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[ "U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia found dead at West Texas ranch Associate Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead of apparent natural causes Saturday on a luxury resort in West Texas, federal officials said. Scalia, 79, was a guest at the Cibolo Creek Ranch, a resort in the Big Bend region south of Marfa. Scalia's death has far-reaching implications for the Supreme Court and a round of major cases the justices are set to decide this summer, including Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, which challenges the university's affirmative action policy, plus a case that contests Obama's immigration policy and another that reexamines the meaning of \"one person, one vote,\" said former U.S. Rep. Charlie Gonzalez. President Obama, in remarks to the nation, praised Scalia as a brilliant legal mind who influenced a generation of lawyers and students.", "The totally unexpected loss of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is a massive setback for the Conservative movement and our COUNTRY! Justice Scalia's legacy is clear – he renewed our nation's belief in the rule of law and reinvigorated how we view the Constitution. Greg Abbott called Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia “a man of God, a patriot and an unwavering defender of the written Constitution and the Rule of Law” in a statement issued Saturday afternoon that said the 79-year-old justice has died. Cruz, who is vying for the Republican presidential nomination, tweeted, “We owe it to [Scalia], and the nation, for the Senate to ensure that the next president names his replacement.” Justice Scalia was an American hero.", "\"The totally unexpected loss of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is a massive setback for the Conservative movement and our COUNTRY!\" The totally unexpected loss of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is a massive setback for the Conservative movement and our COUNTRY! The court is considering a major challenge to public sector unions, a race-conscious admissions plan at the University of Texas, a big abortion case, voting rights, the contraceptive mandate and a challenge to Obama's immigration actions. (CNN) U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the leading conservative voice on the high court, has died at the age of 79, a government source and a family friend told CNN on Saturday.", "Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the fiery conservative who used a sharp intellect, barbed wit and a zeal for verbal combat to fight against the tide of modern liberalism, has died. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the intellectual cornerstone of the court's modern conservative wing, whose elegant and acidic opinions inspired a movement of legal thinkers and ignited liberal critics, died Feb. 13 on a ranch near Marfa, Texas. \"Justice Antonin Scalia was a man of God, a patriot, and an unwavering defender of the written Constitution and the Rule of Law,\" Texas Gov. Scalia, the first Italian American to serve on the court, was nominated by President Ronald Reagan in 1986 and quickly became the kind of champion to the conservative legal world that his benefactor was in the political realm. Justice Antonin Scalia, the longest-serving member of the current Supreme Court and an intellectual leader of the conservative legal movement, died Saturday, and his death set off an immediate political battle about the future of the court and its national role. He had been an influential early supporter of the Federalist Society, a group that political scientist Steven Teles called \"the most vigorous, durable and well-ordered organization to emerge from (the) rethinking of modern conservatism's political strategy.\" \"No justice in Supreme Court history has consistently written with the sarcasm of Scalia,\" Erwin Chemerinsky, now dean of the University of California at Irvine law school, wrote in a widely noted law review article. He was the lone dissent in a case challenging the state-run Virginia Military Institute's right to exclude female applicants. \"His views on textualism and originalism, his views on the role of judges in our society, on the practice of judging, have really transformed the terms of legal debate in this country,\" Elena Kagan said about Scalia when she was dean of Harvard Law School, alma mater to both.", "EL PASO - UPDATE SUNDAY 4:39 P.M: The body of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has been transported from Sunset Funeral Homes in Northeast El Paso to an airport. In his dissent against last year's landmark ruling affirming the right to same-sex marriage, he concluded a passage questioning the majority assertion that marriage promotes a freedom of intimacy by suggesting that marriage has historically tended to restrict options for intimacy, and suggesting that people, \"Ask the nearest hippie.\" ABC-7 has confirmed the body of the late Justice Antonin Scalia will be delivered to Sunset Funeral Home in northeast El Paso sometime early Sunday morning. Marshals, along with DPS officials are escorting the body of late Justice Antonin Scalia to Sunset Funeral Home. UPDATE SUNDAY 2 PM: The Presidio County Judge Cinderela Guevara told Dallas ABC affiliate WFAA that the death certificate will list a heart attack as the official cause of death for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Here is the complete text of a statement issued by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.: \"On behalf of the Court and retired Justices, I am saddened to report that our colleague Justice Antonin Scalia has passed away. Here is the complete text of a statement issued by Texas Governor Greg Abbott: \"Justice Antonin Scalia was a man of God, a patriot, and an unwavering defender of the written Constitution and the Rule of Law. His passing is a great loss to the Court and the country he so loyally served.", "U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was found dead Saturday, CBS News has confirmed. \"It would be unprecedented in recent history for the Supreme Court to go a year with a vacant seat. Justice Scalia on 60 Minutes, part 1 \"It's what did the words mean to the people who ratified the Bill of Rights or who ratified the Constitution,\" Scalia said. He was nominated in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan and is the longest-serving member on the court. In a 2008 interview with \"60 Minutes,\" he told correspondent Lesley Stahl that he believes the Constitution is an \"enduring\" document he wants to defend. Scalia, 79, was one of the staunchest conservative members of the court." ]

[ "They include web captures of the ISKME.org website as well as captures from sites hosted by IGC.org.These web captures are available to the general public.For more information about this collection please feel free to contact Mark via Send Mail This is a set of web collections curated by Mark Graham using the Archive-IT service of the Internet Archive.", "See more of NOVUS ORDO Insider on Facebook", "A Catholic priest in the Philippines has been forced to repent after he took a spin on a hoverboard — during Christmas Eve Mass. The unidentified holy roller drew the ire of the Diocese of San Pablo after cell phone video footage of him — riding up and down the nave of his church with a microphone in hand and singing \"May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You\" — went viral. The priest has gotten the message — and is apologizing. The motorized man of the cloth has been yanked from his church in metro Manila and \"will spend some time to reflect on this past event,\" the statement concludes. \"The priest said that it was a wake-up call for him,\" the diocesan statement reads. \"That was wrong,\" the diocese flatly declared in a statement posted online. Hoverboards were one of the hottest Christmas gifts this year despite the dangers of falling off the self-balancing, two-wheeled, battery-powered scooters.", "Written By Chad Merda Posted: 12/29/2015, 12:50pm The good Lord may have saved him from wiping out on his new hoverboard , but one priest in the Philippines couldn’t be saved from a suspension at the hands of the Diocese of San Pablo after he used a hoverboard during Christmas Eve Mass. In announcing the suspension, the diocese said the priest failed to realize that the Mass is the church’s highest form of worship. In the priest’s defense, at least he didn’t get the attention of his flock by doing this: A video posted by MIGATTI- $399 (@migattiusa) on Dec 26, 2015 at 7:44am PST h/t: Religion News Service The diocese announced the suspension on Tuesday, according to Rappler. In a statement, the diocese said the priest “will be out of the parish and will spend some time to reflect on this past event. “It is not a personal celebration where one can capriciously introduce something to get the attention of the people,” the diocese said." ]

[ "QUEENSBURY, N.Y. (AP) — A teenager fell from a stopped gondola ride at an upstate New York amusement park Saturday night, tumbling into a crowd of park guests and employees gathered below in an effort to catch the victim before she hit the ground. The park said in a statement that the safety of guests is a top priority. Authorities say the girl fell from the car and struck a tree before landing in the crowd.", "That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. Crawls of supported \"No More 404\" sites." ]

[ "TAMPA, Fla./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney bowed to political pressure and gave the public a glimpse inside his personal fortune on Tuesday, releasing U.S. tax returns showing he pays a lower effective tax rate than many top wage-earners. Targeting popular unease with rising U.S. income disparity, President Barack Obama on Tuesday night in his annual State of the Union speech at the Capitol will put efforts to make the tax code fairer at the center of his reelection campaign. Unlike Americans who rely on a paycheck, Romney earns most of his income from investment profits, dividends and interest. Obama will renew his appeal for a “Buffett rule” to ensure that the ultra-wealthy pay their “fair share” of taxes.", "Mitt Romney offered a partial snapshot of his vast personal fortune late Monday, disclosing income of $21.7 million in 2010 and $20.9 million last year — virtually all of it profits, dividends or interest from investments. He plans to call for higher taxes on millionaires in his State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday night, embracing an idea advanced by billionaire investor Warren Buffett and Occupy Wall Street protesters. Economic inequality is emerging as a central theme in the battle for the White House, with Obama trying to harness populist anger at Wall Street and corporations against a backdrop of chronically high unemployment. “This theme about economic insecurity for the middle class ." ]

[ "That information, combined with knowledge of the Falcon 9 rocket’s performance and trajectory, prompted amateur satellite observers experienced in tracking NRO missions to speculate that the mission might be an imaging satellite, bound for a low-Earth orbit inclined 50 to 60 degrees relative to the equator. The launch was SpaceX’s fifth this year, continuing its rebound from a launch pad rocket explosion last summer that grounded the company for the last four months of 2016. CLOSE SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket was carrying the National Reconnaissance Office's NROL-76 mission. Related: SpaceX Falcon 9 launches, lands in historic first In March, SpaceX successfully re-launched a used booster — or “flight proven,” in SpaceX terminology — for the first time for a commercial satellite mission.", "High-altitude winds nearly halted SpaceX’s first flight for a government agency Monday. But CEO Elon Musk’s launch company went through with the Falcon 9 rocket launch at Launch Complex 39A, sending a spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office into orbit from Florida’s Space Coast. “Launch and landing of the NRO spy satellite was good. Monday’s launch represented the first time SpaceX has delivered a satellite into space for NRO. msantana@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-5256; Twitter, @marcosantana SpaceX launched the Department of Defense satellite NROL-76 on May 1, 2017 from Kennedy Space Center aboard its Falcon 9 rocket. For the last six years, at least, only United Launch Alliance has delivered government payloads into space. The NRO launch had been highly anticipated because it marks the start of what some consider a new era of rocket launches, one characterized by competition between SpaceX and United Launch Alliance for government contracts." ]

[ "Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period.", "As we first reported ... McCarthy was shocked to see his face as the profile pic on several Duggar accounts. Josh Duggar Sued That's MY Face On His Ashley Madison Page Josh Duggar Sued: That's MY Face on His Ashley Madison Page EXCLUSIVE The guy who says Josh Duggar used his face on several dating and social media sites -- including Ashley Madison -- is suing the reality star for jacking his image. Matthew is suing Duggar for the wrongful use of his image, and for damages ... aka cash. In the lawsuit, McCarthy says he was raised in a strong-knit Catholic family ... so being connected to Duggar's porn life -- on Twitter, OkCupid and Ashley Madison -- has been mortifying. Matthew McCarthy says he's been humiliated since Duggar confessed he was addicted to porn and had been trawling for women online.", "In the wake of the news that Josh Duggar reportedly paid for an Ashley Madison membership, websites and Internet sleuths are trying to determine whether the former 19 Kids and Counting star was also on other dating sites. After receiving tips from the Internet, Gawker pointed out that searching Duggar's alleged Ashley Madison email handle — \"joesmithsonnwa\" — provides one other result on Google: an OkCupid profile with the username joesmithsonnwa. Duggar has not yet responded to these allegations. There is no hard evidence linking this user to Duggar, but the Internet is continuing to search for signs of alleged infidelity.", "Matthew McCarthy tells us he was shocked to see his pic on the dating site, and way more shocked to know Duggar was posing as him to score chicks. Josh Duggar Screws Random Guy Over In Sex Scandal Josh Duggar -- Screws Random Guy Over in Sex Scandal EXCLUSIVE Josh Duggar turned the life of a Hollywood DJ upside down by apparently jacking his pic for his OKCupid profile. Now check this out ... it appears Duggar got the pic by Googling \"random guy\" ... the third photo that comes up is Matthew's. He feels this is somehow defamation of character, and he's considering his legal options.", "After today’s earlier revelation of Josh Duggar’s paid Ashley Madison account hit, tipsters and Twitter are pointing out that if you search Josh Duggar’s highly unique Ashley Madison email handle, “joesmithsonnwa,” this OKCupid profile is the only other result you get. “Joesmithsonnwa” last appeared online in September of 2014 (around the same time Josh J Duggar’s credit card stopped paying for the first Ashley Madison account), and “Joesmithsonnwa” lists his location as near where Duggar, his wife, and their three children lived in Oxon Hill, Maryland—that is, until they moved back to Arkansas when scandal hit. Because now, what used to be joesmithsonnwa’s profile brings you here: While we have yet to hear from anyone claiming to own the profile, we have discovered that the picture belongs to model Matthew James McCarthy—who lives nowhere near Washington, DC. So if a man in his 20s were to try and find a discreet, anonymous photo for a social media profile, it’s possible he’d find this one. The picture is obviously not of Josh Duggar. It’s also worth noting that, on this OKCupid profile, “Joesmithsonnwa” claims to be looking for “casual sex” while simultaneously describing himself as a “strictly monogamous” type. And as of right now, it appears on Wordpress under the title “random guy from Facebook.” If you search “random guy” on Google images, the same photo comes up as one of the very first results." ]

[ "That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. Crawls of supported \"No More 404\" sites.", "IRVINE – UC Irvine took a stricter approach on processing admissions this year – contributing to the withdrawal of some 500 admission offers – because more freshmen accepted spots than anticipated. Related Articles UCI rescinds 500 admission offers, student leaders demand apology UC system says it’s on track to increase number of California freshmen enrolled Many of the prospective students who saw their offers rescinded said that either the university or their high school made mistakes. UCI’s Parham acknowledged “missteps” but emphasized that all students “who meet the terms and conditions of the admissions offer will be welcomed into the Anteater family. “I acknowledge that we took a harder line on the terms and conditions this year, and we could have managed that process with greater care, sensitivity, and clarity about available options,” Thomas Parham, vice chancellor for student affairs, wrote in a message to prospective students on Friday. Students complained on social media that the university over-enrolled and used any excuse to trim its number." ]

[ "The U.S.'s top general in Afghanistan is under investigation for alleged inappropriate communications. The WSJ's Enda Curran tells us what this latest development could mean in a scandal that has impacted officials from the CIA, FBI and now U.S. military. WASHINGTON—The adultery scandal that led to the downfall of David Petraeus as CIA director widened Tuesday as President Barack Obama put on hold his nomination of Marine Gen. John Allen as commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, one of the world's top military posts. Gen. Allen will remain commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan while the facts are ascertained, Mr. Panetta said.", "A New York Post report today said that Kelley's sister Natalie Kwaham had invoked Allen and Petraeus's names in her custody battle. Jill Kelley, the Tampa socialite connected to ISAF Commander John Allen and former CIA Director David Petraeus, is an \"honorary consul\" of South Korea, a diplomatic official with direct knowledge of the arrangement told The Cable. \"Jill Kelley helped to get support for [the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement] and she arranged meetings between the ROK Ambassador to Washington and local businessmen when the ROK Ambassador visited the Tampa area.\" But her work on behalf of the South Koreans may explain some of the 20,000 to 30,000 pages of e-mails between her and Allen that the Defense Department's Inspector General's office is investigating now. There's no implication that the South Korean government has anything to do with the growing scandal that involves Kelly, Allen, Petraeus, and Paula Broadwell, Petraeus's biographer and alleged mistress. \"She is an ‘honorary consul' of the Republic of Korea,\" the official said.", "Diplomatic immunity, diplomatic protection is only given to American personnel. Diplomatic personnel in foreign countries,\" he said. Jill is the socialite mother of three whose FBI complaint about harassing emails eventually led investigators to uncover the CIA director's affair with his biographer and is now linked to the name of a second top general. Media from around the world have convened on the two-story Bayshore Boulevard home of Scott and Jill Kelley. The South Tampa woman connected to the Gen. David Petraeus scandal has called police to her home several times in the last few days, and at least once tried to invoke \"diplomatic protection.\"", "Chris O'Meara/AP The foundation — dedicated to “efforts to discover ways to improve the quality of life of terminally ill adult cancer patients” had no employees, according to the documents. Yet in a single year, the Kelley clan spent $43,317 in meals and entertainment connected to the foundation, according to tax filings. The woman at the root of the four-star scandal that led to the downfall of David Petraeus and threatens the career of Gen. John Allen lives an extravagant lifestyle that conceals mountains of money owed to banks and credit card companies, court documents show. She drives a luxury Mercedes and always dresses to kill — but Jill Kelley is actually drowning in debt. It was all about them.” Scott Kelley is reportedly a highly sought-after surgeon specializing in cancer of the esophagus . Both four-star generals caught in the scandal vouched for Natalie in letters supporting her in a custody battle over her son." ]

[ "It's the last will and testament of Hollywood legend Tony Curtis, and it reveals that in his final days he disinherited daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis and his other four children. INSIDE EDITION has obtained the will, written five months before his death from cardiac arrest last year at age 85. Then there's this statement: \"I acknowledge the existence of my children...and have intentionally and with full knowledge chosen not to provide for them.\" A source provided INSIDE EDITION with an e-mail, apparently written to one of Curtis' kids that reads: \"(I) just had to write to tell you how very sorry I am about the news of the will. His children are listed by name, including jamie Lee. Curtis, who starred in Spartacus and Some Like it Hot, was eulogized by his actress daughter Jamie Lee at his funeral.", "According to a copy of the will obtained by the CBS television show Inside Edition he acknowledged the existence of his children, including the actress Jamie Lee Curtis, but said he had \"intentionally and with full knowledge chosen not to provide for them.\" Curtis died from cardiac arrest at the age of 85 at his home in Nevada in September. His fifth wife Jill Vandenberg Curtis was named as the representative of his estate in the document which was filed in the state of Nevada, CBS reported. One of the children, not Jamie Lee Curtis, was said to have tried to contest the will but the move failed. Curtis, who was born Bernard Schwartz in New York, had children with three of his wives – the actress Janet Leigh, Christine Kaufmann, and Leslie Allen." ]

[ "To Austin Tice, From your family Austin Tice was captured while reporting on the civil war in Syria on August 12, 2012. Since then, Marc, Debra and the Tice family have endured three consecutive Christmases without their son and brother.", "We are four families bonded together by tragedy and terror. Unlike the other American captives, Tice is widely believed to have been seized by loyalists of the Syrian regime – not by the Islamic State. “His case has the attention of the highest levels in the U.S. government and the administration.” The letter the Tices released Wednesday bore the names of the slain hostages’ parents – a raw reminder of search efforts that didn’t find captives in time. The families of four American hostages who were killed while in Islamic State custody issued a joint letter Wednesday imploring the Obama administration to “use all appropriate means” to find and return missing U.S. journalist Austin Tice.", "Fresno Democratic Congressman Jim Costa voted twice to support Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen while taking campaign cash from oil and gas companies. He has said he will take a stronger stand early next year. Hold him to account." ]

[ "\"Ata is a troll, with a history of customer abuse, publishing copyrighted material, and user review manipulation,\" Valve said. In 2011, another game, \"School Shooter,\" which portrayed the Columbine school shooting that took place in 1999 in Colorado, was pulled after public outcry. \"They're trying to profit off of it, and I think it's disgusting,\" Lori Alhadeff, whose daughter, Alyssa, was killed after being shot 10 times at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, said on Tuesday. But many critics had said that was not enough — including Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., who called the game \"inexcusable\" and tweeted, \"Any company that develops a game like this in wake of such a horrific tragedy should be ashamed of itself.\" Acid, the publisher of the game, addressed the controversy in a confusing blog post last week on Steam's forums, writing: \"After receiving such high amount of critics and hate, I will more likely remove the shooters [sic] role in this game by the release, unless if it can be kept as it is right now.\" Many had called for the game to be pulled, including anti-gun activist Fred Guttenberg, whose 14-year-old daughter, Jaime, was killed in the Parkland shooting. The post is attributed to a developer named Arthur Belkin, who lists the Russian Federation as his home country.", "Through a score counter, the game tracked “civ killed” and “cops killed.” The developer responded to the outrage last week, saying that it “will more likely remove the shooters [sic] role in this game by the release, unless if [sic] it can be kept as it is right now.” But it also defended the game, arguing that there are worse games out there (“Hatred, Postal, Carmageddon and etc.”) and that it “does not promote any sort of violence, especially any soft [sic] of a mass shooting.” For more on America’s gun violence problem, read Vox’s explainer. Ata is a troll, with a history of customer abuse, publishing copyrighted material, and user review manipulation. But it drew a lot of negative attention, including from outlets like BuzzFeed and Kotaku, as well as the survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida. This developer and publisher is, in fact, a person calling himself Ata Berdiyev, who had previously been removed last fall when he was operating as “[bc]Interactive” and “Elusive Team”. The game’s developer, it seems, saw this as a selling point — with the developer pointing out on Steam that “[o]nly in ‘Active Shooter’, you will be able to pick the role of an Elite S.W.A.T [sic] member or the actual shooter.” The video showed a shooter running through school hallways and classrooms while killing — with firearms and grenades — police officers and civilians. A video game that let players simulate a school shooting was set to come out on Steam, the PC’s biggest platform for buying and selling games.", "Valve Corporation of Bellevue is planning to launch a video game on June 6 that is a school shooting simulator. How can anyone sleep at night knowing that they are profiting from turning deadly school shootings into entertainment? The company is taking the stand that this game is legal because of free speech and everything else that tech billionaires hide behind when they are doing something the public knows is absolutely, morally corrupt but legally fine - but we cannot stand for this. Please sign this petition asking Valve to not launch this game.", "I will definitely try to have at least an extra location available on the day of the release. Hopefully this will clarify a few things for each of you. In Co-Op you will be able to choose sides and play as you would normally play in the Single-Player. First of all, I wanted to thank each of you who left any soft of feedback and support for our game and what I do. Updates with more enviroments will be out for free and within a first month of release. I am planning on adding extra enviroments to the game; Those will include \"Shopping Stores\", \"Gas Stations\" and enviroments in this sort." ]

