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2,001 | NBA commissioner prioritized lottery reform on front end of Bulls' rebuild | Adam Silver | Adam Silver made draft lottery reform a priority just as the Bulls projected to be participating in it for at least a couple of years.
At any point during negotiations to land the 2020 NBA All-Star Game did the Bulls try to get Silver to change his mind?
The Bulls' president laughed as he said this. But Silver 's aggressive move to even the odds among the top-three worst teams rather than give the league's worst team the best chance to land the No. 1 pick could be a serious matter for the Bulls.
"I'm not even sure I'm allowed to say what I think. It passed I think there was only one team against it " Reinsdorf said. "From our perspective the Chicago Bulls we looked at it as what's good for the league. When Adam talks and when he wants something and it's important to him we're going to listen. Because what's important to the Chicago Bulls is important to us but what's good for the league is also important. So we just kind of balance that." | [TGT] made draft lottery reform a priority just as the Bulls projected to be participating in it for at least a couple of years.
At any point during negotiations to land the 2020 NBA All-Star Game did the Bulls try to get Silver to change his mind?
The Bulls' president laughed as he said this. But [TGT] 's aggressive move to even the odds among the top-three worst teams rather than give the league's worst team the best chance to land the No. 1 pick could be a serious matter for the Bulls.
"I'm not even sure I'm allowed to say what I think. It passed I think there was only one team against it " Reinsdorf said. "From our perspective the Chicago Bulls we looked at it as what's good for the league. When Adam talks and when he wants something and it's important to him we're going to listen. Because what's important to the Chicago Bulls is important to us but what's good for the league is also important. So we just kind of balance that." | 1Neutral
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2,002 | Donald Trump's Comey Problem | James Comey | Over at Lawfareblog theyâve gotten a hold of a cache of e-mails from inside the FBI from the immediate aftermath of the president*âs firing of director James Comey. These are significant in a couple of ways: first the release of these e-mails can fairly be seen as a counterstroke against the president* and his congressional dogsled team and second they give a pretty good look at the kind of chaos that Comeyâs firing occasioned in the Bureauâs rank and file.
When President Trump fired James Comey as FBI director last May the special agent in charge of the Detroit field office David Gelios wrote an email to his staff: â I just saw CNN reporting that Director Comey has been fired by President Trump. I have no notification from HQ of any such thing. If I receive any information from HQ I will advise. Iâd ask all to stand by for clarification of this reporting. I am only sending this because I want everyone to know I have received no HQ confirmation of the reporting. I hope this is an instance of fake news.â
Oh and the e-mails also provide further evidence that Sarah Huckabee Sanders is an utterly truthless drone whose daily briefings are unworthy of serious attention. At the time Comey was fired the White House line peddled by SarahHuck and by the vulgar talking yam for whom she works was that agents in the Bureau had âlost confidenceâ in Comeyâs leadership. (At the time the president* of course would undercut his own outrageous lie by telling Lester Holt that he canned Comey over the Russia thing.) These e-mails show a sense of outrage among the grunts in the field offices on whose behalf Sanders and Trump presumed to speak.
After the president fired Comey there was some uncertainty about whether Comey as a former FBI employee would have to pay his way home from LAX or would be able to use the directorâs plane. NBC recently reported that an irate Trump called McCabe a day after the firing asking why Comey had been permitted to return to Washington on an FBI plane. McCabe indicated that he hadnât been consulted about the use of the plane but had anyone asked he would have approved the request. Thanks to one of these emails we now have a small window into what went on at the FBI at the time. On May 11 Gregory Cox assistant director of the Critical Incident Response Group emailed all of the Critical Incident Response Group thanking âall who were involved in efforts to bring home former Director Comey from Los Angeles on Tuesday evening.â The apparent defiance may be subtle but it is unmistakable. Cox may not have known that his email dealt with a point the president had personally raised with the acting director but he thanked his people for doing the right thing by Comey irrespective of politics he was surely aware of in a generic sense.
I donât minimize how thoroughly Comey bungled at the end of the 2016 presidential campaign. If what he âs doing now is atonement thatâs only right. He has a lot for which he should atone. But the sense of dislocation in these e-mails shows where the current propaganda war against the FBI first took root. Itâs where the water first went muddy. | Over at Lawfareblog theyâve gotten a hold of a cache of e-mails from inside the FBI from the immediate aftermath of the president*âs firing of director James Comey. These are significant in a couple of ways: first the release of these e-mails can fairly be seen as a counterstroke against the president* and his congressional dogsled team and second they give a pretty good look at the kind of chaos that Comeyâs firing occasioned in the Bureauâs rank and file.
When President Trump fired [TGT] last May the special agent in charge of the Detroit field office David Gelios wrote an email to his staff: â I just saw CNN reporting that [TGT] has been fired by President Trump. I have no notification from HQ of any such thing. If I receive any information from HQ I will advise. Iâd ask all to stand by for clarification of this reporting. I am only sending this because I want everyone to know I have received no HQ confirmation of the reporting. I hope this is an instance of fake news.â
Oh and the e-mails also provide further evidence that Sarah Huckabee Sanders is an utterly truthless drone whose daily briefings are unworthy of serious attention. At the time [TGT] was fired the White House line peddled by SarahHuck and by the vulgar talking yam for whom [TGT] works was that agents in the Bureau had âlost confidenceâ in Comeyâs leadership. (At the time the president* of course would undercut his own outrageous lie by telling Lester Holt that he canned Comey over the Russia thing.) These e-mails show a sense of outrage among the grunts in the field offices on whose behalf Sanders and Trump presumed to speak.
After the president fired [TGT] there was some uncertainty about whether [TGT] as a former FBI employee would have to pay his way home from LAX or would be able to use the directorâs plane. NBC recently reported that an irate Trump called McCabe a day after the firing asking why Comey had been permitted to return to Washington on an FBI plane. McCabe indicated that he hadnât been consulted about the use of the plane but had anyone asked he would have approved the request. Thanks to one of these emails we now have a small window into what went on at the FBI at the time. On May 11 Gregory Cox assistant director of the Critical Incident Response Group emailed all of the Critical Incident Response Group thanking âall who were involved in efforts to bring home former Director Comey from Los Angeles on Tuesday evening.â The apparent defiance may be subtle but it is unmistakable. Cox may not have known that his email dealt with a point the president had personally raised with the acting director but he thanked his people for doing the right thing by Comey irrespective of politics he was surely aware of in a generic sense.
I donât minimize how thoroughly Comey bungled at the end of the 2016 presidential campaign. If what he âs doing now is atonement thatâs only right. He has a lot for which he should atone. But the sense of dislocation in these e-mails shows where the current propaganda war against the FBI first took root. Itâs where the water first went muddy. | 1Neutral
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2,003 | Drunk bro âblacked outâ and took $1 600 Uber ride | Kenneth Bachman | Kenneth Bachman is on the hook for the $1 635.93 fare after blacking out while partying with pals in Morgantown near West Virginia University last Friday CBS Philadelphia reported.
âWe went to a frat party and then went to the bar. I was getting drinks all night; I probably spent like $200 at the bar after already drinking all day â said Bachman . âBasically I kinda just blacked out. The last thing I remember was being at the bar and then I just woke up in the Uber next to an older dude telling me I was an hour out from Jersey.â
âI was just like âThatâs crazy. Why did you agree to take me to New Jersey from West Virginia?ââ Bachman added.
âIâm heading back to West Virginia this weekend to pick up my bags so if you guys see me say âWhatâs up!ââ Bachman cracked. | [TGT] is on the hook for the $1 635.93 fare after blacking out while partying with pals in Morgantown near West Virginia University last Friday CBS Philadelphia reported.
âWe went to a frat party and then went to the bar. I was getting drinks all night; I probably spent like $200 at the bar after already drinking all day â said [TGT] . âBasically I kinda just blacked out. The last thing I remember was being at the bar and then I just woke up in the Uber next to an older dude telling me I was an hour out from Jersey.â
âI was just like âThatâs crazy. Why did you agree to take me to New Jersey from West Virginia?ââ [TGT] added.
âIâm heading back to West Virginia this weekend to pick up my bags so if you guys see me say âWhatâs up!ââ [TGT] cracked. | 1Neutral
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2,004 | Is Xi Jinping now a âleader for life â like Mao? Hereâs why this is dangerous. | Xi Jinping | Chinese President Xi Jinping claps while addressing the media as he introduces new members of the Politburo Standing Committee at Beijingâs Great Hall of the People on Oct 25. (Ng Han Guan/AP)
Chinaâs constitution is set to drop the two-term limit for president allowing Xi Jinping to extend his rule beyond 2023. Here are three things to know about Xiâs increasingly personal rule:
1. Xi has broken a decades-old norm of collective rule
Deng Xiaoping the Chinese leader who spearheaded reform after Mao passed spoke against personal rule in 1980: âOver-concentration of power is liable to give rise to arbitrary rule by individuals at the expense of collective leadership.â Most China watchers expected Xi to follow his predecessor Hu Jintaoâs example and rule for only 10 years but now there is consensus that Xi will stay on after this period.
[ Xi Jinping just made it clear where Chinaâs foreign policy is headed ]
In China Xi packed key government positions with his supporters while purging rivals. He also created significant new organizations such as small leadership groups that he controls to circumvent rival power centers. With these latest constitutional changes he has rigged the game in his favor too. The Chinese Communist Party is a massive and powerful organization but increasingly it is an institution ruled by just one man Xi Jinping.
Beyond this Xi has initiated a substantial anti-corruption campaign that has gone after tens of thousands of officials at all levels including retired top leaders such as Zhou Yongkang. Some targets no doubt were Xi rivals but there is good reason to believe that the Communist Partyâs pervasive corruption had become a major source of economic and political risk.
Even if Xi is interested in the party and the broader regime rather than his own aggrandizement going after top-level retirees broke a norm of exemption. This makes it difficult for Xi to retire as he could become a target given his familyâs wealth â despite their efforts to shed assets.
To be sure the proposed constitutional revisions do not stop at allowing Xi a third term. They call for inclusion of a reference to âcore socialist values â a âpublic oath of allegiance to the constitutionâ for state officials upon assuming office and for listing a supervision commission as a new state organ.
These changes are evidence that power is centralizing in Beijing â in addition to being concentrated in Xi . Local government officials enjoyed relatively free rein for much of the post-Mao period as long as the economy grew and tax revenue came in. But the central government increasingly is investing in its monitoring capacity and offering a rhetoric of governing morally with a mix of Confucian and Communist Party virtues. | Chinese President [TGT] claps while addressing the media as [TGT] introduces new members of the Politburo Standing Committee at Beijingâs Great Hall of the People on Oct 25. (Ng Han Guan/AP)
Chinaâs constitution is set to drop the two-term limit for president allowing Xi Jinping to extend his rule beyond 2023. Here are three things to know about Xiâs increasingly personal rule:
1. Xi has broken a decades-old norm of collective rule
Deng Xiaoping the Chinese leader who spearheaded reform after Mao passed spoke against personal rule in 1980: âOver-concentration of power is liable to give rise to arbitrary rule by individuals at the expense of collective leadership.â Most China watchers expected Xi to follow his predecessor Hu Jintaoâs example and rule for only 10 years but now there is consensus that Xi will stay on after this period.
[ Xi Jinping just made it clear where Chinaâs foreign policy is headed ]
In China Xi packed key government positions with his supporters while purging rivals. He also created significant new organizations such as small leadership groups that he controls to circumvent rival power centers. With these latest constitutional changes he has rigged the game in his favor too. The Chinese Communist Party is a massive and powerful organization but increasingly it is an institution ruled by just one man Xi Jinping.
Beyond this Xi has initiated a substantial anti-corruption campaign that has gone after tens of thousands of officials at all levels including retired top leaders such as Zhou Yongkang. Some targets no doubt were Xi rivals but there is good reason to believe that the Communist Partyâs pervasive corruption had become a major source of economic and political risk.
Even if Xi is interested in the party and the broader regime rather than his own aggrandizement going after top-level retirees broke a norm of exemption. This makes it difficult for Xi to retire as he could become a target given his familyâs wealth â despite their efforts to shed assets.
To be sure the proposed constitutional revisions do not stop at allowing Xi a third term. They call for inclusion of a reference to âcore socialist values â a âpublic oath of allegiance to the constitutionâ for state officials upon assuming office and for listing a supervision commission as a new state organ.
These changes are evidence that power is centralizing in Beijing â in addition to being concentrated in Xi . Local government officials enjoyed relatively free rein for much of the post-Mao period as long as the economy grew and tax revenue came in. But the central government increasingly is investing in its monitoring capacity and offering a rhetoric of governing morally with a mix of Confucian and Communist Party virtues. | 1Neutral
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2,005 | Thessaloniki Tackles Greeceâs Problems in Miniature | Boutaris | But no matter who wins the national election few believe that Greece can go on without a major overhaul of its government. In Thessaloniki Mr. Boutaris has been trying to do that on a local scale for 18 months bringing his experience as a businessman to bear on the bloated work force the tangled regulations and the huge debt that afflicts the city much as it does the country.
Many of his efforts have prompted city workers to strike and protest. But he is undeterred. Nor does he have any patience for the shop owners who have ignored his efforts to clean up the look of this gracious but somewhat shabby city by enforcing rules about modest signage.
âThere was one guy who said to me he wants Thessaloniki to be like Hong Kong â Mr. Boutaris said with a shake of his head and an expletive. âWell I said âI donât want to be like Hong Kong. You think your business will be destroyed because you donât have a sign on the fifth floor? I donât think so.â â
Thessaloniki was about $126 million in debt when Mr. Boutaris a successful winemaker was sworn into office. ( His predecessor has since been indicted along with 17 others. They are accused of stealing almost $38 million.) The city was doing a poor job of delivering basic services most importantly in garbage collection. It was losing manufacturing jobs to Bulgaria. And as far as Mr. Boutaris was concerned Thessaloniki was far from meeting its potential as a tourist attraction and a port city that offers easy access to the Balkans.
Mr. Boutaris has hardly solved all the issues. But he is already widely credited with increasing tourism which he sees as a way of generating revenues without the need for expensive investment. Brushing aside centuries of tense relations with Turkey Mr. Boutaris set off to Istanbul to initiate a campaign to attract tourists.
Shortly afterward Turkish Airlines resumed flights here and the number of Turks visiting the city â the birthplace of Turkeyâs first president Mustafa Kemal Ataturk â doubled last year. Mr. Boutaris has also reached out to Israel because the Thessaloniki region with a population of about one million once had a large Jewish population. Cruise ships now stop here more frequently.
At the same time Mr. Boutaris has taken measures large and small to rein in the budget. He hired an auditor to get to the bottom of the cityâs finances which until recently still involved cash transactions into city pension funds. (Employees were handed stacks of bills and told to make deposits. This is said to have played a large roll in the indictments.) He has forced workers to account for their overtime started a recycling program and traded in his limousine for an economy model. So far Mr. Boutaris has reduced costs by 30 percent.
âWhat I am trying to do is to open all fronts and create a huge turbulence â Mr. Boutaris said. âWhen you propose the slightest change people say no. If you do it all at once it is a different thing. Something has to break through.â
âAnd you cannot step back â he added. âIf you step back you lose.â
Mr. Boutaris is a rarity in Greece where most people who seek higher office are career politicians. He won election by just 300 votes. He is unusually candid by Greek standards about himself . He has admitted to being an alcoholic and no longer drinks. And he was divorced for seven years and then remarried his wife.
Residents here talk about how approachable he is compared with the usual politician. He rides a bicycle around town and sits in cafes like everyone else debating the cityâs problems. In fact Mr. Boutaris denies he is a politician. He says running the city is just a project something to keep him busy now that he has turned his wine business over to his three children.
âMy wife said âYou need to find something else to do â â Mr. Boutaris says of his decision to go into politics.
HE initially joined the Communist Party but soon resigned. He considers himself a socialist but belongs to no party. His goal he said is to make Thessaloniki a place where businesses can flourish. But he is not happy with the local merchants. The small shopkeepers he said do not want to pay taxes and complain that the malls are undercutting their business.
Mr. Boutaris says they must stay open later to compete with the malls which are open until 9 p.m. But the shop owners are not interested. Another expletive.
Before taking office Mr. Boutaris was known for his winery and for establishing a preserve to protect bears and wolves. He says his intent was to preserve the forest but the bears were an easier selling point. âEverybody likes bears â he said. âThe forest would have been harder.â
The garbage trucks are also a problem. More than half are out for repairs at any given time. So Mr. Boutaris has decided to contract the maintenance to a private company. City workers promptly went on strike fearing further privatization. âIt will be settled soon â he said. âIâm 70 years old and I believe I know what I am doing.â | But no matter who wins the national election few believe that Greece can go on without a major overhaul of its government. In Thessaloniki [TGT] has been trying to do that on a local scale for 18 months bringing [TGT] experience as a businessman to bear on the bloated work force the tangled regulations and the huge debt that afflicts the city much as it does the country.
Many of his efforts have prompted city workers to strike and protest. But he is undeterred. Nor does he have any patience for the shop owners who have ignored his efforts to clean up the look of this gracious but somewhat shabby city by enforcing rules about modest signage.
âThere was one guy who said to me he wants Thessaloniki to be like Hong Kong â [TGT] said with a shake of [TGT] head and an expletive. âWell I said âI donât want to be like Hong Kong. You think your business will be destroyed because you donât have a sign on the fifth floor? I donât think so.â â
Thessaloniki was about $126 million in debt when [TGT] was sworn into office. ( [TGT] predecessor has since been indicted along with 17 others. They are accused of stealing almost $38 million.) The city was doing a poor job of delivering basic services most importantly in garbage collection. It was losing manufacturing jobs to Bulgaria. And as far as [TGT] was concerned Thessaloniki was far from meeting its potential as a tourist attraction and a port city that offers easy access to the Balkans.
[TGT] has hardly solved all the issues. But [TGT] is already widely credited with increasing tourism which [TGT] sees as a way of generating revenues without the need for expensive investment. Brushing aside centuries of tense relations with Turkey [TGT] set off to Istanbul to initiate a campaign to attract tourists.
Shortly afterward Turkish Airlines resumed flights here and the number of Turks visiting the city â the birthplace of Turkeyâs first president Mustafa Kemal Ataturk â doubled last year. [TGT] has also reached out to Israel because the Thessaloniki region with a population of about one million once had a large Jewish population. Cruise ships now stop here more frequently.
At the same time [TGT] has taken measures large and small to rein in the budget. [TGT] hired an auditor to get to the bottom of the cityâs finances which until recently still involved cash transactions into city pension funds. (Employees were handed stacks of bills and told to make deposits. This is said to have played a large roll in the indictments.) [TGT] has forced workers to account for their overtime started a recycling program and traded in [TGT] limousine for an economy model. So far [TGT] has reduced costs by 30 percent.
âWhat I am trying to do is to open all fronts and create a huge turbulence â [TGT] said. âWhen you propose the slightest change people say no. If you do it all at once it is a different thing. Something has to break through.â
âAnd you cannot step back â he added. âIf you step back you lose.â
[TGT] is a rarity in Greece where most people who seek higher office are career politicians. [TGT] won election by just 300 votes. [TGT] is unusually candid by Greek standards about [TGT] . [TGT] has admitted to being an alcoholic and no longer drinks. And [TGT] was divorced for seven years and then remarried his wife.
Residents here talk about how approachable [TGT] is compared with the usual politician. [TGT] rides a bicycle around town and sits in cafes like everyone else debating the cityâs problems. In fact [TGT] denies [TGT] is a politician. [TGT] says running the city is just a project something to keep [TGT] busy now that [TGT] has turned [TGT] wine business over to [TGT] three children.
âMy wife said âYou need to find something else to do â â [TGT] says of [TGT] decision to go into politics.
[TGT] initially joined the Communist Party but soon resigned. [TGT] considers [TGT] a socialist but belongs to no party. [TGT] goal [TGT] said is to make Thessaloniki a place where businesses can flourish. But [TGT] is not happy with the local merchants. The small shopkeepers [TGT] said do not want to pay taxes and complain that the malls are undercutting their business.
[TGT] says they must stay open later to compete with the malls which are open until 9 p.m. But the shop owners are not interested. Another expletive.
Before taking office [TGT] was known for [TGT] winery and for establishing a preserve to protect bears and wolves. He says his intent was to preserve the forest but the bears were an easier selling point. âEverybody likes bears â he said. âThe forest would have been harder.â
The garbage trucks are also a problem. More than half are out for repairs at any given time. So [TGT] has decided to contract the maintenance to a private company. City workers promptly went on strike fearing further privatization. âIt will be settled soon â he said. âIâm 70 years old and I believe I know what I am doing.â | 1Neutral
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2,006 | After Uber driver killed on the job family finds solace in other violent crime victims | Tina NelsonIt | Itâs at a bereavement therapy group that meets on the Southwest Side of Chicago far from her North Shore home where Tina Nelson has found some measure of comfort and validation as she copes with her sonâs sudden and violent death.
Grant Nelson was killed in May while driving for ride-share company Uber. A 16-year-old Chicago girl is accused of attacking him with a knife and a machete that authorities say she had just stolen from a Walmart in Skokie.
Since July Tina Nelson has been attending a support group for crime victimsâ families thatâs held each month at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago.
Tina Nelson had experienced other losses in recent years. A sister-in-law died unexpectedly of a brain aneurysm. And just a month before Grant another sister-in-law lost a âtorturous battle with cancer.â
But her sonâs death is âa different sphere of experience â Tina Nelson said.
âYou have to reconcile the fact that someone chose to take the life of your loved one â said Tina âs daughter Alex Nelson who also has been attending the bereavement group. âIt is not a freak accident or illness. Itâs that someone made a conscious choice and that adds to the grieving process. You are not just mourning the person. You are trying to reconcile the feelings about (the accused) whether it be forgiveness or anger.â
Tina and Alex Nelson spoke with the Tribune on Dec. 4 â what would have been Grantâs 35th birthday â about how the family is coping. Tina Nelson describes how she finds herself daily longing to talk to him particularly to tell him things she knows he âd find funny. She demonstrated how he would throw his head back when he laughed.
He had âthe best laugh â she said. âI miss his laugh.â
â It has been a lifesaver for my husband and myself â she said. â It âs the camaraderie. You get to know people that walked in your shoes. And no one looks down at you. They are all sympathetic.â
Tina Nelson said she âs found the bereavement group so helpful that she was moved to write to County Board President Toni Preckwinkle to tell her . Preckwinkle wrote her back to explain that services for the victims of violent crimes and their families are largely supported by federal grant programs. | Itâs at a bereavement therapy group that meets on the Southwest Side of Chicago far from her North Shore home where Tina Nelson has found some measure of comfort and validation as she copes with her sonâs sudden and violent death.
Grant Nelson was killed in May while driving for ride-share company Uber. A 16-year-old Chicago girl is accused of attacking him with a knife and a machete that authorities say she had just stolen from a Walmart in Skokie.
Since July Tina Nelson has been attending a support group for crime victimsâ families thatâs held each month at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago.
Tina Nelson had experienced other losses in recent years. A sister-in-law died unexpectedly of a brain aneurysm. And just a month before Grant another sister-in-law lost a âtorturous battle with cancer.â
But her sonâs death is âa different sphere of experience â Tina Nelson said.
âYou have to reconcile the fact that someone chose to take the life of your loved one â said Tina âs daughter Alex Nelson who also has been attending the bereavement group. âIt is not a freak accident or illness. Itâs that someone made a conscious choice and that adds to the grieving process. You are not just mourning the person. You are trying to reconcile the feelings about (the accused) whether it be forgiveness or anger.â
Tina and Alex Nelson spoke with the Tribune on Dec. 4 â what would have been Grantâs 35th birthday â about how the family is coping. Tina Nelson describes how she finds herself daily longing to talk to him particularly to tell him things she knows he âd find funny. She demonstrated how he would throw his head back when he laughed.
He had âthe best laugh â she said. âI miss his laugh.â
â It has been a lifesaver for my husband and myself â she said. â It âs the camaraderie. You get to know people that walked in your shoes. And no one looks down at you. They are all sympathetic.â
Tina Nelson said she âs found the bereavement group so helpful that she was moved to write to County Board President Toni Preckwinkle to tell her . Preckwinkle wrote her back to explain that services for the victims of violent crimes and their families are largely supported by federal grant programs. | 2Positive
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2,007 | The Blas | Bernie Sanders | The far-left true believer made a spectacle of himself when he hesitated to endorse his old boss Hillary Clinton in the 2016 primaries over Sen. Bernie Sanders the self-styled socialist who sings all Hizzonerâs favorite tunes. When he finally came around the New York Timesâ Michael Grynbaum called it de Blasioâs âslow awkward march toward endorsing Hillary Rodham Clinton â the woman who jump-started his political career.â
Now riding the wave of âresistanceâ and co-opting the populist rhetoric of the right Sanders and de Blasio believe they can redress their partyâs failed promises to the white working-class and union voters who turned their backs on the Dems in 2016.
De Blasio will praise Sanders on New Yearâs Day and the duo will smile for the cameras but make no mistake thereâs a real fight over who will get to lead the political leftâs bold new revolution come 2020. De Blasio Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren will all most likely throw their ushankas into the ring. Blas knows that despite his very real general-election handicap of being yet another far-left upper-East Coast faux intellectual at least heâs not as old as the Ark of the Covenant.
De Blasio turning his back on the Clintons and fully embracing Sanders is the first in a long line of stunts to come. He âll go wherever the party message is though he prefers that message to be so far left it takes the party right off a cliff. | The far-left true believer made a spectacle of himself when he hesitated to endorse his old boss Hillary Clinton in the 2016 primaries over Sen. [TGT] the self-styled socialist who sings all Hizzonerâs favorite tunes. When he finally came around the New York Timesâ Michael Grynbaum called it de Blasioâs âslow awkward march toward endorsing Hillary Rodham Clinton â the woman who jump-started his political career.â
Now riding the wave of âresistanceâ and co-opting the populist rhetoric of the right Sanders and de Blasio believe they can redress their partyâs failed promises to the white working-class and union voters who turned their backs on the Dems in 2016.
De Blasio will praise Sanders on New Yearâs Day and the duo will smile for the cameras but make no mistake thereâs a real fight over who will get to lead the political leftâs bold new revolution come 2020. De Blasio Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren will all most likely throw their ushankas into the ring. Blas knows that despite his very real general-election handicap of being yet another far-left upper-East Coast faux intellectual at least heâs not as old as the Ark of the Covenant.
De Blasio turning his back on the Clintons and fully embracing Sanders is the first in a long line of stunts to come. He âll go wherever the party message is though he prefers that message to be so far left it takes the party right off a cliff. | 1Neutral
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2,008 | Flawed Social Security's Burden on National Debt Unaffordable | Rubio | Both options were in place on Wednesday when Sen. Marco Rubio R-Fla. appeared on Politico Playbook to discuss his ideas on tax reform. In that interview he introduced an odd contradiction that few have followed.
"The driver of the debt is the structure of Social Security and Medicare for future beneficiaries " said Rubio . (22:34)
The Social Security Administration expects about half of the people turning 70 today will be alive in 2034 when current law would forcibly reduce paychecks. Rubio specifically defines approaching retirement as those people who are 47 and older. The fact is that even under optimistic assumptions; Social Security will restructure the benefits irresponsibly of future retirees long before Rubio would.
Against this backdrop Sen. Rubio wants to make the payroll tax refundable against the child tax credit which currently offsets up to $1 000 of income taxes. In other words the government should pay for the contributions to Social Security of select voters. Of course expanding this credit in this fashion implies a structural change to Social Security that will mean that the program will add to the debt on a dollar for dollar basis of the applied credit. | Both options were in place on Wednesday when [TGT] appeared on Politico Playbook to discuss [TGT] ideas on tax reform. In that interview [TGT] introduced an odd contradiction that few have followed.
"The driver of the debt is the structure of Social Security and Medicare for future beneficiaries " said Rubio . (22:34)
The Social Security Administration expects about half of the people turning 70 today will be alive in 2034 when current law would forcibly reduce paychecks. [TGT] specifically defines approaching retirement as those people who are 47 and older. The fact is that even under optimistic assumptions; Social Security will restructure the benefits irresponsibly of future retirees long before [TGT] would.
Against this backdrop [TGT] wants to make the payroll tax refundable against the child tax credit which currently offsets up to $1 000 of income taxes. In other words the government should pay for the contributions to Social Security of select voters. Of course expanding this credit in this fashion implies a structural change to Social Security that will mean that the program will add to the debt on a dollar for dollar basis of the applied credit. | 2Positive
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2,009 | 842 lbs man from 'My 600 | Robert Buchel | Robert Buchel who appeared on the TLC show "My 600 Pound Life" has died.
The New Jersey resident who weighed 842 pounds was featured on Wednesday night's episode where viewers learned he suffered a heart attack during the filming of the show.
Buchel had undergone weight loss surgery and was placed on a strict diet before he died suddenly of a heart attack on Nov. 17 2017. Fans only learned of his death last night.
"TLC was deeply saddened by the loss of Robert . We are grateful to his family who were gracious enough to let us continue to share his brave story with our viewers " TLC told Fox News. "Our thoughts and prayers are with them at this difficult time."
Prior to his death Buchel said in the episode "To carry all this weight is physically draining mentally emotionally taxing " Robert said. "It's not a pain or life Iâd wish on anyone because I can't do anything. I canât do anything for anyone â especially myself so I am completely dependent on my fiancee." | [TGT] "My 600 Pound Life" has died.
The New Jersey resident who weighed 842 pounds was featured on Wednesday night's episode where viewers learned he suffered a heart attack during the filming of the show.
[TGT] had undergone weight loss surgery and was placed on a strict diet before [TGT] died suddenly of a heart attack on Nov. 17 2017. Fans only learned of [TGT] death last night.
"TLC was deeply saddened by the loss of Robert . We are grateful to his family who were gracious enough to let us continue to share his brave story with our viewers " TLC told Fox News. "Our thoughts and prayers are with them at this difficult time."
Prior to his death [TGT] said in the episode "To carry all this weight is physically draining mentally emotionally taxing " Robert said. "It's not a pain or life Iâd wish on anyone because I can't do anything. I canât do anything for anyone â especially myself so I am completely dependent on my fiancee." | 0Negative
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2,010 | Teslaâs enormous battery in Australia just weeks old is already responding to outages in ârecordâ time | Tesla | Tesla Motors developed a giant backup power system in South Australia to combat the region's energy crisis and switched on the battery on Dec. 1. (Jay Weatherill via Storyful)
Less than a month after Tesla unveiled a new backup power system in South Australia the world's largest lithium-ion battery is already being put to the test. And it appears to be far exceeding expectations: In the past three weeks alone the Hornsdale Power Reserve has smoothed out at least two major energy outages responding even more quickly than the coal-fired backups that were supposed to provide emergency power.
Tesla 's battery last week kicked in just 0.14 seconds after one of Australia's biggest plants the Loy Yang facility in the neighboring state of Victoria suffered a sudden unexplained drop in output according to the International Business Times. And the week before that another failure at Loy Yang prompted the Hornsdale battery to respond in as little as four seconds â or less according to some estimates â beating other plants to the punch. State officials have called the response time âa record â according to local media.
The effectiveness of Tesla 's battery is being closely watched in a region that is in the grips of an energy crisis. The price of electricity is soaring in Australia particularly in the state of South Australia where a 2016 outage led 1.7 million residents to lose power in a blackout. Storms and heat waves have caused additional outages and many Australians are bracing for more with the onset of summer in the Southern Hemisphere.
The Hornsdale battery system which uses the same energy-storage tech found in Tesla 's electric cars is one of chief executive Elon Musk's newest projects. In March Musk who is known for setting high goals and only sometimes meeting them vowed on Twitter to deliver a battery system for South Australia's struggling grid within 100 days or it would be free. By early July the state had signed a deal with Tesla and the French-based energy company Neoen to produce the battery. And by Dec. 1 South Australia announced that it had switched on the Hornsdale battery.
A spokesman for Tesla didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Nonetheless the Hornsdale reserve has already shown that it can provide what's known as âcontingencyâ service â keeping the grid stable in a crisis and easing what would otherwise be a significant power failure. And more important the project is the biggest proof-of-concept yet that batteries such as Tesla 's can help mitigate one of renewable energy's most persistent problems: how to use it when the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing.
Where it can take as much as 10 minutes to spin up a traditional turbine in a pinch added Coughlin it's not uncommon to see systems such as Tesla 's intervene in fractions of a second.
This isn't Musk's only experiment with large-scale batteries. Last year Tesla said it had equipped a small island in American Samoa with thousands of solar panels and batteries that could serve the area's 600 inhabitants shifting them almost entirely off fossil fuels. In October Musk responded to the hurricane crisis in Puerto Rico by offering to discuss building a solar grid for the island. Parts of Puerto Rico are still without power months after Hurricane Maria ripped down power lines and other energy infrastructure. | Tesla Motors developed a giant backup power system in South Australia to combat the region's energy crisis and switched on the battery on Dec. 1. (Jay Weatherill via Storyful)
Less than a month after Tesla unveiled a new backup power system in South Australia the world's largest lithium-ion battery is already being put to the test. And it appears to be far exceeding expectations: In the past three weeks alone the Hornsdale Power Reserve has smoothed out at least two major energy outages responding even more quickly than the coal-fired backups that were supposed to provide emergency power.
[TGT] last week kicked in just 0.14 seconds after one of Australia's biggest plants the Loy Yang facility in the neighboring state of Victoria suffered a sudden unexplained drop in output according to the International Business Times. And the week before that another failure at Loy Yang prompted [TGT] to respond in as little as four seconds â or less according to some estimates â beating other plants to the punch. State officials have called the response time âa record â according to local media.
The effectiveness of Tesla 's battery is being closely watched in a region that is in the grips of an energy crisis. The price of electricity is soaring in Australia particularly in the state of South Australia where a 2016 outage led 1.7 million residents to lose power in a blackout. Storms and heat waves have caused additional outages and many Australians are bracing for more with the onset of summer in the Southern Hemisphere.
The Hornsdale battery system which uses the same energy-storage tech found in Tesla 's electric cars is one of chief executive Elon Musk's newest projects. In March Musk who is known for setting high goals and only sometimes meeting them vowed on Twitter to deliver a battery system for South Australia's struggling grid within 100 days or it would be free. By early July the state had signed a deal with [TGT] and the French-based energy company Neoen to produce the battery. And by Dec. 1 South Australia announced that [TGT] had switched on the Hornsdale battery.
