Datasets:

vattvar

/

capstone_test

like 0

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

CLOSE The right-wing Patriot Prayer rally drew a large group of counter-protesters. Portland Police say the flash bangs were used after rocks and bottles were thrown at officers. USA TODAY Oregon's largest city was calm and quiet Sunday after a day of chaotic, competing protests that clogged Portland streets, crippled public transit and left at least eight people injured. Police in riot gear broke up the demonstrations as clashes developed among law enforcers, anti-fascist "antifa" protesters and members of the "Proud Boys" and other right-wing groups. Three people were charged with crimes ranging from assault on a police officer to harassment, police said. As the violence increased, police declared a civil disturbance and ordered the protests dispersed. Pepper spray was used by demonstrators and police, Assistant Chief Chris Davis said. "Demonstration events are very fluid in nature and the management of these events is complex," Davis said. "There are hundreds of peaceful free speech events in the city in a given year that do not result in violence. Unfortunately, today some community members and officers were injured." Multiple groups, including Rose City Antifa, the Proud Boys and conservative activist Haley Adams protest in downtown Portland, Ore., Saturday, June 29, 2019. (Photo: Dave Killen/, AP) The protests came a day after avowed white supremacist James Fields Jr. was sentenced to life in prison in Charlottesville, Virginia, for ramming his car into counter-protesters of a “Unite the Right” rally in 2017, killing one and injuring dozens more. In Portland, Davis said officers were investigating several assaults during Saturday's protests and asked the public for help in identifying more suspects. Andy Ngo, an editor with the conservative website "Quillette," tweeted photos of cuts and bruises on his face. He said on Twitter he was hit multiple times with fists and weapons. "Attacked by antifa. Bleeding," he tweeted. "They stole my camera equipment. No police until after. waiting for ambulance. If you have evidence of attack please help." On way to hospital. Was beat on face and head multiple times in downtown in middle of street with fists and weapons. Suspects at large. — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) June 29, 2019 Protesters also clashed with police, throwing water bottles and eggs at officers, and three were among those injured, police said. There were reports of protesters throwing "milkshakes" – with a substance mixed in that was similar to a quick drying cement, police said. Portland Fire Medics were embedded with the police so the injured could quickly receive medical attention, police said. Pioneer Courthouse Square was closed for about an hour "due to volatile behavior impacting public safety," police said. "We are actively investigating these incidents to hold those responsible accountable," Davis said. Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/30/antifa-right-wing-protesters-clash-streets-portland-oregon/1611630001/

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

PM says Britain must leave EU with ‘a good deal’ in apparent rebuke to ‘do or die’ comment Theresa May has made a thinly veiled attack on Boris Johnson’s “do or die” approach to leaving the EU on 31 October, insisting that the right approach for Britain was to leave with a deal. Attending her last EU summit in Brussels as prime minister on Sunday, May took aim at the approach of the Tory leadership frontrunner, who has taken an increasingly hardline approach in recent days. Johnson has said that if the EU declines to renegotiate the withdrawal agreement and remove the contentious Irish backstop, he would take the UK out of the EU without a deal on Halloween. When asked if this was the best approach to Brexit, May suggested the next prime minister should focus on getting a deal through the Commons. The prime minister was thwarted three times by MPs in seeking to get the withdrawal agreement ratified. She said: “I’ve always been very clear that I think the best approach for the UK is to first of all ensure we’re delivering on the vote that took place in 2016, leaving the EU, but that we do that with a good deal so we can do it in an orderly way. “I still think we negotiated a good deal. I wasn’t able to get a majority in parliament for that deal. It will be up to my successor to get that majority, deliver on the vote and take us forward.” The Irish prime minister, Leo Varadkar, said Johnson would receive a “fair hearing” should he win the keys to Downing Street next month. “But we also need to make sure that everyone in the UK understands what we mean when we say that withdrawal agreement with the backstop cannot be reopened,” Varadkar added. May went on to say she was proud of what she had achieved, particularly on security threats including Russia and on climate change, on which she claimed the UK had taken a lead. “Of course we have had some tough and long talks about Brexit,” she said. “We have also talked about how we will protect and maintain our shared prosperity and security.” She said she was looking forward to a “constructive discussion” of who should take up the top jobs in the EU institutions, the sole focus of Sunday’s summit, including a replacement for Jean-Claude Juncker as European commission president. But the prime minister appeared to be in a potentially awkward position with Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia looking likely to try to block the appointment of the frontrunner, Frans Timmermans, who as vice-president of the commission has been a strident critic of populist governments weakening their independent judiciary. Should Italy back the so-called Visegrád group, the UK would be left in effect with a casting vote despite insisting it would not meddle in future EU affairs. The leaders have set themselves the goal of making a decision by Monday morning.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Video The White House press secretary was caught on camera battling to allow US media into the meeting between her boss and the North Korean leader. Stephanie Grisham is seen jostling with North Korean security staff, and a voice can be heard saying "I need help". It happened outside the room where Donald Trump and Kim Jong-Un were having a sit-down meeting. A group of photographers, camera crews and reporters known as the US pool are routinely given close access to the president by his aides to report on his work.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Soon after Sue Wynn moved up the road from the Vales Point coal power station, on the banks of Lake Macquarie in New South Wales’s Hunter Valley, she started to worry about what the plant was releasing into the environment. Not the carbon dioxide emissions from its smokestacks – it was 1978, and that disquiet came later – but the coal ash mixed with water and piped into a giant unlined dam site nearby. “What you have is a poisonous slurry containing heavy metals being dumped over virgin soil,” Wynn, a former Wyong councillor for the Greens, says. “My concern is that it is leaching into the water table and Lake Macquarie and is going to continue to for hundreds of years.” Clean energy found to be a 'pathway to prosperity’ for Northern Territory Read more According to research by the Hunter Community Environment Centre, that concern has some basis. It found water and sediment near discharge points from the Vales Point and the Eraring power stations had levels of arsenic, nickel, aluminium, copper and lead that were likely to harm aquatic life. As Wynn notes, Lake Macquarie is a favoured spot for anglers. “Maybe there is not enough there to have an impact on us as humans – I don’t know – but bottom feeders will be picking up the mercury and cadmium and that will flow through other animals,” she says. “I don’t know how long the fish life can tolerate that before it becomes an issue but it has to be having an effect on marine life.” A new report by Environmental Justice Australia, a not-for-profit legal group formerly known as the Victorian Environment Defenders Office, says Lake Macquarie is an example of a wider problem: poor management of, and limited publicly available information about, health risks associated with ash dams at the country’s coal plants. The findings are dismissed by some in the energy industry, who say the report is part of a long-running campaign to shut down coal-fired electricity due to concern about climate change. While the planet-warming emissions from coal plants are frequently discussed, the ash byproduct is not. It is estimated more than 400m tonnes of coal ash are stored across Australia, increasing by between 10m and 12m tonnes a year. The report says toxins in coal ash have been linked to asthma, heart disease, cancer, respiratory disease and stroke. It cites the US Environmental Protection Agency, which found the risk of public exposure from ash dams can last for decades, peaking 78 to 105 years after ash storage begins. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A lakeside sport centre was abruptly closed after engineers found it would not be safe if an earthquake collapsed the Eraring ash dump wall. Photograph: Environmental Justice Australia It says there have been problems at ash dams in every mainland state, including a history of groundwater or river contamination in Victoria and a failure to line dumps to prevent leaching in NSW’s Hunter Valley. Report author Bronya Lipski says the issue has largely flown under the public radar. “Given the size of them, and the sheer extent of the toxic material they have in them, you would think there would be much greater monitoring and far more information available to the public,” she says. “It really is a ticking time bomb.” Delta Electricity, which owns Vales Point, rejects this. It says the Environmental Justice Australia report is misleading and the water sampling it quotes unscientific. Delta secretary Steve Gurney says the company does its own testing in line with Environment Protection Authority (EPA) methodology and posts the results on its website. “Environmental Justice Australia is a group of anti-coal activists with one objective, to shut down coal-fired power stations,” he says. A spokesman for Origin Energy, which owns the Eraring station, says the company takes local environment protection seriously and also does its own water quality monitoring beyond what is required under law. Industry group the Australian Energy Council said it was yet to see the report but it appeared a continuation of a campaign against fossil fuels. “Plant operators work within strict licence limits and these are independently and continuously monitored,” a spokesman says. The risk associated with coal ash dams on the NSW central coast made headlines in March, when a lakeside sport centre was abruptly closed after engineers for Origin found it would not be safe if an earthquake collapsed the Eraring ash dump wall. The Myuna Bay Sports and Recreation Centre remains shut.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

In New Zealand and Canada, poverty rates are falling dramatically. What would it take to lift the forgotten Australians living in poverty?

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Peter Dutton quoted in Niki Savva’s book as saying he and Pyne had national energy guarantee bill killed off to avoid ‘disaster’ Malcolm Turnbull planned to bring on legislation giving effect to the national energy guarantee to stare down opposition from conservative dissidents in the Coalition party room, but pulled back after Peter Dutton and Christopher Pyne “went nuts”. Fresh details about the internal brawl over the fate of Turnbull’s signature energy policy are recorded in a new book about the Liberal leadership implosion last August by journalist and former political staffer Niki Savva, Plots and Prayers: Malcolm Turnbull’s Demise and Scott Morrison’s Ascension, which will be in bookshops on Monday. The in-depth account of the brutal power struggle that saw Scott Morrison take the prime ministership coincides with the return of MPs to Canberra for the first sitting of federal parliament since the May election. Morrison's new mantras were sadly missing from his election campaign | Greg Jericho Read more While the coming week will be dominated by ceremonial events to mark the opening of the 46th parliament, and condolences after Bob Hawke’s death last month, the Coalition will push ahead with its $158bn income tax cut package on Tuesday, with Senate debate expected Thursday. The Labor caucus will gather on Monday to thrash out internal divisions about whether to pass all three stages of the proposal. Thus far, Labor has declined to support stage three, which is targeted at high-income earners, and the shadow finance minister said Sunday the opposition would be influenced by where the crossbench landed. Pre-publicity for the Savva book has focused on revelations that Turnbull clashed with the attorney general, Christian Porter, over whether the governor general could refuse to appoint Dutton because of the doubts over the home affairs minister’s eligibility to sit in parliament, and the early activity of Morrison’s numbers men in helping their candidate thwart Dutton’s bid for the leadership. But there is also a chapter laying out the frantic manoeuvring around the energy policy pursued by the then prime minister and the then energy minister, Josh Frydenberg – a policy that was a catalyst for the end of Turnbull’s prime ministership because of an internal brawl about the proposed emissions reduction target for the electricity sector. Dutton is quoted in the book decrying the policy as “noodle nation Neg” and saying Turnbull planned to bring on the legislation in parliament even though the policy was resisted by a group of party conservatives who were threatening to vote against it. The home affairs minister is said to have believed that Turnbull’s strategy of trying to isolate internal dissenters by proceeding to court Labor’s support for the necessary legislation would only lead to disaster. “Turnbull’s plan was to bring the Neg on [in parliament],” Dutton is quoted as saying by Savva. “Pyne and I went nuts.” Dutton is quoted as saying: “Malcolm’s plan with the Neg was to get the states to agree through Coag, then have t

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

At least two survivors of recent mass shootings in the U.S. are speaking out against Madonna’s latest music video, “God Control,” over its extremely graphic depiction of a nightclub shooting in an effort to advocate against gun violence. Emma González, who has become an outspoken anti-gun activist after surviving last year’s shooting at her Parkland, Florida, high school, branded the video as “horrible,” “fucked up” and “triggering” for survivors like her in a tweet on Saturday. “This is NOT the correct way to talk about gun violence, unlike how many fans have been exclaiming — people who have been working in the GVP [gun violence prevention] community know how to talk about gun violence, not most celebrities,” she said. So I’ve been ruminating on this thread for the past few days, make sure I get the words right. Madonna’s new video for her song #GodControl was fucked up, it was horrible. — Emma González (@Emma4Change) June 29, 2019 González is featured on Madonna’s new album, “Madame X,” with audio of a speech she gave at a gun control rally in Fort Lauderdale included at the start of the track “I Rise.” In her tweet, González also noted that the video’s release on Wednesday came just days after the anniversary of the June 12, 2016, shooting at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub in which a gunman killed 49 people. Patience Carter, who survived that shooting, also branded the video as “really insensitive” while demanding an apology. “As a survivor of gun violence, it was really hard to watch,” she told TMZ. “For someone like me, who actually saw these images, who actually lived these images, to see them again dramatized for views [and] dramatized for YouTube, I feel like it was really insensitive.” As a survivor of gun violence, it was really hard to watch. Patience Carter, survivor of Pulse nightclub shooting Madonna’s eight-minute video shows people being gunned down during a night of dancing. During one particularly disturbing 33-second scene, the music momentarily stops as people frantically scream while running and ducking for cover amid exploding bottles and bullet-riddled bodies. Madonna, wearing a blonde bob wig on the dance floor, dramatically gasps before being shot in her abdomen and falling to the floor. “It was grossly accurate to what I actually witnessed that night,” Carter told TMZ of the video. “If I wasn’t as strong as I was, and I didn’t have as much [growth], I wouldn’t have been able to make it through the rest of the day.” Though the video includes a “disturbing” content warning at its start, Carter said it should have been more specific to gun violence survivors and not just the general public. ASSOCIATED PRESS Emma González, a survivor of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, closes her eyes and cries while speaking at the 2018 March for Our Lives rally in support of gun control in Washington. She repeated her opinion later on Twitter, USA Today reported, stating: “The Victims of these mass shootings should always be taken into consideration. I applaud the attempt, but I am truly disturbed.” “I’m just glad that people like Emma are supporting us publicly,” Carter told HuffPost on Sunday. “Hopefully that helps apply some pressure for a real genuine apology, or any sort of acknowledgment at all that this affected us this way.” Madonna, in the video’s summary, declares the piece to be a “wake up call” against gun violence. “Gun violence disproportionately affects children, teenagers and the marginalized in our communities. Honor the victims and demand GUN CONTROL. NOW. Volunteer, stand up, donate, reach out,” the video’s description reads. It goes on to promote nearly a dozen organizations that are working to help end gun violence. One Pulse for America, which was among the organizations listed, expressed support of Madonna’s work in an email to HuffPost on Sunday, adding that in the past it has asked video contributors who wish to amplify their message through them to be mindful of the sensitivity around graphic depictions. “In Madonna’s case, we made no such request, and we are not here to judge her decisions. That is the nature of artistic or political expression. Critics are free as well to point out their problems with her video, but there is no doubt she shares the same goal as we and even her critics do: reducing gun violence and drawing attention to the crisis,” said the organization’s co-founder, Jay Kuo. “Madonna has always pushed the envelope with her videos. As she is an artist, we do not believe she is required to self-censor her work, and that she is also able on her own to defend her artistic choices,” Kuo added. “We are happy that she donated to the cause, and believe her voice is another important one in this fight.” The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, also among the organizations listed, praised Madonna’s video in a statement on Wednesday, calling it a “visually-arresting video” that juxtaposes “unbridled freedom of dancing in a club with the brutal and silencing violence wrought by an intruder brandishing a gun.” “We are so pleased to have Madonna support our organization and bring awareness to the often and sometimes lethal intersection of firearms and domestic violence,” said Ruth M. Glenn, the group’s president and CEO. “In partnership with Madonna and others we will continue to raise awareness on the issue and the need for preventing, disarming domestic violence and what we can to reduce homicides.” Carter said Madonna had not responded to her request for an apology as of Sunday afternoon. The singer had also not publicly responded to González. A representative for Madonna did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina urged President Trump to prepare to send the "strongest signal possible" to Iran if the government in Tehran fulfills its threat to breach the limits on uranium supply established by the 2015 nuclear agreement next week. "I hope the president understands that if they begin enrichment on July the 7, that he needs to get ready to send the strongest signal possible that this cannot be tolerated," Graham said on "Face the Nation" Sunday. The South Carolina Republican, considered a hawk on foreign policy, did not elaborate on what kind of "signal" he would support if the Iranian government passes the uranium supply cap. Earlier this month, amid escalating tensions with Washington, Tehran threatened to violate some of the restrictions set forth by the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) brokered with the Obama administration. The threat came days after the U.S. said Iran attacked two commercial oil tankers in the Gulf Oman and three days before Iranian forces downed a U.S. Navy drone in the Strait of Hormuz — a move which prompted the president to order, and then call off, a limited military strike against Iran. Iranian officials have signaled that the country's decision to stop honoring some of the limitations of their agreement with the U.S. is justified since the Trump administration withdrew from it last year and has imposed crippling sanctions on the Iranian economy. Echoing concerns by the administration, Graham claimed the intended moves by the Tehran will place Iran on a "pathway" to a nuclear bomb — something he said will pose a grave national security threat to both the U.S. and its staunch ally Israel, and destabilize the entire Middle East. He warned that a full-blown war could break out between Israel and Iran if Tehran restarted its nuclear program. "The most likely war would be between Israel and Iran if the Iranians started to reprocess and enrich beginning July the 7 in a manner that would accelerate their path to a bomb," Graham said. "Israel cannot tolerate a nuclear armed Iran. The world should not tolerate a nuclear armed Iran." The South Carolina Republican said he is not concerned about Iran and other Arab nations having nuclear power programs, but stressed that none of them should be able to enrich or reprocess uranium — which he believes will allow them to build a nuclear arsenal. "Nuclear power? Yes. A pathway to a bomb? No," he said.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

CLOSE A "Wayne's World" lookalike walked into a Las Vegas antique store on May 3 and stole a $2,300 electric guitar. Reno Gazette Journal RENO, Nev. - Your terrible parking could help out Las Vegas schools this summer. Through July 19, the city of Las Vegas will allow parking tickets to be paid with a donation of new, unwrapped school supplies, following a unanimous vote by the Las Vegas City Council. The supplies will be donated to the Public Education Foundation, a Las Vegas-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit which distributes classroom material through its Teacher Exchage program. Supplies being accepted include: Pencils Pens Erasers Dry erase markers Index cards Paper towels/Disinfecting wipes Card stock Copy paper Storage bins Rulers Scissors Pencil sharpeners Post-it notes Donations must be of equal or greater value to the fine owed, and must be delivered to the Parking Services Office with a purchase receipt. The program is not accepting donations in lieu of fines for public safety citations. According to the Public Education Foundation's website, the Teacher Exchange is a program that recycles office supplies and other surplus materials and distributes them to Clark County School District teachers. Peanut butter for parking?University lets students donate peanut butter to pay off parking ticket Skip the windshield:Ticketless parking tickets could be headed your way Follow Brett McGinness on Twitter: @RGJBrettMcG Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/30/las-vegas-parking-fines-paid-school-supplies/1612201001/

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

A U.S. Army specialist marked his first Pride parade by coming out on live television during the celebrations in New York City. Interested in Pride Month? Add Pride Month as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Pride Month news, video, and analysis from ABC News. Add Interest When Spc. Brion Houston of Vermont was asked whether he had revealed to his colleagues in the military whether he was gay, he responded, "Not yet--but now I am. This is my coming out!” ABC News Houston was surrounded by his cousin and friends on the sideline for the parade as he made the announcement to the world on ABC News Live. ABC News Army specialist comes out to the military during #PRIDE on @ABCNewsLive: "This is my coming out... There's no better time to be out in the military than right now." WATCH 📺: https://t.co/Vl9SpFbBPO 📱: @ABC News App: https://t.co/VdPByipYgV 💻: @ABC News on any streaming device pic.twitter.com/EAnorgWl5E — ABC News Live (@ABCNewsLive) June 30, 2019 "This is absolutely incredible," he said to a round of cheers and applause from the crowd behind him. ABC News Houston said the Pride celebration was especially poignant given it was on the heels of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. Lucas Jackson/Reuters "On the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, there's no better time to be out in the military than right now," he said.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

A Florida driver has been charged with attempted murder of a law enforcement officer and aggravated assault after police video showed him dragging a Seminole County deputy over 100 yards on an interstate on-ramp. Deputy Aaron Blais conducted a traffic stop on Rocky Rudolph Jr., 38, because he was driving in a vehicle with illegally tinted windows, Sheriff Dennis Lemma told reporters at a news conference Saturday. The officer said he smelled marijuana on the suspect, whom police identified as a convicted felon, but when prompted, Rudolph told Blais he did not have a card for medical marijuana. Rudolph refused to turn off his engine when Blais asked him to do so and while the officer was still speaking to him, Rudolph took off in the black Escalade, dragging the officer about 20 feet. NORTH CAROLINA SHERIFF URGES FOR KINDNESS AFTER FLORIDA MAN'S MUGSHOT SPARKS NEGATIVE COMMENTS When the car came to a stop, Blais pulled out his gun, pointing it into the vehicle and radioing for backup but Rudolph grabbed Blaise and drove another 100 yards toward I-4. "Deputy Blais falls off the car, rolls into the median and is witnessed by eyewitnesses all around,” Lemma said. At some point during the incident, Blais shot Rudolph in the leg. It was unclear how many shots were fired in all, but The Florida Department of Law Enforcement will investigate further, Sheriff’s Office spokesman Bob Kealing said. Rudolph ultimately ran off, throwing a gun into the bushes, according to eyewitnesses, and was pursued by law enforcement including the sheriff's office SWAT team for almost 8 hours before he was caught inside another vehicle. CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APP Lemma said he was “absolutely convinced that Rudolph was reaching for his gun” during the incident, and that body camera and dashboard footage would “clearly show that.” "This was a very dangerous situation," Lemma said. "Our deputy could have been killed." Doctors later released the officer from the hospital.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Image caption Mr Farage said he was prepared to meet Boris Johnson in the "de-militarised zone" The Brexit Party has pledged to scrap all interest paid on student tuition fees as it steps up its preparations for a snap general election. Leader Nigel Farage told a rally in Birmingham rates of up to 6% on loans were "outrageous" and "close to usury". The party suggested it would go further and reimburse graduates for "historic" interest payments made on their loans. The party also unveiled the first 100 candidates selected to represent the party in the next general election. In anticipation of a snap poll this autumn, it said it hoped to have 650 candidates in place by the time the new Conservative leader is chosen at the end of July. The Brexit Party, which was launched by Mr Farage three months ago, topped the polls in May's European elections - getting 29 MEPs elected to Brussels. Mr Farage told activists at the Big Vision rally that his party should "not be ashamed of being called an one-issue party" by its rivals when that policy was delivering on the biggest democratic vote in the country's history. However, he told supporters that the party must not rest on its laurels after its electoral success and had to develop other policies as well as on Brexit. Encouraging party members to contribute their ideas, Mr Farage said that instead of a single party conference in September, it would be holding 11 regional rallies. 'Serious pledge' By leaving the EU without a deal, axing HS2 and halving the overseas aid budget, Mr Farage claimed the party would free up to £200bn to spend on economic development outside London. The party would also demonstrate how "passionate" it was about helping young people by reducing the financial burden on graduates leaving university. Mr Farage said the current system in England and Wales, where interest charges begin to build up on loans as soon as a student begins at university and about £6,000 can be owed before a student even graduates, was "unfair" and young people deserved better. Image copyright PA Media "No wonder so many people in their middle to late 20s who want to buy houses, perhaps start families, feel financially they cannot do it," he said. "Because they are paying interest rates which in the old days we would have called usury... It is outrageous, it is unfair and it has to end. "We will use that £200bn to wipe away the interest on those debts, I suspect to the great relief of millions of young people in this country." Earlier, Brexit Party chairman Richard Tice suggested the party would go further and "cancel all of the historic interest that has been charged on student loans to date". "It is a serious pledge we are making to young people. We think it will be a much fairer system and the country can afford it." A recent independent review of student finance did not recommend specific changes to interest charges while advocating a lowering in the maximum level of fees to £7,500. Tory leadership contender Jeremy Hunt has said any graduate who launches a start-up employing more than 10 people for five years should have all their loan repayments waived.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke made his first foreign trip as a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination Sunday, traveling over the southwestern border to Mexico to visit with migrants who said they fled violence and turmoil in Central America to seek asylum in the U.S. only to be turned away at the border. According to a pool report put out by the O'Rourke campaign, the candidate spoke to a group of asylum seekers in Spanish for about 15 minutes at a restaurant in Ciudad Juarez, across the Rio Grande from O'Rourke's hometown of El Paso. The candidate then traveled to a shelter for migrants run by the Catholic Church, where he met around a table with migrants from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala who told of being denied entry into the U.S. and returned to the Mexican border city while their asylum claims were being processed. O'Rourke's campaign livestreamed the discussion on his Facebook page. BETO O'ROURKE GIVES DEBATE ANSWER IN SPANISH WHILE DUCKING QUESTION ON 70 PERCENT TAX RATE "We hope, by sharing these stories, that the conscience of our country is awoken right now, and the need to change the policies that we have in place" becomes apparent, O'Rourke said on the stream. The 46-year-old blamed what he called "the Trump administration's unlawful 'Remain in Mexico' program," meant to reduce the attractiveness of U.S. asylum requests that in the past had allowed claimants to remain in the U.S. for years as their cases wound their way through the courts. O'Rourke repeatedly has praised El Paso as part of the world's largest "binational" community with Juarez. Last month, he released a sweeping immigration plan calling for providing millions of people in the country illegally with a "pathway" to U.S. citizenship, while deploying thousands of lawyers to the border to help process asylum cases and earmarking $5 billion to improve living conditions in Central America. LATE-NIGHT COMEDIANS MOCK BETO O'ROURKE FOR SPANISH DEBATE ANSWER Sunday's visit represented a bid by O'Rourke to re-establish his credentials on the immigration issue after clashing with fellow Texan Julian Castro during Wednesday's first presidential primary debate in Miami. Castro, a former Housing and Urban Development secretary and mayor of San Antonio, chided the ex-congressman for not being willing to fully decriminalize illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, at one point telling O'Rourke: "If you did your homework on this issue, you would know that we should be repealing this section [of law]." O'Rourke has argued that doing so could result in drug- and people-smugglers being protected. He also notably was the first of a handful of candidates to answer debate questions in Spanish. Later Sunday, O'Rourke staged a rally outside the U.S. Border Patrol facility in Clint, Texas, near El Paso, where immigrant children have reported being denied access to such basic amenities as showers, soap, and toothbrushes. Castro visited the same facility on Saturday. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP A frequent visitor to Juarez before he began running for president in March, O'Rourke was there in December to meet with immigrants staying in shelters as they waited to start being processed for U.S. asylum. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

New York — Five decades of LGBTQ pride was celebrated Sunday as crowds gathered outside New York's historic Stonewall Inn to mark the 50th anniversary of the police raid that sparked the modern-day gay rights movement, as other cities throughout the country planned massive parades. New York's Pride march kicked off at noon Sunday with 677 contingents including community groups, major corporations and cast members from FX's "Pose." Organizers expected 150,000 people to march as hundreds of thousands more line the streets. A smaller Queer Liberation March started earlier in the morning at the Stonewall Inn, proceeding to Central Park for a rally. The organizers of the queer march said the larger Pride event is too commercialized and heavily policed. By Sunday afternoon, thousands of revelers packed onto Fifth Avenue, dressed in rainbow-colored clothing waved flags and signs as the parade got underway. Some people climbed up on street lamp posts or were on people's shoulders to get a better view of the parade. Participants take part in the 2019 World Pride NYC and Stonewall 50th LGBTQ Pride Parade in New York, U.S., June 30, 2019 JEENAH MOON / REUTERS Twenty-nine-year-old Alyssa Christianson, who lives in New York, said she's been to the Pride parade before, but this is the first year she dressed up. She turned a Pride flag into a cape. Christianson loves coming to the parade because she says "everybody's happy and everybody's excited." Security was tight with police officers stationed throughout the route. During the parade, Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill ending the "gay and trans panic" defense, which allowed a defendant to argue their emotional distress about the victim's sexuality was a justification or excuse for a violent crime, according to CBS New York. Visitors from Amsterdam march in the NYC Pride March on June 30, 2019 in New York City. Getty Images The Pride march concludes a month of Stonewall commemorations in New York that included rallies, parties, film showings and a human rights conference. The celebration coincides with WorldPride, an international LGBTQ event that started in Rome in 2000 and was held in New York this past week. Other Pride events will take place Sunday around the U.S. and the world. In San Francisco, a contingent of Google employees petitioned the Pride parade's board of directors to revoke Google's sponsorship over what they called harassment and hate speech directed at LGBTQ people on YouTube and other Google platforms. San Francisco Pride declined to revoke Google's sponsorship or remove the company from the parade, but Pride officials said the Google critics could protest the company's policies as part of the parade's "Resistance Contingent." In Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, the city's first openly gay mayor, will be one of seven grand marshals at the parade.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

President Trump expressed optimism about a possible trade deal between his administration and Chinese President Xi Jinping, during an interview with Tucker Carlson set to air Monday night on Fox News. Trump sat down with Carlson during the president's trip which included stops in Osaka, Japan, for the G20 summit, and a first-of-its kind visit by a U.S. president to North Korea, meeting with dictator Kim Jong Un at the demilitarized zone (DMZ). President Trump told Carlson he was hopeful about striking a trade agreement with Xi. CATCH THE FULL INTERVIEW MONDAY NIGHT AT 8 PM ET ON 'TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT' "You just recently hours ago met with the Chinese president, Xi Jinping," Carlson said. "Are you closer, do you think after that meeting, to a trade deal?" "I think so," Trump replied. "We had a very good meeting. He wants to make a deal. I want to make a deal. Very big deal, probably, I guess you'd say the largest deal ever made of any kind, not only trade." TUCKER CARLSON SAYS TRUMP 'DOMINATED' KIM AS 'WHEEZING' NORTH KOREAN DICTATOR STRUGGLED "We got along very well," Trump added. "We understand each other." Trump had met with Xi during the G20 summit in Osaka and described the meeting as "excellent" before saying the two countries were "back on track." TRUMP XI MEETING AT G20 'WENT BETTER THAN EXPECTED,' US PRESIDENT SAYS The news arrives on the heels of Trump announcing that Chinese tech giant Huawei could purchase equipment from U.S. companies after being blacklisted. “U.S. companies can sell their equipment to Huawei,” Trump said at a news conference. “We’re talking about equipment where there’s no great national security problem with it.” Huawei was placed on a blacklist last month barring American companies from providing them with computer chips or software, without first going through the federal government. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Trump had enacted tariffs on $250 billion worth of Chinese imports this year and has said he's willing to add tariffs on an additional $300 billion. China hit back with its own tariffs on American exports. Carlson's full interview with Trump is scheduled for Monday on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" at 8 p.m. ET. Fox News' Brie Stimson contributed to this report