[ "Tweet with a location You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history.", "Pelosi emphasized Democrats do support border security but they would prefer to look at strengthening existing security measures as part of a comprehensive overhaul of immigration laws. “We can’t allow him to say we’re not interested in protecting the border,” Pelosi said of Trump’s frequent attack on Democrats for their refusal to support the wall. She talked about Democrats’ top priorities for next year if they’re in the majority, like lowering health care costs, increasing paychecks and improving on the nation’s green infrastructure.", "....In addition to stopping all payments to these countries, which seem to have almost no control over their population, I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught - and if unable to do so I will call up the U.S. Military and CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!..", "....The assault on our country at our Southern Border, including the Criminal elements and DRUGS pouring in, is far more important to me, as President, than Trade or the USMCA. Hopefully Mexico will stop this onslaught at their Northern Border. All Democrats fault for weak laws!", "The new European data protection law requires us to inform you of the following before you use our website: We use cookies and other technologies to customize your experience, perform analytics and deliver personalized advertising on our sites, apps and newsletters and across the Internet based on your interests. Please enable cookies on your web browser in order to continue. By clicking “I agree” below, you consent to the use by us and our third-party partners of cookies and data gathered from your use of our platforms. See our Privacy Policy and Third Party Partners to learn more about the use of data and your rights. You also agree to our Terms of Service." ]

[ "The flap over Wainwright's grooved pitch reflects the changing mindset that linking World Series home-field advantage has wrought. It has been 11 years since MLB began awarding home-field advantage in the World Series to the AL or NL team based on the outcome of the All-Star Game, and Selig maintains that the system has achieved its purpose by elevating a quaint midsummer exhibition into must-see summer viewing. Wainwright's biggest sin, in contrast, was trying to balance competition, respect for a distinguished elder and his natural inclination to avoid conducting media interviews like a garden-variety baseball robot. So it was almost impossible to comprehend how Wainwright's show of respect would quickly be forgotten, a celebration would elicit controversy, and the pitcher's well-intentioned mix of candor and good humor would somehow brand him as the villain of the evening." ]

[ "June 15, 2016 Morgan Warthin , (307)344-2015 A Chinese national was fined $1,000 and a $30 court processing fee for walking off the boardwalk in the Mammoth Hot Springs thermal area Tuesday, June 14, 2016. Regulations to stay on designated trails and boardwalks in thermal areas are for visitor safety and the safety of the exceptional park natural resources. Park employees call on all visitors to protect their park and protect themselves. A federal violation notice requiring a mandatory appearance in the Yellowstone Justice Center Court was issued for off boardwalk travel in a thermal area. Without visitor cooperation, park natural wonders will continue to be damaged and more individuals may be injured or killed. It is a violation of federal regulations to collect any park resources. Park rangers appreciate the willingness of the witness to document and report the violation. A park ranger took the witness’s statement, photos, and location of the violation.", "A witness reported seeing the man break through the fragile, rock crust surrounding the Mammoth Hot Springs area. (AP) — A tourist from China was fined $1,000 for walking off a boardwalk at Yellowstone National Park and collecting thermal water, apparently for medicinal purposes, park officials said Wednesday. It is a violation of federal regulations to collect any park resources. Park regulations require visitors to stay on trails and boardwalks for their own safety as well as to protect Yellowstone's natural resources.", "Earlier this month, 23-year-old Colin Nathaniel Scott of Portland slipped on gravel and fell into scalding, acidic water after leaving a boardwalk in the Norris Geyser Basin. Yellowstone National Park tourist fined $1,000 for walking off boardwalk A man visiting Yellowstone National Park left with more than just memories Wednesday after he left the boardwalk at the Mammoth Hot Springs area. The hefty fine follows another tourist incident at Yellowstone this year in which park visitors loaded a bison into their vehicle because it \"looked cold.\" It is a violation of federal regulations to collect any park resources.\" >> Click the gallery above to see some dumb things tourists have done \"Park employees call on all visitors to protect their park and protect themselves,\" Yellowstone Park officials said in a news release. \"Regulations to stay on designated trails and boardwalks in thermal areas are for visitor safety and the safety of the exceptional park natural resources." ]

[ "Such is its effectiveness, that alongside nicotine, alcohol and caffeine, betel nuts are believed to be one of the most popular mind-altering substances in the world. It gives people a buzz equivalent to six cups of coffee and is used variously as a symbol of love, marriage and a cure for indigestion and impotence. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Cindy Sui reports from Taiwan on the moves to end betel nut use It is used by almost a tenth of the world's population. High rates of oral cancer are destroying the lives of many who buy betel nuts, often decades after their first taste. Although used by women and children, the nuts are especially popular among working-age men, who chew to stay awake through long hours of driving, fishing or working on construction sites. Now in Taiwan, where the nuts are affectionately known as 'Taiwan's chewing gum', the government is taking action to curb this centuries-old habit and reduce the thousands of lives lost each year. But the short-lived benefits come at a terrible cost.", "Disconcertingly-high rates of cancer have also been reported on mainland China, with a 2014 survey revealing that one in 60 Shanghai residents had been diagnosed with cancer. BBC has reported on the dangerous affliction hitting Taiwan—the chewing of Betel Nuts, which is believed to be responsible for its oral-cancer epidemic. This is not the first time a popular snack has been found to cause cancer in Taiwan: millions of packets of contaminated dried fruit and fruit juice were recalled in 2011 once it was revealed they could cause cancer as well as liver and kidney damage. It is highly likely the custom of chewing Betel Nuts (also regarded as a cure for indigestion and impotence) has contributed to Taiwan ranking in the world's top three for incidence of and mortality rate from oral cancer. The Taiwanese government is now seeking to curb the prevalence of the Betel Nut due to its dangerous side-effects. Consumers of the nut are easily spotted by their red-stained lips and teeth, but it is the link between Betel Nut chewing and serious illness which is more worrying than the vampire-like appearance it causes.", "A fact sheet on betel nut with tobacco issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warns of the following medical conditions associated with betel nut use with tobacco: oral submucous fibrosis oral cancer addiction reproductive issues, including low birth weight in newborns Raising awareness Health organizations and governments around the globe are taking steps to increase awareness of betel nut risks. It calls for a combination of the following measures to curb the practice: policy public awareness campaigns community outreach In 2012, the WHO released an action plan designed to reduce betel nut use in the Western Pacific. In its most basic form, betel nut is a seed of the Areca catechu, a type of palm tree. It is one of the most popular psychoactive substances in the world, in fourth place after nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine. Oral cancer and other dangers Research has revealed some serious health risks of betel nut. According to one study published in the journal Cancer Prevention Research, betel nut has cancer-fighting properties." ]

[ "New Zealand -- whose former prime ministers include Helen Clark and Jenny Shipley -- is the second-to-last stop on a nearly two-week Asia-Pacific tour that Clinton wraps up in Australia, whose current prime minister is Julia Gillard. CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand | CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ruled out running for president in 2012 or 2016 on Friday, saying the United States should be ready for a woman president but it would not be her. But it will be someone and it is nice coming to countries that have already proven that they can elect women to the highest governing positions that they have in their systems.\" The Democrats' poor showing has been widely interpreted as a referendum on U.S. President Barak Obama, raising questions about who the party may field as its candidate in 2012, when he would be expected to run for re-election, and 2016.", "Secretary of State Hillary Clinton aimed to defuse speculation about another presidential run Friday, telling New Zealand television that she's very pleased to serve as Secretary of State. Asked by New Zealand TV3's Duncan Garner Friday, \"Just looking long term, do you still rule out standing for top office, for president?\" In the interview Friday, Clinton also sought to defend President Barack Obama and put the Democrats' losses in the midterms Tuesday in perspective. Does that constitute Clinton ruling out a 2016 run, as the Reuters' take on her comments suggests?", "POLITICO's Patrick Gavin reports on \"President\" Hillary Clinton's visit to New Zealand Thursday: We all know that Hillary Clinton came close to winning the Democratic nomination for president of the United States in 2008. The secretary of state joined New Zealand Prime Minister John Phillip Key and New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray Stuart McCully for remarks Thursday at Wellington's Parliament Theatrette, and the prime minister made a little slip-up. She wasn't successful, but some people clearly haven't forgotten about what could have been. \"They’re a very important part of our market in New Zealand, so we see Trans-Pacific Partnership as a very important item to be completed if at all possible. \"And we, in a purely bilateral basis, have concerns about the fact that Australia\" has a free-trade agreement, began Key." ]

[ "To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com The Treasury Department warned this year that the restructuring of a government loan to solar-panel maker Solyndra LLC might be illegal, newly released email excerpts show. Those excerpts and other emails released Friday offer a new picture of how the Obama administration may have brushed aside warnings and, in one instance, a possible conflict of interest as officials pushed to support the solar-panel maker. Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Solyndra received a $535 million Department of Energy loan guarantee in September 2009, and the loan itself came from a part of the Treasury Department. Early this year, with the company's finances growing shakier, private investors ...", "The new e-mails provide further evidence of high-level cheerleading on behalf of Solyndra, a maker of innovative tubular rooftop solar panels that declared bankruptcy last month and laid off 1,100 workers. WASHINGTON — A senior Energy Department official pushed hard for the government’s $535 million loan to the now-bankrupt California solar energy company Solyndra even after he had disclosed that his wife’s law firm represented the company and he had promised to recuse himself from matters related to the loan application, according to e-mails provided to Congressional investigators by the administration. But even as Solyndra was being promoted as a model of new technology, administration officials were raising concerns about its viability, the legality of a later restructuring and whether the government was sufficiently protected should the business fail. The company was the first recipient of a federally guaranteed loan for alternative energy projects, but now is being investigated by the Justice Department over whether it provided misleading financial information to federal authorities.", "The Solyndra controversy has escalated with each new release of documents to a Republican-led House energy subcommittee investigating the matter. The documents offer new evidence of wide disagreement between officials at the Energy Department and officials at the Treasury Department and Office of Management and Budget, where questions were raised about the carefulness of the loan vetting process used to select Solyndra and the special help it was given as its finances deteriorated. Energy Department officials were warned that their plan to help a failing solar company by restructuring its $535 million federal loan could violate the law and should be cleared with the Justice Department, according to newly obtained e-mails from within the Obama administration. The e-mails, which were reviewed by The Washington Post, show for the first time concerns within the administration about the legality of the Energy Department’s extraordinary efforts to help Solyndra, the California solar company that went bankrupt Aug. 31." ]

[ "« Key Democrats React To Obama | Main | Obama's Speech: Morning Review Thoughts » One of the tropes of modern politics is to establish oneself as a sensible centrist, a Third Way realist surrounded by naivety on both sides. Obama's notion that one group favors the status quo while another wants a massive escalation in Afghanistan ,and a third wants a total withdrawal is a bit of a misnomer. And so Bill Clinton rejected, he said, the \"brain dead politics\" of the left and right and revived the term, Third Way, once used for non-aligned nations navigating between communism and capitalism. The argument has either been to add troops of various numbers or get out as soon as possible. That said, the president delivered a thoughtful and sober speech outlining how we got into Afghanistan and how, he thinks, we can get out. For years the Left in America echoed that line until Iraq started to ease, and now many of the Afghanistan-only shouters have become advocates of a full retreat.", "The wave of migrants welcomed under Angela Merkel’s temporary open door policy, for instance, are not obviously a perfect match with the economic needs of Germany, and still-less-obviously an easy fit when it comes to the cultural assimilation upon which economic success depends. The NAS report itself is open to more immigration-skeptical interpretations than Thompson’s, it concedes that the pattern in recent immigrant assimilation is less encouraging the pattern of past cohorts … and it’s only looking at the United States, a country with a particularly favorable history of assimilating migrants and a relatively flexible labor market by global standards, among other distinctive factors. Europe is another matter: If there’s some reason to doubt the inevitable fiscal benefits of recent immigration to our shores, there are strong reasons to doubt its benefits in recent and ongoing European demographic experiments.", "AP/Charles Dharapak I may be the only person in the United States who was trying to wait for President Obama's Afghanistan speech to make up my mind about his war plans. We all know why we went in, and most Democrats supported it: to topple the Taliban government that harbored and supported al-Qaida as it plotted to kill almost 3,000 people in 2001. The most chilling story I read today was Juan Cole's, on the way Afghanistan's parliament is MIA, and the country's various governmental agencies, from ministries of public works to agriculture, have spent a fraction of the limited funds they have available. Obama has governed like the centrist he told us and showed us he is, from his early flip-flops on FISA to his Goldman Sachs-friendly bailout policies to compromising on the job-creation parts of his economic stimulus to his tepid backing of a healthcare reform public option. He even accused Obama of giving \"aid and comfort\" to al-Qaida, which is, I believe, the definition of treason. The former vice-president is as deranged as the Birthers who used monkey imagery in a Washington Times ad to label Obama a \"usurper.\"", "A novel way to argue for war George W. Bush was able to successfully prosecute the Iraq war because, against all reason and much longer than necessary, he believed in it. Barack Obama may be able to successfully prosecute the war in Afghanistan because he, too, believes in it. We are a nation that’s tired of war, and Afghanistan is so far way. The question regarding Obama and Afghanistan was always whether he could be a wartime president. Faith alone cannot win a war, but without it defeat is certain." ]

[ "If you were to get high and make a list of people who, hypothetically, you would not want to text with a request for weed, \"probation officer\" would probably be near the top. in a message to that person, and then hit \"send.\" This was too much for Albany, Ga., man Alvin Cross, Jr, whose unfortunate misdirected text resulted in a raid on his house, where he was rearrested and charged with possession of a bag of cocaine. when you're trying to buy drugs is only half the battle.", "Dopey: Alvin Cross texted the wrong person and ended up in jail We’ve all had that heart-stopping moment after realising we sent a text to the wrong person but few of us would expect to end up in jail for it. Dopey Cross was on probation for an unknown offence when he accidentally sent his appointed officer a text message asking: “you have some weed?” According to US news channel WALB, upon getting the message, the probation officer contacted police who then raided the criminal’s home and discovered a bag of cocaine. Hapless Alvin Cross Jr was not so lucky after the dopey criminal sent a text message to probation officer asking if they had any drugs. Cross reportedly pleaded guilty on Monday to cocaine possession and was given one year in jail and another year for violating his probation.", "Share this article with Google Plus Alvin Cross Junior probably regretted sending this text (Picture: Dougherty County Police Dept) Sometimes people become so desperate that they don’t know where to turn. When prospects look dire and family and friends neglect them, some folks resort to dialing the dealer. However, one man decided to avoid this route, opting to contact a far more unusual confidant instead. According to WALB, Alvin Cross Jr, of Albany, Georgia, texted ‘you have some weed?’ to his probation officer. That’s right, Alvin asked the man supervising his probationary period following a stint in prison if he had any drugs to sell. After the text was received, drug agents raided Cross’ home and found a bag of cocaine. Unsurprisingly, he will now be returning to prison.", "That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. Crawls of supported \"No More 404\" sites.", "You don't have to be stupid to go to prison, but it helps. In Albany, Georgia, a man who texted \"You have some weed?\" to his probation officer will soon be a lot closer to drug dealers. Alvin Cross, Jr., will spend another year in prison for violating terms of his probation and another year for having a \"bag\" of cocaine in his house when the probation officer he texted came knocking with drug agents and a search warrant, writes WALB.com. He's serving a 20-year attempted murder sentence for hitting the police officer with his car. The WALB article doesn't tell us why Cross was on probation, how much cocaine he had, or why a man with cocaine can't trade it for marijuana without a text message to his probation officer. Meanwhile, on the \"good guy\" side of the law, a prison guard who gave drugs to female inmates before sexually assaulting them was sentenced to probation.", "This could happen to any of us. Well, if any of us was serving probation. This was the case with Alvin Cross Jr. of Albany, Ga. Cross Jr. seems to have gotten his wires crossed — or, more accurately, his fingers — when he reportedly texted who he thought was his drug dealer. As WALB-TV reports, Cross’s parole officer may or may not have been cross, but the authorities were informed." ]

[ "Among the proposals to rein in contractors is the creation of special teams of full-time federal workers to be ready to deploy and monitor projects. \"These contractors' deaths and injuries should not be ignored, but should be a part of the public debate on the cost of war.\" But the scale of the problems in Iraq and Afghanistan also reflects the toxic interplay of huge sums of money pumped into relatively small economies and an unprecedented reliance on contractors,\" the report said. \"The government has abdicated its contracting responsibilities -- too often using contractors as the default mechanism, driven by considerations other than whether they provide the best solution, and without consideration for the resources needed to manage them,\" the report said. The report says the government also should restrict reliance on contractors for security by embedding government workers responsible for command and control and oversight. \"The report's specific recommendations to address the federal government's overreliance on contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan and failure to control the process underscore the importance of the Commission's charter,\" Webb said in a prepared statement. Sen. James Webb, D-Virginia, who helped establish the commission three years ago, said Friday that its latest proposals deserve attention from Congress and the Department of Defense and called for a hearing on the matter.", "-Criminal behavior and blatant corruption sap dollars from what could otherwise be successful project outcomes and, more disturbingly, contribute to a climate in which huge amounts of waste are accepted as the norm. -Poor planning and oversight by the US government, as well as poor performance on the part of contractors, have costly outcomes: time and money misspent are lost for other purposes. According to a new report by the non-partisan Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, tens of billions of those dollars have been wasted.The report's authors note that the \"waste, fraud, and abuse\" they have observed in these contract programs were caused by significant errors. -An ill-conceived project, no matter how well-managed, is wasteful if it does not fit the cultural, political and economic mores of the society it is meant to serve, or if it cannot be supported and maintained. A few of their points, quoted from the report:The U.S. has relied on contractors more heavily in these two wars than in previous others, hiring about 200,000 of them to \"guard bases, build facilities, provide food and laundry services, escort supply and personnel movements, and translate local languages,\" according to Susan Crabtree at Talking Points Memo. She points out that there are almost as many contracted employees working in Afghanistan and Iraq as there are military troops.The commission that put out the report is urging the government to reform its contracting programs and is holding a hearing to review the report's findings today. Since 2002, the United States has spent $117 billion on contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.", "WASHINGTON -- The chairmen of the bipartisan Commission on Wartime Contracting decried on Monday a federal system that has allowed contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan to commit fraud -- then get hired again and again. The commission's findings, however, are just the latest in a litany of official and journalistic reports about the enormous cost of waste, fraud and corruption in Iraq and, particularly, Afghanistan. And most controversially, the report said the extensive use of private security contractors -- which has surged under President Barack Obama -- raises use-of-force issues and creates a gap in legal accountability So rather than let them run wild, the commission recommended that agencies relying on private security contractors be required to embed government personnel among them who would be \"responsible for leadership, command and control, and oversight of all security contractors and operations.\" (The commission also promised that its final report, due this summer, will further address the over-reliance on private contractors to provide \"movement security\" for government workers in war zones." ]

[ "A mother of two died from sepsis after scratching the back of her hand while she was gardening, her family has revealed. Lucinda Smith, 43, went to see her GP after feeling pain in her shoulder following the minor scrape, in March last year. The doctor diagnosed a trapped nerve and prescribed anti-depressants to relax her and she was also told to see a physiotherapist.", "– Shirley, mother The inquest ruled she died of toxic shock caused by sepsis. The saddest thing is her children have been left without their Mummy and it could have been avoided. The mother of a woman who died from sepsis after she cut her hand gardening says she believes her daughter would still be alive if she had been given the correct medical treatment when she first complained of feeling unwell.", "Sepsis is a potentially life-threatening complication of an infection, according to Mayo Clinic experts. A scratch while gardening spiraled into a fatal bout of sepsis for a mother of two from the United Kingdom, her family says. “Recognition and treatment against sepsis is a race against time.” The most common infections that can lead to sepsis include lung infections, such as pneumonia, urinary tract infection, gut infection, and skin infection." ]

[ "People who travel through remote locations have been urged to stay with their vehicle if they become lost or incapacitated as searchers can more easily spot a vehicle from the air, than a person. The vehicle should be in good condition and suitable for the road conditions. Ensure sufficient fuel between refuelling points and consider carrying a small reserve. Travellers should carry a three day supply of food and water for each person.", "PERTH, Australia (AP) — A 60-year-old man who attempted to trek 48 kilometers (30 miles) with little water in searing heat across Australia's parched Outback after his car broke down was found dead 2 kilometers (1.24 miles) from safety, police said on Thursday. The man was driving with a woman to Windidda Station, a cattle ranch in the remote Wiluna region of Western Australia state, when their car broke down on Sunday, police said in a statement. After no car passed on the lonely road over Sunday night, the man set out on foot across semi-desert country early Monday with what police described as a \"small container of water.\" Police urged people driving across the remote Outback during the current summer months to carry plenty of water and to stay with vehicles that break down. Station residents launched a search and found the man dead late Wednesday 2 kilometers (1.24 miles) from Windidda, police said. Wiluna, a village of several hundred residents which is the biggest population center in the region, had a forecast maximum temperature of 39 degrees Celsius (102 Fahrenheit) on Thursday. A coroner will determine the cause of death.", "Man dies after car breaks down on remote track in northern Goldfields region of WA Updated A man has been found dead after his vehicle broke down on a remote track in the West Australian Goldfields region, and he set off for help. A search of the area found the man dead by the side of the road, two kilometres from Windidda Station. WA Police are reminding people travelling in remote locations by car to stay with their vehicle if they become lost or break down. The body of the 60-year-old was found on Wednesday on the roadside near Windidda Station, 200 kilometres east of Wiluna." ]

[ "Nearly two dozen Islamist women and girls, some as young as 15, were handed heavy prison sentences Wednesday for protesting in a court ruling that came a day after police beat and terrorized prominent female activists in a crackdown on secular demonstrators under a tough new anti-protest law. Nearly two dozen women, some as young as 15, are... (Associated Press) FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013 file photo, Egyptian police fire water cannons to disperse a protest by secular anti-government activists in Cairo, the security forces' first implementation of a... (Associated Press) The harshness of the sentences and the scenes a day earlier were new signs that the military-backed government is becoming bolder in silencing dissent, turning to abuses reminiscent of the Hosni Mubarak era. In this Nov. 23, 2012 photo, activist Nazly Hussein pauses during an interview with the Associated Press in Cairo, Egypt. After being detained at a Cairo protest, Hussein was among 14 women, some of Egypt’s... (Associated Press) An Egyptian woman holds the national flag during a protest in Talaat Harb Square in Cairo, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013. It linked it to a \"war on terrorism\" _ pointing to the Brotherhood protests and violence by Islamic militants in Sinai.", "The harsh sentence sparked wide criticism of the way the Interior Ministry and the judiciary have been handling the cases of Morsy supporters. Egyptian lawmakers begin vote on new constitution The verdict coincided with an increasing crackdown on non-Islamist activists who oppose the military-led regime and Morsy. A demonstration coinciding with the retrial of two policemen accused of killing Khaled Saied, whose death had fueled the uprising in 2011, was dispersed with force in Alexandria on Monday. Prominent activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah, detained during the Mubarak and the military council regimes in 2006 and 2011, is being held pending investigations for his alleged involvement in calling for a demonstration." ]