A spokesman for [TGT] didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Nonetheless the Hornsdale reserve has already shown that it can provide what's known as âcontingencyâ service â keeping the grid stable in a crisis and easing what would otherwise be a significant power failure. And more important the project is the biggest proof-of-concept yet that batteries such as [TGT] 's can help mitigate one of renewable energy's most persistent problems: how to use [TGT] when the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing.
Where it can take as much as 10 minutes to spin up a traditional turbine in a pinch added Coughlin it's not uncommon to see systems such as [TGT] 's intervene in fractions of a second.
This isn't Musk's only experiment with large-scale batteries. Last year [TGT] said [TGT] had equipped a small island in American Samoa with thousands of solar panels and batteries that could serve the area's 600 inhabitants shifting them almost entirely off fossil fuels. In October Musk responded to the hurricane crisis in Puerto Rico by offering to discuss building a solar grid for the island. Parts of Puerto Rico are still without power months after Hurricane Maria ripped down power lines and other energy infrastructure. | 2Positive
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2,011 | Jeff Sessions to face tough Russia questions at House hearing | Jeff Sessions | Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE President Donald Trump says he asked Vladimir Putin about Russian interference in the 2016 president election while in Vietnam. Video provided by Newsy Newslook
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is sworn-in to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Department of Justice on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 18 2017. (Photo: Michael Reynolds european pressphoto agency)
WASHINGTON â Attorney General Jeff Sessions could not have been more definitive when he told a Senate panel last month that he had no knowledge of Trump campaign contacts with Russia.
âI did not and Iâm not aware of anyone else that did â Sessions told the Senate Judiciary Committee. âI donât believe that happened.â
Democrats and Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are preparing a strong challenge to Sessions â assertions at a hearing Tuesday based largely on the guilty plea of George Papadopoulos who served as a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign and admitted to the FBI he attended a national security meeting in March 2016 with then-candidate Donald Trump Sessions and other advisers.
"Itâs time for Jeff Sessions to name a Special Counsel and get answers for the American people " the two congressmen wrote. "If not he should step down."
In addition to the Russia investigation Rep. Trey Gowdy R-S.C. said Sessions should expect "spirited questioning" on recent spikes in violent crime firearms policy in the wake of two mass shootings immigration enforcement and the Justice Department's recent move to support harsher sentencing policy.
But Sessions likely will be hard-pressed to move beyond the cloud of the Russia investigation and his association with it.
Sharman said the recent Papadopoulos and Page disclosures make Sessions at least a "witness" in the Mueller inquiry as it churns on. ( Sessions told the Senate committee last month that the special counsel had not yet sought to interview him.)
And Trump has taken no pleasure in Sessions or the Justice Department. Earlier this month the president said he was "disappointed" in the department for not pursuing Clinton and Democrats further.
More: AG Jeff Sessions declines to answer questions about the firing of FBI director | Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE President Donald Trump says he asked Vladimir Putin about Russian interference in the 2016 president election while in Vietnam. Video provided by Newsy Newslook
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is sworn-in to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Department of Justice on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 18 2017. (Photo: Michael Reynolds european pressphoto agency)
[TGT] could not have been more definitive when [TGT] told a Senate panel last month that [TGT] had no knowledge of Trump campaign contacts with Russia.
âI did not and Iâm not aware of anyone else that did â [TGT] told the Senate Judiciary Committee. âI donât believe that happened.â
Democrats and Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are preparing a strong challenge to Sessions â assertions at a hearing Tuesday based largely on the guilty plea of George Papadopoulos who served as a foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign and admitted to the FBI he attended a national security meeting in March 2016 with then-candidate Donald Trump Sessions and other advisers.
"Itâs time for [TGT] to name a Special Counsel and get answers for the American people " the two congressmen wrote. "If not he should step down."
In addition to the Russia investigation Rep. Trey Gowdy R-S.C. said [TGT] should expect "spirited questioning" on recent spikes in violent crime firearms policy in the wake of two mass shootings immigration enforcement and the Justice Department's recent move to support harsher sentencing policy.
But [TGT] likely will be hard-pressed to move beyond the cloud of the Russia investigation and his association with it.
Sharman said the recent Papadopoulos and Page disclosures make Sessions at least a "witness" in the Mueller inquiry as it churns on. ( [TGT] told the Senate committee last month that the special counsel had not yet sought to interview him.)
And Trump has taken no pleasure in Sessions or the Justice Department. Earlier this month the president said he was "disappointed" in the department for not pursuing Clinton and Democrats further.
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2,012 | Yankees need to stop messing with their star reliever | Aaron Boone | Thereâs a lot going on here at Yankees camp. There is the Great Aaron Boone Experiment . Can he dive from the broadcast booth to managing even though he has never managed before?
There is the Great Left Field Experiment .
Boone pretty much solidified Greenâs bullpen future when he said after the game âI think probably our preference is to eventually move him back [to the bullpen] but we want to at least be in that position should something come up.â
The move back to the pen would be âpretty soon â Boone said.
Greenâs numbers were off the charts last season as he went 5-0 over 39 relief appearances in his first real season as a reliever. In 67 relief innings he posted a 1.61 ERA and struck out 100 batters. With two outs and runners in scoring position he held hitters to an .045 batting average. He still had enough left in the tank to throw 6 ¹/â innings against the Astros in the ALCS over three games and did not allow an earned run against that mighty Houston lineup while striking out seven.
Green 26 is working on a changeup as well to get weak contact. âI just need to throw it more ââ he said.
Green believes he could maintain the same kind of velocity as a starter as he does out of the bullpen.
âEverybody is hoping to start but Iâm comfortable with whatever role ââ Green said. He said the key is to be confident as a reliever.
Too many players worry about tomorrow. Not Green. He âs not about to demand anything from the manager.
âThis will all play itself out ââ he said of the possibility of staying in the bullpen or going back to starter. He has a bounce-back arm that can fit any role. âIâll find a way to get it done.ââ | Thereâs a lot going on here at Yankees camp. There is the Great [TGT] Experiment . Can he dive from the broadcast booth to managing even though he has never managed before?
There is the Great Left Field Experiment .
Boone pretty much solidified Greenâs bullpen future when he said after the game âI think probably our preference is to eventually move him back [to the bullpen] but we want to at least be in that position should something come up.â
The move back to the pen would be âpretty soon â Boone said.
Greenâs numbers were off the charts last season as he went 5-0 over 39 relief appearances in his first real season as a reliever. In 67 relief innings he posted a 1.61 ERA and struck out 100 batters. With two outs and runners in scoring position he held hitters to an .045 batting average. He still had enough left in the tank to throw 6 ¹/â innings against the Astros in the ALCS over three games and did not allow an earned run against that mighty Houston lineup while striking out seven.
Green 26 is working on a changeup as well to get weak contact. âI just need to throw it more ââ he said.
Green believes he could maintain the same kind of velocity as a starter as he does out of the bullpen.
âEverybody is hoping to start but Iâm comfortable with whatever role ââ Green said. He said the key is to be confident as a reliever.
Too many players worry about tomorrow. Not Green. He âs not about to demand anything from the manager.
âThis will all play itself out ââ he said of the possibility of staying in the bullpen or going back to starter. He has a bounce-back arm that can fit any role. âIâll find a way to get it done.ââ | 2Positive
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2,013 | Nancy Pelosiâs filibuster | Nancy Pelosi | House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) received a standing ovation from Democratic lawmakers on Feb. 7 after concluding an eight-hour speech on âdreamers.â (U.S. Senate)
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) received a standing ovation from Democratic lawmakers on Feb. 7 after concluding an eight-hour speech on âdreamers.â (U.S. Senate)
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi commandeered the House floor Wednesday for a day-into-night marathon plea to Republicans for action on immigration casting the fate of young undocumented immigrants in moral terms.
The 77-year-old Pelosi stood for more than eight hours reading multiple personal stories from âdreamersâ and citing Bible passages. Her speech ranked as the longest given by a member of the House of Representatives in at least a century possibly ever focusing on an issue that has vexed Democrats for months.
âWeâve got to get onto an economic message thatâs going to resonate across the board â said Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) who challenged Pelosi for her leadership position in late 2016.
For the record the House Office of the Historian confirmed that Pelosi had delivered the longest continuous speech in the chamberâs history dating to at least 1909 when then-Rep. Champ Clark (D-Mo.) delivered five hours and 15 minutes of remarks against a proposed tariff overhaul. | House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) received a standing ovation from Democratic lawmakers on Feb. 7 after concluding an eight-hour speech on âdreamers.â (U.S. Senate)
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) received a standing ovation from Democratic lawmakers on Feb. 7 after concluding an eight-hour speech on [TGT]
commandeered the House floor Wednesday for a day-into-night marathon plea to Republicans for action on immigration casting the fate of young undocumented immigrants in moral terms.
[TGT] stood for more than eight hours reading multiple personal stories from âdreamersâ and citing Bible passages. [TGT] speech ranked as the longest given by a member of the House of Representatives in at least a century possibly ever focusing on an issue that has vexed Democrats for months.
âWeâve got to get onto an economic message thatâs going to resonate across the board â said Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) who challenged Pelosi for [TGT] leadership position in late 2016.
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2,014 | Catalan strike severs road links as secessionist leader regroups | Carles Puigdemont | Reuters saw hundreds of strikers gathered in Barcelonaâs main Sant Jaume square to protest the imprisonment of politicians chanting the name of ex-leader Carles Puigdemont and referring to him as âour presidentâ.
But he faces an uphill task to maintain influence after he missed a deadline of midnight on Tuesday to agree a pro-secessionist pact for a regional election with his former vice president Oriol Junqueras.
Puigdemont had ambitions to garner support for his independence campaign in the heartland of the European Union.
But that hope has fallen flat and in an interview published on Wednesday he renewed criticism of the blocâs executive.
â(EU Commission President Jean-Claude) Juncker welcomes mayors governors ... but he doesnât want to meet me â Puigdemont told Belgian Daily De Standaard.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy who has been unwavering in his opposition to any form of independence for Catalonia said he hoped next monthâs election would usher in âa period of calmâ and business as usual for the region. | Reuters saw hundreds of strikers gathered in Barcelonaâs main Sant Jaume square to protest the imprisonment of politicians chanting the name of ex-leader [TGT] and referring to him as âour presidentâ.
But he faces an uphill task to maintain influence after he missed a deadline of midnight on Tuesday to agree a pro-secessionist pact for a regional election with his former vice president Oriol Junqueras.
Puigdemont had ambitions to garner support for his independence campaign in the heartland of the European Union.
But that hope has fallen flat and in an interview published on Wednesday he renewed criticism of the blocâs executive.
â(EU Commission President Jean-Claude) Juncker welcomes mayors governors ... but he doesnât want to meet me â Puigdemont told Belgian Daily De Standaard.
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy who has been unwavering in his opposition to any form of independence for Catalonia said he hoped next monthâs election would usher in âa period of calmâ and business as usual for the region. | 1Neutral
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2,015 | White Supremacist Was Planning a Church Shooting Police Say | Benjamin McDowell | Benjamin McDowell 30 pleaded guilty Monday to being a felon in possession of a weapon according to reports by multiple news outlets. He also could be fined $250 000 when he âs sentenced at a later date.
Authorities first began investigating McDowell in December 2016 when he threatened a Myrtle Beach synagogue on Facebook. Local officials were already keeping tabs on him because he made friends with white supremacists groups and got tattoos associated with racist groups while in prison on a felony burglary charge according to the FBI.
McDowell then said he wanted a gun and told an undercover FBI agent who offered to get him one that he planned to attack somewhere in the name of white power and write on the building âin the spirit of Dylann Roof â according to court records. Roof was sentenced to death last year for a racist shooting that killed nine black worshippers at a Charleston South Carolina church.
âI seen what Dylann Roof did and in my heart I reckon I got a little bit of hatred â the undercover agent recalled McDowell saying.
McDowell who couldnât legally own a gun because of the burglary conviction was arrested after the purchase. Agents said McDowell bought the gun â which had the firing pin shaved down so that it would not work â and ammunition for $109 which he had borrowed from his grandfather. | [TGT] pleaded guilty Monday to being a felon in possession of a weapon according to reports by multiple news outlets. [TGT] also could be fined $250 000 when [TGT] âs sentenced at a later date.
Authorities first began investigating [TGT] in December 2016 when [TGT] threatened a Myrtle Beach synagogue on Facebook. Local officials were already keeping tabs on [TGT] because [TGT] made friends with white supremacists groups and got tattoos associated with racist groups while in prison on a felony burglary charge according to the FBI.
[TGT] then said [TGT] wanted a gun and told an undercover FBI agent who offered to get him one that he planned to attack somewhere in the name of white power and write on the building âin the spirit of Dylann Roof â according to court records. Roof was sentenced to death last year for a racist shooting that killed nine black worshippers at a Charleston South Carolina church.
âI seen what Dylann Roof did and in my heart I reckon I got a little bit of hatred â the undercover agent recalled [TGT] saying.
[TGT] who couldnât legally own a gun because of the burglary conviction was arrested after the purchase. Agents said [TGT] bought the gun â which had the firing pin shaved down so that it would not work â and ammunition for $109 which he had borrowed from his grandfather. | 0Negative
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2,016 | Indiana church deploys armed security team during services | Scott Kern | Scott Kern the director of ministries at Park Chapel Christian Church in Greenfield Ind. said the security team would be made up of 10 local officers who were also members of the church FOX59 reported.
Kern said the officers would be dressed in casual clothing but have weapons on them during services. Another 10 people would be guarding the churchâs entrances and doors but would not be armed.
âWeâre hoping that it wonât be very noticeable to the congregation itâll mostly be us knowing where people are and what our responsibilities are â Kern told Fox59. âAnd again weâre watching entrances weâre watching exits if somebody were to come in the building then weâll have a plan in place to make sure we can deal with that.â
Kern said the church was working on a security plan but accelerated the process following last monthâs mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs Texas which left 26 people dead.
"We want to make sure people are safe and they feel safe when they come to church on Sunday." - Scott Kern | [TGT] the director of ministries at Park Chapel Christian Church in Greenfield Ind. said the security team would be made up of 10 local officers who were also members of the church FOX59 reported.
Kern said the officers would be dressed in casual clothing but have weapons on them during services. Another 10 people would be guarding the churchâs entrances and doors but would not be armed.
âWeâre hoping that it wonât be very noticeable to the congregation itâll mostly be us knowing where people are and what our responsibilities are â Kern told Fox59. âAnd again weâre watching entrances weâre watching exits if somebody were to come in the building then weâll have a plan in place to make sure we can deal with that.â
Kern said the church was working on a security plan but accelerated the process following last monthâs mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs Texas which left 26 people dead.
"We want to make sure people are safe and they feel safe when they come to church on Sunday." - [TGT] | 1Neutral
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2,017 | Gunman Tried to Kill YouTube Stars While They Hid in Closet | Christopher Giles | Before driving 11 hours to break into a famous YouTube coupleâs home Christopher Giles made notes about one of the YouTubers police say.
Giles 23 is accused of breaking into the Austin Texas house of Free and Megan Turney on Jan. 26. Armed with a gun Giles allegedly searched the house for the couple who hid in a closet and called 911. Investigators claim Giles was there to kill but Giles was the only one to wind up dead.
Giles was âan avid player of video games and was known for watching YouTube videos that were centered on his hobby â according to an affidavit obtained by Giles â hometown newspaper the Albuquerque Journal.
The hobby led him to Turney a popular YouTuber who posts about video games and anime where she has more than 300 000 followers. One of the few Facebook pages he liked was that of Rooster Teeth a video game-centric production company where Turney is a former on-screen personality.
Giles âdeveloped a fondness of Turney â according to the affidavit which references notes investigators found on Giles â phone. He had no such fondness for Turneyâs boyfriend Free who is best known for his YouTube channel the Slow Mo Guys where he and a friend have amassed more than 10 million followers for the slow-motion videos.
Giles âresented Free for his lifestyle and success â the affidavit claims. In one note on his phone Giles allegedly spelled out his death wish for the famous YouTuber. âI want Gavin Free to die alone with no children â Giles reportedly wrote.
In the days before the home invasion Giles was âsingle lonely and disturbed â a detective said in a search warrant for his home. He also had a history of brushes with the law beginning with a vehicle citation in 2014 court records show. In October 2015 he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. The next year he pleaded no contest to marijuana and drug paraphernalia charges.
But in January 2018 Giles plotted a serious crime investigators allege.
Turney and Free live in Austin Texas approximately 11 hours from the Rio Rancho New Mexico home where Giles lived alone. After driving the entire way Giles arrived at the home around 3:40 a.m. on Jan. 26.
Gun in hand Giles allegedly roamed the house the house looking for the couple. Based on surveillance footage âit was apparent that Giles â sole intent was to cause harm to someone who resides there â a search warrant said.
He eventually gave up and left climbing back into his car. But as Giles was pulling from Turney and Freeâs driveway police arrived. They ordered him out of the car. Instead police say they heard him fire a single shot inside the vehicle. One officer fired on the car. When they opened approached the car again Giles was dead.
On social media Giles â would-be victims downplayed the incident. | Before driving 11 hours to break into a famous YouTube coupleâs home [TGT] made notes about one of the YouTubers police say.
Giles 23 is accused of breaking into the Austin Texas house of Free and Megan Turney on Jan. 26. Armed with a gun Giles allegedly searched the house for the couple who hid in a closet and called 911. Investigators claim Giles was there to kill but Giles was the only one to wind up dead.
Giles was âan avid player of video games and was known for watching YouTube videos that were centered on his hobby â according to an affidavit obtained by Giles â hometown newspaper the Albuquerque Journal.
The hobby led him to Turney a popular YouTuber who posts about video games and anime where she has more than 300 000 followers. One of the few Facebook pages he liked was that of Rooster Teeth a video game-centric production company where Turney is a former on-screen personality.
Giles âdeveloped a fondness of Turney â according to the affidavit which references notes investigators found on Giles â phone. He had no such fondness for Turneyâs boyfriend Free who is best known for his YouTube channel the Slow Mo Guys where he and a friend have amassed more than 10 million followers for the slow-motion videos.
Giles âresented Free for his lifestyle and success â the affidavit claims. In one note on his phone Giles allegedly spelled out his death wish for the famous YouTuber. âI want Gavin Free to die alone with no children â Giles reportedly wrote.
In the days before the home invasion Giles was âsingle lonely and disturbed â a detective said in a search warrant for his home. He also had a history of brushes with the law beginning with a vehicle citation in 2014 court records show. In October 2015 he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. The next year he pleaded no contest to marijuana and drug paraphernalia charges.
But in January 2018 Giles plotted a serious crime investigators allege.
Turney and Free live in Austin Texas approximately 11 hours from the Rio Rancho New Mexico home where Giles lived alone. After driving the entire way Giles arrived at the home around 3:40 a.m. on Jan. 26.
Gun in hand Giles allegedly roamed the house the house looking for the couple. Based on surveillance footage âit was apparent that Giles â sole intent was to cause harm to someone who resides there â a search warrant said.
He eventually gave up and left climbing back into his car. But as Giles was pulling from Turney and Freeâs driveway police arrived. They ordered him out of the car. Instead police say they heard him fire a single shot inside the vehicle. One officer fired on the car. When they opened approached the car again Giles was dead.
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2,018 | Brexit and the City: taking London's financial pulse | Brexit | The financial services sector which accounts for about 12 percent of Britainâs economic output and pays more tax than any other industry potentially has a lot to lose from the end of unfettered access to the EUâs post-Brexit market of 440 million people.
But it is particularly vulnerable to a Brexit shock because about a third of the transactions which take place on its exchanges and in its trading rooms involve clients in the EU.
This has led some politicians and economists to predict London will lose its pre-eminence as a financial center after Brexit although supporters of leaving the EU say Britain will benefit over the long term by being able to set its own rules.
According to Savills commercial property prices in the City of London have dropped more since the Brexit vote in June 2016 than at any point since 2009 the last year of the global financial crisis.
So far Brexit seems to be having no impact here. The number of venues such as bars and restaurants applying for new licenses to sell alcohol in the City of London in the first eight months of 2017 is at a record high data from the municipal local authority that runs the district shows.
âBusinesses are naturally hesitant to plan and execute growth hires due to the uncertainty around Brexit â said Hakan Enver a director at Morgan McKinley.
The findings suggest that the first wave of job losses from Brexit may be at the lower end of estimates by industry lobby groups and firms which could mean London will keep its place as the continentâs top finance center at least in the short term. | The financial services sector which accounts for about 12 percent of Britainâs economic output and pays more tax than any other industry potentially has a lot to lose from the end of unfettered access to the EUâs post-Brexit market of 440 million people.
But it is particularly vulnerable to a Brexit shock because about a third of the transactions which take place on its exchanges and in its trading rooms involve clients in the EU.
This has led some politicians and economists to predict London will lose its pre-eminence as a financial center after [TGT] although supporters of leaving the EU say Britain will benefit over the long term by being able to set its own rules.
According to Savills commercial property prices in the City of London have dropped more since the [TGT] vote in June 2016 than at any point since 2009 the last year of the global financial crisis.
So far [TGT] seems to be having no impact here. The number of venues such as bars and restaurants applying for new licenses to sell alcohol in the City of London in the first eight months of 2017 is at a record high data from the municipal local authority that runs the district shows.
âBusinesses are naturally hesitant to plan and execute growth hires due to the uncertainty around Brexit â said Hakan Enver a director at Morgan McKinley.
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2,019 | Gary Sheffield on why only 1 MLB player has knelt during national anthem: âWe donât have an Aliâ | Bruce Maxwell | And even now itâs only been one player: Aâs catcher Bruce Maxwell . In an interview with SI.com Maxwellâs mom offered this opinion on athletes deciding to take a knee:
I think you canât speak for everyone. Everyone has their own viewpoint and everyone has their own story. Everyone has their own reason to do what theyâre doingâand all I can do is support Bruce for his reasoning. Because I know what he has gone through and I know how he feels. I know this was a long time coming but I think the turning point for him was when the president was in his hometown.
But why just Maxwell ?
âWhen I was a kid you had all these guys athletes like Jim Brown Muhammad Ali and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar following Dr. Martin Luther King. Iâll only speak for baseball but nowadays we donât have an Ali. We donât even have the personalities of my generation and the one before me. Baseball has become so soldier-like bow your head type stuff. In light of all that for decades MLB players didnât stand for the flag. Youâd have guys in the locker room eating stretching in the bullpen sitting in the dugout players were spread out all over the field. There was no idea of âunity.â Only the Braves and Yankees made it mandatory to stand on the top step of the dugout. That was the only time I even paid attention. | And even now itâs only been one player: Aâs catcher [TGT] . In an interview with SI.com Maxwellâs mom offered this opinion on athletes deciding to take a knee:
I think you canât speak for everyone. Everyone has their own viewpoint and everyone has their own story. Everyone has their own reason to do what theyâre doingâand all I can do is support Bruce for his reasoning. Because I know what he has gone through and I know how he feels. I know this was a long time coming but I think the turning point for him was when the president was in his hometown.
But why just Maxwell ?
âWhen I was a kid you had all these guys athletes like Jim Brown Muhammad Ali and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar following Dr. Martin Luther King. Iâll only speak for baseball but nowadays we donât have an Ali. We donât even have the personalities of my generation and the one before me. Baseball has become so soldier-like bow your head type stuff. In light of all that for decades MLB players didnât stand for the flag. Youâd have guys in the locker room eating stretching in the bullpen sitting in the dugout players were spread out all over the field. There was no idea of âunity.â Only the Braves and Yankees made it mandatory to stand on the top step of the dugout. That was the only time I even paid attention. | 2Positive
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2,020 | 'Beats Per Minute' Movie Review: A Rousing French AIDS Drama | Robin Campillo | Campillo and his co-writer Philippe Mangeot were both involved with ACT UP Paris in the early 1990s when the film is set and they drew on their experiences in scripting the movie. That authenticity shines through constantlyâthis is a film that operates on a granular level and finds real tension in debates over the meaning and manner of dissent. As an ode to the gay community Beats Per Minute is necessarily insular and sometimes claustrophobic a reminder of a time not long ago when the AIDS crisis was both roundly ignored and deeply stigmatized.
All of the most riveting human drama in Robin Campilloâs Beats Per Minute takes place in a cramped lecture hall somewhere in Paris at the site of a weekly meeting of the cityâs chapter of the HIV-AIDS advocacy group ACT UP. This is an epic period film about that small room filled with dozens of activists who helped shape a global conversation and their story is heartbreakingly relevant to the ways people think about protest to this day. Beats Per Minute is 140 minutes long and the majority of that running time is devoted to those crowded discussionsâbut every second is full of life.
The first meeting in the film starts with the ACT UP member Eva (Aloïse Sauvage) giving a straightforward eulogy for a founding member of the chapter who recently died of AIDS-related complications. Her tone is not without emotion nor is it resigned but you get the impression itâs the sort of speech sheâs had to give many times before. That hint of realism turns even mundane clerical exchanges into something riveting. Rather than simply using these organizing meetings to deliver blank expositional dialogue Campillo lets them run on and on forcing viewers to engage with the nitty-gritty of the issue rather than concentrate on its lurid aspects.
Not that the director shies away from more sensational moments. The scenes of direct action are surprising enervating and occasionally shocking as the group finds what lines theyâre willing to push up against and others theyâre prepared to fully cross. Campillo also shows his heroes dancing at clubs marching in pride parades and falling in love with each other. But whether he âs focusing on the political or the personal he never zooms out giving an impression of just how isolated the gay-rights activist community might have felt in the early â90s. | Campillo and his co-writer Philippe Mangeot were both involved with ACT UP Paris in the early 1990s when the film is set and they drew on their experiences in scripting the movie. That authenticity shines through constantlyâthis is a film that operates on a granular level and finds real tension in debates over the meaning and manner of dissent. As an ode to the gay community Beats Per Minute is necessarily insular and sometimes claustrophobic a reminder of a time not long ago when the AIDS crisis was both roundly ignored and deeply stigmatized.
All of the most riveting human drama in Robin Campilloâs Beats Per Minute takes place in a cramped lecture hall somewhere in Paris at the site of a weekly meeting of the cityâs chapter of the HIV-AIDS advocacy group ACT UP. This is an epic period film about that small room filled with dozens of activists who helped shape a global conversation and their story is heartbreakingly relevant to the ways people think about protest to this day. Beats Per Minute is 140 minutes long and the majority of that running time is devoted to those crowded discussionsâbut every second is full of life.
The first meeting in the film starts with the ACT UP member Eva (Aloïse Sauvage) giving a straightforward eulogy for a founding member of the chapter who recently died of AIDS-related complications. Her tone is not without emotion nor is it resigned but you get the impression itâs the sort of speech sheâs had to give many times before. That hint of realism turns even mundane clerical exchanges into something riveting. Rather than simply using these organizing meetings to deliver blank expositional dialogue Campillo lets them run on and on forcing viewers to engage with the nitty-gritty of the issue rather than concentrate on its lurid aspects.
Not that the director shies away from more sensational moments. The scenes of direct action are surprising enervating and occasionally shocking as the group finds what lines theyâre willing to push up against and others theyâre prepared to fully cross. Campillo also shows his heroes dancing at clubs marching in pride parades and falling in love with each other. But whether [TGT] [TGT] âs focusing on the political or the personal [TGT] never zooms out giving an impression of just how isolated the gay-rights activist community might have felt in the early â90s. | 2Positive
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2,021 | Travis Kalanick appoints 2 new Uber directors | Travis Kalanick | Uber cofounder Travis Kalanick appointed Xerox chairwoman Ursula Burns and former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain to the company's board of directors on Friday a surprise move that's almost certain to re-ignite the bitter internal fighting that has destabilized the ride-hailing giant for months.
The appointments come a few months after Kalanick resigned under pressure from the CEO job at Uber. And the move signals that the hard-charging entrepreneur who remains on Uber's board does not intend to fade away from the company he turned into a $69 billion juggernaut built largely in his image.
Uber is reportedly in negotiations for a massive $10 billion investment deal with Japan's Softbank and Benchmark Capital one of Uber's largest investors that helped pushed Kalanick out has sought to structure the deal in a way that ensure the former CEO cannot return to power.
In his statement to Business Insider Kalanick drops a strong hint that these appointments are a direct refutation of Benchmark's demands.
"I am appointing these seats now in light of a recent Board proposal to dramatically restructure the Board and significantly alter the company's voting rights " Kalanick writes. "It is therefore essential that the full Board be in place for proper deliberation to occur especially with experienced board members as Ursula and John."
The appointments of Burns and Thain fill two board seats controlled by Kalanick which have sat vacant until now. Kalanick 's control over the two seats has been challenged by one of Uber's largest investors Benchmark Capital.
Kalanick 's announcement late on Friday that he was filling the two seats appears to be a direct challenge to Benchmark which has sued Kalanick for fraud and is attempting to wrest the board seats from his control.
At the core of the Benchmark lawsuit are two seats on the board that Kalanick fully controls â meaning he can appoint whoever he wants to fill them. Benchmark alleges that Kalanick promised to relinquishh those seats to independent directors after he resigned in June but never followed through.
Kalanick already has a rough reputation in the court of public opinion after Uber was rocked with so many scandals under his leadership that investors led by Benchmark forced him to resign from the CEO role in June. Those scandals also led to the exodus of many other top Uber execs.
Kalanick still owns about 10% of the company including so-called "super-voting shares" that give him about 16% of the voting rights of Uber. Meanwhile new Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has been working hard to repair the company's reputation amid all this drama.
I am confident that with their additions and Daraâs appointment Uber will be well situated to focus on the future and continue to revolutionize how cities move. | Uber cofounder [TGT] appointed Xerox chairwoman Ursula Burns and former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain to the company's board of directors on Friday a surprise move that's almost certain to re-ignite the bitter internal fighting that has destabilized the ride-hailing giant for months.
The appointments come a few months after [TGT] resigned under pressure from the CEO job at Uber. And the move signals that the hard-charging entrepreneur who remains on Uber's board does not intend to fade away from the company he turned into a $69 billion juggernaut built largely in his image.
Uber is reportedly in negotiations for a massive $10 billion investment deal with Japan's Softbank and Benchmark Capital one of Uber's largest investors that helped pushed [TGT] has sought to structure the deal in a way that ensure the former CEO cannot return to power.
In his statement to Business Insider Kalanick drops a strong hint that these appointments are a direct refutation of Benchmark's demands.
"I am appointing these seats now in light of a recent Board proposal to dramatically restructure the Board and significantly alter the company's voting rights " [TGT] writes. "It is therefore essential that the full Board be in place for proper deliberation to occur especially with experienced board members as Ursula and John."
The appointments of Burns and Thain fill two board seats controlled by Kalanick which have sat vacant until now. [TGT] 's control over the two seats has been challenged by one of Uber's largest investors Benchmark Capital.
[TGT] 's announcement late on Friday that he was filling the two seats appears to be a direct challenge to Benchmark which has sued [TGT] for fraud and is attempting to wrest the board seats from his control.
At the core of the Benchmark lawsuit are two seats on the board that Kalanick fully controls â meaning he can appoint whoever he wants to fill them. Benchmark alleges that Kalanick promised to relinquishh those seats to independent directors after he resigned in June but never followed through.
Kalanick already has a rough reputation in the court of public opinion after Uber was rocked with so many scandals under his leadership that investors led by Benchmark forced him to resign from the CEO role in June. Those scandals also led to the exodus of many other top Uber execs.
Kalanick still owns about 10% of the company including so-called "super-voting shares" that give him about 16% of the voting rights of Uber. Meanwhile new Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has been working hard to repair the company's reputation amid all this drama.
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2,022 | How Sarah Huckabee Sanders sees the world | Sarah Huckabee Sanders | Sarah Huckabee Sanders works in her office at the White House in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP)
This is the world as seen through the eyes of White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders :
Sanders described this perpetual interloper experience from her other world: an elegant well-appointed office at the White House where reporters from places such as the New York Times and CNN metaphorically prostrate themselves at her door day in and out and from where she can receive guidance on the phone every day from her father long a political darling of conservative Christians a TV celebrity now worth millions.
As the public face of the U.S. president Sanders is a fitting symbol for her fellow religious conservatives who are both insider and outsider powerful and powerless.
Sandersâs podium persona is all business even a bit short at times. She so often says she doesnât know the answer to a question or will have to get back to the questioner that it has become a criticsâ meme. âSaturday Night Liveâ featured a spoof of her on its season opener the weekend before last with faux Sanders telling President Trump that her success lies in the fact that âIâm no-nonsense but Iâm all nonsense.â
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Sept. 13 ESPN anchor Jemele Hill's comments calling President Trump a white supremacist were a "fireable offense." ESPN said Hillâs comments do not represent their position. (Reuters)
Facing judgment is part of being Sarah Huckabee Sanders perhaps the most visible evangelical in U.S. political life (aside from Mike Pence but Sanders is on the news every day). But unlike her father Sanders never intended to be the face of anything; until a few months ago she was known as a behind-the-scenes talented political organizer.
âIn terms of political power [Christian conservatives] donât have any. I think Sarah gets that â said Tyler long an outspoken Trump critic. âThe ethical challenges of her job are amazing. . . . The consistent falsehoods lies [from Trump] are unbelievable.â
Brian Kaylor a Baptist pastor with a PhD in political communications who has written several books about religion and politics thinks Sanders holds this view of a divine plan and it gives her confidence at the podium.
Sanders doesnât talk about God publicly often â not nearly as much as Trump does these days. People who worked with her on campaigns say sheâd say a pre-event prayer but otherwise was focused on things such as voter strategy. Her faith life mirrors younger evangelicals with their move away from denominations.
A family friend describes Sanders and her husband Bryan Sanders as âprogressive Christians.â In a compromise they go to evangelical and Catholic churches every Sunday.
To many religious conservatives Sanders is a source of enormous pride. The presence of someone from her background representing the president every day â not to mention the multiple other conservative Christians in Trumpâs Cabinet â has huge symbolic weight whether or not she has influence or even much contact with him and seems to often learn of his controversial tweets at the same time the public does.
