DOCUMENT_INDEX
int64 1
3.36k
| TITLE
stringlengths 0
195
| TARGET_ENTITY
stringlengths 2
37
| DOCUMENT
stringlengths 14
50.1k
| MASKED_DOCUMENT
stringlengths 8
49.7k
| TRUE_SENTIMENT
class label 3
classes | Paragraph0
class label 3
classes | Paragraph1
class label 3
classes | Paragraph2
class label 3
classes | Paragraph3
class label 3
classes | Paragraph4
class label 3
classes | Paragraph5
class label 3
classes | Paragraph6
class label 3
classes | Paragraph7
class label 3
classes | Paragraph8
class label 3
classes | Paragraph9
class label 3
classes | Paragraph10
class label 3
classes | Paragraph11
class label 3
classes | Paragraph12
class label 3
classes | Paragraph13
class label 3
classes | Paragraph14
class label 3
classes | Paragraph15
class label 3
classes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2,101 |
Steppenwolf Theatre selling nearby real estate to fund campus expansion
|
Anne-Marie St. Germaine
|
The next phase of Steppenwolfâs ongoing $73 million capital campaign includes plans to invest $50 million on a new theater building Steppenwolf spokeswoman Anne-Marie St. Germaine said.
She declined to say how much the developers plan to pay for Yondorf Hall. The real estate sale will help pay for the new building with a 400-seat theater which will replace the 299-seat Upstairs Theatre on its main campus St. Germaine said. Steppenwolf also has theaters with 515 and 80 seats.
As part of the sale-leaseback deal Steppenwolf will pay rent to keep using Yondorf for three years St. Germaine said.
The Fey & Co. jewelry store has a long-term lease to remain on the ground floor of the existing building St. Germaine said. Itâs unclear what CA Ventures and Springbank plan to do with upper floors after Steppenwolf moves out. The developers were not available for comment.
|
The next phase of Steppenwolfâs ongoing $73 million capital campaign includes plans to invest $50 million on a new theater building [TGT] said.
[TGT] declined to say how much the developers plan to pay for Yondorf Hall. The real estate sale will help pay for the new building with a 400-seat theater which will replace the 299-seat Upstairs Theatre on its main campus St. Germaine said. Steppenwolf also has theaters with 515 and 80 seats.
As part of the sale-leaseback deal Steppenwolf will pay rent to keep using Yondorf for three years St. Germaine said.
The Fey & Co. jewelry store has a long-term lease to remain on the ground floor of the existing building St. Germaine said. Itâs unclear what CA Ventures and Springbank plan to do with upper floors after Steppenwolf moves out. The developers were not available for comment.
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,102 |
U.S. seeks to boost case against Iran with U.N. Washington visit
|
Nikki Haley
|
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States will seek to boost its case for United Nations action against Iran when Security Council envoys visit Washington on Monday to view pieces of weapons that U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley says Tehran gave to Yemenâs Houthi group.
Haley and her 14 council colleagues will also lunch with President Donald Trump the U.S. Mission to the United Nations said Friday.
The U.N. ambassadors will visit a military hangar at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling near Washington where Haley the U.S envoy to the United Nations last month presented remnants of what the Pentagon said was an Iranian-made ballistic missile fired from Yemen on Nov. 4 at Saudi Arabiaâs capital Riyadh as well as other weapons.
Haley said last month she was exploring several U.N. options for pressuring Iran to âadjust their behaviorâ. But she is likely to struggle to convince some Security Council members like veto powers Russia and China that U.N. action is needed.
Haley has said the Security Council could strengthen the provisions in that resolution or adopt a new resolution banning Iran from all activities related to ballistic missiles. To pass a resolution needs nine votes in favor and no vetoes by the United States Britain France China or Russia.
Diplomats speaking on condition of anonymity say Haley has not signaled which accountability option she might pursue or when.
|
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States will seek to boost its case for United Nations action against Iran when Security Council envoys visit Washington on Monday to view pieces of weapons that [TGT] says Tehran gave to Yemenâs Houthi group.
[TGT] and [TGT] 14 council colleagues will also lunch with President Donald Trump the U.S. Mission to the United Nations said Friday.
The U.N. ambassadors will visit a military hangar at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling near Washington where Haley the U.S envoy to the United Nations last month presented remnants of what the Pentagon said was an Iranian-made ballistic missile fired from Yemen on Nov. 4 at Saudi Arabiaâs capital Riyadh as well as other weapons.
[TGT] said last month [TGT] was exploring several U.N. options for pressuring Iran to âadjust their behaviorâ. But [TGT] is likely to struggle to convince some Security Council members like veto powers Russia and China that U.N. action is needed.
[TGT] has said the Security Council could strengthen the provisions in that resolution or adopt a new resolution banning Iran from all activities related to ballistic missiles. To pass a resolution needs nine votes in favor and no vetoes by the United States Britain France China or Russia.
Diplomats speaking on condition of anonymity say [TGT] has not signaled which accountability option [TGT] might pursue or when.
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,103 |
Most People Believe In JFK Conspiracy Theories
|
John F. Kennedy
|
Perhaps no major event in modern U.S. history has spawned more widespread doubt than the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas in November 1963 . The official account: One man Lee Harvey Oswald did it. The unofficial theory: Well there are many.
The JFK assassination is back in the news as the deadline for releasing a final batch of government documents related to the investigation approaches. Back in 1992 Congress passed a law ordering that all remaining papers be released by Oct. 26 2017 â thatâs this Thursday. President Trump could still decide to keep some information secret on national security grounds but he seems inclined to allow everything to be released on schedule.
Will this last dossier of evidence put the conspiracy theories to rest? Thatâs unlikely. Despite plenty of evidence to the contrary most Americans have believed that more than one person was involved in Kennedy âs death since almost the moment of the assassination .
According to a new FiveThirtyEight-commissioned SurveyMonkey poll of 5 130 adults conducted Oct. 17 to Oct. 20 2017 only 33 percent of Americans believe that one man was responsible for the assassination . A majority 61 percent think that others were involved in a conspiracy. In pretty much every demographic most respondents believed that Oswald didnât act alone.
Most people believe JFK wasnât killed by Oswald alone Respondentsâ beliefs about President John F. Kennedyâs death according to a poll conducted Oct. 17-20 2017 GROUP ONE MAN KILLED JFK OTHERS WERE INVOLVED Overall 33% 61% Male 33 62 Female 32 60 White 38 56 Hispanic 22 72 Black 19 76 College graduate 42 52 No college degree 29 65 White college graduate 48 46 White without a college degree 33 60 Registered voter 35 61 Not registered 25 69 18-34 35 60 35-64 31 62 65 and older 32 60 Republican 36 60 Democrat 36 61 Independent no lean 24 70 Voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 38 59 Voted for Donald Trump in 2016 35 61 Source: SurveyMonkey
Thatâs not say that every group believes in a conspiracy theory at equal rates. African-Americans (76 percent) and Hispanics (72 percent) are far more likely than whites (56 percent) to believe that Oswald didnât act alone. The government of course has a history of lying to the black community which may be why African-Americans are more likely to think the government isnât telling the whole story about Kennedy âs death and other major news stories.
In our SurveyMonkey poll the 33 percent of people who believe that one man killed Kennedy is higher than itâs been in any yearly average of polling since 1966. That was the year before New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison publicly accused the government of enacting a huge cover-up to conceal the fact that the president had been killed by anti-Communist extremists in the CIA. He later prosecuted a man he believed was involved in the conspiracy and though he lost his conspiracy case in court Garrison and his theory went on to be immortalized in Oliver Stoneâs 1991 film âJFK.â Although the movie made millions of dollars and fanned the flames of conspiracy it did not seem to have much impact on American opinion overall â the percentage of Americans who believed in a conspiracy remained pretty stable before and after the filmâs release.
Why is it though that belief in a lone gunman has grown by over 20 percentage points in the past two decades? It could be that conspiracy theoristsâ inability to provide proof has hurt their appeal to the public. Itâs also possible that recent computerized evidence seeming to prove Oswald acted alone has gotten through to Americans. Finally it could be a simple matter of demographic changes. The percentage of Americans who have at least a college degree continues to rise and SurveyMonkey found that 42 percent of Americans with at least a college degree believed Oswald acted alone compared to 29 percent with less than a college degree. In fact a slight plurality of whites with at least a college degree actually believed one man was responsible for the death of Kennedy .
Whatever the cause of the recent upswing in the popularity of the lone assassin theory most Americans still think that there was a conspiracy and that more than one man was responsible for Kennedy âs death. Perhaps if the government releases the final documents on the assassination that will put conspiracy theories about the murder to rest. But chances are it wonât.
|
Perhaps no major event in modern U.S. history has spawned more widespread doubt than [TGT] . The official account: One man Lee Harvey Oswald did it. The unofficial theory: Well there are many.
[TGT] is back in the news as the deadline for releasing a final batch of government documents related to the investigation approaches. Back in 1992 Congress passed a law ordering that all remaining papers be released by Oct. 26 2017 â thatâs this Thursday. President Trump could still decide to keep some information secret on national security grounds but he seems inclined to allow everything to be released on schedule.
Will this last dossier of evidence put the conspiracy theories to rest? Thatâs unlikely. Despite plenty of evidence to the contrary most Americans have believed that more than one person was involved in Kennedy âs death since almost the moment of [TGT] .
According to a new FiveThirtyEight-commissioned SurveyMonkey poll of 5 130 adults conducted Oct. 17 to Oct. 20 2017 only 33 percent of Americans believe that one man was responsible for the assassination . A majority 61 percent think that others were involved in a conspiracy. In pretty much every demographic most respondents believed that Oswald didnât act alone.
Most people believe JFK wasnât killed by Oswald alone Respondentsâ beliefs about President John F. Kennedyâs death according to a poll conducted Oct. 17-20 2017 GROUP ONE MAN KILLED JFK OTHERS WERE INVOLVED Overall 33% 61% Male 33 62 Female 32 60 White 38 56 Hispanic 22 72 Black 19 76 College graduate 42 52 No college degree 29 65 White college graduate 48 46 White without a college degree 33 60 Registered voter 35 61 Not registered 25 69 18-34 35 60 35-64 31 62 65 and older 32 60 Republican 36 60 Democrat 36 61 Independent no lean 24 70 Voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016 38 59 Voted for Donald Trump in 2016 35 61 Source: SurveyMonkey
Thatâs not say that every group believes in a conspiracy theory at equal rates. African-Americans (76 percent) and Hispanics (72 percent) are far more likely than whites (56 percent) to believe that Oswald didnât act alone. The government of course has a history of lying to the black community which may be why African-Americans are more likely to think the government isnât telling the whole story about [TGT] âs death and other major news stories.
In our SurveyMonkey poll the 33 percent of people who believe that one man killed [TGT] is higher than [TGT] been in any yearly average of polling since 1966. That was the year before New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison publicly accused the government of enacting a huge cover-up to conceal the fact that the president had been killed by anti-Communist extremists in the CIA. He later prosecuted a man he believed was involved in the conspiracy and though he lost his conspiracy case in court Garrison and his theory went on to be immortalized in Oliver Stoneâs 1991 film âJFK.â Although the movie made millions of dollars and fanned the flames of conspiracy it did not seem to have much impact on American opinion overall â the percentage of Americans who believed in a conspiracy remained pretty stable before and after the filmâs release.
Why is it though that belief in a lone gunman has grown by over 20 percentage points in the past two decades? It could be that conspiracy theoristsâ inability to provide proof has hurt their appeal to the public. Itâs also possible that recent computerized evidence seeming to prove Oswald acted alone has gotten through to Americans. Finally it could be a simple matter of demographic changes. The percentage of Americans who have at least a college degree continues to rise and SurveyMonkey found that 42 percent of Americans with at least a college degree believed Oswald acted alone compared to 29 percent with less than a college degree. In fact a slight plurality of whites with at least a college degree actually believed one man was responsible for the death of [TGT] .
Whatever the cause of the recent upswing in the popularity of the lone assassin theory most Americans still think that there was a conspiracy and that more than one man was responsible for [TGT] . Perhaps if the government releases the final documents on the assassination that will put conspiracy theories about the murder to rest. But chances are it wonât.
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,104 |
Review: Jane Hawk returns in Koontz's 'The Whispering Room'
|
Koontz Jane Hawk
|
Jane knows her husband didn't commit suicide but proving it has been a challenge. She uncovered an evil plot to brainwash people to commit horrific acts but her attempt to destroy the villain behind everything came with a horrible cost. She no longer has her job at the FBI and is a wanted fugitive. She keeps her son stashed away to protect him. Jane now roams the country to derail the mastermind and his nefarious plans.
A beloved schoolteacher on leave due to migraines is the latest to fall under the vicious mind games. She has dreams of walking through fire and one afternoon she sets her vehicle on fire and drives through a hotel lobby. A sheriff uncovers her journals and sees a woman crying for help. When Jane learns of the incident she knows the people she 's trying to eliminate are responsible. She has already gone rogue and knowing her son is safe she has nothing to lose by going after the culprits.
When one of her targets tells her "You're dead already. They'll all know about you in the whispering room " Jane knows she has to learn what his cryptic phrase means even though it obviously will be a trap to take her out of the picture.
