flames. Capturing even a still image with so little illumination is a challenge; using a film camera was much harder necessitating the use of gigantic lenses developed for NASAâs moon landings. Beyond that candles themselves are ill-suited to the hermetic environment of a movie set. â[They] would burn down very quickly people had to refuel every time ⦠and they give off an enormous amount of smoke â the focus puller Douglas Milsome recalls in a documentary included on the Criterion disc. âYou would open all the windows put the [fans] on extract all the dirt and dust and the smell because it eats up oxygen.â
Related Story Stanley Kubrick's Unmade Film About Jazz in the Third Reich
Barry Lyndon is the kind of film that deserves to be seen on the biggest screen possible. Thereâs a good reason itâs revived with some frequency at major repertory cinemas sometimes with a live orchestra to replicate its memorable score (which consists entirely of classical pieces especially Handelâs âSarabandeâ from his Keyboard suite in D minor). But the Criterion effort to replicate Barry Lyndonâs cinematic impact is impressive. The Blu-ray has a similarly hypnotic impact at home as it does in the theater drawing the audienceâs focus to the surprising details in the background of each long stately shot. Itâs a movie that actually makes the past look otherworldly unlike many period pieces which strive to make history seem easy to slip into.
Based on the novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray Kubrickâs film chronicles the rise and fall of an opportunistic 18th-century Irishman who ascends through a mixture of luck and ambition to success and nobility and then experiences a similarly dramatic decline. Barry (Ryan OâNeal) is a frustrating foolish and often unknowable protagonist prone to hot-headed and cowardly behavior capable of both great empathy and callousness for those closest to him. | Every time I watch [TGT] my eye is immediately drawn to the candles. Theyâre in dozens of scenes in Stanley Kubrickâs 1975 classic historical drama sometimes as the only form of lightâa miraculous achievement of cinematography that required special camera lenses borrowed from NASA. With any Kubrick work thereâs a magisterial sense of control and overreach present in every frame an approach that helped make him the (sometimes clichéd) embodiment of the auteur filmmaker. In [TGT] that attention to extravagant detail lies in those candles which can make the most epic manse feel chillingly intimate.
The behind-the-scenes features on the Criterion Collectionâs remastered release of [TGT] out this month make it clear just what a struggle it was to light scenes with tiny flames. Capturing even a still image with so little illumination is a challenge; using a film camera was much harder necessitating the use of gigantic lenses developed for NASAâs moon landings. Beyond that candles themselves are ill-suited to the hermetic environment of a movie set. â[They] would burn down very quickly people had to refuel every time ⦠and they give off an enormous amount of smoke â the focus puller Douglas Milsome recalls in a documentary included on the Criterion disc. âYou would open all the windows put the [fans] on extract all the dirt and dust and the smell because it eats up oxygen.â
Related Story Stanley Kubrick's Unmade Film About Jazz in the Third Reich
[TGT] is the kind of film that deserves to be seen on the biggest screen possible. Thereâs a good reason itâs revived with some frequency at major repertory cinemas sometimes with a live orchestra to replicate its memorable score (which consists entirely of classical pieces especially Handelâs âSarabandeâ from his Keyboard suite in D minor). But the Criterion effort to replicate [TGT] âs cinematic impact is impressive. The Blu-ray has a similarly hypnotic impact at home as it does in the theater drawing the audienceâs focus to the surprising details in the background of each long stately shot. Itâs a movie that actually makes the past look otherworldly unlike many period pieces which strive to make history seem easy to slip into.
Based on the novel The Luck of [TGT] by William Makepeace Thackeray Kubrickâs film chronicles the rise and fall of an opportunistic 18th-century Irishman who ascends through a mixture of luck and ambition to success and nobility and then experiences a similarly dramatic decline. Barry (Ryan OâNeal) is a frustrating foolish and often unknowable protagonist prone to hot-headed and cowardly behavior capable of both great empathy and callousness for those closest to him. | 2Positive
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3,277 | Grand jury convened in police killing of Australian woman | Mike Freeman | Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman declined to confirm the grand jury citing the secrecy of any such proceeding but said he still intends to make his own decision on whether to charge the officer.
Justine Ruszczyk Damond a 40-year-old life coach was killed by Minneapolis Officer Mohamed Noor just minutes after she called police to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her home. Noor hasn't been charged and Freeman said weeks ago that more investigating was needed in the case. He also told activists in a recorded conversation that he didn't have enough evidence and investigators "haven't done their job."
In recent years Freeman has said he would no longer use grand juries to decide whether officers would be charged in police shootings saying he would make those decisions himself to provide more accountability and transparency.
Marsh Halberg a criminal defense attorney who is not connected to this case said it could give Freeman a strategic advantage by requiring witnesses to testify under oath and lock down witness testimony in advance of a possible trial. Still Halberg said it's unclear whether a grand jury can be used strictly for investigative purposes on the state level and it's not something he has seen in his 40-year career.
Halberg said Freeman could be using the grand jury as "a tactical reason to get evidence from people who are maybe refusing to testify."
Robert Bennett an attorney for the Damond family said he and the family support Freeman 's use of the grand jury and think it's the right thing to do. Bennett said it's disappointing that subpoenas were necessary to get witnesses including police officers to be truthful.
Noor's attorney Thomas Plunkett issued a statement saying Freeman 's comments "leave me unclear as to what he is doing." He added that "it would be unethical and potentially unlawful to comment publicly on this development. Worse â any public comment would jeopardize the fairness of an important judicial function."
The grand jury process has been criticized for its secrecy and because it rarely results in charges against officers. Freeman broke precedent with the standard practice of using grand juries to decide charges in police shootings after the November 2015 death of Jamar Clark. Freeman noted at that time that grand juries had been used to consider police shootings in his county for more than 40 years and no officers had been indicted. | [TGT] declined to confirm the grand jury citing the secrecy of any such proceeding but said [TGT] still intends to make [TGT] own decision on whether to charge the officer.
Justine Ruszczyk Damond a 40-year-old life coach was killed by Minneapolis Officer Mohamed Noor just minutes after she called police to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her home. Noor hasn't been charged and [TGT] said weeks ago that more investigating was needed in the case. He also told activists in a recorded conversation that he didn't have enough evidence and investigators "haven't done their job."
In recent years [TGT] has said he would no longer use grand juries to decide whether officers would be charged in police shootings saying he would make those decisions himself to provide more accountability and transparency.
Marsh Halberg a criminal defense attorney who is not connected to this case said it could give [TGT] a strategic advantage by requiring witnesses to testify under oath and lock down witness testimony in advance of a possible trial. Still Halberg said it's unclear whether a grand jury can be used strictly for investigative purposes on the state level and it's not something he has seen in his 40-year career.
Halberg said [TGT] could be using the grand jury as "a tactical reason to get evidence from people who are maybe refusing to testify."
Robert Bennett an attorney for the Damond family said he and the family support Freeman 's use of the grand jury and think it's the right thing to do. Bennett said it's disappointing that subpoenas were necessary to get witnesses including police officers to be truthful.
Noor's attorney Thomas Plunkett issued a statement saying [TGT] 's comments "leave me unclear as to what he is doing." He added that "it would be unethical and potentially unlawful to comment publicly on this development. Worse â any public comment would jeopardize the fairness of an important judicial function."
The grand jury process has been criticized for its secrecy and because it rarely results in charges against officers. [TGT] broke precedent with the standard practice of using grand juries to decide charges in police shootings after the November 2015 death of Jamar Clark. [TGT] noted at that time that grand juries had been used to consider police shootings in [TGT] county for more than 40 years and no officers had been indicted. | 1Neutral
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3,278 | Olympic ski champ Hirscher no longer must hear The Question | Hirscher | Olympic ski champ Hirscher no longer must hear The Question
JEONGSEON South Korea (AP) â Eventually The Question began to bother Marcel Hirscher .
It wasn't so much the actual content which was always some variation of: "Do you need an Olympic gold medal to validate your otherwise-perfect skiing career?" He was certain he knew the answer: "No." It was more the incessant echo of it over and over.
How often did Hirscher hear The Question? "Ev-e-ry day " he said. This was offered with a smile Tuesday because that line of inquiry will never again arise. As of the Alpine combined event at the Pyeongchang Games Hirscher is at long last an Olympic champion.
"I'm super happy because now this stupid question has gone away " Hirscher said before adding with gusto "Now The Question is Zzzzzzztt. Deleted."
Hirscher finished in 2 minutes 6.52 seconds which made him 0.23 seconds faster than silver medalist Alexis Pinturault of France. Another Frenchman Victor Muffat-Jeandet was third more than a full second behind Hirscher .
Fitting then that a race considered the greatest test of versatility in a sport of increasing specialization was how Hirscher finally got his gold.
As recently as two weeks ago he said he wasn't even sure whether it was worth entering the combined in part because it would steal training time away from his better events and also because he hadn't been on downhill skis in a year.
So Hirscher went into the downhill merely hoping to be within 3 seconds of the lead going into the slalom; he wound up less than 1½ seconds behind the beneficiary of catching a lull in swirling winds. The same gusts that had led to the postponement of the first two races on the Alpine schedule. Others found themselves dealing with headwinds or blasts of air that hit them from the side.
" He got lucky this morning with the wind " Rearick said. "But his second run in the slalom I mean he had the adversity there. The wind was blowing hard. You couldn't see the snow. In slalom when you can't see your feet it's really tough."
But Hirscher can handle that sort of thing better than anyone. Temperatures around zero and winds approaching 50 mph (75 kph) left the snow hard and dry more like what's found in Colorado than Austria. But because he packs a lot of strength into his 5-foot-8 (1.73-meter) frame he can change direction quickly to recover from mistakes.
Two-time Olympic champion Ted Ligety of the U.S. fifth Tuesday lauded another Hirscher trait.
" His mental ability is second to none in this sport. You often see so many guys who are fast in training and can't figure it out in a race. He 's the exact opposite " Ligety said. "You can train with him and beat him and you're all super-confident. Then the next day he goes and wins a race by a lot."
Hirscher has dominated the week-in week-out World Cup circuit accumulating 55 race wins second among men only to Ingemar Stenmark's 86. He has nine world championship medals. This is his third Olympics but the only previous medal was a slalom silver in 2014.
If he never did add gold?
And while Hirscher himself has insisted all along he did not need to burnish his legacy he sure did look pleased when he leapt atop the podium then pumped both arms overhead during a flower ceremony. | [TGT] no longer must hear The Question
JEONGSEON South Korea (AP) â Eventually The Question began to bother [TGT] .
It wasn't so much the actual content which was always some variation of: "Do you need an Olympic gold medal to validate your otherwise-perfect skiing career?" He was certain he knew the answer: "No." It was more the incessant echo of it over and over.
How often did [TGT] hear The Question? "Ev-e-ry day " he said. This was offered with a smile Tuesday because that line of inquiry will never again arise. As of the Alpine combined event at [TGT] is at long last an Olympic champion.
"I'm super happy because now this stupid question has gone away " [TGT] said before adding with gusto "Now The Question is Zzzzzzztt. Deleted."
Hirscher finished in 2 minutes 6.52 seconds which made him 0.23 seconds faster than silver medalist Alexis Pinturault of France. Another Frenchman Victor Muffat-Jeandet was third more than a full second behind Hirscher .
Fitting then that a race considered the greatest test of versatility in a sport of increasing specialization was how [TGT] finally got [TGT] gold.
As recently as two weeks ago [TGT] said [TGT] wasn't even sure whether it was worth entering the combined in part because it would steal training time away from [TGT] better events and also because [TGT] hadn't been on downhill skis in a year.
So [TGT] went into the downhill merely hoping to be within 3 seconds of the lead going into the slalom; [TGT] wound up less than 1½ seconds behind the beneficiary of catching a lull in swirling winds. The same gusts that had led to the postponement of the first two races on the Alpine schedule. Others found themselves dealing with headwinds or blasts of air that hit them from the side.