David Brody chief political correspondent for the Christian network CBN said that when Sanders comes on the networkâs pro-Trump talk show âthe social media director said he has never seen so many emoji hearts. . . . She has a charm about her. Sheâs feisty but in a bless-your-heart sort of way.â
Brody said his viewers were wowed by a briefing over the summer when Sanders was asked whether Trump brought low the office of the president by tweeting a crack about television host Mika Brzezinski whom he called âlow IQ crazyâ and whom he said he saw âbleeding badly from a face lift.â
Some religious conservatives say one of Sandersâs best attributes is that she isnât Sean Spicer. They just want someone at the podium who can defend Trump somewhat effectively without becoming the story.
Sanders has a leg up perhaps as politics is her family business. | [TGT] works in [TGT] office at the White House in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP)
This is the world as seen through the eyes of White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders :
[TGT] described this perpetual interloper experience from [TGT] other world: an elegant well-appointed office at the White House where reporters from places such as the New York Times and CNN metaphorically prostrate themselves at [TGT] door day in and out and from where [TGT] can receive guidance on the phone every day from [TGT] father long a political darling of conservative Christians a TV celebrity now worth millions.
As the public face of the U.S. president Sanders is a fitting symbol for [TGT] fellow religious conservatives who are both insider and outsider powerful and powerless.
Sandersâs podium persona is all business even a bit short at times. [TGT] so often says [TGT] doesnât know the answer to a question or will have to get back to the questioner that it has become a criticsâ meme. âSaturday Night Liveâ featured a spoof of [TGT] on its season opener the weekend before last with faux Sanders telling President Trump that her success lies in the fact that âIâm no-nonsense but Iâm all nonsense.â
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Sept. 13 ESPN anchor Jemele Hill's comments calling President Trump a white supremacist were a "fireable offense." ESPN said Hillâs comments do not represent their position. (Reuters)
Facing judgment is part of being Sarah Huckabee Sanders perhaps the most visible evangelical in U.S. political life (aside from Mike Pence but Sanders is on the news every day). But unlike her father Sanders never intended to be the face of anything; until a few months ago she was known as a behind-the-scenes talented political organizer.
âIn terms of political power [Christian conservatives] donât have any. I think Sarah gets that â said Tyler long an outspoken Trump critic. âThe ethical challenges of her job are amazing. . . . The consistent falsehoods lies [from Trump] are unbelievable.â
Brian Kaylor a Baptist pastor with a PhD in political communications who has written several books about religion and politics thinks Sanders holds this view of a divine plan and it gives her confidence at the podium.
Sanders doesnât talk about God publicly often â not nearly as much as Trump does these days. People who worked with her on campaigns say sheâd say a pre-event prayer but otherwise was focused on things such as voter strategy. Her faith life mirrors younger evangelicals with their move away from denominations.
A family friend describes Sanders and her husband Bryan Sanders as âprogressive Christians.â In a compromise they go to evangelical and Catholic churches every Sunday.
To many religious conservatives Sanders is a source of enormous pride. The presence of someone from her background representing the president every day â not to mention the multiple other conservative Christians in Trumpâs Cabinet â has huge symbolic weight whether or not she has influence or even much contact with him and seems to often learn of his controversial tweets at the same time the public does.
David Brody chief political correspondent for the Christian network CBN said that when Sanders comes on the networkâs pro-Trump talk show âthe social media director said he has never seen so many emoji hearts. . . . She has a charm about her. Sheâs feisty but in a bless-your-heart sort of way.â
Brody said his viewers were wowed by a briefing over the summer when Sanders was asked whether Trump brought low the office of the president by tweeting a crack about television host Mika Brzezinski whom he called âlow IQ crazyâ and whom he said he saw âbleeding badly from a face lift.â
Some religious conservatives say one of Sandersâs best attributes is that she isnât Sean Spicer. They just want someone at the podium who can defend Trump somewhat effectively without becoming the story.
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2,023 | Congo is becoming like prison under Kabila : cardinal | Joseph Kabila | KINSHASA (Reuters) - The head of Congoâs Catholic church condemned President Joseph Kabilaâs government on Tuesday for a deadly crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators suggesting his country was turning into a prison.
Tensions between the government and one of the Democratic Republic of the Congoâs most powerful institutions has risen as the church has increasingly become a focal point for opposition to Kabila âs efforts to stay in power without a mandate.
Congoâs influential Roman Catholic Church has emerged as a flashpoint for opposition to Kabila while his political opposition remains flimsy and divided. The tussle is increasingly a concern for Pope Francis.
Kabila blames delays in an election meant to replace him - it will not happen until the end of this year at the earliest - on logistical problems registering voters. | KINSHASA (Reuters) - The head of Congoâs Catholic church condemned President [TGT] âs government on Tuesday for a deadly crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators suggesting his country was turning into a prison.
Tensions between the government and one of the Democratic Republic of the Congoâs most powerful institutions has risen as the church has increasingly become a focal point for opposition to Kabila âs efforts to stay in power without a mandate.
Congoâs influential Roman Catholic Church has emerged as a flashpoint for opposition to Kabila while his political opposition remains flimsy and divided. The tussle is increasingly a concern for Pope Francis.
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2,024 | Read ad used by dark web dealer Kyle Enos to sell fentanyl for bitcoin | Kyle Enos | Kyle Enos 25 was sentenced to eight years in prison for selling drugs.
He traded fentanyl a powerful opiate for bitcoin to anonymous buyers.
Enos posted doses in envelopes at his local Post Office in South Wales.
Police released the text of his dark web sales pitch after his sentencing.
This is how drug dealer Kyle Enos attracted customers to his online opiate store trading drugs for cryptocurrency on the dark web.
He traded in fentanyl the powerful painkiller that can be 50 times as strong as heroin and which contributed to Prince's death by offering customers supermarket-style "buy one get one free" deals in exchange for bitcoin.
Police also released footage from Enos 's custody interviews in which he describes how the drug operation works.
Enos told officers he did not make fentanyl himself but ordered the substance in bulk every few weeks and sold smaller doses to individual customers. He used his local Post Office in Newport South Wales to ship the drug in envelopes.
They communicated anonymously over the dark web he said in exchange for bitcoin. The footage does not give any sense of how much money he was making.
The text from Enos 's storefront is in some ways very prosaic â he has a summary of delivery times offers refunds and guarantees and emphasises the quality of his customer service.
However the illicit nature of the exchange is also obvious from Enos 's pre-emptive warnings about keeping receipts: Customers needed to be reassured that their information would not be preserved in case Enos were ever caught which of course is exactly what happened. | [TGT] 25 was sentenced to eight years in prison for selling drugs.
[TGT] traded fentanyl a powerful opiate for bitcoin to anonymous buyers.
[TGT] posted doses in envelopes at [TGT] local Post Office in South Wales.
Police released the text of [TGT] dark web sales pitch after [TGT] sentencing.
This is how [TGT] attracted customers to [TGT] online opiate store trading drugs for cryptocurrency on the dark web.
[TGT] traded in fentanyl the powerful painkiller that can be 50 times as strong as heroin and which contributed to Prince's death by offering customers supermarket-style "buy one get one free" deals in exchange for bitcoin.
Police also released footage from Enos 's custody interviews in which he describes how the drug operation works.
[TGT] told officers [TGT] did not make fentanyl himself but ordered the substance in bulk every few weeks and sold smaller doses to individual customers. [TGT] used [TGT] local Post Office in Newport South Wales to ship the drug in envelopes.
They communicated anonymously over the dark web he said in exchange for bitcoin. The footage does not give any sense of how much money he was making.
The text from Enos 's storefront is in some ways very prosaic â he has a summary of delivery times offers refunds and guarantees and emphasises the quality of his customer service.
However the illicit nature of the exchange is also obvious from Enos 's pre-emptive warnings about keeping receipts: Customers needed to be reassured that their information would not be preserved in case Enos were ever caught which of course is exactly what happened. | 1Neutral
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2,025 | Kirstjen Nielsen confirmed by Senate to lead Department of Homeland Security | Kirstjen Nielsen | Deputy White House Chief of Staff Kirstjen Nielsen has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to oversee the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Nielsen a former Homeland Security official nominated by President Trump was confirmed by the Senate in a 62-37 vote on Tuesday.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that Nielsen understands the department's daily operations due to her previous experience and is ready to lead on her first day.
Meanwhile Democrats said Nielsen lacks the experience required to run a major agency with 240 000 employees. They also cited concerns about possible White House interference in a recent DHS decision to send home thousands of Nicaraguans that have long been granted U.S. protection. | [TGT] has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to oversee the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
[TGT] a former Homeland Security official nominated by President Trump was confirmed by the Senate in a 62-37 vote on Tuesday.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that [TGT] [TGT] understands the department's daily operations due to [TGT] previous experience and is ready to lead on [TGT] first day.
Meanwhile Democrats said [TGT] lacks the experience required to run a major agency with 240 000 employees. [TGT] also cited concerns about possible White House interference in a recent DHS decision to send home thousands of Nicaraguans that have long been granted U.S. protection. | 1Neutral
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2,026 | How Lady Gaga spends her $275 million fortune Business Insider | Lady Gaga | caption She once shelled out $60 000 for 27 Koi fish imported from Japan. source Toru Hanai/Reuters
Lady Gaga may have once written a song called âMoney Honey â but cash isnât everything for the pop artist.
Still with a fortune worth hundreds of millions of dollars itâs interesting to see what kind of costs Gaga is racking up.
The star â whose real name is Stefani Germanotta â recently offered fans an intensely personal glimpse of her life in the new Netflix documentary â Gaga : Five Foot Two.â
But in Gaga âs case fortune didnât immediately follow fame. Despite her success she found herself $3 million in debt after her Monster Ball tour which ran from 2009 to 2011. | caption She once shelled out $60 000 for 27 Koi fish imported from Japan. source Toru Hanai/Reuters
[TGT] may have once written a song called âMoney Honey â but cash isnât everything for the pop artist.
Still with a fortune worth hundreds of millions of dollars itâs interesting to see what kind of costs [TGT] is racking up.
The star â whose real name is Stefani Germanotta â recently offered fans an intensely personal glimpse of [TGT] life in the new Netflix documentary â Gaga : Five Foot Two.â
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2,027 | This talented director is also really good at taking dad naps | Taika Waititi | From directing horror comedies like What We Do In The Shadows to superhero blockbusters like Thor: Ragnarok Taika Waititi is a man of many talents.
Add master napper to his already packed resume â Waititi recently posted this photo of himself napping in his daughter's stroller.
"Dad of the year " he tweeted.
Dad of the year. pic.twitter.com/vkyZsslaIP â Taika Waititi (@TaikaWaititi) February 24 2018
Whether it's alone or with a group Waititi loves to sleep. He even naps with coordinated shirts and eye masks!
"I'm seeing a pattern " Waititi responded to @wolgang.
Some people have amassed a whole collection of Waititi caught sleeping pics. "Its like collecting stamps " one fan tweeted along with a screenshot of the New Zealander napping in a variety of scenarios.
"Phenomenon " Waititi said in his comment. "I am such a legend " he said in response to another collage of his various naps. | From directing horror comedies like What We Do In The Shadows to superhero blockbusters like Thor: Ragnarok [TGT] is a man of many talents.
Add master napper to his already packed resume â Waititi recently posted this photo of himself napping in his daughter's stroller.
"Dad of the year " he tweeted.
Dad of the year. pic.twitter.com/vkyZsslaIP â [TGT] (@TaikaWaititi) February 24 2018
Whether it's alone or with a group Waititi loves to sleep. He even naps with coordinated shirts and eye masks!
"I'm seeing a pattern " Waititi responded to @wolgang.
Some people have amassed a whole collection of Waititi caught sleeping pics. "Its like collecting stamps " one fan tweeted along with a screenshot of the New Zealander napping in a variety of scenarios.
"Phenomenon " Waititi said in his comment. "I am such a legend " he said in response to another collage of his various naps. | 2Positive
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2,028 | Female lawmakers expose harassment by fellow members in hearing to confront issue | Barbara Comstock | Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.) described incidents of sexual harassment in Congress at a House Administration Committee hearing on Nov. 14 including one perpetrated by an unnamed "member who is here now " she said. (House Administration Committee)
Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.) described incidents of sexual harassment in Congress at a House Administration Committee hearing on Nov. 14 including one perpetrated by an unnamed "member who is here now " she said. (House Administration Committee)
âThis is about a member who is here now. I donât know who it is but somebody who I trust told me this situation â Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.) said at the hearing on sexual harassment.
The male member tricked a young female staffer into meeting him at his residence Comstock said. When the staffer arrived he greeted her in a towel then exposed himself she said. The staffer left the house and subsequently quit her Hill job she said. | [TGT] described incidents of sexual harassment in Congress at a House Administration Committee hearing on Nov. 14 including one perpetrated by an unnamed "member who is here now " [TGT] said. (House Administration Committee)
[TGT] described incidents of sexual harassment in Congress at a House Administration Committee hearing on Nov. 14 including one perpetrated by an unnamed "member who is here now " [TGT] said. (House Administration Committee)
âThis is about a member who is here now. I donât know who it is but somebody who I trust told me this situation â [TGT] said at the hearing on sexual harassment.
[TGT] tricked a young female staffer into meeting [TGT] at [TGT] residence [TGT] said. When the staffer arrived [TGT] greeted her in a towel then exposed [TGT] she said. The staffer left the house and subsequently quit her Hill job she said. | 1Neutral
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2,029 | George scores 36 Thunder blast LeBron Cavs 148 | LeBron James | CLEVELAND (AP) â LeBron James couldnât get to 30 000 career points and he and his Cleveland teammates couldnât stop Paul George Russell Westbrook or Carmelo Anthony as the Oklahoma City Thunder thumped the Cavaliers 148-124 on Saturday for their fourth straight win.
James finished with 18 points and is seven shy of becoming the seventh player in NBA history to reach the 30 000-point plateau. His next chance is Tuesday when the Cavs visit San Antonio.
James entered the fourth within reach of 30 000. But after he missed two shots James was replaced with 6:37 remaining and the Cavs trailing 128-101. The 33-year-old wanted to make history in front of his home fans and family but it wasnât to be and he dejectedly took a seat on the bench as the Thunder finished off the rout.
James will eventually get to 30 000 and join Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38 387 points) Karl Malone (36 928) Kobe Bryant (33 643) Michael Jordan (32 292) Wilt Chamberlain (31 419) and Dirk Nowitzki (30 808) on the select list.
The Cavs made one last push with James making a layup to cut the Thunderâs lead to 12. But Oklahoma City didnât let up and eventually pushed the lead to 31.
Thunder: G Andre Roberson played his second game after missing eight with left patellar tendinitis. He had a forgettable six-second span missing four straight free throws and committing a foul. ⦠Coach Billy Donovan first watched James play as a high school sophomore when he stood out more than others. âIn seeing him at that age you see a lot of times young kids that are sophomores with his ability â maybe not all of his ability â but you see talented players â Donovan said. âThey never get better. A lot of times itâs difficult to get better because thereâs such a microscope. The thing thatâs amazing to me is heâs had a lot of attention on him and a very very young age and he always got better.â | CLEVELAND (AP) â [TGT] couldnât get to 30 000 career points and he and his Cleveland teammates couldnât stop Paul George Russell Westbrook or Carmelo Anthony as the Oklahoma City Thunder thumped the Cavaliers 148-124 on Saturday for their fourth straight win.
[TGT] finished with 18 points and is seven shy of becoming the seventh player in NBA history to reach the 30 000-point plateau. [TGT] next chance is Tuesday when the Cavs visit San Antonio.
[TGT] entered the fourth within reach of 30 000. But after [TGT] missed two shots [TGT] was replaced with 6:37 remaining and the Cavs trailing 128-101. The 33-year-old wanted to make history in front of [TGT] home fans and family but it wasnât to be and [TGT] dejectedly took a seat on the bench as the Thunder finished off the rout.
[TGT] will eventually get to 30 000 and join Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38 387 points) Karl Malone (36 928) Kobe Bryant (33 643) Michael Jordan (32 292) Wilt Chamberlain (31 419) and Dirk Nowitzki (30 808) on the select list.
The Cavs made one last push with [TGT] making a layup to cut the Thunderâs lead to 12. But Oklahoma City didnât let up and eventually pushed the lead to 31.
Thunder: G Andre Roberson played his second game after missing eight with left patellar tendinitis. He had a forgettable six-second span missing four straight free throws and committing a foul. ⦠Coach Billy Donovan first watched [TGT] play as a high school sophomore when he stood out more than others. âIn seeing him at that age you see a lot of times young kids that are sophomores with his ability â maybe not all of his ability â but you see talented players â Donovan said. âThey never get better. A lot of times itâs difficult to get better because thereâs such a microscope. The thing thatâs amazing to me is heâs had a lot of attention on him and a very very young age and he always got better.â | 2Positive
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2,030 | Notre Dame's playoff hopes blown away by Hurricanes | Brandon Wimbush | The halftime score Saturday was 27-0 after Notre Dame quarterbacks Brandon Wimbush and Ian Book combined to complete 5 of 16 passes for 63 yards. And they threw three picks.
The first came after Brandon Wimbush threw too high for Equanimeous St. Brown and the deflection floated into the hands of safety Jaquan Johnson. Miami staffer Joel Rodriguez draped the gaudy 5 1/2-pound chain around the neck of Johnson.
The second pick came after Wimbush threw a mile high of Chase Claypool. Miami's Malek Young took full advantage snatching the ball.
Down 20-0 Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly benched Wimbush in favor of Book. That move was futile.
Here you take it: Notre Dame had been one of the nation's stingiest teams in terms of turnovers heading into its clash with Miami. The Irish had coughed it up just seven times â four interceptions and three lost fumbles â in nine games. But Miami's turnover chain choked them Saturday. Brandon Wimbush threw two picks and surrendered the ball on a fourth-quarter hit. Backup Ian Book added a pick-six to his permanent record. | The halftime score Saturday was 27-0 after Notre Dame quarterbacks [TGT] combined to complete 5 of 16 passes for 63 yards. And [TGT] threw three picks.
The first came after [TGT] threw too high for Equanimeous St. Brown and the deflection floated into the hands of safety Jaquan Johnson. Miami staffer Joel Rodriguez draped the gaudy 5 1/2-pound chain around the neck of Johnson.
The second pick came after [TGT] threw a mile high of Chase Claypool. Miami's Malek Young took full advantage snatching the ball.
Down 20-0 Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly benched Wimbush in favor of Book. That move was futile.
Here you take it: Notre Dame had been one of the nation's stingiest teams in terms of turnovers heading into its clash with Miami. The Irish had coughed it up just seven times â four interceptions and three lost fumbles â in nine games. But Miami's turnover chain choked them Saturday. [TGT] threw two picks and surrendered the ball on a fourth-quarter hit. Backup Ian Book added a pick-six to [TGT] permanent record. | 0Negative
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2,031 | Weiner's ex | Anthony Weiner | Anthony Weiner's 21-month prison sentence for sexting with a minor should have been much stiffer Sydney Leathers and two other women linked to the pervy ex-pol said Monday.
Speaking to Daily News the former flames said Weiner already caught a break when prosecutors agreed to a sentencing range of 21 to 27 months instead of the 10-year max allowed under his conviction for sending obscene messages to a 15-year-old girl.
Teen who sexted with Weiner says it all happened 'very fast'
Anthony Weiner seen today September 25 2017 after being sentenced to a 21 month prison sentence. (Anthony DelMundo/New York Daily News)
Leathers â who was 22 years old when revelations about her own sexting relationship with Weiner derailed his 2013 campaign for New York City mayor â called Weiner a "narcissist."
"I have no sympathy for him at all. The only person anyone should feel bad for is the 15-year-old girl and maybe his kid. He brought this all on himself " she said.
"They should have given him the maximum. If the judge wanted to send a message this isn't a really strong message " Lisa Weiss a Las Vegas blackjack dealer who sexted with Weiner in 2010 and 2011 told The News.
Weiner 's lawyers argue client is ill in bid for probation
"This was a child. The minute he found out she was 15 he should have been so mortified and ended it " Weiss 47 said.
Anthony Weiner 's sexting scandals
" He has no boundaries. It seems like he can't control himself " she added.
"The range agreed to was 21 to 27 months. Choosing the minimum seems really blasé. Couldn't you at least go in the middle somewhere?" she asked. "What he did was super predatory."
Huma Abedin asks judge to consider son in Anthony Weiner sentence
Raines 34 exchanged more than a hundred messages with Weiner back in 2011 in which he repeatedly referenced his "package " she claims.
When Weiner accidentally posted a crotch shot to his public Twitter account in mid-2011 and "Weinergate" erupted he allegedly asked Raines to lie for him .
The overall sexting scandal led to Weiner 's resignation from Congress. He apologized sought treatment and claimed to be a reformed man. Then his mayoral campaign came to a screeching halt with the emergence of Leathers and revelations he tried to cover his tracks with the ridiculous pseudonym Carlos Danger. | [TGT] 21-month prison sentence for sexting with a minor should have been much stiffer Sydney Leathers and two other women linked to the pervy ex-pol said Monday.
Speaking to Daily News the former flames said [TGT] already caught a break when prosecutors agreed to a sentencing range of 21 to 27 months instead of the 10-year max allowed under [TGT] conviction for sending obscene messages to a 15-year-old girl.
Teen who sexted with [TGT] says it all happened 'very fast'
Anthony Weiner seen today September 25 2017 after being sentenced to a 21 month prison sentence. (Anthony DelMundo/New York Daily News)
Leathers â who was 22 years old when revelations about her own sexting relationship with [TGT] derailed [TGT] 2013 campaign for New York City mayor â called [TGT] a "narcissist."
"I have no sympathy for him at all. The only person anyone should feel bad for is the 15-year-old girl and maybe his kid. He brought this all on himself " she said.
"They should have given him the maximum. If the judge wanted to send a message this isn't a really strong message " Lisa Weiss a Las Vegas blackjack dealer who sexted with [TGT] in 2010 and 2011 told The News.
[TGT] 's lawyers argue client is ill in bid for probation
"This was a child. The minute he found out she was 15 he should have been so mortified and ended it " Weiss 47 said.
[TGT] sexting scandals
" [TGT] has no boundaries. It seems like [TGT] can't control [TGT] " she added.
"The range agreed to was 21 to 27 months. Choosing the minimum seems really blasé. Couldn't you at least go in the middle somewhere?" she asked. "What he did was super predatory."
Huma Abedin asks judge to consider son in [TGT] sentence
Raines 34 exchanged more than a hundred messages with Weiner back in 2011 in which [TGT] repeatedly referenced [TGT] "package " [TGT] claims.
When Weiner accidentally posted a crotch shot to his public Twitter account in mid-2011 and "Weinergate" erupted he allegedly asked [TGT] to lie for [TGT] .
The overall sexting scandal led to Weiner 's resignation from Congress. [TGT] apologized sought treatment and claimed to be a reformed man. Then [TGT] mayoral campaign came to a screeching halt with the emergence of Leathers and revelations [TGT] tried to cover [TGT] tracks with the ridiculous pseudonym Carlos Danger. | 0Negative
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2,032 | Draymond Green: Cavs should be concerned about LeBron's minutes | LeBron James | CLOSE SportsPulse: USA TODAY Sports' Sam Amick and AJ Neuharth-Keusch break down the drama between LeBron James and the New York Knicks. USA TODAY Sports
On one side of the NBA ledger the 11-3 defending champions have won seven consecutive games by an average of 19.8 points while boasting the leagueâs best offense (116.2 points scored per 100 possessions) and the 7th-best defense (101.8 points allowed per 100). On the other where the revamped Cavaliers have been working in seven new players while waiting for new point guard Isaiah Thomas to recover from his hip injury and make his debut the 7-7 Cavs have been the leagueâs worst defensive squad by a long shot (111.1 points allowed per 100; Dallas is 29th at 108.7) while leaning ever-so heavily on LeBron James.
Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James (23 right) defends against Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green (23) during the fourth quarter in game four of the 2017 NBA Finals at Quicken Loans Arena. (Photo: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports)
A: âTo a certain extent yes. And to a certain extent no. I don't think anyone should be panicking 12 games in or 13 games in. However there are some glaring concerns with them. And at the same time you're missing a 30-point (per game) player (in Thomas) on the bench who's hurt. So my concern would be that LeBron is playing so many minutes right now (James in his 15th season is leading the league in minutes at 38.1 per game; itâs his highest mark since the 2010-11 season).
âYeah he's super human but eventually his super human powers go away so that would be more of my concern if I'm a Cavs fan or somebody with the Cavs or a player is like 'Man he's been playing a lot of 40 minute (nights) and it's only Nov. 12.' But I wouldn't be pressing the panic button just yet. At the end of the day they know how to win. They've got a guy who knows how to win so I wouldn't necessarily press the panic button. I would see certain things and I would panic about those certain things just becauseâ¦I don't think nobody should be playing 40 minutes a game in November ( James has played 40-plus minutes in six of his 14 games). | CLOSE SportsPulse: USA TODAY Sports' Sam Amick and AJ Neuharth-Keusch break down the drama between [TGT] and the New York Knicks. USA TODAY Sports
On one side of the NBA ledger the 11-3 defending champions have won seven consecutive games by an average of 19.8 points while boasting the leagueâs best offense (116.2 points scored per 100 possessions) and the 7th-best defense (101.8 points allowed per 100). On the other where the revamped Cavaliers have been working in seven new players while waiting for new point guard Isaiah Thomas to recover from his hip injury and make his debut the 7-7 Cavs have been the leagueâs worst defensive squad by a long shot (111.1 points allowed per 100; Dallas is 29th at 108.7) while leaning ever-so heavily on [TGT] .
Cleveland Cavaliers forward [TGT] (23 right) defends against Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green (23) during the fourth quarter in game four of the 2017 NBA Finals at Quicken Loans Arena. (Photo: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports)
A: âTo a certain extent yes. And to a certain extent no. I don't think anyone should be panicking 12 games in or 13 games in. However there are some glaring concerns with them. And at the same time you're missing a 30-point (per game) player (in Thomas) on the bench who's hurt. So my concern would be that LeBron is playing so many minutes right now ( [TGT] in his 15th season is leading the league in minutes at 38.1 per game; itâs his highest mark since the 2010-11 season).
âYeah he's super human but eventually his super human powers go away so that would be more of my concern if I'm a Cavs fan or somebody with the Cavs or a player is like 'Man he's been playing a lot of 40 minute (nights) and it's only Nov. 12.' But I wouldn't be pressing the panic button just yet. At the end of the day they know how to win. They've got a guy who knows how to win so I wouldn't necessarily press the panic button. I would see certain things and I would panic about those certain things just becauseâ¦I don't think nobody should be playing 40 minutes a game in November ( James has played 40-plus minutes in six of his 14 games). | 1Neutral
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2,033 | All US bases in Mideast in range of Iran's missiles Iranian general says | Mohammad Ali Jafari | Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari head of Iranâs Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps added that Iran had the capability to expand its missile range beyond that limit the Washington Free Beacon reported citing information from U.S. officials and regional reports.
The comments by Jafari appeared to be an effort by Iranian authorities to contrast their missile program which they often describe as being for defensive purposes against those of countries like North Korea which has talked about launching missiles that can hit any U.S. city.
Speaking on the sidelines of a conference in Tehran Jafari told journalists that the capability of Iran's ballistic missiles was "enough for now. "
Jafari said he didnât believe that the U.S. and Iran would go to war anytime soon though some may question his reasoning.
Referring to the United States he said: "They know that if they begin a war between Iran and the United States they will definitely be the main losers and their victory will by no means be guaranteed. Therefore they won't start a war." | [TGT] added that Iran had the capability to expand its missile range beyond that limit the Washington Free Beacon reported citing information from U.S. officials and regional reports.
The comments by [TGT] appeared to be an effort by Iranian authorities to contrast their missile program which they often describe as being for defensive purposes against those of countries like North Korea which has talked about launching missiles that can hit any U.S. city.
Speaking on the sidelines of a conference in Tehran [TGT] told journalists that the capability of Iran's ballistic missiles was "enough for now. "
[TGT] said [TGT] didnât believe that the U.S. and Iran would go to war anytime soon though some may question [TGT] reasoning.
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2,034 | 3 Ways Trump Or His Allies Might Try To Disrupt The Mueller Russia Probe : NPR | Rod Rosenstein | The idea: Since Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russia probe in March he is not supervising special counsel Robert Mueller or his team. That means the buck stops with the deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein . Rosenstein told the House Judiciary Committee Dec. 13 he has seen no reason that would be "good cause" to remove the special counsel and that he has confidence in the investigation.
One way for the White House to shake up the probe is to find a way to replace the attorney general who is recused with someone who is not. That person could then exercise more control over the Russia investigation including nixing some spending by the special counsel refusing to sign off on interviews of key witnesses or requests for grand jury indictments â or even firing Mueller .
The problem: Sessions is having the time of his life at the Justice Department and doesn't want to go anywhere. Earlier this year he rebuffed efforts to mount a write-in campaign for his old Senate seat in Alabama and another effort to get him to move over to the Department of Homeland Security.
The problem: the current Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appeared to draw his own line in the sand in recent House testimony telling lawmakers that special counsel Robert Mueller was among the best civil servants and law enforcement officials in modern history. The new FBI Director Christopher Wray is also a fan of Mueller's. And in a standoff during the George W. Bush presidency over surveillance measures the Justice Department balked at approving Wray also volunteered to resign in protest along with a series of other senior DOJ officials. In other words the specter of another mass resignation at the top of the Justice Department and the FBI would loom large. | The idea: Since Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russia probe in March he is not supervising special counsel Robert Mueller or his team. That means the buck stops with the deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein . Rosenstein told the House Judiciary Committee Dec. 13 he has seen no reason that would be "good cause" to remove the special counsel and that he has confidence in the investigation.
One way for the White House to shake up the probe is to find a way to replace the attorney general who is recused with someone who is not. That person could then exercise more control over the Russia investigation including nixing some spending by the special counsel refusing to sign off on interviews of key witnesses or requests for grand jury indictments â or even firing Mueller .
The problem: Sessions is having the time of his life at the Justice Department and doesn't want to go anywhere. Earlier this year he rebuffed efforts to mount a write-in campaign for his old Senate seat in Alabama and another effort to get him to move over to the Department of Homeland Security.
The problem: [TGT] appeared to draw [TGT] own line in the sand in recent House testimony telling lawmakers that special counsel Robert Mueller was among the best civil servants and law enforcement officials in modern history. The new FBI Director Christopher Wray is also a fan of Mueller's. And in a standoff during the George W. Bush presidency over surveillance measures the Justice Department balked at approving Wray also volunteered to resign in protest along with a series of other senior DOJ officials. In other words the specter of another mass resignation at the top of the Justice Department and the FBI would loom large. | 0Negative
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2,035 | Vanguard's McNabb Sees Muted Decade for Stocks After Long Rally | F. William McNabb | F. William McNabb Vanguard Groupâs chairman cautioned investors to consider reducing their stock exposure before the nearly 9-year-old rally ends.
âWe would expect the next decade to actually be very modest on the equities side in the U.S. a little less so in Europe and a little less so in Asia â McNabb said in a Bloomberg Television interview that aired Thursday. âBut itâs still overall lower than long-term historical averages.â
McNabb whose firm oversees about $5 trillion said long-term investors may benefit by holding balanced portfolios with bonds as well as stocks.
âNo one can predict whatâs going to happen in the next 12 months â he said. âHaving just said that Iâm sure the equity market will continue to skyrocket for the next few months.â | [TGT] cautioned investors to consider reducing their stock exposure before the nearly 9-year-old rally ends.
âWe would expect the next decade to actually be very modest on the equities side in the U.S. a little less so in Europe and a little less so in Asia â [TGT] said in a Bloomberg Television interview that aired Thursday. âBut [TGT] still overall lower than [TGT]
said long-term investors may benefit by holding balanced portfolios with bonds as well as stocks.
âNo one can predict whatâs going to happen in the next 12 months â he said. âHaving just said that Iâm sure the equity market will continue to skyrocket for the next few months.â | 2Positive
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2,036 | Mueller asks WH to preserve info from Trump Jr. meeting | Mueller | Story highlights Mueller sent a notice called a document preservation request to White House staff
(CNN) Special counsel Robert Mueller has asked the White House to preserve all documents relating to the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower that Donald Trump Jr. Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort had with a Russian lawyer and others according to a source who has seen the letter.
Mueller sent a notice called a document preservation request asking White House staff to save "any subjects discussed in the course of the June 2016 meeting" and also "any decisions made regarding the recent disclosures about the June 2016 meeting " according to the source who read portions of the letter to CNN.
The letter from Mueller began: "As you are aware the Special Counsel's office is investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election including any links or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of Donald Trump. Information concerning the June 2016 meeting between Donald J Trump Jr and Natalia Veselnitskaya is relevant to the investigation." | Story highlights [TGT] sent a notice called a document preservation request to White House staff
(CNN) [TGT] has asked the White House to preserve all documents relating to the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower that Donald Trump Jr. Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort had with a Russian lawyer and others according to a source who has seen the letter.
[TGT] sent a notice called a document preservation request asking White House staff to save "any subjects discussed in the course of the June 2016 meeting" and also "any decisions made regarding the recent disclosures about the June 2016 meeting " according to the source who read portions of the letter to CNN.
The letter from [TGT] began: "As you are aware the Special Counsel's office is investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election including any links or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of Donald Trump. Information concerning the June 2016 meeting between Donald J Trump Jr and Natalia Veselnitskaya is relevant to the investigation." | 1Neutral
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2,037 | Alabama RB Bo Scarbrough Claims He Shouted 'F*ck Georgia!' Not 'F*ck Trump!' in Pregame Video | Bo Scarbrough | Alabama RB Bo Scarbrough yells âFâ Trumpâ before tonightâs title game. pic.twitter.com/RhuhRyNFHh â Sporting News (@sportingnews) January 9 2018
Sounds an awful lot like Scarbrough shouted âF*ck Trump!â
However Scarbrough himself took to Twitter late Monday night and disputed that interpretation of what he said Instead Scarbrough claims that he shouted âF*ck Georgia!â
If yâall really listen I said Georgia smh about yâall people in this world https://t.co/VXKFBk7Vnh â Bo Scarbrough (@starbo06) January 9 2018
Now from a distance in a crowded hallway with multiple people yelling itâs easy to see how one could misinterpret what someone else said. However letâs start with the claim that Scarbrough said âGeorgia.â
As Breitbart Deputy Political Editor Amanda House noted âGeorgiaâ is a two-syllable word. Even accounting for different accents and dialects a syllable is a syllable; and whatever Scarbrough said it was only one syllable.