The character of Jane Hawk is arguably the best character Koontz has created. Knowledge of "The Silent Corner" helps put some of the narrative in perspective but it's not necessary to fall under the author's spell. It's clear that another story featuring her quest for ultimate justice is on the horizon and hopefully there will be even more after that.
|
Jane knows her husband didn't commit suicide but proving it has been a challenge. She uncovered an evil plot to brainwash people to commit horrific acts but her attempt to destroy the villain behind everything came with a horrible cost. She no longer has her job at the FBI and is a wanted fugitive. She keeps her son stashed away to protect him. Jane now roams the country to derail the mastermind and his nefarious plans.
A beloved schoolteacher on leave due to migraines is the latest to fall under the vicious mind games. She has dreams of walking through fire and one afternoon she sets her vehicle on fire and drives through a hotel lobby. A sheriff uncovers her journals and sees a woman crying for help. When Jane learns of the incident she knows the people she 's trying to eliminate are responsible. She has already gone rogue and knowing her son is safe she has nothing to lose by going after the culprits.
When one of her targets tells her "You're dead already. They'll all know about you in the whispering room " Jane knows she has to learn what his cryptic phrase means even though it obviously will be a trap to take her out of the picture.
The character of Jane Hawk is arguably the best character Koontz has created. Knowledge of "The Silent Corner" helps put some of the narrative in perspective but it's not necessary to fall under the author's spell. It's clear that another story featuring her quest for ultimate justice is on the horizon and hopefully there will be even more after that.
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,105 |
'Making a Murderer': Brendan Dassey 's Conviction Upheld
|
Brendan Dassey
|
Making a Murderer subject Brendan Dassey will remain behind bars after a federal appeals court in Chicago narrowly overturned a 2016 ruling that would have allowed Dassey to go free.
Related 'Making a Murderer' One Year Later: Everything You Need to Know Inside what's happened with Steven Avery Brendan Dassey and the case that's fascinated America since Nexflix debuted its true-crime hit
In August 2016 a judge ruled that the then-16-year-old Dassey was coerced into confessing his role in the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach; Dassey and his uncle Steven Avery were both sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of Halbach's murder. In June 2017 the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago affirmed that August 2016 ruling by a 2-to-1 count but the state of Wisconsin requested that seven members of that court hear the appeal.
On Friday the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled by a 4-to-3 margin that Dassey 's confession was not coerced. "The state courts' finding that Dassey 's confession was voluntary was not beyond fair debate but we conclude it was reasonable " the court's decision stated.
However the appeals court judges were not unanimous in the decision with Judge Ilana Diamond Rovner saying of Dassey in her dissent "His confession was not voluntary and his conviction should not stand and yet an impaired teenager has been sentenced to life in prison. I view this as a profound miscarriage of justice " the Associated Press reports.
Avery's former lawyer Jerome Buting tweeted of the Dassey decision "The Illusion of Justice continues with the horrific decision of 4 judges on 7th Cir. to uphold Brendan Dassey's conviction. Dissenting Judge Wood proclaims: " Dassey will spend the rest of his life in prison because of the injustice this court has decided to leave unredressed. Two strong dissents in 4-3 Dassey decision strengthen chance for SCOTUS review. Judge Wood details majority opinion flaws which 'essentially read habeas corpus relief out of the books.' SCOTUS in 2011: habeas still stands as 'guard against extreme malfunctions' in state justice."
|
Making a Murderer subject [TGT] will remain behind bars after a federal appeals court in Chicago narrowly overturned a 2016 ruling that would have allowed Dassey to go free.
Related 'Making a Murderer' One Year Later: Everything You Need to Know Inside what's happened with Steven Avery [TGT] and the case that's fascinated America since Nexflix debuted its true-crime hit
In August 2016 a judge ruled that the then-16-year-old Dassey was coerced into confessing his role in the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach; Dassey and his uncle Steven Avery were both sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of Halbach's murder. In June 2017 the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago affirmed that August 2016 ruling by a 2-to-1 count but the state of Wisconsin requested that seven members of that court hear the appeal.
On Friday the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled by a 4-to-3 margin that Dassey 's confession was not coerced. "The state courts' finding that Dassey 's confession was voluntary was not beyond fair debate but we conclude it was reasonable " the court's decision stated.
However the appeals court judges were not unanimous in the decision with Judge Ilana Diamond Rovner saying of Dassey in her dissent "His confession was not voluntary and his conviction should not stand and yet an impaired teenager has been sentenced to life in prison. I view this as a profound miscarriage of justice " the Associated Press reports.
Avery's former lawyer Jerome Buting tweeted of the Dassey decision "The Illusion of Justice continues with the horrific decision of 4 judges on 7th Cir. to uphold Brendan Dassey's conviction. Dissenting Judge Wood proclaims: " Dassey will spend the rest of his life in prison because of the injustice this court has decided to leave unredressed. Two strong dissents in 4-3 Dassey decision strengthen chance for SCOTUS review. Judge Wood details majority opinion flaws which 'essentially read habeas corpus relief out of the books.' SCOTUS in 2011: habeas still stands as 'guard against extreme malfunctions' in state justice."
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,106 |
Las Vegas shooting: Sarah Huckabee Sanders chokes up recounting bravery stories
|
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
|
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders choked up on Monday while reading a statement about the mass shooting in Las Vegas Nevada.
"What these people did for each other says far more about who we are as Americans than the cowardly acts of a killer ever could " Sanders said during the White House daily press briefing.
Sanders faced questions during the briefing with reporters on potential policy responses to the shooting.
Though President Donald Trump is oftentimes known for his willingness to wade into politics during tragedies related to terrorism Sanders said the White House hoped to avoid politicizing the tragedy saying there's "a time and place for a political debate."
The press secretary cautioned against taking policy steps to curb mass shootings by enacting gun control legislation.
"There will be certainly time for that policy discussion to take place but that's not the place that we're in " Sanders said.
|
[TGT] choked up on Monday while reading a statement about the mass shooting in Las Vegas Nevada.
"What these people did for each other says far more about who we are as Americans than the cowardly acts of a killer ever could " [TGT] said during the White House daily press briefing.
[TGT] faced questions during the briefing with reporters on potential policy responses to the shooting.
Though President Donald Trump is oftentimes known for his willingness to wade into politics during tragedies related to terrorism [TGT] said the White House hoped to avoid politicizing the tragedy saying there's "a time and place for a political debate."
The press secretary cautioned against taking policy steps to curb mass shootings by enacting gun control legislation.
"There will be certainly time for that policy discussion to take place but that's not the place that we're in " Sanders said.
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,107 |
Photographer accuses Twins star Miguel Sano of forcibly trying to kiss her
|
Miguel Sano
|
MINNEAPOLIS -- A photographer who has covered the Minnesota Twins accused Miguel Sano of assault posting on Twitter that the All-Star third baseman forcibly attempted to kiss her following an autograph session at a mall in 2015. Betsy Bissen tweeted Thursday that she screamed and resisted Sano until he gave up "after a solid 10 minutes of fighting."
Sano said he "unequivocally" denies the allegation.
"It never happened. I have the utmost respect for women especially those working in professional sports and I deeply sympathize with anyone who has experienced sexual harassment. There is no place for it in our society " Sano said in a statement issued by his agent Kyle Thousand.
Bissen didn't respond to an interview request from The Associated Press. She told her story on her Twitter account writing that Sano was participating in an autograph signing at a store while she worked as a volunteer and photographed him interacting with fans during the event.
Bissen said Sano remarked that he had noticed her during games. She said he tried to flirt with her and after the signing grabbed her wrist and "made me go with" a small group that included Sano 's previous agent Rob Plummer to another store. She said she complied only to avoid causing a scene.
As the group left the mall about a half hour later Bissen wrote Sano said he needed to use the restroom. She pointed him to the door and she said Sano "took that as a signal that I wanted him to grab me and try to take me back through that door." She said she pulled back as he held on.
"It hurt how badly he was grasping at my wrist but he wouldn't let go. I wasn't going to give up my fight though. He then leaned down and tried to kiss me more than once. Every time he did I said no and kept pulling back " Bissen wrote.
Plummer who was fired by Sano two years ago told ESPN that he didn't witness the alleged assault.
Bissen who shared her tweet with the #metoo hashtag said in a follow-up post that she wanted to "feel free of this burden I've carried with me since 2015."
Sano is listed by the Twins at 6-foot-4 and 260 pounds though he 's often played at a weight much heavier than that. Sano made the American League All-Star team in 2017 his third major league season. He batted .264 with 28 homers and 77 RBIs despite missing the last six weeks of the season.
CBS Sports reports Sano is about to enter his fourth season with the team. It remains unclear if the MLB will investigate Bissen's allegations against Sano .
"Every time I have to hear about how great people think Miguel Sano is I'm reminded of how awful he actually is and how he hurt me " Bissen wrote.
|
MINNEAPOLIS -- A photographer who has covered the Minnesota Twins accused [TGT] posting on Twitter that the All-Star third baseman forcibly attempted to kiss [TGT] following an autograph session at a mall in 2015. Betsy Bissen tweeted Thursday that she screamed and resisted Sano until he gave up "after a solid 10 minutes of fighting."
Sano said he "unequivocally" denies the allegation.
"It never happened. I have the utmost respect for women especially those working in professional sports and I deeply sympathize with anyone who has experienced sexual harassment. There is no place for it in our society " Sano said in a statement issued by his agent Kyle Thousand.
Bissen didn't respond to an interview request from The Associated Press. She told her story on her Twitter account writing that Sano was participating in an autograph signing at a store while she worked as a volunteer and photographed him interacting with fans during the event.
Bissen said Sano remarked that he had noticed her during games. She said he tried to flirt with her and after the signing grabbed her wrist and "made me go with" a small group that included Sano 's previous agent Rob Plummer to another store. She said she complied only to avoid causing a scene.
As the group left the mall about a half hour later Bissen wrote Sano said he needed to use the restroom. She pointed him to the door and she said Sano "took that as a signal that I wanted him to grab me and try to take me back through that door." She said she pulled back as he held on.
"It hurt how badly he was grasping at my wrist but he wouldn't let go. I wasn't going to give up my fight though. He then leaned down and tried to kiss me more than once. Every time he did I said no and kept pulling back " Bissen wrote.
Plummer who was fired by Sano two years ago told ESPN that he didn't witness the alleged assault.
Bissen who shared her tweet with the #metoo hashtag said in a follow-up post that she wanted to "feel free of this burden I've carried with me since 2015."
Sano is listed by the Twins at 6-foot-4 and 260 pounds though he 's often played at a weight much heavier than that. Sano made the American League All-Star team in 2017 his third major league season. He batted .264 with 28 homers and 77 RBIs despite missing the last six weeks of the season.
CBS Sports reports Sano is about to enter his fourth season with the team. It remains unclear if the MLB will investigate Bissen's allegations against Sano .
"Every time I have to hear about how great people think Miguel Sano is I'm reminded of how awful he actually is and how he hurt me " Bissen wrote.
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,108 |
Everyone seems to be speaking for God. Heaven help us.
|
Wayne R. LaPierre
|
Contrast that with the God invoked by Wayne R. LaPierre CEO of the National Rifle Association at CPAC.
âThere is no greater personal individual freedom than the right to keep and bear arms the right to protect yourself and the right to survive â LaPierre said. âItâs not bestowed by man but granted by God to all Americans as our American birthright.â
Trump and LaPierre played to the fears. And even as LaPierre calls on God he seems to put more faith in guns.
LaPierre reminded the audience of his solution to stop school shootings â arming teachers. Or as he likes to say: âTo stop a bad guy with a gun it takes a good guy with a gun.â
âI said five years ago after that horrible tragedy in Newtown and I wish . . . â LaPierre paused. âOh God â he started up again âI wish more had heeded my words.â
|
Contrast that with the God invoked by [TGT] CEO of the National Rifle Association at CPAC.
âThere is no greater personal individual freedom than the right to keep and bear arms the right to protect yourself and the right to survive â [TGT] said. âItâs not bestowed by man but granted by God to all Americans as our American birthright.â
Trump and [TGT] played to the fears. And even as [TGT] calls on God [TGT] seems to put more faith in guns.
[TGT] reminded the audience of [TGT] solution to stop school shootings â arming teachers. Or as he likes to say: âTo stop a bad guy with a gun it takes a good guy with a gun.â
âI said five years ago after that horrible tragedy in Newtown and I wish . . . â [TGT] paused. âOh God â [TGT] started up again âI wish more had heeded my words.â
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,109 |
Corey Lewandowski Rick Dearborn testify before House Intel Committee as part of Russia probe
|
Corey Lewandowski
|
Lewandowski and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Rick Dearbonâs interviews with the House Intelligence Committee come after ex-White House chief strategist Steve Bannon met with congressional investigators for almost 12 hours on Tuesday.
Lewandowski said on Fox Business Network's "Mornings with Maria" Wednesday that he was not instructed by the White House to withhold any information.
"I'll tell you anything " Lewandowski said.
Lewandowski who led the Trump campaign for almost two years through the Republican primaries said they welcomed the âopportunityâ to testify before the committee.