" He got lucky this morning with the wind " Rearick said. "But his second run in the slalom I mean he had the adversity there. The wind was blowing hard. You couldn't see the snow. In slalom when you can't see your feet it's really tough."
But [TGT] can handle that sort of thing better than anyone. Temperatures around zero and winds approaching 50 mph (75 kph) left the snow hard and dry more like what's found in Colorado than Austria. But because he packs a lot of strength into his 5-foot-8 (1.73-meter) frame he can change direction quickly to recover from mistakes.
Two-time Olympic champion Ted Ligety of the U.S. fifth Tuesday lauded another Hirscher trait.
" His mental ability is second to none in this sport. You often see so many guys who are fast in training and can't figure it out in a race. He 's the exact opposite " Ligety said. "You can train with him and beat him and you're all super-confident. Then the next day he goes and wins a race by a lot. [TGT]
has dominated the week-in week-out World Cup circuit accumulating 55 race wins second among men only to Ingemar Stenmark's 86. [TGT] has nine world championship medals. This is [TGT] third Olympics but the only previous medal was a slalom silver in 2014.
If he never did add gold?
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3,279 | A dying vet needed CPR. Hidden video shows his nurse laughing instead. | Wanda Nuckles | In a deposition more than a year later which the NBC station also aired the video was shown to Wanda Nuckles the nursing supervisor on duty that night.
âWould you agree it appears as though heâs gasping for air?â the questioner asked Nuckles .
Staff returned to the room nearly an hour later and found Dempsey unconscious the NBC station reported. Nearly another full hour passed before anyone called 911 according to the station. At that point Nuckles herself was called up to the room.
Earlier in her deposition Nuckles testified that she ran across the nursing homeâs courtyard to Dempseyâs room where she said she and a second nurse took turns performing constant CPR. âUnless a doctor says stop you have to continue â Nuckles told the questioner. âThatâs always been the rule.â
But the questioner played a clip from the video that told a different story. In the video Nuckles walked into the room shortly before 6:30 a.m. where another nurse stood by Dempseyâs bed. Someone flipped the dying manâs sheet up and someone lowered his bed. But neither Nuckles nor the nurse appeared to touch Dempseyâs chest.
âContrary to the way you testified previously thereâs no one doing CPR is there?â the questioner asked Nuckles after playing the clip.
âNo â Nuckles said.
A few minutes later a third worker joined Nuckles and the second nurse. Dempsey was still not moving and still no one was attempting CPR.
The NBC station reported that the nurses were having trouble getting Dempseyâs oxygen machine to work by 6:30 a.m. â at which point in the video Nuckles pressed both hands onto Dempseyâs mattress and someone laughed.
âMaâam is there something funny that was happening?â the questioner asked Nuckles in the deposition.
âI have no clue sir â she said. âI canât even remember all that.â
A minute later Nuckles finally attempted CPR on Dempsey. She pumped his chest half a dozen times in the video then stopped.
Nuckles and the other nurse in the video lost their licenses after the Georgia Board of Nursing learned of the video last year according to NBC. Nuckles could not be reached by The Washington Post. | In a deposition more than a year later which the NBC station also aired the video was shown to [TGT] the nursing supervisor on duty that night.
âWould you agree it appears as though heâs gasping for air?â the questioner asked Nuckles .
Staff returned to the room nearly an hour later and found Dempsey unconscious the NBC station reported. Nearly another full hour passed before anyone called 911 according to the station. At that point Nuckles herself was called up to the room.
Earlier in her deposition Nuckles testified that she ran across the nursing homeâs courtyard to Dempseyâs room where she said she and a second nurse took turns performing constant CPR. âUnless a doctor says stop you have to continue â Nuckles told the questioner. âThatâs always been the rule.â
But the questioner played a clip from the video that told a different story. In the video Nuckles walked into the room shortly before 6:30 a.m. where another nurse stood by Dempseyâs bed. Someone flipped the dying manâs sheet up and someone lowered his bed. But neither Nuckles nor the nurse appeared to touch Dempseyâs chest.
âContrary to the way you testified previously thereâs no one doing CPR is there?â the questioner asked Nuckles after playing the clip.
âNo â Nuckles said.
A few minutes later a third worker joined Nuckles and the second nurse. Dempsey was still not moving and still no one was attempting CPR.
The NBC station reported that the nurses were having trouble getting Dempseyâs oxygen machine to work by 6:30 a.m. â at which point in the video Nuckles pressed both hands onto Dempseyâs mattress and someone laughed.
âMaâam is there something funny that was happening?â the questioner asked Nuckles in the deposition.
âI have no clue sir â she said. âI canât even remember all that.â
A minute later Nuckles finally attempted CPR on Dempsey. She pumped his chest half a dozen times in the video then stopped.
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3,280 | Wynn Resorts CEO calls sexual misconduct accusations 'preposterous'; stock falls | Elaine Wynn | Earlier in the day the company appeared to side with its chairman in dismissing the Journalâs article saying in a statement that the newspaper account âreflected allegationsâ made by his ex-wife Elaine Wynn in her litigation against him and the company.
âThe idea that I ever assaulted any woman is preposterous â he said. âThe instigation of these accusations is the continued work of my ex-wife Elaine Wynn with whom I am involved in a terrible and nasty lawsuit in which she is seeking a revised divorce settlement.â
A spokeswoman for Elaine Wynn 75 declined comment but her Washington-based attorney James Cole told Reuters the notion that his client fomented the allegations in the Journal article âis just not true.â
The couple first married in 1963 and divorced in 1986. They remarried in 1991 and divorced again in 2010 according to court papers. In an escalating battle that followed their bitter second split Elaine Wynn sued her former spouse in 2016 seeking to gain control over her 9.4 percent stock in Wynn Resorts. | Earlier in the day the company appeared to side with its chairman in dismissing the Journalâs article saying in a statement that the newspaper account âreflected allegationsâ made by his ex-wife Elaine Wynn in her litigation against him and the company.
âThe idea that I ever assaulted any woman is preposterous â he said. âThe instigation of these accusations is the continued work of my ex-wife [TGT] with whom I am involved in a terrible and nasty lawsuit in which [TGT] is seeking a revised divorce settlement.â
A spokeswoman for [TGT] 75 declined comment but [TGT] Washington-based attorney James Cole told Reuters the notion that his client fomented the allegations in the Journal article âis just not true.â
The couple first married in 1963 and divorced in 1986. They remarried in 1991 and divorced again in 2010 according to court papers. In an escalating battle that followed their bitter second split [TGT] sued [TGT] former spouse in 2016 seeking to gain control over [TGT] 9.4 percent stock in Wynn Resorts. | 0Negative
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3,281 | âMr. Perfectâ Jared Kushner âs Not | Jared Kushner | It was supposed to be a triumphant year for White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner . Part of the team that guided his father-in-law to victory in 2016 the young Kushner was catapulted into the highest echelons of power.
He was handed a broad portfolio that included making peace in the Middle East and was reportedly a key part of Trumpâs inner circle and decision-making team. But as 2017 dragged on the man known as Mr. Perfect had anything but a perfect year.
Here are Kushner âs worst moments from 2017:
When Kushner visited Iraq in April he obviously did not want to abandon his dedication to preppy style. But the image of the senior adviser sporting a flak jacket (with âKushnerâ scrawled on it) along with a blazer and khakis brought on a torrent of mockery.
This pic of Jared Kushner in Iraq with a military bullet-proof vest over his usual Thurston Howell III outfit really says it all pic.twitter.com/Qbt90NiqV4 â Amy Westervelt (@amywestervelt) April 6 2017
Although Kushner stepped down as head of Kushner Companies in January his real-estate firm gave him a number of headaches throughout 2017. Perhaps the biggest one was its use of the EB-5 visa program which allows wealthy investors to gain visas in return for investing in the U.S.
Jared and Ivanka are reported to be scaling back their roles in the White House after officials have become annoyed by their presence. The move came shortly after Trumpâs decision to back Sen. Luther Strange in the Alabama Senate primary backfired spectacularly and Strange was crushed by conservative challenger Judge Roy Moore. Kushner was widely believed to have been a key voice in urging Trump to get involved in the race and back Strangeâa decision Trump himself admitted may have been a âmistake.â
Kushner was also widely reported to be a key official encouraging President Trump to fire FBI Director James Comeyâa move which has since turned out to be seen as a mistake as it directly led to the appointment of FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller whose probe has dogged the Trump administration throughout 2017.
FBI Special Counsel Robert Muellerâs appointment was announced in the wake of the firing of FBI Director James Comeyâa decision reportedly backed by Kushner . But as the probe has gone on Kushner has apparently become a key figure for Mueller.
Kushner was part of a 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer at Trump Towerâa meeting which Trump Jr. said he took as it promised information that would âincriminateâ Hillary Clinton.
Kushner was questioned by Muellerâs team in November during which he reportedly answered questions about a meeting with the Russian ambassador during the transition. It later emerged that Kushner was the âsenior Trump officialâ who directed former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn to contact the ambassador about a U.N. vote on Israeli settlements.
While it is not clear if the Mueller team believes Kushner did anything wrong Muellerâs interest in him has no doubt led to a tough 2017 for Kushner .
Kushner spent much of 2017 aggravating congressional lawmakers with his lack of disclosure about his foreign contacts and other information deemed importantâparticularly over various investigations into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Two Senate committees have complained about his failure to hand over certain documents and that they have learned certain details from the media. Lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee were angered in September when they discovered from media reports that Kushner used a private email account occasionally for White House business.
Lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote to Kushner âs lawyer in November saying the document collection he provided to the committee was incomplete.
Newsweek reported in December that Kushner is still using an interim security clearance after he initially omitted dozens of foreign contracts from his original form submission for clearance. | It was supposed to be a triumphant year for [TGT] . Part of the team that guided his father-in-law to victory in 2016 the young Kushner was catapulted into the highest echelons of power.
He was handed a broad portfolio that included making peace in the Middle East and was reportedly a key part of Trumpâs inner circle and decision-making team. But as 2017 dragged on the man known as Mr. Perfect had anything but a perfect year.
Here are Kushner âs worst moments from 2017:
When [TGT] visited Iraq in April [TGT] obviously did not want to abandon [TGT] dedication to preppy style. But the image of the senior adviser sporting a flak jacket (with âKushnerâ scrawled on it) along with a blazer and khakis brought on a torrent of mockery.
This pic of [TGT] in Iraq with a military bullet-proof vest over [TGT] usual Thurston Howell III outfit really says it all pic.twitter.com/Qbt90NiqV4 â Amy Westervelt (@amywestervelt) April 6 2017
Although [TGT] stepped down as head of Kushner Companies in January [TGT] real-estate firm gave [TGT] a number of headaches throughout 2017. Perhaps the biggest one was its use of the EB-5 visa program which allows wealthy investors to gain visas in return for investing in the U.S.
Jared and Ivanka are reported to be scaling back their roles in the White House after officials have become annoyed by their presence. The move came shortly after Trumpâs decision to back Sen. Luther Strange in the Alabama Senate primary backfired spectacularly and Strange was crushed by conservative challenger Judge Roy Moore. [TGT] was widely believed to have been a key voice in urging Trump to get involved in the race and back Strangeâa decision Trump himself admitted may have been a âmistake.â
[TGT] was also widely reported to be a key official encouraging President Trump to fire FBI Director James Comeyâa move which has since turned out to be seen as a mistake as it directly led to the appointment of FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller whose probe has dogged the Trump administration throughout 2017.
FBI Special Counsel Robert Muellerâs appointment was announced in the wake of the firing of FBI Director James Comeyâa decision reportedly backed by [TGT] . But as the probe has gone on [TGT] has apparently become a key figure for Mueller.
[TGT] was part of a 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer at Trump Towerâa meeting which Trump Jr. said he took as it promised information that would âincriminateâ Hillary Clinton.
[TGT] was questioned by Muellerâs team in November during which [TGT] reportedly answered questions about a meeting with the Russian ambassador during the transition. It later emerged that [TGT] was the âsenior Trump officialâ who directed former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn to contact the ambassador about a U.N. vote on Israeli settlements.