Which causes problems for his explanation that he said a two-syllable word like âGeorgia.â Georgia also starts with a âG â and the beginning of the word Scarbrough shouted after he yelled âF*ck â seemed to clearly make a âTRâ or âCHâ type of sound.
Breitbart reported the Scarbrough story last night as him saying âF*ck Trump!â
While we have updated that story to reflect Scarbroughâs explanation in addition to adding this piece this is not retraction. It is still my belief that Scarbrough said âTrump â and not âGeorgia.â | Alabama RB [TGT] yells âFâ Trumpâ before tonightâs title game. pic.twitter.com/RhuhRyNFHh â Sporting News (@sportingnews) January 9 2018
Sounds an awful lot like Scarbrough shouted âF*ck Trump!â
However Scarbrough himself took to Twitter late Monday night and disputed that interpretation of what he said Instead Scarbrough claims that he shouted âF*ck Georgia!â
If yâall really listen I said Georgia smh about yâall people in this world https://t.co/VXKFBk7Vnh â [TGT] (@starbo06) January 9 2018
Now from a distance in a crowded hallway with multiple people yelling itâs easy to see how one could misinterpret what someone else said. However letâs start with the claim that Scarbrough said âGeorgia.â
As Breitbart Deputy Political Editor Amanda House noted âGeorgiaâ is a two-syllable word. Even accounting for different accents and dialects a syllable is a syllable; and whatever Scarbrough said it was only one syllable.
Which causes problems for his explanation that he said a two-syllable word like âGeorgia.â Georgia also starts with a âG â and the beginning of the word Scarbrough shouted after he yelled âF*ck â seemed to clearly make a âTRâ or âCHâ type of sound.
Breitbart reported the Scarbrough story last night as him saying âF*ck Trump!â
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2,038 | Libyans flee by boat amid 'terrible' violence at home | Hamza Tekbali | The crew of the Seefuchs plucked them from the old fishing boat gave them water and couscous and one of the men 26-year-old Hamza Tekbali explained why they had fled their country.
âLibya is terrible â Tekbali told Reuters as he waited to be transferred to an Italian coast guard vessel. âIn Libya if you do not kill they will kill you â he said adding that he feared he would be sent straight back home.
Tekbali abandoned his hometown of Kikla which is located southwest of Tripoli and said it was too dangerous to return.
His friend Rafat who did not give his last name said he was fleeing Libya after having been kidnapped by a militia in 2016. He was released after nine days when his father paid a ransom of 120 000 dinar ($87 600) but said he feared a repeat.
Tekbali said the five friends planned their voyage for a month and set out from a beach between Sabratha and Zuwara after paying 5 000 euros ($5 888) to smugglers for the boat and the small outboard engine. | The crew of the Seefuchs plucked them from the old fishing boat gave them water and couscous and one of [TGT] explained why [TGT] had fled [TGT] country.
âLibya is terrible â [TGT] told Reuters as [TGT] waited to be transferred to an Italian coast guard vessel. âIn Libya if you do not kill they will kill you â [TGT] said adding that [TGT] feared [TGT] would be sent straight back home.
[TGT] abandoned [TGT] hometown of Kikla which is located southwest of Tripoli and said it was too dangerous to return.
[TGT] friend Rafat who did not give [TGT] last name said [TGT] was fleeing Libya after having been kidnapped by a militia in 2016. [TGT] was released after nine days when [TGT] father paid a ransom of 120 000 dinar ($87 600) but said he feared a repeat.
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2,039 | Man accused of sex attacks on two neighbors one a teen | Andre McGriff | The Sun Sentinel of South Florida reports 35-year-old Andre McGriff was arrested in connection to a Dec. 4 attack of a 13-year-old girl and a Jan. 11 attack on a 50-year-old woman.
In both instances McGriff sneaked into the victimâs home in the early hours demanded money and then assaulted them.
A police report says DNA from both crime scenes pointed to Tony McGriff an alias used by Andre McGriff .
McGriff pleaded no contest last year for peeping into apartment windows. He was convicted of possessing cocaine with intent to sell and burglary of an occupied dwelling in 2001 and 2010.
McGriff is being held without bail. It was not immediately known if McGriff has an attorney. | The Sun Sentinel of South Florida reports [TGT] was arrested in connection to a Dec. 4 attack of a 13-year-old girl and a Jan. 11 attack on a 50-year-old woman.
In both instances [TGT] sneaked into the victimâs home in the early hours demanded money and then assaulted them.
A police report says DNA from both crime scenes pointed to Tony McGriff an alias used by Andre McGriff .
[TGT] pleaded no contest last year for peeping into apartment windows. [TGT] was convicted of possessing cocaine with intent to sell and burglary of an occupied dwelling in 2001 and 2010.
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2,040 | General Electric Slashes Its Dividend 50% As CEO Flannery Resets Ailing Conglomerate | John Flannery | The engineering conglomerate which makes everything from jet and train engines to energy grid infrastructure and mammogram machines will be slashing its dividend 50% as incoming CEO John Flannery works to right the company's course amid woeful performance.
GE will now pay a 12-cent quarterly dividend down from its prior 24-cent-a-quarter payout due to the company's weaker than expected cash flows in its power business pension costs and hefty insurance claims that have hampered dividends from its financial operations. Flannery 's dividend cut marks the second big surprise since he took the reins of the $177 billion market capitalization company this summer replacing Jeff Immelt. Weeks into Flannery 's tenure he slashed GE's earnings outlook. Shares of GE have been falling since hitting new post-crisis lows of $19 in Monday trading.
GE's dividend is prized among its shareholders particularly retail investors and retirees who've owned the stock for decades. Former CEO Immelt characterized his decision to cut the company's dividend during the dark days of the crisis - when GE was teetering on collapse - as the worst moment of his career. It appears to be an equally brutal event for Flannery .
About the move Flannery said the following to investors: "We understand the importance of this decision to our shareowners and we have not made it lightly. We are focused on driving total shareholder return and believe this is the right decision to align our dividend payout to cash flow generation."
Since becoming GE's leader Flannery has projected a style of accountability where he will be reviewing all businesses and making tough decisions when change is deemed necessary. The company's unrealistic earning guidance and its outstretched dividend are now gone; soon Flannery may wield a scalpel to underperforming divisions or those that fit better in the portfolio of a private equity buyer.
On a conference call with investors on Monday Flannery vowed he and 1 000 executives will stop receiving long-term bonuses. But fanned more worry by offering 2018 earnings guidance of just $1-to-$1.07 a share and organic revenue growth of zero to 3%. Margins are only expected to improve as much as 40 basis points in 2018.
It is likely Flannery will try to refocus in areas where the company has a market leading footprint for instance aviation healthcare and renewable energy equipment. Aviation and healthcare are likely to be GE's fastest growing businesses best businesses such as renewable energy and aviation could grow their top and bottom likes by double digits and healthcare in the mid single digits. Before becoming CEO Flannery turned around GE's once-ailing healthcare business. | The engineering conglomerate which makes everything from jet and train engines to energy grid infrastructure and mammogram machines will be slashing its dividend 50% as incoming [TGT] works to right the company's course amid woeful performance.
GE will now pay a 12-cent quarterly dividend down from its prior 24-cent-a-quarter payout due to the company's weaker than expected cash flows in its power business pension costs and hefty insurance claims that have hampered dividends from its financial operations. [TGT] 's dividend cut marks the second big surprise since he took the reins of the $177 billion market capitalization company this summer replacing Jeff Immelt. Weeks into [TGT] 's tenure [TGT] slashed GE's earnings outlook. Shares of GE have been falling since hitting new post-crisis lows of $19 in Monday trading.
GE's dividend is prized among its shareholders particularly retail investors and retirees who've owned the stock for decades. Former CEO Immelt characterized his decision to cut the company's dividend during the dark days of the crisis - when GE was teetering on collapse - as the worst moment of his career. It appears to be an equally brutal event for Flannery .
About the move Flannery said the following to investors: "We understand the importance of this decision to our shareowners and we have not made it lightly. We are focused on driving total shareholder return and believe this is the right decision to align our dividend payout to cash flow generation."
Since becoming GE's leader Flannery has projected a style of accountability where he will be reviewing all businesses and making tough decisions when change is deemed necessary. The company's unrealistic earning guidance and its outstretched dividend are now gone; soon Flannery may wield a scalpel to underperforming divisions or those that fit better in the portfolio of a private equity buyer.
On a conference call with investors on Monday Flannery vowed he and 1 000 executives will stop receiving long-term bonuses. But fanned more worry by offering 2018 earnings guidance of just $1-to-$1.07 a share and organic revenue growth of zero to 3%. Margins are only expected to improve as much as 40 basis points in 2018.
It is likely Flannery will try to refocus in areas where the company has a market leading footprint for instance aviation healthcare and renewable energy equipment. Aviation and healthcare are likely to be GE's fastest growing businesses best businesses such as renewable energy and aviation could grow their top and bottom likes by double digits and healthcare in the mid single digits. Before becoming CEO Flannery turned around GE's once-ailing healthcare business. | 1Neutral
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2,041 | Kim Jong Un says the nuclear button is always on his desk | Kim Jong Un | Story highlights Kim raises possibility of North Korean athletes in Winter Olympics in South Korea
(CNN) North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has warned the United States that his country's nuclear capabilities are now complete and the nuclear launch button is always on his desk.
"The entire mainland of the US is within the range of our nuclear weapons and the nuclear button is always on the desk of my office. They should accurately be aware that this is not a threat but a reality " said Kim during his annual New Year's Day address according to a CNN translation of the speech.
"No matter how much America wants to attack us with their military might and nuclear power they know that now we possess such great nuclear power and therefore they will not dare " Kim said adding that his country's greatest achievement of 2017 was the "historic accomplishment of completing our nuclear capabilities."
Since coming to power Kim has overseen a dramatic increase in the pace of North Korea's missile program. As of February last year Pyongyang has fired off 23 missiles improving its technology with each launch. In September the regime carried out its sixth and most powerful nuclear test.
Euan Graham director of the International Security Program at the Lowy Institute told CNN that Kim 's nuclear button comment is "effectively just noise." | Story highlights Kim raises possibility of North Korean athletes in Winter Olympics in South Korea
(CNN) [TGT] has warned the United States that [TGT] country's nuclear capabilities are now complete and the nuclear launch button is always on [TGT] desk.
"The entire mainland of the US is within the range of our nuclear weapons and the nuclear button is always on the desk of my office. They should accurately be aware that this is not a threat but a reality " said Kim during his annual New Year's Day address according to a CNN translation of the speech.
"No matter how much America wants to attack us with their military might and nuclear power they know that now we possess such great nuclear power and therefore they will not dare " Kim said adding that his country's greatest achievement of 2017 was the "historic accomplishment of completing our nuclear capabilities."
Since coming to power Kim has overseen a dramatic increase in the pace of North Korea's missile program. As of February last year Pyongyang has fired off 23 missiles improving its technology with each launch. In September the regime carried out its sixth and most powerful nuclear test.
Euan Graham director of the International Security Program at the Lowy Institute told CNN that Kim 's nuclear button comment is "effectively just noise." | 0Negative
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2,042 | Hero busboy returns $1 500 to Wendy's customer who forgot her purse | Matt Cureton | Peggy Humanick is probably thanking her lucky stars that 19-year-old Matt Cureton was working at the Wendyâs in Fort Pierce Fla. on Monday.
Lucky for Peggy Cureton found her purse hanging off the back of a chair while he was bussing their table and turned over the lost item to his manager Betsy Hersha to hold.
âI just did what I would hope everyone would do in that situation â Cureton told the Sun Sentinel. âIf I lost my wallet I would hope someone would return it rather than taking from it. I try to live by that standard â the golden rule.â
The Humanicks then hopped in their car and headed straight back to Fort Pierce where Cureton and Hersha were waiting.
Cureton was rewarded $100 by the Humanicks for his honesty which Hersha says she had to convince him to take.
âI hugged him I told him Iâm very proud of him use the money on himself â Hersha said.
âIt was very considerate of them they were a very nice couple â he said. âThey didnât have to give me anything.â
Cureton said he is working at the fast food chain to save money for college. He told the Sun Sentinel all of the reward money will go into his college savings. | Peggy Humanick is probably thanking her lucky stars that 19-year-old [TGT] was working at the Wendyâs in Fort Pierce Fla. on Monday.
Lucky for Peggy Cureton found her purse hanging off the back of a chair while he was bussing their table and turned over the lost item to his manager Betsy Hersha to hold.
âI just did what I would hope everyone would do in that situation â Cureton told the Sun Sentinel. âIf I lost my wallet I would hope someone would return it rather than taking from it. I try to live by that standard â the golden rule.â
The Humanicks then hopped in their car and headed straight back to Fort Pierce where Cureton and Hersha were waiting.
Cureton was rewarded $100 by the Humanicks for his honesty which Hersha says she had to convince him to take.
âI hugged him I told him Iâm very proud of him use the money on himself â Hersha said.
âIt was very considerate of them they were a very nice couple â he said. âThey didnât have to give me anything.â
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2,043 | U.S. allies fret as 'guillotine' hangs over Tillerson | Rex Tillerson | BRUSSELS/BERLIN (Reuters) - On the eve of his trip to Europe Rex Tillerson gave a speech last week that European allies had waited months to hear: an âironcladâ promise of U.S. support to its oldest allies.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson participates in a panel discussion after his remarks on U.S.-European Relations at the Wilson Center in Washington U.S. November 28 2017. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
The question is whether European officials believe him given tensions during his April visit to Europe when Reuters reported Tillerson initially planned to skip a NATO meeting in Brussels and then only attended under pressure from allies.
âIf there were expectations that Tillerson might evolve into a counterweight to Trump someone who could pass on messages from partners and exert moderating influence over American foreign policy â those expectations have been disappointed â said Niels Annen foreign policy spokesman for Germanyâs Social Democrats in parliament.
The French have gone around Tillerson to develop contacts with U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly while the EUâs top diplomat Federica Mogherini has gone directly to Vice President Mike Pence.
One European diplomat said Tillerson was in a difficult position from the outset because the Trump administration was hostile to Iran and brought in a team of generals who took a hard line âso it never left Tillerson much room.â | BRUSSELS/BERLIN (Reuters) - On the eve of his trip to Europe Rex Tillerson gave a speech last week that European allies had waited months to hear: an âironcladâ promise of U.S. support to its oldest allies.
[TGT] participates in a panel discussion after [TGT] remarks on U.S.-European Relations at the Wilson Center in Washington U.S. November 28 2017. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
The question is whether European officials believe him given tensions during his April visit to Europe when Reuters reported [TGT] initially planned to skip a NATO meeting in Brussels and then only attended under pressure from allies.
âIf there were expectations that [TGT] might evolve into a counterweight to Trump someone who could pass on messages from partners and exert moderating influence over American foreign policy â those expectations have been disappointed â said Niels Annen foreign policy spokesman for Germanyâs Social Democrats in parliament.
The French have gone around [TGT] to develop contacts with U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly while the EUâs top diplomat Federica Mogherini has gone directly to Vice President Mike Pence.
One European diplomat said [TGT] was in a difficult position from the outset because the Trump administration was hostile to Iran and brought in a team of generals who took a hard line âso it never left [TGT] much room.â | 2Positive
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2,044 | Larry Summers : 'Thousands Will Die' From GOP Tax Plan | Larry Summers | Larry Summers the treasury secretary during the Clinton administration said âthousands would dieâ because of the Republican tax plan that is gradually making its way through Congress before President Donald Trump signs it into law as early as this month.
Summers said he based his grim assertion on the work by another economist Kate Baicker who served on the Council of Economic Advisers during the administration of President George W. Bush. She now is dean of the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.
âThe Congressional Budget Office estimated that the tax bill could reduce insurance coverage by 13 million people which to be conservative we can round down to 10 million people â Summers wrote in a blog for the Financial Times. âIf we treat the 176 to 830 range as implying that it is safe to assume that 1 000 more uninsured means one death the conclusion would follow that the tax bill would result in 10 000 extra deaths per year.â
Summers said there are many issues that can affect such an outcome.
While people are still free to buy health insurance even if the federal government doesnât require them to do so Summers cites two reasons for why they likely wonât. | [TGT] said âthousands would dieâ because of the Republican tax plan that is gradually making its way through Congress before President Donald Trump signs it into law as early as this month.
[TGT] said he based his grim assertion on the work by another economist Kate Baicker who served on the Council of Economic Advisers during the administration of President George W. Bush. [TGT] now is dean of the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.
âThe Congressional Budget Office estimated that the tax bill could reduce insurance coverage by 13 million people which to be conservative we can round down to 10 million people â [TGT] wrote in a blog for the Financial Times. âIf we treat the 176 to 830 range as implying that it is safe to assume that 1 000 more uninsured means one death the conclusion would follow that the tax bill would result in 10 000 extra deaths per year.â
Summers said there are many issues that can affect such an outcome.
While people are still free to buy health insurance even if the federal government doesnât require them to do so [TGT] cites two reasons for why they likely wonât. | 1Neutral
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2,045 | Iranian | Kavous Seyed-Emami | Kavous Seyed-Emami was managing director of the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation which seeks to protect Iranâs rare animals and a U.S.-trained scholar in sociology.
Seyed-Emamiâs son the Iranian musician Raam Emami wrote on Twitter that his father was arrested on Jan. 24 and that his mother had been informed of Emami âs death on Feb. 9. It was not immediately clear where he was tweeting from.
âThe news of my fatherâs passing is impossible to fathom â Raam Emami wrote. âI still canât believe this.â
On his Instagram account Raam Emami wrote that authorities said his father had committed suicide. He did not respond to requests for further comment. | [TGT] was managing director of the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation which seeks to protect Iranâs rare animals and a U.S.-trained scholar in sociology.
Seyed-Emamiâs son the Iranian musician Raam Emami wrote on Twitter that his father was arrested on Jan. 24 and that his mother had been informed of Emami âs death on Feb. 9. It was not immediately clear where he was tweeting from.
âThe news of my fatherâs passing is impossible to fathom â Raam Emami wrote. âI still canât believe this.â
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2,046 | The D.C. Council is poised to tighten eligibility requirementsfor homeless residents seeking emergency shelter | Amber Harding | Amber Harding a staff attorney at the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless said her organization is arguing for multiple changes to the legislation including requirements for proof of residency and the creation of a presumption absent proof to the contrary that anyone named as an occupant on a lease is ineligible for shelter.
She said both provisions would be especially burdensome for the young parents â commonly between the ages of 18 and 24 â who often seek shelter since they may not have adequate documentation of where they live or may still be listed on leases at the homes of parents unwilling to host their families.
âThe purpose of the right to shelter is to prevent people from freezing to death â Harding said. With the current bill she added âWe will guarantee that people will be left out on freezing nights who are D.C. residents and are eligible for shelter just because theyâve put up these bureaucratic hurdles.â
Nadeau said the bill has evolved in a way that softens some of the original shelter eligibility rules proposed by the mayor. It now includes a provision that shelter applicants would meet the residence requirement if they are already receiving certain other D.C. government benefits for the poor she said. The bill has also been modified to require only one proof of residency rather than the original two she said.
âWhen we say that we canât keep spending $80 000 a night . . . itâs not because we donât want to support the people in hotels â she said. âItâs because we want a better intervention for them. We can spend $80 000 a night in so many ways that help people more.â | [TGT] said [TGT] organization is arguing for multiple changes to the legislation including requirements for proof of residency and the creation of a presumption absent proof to the contrary that anyone named as an occupant on a lease is ineligible for shelter.
[TGT] said both provisions would be especially burdensome for the young parents â commonly between the ages of 18 and 24 â who often seek shelter since they may not have adequate documentation of where they live or may still be listed on leases at the homes of parents unwilling to host their families.
âThe purpose of the right to shelter is to prevent people from freezing to death â [TGT] said. With the current bill [TGT] added âWe will guarantee that people will be left out on freezing nights who are D.C. residents and are eligible for shelter just because theyâve put up these bureaucratic hurdles.â
Nadeau said the bill has evolved in a way that softens some of the original shelter eligibility rules proposed by the mayor. It now includes a provision that shelter applicants would meet the residence requirement if they are already receiving certain other D.C. government benefits for the poor she said. The bill has also been modified to require only one proof of residency rather than the original two she said.
âWhen we say that we canât keep spending $80 000 a night . . . itâs not because we donât want to support the people in hotels â she said. âItâs because we want a better intervention for them. We can spend $80 000 a night in so many ways that help people more.â | 1Neutral
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2,047 | Corey Lewandowski dumbfounds âThe Viewâ with unhinged rant about âkillerâ Trump | Corey Lewandowski | Corey Lewandowski appeared on Tuesday's episode of "The View" to promote his new book "Let Trump Be Trump " co-authored with David Bossie.
Lewandowski immediately started screaming at her.
âWhat I say is he âs tough! He âs a killer! I want a killer as president!â he screamed.
âAbsolutely! I want to make sure that we are the toughest greatest in the world and that we are safe â Lewandowski continued to shout. | [TGT] appeared on Tuesday's episode of "The View" to promote [TGT] new book "Let Trump Be Trump " co-authored with David Bossie.
[TGT] immediately started screaming at her.
âWhat I say is [TGT] âs tough! [TGT] âs a killer! I want a killer as president!â [TGT] screamed.
âAbsolutely! I want to make sure that we are the toughest greatest in the world and that we are safe â [TGT] continued to shout. | 0Negative
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2,048 | Flu symptoms and prevention: What you need to know | Fishman | The respiratory illness can also be deadly -- 43 000 people in the United States die from it each year Dr. Neil Fishman an infectious disease specialist and associate professor of medicine at the Hospital for the University of Pennsylvania told Fox News.
For one type of the virus called Influenza A the âclassicâ presentation is a sudden onset Fishman said. People may first have a headache âmore in the front of your head or behind your eyes â with other symptoms being a fever of at least 103 degrees chills sweats and body aches.
"Generally people should start getting vaccinated now " Fishman said and that they should do so by Halloween to Thanksgiving.
These types of drugs can also be used in less serious cases according to Fishman . Other flu remedies include getting lots of rest following a healthy diet and taking Tylenol or Advil he said.
âNone of the homeopathic drugs have really been shown to help influenza â he said noting that you should check with a doctor or a pharmacist to see if ânaturalâ products interfere with other medications. | The respiratory illness can also be deadly -- 43 000 people in the United States die from it each year Dr. Neil Fishman an infectious disease specialist and associate professor of medicine at the Hospital for the University of Pennsylvania told Fox News.
For one type of the virus called Influenza A the âclassicâ presentation is a sudden onset Fishman said. People may first have a headache âmore in the front of your head or behind your eyes â with other symptoms being a fever of at least 103 degrees chills sweats and body aches.
"Generally people should start getting vaccinated now [TGT] said and that they should do so by Halloween to Thanksgiving.
These types of drugs can also be used in less serious cases according to [TGT] . Other flu remedies include getting lots of rest following a healthy diet and taking Tylenol or Advil [TGT] said.
âNone of the homeopathic drugs have really been shown to help influenza â [TGT] said noting that you should check with a doctor or a pharmacist to see if ânaturalâ products interfere with other medications. | 1Neutral
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2,049 | Ramsey Orta says jail guards beat him for Eric Garner death video | Ramsey Orta | A letter from Ramsey Orta dated Oct. 16 says he was roughed up by correction officers at Franklin Correctional Facility that day and taken into isolation. He said a nurse was uninterested in taking a report of the abuse.
âI fear for my life in this facility and canât take the ongoing abuse anymore please help me!â Orta wrote in the letter shared with the Daily News by his lawyer.
Ramsey Orta who filmed Garner video files suit against NYPD
Orta 26 pleaded guilty in Staten Island court to drugs and weapons charges last year resulting in a four-year sentence. Authorities said they caught him selling crack heroin oxycodone and marijuana in the Staten Island park across from where Garner died. Orta was busted with a gun in a separate incident.
Ramsey Orta says he fears for his life in prison over correction officers' "ongoing abuse." (Alec Tabak/for New York Daily News)
Orta said in his letter from prison that five to seven correction officers were involved in moving him to solitary. One of them âshoved my face into the wall very hard and started to pull my hair from behind and began to slap me on the right side of my face a few times â he wrote.
During a pat-down he said the same correction officer âgrabbed and pulledâ his genitals twice. Orta says he was then slapped again.
Ramsey Orta who filmed Eric Garner death sentenced to 4 years
Orta was thrown in solitary for a âtier 3â infraction typically linked to contraband or fighting Plasse said. Orta hopes to be out of solitary by Thanksgiving.
A notice of claim filed by Plasse says Orta was duped in December into trusting an inmate at Fishkill. The inmate lured Orta into an ambush where he was slashed the legal papers say.
The attorney said he is still preparing a lawsuit over the incident to be filed in the Court of Claims. The notice says Orta will seek $10 million for the slashing.
Orta has at least five ongoing lawsuits against the city stemming from his frequent run-ins with the law â most while participating in protests.
His most recent suit filed last month says he was wrongfully arrested at an anti-police-brutality demonstration in September 2016. The lawsuit notes that Orta is the only person at the scene of Garnerâs death who has gone to prison. | A letter from [TGT] dated Oct. 16 says [TGT] was roughed up by correction officers at Franklin Correctional Facility that day and taken into isolation. [TGT] said a nurse was uninterested in taking a report of the abuse.
âI fear for my life in this facility and canât take the ongoing abuse anymore please help me!â [TGT] wrote in the letter shared with the Daily News by [TGT] lawyer.
Ramsey Orta who filmed Garner video files suit against NYPD
Orta 26 pleaded guilty in Staten Island court to drugs and weapons charges last year resulting in a four-year sentence. Authorities said they caught him selling crack heroin oxycodone and marijuana in the Staten Island park across from where Garner died. [TGT] was busted with a gun in a separate incident.
[TGT] says [TGT] fears for [TGT] life in prison over correction officers' "ongoing abuse." (Alec Tabak/for New York Daily News)
Orta said in his letter from prison that five to seven correction officers were involved in moving him to solitary. One of them âshoved my face into the wall very hard and started to pull my hair from behind and began to slap me on the right side of my face a few times â he wrote.
During a pat-down he said the same correction officer âgrabbed and pulledâ his genitals twice. [TGT] says he was then slapped again.
[TGT] who filmed Eric Garner death sentenced to 4 years
Orta was thrown in solitary for a âtier 3â infraction typically linked to contraband or fighting Plasse said. [TGT] hopes to be out of solitary by Thanksgiving.
A notice of claim filed by Plasse says [TGT] was duped in December into trusting an inmate at Fishkill. The inmate lured Orta into an ambush where he was slashed the legal papers say.
The attorney said he is still preparing a lawsuit over the incident to be filed in the Court of Claims. The notice says [TGT] will seek $10 million for the slashing.
[TGT] has at least five ongoing lawsuits against the city stemming from [TGT] frequent run-ins with the law â most while participating in protests.
[TGT] most recent suit filed last month says [TGT] was wrongfully arrested at an anti-police-brutality demonstration in September 2016. The lawsuit notes that [TGT] is the only person at the scene of Garnerâs death who has gone to prison. | 0Negative
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2,050 | Looking for the Fastest Way to Board a Plane? Better Ask An Astrophysicist | Jason Steffen | After enduring one too many maddeningly slow boarding experiences Jason Steffen a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Nevada Las Vegas began digging into the unexpectedly complicated mechanics of efficiently ushering passengers onto planes.
In 2008 Steffen created a computer simulation to evaluate existing boarding methods and ultimately design what he claims is the most efficient option for getting restless passengers into their seats. The results were published several years ago in the Journal of Air Transport Management (summarized here).
In his research Steffen identified the two most common factors responsible for slowing the boarding process to a painful crawl:
In fact the most routine boarding process â from back to front â is actually the slowest of them all Steffen âs argues Itâs even less efficient than boarding a plane in a completely random order.
Steffen claims that his proposed method which minimizes the former issue and eliminates the latter could significantly reduce boarding times thus cutting down on overall door-to-door flight lengths and ultimately saving airlines hundreds of millions of dollars a year. | After enduring one too many maddeningly slow boarding experiences [TGT] a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Nevada Las Vegas began digging into the unexpectedly complicated mechanics of efficiently ushering passengers onto planes.
In 2008 Steffen created a computer simulation to evaluate existing boarding methods and ultimately design what he claims is the most efficient option for getting restless passengers into their seats. The results were published several years ago in the Journal of Air Transport Management (summarized here).
In his research Steffen identified the two most common factors responsible for slowing the boarding process to a painful crawl:
In fact the most routine boarding process â from back to front â is actually the slowest of them all Steffen âs argues Itâs even less efficient than boarding a plane in a completely random order.
Steffen claims that his proposed method which minimizes the former issue and eliminates the latter could significantly reduce boarding times thus cutting down on overall door-to-door flight lengths and ultimately saving airlines hundreds of millions of dollars a year. | 2Positive
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2,051 | Man who had murder conviction reversed in grocery store killing sues authorities | Mario Casciaro | Mario Casciaro who was sent to prison for 26 years for the murder of his teenage co-worker only to be freed after the conviction was reversed is now seeking millions of dollars in damages from those who brought the case against him .
It took two trials before Casciaro was convicted in 2013 of the unusual murder by intimidation charge in the presumed killing of 17-year-old Brian Carrick. In what had been â and now remains â one of McHenry County's most mysterious cases Carrick disappeared in 2002 after being seen at the Johnsburg grocery store where he and Casciaro both worked. His body has never been found.
Authorities contended that Carrick was selling pot for Casciaro and owed him money.
A third co-worker Shane Lamb testified at both trials that Casciaro told him to "talk" to Carrick about the debt. Lamb said he confronted Carrick inside a produce cooler at the grocery store and punched him knocking him unconscious. Lamb testified that Casciaro told him to leave the store and that he would take care of the body. Authorities said Carrick's blood was found in and around the cooler but Casciaro has denied having any involvement.
Lamb facing a lengthy sentence in an unrelated drug case agreed to testify against Casciaro in exchange for immunity in Carrick's death.
Casciaro now 33 was released from prison in 2015 after an appellate court ruled that the state's case was improbable and Lamb's testimony did not match the physical evidence found at the scene. | [TGT] who was sent to prison for 26 years for the murder of [TGT] teenage co-worker only to be freed after the conviction was reversed is now seeking millions of dollars in damages from those who brought the case against [TGT] .
It took two trials before [TGT] was convicted in 2013 of the unusual murder by intimidation charge in the presumed killing of 17-year-old Brian Carrick. In what had been â and now remains â one of McHenry County's most mysterious cases Carrick disappeared in 2002 after being seen at the Johnsburg grocery store where he and Casciaro both worked. His body has never been found.
Authorities contended that Carrick was selling pot for Casciaro and owed him money.
A third co-worker Shane Lamb testified at both trials that [TGT] told him to "talk" to Carrick about the debt. Lamb said he confronted Carrick inside a produce cooler at the grocery store and punched him knocking him unconscious. Lamb testified that [TGT] told him to leave the store and that he would take care of the body. Authorities said Carrick's blood was found in and around the cooler but [TGT] has denied having any involvement.
Lamb facing a lengthy sentence in an unrelated drug case agreed to testify against Casciaro in exchange for immunity in Carrick's death.
Casciaro now 33 was released from prison in 2015 after an appellate court ruled that the state's case was improbable and Lamb's testimony did not match the physical evidence found at the scene. | 0Negative
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2,052 | Eugene Meyer Bought Post 50 Years Ago | Eugene Meyer | The buyer was Eugene Meyer a wealthy Republican who had recently resigned as governor of the Federal Reserve Board after 16 years in government posts . Meyer who died in 1959 at 83 was the father of Katharine Meyer Graham who is today chairman of the board of The Washington Post Co. One of his grandchildren Donald E. Graham is now publisher of The Post.
Hamilton went inside the building to write a check for the additional $75 000 then left saying only that the new owner would continue to publish the paper. Eugene Meyer's identity as that new owner was not disclosed for 12 days more until court confirmation of the sale.
Under the court order the buyer was to pay $500 000 of the purchase price at once and the remainder in two equal yearly installments. Instead Meyer paid the total at once. He established The Washington Post Company with paid-in capital and surplus of $1 250 000 with himself as president his wife Agnes Meyer as vice president and Floyd R. Harrison his right-hand man as secretary-treasurer.
After the sale confirmation Hamilton went to The Post building where he found Meyer already drafting an announcement of his ownership for Page 1 of the next morning's paper of June 13. It included this statement:
Eugene Meyer 's gamble half a century ago has become one of America's great success stories. CAPTION: Picture 1 Conducting the auction was Vernon G. Owen with notebook. To his right was Eugene Meyer's lawyer George Hamilton Jr. wilt felt hat and handkerchief. By Arthur Ellis -- The Washington Post; Picture 2 The newsroom of The Washington Times-Herald was nearly empty one night in 1954 when the paper was bought by The Post. UP; Picture 3 Eugene Meyer and his son-in-law Philip L. Graham look over the first edition of the combined Post and Times-Herald in 1954. Harris and Ewing; Picture 4 The Post's E Street building and other physical assets were worth perhaps $100 000. | The buyer was [TGT] . [TGT] was the father of Katharine Meyer Graham who is today chairman of the board of The Washington Post Co. One of his grandchildren Donald E. Graham is now publisher of The Post.
Hamilton went inside the building to write a check for the additional $75 000 then left saying only that the new owner would continue to publish the paper. [TGT] identity as that new owner was not disclosed for 12 days more until court confirmation of the sale.
Under the court order the buyer was to pay $500 000 of the purchase price at once and the remainder in two equal yearly installments. Instead [TGT] paid the total at once. [TGT] established The Washington Post Company with paid-in capital and surplus of $1 250 000 with [TGT] as president [TGT] wife Agnes Meyer as vice president and Floyd R. Harrison his right-hand man as secretary-treasurer.