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

On this "Face the Nation" broadcast moderated by Margaret Brennan: CBS News White House Correspondent Weijia Jiang (watch) Analysis on Trump-Kim meeting: Former CIA Deputy Director and CBS News Senior National Security Contributor Michael Morell and Jean Lee, Director of the Korea Center at The Wilson Center (watch) Political Panel: Edward Wong, Shannon Pettypiece, Ramesh Ponnuru, and Antjuan Seawright (watch) Click here to browse full transcripts of "Face the Nation." MARGARET BRENNAN: It's Sunday, June 30th. I'm Margaret Brennan and this is FACE THE NATION. President Trump becomes the first sitting U.S. President to step foot in North Korea, greeting Kim Jong-un on his turf. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Hey, I'm over here. I want to call up Chairman Kim. This has been, in particular, a great friendship. MARGARET BRENNAN: That, after the President announced the day before a temporary cease-fire in the U.S. trade war with China. We'll talk with top White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow. And Congress finally agrees to give the Trump administration nearly five billion dollars to help with the migrant crisis at the border. Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham weighs in. Plus, Democrats face off against Democrats. JULIAN CASTRO: I think that you should do your homework on this issue. JAY INSLEE: I am the only candidate here who has passed a law protecting a woman's right of reproductive health. KAMALA HARRIS: Hey, guys, you know what? America does not want to witness a food fight. They want to know how we're going to put food on their table. (Crowd cheering) MARGARET BRENNAN: We'll talk with two presidential hopefuls who took the stage. Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar and former Texas Congressman Beto O'Rourke. All that, coming up on FACE THE NATION. Good morning and welcome to FACE THE NATION. We begin today with CBS News White House correspondent Weijia Jiang, who is in Seoul, South Korea, where she has been covering the President's historic visit to North Korea. WEIJIA JIANG (CBS News White House Correspondent/@weijia): Good morning, Margaret. The suspense over whether President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un would meet quickly turned into frenzy over a historic episode that lasted much longer than expected. In fact, even President Trump admitted he was surprised the meeting happened at all. President Trump and Kim walked toward each other from opposite sides of the Joint Security Area in the DMZ, the demilitarized border zone that separates North and South Korea. After a handshake, Mister Trump became the first U.S. sitting President to cross over the line of demarcation into North Korea, something he said he was proud to do. Then the two leaders met for nearly one hour and it all came about because of a tweet President Trump sent yesterday, inviting Kim to the DMZ to say hello and shake hands. Kim said he was surprised at the gesture and by the President's willingness to see him there. President Trump described the meeting as strong and solid and said negotiating teams would be meeting in the next two or three weeks to start crafting a deal for Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons. He also said he would invite Kim to the White House, but did not provide a time frame for when. Margaret. MARGARET BRENNAN: Weijia Jiang in Seoul. We go now to some analysis on this morning's events. Jean Lee is director of the Korea Center at the Wilson Center and Mike Morell is a former acting director of the CIA and CBS News senior national security contributor. Mike, we know the President's national security team was opposed to this. Did the meeting strengthen or weaken the U.S. position? MICHAEL MORELL (Former CIA Deputy Director/@MichaelJMorell/ CBS News Senior National Security Contributor): Margaret, two different perspectives here I think. One is that a negotiated solution is the only solution to this problem. There isn't a military option. There's not a covert action option. So getting back to talks with the North Koreans is important, and I think that's a good thing. The second perspective, though, is this comes at a very high cost. This gives Kim Jong-un a lot of legitimacy. This is gold for him politically at home and in the world. And, secondly, this is going to weaken sanctions enforcement against North Korea because if you're another country, you're-- you're going to say to yourself, my companies aren't-- don't need to pay a price. They are now getting along. You're going to step back a little bit. So we're paying a price for this and it can't go on forever, but let's see if we can get something out of these negotiations. MARGARET BRENNAN: Jean, you've lived, you've worked in North Korea. What does this do for Kim Jong-un at home? Is he actually under much pressure to get things done? JEAN LEE (The Wilson Center/@newsjean): He is and that's a very important point. It's so hard for us to tell what's happening inside North Korea because they do such a good job of keeping us out and of framing the photo or the narrative of North Korea, but the fact is it is an extremely poor country. And we may not get that sense when we see that he's pouring so much money into nuclear weapons, we see these military parades and everything looks so organized and Pyongyang looks so modern, but we have to remember that they have an estimated GDP per person per year that is more along the lines of Congo or some of the poorest countries in Africa. This is a country that is suffering and he knows that. I do think he needs this and he wants this. So for me, it was only a matter of time that he would start-- he and President Trump would start putting out feelers to get back to these nuclear negotiations. I think there was a loss of faiths after Hanoi. And so he is looking for a chance to get back to that negotiating table. MARGARET BRENNAN: But, Mike, even though, there may be that pressure on Kim Jong-un and food shortages even, he's still charging ahead with his nuclear program. MICHAEL MORELL: So two pieces to that. One is he is still making fissile material, so he is still adding to the nuclear stockpile but he is not testing nuclear weapons and he is not testing missiles. You know we know he has nuclear weapons. We know he has ICBMs capable of reaching the Continental United States, the one thing he has not demonstrated is the ability to mate those two together, right. He-- and he needs to test in order to-- to convince himself that he can do that, let alone us. So the fact that he's holding back on that is important. But the stockpile continues to grow. MARGARET BRENNAN: And, Jean, you've been watching some of what Kim Jong-un is doing in the region. He's been meeting with Vladimir Putin. He's been meeting with XI Jinping. He has some powerful friends other than the United States right now. So how much leverage does the U.S. have here? JEAN LEE: In fact, Russia and China did support the round-- the latest round of U.N. Security sanction-- security-- Security Council Sanctions that have been such a chokehold on North Korea's economy, and I think that was a major blow to North Korea. And so he was going to Putin and to Xi to see if he could get some sanctions relief. It doesn't sound like he got what he needed. And so in that sense, he is trying to tell his people at home, look, we do have-- I am meeting with them, we have a good relationship, they still have our back. But it does mean that if he does continue to build those relationships with Putin and Xi, it does take away from the leverage that President Trump has. I think that's something that we have to watch closely, the way that Kim Jong-un is very savvily playing all these different relationships in the region. MARGARET BRENNAN: And, Mike, it seems like the U.S. strategy has been to try to separate Kim Jong-un from some of his more hardline, old-school advisors. The idea that he is so unique and President Trump is so unique that you could get this impossible deal, even though, the U.S. Intelligence community says he is not going to give up his nukes. What are the odds on this? MICHAEL MORELL: So I don't think there's any way he's going to give up the entire program. I think the only possibility is significant limits on the number of nuclear weapons and the missile program, probably the distance that missiles can fly. That's the best we can hope for. We should push for the whole thing but the best we can hope for is limits. MARGARET BRENNAN: Containment? MICHAEL MORELL: Containment. MARGARET BRENNAN: Thank you very much. We turn now to Larry Kudlow, the National Economic Council director, who joins us this morning from Connecticut. Larry, good to have you here. The President said he's not increasing tariffs on China and he is allowing American companies to do business with Huawei. That, essentially, throws that tech firm a lifeline. What did the U.S. get for these concessions? LARRY KUDLOW (National Economic Council Director): Well, let's-- first of all, the talks are going to restart. I think that's a very big deal right there. No timeline, Margaret, but they are going to restart. Look, regarding the Huawei story, let me just try to clarify that, there will be sales from American companies, but-- but only in the sense of the general merchandise, things that are available in other places around the world. Anything to do with national security concerns will not receive a new license from the Commerce Department. I think that's very important. I think people have to understand that stuff that's generally available will be-- will be probably getting a temporary license from the Commerce Department. We'll see how far that goes. Second point is we are hoping and expecting that China will engage in large-scale purchases of American farm products and farm services as the talks continue. The talks may not be ending, the talks may not even be solved, but the President believes that China will begin to purchase American agriculture and that's going to be a big boost to our farmers and that would be a good faith show that these are serious talks and negotiations. MARGARET BRENNAN: But on those purchases that you say might happen, in the meantime, the existing tariffs still stay in place. So that means the retaliatory tariffs are, too. And even with this announcement of China potentially buying more product, according to the USDA that market for soybean farmers won't recover until 2026 or 2027. They're losing markets the longer this goes on. So how much damage can America stomach? LARRY KUDLOW: Well, look, that may be, I don't want to forecast that. We'll see if China steps in to fill the void. Our farmers have been terrific, they're patriots, they support the President's dealings with China. Pres-- strongest President we've ever had in U.S.-China relations. China's problems, you know, IP theft, forced transfers of technology, problems with getting into cloud services, problems with tariffs, problems with non-tariff barriers, all these things are going to have to be addressed. And that's the only way it will help the American economy. It's a very unbalanced trading relationship, Margaret, as you may know. That has to be fixed. It's not going to be fifty-fifty. They have many more remedies and correctives to make, and that's what President Trump said in his news conference and elsewhere in this recent trip to Japan. Now having said that, with respect to the farmers, we are doing the best we can. We are providing short-term assistance to keep them going and try to fill the void until we can get better international markets. The farmers themselves, the farm groups, they've been great patriots and we-- we celebrate their support to make America's overall economy very, very strong. And let's see if the Chinese make good on this promise, that'll have a bearing. You know, the President said on tariffs, let me make this point, he said, "no additional tariffs for now." So he's going good faith to see how these talks go, to see if China delivers on an early agriculture promise, let's call it an early harvest, but that may be up for grabs. We will see. No one can predict with certainty. MARGARET BRENNAN: But-- but last time, my understanding is, the talks were going well and then China backed off of a perceived promise to change its laws. So, is there any indication from China that they will make the kind of structural change to their own laws to make good on some of the changes you want to see happen on IP, et cetera? LARRY KUDLOW: You're right about the problem, and they did pull back from some agreements we thought we had, and by the-- by that also includes all manner of enforcement to whatever conditions were made. So you're quite right. Can I sit here and tell you that's all going to work out? No, we don't know that. The teams are going to start negotiating in earnest, Ambassador Lighthizer, Secretary Mnuchin and others, but we don't know. MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay. LARRY KUDLOW: This is just a new first step. I always think it's better to talk than not to talk. MARGARET BRENNAN: Sure. LARRY KUDLOW: We have no assurances and, again, the President himself said several times, we want quality talks, there is no timeline here. The issue is quality, not speed. MARGARET BRENNAN: Well-- LARRY KUDLOW: So we will see if China delivers on some of these significant reforms. MARGARET BRENNAN: Marco Rubio has been raising concerns though about what the President just agreed to do with Huawei, that tech firm. He said, "If President Trump has bargained away recent restrictions on Huawei, then the U.S. Congress will put them back in via legislation." Isn't this undercutting with the President's negotiation and why would the U.S. allow American companies to do business with a firm that is working on surveillance and a national security threat? LARRY KUDLOW: Well, look, again, I-- I-- I think Senator Rubio's concerns about all manner of national security are correct. They're proper concerns and I hope that when President Trump comes back, that he and others of us will be able to persuade Senator Rubio, that there will be no national security violations, that any additional licensing from the Commerce Department to American companies will be for what we call general merchandise, not national security sensitive--general merchandise meaning, you know, various chips and software and other services that are available all around the world, not specific to the U.S. But the President is not backing off on the national security concerns. We understand the huge risks regarding Huawei. And let me say, the President, several times, "We will fully address Huawei, not until the end of the trade talks." In other words-- MARGARET BRENNAN: Right. LARRY KUDLOW: --that will come last and that will deal, you know, with much larger issues concerning the long-term future with Huawei. So that's-- what-- what's happening now is simply a-- a loosening up for general merchandise, maybe some additional licenses from commerce. It is not the last word. The last word is not going to come till the very end of the talks. This is a complicated matter. So I hope we'll be able to persuade Senator Rubio and others that-- that-- that we are as cautious and concerned as they are. MARGARET BRENNAN: All right. Larry Kudlow, thank you so much. We'll be back in one minute with a lot more FACE THE NATION. Don't go away. (ANNOUNCEMENTS) MARGARET BRENNAN: Welcome back. We are now joined by Minnesota Senator and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar. She joins us from Minneapolis. Good morning, Senator. SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR (D-Minnesota/@amyklobuchar/2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate): Thanks, Margaret. Hello. MARGARET BRENNAN: We saw this historic moment with President Trump stepping into North Korea. And I wonder, if you're commander-in-chief, would you continue the diplomacy that he has started? SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR: You always have to talk to everyone when it is American security and the world's security at stake. But he keeps having these summits and meetings that really don't produce anything. There's been a number of them now, and this time, you know, you just can't look at this as going over and talking to your dictator next door and bringing them a hot dish over the fence. There is a lot more. And what this is about is making sure that there are measurable results, that we have a plan when we go in there and we just haven't seen that. In fact, just in May you saw North Korea launch another missile into the sea in violation of the U.N. resolution and to me, you need to have a plan to denuclearize that peninsula or at least reduce those weapons immediately, and I just don't see that happening, yes. But, yet, we know that talks are good, but I just don't see this President--when you look at what happened in Iran when he got out of that agreement and we were ten minutes away from war and a month away from them blowing the caps when it comes to uranium-- enriching uranium. When you look what he did with the nuclear agreement with Russia, he is constantly-- climate change pulling us back from working with-- MARGARET BRENNAN: Mm-Hm. SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR: --our allies to try to solve these problems. MARGARET BRENNAN: You said there, North Korea would denuc-- denuclearize or at least need to reduce their arsenal. Would you accept them as a nuclear power? SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR: Mm-Hm. I-- no, I would not. What I am saying is you need to have steps and measures and you would-- could start there and then, of course, you have dates and you have times and you have a focus and you have a plan. But that is not what he does. He goes and gets a letter and says, "I love the guy," you know, right in the face of the Warmbier's, who lost their son, Otto. So I am concerned just because of the track record here. MARGARET BRENNAN: Mm-Hm. SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR: Talk is good, but if all it is, is talk it doesn't produce anything for national security for America and international security for our allies. MARGARET BRENNAN: As commander-in-chief what would you do differently with China? What leverage would you use to get them to capitulate on trade? SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR: I would first acknowledge to the American people very clearly the problem here. The surveillance, the intellectual property violations are basically stealing our blueprints, what they have done when it comes to subsidizing industries and manipulating their currency. The second thing that I would do is to work with our allies and to push them, and I wouldn't have just walk away from every negotiating table, months goes by. I think you have to keep at it methodically. And, mostly, I wouldn't have used the approach they've used. Yes, targeted tariffs, but they have used basically a meat cleaver or maybe we should call it a tweet cleaver when it comes to how they're dealing with these other countries. And when you talk to Larry Kudlow and he talked about the patriotism of our farmers, I'm in a very heavy ag state. Iowa, my neighbor is a heavy ag state, North Dakota. I've talked to farmers in those areas and what they tell me is they're not going to get that soybean market back in one year because that market has gone to farmers in other countries. And so that's why there's an urgency to this when we have an eight-hundred-ninety-one-billion-dollar trade deficit-- MARGARET BRENNAN: Mm-Hm. SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR: --which is the worst that we've seen--you can't just keep talking about it. You actually have to get it done. MARGARET BRENNAN: You heard me ask Larry Kudlow about Republican senators' concerns about Huawei. You are a sitting senator, would you vote to ban American companies from doing business with them? SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR: I don't think we should be doing business with them right now. And I agree with my colleagues not just Senator Rubio, but also Senator Warner, Mark Warner, who is the ranking on the Intelligence Committee, that this is a major security risk for America. You know, you look at everything from China to Russia using cyber against us. It is the modern warfare. We certainly know that from our elections in 2016. They may not use tanks or missiles but they can go after our electric grid. They can go after our security in a very different way. And so I don't know why he would just give that away right now. I would think that he would put firm, firm standards in place as part of any agreement with China. And that's not what we have. We just have another promise that they're going to buy American agriculture. Okay, that's positive. But I wouldn't give it up in that short-term gain for the long term where we need to protect our security and our cybersecurity. MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you about the debates this week. One question to many of your colleagues and competitors was whether their health care plan would cover undocumented immigrants. Would your plan do that? SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR: As part of comprehensive immigration reform, we must move forward on making sure that people have health care. California just did that with Medicaid, and I am supportive of that but I think on the national basis, as we go forward, get immediate health care for people, yes. But as part of making this actually happen, you need comprehensive immigration reform. And one thing that was missing from the NBC debate, actually, that I hope we can discuss, is that we have humanitarian crisis at the border right now. But we also did not talk about the other immigrants that are here. MARGARET BRENNAN: Mm-Hm. SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR: The people who are here on temporary legal status, we've got hundreds of thousands of people that are legally here that are at risk or are being deported that work in our nursing homes and our hospitals. We have got DREAMers, two million of them, that came to this country through no fault of their own and are a major part of our economy. So, we need to have an economic discussion about this, as well as a border discussion-- MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay, so-- SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR: --and that's why I want to move forward, as President, with comprehensive immigration reform. MARGARET BRENNAN: So that was a yes? That your health care plan would cover-- SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR: That was a yes-- MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay. SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR: --for immediate health care needs, but as far as other benefits I think we need to-- that has got to be a part of the discussion of comprehensive immigration reform. MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay, because they were excluded from the existing Obamacare law. SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR: That is correct. Yes. MARGARET BRENNAN: So you are-- I mean you-- you-- you call yourself a pragmatist. You're, in many ways-- SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR: Yes. MARGARET BRENNAN: --perceived as a moderate from the Midwest. Do you feel, sometimes, that the rest of the party is-- is-- is leaving you behind? That it's-- SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR: No-- MARGARET BRENNAN: --gone so progressive? SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR: I think-- I-- I-- I think-- I am thinking the issues you are focused here on, for instance, Medicare for all--and I want universal health care, I just got a different way to get there. And as I said in the debate, I don't think that we should take away people's right to their private insurance and kick half of America off of their private insurance. I think there is a better way to do this and that strengthening Obamacare, taking on the pharmaceuticals. On free college for all, I made it very clear, I want to expand Pell Grants, make it easier for kids to go to college. But I don't think-- and that's what some of these plans do, that we should be using taxpayer money to finance rich kids to go to college. Many of our public universities, something like ten percent of the kids come from families that make over two hundred thousand dollars a year. And I think that taxpayer money is better used to get free community college, to help kids get certifications, when those are some of the-- MARGARET BRENNAN: Mm-Hm. SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR: --fastest growing degree jobs we have in this nation. And so to me, this is a legitimate policy argument about how we help people afford college, help them pay off their loans, make bold policy changes, which this President is not doing. But I think there's room in our party for a legitimate debate. I just think it's important to realize there's a lot more that unifies us than separate-- that there's a lot more that unifies us than there is that divides us, and that divide right now-- MARGARET BRENNAN: Mm-Hm. SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR: --is with the American people and the President. He promised them pharmaceutical prices going down, they've gone up. He promised them infrastructure, he has done-- MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay. SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR: --nothing. He promised them a safer world when he got out of the Iranian agreement. It is not safer. That's the case we need to make. MARGARET BRENNAN: All right. We'll look for you on that next debate stage. Thank you very much, Senator Klobuchar. SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR: I am very much looking forward to it. Thank you, Margaret. MARGARET BRENNAN: We'll be back in a moment. (ANNOUNCEMENTS) MARGARET BRENNAN: We'll be right back. (ANNOUNCEMENTS) MARGARET BRENNAN: Welcome back to FACE THE NATION. We are now joined by 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke who joins-- joins us from El Paso. Congressman, we've had this breaking news overnight and I'm wondering if, as President, you would continue the diplomacy with Kim Jong-un, and would you accept North Korea as a contained nuclear threat if it refuses to give up its nuclear weapons? BETO O'ROURKE (2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate/@BetoORourke): You know, I would continue diplomacy contingent on progress that keeps this country and our allies safe. Despite three years of almost bizarre foreign policy from this President, this country is no safer when it comes to North Korea. They have removed none of their nuclear weapons or their potential to deliver them to the United States. And, in fact, in contravention of the United Nations they have launched other missiles flouting the diplomacy that this President has attempted so far. So, we've added legitimacy to Kim Jong-un. MARGARET BRENNAN: But it sounds like you're saying you would continue to talk to Kim Jong-un. BETO O'ROURKE: I want to make sure that we pursue diplomatic, peaceful, nonviolent negotiations to resolve the challenges that we face on the Korean Peninsula-- MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay. BETO O'ROURKE: --and to ensure that we denuclearize that area. MARGARET BRENNAN: We know from your team that you plan to go to Mexico today. What is the purpose of that visit? BETO O'ROURKE: Me going over to Ciudad Juarez today, our-- our sister city across the border from El Paso, to meet with asylum seekers who have traveled hundreds, in some cases, thousands, of miles fleeing the deadliest countries on the face of the planet coming to this country trying to follow our asylum laws and through a program that effectively shuts them out of this country and our laws are forced to stay in Ciudad Juarez, where they are prey to criminal organizations, where they are penniless and where they are suffering and where too many feel like they are forced to try to cross in between our ports of entry. As we saw earlier this week, a picture of Oscar and Valeria, who died trying to do that from Matamoros to Brownsville. This inhumane policy is causing suffering and death, and I want to call attention to what we are doing. So going to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and meeting with these asylum seekers is a great way for the American public to know what is being done in our name right now. MARGARET BRENNAN: So do you believe that asylum seekers should be able to apply for asylum from other countries or from Mexico? BETO O'ROURKE: Yes. I-- I think we should follow our-- our own asylum laws that are on the books, our obligations to those people to whom we are connected by land and language and culture and for whom we have some responsibility, given our involvement in the Western Hemisphere that has produced some of the challenges that they face that would cause a family to flee hundreds or thousands of miles to come here. So when we follow our own asylum laws, those people are safer. We live according to our traditions and in a program that we've proposed, a family case management program, no family is separated. They're not detained in these border patrol stations-- MARGARET BRENNAN: But that's if they cross into the United States. BETO O'ROURKE: --they're able to be released into the community and to follow our own laws. MARGARET BRENNAN: What-- what you're proposing is when they cross into the United States. I'm asking if they're applying as, now, from Mexico or from a third country. That is one of the proposed changes, also, to immigration law now. BETO O'ROURKE: Yes. I-- I think that asylum seekers should be able to apply from their home countries. So-- MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay. BETO O'ROURKE: --from Honduras or Guatemala or El Salvador to the United States, without having to make that journey by foot in the first place, it will ensure that they are following our laws and it will guarantee greater safety and reduce suffering for them. MARGARET BRENNAN: We are just about a month out from the next debate. During the one this week you were hit by your colleague from Texas, Julian Castro, who said, "You need to do your homework." Are you going to change your strategy for the next debate? BETO O'ROURKE: What I'm going to do is get across what I think we can do as a country. And on the particular issue that you're referring to on-- on immigration, under my administration, day one we are going to stop family separation. We're going to reunite those families who have been separated. We're going to make sure that-- that no one who is fleeing persecution or violence is criminally prosecuted. And we're going to follow what I was doing in Congress, where we helped to introduce legislation that would stop this and rewrite Section 1325 of U.S. code to make sure that those families who are at their most desperate and vulnerable moment do not face further fear when they get to the United States. And then in addition we're going to rewrite our immigration laws from the ground up, that the nine million green card holders in this country, we're going to waive their citizenship fees so they can contribute even more to our success and our greatness. MARGARET BRENNAN: You'll be reliant on bending Republicans to your will on that. BETO O'ROURKE: Well, I-- I'm not so sure that I'm willing to concede that point. There are a lot of great candidates running for congressional seats and U.S. Senate seats across this country. I'm confident that 2020 is going to produce a significant change, not just in the White House, but in both Houses of Congress. I think that Democratic majority on immigration, on health care, on a more inclusive economy, on confronting the challenge of climate before it's too late is going to be able to show success for the American people at this defining moment of truth. MARGARET BRENNAN: Wonderful. Thank you so much, Congressman O'Rourke. We'll be right back. (ANNOUNCEMENTS) MARGARET BRENNAN: Yesterday, we spoke with Senator Lindsey Graham who joined us from Istanbul, Turkey. We do want to caution you, there will be a graphic image that some may find disturbing. We began our conversation by asking Senator Graham for his take on the President's decision to remove the ban on American companies selling goods to Chinese tech giant, Huawei. SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-South Carolina/Judiciary Committee Chairman/@LindseyGrahamSC): Well, it's a lot of leverage because Huawei is a huge Chinese company, and it really is owned by the Chinese government, it's not a private sector company as we would know it. Microsoft came into my office trying to make sure that they could sell some technology to China that would not compromise our national security. So I don't know what he agreed to regarding exceptions to the ban. If they're minor exceptions, that's okay, but if we're selling Huawei major technology, that would be a mistake. MARGARET BRENNAN: But you don't worry that this is too much of a concession on national security grounds? SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM: I don't know yet. It's clearly a concession. There will be a lot of pushback if this is a major concession. If it's a minor concession I think it's part of the overall deal. MARGARET BRENNAN: We know President Trump did meet with President Erdogan at the G20 as well and he seems to have the impression that President Trump said there will not be U.S. sanctions if Turkey goes ahead and buys Russian-made weapons systems. Is that the case? SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM: Well, I'm in Turkey and it's being reported in the Turkish media that President Erdogan is claiming that President Trump, in their discussions, told Turkey that if you activate the S-400, we'll find a way around sanctions. I doubt if that conversation occurred. It's impossible-- under our law, if Turkey buys the-- activates the S-400 missile battery they bought from the Russians, sanctions would be required under law. And we also, a couple of days ago, passed legislation banning the sale of the F-35 to Turkey if they activate the Russian S-400 missile battery. There is no way we're going to transfer to Turkey the F-35 technology and let them buy a Russian missile battery at the same time. It would compromise our platform. MARGARET BRENNAN: But you're not saying sanctions are inevitable at this point. You see a way around them, some kind of compromise? SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM: I hope so. But under our law, there is no discretion. If they activate the S-400 Russian missile battery, they will be sanctioned under U.S. law and the F-35 technology cannot be transferred to Turkey. We need to find a way out of this dilemma. MARGARET BRENNAN: I'm sure you saw that video of Presidents Putin and Trump seeming to laugh when asked about election meddling. Did that concern you? SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM: What concerns me is are we going to be ready for their meddling next time? I've seen this administration up their game. In 2018 we had a midterm election without a whole lot of interference because we're-- we're upping our game, so to speak. So it was, clearly, a joke. MARGARET BRENNAN: But last time you were on this program, you said Russia did not learn its lesson. So when you see this joking about something so serious regarding an upcoming election, doesn't that counter everything-- SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM: Yeah. MARGARET BRENNAN: --in terms of a hard line the rest of the national security-- security community is trying to send? SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM: Yeah, I'm not so sure rebuking Putin in-- in front of a bunch of cameras does much good. What hurts him is when you hit him in the polic-- pocketbook. His oligarch friends are having a hard time placing their money around the world. We put tremendous sanctions on the Russian economy, particularly, in the energy area and it's biting Russia. So actions mean more than anything in this part of the world. MARGARET BRENNAN: Do you believe that President Trump embracing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman undermines the U.S. credibility on human rights? SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM: Yeah, I don't think it helps. I led the effort to sanction M.B.S., the Crown Prince. There is no doubt in my mind that he ordered the killing of Mister Khashoggi, that he knew about it, that he's done things like that to other people and that he's been a disruptive force throughout the region. So I'm in a completely different place when it comes to M.B.S. MARGARET BRENNAN: Here at home, I know you've been working with the President's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and some Democrats as well to try to find some compromise around asylum laws. The President said that he will go through with rounding up migrants after the July Fourth holiday. Do you see any legislative compromise? SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM: Yes, I do. I've spent about an hour with Speaker Pelosi. And here's the compromise: we'll start turning the aid back on to Central America. It is in our national security interest to help the triangle-- Northern Triangle nations with their economy, with their rule of law problems. But if you don't turn off the magnets that attract people, which is our asylum laws, if you don't reform them, they will keep coming. All you have to do is to put one foot on the United States soil, if you're from Central America with a small child you're not going to get deported. MARGARET BRENNAN: On that question of children, it-- it was that image of that El Salvadorian father who drowned along with his two-year-old daughter that really captured a lot of attention this week. That was his child. That was not a tool to exploit the asylum system. By warning that asylum is going to get tougher and saying that the border might close, doesn't that incentivize people that take the risk in the first place? SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM: Good question. Here's what I think, and I don't know and it does break your heart to see that image and the thought that went into it. Here's what I think the father believed, "If we can just make it across the Rio Grande, and I can put one foot in America, my child and myself are going to be in America and we're not going to get sent back." I would like that asylum claim to be made in Mexico at a U.N. center so that this father doesn't have to risk him and his child drowning in the future. Asylum claims should be made in the home country or in a facility in Mexico because the reason he tried to go across the river--he was told by people in Central America, "If you can put one foot on American soil, you're home free." And this is a tragic result of that policy. MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to quickly ask you about your friend, Joe Biden. How do you think he performed in the Democratic debate this week? SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM: He's got to up his game. But anybody that knows Joe Biden, there's not a racist bone in his body. That's not a cliche, that's a reality. But the narrative is that maybe it's not his time and that he's not up to the task. I think you will esti-- underestimate Joe Biden at your own peril. I watched the debate. The policy options being presented to the country by the leading contenders on the Democratic side are their biggest problem. Pretty liberal, pretty extreme. But when it comes to Joe Biden, I think the next debate, he's got to change the narrative. And one thing I'll say about Kamala Harris, and I said this before, she's got game. She is very talented, she's very smart, and she will be a force to be reckoned with. MARGARET BRENNAN: Senator Graham, thank you very much for your time. SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM: Thank you. MARGARET BRENNAN: We'll be right back with more from our political panel. (ANNOUNCEMENTS) MARGARET BRENNAN: It's time now for some political analysis. Edward Wong is a diplomatic correspondent at the New York Times. Shannon Pettypiece is a White House correspondent of Bloomberg News. Ramesh Ponnuru is a senior editor at the National Review and a columnist at Bloomberg Opinion. And Antjuan Seawright is a political strategist. Thank you all for joining us. Antjuan, this was a big week for-- for you and fellow Democrats in terms of the first round out of the debates. What is your takeaway? What needs to change between now and when they take the stage in July? ANTJUAN SEAWRIGHT (Political Strategist/@antjuansea): I think our candidates have to realize that they are running for our party's nomination and not against each other. And I think that's such an important point because what we saw during the debate was some heated fellowship among some of our candidates, but I think the-- the focus was lost on the big picture and that is we have a race to run next year against the Republicans. I also think that we have to, again, probably sing a little louder on the quality of life issues, like health care, like the economy, like housing, all of the things that Democratic votes are hungry and thirsty for and not just Democratic voters, independent thinkers, independent voters and even some of those voters who may have voted for the President in '16, but voted for Democrats in 2018. MARGARET BRENNAN: And, Ramesh, what you just heard from Senator Graham was he characterized the debate stage as, you know, too extreme. For those who are those triers, those people in the middle, maybe even some Republicans who aren't comfortable with President Trump, is there anyone, yet, who they feel comfortable voting for on that stage? RAMESH PONNURU (National Review/@RameshPonnuru/Bloomberg Opinion): Well, I think that the Democrats right now, the candidates are not concentrating on swing voters. They're not concentrating certainly on persuadable Republicans and the process of winning the primaries may be pushing them too far to the left on some issues. Look, I think the-- the Trump reelection campaign had a very good week, not because of anything the President did, but the frontrunner Joe Biden got dinged in the debate. Three of his top rivals came out for outlining the kind of health insurance that two hundred million Americans rely on. They are-- they are on a-- in a race to the left on immigration. All of these things are going to make people who don't necessarily love everything that the President does think I don't know if I'm comfortable with this other side. ANTJUAN SEAWRIGHT: But-- but-- but, Margaret, to one point, we saw very few people between the two nights quote, unquote, "play with that," this idea of what the Republicans and some in the right wing media called liberal. What we saw I think, holistically, was a real center left type of approach to how we govern and what a policy agenda looks like. There's only two people on Wednesday night who raised their hand for Medicare for All, and I think it may have been two on Thursday night. So this idea that the party is driving the car to the left I think is just a false narrative, one that the Republicans are pushing because they know it plays well to their base. But, two, the media-- some in the media are pushing this narrative because it's good for political conversation. That does not make it true. MARGARET BRENNAN: Mm-Hm. RAMESH PONNURU: Warren, Sanders and Harris are three of the top candidates and they're all for outlining this kind of private health insurance that most Americans rely on. MARGARET BRENNAN: Shannon, picking up-- SHANNON PETTYPIECE (Bloomburg News/@spettypi): Right. MARGARET BRENNAN: --pick it up there with-- do you see it as a good week for the Trump reelection campaign? SHANNON PETTYPIECE: Everything went exactly as the campaign had hoped it would and as they expected it would. Whether they have really gone to the left or not the Trump campaign will use those moments from the debate to make it look like they moved to the left, whether swing voters are watching the debate or not they will cut moments from that debate and use them in campaign ads, that to them this was a television commercial against the Democrats for their 2020 campaign. So it-- it went exactly as they wanted. And I-- and on the expectation point, they expected Biden to be a bit off his game. They've been sort of talking-- their advisers have been talking for a while about feeling like Joe Biden today isn't Joe Biden of 2012. They expected Warren to be strong. They're concerned by her sort of authenticity and on message brand and I think Kamala did catch some by surprise, though. MARGARET BRENNAN: Ed, one of the factors here for any big geopolitical calculations is who's going to be in the Oval Office-- EDWARD WONG (The New York Times/@ewong): Right. MARGARET BRENNAN: --after 2020. There is this perception that whether it's Kim Jong-un or leadership in Iran that they're waiting out President Trump. Is that factoring into some of what we're saying? EDWARD WONG: Right. I think with Iran, it's be-- they've been put in difficult position because the sanctions really are hurting Iran. So I think they have wanted to try and hold out for a change of commander-in-chief in 2020. Now, you're seeing them push back a little bit in the Persian Gulf because they think they might not be able to wait out that-- the sanctions that long. Kim-- Kim is a different position. I think he has nuclear weapons. He wants to be able to keep them and as long as he keeps Trump talking in this sort of diplomatic sort of round-robin game, then I think he feels comfortable because he gets to keep his weapons. Maybe Trump eases up on sanctions and in the end that's what Kim wants. And that's what as we heard, Mike Morell said that might be what the U.S. needs in terms of pushing forward on-- on diplomacy and maybe the-- in the long run you ratchet back the tensions but right now you do need some diplomatic opening. MARGARET BRENNAN: As one source said to me Kim Jong-un has to look at this and say, "No President but President Trump would take this level of risk of meeting with me.' EDWARD WONG: Right. MARGARET BRENNAN: So maybe there's a narrow window of opportunity, but you heard Senator Amy Klobuchar on here say, well, maybe he would just reduce the number of nuclear weapons. That's different than full denuclearization. EDWARD WONG: Right. The-- MARGARET BRENNAN: Are we seeing him-- he-- he's kind of shopping for options? EDWARD WONG: I think the stated policy is full denuclearization. I think what we're seeing in this administration maybe in a future administration is that there might have to be a tacit acceptance of the fact that North Korea is a nuclear power. It's unstated like with Israel. But-- but that these administrations will have to accept that and figure out how to deal with the nuclear North Korea. MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to go to you, Antjuan, on this next. I want to play for all of you what former Vice President Joe Biden came out the day after the debate and said regarding his past record on forced busing. JOE BIDEN: I want to be absolutely clear about my record and position on racial justice, including busing. I never, never, never ever opposed voluntary busing. MARGARET BRENNAN: How big of a misstep was this truly? ANTJUAN SEAWRIGHT: I don't know if it was a misstep, but I do think the vice president and his team are going to have to make some adjustments going forward. Look, this country and our party has been shaped by the experiences of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. And I think we can't lose sight of that, but I also think that we can't ignore or turn the volume down on how the experiences of Kamala Harris and how she's been impacted by this throughout her life. But I will also say that sometimes, a moment doesn't mean it's transferable to several moments in the future, and I think that's what we all have to keep in mind. This was one debate. Joe Biden has a strong body of work on issues that have been pro civil rights and for the improvement of quality life for African-Americans just like Senator Harris. And I think we just have to get back focused to the big picture and that is quality-of-life issues and how we go forward. MARGARET BRENNAN: Shannon, the issue-- racial issues, though, are coming up on-- on the Trump side of things, as well. Donald Trump Jr. sent out a tweet this week that questioned whether Kamala Harris was, quote, "An American black." SHANNON PETTYPIECE: Right. It almost sounds reminiscent of the birther argument-- ANTJUAN SEAWRIGHT: Absolutely. SHANNON PETTYPIECE: --as many people have pointed out in 2016. And, of course, with an administration that does not have a great track record with race and has really worked to try and overcome the people, good people on both sides' image, they are trying to sell hard the economic argument about black unemployment, Hispanic unemployment, you know, cri-- criminal justice reform. But I do think they miss sometimes that with issues of race it's not always dollars and cents, and it's not always about, you know, we give you money and jobs. There is a, you know, a-- a moral sense here and a-- a sense of self, too, that if you degrade people in that way, no matter what you can give them financially it's not going to overcome that. MARGARET BRENNAN: Ramesh, do we need to hear from more Republicans on this? Most of all the Democrat competitors to Kamala Harris have come out in support of her. RAMESH PONNURU: Well, I don't think that Republicans are afraid of having an argument about busing in the 1970s. Let's recall, busing was unpopular with white Americans-- MARGARET BRENNAN: But on this issue. RAMESH PONNURU: --not terribly popular among black Americans. It's bizarre that the Democrats have latched on to this if they're not-- I mean, it's not like they're trying to bring it back. On the Republican side, you've got the fundamental problem that you've got a presidency that is not especially sensitive on racial matters, not necessarily thinking about a demographic future with the changing racial composition of this country and you've got congressional Republicans who don't really want to take him on. That's just the way it's been for three years now. ANTJUAN SEAWRIGHT: Margaret, your question was about-- MARGARET BRENNAN: The tweet. ANTJUAN SEAWRIGHT: --the tweet. MARGARET BRENNAN: I am-- unfortunately, no, you're right. Thanks, Antjuan. But I am running out of time here so I've got to take a break. We'll be right back. (ANNOUNCEMENTS) MARGARET BRENNAN: That's it for us today. Thanks for watching. Until next week for FACE THE NATION, I'm Margaret Brennan.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un talk before a meeting in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on June 30, 2019, in Panmunjom, Korea. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/Getty Images President Donald Trump claimed that his predecessor was repeatedly rebuffed after “begging” for a meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. But officials who were part of President Barack Obama’s administration insist this is merely the latest lie by the commander in chief. “President Obama wanted to meet, and Chairman Kim would not meet him,” Trump said at a news conference in South Korea. “The Obama administration was begging for a meeting. They were begging for meetings constantly. And Chairman Kim would not meet with him.” It didn’t take long for two former officials to come forward and say that was flat out false. Ben Rhodes, who served as Obama’s deputy national security adviser took to Twitter to contradict Trump. “Trump is lying,” Rhodes wrote. “Obama never sought a meeting with Kim Jong Un. Foreign policy isn’t reality television it’s reality.” Rhodes went on to call Trump’s foreign policy a “a failure,” adding that “photo ops don’t get rid of nuclear weapons, carefully negotiated agreements do.” Trump is lying. I was there for all 8 years. Obama never sought a meeting with Kim Jong Un. Foreign policy isn’t reality television it’s reality. — Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) June 30, 2019 Photo ops don’t get rid of nuclear weapons, carefully negotiated agreements do. Trump’s foreign policy is a failure - from NK to Iran to Venezuela. https://t.co/cpBiWPb1N0 — Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) June 30, 2019 Rhodes wasn’t alone. James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, also dismissed the claim during a television interview Sunday. “I don’t know where he’s getting that,” Clapper said. “In all the deliberations that I participated in on North Korea during the Obama administration, I can recall no instance whatever where President Obama ever indicated any interest whatsoever in meeting with Chairman Kim,” Clapper said on CNN’s State of the Union. “That’s news to me.” Even though Clapper acknowledged that it was “historic” for Trump to be the first sitting U.S. president to step on North Korean soil, he said it was unlikely to amount to a breakthrough in stalled negotiations. James Clapper: "In all the deliberations that I participated in on North Korea during the Obama administration, I can recall no instance whatever where President Obama ever indicated any interest whatsoever in meeting with Chairman Kim." https://t.co/4UNlHGRuzl pic.twitter.com/MIzVcad9Fd — The Hill (@thehill) June 30, 2019