âSteve was [with the campaign] for a short period of time. I was there almost two years every day next to the candidate next to President Trump â Lewandowski said on Fox News Channel's âOutnumbered Overtimeâ Tuesday. âNever ever ever did we coordinate or cooperate or collude with any Russians.â
Lewandowski told Fox News that he would âanswer every question truthfully honestly to the best of my ability and the best of my recollection.â
âBut because I have nothing to hide Iâm looking forward to this opportunity help finally bring this to a close â he said.
Lewandowski added that he hopes Democrats come to a ârealizationâ that there was no Trump-Russia collusion.
|
Lewandowski and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Rick Dearbonâs interviews with the House Intelligence Committee come after ex-White House chief strategist Steve Bannon met with congressional investigators for almost 12 hours on Tuesday.
Lewandowski said on Fox Business Network's "Mornings with Maria" Wednesday that he was not instructed by the White House to withhold any information.
"I'll tell you anything " Lewandowski said.
Lewandowski who led the Trump campaign for almost two years through the Republican primaries said they welcomed the âopportunityâ to testify before the committee.
âSteve was [with the campaign] for a short period of time. I was there almost two years every day next to the candidate next to President Trump â Lewandowski said on Fox News Channel's âOutnumbered Overtimeâ Tuesday. âNever ever ever did we coordinate or cooperate or collude with any Russians.â
Lewandowski told Fox News that he would âanswer every question truthfully honestly to the best of my ability and the best of my recollection.â
âBut because I have nothing to hide Iâm looking forward to this opportunity help finally bring this to a close â he said.
Lewandowski added that he hopes Democrats come to a ârealizationâ that there was no Trump-Russia collusion.
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,110 |
Former Lincoln
|
Lawrence Wyllie
|
Former Lincoln-Way Superintendent Lawrence Wyllie pleaded not guilty in federal court Wednesday to fraud and embezzlement charges and his attorney said they plan to fight the case to trial.
Wyllie arrived minutes before his arraignment in a blue suit with a cross lapel pin. His attorneys largely spoke for him and he ignored reporters asking questions afterward. Before they stepped into the elevator one of Wyllie 's attorneys Dan Webb said they would be going to trial.
Federal prosecutors allege Wyllie 79 hid the "true financial health" of Lincoln-Way High School District 210 by misusing millions in bond money and fraudulently spent school district funds on personal projects including Superdog a dog training school he ordered built.
Wyllie also pocketed more than $30 000 in unused vacation days and a retirement bonus he wasn't entitled to prosecutors charged.
Wyllie 's attorneys released a statement earlier this month maintaining Wyllie 's innocence and lauding him as "a model educator in Illinois for 55 years."
Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune Lawrence Wyllie arrives for his arraignment on federal fraud charges at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago on Wednesday Sept. 27 2017. Lawrence Wyllie arrives for his arraignment on federal fraud charges at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago on Wednesday Sept. 27 2017. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune) (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
Under Wyllie's leadership from 1989 to 2013 Lincoln-Way grew from one school with two campuses to two separate four-year schools and the district experienced overcrowding. In response Wyllie pushed hard for a $225 million referendum measure in 2006 to build two new schools and accommodate growth.
A community group campaigned vigorously against the proposal arguing that the district should build one school and wait to see whether a fourth was necessary before moving forward. But voters backed Wyllie and the district went on to issue $52 million in bonds in 2006 $123 million in 2007 and $29 million in 2009.
As Lincoln-Way's finances atrophied Wyllie fraudulently used bond funds to conceal the district's true financial condition prosecutors said.
By then Wyllie had retired and largely disappeared from public view.
Last year amid intensifying scrutiny from the Daily Southtown federal investigators and community members Wyllie resigned from the boards of the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra and the University of St. Francis. He also sold his Frankfort home and moved to Naperville.
Lincoln-Way administration also quietly removed plaques honoring Wyllie at each of the district's schools.
|
[TGT] pleaded not guilty in federal court Wednesday to fraud and embezzlement charges and [TGT] attorney said they plan to fight the case to trial.
[TGT] arrived minutes before [TGT] arraignment in a blue suit with a cross lapel pin. [TGT] attorneys largely spoke for [TGT] and [TGT] ignored reporters asking questions afterward. Before they stepped into the elevator one of Wyllie 's attorneys Dan Webb said they would be going to trial.
Federal prosecutors allege [TGT] hid the "true financial health" of Lincoln-Way High School District 210 by misusing millions in bond money and fraudulently spent school district funds on personal projects including Superdog a dog training school he ordered built.
[TGT] also pocketed more than $30 000 in unused vacation days and a retirement bonus [TGT] wasn't entitled to prosecutors charged.
[TGT] 's attorneys released a statement earlier this month maintaining Wyllie 's innocence and lauding him as "a model educator in Illinois for 55 years. [TGT]
arrives for [TGT] arraignment on federal fraud charges at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago on Wednesday Sept. 27 2017. [TGT] arrives for [TGT] arraignment on federal fraud charges at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago on Wednesday Sept. 27 2017. (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune) (Jose M. Osorio / Chicago Tribune)
Under Wyllie's leadership from 1989 to 2013 Lincoln-Way grew from one school with two campuses to two separate four-year schools and the district experienced overcrowding. In response [TGT] pushed hard for a $225 million referendum measure in 2006 to build two new schools and accommodate growth.
A community group campaigned vigorously against the proposal arguing that the district should build one school and wait to see whether a fourth was necessary before moving forward. But voters backed Wyllie and the district went on to issue $52 million in bonds in 2006 $123 million in 2007 and $29 million in 2009.
As Lincoln-Way's finances atrophied Wyllie fraudulently used bond funds to conceal the district's true financial condition prosecutors said.
By then Wyllie had retired and largely disappeared from public view.
Last year amid intensifying scrutiny from the Daily Southtown federal investigators and community members Wyllie resigned from the boards of the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra and the University of St. Francis. He also sold his Frankfort home and moved to Naperville.
Lincoln-Way administration also quietly removed plaques honoring Wyllie at each of the district's schools.
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,111 |
Denver shooting: Deputy killed 6 wounded by barricaded suspect
|
Tony Spurlock
|
Two civilians also were shot and the suspect was shot and killed later by police Sheriff Tony Spurlock said.
The sheriff said Deputy Zackari Parrish 29 was killed. The four injured officers are in stable condition Spurlock told reporters.
"This is a tragic day that we will be feeling for a long time " Spurlock said. "Zack was a good kid smiley kid. He was eager to work eager to serve."
"There were well over 100 rounds fired ... from the suspect " Spurlock said.
The deputies were wearing ballistic vests but were shot in areas the vests didn't cover Spurlock said.
Spurlock said the suspect has had previous contact with law enforcement "throughout the metro area " but has no criminal history.
Not long after the deputies found the suspect barricaded in his room Riehl opened fire Spurlock said.
"They all went down within almost seconds of each other so it was more of an ambush type of attack on our officers " Spurlock said.
|
Two civilians also were shot and the suspect was shot and killed later by police [TGT] said.
[TGT] said Deputy Zackari Parrish 29 was killed. The four injured officers are in stable condition [TGT] told reporters.
"This is a tragic day that we will be feeling for a long time " [TGT] said. "Zack was a good kid smiley kid. He was eager to work eager to serve."
"There were well over 100 rounds fired ... from the suspect " [TGT] said.
The deputies were wearing ballistic vests but were shot in areas the vests didn't cover [TGT] said.
[TGT] said the suspect has had previous contact with law enforcement "throughout the metro area " but has no criminal history.
Not long after the deputies found the suspect barricaded in his room Riehl opened fire [TGT] said.
"They all went down within almost seconds of each other so it was more of an ambush type of attack on our officers " [TGT] said.
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,112 |
United Soccer League expansion team coming to North Side site proposed for Amazon's HQ2
|
Andy Gloor
|
Developer Sterling Bay has bought a United Soccer League expansion team to play in its planned sports and entertainment stadium along the Chicago River with the goal of beginning play in the 2020 season Sterling Bay Managing Principal Andy Gloor said.
Sterling Bay and other investors will own and operate the USL team Gloor said.
It remains to be seen how the USL a professional league one level below Major League Soccer will fare in Chicago. But there is a passionate soccer fan base within the city and many supporters of the sport have lamented the MLS Chicago Fireâs location in southwest suburban Bridgeview as well as the teamâs struggle to stay relevant in a market that includes teams in each of the major sports.
âThere are a lot of cities that have two soccer teams â Gloor said. âNew York and Los Angeles have two MLS teams. They can co-exist in a city the size of Chicago.â
Specific details of the Skidmore Owings & Merrill-designed stadium are still being fine-tuned but the venue is expected to have a retractable roof and about 20 000 seats. Gloor said. A retractable roof will allow the stadium to be used for events year-round potentially including international soccer matches college football and basketball games concerts and other events Gloor said.
Prospective office tenants have expressed interest in having entertainment on the campus Gloor said. âThe live-work-play aspect has to be there â Gloor said. âYou just canât build a suburban office complex there. Having the entertainment component is important.â
Gloor said there are no current plans for Chicagoâs USL team to have an MLS affiliation.
A name has not yet been chosen for the team and Sterling Bay plans to solicit suggestions from the public before choosing one. Sterling Bay plans to build the stadium regardless of what happens with Amazon or other prospective office tenants Gloor said.
|
Developer Sterling Bay has bought a United Soccer League expansion team to play in its planned sports and entertainment stadium along the Chicago River with the goal of beginning play in the 2020 season [TGT] said.
Sterling Bay and other investors will own and operate the USL team [TGT] said.
It remains to be seen how the USL a professional league one level below Major League Soccer will fare in Chicago. But there is a passionate soccer fan base within the city and many supporters of the sport have lamented the MLS Chicago Fireâs location in southwest suburban Bridgeview as well as the teamâs struggle to stay relevant in a market that includes teams in each of the major sports.
âThere are a lot of cities that have two soccer teams â [TGT] said. âNew York and Los Angeles have two MLS teams. They can co-exist in a city the size of Chicago.â
Specific details of the Skidmore Owings & Merrill-designed stadium are still being fine-tuned but the venue is expected to have a retractable roof and about 20 000 seats. [TGT] said. A retractable roof will allow the stadium to be used for events year-round potentially including international soccer matches college football and basketball games concerts and other events [TGT] said.
Prospective office tenants have expressed interest in having entertainment on the campus [TGT] said. âThe live-work-play aspect has to be there â [TGT] said. âYou just canât build a suburban office complex there. Having the entertainment component is important.â
[TGT] said there are no current plans for Chicagoâs USL team to have an MLS affiliation.
A name has not yet been chosen for the team and Sterling Bay plans to solicit suggestions from the public before choosing one. Sterling Bay plans to build the stadium regardless of what happens with Amazon or other prospective office tenants [TGT] said.
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,113 |
U.S. Army fudged its accounts by trillions of dollars auditor finds
|
Jack Armstrong
|
â THE GRAND PLUGâ
Jack Armstrong a former Defense Inspector General official in charge of auditing the Army General Fund said the same type of unjustified changes to Army financial statements already were being made when he retired in 2010.
The Army issues two types of reports â a budget report and a financial one. The budget one was completed first. Armstrong said he believes fudged numbers were inserted into the financial report to make the numbers match.
âThey donât know what the heck the balances should be â Armstrong said.
Some employees of the Defense Finance and Accounting Services (DFAS) which handles a wide range of Defense Department accounting services referred sardonically to preparation of the Armyâs year-end statements as âthe grand plug â Armstrong said. â Plugâ is accounting jargon for inserting made-up numbers.
|
â [TGT]
a former Defense Inspector General official in charge of auditing the Army General Fund said the same type of unjustified changes to Army financial statements already were being made when he retired in 2010.
The Army issues two types of reports â a budget report and a financial one. The budget one was completed first. [TGT] said [TGT] believes fudged numbers were inserted into the financial report to make the numbers match.
âThey donât know what the heck the balances should be â [TGT] said.
Some employees of the Defense Finance and Accounting Services (DFAS) which handles a wide range of Defense Department accounting services referred sardonically to preparation of the Armyâs year-end statements as âthe grand plug â [TGT] said. â Plugâ is accounting jargon for inserting made-up numbers.
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,114 |
It took mere minutes for Trump to undermine RNC spokespersonâs claim that he âs a champion of women â ThinkProgress
|
Donald J. Trump
|
During an MSNBC interview on Saturday morning Republican National Committee spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany said that the Trump White House âstands with women unmistakably.â
About an hour later Trump completely undercut McEnanyâs talking point with a tweet in which he defended men accused of sexual assault.
âPeoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation â Trump said alluding to two White House staffers who departed this week amid accusations of domestic assault.
Peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. Some are true and some are false. Some are old and some are new. There is no recovery for someone falsely accused â life and career are gone. Is there no such thing any longer as Due Process? â Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 10 2018
McEnanyâs MSNBC appearance came the morning after Trump praised Rob Porter the former top White House aide who was publicly accused of domestic abuse by both of his ex-wives this week. Porterâs first wife Colbie Holderness provided media outlets with a photo of her with a black eye she said Porter gave her in 2005 while his second Jennifer Willoughby said she got a restraining order against Porter after they separated. Apparently Trump does not find that evidence persuasive.
|
During an MSNBC interview on Saturday morning Republican National Committee spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany said that the Trump White House âstands with women unmistakably.â
About an hour later Trump completely undercut McEnanyâs talking point with a tweet in which he defended men accused of sexual assault.
âPeoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation â Trump said alluding to two White House staffers who departed this week amid accusations of domestic assault.
Peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. Some are true and some are false. Some are old and some are new. There is no recovery for someone falsely accused â life and career are gone. Is there no such thing any longer as Due Process? â [TGT] (@realDonaldTrump) February 10 2018
McEnanyâs MSNBC appearance came the morning after Trump praised Rob Porter the former top White House aide who was publicly accused of domestic abuse by both of his ex-wives this week. Porterâs first wife Colbie Holderness provided media outlets with a photo of her with a black eye she said Porter gave her in 2005 while his second Jennifer Willoughby said she got a restraining order against Porter after they separated. Apparently Trump does not find that evidence persuasive.
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,115 |
Best
|
Shaka Senghor
|
Shaka Senghor attends the Tribeca TV Festival series premiere of "Released" at Cinepolis Chelsea in September. (Photo: Nicholas Hunt Getty Images for Tribeca TV Festival)
New York Times bestselling author Shaka Senghor remembers his first night in prison.
It was fall. And it was cold. The windows were busted. Two scruffy wool blankets covered a three-inch plastic mattress. He had to use both blankets â one to cover his feet the other for his upper torso. But it was so cold Senghor eventually got up and put one of the blankets in the broken window. As he looked out he saw a couple of young men his age playing around a garbage can. He envied their freedom.
âIt just was ... dark and lonely sitting in that cell and realizing that this was the next however many years of my life if not the rest of my life â says Senghor author of Writing My Wrongs: Life Death and Redemption in an American Prison.
Senghor who was sentenced to 17 to 40 years for second-degree murder served 19 years in prison spending seven years in solitary confinement. He was released from prison on June 22 2010. He walked in at the age of 19 and didn't walk out until he was 38.
Senghor is now 45 and the past seven years have been a mixed bag. It was hard to find a job. For a couple of years he said his job applications were dismissed almost immediately because of his felony conviction.
As difficult as starting over was for Senghor he had it better than others. He lived in Michigan a state with one of the lowest employment restrictions for former felons in the country â 94. The state with the highest number Louisiana has 389 employment restrictions. Nationwide 6 392 of the 48 000 restrictions on former felons are on employment.
Beyond employment challenges strict rules regarding parole and probation make successful re-entry challenging for men says Senghor . Any encounter with police he notes can get an inmate sent back to prison. As an African American man returning to a low-income neighborhood itâs difficult to avoid law enforcement Senghor points out. Something as small as jaywalking can get black men detained in communities where stop-and-frisk measures are disproportionately employed.
And Senghor remembers growing up in such a community in Detroit. At 17 he was shot while standing on a street corner. And he developed a paranoia that turned into hyper-violence he explained during a TED talk.
That defensive posture â is what caused him to pick up a gun and what eventually led to his arrest and incarceration.
It took a long time for Senghor to drop that way of thinking. And some men never do as they rack up more serious criminal infractions and technical violations while they are on parole.
âWe should be figuring out waysâ¦to do away with a lot of these technical parole violations which aren't crimes " Senghor says "but you're punishing the person as if they've committed a new crime and you're creating the stigma that anybody who's going back just can't get it together when in reality a technical violation really isn't something worthy of a person being incarcerated for.â
Senghor is working on that issue as the director of strategy and innovation for #cut50 an organization co-founded by Van Jones that works on criminal justice reform policies including re-entry initiatives and reducing the restrictive nature of probation and parole. He is also an executive producer of the show âReleased â on the OWN network. It shows the challenges of people recently released from prison.
Senghor describes Americaâs justice system as âdysfunctional broken outdated and not designed to foster rehabilitation efforts or to keep communities safe.â He says systemic racism a failed mental health system poverty drug addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder contributes to mass incarceration more than anything else.
âWe have a system that fails " Senghor says. "And we still dump money into the system to further support the things that are proven not to work.â
|
[TGT] attends the Tribeca TV Festival series premiere of "Released" at Cinepolis Chelsea in September. (Photo: Nicholas Hunt Getty Images for Tribeca TV Festival)
[TGT] remembers [TGT] first night in prison.
It was fall. And it was cold. The windows were busted. Two scruffy wool blankets covered a three-inch plastic mattress. [TGT] had to use both blankets â one to cover [TGT] feet the other for [TGT] upper torso. But it was so cold [TGT] eventually got up and put one of the blankets in the broken window. As he looked out he saw a couple of young men his age playing around a garbage can. He envied their freedom.
âIt just was ... dark and lonely sitting in that cell and realizing that this was the next however many years of my life if not the rest of my life â says Senghor author of Writing My Wrongs: Life Death and Redemption in an American Prison.
Senghor who was sentenced to 17 to 40 years for second-degree murder served 19 years in prison spending seven years in solitary confinement. He was released from prison on June 22 2010. He walked in at the age of 19 and didn't walk out until he was 38.
[TGT] is now 45 and the past seven years have been a mixed bag. It was hard to find a job. For a couple of years he said his job applications were dismissed almost immediately because of his felony conviction.
As difficult as starting over was for [TGT] [TGT] had it better than others. [TGT] lived in Michigan a state with one of the lowest employment restrictions for former felons in the country â 94. The state with the highest number Louisiana has 389 employment restrictions. Nationwide 6 392 of the 48 000 restrictions on former felons are on employment.
Beyond employment challenges strict rules regarding parole and probation make successful re-entry challenging for men says [TGT] . Any encounter with police he notes can get an inmate sent back to prison. As an African American man returning to a low-income neighborhood itâs difficult to avoid law enforcement Senghor points out. Something as small as jaywalking can get black men detained in communities where stop-and-frisk measures are disproportionately employed.
And Senghor remembers growing up in such a community in Detroit. At 17 he was shot while standing on a street corner. And he developed a paranoia that turned into hyper-violence he explained during a TED talk.
That defensive posture â is what caused him to pick up a gun and what eventually led to his arrest and incarceration.
It took a long time for Senghor to drop that way of thinking. And some men never do as they rack up more serious criminal infractions and technical violations while they are on parole.
âWe should be figuring out waysâ¦to do away with a lot of these technical parole violations which aren't crimes " Senghor says "but you're punishing the person as if they've committed a new crime and you're creating the stigma that anybody who's going back just can't get it together when in reality a technical violation really isn't something worthy of a person being incarcerated for.â
Senghor is working on that issue as the director of strategy and innovation for #cut50 an organization co-founded by Van Jones that works on criminal justice reform policies including re-entry initiatives and reducing the restrictive nature of probation and parole. He is also an executive producer of the show âReleased â on the OWN network. It shows the challenges of people recently released from prison.
Senghor describes Americaâs justice system as âdysfunctional broken outdated and not designed to foster rehabilitation efforts or to keep communities safe.â He says systemic racism a failed mental health system poverty drug addiction and post-traumatic stress disorder contributes to mass incarceration more than anything else.
âWe have a system that fails " Senghor says. "And we still dump money into the system to further support the things that are proven not to work.â
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
|
2,116 |
Putin Says St. Petersburg Blast Was Terrorism
|
Putin
|
Russian President Vladimir Putin says an explosion at a St. Petersburg supermarket on Wednesday was a terrorist act and that another attack in the city had been foiled by the country's security service.
A bomb went off in a branch of the Perekrestok supermarket wounding at least 13 shoppers in Putin 's hometown Reuters reports:
No group has taken responsibility for the explosion. A spokesman for Putin Dmitry Peskov would not say why authorities believed it to be terrorism but said because the bomb was packed with shrapnel proved it "was a terrorist attack anyway." Investigators said the device contained 7 ounces of explosives.
A Kremlin spokesman told Reuters that the thwarted attack Putin referenced was the one earlier this month that targeted St. Petersburg's Kazansky Cathedral. The Federal Security Service said seven suspects linked to ISIS have been arrested in connection with that plot. Putin had called Donald Trump and thanked him for the CIA tip that led to the capture of the suspects.
On Thursday Putin said that the operation in Syria had reduced the threat of attacks in Russia functioning as a preemptive strike against terrorists.
"What would have happened if those thousands (of terrorists) that I have just spoken about hundreds of them had come back to us trained and armed " he said in comments to Russian news agencies The Associated Press reports.
|
[TGT] says an explosion at a St. Petersburg supermarket on Wednesday was a terrorist act and that another attack in the city had been foiled by the country's security service.
A bomb went off in a branch of the Perekrestok supermarket wounding at least 13 shoppers in Putin 's hometown Reuters reports:
No group has taken responsibility for the explosion. A spokesman for Putin Dmitry Peskov would not say why authorities believed it to be terrorism but said because the bomb was packed with shrapnel proved it "was a terrorist attack anyway." Investigators said the device contained 7 ounces of explosives.
A Kremlin spokesman told Reuters that the thwarted attack [TGT] referenced was the one earlier this month that targeted St. Petersburg's Kazansky Cathedral. The Federal Security Service said seven suspects linked to ISIS have been arrested in connection with that plot. [TGT] had called Donald Trump and thanked [TGT] for the CIA tip that led to the capture of the suspects.
On Thursday [TGT] said that the operation in Syria had reduced the threat of attacks in Russia functioning as a preemptive strike against terrorists.
"What would have happened if those thousands (of terrorists) that I have just spoken about hundreds of them had come back to us trained and armed " he said in comments to Russian news agencies The Associated Press reports.
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,117 |
Dutch probe Bosnian war criminal's suicide in UN court
|
Slobodan Praljak
|
But courtroom one is now an active crime scene after the dramatic events when former Bosnian Croat military leader Slobodan Praljak tipped the contents of a small brown bottle into his mouth and died shortly afterwards in hospital.
The unprecedented gesture came as Praljak 72 angrily denied being a criminal after judges rejected his appeal and upheld his 20-year jail term for atrocities committed in a breakaway Bosnian Croat statelet during the 1990s wars.
It remains a mystery exactly what Praljak drank and how he managed to evade tight security to smuggle the bottle into the tribunal.
There are also questions about how he acquired the substance and if it was in the fortress-like UN detention centre in The Hague where he was being held.
Under court rules everyone entering the detention centre is subjected to tight security âirrespective of his or her status nationality function or ageâ.
|
But courtroom one is now an active crime scene after the dramatic events when [TGT] tipped the contents of a small brown bottle into [TGT] mouth and died shortly afterwards in hospital.
The unprecedented gesture came as [TGT] angrily denied being a criminal after judges rejected [TGT] appeal and upheld [TGT] 20-year jail term for atrocities committed in a breakaway Bosnian Croat statelet during the 1990s wars.
It remains a mystery exactly what [TGT] drank and how [TGT] managed to evade tight security to smuggle the bottle into the tribunal.
There are also questions about how [TGT] acquired the substance and if it was in the fortress-like UN detention centre in The Hague where he was being held.
Under court rules everyone entering the detention centre is subjected to tight security âirrespective of his or her status nationality function or ageâ.
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,118 |
7 women at Austin Opera come forward after director's firing
|
Richard Buckley
|
The women told the Austin American-Statesman that opera executives and board members knew of Richard Buckley's behavior but chose not to intervene because of his fame and talent.
On Feb. 1 Austin Opera said it fired Buckley for inappropriate behavior that violated the company's policy on harassment. The opera declined to provide further details.
Buckley told the Statesman in a statement that he never intended to offend anyone and that he used humor to "release pressure and defuse tension. "
Buckley was in his 13th season with Austin Opera.
|
The women told the Austin American-Statesman that opera executives and board members knew of [TGT] behavior but chose not to intervene because of [TGT] fame and talent.
On Feb. 1 Austin Opera said it fired [TGT] for inappropriate behavior that violated the company's policy on harassment. The opera declined to provide further details.
[TGT] told the Statesman in a statement that he never intended to offend anyone and that he used humor to "release pressure and defuse tension. "
[TGT] was in his 13th season with Austin Opera.
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,119 |
Utah hospital CEO on nurse arrest video: 'This will not happen again'
|
Alex Wubbels
|
This screengrab from video provided by Salt Lake City police shows University Hospital in Salt Lake City nurse Alex Wubbels being handcuffed by police officers. (Photo: Salt Lake City Police)
The Utah hospital dragged into the national spotlight after a Salt Lake City detective arrested a nurse for doing her job has apologized to the nurse and banned police officers from conversing with nurses in the hospital .
Gordon Crabtree CEO of University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City said hospital security should have intervened when burn unit nurse Alex Wubbels was arrested for refusing to allow a detective to take blood from an comatose patient.
"To our nurses and staff â this will not happen again " Crabtree said at a news conference Monday. " âNurse Wubbels was placed in an unfair and unwarranted position (and) her actions were nothing less than exemplary.â
Crabtree said the hospital has changed its policies and now requires police officers to speak only to senior nurse supervisors. No contacts can be made in patient areas.
The incident took place July 26 but went viral last week after lawyers for Wubbels obtained and released the body camera video. The video shows Detective Jeff Payne asking then insisting that he be allowed to draw blood from a patient whose vehicle had been hit by another vehicle.