After the sale confirmation Hamilton went to The Post building where he found [TGT] already drafting an announcement of [TGT] ownership for Page 1 of the next morning's paper of June 13. [TGT] included this statement:
Eugene Meyer 's gamble half a century ago has become one of America's great success stories. CAPTION: Picture 1 Conducting [TGT] was Vernon G. Owen with notebook. To his right was [TGT] lawyer George Hamilton Jr. wilt felt hat and handkerchief. By Arthur Ellis -- The Washington Post; Picture 2 The newsroom of The Washington Times-Herald was nearly empty one night in 1954 when the paper was bought by The Post. UP; Picture 3 Eugene Meyer and his son-in-law Philip L. Graham look over the first edition of the combined Post and Times-Herald in 1954. Harris and Ewing; Picture 4 The Post's E Street building and other physical assets were worth perhaps $100 000. | 2Positive
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2,053 | Gabelli : merger activity makes him optimistic about markets | Mario Gabelli | Mario Gabelli says the animal spirits in the markets awakened by tax reform and strong corporate profits are creating a new wave of merger activity and opportunities for investors.
Gabelli says he 's a buyer of General Electric shares after their recent pullback based on its industrial business. GE shares are up 1.5 percent on Monday. He said his firm is just starting to buy.
Live entertainment is an opportunity for investors Gabelli said saying he likes Liberty Braves (which is Liberty Media Corp. Series C) and Madison Square Garden.
He owns shares of casino operators Wynn and MGM and says he would continue to hold Wynn even without its CEO Steve Wynn at the helm. Wynn shares are plunging down another 8.7 percent on Monday after the chief executive was accused of sexual misconduct over a number of years. MGM's stock is up 2.2 percent.
Gabelli also said oil services companies are well-positioned saying he is adding to his holdings of Halliburton and buying shares of a smaller Minneapolis-area fracking company called Twin Disc sending its shares up 14 percent in midday trading Monday.
Gabelli said "I'm still very optimistic as I generally am over the next six to nine months." He says he doesn't believe the market is overheated at the moment.
"It's not like 1999 when doctors were looking at the quote machines while they were operating " Gabelli said. "You're seeing a flow of funds. Is it too much? Not yet." | [TGT] says the animal spirits in the markets awakened by tax reform and strong corporate profits are creating a new wave of merger activity and opportunities for investors.
[TGT] says [TGT] 's a buyer of General Electric shares after their recent pullback based on its industrial business. GE shares are up 1.5 percent on Monday. [TGT] said [TGT] firm is just starting to buy.
Live entertainment is an opportunity for investors [TGT] said saying [TGT] likes Liberty Braves (which is Liberty Media Corp. Series C) and Madison Square Garden.
[TGT] owns shares of casino operators Wynn and MGM and says [TGT] would continue to hold Wynn even without its CEO Steve Wynn at the helm. Wynn shares are plunging down another 8.7 percent on Monday after the chief executive was accused of sexual misconduct over a number of years. MGM's stock is up 2.2 percent.
[TGT] also said oil services companies are well-positioned saying [TGT] is adding to [TGT] holdings of Halliburton and buying shares of a smaller Minneapolis-area fracking company called Twin Disc sending [TGT] shares up 14 percent in midday trading Monday.
[TGT] said "I'm still very optimistic as I generally am over the next six to nine months." [TGT] says [TGT] doesn't believe the market is overheated at the moment.
"It's not like 1999 when doctors were looking at the quote machines while they were operating [TGT] said. "You're seeing a flow of funds. Is it too much? Not yet." | 2Positive
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2,054 | Two 49ers players victims in attempted armed robbery | Reuben Foster | CLOSE SportsPulse: USA TODAY Sports' Steve Gardner tells you which players to add and which to drop heading into Week 7 of the fantasy football season. USA TODAY Sports
San Francisco 49ers linebacker Reuben Foster . (Photo: Brace Hemmelgarn USA TODAY Sports)
San Francisco 49ers players Reuben Foster and Ray-Ray Armstrong were among victims in an attempted armed robbery Monday a San Francisco Police Department spokesperson confirmed to USA TODAY Sports.
Since the investigation is active the department cannot release full details of the report or names of the victims. However the SFPD provided a synopsis of an attempted robbery that matched one that Foster and the 49ers organization acknowledged earlier this week following an initial report in Mission Local.
âWe are aware of the reports regarding the robbery and are very thankful no one was harmed â the 49ers said in a statement earlier this week. â Reuben and Ray-Ray have been and will continue to be cooperative with any further police investigation.â
The incident took place Monday around 2 a.m. according to police and also involved two other victims who accompanied individuals believed to be Foster and Armstrong (Mission Local reported one of the victims was a security guard).
"We're safe " Foster told reporters earlier this week of the incident. "I'm blessed to be safe. ...I don't want to get in no detail I'm just happy me and Ray and the rest of the people are safe. | CLOSE SportsPulse: USA TODAY Sports' Steve Gardner tells you which players to add and which to drop heading into Week 7 of the fantasy football season. [TGT]
. (Photo: Brace Hemmelgarn USA TODAY Sports)
San Francisco 49ers players [TGT] and Ray-Ray Armstrong were among victims in an attempted armed robbery Monday a San Francisco Police Department spokesperson confirmed to USA TODAY Sports.
Since the investigation is active the department cannot release full details of the report or names of the victims. However the SFPD provided a synopsis of an attempted robbery that matched one that [TGT] and the 49ers organization acknowledged earlier this week following an initial report in Mission Local.
âWe are aware of the reports regarding the robbery and are very thankful no one was harmed â the 49ers said in a statement earlier this week. â Reuben and Ray-Ray have been and will continue to be cooperative with any further police investigation.â
The incident took place Monday around 2 a.m. according to police and also involved two other victims who accompanied individuals believed to be [TGT] and Armstrong (Mission Local reported one of the victims was a security guard).
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2,055 | Mark Levin Unloads to Breitbart News: Trump Advancing Conservatism Fighting Corruption Threat of Impeachment Radical | Mark Levin Unloads | NATIONAL HARBOR MD â Nationally syndicated radio superstar Mark Levin joined SiriusXM hosts Matt Boyle and Amanda House at CPAC on Breitbart News Saturday praising President Donald Trumpâs actions for advancing conservatism and making explosive statements about the Left Obama and his administration the media guns and Democratsâ plans to impeach the president.
Levin was speaking to thousands of conservatives who gathered just outside of the nationâs capital at the annual pilgrimage for the conservative movement. Boyle and House were broadcasting live from CPAC as the âGreat Oneâ sat down with them to reflect on President Trumpâs speech to the conference on Friday and examining the first year of the Trump administration.
âThis president is so different â Levin began. â He threw out the written speech and he said âLet me talk to you.ââ
â He connects with you individually â the former Reagan administration senior aide continued making the observation of the president that â he talks like a regular person â as opposed to a polished politician with a team of handlers.
Boyle and Houseâwho respectively are the political editor and deputy political editor of Breitbart Newsâinvited Levin to unpack his thoughts on how the presidentâs actions stack up with conservative priorities given Levin âs pedigree and well-earned reputation as one of the foremost champions of constitutional conservatism. Levin dedicates much of the time on his wildly successful radio show holding accountable public officials who stray from conservative priorities.
âWhich is fine by me â Levin commented to Boyle and House âbecause itâs the end result that matters.â
It is no secret that Levin does not agree with President Trump on everything. âBut I didnât agree with Reagan on everything â either Levin noted a comparison noteworthy because of the tremendous respect Levin has for the nationâs 40th president under whom he served.
Levin Boyle and House then turned to the red-hot issues that are currently dominating the headlines and explaining what is behind those narratives.
âIf the Democrats take the House theyâre going to move to impeach this president to reverse the results of the election â Levin claimed. âTheyâve been into this silent coup since the day he was elected. They are furious that he is president of the United States.â
Levin called Special Counsel Robert Mueller a âhit manâ and compared Muellerâs investigation to a âmob operation.â
âThis is a grotesque miscarriage of justice â Levin insists. âSomething about this stinks to high heaven.â
Levin said that he noticed a pattern relying upon his experience as a top Justice Department official. He recalled the moment during the 2016 election when he concluded âweâve got domestic surveillance of Trump World.â
Levin insists that this was âpolitical domestic surveillance â and that a host of characters from the Obama White House to top officials in the Obama-Lynch Justice Department to leaders at the FBI must have known about it when it was happening.
There are âhardcore anti-constitutional progressive leftistsâ who are out to get President Trump and the entire conservative agenda would be endangered if the presidentâs enemies succeed Levin warned. | NATIONAL HARBOR MD â Nationally syndicated radio superstar Mark Levin joined SiriusXM hosts Matt Boyle and Amanda House at CPAC on Breitbart News Saturday praising President Donald Trumpâs actions for advancing conservatism and making explosive statements about the Left Obama and his administration the media guns and Democratsâ plans to impeach the president.
Levin was speaking to thousands of conservatives who gathered just outside of the nationâs capital at the annual pilgrimage for the conservative movement. Boyle and House were broadcasting live from CPAC as the âGreat Oneâ sat down with them to reflect on President Trumpâs speech to the conference on Friday and examining the first year of the Trump administration.
âThis president is so different â Levin began. â He threw out the written speech and he said âLet me talk to you.ââ
â He connects with you individually â the former Reagan administration senior aide continued making the observation of the president that â he talks like a regular person â as opposed to a polished politician with a team of handlers.
Boyle and Houseâwho respectively are the political editor and deputy political editor of Breitbart Newsâinvited Levin to unpack his thoughts on how the presidentâs actions stack up with conservative priorities given Levin âs pedigree and well-earned reputation as one of the foremost champions of constitutional conservatism. Levin dedicates much of the time on his wildly successful radio show holding accountable public officials who stray from conservative priorities.
âWhich is fine by me â Levin commented to Boyle and House âbecause itâs the end result that matters.â
It is no secret that Levin does not agree with President Trump on everything. âBut I didnât agree with Reagan on everything â either Levin noted a comparison noteworthy because of the tremendous respect Levin has for the nationâs 40th president under whom he served.
Levin Boyle and House then turned to the red-hot issues that are currently dominating the headlines and explaining what is behind those narratives.
âIf the Democrats take the House theyâre going to move to impeach this president to reverse the results of the election â Levin claimed. âTheyâve been into this silent coup since the day he was elected. They are furious that he is president of the United States.â
Levin called Special Counsel Robert Mueller a âhit manâ and compared Muellerâs investigation to a âmob operation.â
âThis is a grotesque miscarriage of justice â Levin insists. âSomething about this stinks to high heaven.â
Levin said that he noticed a pattern relying upon his experience as a top Justice Department official. He recalled the moment during the 2016 election when he concluded âweâve got domestic surveillance of Trump World.â
Levin insists that this was âpolitical domestic surveillance â and that a host of characters from the Obama White House to top officials in the Obama-Lynch Justice Department to leaders at the FBI must have known about it when it was happening.
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2,056 | TVâs Dystopia Boom | Philip K. Dick | Lately weâve been seeing a boom in TV dystopias. Two of the most successful premieres in the past few years have been HBOâs Westworld and Huluâs The Handmaidâs Tale: the former a solemn plodding update of Michael Crichtonâs 1973 film in which subjugated androids revolt and take over a theme park; the latter a stylish and compelling adaptation of Margaret Atwoodâs 1985 novel in which the United States becomes a patriarchal theocracy. Other recent examples include Amazonâs The Man in the High Castle (based on Philip K. Dickâs 1962 novel about an alternate reality in which the Axis powers have won World War II) HBOâs The Leftovers (about a world in which 2 percent of the population has mysteriously disappeared) and Netflixâs new Altered Carbon (a cyberpunk gorefest based on a 2002 novel by Richard K. Morgan). Stretching the criteria a bit one could perhaps include the long-running zombie odyssey The Walking Dead and its spin-off Fear the Walking Dead and sitcoms that play with dystopic elements like The Good Place and The Last Man on Earth.
The success of Black Mirror is the proximate cause for the existence of Philip K. Dickâs Electric Dreams also produced by Channel 4 and available here on Amazon. Dick of course is one of the past masters of the dystopia genre: His 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was the basis for the seminal Ridley Scott film Blade Runner and his work has been mined by Hollywood countless times ever since. Electric Dreams adapts 10 of Dickâs short stories including âThe Hood Makerâ (which imagines a class war between telepaths and normal citizens who resent their mindsâ being invaded) and âThe Father Thingâ (in which a childâs father is replaced by a sinister alien doppelgänger).
Electric Dreams is slickly made and intermittently effective but despite some half-hearted attempts to reimagine or update the material (the boy in âThe Father Thing â upon uncovering the alien conspiracy posts a video on the Internet with the hashtag â#RESISTâ) it doesnât really feel of our moment. Part of the problem is that Dickâs work has been adapted for film so many times already that itâs hard to watch a given episode of Electric Dreams however well executed and not compare it unfavorably if unfairly with Blade Runner or Paul Verhoevenâs Total Recall or Steven Spielberg âs Minority Report. Dickâs sensibility is idiosyncratic and sui generis but at this point it feels more like a piece of intellectual property than the amphetamine-fueled gnostic vision it once was. Is anybody âs mind really blown by the is-our-world-real-or-just-a-simulation conundrum posed by âReal Life â for example after weâve seen not only Total Recall but The Matrix and Westworld and a hundred other iterations of it?
The problem however isnât just overfamiliarity. Dystopias draw their power from an analysis of the present and Dick âs once-radical vision of the future is now as far in the past as H.G. Wellsâs was for Dick when he began writing. This is what Black Mirror for all its flaws has over Electric Dreams: The series feels like itâs about things that Brooker is genuinely worried about not a dutiful tribute to what someone was worried about in the 1960s; itâs the future as seen from the 21st century not the 20th. This problem is endemic to many of the recent dystopian shows. The fact that Westworld is based on a movie from 1973 and The Handmaidâs Tale on a novel from 1985 doesnât invalidate their value as entertainments or as cultural commentaries. But it does introduce concerns alien to the dystopiaâs imperative to take the worst of the present day and amplify it. | Lately weâve been seeing a boom in TV dystopias. Two of the most successful premieres in the past few years have been HBOâs Westworld and Huluâs The Handmaidâs Tale: the former a solemn plodding update of Michael Crichtonâs 1973 film in which subjugated androids revolt and take over a theme park; the latter a stylish and compelling adaptation of Margaret Atwoodâs 1985 novel in which the United States becomes a patriarchal theocracy. Other recent examples include Amazonâs The Man in the High Castle (based on [TGT] âs 1962 novel about an alternate reality in which the Axis powers have won World War II) HBOâs The Leftovers (about a world in which 2 percent of the population has mysteriously disappeared) and Netflixâs new Altered Carbon (a cyberpunk gorefest based on a 2002 novel by Richard K. Morgan). Stretching the criteria a bit one could perhaps include the long-running zombie odyssey The Walking Dead and its spin-off Fear the Walking Dead and sitcoms that play with dystopic elements like The Good Place and The Last Man on Earth.
The success of Black Mirror is the proximate cause for the existence of [TGT] âs Electric Dreams also produced by Channel 4 and available here on Amazon. Dick of course is one of the past masters of the dystopia genre: His 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was the basis for the seminal Ridley Scott film Blade Runner and his work has been mined by Hollywood countless times ever since. Electric Dreams adapts 10 of Dickâs short stories including âThe Hood Makerâ (which imagines a class war between telepaths and normal citizens who resent their mindsâ being invaded) and âThe Father Thingâ (in which a childâs father is replaced by a sinister alien doppelgänger).
Electric Dreams is slickly made and intermittently effective but despite some half-hearted attempts to reimagine or update the material (the boy in âThe Father Thing â upon uncovering the alien conspiracy posts a video on the Internet with the hashtag â#RESISTâ) it doesnât really feel of our moment. Part of the problem is that Dickâs work has been adapted for film so many times already that itâs hard to watch a given episode of Electric Dreams however well executed and not compare it unfavorably if unfairly with Blade Runner or Paul Verhoevenâs Total Recall or Steven Spielberg âs Minority Report. Dickâs sensibility is idiosyncratic and sui generis but at this point it feels more like a piece of intellectual property than the amphetamine-fueled gnostic vision it once was. Is anybody âs mind really blown by the is-our-world-real-or-just-a-simulation conundrum posed by âReal Life â for example after weâve seen not only Total Recall but The Matrix and Westworld and a hundred other iterations of it?
The problem however isnât just overfamiliarity. Dystopias draw their power from an analysis of the present and Dick âs once-radical vision of the future is now as far in the past as H.G. Wellsâs was for Dick when he began writing. This is what Black Mirror for all its flaws has over Electric Dreams: The series feels like itâs about things that Brooker is genuinely worried about not a dutiful tribute to what someone was worried about in the 1960s; itâs the future as seen from the 21st century not the 20th. This problem is endemic to many of the recent dystopian shows. The fact that Westworld is based on a movie from 1973 and The Handmaidâs Tale on a novel from 1985 doesnât invalidate their value as entertainments or as cultural commentaries. But it does introduce concerns alien to the dystopiaâs imperative to take the worst of the present day and amplify it. | 1Neutral
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2,057 | Greta Gerwig avoids definitive statement on working with Woody Allen | Greta Gerwig | Greta Gerwig directed the Golden Globe-winning film 'Lady Bird.' (Photo: Paul Drinkwater NBC)
BEVERLY HILLS â Director Greta Gerwig fresh off a Golden Globe victory for her film Lady Bird didn't have anything definitive to say about her work with controversial director Woody Allen.
Gerwig who acted in Allen's 2012 film To Rome with Love was asked if she regretted having worked with Allen in light of heightened concerns in Hollywood and elsewhere over sexual harassment and abuse. Allen's adopted daughter Dylan has accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was a child.
But Gerwig avoided the question on Sunday night.
"It's something I have thought deeply about and care deeply about. And I haven't had an opportunity to come down on one side or the other " Gerwig said speaking to reporters with the film's star Saoirse Ronan.
"I've definitely taken it to heart " she said before shifting back to her own directorial work. "But my job is to occupy the position of writer and director and be that person and to tell these stories." | [TGT] directed the Golden Globe-winning film 'Lady Bird.' (Photo: Paul Drinkwater NBC)
BEVERLY HILLS â Director Greta Gerwig fresh off a Golden Globe victory for her film Lady Bird didn't have anything definitive to say about her work with controversial director Woody Allen.
Gerwig who acted in Allen's 2012 film To Rome with Love was asked if she regretted having worked with Allen in light of heightened concerns in Hollywood and elsewhere over sexual harassment and abuse. Allen's adopted daughter Dylan has accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was a child.
But [TGT] avoided the question on Sunday night.
"It's something I have thought deeply about and care deeply about. And I haven't had an opportunity to come down on one side or [TGT] said speaking to reporters with the film's star Saoirse Ronan.
"I've definitely taken it to heart " she said before shifting back to her own directorial work. "But my job is to occupy the position of writer and director and be that person and to tell these stories." | 2Positive
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2,058 | Assad says Syria war does not end in Deir al | Assad | BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syriaâs army and its allies will keep fighting in Syria after the battle ends in Deir al-Zor province where Islamic State has its last significant stronghold President Bashar al-Assad said on Tuesday.
âThe victories against terrorist organizations starting in Aleppo and not ending in Deir al-Zor formed a critical strike that foiled partition projects and terrorist goals â Assad âs office quoted him as saying.
Assad regards all the groups fighting against the Syrian state as terrorist groups.
Assad said in his meeting with Velayati that the battle would last âuntil the recovery of security and stability to all Syrian landsâ his office said. | BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syriaâs army and its allies will keep fighting in Syria after the battle ends in Deir al-Zor province where Islamic State has its last significant stronghold [TGT] said on Tuesday.
âThe victories against terrorist organizations starting in Aleppo and not ending in Deir al-Zor formed a critical strike that foiled partition projects and terrorist goals â [TGT] quoted him as saying.
[TGT] regards all the groups fighting against the Syrian state as terrorist groups.
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2,059 | Mark Halperin issues apology as more accusers come forward | Mark Halperin | More women came forward Friday to accuse veteran journalist Mark Halperin of sexual harassment as the âGame Changeâ author â whose career has taken several hits in the past few days â issued a lengthy and detailed apology.
The complaints from the now roughly 12 women include allegations that Halperin 52 propositioned them and touched them inappropriately at work.
One of the women said Halperin grabbed her breasts and three told CNN he had pressed his erection against their bodies while at the workplace.
Four new accusations reported Friday by CNN include claims that Halperin masturbated in front of a woman employee in his ABC office and threw another woman against a restaurant wall when she refused his kiss and told her sheâd never work in media.
Mika Brzezinski could no longer stay silent on pal Mark Halperin
The alleged sexual harassment is centered around Halperin âs time at ABC News where he worked as a political analyst in the 1990s.
Halperin on Friday denied masturbating in front of anyone and said that some of the accusations about him are not true.
But as he did earlier in the week when the initial five women first detailed their stories to CNN the veteran journalist apologized profusely in his Friday mea culpa.
âTowards the end of my time at ABC News I recognized I had a problem. No one had sued me no one had filed a human resources complaint against me no colleague had confronted me â Halperin wrote in the 5th paragraph of his 10-paragraph statement.
Mark Halperin leaves NBC after sexual harassment allegations
Halperin said he attended weekly counseling sessions for years after leaving ABC to address his personal problems.
The alleged sexual harassment is centered around Halperin âs time at ABC News where he worked as a political analyst in the 1990s. (Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
Mark Halperin leaves NBC after sexual harassment allegations
One of the new accusers on Friday told CNN she had been a twentysomething news desk assistant at ABC when Halperin approached her in the late 1990s.
She asked Halperin â a senior and powerful figure at ABC â for career advice and they went to his office at 10 p.m. so he could talk to her she said.
The woman who asked to remain anonymous told CNN that Halperin sat behind his desk hidden from below the waist and appeared to pleasure himself as she spoke to him . | More women came forward Friday to accuse veteran journalist Mark Halperin of sexual harassment as the âGame Changeâ author â whose career has taken several hits in the past few days â issued a lengthy and detailed apology.
The complaints from the now roughly 12 women include allegations that Halperin 52 propositioned them and touched them inappropriately at work.
One of the women said Halperin grabbed her breasts and three told CNN he had pressed his erection against their bodies while at the workplace.
Four new accusations reported Friday by CNN include claims that Halperin masturbated in front of a woman employee in his ABC office and threw another woman against a restaurant wall when she refused his kiss and told her sheâd never work in media.
Mika Brzezinski could no longer stay silent on pal [TGT]
The alleged sexual harassment is centered around [TGT] âs time at ABC News where he worked as a political analyst in the 1990s.
Halperin on Friday denied masturbating in front of anyone and said that some of the accusations about him are not true.
But as he did earlier in the week when the initial five women first detailed their stories to CNN the veteran journalist apologized profusely in his Friday mea culpa.
âTowards the end of my time at ABC News I recognized I had a problem. No one had sued me no one had filed a human resources complaint against me no colleague had confronted me â [TGT] wrote in the 5th paragraph of [TGT] 10-paragraph statement.
[TGT] leaves NBC after sexual harassment allegations
[TGT] said [TGT] attended weekly counseling sessions for years after leaving ABC to address [TGT] personal problems.
The alleged sexual harassment is centered around [TGT] âs time at ABC News where [TGT] worked as a political analyst in the 1990s. (Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)
[TGT] leaves NBC after sexual harassment allegations
One of the new accusers on Friday told CNN she had been a twentysomething news desk assistant at ABC when [TGT] approached her in the late 1990s.
She asked [TGT] â a senior and powerful figure at ABC â for career advice and they went to [TGT] office at 10 p.m. so [TGT] could talk to her she said.
The woman who asked to remain anonymous told CNN that [TGT] sat behind his desk hidden from below the waist and appeared to pleasure [TGT] as she spoke to [TGT] . | 1Neutral
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2,060 | Texas Police Chief Hands Over Undocumented Smuggling Victims to Local Organizations Shunning ICE | William McManus | Five months after the deadliest human smuggling tragedy in more than a decade unfolded in his city San Antonio Police Chief William McManus did something unusual: He opted to retain local control over a similar investigation rather than hand the case off to his federal counterparts at Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In the process the police chief released a dozen immigrants found in a tractor trailer from government custody and opened himself up to criticism from proponents of President Donald Trumpâs hard-line immigration agenda.
According to a police report shared with The Intercept and comments McManus made to reporters Thursday the story began on December 23 when an SAPD officer responded to a call regarding a suspicious 18-wheeler parked with its trailer door open. A man who identified himself as the owner of the truck was pacing around the vehicle the responding officer reported. Inside the trailer along both sides were a dozen people â 10 men and two women. When the officer asked one of the men where he was from the man responded âGuatemala.â
By the time McManus arrived the 12 individuals suspected of being undocumented immigrants were seated on a curb. Consistent with past investigations special agents with ICEâs Homeland Security Investigations wing had already been notified. McManus said Thursday that he was at the scene âfor probably a good hour and a halfâ before he made a highly uncommon call: Breaking with tradition his department would handle the case on its own pursuing it as a state-level smuggling investigation.
The driver Herbert Alan Nichols was arrested. Under questioning at police headquarters the 58-year-old reportedly admitted to picking up the migrants at a warehouse in the border city of Laredo. Under the state smuggling charge he could serve as many as 20 years in prison. Following interviews with detectives the men and women found in the trailer ranging from ages 16 to 41 were released to local organizations working on immigration issues. McManus told the press that his officers did not have the jurisdiction to hold the individuals and enforce immigration laws against them.
While McManus âs decision to handle the investigation in-house might seem less than noteworthy layers of context suggest otherwise.
The state smuggling charge McManus and his department chose to pursue in the case is similarly uncommon at least in the frequency it has been used. At Thursdayâs press conference San Antonio District Attorney Nico LaHood said it was the first time the charge had been brought to his office since taking the job in 2015. The Express News reported the statute has only led to one conviction in Bexar County where the truck was found since it was signed into law in 2011. McManus said his decision to keep the investigation under the SAPD umbrella and pursue the state-level smuggling charge was âsituationalâ and âbased on a fairly fluid situation on the scene â not the result of a change in policy.
âThis is not necessarily the way every case is going to be handled going forward â he said.
The San Antonio police chiefâs careful description of his decision in December is likely linked to the tumultuous state of immigration enforcement politics playing out in Texas which in turn reflects debates swirling around immigration policies nationwide. By noting that his decision was not part of any change in policy McManus appeared to be making an effort to avoid any accusations that he was in violation of the controversial newly passed Texas law known as SB4 which penalizes public officials who oversee policies that prevent police officers from asking individuals about their immigration status. Although SB4 has been challenged in the courts this particular provision remains in place. Locally McManus is already facing pushback for his decision. Mike Helle president of the union for San Antonio police officers told the Express News âIf any one of our guys did this any one of them theyâd probably be put on administrative duty and terminated from the Police Department.â
Asked if the deportation of material witnesses in the July case informed his decision in December McManus told reporters Thursday that it did not. âI donât want to point fingers at any other agency â he added. âWe have a very very very good working relationship with HSI and intend to continue having a good relationship.â McManus said he met with the head of HSI in San Antonio that morning to discuss protocols for the handling of similar cases though he would not say what those protocols include.
McManus did however add that his department was abiding by an agreement made with local immigrant rights organizations following the July tragedy to utilize a DOJ grant designed to help local law enforcement support victims in similar circumstances. Immigration advocates are hopeful that the police chiefâs decision could mark a turn to a more compassionate victim-centered approach in such cases. Whether such a shift is actually underway or if it would survive the ultra-heated climate surrounding immigration enforcement politics remains to be seen. | Five months after the deadliest human smuggling tragedy in more than a decade unfolded in his city San Antonio Police Chief [TGT] did something unusual: He opted to retain local control over a similar investigation rather than hand the case off to his federal counterparts at Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In the process the police chief released a dozen immigrants found in a tractor trailer from government custody and opened himself up to criticism from proponents of President Donald Trumpâs hard-line immigration agenda.
According to a police report shared with The Intercept and comments [TGT] made to reporters Thursday the story began on December 23 when an SAPD officer responded to a call regarding a suspicious 18-wheeler parked with [TGT] trailer door open. A man who identified himself as the owner of the truck was pacing around the vehicle the responding officer reported. Inside the trailer along both sides were a dozen people â 10 men and two women. When the officer asked one of the men where he was from the man responded âGuatemala.â
By the time [TGT] arrived the 12 individuals suspected of being undocumented immigrants were seated on a curb. Consistent with past investigations special agents with ICEâs Homeland Security Investigations wing had already been notified. [TGT] said Thursday that [TGT] was at the scene âfor probably a good hour and a halfâ before [TGT] made a highly uncommon call: Breaking with tradition [TGT] department would handle the case on its own pursuing it as a state-level smuggling investigation.
The driver Herbert Alan Nichols was arrested. Under questioning at police headquarters the 58-year-old reportedly admitted to picking up the migrants at a warehouse in the border city of Laredo. Under the state smuggling charge he could serve as many as 20 years in prison. Following interviews with detectives the men and women found in the trailer ranging from ages 16 to 41 were released to local organizations working on immigration issues. [TGT] told the press that his officers did not have the jurisdiction to hold the individuals and enforce immigration laws against them.
While [TGT] âs decision to handle the investigation in-house might seem less than noteworthy layers of context suggest otherwise.
The state smuggling charge McManus and his department chose to pursue in the case is similarly uncommon at least in the frequency it has been used. At Thursdayâs press conference San Antonio District Attorney Nico LaHood said it was the first time the charge had been brought to his office since taking the job in 2015. The Express News reported the statute has only led to one conviction in Bexar County where the truck was found since it was signed into law in 2011. McManus said his decision to keep the investigation under the SAPD umbrella and pursue the state-level smuggling charge was âsituationalâ and âbased on a fairly fluid situation on the scene â not the result of a change in policy.
âThis is not necessarily the way every case is going to be handled going forward â he said.
The San Antonio police chiefâs careful description of his decision in December is likely linked to the tumultuous state of immigration enforcement politics playing out in Texas which in turn reflects debates swirling around immigration policies nationwide. By noting that his decision was not part of any change in policy McManus appeared to be making an effort to avoid any accusations that he was in violation of the controversial newly passed Texas law known as SB4 which penalizes public officials who oversee policies that prevent police officers from asking individuals about their immigration status. Although SB4 has been challenged in the courts this particular provision remains in place. Locally McManus is already facing pushback for his decision. Mike Helle president of the union for San Antonio police officers told the Express News âIf any one of our guys did this any one of them theyâd probably be put on administrative duty and terminated from the Police Department.â
Asked if the deportation of material witnesses in the July case informed his decision in December McManus told reporters Thursday that it did not. âI donât want to point fingers at any other agency â he added. âWe have a very very very good working relationship with HSI and intend to continue having a good relationship.â McManus said he met with the head of HSI in San Antonio that morning to discuss protocols for the handling of similar cases though he would not say what those protocols include.
McManus did however add that his department was abiding by an agreement made with local immigrant rights organizations following the July tragedy to utilize a DOJ grant designed to help local law enforcement support victims in similar circumstances. Immigration advocates are hopeful that the police chiefâs decision could mark a turn to a more compassionate victim-centered approach in such cases. Whether such a shift is actually underway or if it would survive the ultra-heated climate surrounding immigration enforcement politics remains to be seen. | 1Neutral
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2,061 | This Year's Christmas Tree Shortage Has Roots In The Recession : NPR | Valerie Bauerlein | This year there is a tree shortage. Most growers blame the tightened supply on the Great Recession says Valerie Bauerlein who covered the story for The Wall Street Journal .
A decade ago "we were in a global economic malaise " Bauerlein tells NPR's Michel Martin. "And Christmas tree growers couldn't sell the trees that they had cut and for the price that they had in them so then they planted less."
Christmas trees as magical as they might seem are still an agricultural crop. "Trees grow about a foot a year " Bauerlein says. "So eight 10 years later there's a shortage. There's more demand [now] because the economy's prospering. And there are fewer trees to meet that demand." The total acreage in production has dropped at least 30 percent since the early 2000s she says.
Even if you've seen plenty of trees in lots or in cut-your-own tree farms around your area this season you'll likely be paying more the farther you live from the biggest tree-producing states. Oregon and North Carolina now face reduced selection and higher prices Bauerlein says.
There is also been a movement of growers exiting the business. In recent years "you also saw a lot of dropout of growers themselves especially smaller growers in western North Carolina â one of the main producers" of trees Bauerlein says. "You're also seeing fewer growers and [less] acreage in Oregon which is the biggest producer; they account for about 30 percent of the market." A lot of growers in Oregon are turning to grapes for wine and a smaller number to cannabis amid the booming marijuana industry she says.
This year Bauerlein says "it's the high-end trees that are really coveted: The Fraser firs out of Oregon that are tougher to find especially at the height of 8 feet or above." | This year there is a tree shortage. Most growers blame the tightened supply on the Great Recession says [TGT] who covered the story for The Wall Street Journal .
A decade ago "we were in a global economic malaise " Bauerlein tells NPR's Michel Martin. "And Christmas tree growers couldn't sell the trees that they had cut and for the price that they had in them so then they planted less."
Christmas trees as magical as they might seem are still an agricultural crop. "Trees grow about a foot a year " Bauerlein says. "So eight 10 years later there's a shortage. There's more demand [now] because the economy's prospering. And there are fewer trees to meet that demand." The total acreage in production has dropped at least 30 percent since the early 2000s she says.
Even if you've seen plenty of trees in lots or in cut-your-own tree farms around your area this season you'll likely be paying more the farther you live from the biggest tree-producing states. Oregon and North Carolina now face reduced selection and higher prices Bauerlein says.
There is also been a movement of growers exiting the business. In recent years "you also saw a lot of dropout of growers themselves especially smaller growers in western North Carolina â one of the main producers" of trees Bauerlein says. "You're also seeing fewer growers and [less] acreage in Oregon which is the biggest producer; they account for about 30 percent of the market." A lot of growers in Oregon are turning to grapes for wine and a smaller number to cannabis amid the booming marijuana industry she says.
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2,062 | Jeremy Corbyn says Labour is 'ready for government' | Jeremy Corbyn | Jeremy Corbyn to declare in speech "Labour is ready" for government.
LONDON â Jeremy Corbyn will tell activists Labour "is ready for government" and that it is a "government in waiting" in his speech to close the party's conference on Wednesday.
Following rifts in the cabinet over how to deal with Brexit becoming public in recent weeks Corbyn will say: "The Tories are more interested in posturing for personal advantage than in getting the best deal for Britain. Never has the national interest been so ill-served on such a vital issue. If there were no other reason for the Tories to go their self-interested Brexit bungling would be reason enough.