[ "Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Eyewitnesses said the building collapsed \"like a pack of cards\", as Rajini Vaidyanathan reports At least 45 people have died, including 15 children, after a building being constructed illegally collapsed near the Indian city of Mumbai, police say. In other recent incidents At least 13 people died when part of a half-constructed building collapsed in the Wagholi area of Maharashtra in December At least six people were killed when a building collapsed in Pune city in Maharashtra in September Analysis The building collapse underlines the issue of illegal construction in India. Building collapses are common with poor construction practices often blamed.", "In one of the worst recent collapses, nearly 70 people were killed in November 2010 when an apartment building in a congested New Delhi neighborhood crumpled. A building being constructed illegally in a suburb of India's financial capital collapsed into a mound of steel and concrete, killing at least 41 people and injuring more than 50 others, authorities said Friday. Rescue workers carry a stretcher near the site where a residential building collapsed in Thane, Mumbai, India, Thursday, April 4, 2013. At least 6 persons were killed and 40 were injured when an under... (Associated Press) Rescue workers carry the body of a man near the site of a residential building which collapsed in Thane, Mumbai, India, Thursday, April 4, 2013. At least 6 persons were killed and 40 were injured when... (Associated Press) Rescue workers carry the body of a women near the site of a residential building collapsed in Thane, Mumbai, India, Thursday, April 4, 2013. That building was two floors higher than legally allowed and its foundation appeared to have been weakened by water damage. The massive demand for housing around India's cities and pervasive corruption allow builders to add unauthorized floors or build entirely illegal buildings. Officials said the neighborhood where the building collapsed was part of a belt of illegal structures that had sprung up in the area in recent years. At least 6 persons were killed and 40 were injured when an... (Associated Press) Rescue workers look for trapped people after a residential building collapsed in Thane, Mumbai, India, Thursday, April 4, 2013. At least 6 persons were killed and 40 were injured when an under-construction... (Associated Press) Rescue workers look for trapped people after a residential building collapsed in Thane, Mumbai, India, Thursday, April 4, 2013. `'There are lot of people involved (in illegal construction) _ builders, government machinery, police, municipal corporation _ everybody is involved in this process,\" G.S." ]

[ "A 12-year-old girl narrowly missed becoming a suicide statistic thanks to a rookie police officer in Southern California on a routine patrol. \"Possible jumper on the York Bridge. For now, the 12-year-old is waiting in protective police custody. She had told him she only had an aunt -- no other family -- and wanted to live with her. \"I grabbed a hold of her arm, and I wrapped it around my neck and grabbed her body and bear hugged her and dragged her over,\" Perez said.", "SOUTH PASADENA (CBSLA.com) — A hug saved a 12-year-old girl who had fled from a Los Angeles group home with the intention of jumping to her death. Her interview with Officer Perez is a story that is Only On 2. So I can’t relate, that, oh my Lord, this young indivual, this juvenile, is on the other side [on the bridge] what could possibly be going wrong in your life to make you want to do something like this?” Perez is reluctant to call himself a hero and uncomfortable that others are calling him one — but he is glad his parents (and dad is also an officer) took notice." ]

[ "Slated for September 2017, (adult) fans of the cult filmmaker behind Pink Flamingos and Polyester can make their way to Kent, Connecticut for a weekend of debauchery at Camp John Waters. The John Waters universe is overrun with garbage, outrageous icons and campy delights, so who wouldn’t want to make smores, hike and play dress up with the Pope of Trash at his own summer camp? There are the usual camp activities like ziplining and canoeing, alongside screenings of his films, ‘Blood Mary Bingo’, Hairspray karaoke, burlesque lessons, a ‘Scotch and Cigars’ session and a costume contest judged by the Prince of Puke. Waters will also perform a one-man show, read from his new book Make Trouble, and hang around for a Q+A. Up to 300 campers can sign-up for the three days of filthy fun across September 22-24 2017 at Connecticut’s Camp Getaway. Alcohol’s available for an additional fee, and everyone will get an autographed copy of Make Trouble. Find more details about cabin availability and prices here. Last one in is a rotten egg!", "“Make Trouble, adapted from his speech to the Rhode Island School of Design class of 2015, is a commencement address I consumed with joy, will likely read again and would be happy to give to young people — especially brooding, complicated young people. Waters gives inspiring advice…” ─ Milwaukee Journal Sentinel “…simultaneously witty and inspirational, has the potential to top the best commencement speeches of all time. Make Trouble is an injection of weirdness, joy, and provocation right into your brain.” ─ San Francisco Book Review The speech is timeless and could be taken from any point in his career, but it’s a reminder that he’s not done with us. It’s more of a reminder that he’s still out there, still thinking and creating, ready to — as he calls it — prepare a sneak attack on society. With the massive social changes going on today, his words are poignant now more than ever.” ─ Johns Hopkins News-Letter “…as funny as it is inspiring.", "The Premier Sports, Fun & Adventure Destination in the Northeast" ]

[ "(William D. Lewis/The Vindicator via AP) (Associated Press) YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — Five children, including 1-year-old twins, died in a late-night fire that swept through a house after neighbors were awakened by a loud boom, firefighters said. (William... (Associated Press) Bob Sharp with the Ohio State Fire Marshall's office stands near a home after a deadly fire in Youngstown, Ohio, Monday, Dec. 10, 2018. Bob Sharp with the Ohio State Fire Marshall's office stands near a home after a deadly fire in Youngstown, Ohio, Monday, Dec. 10, 2018. State and local investigators were just beginning to search for a cause of the deadly blaze. Most of the damage was on the home's first floor, leading investigators to believe that's where the fire started, Wright said. Firefighters found flames throughout the home's first floor when they arrived and were able to pull out three of the children, but they died at a hospital, Wright said. A memorial to the children was beginning to grow outside the home Melissa Thomas did not know the victims, but stopped with her daughters Elissa and Marissa Simione to drop off stuffed animals in honor of the children.", "Fatal Youngstown Fire Video Video Five people died in a Youngstown house fire early today. YOUNGSTOWN — A fire that killed five children late Sunday was accidental, said city Fire Investigator Capt. Five children, ages 9, 3, 2 and two 1-year-old twins, were killed in the blaze. The fire is the most deadly in Youngstown since a Jan. 23, 2008, arson at 1645 Stewart Ave. that claimed the lives of two adults and four children. A neighbor called 911 and alerted authorities about the fire. Wright and members of the state fire marshals office just arrived to begin their investigation. Wright also said the mother of the five children is hospitalized after she managed to get out of the home after it caught fire about 11:30 p.m Sunday.", "Officials have confirmed the identities of the five children killed in a late night fire on Sunday. The five children were killed after a house at 434 Parkcliffe Avenue caught fire around 11:30 p.m. The Mahoning County Coroner's Office confirms the children are Aleysha Rosario (9), Charles Gunn (3), Ly'Asia Gunn (2), and Brianna and Arianna Negron (1). Their mother 26-year-old, America Negron Acevedo, has been transferred to MetroHealth's Burn Center in Cleveland where she is receiving medical treatment. Neighbors tell 21 News that the family was fairly new to the neighborhood and only moved into the home six months ago. So it hits pretty hard and the fact that it's so close to Christmas hits even harder.” Investigators from the Youngstown Fire Arson Unit are investigating the cause of the fire. Acevedo's family says she is unaware of what is going on." ]

[ "The yoga demonstration and the flying car, for example, seemed to be aimed at Nintendo's Balance Board. And while it's too soon to tell exactly how Kinect will be used, and what software is being developed for it--Microsoft will say a lot more Monday morning at its formal E3 press conference--one thing became clear Sunday night: with Kinect, and a sports game, and an exercise game for it, Microsoft is, among other things, putting Nintendo and its Wii, its Balance Board, its Wii Fit and Wii Sports squarely in its sights. This was Wii Sports writ for Kinect. And then we saw a big multi-sports competition game, in which the family faced off in sports like Hurdles (jumping), javelin (throwing), bowling, beach volleyball, soccer and the 100-meter sprint. An official product shot of Kinect, formally known as Project Natal, the new motion-control system from Microsoft. After calling it Project Natal for more than a year, Microsoft finally gives its motion-control system a real name, formally unveiling Kinect during a special Cirque du Soleil performance.", "Among the games previewed by Microsoft was whitewater rafting and a racing game, as well as virtual Tai Chi and a preview of a Star Wars game that lets players fight Darth Vader with a light saber. Microsoft While the event was short on news, Microsoft did unveil a new name — Kinect — for Project Natal, the motion technology that lets users play videogames and interact with the Xbox 360 console with gestures and spoken commands. There was also a collection of sports games that lets players jump hurdles, run sprints, play volleyball, kick a soccer ball and bowl. However, unlike the Wii, Kinect doesn’t require a controller at all and, according to Microsoft, it can recognize a wider range of motion and even differentiate voices. Maybe it was the Cirque du Soleil acrobats dancing to taiko drums, the 9-foot tall elephant puppet or the ponchos with illuminating shoulder pads for audience members, but Microsoft’s much-anticipated Project Natal preview was a cross between a gospel revival and a Las Vegas show. Kinect is seen as Microsoft’s answer to Nintendo Co.’s Wii, which popularized game play. The Sunday night event, which kicked off the E3 Expo videogame industry tradeshow, was meant to be a way for audience members to get a sneak peek at Kinect.", "Kinect Adventures River rafting with multiple players that move their bodies in the raft. Along with Kinect games using Disney and Star Wars characters, there were also dashboard apps showing motion controls used to interact with Netflix. Tonight at a Microsoft event the company announced that the official name of their new motion-sensing controller for Xbox 360 is \"Kinect.\" Dance Central A dance-em-up game made by MTV Games. As we reported earlier a number of games were unveiled in a USA Today story that went up shortly before Microsoft could officially break the news. Users can also use motion controls to scroll through photos, start live video chats with friends, and share photos. From that event we've see a group of games that will accompany this new hardware that allows gamers to use their body as a controller. Kinect Sports Boxing, bowling, beach volleyball, track and field, soccer and table tennis." ]

[ "BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) say his trial should have been held outside the city because jurors couldn't avoid widespread outrage over the deadly attack and he deserves a new trial elsewhere. A filing by the lawyers on Monday explains their push for a new trial for Tsarnaev, who was sentenced to death. The legal term \"crime of violence\" was applied to Tsarnaev's actions. The lawyers argue a recent Supreme Court ruling about the vagueness of the definition of a \"crime of violence\" throws many convictions into question. Tsarnaev was convicted of 30 federal charges in the bombing, which killed three people died and injured more than 260.", "Attorneys for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev appealed his conviction and death sentence on Monday, arguing that publicity made it impossible for him to get a fair trial in the city and that capital punishment is unconstitutional. In court papers, defense lawyer William Fick cited a recent dissent by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer in which he said that he believes the death penalty \"now likely constitutes a legally prohibited 'cruel and unusual punishment.'\" However, the majority opinion in that very same case opened with the declaration that \"capital punishment is constitutional.\" It notes that Boston announced a new holiday marking the bombings while jurors were deliberating Tsarnaev's guilt. The appeal claims that \"continuous and unrelenting publicity\" about the bombings, the defendant and his family, and wrenching survivor stories prevented him from getting an impartial hearing.", "Most of the 62 inmates were put there for reasons that seem almost tangential – maybe a murder was conducted on federal land, or the gun used in a shooting was carried across state lines. Despite the dramatic news from court, the Boston Marathon bomber’s fate will take years to reach its conclusion: only three of 340 prisoners sentenced to federal death row have been executed in the last 50 years Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has become the 62nd inmate on federal death row after he was sentenced to death on Friday for his part in the Boston Marathon bombings. Almost half of Tsarnaev’s new federal death row peers were put there by just three states: Texas, which has put 11 prisoners there; Missouri, nine; and Virginia, seven." ]

[ "Today, the Democratic candidate will introduce a bill that, if passed, would eliminate for-profit prisons, expanding a national conversation on social justice, law enforcement, and prison reform. Sanders will introduce a bill to eliminate for-profit prisons, expanding a renewed national debate on social justice and prison reform. Thanks to three-strike laws and minimum sentencing requirements instituted in the 1980s and 1990s, the prison population has more than quadrupled over the past few decades; more than 1 percent of Americans are now behind bars.", "(Scott Olson/Getty Images) Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will unveil a plan Thursday to ban privately run jails and prisons, which he says have a “perverse incentive” to increase the number of incarcerated people in the country. Sanders is scheduled to appear at a news conference Thursday on Capitol Hill to unveil the bill, which is being sponsored in the House by Rep. Raul Manuel Grijalva (D-Ariz.). “You should not be making a profit off of putting people in prison.” Sanders’s “Justice Is Not For Sale Act,” which he plans to introduce as legislation in Congress, also includes several provisions intended to dramatically reduce the number of immigrants who are held in detention facilities while awaiting court hearings on their legal status. Among the immigration-related provisions in Sanders’s legislation is ending a congressional mandate that ICE maintains a minimum of 34,000 detainees a day.", "Sen. Bernie Sanders said he hopes to end the “private, for-profit prison racket” with the introduction Thursday of bills to ban private prisons, reinstate the federal parole system and eliminate quotas for the number of immigrants held in detention. The legislation would reinstate the federal parole system, abolished in 1984, and increase oversight of companies that provide banking and telephone services for inmates. Ellison said the private-prison industry spends millions each year lobbying for harsher sentencing laws and immigration policies that serve its bottom line. “Criminal justice and public safety are without a doubt the responsibility of the citizens of our country, not private corporations. “Making sure that corporations are not profiteering from the incarceration of fellow Americans is an important step forward.” Sanders said the bill represents only a piece of the major criminal justice reforms he believes are needed, but he’s convinced the issue can find bipartisan support. It also would end the requirement that Immigration and Customs Enforcement maintain 34,000 detention beds." ]

[ "Most people know how to eat an artichoke: Using your teeth, you scrape the meat from the bottom of each leaf. Among the alleged consequences of Carvajal eating an entire damn artichoke: \"disability, disfigurement, mental anguish,\" and \"loss of capacity for the enjoyment of life.\" But Miamian Arturo Carvajal, a doctor with a family practice in Hollywood and a litigant in one of the stranger lawsuits we've ever seen, was mystified by the vegetable. The server \"fail[ed] to explain the proper method of consuming an artichoke,\" he says, namely that the \"outside portion of the leaf should not be eaten; rather, only the inside portion of the leaf was safely digestible.\" Are we going to have to post warnings on our menu they shouldn't eat the bones in our barbecue ribs?\" You can guess the rest of the story.", "That is the contention of a customer of a Florida restaurant, who argues that Houston's Restaurant in Miami should have taught him about the right way to eat an artichoke. According to his Oct. 25 lawsuit filed in circuit court in Miami-Dade County against Hillstone Restaurant Group Inc., Arturo Carvajal said he was a customer in May 2009 when he was offered a house special of grilled artichokes, which was not on the menu. Are restaurants legally obligated to educate their customers about potentially dangerous vegetables? As a result, Mr. Carvajal began “experiencing severe abdominal pain and discomfort,” according to the suit. Mr. Carvajal said he had neither seen nor heard of the dish previously, and his waiter never told him that the outside portion of the leaf is indigestible." ]

[ "Police have found the 2-year-old who was reportedly taken, along with his mother — who later escaped — in a situation police described as complicated. UPDATE, 9:40 a.m.: Police say 2-year-old Ronnie Tran has been found safe in Renton, but they are still looking for the boy’s 65-year-old paternal grandmother. A Hyundai Sonata that was used in the alleged abduction was located, and one woman has been taken into custody, police said. A previous version of this story said Nguyen was the child’s maternal grandmother, but the relationship was clarified by Graddon later Wednesday morning. Mike Graddon said at a news conference Wednesday morning that the alleged abduction is complicated and involves a lot of people.", "ABC News has been unable to reach the suspects. Police say both face three felony charges: kidnapping, felony assault, and unlawful imprisonment. An alleged kidnapping was brought to a halt after a babysitter realized the child in his care was the subject of an Amber Alert, authorities said." ]

[ "\"This film's success is based on critical acclaim, awards buzz and audience reaction, all of which have been stellar thus far.\" But in the slow weekend, the looming tidal wave is the mega-release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Friday). \"We're bracing. The Big Short scored an 86% approval rating on RottenTomatoes.com and an A from audiences at CinemaScore. (Photo: Jonathan Prime) The low Sea numbers led to another easy victory for the buoyant Mockingjay, which earned $11.3 million in its fourth weekend for a total of $244.5 million. Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE Katniss and her district engage in a revolution against the Capitol in 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2.'", "In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. \"In the Heart of the Sea\" reveals the encounter's harrowing aftermath, as the ship's surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive. Braving storms, starvation, panic and despair, the men will call into question their deepest beliefs, from the value of their lives to the morality of their trade, as their captain searches for direction on the open sea and his first mate still seeks to bring the great whale down. But that told only half the story. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.", "Warner Bros/Everett Collection Ending a painful year at the box office with one last disappointment, Warner Bros.’ “In the Heart of the Sea” quickly sank upon its release this weekend. Getting their attention in the next few weeks will be challenging, however, as presumed blockbuster “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” debuts Thursday night and six films open or expand nation-wide on Christmas Day. With “In the Heart of the Sea” failing to draw much attention, several movies already in the market saw only modest declines in ticket sales including “Mockingjay,” “The Good Dinosaur,” and the “Rocky” follow-up “Creed,” one of Warner’s few hits this year. The Wall Street comedy-drama “The Big Short,” riding strong reviews and Golden Globe nominations, grossed $720,000 at eight theaters." ]

[ "It's able to discern between water and rocks to a depth of about 1,500 feet beneath the surface. The electromagnetic system was developed in Denmark to map out groundwater supplies in Denmark. The study is a collaboration between the U.S.G.S., Yellowstone National Park, the University of Wyoming and Denmark's Aarhus University. In Yellowstone, a better understanding of the hydrothermal plumbing could help administrators plot out future development so tourists can enjoy the park's features without damaging them or being put into harm's way. (AP) — Scientists from the U.S. and Denmark are seeking to map out the plumbing system hidden inside the earth's crust that's responsible for the famous Old Faithful geyser and other hydrothermal features at Yellowstone National Park. Throughout November the research team will conduct flights over the park using a giant, hoop-shaped electromagnetic system suspended from a helicopter.", "The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in collaboration with the Aarhus University in Denmark and the University of Wyoming, will use a helicopter carrying electromagnetic technology that resembles a giant hula hoop to record tiny voltage signals. This week, a survey will begin to map the underground hydrothermal features of Yellowstone National Park for the first time. The data will be able to tell the scientists if they are flying over solid earth, “rotten” sulfuric rock, or water. The researchers will fly the helicopter along the Mammoth-Norris corridor and take at least four weeks to complete. “There’s just a lot we don’t know and this survey is really exciting because it’s going to be the first view of a large portion of the groundwater system, of the water underground that feeds all of these thermal features,” said Finn. “This survey can visualize the geology and the water down to about 500 meters, so 1500 feet.” The goal of the project is to fill in the gaps of knowledge about what causes geysers like Old Faithful and hydrothermal explosions by locating where all that heated water flows underground." ]

[ "Thirty-three years ago, Peter Brosnan heard a story that seemed too crazy to be true: buried somewhere along California’s rugged Central Coast, beneath acres of sand dunes, lay the remains of a lost city. The faux Egyptian scenery had played the role of the City of the Pharaoh in one of Hollywood’s first true epics, Cecil B DeMille’s 1923 film The Ten Commandments. According to his friend at New York University’s film school, the remains of a massive Egyptian temple, a dozen plaster sphinxes, eight mammoth lions, and four 40-ton statues of Ramses II were all supposedly entombed in the sands 150 some-odd miles north of Los Angeles. Charlton Heston, star of DeMille’s 1956 remake of the film, publicly wished the project well, and local archaeologists volunteered their time to help in the excavation. It’s a charming little museum that seems out of place among the shuttered movie theater and boarded up buildings of Guadalupe, but the Dunes and DeMille are the only source of tourism dollars in this largely agricultural area, Jenzen says. In 1923, set design was the only way to visually transport viewers to the Sinai in the time of Moses. Filming was done at a madcap pace and condensed into a mere three weeks, according to Scott Eyman’s biography, Empire of Dreams: The Epic Life of Cecil B. DeMille.", "\"We have one historical photograph of the camp itself and we're trying to align that with features that are currently on the ground to relocate the location,\" said Hamilton. M. Colleen Hamilton is an archaeologist working on the project and said roughly 25-hundred people lived in the camp for several months during the film's production. There is a search underway for more artifacts buried deep in the sands of the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes. In recent years, a sphinx statue was unearthed in the dunes dating back to the same movie directed by Cecil B. DeMille in the early 1920s. Now, a company called Applied Earthworks is helping the center in its search to find even more. Their goal is to to pinpoint a large camp, built specifically for a Hollywood movie production of The Ten Commandments nearly a century ago. Flying high above vast mountains of sand on the San Luis Obispo-Santa Barbara County line, photographers are snapping detailed pictures of the topography below." ]

[ "The owner of the drilling rig involved in the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico criticized the U.S. government's six-month ban on deepwater drilling in the area Tuesday. Workers climb over a boom after cleaning oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill on a beach, Monday, June 21, 2010, in Grand Isle, La. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) (Associated Press) Oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill invades the beach, Monday, June 21, 2010, in Port Fourchon, La. \"The Deepwater Horizon blowout was a game-changer,\" Montero said.", "New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday called a six-month halt on deepwater drilling \"needed, appropriate and within our authorities\" in announcing he will issue a new order on a moratorium just hours after a federal judge blocked such a mandate. \"We see clear evidence every day, as oil spills from BP's well, of the need for a pause on deepwater drilling,\" Salazar said in a statement. \"That evidence mounts as BP continues to be unable to stop its blowout, notwithstanding the huge efforts and help from the federal scientific team and most major oil companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico.\" But a group of companies that provides boats and equipment to the offshore drilling industry filed a lawsuit claiming the government has no evidence that existing operations pose a threat to the Gulf of Mexico and asked the court to declare the moratorium invalid and unenforceable. President Barack Obama ordered the moratorium after the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, an oil rig off Louisiana." ]