While it is not clear if the Mueller team believes [TGT] did anything wrong Muellerâs interest in [TGT] has no doubt led to a tough 2017 for [TGT] .
[TGT] spent much of 2017 aggravating congressional lawmakers with [TGT] lack of disclosure about [TGT] foreign contacts and other information deemed importantâparticularly over various investigations into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Two Senate committees have complained about [TGT] failure to hand over certain documents and that they have learned certain details from the media. Lawmakers on the Senate Intelligence Committee were angered in September when they discovered from media reports that Kushner used a private email account occasionally for White House business.
Lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote to Kushner âs lawyer in November saying the document collection he provided to the committee was incomplete.
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3,282 | Your Trader Joeâs salad may contain shards of glass plastic | Joe | PHOENIX â Trader Joeâs says it has recalled several packaged salads after a supplier said there may be shards of glass or hard plastic inside.
The grocery chain said Saturday on its website that packages of white meat chicken salad curried white chicken deli salad and turkey cranberry apple salad sold in some areas that expire from Nov. 10-21 could be contaminated.
The products are labeled with the U.S. Department of Agriculture âs âinspectedâ code P-40299.
Trader Joeâs said products with other âinspectedâ codes were not affected because they were created at separate sites.
The chain apologized and urged customers to discard the products or return them for a refund. | [TGT] says [TGT] has recalled several packaged salads after a supplier said there may be shards of glass or hard plastic inside.
The grocery chain said Saturday on its website that packages of white meat chicken salad curried white chicken deli salad and turkey cranberry apple salad sold in some areas that expire from Nov. 10-21 could be contaminated.
The products are labeled with the U.S. Department of Agriculture âs âinspectedâ code P-40299.
[TGT] said products with other âinspectedâ codes were not affected because they were created at separate sites.
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3,283 | Las Vegas gunman fired on security guard before mass shooting | Joseph Lombardo | The shooter Stephen Paddock 64 was seen on numerous occasions in Las Vegas without any person accompanying him and he gambled the night before the shooting Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said at a news conference. He killed himself after the attack.
âThis individual purposely hid his actions leading up to this event and it is difficult for us to find the answers â said Lombardo who said he was frustrated with the speed of the investigation.
Paddock sprayed an outdoor concert with bursts of gunfire from high above in a Las Vegas hotel window on Oct. 1 killing 58 and wounding hundreds more before shooting himself .
âIn coordination with the FBIâs behavioral analysis unit a comprehensive picture is being drawn as to the suspectâs mental state and currently we do not believe there is one particular event in the suspectâs life for us to key on â Lombardo said.
There is no indication anyone other than Paddock fired on the crowd Lombardo said adding investigators are talking to family members and the girlfriend of the gunman.
Paddock shot and wounded a security guard who came to his floor at the Mandalay Bay hotel to investigate an open door down near Paddockâs suite Lombardo said providing new details on what occurred immediately before the mass shooting.
Paddock shot the guard at 9:59 p.m. local time Lombardo said shortly before raining down bullets on the Route 91 Harvest festival in an attack that began at 10:05 p.m. and lasted 10 minutes.
Paddock had a document in the room with him that contained numbers Lombardo said adding he could not immediately say what purpose the figures served.
Las Vegas police officer David Newton told CBS News program â60 Minutesâ on Sunday that he entered the room and saw a note on the shooterâs nightstand with numbers that appeared to be designed to help his aim.
It was unclear why Paddock stopped firing at the crowd suggesting he may have initially planned to escape Lombardo said.
He shot at jet fuel tanks at McCarran International Airport and had protective gear in the hotel suite and explosives in his parked car Lombardo said. | The shooter Stephen Paddock 64 was seen on numerous occasions in Las Vegas without any person accompanying him and he gambled the night before the shooting [TGT] said at a news conference. [TGT] killed [TGT] after the attack.
âThis individual purposely hid his actions leading up to this event and it is difficult for us to find the answers â said Lombardo who said he was frustrated with the speed of the investigation.
Paddock sprayed an outdoor concert with bursts of gunfire from high above in a Las Vegas hotel window on Oct. 1 killing 58 and wounding hundreds more before shooting himself .
âIn coordination with the FBIâs behavioral analysis unit a comprehensive picture is being drawn as to the suspectâs mental state and currently we do not believe there is one particular event in the suspectâs life for us to key on â [TGT] said.
There is no indication anyone other than Paddock fired on the crowd [TGT] said adding investigators are talking to family members and the girlfriend of the gunman.
Paddock shot and wounded a security guard who came to his floor at the Mandalay Bay hotel to investigate an open door down near Paddockâs suite Lombardo said providing new details on what occurred immediately before the mass shooting.
Paddock shot the guard at 9:59 p.m. local time [TGT] said shortly before raining down bullets on the Route 91 Harvest festival in an attack that began at 10:05 p.m. and lasted 10 minutes.
Paddock had a document in the room with him that contained numbers [TGT] said adding he could not immediately say what purpose the figures served.
Las Vegas police officer David Newton told CBS News program â60 Minutesâ on Sunday that he entered the room and saw a note on the shooterâs nightstand with numbers that appeared to be designed to help his aim.
It was unclear why Paddock stopped firing at the crowd suggesting he may have initially planned to escape [TGT] said.
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3,284 | 'Hannity' Investigates Shocking New Scandal Involving Eric Holder | Eric Holder | SEAN HANNITY HOST: Attorney general nominee Eric Holder may meet some heavy resistance when his nomination hearings begin tomorrow. Now he could again face tough questions about his involvement in the controversial pardons during his days in the Clinton administration but another problem is also emerging.
His connection to a company with ties to a known terrorist organization during his years in private practice. Lets take a look.
HANNITY: After seven years of lining the pockets of terrorists Chiquita admitted their wrongdoing to the Justice Department and hired and extremely influential man to bail them out former deputy attorney general Eric Holder.
Holder had left the DOJ after the Clinton administration and was now in private practice. On March 19 2007 with Holder as lead counsel Chiquita pleaded guilty to one count of quote "engaging in transactions with a specially designated global terrorist organization."
Holder then brokered what some call a sweetheart deal in which Chiquita only had to pay a $25 million fine over five years yet not one of the half dozen company officials who approved the payments would receive any jail time.
HANNITY: Ironically Holder 's stance on the criminal case contrast part of a 1999 document that he wrote while at the Justice Department a document that became known as the "Holder Memorandum."
HANNITY: In a 2007 Washington Post article Holder made the case for not charging individuals quote "If what you want to encourage is voluntary self-disclosure what message does this send to other companies?"
VICTORIA TOENSING FMR. DEPUTY ASST. ATTORNEY GENERAL: There's no conflict whatsoever. The " Holder Memorandum" talks about the law as it has been ever since I've known it for decades and that is that if â the prosecutor decides to indict the corporation the prosecutor can also decide to indict individuals.
It wasn't Eric Holder who decided that. It was the Justice Department.
HANNITY: But what is raising the most eyebrows is the argument that Holder made as lead attorney in the ongoing civil case against Chiquita.
According to court documents Holder wanted the case dismissed because quote "There is no clearly defined rule of international law prohibiting material support of terrorism."
HANNITY: And even some Holder critics say his argument may actually hold up.
ANDY MCCARTHY NATIONAL REVIEW CONTRIBUTOR: He 's not saying that terrorism doesn't exist or that there's not a definition under American law of terrorism. He 's saying that there is not a universally recognized material support to terrorism claim that can be brought under that civil statute.
Holder had already been mired in controversy stemming from his involvement in President Clinton's last-minute pardons and just last week the highest ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee suggested that as deputy attorney general under Bill Clinton he was all too willing to do the president's bidding.
HANNITY: Confirmation hearings are set to begin on Thursday so will Eric Holder's representation of Chiquita a company guilty of funding terrorists raise questions about his fitness to be the top law man in this country? | SEAN HANNITY HOST: [TGT] may meet some heavy resistance when [TGT] nomination hearings begin tomorrow. Now [TGT] could again face tough questions about [TGT] involvement in the controversial pardons during [TGT] days in the Clinton administration but another problem is also emerging.
[TGT] connection to a company with ties to a known terrorist organization during [TGT] years in private practice. Lets take a look.
HANNITY: After seven years of lining the pockets of terrorists Chiquita admitted their wrongdoing to the Justice Department and hired and extremely influential man to bail them out [TGT]
[TGT] had left the DOJ after the Clinton administration and was now in private practice. On March 19 2007 with Holder as lead counsel Chiquita pleaded guilty to one count of quote "engaging in transactions with a specially designated global terrorist organization."
Holder then brokered what some call a sweetheart deal in which Chiquita only had to pay a $25 million fine over five years yet not one of the half dozen company officials who approved the payments would receive any jail time.
HANNITY: Ironically [TGT] 's stance on the criminal case contrast part of a 1999 document that he wrote while at the Justice Department a document that became known as the "Holder Memorandum."
HANNITY: In a 2007 Washington Post article [TGT] made the case for not charging individuals quote "If what you want to encourage is voluntary self-disclosure what message does this send to other companies?"
VICTORIA TOENSING FMR. DEPUTY ASST. ATTORNEY GENERAL: There's no conflict whatsoever. The " [TGT] Memorandum" talks about the law as it has been ever since I've known it for decades and that is that if â the prosecutor decides to indict the corporation the prosecutor can also decide to indict individuals.
It wasn't Eric Holder who decided that. It was the Justice Department.
HANNITY: But what is raising the most eyebrows is the argument that [TGT] made as lead attorney in the ongoing civil case against Chiquita.
According to court documents [TGT] wanted the case dismissed because quote "There is no clearly defined rule of international law prohibiting material support of terrorism."
HANNITY: And even some [TGT] critics say [TGT] argument may actually hold up.
ANDY MCCARTHY NATIONAL REVIEW CONTRIBUTOR: [TGT] 's not saying that terrorism doesn't exist or that there's not a definition under American law of terrorism. [TGT] 's saying that there is not a universally recognized material support to terrorism claim that can be brought under that civil statute.
[TGT] had already been mired in controversy stemming from [TGT] involvement in President Clinton's last-minute pardons and just last week the highest ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee suggested that as deputy attorney general under Bill Clinton [TGT] was all too willing to do the president's bidding.
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3,285 | Establishment Republicans Cheer Roy Mooreâs Loss in Alabama | Steve Bannon Steve | CNN conservative contributor Ana Navarro tweeted on Tuesday night âRoy Moore lost. Steve Bannon lost. Donald Trump lost. Pedophilia lost. Bigotry lost. Homophobia lost. Racism lost. Doug Jones won. Mitch McConnell won. African-Americans won. Women won. Victims won. Justice won. Morality won. Values won. Sanity won. Decency won. America won.â
Steve Bannon lost.
The Mitch McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund cheered Mooreâs loss in a statement saying âThis is a brutal reminder that candidate quality matters regardless of where you are running. Not only did Steve Bannon cost us a critical Senate seat in one of the most Republican states in the country but he also dragged the President of the United States into his fiasco.â
Never-Trump Sen. John McCainâs (R-AZ) daughter Meghan McCain said âSuck it Bannon .â
Republican pollster Frank Luntz said â Steve Bannon wanted to destroy the @GOP Senate majority. Tonight he got his wish. The civil war is far from overâ¦â
Alex Conant former communications director for Marco Rubio explained on Tuesday âUmm McConnell did everything in his power to stop this debacle. Meanwhile Trump & Bannon opportunistically condoned it.â
Never-Trump GOP media consultant Rick Wilson tweeted â Steve Bannon is a cancer. Good people in Alabama were the first dose of chemo.â
Steve Bannon is a cancer. Good people in Alabama were the first dose of chemo. â Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) December 13 2017
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellâs former Chief of Staff Josh Holmes tweeted on Tuesday âBefore we get the results Iâd just like to thank Steve Bannon for showing us how to lose the reddest state in the union and Governor Ivey for the opportunity to make this national embarrassment a reality.â | CNN conservative contributor Ana Navarro tweeted on Tuesday night âRoy Moore lost. [TGT] lost. Donald Trump lost. Pedophilia lost. Bigotry lost. Homophobia lost. Racism lost. Doug Jones won. Mitch McConnell won. African-Americans won. Women won. Victims won. Justice won. Morality won. Values won. Sanity won. Decency won. America won.â
[TGT] lost.