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Sen. Kamala Harris is declaring herself the supporter of working families — but she is the lead Democratic sponsor on legislation which offers green cards to hundreds of thousands of Indian college grads who agree to take middle-class jobs sought by young American graduates. If Harris’ outsourcing law is adopted, the rush of Central Americans migrants at the southern border will be overshadowed by a huge rush of Indian college graduates walking into professional jobs throughout the United States. “It is impossible to understate the significance of this,” said Jessica Vaughan, policy director at the Center for Immigration Studies. Vaughan continued: A lot of people believe this is only for IT [professionals] but the potential impact goes way beyond IT – healthcare, accountants, and other professional jobs will be at risk. These are jobs which offered a gateway into the middle class for kids from families where the parents did not have white-collar jobs… American graduates are going to see their employment prospects severely restricted by Harris’ bill. This is “white-c0llar labor trafficking,” she added. “Working families need support and need to be lifted up,” Kamala Harris told the TV audience at the June 28 Democrat debate, adding: Frankly, this economy is not working for working people. For too long, the rules have been written in the favor of the people who have the most and not in favor of the people who work the most. … We have all been traveling around the country, I certainly have, I’m meeting people who are working two and three jobs … So when we talk about jobs, let’s be really clear. In our America, no one should have to work more than one job to have a roof over their head and food on the table. Harris is the lead Democratic sponsor for the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act. The legislation is intended to help Indian graduates get roughly 120,000 green cards each year — or roughly five times as many green cards as they receive now. But Harris’ bill is a special-interest fix for a problem collectively created by the federal government, India’s government, CEOs, investors, and their hired foreign contract-workers. The huge career and financial cost of Harris’ fix will be imposed on young American graduates, including million of U.S. graduates who are likely to vote Democratic in 2020. The Problem: The federal government offers 140,000 green cards to foreign graduates who are nominated by their U.S. employers. Unsurprisingly, companies love this green card giveaway because it allows them to dangle green cards to motivate their foreign workers. Unsurprisingly, many foreign workers rationally will do tough work at low wages for many years to get those hugely valuable green cards for themselves and their families — and Americans companies hire them instead of more expensive American graduates. Companies can nominate as many foreign workers as they wish, even though the federal government only provides 140,000 cards for foreign college-graduates each year. So, of course, there is a growing backlog in the green card line as companies nominate more people than there are green cards. Only some categories of foreign workers are eligible for these green cards. The most important group is the army of the foreign contract-workers in H-1B work-visa program. Workers with H-1B visas have to go home after six years of work — unless they get nominated by their company for one of the 140,000 green cards. Once nominated, the H-1B workers continue working for the same employer until they get their green card, after which they can try to find jobs with better pay and conditions. So companies have a huge financial incentive to hire and import cheap foreign workers on temporary visas, and to then nominate many of the temporary workers for green cards once their temporary status is about to expire. Already, companies employ roughly 1 million foreign contract-workers via the H-1B program. That hidden subsidy to U.S. business means at least 1 million college-graduate jobs are closed to American graduates. It also means that most Americans graduates are earning lower salaries because companies do not have to compete for their skills. Instead, Americans graduates have to compete hard for jobs that pay more than the wages earned by baristas, waiters, and temps. Indian Graduates Almost 70 percent of incoming H-1B workers are Indian because the Indian government has used the program as an economic development policy. That government policy has been extremely successful and Indian firms have won subcontracts worth billions from American investors who want to boost their stock values by outsourcing many of their operations to cheap Indian subcontractors. Roughly 1 million Indian foreign graduates have cycled through the H-1B program. While in the United States, the H-1B workers work closely with teams of India-based workers to boost the Indian economy with a huge variety of outsourced work — including software design, database maintenance, health-records management, banking networks, customer support services, and even the development of avionics software for Boeing aircraft. Most of these workers return home — bringing with them the skills, connections, and contracts that have created a national technology boom and a new middle-class. Understandably, American employers have extended the stay of their Indian H-1B workers by nominating them for green cards. This has spurred the creation of many communities of H-1B and ex-H-1B workers around Microsoft’s headquarters in Washington State, around Wal-Mart in Bentonville Ark., as well as in Silicon Valley, Northern Virginia, New Jersey, and Connecticut. In January 2018, for example, the San Jose Mercury News reported: About 71 percent of tech employees in the Valley are foreign born, compared to around 50 percent in the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward region, according to a new report based on 2016 census data … the paper’s research indicated that 63 percent of Seattle’s foreign-born tech workers were not American citizens. In Wal-Mart’s Arkansas, the Forsyth County News reported: “The Indian population has grown a lot in Forsyth County,” said Gina Sharma, a team leader with Keller Williams Realty North Atlanta. “I moved here in 2005 from Fulton County, and over the past years, I’ve seen personally the change in Forsyth County. A lot of people are moving here from Alpharetta into Forsyth for the schools and just overall the growth that is in Forsyth County.” There are so many H-1B contract-workers in the United States — roughly 1 million — that they are found in every state and in every congressional district. This breadth also gives them the ability to lobby many legislators. Country Caps This is where the H-1B and the green card programs collide to generate even more benefits for U.S. companies. The green card law contains a “per-country cap” which was intended to ensure that a diversity of foreign workers from a variety of countries could get green cards. In practice, the cap means that only 23,000 Indians can get green cards each year. But American companies have imported so many Indian H-1Bs, and nominated so many of them for green cards, that there is a multi-year backlog of roughly 300,000 Indian employees — and 300,000 family members — in the green card line. Indian contract workers say this is unfair, and complain that they must wait in the line while foreign employees from other countries can pick up their green cards with little delay. Weird but true: GOP and Dems in Congress are offering fast-track green cards to encourage 300,000+ vr. low wage Indian workers to take jobs from middle class American voters & graduates. FWIW I don't think the pols & staffers recognize what they are doing https://t.co/4TIUFzhC9b — Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) March 1, 2019 But the Indian contract workers are willing to work in the United States for five, 10, or even 15 years to finally become a legal immigrant on the day that they get their valuable green card The Indian contract workers are working for low wages — and future green cards — in a wide variety of l0w-status firms and prestigious companies. They work in a wide variety of careers, including therapists, designers, managers, architects, journalists, software programmers, engineers, statisticians, accountants, teachers, and fashion professionals. Yet the number of Indians volunteering to join the next wave of H-1B visa workers is leveling off because fewer Indian graduates want to take the H-1B career path if they cannot also get green cards. Moreover, Indian graduates no longer have to go abroad in search of opportunity but can win jobs in India’s technology sector. That resulting drop off in the number of volunteers for the H-1B program is bad for companies. In 2015, President Barack Obama provided some relief by issuing work permits to the spouses of contract workers in the waiting line. This potentially illegal giveaway means that the spouses of contract workers can alleviate their relative poverty, especially if they are working in expensive districts, such as Silicon Valley. The Harris Outsourcing Bill But the Harris bill fixes this backlog problem for U.S. investors, for India’s government, and for the Indian contract workers by eliminating the country diversity caps. Removal of the country caps will eliminate the Indian backlog in a few years and allow Indian H-1Bs to get up to 140,000 cards per year, after a very short wait. Of course, many people from China, the Philippines, and other countries are also trying to get green cards too, but Indians comprise a clear majority of the workers in the backlog, so they can easily scoop up 100,000 of the promised 140,000 each year. So if Harris eliminates the backlog, her bill can provide almost 1 million green cards per decade to Indians who get visa jobs. The Indian government fully supports this plan because their economic development teams are trying to grow the economy by sending more workers overseas in the realistic expectation that those workers will funnel more contracts and opportunities back to their peers in India — and their peers include graduates from particular regions and castes, such as Telegu and Brahmin. The Forsyth County News reported: Ani Agnihotri, program chair of the USA-India Business Summit, said Indians make up the second-largest group of foreign students in American universities, behind those from China, but said Chinese students frequently return to China while Indians are more likely to stay in the U.S. “Ninety-five percent of the students that come here for their higher education, mostly for master’s and Ph.Ds, and then they stay, then they start contributing to the local economy,” he said. Agnihotri said India has a massive and young population that could provide skilled, English-speaking workers ready to relocate “even at a seven-day notice” and said the majority of doctors in the United Kingdom and about 15 percent in America are of Indian descent. “India has the youngest population in the world. About 25 percent of the population of India, which is 1.25 billion, is below the age of 25,” he said. “We will be the provider of the workforce of the world in about 15 years, after 2035.” India’s policy is perfectly tuned to U.S. federal policy, which seeks to stimulate the domestic economy for investors by importing 1 million consumers, renters, and workers each year via legal immigration rules — regardless of the impact on American employees and families, or the 4 million Americans who turn 18 each year, or the 800,000 Americans who earned technology-intensive degrees each year. So, how many additional Indian graduates will come to the United States to get their larger share of green cards? Currently, roughly 300,000 Indian migrants and 300,000 family members are in line for their annual allotment of 23,000 the cards. Crudely speaking, that is a 24-year wait, although many subgroups of the Indians only have to wait a few years. The willingness of 300,000 Indian graduates and 300,000 family members to work-and-wait for a decade to get their green cards suggests that 1 million extra Indians will join a decade-long backlog once Harris quadruples the number of green cards for Indians. The backlog can grow — even if the annual number of green cards remains at 140,000 — because the annual inflow of H-1B can climb higher than current levels. The H-1B visa is supposedly capped at 85,000 per year, but the resident population is roughly 1 million H-1B workers, working in every state and myriad professions. And there is no limit on H-1B hiring in the non-profit sector. For example, at least 80,000 H-1 workers hold jobs in non-profit universities, hospitals, and company-funded research centers. Industry, Universities Hide Workforce of 100,000 Extra Foreign White-Collar H-1B Employees https://t.co/AQf3dghhGz by @NeilMunroDC — Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) January 6, 2016 Business groups are now pushing to exempt all healthcare jobs from the H-1B caps, which would allow healthcare investors to spike profits by outsourcing hundreds of thousands of additional healthcare jobs to even more H-1B workers. Koch-funded advocate calls for unlimited H-1B visa workers to replace American healthcare professionals. IOW, investors want to boost stock values by outsourcing many more skilled US college-grad jobs, so cutting white-collar payrolls nationwide. https://t.co/uK7xgVqvt0 — Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) June 20, 2019 The OPT Program But there is a second pool of Indian workers that will grow if Harris expands the Indian green card numbers. Current laws allow an unlimited number of foreign workers to get into the U.S. economy via a backdoor run by U.S. colleges and universities. The backdoor is the “Optional Practical Training” program, which is offered to foreign graduates of U.S. colleges. The program is already used by many Indians to improve their work skills and resumes as they try to get into the H-1B program. Progressives for Immigration reform, a left-wing group, slammed OPT as a jobs-outsourcing program: OPT has gobbled up U.S. jobs at an alarming rate and is now larger than the notorious H-1B visa program, created as part of the Immigration Act of 1990, that grants 85,000 employment-based visas to foreign nationals each year even though there’s an abundance of skilled American workers available. OPT has accounted for more than 200,000 foreign students remaining in the U.S. to work in each of the last few years. Overall, between 2008 and 2016, OPT workers increased by 400 percent. It’s important to know that Congress never approved OPT; no public comment period was provided, and the program exists solely through regulation. … Among those that have profited the most by spurning Americans in favor of international students are the usual suspects: Amazon (3,655), Intel (1,707), Google (1,501), Microsoft (1,022), Facebook (798) and IBM (633) were in 2017 top OPT employers. DHS data showed that Amazon earned nearly $25 million in tax breaks for hiring foreign nationals instead of U.S. tech workers. Feds use a fake university to bust college-grad labor traffickers who funneled at least 600 Indian grads into jobs around the US. The trafficking was hidden within the quasi-legal workforce of 1.5 million H-1B, OPT, L-1, TN, etc. white-collar visa-workers. https://t.co/EBenDh5wE3 — Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) January 31, 2019 Once the Indian migrants get U.S. jobs via the OPT program they can try to win H-1B visas, which provide the vital on-ramp to the green card process. If Harris’ bill becomes law, more Indians will use the OPT program as an on-ramp to the H-1b program and green cards. It would allow many Indians to get a green card within seven years of graduation, around the time they turn 30. All they have to do is spend a decade in the OPT and H-1B programs, working long hours, for low wages, under terrible bosses, in humiliation, squalor, and crowded apartments. That is a small price for an American green card. The Green Card Giveaway Getting an American green card by age thirty is equivalent to winning the lottery, or being one of the first workers at Facebook, Google, or Microsoft, or discovering a suitcase of gold in your bedroom. It is a hugely valuable prize that will make each winner the most successful person in their home neighborhood, their grade school, their university class, and their extended family. It allows Indians to escape their 4,000-year-old caste status, their own country’s caste nepotism, the poverty, and petty corruption, to become AN AMERICAN! in just ten years — and it means their spouses, their children, their chain-migration family, and all their descendent forever become AMERICANS. The Harris bill “would be an exponential increase in the pipeline … huge numbers of people will try to take advantage,” said Vaughan. The H-1B backlog also includes a small number of Chinese and Filipinos. If Harris removes the country caps, their governments will be able to surge more of their graduates into U.S. jobs, so displacing more young Americans. FBI busts company which allegedly helped get 'Optional Practical Training' work permits via fraud for roughly 1,900 Chinese grads, to steal jobs & salaries from American grads. More to come, despite media silence on white-collar job theft #HR1044 https://t.co/VsSjAVsXNi — Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) April 15, 2019 Harris’ anti-backlog “country caps” legislation may actually create a bigger backlog, warns the Congressional Research Service. “Shorter wait times for [green cards] might actually incentivize greater numbers of nationals from India, China, and the Philippines to seek employment-based [green card] status,” a CRS report warned legislators. “If that were to occur, the reduction in the number of approved petitions pending might be short-lived,” said the December 2018 report. The backlog problem will get worse as more Indian, Chinese and Filipinos push into the pipeline — and then those stranded workers will create their own lobbies to demand more green cards to displace more American graduates, said Vaughan. That lobbying is already underway by the Indians who have cajoled many Democratic and GOP legislators to support a bill which provides more green cards to themselves. For example, there are at least 600 H-1B workers in North Dakota, where GOP Sen. Kevin Cramer is now an ardent advocate for Harris’ outsourcing plan. “This is the fallacy — that increasing the number of green cards will reduce the backlog — when instead what happens is that increasing the number of green cards increases the demand for green cards,” she said. Instead of reducing pressure in the pipeline, she said: It has the opposite effect — it will increase the backlog and pressure in the green card [process] because there will always be more OPTs and more H-1Bs than green cards. The problem will grow every year and increases the pressure to expand the number of green cards and to create workarounds, such as making a special visa for the Irish, or the Ukrainians or the Malaysians. Already, the Indians have won support from wealthy West Coast investors — such as Mark Zuckerberg — whose payouts on Wall Street are maximized by cheap labor: Great news: very glad to see a bipartisan, bicameral introduction for the Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act. This is critical to clear the harmful green card backlog. pic.twitter.com/UmUKWxFR4y — Todd Schulte (@TheToddSchulte) February 7, 2019 And how many American graduates will lose their jobs when more Indians in the H-1B backlog and the OPT program flood into Americans’ office parks? Harris’ bill would result in such “a huge influx of foreigners to take these white-collar jobs — and are more likely to be hired because they work for lower wages [in the expectation of subsequent green cards]. That is going to diminish opportunities for all American graduates,” including minority, women, Native American, and first-in-their-family graduates, she said. This government bonus of green cards for H-1B workers creates a huge competitive bias against American graduates. How can Americans win job interviews when they are competing against equally skilled Indians who will work for starvation wages, peanuts, and fruit salad? The H-1B workers hope to get the citizenship deferred bonus — but Americans know they need higher salaries now to pay down their college debts, get married, and buy a decent house. Young American graduates have been walloped by economic policies and trends, amid record rates of college graduation. In May 2019, the Wall Street Journal reported: American millennials are approaching middle age in worse financial shape than every living generation ahead of them, lagging behind baby boomers and Generation X despite a decade of economic growth and falling unemployment. Hobbled by the financial crisis and recession that struck as they began their working life, Americans born between 1981 and 1996 have failed to match every other generation of young adults born since the Great Depression. They have less wealth, less property, lower marriage rates and fewer children, according to new data that compare generations at similar ages. … “If I can’t afford a home, I definitely can’t afford kids,” said Joy Brown, 32 years old. She is a renter who is single and earns $75,000 a year. She also owes $102,000 in student loans and $10,000 in credit-card debt. “Myself and a lot of my peers still feel like we’re playing catch-up in the game of life,” said Ms. Brown, a compliance officer for the city of Chicago. In December 2018, the Atlantic reported under the headline “Millennials Didn’t Kill the Economy. The Economy Killed Millennials” that: Millennials are the most educated generation in U.S. history to date. They bought into a social contract that said: Everything will work out, if first you go to college. But as the cost of college increased, millions of young people took on student loans to complete their degree. Graduates under 35 are almost 50 percent more likely than members of Gen X to have student loans, and their median balance is about 40 percent higher than that of the previous generation. And what has all that debt gotten them? “Lower earnings, fewer assets, and less wealth,” according to the Federal Reserve paper’s conclusion. Student debt has made it harder for millions of young people to buy a home, since “holding debt is associated with a lower rate of homeownership, irrespective of degree type,” as Fed economists wrote in a previous study. In other words, young people took on debt to pursue a college degree, only to discover that the cost of college would push the American dream further from their grasp. On June 27, the lead GOP sponsor of the Harris’ outsourcing bill, GOP Sen. Mike Lee, introduced Harris’ outsourcing bill on the Senate floor and asked for unanimous consent to pass the bill. It was stopped, for the moment, when GOP Sen. Rand Paul, announced his objection. But the bill has 34 supporters in the Senate — and more than 200 in the House. The bill will likely pass if President Kamala Harris is sitting in the Oval Office.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

CLOSE President Donald Trump heads to the G-20 summit in Japan this week, weighed down by escalating tensions with Iran, stalled negotiations over North Korea's nuclear capabilities and a stalemated trade dispute with China. (June 26) AP, AP Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sharply criticized Ivanka Trump's suitability as a U.S. diplomatic representative at last week's G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, saying on social media that simply being the president's daughter does not make her qualified for the role. "It may be shocking to some, but being someone’s daughter actually isn’t a career qualification," the freshman Democratic congresswoman from New York said in a tweet on Saturday night. "It hurts our diplomatic standing when the President phones it in & the world moves on. The US needs our President working the G20. Bringing a qualified diplomat couldn’t hurt either," she added. Ocasio-Cortez's post included a link to a tweet featuring a viral video clip – which has more than 9 million views – of President Donald Trump's oldest daughter, and White House adviser, participating in a conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Theresa May, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the director of the International Monetary Fund's director, Christine Lagarde. At G20, Trump tells Putin playfully: 'Don't meddle in the election.' Putin laughs New strategy?: Trump criticized Kamala Harris at the G20, breaking a silence More: Donald Trump's future depends in part on Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong Un It may be shocking to some, but being someone’s daughter actually isn’t a career qualification. It hurts our diplomatic standing when the President phones it in & the world moves on. The US needs our President working the G20. Bringing a qualified diplomat couldn’t hurt either. https://t.co/KCZMXJ8FD9 — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 30, 2019 The context of the 19-second video clip that was published on the official Instagram account of the French presidential palace is not provided, and the sound quality leaves some of the dialogue unintelligible. But it shows Macron making a comment about "social justice" to which Ivanka Trump nods and expresses agreement. "As soon as you begin talking about the economic aspect of it, though, a lot of people start listening who otherwise wouldn't listen," May says. "Yeah," Trump agrees. "And the same with the defense side of it," which she says is "male-dominated." Many Twitter users characterized the attempts by the president's daughters to join the conversation as embarrassing. A number of commentators noted an apparent eye roll from Lagarde as Ivanka Trump spoke. THIS VIDEO: The reaction from @Lagarde when @IvankaTrump tries to interject herself into a sideline conversation with world leaders (including @EmmanuelMacron, @JustinTrudeau & @theresa_may) is quite something. pic.twitter.com/4jPqDxuR1r — Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) June 30, 2019 Chair of IMF Christine Lagarde reaction to Ivanka Trump is everything.....#StayInYourLane#G20pic.twitter.com/kAg2TX48Ov — Dee (@dalkey04) June 29, 2019 "Your thoughts on this video, @IvankaTrump? Your thoughts on the French government releasing it for the world to see?" tweeted actress and liberal activist Alyssa Milano. Your thoughts on this video, @IvankaTrump? Your thoughts on the French government releasing it for the world to see? https://t.co/7yijI76qSs — Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) June 30, 2019 Ivanka Trump’s conversation with G20 leaders pic.twitter.com/atL50POrB7 — CleWest (@erjmanlasvegas) June 30, 2019 Just imagine being Angela Merkel or Christine LaGarde, having worked your whole life on the most complex geopolitical issues of the day, being forced to wince and smile as Ivanka Trump thinks she's got something to say to you re: same. I can't imagine how they stay polite. — Elizabeth C. McLaughlin (@ECMcLaughlin) June 30, 2019 Ivanka Trump at the G20 like: pic.twitter.com/zWXzyEkrxX — D S (@dimplodocus) June 30, 2019 Edward Luce, a columnist for the Financial Times, wrote that Ivanka Trump "inserting herself into an awkward circle of world leaders" will be the "abiding image" of the G-20 summit. He noted the "varying expressions of tortured politeness" displayed by the European political figures as Ivanka Trump spoke, and said that "Lagarde, in particular, was unable to conceal her irritation." "America’s self-named 'First Daughter' is rarely out of the frame at global summits. Other Trump officials are almost invisible compared with Ms Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner, the only two White House players who are thought to be immune from Mr Trump’s trademark phrase: 'You’re fired," Luce wrote. Some of Ivanka Trump's defenders pushed back against Ocasio-Cortez's criticism. They said it was ironic that Ocasio-Cortez, a bartender and the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, was criticizing someone as being unqualified. College professor Oliver McGee, a frequent guest on Fox News, accused Ocasio-Cortez of "jealousy" for Ivanka Trump's place "on the world stage" and called her criticism "petty & classless." "Diplomat Ivanka is savvy in business & politics to dialogue with world leaders! Being a bartender is NOT a savvy qualification for Congress," McGee tweeted. .@AOC, your jealousy of @IvankaTrump on the world stage shows as petty & classless!@POTUS@realDonaldTrump@WhiteHouse diplomat Ivanka is savvy in business & politics to dialogue with world leaders! Being a bartender is NOT a savvy qualification for Congress @RepAOC! Retweet! pic.twitter.com/VOMQe9Fr6T — Oliver McGee PhD MBA (@OliverMcGee) June 30, 2019 "Imagine lacking this much self-awareness. The bartender turned Congresswoman, called someone unqualified," the Students for Trump Twitter account replied to Ocasio-Cortez's post. "She didn’t 'turn' Congresswoman," another Twitter user replied to Students for Trump's criticism. "She campaigned, beat an entrenched politician, and she did it with grit and a vision. You may not like her views, but nothing was handed to her ... unlike Ivanka." Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/30/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-says-ivanka-trump-unqualified-diplomat/1611603001/

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

The Rev. Jesse Jackson watches as Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg speaks during the African American Leadership Summit on June 6, 2019, in Atlanta. | John Bazemore/AP Photo 2020 Elections Jesse Jackson opens up on 2020 and the changing Democratic Party The civil rights activist and two-time presidential candidate defends Buttigieg, blasts Biden and praises Warren in a wide-ranging interview. CHICAGO — The Rev. Jesse Jackson has lost a step. The 77-year-old two-time presidential candidate’s roaring sermons have become more muted and mumbled. His walk has become slow, unsteady. At a news conference here over the weekend with Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, she held up the microphone for him when he spoke. Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition event on Saturday at the 4,000-capacity Apostolic Faith Church drew only a few hundred people. Story Continued Below But when it comes to the Democratic Party and its 2020 presidential primary, Jackson and his progressive organization for social change are more relevant than ever as the party embraces the issues he ran on three decades ago. “The ’84 campaign broke the sound barrier,” he said in an interview after the Rainbow PUSH event, which featured Warren, Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii. “Part of the whole idea was to sow seeds that would germinate.” That’s why, even though Jackson may not command a podium or draw crowds as he once did, at least six presidential candidates are joining him during the annual Rainbow PUSH International Convention, which ends Tuesday. It’s also why candidates emphasize their ties to his presidential campaigns. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont talks about his endorsement of Jackson in 1988 while he was mayor of Burlington; Vanity Fair noted in its cover story of former Rep. Beto O’Rourke that he displays at home the picture of him meeting Jackson as a kid when his dad served as Texas co-chairman of Jackson’s campaigns; and Klobuchar mentioned in a speech on Saturday that her political mentor, the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, managed the Minnesota primary for Jackson. Illinois Playbook newsletter Our must-read rundown of political news in the Land of Lincoln. Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York is set to appear with Jackson on Monday. Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., is scheduled to address Rainbow PUSH on Tuesday amid community anger back home over a police officer’s shooting and killing of a black man while not having his body camera turned on to record it. In a wide-ranging interview about several of the 24 Democratic candidates and the most diverse presidential field in history, Jackson defended Buttigieg. “What happened there is not his fault,” he said, blaming structural problems of longtime segregation in the city’s housing and the fact that most of the city’s police officers live outside the city, making them what he called an “occupying force” (Indiana law prohibits cities from requiring officers to live in city limits). “He handled it with humbleness — you know, ‘I failed,’” Jackson said, referring to Buttigieg’s remarks at the presidential debate last week. “But he failed not just because he wasn’t on it; he failed because of structural abnormality, and that’s why I think the press has some role to put issues in context.” Jackson was less forgiving of former Vice President Joe Biden, who joined Jackson at a convention event on Friday. Speaking about Biden’s record on busing — which has become a flashpoint after Sen. Kamala Harris of California confronted him at the debate — Jackson said that Harris “established Biden on the states’ rights side of history,” which “cannot stand the test of time.” He framed Biden’s opposition to federally mandated busing as part of a larger debate over the federal government’s trying to create racial equality. “He’s for voluntary busing, I’m for court-ordered busing — well, everyone’s for voluntary busing,” Jackson said. “[T]he federal government had to order the abolition of slavery, the federal government had to order the right to vote, they had to order the desegregation of schools and jobs and contracts. So ‘voluntary’ assumes that those who are oppressive have some will to move based on moral values, and that does not happen.” Jackson added that Biden had done “a lot of good things.” The candidate’s campaign has noted that as a senator Biden advocated for the Voting Rights Act and other federal programs to compel equal treatment of people based on race, but that he merely felt that busing was an ineffective program for integrating schools. Jesse Jackson Jr. shares a stage with fellow Democratic candidates Al Gore (left) and Michael Dukakis during a 1988 Democratic debate. A number of Jackson’s pet issues from his campaigns are part of this year’s primary. | AP Photo The controversy over Biden’s past opposition to busing is representative of the larger shift in the Democratic Party toward confronting racial disparities, and is another sign of how it has come closer to what Jackson campaigned on in the ’80s. Remedying the racial wealth gap, redlining practices, abusive policing and mass incarceration of people of color are now part of most candidates’ platforms and their stump speeches. Reparations for slavery, which Jackson campaigned on in 1984 and 1988, have been embraced by candidates and were the subject of a recent congressional hearing in the Democratically controlled House. Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado, one of the many white men running, has been on the campaign trail giving out copies of a recent biography on Frederick Douglass. Beyond issues of race, top Democratic contenders also echo Jackson’s support for a government-run single-payer health system and passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. In many ways dismissed or forgotten over the decades, the Jackson campaigns have reemerged as an ideal for many activists on the far left in the Trump era. “In some significant ways, the Jackson campaign was an answer to the question of what an alternative strategy for the party, one rooted in people rather than money, might have looked like,” Ryan Grim, the progressive journalist and Washington bureau chief for The Intercept, wrote in his new book, “We’ve Got People: From Jesse Jackson to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the End of Big Money and the Rise of a Movement.” Drawing parallels between the Jackson campaign and the current debates in the Democratic Party today, Grim wrote: “It was one that excited Democratic voters, but had them wondering if Jackson was truly as ‘electable’ as the safe [Michael] Dukakis.” Jackson himself said he had no plans to endorse anyone in the primary, but he gave Warren very high marks after her speech on Saturday. “Personality is the conduit through which information gets — she has a personality that’s magnetic, and she’ll be in this race to the end,” he said. “I don’t know how it’ll end up, but she’ll be a factor in the outcome of this race.”