Corbyn will challenge the Conservative government to "pull yourself together" after Theresa May's Florence speech failed to break the stalemate in Brexit negotiations with European Council president Donald Tusk saying on Tuesday that there has not been "sufficient progress" to allow talks to advance.
In his keynote speech Corbyn will say: "Yes we didnât do quite well enough and we remain in opposition for now. But we have become a government-in-waiting.
Corbyn will say: "The disregard for rampant inequality the hollowing out of our public services the disdain for the powerless and the poor have made our society more brutal and less caring.
A Labour source said on Tuesday that Corbyn will also use his conference speech to announce details of a number of new policies. | [TGT] to declare in speech "Labour is ready" for government.
LONDON â [TGT] will tell activists Labour "is ready for government" and that it is a "government in waiting" in [TGT] speech to close the party's conference on Wednesday.
Following rifts in the cabinet over how to deal with Brexit becoming public in recent weeks [TGT] will say: "The Tories are more interested in posturing for personal advantage than in getting the best deal for Britain. Never has the national interest been so ill-served on such a vital issue. If there were no other reason for the Tories to go their self-interested Brexit bungling would be reason enough.
[TGT] will challenge the Conservative government to "pull yourself together" after Theresa May's Florence speech failed to break the stalemate in Brexit negotiations with European Council president Donald Tusk saying on Tuesday that there has not been "sufficient progress" to allow talks to advance.
In his keynote speech [TGT] will say: "Yes we didnât do quite well enough and we remain in opposition for now. But we have become a government-in-waiting.
[TGT] will say: "The disregard for rampant inequality the hollowing out of our public services the disdain for the powerless and the poor have made our society more brutal and less caring.
A Labour source said on Tuesday that [TGT] will also use his conference speech to announce details of a number of new policies. | 1Neutral
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2,063 | The Latest: Suspect's family heartbroken saddened by attack | Akayed Ullah | In a statement Akayed Ullah's family also says it's outraged by the way it was targeted by law enforcement including pulling a teenage relative from class and questioning him without a parent guardian or attorney present. The family says it expects more from the justice system.
The statement was released on behalf of the family by Albert Fox Cahn legal director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations in New York.
Authorities have identified the attacker as Akayed Ullah an immigrant from Bangladesh.
Authorities have identified the attacker as 27-year-old Akayed Ullah. The blast in an underground subway corridor during the Monday morning rush hour injured three people as well as Ullah.
Authorities identified the attacker as 27-year-old Akayed Ullah. Monday's explosion injured him slightly wounded three other people and sent commuters fleeing in terror through a subway corridor near Times Square.
The officials say Akayed Ullah was living in Brooklyn. They say he told investigators Monday he was inspired by the Islamic State group to carry out an attack but had no direct contact with the terror group. They say he is speaking with investigators from his hospital bed. The suspect had burns on his abdomen and also to his hands
Officials say he assembled the crude device in his apartment. Investigators are talking to witnesses and his family.
Law enforcement officials tell The Associated Press that Akayed Ullah was inspired by the Islamic State Group but apparently had no direct contact with the terrorist group. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the suspect or incident.
Law enforcement officials tell The Associated Press that Akayed Ullah was inspired by the Islamic State Group but apparently had no direct contact with the terrorist group. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the suspect or incident.
Police say he attached the device to his body with Velcro and zip ties.
Twenty-seven-year-old Akayed Ullah is in police custody. Officials say he sustained burns to his abdomen and hands and cuts after the crude pipe bomb exploded.
Law enforcement officials say Ullah was inspired by the Islamic State but apparently had no direct contact with the terrorist group. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the suspect or incident.
Police say Akayed Ullah intentionally exploded the crude device in a passageway under Times Square during the morning rush hour Monday. They say he is in custody. They say the device is a crudely-made pipe bomb. | In a statement [TGT] also says it's outraged by the way it was targeted by law enforcement including pulling a teenage relative from class and questioning him without a parent guardian or attorney present. [TGT] says it expects more from the justice system.
The statement was released on behalf of the family by Albert Fox Cahn legal director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations in New York.
Authorities have identified the attacker as [TGT] an immigrant from Bangladesh.
Authorities have identified the attacker as [TGT] . The blast in an underground subway corridor during the Monday morning rush hour injured three people as well as Ullah.
Authorities identified the attacker as [TGT] . Monday's explosion injured him slightly wounded three other people and sent commuters fleeing in terror through a subway corridor near Times Square.
The officials say [TGT] was living in Brooklyn. They say [TGT] told investigators Monday [TGT] was inspired by the Islamic State group to carry out an attack but had no direct contact with the terror group. They say [TGT] is speaking with investigators from [TGT] hospital bed. The suspect had burns on his abdomen and also to his hands
Officials say he assembled the crude device in his apartment. Investigators are talking to witnesses and his family.
Law enforcement officials tell The Associated Press that [TGT] was inspired by the Islamic State Group but apparently had no direct contact with the terrorist group. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the suspect or incident.
Law enforcement officials tell The Associated Press that [TGT] was inspired by the Islamic State Group but apparently had no direct contact with the terrorist group. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the suspect or incident.
Police say he attached the device to his body with Velcro and zip ties.
[TGT] is in police custody. Officials say [TGT] sustained burns to [TGT] abdomen and hands and cuts after the crude pipe bomb exploded.
Law enforcement officials say Ullah was inspired by the Islamic State but apparently had no direct contact with the terrorist group. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the suspect or incident.
Police say [TGT] intentionally exploded the crude device in a passageway under Times Square during the morning rush hour Monday. They say [TGT] is in custody. They say the device is a crudely-made pipe bomb. | 0Negative
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2,064 | Oscars 2018 complete coverage: 'The Shape of Water' wins best picture; Frances McDormand's rousing speech; Jordan Peele makes history with 'Get Out' screenplay; Jimmy Kimmel jokes about Weinstein | Ryan Seacrest | 7:35: One moment in particular from Taraji P. Hensonâs red carpet interview with Ryan Seacrest is prompting some thinking-face emojis.
She then lightly grabs his chin and squints at Seacrest âYou know what I mean?â
âI agree â a grinning Seacrest responds.
What the clip doesnât show is what Seacrest and Henson were chatting about and what happened after. The two were talking about Mary J. Blige â Henson is introducing Bligeâs song during the ceremony.
âShe is having such an amazing year she exudes it â Henson said before telling Seacrest about karma. After that comment the actress gushes more about Blige. Seacrest gives Henson a compliment. The actress then gives Seacrest a big hug.
7:17: E! has taken a lot of flak for keeping Ryan Seacrest on the red carpet despite the sexual harassment allegation against him which he has denied. But the network made sure to bring up the Timeâs Up movement.
When Ryan Seacrest asked her how she feels about getting a nod for her song âMighty River â she said âIt means so much because this is what Iâve been doing for 25 years and for the Oscars to recognize me as a songwriter itâs the cherry on top of a 25-year music business cake.â
Blige also gave some additional love to Seacrest gushing to him about how much she enjoys watching âLive with Ryan and Kelly.â âI love yâall you have so much fun together.â
6:45: Rita Moreno arrived at the Oscars wearing the same dress she wore when she won an Academy Award for best supporting actress in 1962 for âWest Side Story.â Seacrest was shocked it looked so good considering some of his clothes look terrible after a year or two. (Thatâs sort of an awkward admission considering he usually wears his own label on the red carpet.)
Seacrest and Moreno reminisced about her big win all those years ago and the E! host wondered why she kept her acceptance speech so short â she spoke for only 15 seconds.
It turns out she had no idea she was going to win. She was sure Judy Garland had the category on lock. The dress was made in the Philippines which is where Moreno was shooting a movie at the time. She decided to fly in just in case she said. Good thing she did.
6:37: Bradley Whitford is the kind of guy who might make an off-the-cuff statement but he kept things innocuous during his question-and-answer session with Ryan Seacrest . Whitford appeared with âGet Outâ co-stars Lil Rel Howery and Betty Gabriel and stayed on topic strictly talking about the movie.
6:25: Andy Serkis who plays bad guy Ulysses Klaue in âBlack Panther â told Ryan Seacrest that the Marvel movie is resonating with so many people because âit is literally about building bridges not walls. Thatâs what is contained in the story.â
6:06: Gael GarcÃa Bernal set to join Natalia Lafourcade and Miguel in performing the nominated song âRemember Meâ from the animated film âCoco â told Ryan Seacrest that best director nominee Guillermo del Toro was an early influence in his career.
[ Ryan Seacrestâs Oscars red carpet pretended that sexual harassment doesnât exist ]
5:45: Ryan Seacrest returned to co-host E!âs red carpet special a week after his former stylist Suzie Hardy publicly accused the former E! News anchor of sexual misconduct. Seacrest has denied the allegations and E! says an investigation has cleared him. He started the night slow with smaller interviews â Miguel and Diane Warren both of whom worked on nominated original songs â and went on to speak with a number of male acting nominees. | 7:35: One moment in particular from Taraji P. Hensonâs red carpet interview with [TGT] is prompting some thinking-face emojis.
[TGT] then lightly grabs [TGT] chin and squints at [TGT] âYou know what I mean?â
âI agree â a grinning [TGT] responds.
What the clip doesnât show is what [TGT] and Henson were chatting about and what happened after. The two were talking about Mary J. Blige â Henson is introducing Bligeâs song during the ceremony.
âShe is having such an amazing year she exudes it â Henson said before telling [TGT] about karma. After that comment the actress gushes more about Blige. [TGT] gives Henson a compliment. The actress then gives [TGT] a big hug.
7:17: E! has taken a lot of flak for keeping [TGT] on the red carpet despite the sexual harassment allegation against him which he has denied. But the network made sure to bring up the Timeâs Up movement.
When [TGT] asked her how she feels about getting a nod for her song âMighty River â she said âIt means so much because this is what Iâve been doing for 25 years and for the Oscars to recognize me as a songwriter itâs the cherry on top of a 25-year music business cake.â
Blige also gave some additional love to [TGT] gushing to him about how much [TGT] enjoys watching âLive with Ryan and Kelly.â âI love yâall you have so much fun together.â
6:45: Rita Moreno arrived at the Oscars wearing the same dress she wore when she won an Academy Award for best supporting actress in 1962 for âWest Side Story.â [TGT] was shocked it looked so good considering some of his clothes look terrible after a year or two. (Thatâs sort of an awkward admission considering he usually wears his own label on the red carpet.)
[TGT] and Moreno reminisced about [TGT] big win all those years ago and the E! host wondered why [TGT] kept [TGT] acceptance speech so short â [TGT] spoke for only 15 seconds.
It turns out [TGT] had no idea [TGT] was going to win. [TGT] was sure Judy Garland had the category on lock. The dress was made in the Philippines which is where Moreno was shooting a movie at the time. [TGT] decided to fly in just in case [TGT] said. Good thing [TGT] did.
6:37: Bradley Whitford is the kind of guy who might make an off-the-cuff statement but he kept things innocuous during his question-and-answer session with Ryan Seacrest . Whitford appeared with âGet Outâ co-stars Lil Rel Howery and Betty Gabriel and stayed on topic strictly talking about the movie.
6:25: Andy Serkis who plays bad guy Ulysses Klaue in âBlack Panther â told Ryan Seacrest that the Marvel movie is resonating with so many people because âit is literally about building bridges not walls. Thatâs what is contained in the story.â
6:06: Gael GarcÃa Bernal set to join Natalia Lafourcade and Miguel in performing the nominated song âRemember Meâ from the animated film âCoco â told [TGT] that best director nominee Guillermo del Toro was an early influence in his career.
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5:45: [TGT] returned to co-host E!âs red carpet special a week after [TGT] former stylist Suzie Hardy publicly accused the former E! News anchor of sexual misconduct. [TGT] has denied the allegations and E! says an investigation has cleared [TGT] . [TGT] started the night slow with smaller interviews â Miguel and Diane Warren both of whom worked on nominated original songs â and went on to speak with a number of male acting nominees. | 2Positive
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2,065 | Teen girl blames fatal attraction for scissor stabbing: cops | Taneese Mackey | Taneese Mackey 17 was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for the attack at an East Austin residence news station WFAA reported.
Authorities said that Mackey barged into a male acquaintanceâs house Jan. 13 and confronted him and his girlfriend in a bedroom.
âWhoever you got here I am gonna get her â Mackey reportedly said according to police. âI have a fatal attraction.â
The man told police that the women fought before she stabbed his girlfriend in the face using scissors.
Mackey was booked Wednesday at Travis County Jail after a warrant was issued for her arrest. | [TGT] was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon for the attack at an East Austin residence news station WFAA reported.
Authorities said that [TGT] barged into a male acquaintanceâs house Jan. 13 and confronted [TGT] and [TGT] girlfriend in a bedroom.
âWhoever you got here I am gonna get her â [TGT] reportedly said according to police. âI have a fatal attraction.â
The man told police that the women fought before she stabbed his girlfriend in the face using scissors.
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2,066 | Trump Admin Backs Off Plan to Drill in Florida | Ryan Zinke | The Trump administration is backing off plans to allow offshore oil and gas exploration in the waters surrounding Florida according to a statement released by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke Tuesday evening.
I had predicted that the pushback from Scott Rubio and other GOP members of Floridaâs Congressional delegation â several of whom have been staunch supporters of the President â made it a lot less likely that any offshore drilling in Florida waters would be approved and Zinke specifically cited Scottâs opposition to the plan as influencing his departmentâs decision:
Read my full statement on taking #Florida off the table for offshore oil and gas. Local voice matters. pic.twitter.com/fJhv0p0CDC â Secretary Ryan Zinke (@SecretaryZinke) January 9 2018
âI support [Gov. Scottâs] position that Florida is unique and its coasts are heavily reliant on tourism as an economic driver. As a resultâ¦I am removing Florida from consideration for any new oil and gas platforms â wrote Zinke adding âLocal voice mattersâ to his tweet.
Scott retweeted another post by Zinke clearly pleased.
After talking with @FLGovScott I am removing #Florida from the draft offshore plan. pic.twitter.com/lZIfdCDNOR â Secretary Ryan Zinke (@SecretaryZinke) January 9 2018 | The Trump administration is backing off plans to allow offshore oil and gas exploration in the waters surrounding Florida according to a statement released by [TGT] Tuesday evening.
I had predicted that the pushback from Scott Rubio and other GOP members of Floridaâs Congressional delegation â several of whom have been staunch supporters of the President â made it a lot less likely that any offshore drilling in Florida waters would be approved and [TGT] specifically cited Scottâs opposition to the plan as influencing [TGT] departmentâs decision:
Read my full statement on taking #Florida off the table for offshore oil and gas. Local voice matters. pic.twitter.com/fJhv0p0CDC â Secretary Ryan Zinke (@SecretaryZinke) January 9 2018
âI support [Gov. Scottâs] position that Florida is unique and its coasts are heavily reliant on tourism as an economic driver. As a resultâ¦I am removing Florida from consideration for any new oil and gas platforms â wrote [TGT] adding âLocal voice mattersâ to [TGT] tweet.
Scott retweeted another post by [TGT] clearly pleased.
After talking with @FLGovScott I am removing #Florida from the draft offshore plan. pic.twitter.com/lZIfdCDNOR â Secretary Ryan Zinke (@SecretaryZinke) January 9 2018 | 2Positive
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2,067 | Bain aims to buy Japan advertising agency Asatsu | Bain | Logo of the Bain Capital is screened at a news conference in Tokyo Japan September 28 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital aims to buy Japanâs third-largest advertising agency Asatsu-DK Inc (9747.T) for 152 billion yen ($1.35 billion) in one of the largest buyouts in Japan this year it said on Monday.
Bain plans to buy all of Asatsu-DKâs shares from existing holders including top shareholder WPP (WPP.L) for 3 660 yen a share a 15.4 percent premium over Mondayâs close.
The private equity firm said it would launch a tender offer on Tuesday and plans to delist the company . The buyout will be canceled if it fails to buy a stake larger than 50.1 percent.
Asatsu-DK supports Bainâs offer saying that a strategic review had found that private ownership represented the best option to position the company for sustainable growth.
âIn collaboration with Bain Capital we will set a course towards bold structural reforms and growth strategies that will help us to enhance our competitiveness and to expand our market share both in Japan and overseas â said President and Group CEO Shinichi Ueno.
The bid comes only days after a Bain-led consortium signed an $18 billion deal to buy Toshiba Corpâs (6502.T) microchip business.
A source close to WPP said the buyout plan as outlined by Bain significantly undervalued Asatsu-DK. | Logo of the Bain Capital is screened at a news conference in Tokyo Japan September 28 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon
TOKYO [TGT] aims to buy Japanâs third-largest advertising agency Asatsu-DK Inc (9747.T) for 152 billion yen ($1.35 billion) in one of the largest buyouts in Japan this year it said on Monday.
[TGT] plans to buy all of Asatsu-DKâs shares from existing holders including top shareholder WPP (WPP.L) for 3 660 yen a share a 15.4 percent premium over Mondayâs close.
[TGT] said [TGT] would launch a tender offer on Tuesday and plans to delist [TGT] . The buyout will be canceled if it fails to buy a stake larger than 50.1 percent.
Asatsu-DK supports Bainâs offer saying that a strategic review had found that private ownership represented the best option to position the company for sustainable growth.
âIn collaboration with Bain Capital we will set a course towards bold structural reforms and growth strategies that will help us to enhance our competitiveness and to expand our market share both in Japan and overseas â said President and Group CEO Shinichi Ueno.
The bid comes only days after a Bain-led consortium signed an $18 billion deal to buy Toshiba Corpâs (6502.T) microchip business.
A source close to WPP said the buyout plan as outlined by Bain significantly undervalued Asatsu-DK. | 2Positive
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2,068 | Anthony Scaramucci : If I were John Kelly I'd apologize over the Rob Porter scandal | Anthony Scaramucci | (CNN) Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci suggested that John Kelly is handling the fallout from the Rob Porter scandal poorly by trying to "cover it up."
"The cover-up is always worse than the crime " Scaramucci told David Axelrod in an upcoming segment of "The Axe Files " a podcast from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN.
"I would say 'Jeez you know I knew about it. I was going to give the guy a pass because he told me it wasn't true and I apologize to the American people for that. He's been let go and I'd still like to keep my job "' Scaramucci explained. "That's what I would do if I was General Kelly. "
Scaramucci said if he were the White House chief of staff he wouldn't say he "didn't know about it when ( he ) knew about it or try to cover it."
"We're in a society now where everyone's going to find out everything anyway " he noted. | (CNN) Former White House communications director [TGT] suggested that John Kelly is handling the fallout from the Rob Porter scandal poorly by trying to "cover it up."
"The cover-up is always worse than the crime " Scaramucci told David Axelrod in an upcoming segment of "The Axe Files " a podcast from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN.
"I would say 'Jeez you know I knew about it. I was going to give the guy a pass because he told me it wasn't true and I apologize to the American people for that. He's been let go and I'd still like to keep my job "' Scaramucci explained. "That's what I would do if I was General Kelly. "
Scaramucci said if he were the White House chief of staff he wouldn't say he "didn't know about it when ( he ) knew about it or try to cover it."
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2,069 | Expensive specialty drugs are forcing seniors to make hard choices | Lee Whitcraft | Diane and Lee Whitcraft of Webster Wis. Diane has multiple sclerosis and is forgoing medication because of its cost under her Medicare prescription drug plan. (Courtesy of Diane Whitcraft)
Whitcraft took her last dose of Betaseron on January 5. So far she hasn't had another attack but she knows the threat is always there. She said she wouldn't have made the same decision to stop the drug if she were younger and she wrestled with what to do.
This summer she did something she thinks she should have done a long time ago. She wrote a letter to the chief executive of Bayer the company that makes the drug.
But Whitcraft still doesn't understand why her drug which launched with a list price of about $11 500 more than two decades ago costs so much today â a question she raised in her letter.
âIt wasnât filled with anger or anything; I just told him that I had quit the drug and why. And I suggested someone must be very greedy â she said. âIt's so wrong and so unfair â a drug that was marketed for the first time in 1993 . . . Why did the cost go up so much here?â
Whitcraft said she got a phone call from the company offering the drug at a discounted rate months after she had come to the difficult decision to stop taking it. She wondered if the company could offer her a discount on an individual basis why they couldn't just lower the price for everyone. | Diane and [TGT] of Webster Wis. Diane has multiple sclerosis and is forgoing medication because of its cost under her Medicare prescription drug plan. (Courtesy of Diane Whitcraft)
Whitcraft took her last dose of Betaseron on January 5. So far she hasn't had another attack but she knows the threat is always there. She said she wouldn't have made the same decision to stop the drug if she were younger and she wrestled with what to do.
This summer she did something she thinks she should have done a long time ago. She wrote a letter to the chief executive of Bayer the company that makes the drug.
But Whitcraft still doesn't understand why her drug which launched with a list price of about $11 500 more than two decades ago costs so much today â a question she raised in her letter.
âIt wasnât filled with anger or anything; I just told him that I had quit the drug and why. And I suggested someone must be very greedy â she said. âIt's so wrong and so unfair â a drug that was marketed for the first time in 1993 . . . Why did the cost go up so much here?â
Whitcraft said she got a phone call from the company offering the drug at a discounted rate months after she had come to the difficult decision to stop taking it. She wondered if the company could offer her a discount on an individual basis why they couldn't just lower the price for everyone. | 1Neutral
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2,070 | Modernizers launch a coup within the House of Saud | Alwaleed bin Talal | Billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal was picked up at his desert camp the senior official said. Authorities did not disclose the evidence that prompted the arrests.
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal presides over a vast financial empire (estimated $35 billion in 2015):
Alwaleed is the largest individual shareholder of Citigroup the second-largest voting shareholder in 21st Century Fox and owns a number of hotels. TIME even called him "Arabian Warren Buffet".
MBS as the Crown Prince is known is the leader who is launching what modernizers hope will be a Saudi Version of the Meiji Restoration[ii] in Japan transforming the political economy and culture out of necessity â in order to survive in the modern world system. The Saudis have practiced religious and cultural isolationism while their oil allowed the country to avoid the necessity of building an economy that could supply anything else that the rest of the world would be willing to pay for.
Of the people arrested Alwaleed bin Tala is the most intriguing for Americans thanks to his Twitter sparring with candidate Trump during the election and for a startling connection unearthed by Jack Cashill more than five years ago in World New Daily. | [TGT] was picked up at [TGT] desert camp the senior official said. Authorities did not disclose the evidence that prompted the arrests.
[TGT] presides over a vast financial empire (estimated $35 billion in 2015):
Alwaleed is the largest individual shareholder of Citigroup the second-largest voting shareholder in 21st Century Fox and owns a number of hotels. TIME even called [TGT] "Arabian Warren Buffet".
MBS as the Crown Prince is known is the leader who is launching what modernizers hope will be a Saudi Version of the Meiji Restoration[ii] in Japan transforming the political economy and culture out of necessity â in order to survive in the modern world system. The Saudis have practiced religious and cultural isolationism while their oil allowed the country to avoid the necessity of building an economy that could supply anything else that the rest of the world would be willing to pay for.
Of the people arrested Alwaleed bin Tala is the most intriguing for Americans thanks to his Twitter sparring with candidate Trump during the election and for a startling connection unearthed by Jack Cashill more than five years ago in World New Daily. | 1Neutral
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2,071 | Is This It: The Strokesâ âLast Quiet Momentâ Before Everything Changed | Nick Valensi | Photographer Cody Smyth watched his high school friendsâ band The Strokes â with members Julian Casablancas Nick Valensi Albert Hammond Jr. Nikolai Fraiture and Fab Moretti â go from a regular staple of New York City dive bars to what the music world hailed as the second coming of rock and roll. In this excerpt from his new book The Strokes: The First Ten Years he remembers a night he calls âthe last quiet momentâ before everything changed. Included is a gallery of photos Smyth took from the first ten years of The Strokesâ rise to fame.
A lunch brought us together for the first time in 1995. From that point on we were inseparable. I had met our dear friend Claude Rene or âGramps â as we all called him then in an early morning chemistry class. I was habitually late which Claude found incredibly entertaining. We bonded instantly. Claude knew Julian as they had gone to elementary school together. He knew Nick as the kid who was always at the Flats or the Meadow in Central Park with his guitar. Julian and I had some classes together but didnât talk much beyond some friendly greetings. Nick and I had met briefly in the locker room as our lockers were near each other but that was about it.
One morning in the hall between classes I run into Claude and we make a plan to meet out in front of school for lunch. Bell rings and I head out to meet him. âWe got two more joining us â he says as Nick and Jules approach. âI know you two!â I say. They say the same as it all clicks. We head to 86th and Columbus to the shitty Greek diner we would frequent for many a lunch that year and the remainder of high school mostly because you could smoke cigs and get fries and a coke for 2 bucks. Nutrition for a teenage boy came cheap. Our waiter was George. We called him âthree fingersâ because he would bring us our water with his fat fingers in the glasses. I remember Julian ripping into him once about it but it was our spot. We all hung out there most school days. It wasnât long before we met Fab. He and Nick were in tenth grade and although Fab had his own set of friends we would always see him. He started coming to lunches with us at the diner. This was the beginning of the band.
Between 2000 & 2001 the bar 2A on Ave A and 2nd Street was our home base. If I couldnât get a hold of Nick or one of the other guys I would usually head there knowing Iâd find them. Transporterraum recording studio was across the street from the bar and the guys were holed up with Gordon Raphael down there for a month or two recording Is This It. | Photographer Cody Smyth watched his high school friendsâ band The Strokes â with members Julian Casablancas [TGT] Albert Hammond Jr. Nikolai Fraiture and Fab Moretti â go from a regular staple of New York City dive bars to what the music world hailed as the second coming of rock and roll. In this excerpt from his new book The Strokes: The First Ten Years he remembers a night he calls âthe last quiet momentâ before everything changed. Included is a gallery of photos Smyth took from the first ten years of The Strokesâ rise to fame.
A lunch brought us together for the first time in 1995. From that point on we were inseparable. I had met our dear friend Claude Rene or âGramps â as we all called him then in an early morning chemistry class. I was habitually late which Claude found incredibly entertaining. We bonded instantly. Claude knew Julian as they had gone to elementary school together. He knew Nick as the kid who was always at the Flats or the Meadow in Central Park with his guitar. Julian and I had some classes together but didnât talk much beyond some friendly greetings. Nick and I had met briefly in the locker room as our lockers were near each other but that was about it.
One morning in the hall between classes I run into Claude and we make a plan to meet out in front of school for lunch. Bell rings and I head out to meet him. âWe got two more joining us â he says as Nick and Jules approach. âI know you two!â I say. They say the same as it all clicks. We head to 86th and Columbus to the shitty Greek diner we would frequent for many a lunch that year and the remainder of high school mostly because you could smoke cigs and get fries and a coke for 2 bucks. Nutrition for a teenage boy came cheap. Our waiter was George. We called him âthree fingersâ because he would bring us our water with his fat fingers in the glasses. I remember Julian ripping into him once about it but it was our spot. We all hung out there most school days. It wasnât long before we met Fab. He and Nick were in tenth grade and although Fab had his own set of friends we would always see him. He started coming to lunches with us at the diner. This was the beginning of the band.
Between 2000 & 2001 the bar 2A on Ave A and 2nd Street was our home base. If I couldnât get a hold of Nick or one of the other guys I would usually head there knowing Iâd find them. Transporterraum recording studio was across the street from the bar and the guys were holed up with Gordon Raphael down there for a month or two recording Is This It. | 2Positive
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2,072 | Second actress steps forward to accuse Dustin Hoffman | Dustin Hoffman | A second actress has come forward to accuse Dustin Hoffman of allegations of sexual harassment.
Kathryn Rossetter who co-starred with Hoffman in "Death of a Salesman" on Broadway in 1983 says the Oscar-winner would grope her nightly demand foot rubs and once pulled her slip over her head to expose her breasts in front of the crew.
Rossetter told her account in The Hollywood Reporter on Friday which comes a month after actress Anna Graham Hunter alleged Hoffman groped her and made inappropriate comments when she was a 17-year-old intern on the set of the 1985 TV movie "Death of a Salesman."
Hoffman's representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But Hoffman has previously denied abusing Hunter saying her allegations were "not reflective of who I am."
John Oliver grills Dustin Hoffman over sexual harassment allegation
Dustin Hoffman apologizes for alleged harassment | A second actress has come forward to accuse [TGT] of allegations of sexual harassment.
Kathryn Rossetter who co-starred with Hoffman in "Death of a Salesman" on Broadway in 1983 says the Oscar-winner would grope her nightly demand foot rubs and once pulled her slip over her head to expose her breasts in front of the crew.
Rossetter told her account in The Hollywood Reporter on Friday which comes a month after actress Anna Graham Hunter alleged Hoffman groped her and made inappropriate comments when she was a 17-year-old intern on the set of the 1985 TV movie "Death of a Salesman."
Hoffman's representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But Hoffman has previously denied abusing Hunter saying her allegations were "not reflective of who I am."
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2,073 | 'Facial stretches' trimmed years off women's looks in small study | Murad Alam | "The scientists looking at appearance changes found that the upper and lower cheeks were full after the study " said study author Dr. Murad Alam vice chair in the department of dermatology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
"Patients themselves found even greater benefits and noticed that 18 of the 20 areas and features of the face that were studied got better over the course of the study " Alam said. "In general the appearance benefit was that the contour of the face became smoother fuller and firmer."
The findings were published in January in the journal JAMA Dermatology. Alam noted that none of the researchers had a financial interest in the facial yoga exercise program.
As for whether men or perhaps younger women might achieve a similar benefit Alam said "we would expect to see an effect. But until we study it we won't know if it is a little more or a little less."
Still exercise alone may not be enough "to replace the tried-and-tested methods of improving facial appearance" that can be achieved with fillers lasers and the like Alam acknowledged. Instead exercises might best serve to enhance such interventions he said.
But Xu said that facial exercise "makes a lot of intuitive sense."
Why? "Facial aging is so much more than just seeing more wrinkles on the face " said Xu . "It's a complex process and includes thinning of the upper layers of the skin loss of collagen and elastin in the deeper layers of the skin and loss of fat and muscle. | "The scientists looking at appearance changes found that the upper and lower cheeks were full after the study " said study author Dr. [TGT] vice chair in the department of dermatology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
"Patients themselves found even greater benefits and noticed that 18 of the 20 areas and features of the face that were studied got better over the course of the study " Alam said. "In general the appearance benefit was that the contour of the face became smoother fuller and firmer."
The findings were published in January in the journal JAMA Dermatology. Alam noted that none of the researchers had a financial interest in the facial yoga exercise program.
As for whether men or perhaps younger women might achieve a similar benefit Alam said "we would expect to see an effect. But until we study it we won't know if it is a little more or a little less."
Still exercise alone may not be enough "to replace the tried-and-tested methods of improving facial appearance" that can be achieved with fillers lasers and the like Alam acknowledged. Instead exercises might best serve to enhance such interventions he said.
But Xu said that facial exercise "makes a lot of intuitive sense."
Why? "Facial aging is so much more than just seeing more wrinkles on the face " said Xu . "It's a complex process and includes thinning of the upper layers of the skin loss of collagen and elastin in the deeper layers of the skin and loss of fat and muscle. | 2Positive
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2,074 | 'That's What Christmas Is All About Charlie Brown' | Charlie Brown | When the animated special A Charlie Brown Christmas first aired on CBS in 1965 both the television network and the showâs own producers expected it to be a disaster.
Fortunately for generations of children who have grown up loving Charlie Brownâs heartfelt quest for the true meaning of Christmas the network management had little choice but to go ahead and allow the show to air. It had been finished a mere ten days before the broadcast date and they had promised sponsor Coca-Cola a Christmas special featuring Charlie Brown .
A Charlie Brown Christmas was an instant classic securing an annual place on the December television schedule paving the way for future Charlie Brown films and specials and lighting a creative spark in the hearts of countless aspiring artists and musicians.
In this famous scene our hero Charlie Brown has been tasked with getting a Christmas tree to use in the Christmas pageant he is trying to organize with his friends. Repelled by the commercialism of the flashy aluminum trees Charlie selects the sole remaining real tree on the lot a frail sapling that seems in danger of losing all its needles.
When Charlie returns to the theater with his little tree the other children mock him as a hopeless failure. Even Snoopy â his own dog! â laughs mercilessly at him .
In despair Charlie cries out âIsnât there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?â
His faithful friend Linus is there with the answer and it comes from the Gospel of Luke chapter 2 verses 8 through 14 which he delivers in a poignant soliloquy from center stage:
Linus walks back over to Charlie and gently tells him âThatâs what Christmas is all about Charlie Brown.â | When the animated special A [TGT] Christmas first aired on CBS in 1965 both the television network and the showâs own producers expected it to be a disaster.
Fortunately for generations of children who have grown up loving Charlie Brownâs heartfelt quest for the true meaning of Christmas the network management had little choice but to go ahead and allow the show to air. It had been finished a mere ten days before the broadcast date and they had promised sponsor Coca-Cola a Christmas special featuring [TGT] .
A [TGT] Christmas was an instant classic securing an annual place on the December television schedule paving the way for future [TGT] films and specials and lighting a creative spark in the hearts of countless aspiring artists and musicians.
In this famous scene our hero [TGT] has been tasked with getting a Christmas tree to use in the Christmas pageant [TGT] is trying to organize with [TGT] friends. Repelled by the commercialism of the flashy aluminum trees Charlie selects the sole remaining real tree on the lot a frail sapling that seems in danger of losing all its needles.
When Charlie returns to the theater with his little tree the other children mock him as a hopeless failure. Even Snoopy â his own dog! â laughs mercilessly at him .
In despair Charlie cries out âIsnât there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?â
His faithful friend Linus is there with the answer and it comes from the Gospel of Luke chapter 2 verses 8 through 14 which he delivers in a poignant soliloquy from center stage:
Linus walks back over to Charlie and gently tells him âThatâs what Christmas is all about Charlie Brown.â | 2Positive
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2,075 | Ad networks let you easily and quickly make a botnet / Boing Boing | Brannon Dorsey | The coder and artist Brannon Dorsey (previously) wondered about the potential of "browser based botnets" -- running Javascript on tons of machines stitched together into one massively parallel computer.