The Mitch McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund cheered Mooreâs loss in a statement saying âThis is a brutal reminder that candidate quality matters regardless of where you are running. Not only did Steve Bannon cost us a critical Senate seat in one of the most Republican states in the country but he also dragged the President of the United States into his fiasco.â
Never-Trump Sen. John McCainâs (R-AZ) daughter Meghan McCain said âSuck it Bannon .â
Republican pollster Frank Luntz said â Steve Bannon wanted to destroy the @GOP Senate majority. Tonight he got his wish. The civil war is far from overâ¦â
Alex Conant former communications director for Marco Rubio explained on Tuesday âUmm McConnell did everything in his power to stop this debacle. Meanwhile Trump & Bannon opportunistically condoned it.â
Never-Trump GOP media consultant Rick Wilson tweeted â Steve Bannon is a cancer. Good people in Alabama were the first dose of chemo.â
Steve Bannon is a cancer. Good people in Alabama were the first dose of chemo. â Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) December 13 2017
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3,286 | How the Kremlin Tried to Rig the Olympics and Failed | Vitaly Mutko | Shamed and pilloried the head of the Russian Olympic Committee resigned and Russian leadership spoke of serious reform. âThe place we got in Vancouver is not worthy of our country â said then-sports minister and Putin friend Vitaly Mutko. âWe have to do everything we can to restore our leadership in world sports.â He promised to take âpersonal controlâ over the preparations for the Sochi Olympics where the stakes would be far higher and which were just four years away. What if Russian athletes flopped on their home turf? It was a nightmare scenario. This is how we got to Tuesdayâs ban of the entire Russian team and various Russian officials including Mutko from the 2018 Winter Olympics just two months before the opening ceremony in South Korea. There is a straight line from Vancouver to Pyeongchang with a sordid stop in Sochi. * * * Authoritarian regimes love organized sporting events like the Olympics and Russia was one of the initiators of that love affair back when it was the Soviet Union. For decades the Kremlin poured money into Olympic sports. It was an important piece of propaganda for both the world and the Soviet home front: We are a superpower and our people are superpeople. Parents eagerly turned over their children to Olympic factories that would make their young ones into athletes who could do their country proud and get their families a little extra something be it more food or Western electronics. Olympic events like the famed 1980 hockey match between the Unites States and the Soviet Unionâknown as âthe Miracle on Iceââoffered easy analogies for larger geopolitical struggles. To be a true global power you had to defeat your enemies in every arena.
Putin like most people who survived the Soviet Union never lost that vision of the Olympics as a proxy for geopolitics. It is why the flop at the 2010 Olympics stunned and humiliated Russia as much as it did. Russia looked in the mirror and didnât like what it saw. It found that despite a decade of unprecedented economic good fortune of surging oil prices and rising salaries of the glitz and glamour of its cities the country was rotten at its core. In the two decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union its infrastructure had crumbled and was never rebuilt. The glitz it turned out was just a patina of false prosperity. Mutko was unsparing in his assessment when the Olympic delegation returned humiliated to Moscow. âThere are a lot of problems â he said in March 2010. âOver the years weâve frittered away our sport science and lost our human potential.â He noted that foreign athletes were trained by Russian coaches who had left Russia and that in many sports there was no new generation waiting in the wings. âThereâs also the problem of doping â he said. âSome of us can no longer think of preparing athletes without including doping substances. We began to fight doping with more conviction.â All of these he said âare systemic problemsâ and the Sports Ministry was working to solve them. âNeither I nor the Ministry of Sport deny our responsibility for the performance of the Russian team at the Olympics in Vancouver â he said. âWe will do a serious analysis and there will be changes both in terms of organization and personnel on the basis of our experience in Vancouver.â
An analysis did come just four months later and in the form of an audit from the Russian Treasury. It found that one of the reasons for the Russian failures in Vancouver was Mutko and the way he spent ministerial finances. In fact Mutko had spent so much money on himselfâ$1 400-a-night hotel rooms for 20 days during which he had an astonishing 97 breakfastsâthat there was little left for the actual athletes and their support staff many of whom traveled to Vancouver on their own dime. Mutko may have spoken that spring about his responsibility but he took none this time. Any big organization will have its problems Mutko said when the report came out but âI see a system thatâs nearly ideal ... I donât see a single problem. You couldnât possibly call 17 fourth-place finishes an ineffective use of funds!â In other words with the home-game Olympics just three and a half years away Mutko had fixed everythingâthe rotten infrastructure the lack of incoming talent the émigré coaches the widespread dopingâin just four months. By the time the closing ceremony began in all its splendor in Sochi in February 2014 the Russian team had won the medal count. * * * We now know how Mutko was able to achieve that jump from 11th place to first in such a short amount of time: an extensive state-sponsored doping campaign. After a German documentary interviewed two Russian athletes who had fled Russia and had become whistleblowers about how systematically Russia dopes its athletes key figures in the world of Russian anti-doping started turning up dead under mysterious circumstances. This prompted Grigory Rodchenkov the head of the Russian anti-doping agency to flee fearing for his life to Los Angeles and to the director Bryan Fogel. The two had been working together on Fogelâs riveting documentary âIcarus â about how easy it is for an athlete to dope and test clean. Rodchenkov who had been coaching Fogel in his quest to dope for a cycling event and dupe the tests decided to confess to Fogel on camera. He also told his story to The New York Times and then went into U.S. government witness protection.
Rodchenkov ran the lab at Sochi during the Winter Olympics and what he did there was essentially what he did for Fogel but on a more massive scale: helping dozens of athletes dope all through the Games while testing negative on every single test. The story he told to the Times and to Fogel would strain the imagination were it not independently confirmed by two investigations: one by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and one by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Here is the summary of the operation from the Times: The director Grigory Rodchenkov who ran the laboratory that handled testing for thousands of Olympians said he developed a three-drug cocktail of banned substances that he mixed with liquor and provided to dozens of Russian athletes helping to facilitate one of the most elaborateâand successfulâdoping ploys in sports history. It involved some of Russiaâs biggest stars of the Games including 14 members of its cross-country ski team and two veteran bobsledders who won two golds. In a dark-of-night operation Russian antidoping experts and members of the intelligence service surreptitiously replaced urine samples tainted by performance-enhancing drugs with clean urine collected months earlier somehow breaking into the supposedly tamper-proof bottles that are the standard at international competitions Dr. Rodchenkov said. For hours each night they worked in a shadow laboratory lit by a single lamp passing bottles of urine through a hand-size hole in the wall to be ready for testing the next day he said. By the end of the Games Dr. Rodchenkov estimated as many as 100 dirty urine samples were expunged. None of the athletes were caught doping. More important Russia won the most medals of the Games easily surpassing its main rival the United States and undermining the integrity of one of the worldâs most prestigious sporting events. All of this Rodchenkov said was overseen by an officer of the federal security services the FSB and had the approval of Mutko and Putin. | Shamed and pilloried the head of the Russian Olympic Committee resigned and Russian leadership spoke of serious reform. âThe place we got in Vancouver is not worthy of our country â said then-sports minister and Putin friend [TGT] . âWe have to do everything we can to restore our leadership in world sports.â He promised to take âpersonal controlâ over the preparations for the Sochi Olympics where the stakes would be far higher and which were just four years away. What if Russian athletes flopped on their home turf? It was a nightmare scenario. This is how we got to Tuesdayâs ban of the entire Russian team and various Russian officials including Mutko from the 2018 Winter Olympics just two months before the opening ceremony in South Korea. There is a straight line from Vancouver to Pyeongchang with a sordid stop in Sochi. * * * Authoritarian regimes love organized sporting events like the Olympics and Russia was one of the initiators of that love affair back when it was the Soviet Union. For decades the Kremlin poured money into Olympic sports. It was an important piece of propaganda for both the world and the Soviet home front: We are a superpower and our people are superpeople. Parents eagerly turned over their children to Olympic factories that would make their young ones into athletes who could do their country proud and get their families a little extra something be it more food or Western electronics. Olympic events like the famed 1980 hockey match between the Unites States and the Soviet Unionâknown as âthe Miracle on Iceââoffered easy analogies for larger geopolitical struggles. To be a true global power you had to defeat your enemies in every arena.
Putin like most people who survived the Soviet Union never lost that vision of the Olympics as a proxy for geopolitics. It is why the flop at the 2010 Olympics stunned and humiliated Russia as much as it did. Russia looked in the mirror and didnât like what it saw. It found that despite a decade of unprecedented economic good fortune of surging oil prices and rising salaries of the glitz and glamour of its cities the country was rotten at its core. In the two decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union its infrastructure had crumbled and was never rebuilt. The glitz it turned out was just a patina of false prosperity. Mutko was unsparing in his assessment when the Olympic delegation returned humiliated to Moscow. âThere are a lot of problems â he said in March 2010. âOver the years weâve frittered away our sport science and lost our human potential.â He noted that foreign athletes were trained by Russian coaches who had left Russia and that in many sports there was no new generation waiting in the wings. âThereâs also the problem of doping â he said. âSome of us can no longer think of preparing athletes without including doping substances. We began to fight doping with more conviction.â All of these he said âare systemic problemsâ and the Sports Ministry was working to solve them. âNeither I nor the Ministry of Sport deny our responsibility for the performance of the Russian team at the Olympics in Vancouver â he said. âWe will do a serious analysis and there will be changes both in terms of organization and personnel on the basis of our experience in Vancouver.â
An analysis did come just four months later and in the form of an audit from the Russian Treasury. It found that one of the reasons for the Russian failures in Vancouver was Mutko and the way he spent ministerial finances. In fact Mutko had spent so much money on himselfâ$1 400-a-night hotel rooms for 20 days during which he had an astonishing 97 breakfastsâthat there was little left for the actual athletes and their support staff many of whom traveled to Vancouver on their own dime. Mutko may have spoken that spring about his responsibility but he took none this time. Any big organization will have its problems Mutko said when the report came out but âI see a system thatâs nearly ideal ... I donât see a single problem. You couldnât possibly call 17 fourth-place finishes an ineffective use of funds!â In other words with the home-game Olympics just three and a half years away Mutko had fixed everythingâthe rotten infrastructure the lack of incoming talent the émigré coaches the widespread dopingâin just four months. By the time the closing ceremony began in all its splendor in Sochi in February 2014 the Russian team had won the medal count. * * * We now know how Mutko was able to achieve that jump from 11th place to first in such a short amount of time: an extensive state-sponsored doping campaign. After a German documentary interviewed two Russian athletes who had fled Russia and had become whistleblowers about how systematically Russia dopes its athletes key figures in the world of Russian anti-doping started turning up dead under mysterious circumstances. This prompted Grigory Rodchenkov the head of the Russian anti-doping agency to flee fearing for his life to Los Angeles and to the director Bryan Fogel. The two had been working together on Fogelâs riveting documentary âIcarus â about how easy it is for an athlete to dope and test clean. Rodchenkov who had been coaching Fogel in his quest to dope for a cycling event and dupe the tests decided to confess to Fogel on camera. He also told his story to The New York Times and then went into U.S. government witness protection.