[ "JAKARTA An aircraft with 54 people on board crashed in Indonesia's remote and mountainous region of Papua on Sunday, a government official said, the latest in a string of aviation disasters in the Southeast Asian nation. Indonesia's president promised a review of the ageing air force fleet in July after a military transport plane crashed in the north of the country, killing more than 100 people. The AirAsia crash prompted the Indonesian government to introduce regulations aimed at improving safety.", "Image copyright AP Image caption The missing plane, pictured in 2010 The wreckage of an Indonesian plane which went missing with 54 people on board has been spotted in the remote western Papua region, officials say. Last December an AirAsia plane crashed in the Java Sea, killing all 192 people on board - and in July a military transport plane crashed in a residential area of Medan, Sumatra claiming 140 lives. Indonesia has suffered two major air disasters in the past year." ]

[ "Biofilm on the dome of the Jefferson Memorial National Park Service photo August 10, 2016 Contact: Mike Litterst, 202-245-4676 \"The increased presence of biofilm presents a new challenge in the care of memorials throughout the National Mall, particularly at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial,\" said Gay Vietzke, superintendent of National Mall and Memorial Parks. The blackening effects of biofilm are not a problem unique to the Jefferson Memorial. \"We are continuing to study biofilm and research treatment methods, and look forward to restoring the dome to its original luster while ensuring its long-term preservation.\" The culprit is a colony of microscopic organisms, called biofilm, which adheres to stone surfaces and is proving a challenge as the National Park Service investigates how to treat it.", "Six years ago, a $12.4 million repair project shored up its poorly supported seawall, which had been sinking into the basin. During the annual Cherry Blossom Festival, it is a prime backdrop for photographers. And in 2014, a large chunk of limestone fell from the ceiling. National Park Service officials are preparing to work on removing the black scum coating areas of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington. (Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post) It has given the elegant white memorial on Washington’s Tidal Basin a dingy look, and, Blob-like, it is growing. [Jefferson Memorial seawall sinking into the Tidal Basin] The memorial turns 75 in two years. [Refurbished DC War Memorial, a tribute to city’s WWI dead, reopens] It’s somewhat akin to other biofilms, like dental plaque, the Park Service said." ]

[ "Tweet with a location You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history.", "2/5 I have been focused on this issue, backing anti-NIMBY group SFBARF and speaking out frequently about the need to lower cost of housing. The reality of such a high Bay Area cost of living is... 5/5 entry level jobs migrate to where costs of living are lower. Have already announced we are growing EAT24 support in AZ for this reason. \"We agree with her comments about the high costs of living in San Francisco, which is why we announced in December that we are expanding our Eat24 customer support team into our Phoenix office where will pay the same wage.\"", "— Lady Murderface (@itsa_talia) February 20, 2016 Her post ricocheted around the Internet (her account trended on Twitter in San Francisco), as it was a rare public censure of company exec, and it touches on the sensitive issue of high housing costs in the Bay Area. On Jane’s points about cost of living, a Yelp rep wrote: “We agree with her comments about the high costs of living in San Francisco, which is why we announced in December that we are expanding our Eat24 customer support team into our Phoenix office where will pay the same wage.” In a message, Jane said she did not anticipate the reception to her post, both from the Internet and Yelp. Jane started working as a customer service exec for Eat24, the delivery service owned by Yelp, in August. Late on Friday afternoon, Talia Jane, a customer service employee for Yelp, penned a letter to CEO Jeremy Stoppelman on Medium condemning the company for its low pay. Her claims also fly in the face of the standard view of tech employees as coddled and overpaid.", "From tips for running a business, to pitfalls to avoid, /r/business teaches you the smart moves and helps you dodge the foolish. 452k 1.6k Online /r/business brings you the best of your business section.", "Add a location to your Tweets When you tweet with a location, Twitter stores that location. You can switch location on/off before each Tweet and always have the option to delete your location history. Learn more", "Tweet with a location You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history.", "The Internet erupted this weekend when Yelp fired one of its customer service agents, Talia Jane, a few hours after she posted an article to Medium entitled, \"An Open Letter To My CEO.\" But I also see Ms. Jane's open letter as an opportunity for Yelp to turn the misguided intentions of an employee into a new and redefined organizational purpose (at least for the Bay Area). I fully understand the rationale for terminating Ms. Jane on the spot. The crux of the open letter was what Ms. Jane considered her inferior level of compensation when compared to her Bay Area living expenses, be it rent, groceries, electricity, Internet, transportation and so on. She settled on a role in customer service at Yelp (having moved to the Bay Area to be near her father) as a way in which to transfer into Yelp's Media department, her true passion. In all seriousness, a public attack on your CEO is never a good idea.", "That is because the issues I outlined here are the result of much larger problems within the gig economy. Do you think it’s because the pay your company offers is designed to attract young people with no responsibilities, sort of like the CIA? And if you really think someone working full time shouldn’t point out that it’s insane that a full time job isn’t enough to support a single person just doing their best (when the minimum wage was established to support a family of three and has failed to keep up with skyrocketing cost of living), you’re being willfully stupid and that’s not my problem. But if you really need to call me a whiny entitled millennial just to feel superior and/or less afraid of the reality of our world, have at it." ]

[ "Are you affected by the flooding? At least 37 people have died in the severe weather over the past five days, from either tornadoes or flooding brought on by epic rainfall. More downpours, possible flooding on the way Houston, one of the hardest-hit cities in the flooding, could see more storms for at least the next five days, the National Weather Service said. JUST WATCHED Rescuers risk their lives to save flood victims Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Rescuers risk their lives to save flood victims 03:53 On Wednesday, crews found a boy's body on the banks of the Blanco River, Hays County officials said. Southwest of Houston, officials in Wharton, Texas, called for a voluntary evacuation on the western side of the city Wednesday as forecasters warned that the Colorado River was likely to rise above flood stage by Thursday. And in flood-stricken Hays County, where eight people remain missing, officials are bracing for more havoc.", "AUSTIN, Texas Hundreds of people fled areas near Texas rivers that overflowed their banks on Thursday as the state reeled from severe storms this week that killed at least 16 people, flooded cities and set a record for the wettest month. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch on Thursday stretching from south of San Antonio to Dallas, through Oklahoma, where severe weather this week killed an additional six people, and into Kansas. \"We are not expecting another surge of the river but it is going to shift debris piles,\" Kharley Smith, the county's emergency management coordinator, told a news conference. \"They appear to have the assets they need at this stage to respond, but there’s going to be a lot of rebuilding,\" Obama said in Miami on Thursday during a tour of the National Hurricane Center. President Barack Obama has pledged federal support and said the U.S. government had been working with local officials.", "Play Facebook Twitter Embed Dallas doused with downpours, stranding many 1:13 autoplay autoplay Copy this code to your website or blog Scores of people were rescued from flash flooding in central Texas early Friday, as emergency responders throughout the state struggled to cope with another round of storms during the wettest May on record. The latest flooding alerts have been widespread, extending nearly 800 miles from southern Texas to central Missouri, according to The Weather Channel. In Dallas alone, more than 200 people — all believed to be in cars — were rescued from flooding in the city overnight, according to the Dallas Office of Emergency Management. At least 27 people have died and 13 went missing in flooding across the state this week.", "Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period." ]

[ "Will we have the first American sitcom with openly HIV-positive star? Still, despite his 2011 public meltdown that led to his firing from 2.5 Men and heavy drug and alcohol abuse to which Sheen has confessed, most recently in the Today interview, he was able to complete 100 episodes of Anger Management in 2.5 years and is looking for a follow-up series. Charlie Sheen, who yesterday publicly acknowledged his condition following a National Enquirer report, had been looking to topline another primetime comedy series. In the weeks leading to the admission, Sheen had been actively meeting with producers about developing a new half-hour starring vehicle for him.", "Charlie Sheen on “Anger Management.” (Greg Gayne/FX) Apparently lost in the massive Sony e-mail hack that wreaked havoc on Hollywood last winter: this e-mail sent to several Sony Pictures Television executives in March 2014: “I think I will win the 90/10 bet on the over under on this … it’s hard to to be a drug addict and be HIV positive and do 40 eps a year.” Included was a link to a TV Week article about how Charlie Sheen was a no-show on the set of his FX series “Anger Management,” and crew members were so frustrated they were threatening to quit. As a reminder, Sheen landed the series, which aired from June 2012 to December 2014, after he imploded and was fired from CBS’s “Two and a Half Men.” The conventional wisdom at the time was that Sheen, known for erratic behavior, would be able to hold it together for 100 “Anger Management” episodes shot in just a couple years. And while Sheen’s announcement that he is HIV-positive (and his claims that he spent $10 million trying to keep it quiet) was a huge story this week, a passing reference to the news was out there for two years for anyone to see, be it publications that initially pored over the documents or anyone who dug into the Wikileaks Sony hack page. “I have a couple of films lined up that I could, you know, put start dates on. You are, I imagine in need of working again … how do you think this revelation might impact your status or standing in Hollywood?” “As we speak, I have the chairman of Sony excited about doing a show again,” Sheen said." ]

[ "Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period.", "Casey Anthony's Parents Defend Themselves in First Interview Two months after their daughter was acquitted of murdering their granddaughter, Casey Anthony's parents, George and Cindy Anthony, have broken their silence and granted an interview to Dr. Phil McGraw , who confronts them about certain aspects of the case.In excerpts that aired Monday on NBC's Today show, McGraw asks Cindy about her distraught MySpace message that began \"My Caylee is missing,\" which she posted on July 3, some 12 days before 2-year-old Caylee Anthony was reported missing. \"Cindy also defends George against the suggestion that he knew of Caylee's disappearance. All I know is that Caylee is not with us anymore. \"The full interview – for which McGraw's production company reportedly paid a fee to Caylee's Fund, not directly to the Anthonys – will air Tuesday and Wednesday on his TV show.For more on Casey Anthony's true-crime drama, based on PEOPLE's unparalleled access at key moments of the case, buy PEOPLE's book Outrage, available now at People.com/caseyanthony \"McGraw also asks both parents about the smell in the trunk of Casey's car." ]

[ "A freak accident along the I-10 near the California-Arizona border sent a bus full of sleeping passengers bound for LA rolling over the side of the road on Wednesday, killing 4 people and injuring several others. Pipes Scattered on Freeway at Site of Bus Crash Video from the scene of a fatal bus crash shows the large metal pipes that a bus driver likely swerved to avoid before the bus overturned. The crash occurred Wednesday May 21, 2014 in Blythe, California. Thirty-two people were on the El Paso-Los Angeles Limousine Express bus, according to Caltrans officials. A California Highway Patrol officer told the Associated Press that three passengers were airlifted and four others were transported in ambulances to hospitals.", "A tractor-trailer spilled a load of steel pipes onto a highway, triggering a bus crash Wednesday... (Associated Press) BLYTHE, Calif. (AP) — In the second deadly recent crash involving a bus and a truck in California, four passengers were killed when their bus struck a load of metal pipes scattered across a dark highway. Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a fatal accident in Blythe, Calif. on Wednesday, May 21, 2014." ]

[ "Their mom learned they went missing from the shelter in Aug. 24, and told police that they were seeking asylum in the U.S., adding that the Saudi government had ordered the entire family home. The sisters moved to the U.S. in mid-2015, sources said.", "Test of time: How modern technology is saving Jeddah's Al-Balad heritage site JEDDAH: In comparison with the developments of modern urban infrastructure, Jeddah’s ancient port center of Al-Balad has largely stood the test of time. Documenting the past to preserve future FalconViz’s mission is to “digitally document the world.” They provide and use the latest drone technology to “assist, improve, and accelerate the process of documenting a city’s most valued cultural assets. “This project was one of our first, and one of the first in Saudi Arabia, and we are very proud to be a part of this renewed effort to carefully restore these cultural treasures that are an intangible part of human culture and history,” Abdelgawad said. In the past 50 years, UNESCO has served to provide the incentive to preserve historical sites such as Al-Balad, which is considered a staple of Hijazi architecture. The benefit is twofold, as the same technology that is being used for preservation is used toward the development of modern urban infrastructure, planning, and construction. Although Al-Balad has been a UNESCO Cultural Heritage Site since 2014, many of its historical buildings have perished due to fire and disrepair. Assisting in these efforts is a Saudi-based 3D surveying and mapping firm called FalconViz, which uses state-of-the-art drone technology and Autodesk software to document and register these historical buildings for the preservation of future generations." ]

[ "He is also wanted in New Mexico on two counts of conspiracy to commit murder in the first degree and two counts of conspiracy to commit aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, Vermont police told CBC News. (Christinne Muschi/Reuters) The New Mexico Corrections Department has confirmed it is in the process of extraditing Staake to New Mexico, but Cristina Rodda, the public affairs director, could not confirm whether Staake was the accused in a plot to kill Bieber. Martin is currently being held in segregation at Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility in Las Cruces, N.M., according to the corrections department. There are reports of a plot to kill the Canadian singer. Staake and Martin have both served time at the Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility.", "He was the target last year of an allegation that he fathered a child with an obsessed fan after a brief encounter in a backstage bathroom. In an email to the Star, Melissa Victor, vice president of media and artist relations at Island Def Jam Music Group, said: “We take every precaution to protect and insure the safety of Justin and his fans.” Justin Bieber Sean Kilpatrick/THE CANADIAN PRESS file photo In an email to the Star, Melissa Victor, vice president of media and artist relations at Island Def Jam Music Group, said: “We take every precaution to protect and insure the safety of Justin and his fans.” Jeff Green and Shawna Richer Staff Reporters WARNING: THIS STORY CONTAINS GRAPHIC DETAILS Nothing seemed out of the ordinary when teen pop star Justin Bieber played two sold-out nights at Madison Square Garden in New York on Nov. 28 and 29. Police say 41-year-old Mark Staake (LEFT) and his 23-year-old nephew Tanner Ruane (RIGHT) were part of a murder-for-hire plot to mutilate and kill Canadian pop star Justin Bieber. Accused Anonymous/AP Police say 41-year-old Mark Staake (LEFT) and his 23-year-old nephew Tanner Ruane (RIGHT) were part of a murder-for-hire plot to mutilate and kill Canadian pop star Justin Bieber. That same day, Ruane phoned Martin in a call, recorded by the prison, telling him of Staake’s arrest. In the recorded conversation, Ruane tells Martin that Staake was going to “handle the whole putting down of the ‘dogs’ and I (Mr. Ruane) was going to go ‘snip, snip.’” Martin went to police the next day and Ruane was arrested Nov. 26 by New York State Police, who had been on the lookout for the BMW." ]

[ "A defense attorney says Iran has set bail of $500,000 each for two American men arrested more than two years ago and convicted on spy-related charges. The bail amount is the same set last year for the release of a third American, Sarah Shourd, who was arrested with Bauer and Fattal along the Iran-Iraq border in July 2009. The Swiss represent U.S. interests in Iran. Lawyer Masoud Shafiei says the court would free Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal after payment of the bail. Shafiei says he informed the Swiss Embassy on Tuesday of the decision.", "“They have created problems for themselves because we have a large economy.” Ahmadinejad brushed off reports of a serious rift between him and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme religious and political authority in the Islamic republic. “Can you find two people in the world who are the same?” he said in response to a question about the split, which surfaced this year when Ahmadinejad attempted to dismiss his intelligence minister, only to be overruled by Khamenei. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that he intends to release two Americans who have been jailed on charges of espionage for two years and grant them a “unilateral pardon.” “I am helping to arrange for their release in a couple of days so they will be able to return home,” Ahmadinejad told The Washington Post in an hour-long interview at his office here. Call for elections in Syria Ahmadinejad parried questions Tuesday about Iran’s ties with the embattled government in Syria, a key ally. Ahmadinejad’s decision to pardon the men is subject to review by Iran’s clerical authorities." ]

[ "Kelsey Grammer 6 Before he was out of his teens, Grammer had experienced more loss than most people do in a lifetime. Growing up, he lived with his mother and grandfather, who he lost at age 11. The killer was found not guilty by reason of insanity and sent to a psychiatric hospital instead of prison. Then, in 1980, his two half-brothers died in a scuba diving accident in St. Thomas. Two years later, his dad was shot and set on fire.", "In the world of action movies, every character has some kind of crazy backstory, but there are only so many times a character can turn out to be the son of an infamous assassin or a child tragically orphaned by the mob and raised in an inner city dive bar before the movie officially becomes a comedy. Then you find out that those things happened to Woody Harrelson and Dylan McDermott in real life, and you realize actors' lives are sometimes way crazier than any character they played in a movie ... 5 Woody Harrelson's Dad Was a Contract Killer Woody Harrelson's Dad Was a Contract Killer Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images Continue Reading Below Advertisement Woody Harrelson has enjoyed a long and fruitful career, with such memorable roles as Woody on Cheers and a recent turn as a detective on True Detective. Woody is such a likeable, laid-back guy that it's hard to believe his father was a cold-blooded contract killer who murdered people at the behest of criminals. This is another way of saying that he got out of prison after serving only five years of his sentence and immediately murdered a judge." ]

[ "Suddenly, with the advent of smartphones, snapping a 'pic' of one's own image has acquired a vastly overused term that seems to pop up on almost every form of social media available to us….A self-snapped picture need not have a name all its own beyond 'photograph.' Lake Superior State University 2014 List of Banished Words Tweet Add your comments on our Facebook page SELFIE Has the honor of receiving the most nominations this year. \"It was a funny movie in its time, but the phrase should refer only to the film, not to men in the real world. It received nearly as many nominations as \"selfie\" and \"twerk\" from coast to coast in the U.S. and Canada, mostly from men. LSSU has an almost self-imposed duty to carry out this banishment now.\" It is an insult to the millions of dads who are the primary caregivers for their children. \"People have taken pictures of themselves for almost as long as George Eastman's company made film and cameras.", "Spoiler alert: This story contains words and phrases that some people want to ban from the English language. \"Spoiler alert\" is among them. At the risk of further offense, here's another spoiler alert: The phrase receiving the most nominations this year is \"fiscal cliff,\" banished because of its overuse by media outlets when describing across-the-board federal tax increases and spending cuts that economists say could harm the economy in the new year without congressional action. A dirty dozen have landed on the 38th annual List of Words to be Banished from the Queen's English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness. \"Spoiler alert,\" the seemingly thoughtful way to warn readers or viewers about looming references to a key plot point in a film or TV show, nevertheless passed its use-by date for many, including Joseph Foly, of Fremont, California. The nonbinding, tongue-in-cheek decree released Monday by northern Michigan's Lake Superior State University is based on nominations submitted from the United States, Canada and beyond." ]

[ "Central African Republic - The Central African Republic is a central African country. Kazakhstan is located in Central Asia bordering 5 countries, China, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The country borders 6 countries including Cameroon, Central African Republic, Libya, Niger, Nigeria, and Sudan. Afghanistan is bordering 6 countries including Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, China, and Iran. Afghanistan - Afghanistan is a South Asian landlocked country with an area of 647,500 km² and a population of 29,117,000 people. The world has a total of 43 landlocked countries with the largest being Kazakhstan. The population of the country is 3 million people. Mongolia is located in northern Asia bordering 2 countries China and Russia. Kazakhstan - Kazakhstan is the largest landlocked country in the world with an area of 2,724,900 km² and the ninth largest in the world.", "The Expos (expositions) are the modern evolution of The Great Exhibition, but maintain the same purpose: to showcase to the world the strengths and prospects of the host city or nation. Kazakhstan’s glittering capital is already regarded in niche travel circles for its captivating architecture, with the skyline increasingly filling with ambitious, space-age skyscrapers and monuments, including the 150-metre Bayterek Tower and the Palace of Peace and Reconciliation, designed by acclaimed British architect Norman Foster. The city’s old centre still harbours a “Soviet atmosphere”, according to the Kazakh tourist board. Beyond the impressive architecture, Astana boasts a rich Soviet history. European cities are all about charm and character – shimmering skylines are not really our style.", "The Kazakh tourism board boasts about the diversity of the country’s tourism industry, which range from cultural excursions to skiing and trekking in the mountains, and water sports in nearby lakes and rivers. Between Europe and Asia, the Kazakhstan has a complicated and rich history, a unique and authentic culture and landscapes where east and west meet. The former Soviet city, which has undergone a huge makeover, is launching itself as a new Singapore at the heart of central Asia. The city of Astana may be difficult to place on a map, but the capital of Kazakhstan is already becoming a hype destination in travelling circles. The city’s blend of old and new architecture will no doubt be an attraction to the hundreds of thousands of visitors expected to attend the 2017 Expo." ]

[ "Bendel was an early pioneer in the American fashion industry as the first luxury retailer to open an “upper Fifth Avenue address” and the first to stage a fashion show, according to its website. RELATED PHOTOS: Every Must-See Moment from New York Fashion Week In 1913, Bendel introduced Coco Chanel’s designs to the U.S. and even employed Andy Warhol as its in-house illustrator in the 1960s. Bendel’s parent company L Brands, which acquired the department store in 1985, announced the news Thursday due to the retailer’s declining sales. Ben Hider/Getty Images After 123 years in business, Henri Bendel will be closing its doors in Jan. 2019. Click here to subscribe to the PeopleStyle Newsletter for amazing shopping discounts, can’t-live-without beauty products and more.", "In 1913, the brand became one of the first luxury retailers to open a flagship store with an \"upper FIfth Avenue address,\" according to its website. L Brands acquired Bendel in 1985 and led its expansion into 11 states. The upscale brand, best known for its designer purses and shoes, was founded in 1895 by Henri Bendel. The stock is down 55% for the year, making it one of worst performing companies in the S&P 500 for the year. L Brands is having a difficult 2018 because of increased retail competition. The company said Bendel's 2018 sales were approximately $85 million, adding that it's in the process of estimating closing costs." ]