The video shows Wubbels calmly denying Payne's request saying hospital policy required a judge's order or the patient's consent unless the patient was under arrest. Payne walks toward Wubbels saying "We're done here. We're done. "
Wubbels has expressed disappointment that hospital security officers on the scene did nothing to halt her arrest.
University of Utah Police Chief Dale Brophy said his officers wrongly believed Payne had implied consent when they allowed Wubbels to be arrested. He described Wubbles as a "rock star."
|
This screengrab from video provided by Salt Lake City police shows [TGT] being handcuffed by police officers. (Photo: Salt Lake City Police)
[TGT] dragged into the national spotlight after a Salt Lake City detective arrested a nurse for doing her job has apologized to the nurse and banned police officers from conversing with nurses in [TGT] .
Gordon Crabtree CEO of University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City said hospital security should have intervened when burn [TGT] was arrested for refusing to allow a detective to take blood from an comatose patient.
"To our nurses and staff â this will not happen again " Crabtree said at a news conference Monday. " [TGT] was placed in an unfair and unwarranted position (and) [TGT] actions were nothing less than exemplary.â
Crabtree said [TGT] has changed [TGT] policies and now requires police officers to speak only to senior nurse supervisors. No contacts can be made in patient areas.
The incident took place July 26 but went viral last week after lawyers for [TGT] obtained and released the body camera video. The video shows Detective Jeff Payne asking then insisting that he be allowed to draw blood from a patient whose vehicle had been hit by another vehicle.
The video shows [TGT] calmly denying Payne's request saying hospital policy required a judge's order or the patient's consent unless the patient was under arrest. Payne walks toward [TGT] saying "We're done here. We're done. [TGT]
has expressed disappointment that hospital security officers on the scene did nothing to halt [TGT] arrest.
University of Utah Police Chief Dale Brophy said his officers wrongly believed Payne had implied consent when they allowed [TGT] to be arrested. [TGT] described Wubbles as a "rock star."
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,120 |
Tim Draper : Burgers and coffee will be bought with crypto in 5 years
|
Tim Draper
|
Big Macs and lattes will be purchased by cryptocurrencies sooner than you might think according to venture capitalist and bitcoin fanatic Tim Draper .
"In five years if you go to a Starbucks or McDonald's and try to buy a burger or coffee with fiat currency the person at the counter is going to laugh at you " Draper told an audience Friday in San Francisco. "There's a real need for a currency that's global."
Draper 's presentation at the Blockchain Connect Conference came by video and helped kick off a full day of panels and presentations from developers and investors. The event was so crowded that people were filling up the overflow room to listen on televisions and Draper 's video aired late because of technical difficulties.
Draper who backed companies including Skype and Baidu in the earlier days of the internet has made a personal fortune on bitcoin and has more recently turned his attention to initial coin offerings. He said in May that he was participating in the Tezos ICO one of the biggest crypto offerings of the past year. That deal has been plagued by conflict with the founders stuck in a financial battle with one of the leaders of the project.
Draper said there will be "fits and starts" in the emergence of blockchain but over time it will effect "industry after industry."
|
Big Macs and lattes will be purchased by cryptocurrencies sooner than you might think according to venture capitalist and bitcoin fanatic [TGT]
"In five years if you go to a Starbucks or McDonald's and try to buy a burger or coffee with fiat currency the person at the counter is going to laugh at you " [TGT] told an audience Friday in San Francisco. "There's a real need for a currency that's global."
Draper 's presentation at the Blockchain Connect Conference came by video and helped kick off a full day of panels and presentations from developers and investors. The event was so crowded that people were filling up the overflow room to listen on televisions and [TGT] 's video aired late because of technical difficulties.
Draper who backed companies including Skype and Baidu in the earlier days of the internet has made a personal fortune on bitcoin and has more recently turned his attention to initial coin offerings. He said in May that he was participating in the Tezos ICO one of the biggest crypto offerings of the past year. That deal has been plagued by conflict with the founders stuck in a financial battle with one of the leaders of the project.
[TGT] said there will be "fits and starts" in the emergence of blockchain but over time it will effect "industry after industry."
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,121 |
Bitcoin price stable despite China crackdown
|
Sebastian Quinn-Watson
|
Sebastian Quinn-Watson of Blockchain Global a bitcoin exchange operator said the crackdown is just a temporary reaction to the explosive growth of the cryptocurrency market this year. Initial coin offerings a fundraising method in which companies issue their own cryptocurrencies to potentially raise millions of dollars alarmed regulators and forced them to take action to reign in the markets to prevent a possible crash according to Quinn-Watson. On September 4 regulators in China deemed ICOs which have raised over $2 billion this year illegal.
Quinn-Watson who speaks frequently with regulators said he expects the regulatory pendulum to swing the other way eventually. Here's Quinn-Watson (emphasis added):
He told Business Insider regulators are considering to allow companies to run ICOs through a government-supervised pilot program.
Still not everyone agrees with Quinn-Watson . Jim Stent author of "China's Banking Transformation" said China's crackdown is permanent according to reporting by CNBC.
|
Sebastian Quinn-Watson of Blockchain Global a bitcoin exchange operator said the crackdown is just a temporary reaction to the explosive growth of the cryptocurrency market this year. Initial coin offerings a fundraising method in which companies issue their own cryptocurrencies to potentially raise millions of dollars alarmed regulators and forced them to take action to reign in the markets to prevent a possible crash according to [TGT] . On September 4 regulators in China deemed ICOs which have raised over $2 billion this year illegal.
Quinn-Watson who speaks frequently with regulators said he expects the regulatory pendulum to swing the other way eventually. Here's Quinn-Watson (emphasis added):
He told Business Insider regulators are considering to allow companies to run ICOs through a government-supervised pilot program.
Still not everyone agrees with [TGT] . Jim Stent author of "China's Banking Transformation" said China's crackdown is permanent according to reporting by CNBC.
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,122 |
DoneGood's new website gives your holiday shopping a social good boost
|
Cullen Schwarz
|
DoneGood which is a certified B Corp launched a similar browser extension and app last year alerting shoppers to ethical alternatives while they browse on any ecommerce site. But according to cofounder Cullen Schwarz the company always planned to launch its own destination website where users could search through hundreds of mission-driven brands in one place.
"Our goal is to make it really really easy for people to find the brands that are making great stuff and making the world better at the same time " he said.
Schwarz likens the new site to an "Amazon of the social impact economy " or a "Kayak of the social impact space." DoneGood partners with more than 250 companies whose business models have a demonstrated social or environmental impact. That means you won't find brands giving 1 percent of profits to charity or just touting a one-for-one giveaway model.
"We're looking for companies that are making the world better through their everyday business practices. If a company doesn't pay workers well or has sub-par environmental practices but gives to charity we donât partner with that business " Schwarz said.
"One of the best parts of our jobs is talking to all these people who started brands that have a social mission and arenât just out to make a profit ... They're working to prove that businesses can be successful and be a force for good in the world at the same time " Schwarz said.
In spite of the stress and consumerism that Black Friday ushers in every year Schwarz hopes the shopping site â along with the existing Chrome extension and app â can be bring together all the good parts of the holidays. These products make more unique and meaningful gifts he explained and there's also a slew of discounts.
Schwarz isn't just talking the talk. He and the DoneGood team are a part of a new initiative called Shop for Good Sunday which fills the gap on the Sunday in the middle of Black Friday Small Business Saturday Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday.
Since it launched on Cyber Monday 2016 DoneGood has raised more than $750 000 in funding so far including contest winnings from Harvard and MIT according to Schwarz .
He said the response over the past year from both users and brands has been amazing. Multiple companies ask to join DoneGood every week and users often suggest companies to add to the platform.
"Most people want to know that their money is supporting things they believe in. It's just always been really hard and time-consuming to find companies that you know are doing good for the world. We work to make it easy. The easier we can make it the more often more people can join in and the bigger the impact we all have together " Schwarz said.
|
DoneGood which is a certified B Corp launched a similar browser extension and app last year alerting shoppers to ethical alternatives while they browse on any ecommerce site. But according to cofounder [TGT] the company always planned to launch its own destination website where users could search through hundreds of mission-driven brands in one place.
"Our goal is to make it really really easy for people to find the brands that are making great stuff and making the world better at the same time " he said.
Schwarz likens the new site to an "Amazon of the social impact economy " or a "Kayak of the social impact space." DoneGood partners with more than 250 companies whose business models have a demonstrated social or environmental impact. That means you won't find brands giving 1 percent of profits to charity or just touting a one-for-one giveaway model.
"We're looking for companies that are making the world better through their everyday business practices. If a company doesn't pay workers well or has sub-par environmental practices but gives to charity we donât partner with that business " Schwarz said.
"One of the best parts of our jobs is talking to all these people who started brands that have a social mission and arenât just out to make a profit ... They're working to prove that businesses can be successful and be a force for good in the world at the same time " Schwarz said.
In spite of the stress and consumerism that Black Friday ushers in every year Schwarz hopes the shopping site â along with the existing Chrome extension and app â can be bring together all the good parts of the holidays. These products make more unique and meaningful gifts he explained and there's also a slew of discounts.
Schwarz isn't just talking the talk. He and the DoneGood team are a part of a new initiative called Shop for Good Sunday which fills the gap on the Sunday in the middle of Black Friday Small Business Saturday Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday.
Since it launched on Cyber Monday 2016 DoneGood has raised more than $750 000 in funding so far including contest winnings from Harvard and MIT according to Schwarz .
He said the response over the past year from both users and brands has been amazing. Multiple companies ask to join DoneGood every week and users often suggest companies to add to the platform.
"Most people want to know that their money is supporting things they believe in. It's just always been really hard and time-consuming to find companies that you know are doing good for the world. We work to make it easy. The easier we can make it the more often more people can join in and the bigger the impact we all have together " Schwarz said.
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,123 |
Matt Nagy : 10 things to know about the new Bears coach
|
Matt Nagy
|
Matt Nagy took an interesting path to becoming the new Bears head coach. Here are 10 things to know about the Plainfield N.J. native.
Nagy who grew up in Lancaster Pa. has four children with his wife Stacey â all boys: Brayden Tate Jaxon and Jett. âWe tried for a girl and got twin boys â Nagy said via the Chiefs website.
Mitch Trubisky will be mentored by a former Arena Football League and Chiefs quarterbacks coach. Nagy played six seasons for the AFLâs New York Dragons (2002) Carolina Cobras (2004) Georgia Force (2005-06) and Columbus Destroyers (2007-08) passing for 18 866 yards and 374 touchdowns.
Nagy still holds several school passing records at the University of Delaware such as throwing for 556 yards in a 1998 game against Connecticut. Nagy also quarterbacked the Manheim Central High School Barons to back-to-back state finals in 1994 and â95.
Larry Wisdom who about 10 years ago was a major player in Chicago suburban real estate played a pivotal role in Nagy âs life. Wisdom a former Midwest regional president at builder Neumann Homes Inc. who had moved to the Lancaster area in 2007 hired Nagy in 2008 at a time when the AFL was in danger of closing shop and Nagy had a family of four children to support. âI was in a tough spot and he took care of us â Nagy said in a story on the Chiefs website. âI'll always be indebted to him .â
Wisdom came through again when he gave Nagy time off to pursue a second summer internship with the Eagles despite Nagy being only a few months into his new job as a Realtor.
Wisdom was also high school classmates with Aurora native Brad Childress who would eventually become Chiefs co-offensive coordinator with Nagy when Doug Pederson took the Eagles head coaching job in 2016.
In 2007 the then-Columbus Destroyers quarterback told the Columbus Dispatch that his last name had been pronounced NEH-gee and NAG-ee though according to Pennsylvania Dutch tradition itâs supposed to be NAHZJ-ee. "Either way " Nagy said at the time. "In high school it was NEH-gee. In college it was NAG-ee. Now we don't know what it is.â The Chiefs media guide doesnât list a pronunciation though Nagy told the Dispatch he goes by NEH-gee.
The Nagy rule
When Andy Reid was coach of the Eagles he tried to sign then-intern Nagy as a quarterback after an injury to Kevin Kolb in August 2009. The NFL nixed that plan. Technically Nagy was still under contract with the AFL. Also NFL teams now canât sign interns as players to remove the temptation to stash potential replacements for injured players on their staffs.
An online profile of Wisdomâs company Keystone Custom Homes lists Nagy âs title as ânew homes advisor.â So between his old job and Wisdomâs knowledge of the Chicago market Nagy should have no problem finding a house near Halas Hall.
In Lancaster County home to Amish country and covered âkissing bridges â Nagy shares favorite-son bragging rights with former Cub Bruce Sutter (Lancaster) President James Buchanan (Lancaster) âChicago Fireâ actor Taylor Kinney (Lancaster) and golfer Jim Furyk (West Chester; Manheim Township High School). However Nagy canât lay claim to being called the best quarterback to come out of his own high school Manheim Central. That honor belongs to former Michigan State quarterback Jeff Smoker.