Rodchenkov ran the lab at Sochi during the Winter Olympics and what he did there was essentially what he did for Fogel but on a more massive scale: helping dozens of athletes dope all through the Games while testing negative on every single test. The story he told to the Times and to Fogel would strain the imagination were it not independently confirmed by two investigations: one by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and one by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Here is the summary of the operation from the Times: The director Grigory Rodchenkov who ran the laboratory that handled testing for thousands of Olympians said he developed a three-drug cocktail of banned substances that he mixed with liquor and provided to dozens of Russian athletes helping to facilitate one of the most elaborateâand successfulâdoping ploys in sports history. It involved some of Russiaâs biggest stars of the Games including 14 members of its cross-country ski team and two veteran bobsledders who won two golds. In a dark-of-night operation Russian antidoping experts and members of the intelligence service surreptitiously replaced urine samples tainted by performance-enhancing drugs with clean urine collected months earlier somehow breaking into the supposedly tamper-proof bottles that are the standard at international competitions Dr. Rodchenkov said. For hours each night they worked in a shadow laboratory lit by a single lamp passing bottles of urine through a hand-size hole in the wall to be ready for testing the next day he said. By the end of the Games Dr. Rodchenkov estimated as many as 100 dirty urine samples were expunged. None of the athletes were caught doping. More important Russia won the most medals of the Games easily surpassing its main rival the United States and undermining the integrity of one of the worldâs most prestigious sporting events. All of this Rodchenkov said was overseen by an officer of the federal security services the FSB and had the approval of Mutko and Putin. | 0Negative
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3,287 | Hilary Swank stunned that 'Million Dollar Baby' writer Paul Haggis accused by 4 women of sexual assault | Paul Haggis | âI havenât seen that no â the stunned Swank told Fox News at an FX event in Pasadena Calif. of the report released just minutes earlier about Paul Haggis who won consecutive Oscars for screenwriting the Swank-starring "Million Dollar Baby" and writing and directing "Crash."
Haggis was named in a civil lawsuit on December 15 2017 by publicist Haleigh Breest who claimed the married 64-year-old filmmaker raped her on Jan. 31 2013 in a New York City apartment.
The lawsuit spurred three more women to claim sexual assault and harassment by Haggis .
According to the Associated Press one of the accusers claimed Haggis made her perform non-consensual oral sex and then raped her .
Another accuser said Haggis told her âI need to be inside you .â She said she was able to escape.
They all said Haggis first tried to kiss them. In two of the cases they said when they fought back Haggis escalated his aggression.
The new rape accuser said she was a 28-year-old publicist working on a television show being produced by Haggis in 1996 when he called to ask to review photos from the show that night in her office.
When Haggis arrived she said everyone else had left the office for the night and he insisted they speak in a back office. She said Haggis began kissing her as soon as they walked into the room.
"I just pulled away. He was just glaring at me and came at me again. I was really resisting. He said to me 'Do you really want to continue working?'" the woman said. "And then he really forced himself on me. I was just numb. I didn't know what to do."
Haggis â lawyer told the AP his client is denying the new accusations saying âHe didnât rape anybody.â
Haggis has also denied Breest's initial rape allegation in a counter-complaint to the lawsuit and said the accuser and her lawyer had demanded a $9 million payment to avoid legal action which he characterized as extortion.
Fox News reached out to Haggis and Breest but did not receive comment.
Haggis is also well-known for being an outspoken critic of Scientology which he left in 2009. He is listed as currently directing the film "Lead and Copper." | âI havenât seen that no â the stunned Swank told Fox News at an FX event in Pasadena Calif. of the report released just minutes earlier about [TGT] who won consecutive Oscars for screenwriting the Swank-starring "Million Dollar Baby" and writing and directing "Crash."
Haggis was named in a civil lawsuit on December 15 2017 by publicist Haleigh Breest who claimed the married 64-year-old filmmaker raped her on Jan. 31 2013 in a New York City apartment.
The lawsuit spurred three more women to claim sexual assault and harassment by Haggis .
According to the Associated Press one of the accusers claimed Haggis made her perform non-consensual oral sex and then raped her .
Another accuser said Haggis told her âI need to be inside you .â She said she was able to escape.
They all said Haggis first tried to kiss them. In two of the cases they said when they fought back Haggis escalated his aggression.
The new rape accuser said she was a 28-year-old publicist working on a television show being produced by Haggis in 1996 when he called to ask to review photos from the show that night in her office.
When Haggis arrived she said everyone else had left the office for the night and he insisted they speak in a back office. She said Haggis began kissing her as soon as they walked into the room.
"I just pulled away. He was just glaring at me and came at me again. I was really resisting. He said to me 'Do you really want to continue working?'" the woman said. "And then he really forced himself on me. I was just numb. I didn't know what to do."
Haggis â lawyer told the AP his client is denying the new accusations saying âHe didnât rape anybody.â
Haggis has also denied Breest's initial rape allegation in a counter-complaint to the lawsuit and said the accuser and her lawyer had demanded a $9 million payment to avoid legal action which he characterized as extortion.
Fox News reached out to Haggis and Breest but did not receive comment.
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3,288 | Sen. Al Franken Hit With Second Groping Allegation : NPR | Al Franken | Sen. Al Franken Hit With Second Groping Allegation
Minnesota Democratic Sen. Al Franken is facing a second allegation that he groped a woman without consent while her husband took a photo of her with the senator at the Minnesota State Fair in 2010.
Franken "pulled me in really close like awkward close and as my husband took the picture he put his hand full-fledged on my rear " said Lindsay Menz who told her story to CNN. "It wasn't around my waist. It wasn't around my hip or side. It was definitely on my butt " she said.
CNN confirmed the account with Menz's husband mother and father whom she told of the interaction at the time. CNN reports Menz also posted the photo on Facebook at the time and commented to her sister: "Dude â Al Franken TOTALLY molested me! Creeper!"
"I take thousands of photos at the state fair surrounded by hundreds of people and I certainly don't remember taking this picture " Franken told CNN in a statement. "I feel badly that Ms. Menz came away from our interaction feeling disrespected."
Menz told CNN that she came forward following broadcaster Leeann Tweeden's account of a 2006 interaction with Franken in which she alleges he forcibly kissed her and took a photo in which he appears to touch her chest while she is asleep.
Franken issued an apology to Tweeden last week and called for the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate the matter. Tweeden's account occurred before Franken was a senator which cast some doubt on how the ethics panel would conduct an inquiry. However Menz's 2010 account occurred while Franken was a first-term senator and clearly falls within the committee's jurisdiction to investigate.
Franken will largely be cut out of the PBS broadcast on Monday evening of this year's Mark Twain Prize ceremony honoring David Letterman. WETA the PBS station based in the Washington D.C. area that produced the broadcast said in a statement "PBS and WETA the producing station felt that the inclusion of Senator Franken in the broadcast at this time would distract from the show's purpose as a celebration of American humor."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer have echoed the call for an ethics investigation. While an inquiry seems likely the panel has not commented on the Franken matter yet.
A Franken spokesperson told the Minnesota Star Tribune over the weekend that Franken has no plans to resign and that he is spending the Thanksgiving holiday in Washington D.C. with his family "and he 's doing a lot of reflecting."
The allegations against Franken come as the Republican Party is grappling with allegations of sexual assault and other misconduct against Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore ahead of a Dec. 12 special election. Moore is accused of a range of predatory behavior toward teenage girls as young as 14 including one allegation of sexual assault. Top Senate Republicans including McConnell and longtime Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby have called on Moore to get out of the race. Moore remains defiant and the state GOP largely stands behind him as does GOP Gov. Kay Ivey. | Sen. Al Franken Hit With Second Groping Allegation
Minnesota [TGT] is facing a second allegation that [TGT] groped a woman without consent while [TGT] husband took a photo of [TGT] with the senator at the Minnesota State Fair in 2010.
[TGT] "pulled me in really close like awkward close and as my husband took the picture he put his hand full-fledged on my rear " said Lindsay Menz who told her story to CNN. "It wasn't around my waist. It wasn't around my hip or side. It was definitely on my butt " she said.
CNN confirmed the account with Menz's husband mother and father whom she told of the interaction at the time. CNN reports Menz also posted the photo on Facebook at the time and commented to her sister: "Dude â Al Franken TOTALLY molested me! Creeper!"
"I take thousands of photos at the state fair surrounded by hundreds of people and I certainly don't remember taking this picture " Franken told CNN in a statement. "I feel badly that Ms. Menz came away from our interaction feeling disrespected."
Menz told CNN that she came forward following broadcaster Leeann Tweeden's account of a 2006 interaction with Franken in which she alleges he forcibly kissed her and took a photo in which he appears to touch her chest while she is asleep.
Franken issued an apology to Tweeden last week and called for the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate the matter. Tweeden's account occurred before Franken was a senator which cast some doubt on how the ethics panel would conduct an inquiry. However Menz's 2010 account occurred while Franken was a first-term senator and clearly falls within the committee's jurisdiction to investigate.
Franken will largely be cut out of the PBS broadcast on Monday evening of this year's Mark Twain Prize ceremony honoring David Letterman. WETA the PBS station based in the Washington D.C. area that produced the broadcast said in a statement "PBS and WETA the producing station felt that the inclusion of Senator Franken in the broadcast at this time would distract from the show's purpose as a celebration of American humor."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer have echoed the call for an ethics investigation. While an inquiry seems likely the panel has not commented on the Franken matter yet.
A Franken spokesperson told the Minnesota Star Tribune over the weekend that Franken has no plans to resign and that he is spending the Thanksgiving holiday in Washington D.C. with his family "and he 's doing a lot of reflecting."
The allegations against Franken come as the Republican Party is grappling with allegations of sexual assault and other misconduct against Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore ahead of a Dec. 12 special election. Moore is accused of a range of predatory behavior toward teenage girls as young as 14 including one allegation of sexual assault. Top Senate Republicans including McConnell and longtime Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby have called on Moore to get out of the race. Moore remains defiant and the state GOP largely stands behind him as does GOP Gov. Kay Ivey. | 2Positive
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3,289 | The slim chance that Ben McAdoo has to save job | Ben McAdoo | Every game is the Super Bowl now for Ben McAdoo .
It has taken him too long to figure out how to coach above the Xs and Os above the loss of Odell Beckham Jr. to field a team New York can be proud of a team that honors the tradition and the legacies of those who came before.
For McAdoo this has been a trial-by-error Sophomore Jinx of a season and he has no margin of error the rest of the way starting Thursday night against the Redskins the first of four games left against NFC East rivals.
After all the dysfunction on and off the field all the dog-day afternoons and nights McAdoo can still save his job and this is how and why:
This was Maraâs answer when I asked him before training camp when his very first inkling was that McAdoo 11-5 as a rookie was the right choice to follow Tom Coughlin:
McAdoo has had two rough spots already this season: 0-5 before he surrendered the playcalling to OC Mike Sullivan and upset the bealeagured Broncos in Denver and that 51-17 disgrace against the Rams followed by the even bigger disgrace in San Francisco against the 0-9 49ers.
McAdoo has no interest in the media schmooze game and that never does you any favors unless you have the pelts on the wall that Bill Belichick has. You better win or you wonât be cut any slack.
McAdoo was lost trying to plug all the leaks that sprung on his ship. It doesnât do anyone any good if you practice great and play lousy on game day. For whatever reason his team had stopped responding to him .
He finally had enough last week when he showed visual evidence of select players letting their teammates down. Along with everyone else.
Itâs his job to keep the players believing. In themselves in their teammates in him and his coaches. It canât be a once-a-month thing if he wants to keep this job.
Itâs not enough for him to tell us that he âs built for this. That a calm doesnât suit him a storm does. Show us. Show the owners. Show the players. Show the fans. Because the storm hasnât passed. | Every game is the Super Bowl now for [TGT]
It has taken [TGT] too long to figure out how to coach above the Xs and Os above the loss of Odell Beckham Jr. to field a team New York can be proud of a team that honors the tradition and the legacies of those who came before.
For [TGT] this has been a trial-by-error Sophomore Jinx of a season and [TGT] has no margin of error the rest of the way starting Thursday night against the Redskins the first of four games left against NFC East rivals.
After all the dysfunction on and off the field all the dog-day afternoons and nights [TGT] can still save his job and this is how and why:
This was Maraâs answer when I asked him before training camp when his very first inkling was that [TGT] 11-5 as a rookie was the right choice to follow Tom Coughlin:
[TGT] has had two rough spots already this season: 0-5 before he surrendered the playcalling to OC Mike Sullivan and upset the bealeagured Broncos in Denver and that 51-17 disgrace against the Rams followed by the even bigger disgrace in San Francisco against the 0-9 49ers.