[ "From their home in Prescott, Ariz., they issued an impassioned plea to the Islamic State, which had held her captive since August 2013, and urged the extremist organization to contact them privately with proof of her death. Those photos are among the few clues about her life and death in captivity, as is a letter that she wrote from her cell last year and that her family made public on Tuesday. Two showed Ms. Mueller, who was 26, in a black hijab, or Muslim head covering, that partly obscured her face. For one tortured weekend, the parents of Kayla Mueller refused to believe that their daughter was dead. Another showed her in a white burial shroud, which is used in traditional Muslim funerals. The images showed bruises on the face, but both people, who reviewed the photographs and asked not to be identified given the sensitivity of the matter, said it remained unclear whether her injuries were consistent with being killed in the rubble of a flattened building, as the Islamic State reported. Two people briefed on the family’s communication with the Islamic State said that her parents had received at least three photos.", "Reports that have been published by certain news outlets regarding Kayla's time in ISIL [ISIS] captivity are speculative and unproven at this time. Add Interest With the confirmed death of Kayla Mueller, new details have emerged about the American hostage’s experience in ISIS captivity, including the belief by some officials that she had been given over to a commander in the jihadi group. At this time, given the distress that anonymously-sourced reports regarding Kayla's time in captivity are causing her family, we are providing this comment with the Mueller family's consent. The U.S. Government continues to analyze any information regarding Kayla's captivity but has not corroborated any of the multiple theories regarding the conditions throughout the duration of her captivity. [This report was updated Feb. 11 to include a statement from the White House National Security Council.]", "Facebook Twitter Google Plus Embed 2:10 autoplay autoplay Copy this code to your website or blog Friends and family of slain ISIS hostage Kayla Mueller said they hoped her death would achieve what she'd worked for before she was kidnapped: raising the awareness of Syrian refugees. Facebook Twitter Google Plus Embed 2:08 autoplay autoplay Copy this code to your website or blog In an interview with BuzzFeed News on Tuesday, President Obama called Mueller \"an outstanding young woman and a great spirit — and I think that spirit will live on.\" \"The things that were important to Kayla are finally getting the attention they deserve,\" aunt Lori Lyon said in a tearful news conference in her hometown of Prescott, Arizona, Tuesday — hours after the family confirmed that Mueller had died while in ISIS' hands. We mourn with the Muellers over the death of their daughter, Kayla Mueller.", "But the plight of families fleeing the violence in war-torn Syria drew her to Turkey in December 2012. An attempt to rescue Kayla Mueller and other American hostages occurred in a July 4 raid previously disclosed by the Pentagon. President Obama confirmed for the first time Tuesday that Mueller was one of the hostages Delta Force commandos ‎attempted to rescue in a raid on an oil refinery facility in northern Syria in summer 2014. Obama said the U.S. has a commitment to devote \"enormous\" resources to free hostages anywhere in the world.‎ Relatives of Mueller, who was abducted while volunteering in Syria, announced Tuesday that they had received confirmation that she is dead." ]

[ "The South Korean military says North Korea attempted to launch a missile on April 15, the birthday of the country’s \"eternal president,\" Kim Il Sung, but that it failed. [North Korea has new rocket system that could strike Seoul this year, South Korea warns] North Korea is banned by U.N. Security Council resolutions from launching ballistic missiles or carrying out nuclear tests, but it continues to do so. The international community has responded to North Korea’s latest provocations with tough sanctions aimed at cutting off the state’s ability to procure parts and finance its weapons-of-mass-destruction program. Amid this background of heightened tensions, North Korea has been preparing for two key events — the anniversary of Kim Il Sung’s birth and the first congress of the communist Workers’ Party in 36 years. Read more: North Korea scolds Obama by adopting the voice of Abraham Lincoln What it’s like to be an American held in North Korea The weird world of North Korea’s restaurants abroad", "SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea attempted and failed to launch what experts believe was an intermediate-range ballistic missile on Friday in defiance of U.N. sanctions and in an embarrassing setback for leader Kim Jong Un, drawing criticism from major ally China. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un watches the ballistic rocket launch drill of the Strategic Force of the Korean People's Army (KPA) at an unknown location, in this undated file photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang on March 11, 2016. North Korea leader Kim Jong Un smiles as he visits Sohae Space Center in Cholsan County, North Pyongan province for the testing of a new engine for an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on April 9, 2016. REUTERS/KCNA The U.S. Defense Department called the test of the road-mobile missile, which came as North Korea celebrated the birthday of Kim’s grandfather and North Korea’s founding father Kim Il Sung, a “fiery, catastrophic” failure." ]

[ "(Getty Images) A photograph of a 9-year old Indian boy tethered to a bus stop in Mumbai has drawn outrage from Indians about the lack of resources for the disabled, according to Getty Images. Lakhan Kale's grandmother tied him to a bus stop so she didn't lose him, when she worked. Pictures of the boy lying listlessly on the ground were printed in the local newspapers this week and drew outrage from readers. The boy has since been taken to a children's shelter. Lakhan Kale cannot hear or speak and has cerebral palsy and epilepsy.", "It is perhaps for the first time that his ceiling isn't the sky or bus stop number five. Nine-year-old Lakhan is a pavement dweller who suffers from cerebral palsy and seizure disorder. On Wednesday, with the help of Mutha, police sub-inspector SG Phanse and sub-inspector Santosh Tore were able to admit Lakhan to The Children's Aid Society, a shelter for destitute, orphaned and victimised kids in Dongri.", "A long-awaited bill was introduced into the Indian parliament in February aiming to give disabled people equal rights - but it has yet to be passed Mr Raturi, who handles disability cases at the Human Rights Law Network, said he hoped the new parliament elected this month, dominated by incoming prime minister Narendra Modi's right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party, would ‘listen to the stakeholders and then make a decision’. A long-awaited bill was introduced into the Indian parliament in February aiming to give disabled people equal rights - including access to education, employment and legal redress against discrimination - but it has yet to be passed. 'There's a major need for the government to do something, a social responsibility to provide residential centres for children like Lakhan' Meena Mutha, social worker ‘There's no collective responsibility." ]

[ "When chef Mario Batali stepped away from his business empire this past winter, after nine women made accusations against him, it may have surprised his fans, but it did not come as a shock to many of the people who'd worked for him, or served him at The Spotted Pig, a New York City restaurant he'd invested in and frequently visited. The Spotted Pig, a New York City restaurant Mario Batali frequently visited CBS News Trish Nelson: He would ask to wrestle with me. The New York Police Department confirms to 60 Minutes that there is an ongoing criminal investigation into Mario Batali. Batali is one of the biggest stars in cooking. Trish Nelson was a waitress at The Spotted Pig, who frequently served Mario Batali. Over the last six months we've talked to dozens of people who worked there, or in Mario Batali's restaurants.", "Mario Batali is under criminal investigation for allegations of sexual misconduct. Update: The Daily News reports that police are also looking into another, similar incident. The New York Police Department tells 60 Minutes that it has an ongoing investigation into the celebrity chef for potentially criminal behavior. NYPD tells Eater that it’s looking at the assault allegations raised in the 60 Minutes report.", "The allegation were eerily similar to the one revealed in an interview aired Sunday, when another woman told CBS' Anderson Cooper that Batali drugged and raped her in 2005, in his West Village restaurant Spotted Pig." ]

[ "Cover story Reports of abuse AIDS exacerbates sexual exploitation of nuns, reports allege By JOHN L. ALLEN JR. and PAMELA SCHAEFFER NCR Staff, Rome and Kansas City, Mo. S everal reports written by senior members of women’s religious orders and by an American priest assert that sexual abuse of nuns by priests, including rape, is a serious problem, especially in Africa and other parts of the developing world. The reports, five in all, indicate that in Africa particularly, a continent ravaged by HIV and AIDS, young nuns are sometimes seen as safe targets of sexual activity. Although the problem has not been aired in public, the reports have been discussed in councils of religious women and men and in the Vatican. In November 1998, a four-page paper titled “The Problem of the Sexual Abuse of African Religious in Africa and Rome” was presented by Missionaries of Our Lady of Africa Sr. Marie McDonald, the report’s author, to the Council of 16, a group that meets three times a year. His talk, which focused on several moral and ethical issues related to AIDS, was titled, “Theological Challenges Posed by the Global Pandemic of HIV/AIDS.” ‘Necessary to mention’ Vitillo, a priest of the Paterson, N.J., diocese, declined requests from NCR for an interview on the content of his talk.", "Some nuns are now finding their voices, buoyed by the #MeToo movement and the growing recognition that adults can be victims of sexual abuse when there is an imbalance of power in a relationship. After decades of silence, the nun is one of a handful worldwide to come forward recently on an issue that the Catholic Church has yet to come to terms with: The sexual abuse of religious sisters by priests and bishops. The sisters are going public in part because of years of inaction by church leaders, even after major studies on the problem in Africa were reported to the Vatican in the 1990s. An AP examination has found that cases have emerged in Europe, Africa, South America and Asia, demonstrating that the problem is global and pervasive, thanks to the universal tradition of sisters' second-class status in the Catholic Church and their ingrained subservience to the men who run it. A nun in India recently filed a formal police complaint accusing a bishop of rape, something that would have been unthinkable even a year ago.", "The new accusations come amid a growing sexual abuse scandal rocking the Church in Chile that led Pope Francis to summon the bishops to the Vatican in May to address the crisis, offer their resignation en masse, and the pope accepting some of the resignations. – Former nuns of the Congregation of the Good Samaritan in Chile reported a series of sexual abuses committed by priests visiting the community, which belongs to the Diocese of Talca and is dedicated to caring for the sick. Currently this diocese in Southern Chile has as apostolic administrator Bishop Galo Fernandez Villaseca, after Francis accepted the resignation of the local bishop, Horacio Valenzuela." ]

[ "WASHINGTON — White House national security adviser James Jones says Americans will feel \"a certain shock\" when they read an account being released Thursday of the missed clues that could have prevented the alleged Christmas Day bomber from ever boarding the plane. Contributing: The Associated Press Guidelines: You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. \"We know what happened, we know what didn't happen, and we know how to fix it,\" Jones, a retired four-star Marine general, said in an interview in his West Wing office. Use the \"Report Abuse\" button to make a difference.", "Anwar al-Awlaki has also been linked to the Fort Hood shootings The alleged US plane bomber met radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, after being recruited in London, a senior Yemeni official has said. However, Mr Hanouk is a member of a prominent tribal family, our correspondent says, and this suggests that the government is prepared to push hard in directions it might be easier to leave alone. 'A certain shock' Confirmation of the meeting between the alleged bomber and the cleric comes as the White House plans to publish a declassified account of the Christmas Day plot. Mr Obama is expected to address the nation about the incident later in the day and unveil new steps aimed at avoiding further terrorist attacks. There have been a number of shootouts recently, but the authorities have as yet been unable to capture one of their prime targets, Mohammed al-Hanouk." ]

[ "The company issued a statement to the New York Times in which it drew a line between the situation at Yahoo and flexible work policies in the rest of the economy: “This isn’t a broad industry view on working from home,\" the statement said. After several days of intense international discussion about its new policy against working remotely, Yahoo is trying to distance itself from the controversy. For the past decade, Yahoo has been in desperate need of a CEO who is willing to set a high bar and make the tough, unpopular decisions necessary to whip the company back into shape. The company's goal, which many insiders support, was to foster more camaraderie, intensity, and creativity from physical interaction while also eliminating some workers who had effectively retired on the job. \"This is about what is right for Yahoo right now.” Yahoo issued its new ban on remote work last week. Outside Yahoo, most observers felt that CEO Marissa Mayer's decision had set back the cause of flexible work policies and work-life balance, especially for women. If Yahoo is to get its mojo back, these folks argued, it needs a renewed sense of commitment from everyone on the team. In any event, now, several days later, Yahoo has weighed in on the remote-work ban again, presumably seeking to dampen the criticism it has received. SEE ALSO: Yahoos Actually Support Marissa Mayer's Ban On Remote Work Disclosure: I work for Yahoo, as a part-time host of a Yahoo Finance show called Daily Ticker.", "The company also seems to be trying to distance itself from the broader national debate over workplace flexibility, and from criticism that the new policy is disruptive for employees who have family responsibilities outside work. Photo In a front-page article in The New York Times on Tuesday morning, Catherine Rampell and I wrote about Yahoo ’s new policy banning employees from working remotely. “This is about what is right for Yahoo right now.” A company spokeswoman declined to elaborate on the statement, saying, “We don’t discuss internal matters.” But based on information from several Yahoo employees, what that statement means is that Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s new chief executive, is in crisis mode, and she believes the policy is necessary to get Yahoo back into shape. The company declined to comment for that article, but on Tuesday afternoon, it issued a statement about the ban against work-at-home arrangements." ]

[ "Louisiana prison officials have looked into illegally obtaining a lethal-injection drug from an Oklahoma pharmacy for the Feb. 5 execution of convicted child killer Christopher Sepulvado, according to just-released state documents. “The State’s failure to guarantee the efficacy of compounded drugs results in the unacceptable risk that an execution may be slow and tortuous, in violation of the U.S. Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment.” Calls and emails to the Louisiana Department of Corrections, The Apothecary Shoppe and the head of the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy were not immediately returned. *Correction: This story originally referred to Sophie Cull as the director of the Louisiana Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. “The procurement of pentobarbital by the Louisiana Department of Corrections continues to be shrouded in secrecy, insulating the State from public or legal scrutiny,” Cull said in an email to The Lens. A September email shows that The Apothecary Shoppe asked the state to complete a non-disclosure agreement. The Tulsa-based compounding lab, called The Apothecary Shoppe, is not listed in the state pharmacy board’s online database of suppliers licensed to provide drugs to any pharmacy in Louisiana.", "US death penalty states face a deepening crisis in their struggle to procure medical drugs for use in lethal injections, with new evidence that the increasingly random methods being used are subjecting condemned prisoners to prolonged and possibly excruciating deaths. A study of Texas department of criminal justice records and eyewitness media reports mainly from the Associated Press shows a notable lengthening of the death process following the switch in July 2012 from the conventional three-drug cocktail to a single drug, pentobarbital. The current mayhem over lethal injections has led some prominent public figures to say that the US supreme court should consider imposing a new moratorium. One of the changes that emerged was the use of pharmaceuticals in lethal injections that were first used to kill Charles Brooks in Texas in 1982. The court lifted the moratorium in 1976 after death penalty states promised to adhere to new guidelines.", "ST. LOUIS (AP) — With lethal-injection drugs in short supply and new questions looming about their effectiveness, lawmakers in some death penalty states are considering bringing back relics of a more gruesome past: firing squads, electrocutions and gas chambers. With lethal-injection drugs in short supply and new questions looming about... (Associated Press) Most states abandoned those execution methods more than a generation ago in a bid to make capital punishment more palatable to the public and to a judicial system worried about inflicting cruel and unusual punishments that violate the Constitution. With lethal-injection drugs in short supply and... (Associated Press) FILE - In this June 18, 2010, file photo, the firing squad execution chamber at the Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah, is shown. With lethal-injection drugs in... (Associated Press) FILE - In this May 13, 2011 file photo is the gas chamber at the former Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City that is now a tourist attraction. FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Virginia Department of Corrections shows an electric chair which Virginia provides as an alternative to lethal injection. Brattin, a Republican, said questions about the injection drugs are sure to end up in court, delaying executions and forcing states to examine alternatives." ]

[ "Several of Madonna's personal items, including the letter that ended the pop icon's relationship with rap legend Tupac Shakur, belong to an auction house and can be sold, a Manhattan judge ruled on Monday. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. We were confident that Madonna had no claim whatsoever, and the judge clearly agreed with us,” said the co-owners of \"Gotta Have Rock and Roll,\" Ed Kosinski & Pete Siegel.", "Madonna has lost a legal battle to prevent the auction of personal items including a lock of her hair, her underwear and a breakup letter from former boyfriend, the late rapper Tupac Shakur. The rapper died in 1996, aged 25, in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. The singer won a temporary block of the auction of 22 pieces in July 2016, telling a New York City court that her celebrity status “does not obviate my right to maintain my privacy, including with regard to highly personal items�?. Madonna is yet to comment on the ruling. “For you to be seen with a black man wouldn’t in any way jeopardise your career. In the handwritten letter included in the auction, obtained by TMZ and dated 15 January 1995, the rapper says that his image would suffer from him dating a white woman.", "However, Ms. Lutz added, “She didn’t take the route that Beyoncé did” — a reference to the pop star’s exhaustive personal archiving system. In it Madonna described two of her rivals, Whitney Houston and Sharon Stone, as “horribly mediocre,” adding, “They’re always being held up as paragons of virtue and some sort of measuring stick to humiliate me.” Ms. Lutz said she came into possession of the items while frequently hanging around during that time in Madonna’s orbit, where she “tended to be a repository for a lot of stuff where people just thought: ‘Get rid of it.’” That included large piles fan mail that were often not examined at all, Ms. Lutz said. Dated Jan. 15, 1995, the letter was written during Shakur’s incarceration at New York’s Clinton Correctional Facility for sexual assault, the year before his shooting death at age 25 in September 1996. Madonna’s representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In the letter, he alludes to his reasons for ending a relationship with Madonna." ]

[ "Ben Carson, who is facing increasing scrutiny over his grasp of foreign policy, is traveling to Jordan on Friday to visit Syrian refugees, in order to gain an understanding of the pressing issue and to polish his candidacy. “I find when you have firsthand knowledge of things as opposed to secondhand, it makes a much stronger impression,” Mr. Carson said in an interview before his departure, planned for late Thanksgiving Day on a charter aircraft. Mr. Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, was leading in some state and national polls before the Paris terror attacks, but his support has dropped with national security concerns looming larger in the Republican nominating race. In a surprise visit, he plans to go to the Azraq refugee camp in northern Jordan, where he will visit a clinic and a hospital. In Iowa in particular, Donald J. Trump, who called for a registry of Muslims in America, has taken the lead in polls, and Senator Ted Cruz, who has harshly criticized President Obama over the rise of the Islamic State, has jumped into second place. He is bringing soccer balls and Beanie Babies to distribute to children.", "The New York Times first reported that Carson plans to visit a refugee camp in northern Jordan. Carson has since slipped behind Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, in the state the campaign sees as essential. PHOTOS - On the Stump: Ben Carson's Presidential Campaign In recent weeks, the retired neurosurgeon has faced questions over his depth of foreign policy knowledge. Play Facebook Twitter Google Plus Embed Ben Carson under fire for his lack of foreign policy experience 2:35 autoplay autoplay Copy this code to your website or blog Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson will go to Jordan Friday to visit Syrian refugees, campaign officials said Thursday." ]

[ "But Twitter, used by Breitbart to in part to gleefully retweet comments against him, has now become the ultimate bastion of Breitbart-Obama conspiracy hashtagging, documented in this slideshow of the 11 most egregious and most laughable theories so far. Andrew Breitbart thrived on the power of a conspiracy theory, and on the impact of one controversial and sweeping statement after another. None of these sites feel it's necessary to offer proof of assassination beyond the fact that Breitbart is now dead and that he hated President Obama.", "White, a self-proclaimed progressive who was a guest blogger at the Democratic National Convention in 2008, had high praise for Breitbart, despite their opposite political views. The last person to tweet with Breitbart said he disagreed with the conspiracy theorists who flooded Twitter after his death, many accusing President Obama - whom Breitbart often criticized - of having him assassinated. \"This is a guy who engaged with supporters and critics alike,\" he said. \"Andrew Breitbart's speaking voice is like the love child of Owen Wilson and Dr. Andrew Breitbart's Last Public Insult: The 'Putz' Says It Was A 'Fluke' Andrew Breitbart - a man famed for his untamed insults and uncensored political attacks - could not have known that his last public act would be to call a 29-year-old law student from Dallas a \"putz.\"" ]

[ "As I announced last Tuesday, I’m considering taking Tesla private because I believe it could be good for our shareholders, enable Tesla to operate at its best, and advance our mission of accelerating the transition to sustainable energy. Another critical point to emphasize is that before anyone is asked to decide on going private, full details of the plan will be provided, including the proposed nature and source of the funding to be used. If and when a final proposal is presented, an appropriate evaluation process will be undertaken by a special committee of Tesla’s board, which I understand is already in the process of being set up, together with the legal counsel it has selected. If the board process results in an approved plan, any required regulatory approvals will need to be obtained and the plan will be presented to Tesla shareholders for a vote. Following the August 7th announcement, I have continued to communicate with the Managing Director of the Saudi fund.", "In the past few months, he has mocked industry analysts for asking “bonehead” questions, pursued online tirades against investors betting against the company’s stock, clashed with a government agency investigating a fatal Tesla crash, and accused a disgruntled employee of sabotage. But the episode appears to have been much more extemporaneous. And while Mr. Musk has always been synonymous with the brand, he has never been under greater scrutiny. Tesla has taken on a mounting debt load and has yet to turn an annual profit.", "Photo illustration: Heather Seidel/The Wall Street Journal Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk’s revelations that he has talked to Saudi Arabia’s sovereign-wealth fund to provide the cash to take the company private gives regulators more ammunition to fault how he first disclosed it, securities law experts said. Elon Musk's market-moving tweet about possibly taking Tesla private is just the latest erratic move in a tumultuous year for the CEO. Mr. Musk’s Monday statement acknowledged that Saudi Arabia’s participation hinges on “financial and other due diligence... The Securities and Exchange Commission has inquired about Mr. Musk’s basis for writing on Twitter last week that he had “funding secured” for the deal.", "I’m excited to work with Silver Lake and Goldman Sachs as financial advisors, plus Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Munger, Tolles & Olson as legal advisors, on the proposal to take Tesla private" ]

[ "FAIRFIELD, Texas (AP) — A man suspected of killing a Texas state trooper during a traffic stop was taken into custody more than 100 miles away, authorities said Thursday night. KYTX-TV reported in July that Black was charged with evading arrest, reckless driving and aggravated assault against a public servant following a police chase in Smith County. Several Texas officials reacted to the trooper's death. In a tweet, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz offered \"prayers for the family and loved ones\" of the trooper. The Harris County Sheriff's Office announced on Twitter that the suspect was apprehended in neighboring Waller County. The Texas Department of Public Safety and other law enforcement agencies had identified the suspect as Dabrett Black, 32, of Linsdale, Texas.", "Tweet with a location You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history.", "We've detected that JavaScript is disabled in your browser. Would you like to proceed to legacy Twitter?", "Tweet with a location You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history." ]