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Some Joe Biden loyalists said they thought it was misleading of Sen. Kamala Harris to attack him on civil rights. | Scott Olson/Getty Images 2020 Elections ‘Her ambition got it wrong about Joe’: Harris faces debate backlash Biden supporters lash out against Kamala Harris. SAN FRANCISCO — Kamala Harris might be reveling in her sudden burst of attention after roasting Joe Biden over race issues on the debate stage last week, but a backlash is already brewing. Biden supporters and Democrats who have attended the former vice president’s events in the days after the first nationally televised debate, are describing Harris’ assault on Biden as an all-too-calculating overreach after she knocked him on his heels in a grilling over busing and his remarks on segregationist senators. Story Continued Below “She played low ball, which was out of character. And he didn’t expect it, nor did I,” said Lee White, a Biden supporter who attended his remarks at the Jesse Jackson Rainbow PUSH Coalition. “She should not have gone that route. She’s much too intelligent, she’s been able to be successful thus far, why do you have to do that.” One major California Biden supporter, who declined to be named for publication, said Harris’ direct attack on Biden was a mistake that would haunt her. “It’s going to bite her in the ass,” the supporter noted. “Very early on there was buzz … Biden-Kamala is the dream ticket, the best of both worlds.’’ After this week, “That shit ain’t happening.” The criticism of Harris over her rough treatment of Biden are among the first signs of backlash — including in her home state — against the California Democrat who had a breakout moment in the first presidential debate. It’s also a sign of the goodwill and loyalty that many still feel toward that the vice president, who has managed to keep many of his backers in his camp, even amid criticism of what was roundly viewed as a sub-par debate performance. Indeed, sources say Biden walked away with a $1 million haul after two fundraisers in San Francisco alone this weekend. poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201906/2048/1155968404_6053294016001_6053279540001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404" true “We can be proud of her nonetheless, but her ambition got it wrong about Joe,” said former Illinois Sen. Carol Moseley Braun, the first African American woman to serve in the Senate. “He is about the best there is; for her to take that tack is sad.” Harris stunned Biden in the debate, knocking him back on his heels by noting his past “hurtful” efforts to work with segregationists and what she defined as his opposition to school busing. Harris’ emotional recounting of her own experience in the Berkeley school district as a child who was bused to more segregated schools — “that girl was me,’’ she said — became a defining debate moment, and bruised Biden’s status as the Democratic frontrunner. But one of Biden’s supporters called the attack by Harris “too cute by half” after her campaign tweeted out — and quickly began merchandising — a photo of Harris as a young girl. “Couldn’t they at least pretend that it was semi-organic?” the Biden supporter asked, referring to the planned nature of Harris’ debate night ambush. Some Biden loyalists said they thought it was misleading of Harris to attack Biden on civil rights, given what they said was his lifelong advocacy on that front. White, who is African American, said of the underlying segregationist issues Harris attacked: “I thought it was old news.” Sam Johnson, a Columbia, S.C.-based public affairs consultant who represents many minority clients, accused Harris of “desperately overreaching.” COUNTDOWN TO 2020 The race for 2020 starts now. Stay in the know. Follow our presidential election coverage. Email Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. “I don’t think a lot of folks are saying, ‘well, there’s a lot of credibility of her going after Biden,’” said Johnson, who has not backed a 2020 candidate. “I don’t think it was received by the majority of folks as an attack that is going to move the needle. Most folks aren’t looking at that as something where, hey, ‘Biden was against civil rights carte blanche.” “It was planned, and it was staged and it was rehearsed — and they were ready to raise money on it,’’ a different Bay Area Biden supporter said of Harris’ roundhouse punch. But former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown — whose patronage of Harris helped put the then-Alameda County assistant district attorney on the political map in her early years — bridled at the suggestion that Harris may have muddled her political future with her attack on Biden. He told POLITICO that the vice president has no one to blame but himself for a lackluster and unprepared performance. “They better hope she would accept [a VP nomination],’’ he said. “Otherwise, he’s a guaranteed loser.” But Brown, who also served as Speaker of the California Assembly, said that Biden’s stunned reaction only underscored that — on the issue of civil rights — he has so far failed to be completely honest with voters and should simply admit his past unpopular actions and positions. “At this point, she may be the only life raft he has,’’ he added, “because, as of this moment, he’s on the Titanic.” Biden, in comments to supporters this weekend, appeared to acknowledge the possibility that his quest may not end in success — an unusual departure from the script of most presidential candidates who confidently toss off phrases like “as your next president.” poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201906/672/1155968404_6053659074001_6053656936001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404" Speaking to about 150 backers in the bayside Marin County community of Belvedere, Biden dismissed the idea that he was making a sacrifice to run for president, but said that he felt an obligation at a time when the country is at a crisis point with the Trump presidency. “My family and I believe very strongly that you kind of have certain things fall in your wheelhouse,'' he said. "It doesn't mean I'm going to win, doesn't mean I'm the only person who can be a good president, I'm not saying that." He told two different audiences that civil rights was a lifelong “passion,’’ and also made reference to his Democratic competitors. While never mentioning Harris by name, he appeared to address her sharp criticism about working with segregationists, pushing back at the notion that reaching across the aisle is an outdated notion. "I know I'm criticized heavily by my qualified contenders who are running,“ he said, “when I say, "folks, 'we've got to bring the country together." Some will say, "well, that's old Joe, they're the old days,’’ he said. “[But] if that's the old days,’’ he told supporters, “we're dead...that's not hyperbole.'' Former San Francisco Supervisor Leslie Katz, who’s known the former San Francisco district attorney for years and is a member of Harris’ finance committee defended the senator’s approach. “She was giving him a chance to address the issues that would plague him... she was gracious, and she personalized it: she said she didn’t think he was a racist,’’ Katz said. “What stunned me was that he wasn’t prepared for that topic, and he needs to figure that out, sooner rather than later.” Debbie Mesloh, a longtime Harris advisor, also defended Harris’ question to Biden as on the mark – and entirely fair. “She was ready, and she was bold, and she delivered,’’ she said. “She really showed what she can do.” Harris, meanwhile, was met in her hometown of San Francisco like a conquering hero post-debate, facing a sea of ebullient supporters at a packed #LGBTQ fundraiser during San Francisco’s PRIDE weekend. But after reveling in the moment, Harris also delivered a reality check about the long campaign still ahead. “It will be tough. It will be excruciating. It’s going to be a long haul,’’ she told them. “We’re going to have good weeks. We’re going to have bad weeks. It’s not going to be given to us...but we are going to be joyful about this,’’ she said. “As much success as we’ve had — there’s still much to do.”

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

A 93-year-old Holocaust survivor spoke out against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) statements last week comparing migrant detention centers to concentration camps. “She should be removed from Congress. She’s spreading anti-Semitism, hatred, and stupidity,” Ed Mosberg, a Morris Plains, New Jersey, resident and Holocaust survivor told the New York Post. “The people on the border aren’t forced to be there — they go there on their own will. If someone doesn’t know the difference, either they’re playing stupid or they just don’t care,” he added. Ocasio-Cortez has repeatedly used social media to make a talking point out of likening migrant detention centers on the southern border to places of torture, not ruling out comparing those sites to concentration camps. The GOP has supported building mass concentration camps on the southern border. Kids & families are dying. Now they want money for more – w/ ZERO negotiation on how $ is spent. We can’t do that. They‘ve shown that when they get more money, they build more camps. #CloseTheCamps https://t.co/DYhXuU9Crz — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 22, 2019 Reminder this admin is CHOOSING to round up refugees seeking asylum, fighting to not give children toothpaste or soap & making people sleep on dirt floors. They say it’s bc of a lack of Ὃ. You know what saves money? Not putting masses of people in internment in the first place. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 22, 2019 Mosberg, who is also the president the Holocaust-education group “From the Depths,” invited Ocasio-Cortez to tour “the German Nazi concentration camps” and the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland— which has a museum and a memorial site. Mosberg— who survived the Plaszów and Mauthausen camps— said he hoped to take her to all those sites, especially the site at Auschwitz where his mother was killed. While other members of Congress urged her to go on the trip, the freshman Democrat publicly declined the invitation while tweeting back and forth in an argument with Rep. Steve King (R-IA). The last time you went on this trip it was reported that you also met w/ fringe Austrian neo-Nazi groups to talk shop. So I’m going to have to decline your invite. But thank you for revealing to all how transparently the far-right manipulates these moments for political gain. https://t.co/TQkaPEESoD — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 23, 2019 The 93-year-old said he was very disappointed Ocasio-Cortez declined his offer to go, but left an open invitation to her should she want to explore the concentration camps. “She should be taught a lesson,” Mosberg said. “If you’re not there, you will never know what happened. She doesn’t want to learn — she’s looking for excuses. I would like to nominate her for the Nobel Prize in stupidity.” Meanwhile, a press representative for Ocasio-Cortez defended the remarks in a statement, saying that the congresswoman makes a clear “distinction between a death camp and concentration camp. She’s been pretty outspoken about the issue.”

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Democratic presidential candidates dismissed President Donald Trump’s latest meeting with North Korea dictator Kim Jon-Un as a photo opportunity that conferred credibility to the rogue regime without securing any measurable commitments in return. Trump became the first U.S. president to set foot in North Korea on Sunday, briefly crossing into the country where he shook hands and met with Kim, who he called “my friend.” The made-for-TV moment led to an agreement to restart talks on nuclear disarmament on the Korean peninsula, which broke down after Trump’s summits with Kim in Singapore last June and in Vietnam in February failed to yield substantial results. “I have no problem with him sitting down with Kim Jong-un in North Korea or any place else. But I don’t want it simply to be a photo opportunity,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” “What’s going to happen tomorrow and the next day?” North Korea launched two suspected “short-range missiles” in May that landed in the Sea of Japan. Trump, as he has previously, on Sunday dismissed the importance of the launches after his meeting with Kim. He told reporters he “didn’t consider those missile tests.” The comment contradicts his top defense and national security officials, who have maintained that the launches violated United Nations resolutions. “After they had the first summit, the Singapore summit, he told the American people that North Korea was no longer a threat,” former HUD Secretary Julian Castro said Sunday on ABC’s “Week.” “Then after that, (North Korea) continued to test their nuclear weapons and they have not even abided by one of the commitments that they made originally, which was to give an inventory of their nuclear stockpile.” The Texas Democrat further accused Trump of “raising the profile” and “growing the strength of a dictator.” Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota used a culinary hallmark of Minnesota culture to pan Trump’s meeting with Kim on Sunday. “He keeps having these summits and meetings that really don’t produce anything,” Klobuchar said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “You know, you just can’t look at this as going over and talking to your dictator next door and bringing them a hot dish over the fence.” “You need to have a plan to denuclearize that peninsula or at least reduce those weapons immediately, and I just don’t see that happening,” she added. Former Vice President Joe Biden didn’t personally comment on the Trump-Kim meeting, which Trump set in motion via Twitter on Saturday as he prepared to leave a G-20 summit in Japan. A Biden spokesman, though, issued a statement blasting Trump for his “coddling of dictators,” and accused the president of making “numerous concessions for negligible gain.′ “His conduct reinforces that we urgently need a president who can restore our standing in the world, heal relationships with key allies Trump has alienated, and deliver real change for the American people,” Biden spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement. Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio, one of the longer shots in the crowded Democratic presidential field, may have had the sharpest words for Trump’s continuing bromance with Kim, at least among the party’s White House candidates. Ryan said he was “stunned” by the brief get-together, and compared Trump to former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, whose diplomatic capitulations to German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler helped set the stage for World War II. “This is historic — him going to North Korea is like Chamberlain going to talk to Hitler,” Ryan said during an interview on Fox News. “I have no idea why he is shaking hands with a dictator who just in May was sending missiles into the Sea of Japan,” Ryan told host Maria Bartiromo. “You don’t reward that kind of behavior with a visit to your country from the president of the United States.”

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Booker, a Democratic presidential candidate, says Biden has ‘an inability to talk candidly about the mistakes he made’ Booker not sure Biden ‘up to the task’ of reconciling US over racial injustices The Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker said on Sunday that while the US must fix racial injustice, he is not sure Joe Biden is “up to that task”. Julián Castro calls Trump Jr a ‘coward’ over racist attack on Kamala Harris Read more “Whoever our nominee is going to be, whoever the next president is going to be, really needs to be someone who can talk openly and honestly about race with vulnerability because none of us are perfect, but really call this country to common ground, to reconciliation,” the New Jersey senator told NBC’s Meet the Press. “I’m not sure if Vice-President Biden is up to that task, given the way this last three weeks have played out, and frankly I know whoever is that nominee needs to be able to pull this country together because we need to reconcile.” Biden leads most national and state polls regarding the sizeable Democratic primary field. Booker performed strongly in the first debate this week and is at the rear of the leading pack. On Sunday he was answering a question about a contentious exchange between Biden and California senator Kamala Harris at the second debate in Miami. Harris interjected during a discussion of race and policing, noting that as the only black candidate on the stage, she should be able to respond. The former prosecutor then focused on Biden, slamming his record on race. Campaigning recently, Biden warmly recalled his working relationship with segregationist senators. Opponents pressed him to apologize, but he refused. “I do not believe you are a racist,” Harris said on the debate stage, as she looked directly at President Barack Obama’s second-in-command. “But … it is personal. And it was actually hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country.” Harris also accused Biden – who early in his long political career opposed the federally mandated bussing of students as a way to integrate schools – of propping up policies that would have kept minority students like herself out of majority white districts. “There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bussed to school every day,” Harris said. “And that little girl was me.” Visibly upset, Biden said “that is a mischaracterization of my position across the board. I did not praise racists. That is not true.” Booker, who is also African American, told NBC Biden has “an inability to talk candidly about the mistakes he made, about things he could’ve done better, about how some of the decisions he made at the time in difficult context actually have resulted in really bad outcomes. Democrats divided as pressure to impeach builds: ‘What are you waiting for?’ Read more “We have one destiny in this nation and right now the vice-president to me is not doing a good job at bringing folks together. In fact, and I’ve heard this from people across the country, he’s causing a lot of frustration and even pain with his words.” Another candidate, Julián Castro, also weighed in, when asked if he thought Harris’s criticism was “relevant”. “Oh, of course,” the former San Antonio mayor and US housing secretary told NBC. “I think it’s relevant. I think the record of all of the candidates that are running, including Vice-President Biden’s record, is relevant and his stance on busing is relevant as well. “What I took as his position being that he allowed local communities to make a decision, essentially relying on states’ rights, I think he’s going to have to continue to explain how that was a good position. Because we’ve had a very painful history in this country of trying to desegregate communities. “That pain is still there in this country, and he’s going to have to address that – not only in the debate, but I think going forward.”

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

New York — The Senate's top Democrat said Sunday that the U.S. government should step up efforts to investigate the deaths of U.S. citizens in the Dominican Republic this year. Since the start of the year, at least nine American tourists have died while vacationing in the Dominican Republic, and questions are also being raised about several more deaths in 2018. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) should lend support to the FBI and local law enforcement on the island. Schumer noted the agency has offices in the Caribbean and the technical and forensic expertise that could aid the investigation. "Given that we still have a whole lot of questions and very few answers into just what, if anything, is cause for the recent spate of sicknesses and several deaths of Americans in the Dominican Republic, the feds should double their efforts on helping get to the bottom of things," Schumer said in a statement. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. J. Scott Applewhite / AP The nine deaths reportedly occurred after the visitors complained of feeling ill after eating a meal or drinking out of the hotel minibar. The U.S. embassy in Santo Domingo said there is no proof at this point the deaths are linked, but family members of the tourists who died have called on authorities to investigate any possible connections. Relatives have raised the possibility that the deaths may have been caused by adulterated alcohol or misused pesticides. ATF spokeswoman April Langwell said the Treasury Department primarily handles investigations involving potentially tainted alcohol. But she said ATF, which is part of the Justice Department, has offered its assistance and would work with other law enforcement agencies to keep Americans safe. The ATF primarily investigates firearms-related crimes but is also charged with regulating alcohol and tobacco. CBS News reached out to the Treasury Department to find out if it would assist in any investigation into the American citizen Dominican Republic deaths, but has not yet received a statement. Francisco Javier García, the tourism minister in the Dominican Republic, said earlier this month that the deaths were not part of any mysterious series of fatalities but a statistically normal phenomenon lumped together by the U.S. media. He said autopsies show the tourists died of natural causes. Five of the autopsies were complete as of last week, while three were undergoing further toxicological analysis with the help from the FBI because of the circumstances of the deaths.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Leader echoes the populists as he fires up his supporters for the election battles ahead Nigel Farage has promised that his Brexit party will have candidates ready to fight in every Westminster constituency within days, as he said he would battle hard even against a Boris Johnson-led government which promised a no-deal departure. Speaking at a noisy rally in Birmingham which saw the first 100 candidates paraded before the crowd but not named, Farage said it was impossible to trust either Johnson or Jeremy Hunt over their Brexit plans.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

President Trump’s trip Sunday to the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea and his historic decision to cross briefly into North Korea was a made-for-TV diplomatic spectacular. But it was also a test of whether personal diplomacy can trump (so to speak) longstanding definitions of a country’s national interests by persuading North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to end his nuclear weapons program. Foreign policy realists – and count us in – are skeptical. There is no indication so far that Kim has abandoned his goal of the North being accepted as a nuclear weapons power and getting the crippling American and United Nations economic sanctions against his isolated country lifted. Even key members of Trump’s foreign policy team – National Security Adviser John Bolton, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and others – are said to believe that national interests, not relationships, are determinative. Trump is betting they are not. We shall see. TRUMP, KIM MEET AT DEMILITARIZED ZONE FACE-TO-FACE FOR FIRST TIME SINCE HANOI In any event, Trump’s unorthodox approach is a huge gamble with some immediate costs and potentially dangerous longer-term risks in calling what may be North Korea’s bluff. Pyongyang has insisted that Washington end its maximum pressure economic campaign – what the North calls America’s “hostile policy” – and is demanding “respect” as a nation. China says it supports this explanation, citing American hostility to Pyongyang as a root cause of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. In his stunning visit, Trump went out of his way to give the North Korean tyrant what he craves. Trump called his step across the line into North Korea a "special moment" that attests to the “great relationship" the United States now has with the North. Trump also invited the communist dictator to visit the White House at an unspecified time. Soon after his visit, Trump tweeted: “Leaving South Korea after a wonderful meeting with Chairman Kim Jong Un. Stood on the soil of North Korea, an important statement for all, and a great honor!" North Korea’s nuclear reactors are still churning out fissile material to expand a nuclear arsenal now estimated at 35 to 60 nuclear bombs. Pyongyang continues its efforts to perfect the long-range ballistic missiles to deliver them and has resumed testing shorter-range rockets. By treating the brutal young totalitarian as a friend whom he can drop in on whenever he is in the neighborhood, Trump is offering both friendship and respect. Finally, Trump is testing the thesis of South Korean President Moon Jae-in – who has encouraged Trump’s unorthodox approach – and some Americans that improved political relations must precede any nuclear deal. At the border, Trump said that teams of nuclear negotiators, led by State Department Special Envoy Stephen Biegun on the American side, will soon resume talks on denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula. Those negotiations have been frozen by North Korea’s unwillingness to engage with American counterparts at the brass tacks, working level. The commencement of U.S.-North Korea talks will be an immediate test of whether Trump’s bet on personal diplomacy over national interest can succeed. The president hedged somewhat on his own announcement, seeming tentative about how soon progress may be made. He cautioned several times that he was in “no rush” to see disarmament progress and said building relationships takes time. But there are already obvious costs to the path Trump has chosen. The most immediate, which the president’s critics were quick to cite, is the legitimacy Trump has bestowed through his giant step into history by setting foot inside one of the world’s most brutal dictatorships. The United Nations Human Rights Commission concluded in a 2014 report that North Korea “does not have any parallel in the contemporary world” in its “systematic, widespread, and gross human rights violations.” U.S. intelligence and human rights groups estimate that North Korea is holding as many as 120,000 political prisoners in unbelievably dire conditions in its labor camps. In June 2017, North Korea released one such prisoner, Otto Warmbier. But the 22-year-old American student died six days after returning to the U.S. due to injuries incurred during his brutal 17 months of captivity in North Korea – just one example of the horrifying reality of life inside Kim’s gulag. There are nuclear costs as well. North Korea’s nuclear reactors are still churning out fissile material to expand a nuclear arsenal now estimated at 35 to 60 nuclear bombs. Pyongyang continues its efforts to perfect the long-range ballistic missiles to deliver them and has resumed testing shorter-range rockets. Kim has not fulfilled the pledge he made after his first summit with President Trump in Singapore in June 2018 to “work towards” nuclear disarmament by providing a full accounting of the North’s nuclear-related facilities. There are at least 140 of them, according to some intelligence estimates. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP At his second summit with Kim in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi four months ago, Trump chose to walk away from the table rather than agree to Kim’s demand that Washington permanently lift all sanctions against his country in exchange for the dismantlement of its main nuclear and fissile material production facilities at Yongbyon. The longer-term and even graver risk to American national security is that Trump – increasingly desperate for a foreign policy “win” and eager prove the value of his personal diplomacy – may accept what he once rejected and permanently lift the crippling economic sanctions on Pyongyang in exchange for temporary and partial North Korean denuclearization. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE BY JUDITH MILLER William Tobey is a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He is a former deputy director of the U.S. nuclear stockpile who served on the National Security Council under Republican and Democratic presidents.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Trump meets Kim Jong Un at DMZ President Trump talks with Kim Jong Un on Sunday after crossing the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

CLOSE Story Highlights A 43-year-old El Salvadoran migrant collapsed at a border station and later died in a hospital, officials said Saturday. The man crossed the border with his daughter and was held for about a week at the Rio Grande Valley central processing center in McAllen, Texas. The cause of the death is unknown, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection. In this June 27, 2019, file photo, a U.S. Border Patrol car drives along the Rio Grande in Brownsville, Texas, as seen from Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, Mexico. A federal law that President Donald Trump used in justifying the separation of migrant parents and children at the border last year is creating waves on the 2020 campaign trail, with some Democrats vowing to do away with it completely. (Photo: Rebecca Blackwell, AP) WASHINGTON – A 43-year-old El Salvadoran man who crossed into the U.S. with his daughter collapsed at a border station and later died at a hospital, officials said Saturday. The man had been held about a week at the Rio Grande Valley central processing center in McAllen, Texas, according to a law enforcement official. The official said the man, who had health issues, had been medically checked. The daughter was still in U.S. Border Patrol custody, but officials had requested an expedited transfer to a shelter run by the agency that manages children who cross the border alone, the official said. The official did not know the daughter’s age. The child will be in a shelter until she is released to a sponsor, but that process could take weeks. The official was not authorized to divulge details of an ongoing investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. According to a statement from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the man’s cause of death is not yet known. Now, he's paralyzed, lawsuit says: Frat brothers took selfies with his unconscious body after he fell down the stairs. The facility, like most other Border Patrol stations along the U.S.-Mexico border, is overcrowded. A review of the death was underway, and Congress and the inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security, the watchdog that oversees the border agencies, has been notified, according to the statement. So was the El Salvadoran government. Border stations are generally at capacity with about 4,000 people, and more than 15,000 are in custody. Advocates and attorneys have decried fetid, filthy conditions inside the stations that were not meant as more than a temporary holding station. Even with expedited processing, it’s not clear how long the daughter would remain at the McAllen facility. Teens and children are only supposed to be held for 72 hours, but because of massive delays in the system, they are held for several days or weeks. Complaint: Health non-profit, top surgeon defrauded millions from government At least two other adults and five children have died in custody since December, including a teenage boy who died from the flu and had been at the central processing center in McAllen last month. More than two dozen others were sick with flu in an outbreak there in May, and the facility was briefly shut down and sanitized. To help with the care of migrants in custody, Congress has sent President Donald Trump a $4.6 billion aid package. Administration officials say they are expecting a 25% drop in crossings in the month of June. Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/30/el-salvador-migrant-dies-after-collapsing-texas-border-station/1612335001/

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Two aides to a Lebanese Druze minister were killed on Sunday when his convoy came under fire in an area of support for a rival Druze faction, in what the minister called an assassination attempt. Saleh al-Gharib, Lebanon’s minister of state for refugee affairs, is close to pro-Syrian Druze leader Talal Arslan. The Mount Lebanon town near Aley where the incident took place is an area of support for Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, a fierce opponent of the Syrian government and rival to Arslan. His Popular Progressive Party (PSP) denied any involvement. In an interview with Lebanon’s al-Jadeed TV, Gharib said the incident had been “an armed ambush and a clear assassination attempt”. “There appears to be a decision to blow up the situation on the mountain,” he said. The National News Agency reported that a PSP member was wounded in the incident. Jumblatt, Lebanon’s main Druze leader, and Arslan are historic rivals whose parties vied for posts in the national unity government formed earlier this year. The tensions on Sunday grew out of a plan by Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil, a Maronite Christian who is a political ally of Arslan, to visit the area, which led protesters to block roads. Bassil canceled the visit, described as provocative by the PSP, because of the protests. Akram Chehayeb, a senior PSP official and minister of education, also urged calm, saying: “What happened is the result of poor judgment by some officials and is a recipe for strife on the Mountain.” Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, a Sunni Muslim, made contacts with the Druze parties, security chiefs and Bassil “focused on the need to ease tension in Aley and to exert all efforts to calm the situation”, his office said in a statement. Defence Minister Elias Bou Saab told the broadcaster LBC the army had deployed heavily in the area and called for calm. President Michel Aoun has called a meeting of Lebanese security chiefs on Monday, his office said. Arslan supporters blocked a main highway south with burning tires in protest over the incident, choking traffic for several hours.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

NEW YORK (AP) — The Senate’s top Democrat said Sunday that the U.S. government should step up efforts to investigate the deaths of at least eight Americans in the Dominican Republic this year. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives should lend support to the FBI and local law enforcement, said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., noting the agency has offices in the Caribbean and the technical and forensic expertise that could aid the investigation. “Given that we still have a whole lot of questions and very few answers into just what, if anything, is cause for the recent spate of sicknesses and several deaths of Americans in the Dominican Republic, the feds should double their efforts on helping get to the bottom of things,” Schumer said in a statement. Family members of the tourists who died have called on authorities to investigate any possible connections. Relatives have raised the possibility that the deaths may have been caused by adulterated alcohol or misused pesticides. ATF spokeswoman April Langwell said the Treasury Department primarily handles investigations involving potentially tainted alcohol. But she said ATF has offered its assistance and would work with other law enforcement agencies to keep Americans safe. The ATF primarily investigates firearms-related crimes but is also charged with regulating alcohol and tobacco. Francisco Javier García, the tourism minister in the Dominican Republic, said earlier this month that the deaths were not part of any mysterious series of fatalities but a statistically normal phenomenon lumped together by the U.S. media. He said autopsies show the tourists died of natural causes. Five of the autopsies were complete as of last week, while three were undergoing further toxicological analysis with the help from the FBI because of the circumstances of the deaths.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Jailed British-Iranian aid worker ends hunger strike, husband says Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe ended a hunger strike in Tehran, with her husband saying it served the purpose of raising awareness of her plight.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

On this day, June 30 … 1966: The National Organization for Women (NOW) is founded in Washington, D.C. Also on this day: 1865 : Eight people, including Mary Surratt and Dr. Samuel Mudd, are convicted by a military commission of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln. (Four defendants, including Surratt, are executed; Mudd is sentenced to life in prison, but pardoned by President Andrew Johnson in 1869. : Eight people, including Mary Surratt and Dr. Samuel Mudd, are convicted by a military commission of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln. (Four defendants, including Surratt, are executed; Mudd is sentenced to life in prison, but pardoned by President Andrew Johnson in 1869. 1934: Adolf Hitler launched his "blood purge" of political and military rivals in Germany in what came to be known as "The Night of the Long Knives." Adolf Hitler launched his "blood purge" of political and military rivals in Germany in what came to be known as "The Night of the Long Knives." 1936: The Civil War novel "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell is first published by The Macmillan Co. in New York. The Civil War novel "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell is first published by The Macmillan Co. in New York. 1950: President Truman orders ground troops to Korea. President Truman orders ground troops to Korea. 1 953: The first Chevrolet Corvette, with its innovative fiberglass body, is built at a General Motors assembly facility in Flint, Mich. The first Chevrolet Corvette, with its innovative fiberglass body, is built at a General Motors assembly facility in Flint, Mich. 1971 : The 26th Amendment, which lowers the voting age from 21 to 18, is ratified. : The 26th Amendment, which lowers the voting age from 21 to 18, is ratified. 1971: The Supreme Court rules, 6-3, that the government could not prevent the New York Times or the Washington Post from publishing the Pentagon Papers. The Supreme Court rules, 6-3, that the government could not prevent the New York Times or the Washington Post from publishing the Pentagon Papers. 1971: A Soviet space mission ends in tragedy when three cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 11 are found dead of asphyxiation inside their capsule after it had returned to Earth. A Soviet space mission ends in tragedy when three cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 11 are found dead of asphyxiation inside their capsule after it had returned to Earth. 1985: The 39 remaining hostages from hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after 17 days. The 39 remaining hostages from hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after 17 days. 1997: The British territory of Hong Kong is transferred to China.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow insisted on Sunday Donald Trump is not backing off national security concerns, despite agreeing to allow US companies to sell some components to Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei. US-China trade talks back on track, says Trump Read more Trump made the announcement on Saturday after meeting Chinese president Xi Jinping for trade talks at the G20 summit in Japan. Trump said US companies could make the sales if the transactions did not present a “great, national emergency problem”. Several Republican senators expressed concerns. In a tweet, Marco Rubio of Florida called the decision a “catastrophic mistake”. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a key ally of the president, told CBS’ Face the Nation the agreement was “clearly a concession” and also said it would be a mistake if sales to Huawei involved “major technology”. John Barrasso of Wyoming described the Chinese company as a clear threat to US national security. “To me, Huawei in the United States would be like a Trojan horse ready to steal more information from us,” he told NBC’s Meet the Press. Kudlow told Fox News Sunday and CBS Huawei would remain on an American black list as a potential security threat. He stressed that additional US licensing “will be for what we call general merchandise, not national security sensitive”, such as chips and software generally available around the world. “What’s happening now is simply a loosening up for general merchandise,” Kudlow said. “This is not a general amnesty.” US officials accuse Huawei of facilitating Chinese spying, a charge the company denies, and see it as a growing competitive threat to US tech companies. Huawei’s founder, Ren Zhengfei, said earlier this month it has cut its projected sales by $30bn over the next two years due to curbs on access to American chips and other components. He said smartphone sales outside China will fall 40%. Huawei’s US sales of network gear evaporated after a congressional panel labeled the company a security threat in 2012 and told phone carriers to avoid it. The Chinese company still has a patent portfolio it licenses to manufacturers and carriers.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Eastern Libyan authorities have arrested two Turks in the oil town of Ajdabiya over Turkey’s support for “militias” in Libya, a statement said on Sunday. The security department of Ajdabiya, located near the oil port of Brega, published pictures of two Turks on its website who it said it had detained, and called on citizens to report any Turk or Turkish firm operating in the town.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Wall Street relented from more downbeat expectations for Tesla deliveries in the last few weeks after Musk downplayed demand concerns at Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting and in emails to employees. On average, analysts expect Tesla to report this week that it delivered just over 87,000 cars this quarter. That would be a big bounce back from the disappointing first three months of 2019, but still short of the record that Tesla set at the end of last year and its forecast for at least 90,000. Tesla’s big push over the final days of June will determine if it surprises the street and beats its previous record.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

The French government posted a video to Instagram of President Emmanuel Macron attending the G-20 summit in Japan last week and included a clip of Ivanka Trump seemingly inserting herself into a conversation with him and other world leaders. The video, which went viral by Sunday, appears to show U.S. President Donald Trump’s oldest daughter in conversation with Macron, British Prime Minister Theresa May, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and International Monetary Fund director Christine Lagard ― with the latter appearing less than thrilled by the first daughter’s kibitzing. As May addresses the group, Trump can be heard agreeing and responding while Lagarde looks elsewhere, seemingly not particularly interested. Twitter users pounced on the awkward moment, focusing on Lagard’s reaction. Others, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), lambasted the U.S. president for “phoning it in” and bringing his daughter to the G-20 summit instead of “a qualified diplomat.” It may be shocking to some, but being someone’s daughter actually isn’t a career qualification. It hurts our diplomatic standing when the President phones it in & the world moves on. The US needs our President working the G20. Bringing a qualified diplomat couldn’t hurt either. https://t.co/KCZMXJ8FD9 — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 30, 2019 This is one of the most humiliating overseas Trump regime trips for America. Trump is a danger to national security between his ass kissing to Putin, Kim Jong Un, and MbS. What every enemy country saw was weakness and that the Trump regime will welcome all attacks. Wtf w Ivanka? https://t.co/B7W6sCFTFB — Olga Lautman (@olgaNYC1211) June 30, 2019 THIS VIDEO: The reaction from @Lagarde when @IvankaTrump tries to interject herself into a sideline conversation with world leaders (including @EmmanuelMacron, @JustinTrudeau & @theresa_may) is quite something. pic.twitter.com/4jPqDxuR1r — Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) June 30, 2019 This is brilliant. Christine Lagarde’s face as Ivanka tries to join the chat is priceless.... https://t.co/95Fq2f7R55 — Jon Sopel (@BBCJonSopel) June 30, 2019 The very reason there's a table for adults and one for children... Christine Lagarde's side eye saying all that needed to be said. https://t.co/pb3D0nLq1T — J.T Kangere 🧚🏾‍♀️ (@JoyTKangere) June 30, 2019 Joining Ivanka Trump, who is designated as a White House adviser, at the summit was her husband ― a fellow White House adviser ― Jared Kushner. The couple then accompanied the White House entourage as the president traveled to the Demilitarized Zone on the Korean peninsula, set foot in North Korea and held a brief meeting with that nation’s dictator, Kim Jong Un.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un talk before a meeting in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on June 30, 2019, in Panmunjom, Korea. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/Getty Images It may have been historic but the contenders to become the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate were decidedly unimpressed by President Donald Trump’s hastily arranged meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un, characterizing it as a photo-op that didn’t do much beyond stroke the commander in chief’s ego. Although they all pretty much agreed there was nothing inherently wrong with talking to adversaries, they largely insisted that should only happen after careful preparation and progress. “Our President shouldn’t be squandering American influence on photo ops and exchanging love letters with a ruthless dictator,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren wrote on Twitter. Our President shouldn’t be squandering American influence on photo ops and exchanging love letters with a ruthless dictator. Instead, we should be dealing with North Korea through principled diplomacy that promotes US security, defends our allies, and upholds human rights. https://t.co/9ROpNfjYbY — Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) June 30, 2019 Through a spokesman, vice president Joe Biden accused Trump of “coddling” dictators, in reference to both the meeting with Kim and his warm relations with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. “President Trump’s coddling of dictators at the expense of American national security and interests is one of the most dangerous ways that he’s diminishing us on the world stage and subverting our values as a nation,” campaign spokesman Andrew Bates said. Our President shouldn’t be squandering American influence on photo ops and exchanging love letters with a ruthless dictator. Instead, we should be dealing with North Korea through principled diplomacy that promotes US security, defends our allies, and upholds human rights. https://t.co/9ROpNfjYbY — Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) June 30, 2019 Appearing on ABC’s This Week, Sen. Bernie Sanders said that while he has “no problem with him sitting down with Kim Jong-un in North Korea or any place else,” the real question is what happens next. “What’s going to happen tomorrow and the next day? He has weakened the State Department. If we’re going to bring peace to this world, we need a strong State Department, we need to move forward diplomatically, not just do photo opportunities,” Sanders said. Sen. Bernie Sanders says he has "no problem" with Pres. Trump meeting with Kim Jong Un, adding: "I don't want it simply to be a photo opportunity... we need to move forward diplomatically, not just do photo opportunities." https://t.co/LmRneR8c4z pic.twitter.com/BG31BBbjHv — This Week (@ThisWeekABC) June 30, 2019 Julian Castro, meanwhile, said the president was doing things “backward” because so far Kim has not kept any of his promises yet he is being rewarded by the president of the United States. “I am all for speaking with our adversaries, but what’s happened here is that this president has raised the profile of a dictator like Kim Jong-un and now three times visited with him unsuccessfully because he’s doing it backward,” Castro said on ABC’s This Week. “Usually what happens … is that there’s an intense amount of staff work that goes into negotiating how one of these talks is going to go so that you can hopefully get something out of it. We haven’t gotten anything out of it.” Julián Castro: "This president has raised the profile of a dictator like Kim Jong Un ... It's worrisome that this president erratically sets up a meeting without the staff work being done. It seems like it's all for show, it's not substantive." Via ABC pic.twitter.com/Dr5AUN74Ob — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 30, 2019 Sen. Kamala Harris also characterized the meeting as little more than a photo. “This President should take the North Korean nuclear threat and its crimes against humanity seriously,” Harris wrote on Twitter. “This is not a photo-op. Our security and our values are at stake.” This President should take the North Korean nuclear threat and its crimes against humanity seriously. This is not a photo-op. Our security and our values are at stake. — Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) June 30, 2019 For her part, Sen. Amy Klobuchar said Trump was being naïve in thinking that a handshake would automatically translate into progress. “Of course, as a country, we want this to work. We want to see a denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, a reduction in these missiles. But it is not as easy as just going and bringing a hot dish over the fence to the dictator next door,” Klobuchar said on CNN. “This is a ruthless dictator. And, when you go forward, you have to have clear focus and a clear mission and clear goals.” "It's not as easy as just going, and... bringing a hot dish over the fence to the dictator next door. This is a ruthless dictator." Presidential candidate @amyklobuchar, on President Trump crossing into North Korea to negotiate with Kim Jong Un. #CNNSOTUhttps://t.co/q7wDeU4pPj pic.twitter.com/1wj8dmMBBN — State of the Union (@CNNSotu) June 30, 2019 Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke also pointed out that Trump’s grandstanding aside, there hasn’t been any real progress in getting North Korea to abandon its nuclear program. “Despite three years of almost bizarre foreign policy from this president, this country is no safer when it comes to North Korea. They have removed none of their nuclear weapons or their potential to deliver them to the United States. And, in fact, in contravention of the United Nations they have launched other missiles flouting the diplomacy that this President has attempted so far. So, we’ve added legitimacy to Kim Jong Un,” he said on CBS’ Face the Nation. Following @RealDonaldTrump’s historic visit to #NorthKorea, @BetoORourke tells @margbrennan that he “would continue diplomacy contingent on progress that keeps this country and our allies safe,” but adds, “this country is no safer when it comes to North Korea.” pic.twitter.com/tCgUgfTnBv — Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) June 30, 2019