Before his career revival in Kansas City Alex Smith was underused as a runner and didnât get enough credit for his mobility an attribute he shares with Mitch Trubisky. Nagy said he used to give Smith the business about it though. â He is pretty athletic â Nagy said in a âCoachâs Cornerâ interview on Chiefs.com. âWe always get on him and tease him a little bit that he 's not as athletic as he thinks he is and bring him back down but that's definitely a great trait of his .â
Bears hire Matt Nagy as franchise's 16th head coach »
Steve Rosenbloom: Bears GM Ryan Pace bets his job on Matt Nagy »
|
[TGT] took an interesting path to becoming the new Bears head coach. Here are 10 things to know about the Plainfield N.J. native.
[TGT] has four children with [TGT] wife Stacey â all boys: Brayden Tate Jaxon and Jett. âWe tried for a girl and got twin boys â [TGT] said via the Chiefs website.
Mitch Trubisky will be mentored by a former Arena Football League and Chiefs quarterbacks coach. [TGT] played six seasons for the AFLâs New York Dragons (2002) Carolina Cobras (2004) Georgia Force (2005-06) and Columbus Destroyers (2007-08) passing for 18 866 yards and 374 touchdowns.
[TGT] still holds several school passing records at the University of Delaware such as throwing for 556 yards in a 1998 game against Connecticut. [TGT] also quarterbacked the Manheim Central High School Barons to back-to-back state finals in 1994 and â95.
Larry Wisdom who about 10 years ago was a major player in Chicago suburban real estate played a pivotal role in [TGT] . Wisdom a former Midwest regional president at builder Neumann Homes Inc. who had moved to the Lancaster area in 2007 hired Nagy in 2008 at a time when the AFL was in danger of closing shop and [TGT] had a family of four children to support. âI was in a tough spot and [TGT] took care of us â [TGT] said in a story on the Chiefs website. âI'll always be indebted to [TGT] .â
Wisdom came through again when [TGT] gave [TGT] time off to pursue a second summer internship with the Eagles despite [TGT] being only a few months into [TGT] new job as a Realtor.
Wisdom was also high school classmates with Aurora native Brad Childress who would eventually become Chiefs co-offensive coordinator with Nagy when Doug Pederson took the Eagles head coaching job in 2016.
In 2007 the then-Columbus Destroyers quarterback told the Columbus Dispatch that his last name had been pronounced NEH-gee and NAG-ee though according to Pennsylvania Dutch tradition itâs supposed to be NAHZJ-ee. "Either way " [TGT] said at the time. "In high school it was NEH-gee. In college it was NAG-ee. Now we don't know what it is.â The Chiefs media guide doesnât list a pronunciation though Nagy told the Dispatch he goes by NEH-gee.
The Nagy rule
When Andy Reid was coach of the Eagles he tried to sign then-intern Nagy as a quarterback after an injury to Kevin Kolb in August 2009. The NFL nixed that plan. Technically Nagy was still under contract with the AFL. Also NFL teams now canât sign interns as players to remove the temptation to stash potential replacements for injured players on their staffs.
An online profile of Wisdomâs company Keystone Custom Homes lists Nagy âs title as ânew homes advisor.â So between his old job and Wisdomâs knowledge of the Chicago market Nagy should have no problem finding a house near Halas Hall.
In Lancaster County home to Amish country and covered âkissing bridges â Nagy shares favorite-son bragging rights with former Cub Bruce Sutter (Lancaster) President James Buchanan (Lancaster) âChicago Fireâ actor Taylor Kinney (Lancaster) and golfer Jim Furyk (West Chester; Manheim Township High School). However Nagy canât lay claim to being called the best quarterback to come out of his own high school Manheim Central. That honor belongs to former Michigan State quarterback Jeff Smoker.
Before his career revival in Kansas City Alex Smith was underused as a runner and didnât get enough credit for his mobility an attribute he shares with Mitch Trubisky. Nagy said he used to give Smith the business about it though. â He is pretty athletic â Nagy said in a âCoachâs Cornerâ interview on Chiefs.com. âWe always get on him and tease him a little bit that he 's not as athletic as he thinks he is and bring him back down but that's definitely a great trait of his .â
Bears hire Matt Nagy as franchise's 16th head coach »
Steve Rosenbloom: Bears GM Ryan Pace bets his job on Matt Nagy »
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
|
2,124 |
'Pale' and 'depressive': Eldest son among Calif. siblings described by school peers
|
David Turpin
|
Student Joe Chermak said that in the spring of 2016 during the music department's student showcase he saw another man whom he believed to be the 25-year-old's father David Turpin with several children in matching clothes.
David Turpin 57 and Louise Turpin 49 have each been charged with 12 counts of torture 12 counts of false imprisonment seven counts of abuse of a dependent adult and six counts of child abuse. David Turpin was also charged with one count of a lewd act on a child under the age of 14 by force fear or duress. They have pleaded not guilty.
Frederic J. Brown Pool via Getty Images
David Macher a lawyer for David Turpin told ABC News "What we would like the public to know is that our clients are presumed to be innocent and thatâs a very important presumption." He added "Weâre going to provide a vigorous defense."
|
Student Joe Chermak said that in the spring of 2016 during the music department's student showcase he saw another man whom he believed to be the 25-year-old's father [TGT] with several children in matching clothes.
[TGT] 57 and Louise Turpin 49 have each been charged with 12 counts of torture 12 counts of false imprisonment seven counts of abuse of a dependent adult and six counts of child abuse. [TGT] was also charged with one count of a lewd act on a child under the age of 14 by force fear or duress. They have pleaded not guilty.
Frederic J. Brown Pool via Getty Images
David Macher a lawyer for [TGT] told ABC News "What we would like the public to know is that our clients are presumed to be innocent and thatâs a very important presumption." [TGT] added "Weâre going to provide a vigorous defense."
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,125 |
The Latest: Shaun White: Sex assault allegations are gossip
|
Shaun White
|
Menâs halfpipe gold medalist Shaun White of the United States speaks at a news conference at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang South Korea Wednesday Feb. 14 2018. (Patrick Semansky/Associated Press)
Shaun White has dismissed the sexual assault allegations made against him in a 2016 lawsuit as âgossip.â
White won his third Olympic gold medal Wednesday in the menâs halfpipe then was criticized on social media and questioned in a press conference about allegations made in a lawsuit by a former drummer in Whiteâs rock band.
The woman says White sexually harassed and refused to pay her. The lawsuit was settled last May.
White was asked in a media conference if the lawsuit might tarnish his reputation.
He says âIâm here to talk about the Olympics not gossip and stuff.â He adds âI donât think so.â
Reporters attempted to follow up about the lawsuit but the conference moderator shot them down. White rushed off stage as reporters questioned him about the allegations following the conference.
Snowboarder Shaun White has won Americaâs 100th Winter Olympic gold medal throwing down a spectacular final run in the menâs halfpipe.
12:05 p.m.
Snowboarding star Shaun White is a three-time Olympic champion.
Japanâs Ayumu Hirano has vaulted past Shaun White and into first place in the menâs halfpipe final.
The 19-year-old Hirano put up a score of 95.25 during his second run to edge past White . Hirano washed out in his first run but responded by throwing back-to-back 1440-degree spins during his second run.
White attempting to become the first American to win gold in three different Winter Olympics sat down on his second run to remain in second.
White will get one last shot to surpass Ayumu. White will be the final rider to go in the 12-man final.
American snowboarder Shaun White is in the lead after one run in the menâs halfpipe final.
|
[TGT] speaks at a news conference at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang South Korea Wednesday Feb. 14 2018. (Patrick Semansky/Associated Press)
[TGT] has dismissed the sexual assault allegations made against [TGT] in a 2016 lawsuit as âgossip.â
White won [TGT] third Olympic gold medal Wednesday in the menâs halfpipe then was criticized on social media and questioned in a press conference about allegations made in a lawsuit by a former drummer in Whiteâs rock band.
The woman says [TGT] sexually harassed and refused to pay her. The lawsuit was settled last May.
[TGT] was asked in a media conference if the lawsuit might tarnish [TGT] reputation.
[TGT] says âIâm here to talk about the Olympics not gossip and stuff.â He adds âI donât think so.â
Reporters attempted to follow up about the lawsuit but the conference moderator shot them down. [TGT] rushed off stage as reporters questioned [TGT] about the allegations following the conference.
[TGT] has won Americaâs 100th Winter Olympic gold medal throwing down a spectacular final run in the menâs halfpipe.
[TGT]
is a three-time Olympic champion.
Japanâs Ayumu Hirano has vaulted past [TGT] and into first place in the menâs halfpipe final.
The 19-year-old Hirano put up a score of 95.25 during his second run to edge past [TGT] . Hirano washed out in his first run but responded by throwing back-to-back 1440-degree spins during his second run.
[TGT] attempting to become the first American to win gold in three different Winter Olympics sat down on [TGT] second run to remain in second.
[TGT] will get one last shot to surpass Ayumu. [TGT] will be the final rider to go in the 12-man final.
American snowboarder [TGT] is in the lead after one run in the menâs halfpipe final.
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| -1no label
|
2,126 |
Restaurant hires criminals
|
Joe Deloss
|
That's by design according to owner Joe Deloss who shared his story on NBC's Today show .
"Because we believe a crime record is often about circumstance not character ... we're giving an opportunity for somebody to demonstrate a different story for themselves " Deloss said.
Deloss opened Hot Chicken Takeover with his wife in 2014 and had just three employees. Today the couple own three restaurants and have nearly 200 employees. Deloss credits the success of his business to the team he 's built touting his employees' "alternative resumes" as a benefit to his company.
His employees say they feel at home.
"Everyday I come in here I feel accepted " Jameel H. one of Deloss' employees said. "The love is genuine. I've worked for numerous companies and I've never felt anything like this."
Deloss is conscious of these impediments to success and offers his employees benefits for housing transportation and counseling. His philosophy of fair chance employment is making a difference in their lives.
|
That's by design according to owner [TGT] who shared his story on NBC's Today show .
"Because we believe a crime record is often about circumstance not character ... we're giving an opportunity for somebody to demonstrate a different story for themselves " Deloss said.
Deloss opened Hot Chicken Takeover with his wife in 2014 and had just three employees. Today the couple own three restaurants and have nearly 200 employees. Deloss credits the success of his business to the team he 's built touting his employees' "alternative resumes" as a benefit to his company.
His employees say they feel at home.
"Everyday I come in here I feel accepted " Jameel H. one of Deloss' employees said. "The love is genuine. I've worked for numerous companies and I've never felt anything like this."
Deloss is conscious of these impediments to success and offers his employees benefits for housing transportation and counseling. His philosophy of fair chance employment is making a difference in their lives.
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,127 |
Lower taxes and tight labor market prompt Walmart to hike U.S. wages
|
Sam
|
The pay increase Walmartâs third minimum wage increase since 2015 and bonus will benefit more than 1 million U.S. hourly workers it said. Separately on Thursday Walmartâs Samâs Club unit said on Twitter that it was shutting a series of stores following a review. It did not say how many.
Sam 's Club reported the store closures in a tweet after a series of reports from local news outlets said some Sam 's Club stores were closed abruptly on Thursday with employees learning of the move as they arrived for work. (bit.ly/2DjkkWv)
The increase in wages will cost approximately $300 million on top of wage hike plans that had been included in next fiscal yearâs plans the company said.
Labor groups have said that past rises in wages at the retailer have led to a cut in work hours for employees as the company sought to offset the impact on profits. Walmart has denied that.
|
The pay increase Walmartâs third minimum wage increase since 2015 and bonus will benefit more than 1 million U.S. hourly workers it said. Separately on Thursday [TGT] said on Twitter that it was shutting a series of stores following a review. It did not say how many.
[TGT] reported the store closures in a tweet after a series of reports from local news outlets said some Sam 's Club stores were closed abruptly on Thursday with employees learning of the move as they arrived for work. (bit.ly/2DjkkWv)
The increase in wages will cost approximately $300 million on top of wage hike plans that had been included in next fiscal yearâs plans the company said.
Labor groups have said that past rises in wages at the retailer have led to a cut in work hours for employees as the company sought to offset the impact on profits. Walmart has denied that.
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,128 |
Christie : Trump should not meet with Mueller
|
Chris Christie
|
Story highlights Chris Christie finished his second term as governor earlier this month
Prior to serving as governor Christie was a US attorney in New Jersey
Washington (CNN) Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Tuesday that President Donald Trump should not meet face-to-face with special counsel Robert Mueller.
"I don't think the President of the United States -- unless there are credible allegations which I don't believe there are -- should be sitting across from the special counsel. The presidency is different. I don't think they should do that " Christie who served as a US attorney for New Jersey for six years prior to becoming governor told ABC's "Good Morning America."
"Robert Mueller is not someone to be trifled with " Christie said. "What I've said all along is that in an investigation like this there's ... nothing you can do to make it shorter. There are lots of things you can do to make it longer."
Christie's comments were quickly criticized by Preet Bharara an Obama-era US attorney for New York who was ousted from his role by Trump last March.
|
Story highlights [TGT] finished [TGT] second term as governor earlier this month
Prior to serving as governor Christie was a US attorney in New Jersey
Washington (CNN) [TGT] said Tuesday that President Donald Trump should not meet face-to-face with special counsel Robert Mueller.
"I don't think the President of the United States -- unless there are credible allegations which I don't believe there are -- should be sitting across from the special counsel. The presidency is different. I don't think they should do that [TGT] told ABC's "Good Morning America."