[ "Shots disrupt MLK Day celebration Miami-Dade Police blocked off NW 32nd Avenue from NW 62nd St and several blocks south after shots were fired during the MLK Holiday near Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park in Liberty City.", "The Miami Herald (http://hrld.us/2ji9upu) reports that hundreds of people had gathered in the park after the annual MLK Day parade in the Liberty City neighborhood in northwest Miami-Dade. Police Department spokesman Detective Daniel Ferrin says in a news release that two suspects are being questioned about the Monday afternoon shooting. MIAMI (AP) — Miami-Dade police say eight people — five of them juveniles — have been wounded in a shooting at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park. Ferrin says the victims range in age from 11 to 30, with five listed in stable condition and one critical. He says two firearms were recovered and the active investigation is continuing. He says two juveniles grazed by bullets were treated and released on the scene." ]

[ "Teacher Bonuses Don’t Increase Test Scores, Study Says Written By Daniel Adair on Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010 A new three-year study released on Tuesday reveals that even significant bonuses to teachers for raising student test scores fails to yield significant results. The discovery, conducted by Vanderbilt University’s National Center on Performance Incentives in the metropolitan Nashville school system, compromises the view that merit pay for teachers is a viable method of increasing student performance in the classroom. The Department of Education was critical of the study, claiming it “only looked at the narrow question of whether more pay motivates teachers to try harder,” whereas the goal of the DoE is to “change the culture of teaching,” only one part of which is rewarding high-performing teachers in difficult to staff schools. Part of the Obama administration’s goal with its “Race to the Top” grant competition is to get more states to pass merit pay laws. But we don’t know what the better way is yet.” The results are a blow against the Obama administration’s new focus on linking teacher salary and tenure to their students’ performance. The American Federation of Teachers, on the other hand, praised the study, using it to emphasize their points that teachers need better training and more support administrators to better do their jobs. The study examined about three hundred teachers of fifth to eighth-grade math teachers and the results their students received on the Tennessee standardized exams.", "Offering big bonuses to teachers failed to raise students' test scores in a three-year study released Tuesday that calls into question the Obama administration's push for merit pay to improve education. The study comes as the Obama administration encourages school systems to link teacher pay and tenure to how students perform on tests and other measures of achievement. The study, conducted in the metropolitan Nashville school system by Vanderbilt University's National Center on Performance Incentives, was described by the researchers as the nation's first scientifically rigorous look at merit pay for teachers. Overall, the researchers said, test scores rose modestly for both groups of students during the three-year study, suggesting that the financial incentives made no difference. \"What we are trying to do is change the culture of teaching by giving all educators the feedback they need to get better while rewarding and incentivizing the best to teach in high-need schools, hard-to-staff subjects.\"" ]

[ "Photo: AP Last month, reports emerged that Apple’s new “spaceship” campus in Cupertino, California—which hosts roughly 13,000 employees behind around 3,000 giant panes of glass—had resulted in the company’s employees repeatedly injuring themselves by walking straight into the semi-visible walls. The Apple building’s design was the result of a relentless focus on aesthetics and form that Reuters reported was driven by the Apple team’s belief that even standard features like doorway thresholds could distract engineers’ lines of thought. According to the Chronicle’s account, Apple was given plenty of warning from local government officials. Dispatcher: OK, what is the address of the emergency? Advertisement “We did recognize that this is going to be an issue, especially when they clean the glass,” Cupertino building official Albert Salvador told the paper. Caller: This is Apple security reporting a medical injury.", "The calls, all made in January, relate to injuries suffered by people who walked into glass at the campus, which is called Apple Park. I have Jessica on the line who is with the patient who hit his head on the glass. Caller: It’s going to be in the main building, section (is) the transit center, just outside of the main campus. Dispatcher: OK, what is the address of the emergency? You are going to go in through the Transit Center, which is Gate 5A, A as in Adam. We are trying to have a security unit call in right now so I connect you over." ]

[ "Farmers want an increase of up to 25% in their prices to cover costs. Image caption Farmers used a platform to hose the European Parliament with milk Angry farmers protesting at falling dairy prices in the EU have sprayed fresh milk at the European Parliament and riot police in Brussels. Thousands of dairy farmers, accompanied by hundreds of tractors, descended on the Belgian capital on Monday for two days of demonstrations. Disruption has continued, with EU officials hindered from reaching their offices by tractors blocking roads. The EU is the world's largest milk producer and in 2010 nearly 47% of its 123bn euro budget went on subsidies and other forms of financial aid for farmers, including dairy producers. 'Killing us' Police guarding the European Parliament found themselves being squirted with jets of milk on Monday as protesters directed hoses at the building. Image caption The burning trailer sent a plume of smoke into the air A trailer of hay was set alight on the nearby Place du Luxembourg, where a mock gallows was erected with what appeared to be a hanging dummy of a farmer. It's very simple: you can't live off milk any more Leopold Gruget , French farmer In pictures: Dairy farmers' protest The European Milk Board (EMB), which is co-ordinating the protest, says small farmers are being forced out of business.", "BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Dairy farmers sprayed thousands of litres of fresh milk at the European Parliament in Brussels on Monday in protest at what they say are excessive milk quotas and prices below the cost of production. Hundreds of farmers and tractors from across Europe took up position in a park near the European Commission and a square in front of the parliament in the early afternoon, after blocking traffic along several of Brussels' busiest streets. On Monday, tractors came from across Belgium as well as neighboring France, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. The EU is the world's largest milk producer and spends more than 40 percent of its annual 130 billion euro budget paying subsidies and other forms of financial support to farmers, including those in the diary industry. The European Milk Board, which coordinated the two-day protest, said prices with current quotas were putting small farmers out of business. It sets an annual milk quota - which sits at around 130 million tonnes, too much for EU-consumption - but has agreed to phase that out by 2015." ]

[ "SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers is seeking to recover about $973,000 in costs from a high profile gender discrimination trial that captivated Silicon Valley, according to a court filing on Thursday. “We believe that women in technology would be best served by having all parties focus on making progress on the issues of gender diversity outside of continued litigation,” Lee said in a statement. Kleiner’s offer to withdraw its costs request in exchange for an end to the case, is common when defendants prevail in employment lawsuits. Should Pao decide to pursue an appeal, her case would be heard by California’s First District Court of Appeal.", "“We believe that women in technology would be best served by having all parties focus on making progress on the issues of gender diversity outside of continued litigation,” said Christina Lee, a Kleiner spokeswoman. The firm said the case, which drew an abundance of unfavorable attention to its inner workings and the fate of women in Silicon Valley, cost it $972,815 in witness fees, deposition and court reporter costs. SAN FRANCISCO — Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the venture capital firm, is offering a new deal to the former associate who unsuccessfully sued the firm, accusing it of gender discrimination: Promise not to pursue this case any further or pay us $1 million. The offer was made in papers filed this week in California Superior Court in San Francisco. As the winning party, Kleiner is asking the former associate, Ellen Pao, to reimburse it for these bills. The vast majority of the fees Kleiner is trying to recover are for witnesses.", "Silicon Valley venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers filed legal paperwork Wednesday seeking $972,814 in legal costs from Ellen Pao, the former partner who recently lost a high-profile sex-discrimination case against the firm. In its filing, Kleiner also revealed it offered to settle the case with Pao before it went to trial, offering her almost $1 million, but it said Pao’s lawyers didn’t respond. Kleiner Perkins said it would waive its attempt to recover legal costs from Pao if she agrees not to pursue an appeal in her gender discrimination case against the firm. The spokeswoman said the team will respond at the same time to Kleiner’s claim that it attempted to settle the case but that Pao’s team never responded. A Pao spokeswoman said her legal team is “considering the proposal,” and will respond in the next two weeks." ]

[ "Astronomers expected the new calculations to forge an agreeable link with those derived from observations of the Big Bang afterglow collected by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe and the European Space Agency's Planck satellite. Astronomers recently used the Hubble Space Telescope to measure the distance between 19 galaxies with unprecedented accuracy. BALTIMORE, June 2 (UPI) -- A discrepancy between galactic distances in the infant universe and more modern measurements suggests the universe is expanding at a faster pace than previously predicted. \"This surprising finding may be an important clue to understanding those mysterious parts of the universe that make up 95 percent of everything and don't emit light, such as dark energy, dark matter, and dark radiation,\" Adam Riess, an astronomer with the Space Telescope Science Institute and Johns Hopkins University, said in a news release. Astronomers are continuing to go over the data to try to reduce the margin for error even further, but it appears likely researchers will now be faced with the task of explaining the disagreement between the two Hubble constants.", "\"If you really believe our number – and we have shed blood, sweat and tears to get our measurement right and to accurately understand the uncertainties – then it leads to the conclusion that there is a problem with predictions based on measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation, the leftover glow from the Big Bang,\" co-author Alex Filippenko, an astronomy professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said in a press release. \"Maybe the universe is tricking us, or our understanding of the universe isn't complete,\" he added. The universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. \"We've done the world's best job of decreasing the uncertainty in the measured rate of universal expansion and of accurately assessing the size of this uncertainty,\" Dr. Filippenko said in the Berkeley release, \"yet we find that our measured rate of expansion is probably incompatible with the rate expected from observations of the young universe, suggesting that there's something important missing in our physical understanding of the universe.\" \"You start at two ends, and you expect to meet in the middle if all of your drawings are right and your measurements are right,\" study leader and Nobel Laureate Adam Riess, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute, said in a NASA press release. Cepheid stars allow astronomers to determine how far they are from us, and thereby how distant their galaxy is, by analyzing two characteristics: their true brightness, gleaned from the rate at which they pulsate, versus their apparent brightness as seen from Earth.", "Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the universe is expanding 5 percent to 9 percent faster than expected. In the late 1990s the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale refined the value of the Hubble constant to within an error of only 10 percent, accomplishing one of the telescope's key goals. ### The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. Before Hubble was launched in 1990, the estimates of the Hubble constant varied by a factor of two. The SH0ES team has reduced the uncertainty in the Hubble constant value by 76 percent since beginning its quest in 2005.", "Measurements taken by Hubble space telescope conflict with studies of radiation left over from Big Bang – fuelling theories of ‘dark energy’ and mystery particles The universe is expanding faster than anyone had previously measured or calculated from theory. This is a discovery that could test part of Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, a pillar of cosmology that has withstood challenges for a century. The latest advance on the speed of universal expansion builds on all these elements in a century of cosmological discovery.", "Two missions—NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe and the European Space Agency’s Planck satellite mission—have both yielded smaller Hubble constants by examining the so-called “afterglow” of the mega-explosion that birthed our universe. The discovery, which will be detailed in a forthcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal, presents a problem for cosmologists, because it does not match estimated expansion rates from the energetic leftovers of the Big Bang. Add this to the list of existential fears that keep you up at night: the universe appears to be expanding faster than we thought. Alternatively, it could mean that Einstein’s theory of relativity is incomplete—which is also kind of understandable, given that the man single-handedly penned the laws of existence in his twenties without the aid of a computer." ]

[ "The news of their involvement helps unlock the mystery of whether the White House consulted Capitol Hill about the executive order, one of many questions raised in the days after it was unveiled on Friday. \"However, the Trump Administration is responsible for the final policy decisions contained in the executive order and its subsequent roll-out and implementation.” The work of the committee aides began during the transition period after the election and before Donald Trump was sworn in. It confirms that the small group of staffers were among the only people on Capitol Hill who knew of the looming controversial policy. \"Like other congressional committees, some staff of the House Judiciary Committee were permitted to offer their policy expertise to the Trump transition team about immigration law,\" a House Judiciary Committee aide said in a statement. Senior staffers on the House Judiciary Committee helped Donald Trump's top aides draft the executive order curbing immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations, but the Republican committee chairman and party leadership were not informed, according to multiple sources involved in the process. Frustrated by the administration’s lack of communication to reporters on what the executive order did and didn’t do, they tried to pick up the slack by emphasizing that the ban was not a prohibition on Muslims. But the House Judiciary Committee has some of the most experienced staffers when it comes to immigration policy.", "White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, left, speaks Saturday with White House chief strategist Steve Bannon in the Oval office as President Trump speaks on the phone with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. At the end was a pledge for the secretary of state to report regularly on “victims of female genital mutilation or honor killing by foreign-born nationals.” It was not only Trump’s immigration order that rankled official Washington. His presidential memorandum that restructured the National Security Council to elevate Bannon to a seat on the Principals Committee, alongside the secretaries of state and defense, worried many in the national security community. “I remain honored and humbled to represent the extraordinary men and women of the Joint Force in serving the president and our nation,” Dunford wrote. Defense Secretary James Mattis and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly fumed privately to associates over the weekend because they had been caught unaware by a travel ban that was drafted and set into action largely in secret by the White House, according to three people who have spoken with them. But Scaramucci demurred, opting for a senior White House job directing the Office of Public Liaison and Intergovernmental Affairs, a similar role to the one played by Valerie Jarrett in the Obama White House.", "The executive order that Trump signed Friday halted travel to the US for citizens of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, and Yemen. The New York Times reported that Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly was only briefed on the executive order as Trump signed it. This version of Friday's events appears to contradict, at least partially, what the White House has said about congressional involvement in drafting and reviewing the executive order before it was signed. WASHINGTON — Senior Republican lawmakers who work on national security issues, including the entire members of both Homeland Security committees, were not informed of \"red flag\" changes made to a draft of Donald Trump's recent controversial executive order on immigration until hours after the president signed it, sources says. On Sunday evening, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul issued a statement saying \"it is clear adjustments are needed\" after telling cable news channels on Friday that Trump's executive orders made it \"a safer day for America.\" And while some Republican members have said that the order is similar to legislation passed by the House last year after the Paris attacks, it includes new language on current US green card and visa holders that shocked many members of Congress. However, many Republican and Democratic members were not briefed on the final version of the executive order before Trump signed it on Friday, including the entire House Homeland Security committee and at least some members of the Senate Homeland Security committee. \"Total BS,\" a senior Republican aide familiar with the matter said in response to Spicer's assertion Monday that the \"appropriate committees\" were briefed on the order. In Canada, for instance — where at least 35,000 people share nationality with one of the seven banned countries — the prime minister's national security advisor said first learned of Trump's executive order in the media." ]

[ "The new rule will require retirement advisers to act in their clients’ interests The Department of Labor developed the new standards over the past few years, as part of a larger regulatory effort to reduce risk for middle-class savers after the 2008 financial crisis. The effect, say both experts and many industry advocates, will be to drive many advisers to change their business models, while pushing others entirely out of the business. Under the new rule, savers will gain the right to sue or initiate arbitration against advisers who don’t meet high ethical standards or who fail to disclose conflicts. But a new rule from the Department of Labor, which becomes final today, aims to change that. With the fiduciary rule, the government aims to resolve that tension and legally obligate advisers to put aside their self-interest.", "That’s precisely why congressional Republicans are insisting on the need to “study” further an Obama administration proposal to make financial advisers more accountable. In Washington, becoming the subject of legislative scrutiny virtually guarantees inaction, the disappearance of funding and political support, and ultimate demise. The proposal in question, put forward by the Department of Labor, would target the conflicts of interest that can arise when advisers attempt to steer their clients into high-fee, high-risk investments. A vote to delay the rule further is a vote to kill the rule -- that’s how things work in Washington. The Labor Department is attempting to update the fiduciary standard, raising the bar for any advice given by brokers working with retirement investors.", "A proposed rule to impose tougher regulations on financial advisers is poised to move forward after opponents failed to persuade lawmakers to derail it." ]

[ "Mayor Don Lane called Tuesday \"a day to honor Madyson and to offer our support.” “Our hearts and our thoughts and our prayers go out to those close to Madyson who have been devastated by the loss of this very precious life,” he said at the news conference outside police headquarters. \"I don’t think she was taken against her will.” A Tannery resident described the suspect as \"the nicest kid you can imagine,\" the Santa Cruz Sentinel reported. “Everyone has got to be in shock over this,” the unidentified artist said. The district attorney said the teen could be charged as an adult. Following Maddy's disappearance, police conducted door-to-door searches of the complex and nearby communities.", "After leaving flowers at a memorial for Madyson Middleton in the Tannery Arts Center Tuesday morning, a young family shares a moment of reflection for the slain 8-year-old. “Today is a day to honor Madyson and to offer our support.” According to Maddy’s mother, Maddy was last seen on a surveillance camera at 5:07 p.m. Sunday riding her scooter at the base of her apartment complex at 1040 River St.. She was reported missing to police about an hour later, and dozens of people joined a search through the night along the San Lorenzo River, which is in a wooded area near the center. (Dan Coyro -- Santa Cruz Sentinel) SANTA CRUZ >> Santa Cruz Police Chief Kevin Vogel said the teenager taken into custody Monday night in the disappearance of 8-year-old Madyson “Maddy” Middleton lured her to his apartment, killed her and dumped her body in a recycling bin outside. She loves playing with Littlest Pet Shop (toy animals), painting them, modifying them, making movies of them,” Jordan said Monday." ]

[ "The spat is part of a pattern by Trump to undermine the media, which could be dangerous, said Marvin Kalb, a former reporter for NBC News, who researches the impact of media on public policy and politics at The Brookings Institution. Pecker is a longtime friend of Trump, and their friendship was the subject of a New Yorker article this week. MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski Friday accused the White House of threatening them with a negative tabloid story as a way to extract an apology for their tough comments on President Donald Trump. Theodore Glasser, a communications professor at Stanford University, said it was \"perfectly reasonable\" for Scarborough and Brzezinski to harshly criticize Trump and for Trump to do the same to them, as long as it involves a discourse about issues, and an acknowledgment of the role of a free press in a democratic society. In an op-ed article in the Washington Post, and then in a live appearance on \"Morning Joe,\" the couple said top White House officials warned them earlier this year that the National Enquirer was planning an exposé about their relationship, and urged them to beg Trump to get the paper to back off.", "Photo-Illustration: Daily Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump used his close alliance with the National Enquirer to attack his enemies. While the Enquirer denies that Trump encouraged Pecker to investigate the MSNBC hosts, Trump himself has pushed the story publicly. Now that he’s president, he’s continuing to benefit from the tabloid’s support. Scarborough says he refused, and the Enquirer published the story in print on June 5, headlined “Morning Joe Sleazy Cheating Scandal!” The Morning Joe co-hosts decided to talk about the episode a day after Trump inaccurately tweeted that Brzezinski attended a New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago “bleeding badly from a face-lift.” (A photo from that evening backs up Scarborough and Brzezinski’s denial of this.) This morning in a Washington Post op-ed, Morning Joe co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski disclosed that White House officials offered to spike an Enquirer story about their romance if the pair apologized to Trump for the show’s critical coverage. Kushner told Scarborough that he would need to personally apologize to Trump in exchange for getting Enquirer owner David Pecker to stop the story.", "The series of tweets immediately struck a nerve. We have our doubts, but we are both certain that the man is not mentally equipped to continue watching our show.” Meanwhile, both decided to address the furor at the top of the 7 A.M. hour on Friday morning. Last summer, he tweeted that Brzezinski was “a neurotic and not very bright mess!” and threatened to “tell the real story” about their relationship. On Thursday morning, of course, President Donald Trump had sent the news cycle into convulsions, and Washington into disarray, by tweeting that “low I.Q. Crazy Mika” had been “bleeding badly from a face-lift” when she and “Psycho Joe” visited him at Mar-a-Lago around New Year’s Eve. They were spooked.” It wasn’t the first time the co-hosts and their staff had to react to being on the other end of the president’s ire. Subsequently, she and Scarborough composed an op-ed for The Washington Post to run Friday morning declaring that “America’s leaders and allies are asking themselves yet again whether this man is fit to be president.", "Pecker is the longtime chief executive of American Media, Inc., which owns most of the nation’s supermarket tabloids and gossip magazines, including the Star, the Globe, the Examiner, and OK!, as well as the flagship Enquirer. Every Wednesday afternoon, in a windowless conference room in an office building at the tip of lower Manhattan, David Pecker decides what will be on the cover of the following week’s National Enquirer. Pecker started in the media business as an accountant, and he has attempted to impose a numbers-based rigor on the raucous world of tabloids. For the forthcoming issue of the Enquirer, Howard presented a mockup of a cover on Megyn Kelly, who would be making her début as an NBC News correspondent the week that the issue went on sale. Trump has a great affection for venerable media institutions like the Enquirer, according to a longtime associate: “Donald came up in the seventies and eighties, and he still loves the iconic brands, and the National Enquirer was an institution in those days. To open a recent meeting, Pecker, who was calling in on speakerphone from Dallas, asked Dylan Howard, A.M.I.’s chief content officer, to review the competition’s covers from the previous week. In the past decade, he has devised a proprietary database of the covers of all celebrity magazines, including those of his competitors." ]

[ "Replying to @ChelseaYanga @ChelseaYanga Check the link in my bio aye", "Add a location to your Tweets When you tweet with a location, Twitter stores that location. You can switch location on/off before each Tweet and always have the option to delete your location history. Learn more", "The posts reflected the racial hostility toward the nation’s first black president that has long been expressed in stark terms on the Internet, where conspiracy theories thrive and prejudices find ready outlets. The @POTUS account — named for the in-house acronym derived from “President of the United States” — would “serve as a new way for President Obama to engage directly with the American people, with tweets coming exclusively from him,” a White House aide wrote that day. But the racist Twitter posts are different because now that Mr. Obama has his own account, the slurs are addressed directly to him, for all to see. WASHINGTON — When President Obama sent his inaugural Twitter post from the Oval Office on Monday, the White House heralded the event with fanfare, posting a photograph of him perched on his desk tapping out his message on an iPhone. They addressed him with racial slurs and called him a monkey. One had an image of the president with his neck in a noose.", "Earlier today, the President of the United States and the holder of the highest office in the land, Barack Obama, debuted the first, official Twitter account run by the President and the President alone. Because of how the internet works, hundreds of people immediately asked the President to please sit on my face, daddy. In other words, for the sole purpose of complying with the Presidential Records Act, the White House will be archiving Twitter user “shithead”’s request that President Obama, Michelle Obama, and former President Bill Clinton all “slay him.” Along with every one of these. We’ll see you in the Library of Congress. And because of how the Presidential Records Act works, every single one of those tweets, from “spank me” to “fist me,” is getting filed away in the official White House archives." ]