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation that would bar people who attack or kill a gay person from arguing they panicked over their victim's sexuality. The Democrat signed the bill on Sunday in Manhattan, where he was taking part in the city's LGBTQ pride march. The state Legislature passed the measure earlier in June. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Previously, those accused of violent attacks could argue that they were under extreme distress, that they panicked after the victim made a sexual advance or otherwise revealed their sexuality. The legislation made it that such an excuse could not be considered a "reasonable explanation" for a violent crime.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the South and North Korea on June 30, 2019 in Panmunjom, South Korea. Handout/Getty Images It is tempting to chortle over the string of inanities that President Trump unfurled at the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan this weekend. Asked about the status of “Western liberalism,” which Russian President Vladimir Putin had just pronounced dead in an interview with the Financial Times, Trump ranted about liberal Democrats in California, apparently thinking that’s what the term was referring to. Asked for his views about busing, which had been a hot topic at the recent Democratic candidates’ debate (and was a hotter topic still in the 1970s, when Trump was a sentient adult), he noted that buses are commonly used to transport students to school. Yes, our president isn’t very bright; he has little grasp of political concepts, even those that underlie his country’s democratic traditions; he knows almost nothing about history and, worse still, sees nothing wrong with that. But all this has long been clear. The true significance of Trump’s summit “performance”—a word that too many journalists invoke, as if they were drama critics—is that it solidified a trend we’ve been seeing for a while: his unabashed emergence as a member of what Daniel Sneider, in Asia Times, calls “the axis of authoritarianism.” One thing Trump does know is the art of political imagery, so it’s worth examining the images he created in Osaka. As most of the 20 world leaders posed for their group photo, waving at the camera, Trump stood front and center with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, whom, in a separate meeting, Trump praised as a “friend,” “terrific ally,” and “good purchaser of American products”—saying that no “finger directly” pointed at the crown prince for the murder of Washington Post columnist (and U.S. resident) Jamal Khashoggi, although Trump’s intelligence directors and a U.N. investigation have done precisely that. Flanking Trump on the other side was Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose party recently lost the mayoral election in Istanbul to a leading figure in the democratic opposition. And, of course, there was Trump’s jolly sit-down with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, during which a reporter asked if he’d ask the Russian president not to meddle in American elections. The New York Times described what happened next: Turning to Mr. Putin, he said, with a half-grin on his face and mock seriousness in his voice, “Don’t meddle in the election, President.” As Mr. Putin smiled and tittered, Mr. Trump pointed at another Russian official in a playful way and repeated, ‘Don’t meddle in the election.” So much for the unanimous findings of U.S. intelligence agencies, the Mueller Report, and the (sometimes reluctant) agreement of nearly every Trump administration official and Republican politician ever asked whether the Russians did meddle in the 2016 presidential election—all of it dismissed as a joke by the meddling’s beneficiary. And so much for any notion that Putin might fear having to pay a price, should he run the same playbook in 2020. Jennifer Jacobs of Bloomberg News, who was covering the tete-a-tete, also overheard this exchange as the two leaders bonded over their contempt of journalists. “Get rid of them,” Trump said, adding, “‘Fake news’ is a great term, isn’t it? You don’t have this problem in Russia, but we do.” To which Putin replied, in English, “We also have. It’s the same.” Keep in mind that dozens of Russian journalists have been killed since Putin came to power, many of them on Kremlin orders—and here is Trump, putative leader of the Western world and upholder of the free press and other Western values, all but encouraging the practice and sharing a private moment of mutual cynicism (“Fake news” is a great term, isn’t it?). There was another sign of Trump’s increasingly overt authoritarianism on display in Osaka: the presence, at every high-level meeting, of his daughter and son-in-law, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, neither of whom would qualify for an intern’s slot in any other White House but who serve as senior advisers in this one. Watch this excruciating video of Ivanka trying to join a conversation among French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Theresa May, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde. Note, in particular, Lagarde’s expression of disdain, as if wondering who let the help in the room. A generous soul might be inclined to give the First Daughter a break: She apparently didn’t know that even the senior-most officials—say, the secretaries of state and defense—are not to intrude on a leadership pow-wow, except perhaps by invitation. But her ignorance of protocol should be no surprise, as the First Dad has clearly given her the impression that she is part of the leadership—that the Trump White House, no less than the Trump Organization, is above all a family business. This is yet another way in which this administration is coming not just to align itself with, but to resemble, authoritarian regimes. Then came the coup de grace: the visit, on Sunday, with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, which was a transparent prelude to the real business of the final day—a meet-and-greet at the Demilitarized Zone with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, with whom Trump then took a brief stroll across the border, thus becoming the first sitting American president to step foot in the Hermit Kingdom. The prelude to this encounter was its own embarrassment. Two days earlier, Trump tweeted: After some very important meetings, including my meeting with President Xi of China, I will be leaving Japan for South Korea (with President Moon). While there, if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)! It put one in mind of Freddy Eyensford-Hill, the pathetic stalker in My Fair Lady who hangs out on the street where Eliza Doolittle lives, pining for even a glance of her visage (“Does enchantment pour / Out of every door? / No, it’s just on the street where you live”). And then he arrived! The two—who, as Trump told a rally soon after their first meeting in Singapore last year, “fell in love”—shook hands, and the impressively canny Kim asked his gullible friend to step across the border, noting he’d be the first president to do so. We don’t yet know what Trump and the current Kim said to each other. If they agreed to resume negotiations, that’s a good thing. We do know, however, that, despite their bonhomie, North Korea continues to enrich uranium and manufacture ballistic missiles; that they haven’t offered an acceptable definition of “denuclearization,” much less taken a single step toward getting there; and that the North’s main strategic goal, in this diplomacy, is still to sever links between South Korea and the United States. Trump—who, elsewhere in the world, is doing his damnedest to sink the economy of Iran, even though its leaders actually dismantled their nuclear program—doesn’t care about any of this. Trump has a bad case of dictator-envy. He wishes he had their powers, their control of mass media, their coterie of yes-men. (He musters at least a simulacrum of this last measure at some of his cabinet meetings.) But what was once just a show, for his own amusement, is now becoming a reality, to the distress of us all. Trump is running policy and projecting American power like an authoritarian—or at least he’s trying to, the obstacle being that his policy is discordant (because, unlike the other authoritarians, he has no idea what his national interests are) and U.S. power is shrinking (because, sometimes for the better, he doesn’t know how to use it). Trump brought along no Asia specialists to this summit in Asia, much of which dealt with Asia policy. In part, this was because no such specialists hold senior posts in his administration, but even if there were some, I doubt they’d have been consulted. (There have been, and to some extent still are, staffers with expertise on Russia, the Middle East, and other regions, but he has rarely consulted with them, either.) It’s all about him. His real operative slogan isn’t Make America Great Again, but rather l’état, c’est moi. Trump may think his move toward authoritarianism will embellish America’s power too, but it’s having the opposite effect. The rest of the world is laughing, though in some cases nervously. It was Macron’s press office that publicly released the embarrassing video of Ivanka trying to act like one of the leaders. Putin must be thanking whatever god he worships whenever Trump pops him a wink and a grin. China’s President Xi Jinping is slowly, patiently, moving the trade talks in his favor—and nudging America’s allies, who are regarding Washington’s security guarantees with growing skepticism, to cuddle up with Beijing instead. So, yes, laugh or sigh at those tweets and outbursts that illustrate, yet again, Trump’s crudeness or cluelessness. But watch more closely what he’s doing, which drifts he’s following, and the effect he’s having on what our country is becoming and—as a result of that—our place in the world. That’s the main show.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Bonnie Raysor has spent the last decade without the right to vote. The 58-year-old thought she was going to cast a ballot in the battleground state of Florida, but now calls that dream a "false hope." A controversial bill that goes into effect Monday means Raysor likely won't be able to vote until 2031, when she's due to pay off $4,260 in outstanding fines and fees from a 9-year-old felony conviction. "I really miss being able to have a voice," Raysor said. "I believe that one person really does matter." The mother of four had battled opioid addiction and was convicted on six felony drug-related charges in 2010, which she said stemmed in part from being caught selling six pills. She completed an 18-month sentence behind bars and was released in 2011. She now lives in Boynton Beach, Florida. In last year's midterm elections, Florida voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment that granted certain non-violent felons, such as Raysor, the right to vote. The measure, known as Amendment 4, restored eligibility to an individual "after they complete all terms of their sentence." However, a bill known as S.B. 7066 signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday defines "all terms" to include any financial obligations a felon might incur. This means fines, fees and restitution must be paid off before an individual can register to vote. Raysor's lawyers say that's unconstitutional. They've filed a lawsuit against the Florida secretary of state arguing that tying someone's ability to pay off their debt to their ability to cast a ballot amounts to discrimination on the basis of wealth. Danielle Lang, who is representing Raysor and is co-director of the Campaign Legal Center's voting rights and redistricting program, said the law violates the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause as well as the 24th Amendment, which prohibits poll taxes. "The argument is actually pretty straightforward, and it's taught in 7th grade civics," Lang added. "We can't have a poll tax." Sen. Elizabeth Warren called the bill "Jim-Crow Era nonsense" when it was signed into law Friday. Sen. Bernie Sanders has also called the measure "racist and unconstitutional." The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a similar lawsuit on behalf of 10 former inmates in the state of Florida. During the first three months of 2019, the Brennan Center estimates the number of eligible ex-felons who registered to vote was 100 times higher than in previous odd-number years due to Amendment 4's passage. It's unclear how many people like Raysor could be affected by the new law. According to the Florida Department of Corrections' annual report, 23 percent of inmate admissions during the last fiscal year were drug offenders. The Brennan Center's analysis of "hidden costs" in Florida's justice system found an individual might be liable for between $500 to $10,000 in fines if they're ordered to serve probation in a residential drug treatment center. Florida is one of a handful of states where fees and fines are the sole source of funding for courts. When Raysor was released, she was unaware she owed anything until a bill arrived in the mail. The bulk of her debt was for the public defender that represented her. She said $35 "could have been a million" to her upon release, much less the thousands she discovered she owed. "We are levying these millions of dollars in fines and fees in costs, on the backs of the people who are least able to pay it," Lang said. "People with past convictions are disproportionately poor, disproportionately unable to obtain employment, disproportionately homeless. Yet, we expect them to pay enormous costs to fund our criminal justice system." Raysor pays $30 a month into a payment plan approved by a Florida judge. Under that timeline, she won't be eligible to vote in the next two presidential elections and next three midterm cycles. Raysor has since kicked her addiction. She uses what she earns as an office manager for an air duct cleaning company to pay off her court obligations, costs of living and student debt. Her 19-year-old daughter just moved back home from college because rents on campus were too high. Raysor said she likes to do things with her grandchildren like taking them ice skating, but has to consider the cost. "But a buck-fifty to take them ice skating and I'm like, son, you can pay this and I'll take them," she added. Proponents of S.B. 7066 point out that certain debt can be disputed through a judge. However, voting rights activists say this is an arduous, slow process; oftentimes costing individuals additional fees to hire a lawyer to sort through their options. In an interview last month, before the bill was signed into law, Florida state Rep. James Grant, said if paying off financial obligations is a requirement to complete a sentence, it must also be a requirement to gain access to the ballot under Amendment 4. The Tampa Republican, and a main architect of the bill, argues it provides much needed clarity. "I don't know what all 5 million voters were thinking," he said. "But I do know what all 5 million voters were presented." Raysor disputes that. "It should have been presented to people on both terms: pay it off or don't pay it off," she said. "Let the American people speak. It's like saying here's your reward, and then no wait, we're going to add some things to it." A recent poll found Florida voters split on this exact issue. Quinnipiac University estimates 45 percent of Floridians support the financial requirement, while 47 percent are against it. Some are accusing Republicans who passed and signed the bill into law of playing politics. Grant criticized those claims, saying it's unfair to assume those impacted under Amendment 4 would vote for one party over another. "At some point you just have to put your eyes down and say I'm going to create the most equitable product I can," he added. "And do it in a way that I can defend the rest of my life."

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Is Germany's health care system a model for the U.S.? Germany has the oldest health care system in the world. And it's working.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

• A feature on the Swedish city of Eskilstuna was wrong to say that 780,000 people had sought asylum in that country since 2015. Swedish government data for 2015-18 showed that figure to be about 239,000 (‘Where there is waste, there is opportunity’, 18 June, page 8, G2). • Other recently corrected articles include: The Guardian view of the Osaka G20 summit: bad as he is, Trump is not the only problem Academies without parents on boards ‘risk community rejection’ Patrick Staff: The Prince of Homburg review – escape to dreamland

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Activists participate in the Queer Liberation March in Greenwich Village in New York on June 30. Hosted by the Reclaim Pride Coalition, the Queer Liberation March is a pointed alternative to the city's official parade and doesn’t include corporate floats, police, barricades, or tickets for entry.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

(CNN) A group of about 10 protesters blocked the San Francisco Pride parade for about an hour Sunday. Still going: sign in the crowd with "POLICE ARE ENEMIES" pic.twitter.com/2VWRL6uZAw — 🌸 jessy w, ohio flag stan 🌸 (@jessiealene) June 30, 2019 San Francisco police said in a statement that the protesters blocked the parade route at 11 a.m. at Market Street near Sixth Street and that police attempted to contact them. "The protesters broke down barricades and threw water bottles at officers," the statement said. "Police took two people into custody during the incident. Information on their arrest is pending." Police said that after Pride event organizers made contact with the protesters, the protesters agreed to leave the street at noon and reopen the parade route. CNN affiliate KBHK reported the protesters linked arms through pipes painted with the rainbow colors and lay down on the street. Read More

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

A 43-year-old El Salvadoran man who crossed into the U.S. with his daughter collapsed at a border station and later died at a hospital, officials said Saturday. The man had been held about a week at the Rio Grande Valley central processing center in McAllen, Texas, according to a law enforcement official. The official said the man, who had health issues, had been medically checked. The daughter was still in U.S. Border Patrol custody, but officials had requested an expedited transfer to a shelter run by the agency that manages children who cross the border alone, an official told The Associated Press. The official did not know the daughter's age. The child will be in a shelter until she is released to a sponsor, but that process could take weeks. U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a statement to CBS News acknowledging the man's death, saying the agency was "saddened by the unfortunate death of a 43-year-old man from El Salvador who was rushed to the hospital after falling into medical distress." "The man's cause of death is not known at this time," the agency said. "Consistent with CBP policy, CBP's Office of Professional Responsibility has initiated a review. The Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General, the El Salvadoran government and members of Congress have been notified, consistent with CBP's Interim Procedures on Notification of a Death in Custody." The facility where the man was being held, like most other Border Patrol stations along the U.S.-Mexico border, is overcrowded. Border stations are generally at capacity with about 4,000 people and more than 15,000 are in custody. Advocates and attorneys have decried fetid, filthy conditions inside the stations that were not meant as more than a temporary holding station. Even with expedited processing, it's not clear how long the daughter would remain at the McAllen facility. Teens and children are only supposed to be held for 72 hours, but because of massive delays in the system, they are held for several days or weeks. At least two other adults and five children have died in custody since December, including a teenage boy who died from the flu and had been at the central processing center in McAllen last month. More than two dozen others were sick with flu in an outbreak there in May and the facility was briefly shut down and sanitized. To help with the care of migrants in custody, Congress has sent President Donald Trump a $4.6 billion aid package. Administration officials say they are expecting a 25 percent drop in crossings in the month of June.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

KHARTOUM, June 30 (Reuters) - Thousands of protesters marched towards Sudan’s defense ministry on Sunday demanding the ruling military hand over power to civilians, as security forces fired shots into the air. Huge crowds also took to the streets in other parts of the capital and met barrages of tear gas in two areas less than 2 km away from the presidential palace and in the upscale neighborhood of Riad, east Khartoum, witnesses said. A doctor’s group linked to the opposition said one protester in his 20s was shot dead in a rally in the northern city of Atbara as opposition groups reported demonstrations in cities across Sudan. Reuters could not verify those accounts. Sudan’s military overthrew president Omar al-Bashir on April 11 after months of demonstrations against his rule. Opposition groups kept up those demonstrations as they pressed the military to hand over to civilians - but talks broke down after security services raided a sit-in protest outside the defense ministry on June 3. The Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) opposition coalition called for a million people to turn out on Sunday - the 30th anniversary of the coup that brought Bashir to power in 1989, and the African Union’s deadline for the military rulers to handover to civilians or face further sanctions. A senior member of Sudan’s military leadership said unknown snipers had shot at three paramilitary soldiers and at least six demonstrators on Sunday. General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy head of the Transitional Military Council, did not say whether anyone died and gave no more information during his short address on stateTV. His report was not confirmed by other groups. “WE WILL NOT RETREAT” In another part of Khartoum, thousands blocked the main multi-lane highway that leads to the airport as they marched towards the house of a protester who was killed in January. “We came out once again for the revolution and we will not retreat until they handover power to a civilian authority,“protester Hassan Ahmed told Reuters. The Transitional Military Council had warned a day earlier that the coalition would bear the responsibility for any loss of life or damage resulting from the rallies. Members of one of the main opposition groups - the Sudanese Professionals’ Association - said security services raided its headquarters on Saturday night as it was about to give a news conference. The United Nations has said it has received reports that more than 100 protesters were killed and many more injured at the sit-in protest on June 3. Military leaders have denied ordering a raid on the camp and said a crackdown on criminals nearby had spilled over to the sit-in. The council has said some officers had been detained for presumed responsibility and it still intends to hand over power after elections. Mediators led by the African Union and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed have been trying to broker a return to direct talks. (Reporting by Khalid Abdelaziz, Omar Fahmy, Nafisa Eltahir and Ali Abdelaty; Writing by Amina Ismail; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris laughs as she rides in a car during the SF Pride Parade on June 30, 2019 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Sen. Kamala Harris is seeing a payoff after her performance in Thursday’s Democratic primary debate. The senator, who challenged former vice president Joe Biden about his past views during the debate, experienced a six-point bump in support following the debate, according to the latest Morning Consult poll of 2,407 Democratic primary voters. When pollsters asked Democrats for their first choice for president, 12 percent said Harris, which marked an increase of six percentage points from the previous poll taken from June 17-23. That increase came largely at the expense of former vice president Joe Biden as his support declined five points to 33 percent. The numbers following the debate mean that Harris is tied for third place with Sen. Elizabeth Warren. They’re both behind Sen. Bernie Sanders, who stands at 19 percent. Even though support for Sanders remained steady, Morning Consult points out that while he did’t lose any support among those who say he is their first choice he did see a significant decline in favorability. Sanders experienced a seven-point drop in favorability as 66 percent of Democratic primary voters say they had a favorable view of him. Some others saw declines in favorability but they were all within the poll’s margin of error. South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg was once ahead of Harris but is now firmly behind, with only six percent saying he is their first choice. That marks a one-point drop from the previous survey, which is within the poll’s margin of error.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

CLOSE In a made-for-television event with more symbolism than substance, President Donald Trump met Sunday with Kim Jong Un in the Demilitarized Zone. USA TODAY Fox News host Tucker Carlson sparked controversy on Sunday while defending President Donald Trump's decision to engage with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, despite international condemnation of Kim as an authoritarian who is guilty of systematic human rights abuses. During an interview on Fox News, Carlson was asked about potential concerns among voters that Trump might be seen as "pandering" to Kim with his often flattering quotes about the North Korean leader and the "chemistry" that Trump says they share. Carlson said there "is no defending the North Korean regime," which he described as "monstrous and "the last really Stanilist regime in the world." "On the other hand, you've got to be honest about what it means to lead a country. It means killing people," Carlson continued. "Not on the scale the North Koreans do, but a lot of countries commit atrocities, including a number that we are closely allied with." Limos, vodka and nukes: How a sanctions' sleuth traces North Korea's illicit transactions Carlson said that while he "is not a relativist or anything" it is the "nature and life, and certainly the nature of power" to have to choose between "the bad people and the worse people." "I do think that's how the president sees it," Carlson said. "He's far less sentimental about this stuff." The star of "Tucker Carlson Tonight" said he believed Trump genuinely likes Kim and sees him as a "competent, scrappy guy," though "he's not an admirer of the atrocities he's committed, obviously." "It takes a pretty hard man to keep a hold on power in a place like North Korea, so I think Trump respects his toughness" Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who is one of two dozen Democrats seeking the 2020 presidential nomination, criticized Trump's praise of Kim Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation." "He goes and gets a letter and says, 'I love the guy,' you know, right in the face of the Warmbier's, who lost their son, Otto," she said, referring to a college student who fas fatally injured while in North Korean custody. "So I am concerned just because of the track record here." "Talk is good," she said talk alone "doesn't produce anything for national security for America and international security for our allies." Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro, another Democratic presidential candidate, said Sunday on ABC's "This Week" that Trump is "raising the profile" and "growing the strength of a dictator," while "we haven't gotten anything out of it." Carlson mocked those – like former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power – who advocate for making humans rights concerns a central focus of U.S. foreign policy considerations as "silly and stupid." "In the end, what matters is what's good for the United States," he said. Carlson comments were swiftly condemned by many on social media. Tucker Carlson is now literally defending mass murder😳 "You've got to be honest about what it means to lead a country, it means killing people. A lot of countries commit atrocities, including our allies. It's silly & stupid to point out KJU is 'so mean''pic.twitter.com/k5PwASgELP — Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) June 30, 2019 "Someone should ask Tucker Carlson whether part of running a nation is forced abortions by the state," tweeted Courthouse News reporter Adam Klasfeld. Klasfeld also posted a tweet linking to a U.N. report on North Korea's methods of forced abortions. Someone should ask Tucker Carlson whether part of running a nation is forced abortions by the state. https://t.co/RMzxYtMyE5 — Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) June 30, 2019 "Tucker Carlson is a keynote speaker at the forthcoming National Conservatism Conference," tweeted Bill Kristol, a conservative critic of Trump. "I don't know they realized they were signing up to be associated with this." Tucker Carlson is a keynote speaker at the forthcoming National Conservatism Conference. The other speakers who seem to have accepted invitations are listed at https://t.co/sVoAjSpAUj. I don't know they realized they were signing up to be associated with this. https://t.co/sWNY9A0TmR — Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) June 30, 2019 Tom Nichols, another conservative opposed to Trump, slammed the remarks as evidence that Carlson "has enough money and what he really wants is attention for however much longer his aging, insane demo is going to be alive and watching him." In which Tucker Carlson decides that he has enough money and what he really wants is attention for however much longer his aging, insane demo is going to be alive and watching him. https://t.co/WqhqYUDlnW — Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) June 30, 2019 Carlson's influence with the president appears to be on the rise. He was seen alongside Trump administration officials during Trump's visit to the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea. And The New York Times reported last week that Carlson helped influence the president in his decision to order military strikes against Iranian targets after the Islamic Republic allegedly shot down an unmanned U.S. drone. Spotted chatting with Pompeo at the impromptu Trump-Kim summit: Tucker Carlson pic.twitter.com/tiSAixgD3K — Sarah Parnass (@WordsOfSarah) June 30, 2019 After Trump gets done kissing up to Kim Jong Un, the camera pans to Jared Kushner, Ivanka, and ... [checks notes] Tucker Carlson, as Fox News's Jon Scott claims (falsely) that former North Korean dictator Kim Il-sung is the current president of South Korea. pic.twitter.com/TJARzKAQG2 — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 30, 2019 Many noted that national security adviser John Bolton, a hawk who has advocated for military action against Iran, was absent from the trip to the DMZ. Carlson has called Bolton "demented" for his ongoing belief that President George W. Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq was a good thing and called him "a kind of bureaucratic tapeworm." "Try as you might, you can’t expel him. He seems to live forever in the bowels of the federal agencies, periodically reemerging to cause pain and suffering – but critically somehow never suffering himself," Carlson said of Bolton. Carlson is slated to sit down with Trump on Sunday for an interview to air on Fox News on Monday, the Daily Beast reported. Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/30/tucker-carlson-defends-trumps-praise-kim-jong-un/1612478001/

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Democrat presidential hopeful Eric Swalwell claims his confiscatory “assault weapons” ban would have prevented the December 14, 2012, attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School. He made this claim in response to a tweet by John Lott, wherein Lott asked why Swalwell was pushing gun controls that “wouldn’t have stopped one mass public shooting this century”: .@ericswalwell, If ending #GUNviolence is really your top priority in your campaign, why is it the 2 proposals u mentioned in the debate (#Backgroundchecks on private transfers & #assaulteeaponbans) wouldn’t have stopped 1 #masspublicshooting this century?#2A @NRA @Everytown https://t.co/zq4z33wyfG — John R Lott Jr. (@JohnRLottJr) June 29, 2019 Swalwell responded, “Who wants to tell John Lott that if my assault weapons ban and buy-back had been in place before Sandy Hook or Parkland, those children wouldn’t have been killed?” Swalwell’s claim overlooks a number of important facts. First, it overlooks the fact that the Sandy Hook gunman was armed with a handgun in addition to his rifle. He could could have used the handgun in much the same way that the Virginia Beach shooter (May 31, 2019) or the Virginia Tech shooter (April 16, 2007) did. Those two attackers killed a total of 44 people using handguns alone. And this leads to the second overlooked fact, which is that handguns are the weapon of choice for mass public shooters. On May 30, 2018, Breitbart News reported a Rockefeller Institute of Government study which examined 50 years of mass shootings and found attackers preferred handguns over rifles by a roughly 3 to 1 margin. The third fact Swalwell’s response overlooks is the Crime Prevention Research Center study which shows 97.8 percent of mass public shootings from 1950 to May 2018 occurred in gun free zones. This means an attacker in a setting like Sandy Hook or Parkland has time to kill a large number of innocents without fear of armed resistance. For example, the Sandy Hook attacker had over nine minutes without armed resistance and the Parkland attacker had time to pause and reload five times. With the benefit of time an attacker can kill numerous innocents, regardless of the kind of gun used. AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

CLOSE Who won the Democratic debate remains to be seen, but here are some of the best moments from the first ten contenders to take the stage. USA TODAY WASHINGTON – Three minutes. That’s all it took for a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate to speak Spanish during the party’s first primary debate, as two dozen hopefuls vie for the chance to take on President Donald Trump. During the first night of the two-night Democratic primary debate last week, former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke partially responded in Spanish to the first question he received. The move went viral, creating a meme in which his 2020 Democratic rival New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker looked surprised at the former congressman showing off his language skills. The same evening Booker also answered a moderator’s question partially in Spanish. At the end of Wednesday’s debate, another candidate utilized in the second most spoken language in the United States in his closing remarks. Former Obama HUD Secretary Julián Castro introduced himself in Spanish and reminded viewers that he is running for president. He went on to send a message to President Donald Trump: “And on January 20, 2021, we’ll say ‘adiós’ to Donald Trump." "#AdiosTrump" began trending on Twitter shortly after the debate ended. Earlier in the debate, the former mayor of San Antonio — and the only Latino running for president in 2020 — had put a new item on the Democratic agenda when he made a passionate call for the other candidates -- including, specifically O’Rourke -- to agree with him that border crossing should be decriminalized as a way to put an end to the family separations that have taken place during the Trump administration. 'That little girl is me': Harris attacks Biden in key debate moment. Here are 4 other takeaways On Thursday evening, during the second night of the debate, South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg briefly said "buenas noches" after being prompted by "Noticias Telemundo” host José Diaz-Balart. Diaz-Balart prompted O'Rourke and Booker by asking questions in Spanish. Diaz-Balart is part of a small group of journalists in the national press corps who are bilingual and fluent in Spanish. He hosts a show in Spanish on Telemundo during the week and regularly rotates as an anchor on the NBC Evening News during the weekend. He's also the brother of Republican Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, who represents a district in Florida that encompasses the Miami suburbs. The Spanish-speaking moments during the first Democratic debate didn’t go unnoticed. Some social media users criticized the candidates for attempting to appeal to Latino voters by speaking in Spanish — or "Hispandering," a term used to describe a politician trying to pander to the Hispanic community. Others, such as those who watched the debate on the Spanish-language broadcast network Telemundo, appreciated that the candidates were trying to connect with them on that level. Young Latinos are one of the fastest growing populations in the country, and will likely be key voters in 2020 and beyond. During the 2018 midterm election, turnout of Latino voters showed a substantial increase compared to the 2014 midterms and was the second-largest ever, according to the Pew Research Center. In addition, Trump's stance on immigration issues, a topic that continues to be one of his main policy initiatives as he seeks re-election, has thrust Latino voters into the national political spotlight. Trump: ICE raids will happen after July Fourth 'unless we do something pretty miraculous' But last week, the Spanish speaking by 2020 Democrats didn't just happen on the debate stage. During a rally at Miami International Airport Thursday, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio used a quote from notorious Argentine revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara: "Hasta la victoria, siempre." The quote, "ever on to victory," is not controversial, but Guevara is. De Blasio was blasted by Miami Democrats and later apologized for the gaffe. Guevara, who worked closely with Cuba’s Fidel Castro, is wildly unpopular with Miami’s massive Cuban population. While on the campaign trail, O'Rourke has repeatedly spoken in Spanish. On the day he announced his presidential candidacy, Booker did an interview that was conducted partly in Spanish with Univision, the country’s other major Spanish-language broadcast network. It's clear the 2020 Democrats are trying to reach out to and engage with Latino voters. It isn't as clear whether using their conversational Spanish skills is a smart way to achieve that goal. More: 5 things we learned from two nights of Democratic debates 'Delightfully refreshing' For Lisa Magaña, an associate professor in the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University, the presidential candidates embracing Spanish was "delightfully refreshing." "Some may see this as Hispandering," she said, "but I liked it." The moments highlight how Democratic presidential candidates are prioritizing Latino voters, she said. Magaña noted that in 2016 speaking Spanish on the campaign trail was seen in a different light for some of the candidates. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who sought the Republican nomination in 2016, spoke in Spanish in some interviews and while campaigning during the primary season. Those instances prompted criticism from then-candidate Trump, who during a September 2015 GOP primary debate, urged Bush to "set the example by speaking English." "This is a country where we speak English, not Spanish," Trump also said. Magaña said the "significant change" in making Spanish a priority showcases how important Latino voters are in the coming election. Historically, she said, candidates struggled to reach out to the Latino community because of eligibility to vote, education, income level and a language barrier. But now, candidates are trying to court Latino voters as the population continues to grow. "Smartly so. This group should be targeted because it hasn't in the past and I think it's a group that continues to be formidable," Magaña said. More: Beto O'Rourke, Cory Booker weren't the first to drop Spanish in a debate. And they likely won't be the last "It may look odd," she said of candidates trying to reach out by appealing to Latinos through Spanish, "but I think it's important because it speaks to the growing power of this constituency." However, some experts warn that not all Latino voters will see that type of outreach as a positive. Real outreach or symbolic gesture? Latino voters who are more politically engaged may see the Democratic candidates' efforts to speak Spanish on the debate stage and in other campaign settings as pandering -- just as the term “Hispandering” suggests. Melissa Michelson, a political science professor at Menlo College who has researched getting minority groups, such as the Latino population, out to vote, said that "Latino voters with more political knowledge" will see the small moments of speaking Spanish as "just a symbolic gesture and they're going to be paying more attention to the substance that the candidates are offering." Angela Ocampo, a political science professor at the University of Michigan who specializes in race and ethnicity, agreed that the move could be "misinterpreted" by some Latinos. "Signaling Spanish fluency isn't enough," Ocampo said. Latino voters, all three professors noted, are not monolithic. They are not all liberal nor are they all conservative. Although immigration is a top issue for Latinos, it is not the only issue that matters to those voters. Health care is another key issue, followed by jobs and education, according to a 2018 Unidos US poll. These are the policy issues that Hispanic voters will also take into consideration when weighing who their preferred candidate is. More: Donald Trump declares a winner of the Democratic debates ... himself However, Latino voters who are less politically engaged would have seen the nod towards their culture as meaningful. "For them, this sort of symbolic outreach from candidates is attractive and makes them take another look," Michelson said. But the Democratic candidates can't win over Latino voters just by speaking Spanish, all three academics said. Rather, Latino voters will continue to analyze what the 2020 candidates will do to benefit them and their community. "The one thing Latino voters will probably remember the most is whether or not these nods in Spanish are followed by something much more substantive," Ocampo said. "That they can get to say 'OK this is someone I can really get behind.'" Contributing: William Cummings and John Fritze Like what you’re reading?: Download the USA TODAY app for more Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/06/30/dnc-debate-spanish-beto-booker-castro-latinos-hispandering/1592517001/