"Robert Mueller is not someone to be trifled with [TGT] said. "What I've said all along is that in an investigation like this there's ... nothing you can do to make it shorter. There are lots of things you can do to make it longer. [TGT]
comments were quickly criticized by Preet Bharara an Obama-era US attorney for New York who was ousted from his role by Trump last March.
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,129 |
Predators vs. Penguins: Kyle Turris scores in Nashville's shootout win
|
Kyle Turris
|
Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE Nashville Predator Kyle Turris speaks during media availability at Centennial Sportsplex in Nashville Tenn. Wednesday Nov. 8 2017. Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean
Kyle Turris had two points in the Predators' 5-4 shootout win against the Pittsburgh Penguins which stretched Nashville's season-long winning streak to four games.
Turris' strong first impression
Turris acquired last Sunday as part of a three-team deal involving the Ottawa Senators and Colorado Avalanche immediately demonstrated his value Saturday.
Matched up primarily against Penguins captain Sidney Crosby's line Turris centered forwards Kevin Fiala and Craig Smith. He generated multiple high-quality scoring chances for himself and others with his speed and playmaking ability netting his first Predators goal in the second period from the slot.
More: Kyle Turris scores his first goal with the Predators barely two periods into his first game
"It felt great " Turris said. "It was real exciting. The crowd was awesome."
Turris' goal was one of several Nashville scoring chances from the preferred high-danger areas surrounding the Pittsburgh net. The Predators swarmed the slot Saturday with both of their even-strength goals originating from that section of the ice. Turris and Smith each had three high-danger scoring chances according to naturalstattrick.com.
|
Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE Nashville Predator [TGT] speaks during media availability at Centennial Sportsplex in Nashville Tenn. Wednesday Nov. 8 2017. Andrew Nelles / [TGT]
had two points in the Predators' 5-4 shootout win against the Pittsburgh Penguins which stretched Nashville's season-long winning streak to four games.
[TGT] strong first impression
[TGT] acquired last Sunday as part of a three-team deal involving the Ottawa Senators and Colorado Avalanche immediately demonstrated [TGT] value Saturday.
Matched up primarily against [TGT] centered forwards Kevin Fiala and Craig Smith. [TGT] generated multiple high-quality scoring chances for [TGT] and others with [TGT] speed and playmaking ability netting [TGT] first Predators goal in the second period from the slot.
More: [TGT] scores his first goal with the Predators barely two periods into his first game
"It felt great " [TGT] said. "It was real exciting. The crowd was awesome."
Turris' goal was one of several Nashville scoring chances from the preferred high-danger areas surrounding the Pittsburgh net. The Predators swarmed the slot Saturday with both of their even-strength goals originating from that section of the ice. [TGT] and Smith each had three high-danger scoring chances according to naturalstattrick.com.
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,130 |
Global Markets Remain Immune To A Year Of Political Volatility : NPR
|
Uri Berliner
|
No way around it - 2017 was a great year to own stocks. The S&P 500 index had risen almost 20 percent over the year. And the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 25 percent over the same period buoying portfolios dividends and retirement accounts. And it's a similar story around the world on financial markets in Japan Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. All this happened despite a wave of political turmoil in the U.S. and around the globe. To find out why 2017 was such a bull year we're joined now by NPR senior business editor Uri Berliner . Hi Uri.
URI BERLINER BYLINE: Hey Ray.
BERLINER : Well you know despite all this tension and political volatility and geopolitical uncertainty it actually was a good year for the global economy and remarkably kind of a stable one. Corporate earnings were very strong. Inflation is in check. Sort of the sense that the financial crisis of 2008 is really behind us now. I think economies around the world felt that more confidently. And every single country every major developed country grew last year which is a remarkable thing. It just doesn't happen that often.
BERLINER : Well really you know since the end of the financial crisis the stock market in the U.S. has just been on a roll. It's had a number of really good years. In 2009 the S&P 500 was up more than 26 percent. In 2013 it was up more than 32 percent. So stocks have had a lot of good years but this was especially notable this one.
BERLINER : Well I think a lot of this just has to do with corporate earnings. I mean markets look at corporate earnings very closely. This is really their bread and butter. And you know companies throughout the U.S. - technology companies all kinds of companies - posted really stellar earnings. And there was strong earnings growth overseas as well. So you know I think this market has just looked at a - an unusually stable year economically despite and in spite of all craziness all the turmoil all the threatening situations around - the world the volatility and the fear in the economy just wasn't there.
BERLINER : Right exactly. As you said you know half of Americans own stocks. And for them it was a very good year. And to some extent if those people feel wealthier they may spend more. That's called a wealth effect. That may boost the economy a little bit. But those people who don't own stocks they don't benefit directly in any way from this big year in the stock market. And even those who do own stock they're really concentrated mostly among people who are wealthy - six-figure earners seven-figure earners. Those are the people who own most of the stock in the U.S. and even those who own some many of them don't own that much.
SUAREZ: That's NPR's Uri Berliner . Thanks a lot Uri.
BERLINER : You're welcome Ray.
|
No way around it - 2017 was a great year to own stocks. The S&P 500 index had risen almost 20 percent over the year. And the Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 25 percent over the same period buoying portfolios dividends and retirement accounts. And it's a similar story around the world on financial markets in Japan Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. All this happened despite a wave of political turmoil in the U.S. and around the globe. To find out why 2017 was such a bull year we're joined now by [TGT] . Hi Uri.
[TGT] BYLINE: Hey Ray.
[TGT] : Well you know despite all this tension and political volatility and geopolitical uncertainty it actually was a good year for the global economy and remarkably kind of a stable one. Corporate earnings were very strong. Inflation is in check. Sort of the sense that the financial crisis of 2008 is really behind us now. I think economies around the world felt that more confidently. And every single country every major developed country grew last year which is a remarkable thing. It just doesn't happen that often.
[TGT] : Well really you know since the end of the financial crisis the stock market in the U.S. has just been on a roll. It's had a number of really good years. In 2009 the S&P 500 was up more than 26 percent. In 2013 it was up more than 32 percent. So stocks have had a lot of good years but this was especially notable this one.
[TGT] : Well I think a lot of this just has to do with corporate earnings. I mean markets look at corporate earnings very closely. This is really their bread and butter. And you know companies throughout the U.S. - technology companies all kinds of companies - posted really stellar earnings. And there was strong earnings growth overseas as well. So you know I think this market has just looked at a - an unusually stable year economically despite and in spite of all craziness all the turmoil all the threatening situations around - the world the volatility and the fear in the economy just wasn't there.
[TGT] : Right exactly. As you said you know half of Americans own stocks. And for them it was a very good year. And to some extent if those people feel wealthier they may spend more. That's called a wealth effect. That may boost the economy a little bit. But those people who don't own stocks they don't benefit directly in any way from this big year in the stock market. And even those who do own stock they're really concentrated mostly among people who are wealthy - six-figure earners seven-figure earners. Those are the people who own most of the stock in the U.S. and even those who own some many of them don't own that much.
SUAREZ: That's NPR's Uri Berliner . Thanks a lot Uri.
[TGT] : You're welcome Ray.
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,131 |
Mitch McConnellâs Former Chief of Staff Calls Steve Bannon a 'White Supremacistâ
|
Josh Hawley
|
Holmesâ and the establishment Republicansâ influence in the 2018 Senate election continues to fade. Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley whom Holmesâ labeled as their first choice for the 2018 midterm election refuses to endorse Mitch McConnell for majority leader.
âHe was our No. 1 recruit of the cycle â Holmes charged. âWe worked our tail off to recruit Josh Hawley .â
Hawleyâs spokesman Scott Paradise responded in an email questioning whether Hawley would back McConnell.
â Josh is running because he is not willing to tolerate the failure of the D.C. establishment any longer â Paradise added. â He wonât tolerate Claire McCaskillâs failure. And he wonât tolerate Republican failure either.â
|
Holmesâ and the establishment Republicansâ influence in the 2018 Senate election continues to fade. Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley whom Holmesâ labeled as their first choice for the 2018 midterm election refuses to endorse Mitch McConnell for majority leader.
âHe was our No. 1 recruit of the cycle â Holmes charged. âWe worked our tail off to recruit [TGT] Hawley .â
Hawleyâs spokesman Scott Paradise responded in an email questioning whether Hawley would back McConnell.
â [TGT] is running because [TGT] is not willing to tolerate the failure of the D.C. establishment any longer â Paradise added. â [TGT] wonât tolerate Claire McCaskillâs failure. And he wonât tolerate Republican failure either.â
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,132 |
Top ANZ strategist wrote a Christmas poem about blockchain and cryptos
|
Martin Whetton
|
Earlier this year we had Martin Whetton Senior Rates Strategist at ANZ Bank appear on our Devils and Details podcast to talk all things interest rates.
It was undoubtedly one of our best shows of the year thanks to the vast knowledge and experience he was able to share.
Well it appears that Martin is not just a rates market guru.
Following a more than 400% surge in the value of Long Island Iced Tea Corporation shares on Thursday on news the company would change its name to âLong Blockchain Corp " Martin penned the following poem to describe the current craziness of the crypto world.
Thanks to Martin for letting us use it. You can follow him on Twitter here »
|
Earlier this year we had [TGT] Senior Rates Strategist at ANZ Bank appear on our Devils and Details podcast to talk all things interest rates.
It was undoubtedly one of our best shows of the year thanks to the vast knowledge and experience he was able to share.
Well it appears that Martin is not just a rates market guru.
Following a more than 400% surge in the value of Long Island Iced Tea Corporation shares on Thursday on news the company would change its name to âLong Blockchain Corp " Martin penned the following poem to describe the current craziness of the crypto world.
Thanks to Martin for letting us use it. You can follow him on Twitter here »
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,133 |
Prince Harry Ditches Boxing Day Shoot to Please 'Hunt
|
Harry
|
Prince Harry refused to take part in the Royal Familyâs traditional Boxing Day shoot on Tuesday so as not to upset his âpart-veganâ activist fiancée according to reports.
Gamekeepers at the Sandringham estate where Harry first joined his family at the annual shoot more than 20 years ago were âstunnedâ by the princeâs decision according to The Sun.
â Harry loves it and has always been out there on Boxing Day . But if it means breaking with long-standing royal traditions to avoid upsetting her so be it. Itâs fair to say that there are some pretty stunned faces around here.â
A friend of Harryâs said: âIf Meghanâs not comfortable with him doing the shoot he wouldnât want to upset her.â
On Wednesday Prince Harry and the BBC were criticised for producing a politicised âinterviewâ with Barack Obama in which the former president launched a thinly-veiled attack on his successor Donald J. Trump.
|
[TGT] refused to take part in the Royal Familyâs traditional Boxing Day shoot on Tuesday so as not to upset [TGT] âpart-veganâ activist fiancée according to reports.
Gamekeepers at the Sandringham estate where Harry first joined his family at the annual shoot more than 20 years ago were âstunnedâ by the princeâs decision according to The Sun.
â [TGT] loves it and has always been out there on Boxing Day . But if it means breaking with long-standing royal traditions to avoid upsetting [TGT] so be it. Itâs fair to say that there are some pretty stunned faces around here.â
A friend of Harryâs said: âIf Meghanâs not comfortable with him doing the shoot he wouldnât want to upset her.â
On Wednesday Prince Harry and the BBC were criticised for producing a politicised âinterviewâ with Barack Obama in which the former president launched a thinly-veiled attack on his successor Donald J. Trump.
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,134 |
Gold trader says he made 'maybe $150 million' from plot to beat Iran sanctions
|
Reza Zarrab
|
Reza Zarrab once the lead defendant in a widespread money laundering investigation has pleaded guilty to money laundering and bank fraud among other charges according to court documents.
On Tuesday his fifth day of testimony Zarrab estimated how much he made by laundering Iranian money for six years until he was arrested in Miami in 2016.
"I don't remember exactly " Zarrab said. "It could be $100 million. It could be more than that maybe $150 million."
Although Zarrab has not said how much Iranian money he illegally moved through international banks an 0.4% cut matching his payout would mean that he helped Iran move $25 billion to $37 billion -- an astonishing number for a black-market operation spearheaded by a single man.
During previous testimony in court Zarrab said that Iran had $3 billion at the Turkish state-owned Halkbank. It was those accounts that Zarrab says he was tasked with emptying to move Iranian funds.
Atilla's defense lawyer Cathy Fleming appeared to attack Zarrab 's integrity by questioning him on Tuesday and Wednesday about how he spent his riches.
Zarrab admitted that in 2013 he paid for prostitutes to satisfy "others " likely business partners and clients.
He also said he was carrying $102 000 when he was arrested in March 2016 -- cash that the international bank fraudster and money launderer planned to spend on a family trip to Walt Disney World.
"This was the money needed for our 10-day trip for seven individuals " Zarrab said.
He also admitted that while in a US jail he used his Turkish lawyer to funnel $45 000 to a US prison guard. It was a bribe so that he could sneak alcohol into the jail and use the guard's cell phone to call family members in Turkey.
Zarrab also admitted paying other jail inmates to use their phone time when his own 300-minute allotment was up.
The closely watched trial took an unexpected turn Wednesday evening when Zarrab was sued by a former jail inmate who accused him of rape.