But that Javascript generally only hits you if you visit the site hosting it. Dorsey wondered if there was a faster more efficient way to inject malicious Javascript into tons of browsers.
And he discovered that there was: Online ad networks! Anyone can make an account create an ad with god-knows-what Javascript in it then pay to have the network serve that ad up to thousands of browser.
So that's what Dorsey did -- very successfully. Within about three hours his code (experimental not malicious apart from surreptitiously chewing up processing resources) was running on 117 852 web browsers on 30 234 unique IP addresses. Adtech it turns out is a superb vector for injecting malware around the planet.
Some other fun details: Dorsey found that when people loaded his ad they left the tab open an average of 15 minutes. That gave him huge amounts of compute time -- 327 full days in fact for about $15 in ad purchase. To see what such a botnet could do he created one to run a denial-of-service attack (against his own site just to see if it worked: It did pretty well). He got another to mine the cryptocurrency Monero at rates that will be profitable if Monero goes much higher.
The most interesting experiment was in writing an adtech-botnet to store and serve Bittorrent files via Webtorrent. That worked pretty well too: He got 180 175 browsers to run his torrent file in 24 hours with a 702 Mbps upload speed for the entire network. | The coder and artist [TGT] (previously) wondered about the potential of "browser based botnets" -- running Javascript on tons of machines stitched together into one massively parallel computer.
But that Javascript generally only hits you if you visit the site hosting it. Dorsey wondered if there was a faster more efficient way to inject malicious Javascript into tons of browsers.
And he discovered that there was: Online ad networks! Anyone can make an account create an ad with god-knows-what Javascript in it then pay to have the network serve that ad up to thousands of browser.
So that's what Dorsey did -- very successfully. Within about three hours his code (experimental not malicious apart from surreptitiously chewing up processing resources) was running on 117 852 web browsers on 30 234 unique IP addresses. Adtech it turns out is a superb vector for injecting malware around the planet.
Some other fun details: Dorsey found that when people loaded his ad they left the tab open an average of 15 minutes. That gave him huge amounts of compute time -- 327 full days in fact for about $15 in ad purchase. To see what such a botnet could do he created one to run a denial-of-service attack (against his own site just to see if it worked: It did pretty well). He got another to mine the cryptocurrency Monero at rates that will be profitable if Monero goes much higher.
The most interesting experiment was in writing an adtech-botnet to store and serve Bittorrent files via Webtorrent. That worked pretty well too: He got 180 175 browsers to run his torrent file in 24 hours with a 702 Mbps upload speed for the entire network. | 2Positive
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2,076 | Man City striker Aguero breaks rib in car crash | Sergio Aguero | LONDON (Reuters) - Manchester City âs Argentine striker Sergio Aguero has broken a rib in a road accident in the Netherlands and will miss Saturdayâs Premier League game at Chelsea with World Cup qualifiers also doubtful.
Manager Pep Guardiola speaking to reporters before Aguero had seen club doctors said the player was definitely out of Saturdayâs game between league leaders City and champions Chelsea.
He also cast doubt on Aguero travelling to Argentina for World Cup qualifiers next month.
âExactly how many days he will be off I donât know right now â he said adding that he had âno problemâ with Aguero being in Amsterdam.
Soccer Football - Champions League - Manchester City vs Shakhtar Donetsk - Etihad Stadium Manchester Britain - September 26 2017 Manchester City's Sergio Aguero Action Images via Reuters/Lee Smith
Aguero had earlier posted a picture of himself on his Instagram account seated in the back of a car thanking Colombian singer Maluma who was also in the photo for the invitation.
City are level on 16 points with Manchester United at the top of the table with Chelsea in third place on 13 and Aguero is one goal away from equalling Eric Brooksâ all-time club record of 177 goals in all competitions.
The international break follows the weekendâs Premier League matches with Aguero in Argentinaâs squad for their last two World Cup qualifiers against Peru and Ecuador on Oct. 5 and 10. | LONDON (Reuters) - Manchester City âs Argentine striker [TGT] has broken a rib in a road accident in the Netherlands and will miss Saturdayâs Premier League game at Chelsea with World Cup qualifiers also doubtful.
Manager Pep Guardiola speaking to reporters before Aguero had seen club doctors said the player was definitely out of Saturdayâs game between league leaders City and champions Chelsea.
He also cast doubt on Aguero travelling to Argentina for World Cup qualifiers next month.
âExactly how many days he will be off I donât know right now â he said adding that he had âno problemâ with Aguero being in Amsterdam.
Soccer Football - Champions League - Manchester City vs Shakhtar Donetsk - Etihad Stadium Manchester Britain - September 26 2017 Manchester City's [TGT] Action Images via Reuters/Lee Smith
Aguero had earlier posted a picture of himself on his Instagram account seated in the back of a car thanking Colombian singer Maluma who was also in the photo for the invitation.
City are level on 16 points with Manchester United at the top of the table with Chelsea in third place on 13 and Aguero is one goal away from equalling Eric Brooksâ all-time club record of 177 goals in all competitions.
The international break follows the weekendâs Premier League matches with Aguero in Argentinaâs squad for their last two World Cup qualifiers against Peru and Ecuador on Oct. 5 and 10. | 1Neutral
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2,077 | Santa Claus is real â but he's also dead archaeologists say | Saint Nicholas of | Saint Nicholas of Myra (now Demre) was known for his anonymous gift-giving and generosity. People believed he 'd put coins in the shoes of anyone who left them out for him on his feast day Dec. 6.
As the story goes he was a monk who gave away his hefty inheritance and instead chose to help the poor and the sick.
He 's also a patron saint of sailors and was of course especially fond of children. (There's one slightly bizarre story more Halloween than Christmas of St. Nicholas saving three children who had been "lured into the clutches of an evil butcher.")
It wasn't until the 16th century that St. Nicholas began to take on his modern candy-cane hued form in images and imaginations. In Europe he became known as Father Christmas. | [TGT] was known for [TGT] anonymous gift-giving and generosity. People believed [TGT] 'd put coins in the shoes of anyone who left them out for [TGT] on [TGT] feast day Dec. 6.
As the story goes he was a monk who gave away his hefty inheritance and instead chose to help the poor and the sick.
He 's also a patron saint of sailors and was of course especially fond of children. (There's one slightly bizarre story more Halloween than Christmas of [TGT] saving three children who had been "lured into the clutches of an evil butcher.")
It wasn't until the 16th century that [TGT] began to take on [TGT] modern candy-cane hued form in images and imaginations. In Europe he became known as Father Christmas. | 2Positive
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2,078 | 'We don't feel safe': Afghan anti | Anisa Rasooli | âUnfortunately we are not secure we are not living in secure places the commute is not safe and even in the ACJC we donât feel safe â Chief Judge Anisa Rasooli told AFP at her office inside the ACJC compound on the edge of the Afghan capital.
Rasooli is one of two chief judges driven in armoured vehicles that have been loaned to the ACJC by the Supreme Court â vehicles that will eventually have to be returned.
But Rasooli who has received threats on her phone and in court and other senior staff told AFP they have no protection at night because they do not have facilities at their homes for the guards.
Rasooli and her fellow Chief Judge Shir Aaqa Monib said the ACJC was making a difference and they remained committed.
âIt seems that especially the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Defense they are now frightened and scared â Rasooli said. | âUnfortunately we are not secure we are not living in secure places the commute is not safe and even in the ACJC we donât feel safe â [TGT] told AFP at [TGT] office inside the ACJC compound on the edge of the Afghan capital.
[TGT] is one of two chief judges driven in armoured vehicles that have been loaned to the ACJC by the Supreme Court â vehicles that will eventually have to be returned.
But Rasooli who has received threats on [TGT] phone and in court and other senior staff told AFP they have no protection at night because they do not have facilities at their homes for the guards.
Rasooli and her fellow Chief Judge Shir Aaqa Monib said the ACJC was making a difference and they remained committed.
âIt seems that especially the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Defense they are now frightened and scared â [TGT] said. | 1Neutral
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2,079 | Swiss pledge more funds for EU budget progress on treaty | Doris Leuthard | Swiss President Doris Leuthard and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker attend a news conference in Bern Switzerland November 23 2017. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
The head of the EU Commission Jean-Claude Juncker and Swiss President Doris Leuthard gave an upbeat assessment of ties which are on the mend after the Swiss parliament last year skirted votersâ calls for curbing immigration from the bloc.
But Leuthard said Switzerland was on track to contribute another 1.3 billion Swiss francs ($1.33 billion) in âcohesion paymentsâ to the EU budget over 10 years as a sign of solidarity. Legislation would go to parliament next year.
Swiss President Doris Leuthard and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker leave after a news conference in Bern Switzerland November 23 2017. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
Swiss Federal President Doris Leuthard talks to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker during Juncker's official visit in Bern Switzerland November 23 2017. REUTERS/Peter Klaunzer/Pool | [TGT] attend a news conference in Bern Switzerland November 23 2017. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
[TGT] gave an upbeat assessment of ties which are on the mend after the Swiss parliament last year skirted votersâ calls for curbing immigration from the bloc.
But Leuthard said Switzerland was on track to contribute another 1.3 billion Swiss francs ($1.33 billion) in âcohesion paymentsâ to the EU budget over 10 years as a sign of solidarity. Legislation would go to parliament next year.
[TGT] leave after a news conference in Bern Switzerland November 23 2017. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth
Swiss Federal President Doris Leuthard talks to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker during Juncker's official visit in Bern Switzerland November 23 2017. REUTERS/Peter Klaunzer/Pool | 1Neutral
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2,080 | Bulgaria savors EU embrace despite critics | Boyko Borissov | Prime Minister Boyko Borissov a former bodyguard to the Soviet-era Communist dictator welcomed fellow conservatives who run the three main Brussels political institutions to Sofia pledging to help ease tensions between east and west inside the EU and between the Union and its Russian and Turkish neighbors.
Though the presidency of the EU offers little direct power it offers Borissov a platform which he used to renew Bulgarian demands to be allowed to join Schengen and the euroâs âwaiting roomâ the ERM-2 exchange rate mechanism. Worries over organized crime and Bulgariaâs relative poverty have stood in its way.
European Council President Donald Tusk speaks next to Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borissov European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Bulgarian President Rumen Radev (R-L) during an event marking the start of Bulgaria's six-month presidency of EU ministerial councils in Sofia Bulgaria January 11 2018. Krum Stoev/EU2018BG/Handout via REUTERS
That will not in itself overcome resistance from wary member states. Borissov âs finance minister said frustration had grown to such an extent that he was ready to call their bluff and apply for the next step toward the euro zone in order to force them to publicly explain their objections.
Warm words from the visitors from Brussels did not drown out opposition at home to the government. Borissov dismissed out of hand accusations of shrinking media freedom and his minister in charge of the EU presidency denounced a website run by critical journalists covering the issue as âhate speechâ and âfake newsâ. | Prime Minister Boyko Borissov a former bodyguard to the Soviet-era Communist dictator welcomed fellow conservatives who run the three main Brussels political institutions to Sofia pledging to help ease tensions between east and west inside the EU and between the Union and its Russian and Turkish neighbors.
Though the presidency of the EU offers little direct power it offers Borissov a platform which he used to renew Bulgarian demands to be allowed to join Schengen and the euroâs âwaiting roomâ the ERM-2 exchange rate mechanism. Worries over organized crime and Bulgariaâs relative poverty have stood in its way.
European Council President Donald Tusk speaks next to [TGT] European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Bulgarian President Rumen Radev (R-L) during an event marking the start of Bulgaria's six-month presidency of EU ministerial councils in Sofia Bulgaria January 11 2018. Krum Stoev/EU2018BG/Handout via REUTERS
That will not in itself overcome resistance from wary member states. [TGT] âs finance minister said frustration had grown to such an extent that [TGT] was ready to call their bluff and apply for the next step toward the euro zone in order to force them to publicly explain their objections.
Warm words from the visitors from Brussels did not drown out opposition at home to the government. [TGT] dismissed out of hand accusations of shrinking media freedom and his minister in charge of the EU presidency denounced a website run by critical journalists covering the issue as âhate speechâ and âfake newsâ. | 2Positive
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2,081 | Black man attacked at white nationalist rally in Charlottesville faces felony charge in the brawl | DeAndre Harris | A local magistrate issued an arrest warrant Monday for DeAndre Harris on a charge of unlawful wounding after a man identified by Harris' attorney as Harold Ray Crews reported that he was injured by the 20-year-old during the brawl. Crews who describes himself as a "Southern Nationalist" and a lawyer on Twitter did not return phone calls seeking comment.
The magistrate's charge against Harris who suffered a spinal injury and a head laceration that required 10 stitches came less than 48 hours after a second rally by white supremacists and white nationalists in Charlottesville and caught the city's police department by surprise.
Zach D. Roberts / AP DeAndre Harris bottom is assaulted in a parking garage beside the Charlottesville police station after a white nationalist rally was disbursed by police in Charlottesville Va. on Aug. 12 2017. DeAndre Harris bottom is assaulted in a parking garage beside the Charlottesville police station after a white nationalist rally was disbursed by police in Charlottesville Va. on Aug. 12 2017. (Zach D. Roberts / AP) (Zach D. Roberts / AP)
Harris' attorney S. Lee Merritt denounced the charge and said it was orchestrated by the League of the South an organization labeled by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group. Crews who runs the group's North Carolina chapter was not injured "in any way" by Harris Merritt said.
"Did you hear the news?" Wallace asked. "DeAndre Harris is going to jail. Yeah he is being booked this morning. His whole story was another race hoax."
"Dear Jacob Scott Goodwin age 22 of Ward Arkansas " King posted on his Facebook page Sept. 24. "We have looked for you for a month. In the end it was your hair your bracelets your glasses your tattoo on your forearm the white supremacist pins and necklaces and your own bragging online that helped us identify you as one of the felony attackers of DeAndre Harris in Charlottesville. Soon you will be arrested ..." | A local magistrate issued an arrest warrant Monday for [TGT] on a charge of unlawful wounding after a man identified by [TGT] attorney as Harold Ray Crews reported that he was injured by the 20-year-old during the brawl. Crews who describes himself as a "Southern Nationalist" and a lawyer on Twitter did not return phone calls seeking comment.
The magistrate's charge against Harris who suffered a spinal injury and a head laceration that required 10 stitches came less than 48 hours after a second rally by white supremacists and white nationalists in Charlottesville and caught the city's police department by surprise.
Zach D. Roberts / AP DeAndre Harris bottom is assaulted in a parking garage beside the Charlottesville police station after a white nationalist rally was disbursed by police in Charlottesville Va. on Aug. 12 2017. [TGT] bottom is assaulted in a parking garage beside the Charlottesville police station after a white nationalist rally was disbursed by police in Charlottesville Va. on Aug. 12 2017. (Zach D. Roberts / AP) (Zach D. Roberts / AP)
Harris' attorney S. Lee Merritt denounced the charge and said it was orchestrated by the League of the South an organization labeled by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group. Crews who runs the group's North Carolina chapter was not injured "in any way" by Harris Merritt said.
"Did you hear the news?" Wallace asked. " [TGT] is going to jail. Yeah [TGT] is being booked this morning. [TGT] whole story was another race hoax."
"Dear Jacob Scott Goodwin age 22 of Ward Arkansas " King posted on his Facebook page Sept. 24. "We have looked for you for a month. In the end it was your hair your bracelets your glasses your tattoo on your forearm the white supremacist pins and necklaces and your own bragging online that helped us identify you as one of the felony attackers of [TGT] in Charlottesville. Soon you will be arrested ..." | 1Neutral
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2,082 | At least 31 dead in horrific California wildfires hundreds missing | Jeff Okrepkie | Jeff Chiu/AP
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Santa Rosa resident Jeff Okrepkie said he fled his home of five years knowing that it could very well be leveled when he returned.
"All that good stuff I'm never going to see it again " he told ABC's San Francisco station KGO on Monday.
Okrepkie said he and his wife tried their best to gather their most precious documents photos and mementos but it was impossible to grab everything in time. | Jeff Chiu/AP
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"All that good stuff I'm never going to see it again " he told ABC's San Francisco station KGO on Monday.
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2,083 | Church shooting victims face many obstacles in court | Kelley | There are just two plausible targets for a lawsuit legal experts say: Kelley âs estate and the Air Force. Suing for Kelley âs assets would be an easy legal win. But it is likely to result in payments of no more than a few hundred dollars to each of the families whose loved ones were killed or wounded.
At issue would be Devin Patrick Kellyâs purchase of the Ruger AR-15 used in the attack. The Air Force did not report his 2012 court-martial for abusing his wife and her child to a federal database used for background checks on gun purchasers. Had that conviction been entered into the database as required by Pentagon rules Kelleyâs legal purchase of any gun would have been denied.
Kelley who worked in logistics at the Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico starting in 2010 was given 12 months of confinement followed by a bad-conduct discharge in 2014.
Government attorneys would have to concede the Air Force error made it easier for Kelley to buy guns. But they would almost certainly argue in court that by any meaningful definition of cause and effect Kelley caused the deaths and bears sole responsibility for the killings. | There are just two plausible targets for a lawsuit legal experts say: [TGT] âs estate and the Air Force. Suing for [TGT] âs assets would be an easy legal win. But [TGT] is likely to result in payments of no more than a few hundred dollars to each of the families whose loved ones were killed or wounded.
At issue would be Devin Patrick Kellyâs purchase of the Ruger AR-15 used in the attack. The Air Force did not report his 2012 court-martial for abusing his wife and her child to a federal database used for background checks on gun purchasers. Had that conviction been entered into the database as required by Pentagon rules Kelleyâs legal purchase of any gun would have been denied.
[TGT] who worked in logistics at the Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico starting in 2010 was given 12 months of confinement followed by a bad-conduct discharge in 2014.
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2,084 | Former DNC Head Says Hillary Rigged Primary Against Bernie » Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind! | Hillary Clinton | The Democratic National Committee worked with the campaign of Hillary Clinton to rig the partyâs primary against Bernie Sanders Donna Brazile said Thursday.
In an op-ed for Politico Brazile who served as the DNC interim head during the 2016 election shared details on a 2015 agreement that helped ensure Clinton would win the presidential nomination.
The Clinton campaign Brazile says approached the DNC about its multi-million dollar debt and offered financial assistance in exchange for more control over the committee.
âThe agreementâsigned by Amy Dacey the former CEO of the DNC and Robby Mook with a copy to Marc Eliasâspecified that in exchange for raising money and investing in the DNC Hillary would control the partyâs finances strategy and all the money raised â Brazile wrote. â Her campaign had the right of refusal of who would be the party communications director and it would make final decisions on all the other staff.â
Brazile argues that while she believes the agreement was not illegal âit sure looked unethical.â | The Democratic National Committee worked with the campaign of [TGT] to rig the partyâs primary against Bernie Sanders Donna Brazile said Thursday.
In an op-ed for Politico Brazile who served as the DNC interim head during the 2016 election shared details on a 2015 agreement that helped ensure [TGT] would win the presidential nomination.
The [TGT] campaign Brazile says approached the DNC about its multi-million dollar debt and offered financial assistance in exchange for more control over the committee.
âThe agreementâsigned by Amy Dacey the former CEO of the DNC and Robby Mook with a copy to Marc Eliasâspecified that in exchange for raising money and investing in the DNC [TGT] would control the partyâs finances strategy and all the money raised â Brazile wrote. â [TGT] campaign had the right of refusal of who would be the party communications director and it would make final decisions on all the other staff.â
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2,085 | Susan Collins opposes Graham | Susan Collins | caption Susan Collins and Donald Trump source Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
Sen. Susan Collins of Maine announced Monday that she will vote ânoâ on the latest Republican healthcare bill all but surely ending the latest effort to repeal and replace Obamacare.
Collins joins Sens. John McCain and Rand Paul in opposition and since two GOP members could oppose the bill for it to pass the bill is likely dead. The Maine senator also opposed the previous iterations of the Republican healthcare bills helping to end that push in July.
âSweeping reforms to our health care system and to Medicaid canât be done well in a compressed time frame especially when the actual bill is a moving target â said a statement from Collins . âToday we find out that there is now a fourth version of the Graham-Cassidy proposal which is as deeply flawed as the previous iterations.â
Collins pointed to three primary issues with the bill that caused her to oppose it:
Cuts to Medicaid estimated at roughly $1 trillion from 2020 to 2036 by shifting to a block grant system: âThis would have a devastating impact to a program that has been on the books for 50 years and provides health care to our most vulnerable citizens including disabled children and low-income seniors â Collins said.Weakened protections for people with pre-existing conditions: âSome states could allow higher premiums for individuals with pre-existing conditions potentially making their insurance unaffordable.âHealth insurance coverage losses: âThird physicians patient advocates insurers and hospitals agree that both versions of this legislation would lead to higher premiums and reduced coverage for tens of millions of Americans â said the statement.
Collins also said that despite the recent change by the authors of the Graham-Cassidy bill to include more money for her state in their formula for the new block grants the overall cut was still too great for her to stomach. Additionally Collins took issue with the seat-of-the-pants changes to the formula that lead to her state gaining more money.
âBut even more important if Senators can adjust a funding formula over a weekend to help a single state they could just as easily adjust that formula in the future to hurt that state â Collins wrote. âThis is simply not the way that we should be approaching an important and complex issue that must be handled thoughtfully and fairly for all Americans.â
Sen. Bill Cassidy one of the authors of the new proposal was frank about the prospects for the bill if Collins was not on board during an appearance with CNNâs Wolf Blitzer just hours before the announcement.
âIf you lose Susan Collins itâs over right?â asked Blitzer. | caption Susan Collins and Donald Trump source Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
[TGT] announced Monday that [TGT] will vote ânoâ on the latest Republican healthcare bill all but surely ending the latest effort to repeal and replace Obamacare.
[TGT] joins Sens. John McCain and Rand Paul in opposition and since two GOP members could oppose the bill for it to pass the bill is likely dead. [TGT] also opposed the previous iterations of the Republican healthcare bills helping to end that push in July.
âSweeping reforms to our health care system and to Medicaid canât be done well in a compressed time frame especially when the actual bill is a moving target â said a statement from [TGT] . âToday we find out that there is now a fourth version of the Graham-Cassidy proposal which is as deeply flawed as [TGT]
pointed to three primary issues with the bill that caused her to oppose it:
Cuts to Medicaid estimated at roughly $1 trillion from 2020 to 2036 by shifting to a block grant system: âThis would have a devastating impact to a program that has been on the books for 50 years and provides health care to our most vulnerable citizens including disabled children and low-income seniors â [TGT] said.Weakened protections for people with pre-existing conditions: âSome states could allow higher premiums for individuals with pre-existing conditions potentially making their insurance unaffordable.âHealth insurance coverage losses: âThird physicians patient advocates insurers and hospitals agree that both versions of this legislation would lead to higher premiums and reduced coverage for tens of millions of Americans â said the statement.
[TGT] also said that despite the recent change by the authors of the Graham-Cassidy bill to include more money for [TGT] state in their formula for the new block grants the overall cut was still too great for [TGT] to stomach. Additionally [TGT] took issue with the seat-of-the-pants changes to the formula that lead to [TGT] state gaining more money.
âBut even more important if Senators can adjust a funding formula over a weekend to help a single state they could just as easily adjust that formula in the future to hurt that state â [TGT] wrote. âThis is simply not the way that we should be approaching an important and complex issue that must be handled thoughtfully and fairly for all Americans.â
Sen. Bill Cassidy one of the authors of the new proposal was frank about the prospects for the bill if [TGT] was not on board during an appearance with CNNâs Wolf Blitzer just hours before the announcement.
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2,086 | Berkshire Hathaway Names Abel And Jain As Vice Chairmen As Buffett Succession Plans Sharpen | Warren Buffett | Warren Buffett's plans to eventually pass the reins of Berkshire Hathaway to a successor took has taken a major new step. On Tuesday Buffett laid out why Greg Abel CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and Ajit Jain head of its insurance operations will join Charlie Munger as vice chairman of the $500 billion conglomerate.
Jain by contrast oversees Berkshire's gigantic insurance outfit where he's shown deft underwriting skill and the discipline to trim exposures to overly competitive markets like catastrophic insurance and reinsurance when pricing is unfavorable. A native of India Jain came to the U.S. to get an MBA at Harvard and then cut his teeth at consultancy McKinsey. In 1985 he was hired by Buffett to work in Berkshire's insurance operations. Said Buffett in a 2009 shareholder letter "I immediately knew we had found a superstar." A decade later the division was bolstered by Buffett 's acquisition of the Geico shares Berkshire didn't already own. From an insurance float of $3.6 billion in 1995 Berkshire's float now stands at about $100 billion annually.
In addition to Abel and Jain Berkshire's investing business also has two rising figures. Buffett is increasing his allocations of Berkshire funds to lieutenants Todd Combs and Ted Weschler who each manage over $10 billion and have led the conglomerate to positions ranging from Apple to Charter Communications.
As succession plans harden Buffett and Munger will continue in their existing positions. That means they will continue to be overseeing major capital allocation decisions and investment activities for instance any major deals. In addition to making headlines for Berkshire's succession plans Buffett also made headlines for his views on the wider investing landscape.
Most notably Buffett said tax reform will have a big impact on Berkshire's owners telling CNBC's Quick that shareholders effectively have seen their ownership of the company 's profits rise by over 20% as corporate rates have fallen from 35% to 21%.
About crypto currencies Buffett said today's euphoria inevitably will lead to heart break. "If I could buy a five year put on any of the crypto currencies I would do it " Buffett said admitting he would never short the speculative asset because it's not something he knows well. He dished out the following common sense "why in the world should I take a short position in something I don't know anything about."
But his views are crystal clear. "I think what's going on definitely will come to a bad ending " Buffett said.
Warren Buffett: My Greatest Investing Advice And The Investments Everyone Should Make | [TGT] plans to eventually pass the reins of Berkshire Hathaway to a successor took has taken a major new step. On Tuesday [TGT] laid out why Greg Abel CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and Ajit Jain head of its insurance operations will join Charlie Munger as vice chairman of the $500 billion conglomerate.
Jain by contrast oversees Berkshire's gigantic insurance outfit where he's shown deft underwriting skill and the discipline to trim exposures to overly competitive markets like catastrophic insurance and reinsurance when pricing is unfavorable. A native of India Jain came to the U.S. to get an MBA at Harvard and then cut his teeth at consultancy McKinsey. In 1985 he was hired by [TGT] to work in Berkshire's insurance operations. Said Buffett in a 2009 shareholder letter "I immediately knew we had found a superstar." A decade later the division was bolstered by Buffett 's acquisition of the Geico shares Berkshire didn't already own. From an insurance float of $3.6 billion in 1995 Berkshire's float now stands at about $100 billion annually.
In addition to Abel and Jain Berkshire's investing business also has two rising figures. [TGT] is increasing [TGT] allocations of Berkshire funds to lieutenants Todd Combs and Ted Weschler who each manage over $10 billion and have led the conglomerate to positions ranging from Apple to Charter Communications.
As succession plans harden [TGT] and Munger will continue in their existing positions. That means they will continue to be overseeing major capital allocation decisions and investment activities for instance any major deals. In addition to making headlines for Berkshire's succession plans [TGT] also made headlines for [TGT] views on the wider investing landscape.
Most notably [TGT] said tax reform will have a big impact on Berkshire's owners telling CNBC's Quick that shareholders effectively have seen their ownership of the company 's profits rise by over 20% as corporate rates have fallen from 35% to 21%.
About crypto currencies [TGT] said today's euphoria inevitably will lead to heart break. "If I could buy a five year put on any of the crypto currencies I would do it " [TGT] said admitting he would never short the speculative asset because it's not something he knows well. He dished out the following common sense "why in the world should I take a short position in something I don't know anything about."
But his views are crystal clear. "I think what's going on definitely will come to a bad ending " Buffett said.
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2,087 | Fitness model pleads guilty to series of robberies | David Byers | David Byers who has appeared on the covers of romance novels also agreed to make restitution of nearly $15 000 in wake of the five robberies that took place over a seven-day span earlier this year.
Prosecutors say Byers took $300 from a gas station in Nesconset Long Island on April 19 and then grabbed $2 107 from a Chase Bank in Stony Brook the following day. He would later hit a gas station in Greenwich and strike twice at a Chase Bank in the same city taking more than $12 000. He approached the same teller on both days telling him during the second robbery "you know why Iâm here."
During at least one of the robberies he wore a bandana over his face according to the plea agreement.
After the series of robberies the 35-year-old Byers somehow made it all the way home to California despite nearly getting captured several times. Officers tried to arrest him Greenwich but he was able to elude them after driving away in a "reckless matter " according to authorities. He later abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot.
He stayed a step ahead of authorities in New York state by pretending to be a valet and stealing a Range Rover.
Later Arizona state police officers attempted to stop him while he was driving a truck stolen from Pennsylvania with a license plate stolen from Maryland. Following a high-speed chase Byers abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot.
Meet 'Hot Convict' Jeremy Meeks
Byers worked as a model and personal trainer and was a part-owner of a gym. He was also accused of stealing gym equipment in California according to the Greenwich Time. | [TGT] also agreed to make restitution of nearly $15 000 in wake of the five robberies that took place over a seven-day span earlier this year.
Prosecutors say [TGT] took $300 from a gas station in Nesconset Long Island on April 19 and then grabbed $2 107 from a Chase Bank in Stony Brook the following day. [TGT] would later hit a gas station in Greenwich and strike twice at a Chase Bank in the same city taking more than $12 000. [TGT] approached the same teller on both days telling [TGT] during the second robbery "you know why Iâm here."
During at least one of the robberies [TGT] wore a bandana over [TGT] face according to the plea agreement.
After the series of robberies the 35-year-old Byers somehow made it all the way home to California despite nearly getting captured several times. Officers tried to arrest him Greenwich but he was able to elude them after driving away in a "reckless matter " according to authorities. He later abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot.
He stayed a step ahead of authorities in New York state by pretending to be a valet and stealing a Range Rover.
Later Arizona state police officers attempted to stop him while he was driving a truck stolen from Pennsylvania with a license plate stolen from Maryland. Following a high-speed chase Byers abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot.
Meet 'Hot Convict' Jeremy Meeks
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2,088 | Twitter Bans GOP Contender For Racist Tweet Targeting Meghan Markle : The Two | Paul Nehlen | Twitter has banned Paul Nehlen a Republican challenging House Speaker Paul Ryan for a congressional seat for a racist tweet targeting American actress Meghan Markle the fiancée of Prince Harry.
This week the Natural History Museum in London released images of Cheddar Man a dark-skinned Mesolithic man believed to be one of the oldest modern humans in Britain. Nehlen posted the couple's official engagement photo with Cheddar Man's face superimposed on Markle's who is biracial. He captioned the tweet "Honey does this tie make my face look pale?"
The tweet is hardly Nehlen 's first instance of controversy. The politician has made waves for racist and anti-Semitic tweets in the past and proclaimed that "Jews control the media" on former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke's podcast last month.
Nehlen "has spent months curating an image of a sometimes ironic but most certainly sincere white nationalist willing to say things intended to push populist nationalism into the discourse " writes the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Twitter which does not normally comment on individual accounts confirmed to NPR that Nehlen was permanently suspended for repeated violations of its terms of service. | Twitter has banned [TGT] a Republican challenging House Speaker Paul Ryan for a congressional seat for a racist tweet targeting American actress Meghan Markle the fiancée of Prince Harry.
This week the Natural History Museum in London released images of Cheddar Man a dark-skinned Mesolithic man believed to be one of the oldest modern humans in Britain. Nehlen posted the couple's official engagement photo with Cheddar Man's face superimposed on Markle's who is biracial. He captioned the tweet "Honey does this tie make my face look pale?"
The tweet is hardly Nehlen 's first instance of controversy. The politician has made waves for racist and anti-Semitic tweets in the past and proclaimed that "Jews control the media" on former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke's podcast last month.
Nehlen "has spent months curating an image of a sometimes ironic but most certainly sincere white nationalist willing to say things intended to push populist nationalism into the discourse " writes the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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2,089 | Here is what we learned from the new âStar Wars: The Last Jediâ trailer | Kylo Ren | Of course the trailer includes an ominous monologue about "raw untamed power" (presumably from Supreme Leader Snoke to Kylo Ren) and later Luke Skywalker warning Rey that the "raw strength" she possesses didn't scare him enough when he saw it in the past (presumably with Kylo Ren) but "it does now."
Yes we get it. Kylo Ren and Rey are both super-powerful with the Force and likely have some hidden connection. Pretty much everyone sees that one coming from a mile away.
More interesting are the moments that do what great "Star Wars" movies have done best â reveal hidden depths in characters. Such is the case when we see Kylo Ren 's anguished face as he contemplates following up his patricide in the previous film by murdering his mother (although a recent interview by Mark Hamill suggests General Leia will survive). Or when we see Rey being tortured (perhaps by the newly revealed Snoke?) her body and face contorted in terrible pain. Or when we hear a tormented Luke Skywalker implore an unknown listener to recognize "This is not going to go the way you think!"
Most powerful of all: When Rey says "I need someone to show me my place in all this " and Kylo Ren offers an outstretched hand. | Of course the trailer includes an ominous monologue about "raw untamed power" (presumably from Supreme Leader Snoke to [TGT] ) and later Luke Skywalker warning Rey that the "raw strength" she possesses didn't scare him enough when he saw it in the past (presumably with [TGT] ) but "it does now."
Yes we get it. [TGT] and Rey are both super-powerful with the Force and likely have some hidden connection. Pretty much everyone sees that one coming from a mile away.
More interesting are the moments that do what great "Star Wars" movies have done best â reveal hidden depths in characters. Such is the case when we see [TGT] 's anguished face as he contemplates following up his patricide in the previous film by murdering his mother (although a recent interview by Mark Hamill suggests General Leia will survive). Or when we see Rey being tortured (perhaps by the newly revealed Snoke?) her body and face contorted in terrible pain. Or when we hear a tormented Luke Skywalker implore an unknown listener to recognize "This is not going to go the way you think!"