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Good morning, this is Eleanor Ainge Roy bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Monday 1 July. Top stories Donald Trump has invited Kim Jong-un to the US after becoming the first sitting American president to enter North Korea. The apparently impromptu meeting came about after Trump tweeted an invitation to Kim on Saturday from the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan. After shaking hands with Kim in the demilitarised zone between the two Koreas and walking with him over the border, Trump said: “Stepping across that line is a great honour. Great progress has been made, great friendships have been made and this has been, in particular, a great friendship.” Trump said sanctions against the North would remain in place, but suggested Washington might be willing to offer concessions in return for piecemeal North Korean moves towards denuclearisation. “At some point during the negotiation things can happen,” he said. Malcolm Turnbull planned to bring on legislation giving effect to the national energy guarantee to stare down opposition from conservative dissidents in the Coalition party room, but pulled back after Peter Dutton and Christopher Pyne “went nuts”, a new book by the journalist and former political staffer Niki Savva says. The home affairs minister is quoted as saying, in an account confirmed by Pyne, that he and Pyne “effectively had the bill pulled”. The federal government must do more to protect the Aboriginal flag amid a licensing dispute, says Labor’s Indigenous affairs spokeswoman, Linda Burney. Last week the Indigenous affairs minister, Ken Wyatt, ruled out the government buying the copyright of the flag from its designer, the Luritja artist Harold Thomas. But Burney says the government must provide clarity for Aboriginal organisations, so they know whether or not they are able to use the flag. Toxic coal waste has been found to be a “ticking time bomb” for Australia, in a new report by Environmental Justice Australia. The report says toxins in coal ash have been linked to asthma, heart disease, cancer, respiratory disease and stroke. The US Environmental Protection Agency found the risk of public exposure from ash dams can last for decades, peaking 78 to 105 years after ash storage begins. The report says there have been problems at ash dams in every mainland state, including a history of groundwater or river contamination in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley and a failure to line dumps to prevent leaching in NSW’s Hunter Valley. Delta Electricity and the Australian Energy Council have rejected the report, saying it continues a campaign against fossil fuel power. World Facebook Twitter Pinterest Protests in Khartoum. Photograph: Ebrahim Hamid/AFP/Getty Images Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of cities in Sudan, in the first mass demonstrations since a crackdown on a protest camp early in June left at least 128 people dead. Protesters demanded that the ruling transitional military council hand power to civilians, as security forces fired teargas at them. An NGO rescue boat captain who has risked jail time after forcing her way into Lampedusa port in

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

FILE PHOTO: A logo of the Atlantia Group is seen outside their headquarters in Rome, Italy August 31, 2018. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi/File Photo ROME (Reuters) - Italy’s ruling 5-Star party believes the government has a legal opinion that would justify terminating a national motorway concession that accounts for a third of core profits of infrastructure group Atlantia, a source said on Sunday. The anti-establishment party, which rules in coalition with the right-wing League, has been campaigning for almost a year to scrap the concession, blaming Atlantia for a bridge collapse which killed 43 people on its toll network in Genoa last August. Atlantia denies accusations by 5-Star leader and deputy prime minister Luigi Di Maio that it had neglected maintenance on the bridge. Last week, it received some support from League leader Matteo Salvini who said no one should rush to judgment before investigations into the cause run their course. However, the source familiar with 5-Star’s thinking on the matter said a transport ministry report, still unpublished, had found serious inadequacies in maintenance and management of the bridge by Atlantia’s toll-road unit, Autostrade per l’Italia. The source showed Reuters three pages of the report which concluded that “the grounds existed for a termination of the concession for a breach of duty by the concessionaire”. Reuters has not viewed the rest of the ministry’s report. An Atlantia spokesman declined immediate comment on the source’s comments. Separately, Di Maio said in a Facebook post late on Sunday that “as far as we understand” there were serious maintenance inadequacies on the part of Autostrade and that compensation due to it in the event of early termination would not be “enormous”. The source said compensation would still be due to Atlantia, such as for investments made on the motorway network, but much less than the 24 billion euros estimated by market analysts as the net present value of the concession due to expire in 2038.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

“I never expected to see you in this place,” North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said to President Trump as they met Sunday at the Demilitarized Zone on the border between North and South Korea. Were you surprised, too? Wondering what to make of Trump briefly setting foot in North Korea by taking a few steps across the border? Historic, yes, but it’s not like Kim turned over the keys to his nuclear weapons storage areas and blew up his facilities capable of making new nuclear bombs. Rest assured, the handshakes, banter and rambunctious photographers served a purpose. JUDITH MILLER AND WILLIAM TOBEY: TRUMP TAKES RISKY GAMBLE MEETING WITH KIM AND WALKING INTO NORTH KOREA Trump wants the 70 years of war and hostility between the U.S. and North Korea to end. The takeaway from the DMZ visit is that U.S. Special Envoy Stephen Biegun will resume working-level talks with the North Koreans. Don’t let the drama fool you. Trump’s North Korea policy has three parts, and he’s pushing all of them. First is getting rid of North Korea’s nukes, of course. Next is reaching a permanent peace treaty to officially end the Korean War, which was halted with an armistice in 1953. That’s a high priority for South Korea and North Korea. It requires approval by China as well. Third is to transform U.S. relations with North Korea. And that’s where Trump made the biggest gain Sunday. At the DMZ, the world saw that Trump has made progress in changing the relationship with Kim and North Korea. No, the Trump-Kim meeting was not just a Twitter impulse by President Trump. There’s been a spike in official and unofficial contacts between the U.S. and North Korea since mid-June. The letters between Kim and Trump that the American president has talked about to the media were a huge hint. So was Trump’s two-day stopover in South Korea, following the G20 summit in Japan. Notice also the signs of a quiet assist from President Xi Jinping of China. Xi met with Trump and Japan and visited North Korea just 10 days ago, where he met with Kim. China wants North Korea to behave. China does not want a U.S.-North Korean military confrontation that could spark a refugee crisis sending large numbers of desperate North Koreans into China, Nor does China like the firm military pressure that American forces and allies in the region keep in place on North Korea, even though China has stuck with U.N. resolutions on North Korea. It’s no coincidence that both the U.S.-China trade talks and the U.S.-North Korea talks are moving forward right now. What happens next? Getting North Korea to make progress on denuclearization won’t be easy. The roadmap ahead starts with resuming working-level negotiations. Kim agreed last fall to dismantle North Korea’s plutonium reprocessing and uranium enrichment facilities. All of them. Not just the main one at Yongbyon, but the web of additional sites. However, disagreements over how to get started derailed talks in Hanoi in February. Mind you, there’s a lot to do. North Korea has to cough up a list of its nuclear facilities – a “comprehensive declaration,” to use Biegun’s term. Then comes an agreement on inspection access and monitoring. The final step is removing and destroying all North Korean stockpiles of fissile material, weapons and, missile launchers. In Ukraine, in the early 1990s, this took four years – and Ukraine is a democracy. Meanwhile, the U.S. is safer. At the DMZ, the world saw that Trump has made progress in changing the relationship with Kim and North Korea. Trump showed up, Kim showed up, and the security details coped. South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in visibly encouraged them. This was unimaginable two years ago. Then there is this military fact. The best thing about Trump’s policy so far is that North Korea has not conducted intercontinental missile tests since November 28, 2017. The moratorium achieved by Trump is huge. North Korea conducted 94 missile tests from 2012 through 2017. But that wasn’t enough to complete the intercontinental missile test program. Fortunately, North Korea has not yet demonstrated that is has developed a nuclear-armed missile that can reach the United States. The vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen. Paul Selva, said June 20. “I’ve seen no indication that they’ve improved the arming, firing and fusing equation” of a nuclear warhead that would allow it to detonate “or the actual” re-entry vehicle. U.S. missile defenses in Alaska and California are set up to shoot down small numbers of “rogue” missiles. But we are much better off if those missiles are never launched. The fact that North Korea hasn’t perfected such long-range missiles makes America safer. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The short-range missile tests by North Korea in early May don’t count. Those missiles can’t reach the U.S. If the test halt of long-range North Korean missiles is all President Trump achieves, his effort will be worth it. But after the DMZ visit, there is tangible hope for more. As Trump said to his special envoy: “Good luck, Steve.” CLICK HERE TO READ MORE BY REBECCA GRANT

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Newly minted White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham was swept up in a scuffle on Sunday between North Korean security guards and the press during President Donald Trump’s visit with dictator Kim Jong Un. During the tussle, officials attempted to shove reporters away from the Inter-Korean House of Freedom where Trump and Kim were meeting, according to The Associated Press. The commotion became so intense that Grisham sustained bruises and the Secret Service intervened to let members of the U.S. press pool enter the room, the outlet reported. Footage of the chaos obtained by The Washington Post shows Grisham attempting to make her way into the crowd before disappearing out of view as a woman can be heard shouting, “Let go of me!” Bloomberg reporter Jennifer Jacobs tweeted that Grisham “threw herself into it” to get a U.S. television camera into the meeting “and it came to body blows.” To add to madcap day at DMZ, the North Korean security was a little overzealous, at times trying to block US reporters’ view. New WH press secretary Stephanie Grisham threw herself into it to make sure the US TV camera got into House of Freedom, and it came to body blows. pic.twitter.com/LYWhbJFkF5 — Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) June 30, 2019 ABC News’ Jonathan Karl also described the scene on Twitter, stating that Grisham physically cleared a path for White House reporters “by elbowing and pushing aside a security guard.” Apparently some of the Korean (North?) security team did not want the US press in the Kim/Trump meeting. New press secretary @StephGrisham45 was not having it, physically clearing the way for the WH press pool by elbowing and pushing aside a security guard. — Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) June 30, 2019 Trump met with Kim privately during an impromptu visit to the Korean Demilitarized Zone where the two leaders shook hands. According to the president, both agreed to resume denuclearization talks. Trump, who made history by setting foot on North Korean soil during his trip, called it “an important statement for all, and a great honor” in a tweet. However, his 2020 Democratic challengers remain unconvinced that it amounted to anything more than a photo op. Grisham, who served as the spokeswoman for first lady Melania Trump, was tapped to fill the White House’s press secretary role after Sarah Huckabee Sanders submitted her resignation earlier this month. Sanders celebrated her last day in the White House on Friday.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Video Hundreds of thousands of people have attended this year's WorldPride in New York. The march, one of the largest LGBT celebrations, took place 50 years after the Stonewall riots in the city, which helped energise the fight for gay equality.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Self-help guru Marianne Williamson’s quirky performance during the second Democrat debate Thursday had lots of people talking. Now, her performance has lots of people donating— from the other side of the political spectrum. Republicans such as GOP strategist Jeff Roe began urging each other to donate to her campaign just to keep her on the debate stage. Roe, who ran Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) 2016 presidential campaign, urged his followers on Twitter on Friday to “donate $1” to keep her in the debates. Please, calling on all republicans to go to https://t.co/fFZ5mdLRRq and donate $1 to keep this vibrant democrat on the debate stage. One debate performance is not enough. #DemDebate2020 https://t.co/MFHWVfHXey — Jeff Roe (@jeffroe) June 28, 2019 At least several others on Twitter appeared to take up Roe’s challenge: Did my part. I just gave Marianne a dollar. — Tony McDonald (@TweetTonyMac) June 28, 2019 Because the system for qualifying for future presidential debates requires a minimum amount of fundraising and support in the polls, some Republicans say her unique personality on the debate stage is welcome. Williamson, who is known as a Hollywood spiritual guru to A-List celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey, gained attention during Thursday’s debates when she offered a solution in the closing arguments on how to defeat President Donald Trump. Williamson’s solution was to simply “harness love” instead of “harnessing fear.” “So, Mr. President, if you’re listening, I want you to hear me, please. You have harnessed fear for political purposes, and only love can cast that out,” she said. “So I, sir, I have a feeling you know what you’re doing. I’m going to harness love for political purposes; I will meet you on that field and, sir, love will win,” she concluded.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

U.S. alcohol agency should investigate Dominican Republic deaths, top Democrat says Relatives have raised the possibility that the deaths may have been caused by adulterated alcohol, leading Sen. Chuck Schumer to call for an ATF probe.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Chuck Schumer: ATF should investigate Dominican Republic deaths Relatives have raised the possibility that the deaths may have been caused by adulterated alcohol or misused pesticides.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) criticized Ivanka Trump on Twitter Saturday after video emerged of her conversing with world leaders at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan. She wrote: It may be shocking to some, but being someone’s daughter actually isn’t a career qualification. It hurts our diplomatic standing when the President phones it in & the world moves on. The US needs our President working the G20. Bringing a qualified diplomat couldn’t hurt either. The video was posted to Twitter by BBC journalist Parham Ghobadi and shows Ivanka Trump speaking with several world leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron, United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and International Monetary Fund Chairwoman Christine Lagarde. Ivanka Trump appears to be trying to get involved in a talk among Macron, May, Trudeau and Lagarde (IMF head). The video is released by French Presidential palace. pic.twitter.com/TJ0LULCzyQ — Parham Ghobadi (@ParhamGhobadi) June 29, 2019 “Ivanka Trump appears to be trying to get involved in a talk among Macron, May, Trudeau and Lagarde (IMF head). The video is released by French Presidential palace,” Ghobadi wrote. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) also criticized Ivanka Trump on Sunday and called her out for blocking him on Twitter. “I would like to hear Ivanka Trump’s explanation about this video. Oh wait, Senior White House Advisor @IvankaTrump blocked me. Can you forward the below video to her and ask for her response? Thanks.” “P.S. Can you also ask her why Jared Kushner still has a security clearance?” Lieu added. At the G20 summit, Trump spoke during a meeting called the Special Event on Women’s Empowerment where she said female talent was “one of the most undervalued resources in the world.” Trump also urged world leaders, including those of the United States, to “do more” to empower women economically. “If we propose bold solutions and challenge the limits of the past, we’ll empower women to lift their families out of poverty, to grow the economies in their countries and to deliver greater peace and prosperity to millions around the world,” she stated.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Rev. Jesse Jackson criticized former Vice President Joe Biden for not using the platform provided by the first Democrat presidential debate to address his record on race and civil rights. Jackson, who vied against Biden for the 1988 Democrat presidential nomination, said the former vice president missed an opportunity to make amends for his longstanding stance on busing to integrate public schools and his recent praise of segregationists. “It was a moment for him to admit an error in judgment at that time,” Jackson told the New York Times. “He chose not to.” Jackson said he hoped Biden would “make some adjustments” and address portions of his past as the race got underway. He added that Biden was still electable, but that other candidates, including Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). Biden has been in embroiled in controversy after praising the “civility” of two ardent segregationists, the late-Sens. James Eastland (D-MS) and Herman Talmadge (D-GA), at a fundraiser in New York City this month. “I was in a caucus with James O. Eastland,” Biden told donors with an affected Southern drawl. “He never called me boy, he always called me son.” “Well guess what?” the Democrat frontrunner continued, “At least there was some civility. We got things done. We didn’t agree on much of anything. We got things done. We got it finished. But today you look at the other side and you’re the enemy. Not the opposition, the enemy. We don’t talk to each other anymore.” At the debate on Thursday, the former vice president got into a fiery back and forth with Harris over those comments and his position on busing. “I agree with you when you commit yourself to the importance of finding common ground,” Harris said, “but I also believe and it’s personal and it was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senator who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country.” “It was not only that, but you also worked with them to oppose bussing,” she continued. “There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bussed to school every day. That little girl was me. So I will tell you that on this subject, it cannot be an intellectual debate… we have to take it seriously.” Biden attempted to defend himself but only ended up muddling his record on busing and claiming he never praised racists.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

CLOSE Governor Jerry Brown signed six stringent gun-control measures that will mandate background checks for ammunition sales and require people to turn in high-capacity magazines. He also vetoed five other bills. USA TODAY LOS ANGELES — The bustle inside LAX Ammunition on the Friday before Father’s Day betrayed the gloom of the outside sky. Employees inside the Los Angeles-area gun shop had their hands full chatting with customers who were looking to replenish their ammo supply before July 1, with some customers spending hundreds of dollars in the process. Why the hurry? That’s the day a new state law will require almost all buyers to go through background checks before being able to buy bullets, potentially increasing the amount of time and money it takes to make purchases. “We're probably up by 400% from where we were last year for this past month, and this month, in total sales,” says Daniel Kash, the store’s president. As it is, California has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation — the state bans most assault weapons and restricts the sale and possession of large capacity magazines. There’s also a 10-day waiting period prior to the sale or transfer of a firearm, among other restrictions. The passage of Proposition 63, a gun control measure approved, coincidentally, by 63 percent of California voters in 2016, will strengthen those laws by taking aim at the sale of ammo. “Everybody that has a gun ... knows about the law that's upcoming,” Kash says. “That's why you see the store being as busy as it is this week for the Father's Day Sale. People are stocking up right now, basically.” How will it work? The new law — championed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, a longtime advocate of gun control — is meant to protect the public by keeping ammunition from getting into dangerous hands, the state says. Here’s how: Customers will have to receive a background check every time they make an ammunition purchase, paying $1 each time. Those who don’t already have their information in the Department of Justice’s system for these point-of-sale screenings will have to pay up to $20 for an initial screening. Vendors will have to make sure customers aren’t on a DOJ list that names people who are prohibited from buying guns for various reasons — for example, committing a felony — before selling to them. All ammo sales will have to take place in person — even online orders will have to be shipped to a licensed vendor’s store before customers can pick them up. Gun owners and enthusiasts aren’t happy, arguing that the new law will cost extra time and money. “The biggest question on people's minds is what the process is going to be like, and how burdened someone's going to be, whether it's going to take it a tremendous amount of additional time, or whether it's going to cost them more money,” says Alexander Reyes, a manager at Martin B. Retting, a gun shop in Culver City near Los Angeles. Selling semiautomatics: AR-15 advertising speaks to ‘macho hyper-masculinity,' gun control advocates say. They want it to stop Advocates, though, remain convinced that the inconvenience to law-abiding gun owners is necessary for the public good. “This is about preventing all forms of gun violence and ensuring we're doing everything we can, through a second-long background check, to ensure that people with the most significant histories of criminal violence, or severe mental health impairments, are not able to access [guns],” says Ari Freilich, the California legislative affairs director for the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence in San Francisco. ‘Unregulated’ ammo sales In a 2016 op-ed in The Sacramento Bee, Newsom wrote that the new law would “treat ammunition sales as gun sales,” a measure that, paired with the others in the bill, would help “keep guns and ammo out of the wrong hands.” “Although California has led the nation in gun safety laws, those laws still have loopholes that leave communities throughout the state vulnerable to gun violence and mass shootings,” the text of the act, drafted by Newsom, reads. “We can close these loopholes while still safeguarding the ability of law ­abiding, responsible Californians to own guns for self­-defense, hunting and recreation.” One of those loopholes is the lack of regulations around ammunition purchases, says Amanda Wilcox, the legislation policy chair of Brady California, a state chapter of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. Boxes of ammunition are kept in a restricted area at LAX Ammunition on June 14, 2019. The store is one of several that has experienced a surge in sales ahead of the implementation of a new background check law. (Photo: Vandana Ravikumar, USA Today) “Prior to any of this, no one knew who was selling ammunition or buying ammunition, ammo sales were completely unregulated,” Wilcox says. “You could sell ammunition out of your trunk of your car, anywhere. It was existing law that if you're prohibited from ... purchasing and possessing a gun, you're also prohibited from purchasing ammunition, but there's no way to enforce that law.” In other words, Wilcox says, the new measure could help prevent individuals who illegally possess guns from being able to purchase ammunition for them, while simultaneously alerting vendors and law enforcement. “Obviously, we want people who can't pass a background check not to buy ammunition,” Wilcox says. “The legislation does that.” ‘They’re going to get it’ Some gun owners, however, insist that the new law does little to address illegal activity while unfairly targeting those who already follow the law. “Anyone who is willing to murder innocent people does not have a regard for laws, clearly, and they are able to cross a border to purchase ammunition and violate existing California laws,” says Ryan McDonnell, a gun owner from Alameda, east of San Francisco. Due process? Saving lives? Should guns be seized from those who pose threats? More states saying yes to red flag laws Others say the new restrictions will simply encourage gun owners to purchase ammo elsewhere, negatively impacting California vendors. “To me, it’s just a way for the government to make more money … people are gonna go other places to get what they need,” says Kevin McGlothan of Compton. “They’re going to get it regardless, they’re just going to go a different way and cut the little man out.” Adding to the stir is the reality that gun shops themselves aren’t sure how the new law is going to affect the in-store checkout process. “The reality is, the California Department of Justice Bureau of Firearms has said that they're not going to unveil the system, even to us, until July 1,” Reyes says. “So even though we have a vague idea … of what the process is going to be like, we still don’t 100% know, because we're not going to have access to the system until July 1, same as everybody else.” ‘A matter of patience’ Confusion and resistance aside, Reyes hopes the new state law won’t greatly affect the average gun owner. While it's unknown how many people in California fall into that category, three in 10 adults in the United States own guns for self-defense, hunting, sport shooting or collecting, according to the Pew Research Center. A valuable tool, or an invasion of privacy? California could become first to limit facial recognition technology; police aren't happy “The average gun owner is probably not going to be as impacted as they think they're going to be,” Reyes says. “But, ultimately, I think people are going to find the inconvenience, and the hassle, and the pain to the wallet … to be the biggest thing.” He adds, “There’s a ... lack of concrete information and hearsay and gossip and everything. But it all gets straightened out, it's just a matter of patience and dealing with it.” Even if the new law doesn’t altogether end gun violence, supporters believe in California’s vision to provide a path for other states to follow. “We can — and should — have a conversation about increasing our investments in mental health resources,” Freilich says. “None of that should also distract us from having a simultaneous conversation about when that person sets out wanting to do violence … It’s not an either-or.” Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/30/california-ammunition-sales-background-check-july-1/1612625001/

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Washington (CNN) With 218 days until the Iowa caucuses and a record number of Democratic candidates, the 2020 election is already in full swing. Every Sunday, I deliver the 5 BIG storylines you need to know to understand the upcoming week on the campaign trail. And they're ranked -- so the No. 1 story is the most important of the coming week. Subscribe to The Point newsletter to get this Sunday update delivered to your inbox, along with political analysis every weekday! 5. Is the Democratic establishment toothless?: If you watched the two nights of the first Democratic debate, one message came through strong and simply: The candidates who prospered were the ones advocating -- loudly -- for structural change not incrementalism. "With moderate Democrats repeatedly drowned out or on the defensive in the debates, the sprint to the left has deeply unnerved establishment Democrats, who have largely picked the party nominees in recent decades. They fear that advocating a government-run health care system could alienate suburban and upper-income voters who are otherwise eager to eject Mr. Trump from office, while the most progressive immigration policies might turn off the working-class white voters who backed Mr. Trump after twice supporting former President Barack Obama." What fascinates me most about the paragraph above is this line (bolding is mine): "The sprint to the left has deeply unnerved establishment Democrats, who have largely picked the party nominees in recent decades." The 2016 election -- on the Republican side -- featured a renegade outsider destroying the chosen candidates of the GOP establishment, and then remaking the party in his own image. Who's to say that's not what we are witnessing within the Democratic Party in 2020 -- particularly after the establishment favorite (Hillary Clinton) lost the presidency three years ago? Joe Biden's candidacy is the canary in the coal mine here. The former vice president is running unabashedly as the establishment choice for the Democratic nod -- and promising a return to "normal" politics if elected. Is that a smart strategy in a party that wants radical, structural change? 4. Death watch begins: The confluence of the first debate being over and the end of the 2nd quarter of fundraising at midnight Sunday means that the end may be coming soon -- or shortly -- for some members of this The confluence of the first debate being over and the end of the 2nd quarter of fundraising at midnight Sunday means that the end may be coming soon -- or shortly -- for some members of this record-settingly large Democratic field If you are, say Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan or New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand or former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, it might be tough to justify staying in the race much longer if a) you are struggling to raise money and b) there's no movement in the polls. All three of those candidates qualified for the first round of debate but didn't do much to get people excited or draw attention. The question of fish or cut bait will start to get asked more and more often of these candidates -- not to mention the four who didn't even qualify for the debate stage either night. Maybe they hold out until CNN's debate late next month. Or try to run a shoe-string operation through the summer, in hopes of catching fire when people return after Labor Day. But, man, that is a heavy lift. 3. July Fourth is for politics!: While you're sitting in your (or someone else's) pool chowing on a hot dog and sipping a beer -- or a diet Coke -- think of the two dozen candidates running for president, and how they don't get to just chillax (do people say that anymore?) on the Fourth. Iowa alone will play host to three major 2020 candidates on Independence Day. Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke will be in the state and, among other things, attend the reading of the Declaration of Independence in -- wait for it! -- Independence, Iowa. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is going to an ice cream social in Ames. (Delicious!) And California Sen. Kamala Harris will be in Iowa, too -- barbecuing! New Hampshire will gets its share of attention too, with Gillibrand and former Maryland Rep. John Delaney touring the Granite State on Thursday. Of course, President Donald Trump's big Fourth of July celebration in Washington is expected to draw the lion's share of attention. Trump has reportedly been intimately involved in the planning of the day's event -- and is clearly been looking toward it for some time. "HOLD THE DATE!" he tweeted in February . "We will be having one of the biggest gatherings in the history of Washington, D.C., on July 4th. It will be called 'A Salute To America' and will be held at the Lincoln Memorial. Major fireworks display, entertainment and an address by your favorite President, me!" 2. Now what for Kamala?: Harris, the California senator, was utterly impressive in Thursday's debate -- commanding a stage and looking more presidential than anyone else on it. (The one off-note was Harris, the California senator, was utterly impressive in Thursday's debate -- commanding a stage and looking more presidential than anyone else on it. (The one off-note was Harris' ongoing struggle to settle on a coherent answer on whether she supports abolishing the private health insurance industry.) The question for her and her campaign is: Now what? Her campaign reported raising more than $2 million in just the first 24 hours after the debate. (The average contribution was $30, according to the campaign.) Were they able to continue that fundraising momentum all the way through today -- the final day of the second filing period (April 1-June 3)? And, if so, how much of a financial boost will Harris reap? Polling has been scarce post-debate -- and might stay that way with lots of people away for the July Fourth holiday. When polls do come out, how much has Harris moved up? And, if it's a significant bump -- putting her in similar space to Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren -- how does she maintain or build on that bump? Remember that Harris got lots of positive attention for her campaign announcement. But, that buzz faded as she struggled to find ways to build on it over the next few months. Her campaign can't let that happen again.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden attends the Rainbow PUSH Coalition Annual International Convention on June 28, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson/Getty Images Former vice president Joe Biden was in Seattle this weekend raising some money. And at a fundraiser at the home of a leader in the Seattle gay rights community, Biden suggested that as recently as 2014 homophobic comments were socially acceptable. Talking to around 50 guests at the home of public relations executive Roger Nyhus, Biden said that if someone at a business meeting in Seattle “made fun of a gay waiter” five years ago, people would have just let it slide, according to a pool report. The comment got some pushback from the highly supportive crowd. “Not in Seattle,” some in the crowd said. Biden made the comment as he talked about the progress that has been made in gay rights in just a few years. If someone made that type of homophobic comment today, “that person would not be invited back,” Biden said. Despite the progress though, Biden still made clear there’s a long way to go considering a same-sex couple can get married one day but then get fired in 22 states because they don’t enjoy any kind of protection from discrimination. Biden also praised the gay rights movement, saying he recently visited the site of the Stonewall riots. “Think of the incredible, physical, moral courage it took to stand up and fight back,” he said. Some more context: Here’s where Biden spoke tonight, on Pride weekend in Seattle. pic.twitter.com/7aEGpTkiqu — Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) June 30, 2019 Dan Diamond from Politico points out on Twitter that Biden told a similar story about discrimination against gay waiters in 2014. Only then, he set the stage 15 years back, to 1999. Back in 2014, Biden told a similar story about gay waiters, although he set the scene 15 years earlier - back in 1999. https://t.co/4PMQP9AEm6 pic.twitter.com/qhJm1oqTi8 — Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) June 30, 2019 These latest comments comes at the end of a difficult week for Biden on the campaign trail. Speaking in Chicago on Friday about the need for criminal justice reform, Biden said, “That kid wearing a hoodie may very well be the next poet laureate and not a gangbanger.” Sen. Cory Booker criticized the former vice president for his choice of words. “This isn’t about a hoodie,” Booker wrote on Twitter. “It’s about a culture that sees a problem with a kid wearing a hoodie in the first place. Our nominee needs to have the language to talk about race in a far more constructive way.” This isn’t about a hoodie. It’s about a culture that sees a problem with a kid wearing a hoodie in the first place. Our nominee needs to have the language to talk about race in a far more constructive way. https://t.co/c2BFSSOHro — Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) June 28, 2019 The Biden campaign defended the former vice president, saying he “was calling direct attention to the daily experiences faced by many African American men around the country and the perceived so-called ‘threat’ from people like Trayvon Martin who were racially profiled and deemed ‘criminal’ while wearing a hoodie.” But the criticism packed a stronger punch because it came shortly after Sen. Kamala Harris attacked Biden for his past opposition to federally mandated school busing during Thursday’s Democratic debate. Speaking to a group of donors in northern California, Biden said he rejected the idea that he’s the “old guy” in the Democratic field. “I know I get criticized, ‘Biden says he can bring the country together.’ Well guess what, I refuse to accept, ‘He’s the old guy.’ I refuse to accept the status quo,” he said.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

A new government report shows the United States crude oil output as reaching new heights in the month of April. The report said production grew from 2.1 percent in April to 12.16 million barrels a day. Shale production in areas such as the Permian Basin of West Texas have recently experienced a boom, causing U.S. oil production to overtake that of Saudi Arabia and Russia. “We continue to see the Permian representing the key driver of global oil supply growth for the next five years,” Goldman Sachs analyst Brian Singer told clients in a statement on June 10. Rystad Energy said earlier this year that the United States would likely produce 12.5 million barrels of oil per day during the month of May. Reports state that an estimated 4 million of those barrels will come from shale oilfields and those numbers are expected to rise by the end of 2020. However, 2020 presidential hopeful, Robert “Beto” O’Rourke, said during an interview on June 13 that we need to “free ourselves from fossil fuel,” adding “it is not going to necessarily be easy.” O’Rourke said: As we free ourselves from that dependence on fossil fuels, we’re going to see more of my fellow Texans and fellow Americans transition into renewable energy jobs —high demand, high skill occupations – and I think it’s really important that we invest in the training to make sure that we have the skilled workforce that’s ready to take on this global challenge. Breitbart News reported in December 2018 that “in 2016, independent oil and gas consulting firm Rystad Energy released data that revealed Texas held 60 billion barrels of shale oil, more recoverable oil than in Saudi Arabia,” making this area of Texas one of the largest and most productive when it comes to oil. “The Permian Basin region encompasses a series of basins and other geologic formations in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico. The Delaware consists of roughly 10,000 square miles that span five Texas counties and three New Mexico counties. It is one of the most productive areas for oil and gas in the nation.”