[TGT] has no interest in the media schmooze game and that never does you any favors unless you have the pelts on the wall that Bill Belichick has. You better win or you wonât be cut any slack.
[TGT] was lost trying to plug all the leaks that sprung on [TGT] ship. It doesnât do anyone any good if you practice great and play lousy on game day. For whatever reason [TGT] team had stopped responding to [TGT] .
[TGT] finally had enough last week when [TGT] showed visual evidence of select players letting their teammates down. Along with everyone else.
Itâs [TGT] job to keep the players believing. In themselves in their teammates in him and his coaches. It canât be a once-a-month thing if he wants to keep this job.
Itâs not enough for him to tell us that he âs built for this. That a calm doesnât suit him a storm does. Show us. Show the owners. Show the players. Show the fans. Because the storm hasnât passed. | 2Positive
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3,290 | Report: Las Vegas Shooter's Laptop Missing Its Hard Drive | Stephen Paddock | Authorities discovered that Las Vegas Nevada shooter Stephen Paddockâs laptop had a missing hard drive during a search of his hotel room at the Mandalay Bay resort according to a report.
ABC News reports that investigators have not been able to recover the missing device and suspect that Paddock removed the hard drive before shooting himself to death.
Authorities suspect that Paddock bought software that enabled him to erase files from his hard drive but could not confirm he used the software without examining the hard drive a source told ABC News.
They are trying to piece together different aspects of his life examining ties to friends family and associates. Authorities have also tried to discern a motive from his travel habits health and finances but to no avail.
Unlike other mass shooters Paddock has not left many traces of evidence.
But he is not the first mass shooter to destroy or conceal his digital footprint.
In 2007 Cho Seung Hui took the hard drive out of his computer and discarded his cellphone before opening fire on 32 people at Virginia Tech.
Steven Kazmierczak who took the lives of five students at an Illinois college before turning the gun on himself in 2008 removed his laptopâs hard drive and tossed out the SIM card from his phone. | Authorities discovered that Las Vegas Nevada shooter [TGT] laptop had a missing hard drive during a search of [TGT] hotel room at the Mandalay Bay resort according to a report.
ABC News reports that investigators have not been able to recover the missing device and suspect that Paddock removed the hard drive before shooting himself to death.
Authorities suspect that Paddock bought software that enabled him to erase files from his hard drive but could not confirm he used the software without examining the hard drive a source told ABC News.
They are trying to piece together different aspects of his life examining ties to friends family and associates. Authorities have also tried to discern a motive from his travel habits health and finances but to no avail.
Unlike other mass shooters Paddock has not left many traces of evidence.
But [TGT] is not the first mass shooter to destroy or conceal [TGT] digital footprint.
In 2007 Cho Seung Hui took the hard drive out of his computer and discarded his cellphone before opening fire on 32 people at Virginia Tech.
Steven Kazmierczak who took the lives of five students at an Illinois college before turning the gun on himself in 2008 removed his laptopâs hard drive and tossed out the SIM card from his phone. | 0Negative
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3,291 | Fantasy football waiver wire for Week 6: After Giants catastrophe Roger Lewis Jr. emerges | Jones | I donât often include a prospect in the waivers column in back-to-back week but can we address the elephant in the room? After two weeks Jones looks like a better running back than Ty Montgomery â before the rib injury. There. Said it.
Look in a game-of-the-week matchup that figured to be a seesaw battle his 125 yards on the ground was huge. The rookie averaged 6.6 yards on 19 carries and that figured wasnât skewed by one or two big runs â his longest went for 22 yards.
If Jones keeps it up can the Packers afford to sit the hot hand for a player that could be nursing broken ribs all season. Montgomery just became the anointed starter this season so itâs not like he âs entrenched. This is one of those situations where you take flier on a prospective starter.
Jones is still available in 43 percent of Yahoo and 66 percent of NFL.com leagues. | I donât often include a prospect in the waivers column in back-to-back week but can we address the elephant in the room? After two weeks [TGT] looks like a better running back than Ty Montgomery â before the rib injury. There. Said it.
Look in a game-of-the-week matchup that figured to be a seesaw battle his 125 yards on the ground was huge. The rookie averaged 6.6 yards on 19 carries and that figured wasnât skewed by one or two big runs â his longest went for 22 yards.
If [TGT] keeps it up can the Packers afford to sit the hot hand for a player that could be nursing broken ribs all season. Montgomery just became the anointed starter this season so itâs not like he âs entrenched. This is one of those situations where you take flier on a prospective starter.
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3,292 | Civil Rights Reporters Simeon Saunders Booker Jr. And Roy Reed Die At 99 And 87 : NPR | Simeon Booker Jr. | Two leading journalists who covered the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s died yesterday. Roy Reed was white. Simeon Booker Jr. was black. As NPR's Neda Ulaby reports each in his own way helped open the nation's eyes to the struggle against racial injustice.
ULABY: Roy Reed went on to cover the civil rights movement for The New York Times. He was 87 when he died. Simeon Booker was 99. Both men were there during the pivotal march from Selma to Montgomery Ala. when police attacked protesters on Pettus Bridge. Booker was working for Ebony and Jet magazines. In 2013 he told NPR he was just as shocked as any other Northerner by what was going on in the South.
ULABY: Booker was the first full-time black reporter at The Washington Post. Wil Haygood got there years later. He told NPR in 2007 Booker 's experiences were not easy.
WIL HAYGOOD: He would go out and he would introduce himself to people as Simeon Booker of The Washington Post. And he said people would throw their heads back and just start laughing out loud in his face because they thought he was joking because they had never met a black reporter from The Washington Post. I mean that's just heartbreaking.
ULABY: Booker 's colleagues would not sit next to him in the cafeteria. After only two years he left. While working at Ebony and Jet Booker heard about the murder of a 14-year-old accused of whistling at a white woman. He took a photographer to Emmett Till's funeral. The pictures of Till's open casket and mangled face became a civil rights catalyst. Booker found stories no one else could.
ULABY: Wil Haygood says Simeon Booker became friendly with an FBI agent who'd tip him off to danger.
BOOKER : My whole life was one of fright in newspapering when I was in the South.
ULABY: Later some criticized Booker since the FBI was also working at the time to undermine the civil rights movement. His wife of 40 years Carol McCabe Booker co-wrote his memoir. Almost to the end she says Simeon Booker loved speaking about his experiences. One question she said came up over and over.
CAROL MCCABE BOOKER: What kept you going back down there? And he answered so matter-of-factly it was my job. | Two leading journalists who covered the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s died yesterday. Roy Reed was white. [TGT] was black. As NPR's Neda Ulaby reports each in his own way helped open the nation's eyes to the struggle against racial injustice.
ULABY: Roy Reed went on to cover the civil rights movement for The New York Times. He was 87 when he died. Simeon Booker was 99. Both men were there during the pivotal march from Selma to Montgomery Ala. when police attacked protesters on Pettus Bridge. Booker was working for Ebony and Jet magazines. In 2013 he told NPR he was just as shocked as any other Northerner by what was going on in the South.
ULABY: Booker was the first full-time black reporter at The Washington Post. Wil Haygood got there years later. He told NPR in 2007 Booker 's experiences were not easy.
WIL HAYGOOD: He would go out and he would introduce himself to people as Simeon Booker of The Washington Post. And he said people would throw their heads back and just start laughing out loud in his face because they thought he was joking because they had never met a black reporter from The Washington Post. I mean that's just heartbreaking.
ULABY: Booker 's colleagues would not sit next to him in the cafeteria. After only two years he left. While working at Ebony and Jet Booker heard about the murder of a 14-year-old accused of whistling at a white woman. He took a photographer to Emmett Till's funeral. The pictures of Till's open casket and mangled face became a civil rights catalyst. Booker found stories no one else could.
ULABY: Wil Haygood says Simeon Booker became friendly with an FBI agent who'd tip him off to danger.
BOOKER : My whole life was one of fright in newspapering when I was in the South.
ULABY: Later some criticized Booker since the FBI was also working at the time to undermine the civil rights movement. His wife of 40 years Carol McCabe Booker co-wrote his memoir. Almost to the end she says Simeon Booker loved speaking about his experiences. One question she said came up over and over.
CAROL MCCABE BOOKER: What kept you going back down there? And he answered so matter-of-factly it was my job. | 2Positive
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3,293 | Famed Conductor At The Met Accused Of Molesting Teenager For Years In The '80s : The Two | DwyerAP James Levine | The allegations first described by the New York Post were described in a police report that was filed in 2016. In that report a man says that he met Levine as a child in Illinois where Levine was a conductor at the Ravinia Music Festival each summer.
In the report the man alleges that in 1985 when he was 15 and Levine was 41 Levine held his hand in a "prolonged and incredibly sensual way" while they were alone in a car the Post reports. The following year Levine began to touch the teenager's genitalia and masturbate in front of him . The ensuing sexual contact lasted for years according to the allegation.
Levine also served as a mentor to the teenager wrote a college recommendation essay and gave him tens of thousands of dollars of cash the Post writes.
There were "hundreds of incidents " the alleged victim said. The man who says he is straight and that he was not aroused by any of their interactions wrote in the report that he was "confused and paralyzed" by Levine 's actions.
The New York Times has also seen a copy of the police report and confirmed the stories contained in the report with the alleged victim and with one of his relatives. The Times also notes that rumors of sexual misconduct have swirled around Levine unconfirmed for years.
The Times reports that Levine invited the victim to audition as a conductor and told him that he should focus on "other talents" â while continuing to promise to "raise [him] 'special' " in some way. The young man first told a relative about the abuse in 1993 the newspaper writes; he reported it to police in 2016 after realizing that Levine 's behavior had negatively affected his life. | The allegations first described by the New York Post were described in a police report that was filed in 2016. In that report a man says that he met Levine as a child in Illinois where Levine was a conductor at the Ravinia Music Festival each summer.
In the report the man alleges that in 1985 when he was 15 and Levine was 41 Levine held his hand in a "prolonged and incredibly sensual way" while they were alone in a car the Post reports. The following year Levine began to touch the teenager's genitalia and masturbate in front of him . The ensuing sexual contact lasted for years according to the allegation.
Levine also served as a mentor to the teenager wrote a college recommendation essay and gave him tens of thousands of dollars of cash the Post writes.
There were "hundreds of incidents " the alleged victim said. The man who says he is straight and that he was not aroused by any of their interactions wrote in the report that he was "confused and paralyzed" by Levine 's actions.
The New York Times has also seen a copy of the police report and confirmed the stories contained in the report with the alleged victim and with one of his relatives. The Times also notes that rumors of sexual misconduct have swirled around Levine unconfirmed for years.
The Times reports that Levine invited the victim to audition as a conductor and told him that he should focus on "other talents" â while continuing to promise to "raise [him] 'special' " in some way. The young man first told a relative about the abuse in 1993 the newspaper writes; he reported it to police in 2016 after realizing that Levine 's behavior had negatively affected his life. | 0Negative
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3,294 | This Is What Itâs Like When A Court Tells Your Abusive Ex | Jane | Jane * who is in her late thirties and from the West Midlands got an admission from staff at Coventry family court that the disclosure of her address to her abusive ex-partner last month was an administrative oversight.
âIt took 24 hours before they admitted they had given him my address " she said. "They said âActually it was the same paperwork and yes heâs got it. Itâs an oversight on our part and we should have marked it out.â
In police interviews Jane âs ex-partner said he didnât know where she was living and until the court sent out the paperwork he had no firm idea she still resided in the area.
âAnd speaking to Warwickshire police this is the second time that Coventry [family court] have done this in eight weeks " she said. "So Iâm not an isolated case and it would seem that they havenât learned anything."
Jane split from her partner in 2015 after a year together. The NMO Jane then obtained expired on 20 August this year and she went back to court to get an extension late last month when her address was exposed.