[ "The returns are the most in number that have been released by any of the major GOP contenders - Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney didn't release several years' worth. UPDATE II: Via POLITICO's Juana Summers, Santorum had this to say about his taxes tonight in North Dakota: In 2010, the couple reported some modest gains and losses from sales of Brandywine and United Health Services shares.", "Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum released four years of federal income tax returns on Wednesday night, showing a sharp rise in his personal wealth spurred by his growing work as Washington-based corporate consultant and media commentator. Santorum, 53, has sold himself in the Republican primaries as both a Washington outsider and a social conservative, stressing his family's coal-mining background and his appeal to religious and working-class voters. Rising to GOP leadership in the Senate as Republican Conference chairman, Santorum pushed to expand the influence of Republican-leaning business interests." ]

[ "Several sources said the man is believed to be the same person seen in a surveillance video released by police Sunday, when authorities pointed to the individual as a \"person of interest\" in the case. The suspect is a native of Germany who may have been in dispute with federal immigration officials, sources said. FULL COVERAGE: Arson fires Little is known about the suspect. Officials said the \"person of interest\" detained early Monday in connection with a string of more than 50 deliberately set fires has been arrested and is expected to be booked on arson charges later in the afternoon. The man was detained near a drugstore at the corner of Fairfax Avenue and Sunset Boulevard early Monday morning, according to a witness to the incident. Sources said the minivan had Canadian license plates but that detectives say the man is from Germany.", "RELATED: FULL COVERAGE: Arson fires Suspect arrested in string of fires Police examine immigration link to case -- Ari Bloomekatz in Hollywood Photo: Police investigate a minivan officials say may be linked to a series of arson fires. Credit: Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times Map: Shows locations of fires possibly linked to recent arson spree. The cars were stopped near one of the recent fires that had destroyed a car parked outside a single-family home on Sunnyslope Avenue in Sherman Oaks." ]

[ "Considering the fact that four years ago Rudy Giuliani was leading in these same types of polls for the 2008 nomination, they can’t really be said to be a great predictor of how the nomination fight, which hasn’t even started yet, will turn out. Romney, Huckabee, Palin Lead GOP Field For 2012 Despite votes in the 2010 contest still being counted, polls for 2012 are already pouring out. On the Republican side, it’s a dead heat between the ex-governors – Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, Mike Huckabee of Arkansas and Sarah Palin of Alaska, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely GOP Primary voters. Doug Mataconis · · 7 comments It didn’t take long for Scott Rasmussen to come out with the first post-midterm poll of 2012 candidates: OK, the election’s over, and the message from most voters was that they didn’t care much for President Obama’s agenda. At this point, of course, these polls are little more than a popularity and name recognition contest, and Palin, Romney, and Huckabee have been leading the field in these polls for months now." ]

[ "So, how do you get your hands on a “unicorn of the cereal world?” They can only be won via social media: The cereal manufacturer is asking fans to post a selfie of themselves holding an imaginary box of Lucky Charms (with the hashtag #Lucky10Sweepstakes) on Twitter or Instagram. According to the General Mills blog, the company is releasing limited-edition marshmallow-only boxes after receiving “countless calls, emails, tweets, and Facebook posts” from fans begging for the cereal-free cereal. General Mills Although we have nothing against Lucky Charms cereal as a whole, we’ve got to admit: The marshmallow charms are and always will be the best part. RELATED: Kylie Jenner Requests Lucky Charms Marshmallows Only — and Receives a One-of-a-Kind Box Of course, there’s a catch. Only 10 boxes of Marshmallow Only Lucky Charms will be available to the public. And it looks like the good people over at General Mills (the HQ for all things Lucky Charms) are finally listening up.", "news Oct 14, 2015 • By Ashley Halladay Win a box of Marshmallow Only Lucky Charms A box of Marshmallow Only Lucky Charms has always been the unicorn of the cereal world – fantasized about, but never seen. Well marshmallow maniacs, Marshmallow Only Lucky Charms are here! The Lucky Charms team receives countless calls, emails, tweets and Facebook posts from marshmallow-obsessed fans longing for a box filled with only the magically-delicious marshmallows. The Marshmallow Only sweepstakes is a way for the brand to show fans some love in return. You must be 18 to enter and a legal resident of the United States or District of Columbia. “We wanted to tap into where that love is and it’s across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram." ]

[ "645X363 - Full Sharing - Additional videos are suggested upon completion The Senate on Tuesday voted to advance President Obama’s trade agenda, approving a measure to end debate on fast-track authority. “Today’s vote is an important step towards revitalizing our economy, creating more good American jobs, and reasserting our country’s global economic leadership,” Donohue said in a statement. This is our chance to put in place higher standards in global trade on matters like labor rights and environmental protection, shine some real sunlight on trade agreements and ensure that our country writes the rules of the road,” he said. The White House wants the authority to conclude negotiations on a sweeping trans-Pacific trade deal.", "But the lead-up to the decisive vote exposed serious friction between the two parties over the chamber’s next big problem: the imminent shutdown of a government financial institution that conservatives despise, the Export-Import Bank. Getty Senate salvages Obama trade agenda More than a dozen Democrats side with the GOP to give the president fast-track authority. With no votes to spare, the Senate salvaged President Barack Obama’s trade agenda on Tuesday, putting a measure to give him enhanced powers to strike free trade deals on track to be signed into law by the end of the week. Story Continued Below The trade bill advanced 60-37, with the minimum votes needed to break a Democratic-led filibuster against the so-called Trade Promotion Authority.", "WASHINGTON — President Obama’s ambitious trade push is back on track, after several near-death moments, in large measure because top Republicans stood by him. The Senate on Tuesday narrowly voted to end debate on legislation granting Mr. Obama enhanced negotiating powers to complete a major Pacific trade accord, virtually assuring final passage Wednesday of Mr. Obama’s top legislative priority in his final years in office. The Senate is set on Wednesday to give final approval to trade promotion authority, then vote to end debate on a separate bill that attaches worker dislocation assistance to a broadly popular bill extending a trade agreement with several African countries. Photo The Atlantic agreement is not expected to be completed until the next administration is in office, but the trade negotiating powers would stretch for six years — well into the next presidency. “How shameful is that?” said Senator Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio, who led the opposition to trade promotion authority." ]

[ "Be the first to watch, comment, and share trailers and movie teasers/clips dropping soon @MovieclipsTrailers. The Fandango MOVIECLIPS Trailers team is here day and night to make sure all the hottest new movie trailers are available whenever, wherever you want them. About Movieclips Trailers: ► Subscribe to TRAILERS:http://bit.ly/sxaw6h ► We’re on SNAPCHAT: http://bit.ly/2cOzfcy ► Like us on FACEBOOK: http://bit.ly/1QyRMsE ► Follow us on TWITTER:http://bit.ly/1ghOWmt The Fandango MOVIECLIPS Trailers channel is your destination for hot new trailers the second they drop. Published on Nov 1, 2017 I, Tonya Trailer #1 (2017): Check out the official trailer starring Margot Robbie, Allison Janney, and Sebastian Stan! Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes. ► Buy Tickets: https://www.fandango.com/i-tonya-2060... Watch more Trailers: ► HOT New Trailers Playlist: http://bit.ly/2hp08G1 ► What to Watch Playlist: http://bit.ly/2ieyw8G ► Even More on COMING SOON: http://bit.ly/H2vZUn Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises among the ranks at the U.S.", "Based on the unbelievable, but true events, I, TONYA is a darkly comedic tale of American figure skater, Tonya Harding, and one of the most sensational scandals in sports history. Though Harding was the first American woman to complete a triple axel in competition, her legacy was forever defined by her association with an infamous, ill-conceived, and even more poorly executed attack on fellow Olympic competitor Nancy Kerrigan. Featuring an iconic turn by Margot Robbie as the fiery Harding, a mustachioed Sebastian Stan as her impetuous ex-husband Jeff Gillooly, a tour-de-force performance from Allison Janney as her acid-tongued mother, LaVona Golden, and an original screenplay by Steven Rogers, Craig Gillespie's I, TONYA is an absurd, irreverent, and piercing portrayal of Harding's life and career in all of its unchecked--and checkered--glory.", "type Movie genre Drama release date 12/08/17 performer Margot Robbie, Allison Janney, Sebastian Stan director Craig Gillespie mpaa R We gave it an A- In a sport of princesses, Tonya Harding was the perpetual toad: a trashy, too-brash outsider whose mind-blowing axels and sheer athleticism could never quite make up for the fact that she didn’t fit the demure, spangled mold of an ideal figure skater. His form of satire can be a blunt instrument; it’s hard to tell sometimes whether he wants to be the Coen brothers, Christopher Guest, or just Spinal Tap on ice. Raised but hardly nurtured by a chain-smoking waitress (Allison Janney, a viper in Tootsie glasses and a mushroom-cap haircut), Tonya steadily clawed her way up the junior ranks, thanks mostly to pure willpower and the proxy parenting of a coach (Julianne Nicholson) who tried her best to steer her wild-card charge. In a performance that goes far beyond bad perms and tabloid punchlines, she’s a powerhouse: a scrappy, defiant subversion of the American dream. Director Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl) frames the movie as a faux documentary stuffed with flashbacks, talking heads, and fourth-wall-breaking asides.", "You probably haven’t thought about Tonya Harding much recently. Whether it’s as the va-va-voomy siren of “The Wolf of Wall Street” (which put her on the map), the smooth scam artist of “Focus,” the bat-wielding bad-ass Harley Quinn in “Suicide Squad” or the noble frontier woman of “Z for Zachariah,” Robbie has dazzled us with her versatility, even as she’s consistently held us with her charismatic screen presence. Even though Harding wasn’t personally involved in the infamous, injurious leg-whacking, she may as well have been, her reputation and career were so irreparably damaged. Advertisement All of which makes “I, Tonya” such a wonder. We hear from Harding herself; an increasingly abrasive LaVona; Harding’s genteel coach, Diane (Julianne Nicholson); a squirmy Gillooly; and Gillooly’s delusional pal, Shawn Eckhardt (Paul Walter Hauser), Harding’s self-appointed “bodyguard” and the mastermind of what everyone bitterly refers to as “The Incident.” Taken together, they create a picture that isn’t exactly the truth, the whole truth and nothing but. Director Craig Gillespie pulls off what would seem to be an impossible high-wire act: He’s made a movie that’s affectionately mocking—of this theatrical sport, of the idiots who surrounded Harding, of this hideous moment in fashion and pop culture—without actually mocking Harding herself. What “I, Tonya” does provide honestly, though, is a vivid slice of pop culture history—an irresistible, soapy mix of jealousy, competition and class warfare, fortified by powerful performances and unexpected emotional resonance.", "As played magnificently by Margot Robbie, Tonya is a powerhouse athlete, a fragile abuse victim, an impoverished country girl and a snarky media critic. It's the triple axel of based-on-a-true-story movies. That is the argument put forth by I, Tonya, the cheeky and skate-sharp new biopic from director Craig Gillespie coming only a few short years after the ESPN documentary. Most of the film is devoted to Tonya's marriage to, and subsequent divorce from, Jeff Gillooly (Sebastian Stan).", "(CNN) \"I, Tonya\" announces up front that it's based on \"irony free, wildly contradictory\" interviews with the participants, yielding a darkly satiric comedy with the tenor of a Coen brothers movie. Elevated by Margot Robbie and Allison Janney's shimmering performances, this entertaining account of those strange events earns the sort of high marks for creative interpretation that its protagonist complained eluded her. Featuring the characters in direct-to-camera interviews, a strong undercurrent to the film is that Harding's downfall preceded several others of the tabloid-friendly 1990s, so much so that a \"Hard Copy\" reporter (played by Bobby Cannavale) is among the witnesses, wryly noting that the show was dismissed as trash by a media ecosystem that later mastered copying its sordid bag of tricks." ]

[ "A young woman is in intensive care after having an allergic reaction to her friend's medication that has caused her body to burn from the inside out. Just watching your daughter burn in front of you, literally burn in front of you,\" said Laura Corona, the mother of 19-year-old Yaasmeen Castanada.Covered in bandages, Castanada fights for her life in the burn ward at UC Irvine Medical Center.The Cal State L.A. sophomore suffered a life-threatening allergic reaction called Stevens-Johnson Syndrome. \"The 19 year old, who has a 4-month-old daughter, is studying civil engineering.", "Doctors diagnosed Castanada with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, a rare disease that can be triggered by antibiotics or other medications. Story highlights An allergic reaction to an antibiotic sent Yaasmeen Castanada to a hospital burn unit \"It has just spiraled into a nightmare,\" her aunt told CNN affiliate KABC A doctor says the teen's prognosis is good, but she's in critical condition (CNN) It started with a sore throat on Thanksgiving and an antibiotic from a friend who wanted to help. Now Castanada, the mother of a 4-month-old, is in critical condition at the University of California, Irvine, burn center. This would be the biggest mistake of her life.\"", "The dr's immediately diagnosed her with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome. This is Yassmeen Castanada's story ... .. On Thanksgiving Yaasmeen was feeling ill. Common cold, sore throat. After taking the pill , Yaasmeen started experiencing burning in her throat, eyes and mouth. As for now, she will just work on getting healthier and spending a lot of time with her daughter Khloe and return to CSULA! This whole expierence has taught me to never take my children for granted.", "Definition By Mayo Clinic Staff Stevens-Johnson syndrome is a rare, serious disorder of your skin and mucous membranes. Our general interest e-newsletter keeps you up to date on a wide variety of health topics. It's usually a reaction to a medication or an infection." ]

[ "For an in-depth look at the factors driving bitcoin, click here. On May 22, 2010, Hanyecz asked a fellow enthusiast on a bitcoin forum to accept 10,000 bitcoin for two Papa John's Pizzas. A number of factors have been driving the rally: Recently passed legislation in Japan that allows retailers to start accepting bitcoin as a legal currency has boosted trading in yen, which now accounts for over 40 percent of all bitcoin trade Political uncertainty globally has driven demand for bitcoin as a safe haven asset A debate within the bitcoin community about the future of the underlying technology behind bitcoin known as the blockchain has been taking place. Bitcoin mining involves solving a complex mathematical solution with the miner being rewarded in bitcoin. There was fear at one point this could lead to the creation of two separate cryptocurrencies but those worries have largely subsided with an alternative, more palatable option now being put forward.", "Unsustainable bubble Bitcoin emerged in 2008 and is a digital currency based around cryptography. Rising interest in bitcoin has sparked the creation of many other crypto-currencies. These have proved popular as the technology underlying bitcoin has struggled to cope with its popularity and growth. The surging valuations has led some commentators to suggest that an unsustainable crypto-currency bubble is developing. Rivals such as Ethereum and Ripple have been gaining value far faster than bitcoin over the last few months.", "\"The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the systems was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world's central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank...sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.\"" ]

[ "Notice You must log in to continue.", "Every year, Ben Kinsey waves an American flag on a South Carolina bridge for 11 hours to honor victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Dozens of Facebook users, including Whitney Degnan, say this isn't the first time they've seen Kinsey on the bridge. That's why Degnan wasn't surprised to see Kinsey on the bridge again. the North August resident shared in the Facebook post. I was in awe because he is well over the age to be standing on a bridge in 100-degree weather, but he did and all for four people and the other thousands that he doesn't even know.\" Hundreds of people on Facebook said they would like to stand with him next year." ]

[ "(Alan Diaz, Associated Press / ) WASHINGTON — Doctors, nurses and social workers from across the country, 107 in all, were charged in what federal officials in Washington called a \"nationwide takedown\" of medical professionals accused of fraudulently billing Medicare out of nearly half a billion dollars. Federal agents take away computers from Willsand Home Health Agency Inc. in Miami. The amount of bogus Medicare claims, totaling about $452 million, was the highest in a single raid in the history of a federal strike force combating rising fraud in the medical industry, according to the Justice Department. The Obama administration has stepped up efforts to combat fraud in the Medicare program, which provides health coverage to about 50 million elderly and disabled Americans.", "Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sought to use the arrests to defend Obama's controversial healthcare law passed in 2010, arguing that additional resources provided under the law helped authorities root out fraud. * Sebelius uses arrests to defend Obama healthcare law * FBI investigating more than 2,600 healthcare fraud cases By Jeremy Pelofsky WASHINGTON, May 2 (Reuters) - U.S. authorities have charged 107 people, including doctors and nurses, for trying to defraud the federal Medicare healthcare program for the elderly and disabled of about $452 million, the biggest Medicare fraud sweep to date, the Obama administration said on Wednesday. \"Today's actions are another example of how the Affordable Care Act is helping the Obama administration fight fraud and strengthen the Medicare program,\" Sebelius said." ]

[ "Although critics accuse Obama of “weakness” in Syria and the administration has been challenged by Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine, the Uganda action is a relatively inexpensive way to show resolve in a popular cause. The LRA poses no threat to the United States, but the administration sees assistance to the A.U. Administration officials who described the new deployments insisted they did not imply any weakening in the Obama administration’s criticism of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni for signing a new law imposing harsh penalties for “homosexual offenses.” Obama warned that the law, passed last month by the Ugandan parliament, was a “step backward for all Ugandans,” and the administration said it would review bilateral relations, including $400 million in annual U.S. aid to Uganda. In 2009, Congress passed legislation expressing “support for increased, comprehensive U.S. efforts to help mitigate and eliminate the threat posed by the LRA to civilians and regional stability.”", "The US has offered up to $5m (£3.3m) for leads resulting in his arrest. Image copyright AFP Image caption Joseph Kony is wanted on war crimes charges The US has announced it is sending military aircraft and more special forces to look for Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony. Mr Kony is wanted by the International Criminal Court on war crimes charges. National Security Council spokesperson Caitlin Hayden said the lack of aircraft had been identified by the African countries leading the hunt for Mr Kony as one of their major obstacles to finding him and the other LRA leaders \"across a wide swath of one of the world's poorest, least governed and most remote regions\". The African Union-led forces would remain in charge of the operation, with the US retaining an advisory role. The US first deployed some 100 special forces in 2011 to help thousands of African troops track him down." ]

[ "(CNN) Idaho State University has been fined after it lost track of a small amount of plutonium 239, a substance used to make nuclear weapons. University Officials say the sample, missing since 2003, does not pose a direct health issue or risk to public safety. Although the ISU believes the tiny speck of plutonium was transferred to a licensed disposal facility, there are no records to prove that it was. The school realized it had lost track of the plutonium earlier this year and immediately notified the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ISU officials said the sample, weighing a gram, was lost as it was being taken out of service after employees only partially filled out the necessary paperwork. The substance had been used by the school to conduct several research experiments.", "___ This story has been corrected to show that the missing plutonium is about a 30th of an ounce, not a third of an ounce. A small amount of radioactive, weapons-grade plutonium about the size of a U.S. quarter... (Associated Press) BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A small amount of radioactive, weapons-grade plutonium about the size of a U.S. quarter is missing from an Idaho university that was using it for research, leading federal officials on Friday to propose an $8,500 fine. A small amount of radioactive, weapons-grade plutonium about the size of a U.S. quarter... (Associated Press) FILE - In this May 11, 2015, file photo, nuclear waste is stored in underground containers at the Idaho Nation. FILE - In this May 11, 2015, file photo, nuclear waste is stored in underground containers at the Idaho Nation. The plutonium was being used to develop ways to ensure nuclear waste containers weren't leaking and to find ways to detect radioactive material being illegally brought into the U.S. following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the school said in an email to the AP. It said the Idaho National Laboratory didn't want the plutonium and the school's technical safety office had it \"pending disposal of the next waste shipment.\" The university, which has 30 days to dispute the proposed fine, reported the plutonium missing on Oct. 13, according to documents released by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Idaho State University has a nuclear engineering program and works with the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory, considered the nation's primary nuclear research lab and located about 65 miles (105 kilometers) northwest of the school." ]

[ "This is becoming a habbit with movie studios, showing epic scenes in trailers...but their never shown in the movies. These scenes were advertised several times in the 1st trailer and many TV ads...but they didn’t show it to me in the movie. “Suicide Squad” trailers showcased several SPECIFIC Joker scenes that I had to pay for the whole movie just so that I can go watch those SPECIFIC SCENES that WB/DC had advertised in their trailers and TV spots. I wasted alot of money paying and travelling to go watch this movie because of these specific scenes they had advertised to me and all of us saying, ‘’hey, check out our preview! Movie Trailers are like food menus, they give you a preview of what your gonna get.", "Disgruntled by Suicide Squad's so-called false advertising, the moviegoer is sharing his plans to sue Warner Bros. & DC Entertainment for wrongly showing some of The Joker’s scenes in its preview trailers. He writes, “Suicide Squad trailers showcased several SPECIFIC Joker scenes that I had to pay for the whole movie just so that I can go watch those SPECIFIC SCENES that WB/DC had advertised in their trailers and TV spots...Non [sic] of these scenes were in the movie. I drove 300 miles to London to go watch these specific scenes they had explicitly advertised in their TV ads...and they didn't show them to me.” Of course, many fans are aware of the decision Warner Bros. made to cut many of The Joker’s scenes. Posting to r/movies, the user had lots to say about how fed up he is with Suicide Squad and Hollywood’s tendency to delete scenes shown in trailers.", "Despite a year's worth of trailers, teasers, and declarations of method acting prowess, Jared Leto doesn't really get a ton of screen time in the film. That's not only a bummer for Leto, but it's also quite the bummer for Joker and/or Leto fans. For anyone who hasn't had the chance to peep Suicide Squad just yet, the following slice of info might qualify as a spoiler. A Reddit user by the digital name of BlackPanther2016, as first reported by Screen Rant, considers movie trailers to be similar to food menus. Just ask the guy who's apparently threatening to sue because Suicide Squad's distinct lack of Joker left him so damn befuddled." ]

[ "The country music pop princess has vowed to help the victims of the devastating Louisiana floods by donating $1 million to the state’s disaster relief fund. This is far from the first time the singer — who has an estimated worth of $250 million — has dug deep for a good cause. \"The fact that so many people in Louisiana have been forced out of their own homes this week is heartbreaking.” So far 11 people have been killed by the historic flooding, which has damaged at least 40,000 homes. “We began the 1989 world tour in Louisiana, and the wonderful fans there made us feel completely at home,\" she said.", "Swift is donating $1 million to Louisiana after torrential rains caused... (Associated Press) NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Swift is donating $1 million to Louisiana flood relief after torrential rains caused massive flooding in the state and killed at least 11 people. More than 60,000 people have registered for disaster aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency after widespread flooding hit the state, according to Louisiana Gov. Over 30,000 people have been rescued since Friday, with more being brought to safety by the hour. Swift is donating $1 million to Louisiana after torrential rains caused... (Associated Press) FILE - In this April 3, 2016 file photo, Taylor Swift arrives at the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif. FILE - In this April 3, 2016 file photo, Taylor Swift arrives at the iHeartRadio Music Awards at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif." ]