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

June 30 (Reuters) - Facebook Inc will ban ads that discourage people from voting ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, according to its second annual Civil Rights Audit published on Sunday. Facebook pledged to put its new “don’t vote” policy prohibition into effect in the fall, before the 2019 U.S. elections on Nov. 5, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said in a blog post announcing the report. Last year, Facebook expanded its policies against voter suppression by banning posts that spread misinformation on voting methods, election dates and times, and polling locations. Those rules include banning intimidation tactics such as misrepresentations on whether votes will be counted. The new “don’t vote” policy is in its developmental stages and the company is seeking advice from voting organizations. Facebook said the policy is likely to only apply in the United States in its initial release and will not include the policing of organic posts from users. Facebook said it works proactively to remove malicious election-related content. The company is now encompassing “do not vote” ads in its efforts to ward off coordinated efforts to influence elections. The social media giant has been used to spread misinformation about previous elections. U.S. intelligence agencies say there was an extensive Russian cyber-influence operation during the 2016 campaign aimed at helping President Donald Trump get elected. Russia has repeatedly denied the allegations. “We focused on ads because there is a targeted component in them,” Facebook Public Policy Director Neil Potts said. “We recognize it as a political tactic, which is much more in line with voter suppression.” Ads telling people to “boycott the election” disproportionately targeted African American Facebook users, according to Ian Vandewalker, senior council at the Brennan Center for Justice. The world’s biggest social network also pledged to introduce a new misinformation policy in the fall ahead of the 2020 U.S. Census, prohibiting misrepresentations of Census requirements or methods, it said. Facebook began conducting the annual Civil Rights Audit in 2018 to address concerns from underrepresented communities and advocacy groups on its platform. The company has come under scrutiny over its hands-off approach to the content posted on its platform. It does not ban most forms of misinformation, instead posting warnings downgrading misleading material so it reaches fewer people. Russian influence on U.S. elections has sparked heavy criticism of Facebook; however, it helped the company identify key tactics used in misinformation campaigns. Facebook set up its first war room in October 2018 to combat misinformation campaigns during the U.S. midterm elections. Similar war rooms were set up this year in Brazil, India and Europe ahead of elections. Facebook’s next Civil Rights Audit progress report is set to be released early next year. (Reporting by Arriana McLymore; Editing by Kenneth Li and Phil Berlowitz)

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Image copyright Reuters Tory leadership contender Jeremy Hunt is to outline his plans for a no-deal Brexit, including a £6bn pledge to the fishing and farming industries. Setting out what he would do as PM, Mr Hunt will say farmers and fishermen "face uncertainty" if there is no deal, but that he will "help smooth it over". Some farming leaders have warned against leaving the EU without a deal. Mr Johnson also promised to support the rural community after Brexit during a meeting with farmers last week. Mr Johnson and Foreign Secretary Mr Hunt are competing against each other to become the next Conservative leader. The Conservative Party's 160,000 members will begin voting next week and Theresa May's successor is expected to be announced on 23 July. In a speech in London on Monday, Mr Hunt will say the food and agriculture industry deserves to be treated in a similar way to the financial services industry in 2008, when banks received a multi-billion pound bailout by the government. He will promise to create a temporary "no deal relief programme" for the fishing and farming industry who export to Europe - aimed to be similar to US President Donald Trump's promise of £16bn for farmers affected by Chinese tariffs. He will also promise to set up a no-deal committee, with similar powers to Cobra, to make sure the government is ready to leave by 31 October, as well as a transport committee to keep goods moving through ports and airports. "If you're a sheep farmer in Shropshire or a fishermen in Peterhead I have a simple message for you," Mr Hunt is expected to say, "I know you face uncertainty if we have to leave the EU without a deal. "I will mitigate the impact of a no-deal Brexit on you and step in to help smooth those short term difficulties. "If we could do it for the bankers in the financial crisis, we can do it for our fisherman, farmers and small businesses now." Image copyright Getty Images If the UK leaves the EU without a deal, it will automatically trade under the basic World Trade Organization (WTO) rules. Under these rules, the tariffs - the taxes on imported and exported goods - will be different to what the UK currently trades under, which means the cost to farmers to export products could change or they could be affected by competition from abroad. The government has already announced its plans for tariffs in the event of a no-deal Brexit. A temporary scheme will see some tariffs protect farmers producing meat, while other sectors of farming will have low or no tariffs. Farming unions have previously warned against a no-deal Brexit, citing the impact of tariffs on agri-exports as a threat, and the National Farmers Union has said British farming will be "damaged" if it happens. When challenged last week about the potential impact leaving the EU without a deal would have on exports, Mr Johnson told farmers in Cumbria he did not want such an outcome and intended to negotiate a tariff free area with Europe. He added that farmers "should be assured that we will support the rural community, with price support, efficiency payments, whatever". Compare the candidates' policies Select a topic and a candidate to find out more BREXIT IMMIGRATION TAX SPENDING HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE EDUCATION BREXIT IMMIGRATION TAX SPENDING HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE EDUCATION On Sunday, Mr Hunt said he would be prepared to pursue a no-deal Brexit "with a heavy heart". Mr Johnson has previously said the UK must leave on 31 October "deal or no deal" and that he would take the UK out of the EU by Halloween "come what may, do or die". He challenged Mr Hunt to make the same commitment. In an interview with Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday, Mr Johnson reiterated the commitment, saying he would take "personal responsibility" for ensuring the UK leaves by 31 October, with or without a deal, as the current "drift and dither" could not continue. Asked whether he was willing to suspend Parliament to force through a no-deal exit, he said he did not "like the idea" but MPs must accept "responsibility" given the grave situation. Mr Johnson also said he was still committed, whatever the Brexit outcome, to cutting corporation tax from its current rate of 19% to 12.5%. Meanwhile, he has continued to refuse to face Mr Hunt in a head-to-head debate before ballot papers are sent out to the Tory membership. A Sky News debate was planned for Monday but will now see Mr Hunt interviewed by Kay Burley. Mr Johnson has previously said he believes he is doing enough head-to-head debates with Mr Hunt.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Video Nominees for the top EU jobs must be a balance of nations and gender, Latvia's PM says. Krisjanis Karins, a conservative, was speaking before a Brussels summit of EU leaders. The leaders are split, especially over a successor to Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Here's what you need to know in politics this week... President Trump is abroad, and Joe Biden is attacking Moneyball: Here comes the 2nd quarter filings De Blasio: Medicare for All must cover sex reassignment The Democrats' data shift This week's schedule THE WATER'S EDGE Via Bo Erickson: Former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign accused President Trump of "coddling" dictators in his meetings with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan while overseas. "President Trump's coddling of dictators at the expense of American national security and interests is one of the most dangerous ways he's diminishing us on the world stage and subverting our values as a nation," Biden campaign spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement to CBS News. The president held a last-minute meeting with Kim in the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea on Sunday, becoming the first sitting president to set foot on North Korean soil. His meeting with Kim came after the G20 summit in Japan, where he met with Putin and Erdogan. Read the full story here. MONEYBALL: HERE COME THE 2ND QUARTER FILINGS Via Sarah Ewall-Wice: Sunday is the final day before the FEC's second quarter closes, and presidential candidates are making last-ditch efforts to raise funds before midnight. For some presidential hopefuls, this will be their first quarterly filing since launching their campaigns; for others, the filing will indicate whether they've been able to maintain or build momentum since the first quarter of 2019. Nearly every candidate has been blasting out fundraising emails and social media posts throughout the weekend in order to raise cash. And one thing clearly on the minds of a number of campaigns is the 130,000 donors needed to qualify for the Democratic debate in September. Last week, the first round of debates gave several Democratic presidential candidates a boost towards their second quarter fundraising goals. Kamala Harris, in particular, raised over $2 million online and brought in 30,000 new donors in the 24 hours after her debate performance. Cory Booker, Julian Castro and Jay Inslee also touted increases in donations after the debates. By CBS News' count, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg and Beto O'Rourke have all surpassed the 130,000 donor mark. On Friday, Andrew Yang announced he met the qualification as well. Meanwhile, Booker, Amy Klobuchar, John Hickenlooper and Julian Castro have all sent out fundraising emails this week alone saying how they are still working towards the goal. Meanwhile, some candidates -- including Sanders and Warren -- are noting that they're not attending big-dollar fundraisers ahead of the quarter closing. That's in contrast with candidates like Biden, who spent Friday and Saturday at fundraisers on the West Coast. According to the pool, tickets for the events cost as much as $2800 per person to attend. Buttigieg, Booker and Harris have also attended big-dollar events in recent weeks. Some candidates are likely to release their cash totals in the coming days, but every presidential hopeful has a July 15th FEC filing deadline. At that time, we'll all find out who has raked in big bucks -- and who is going to have to start pinching pennies heading into the late summer and early fall. DE BLASIO: MEDICARE FOR ALL MUST COVER SEX REASSIGNMENT Via Zak Hudak: New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said at the New York Pride March on Sunday that Medicare for All should cover sex reassignment surgery. "We have to respect everyone's medical needs," he said. It's a commitment that sets de Blasio apart on the Democratic primary hot bottom issue of single-payer healthcare. The mayor also said that as president he would restore benefits to veterans forced to leave the military because of their sexual orientation. THE DEMOCRATS DATA SHIFT Via Eleanor Watson: At the Democratic National Committee's Executive Committee meeting in Pittsburgh over the weekend, Chief Technology Officer Nell Thomas and Deputy Chief Technology Officer Kat Atwater told members they are in a sprint to transfer the DNC's data warehouse from the previous system -- called Vertica -- to Google BigQuery by mid-July. Thomas said that Google BigQuery will be able to support thousands of campaigns without going down, which was a problem in previous cycles. ON THE TRAIL THIS WEEK 7/1 – Castro in Texas; Bill de Blasio in Illinois; John Delaney in Iowa. 7/2 – Buttigieg in Illinois; Warren in Nevada. 7/3 – Biden in Iowa; Booker in Nevada; Buttigieg in Iowa; Kirsten Gillibrand in New Hampshire; Harris in Iowa; Sanders in Iowa; Warren in Nevada. 7/4 – O'Rourke in Iowa; Biden in Iowa; Booker in Nevada; Buttigieg in Iowa; Gillibrand in New Hampshire; Harris in Iowa; Sanders in Iowa. 7/5 – Biden in Texas, Booker in Nevada; Castro in Texas, Gillibrand in New Hampshire; Harris in Iowa & Texas; Inslee in Texas; Klobuchar in Texas; O'Rourke in Texas; Sanders in Texas; Warren in Texas. 7/6 – Biden in South Carolina; Gillibrand in New Hampshire. 7/7 – Biden in South Carolina; Gillibrand in New Hampshire.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

CLOSE In night two of the Democratic debate, candidates bore down into issues, and each other. Kamala Harris went after Joe Biden for his past on busing. USA TODAY People at a Seattle presidential campaign fundraiser for Joe Biden on Saturday pushed back against his comments on the progress of gay rights. During his remarks, Biden said five years ago people at a business meeting in the city would have let someone making "fun of a gay waiter" get away with it, prompting people to shout, "Not in Seattle!" per a pool report of the event. While Biden reportedly said a person saying homophobic comments "would not be invited back" today, his comments triggered online criticism at the end of a challenging week for the former vice president. Takeaways: 5 things we learned from two nights of Democratic debates Matt Hill, a spokesperson for Biden's campaign, defended his comments at the fundraiser hosted by a leader in the Seattle gay rights community. "The LGBTQ community has made significant progress, but @JoeBiden is making the point that there is much more work to be done," Hill tweeted. "Suggesting the LGBTQ community didn't face discrimination five years ago or even today is just not accurate." The Democratic primary front-runner also recalled publicly supporting same-sex marriage in 2012 before former President Barack Obama, CNN reported, and commented on his recent visit to the site of the Stonewall riots. Former Vice President and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden addresses patrons and media during a visit to the Stonewall Inn, Tuesday, June 18, 2019, in New York. (Photo: Bebeto Matthews, AP) LGBT rights: Stonewall veterans return to New York City to celebrate Pride, 50 years after raid "Think of the incredible, physical, moral courage it took to stand up and fight back," Biden said at the fundraiser. Critics previously described Biden as "out of step" for his comments at fundraisers, including when he reflected on the "civility" in his work with segregationist senators earlier in his career. On the debate stage Thursday, Sen. Kamala Harris of California also called out Biden for his opposition to busing to integrate schools in the 1970s, something she experienced as a child growing up in California. Criticism: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris square off as Democratic rivals go on the attack "I don't praise racists, that is not true," Biden responded. "If you want to have this campaign on who supported civil rights and whether I did or not, I am happy to do that. I left a good law firm to become a public defender when in fact my city was in flames because of the assassination of Dr. King." Support for Biden has dropped by about 10 points among likely Democratic voters following the first debate, according to a poll by Morning Consult and FiveThirtyEight. Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/30/joe-biden-gay-waiter-comment-draws-criticism-seattle/1612588001/

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Facebook said it will add a rule against spreading misinformation about the 2020 U.S. census, treating such posts with extra scrutiny out of fear they could disrupt the count. Brian Snyder / Reuters file

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Illinois Governor Jay Pritzker closed out Pride Month on Sunday by signing an executive order that aims to protect transgender students throughout the state. Interested in Pride Month? Add Pride Month as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Pride Month news, video, and analysis from ABC News. Add Interest Pritzker said the order establishes a new Affirming and Inclusive Schools Task Force, and directs the state’s public school board to take “comprehensive action” to better support transgender, nonbinary and gender nonconforming students. He said the order would “disrupt the patterns of discrimination” in classrooms statewide. “We're taking one more step toward securing Illinois’ place as a leader in equality and hope. Under this executive order, ignorance is no longer an excuse for bigotry,” Pritzker said in a tweet Sunday. “This executive order establishes the Affirming and Inclusive Schools Task Force and directs @ISBEnews take comprehensive action to ensure every LGBTQ student is supported and welcomed in their schools.” The 25-member task force will help to establish practices that promote LGBTQ students’ rights as well as educate school officials on issues specific to the transgender experience, including issues surrounding name changes, preffered pronouns and dress codes. The task force is expected to make policy recommendations to the governor’s office by Jan.1, 2020. Twitter via @GovPritzker The signing took place before Pritzker walked in the city's annual Pride march, and as cities around the world commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York -- an event that helped spawn the modern LGBTQ civil rights movement. Pritzker said the order would help ensure safe and more inclusive spaces for all students. Lawmakers hope it also protects transgender youth, a particularly vulnerable group, amid concerning levels of anti-transgender violence. “While the LGBTQ community has so much to celebrate, we also must recognize that the trans community that ignited this movement has been left out of many of its victories,” Pritzker said in a statement Sunday. “Visibility and acceptance for non-cisgender people are on the rise, but so are attacks of hate, particularly against black trans women.” Twitter via @GovPritzker While hate-crime statistics from the FBI show violent incidents against gays and lesbians dropping slightly, or remaining stagnant, from 2013 to 2017 (the most recent year data has been released), violent incidents against transgender individuals were nearly five times higher over that period. Incidents against trans individuals also rose each year: 23 in 2013, 58 in 2014, 73 in 2015, 105 in 2016 and 106 in 2017. The statistics are self-reported by local law enforcement agencies, and are therefore incomplete. Lori Lightfoot, who made history earlier this year by becoming the city's first openly gay mayor of Chicago, stood beside Pritzker as he signed the executive order on Sunday. She called the initiative a major part in the state’s battle against anti-transgender discrimination and violence. “It’s a first step towards codifying tolerance and respect in all of our schools across the state, giving every student the safe space to reach their full potential,” Lightfoot said a speech Sunday. “I’m proud to say that CPS, Chicago Public School, has been a leader on this front with its own guidelines for supporting transgender students and staff, ensuring that in this city trans individuals have the same access and the same opportunities as everyone else.”

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

More than 70 years ago, Ben Ferencz became the chief prosecutor of 22 commanders of the Einsatzgruppen Nazi death squads at trial number 9 at Nuremberg. Now 99 years old, he's the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive today. And the images he saw during the Holocaust are still vivid in his mind. "I'm still churning," Ben Ferencz says, nearly in tears, in an interview with correspondent Lesley Stahl this week on 60 Minutes. In a conversation with 60 Minutes Overtime, posted in the video above, Stahl says Ferencz wept when recalling the suffering he witnessed during the liberation of concentration camps. Seventy years after the trial, his anger at the Nazis was still palpable, she says. "It's like hearing what has happened over the last 100 years from an actual, live person instead of having to read it in a book," Stahl says. "And … it felt like a privilege to be there with him." Ferencz prosecuting a Nazi death squad at Nuremberg This week's 60 Minutes profile of Ferencz was born from a master's thesis. Associate producer Nieves Zuberbuhler was completing her master's in journalism and international relations at NYU when she learned about Ferencz. "And I've been fascinated by him ever since," Zuberbuhler says. She proposed the story to veteran 60 Minutes producer Shari Finkelstein, who agreed to pursue a story about Ferencz for the broadcast. Associate producer Nieves Zuberbuhler with Ferencz CBS News The son of poor Jewish parents from a small town in Romania, Ben Ferencz immigrated to the U.S. when he was a baby. He became the first in his family to go to college, eventually graduating from Harvard Law School. During World War II, he enlisted as a private in the Army, and because of his legal training, he was transferred to a unit created to investigate war crimes. As U.S. forces liberated concentration camps, his job was to rush in and gather evidence. "He says that he can never forget those human stories that he witnessed," Zuberbuhler says. "that he thinks about [them] every single day of his life." Ferencez in the Army Although Ferencz says those stories still haunt him, he describes himself as a "deliberate optimist." "Despite the horrors that he saw during World War II, he has such a positive view on human nature and humanity," Stahl says, noting that Ferencz has a keen sense of humor. Ferencz' 60 Minutes interview was filled with emotion and passionate pleas for peaceful solutions to international conflicts, but he also regaled Stahl, Finkelstein, and Zuberbuhler with funny stories. When Ben Ferencz met Marlene Dietrich One of those stories was about a chance encounter with Hollywood star Marlene Dietrich. Frenecz was on orderly duty in General George Patton's headquarters when Dietrich visited to entertain the troops. Dietrich wanted to freshen up before lunch, so she took a bath. "There were no locks on the doors," Ferencz explains in the clip above. "So I opened the door, and sure enough, there is Marlene, stretched out in all her glory." Marlene Dietrich Getty Ferencz nervously apologized, saying, "Pardon me, sir!" and hurried out. Dietrich was so amused by his error in referring to her as "sir," she invited him to lunch with a group of officers and General Patton. "That's kind of a highlight of his life, to this day," Stahl says. But the true passion of Ferencz's life is working to end war, which he calls "stupid." Since the trials at Nuremberg, he has spent the majority of his life working toward that goal, trying to deter war and war crimes by establishing an international court. Ferencz, whose personal motto is "law, not war," scored a victory when the International Criminal Court in The Hague was created in 1998. He delivered the closing argument in the court's first case. Ferencz: Rejecting refugees is a "crime against humanity" Today, Ferencz is still fighting for peace — but he speaks out on other issues related to crimes against humanity, including the treatment of refugees. "People cannot be told, 'Stay where you are and starve to death because we won't let you in. This is our territory, and we won't let you in,'" Ferencz says in the clip above. Looking back on his opening statement at Nuremberg, Zuberbuhler sees the thread throughout Ferencz's life. "That opening sentence, a plea of humanity [to law], that's what marked his whole life," she says. "Seventy years later, he's still fighting for the same goal with the same passion." The videos above were originally published on May 7, 2017 and were produced by Ann Silvio and Lisa Orlando, and edited by Lisa Orlando and Will Croxton.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

This week on 60 Minutes, correspondent Bill Whitaker interviews Mike Moore, a self-proclaimed "country lawyer from Mississippi" who has engineered two of the most lucrative legal settlements in American history. Moore's current legal targets are the manufacturers and distributors of opioid painkillers, but he has vast experience suing — and settling with — huge corporations. During a confidential meeting with BP's top executives in 2015, Moore hammered out a $20 billion settlement regarding the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. "We explained to them what we thought it was going to cost them to get out of this," Moore said in the clip above. "They explained to us what they thought they could do. And within 90 days, the federal government's case, 485 cities' and counties' and all five states' cases had been resolved." The $20 billion that Moore talked BP into paying helped compensate both the federal government and states and counties bordering the Gulf for environmental damage caused by the spill. In a 2010 investigation, 60 Minutes examined the causes of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, which leaked some 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the largest marine oil spill ever. 2010: Blowout: The Deepwater Horizon Disaster Before BP, there was Big Tobacco The BP settlement followed a "playbook" that Moore initially used as the Attorney General of Mississippi, when he filed the first suit against all the major American tobacco companies. He claimed the companies hid evidence of smoking's health risks. When Moore filed the case in 1994, it was met with skepticism — and even derision. Mississippi's governor held a press conference to call it a "foolish" lawsuit. "There was nobody who thought we had a chance to win," Moore told 60 Minutes. "I heard from farmers, I heard from businesspeople. I had a deluge of people coming to me telling me that was the dumbest thing I've ever done and I'll never get re-elected to office." But Moore did get re-elected, repeatedly. He eventually convinced all 50 states to join his legal quest against big tobacco. "There was nobody who thought we had a chance to win." - Mike Moore 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace interviewed Moore for a report about tobacco industry whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand, but after facing legal threats from the industry, CBS corporate lawyers initially refused to allow the story on the air. "We're thinking to [ourselves], 'Look, if 60 Minutes is afraid of these guys, then what about us?" Moore said. "We had faith that things would come around, and they eventually did." The 60 Minutes segment finally aired in early 1996, after Wigand's story was told in the Wall Street Journal. Jeffrey Wigand: The big tobacco whistleblower By 1998, Moore and his allies convinced the tobacco industry to settle what by then had become a tsunami of lawsuits. Big tobacco agreed to pay $250 billion over 25 years, but Moore said the settlement extends beyond that. "It keeps going," he said. "As long as they make cigarettes in this country, they keep on paying, so there's no limit. They will keep making those payments they're making right now — plus inflation — forever." To watch this week's 60 Minutes interview with Mike Moore, click here. The video at the top of the page was edited by Matthew Lev. It was originally published on December 16, 2018.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Pharmacists, paramedics and specialists to team up so GPs focus on vulnerable patients Patients will have the opportunity of longer appointments with their GP from Monday under a new initiative of practices working together. About 7,000 surgeries across England have come together to form more than 1,200 primary care networks to deliver a wider range of specialist care services. Local surgeries will recruit teams including pharmacists, physiotherapists, paramedics, physician associates and social prescribing link workers – who help people to unpick complex issues affecting their wellbeing – thus freeing GPs up to focus on the most vulnerable patients. The initiative comes alongside efforts to recruit more GPs as part of the NHS long-term plan. The latest figures show an increase of 300 family doctors on the previous quarter and the number of young doctors choosing to train as GPs is now at an unprecedented high after increasing by 750. Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England and part of the senior leadership team for NHS Improvement, said: “Strengthening general practice is a central part of the long-term plan, and primary care networks [PCN] have the potential to bring about the biggest improvement for a generation. “As the PCNs get up and running in the coming weeks and months, patients will begin to see the benefits, freeing up GPs to focus on the sickest. This new way of working allows us to keep all that’s best about British general practice, while future-proofing it for the decade ahead.” The NHS said there were also thousands more nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals working in g

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

NEW YORK (AP) — Exuberant crowds carrying rainbow colors filled New York City streets Sunday for one of the largest pride parades in the history of the gay-rights movement, a dazzling celebration of the 50th anniversary of the infamous police raid on the Stonewall Inn. Marchers and onlookers took over much of midtown Manhattan with a procession that lasted hours and paid tribute to the uprising that began at the tavern when patrons resisted officers on June 28, 1969. The parade in New York and others like it across the nation concluded a month of events marking the anniversary. Eraina Clay, 63, of suburban New Rochelle, came to celebrate a half-century of fighting for equality. “I think that we should be able to say we’ve been here for so long, and so many people are gay that everybody should be able to have the chance to enjoy their lives and be who they are,” Clay said. “I have a family. I raised kids. I’m just like everybody else.” Alyssa Christianson, 29, of New York City, was topless, wearing just sparkly pasties and boy shorts underwear. A Pride flag was tied around her neck like a cape. “I’ve been to the Pride parade before, but this is the first year I kind of wanted to dress up and get into it,” she said. Christianson said she was concerned that the movement could suffer setbacks during the Trump administration, which has moved to revoke newly won health care protections for transgender people, restrict their presence in the military and withdraw federal guidance that trans students should be able to use bathrooms of their choice. “I’m definitely a little scared of how things are going, just the anger and violence that comes out of it and just the tone of conversation about it. We’ve come so far, especially in the last few decades, that I don’t want to see that repressed in any way.” In May, Trump tweeted about Pride Month and praised the “outstanding contributions” of LGBT people. But his administration has also aligned with some religious conservatives in arguing that nondiscrimination protections for those same people can infringe on the religious beliefs of others who oppose same-sex marriage and transgender rights. Earlier in the day, a crowd of about 2,000 people gathered outside the Stonewall Inn. At the Queer Liberation March near the bar, some participants said the larger Pride parade had become too commercialized and heavily policed. “What’s important to remember is that this is a protest against the monetization of the Pride parade, against the police brutality of our community, against the poor treatment of sections of our community, of black and brown folk, of immigrants,” said Jake Seller, a 24-year-old Indiana native who now lives in Brooklyn and worked as one of the march’s volunteers. Protesters carried anti-Trump and queer liberation signs, chanting, “Whose streets? Our streets!” “We march for the liberation of our community so they can live and celebrate their identity. So they can reclaim it. This will always remain a protest, not an advertisement,” Seller said. Other attendees focused on the progress that’s been made within the LGBTQ community over the last few decades. “We’ve come so far in the past 20 years,” said 55-year-old Gary Piper, who came from Kansas to celebrate Pride with his partner. “I remember friends who would be snatched off the streets in Texas for dressing in drag. They’d have to worry about being persecuted for their identity.” “But now we’re so much more accepted. I’m not saying we don’t have ways to go, but let’s celebrate how far we’ve come,” he said. The police presence at the march was heavy, with several officers posted at every corner. Metal barricades were erected along the entire parade route. In Illinois, Gov. J.B. Pritzker chose the parade day to sign an executive order creating a task force to study the rights of transgender students. The task force will look at what schools are doing to promote LGBTQ rights to make sure students have “welcoming” and “inclusive” environments. In Chicago’s parade, the city’s first openly gay mayor, Lori Lightfoot, was one of seven grand marshals. Lightfoot, who took office in May, walked alongside her wife and wore a “Chicago Proud” T-shirt with rainbow lettering. The couple held hands at times, drawing cheers from onlookers. The procession was cut short as thunderstorms rolled through the area, forcing police to cancel the event about three hours after it began. The larger New York Pride parade had 677 contingents, including community groups, major corporations and cast members from FX’s “Pose.” Organizers expected at least 150,000 people to march, with hundreds of thousands more lining the streets to watch. Other Stonewall commemorations in New York included rallies, parties, film showings and a human rights conference. The celebration coincides with WorldPride, an international LGBTQ event that started in Rome in 2000 and was held in New York this past week. In San Francisco, a contingent of Google employees petitioned the Pride parade’s board of directors to revoke Google’s sponsorship over what they called harassment and hate speech directed at LGBTQ people on YouTube and other Google platforms. San Francisco Pride declined to revoke the sponsorship or remove the company from the parade, but Pride officials said the Google critics could protest the company’s policies as part of the parade’s “resistance contingent.” Larraine and Peter Browne, who were visiting from Australia, told the San Francisco Chronicle they had never seen anything like the parade’s rainbow-colored display. “Look at the costumes!” 80-year-old Peter Browne said.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Stocks rallied while bonds retreated in Asia on Monday as a thaw in the Sino-U.S. trade dispute tempered risks to the global economy, leading investors to pare back wagers on aggressive policy easing by the major central banks. A passerby walks past in front of a stock quotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, May 10, 2019. REUTERS/Issei Kato The dollar gained on the safe-haven yen as Treasury yields jumped and futures reined in bets for a half-point rate cut from the U.S. Federal Reserve this month. “The Osaka truce has reduced the probability of escalation in the near term, and slightly exceeded market expectations,” said analysts at Barclays in a note. “However, we do not think the likelihood of a deal has necessarily increased,” they warned. “It is probably in the best interest of both parties to keep the talks running as long as they can.” The early reaction was one of relief that no new tariffs were launched and Nikkei futures climbed 1.6%. E-Mini futures for the S&P 500 likewise rose 1%. Treasury futures slid 13 ticks and Fed funds dropped over 5 ticks as the market scaled back the probability of a 50 basis-point rate cut this month to around 13%, from nearer 50% a week ago. The United States and China agreed on Saturday to restart trade talks after President Donald Trump offered concessions including no new tariffs and an easing of restrictions on tech company Huawei in order to reduce tensions with Beijing. China agreed to make unspecified new purchases of U.S. farm products and return to the negotiating table. Still, no deadline was set for a deal and much damage has already been done, with a survey of Chinese manufacturing out over the weekend showing a continued contraction in new orders. The official Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) held at 49.4 in June, just missing forecasts. “Although a worst case outcome has been averted, the threat of tariffs remains and it is unlikely the truce gives much confidence to firms’ investment and hiring decisions,” said Tapas Strickland, a director of economics at NAB. “As such, it is likely that soft manufacturing conditions will persist until if and when a fuller agreement is fleshed out.” The reaction in currency markets was to strip some recent gain from safe harbors like the yen and Swiss franc. The dollar hopped up 0.5% on the yen to 108.44 and gained 0.3% on the franc to 0.9792. The dollar added 0.2% on a basket of currencies, but was little changed on the euro at $1.1364. The dollar’s gains took some of the shine off gold, which fell 1.2% to $1,392.56 per ounce. Oil prices swung high in early trade on news OPEC and its allies look set to extend supply cuts at least until the end of 2019 as Iraq joined top producers Saudi Arabia and Russia in endorsing the policy. [O/R] Brent crude futures rose 93 cents to $65.67, while U.S. crude gained 98 cents to $59.45 a barrel.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