But it hasnât been a straightforward process. She said her ex-partner repeatedly evaded the court bailiffs who turned up to his door to serve the order.
âHeâs got cameras so he would then ring them up and tell them what they were wearing â heâd say the paperwork had been sent but he wasnât prepared to accept it â Jane said.
Jane hired a barrister â she qualified for limited legal aid â to avoid her abuser cross-examining her in court.
âI wasnât in a state to be cross-examined by the perpetrator â thereâs no way I could have dealt with that " she said. "Itâs barbaric. Itâs really difficult because youâre stuck between a rock and a hard place. Iâm lucky because I havenât got children involved but it is a nightmare."
Before she left her relationship Jane had for some years been campaigning to improve the rights of domestic violence survivors. She has an ongoing dialogue with MPs and has a meeting scheduled with the Home Office officials to discuss potential changes to the system. | [TGT] * who is in [TGT] late thirties and from the West Midlands got an admission from staff at Coventry family court that the disclosure of [TGT] address to [TGT] abusive ex-partner last month was an administrative oversight.
âIt took 24 hours before they admitted they had given him my address " [TGT] said. "They said âActually it was the same paperwork and yes heâs got it. Itâs an oversight on our part and we should have marked it out.â
In police interviews [TGT] ex-partner said he didnât know where [TGT] was living and until the court sent out the paperwork he had no firm idea she still resided in the area.
âAnd speaking to Warwickshire police this is the second time that Coventry [family court] have done this in eight weeks " she said. "So Iâm not an isolated case and it would seem that they havenât learned anything. [TGT]
split from [TGT] partner in 2015 after a year together. [TGT] then obtained expired on 20 August this year and [TGT] went back to court to get an extension late last month when [TGT] address was exposed.
But it hasnât been a straightforward process. [TGT] said [TGT] ex-partner repeatedly evaded the court bailiffs who turned up to his door to serve the order.
âHeâs got cameras so he would then ring them up and tell them what they were wearing â heâd say the paperwork had been sent but he wasnât prepared to accept it â [TGT] said.
[TGT] hired a barrister â [TGT] qualified for limited legal aid â to avoid [TGT] abuser cross-examining her in court.
âI wasnât in a state to be cross-examined by the perpetrator â thereâs no way I could have dealt with that " she said. "Itâs barbaric. Itâs really difficult because youâre stuck between a rock and a hard place. Iâm lucky because I havenât got children involved but it is a nightmare."
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3,295 | Jill Abramson Smears Justice Thomas Again. Part 5: âBrock and Cooke | Clarence Thomas | Jill Abramsonâs hit piece on Clarence Thomas remarkably relies on David Brock and Fred Cooke although Brock himself rebutted Abramsonâs own work on Thomas and has highlighted Cooke as a problematic source. Here are the facts.
Mayer and Abramson have made these accusations on the basis of accounts from sources who tell me they were either flatly misquoted or misrepresented or refused to confirm information attributed to them. The list of these people who say they were misquoted includes the only woman whose allegations against Thomas have not been previously reported â and refuted â in prior books or articles. In addition to relying on fake evidence doctored quotes and unsupported hearsay the book is brimming with anonymous and discreditable sources. Key figures were never interviewed. Where evidence does not fit the authorsâ point it is ignored entirely. And a whole array of alleged facts â small and large â are simply wrong.
The case that Thomas exhibited an interest in pornography after his student days rests on the accounts of two people: Barry Maddox the proprietor of a Washington D.C. video rental shop and Frederick Cooke a Washington attorney. [A third source Kaye Savage who claims to have information linking Thomas to Playboy magazine is discussed later in this review.] Mayer and Abramson write:
âBut the interest in pornography that Thomas first exhibited at Yale apparently continued through the early 1980s when Long Dong Silver was a well-known figure among fans of X-rated movies. According to Barry Maddox the proprietor of Graffiti a video rental and equipment store just off Dupont Circle a few blocks from the EEOCâs headquarters the store began to rent pornographic videos in 1982. Not long afterward Maddox recalled Thomas became a regular customer.â
There are several problems with this account including that the EEOCâs headquarters at 18th and L Streets NW a few blocks south of the Dupont Circle area did not open until August 1989. Thomas worked at that location for only a matter of months and during the entire time he was in the middle of a brutal confirmation fight for a seat on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals which he won in March 1990. In the early 1980s when Maddox claims Thomas was a regular customer the EEOCâs headquarters were at Columbia Plaza at 24th and E Streets NW â nowhere near Dupont Circle or Graffiti.
âIt was also in Graffiti that Frederick Douglass Cooke Jr. a Washington attorney and the former D.C. corporation counsel saw Thomas at the cashierâs counter in the late 1980s with another âfreak-of-natureâ kind of film. Cooke thought it pretty amusing to run into the chairman of the EEOC whom he had met once or twice on a social basis standing with a triple X videotape entitled The Adventures of Bad Mama Jama.â
These sentences appear on page 107 of the book where though he is not quoted directly it appears as if Cooke himself has told the authors what he supposedly saw. There is no note indicating otherwise. Not until flipping to a note for page 330 where efforts by Thomas opponents to extract damaging information from Cooke are discussed do we learn âReached on two separate occasions Cooke would neither confirm nor deny the account.â[5.] | Jill Abramsonâs hit piece on [TGT] remarkably relies on David Brock and Fred Cooke although Brock himself rebutted Abramsonâs own work on Thomas and has highlighted Cooke as a problematic source. Here are the facts.
Mayer and Abramson have made these accusations on the basis of accounts from sources who tell me they were either flatly misquoted or misrepresented or refused to confirm information attributed to them. The list of these people who say they were misquoted includes the only woman whose allegations against Thomas have not been previously reported â and refuted â in prior books or articles. In addition to relying on fake evidence doctored quotes and unsupported hearsay the book is brimming with anonymous and discreditable sources. Key figures were never interviewed. Where evidence does not fit the authorsâ point it is ignored entirely. And a whole array of alleged facts â small and large â are simply wrong.
The case that Thomas exhibited an interest in pornography after his student days rests on the accounts of two people: Barry Maddox the proprietor of a Washington D.C. video rental shop and Frederick Cooke a Washington attorney. [A third source Kaye Savage who claims to have information linking Thomas to Playboy magazine is discussed later in this review.] Mayer and Abramson write:
âBut the interest in pornography that Thomas first exhibited at Yale apparently continued through the early 1980s when Long Dong Silver was a well-known figure among fans of X-rated movies. According to Barry Maddox the proprietor of Graffiti a video rental and equipment store just off Dupont Circle a few blocks from the EEOCâs headquarters the store began to rent pornographic videos in 1982. Not long afterward Maddox recalled Thomas became a regular customer.â
There are several problems with this account including that the EEOCâs headquarters at 18th and L Streets NW a few blocks south of the Dupont Circle area did not open until August 1989. Thomas worked at that location for only a matter of months and during the entire time he was in the middle of a brutal confirmation fight for a seat on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals which he won in March 1990. In the early 1980s when Maddox claims Thomas was a regular customer the EEOCâs headquarters were at Columbia Plaza at 24th and E Streets NW â nowhere near Dupont Circle or Graffiti.
âIt was also in Graffiti that Frederick Douglass Cooke Jr. a Washington attorney and the former D.C. corporation counsel saw Thomas at the cashierâs counter in the late 1980s with another âfreak-of-natureâ kind of film. Cooke thought it pretty amusing to run into the chairman of the EEOC whom he had met once or twice on a social basis standing with a triple X videotape entitled The Adventures of Bad Mama Jama.â
These sentences appear on page 107 of the book where though he is not quoted directly it appears as if Cooke himself has told the authors what he supposedly saw. There is no note indicating otherwise. Not until flipping to a note for page 330 where efforts by Thomas opponents to extract damaging information from Cooke are discussed do we learn âReached on two separate occasions Cooke would neither confirm nor deny the account.â[5.] | 2Positive
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3,296 | In Waymo trial what fired Uber exec may not say could be key | Waymo | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - One of the most dramatic moments in an upcoming trade secrets trial between Alphabet Incâs Waymo and Uber will likely come when the former chief of Uberâs self-driving car unit takes the witness stand as he is expected to repeatedly refuse to answer questions.
Waymo sued Uber Technologies Inc last year claiming that former Waymo engineer Anthony Levandowski downloaded more than 14 000 confidential files before leaving to set up a self-driving truck company called Otto which Uber acquired soon after.
Levandowski regarded as a visionary in autonomous technology is not a defendant in the case but is on Waymo âs witness list. Waymo has accused Uber of benefiting from Waymo technology that it says Uber acquired through Levandowski . Uber has denied Waymoâs allegations and has argued that the data in the files were not trade secrets.
During a pretrial deposition in April Waymo lawyers questioned Levandowski for hours about allegations that he took Waymoâs trade secrets. He declined to answer any questions about his time at both companies citing constitutional protections against self-incrimination over 300 times according to a deposition transcript. Levandowski has never publicly addressed the allegations of taking the documents and law enforcement has not charged anyone with their theft.
Uber Waymo and Miles Ehrlich an attorney for Levandowski declined to comment.
Elizabeth Rowe a trade secret expert at the University of Florida Levin College of Law said Levandowski refusing to answer questions on the stand and the judgeâs instructions around it would hurt Uberâs case because it would reinforce Waymoâs arguments that he was deceptive and took their information.
To counter Levandowskiâs expected refusal to answer questions Rowe said Uber should tell jurors in opening statements that the companyâs actions and those of Levandowski are separate stressing that Uber fired the engineer last May.
Alsup granted Waymoâs request for a pretrial injunction in May prohibiting Levandowski from working on Lidar a sensor technology for self-driving cars that is the crux of the current litigation.
If Waymo persuades a jury that Uber stole its trade secrets it said it would seek a permanent injunction to prohibit Uber from using them in the future.
Other tech executives who could testify at trial include former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Benchmark venture capitalist Bill Gurley and Waymo CEO John Krafcik court documents showed. | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - One of the most dramatic moments in an upcoming trade secrets trial between Alphabet Incâs Waymo and Uber will likely come when the former chief of Uberâs self-driving car unit takes the witness stand as he is expected to repeatedly refuse to answer questions.
[TGT] sued Uber Technologies Inc last year claiming that [TGT] downloaded more than 14 000 confidential files before leaving to set up a self-driving truck company called Otto which Uber acquired soon after.
[TGT] regarded as a visionary in autonomous technology is not a defendant in the case but is on [TGT] âs witness list. [TGT] has accused Uber of benefiting from [TGT] technology that it says Uber acquired through Levandowski . Uber has denied Waymoâs allegations and has argued that the data in the files were not trade secrets.
During a pretrial deposition in April Waymo lawyers questioned [TGT] for hours about allegations that he took Waymoâs trade secrets. He declined to answer any questions about his time at both companies citing constitutional protections against self-incrimination over 300 times according to a deposition transcript. [TGT] has never publicly addressed the allegations of taking the documents and law enforcement has not charged anyone with their theft.
Uber Waymo and Miles Ehrlich an attorney for [TGT] declined to comment.
Elizabeth Rowe a trade secret expert at the University of Florida Levin College of Law said [TGT] refusing to answer questions on the stand and the judgeâs instructions around it would hurt Uberâs case because it would reinforce Waymoâs arguments that [TGT] was deceptive and took their information.
To counter Levandowskiâs expected refusal to answer questions Rowe said Uber should tell jurors in opening statements that the companyâs actions and those of [TGT] are separate stressing that Uber fired the engineer last May.
Alsup granted Waymoâs request for a pretrial injunction in May prohibiting [TGT] from working on Lidar a sensor technology for self-driving cars that is the crux of the current litigation.
If [TGT] persuades a jury that Uber stole [TGT] trade secrets [TGT] said [TGT] would seek a permanent injunction to prohibit Uber from using them in the future.