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2,090 | All The Simpsons Predictions That Came True | Lisa | Autocorrect Fails Season 6 Episode 8: Lisa on Ice Predicted: 1994 Came true: 2007 During a Springfield Elementary School assembly Kearney asks fellow bully Dolph to take a memo to âBeat up Martinâ on his âNewtonâ â Appleâs early attempt at a personal digital assistant. However the machine translates the message into âEat up Marthaâ instead foreshadowing the common messaging errors people blame on iPhoneâs autocorrect technology. In fact Nitin Ganatra Appleâs former director of engineering for iOS applications revealed in 2013 that the Simpsonsâ gag served as a rallying cry while developing the software for the iPhoneâs keyboard. âIf you heard people talking and they used the words âEat up Martha â it was basically a reference to the fact that we needed to nail the keyboard. We needed to make sure the text input works on this thing otherwise âHere comes the Eat up Marthas 'â he told Fast Company.
FaceTime Season 6 Episode 19: Lisaâs Wedding Predicted: 1995 Came true: 2010 In this futuristic installment Lisa talks with Marge using her phoneâs video chat capabilities predating the popular FaceTime feature of todayâs iPhones by 15 years.
Smartwatches Season 6 Episode 19: Lisaâs Wedding Predicted:1995 Came true: 2014 When Lisa visits a fortune-teller at a renaissance fair viewers are transported 15 years into the future to 2010 â a time when wristwatch communication technology exists. However even the Simpsonsâ future society was a little ahead of its time as modern voice recognition-enabled smartwatches werenât rolled out until 2014.
America's Ebola Outbreak Season 9 Episode 3: Lisaâs Sax Predicted: 1997 Came true: 2014 This installment saw Marge offer to read a depressed Bart a book titled Curious George and the Ebola Virus. This moment was widely circulated during the 2014 American Ebola outbreak when YouTube user Thecontroversy7 created a video laying out a theory revolving around The Simpsonsâ predictive tendencies.
The Nobel Prize Season 22 Episode 1: Elementary School Musical Predicted: 2010 Came true: 2016 Bengt Holmström may not have won the Nobel Prize in Economics until 2016 but one Simpsons character was betting on him six years prior. In a scene from the season 22 premiere in which Martin holds up a scorecard depicting his Nobel Prize betting pool with Lisa Milhouse and Database the MIT professor is clearly marked in one of Milhouseâs squares.
Donald Trump's Presidency Season 11 Episode 17: Bart to the Future Predicted: 2000 Came true: 2016 When Bart flashes forward into adulthood viewers learn that Lisa not only becomes president but inherits âquite a budget crunchâ from her predecessor Donald Trump. âThe country is broke? â she asks her aides in one scene. âHow can that be?â At the time the real Trump presidency was still 16 years away. However in a 2016 interview with The Hollywood Reporter writer Dan Greaney explained the joke was meant as a warning to the country. âThat just seemed like the logical last stop before hitting bottom â he said. âIt was pitched because it was consistent with the vision of America going insane.
Lady Gaga's Halftime Show Season 23 Episode 22: Lisa Goes Gaga Predicted: 2012 Came true: 2017 Nearly five years before Lady Gaga descended from the roof of Houstonâs NRG Stadium for the halftime show of Super Bowl LI her Simpsons doppelgänger performed a song for the residents of Springfield while suspended in the air. The two Mother Monsters even wore similar silver ensembles for their shows. | Autocorrect Fails Season 6 Episode 8: Lisa on Ice Predicted: 1994 Came true: 2007 During a Springfield Elementary School assembly Kearney asks fellow bully Dolph to take a memo to âBeat up Martinâ on his âNewtonâ â Appleâs early attempt at a personal digital assistant. However the machine translates the message into âEat up Marthaâ instead foreshadowing the common messaging errors people blame on iPhoneâs autocorrect technology. In fact Nitin Ganatra Appleâs former director of engineering for iOS applications revealed in 2013 that the Simpsonsâ gag served as a rallying cry while developing the software for the iPhoneâs keyboard. âIf you heard people talking and they used the words âEat up Martha â it was basically a reference to the fact that we needed to nail the keyboard. We needed to make sure the text input works on this thing otherwise âHere comes the Eat up Marthas 'â he told Fast Company.
FaceTime Season 6 Episode 19: Lisaâs Wedding Predicted: 1995 Came true: 2010 In this futuristic installment [TGT] talks with Marge using her phoneâs video chat capabilities predating the popular FaceTime feature of todayâs iPhones by 15 years.
Smartwatches Season 6 Episode 19: Lisaâs Wedding Predicted:1995 Came true: 2014 When [TGT] visits a fortune-teller at a renaissance fair viewers are transported 15 years into the future to 2010 â a time when wristwatch communication technology exists. However even the Simpsonsâ future society was a little ahead of its time as modern voice recognition-enabled smartwatches werenât rolled out until 2014.
America's Ebola Outbreak Season 9 Episode 3: Lisaâs Sax Predicted: 1997 Came true: 2014 This installment saw Marge offer to read a depressed Bart a book titled Curious George and the Ebola Virus. This moment was widely circulated during the 2014 American Ebola outbreak when YouTube user Thecontroversy7 created a video laying out a theory revolving around The Simpsonsâ predictive tendencies.
The Nobel Prize Season 22 Episode 1: Elementary School Musical Predicted: 2010 Came true: 2016 Bengt Holmström may not have won the Nobel Prize in Economics until 2016 but one Simpsons character was betting on him six years prior. In a scene from the season 22 premiere in which Martin holds up a scorecard depicting his Nobel Prize betting pool with Lisa Milhouse and Database the MIT professor is clearly marked in one of Milhouseâs squares.
Donald Trump's Presidency Season 11 Episode 17: Bart to the Future Predicted: 2000 Came true: 2016 When Bart flashes forward into adulthood viewers learn that [TGT] not only becomes president but inherits âquite a budget crunchâ from [TGT] predecessor Donald Trump. âThe country is broke? â [TGT] asks [TGT] aides in one scene. âHow can that be?â At the time the real Trump presidency was still 16 years away. However in a 2016 interview with The Hollywood Reporter writer Dan Greaney explained the joke was meant as a warning to the country. âThat just seemed like the logical last stop before hitting bottom â he said. âIt was pitched because it was consistent with the vision of America going insane.
Lady Gaga's Halftime Show Season 23 Episode 22: Lisa Goes Gaga Predicted: 2012 Came true: 2017 Nearly five years before Lady Gaga descended from the roof of Houstonâs NRG Stadium for the halftime show of Super Bowl LI her Simpsons doppelgänger performed a song for the residents of Springfield while suspended in the air. The two Mother Monsters even wore similar silver ensembles for their shows. | 2Positive
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2,091 | Erik Gustafsson hopes patience pays off with Blackhawks | Erik Gustafsson | The wait is over for Erik Gustafsson .
Gustafsson played Saturday night against the Islanders his first game on the ice in a Hawks sweater since he was recalled from Rockford on Jan. 9.
He made his presence felt early getting credit for the primary assist on Patrick Kaneâs goal all of 1 minute 1 second into the game.
Attached to the opportunity his first in the NHL since he played 41 games and registered 14 assists with the Hawks in 2015-16 are expectations and hopes that he can become a regular part of the rotation.
The 25-year-old said he planned to make every minute of ice time count.
âI want to play every game and help the team make the playoffs â he said before Saturdayâs game. âIf it's 10 or 20 minutes today we'll just see. I'll do my best and we'll see what happens.â
What Gustafsson saw next to him in his first NHL game since April 9 2016 was a familiar face in Brent Seabrook.
The two played 296 minutes over 35 games together two seasons ago by far the most ice time Gustafsson spent with any teammate.
â He came with a good attitude wanted to get back here and had a good stretch in the minors â Hawks coach Joel Quenneville said. âGives us some offense on the back end likes to join in likes to jump into it. Defensively he âs been fine as well.â
One-timers: Center Artem Anisimov who practiced Friday for the first time since he was placed on injured reserve Dec. 29 with an upper-body injury did not play Saturday but could return Monday against the Lightning. He has 13 goals and five assists in 36 games. ⦠Patrick Kane is the only Hawk selected to play in the All-Star Game but he wonât be the only Hawk going to the Jan. 28 game in Tampa Fla. Head trainer Mike Gapski and assistant trainer Jeff Thomas were selected to be on the training staff for the game. | The wait is over for [TGT] .
[TGT] played Saturday night against the Islanders [TGT] first game on the ice in a Hawks sweater since [TGT] was recalled from Rockford on Jan. 9.
[TGT] made [TGT] presence felt early getting credit for the primary assist on Patrick Kaneâs goal all of 1 minute 1 second into the game.
Attached to the opportunity his first in the NHL since he played 41 games and registered 14 assists with the Hawks in 2015-16 are expectations and hopes that he can become a regular part of the rotation.
The 25-year-old said he planned to make every minute of ice time count.
âI want to play every game and help the team make the playoffs â he said before Saturdayâs game. âIf it's 10 or 20 minutes today we'll just see. I'll do my best and we'll see what happens.â
What Gustafsson saw next to him in his first NHL game since April 9 2016 was a familiar face in Brent Seabrook.
The two played 296 minutes over 35 games together two seasons ago by far the most ice time Gustafsson spent with any teammate.
â He came with a good attitude wanted to get back here and had a good stretch in the minors â Hawks coach Joel Quenneville said. âGives us some offense on the back end likes to join in likes to jump into it. Defensively he âs been fine as well.â
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2,092 | The Latest: Chen completes 6 quads in Olympic free skate | Nathan Chen | American figure skater Nathan Chen has rallied from a fiasco of a short program with a historic free skate at the Pyeongchang Olympics that included an unparalleled six completed quadruple jumps.
Chen was guaranteed to rocket up the standings with a 297.35 total perhaps into the top 10.
Vincent Zhou has been overshadowed during the Pyeongchang Olympics by teammates Adam Rippon and Nathan Chen.
But the youngest member of the U.S. figure skating team is smart and funny. And after a terrific short program he has a chance to finish in the top 10 at the Winter Games.
The openly gay Adam Rippon has become a media darling combining excellent skating to help the U.S. win team bronze with an unfiltered approach to interviews. The talented Nathan Chen had been tipped as a gold medal favorite until everything went awry during his short program.
Together they had held the spotlight until Zhou landed the first quad lutz in an Olympic event and put together the best short program of his career to briefly take the lead.
He wound up 12th among 30 skaters easily qualifying for the free skate.
American skater Nathan Chen is trying to bounce back from a dreadful performance that left him well out of medal contention. His teammates Adam Rippon and Vincent Zhou are also in action. | American figure skater Nathan Chen has rallied from a fiasco of a short program with a historic free skate at the Pyeongchang Olympics that included an unparalleled six completed quadruple jumps.
Chen was guaranteed to rocket up the standings with a 297.35 total perhaps into the top 10.
Vincent Zhou has been overshadowed during the Pyeongchang Olympics by teammates Adam Rippon and Nathan Chen.
But the youngest member of the U.S. figure skating team is smart and funny. And after a terrific short program he has a chance to finish in the top 10 at the Winter Games.
The openly gay Adam Rippon has become a media darling combining excellent skating to help the U.S. win team bronze with an unfiltered approach to interviews. [TGT] had been tipped as a gold medal favorite until everything went awry during [TGT] short program.
Together they had held the spotlight until Zhou landed the first quad lutz in an Olympic event and put together the best short program of [TGT] career to briefly take the lead.
[TGT] wound up 12th among 30 skaters easily qualifying for the free skate.
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2,093 | Report: Iran's Former President Arrested For Inciting Unrest » Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind! | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | The London-based Arabic daily newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi reports this morning that former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been arrested by security forces for allegedly inciting unrest against the government according to âreliable sources in Tehran.â
Starting in November 2017 Ahmadinejad began making what was widely viewed as a surprise political comeback while running a populist message focusing on the fight against corruption as his main emphasis and attacking the rich and corrupt along with severe criticisms against the government for squandering public funding intended for the peopleâs welfare. Heâs also reported to have broadly utilized social media for aggressive rhetoric targeting the judiciary and challenging Iranâs supreme leader.
Al Quds Al Arabi cites Ahmadinejad âs visit to the western city of Bushehr on December 28 as raising concern among authorities. That particular Thursday is when large-scale protests were first reported primarily starting in Mashhad Iranâs second largest city. He is reported to have said âSome of the current leaders live detached from the problems and concerns of the people and do not know anything about the reality of society.â He also allegedly charged Tehran with âmismanagementâ and directed attacks against President Hassan Rouhani saying his regime âbelieves that they own the land and that the people are an ignorant society.â
Previously this week there were rumors that his arrest was coming amidst an ongoing investigation as multiple regional and international reports cited a commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as indicating that âa former leader of the countryâ had provoked people to protest. Al Quds Al Arabi is currently describing Ahmadinejad âs detention as a âhouse arrestâ.
It is possible that this latest news of Ahmadinejad âs arrest on charges of incitement however could renew mass anti-government protests. | The London-based Arabic daily newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi reports this morning that [TGT] has been arrested by security forces for allegedly inciting unrest against the government according to âreliable sources in Tehran.â
Starting in November 2017 [TGT] began making what was widely viewed as a surprise political comeback while running a populist message focusing on the fight against corruption as [TGT] main emphasis and attacking the rich and corrupt along with severe criticisms against the government for squandering public funding intended for the peopleâs welfare. Heâs also reported to have broadly utilized social media for aggressive rhetoric targeting the judiciary and challenging Iranâs supreme leader.
Al Quds Al Arabi cites [TGT] âs visit to the western city of Bushehr on December 28 as raising concern among authorities. That particular Thursday is when large-scale protests were first reported primarily starting in Mashhad Iranâs second largest city. [TGT] is reported to have said âSome of the current leaders live detached from the problems and concerns of the people and do not know anything about the reality of society.â [TGT] also allegedly charged Tehran with âmismanagementâ and directed attacks against President Hassan Rouhani saying his regime âbelieves that they own the land and that the people are an ignorant society.â
Previously this week there were rumors that [TGT] arrest was coming amidst an ongoing investigation as multiple regional and international reports cited a commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as indicating that âa former leader of the countryâ had provoked people to protest. Al Quds Al Arabi is currently describing [TGT] âs detention as a âhouse arrestâ.
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2,094 | A curious little kitten is really invested in learning about pottery | William Jeffrey Jones | A post shared by William Jeffrey Jones (@wjeffjones) on Aug 28 2017 at 12:47am PDT
The cat looks fascinated by the pottery and William Jeffrey Jones as he works on sculpting a new mug.
The duo also have other videos of them working on pottery around the studio.
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"Oh man... I'm so bummed. I need a hug." #potterycat #kitten #kittenvideo #catvideo #catvideos A post shared by William Jeffrey Jones (@wjeffjones) on Sep 19 2017 at 2:10pm PDT | A post shared by [TGT]
The cat looks fascinated by the pottery and William Jeffrey Jones as [TGT] works on sculpting a new mug.
The duo also have other videos of them working on pottery around the studio.
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2,095 | '13 Reasons Why' Author Jay Asher Out of Literary Org After Allegations | Jay Asher | Author Jay Asher who wrote the novel âThirteen Reasons Whyâ that was later adapted into a Netflix original series was reportedly expelled from the Society of Childrenâs Book Writers and Illustrators late last year after allegations that he sexually harassed women in the group.
Executive director of the group Lin Oliver told BuzzFeed that Asher âs membership was terminated after an investigation into anonymous email complaints about his behavior. She did not say how many complaints there were against Asher or when he had been removed specifically.
âAfter we investigated we felt that terminating his membership was the proper course of action â Oliver told BuzzFeed on Monday.
Asher however told BuzzFeed he left the organization on his own and that he had been harassed by unspecified individuals there for âclose to 10 yearsâ and âcould not deal with it anymore.â
Asher also claims the SCBWI told him at the time that the emails âshowed nothing â BuzzFeed reported.
Asher âs removal had not come up publicly until Sunday when anonymous comments naming him as a sexual harasser were posted in response to an article published in the School Library Journal about sexual harassment in the childrenâs publishing industry BuzzFeed reported.
The article itself did not name Asher Vanity Fair pointed out. No specific details about actions by Asher were given. | Author Jay Asher who wrote the novel âThirteen Reasons Whyâ that was later adapted into a Netflix original series was reportedly expelled from the Society of Childrenâs Book Writers and Illustrators late last year after allegations that he sexually harassed women in the group.
Executive director of the group Lin Oliver told BuzzFeed that Asher âs membership was terminated after an investigation into anonymous email complaints about his behavior. She did not say how many complaints there were against Asher or when [TGT] had been removed specifically.
âAfter we investigated we felt that terminating [TGT] membership was the proper course of action â Oliver told BuzzFeed on Monday.
Asher however told BuzzFeed he left the organization on his own and that he had been harassed by unspecified individuals there for âclose to 10 yearsâ and âcould not deal with it anymore.â
Asher also claims the SCBWI told him at the time that the emails âshowed nothing â BuzzFeed reported.
Asher âs removal had not come up publicly until Sunday when anonymous comments naming him as a sexual harasser were posted in response to an article published in the School Library Journal about sexual harassment in the childrenâs publishing industry BuzzFeed reported.
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2,096 | Dusty Baker offers hitless Trea Turner some words of wisdom before Game 4 | Trea Turner | Trea Turner is 0 for 12 through three playoff games. (Stacy Revere/Getty Images)
CHICAGO â Dusty Baker had a long talk with Trea Turner Tuesday morning before Game 4 of the National League Division Series between the Nationals and Cubs was rained out. The conversation with his struggling 24-year-old shortstop veered into a history lesson. Baker told him of the time Orlando Cepeda then the MVP struggled in the playoffs. He recalled Dave Winfield another Hall of Famer once had a terrible World Series. He told him of his personal struggles of the time he hurt his hand in a fight before the 1981 World Series couldnât swing a bat and played anyway.
Turner isnât a Hall of Famer or even an all-star yet but Bakerâs impetus for a chat is clear: Turner is the Nationalsâ energizer bunny and his struggles are crippling their offense. The Nationals hoped Turner âs speed would disrupt the Cubs who have a couple of pitchers notorious for their inability to control the running game. But Turner hasnât reached base in the playoffs yet. Through three NLDS games he âs 0 for 12 with five strikeouts including one with the bases loaded in Game 2. As Turner has said you canât steal first base. His game-changing speed has been wasted.
âI havenât been nervous for a pitch this series â Turner said. âIâm focusing on ways to contribute to the team. Play some defense. If I can get on base thatâd be great but I havenât so I got to focus on other things and focus on my teammates be a good teammate and hopefully we can turn this thing around.â
After Game 3 Monday Turner said he âs made small adjustments âhere and thereâ at the plate in the series to break through and put his speed to use. He nearly did in his final at-bat in the eighth inning Monday but Cubs second baseman Ben Zobrist made a diving stop on a groundball 79 mph off Turnerâs bat.
âThings still gotta go your way â Turner said. âYou still gotta find holes. Even if you hit the ball hard you got to find the holes. Things arenât going my way.â
If the lineup Baker unveiled for Game 4 Tuesday before it was postponed is any indication Turner will have another chance atop the lineup again Wednesday against Jake Arrieta who couldnât contain Turner when they clashed in June in Washington. Turner singled in his first plate appearance and walked in his second against Arrieta. Each time he promptly stole second and third base for four steals in three innings. Arrieta would allow six runs (five earned) and walk six batters in just four innings.
After the game Cubs catcher Miguel Montero criticized Arrieta whose delivery makes him susceptible to base stealers for his inability to neutralize Turner on the base paths. Arrieta agreed with Monteroâs assessment but Montero was designated for assignment anyway. So Montero wonât catch Wednesday. Itâll be Willson Contreras who boasts one of the strongest arms behind the plate in baseball and picked Turner off first base in the first game of that four-game series back in June.
But base runners Baker always says steal bases off pitchers not catchers. Turner could wreak havoc again and spark a Nationals offense hitting .121 through three games and on the brink of elimination. He just needs to get on base first. | [TGT] is 0 for 12 through three playoff games. (Stacy Revere/Getty Images)
CHICAGO â Dusty Baker had a long talk with [TGT] Tuesday morning before Game 4 of the National League Division Series between the Nationals and Cubs was rained out. The conversation with his struggling 24-year-old shortstop veered into a history lesson. Baker told him of the time Orlando Cepeda then the MVP struggled in the playoffs. He recalled Dave Winfield another Hall of Famer once had a terrible World Series. He told him of his personal struggles of the time he hurt his hand in a fight before the 1981 World Series couldnât swing a bat and played anyway.
[TGT] isnât a Hall of Famer or even an all-star yet but Bakerâs impetus for a chat is clear: [TGT] is the Nationalsâ energizer bunny and [TGT] struggles are crippling their offense. The Nationals hoped [TGT] âs speed would disrupt the Cubs who have a couple of pitchers notorious for their inability to control the running game. But [TGT] hasnât reached base in the playoffs yet. Through three NLDS games he âs 0 for 12 with five strikeouts including one with the bases loaded in Game 2. As [TGT] has said you canât steal first base. [TGT] game-changing speed has been wasted.
âI havenât been nervous for a pitch this series â [TGT] said. âIâm focusing on ways to contribute to the team. Play some defense. If I can get on base thatâd be great but I havenât so I got to focus on other things and focus on my teammates be a good teammate and hopefully we can turn this thing around.â
After Game 3 Monday Turner said he âs made small adjustments âhere and thereâ at the plate in the series to break through and put his speed to use. He nearly did in his final at-bat in the eighth inning Monday but Cubs second baseman Ben Zobrist made a diving stop on a groundball 79 mph off Turnerâs bat.
âThings still gotta go your way â [TGT] said. âYou still gotta find holes. Even if you hit the ball hard you got to find the holes. Things arenât going my way.â
If the lineup Baker unveiled for Game 4 Tuesday before it was postponed is any indication [TGT] will have another chance atop the lineup again Wednesday against Jake Arrieta who couldnât contain [TGT] when they clashed in June in Washington. [TGT] singled in [TGT] first plate appearance and walked in [TGT] second against Arrieta. Each time [TGT] promptly stole second and third base for four steals in three innings. Arrieta would allow six runs (five earned) and walk six batters in just four innings.
After the game Cubs catcher Miguel Montero criticized Arrieta whose delivery makes him susceptible to base stealers for his inability to neutralize [TGT] on the base paths. Arrieta agreed with Monteroâs assessment but Montero was designated for assignment anyway. So Montero wonât catch Wednesday. Itâll be Willson Contreras who boasts one of the strongest arms behind the plate in baseball and picked [TGT] off first base in the first game of that four-game series back in June.
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2,097 | Mike Pence's chief of staff wants to 'purge' Republicans who won't unite behind Trump Business Insider | Nick Ayers | caption Then-Republican political strategists Nick Ayers left and Kellyanne Conway right arrive at Trump Tower December 8 2016 in New York City. source Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Mike Penceâs chief of staff Nick Ayers on Tuesday pushed wealthy donors to unite against Republicans in Congress who oppose Donald Trumpâs agenda advising them to âpurgeâ the small contingent of GOP leaders impeding the implementation of the presidentâs campaign promises.
According to an audio recording of the event obtained by Politico Ayers departed from Mike Penceâs generally conciliatory public tone at a closed-door Republican National Committee event at the St. Regis Hotel in Washington and urged a more aggressive funding strategy.
âJust imagine the possibilities of what can happen if our entire party unifies behind him?â Ayers told donors. âIf â and this sounds crass â we can purge the handful of people who continue to work to defeat him.â
Ayers warned donors that unless they pull funding from anti-Trump Republican leaders and threaten to recruit primary candidates to challenge them the Republican party will be âon track to get shellackedâ in the 2018 midterm elections. While Ayers was pessimistic about the GOPâs ability to pass comprehensive tax reform he maintained that going into the elections without having passed at least one major legislative goal would be a âsuicide mission.â | caption [TGT] left and Kellyanne Conway right arrive at Trump Tower December 8 2016 in New York City. source Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Mike Penceâs chief of staff [TGT] on Tuesday pushed wealthy donors to unite against Republicans in Congress who oppose Donald Trumpâs agenda advising them to âpurgeâ the small contingent of GOP leaders impeding the implementation of the presidentâs campaign promises.
According to an audio recording of the event obtained by Politico Ayers departed from Mike Penceâs generally conciliatory public tone at a closed-door Republican National Committee event at the St. Regis Hotel in Washington and urged a more aggressive funding strategy.
âJust imagine the possibilities of what can happen if our entire party unifies behind him?â Ayers told donors. âIf â and this sounds crass â we can purge the handful of people who continue to work to defeat him.â
Ayers warned donors that unless they pull funding from anti-Trump Republican leaders and threaten to recruit primary candidates to challenge them the Republican party will be âon track to get shellackedâ in the 2018 midterm elections. While Ayers was pessimistic about the GOPâs ability to pass comprehensive tax reform he maintained that going into the elections without having passed at least one major legislative goal would be a âsuicide mission.â | 1Neutral
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2,098 | Kip Moore Covers Tom Petty : See 'Learning to Fly' | Tom Petty | It's hard to hear Kip Moore's emotional songs telling tales from the American heartland and not immediately think of Tom Petty . And indeed Petty is one of Moore's treasured influences listed himself as up there with some of country's greatest icons. "I've never been driven by having number one songs " Moore told Rolling Stone Country this summer. "I look to Petty Merle Haggard."
Related Tom Petty 's 50 Greatest Songs His hits have defined rock radio since the Seventies and he never stopped writing great music. Here's the definitive guide to his best songs
Petty died Monday after suffering cardiac arrest age at 66 and Moore abroad on tour in the UK worked up a cover of Petty's "Learning to Fly" on stage at the Ritz Manchester on Tuesday. Stripped down and full of Moore's raspy belt the parallels to his newest LP Slowheart are clear. Like Petty he 's a rocker at heart with a keen understanding of the small town American soul.
Moore also took to his Instagram yesterday to further discuss Petty's legacy. " Tom Petty influenced so many in music and I was definitely one of those " he wrote. "My buddy Tom Pritchett turned me on to his music when I was about 15. He had a low riding Honda prelude that had a stereo system I've yet to see matched and he would crank this song as loud as it would go... we felt like kings riding those back roads and Petty was the reason for that feeling."
A dedicated fan Moore's been covering Petty for years: he's also offered live versions of "Free Fallin'" and "I Won't Back Down." | It's hard to hear Kip Moore's emotional songs telling tales from the American heartland and not immediately think of [TGT] . And indeed [TGT] is one of Moore's treasured influences listed [TGT] as up there with some of country's greatest icons. "I've never been driven by having number one songs " Moore told Rolling Stone Country this summer. "I look to Petty Merle Haggard."
Related Tom Petty 's 50 Greatest Songs His hits have defined rock radio since the Seventies and he never stopped writing great music. Here's the definitive guide to his best songs
[TGT] died Monday after suffering cardiac arrest age at 66 and Moore abroad on tour in the UK worked up a cover of Petty's "Learning to Fly" on stage at the Ritz Manchester on Tuesday. Stripped down and full of Moore's raspy belt the parallels to his newest LP Slowheart are clear. Like Petty he 's a rocker at heart with a keen understanding of the small town American soul.
Moore also took to his Instagram yesterday to further discuss Petty's legacy. " [TGT] influenced so many in music and I was definitely one of those " [TGT] wrote. "My buddy Tom Pritchett turned me on to his music when I was about 15. He had a low riding Honda prelude that had a stereo system I've yet to see matched and he would crank this song as loud as it would go... we felt like kings riding those back roads and [TGT] was the reason for that feeling."
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2,099 | Pennsylvania Steel Region Divided On Trump's Unexpected New Tariff Policy : NPR | Ryan Costello | We're gathering different points of view about this all weekend and we're going to start with Congressman Ryan Costello . He is a Republican. He 's in his second term representing Pennsylvania's 6th District which is northwest of Philadelphia. You might remember that reviving the steel industry was one of President Trump's campaign promises and that's one of the factors cited in Mr. Trump's victory in Pennsylvania in the 2016 election. But he didn't win Mr. Costello 's district where Hillary Clinton won narrowly.
And Congressman Costello is with us now. Congressman thanks so much for speaking with us.
RYAN COSTELLO : Great to be with you. Strange bedfellows is an apt description for sure.
COSTELLO : On the circumference of it yes. Additionally - little known fact - the only domestic keg company in the country is in my district. And I spoke with them yesterday and they are extremely happy with the decision because of what the price of aluminum from China is. So there's a lot of crosscurrents in terms of who supports this as well as - some who would normally support the president's economic policies have very deep-seated concerns over it.
COSTELLO : Well this is certainly doubling down to those who supported him . And he 's consistent here with whom he is looking out for. It does remain to be seen what the actual policy is. This is - this could - may at the moment be similar to withdrawal of the Paris accord - right? - which pleased his supporters but has not yet happened. So it remains to be seen formally what steps are taken.
MARTIN: That's Representative Ryan Costello . He represents the 6th District of Pennsylvania. We reached him in Chester County. Congressman thanks so much for speaking with us.
COSTELLO : Thank you. Have a good day. | We're gathering different points of view about this all weekend and we're going to start with [TGT] . [TGT] is a Republican. [TGT] 's in [TGT] second term representing Pennsylvania's 6th District which is northwest of Philadelphia. You might remember that reviving the steel industry was one of President Trump's campaign promises and that's one of the factors cited in Mr. Trump's victory in Pennsylvania in the 2016 election. But he didn't win [TGT] 's district where Hillary Clinton won narrowly.
And [TGT] is with us now. Congressman thanks so much for speaking with us.
RYAN [TGT] : Great to be with [TGT] . Strange bedfellows is an apt description for sure.
[TGT] : On the circumference of it yes. Additionally - little known fact - the only domestic keg company in the country is in my district. And I spoke with them yesterday and they are extremely happy with the decision because of what the price of aluminum from China is. So there's a lot of crosscurrents in terms of who supports this as well as - some who would normally support the president's economic policies have very deep-seated concerns over it.
[TGT] : Well this is certainly doubling down to those who supported him . And he 's consistent here with whom he is looking out for. It does remain to be seen what the actual policy is. This is - this could - may at the moment be similar to withdrawal of the Paris accord - right? - which pleased his supporters but has not yet happened. So it remains to be seen formally what steps are taken.
MARTIN: That's Representative Ryan Costello . He represents the 6th District of Pennsylvania. We reached him in Chester County. Congressman thanks so much for speaking with us.
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2,100 | 'The Martian' Started As A Self | Andy Weir | The movie that was nominated for several Oscars began as a self-published book by Andy Weir . NPR's Lynn Neary looks at how an unknown author's book became a hit audio book and major motion picture.
Self-published authors often dream of snagging a big contract with a major publishing house. But after Andy Weir 's self-published "The Martian" online its next stop was not print. Instead it got picked up by a small Canadian audiobook company. Of course it was eventually made into a movie and nominated for multiple Oscars. We 'll find out tomorrow night how many it wins. NPR's Lynn Neary has our story.
LYNN NEARY BYLINE: When Podium Publishing discovered "The Martian " it was a new and very small audiobook company. Andy Weir was a complete unknown.
GREG LAWRENCE: When we talked to Andy Weir when I talked to him on the phone he'd never spoken with a publisher before.
NEARY: Tonn had to be persuaded to read the book. But once he did he was on board. And Podium reached out to the author. Andy Weir says it had never occurred to him to pitch his book to a publishing company. And it didn't bother him at all that he was being approached by an audiobook publisher.
ANDY WEIR: I was surprised that anyone was interested. Remember at this time I didn't think that the book would have any mainstream appeal. So I thought it was just - oh you know it's just a book you know by a dork for dorks.
NEARY: The growing popularity of Weir 's self-published book also caught the attention of Random House which wanted to make a deal for "The Martian." But Weir says there was one small problem. By then he already had a contract with Podium.
WEIR : The contract basically said I couldn't make a print edition of the book. So when Random House started expressing an interest thankfully the guys at Podium were just like oh sure we'll let you buy that back.
NEARY: Podium Publishing said Greg Lawrence has never had any regrets about its decision to revert the rights back to Weir .
NEARY: One immediate benefit - both contracts required Andy Weir to take down the online version of the book. And that says Weir gave the audiobook a big sales boost.
WEIR : For about six or eight months or something like that there was no version of "The Martian" available at all other than the audiobook. So I think everybody won.
NEARY: There have been one more than 100 000 reviews of the audio version of "The Martian " on audible.com. And Andy Weir says he 's made more money from the audiobook than he has from the movie. Lynn Neary NPR News Washington. | The movie that was nominated for several Oscars began as a self-published book by [TGT] . NPR's Lynn Neary looks at how an unknown author's book became a hit audio book and major motion picture.
Self-published authors often dream of snagging a big contract with a major publishing house. But after [TGT] . Instead [TGT] got picked up by a small Canadian audiobook company. Of course [TGT] was eventually made into a movie and nominated for multiple Oscars. [TGT] 'll find out tomorrow night how many it wins. NPR's Lynn Neary has [TGT] story.
LYNN NEARY BYLINE: When Podium Publishing discovered "The Martian " it was a new and very small audiobook company. [TGT] was a complete unknown.
GREG LAWRENCE: When we talked to [TGT] when I talked to him on the phone he'd never spoken with a publisher before.
NEARY: Tonn had to be persuaded to read the book. But once he did he was on board. And Podium reached out to the author. [TGT] says it had never occurred to him to pitch his book to a publishing company. And it didn't bother him at all that he was being approached by an audiobook publisher.
ANDY [TGT] : I was surprised that anyone was interested. Remember at this time I didn't think that the book would have any mainstream appeal. So I thought it was just - oh you know it's just a book you know by a dork for dorks.
NEARY: The growing popularity of [TGT] 's self-published book also caught the attention of Random House which wanted to make a deal for "The Martian." But [TGT] says there was one small problem. By then he already had a contract with Podium.
[TGT] : The contract basically said I couldn't make a print edition of the book. So when Random House started expressing an interest thankfully the guys at Podium were just like oh sure we'll let you buy that back.
NEARY: Podium Publishing said Greg Lawrence has never had any regrets about its decision to revert the rights back to Weir .
NEARY: One immediate benefit - both contracts required [TGT] to take down the online version of the book. And that says [TGT] gave the audiobook a big sales boost.
[TGT] : For about six or eight months or something like that there was no version of "The Martian" available at all other than the audiobook. So I think everybody won.
NEARY: There have been one more than 100 000 reviews of the audio version of "The Martian " on audible.com. And [TGT] says he 's made more money from the audiobook than he has from the movie. Lynn Neary NPR News Washington. | 1Neutral
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| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
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