It is not often you get the chance to meet a man who holds a place in history like Ben Ferencz. He's 99 years old, barely five feet tall, and he served as prosecutor of what's been called the biggest murder trial ever. The courtroom was Nuremberg; the crime, genocide; and the defendants, a group of German SS officers accused of committing the largest number of Nazi killings outside the concentration camps. More than a million men, women and children shot in their own towns and villages in cold blood. As we first reported two years ago, Ferencz is the last Nuremberg prosecutor alive today. But he isn't content just being a part of 20th century history -- he believes he has something important to offer the world right now. "If it's naive to want peace instead of war, let 'em make sure they say I'm naive. Because I want peace instead of war." Lesley Stahl: You know, you-- have seen the ugliest side of humanity. Benjamin Ferencz: Yes. Lesley Stahl: You've really seen evil. And look at you. You're the sunniest man I've ever met. The most optimistic. 27-year-old Ben Ferencz became the chief prosecutor of 22 Einsatzgruppen commanders at Nuremberg. Benjamin Ferencz: You oughta get some more friends. Watching Ben Ferencz during his daily swim, his gym workout and his morning push-up regimen is to realize he isn't just the sunniest man we've ever met -- he may also be the fittest. And that's just the beginning. Ben Ferencz CBS News This is Ferencz making his opening statement in the Nuremberg courtroom 71 years ago. Ben Ferencz in court: The charges we have brought accuse the defendants of having committed crimes against humanity. The Nuremberg trials after World War II were historic -- the first international war crimes tribunals ever held. Hitler's top lieutenants were prosecuted first. Then a series of subsequent trials were mounted against other Nazi leaders, including 22 SS officers responsible for killing more than a million people -- not in concentration camps -- but in towns and villages across Eastern Europe. They would never have been brought to justice were it not for Ben Ferencz. Lesley Stahl: You look so young. Benjamin Ferencz: I was so young. I was 27 years old. Lesley Stahl: Had you prosecuted trials before? Benjamin Ferencz: Never in my life. I don't— Lesley Stahl: Come on. Benjamin Ferencz: --recall if I'd ever been in a courtroom actually. Ferencz had immigrated to the U.S. as a baby, the son of poor Jewish parents from a small town in Romania. He grew up in a tough New York City neighborhood where his father found work as a janitor. Ben Ferencz, 1946. Benjamin Ferencz: When I was taken to school at the age of seven, I couldn't speak English-- spoke Yiddish at home. And I was very small. And so they wouldn't let me in. Lesley Stahl: So you didn't speak English 'til you were eight? Benjamin Ferencz: That's correct. Lesley Stahl: Could you read? Benjamin Ferencz: No, on the contrary. The silent movies always had writing on it. And I would ask my father, "Wazukas," in Yiddish, "What does it say? What does it say?" He couldn't read it, either. But Ferencz learned quickly. He became the first in his family to go to college, then got a scholarship to Harvard Law School. But during his first semester, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and he, like many classmates, raced to enlist. He wanted to be a pilot, but the Army Air Corps wouldn't take him. Benjamin Ferencz: They said, "No, you're too short. Your legs won't reach the pedals." The Marines, they just looked at me and said, "Forget it, kid." So he finished at Harvard then enlisted as a private in the Army. Part of an artillery battalion, he landed on the beach at Normandy and fought in the Battle of the Bulge. Toward the end of the war, because of his legal training, he was transferred to a brand new unit in General Patton's Third Army, created to investigate war crimes. As U.S. forces liberated concentration camps, his job was to rush in and gather evidence. Ferencz told us he is still haunted by the things he saw. And the stories he heard in those camps. Benjamin Ferencz: A father who, his son told me the story. The father had died just as we were entering the camp. And the father had routinely saved a piece of his bread for his son, and he kept it under his arm at… He kept it under his arm at night so the other inmates wouldn't steal it, you know. So you see these human stories which are not -- they're not real. They're not real. But they were real. Ferencz came home, married his childhood sweetheart and vowed never to set foot in Germany again. But that didn't last long. General Telford Taylor, in charge of the Nuremberg trials, asked him to direct a team of researchers in Berlin, one of whom found a cache of top-secret documents in the ruins of the German foreign ministry. Benjamin Ferencz: He gave me a bunch of binders, four binders. And these were daily reports from the Eastern Front-- which unit entered which town, how many people they killed. It was classified, so many Jews, so many gypsies, so many others-- Ferencz had stumbled upon reports sent back to headquarters by secret SS units called Einsatzgruppen, or action groups. Their job had been to follow the German army as it invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, and kill Communists, Gypsies and especially Jews. Screenshot from film showing the Einsatzgruppen at work. Benjamin Ferencz: They were 3,000 SS officers trained for the purpose, and directed to kill without pity or remorse, every single Jewish man, woman, and child they could lay their hands on. Lesley Stahl: So they went right in after the troops? Benjamin Ferencz: That was their assignment, come in behind the troop, round up the Jews, kill 'em all. Only one piece of film is known to exist of the Einsatzgruppen at work. It isn't easy viewing… Benjamin Ferencz: Well, this is typical operation. Well, see here, this-- they rounded 'em up. They all have already tags on 'em. And they're chasing them. Lesley Stahl: They're making them run to their own death? Benjamin Ferencz: Yes. Yes. There's the rabbi coming along there. Just put 'em in the ditch. Shoot 'em there. You know, kick 'em in. Lesley Stahl: Oh, my God. Oh, my God. This footage came to light years later. At the time, Ferencz just had the documents, and he started adding up the numbers. Benjamin Ferencz: When I reached over a million people murdered that way, over a million people, that's more people than you've ever seen in your life, I took a sample. I got on the next plane, flew from Berlin down to Nuremberg, and I said to Taylor, "General, we've gotta put on a new trial." Ben Ferencz entered into evidence the defendants' own reports of what they'd done. But the trials were already underway, and prosecution staff was stretched thin. Taylor told Ferencz adding another trial was impossible. Benjamin Ferencz: And I start screaming. I said, "Look. I've got here mass murder, mass murder on an unparalleled scale." And he said, "Can you do this in addition to your other work?" And I said, "Sure." He said, "OK. So you do it." And that's how 27-year-old Ben Ferencz became the chief prosecutor of 22 Einsatzgruppen commanders at trial number 9 at Nuremberg. Judge: How do you plead to this indictment, guilty or not guilty? Defendant: Nicht schuldig. Benjamin Ferencz: Standard routine, nicht schuldig. Not guilty. Judge: Guilty or not guilty? Defendant: Nicht schuldig. Lesley Stahl: They all say not guilty. Benjamin Ferencz: Same thing, not guilty. Otto Ohlendorf But Ferencz knew they were guilty and could prove it. Without calling a single witness, he entered into evidence the defendants' own reports of what they'd done. Exhibit 111: "In the last 10 weeks, we have liquidated around 55,000 Jews." Exhibit 179, from Kiev in 1941: "The city's Jews were ordered to present themselves… about 34,000 reported, including women and children. After they had been made to give up their clothing and valuables, all of them were killed, which took several days." Exhibit 84, from Einsatzgruppen D in March of 1942: Total number executed so far: 91,678. Einsatzgruppen D was the unit of Ferencz's lead defendant Otto Ohlendorf. He didn't deny the killings -- he had the gall to claim they were done in self-defense. Benjamin Ferencz: He was not ashamed of that. He was proud of that. He was carrying out his government's instructions. Lesley Stahl: How did you not hit him? Benjamin Ferencz: There was only one time I wanted to-- really. One of these-- my defendants said-- He gets up, and he says, "[GERMAN]," which is, "What? The Jews were shot? I hear it here for the first time." Boy, I felt if I'd had a bayonet I woulda jumped over the thing, and put a bayonet right through one ear, and let it come out the other. You know? You know? Lesley Stahl: Yeah. Benjamin Ferencz: That son of a bitch. Lesley Stahl: And you had his name down on a piece of— Benjamin Ferencz: And I've got-- I've got his reports of how many he killed. You know? Innocent lamb. Lesley Stahl: Did you look at the defendants' faces? 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl and Nuremberg prosecutor Ben Ferencz CBS News Benjamin Ferencz: Defendants' face were blank, all the time. Defendants-- absolutely blank. They could-- like, they're waiting for a bus. Lesley Stahl: What was going on inside of you? Benjamin Ferencz: Of me? Lesley Stahl: Yeah. Benjamin Ferencz: I'm still churning. Lesley Stahl: To this minute? Benjamin Ferencz: I'm still churning. All 22 defendants were found guilty, and four of them, including Ohlendorf, were hanged. Ferencz says his goal from the beginning was to affirm the rule of law and deter similar crimes from ever being committed again. Lesley Stahl: Did you meet a lot of people who perpetrated war crimes who would otherwise in your opinion have been just a normal, upstanding citizen? "War makes murderers out of otherwise decent people. All wars, and all decent people." Benjamin Ferencz: Of course, is my answer. These men would never have been murderers had it not been for the war. These were people who could quote Goethe, who loved Wagner, who were polite-- Lesley Stahl: What turns a man into a savage beast like that? Benjamin Ferencz: He's not a savage. He's an intelligent, patriotic human being. Lesley Stahl: He's a savage when he does the murder though. Benjamin Ferencz: No. He's a patriotic human being acting in the interest of his country, in his mind. Lesley Stahl: You don't think they turn into savages even for the act? Benjamin Ferencz: Do you think the man who dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima was a savage? Now I will tell you something very profound, which I have learned after many years. War makes murderers out of otherwise decent people. All wars, and all decent people. So Ferencz has spent the rest of his life trying to deter war and war crimes by establishing an international court – like Nuremburg. He scored a victory when the international criminal court in The Hague was created in 1998. He delivered the closing argument in the court's first case. "If they tell me they want war instead of peace, I don't say they're naive, I say they're stupid." Lesley Stahl: Now, you've been at this for 50 years, if not more. We've had genocide since then. Benjamin Ferencz: Yes. Lesley Stahl: In Cambodia— Benjamin Ferencz: Going on right this minute, yes. Lesley Stahl: Going on right this minute in Sudan. Benjamin Ferencz: Yes. Lesley Stahl: We've had Rwanda, we've had Bosnia. You're not getting very far. Benjamin Ferencz: Well, don't say that. People get discouraged. They should remember, from me, it takes courage not to be discouraged. Lesley Stahl: Did anybody ever say that you're naive? Benjamin Ferencz: Of course. Some people say I'm crazy. Lesley Stahl: Are you naive here? Benjamin Ferencz: Well, if it's naive to want peace instead of war, let 'em make sure they say I'm naive. Because I want peace instead of war. If they tell me they want war instead of peace, I don't say they're naive, I say they're stupid. Stupid to an incredible degree to send young people out to kill other young people they don't even know, who never did anybody any harm, never harmed them. That is the current system. I am naive? That's insane. Ferencz is legendary in the world of international law, and he's still at it. He never stops pushing his message and he's donating his life savings to a Genocide Prevention Initiative at the Holocaust Museum. He says he's grateful for the life he's lived in this country, and it's his turn to give back. Lesley Stahl: You are such an idealist. Benjamin Ferencz: I don't think I'm an idealist. I'm a realist. And I see the progress. The progress has been remarkable. Look at the emancipation of woman in my lifetime. You're sitting here as a female. Look what's happened to the same-sex marriages. To tell somebody a man can become a woman, a woman can become a man, and a man can marry a man, they would have said, "You're crazy." But it's a reality today. So the world is changing. And you shouldn't-- you know-- be despairing because it's never happened before. Nothing new ever happened before. Lesley Stahl: Ben— Benjamin Ferencz: We're on a roll. Lesley Stahl: I can't— Benjamin Ferencz: We're marching forward. Lesley Stahl: Ben? I'm sitting here listening to you. And you're very wise. And you're full of energy and passion. And I can't believe you're 97 years old. Benjamin Ferencz: Well, I'm still a young man. Lesley Stahl: Clearly, clearly. Benjamin Ferencz: And I'm still in there fighting. And you know what keeps me going? I know I'm right. Produced by Shari Finkelstein and Nieves Zuberbühler.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Last month, the first of an avalanche of lawsuits filed against the manufacturers and distributors of opioid painkillers went to trial. The state of Oklahoma is trying to convince a judge that drugmaker Johnson and Johnson is legally responsible for the epidemic of addiction and death caused by opioids. Oklahoma is not alone. There is a national movement by state and local governments to go after opioid manufacturers. At its center is attorney Mike Moore. Moore says he's "just a country lawyer from Mississippi." But he has engineered two of the most lucrative legal settlements in American history; the 1998 case in which Big Tobacco paid billions to address smoking-related health issues, and the 2015 settlement with oil giant BP over its huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Now Mike Moore, along with his legal allies, has taken aim at the opioid industry. As we first reported late last year, he says he has powerful new evidence that proves states like Ohio, among the hardest-hit by the opioid epidemic, should collect billions from all the companies he's suing. Mike Moore Mike Moore: If we try the Ohio case, if we win a verdict against these manufacturers and distributors there, it could bankrupt them. It'd put them outta business. Bill Whitaker: Truly? These are huge, profitable-- Mike Moore: Huge. Bill Whitaker: --wealthy companies. Mike Moore: Well, you know-- they can be as profitable as they want to. But-- Ohio is losing $4 billion or $5 billion a year from the opioid epidemic. And they're losing 5,000 or 6,000 people a year from overdose deaths. So when a jury hears the evidence in this case, they're not gonna award just a couple hundred million dollars. It may be $100 billion. And whoever amongst these companies thinks they can stand up to that? Good luck. Mike DeWine: We are hurting now in Ohio. We need help now in Ohio. Mike DeWine is the Republican governor of Ohio. He was previously the state attorney general, and he hired Mike Moore just after filing suit against opioid manufacturers and distributors. Mike DeWine: They flooded the State of Ohio with these opioid pills that they knew would kill people. Bill Whitaker: They knew would kill people. Mike DeWine: If they didn't know it the first couple years, they clearly would've seen it after that. You can't miss it. When one year we had close to a billion-- a billion pain meds prescribed in the state of Ohio, you know, 69 per man, woman, and child in the state. And that lies at the feet of the drug companies. They're the ones who did that. Correspondent Bill Whitaker with Mike DeWine Ohio is one of four states Mike Moore formally represents, but he's coordinating with 40-plus states that have filed suit, and with many of the more than 1,500 cities and counties that also are suing. He is the unofficial commanding officer of the army that's attacking the opioid industry. Bill Whitaker: This is where your war room is located? Mike Moore: That's right. The unlikely "command center" for Moore's legal war is the sleepy town of Grayton Beach on Florida's panhandle. Mike Moore: You know, in a place like this, you're not limited with a bunch of tall buildings, and coats and ties, and that kinda thing. You can think outside the box a little bit. So. When we were in Grayton Beach, about a dozen lawyers from all around the country, some working on state cases, others on local lawsuits, had gathered for all-day strategy sessions, focused on an audacious goal. Mike Moore: Success for me would be that we would find funding to provide treatment for all the 2.5 million opioid-dependent people in this country. That would take many billions of dollars, of course, but remember, Mike Moore has done it before. Mike Moore: Look, when I filed this tobacco case in 1994 there was nobody that thought that we had a chance to win. We showed up for our first hearing, and in our first hearing, so there was three of us there. On the courtroom on the other side they had 68 lawyers. Despite that early mismatch, within four years Moore had all 50 states lined up against Big Tobacco. He did it partly by going to court, but mostly by going public. Mike Moore: A case in court is a case in court, and that's fine. But there's also the court of public opinion. And the court of public opinion is sometime the most powerful court. 60 Minutes played an important and controversial role in the public case against Big Tobacco. Moore was interviewed for a segment that at first, CBS corporate lawyers refused to allow on the air. Mike Moore: We're thinking to ourself, "Look, if 60 Minutes seems to be afraid of these guys for whatever reason, then what about us?" (LAUGH) Moore in 1996 60 Minutes finally aired the segment in early 1996 after The Wall Street Journal ran a story featuring the same tobacco industry whistleblower. Bill Whitaker: You said this in that 60 Minutes story, "This industry," talking about this-- the tobacco industry, "in my opinion is an industry… Mike Moore in 1996: …who has perpetrated the biggest fraud on the American public in history. They have lied to the American public for years and years, they've killed millions and millions of people and made a profit on it." Bill Whitaker: Those are pretty strong words. Mike Moore: Well, it-- they were true. Those words were true. Jeffrey Wigand: The big tobacco whistleblower Bill Whitaker: And you finally got big tobacco to cry uncle. Mike Moore: That's right. Bill Whitaker: They ended up paying, what, over $200 billion? Mike Moore: $250 billion, yeah. Bill Whitaker: So when you look back on what you did what has been the impact? Mike Moore: We reduced smoking rates to a place that nobody ever thought was possible. So the number one cause of death in America has been reduced dramatically. That's pretty powerful. "The distributors are saying things like, 'We're just truck drivers. We didn't know where the pills went.' Of course, they did" Now, going after the opioid industry, Mike Moore is using the same playbook he used against tobacco and more recently against BP for the Gulf Oil Spill: build legal and public pressure until the companies see no choice but to settle, and fork over billions. Mike Moore: Here's the deal. There's a huge pill spill in this country. It's huge. Bill Whitaker: Pill spill? Mike Moore: Pill spill. Huge pill spill. It never should've occurred. Everybody's got some fault. But we have 72,000 people dying every year. Let's figure out a way to resolve this thing. You guys made billions of dollars off of this. Take some of that money and apply it to the problem that you helped cause. He's a long way from convincing the drug industry to do that, of course, that's why all the lawsuits. The first targets are opioid manufacturers like Purdue Pharma, which makes oxycontin, the pill that fueled the opioid epidemic. Mike Moore: Purdue Pharma created an environment so that opioid use was okay. So if you prescribe your patients this drug, there's less than 1 percent chance they'll get addicted. That was a lie, a big lie. Bill Whitaker: Can you prove that in court? Mike Moore: Absolutely. The lawyer who made BP pay Purdue Pharma declined our request for an interview, but said in a statement that when the FDA approved oxycontin in 1995 it authorized the company to state on the label that "addiction to opioids legitimately used is very rare." But as evidence of abuse mounted, the company admitted in federal court in 2007 that it had misled doctors and consumers about just how addictive oxycontin can be. Mike Moore: The Purdue Pharma case is an easy case. I hate to say it, but it's an easy case to prove. You can prove that they told the lies that they told. It has been considered tougher to build a case against Mike Moore's other targets, the huge drug distributors who've made billions delivering opioids from manufacturers to pharmacies. Mike Moore: The distributors are saying things like, "We're just truck drivers. We didn't know where the pills went." Of course, they did. There's a Controlled Substance Act. Controlled Substance Act. You're supposed to control these pills. And when you don't, you have a responsibility for it. It-- it's real simple. "The stories that you've heard from some of the DEA investigative agents concerning the large volumes of pills going into certain parts of our country are absolutely true." It's also simple why Moore is going after the biggest players in drug distribution: because they have much deeper pockets than the manufacturers. Purdue Pharma, for example, had less than $2 billion in revenue in 2017. Distributor McKesson, by contrast, had $208 billion in revenue. Mike Moore: McKesson, you're the sixth largest company in this country. You're telling the American public you didn't have systems in place to adhere to the Controlled Substance Act? Seriously? Mike Moore and his allies now have what they characterize as devastating evidence proving that distributors knew what they were doing. A huge confidential DEA database called ARCOS tracks all transactions involving controlled substances. This spring, a federal judge in Cleveland who is hearing many of the local lawsuits ordered all that data to be handed over to the plaintiffs' lawyers. Burton LeBlanc Burton LeBlanc: And I can actually tell you which distributor distributed to which particular pharmacy, by year, by volume, and where the pills came from. Burton LeBlanc is a Louisiana lawyer who regularly huddles with Mike Moore in Grayton Beach. His firm represents hundreds of cities and counties in their opioid lawsuits, and his team has taken the lead in analyzing the ARCOS data. Burton LeBlanc: In terms of the wholesale distributor's duty to report suspicious orders, we can immediately look at volume and detect patterns with the data that we currently have. Bill Whitaker: So, you can see that for every pharmacy in the-- in the country? Burton LeBlanc: I have it for every transaction in the United States. Bill Whitaker: What's the most important thing that it has shown you? Burton LeBlanc: That the stories that you've heard from some of the DEA investigative agents concerning the large volumes of pills going into certain parts of our country are absolutely true. One of those stories concerned Kermit, West Virginia, a town of just 400 people, where nine million opioid pills were delivered in just two years to a single pharmacy. Bill Whitaker: Did the companies have access to this information? Burton LeBlanc: It was their data. That data has now been shared with state officials who have lawsuits pending, including Ohio's Mike DeWine. Mike DeWine: I'm not allowed to talk about the specifics. But I will simply tell you it's shocking. Anyone who was looking at those numbers, as those middlemen were, as these distributors were, clearly, clearly should've seen that something was dramatically wrong. "If they cared enough, maybe we would not have lost 500,000 lives from this problem." Like Purdue, drug distributors declined our request for an interview, but in a statement from their trade association, said, "it defies common sense to single out distributors for the opioid crisis… distributors deliver medicines prescribed by a licensed physician and ordered by a licensed pharmacy." But Mike Moore insists that does not let the companies off the legal hook. Mike Moore: If you've got walking around sense and you care, you're gonna check before you send nine million pills to a little, bitty county in West Virginia or Mississippi or Louisiana or Ohio. You're gonna check if you care. Bill Whitaker: You think they don't care? Mike Moore: I don't think they cared enough. And if they cared enough, maybe we would not have lost 500,000 lives from this problem. It's-- it just-- it appalls me. The first state case has now gone to trial in Oklahoma, and more are due to begin soon. But rather than try all the cases, and just as he did with tobacco, Mike Moore hopes to force a mega-settlement to fund drug treatment, prevention, and education. Bill Whitaker: You had to have thought about how much money you would need to do the projects that you foresee? Mike Moore: Oh, I've seen all the models. To be effective, we need at least $100 billion to start off with. Bill Whitaker: And I know you've heard the criticism, that with all these lawyers involved, that this is just a bunch of trial lawyers looking for a great, big payday. Mike Moore: Right. I don't care one whit about any money in this case. Not one whit whatsoever about it. Bill Whitaker: Nobody's gonna believe that the attorneys are not going to make any money. Mike Moore: No, no, no. No, no, and I'm not saying that. I was talking about-- all I can speak for is me. Bill Whitaker: You made money off tobacco. Mike Moore: Nope, not a penny. That's because for all the years of the tobacco litigation, and many years after, Moore was working for a modest state salary as Mississippi attorney general. Bill Whitaker: You made money off of BP spill. Mike Moore: I made some money on helping resolve the case, yeah. Moore has made enough money to be comfortable. At age 67, this may be his last big case, and he believes the ARCOS data gives him the ammunition he needs to demolish the opioid industry's argument that it should not be blamed. Mike Moore: Nobody in the world's gonna believe that. And-- and don't go try to tell that to 12 jurors in Mississippi or Ohio who've lost people from this. You know what-- (LAUGH) you know what those jurors are gonna do? They're gonna go in the back room, they're gonna spend about 30 minutes thinking about it, gonna come back out and bam. Produced by Rome Hartman. Associate producer, Sara Kuzmarov.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Among those who spoke to O’Rourke was a 19-year-old Salvadoran woman who said U.S. officials at the border separated her from her parents and younger siblings, who were allowed to travel to Los Angeles while she was returned to Juarez to wait for several months while her U.S. immigration case proceeds. Another woman said she fled Honduras after attackers tried to kidnap her, traveled atop a train with her 10-year-old daughter to the border, was returned to Mexico four months ago and is awaiting her next U.S. immigration court hearing in September.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

CLOSE In a made-for-television event with more symbolism than substance, President Donald Trump met Sunday with Kim Jong Un in the Demilitarized Zone. USA TODAY A Canadian political cartoonist announced he was let go just two days after his illustration of President Donald Trump standing over the bodies of a drowned migrant father and daughter went viral on social media. Michael de Adder tweeted Friday that he had been let go from his freelance contract with Canadian newspaper publishing company Brunswick News Inc. The announcement came after de Adder shared his June 26 drawing that depicts Trump standing next to a golf cart and looking down at the bodies of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his 23-month-old daughter Valeria. In the cartoon, Trump asks, "Do you mind if I play through?" "I've got to admit, it hurts pretty bad. I'm a New Brunswicker," de Adder said on Twitter. "I loved drawing cartoons for my home province. I'm a proud New Brunswicker. I will survive." De Adder's cartoon is based on a graphic image taken by journalist Julia Le Duc showing the El Salvadoran father and daughter deceased and face down on the muddy riverbank of the Rio Grande. Brunswick News Inc., which operates the Telegraph-Journal, Times & Transcript and The Daily Gleaner as well as several weekly papers, issued a statement in response to "incorrect information on social media" about de Adder's contract. "It is entirely incorrect to suggest Brunswick News Inc. cancelled its freelance contract with cartoonist Michael de Adder due to a cartoon depicting Donald Trump currently circulating on social media. This is a false narrative which has emerged carelessly and recklessly on social media," the statement read. "In fact, BNI was not even offered this cartoon by Mr. de Adder. The decision to bring back reader favourite Greg Perry was made long before this cartoon, and negotiations had been ongoing for weeks." The timing of de Adder's termination "was no coincidence," said Wes Tyrell, president of the Association of Canadian Cartoonists, especially after 17 years with Brunswick News Inc. Opinion: A critical cartoon of Donald Trump could get you fired in America "Michael told me once that not only were the J.D. Irving owned New Brunswick newspapers challenging to work for, but there were a series of taboo subjects he could not touch. One of these taboo subjects was Donald Trump," Tyrell said in a statement released on Facebook. "Michael deAdder [sic] has drawn many well-documented cartoons on Trump, they have however, systematically never been seen in the NB papers." J.D. Irving, Limited and New Brunswick Inc. are owned by Canadian billionaire James K. Irving. Tyrell suggested that de Adder was let go because Irving didn't want to jeopardize his "considerable corporate interests in the United States," given that Trump "punishes those who appear to oppose him." Contributing: Michael James, USA TODAY Follow N'dea Yancey-Bragg on Twitter: @NdeaYanceyBragg Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/06/30/canadian-cartoonist-loses-contract-viral-donald-trump-drawing/1612647001/

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

The task force will be made up of 25 people appointed by Pritzker. They'll study what schools are doing to promote LGBTQ rights to make sure students have "welcoming" and "inclusive" environments. Their report is due in January 2020.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

CAIRO/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israeli warplanes fired missiles targeting Syrian military positions in Homs and the Damascus outskirts, the Syrian military said on Monday. Syrian air defenses confronted the attack, which was launched from Lebanese airspace, the Syrian defense ministry said in a brief report on its Telegram feed. An Israeli military spokeswoman, asked about the report, said: “We don’t comment on such reports.” Syrian state news agency SANA said there were reports the attack had caused civilian deaths and injuries in Sahnaya, south of Damascus. It said a baby had been killed in Sahnaya as “a result of the Zionist aggression”. SANA also cited its correspondent as saying Syrian air defenses had brought down a number of the missiles. In recent years, Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria that it says have targeted its regional arch foe, Iran, and the Lebanese Hezbollah group, which it calls the biggest threat to its borders. Iran and Hezbollah are fighting on the side of President Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian war, and Israel says they are trying to turn Syria into a new front against Israelis.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

The protest movement erupted in December, triggered by an economic crisis. The protesters remained in the streets after Bashir was overthrown and jailed, fearing that the military would cling to power or preserve much of his government.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

In 2017, President Trump pledged to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement as soon as 2020, arguing it disadvantages American workers and taxpayers. Trump has also moved steadily to dismantle Obama administration efforts to rein in coal, oil and gas emissions. His position has been that these efforts also hurt the U.S. economy.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

As the immigration crisis at the border continues unabated with hundreds of thousands of migrants suffering and even dying on the treacherous trek through Mexico to the U.S. border, Democrats are blaming President Donald Trump and gearing up to introduce legislation to increase the number of refugees admitted to 100,000 a year. House D's plan to introduce bill to increase refugee resettlement from Central American countries to 100,000 per year (1st reported by @ThePlumLineGS). For context, here are refugee admissions totals from the Latin American region the last 10 fiscal years https://t.co/UWxdmiQeid pic.twitter.com/gPZJ6bKEPC — Matthew La Corte (@MLaCorte_) June 27, 2019 This despite evidence that shows some 500,000 migrants —mostly from Central America— will get across the U.S./ Mexico border without being apprehended, including women and children. The United Nations reports that in 2018 the United States took in around 23,000 refugees from all over the world. A refugee is an immigrant who gains asylum after the court grants him or her that status because they have met the “credible fear” standard of persecution in their home countries. In an opinion piece in the Washington Post, the commentator blames President Donald Trump, even though Trump has tried multiple avenues to end the illegal immigration crisis at the U.S. border with Mexico, including declaring a national emergency at the border, diverting federal defense funds to secure the border, and crafting comprehensive immigration reform legislation. Thus far, judges and Democrats have thwarted those efforts. The Post reported: Do we want to make it harder for desperate people to legally secure refuge in the United States, or easier for them to legally do so? The Democratic answer to this question is: Make it easier for desperate people to migrate, provided it is done in a legal and orderly fashion, in as many ways as good policy allows. (Trump has blamed the Democrats not only for their inaction on the current border crisis but also for putting in place incentives — like catch and release and special treatment for migrants with children, even children that aren’t their own — that encourages migrants to come to the United States.) “Now House Democrats are set to roll out a major new proposal on the asylum crisis that will constitute a big down payment on the longer-term argument Democrats are making,” the Post commentary said. The bill is called the Northern Triangle and Border Stabilization Act — the majority of migrants in this latest border surge come from that Triangle: El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. Congress is currently fighting over $4.5 billion in humanitarian border funding. The new bill would, according to the Post, increase services to minor migrants in federal custody, create more ways for Central Americans to get refugee status before coming to the U.S., expand “dramatically” the support for migrant families while their cases are being processed, and increase financial investment in Central America to address the alleged problems migrants are fleeing. The Post notes that the 100,000 number is “separate and apart from the refugees we take in from elsewhere.” The Democrats are playing the emotional card, as evidenced on the House floor last week when Rep. Tony Cardenas (D-CA) expressed the idea that all immigrants are “human beings” who deserve the same rights as citizens. “The United States of America has been the gold standard and that is the argument that we are making today,” Cardenas said. “This is not a game.” “We are fighting for the lives of human beings who should have the opportunity to be like everyone else on this floor to be allowed the freedom to be who they choose to be, who God made them to be in the greatest place on the planet,” Cardenas said. “And that’s why we are fighting today.” Follow Penny Starr on Twitter

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Pyongyang official news agency says leaders ‘agreed to keep in close touch in future’ North Korea has described the weekend meeting between its leader Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump as “historic” and “amazing”. Trump became the first sitting US president to set foot in North Korea on Sunday when he met Kim in the demilitarised zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas and agreed to resume stalled nuclear talks. “The top leaders of the DPRK and the US exchanging historic handshakes at Panmunjom” was an “amazing event”, North Korea’s official KCNA news agency said, describing the truce village as a “place that had been known as the symbol of division”. KCNA said Kim and Trump discussed “issues of mutual concern and interest which become a stumbling block in solving those issues”. “The top leaders of the two countries agreed to keep in close touch in the future, too, and resume and push forward productive dialogues for making a new breakthrough in the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula and in the bilateral relations,” said KCNA. Play Video 1:19 Kim Jong-un welcomes Donald Trump to North Korea – video The meeting, initiated by a tweet by Trump on Saturday from the G20, that Kim said took him by surprise, displayed the rapport between the two, but analysts said they were no closer to narrowing the gap between their positions since they walked away from their summit in February in Vietnam. The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, told reporters shortly before departing South Korea that a new round of talks would likely happen “sometime in July” and the North’s negotiators would be foreign ministry diplomats. In a photo released by KCNA on Monday, North Korea’s foreign minister, Ri Yong Ho, and Pompeo are shown sitting next to Kim and Trump respectively in Freedom House, the building in which the two leaders had their one-on-one talks.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Victims of image-based sexual abuse – such as upskirting, revenge porn and fake porn – are having their lives shattered amid outdated and ineffective laws and police inaction, a report reveals. Men and women are being isolated from their friends and families, suffer harassment and fear for their safety, and in some cases are being driven to try to take their own lives. Revenge porn and 'cyber-flashing' laws go under review Read more The findings are contained in a report released on Monday by legal experts from across the UK, based on interviews with 25 survivors of image-based sexual abuse as well as police, lawyers and policy-makers. They are calling for the government to outlaw threats to share nude or sexual images without consent as well as digitally altered or fake sexual images, among other reforms. In one case, a victim known only as Louise tells of how fears that her intimate photos would be shared drove her to take an overdose as her mental health deteriorated. In another, a man named Stephen described feeling paralysed and constantly “on-edge” after a female acquaintance took nude images of him without his knowledge and threatened to make them public once he tried to cut ties. He said that the police told him: “Sorry, nothing we can do.” A third case was of a teacher in Northern Ireland whose pupil clandestinely took photos up her dress before posting them on social media – a practise known as upskirting which remains legal in the province but was banned in England and Wales in April this year. More than half of those interviewed said that police dealt with the complaints using informal measures, including cautions and requests to remove the images, allowing perpetrators to “get off scot-free”. One survivor known as Heather says that she felt police blamed her for her abuse, telling her: “Well I guess you’ve learned your lesson.” “Delays in government action on image-based sexual abuse is gambling with people’s lives,” said co-author Clare McGlynn, a professor of law at Durham University. “The law is hopelessly out of date and it is a real patchwork at the moment. That is why we need comprehensive legal reform to stop this form of abuse.” Revenge porn – the sharing of private or sexual images or videos of a person without their consent – became an offence in England and Wales in April 2015. However, unlike under sexual offences laws, victims are not granted automatic anonymity as it falls under communications legislation. The criminalisation of upskirting is good news – but it’s just a start | Wera Hobhouse Read more Fake porn – sometimes known as a deepfake – refers to composite images or videos where a victim’s face is often grafted onto a naked body. The perpetrator usually either distributes the image on social media or to a victim’s contacts, or will make threats to do so. The offence is not currently covered by a specific law, meaning the route to a prosecution can be difficult. While upskirting was criminalised in England and Wales earlier this year, academics said the law fails to cover grey areas about motive. The report comes days after the government asked the Law Commission to review the existing legislation, a move the authors say is by itself insufficient, and will be presented to MPs on Monday. Glynn told the Guardian that the government must also establish an office for online safety to help victims navigate the “cumbersome” processes of social media platforms to have offending images swiftly removed, as well as provide guidance to understanding complex civil and criminal laws. She also called for the creation of national police guidance for officers investigating these crimes as well as greater training to prevent victim blaming. “The focus needs to be on the perpetrators,” Glynn added. “We need to start talking about why someone would send on photos without the other person’s consent.”

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

July 1 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories on the business pages of British newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. The Times Jaguar Land Rover is expected to reveal this week that it will build an all-electric version of its XJ luxury saloon at its Castle Bromwich factory in Birmingham. bit.ly/2KO1fCo Advertising giant WPP Plc is selling its stake in the sports marketing agency Chime to help cut its hefty debt pile. WPP is expected to offload the 25% holding for 50 million pounds to the American buyout firm Providence Equity Partners, which already owns 75%. bit.ly/2KQPgE7 The Guardian Network Rail has made a bid for parts of British Steel ahead of an initial deadline for offers for the company, which collapsed into liquidation in May putting 4,500 jobs at risk. bit.ly/2KQNkeP Corporate borrowing poses a danger to the global financial system and could trigger a crisis in the same way US sub-prime mortgages sparked the 2008 banking crash, the organisation that represents the world's central banks has warned. bit.ly/2KLvyJK The Telegraph British trucks will not be able to board ships in Dover in a "no deal" Brexit if they do not have the correct customs paperwork, following a deal between the Port of Calais and Channel shipping lines, the head of the Road Haulage Association has told the Telegraph. bit.ly/2KQo4Fw HSBC Holdings Plc has started testing a new artificial intelligence system that aims to spot odd behaviour quicker in order to tackle the more "sophisticated end" of criminal activity. bit.ly/2KNmYu7 Sky News The Dubai-based owner of P&O, ‎DP World Plc, is to swoop on Topaz Energy and Marine, a provider of offshore support vessels, in a $1.3 billion takeover that will end the latter's deliberations about a London float. bit.ly/2KLXbm1 The trustees of the 10.5 billion pound ($13.33 billion) British Steel Pension Scheme are in secret talks to offload it two years after it was handed 550 million pounds to secure a rescue of the UK's biggest steel producer. bit.ly/2KNz8Dd ($1 = 0.7879 pounds) (Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom; Editing by Daniel Wallis)

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Carrie Lam, Hong Kong's chief executive, announces that she will delay the controversial extradition bill in Hong Kong on June 15, 2019. Anthony Kwan/Getty Images The story of Hong Kong's controversial extradition bill -- and the subsequent protests -- all began with a gruesome murder. Here's how the tale unfolded: A murder on vacation: In February 2018, a Hong Kong couple were vacationing in Taiwan. While they were there, 20-year-old Chan Tong-kai allegedly murdered his 19-year-old girlfriend Poon Hiu-wing, according to local media reports. The alleged killer headed back to Hong Kong and in March 2018, Poon's decomposed body was found on the outskirts of Taipei. The killer escapes extradition: Hong Kong authorities charged Chan with money laundering for stealing Poon's property, and he was sentenced to 29 months in jail -- but because Taiwan and Hong Kong do not have an extradition agreement, Chan could not be sent to Taiwan to face a murder trial. Murder case turned political battle: In February 2019, Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam proposed an extradition bill, which would allow fugitives to be sent to territories where Hong Kong doesn't have formal extradition deals -- such as Taiwan, Macau and mainland China. It was met with criticism from the start. Critics said they were worried about being subjected to China's opaque legal system -- and the effect it could have on Hong Kong's role as an international finance hub. Many marched in opposition, and even Taiwan said it would not cooperate with the bill if it was passed. In June, Lam suspended the bill -- but she still hasn't responded to demands to withdraw it entirely.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Protesters set up barricades in Hong Kong ahead of a day of marches and demonstrations on July 1, 2019. Kin Cheung/AP A number of protesters clashed with police in Hong Kong's Central district early Monday. At about 7:20 a.m. local time, police charged towards protesters who had camped out on the street since 4 a.m. According to a statement released by police, protesters have gathered iron poles, bricks from a nearby construction site and guard rails to barricade a road and obstruct traffic. Local TV station HKiCable broadcast live video of riot police and protesters surging towards each other, with police holding batons and demonstrators using umbrellas in the clash. "Police strongly condemn these illegal acts and warn protesters not to throw bricks or charge police cordon lines. Police appeal to protesters not to resort to violence, stop blocking roads and leave the scene as soon as possible," according to a police statement. July 1 is the 22nd anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong from British rule to China. The day is usually marked with protests, but not in such a violent and tense fashion.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Demonstrators wave Chinese flags during a pro-police rally in Hong Kong on June 30, 2019. Anthony Kwan/Getty Images Protesters have been marching for a month, demanding the withdrawal of the controversial extradition bill -- but on Sunday, the other side took the streets. Up to 53,000 pro-government protesters filled Tamar Park, according to police estimates. They held placards and shouted slogans expressing support for Hong Kong police, who anti-bill protesters accuse of using excessive force. Pro-democracy protesters showed up as well, leading to scuffles and confrontations between the two groups. The pro-democracy group was largely composed of young people, including many teenagers carrying Hong Kong flags -- while pro-police protesters carried Chinese flags.

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam at a press conference on June 18, 2019. Carl Court/Getty Images Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam spoke at the Monday flag-raising ceremony that kicked off the 22nd anniversary of the city's handover from Britain to China. "Two years ago, at the inaugural ceremony of the fifth term SAR government, I solemnly pledged that in response to the new circumstances and conflicts in society at that time, I would do everything within my ability to identify the crux of the issues, to ease anxiety in the community, and to pave the way forward for Hong Kong," she said. Lam added that the last month of protests against the controversial extradition bill had reminded her to "listen patiently" and "be open and accommodating." She pledged to improve the government's communication with Hong Kong people. "I know that the government has a lot to improve," she said. "We will continue to listen to the community’s views and make continuous improvement to our work."

polusa

2019_1_test.csv

2019_1_test.csv0 53010215 1 59549287 2 59633617 3 52963105 4 18321756 ... 162989 4829910 162990 4889401 162991 4884295 162992 4760206 162993 4533244 Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64

President Trump on Sunday compared his daughter Ivanka and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to “Beauty and the Beast.” Trump was introducing the pair while addressing a gathering of Air Force personnel at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, near the South Korean capital of Seoul, when he drew on the tale as old as time. AOC ATTACKS IVANKA FOR NEPOTISM “Mike, come up here Mike,” Trump told Pompeo, before telling the crowd, “And you know who else we have here, Ivanka — alright come up Ivanka,” as cheers rose from the gathered. “What a beautiful couple — Mike — Beauty and the Beast,” he said, as the pair strode to the podium. Just hours earlier, Trump had become the first sitting US president to step foot on North Korean soil when he met with leader Kim Jong Un on the northern side of the Demilitarized Zone separating the north and south. The North in April demanded Pompeo, the nation’s top diplomat, be left out of peace talks — and issued a stinging rebuke of him Wednesday, accusing him of “reckless remarks” and “sophistry” for claiming sanctions on the Hermit Kingdom were bringing them to the negotiating table. GET THE FOX NEWS APP Ivanka serves as a domestic adviser to Trump. Trump was returning to Washington Sunday following a whirlwind trip east for the G20 summit in Japan.