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3,297 | Rockets run hot streak to 12 straight and 21 of 25 | James Harden | James Harden scored a game-high 41 points for the Rockets. (Photo: Isaiah J. Downing USA TODAY Sports)
James Harden had 41 points and eight rebounds Chris Paul scored 23 points and the Rockets beat the Nuggets 119-114 on Sunday night for their 12th straight victory.
Harden had 27 in the first half and seven in the fourth quarter when the Rockets held off a late Denver rally. Harden has scored 40 or more points nine times this season. He finished with seven assists.
"Having a 17-point lead in the fourth quarter we've got to finish games off like that " Harden said. "It was a good thing we finished the game off the right way down the stretch. We got stops when we needed to and we made shots."
That was when Harden took over. He scored 14 points in the last 2:47 of the period and assisted on Houston's other two baskets to end the period when the Rockets extended the lead from five to 13.
Houston led by as many as 18 but Denver rallied in the fourth. Jokic's tip with 2:12 left made it 110-106 and after Joe Johnson missed from the corner Gary Harris had a chance to cut it to a point with a 3-pointer. But the Nuggets' leading scorer who finished with six points on 2-of-12 shooting misfired and Harden hit two more free throws to make it 112-106 with 1:17 left.
DIFFERENT DEFENSE SAME RESULT: The Nuggets lost by 25 and 30 points in Houston earlier this season so they changed how they guarded the Rockets on Sunday by switching more on defense. Harden found himself going against the 7-foot Jokic and 6-11 Mason Plumlee a lot of the night. The new look didn't bother him .
"We've seen a lot of defenses and no matter who they put on James it's a pretty good chance he 's going to score " Trevor Ariza said. "We give him the ball and let him make plays. It's been working out for us."
SIDELINE ASSIST: With Houston ahead 106-99 and 4:51 left Ariza tried to save a ball off Harden 's miss as it went into the crowd but a fan sitting courtside grabbed the ball before he could get to it. Ariza pleaded with the referee that he had a chance to save it and then had a lighthearted exchange with the fan. | [TGT] scored a game-high 41 points for the Rockets. (Photo: Isaiah J. Downing USA TODAY Sports)
[TGT] had 41 points and eight rebounds Chris Paul scored 23 points and the Rockets beat the Nuggets 119-114 on Sunday night for their 12th straight victory.
[TGT] had 27 in the first half and seven in the fourth quarter when the Rockets held off a late Denver rally. [TGT] has scored 40 or more points nine times this season. [TGT] finished with seven assists.
"Having a 17-point lead in the fourth quarter we've got to finish games off like that " Harden said. "It was a good thing we finished the game off the right way down the stretch. We got stops when we needed to and we made shots."
That was when [TGT] took over. [TGT] scored 14 points in the last 2:47 of the period and assisted on Houston's other two baskets to end the period when the Rockets extended the lead from five to 13.
Houston led by as many as 18 but Denver rallied in the fourth. Jokic's tip with 2:12 left made it 110-106 and after Joe Johnson missed from the corner Gary Harris had a chance to cut it to a point with a 3-pointer. But the Nuggets' leading scorer who finished with six points on 2-of-12 shooting misfired and [TGT] hit two more free throws to make it 112-106 with 1:17 left.
DIFFERENT DEFENSE SAME RESULT: The Nuggets lost by 25 and 30 points in Houston earlier this season so they changed how they guarded the Rockets on Sunday by switching more on defense. [TGT] found [TGT] going against the 7-foot Jokic and 6-11 Mason Plumlee a lot of the night. The new look didn't bother [TGT] .
"We've seen a lot of defenses and no matter who they put on James it's a pretty good chance [TGT] 's going to score " Trevor Ariza said. "We give [TGT] the ball and let [TGT] make plays. It's been working out for us."
SIDELINE ASSIST: With Houston ahead 106-99 and 4:51 left Ariza tried to save a ball off Harden 's miss as it went into the crowd but a fan sitting courtside grabbed the ball before he could get to it. Ariza pleaded with the referee that he had a chance to save it and then had a lighthearted exchange with the fan. | 2Positive
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3,298 | Alibaba takes control of logistics business pledges $15 billion to expand network | Cainiao | HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group (BABA.N) has taken control of logistics unit Cainiao and pledged to spend 100 billion yuan ($15 billion) over five years to build out a global logistics network underscoring aggressive expansion plans overseas.
Alibaba will invest 5.3 billion yuan to boost its stake in Cainiao Smart Logistics Network to 51 percent from 47 percent giving it direct control over the loss-making affiliate suggesting a rough valuation of Cainiao at around $20 billion.
âOur commitment to Cainiao and additional investment in logistics demonstrate Alibabaâs commitment to building the most-efficient logistic network in China and around the world â Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang said in a statement on Tuesday.
Cainiao was the focus of an investigation last year by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into Alibabaâs accounting practices.
Alibaba which will gain an extra seat on Cainiaoâs board giving it four out of a total seven seats added that more shares were issued in the funding round to other investors. It did not give details about the other issuances which would impact Cainiaoâs valuation.
The investment also signals Alibabaâs intention to boost control over China âs domestic warehousing and delivery market increasingly competitive as firms seek to make use of troves of logistics data about the countryâs Internet-savvy shoppers.
In June major logistics company SF Holding cut ties with Cainiao which provides logistics support directly to Alibabaâs top e-commerce platform Taobao . SF Holding claimed Alibaba had requested data unrelated to an existing partnership agreement. Alibaba denied the claims.
A person close to Alibaba who asked not to be named said Cainiao was not currently considering an IPO.
Alibaba and Cainiao declined to comment.
Alibaba co-founded Cainiao in 2013 with partners including department store owner Intime Group conglomerate Fosun Group and a handful of logistics companies. It oversees roughly 57 million deliveries a day. | HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba Group (BABA.N) has taken control of logistics unit Cainiao and pledged to spend 100 billion yuan ($15 billion) over five years to build out a global logistics network underscoring aggressive expansion plans overseas.
Alibaba will invest 5.3 billion yuan to boost its stake in Cainiao Smart Logistics Network to 51 percent from 47 percent giving it direct control over the loss-making affiliate suggesting a rough valuation of [TGT] at around $20 billion.
âOur commitment to Cainiao and additional investment in logistics demonstrate Alibabaâs commitment to building the most-efficient logistic network in China and around the world â Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang said in a statement on Tuesday.
[TGT] was the focus of an investigation last year by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) into Alibabaâs accounting practices.
[TGT] added that more shares were issued in the funding round to other investors. [TGT] did not give details about the other issuances which would impact Cainiaoâs valuation.
The investment also signals Alibabaâs intention to boost control over China âs domestic warehousing and delivery market increasingly competitive as firms seek to make use of troves of logistics data about the countryâs Internet-savvy shoppers.
In June major logistics company SF Holding cut ties with Cainiao which provides logistics support directly to Alibabaâs top e-commerce platform Taobao . SF Holding claimed Alibaba had requested data unrelated to an existing partnership agreement. Alibaba denied the claims.
A person close to Alibaba who asked not to be named said [TGT] was not currently considering an IPO.
Alibaba and [TGT] declined to comment.
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3,299 | Brooklyn woman who fatally shot her best friend sentenced | Cheyenne Wright | Cheyenne Wright 31 was arguing with a group of women in the courtyard of the Farragut Houses on June 15 2016 when she stalked off and returned with a gun.
Wright âs friend Luis Villot saw her approach the crowd that contained of several innocent children â including his own â and confronted her.
Villot 29 was trying to calm Wright down when she fired the first shot into the air and two more into the crowd. One bullet fatally hit Villot in the head.
âYou should have listened to him when he said to walk away â said Zenaida Villot the dead manâs mother during a victim-impact statement she read in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Wednesday.
A jury convicted Wright of second-degree murder reckless endangerment and weapons charges.
Wright âs friend Luis Villot saw the woman approach a crowd that contained of several innocent children â including his own â and confronted her. (Family Handout)
Assistant District Attorney Andres Palacio called Wright âs actions a âtextbook example of depraved indifference murderâ that were captured on video surveillance.
âIâm so sorry for what I did Luis was like a brother my best friend to me â a tearful Wright said. âIf I could switch places with him I would.â
Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun noted that Wright was not a âmonsterâ and did not intentionally kill Villot.
However the judge explained since Wright fired the gun three times and the third bullet hit Villot that constitutes depraved indifference murder.
Palacio recommended a sentence of 22 years to life but Chun ordered Wright serve a minimum of 15 years for the gun charge and 19 years to life for the murder.
Wright could be eligible for parole in 15 years. | [TGT] was arguing with a group of women in the courtyard of the Farragut Houses on June 15 2016 when she stalked off and returned with a gun.
Wright âs friend Luis Villot saw her approach the crowd that contained of several innocent children â including his own â and confronted her.
Villot 29 was trying to calm [TGT] down when [TGT] fired the first shot into the air and two more into the crowd. One bullet fatally hit Villot in the head.
âYou should have listened to him when he said to walk away â said Zenaida Villot the dead manâs mother during a victim-impact statement [TGT] read in Brooklyn Supreme Court on Wednesday.
A jury convicted Wright of second-degree murder reckless endangerment and weapons charges.
[TGT] âs friend Luis Villot saw [TGT] approach a crowd that contained of several innocent children â including his own â and confronted [TGT] . (Family Handout)
Assistant District Attorney Andres Palacio called [TGT] âs actions a âtextbook example of depraved indifference murderâ that were captured on video surveillance.
âIâm so sorry for what I did Luis was like a brother my best friend to me â a tearful [TGT] said. âIf I could switch places with him I would.â
Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun noted that [TGT] was not a âmonsterâ and did not intentionally kill Villot.
However the judge explained since [TGT] fired the gun three times and the third bullet hit Villot that constitutes depraved indifference murder.
Palacio recommended a sentence of 22 years to life but Chun ordered [TGT] serve a minimum of 15 years for the gun charge and 19 years to life for the murder.
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3,300 | Worlds Richest Woman: Francoise Bettencourt Meyers Net Worth | Francoise Bettencourt Meyers | But Bloomberg has declared that Bettencourt's only daughter Francoise Bettencourt Meyers is now officially the world's richest woman ahead of Alice Walton the Walmart heiress. Bloomberg puts Bettencourt Meyers' net worth at $42 billion compared to $37.7 billion for Walton.
Francoise Bettencourt Meyers in 2015 . Bertrand Rindoff PetroffâGetty Images
Although raised a strict Catholic Bettencourt Meyers married the grandson of a rabbi killed in Aushwitz â all the more notable given that L'Oreal's founder Eugène Schueller was a known Nazi sympathizer .
Bettencourt Meyers is arguably best known for bringing legal action against her mother after the elder Bettencourt began giving away millions in assets and insurance to society photographer François-Marie Banier with whom she'd struck up an unusual friendship. Bettencourt Meyers accused Banier of preying on her mother's onsetting dementia. When Bettencourt Meyers sued her mother responded by calling her daughter âune emmerdeuseâ (a pain in the ass) according to Vanity Fair .
The case was ultimately decided in Bettencourt Meyers' favor and she and her two sons were named guardians of Lilianeâs interests in 2011. | But Bloomberg has declared that Bettencourt's only daughter [TGT] is now officially the world's richest woman ahead of Alice Walton the Walmart heiress. Bloomberg puts Bettencourt Meyers' net worth at $42 billion compared to $37.7 billion for Walton.
[TGT] in 2015 . Bertrand Rindoff PetroffâGetty Images
Although raised a strict Catholic Bettencourt Meyers married the grandson of a rabbi killed in Aushwitz â all the more notable given that L'Oreal's founder Eugène Schueller was a known Nazi sympathizer .
Bettencourt Meyers is arguably best known for bringing legal action against her mother after the elder Bettencourt began giving away millions in assets and insurance to society photographer François-Marie Banier with whom she'd struck up an unusual friendship. Bettencourt Meyers accused Banier of preying on her mother's onsetting dementia. When Bettencourt Meyers sued her mother responded by calling her daughter âune emmerdeuseâ (a pain in the ass) according to Vanity Fair .
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