[ "DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — While his mother was preparing food in the kitchen, a 5-year-old Florida boy called 911 to invite law enforcement officers over for Thanksgiving dinner. Mom Landi McCormick says she was cooking when Billy's grandfather noticed him talking to someone on an old cellphone. She says the deputy thanked Billy for his kind invitation, then reminded him he should only use 911 for emergencies. Monica Webster of the Walton County Sheriff's Office tells the News Herald (http://bit.ly/2gs8nkH ) that with all the bad calls they receive every day, this was a happy call. But young Billy Nolin's family had no idea he'd invited guests to dinner. He was crying when Deputy Dannon Byrd drove up. McCormick reprimanded Billy when he admitted calling 911.", "DeFUNIAK SPRINGS — The 911 call on Thursday was short and sweet. “Will you come over cause we’re eating Thanksgiving,” the young voice with the distinct southern accent inquired. “This is typical of the kind of professionalism our deputies display every day,” Dobridnia said. “It just goes to show that deputies aren’t just about arresting people and putting them in jail. Folks from all over the country praised the deputies and Billy for their kindness." ]

[ "There are many potential ways of defining what it means to be religious, but for the purposes of this analysis, we looked at four common measures of religious observance: worship attendance, prayer frequency, belief in God and the self-described importance of religion in one’s life. Mississippi, Alabama and other Southern states are among the most highly religious states in the nation, while New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine in New England are among the least devout, according to some of the key measures used to determine levels of religiosity in the Pew Research Center’s most recent Religious Landscape Study. In exploring the interactive it is important to keep in mind that differences between two states may not always be statistically significant due to the margins of error that are inherent in this survey data. To begin, select a state to see where it ranks in terms of overall religiosity.", "Religion’s importance in one’s life, worship attendance, frequency of prayer, and the belief in God were also used in the determination. To identify the most and least religious states, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed a 2014 Pew Research Center survey of all 50 states and their religious makeup. The study also determined the importance of religion residents’ lives, worship attendance, frequency of prayer, and the belief in God. The percentage of adults who are religiously unaffiliated adults grew in every state except for one, and it was the fastest growing ideology in almost every state for which there was data. While religion is widespread across the country, the share of adults for whom religion is extremely important to their lives varies greatly between states. Across America, states and regions differ in terms of their cultures, foods and accents. In the most religious state, 77% of the population are highly religious compared with 33% in the least religious. Trends were determined by comparing the percentage of adherents to the religion in a previous survey conducted in 2007." ]

[ "The ev Tribune file photo Sarah Burke, a Canadian freestyle skier, sustained \"serious\" injuries while training in the Eagle Superpipe at In a Jan. 28, 2010, file photo, Sarah Burke, of Canada, reacts after failing to place in the top-three finishers in the slopestyle 1 of 4 View Caption Sarah Burke (Canadian Ski Team photo) Jim Urquhart | The Salt Lake Tribune Canada's Sarah Burke won the gold at the women's ski halfpipe finals at Snowbasin.", "“[Burke’s crash] has the effect of making people more acutely aware of how important safety is,” Judge said. “There are inherent risks in any sport.” As for the trick she was performing at the time of the accident, he would only say: “It was nothing out of the norm, nothing on the extreme end of the spectrum.” It was a routine manoeuvre on a well-worn halfpipe that left Sarah Burke clinging to life and a fledgling sport missing one of its biggest stars. She also played a major role in pushing the sport’s legitimacy, successfully lobbying the International Olympic Committee to add it to the roster in the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia. Burke’s chosen event is the superpipe – like a halfpipe but wider and with taller walls – a sport that has been steadily gaining attention in recent years. Accidents such as Pearce’s have played a key role in boosting the use of life-saving gear." ]

[ "\"To the world, Chernobyl and Fukushima seem like dangerous places, but for the people who live there, that danger is simply a fact of life,\" says photojournalist Michael Forster Rothbart, who spent two years cataloging the lives of people living in the shadow of nuclear accidents. Forster Rothbart has seen the effects of environmental damage in Bhopal, India, Azerbaijan, and the Canadian Arctic. is full of people living with cancer. Authorities ringed Chernobyl with four zones following the 1986 nuclear disaster. And now the same thing is happening Fukushima, though residents have access to daily radiation reports: Says Forster Rothbart: \"What I saw in Fukushima is that many evacuees are living in a state of limbo, still staying in temporary housing, waiting to learn if they’ll be able to return home, waiting for more answers that never seem to come.\" What separates Chernobyl and Fukushima, he says, is the insidiousness of the contamination.", "SHARE THIS ARTICLE Share Tweet Post Email Photographer: Sean Gallup/Getty Images Photographer: Sean Gallup/Getty Images Ukraine’s looking toward the sun to put a radioactive wasteland back into business. Thirty years after atomic fallout from the Chernobyl meltdown rendered an area the size of Luxembourg uninhabitable for centuries, Ukraine is seeking investors to develop solar power near the defunct Soviet reactors. “The Chernobyl site has really good potential for renewable energy,” Ukraine’s environment minister Ostap Semerak, 44, said at an interview in London.", "It will be 30 years ago Tuesday that Pripyat and the nearby Chernobyl nuclear plant became synonymous with nuclear disaster, that the word Chernobyl came to mean more than just a little village in rural Ukraine, and this place became more than just another spot in the shadowy Soviet Union. “We had meetings, loud meetings, where we tried to figure it out.” What they figured out was the worst nuclear-energy disaster in human history, far worse than the explosion at Kyshtym nuclear complex in 1957 in what was then the Soviet Union, which released 70 tons of radioactive material into the air, or the 1957 fire at the Windscale Nuclear Reactor in northwestern England, which forced a ban on milk sales for a month, or the Three Mile Island disaster in Pennsylvania on March 29, 1979, where a cooling malfunction led to a partial meltdown. The area near the reactor is both a teeming wildlife refuge and an irradiated ghost-scape. Before the fire, the vomiting, the deaths and the vanishing home, it was the promise of bumper cars that captured the imagination of the boys. To get an idea of what it means to contain and control a deadly and potentially devastating radioactive pile in Ukraine for 3,000 years, consider what the world looked like 3,000 years ago: The Iron Age was beginning. As a new forest grew unchecked above the radioactive remains of the old forest, the new wood was also highly radioactive. Death toll estimates run from hundreds to millions.", "Chernobyl's exclusion zone to be revived with solar The Ukrainian government has announced plans to use Chernobyl's nuclear wasteland for solar energy generation. “We expect the solar plant to cover about 50% of the company's energy needs and pay itself off in four to five years”, Velcom CEO Helmut Duhs said at a press-conference in Minsk. Despite the political and economic difficulties facing the country, Ukraine is aiming to increase the share of renewables in its energy mix up to 11% by 2020, the ministry reports. Belarus' PV plan for Chernobyl Belarus, Ukraine's northern neighbor, has its own solar plans for the land affected by the Chernobyl disaster. Yesterday, a 4 MW PV plant was successfully connected to the grid in Vysokopillya, a southern part of the country." ]

[ "It said the remarks are \"likely to be roundly dismissed by those who have embraced the idea of women's ability to have unemotional, uncommitted sex as an empowered lifestyle choice\". The Observer said the \"uncharacteristically extreme comments... denote a marked break in tone from a man whose public schtick tends towards inoffensive charm and gently upmarket wit\". Fry's fury over article comments Stephen Fry said he was portrayed as the \"antichrist\" after he was apparently quoted claiming the only reason women slept with men is that \"sex is the price they are willing to pay for a relationship\". Fry, 53, used his favourite medium, micro-blogging site Twitter, to offer his response, posting: \"So some paper misquotes a humorous interview I gave, which itself misquoted me and now I'm the Antichrist. Shortly afterwards, the broadcaster and writer, who has almost two million followers, added the simple message: \"Bye bye.\" The Observer was quoting Fry from an interview he gave to gay magazine Attitude in which he is reportedly said: \"If women liked sex as much as men, there would be straight cruising areas in the way there are gay cruising areas...", "Fry’s remarks have been branded “rubbish” and \"madness\" by feminists who have questioned his qualifications for making pronouncements on female sexuality. The 53-year-old, who hosts the popular quiz show QI on BBC1, launched the bizarre tirade in an interview published in the November issue of Attitude magazine. Exactly a year to the day since he threatened to leave Twitter because he thought there was \"too much aggression and unkindness around\", Fry posted \"Bye Bye\" on his account. Women would go and hang around in churchyards thinking: 'God, I've got to get my f------- rocks off', or they'd go to Hampstead Heath and meet strangers to shag behind a bush. The openly homosexual broadcaster, who claimed he was celibate for 16 years, finding the idea of sex disgusting, said it was clear that women had no interest in sex from the fact that they do not go out seeking casual encounters in graveyards or on Hampstead Heath. The tweet to his 1,910,676 followers came after Fry claimed he was misquoted over comments suggesting that women were incapable of enjoying sex." ]

[ "WASHINGTON — Two and a half weeks after Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta announced an inquiry into e-mail exchanges between Gen. John R. Allen of the Marines and a socialite in Tampa, Fla., some 15 investigators working seven days a week in the Pentagon inspector general’s office have narrowed their focus to 60 to 70 e-mails that “bear a fair amount of scrutiny,” a defense official said. The official did not disclose the content of the e-mails, but senior Pentagon officials have described the voluminous correspondence between General Allen, the top NATO commander in Afghanistan, and the socialite, Jill Kelley, as potentially “inappropriate communication.” Law enforcement officials say the e-mails number in the hundreds and cover a period of two and a half years starting in 2010, when General Allen was the deputy commander of Central Command, based in Tampa. A law enforcement official has described some of them as sexually explicit. There have been conflicting accounts of the nature of the e-mails between him and Ms. Kelley. Investigations of senior officers in the inspector general’s office usually take about seven months on average, although normally there are only two or three investigators assigned to a case. A year ago, after inviting the mayor to a birthday party for one of her children, she added a casual P.S. investigation into anonymous e-mails to Ms. Kelley warning her to stay away from David H. Petraeus, then the C.I.A. But General Allen’s associates say they are innocuous and contain little beyond language like “you’re a sweetheart.” Although Ms. Kelley’s e-mail correspondence with General Allen has not been made public, dozens of her e-mails to Mayor Bob Buckhorn of Tampa have been released under Florida’s public record laws and refer to her friendship with both General Allen and Mr. Petraeus.", "In court responses, Cohen said Khawam \"has a judicially documented recent history and continuing propensity for the commission of perjury.\" The Tampa socialite at the center of a scandal involving Gen. David Petraeus has hired a top Washington attorney and seems... (Associated Press) FILE - In this Nov 13, 2012 file photo Jill Kelley leaves her home in Tampa, Fla. The Tampa socialite at the center of a scandal involving Gen. David Petraeus has hired a top Washington attorney and seems to be trying to change the narrative about her friendship with the general, her past and her role as an \"honorary consul\" to the country of South Korea. The Tampa socialite at the center of a scandal involving Gen. David Petraeus has hired a top Washington attorney and seems... (Associated Press) Jill Kelley wants the world to know that she didn't do anything wrong when she befriended top military brass." ]

[ "WASHINGTON — Fairfax County police are searching for a woman suspected of impersonating a Target employee and stealing more than $40,000 worth of iPhones earlier this month. Fairfax County police are searching for a woman suspected of impersonating a Target employee and stealing more than $40,000 worth of iPhones. Police released surveillance footage Tuesday of the suspect leaving the store. On March 15, an unidentified woman impersonated a Target employee at the 6600 Richmond Highway location in Alexandria, Virginia, police said.", "Detectives in Virginia are looking for a woman who disguised herself as a Target employee and stole more than $40,000 worth of iPhones. The woman, dressed as an employee of Target, walked into the Richmond Highway store and made her way back to the stockroom. Detectives said the woman is not affiliated with the store but appeared to know the store's procedures and location of the iPhones in the stockroom. Surveillance cameras were able to capture pictures of the woman. Once inside, she placed the iPhones in a box and left the store, Fairfax County police said." ]

[ "The iPad is breaking out in a very mainstream fashion: An ad for the Apple device just aired during the Oscars. The ad explains why Apple CEO Steve Jobs was spotted on the red carpet earlier. We've got a screenshot and we'll post video as soon as it comes in (update: video added below). Apple iPad Commercial During the Oscars Steve Jobs on the Oscars Red Carpet [img credit: TheFullM0nty [img credit: Wayne Sutton", "iPad ad debuts during 2010 Oscars BY MARK W. SMITH FREE PRESS WEB EDITOR Apple debuted its new iPad commercial during last night's 2010 Academy Awards telecast, sparking immediate buzz on Twitter and leading tech blogs. The iPad ad isn't a departure from Apple's established creative style and doesn't show off any features we haven't already seen. You have to wonder if the computer maker has some more tricks up its sleeve as the iPad's April 3 release nears. Jobs is a board member at Walt Disney, which owns Pixar -- the studio that produced last night's animation Oscar-winner \"Up.\" Tech blog Mashable posted a picture from earlier in the evening showing Apple CEO Steve Jobs on the red carpet Sunday at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood." ]

[ "By Anjali Athavaley, Pervaiz Shallwani, Sharon Adarlo, Alison Fox and Heather Haddon UPDATED | Despite last-minute efforts by officials in New York and New Jersey to help storm victims vote, confusion, lack of electricity and long lines still plagued polling sites throughout the area Tuesday. On the playground of Scholars’ Academy on Beach 104th St. in Rockaway Park, several voting locations from the western end of the Rockaway peninsula were consolidated into one tent-covered polling site. To prevent disenfranchising voters, shuttle buses were running in hard-hit areas, voting locations were combined and Gov. “We had it planned the best we could and there were a few glitches.” Zuma Press People gather to vote at a makeshift tent, which is used as a polling station in Rockway. Problems started immediately, as poll workers arrived to find that generators, heaters and lights were nowhere to be found. Marie Howley of Rockaway Park used a rental car to drive in from Rockville Centre on Long Island, where she has been staying with her daughter.", "A second term should guarantee Obama's signature legislative achievement, health care reform and coverage for millions of uninsured Americans. And gridlock could thwart his efforts to negotiate a new fiscal plan. Yet overall economic policy needs to change, experts say. Obama vows to work with GOP to solve deficit, other woes Economy showing some signs of picking up steam President Obama won re-election in the USA's costliest and perhaps most bitterly contested national campaign in recent memory. With Republicans retaining control of the House and Democrats adding to their advantage in the Senate, Obama also may be plagued by the same political gridlock that has sharply divided the electorate and hampered the president's agenda for solving the country's woes.", "Massachusetts voters flocked to the polls today, drawn by the chance to vote in sharply contested races for president and US Senate. After long, intense campaigns, voters said they were thrilled, and more than a little relieved, that Election Day was finally at hand — and they were eager to have their say. Many precincts reported long lines and steady turnout. In Waltham, where voters began arriving at 6:30 a.m., turnout was strong. Advertisement Statewide, officials predict that as many as 3.2 million people could vote, surpassing the record set in 2008. In Belmont, a cheer went up outside the Beech Street Center after Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, and his wife, Ann, cast their votes in their hometown.", "Thes Kathleen McGregory reports on Twitter that some voters cast ballots in less than half an hour at City Hall in Coconut Grove.But photos from Liberty City to Miami Shores to Sunny Isles show long lines stretching out of the polling places.Thanks to an absurdly long ballot -- the handiwork of Florida's GOP-dominated Legislature, which tacked on 11 lengthy constitutional amendments -- voters can't just pop in, fill in a bubble for Mitt or Barry, and then move on.But White says early reports that some poll places were running short on ballots or on voting booths were incorrect, adding she's heard no reports so far of \"major issues. More likely: most neighbors around here are either sleeping off a night at Mansion, baking in the sun completely oblivious to the fact that it's Election Day, or are German DJs who can't vote in the States. \"We're going to see long lines because voters are enthusiastic,\" Christina White, deputy supervisor at Miami-Dade County Elections tells Riptide.Wait times have varied wildly around the county so far, based on online reports. \"\"We've deployed the maximum equipment possible at every site,\" she says. There's at least one neighborhood in Miami immune to hours-long voting waits: South Beach. Life is good in SoBe.", "by Joy Lin | November 06, 2012 With his vote cast, Joe Biden once again flirted with the possibility of another presidential race. In his last campaign speech before Election Day, Biden spoke like a man considering a run in 2016. \"It's time we come together and realize the great potential of this great country,\" he said in Richmond. The vice president returned to his home state of Delaware to vote on Election Day, and spoke to reporters outside the polling center at Alexis DuPont High School in Greenville. The nation's oldest president was Ronald Reagan, elected to the Oval Office at age 69. Biden turns 70 on Nov 20, but it appears age is no barrier for a man who was elected to Senate at the age of 29. He discarded his attack dog role and wrapped up his remarks with a call for the nation to unify." ]

[ "When asked if the Republican Party - which some predict will win control of the House of Representatives next week - will win a majority in the Senate, the GOP's 2008 presidential nominee declined to foresee success. Looking ahead, McCain was asked about the prospect of compromise in Congress over the Bush era tax cuts, which are due to expire at the end of this year. \"We're not going to get into a bidding war with the Democrats over what level [of] rich people we hate. Let's extend them for a couple of years, as 45 Democrats in the House said that they were committed to [doing], and let's start attacking the real problem, and that's spending. Doing so, Democrats argue, would increase the federal deficit by $700 billion over the next decade.", "(AP Photo/John Raoux) (Associated Press) Sen. John McCain is calling Sarah Palin an \"outstanding candidate\" for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, but says it's too early to endorse her. Sarah Palin speaks to supporters at a Republican National Committee rally in Orlando, Fla., Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010. Sarah Palin speaks to supporters at a Republican National Committee rally in Orlando, Fla., Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010." ]

[ "Justice Samuel Alito questioned whether courts should adopt a relatively new social science theory rather than waiting for more scholarship. If the group of Democrats suing the Badger State are successful, every state will have to follow new rules when they draw congressional and legislative maps. He asked Erin Murphy, an attorney for the Wisconsin Legislature, whether it would violate the Constitution for a state to pass a law that required lawmakers to draw maps that gave maximum advantage to one side (while still complying with traditional redistricting principles). The Supreme Court has long wrestled with the question of whether maps can be so one-sided as to violate the Constitution. And the public will suspect the court's rulings are based on partisanship, he warned. “When legislatures think about drawing these maps, they’re not only thinking about the next election, they're thinking often — not always — but often about the election after that and the election after that and the election after that,\" she said.", "The justices heard oral argument in Gill v. Whitford, a challenge to the redistricting plan passed by Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled legislature in 2011. Today may have been only the second day of the Supreme Court’s new term, but it may also prove to be one of the biggest. Although it may sometimes be difficult to tell when politics plays too influential a role in redistricting, the lower court conceded, this case is “far more straightforward”: The Republican-controlled legislature drafted a redistricting plan to lock in the party’s control of the state legislature, even though it could have created a different plan that would have accomplished redistricting goals without giving Republicans such a partisan advantage. Kagan seemed to be on board with Breyer’s standard, but looked for reassurance that the courts would not be inundated with challenges to other redistricting maps in the future. Thirteen years ago, the justices rejected a challenge to Pennsylvania’s redistricting plan, with four justices agreeing that courts should decline to review partisan-gerrymandering claims, because it is too hard to come up with a manageable test to determine when politics plays too influential a role in redistricting.", "Kennedy’s Vote Is in Play on Voting Maps Warped by Politics Image People including Bill Millhouser protesting gerrymandering outside the Supreme Court on Tuesday. After spirited Supreme Court arguments on Tuesday, there was reason to think Justice Kennedy may be ready to join the court’s more liberal members in a groundbreaking decision that could reshape American democracy by letting courts determine when lawmakers have gone too far. Credit Tom Brenner/The New York Times WASHINGTON — Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has long been troubled by extreme partisan gerrymandering, where the party in power draws voting districts to give itself a lopsided advantage in elections. “Gerrymandering is distasteful,” said Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., “but if we are going to impose a standard on the courts, it has to be something that’s manageable.” Some of the court’s more liberal members said the problem represented a crisis for democracy and that the Supreme Court should step in. The round of redistricting that will follow the 2020 census, he said, “will produce a festival of copycat gerrymandering the likes of which this country has never seen.” The Supreme Court has never struck down an election map on the ground that it was drawn to make sure one political party wins an outsize number of seats. Justice Kennedy asked skeptical questions of lawyers defending a Wisconsin legislative map that gave Republicans many more seats in the State Assembly than their statewide vote tallies would have predicted. The court was hearing a case based on voting district maps in Wisconsin." ]

[ "It was the moment that temporarily stopped the discussions about medal tallies, green pools, drug cheats and world records. But what happened next became one of the iconic moments of the Rio Olympics, on par with Usain Bolt's triple-triple and Michael Phelps triumphant conclusion to his enormous personal medal tally. Advertisement The medal, only awarded 17 times in Olympic history, is reserved for athletes, volunteers or officials who are deemed to have demonstrated the Olympic spirit. That was one of those journeys and it has gone on to be one of the most important moments of my life.\" Both of us are strong competitors and we wanted to go out there and do our best on the track.", "Date 20 Aug 2016 Tags IOC News , RIO 2016 Fair Play Awards recognise true Olympic champions in sportsmanship The Olympic Games are about more than the win, the medals or the record-setting performances. We have fair play as a value and keyword in Norwegian handball in addition to respect, amongst others. The International Fair Play Committee (CIFP), with the support of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), presented them with Fair Play awards today at the Olympic Club in the Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro for two separate acts of selflessness and exemplary sportsmanship. At their core, the Games are about the Olympic values of excellence, friendship and respect. Nawal El Moutawakel said: “The Olympic Games Rio 2016 have reminded all of us of the power and magic of sport. “This is an honour for the Norwegian Handball Federation and for the players,” commented the President of the Norwegian Handball Federation Kaare Geir Lio." ]