According to the man's lawsuit Zarrab raped him assaulted him with his hands and sodomized him with a cucumber when they shared a cell earlier this year at Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center.
Zarrab's attorney Benjamin Brafman told CNN by email: "Mr Zarrab vehemently denies this outrageous and patently false allegation. He intends to vigorously defend against this offensive lawsuit."
Last week Zarrab implicated top Turkish government officials when he testified that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who was prime minister at the time personally intervened in the scheme -- as well as former Turkish economy minister Zafer Caglayan.
|
[TGT] has pleaded guilty to money laundering and bank fraud among other charges according to court documents.
On Tuesday [TGT] fifth day of testimony [TGT] estimated how much [TGT] made by laundering Iranian money for six years until [TGT] was arrested in Miami in 2016.
"I don't remember exactly " [TGT] said. "It could be $100 million. It could be more than that maybe $150 million."
Although [TGT] has not said how much Iranian money [TGT] illegally moved through international banks an 0.4% cut matching [TGT] payout would mean that [TGT] helped Iran move $25 billion to $37 billion -- an astonishing number for a black-market operation spearheaded by a single man.
During previous testimony in court [TGT] said that Iran had $3 billion at the Turkish state-owned Halkbank. It was those accounts that [TGT] says [TGT] was tasked with emptying to move Iranian funds.
Atilla's defense lawyer Cathy Fleming appeared to attack Zarrab 's integrity by questioning him on Tuesday and Wednesday about how he spent his riches.
[TGT] admitted that in 2013 [TGT] paid for prostitutes to satisfy "others " likely business partners and clients.
[TGT] also said [TGT] was carrying $102 000 when [TGT] was arrested in March 2016 -- cash that the international bank fraudster and money launderer planned to spend on a family trip to Walt Disney World.
"This was the money needed for our 10-day trip for seven individuals " Zarrab said.
He also admitted that while in a US jail he used his Turkish lawyer to funnel $45 000 to a US prison guard. It was a bribe so that he could sneak alcohol into the jail and use the guard's cell phone to call family members in Turkey.
Zarrab also admitted paying other jail inmates to use their phone time when his own 300-minute allotment was up.
The closely watched trial took an unexpected turn Wednesday evening when Zarrab was sued by a former jail inmate who accused him of rape.
According to the man's lawsuit Zarrab raped him assaulted him with his hands and sodomized him with a cucumber when they shared a cell earlier this year at Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center.
Zarrab's attorney Benjamin Brafman told CNN by email: "Mr Zarrab vehemently denies this outrageous and patently false allegation. He intends to vigorously defend against this offensive lawsuit."
Last week Zarrab implicated top Turkish government officials when he testified that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who was prime minister at the time personally intervened in the scheme -- as well as former Turkish economy minister Zafer Caglayan.
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| -1no label
|
2,135 |
Jon Gruden must solve two big problems for the Raiders to harbor playoff hopes
|
Jon Gruden
|
Jon Gruden has a career record of 95-81 (.540) with nine playoff appearances and one Super Bowl victory in 11 seasons as a coach. (Kirby Lee/USA TODAY Sports)
Jon Gruden was welcomed back for a second stint as Oakland Raiders coach on Tuesday now he âll be tasked with getting them back to the postseason. Based on his starting point however an immediate return to the playoffs is unlikely in 2018.
[Brewer: Jon Gruden is âa big effinâ dealâ to the Raiders but perhaps even bigger for all coaches]
So where can Gruden make up ground and quickly improve this roster? The wide receivers â once thought to be a strength of this team â may need a makeover.
Amari Cooper produced even fewer yards per route run than Crabtree (1.5) and was ranked 60th out of 78 qualified receivers for his on-field performance. Both need to be better in 2018. If not Gruden is going to have to find Carr a top target to throw to.
Gruden has even more work cut out for him on the defensive side of the ball. Oakland allowed 2.1 points per drive last season the fourth-most in the league with a 101.8 passer rating against the third-worst in football in 2017. To put that in perspective opposing quarterbacks performed as well as Carson Wentz â an MVP candidate before his season-ending injury in Week 14 â against the Raiders while the league average was closer to that of Andy Dalton (86.6).
|
[TGT] has a career record of 95-81 (.540) with nine playoff appearances and one Super Bowl victory in 11 seasons as a coach. (Kirby Lee/USA TODAY Sports)
[TGT] was welcomed back for a second stint as Oakland Raiders coach on Tuesday now [TGT] âll be tasked with getting them back to the postseason. Based on [TGT] starting point however an immediate return to the playoffs is unlikely in 2018.
[Brewer: [TGT] is âa big effinâ dealâ to the Raiders but perhaps even bigger for all coaches]
So where can [TGT] make up ground and quickly improve this roster? The wide receivers â once thought to be a strength of this team â may need a makeover.
Amari Cooper produced even fewer yards per route run than Crabtree (1.5) and was ranked 60th out of 78 qualified receivers for his on-field performance. Both need to be better in 2018. If not [TGT] is going to have to find Carr a top target to throw to.
[TGT] has even more work cut out for him on the defensive side of the ball. Oakland allowed 2.1 points per drive last season the fourth-most in the league with a 101.8 passer rating against the third-worst in football in 2017. To put that in perspective opposing quarterbacks performed as well as Carson Wentz â an MVP candidate before his season-ending injury in Week 14 â against the Raiders while the league average was closer to that of Andy Dalton (86.6).
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,136 |
Gunman who dressed as elderly woman in attack on ex her brother sentenced
|
Michael Love
|
Witnesses said Michael Love was dressed as an elderly woman wearing a brown dress stockings a wig and a mask when he approached a Sultanna Reed and Zach Guyton as they loaded children in an SUV to go to day care.
Love approached the vehicle pulled a handgun out of a plastic grocery bag and fired multiple shots at Reed his ex-girlfriend striking her three times. Her brother tried to come to her aid and Love shot him once in the face.
The two victims were rushed to a hospital in critical condition but survived. Love was arrested soon after.
Love was found guilty on Nov. 1 and sentenced Friday to 80 years in the Indiana Department of Correction.
|
Witnesses said [TGT] was dressed as an elderly woman wearing a brown dress stockings a wig and a mask when [TGT] approached a Sultanna Reed and Zach Guyton as they loaded children in an SUV to go to day care.
[TGT] approached the vehicle pulled a handgun out of a plastic grocery bag and fired multiple shots at Reed [TGT] ex-girlfriend striking her three times. Her brother tried to come to her aid and Love shot him once in the face.
The two victims were rushed to a hospital in critical condition but survived. [TGT] was arrested soon after.
[TGT] was found guilty on Nov. 1 and sentenced Friday to 80 years in the Indiana Department of Correction.
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,137 |
Billy Bush talks Trump tape scandal Matt Lauer firing: He asked me for self
|
Billy Bush
|
Billy Bush is opened up about Matt Lauer's firing and rebuilding his life after the fiasco that led to his own ouster from the "Today" show in 2016.
Bush said he 's been in touch with his former "Today" colleguage Lauer who was fired by the show after numerous allegations of sexual misconduct in November 2017.
â He texted me and asked about some of the self-help books Iâve been reading â Bush told People magazine. âI told him âStart here.â â
He said though he had a tumultuous relationship with Lauer he wasn't happy to see the anchor's scandal unfold.
âMaybe at one point there was part of me that [felt like] if someone else got [in trouble] I would be like âNow whoâs the bad guy?â â Bush said. âBut I took zero pleasure in it. And Iâm grateful for that. Let those who transgressed be held accountable. I felt for the women involved and for his wife.â
The TV personality told People magazine he was displeased with Lauer back in 2016 when "Today" fired Bush .
On Oct. 7 2016 Bush was heard on a years-old "Access Hollywood" recording with Trump discussing women in a lewd manner.
"In one of my resolute moments I said if I ever speak to [Lauer] Iâm going to tell him that I was let down. Many months later he called me and I addressed it. He assured me that he [fought for me] in private. I accepted it.â
"I have done so much self-help work. There is a term for what I did. Itâs called bystander abuse. It says by not doing anything you are endorsing the moment. I have to live with that " said Bush .
Additionally the former broadcaster says he would never want his daughters treated in a degrading manner.
"I have three daughters. They are going to be in the workplace one day. I want them to be paid equally I want them to be treated well and when they walk out of a room I donât want to ever hear anyone talking behind their back in a degrading way " explained Bush .
Although he has gone through a difficult 15 months Bush claims he has learned a great deal.
"I had some growing up to do anyway in life " said Bush . "I did so much exploring and figuring out. Iâm a deeper person. And Iâm happy about using my knowledge for a good purpose.â
|
[TGT] is opened up about Matt Lauer's firing and rebuilding [TGT] life after the fiasco that led to [TGT] own ouster from the "Today" show in 2016.
[TGT] said [TGT] 's been in touch with [TGT] former "Today" colleguage Lauer who was fired by the show after numerous allegations of sexual misconduct in November 2017.
â [TGT] texted me and asked about some of the self-help books Iâve been reading â [TGT] told People magazine. âI told him âStart here.â â
[TGT] said though [TGT] had a tumultuous relationship with Lauer [TGT] wasn't happy to see the anchor's scandal unfold.
âMaybe at one point there was part of me that [felt like] if someone else got [in trouble] I would be like âNow whoâs the bad guy?â â [TGT] said. âBut I took zero pleasure in it. And Iâm grateful for that. Let those who transgressed be held accountable. I felt for the women involved and for his wife.â
The TV personality told People magazine he was displeased with Lauer back in 2016 when "Today" fired [TGT] .
On Oct. 7 2016 [TGT] was heard on a years-old "Access Hollywood" recording with Trump discussing women in a lewd manner.
"In one of my resolute moments I said if I ever speak to [Lauer] Iâm going to tell him that I was let down. Many months later he called me and I addressed it. He assured me that he [fought for me] in private. I accepted it.â
"I have done so much self-help work. There is a term for what I did. Itâs called bystander abuse. It says by not doing anything you are endorsing the moment. I have to live with that " said [TGT] .
Additionally the former broadcaster says he would never want his daughters treated in a degrading manner.
"I have three daughters. They are going to be in the workplace one day. I want them to be paid equally I want them to be treated well and when they walk out of a room I donât want to ever hear anyone talking behind their back in a degrading way " explained [TGT] .
Although [TGT] has gone through a difficult 15 months Bush claims he has learned a great deal.
"I had some growing up to do anyway in life " said Bush . "I did so much exploring and figuring out. Iâm a deeper person. And Iâm happy about using my knowledge for a good purpose.â
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,138 |
Democrat Adam Schiff Fell for Russian Prankster Spoof Promising Compromising Dirt on Donald Trump
|
Adam Schiff
|
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) fell for a spoof by Russian pranksters who promised in a call with the top House Democrat to furnish him withâkompromatââcompromising dirtâon President Donald Trump.
The notorious Russian pranksters who the Daily Mailâs Alana Goodman notes are âcomedians nicknamed âVovanâ and âLexusââ who have become famous for âtheir phony calls to high-ranking American officials and celebrities including UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and Elton John â posed as leading Ukrainian officials in their call to Schiff in early 2017.
âOn an audio recording of the prank call posted online Adam Schiff can be heard discussing the committeeâs Russia investigation and increasingly bizarre allegations about Trump with a man who claimed to be Andriy Parubiy the chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament â Goodman wrote in the Daily Mail.
On April 10 2017 an assistant to Adam Schiff the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee which is investigating Donald Trumpâs campaign for possible collusion with the Kremlin patched in a long-planned call from Andriy Parubiy the speaker of the Rada the Ukrainian parliament. Parubiy said he had some potentially explosive information about Trumpâs visit to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant in 2013.
The call per the audio available on YouTube begins with platitudes and introductions and Schiff thanks the man he thinks is Parubiy for his time addressing him as âMr. Chairman.â
The man then pitches that he wants to provide materials to Schiff for his committeeâs investigation on âTrumpâ and the âRussian government â to which Schiff cautions him that the Russians were likely listening to the call.
âI would just caution that our Russian friends may be listening to the conversation so I wouldnât share anything over the phone that you donât want them to hear â Schiff said.
After the Russian prankster posing as the Ukrainian official said he had no concerns with what the Russians may or may not hear he proceeded to tell Schiff about what would have been explosive allegations against the now-sitting president of the United States if they were true.
Sobchak has extensive ties to Putin the prankster told Schiff adding that she is âalso known as a person who provides girls for escort for oligarchs. And she met with Trump and she brought him one Russian girl celebrity Olga Buzova.â The prankster even told Schiff that Sobchak is a âspecial agent of Russian secret service.â
In reality Sobchak is actually anti-Putinâan ex-Playboy model running against the Russian president on an anti-corruption platform after her time as a television anchor. But no matter to Schiff ; he was entranced by the possibility of âkompromatâ on Trump.
After per the Russian pranksters posing as Ukrainian officials in their conversation with Schiff Sobchak introduced Trump to Buzova Buzova âgot compromising materials on Trump after their short relations.â
Schiff per the Atlantic report âbetrayed no emotion.â
âAnd so Putin was made aware of the availability of the compromising material?â Schiff asked the man he thought was a Ukrainian leader.
Adding insult to injury the pranksters convinced Schiff that they had a recording of Sobchak and Buzov discussing this during a recent visit to Ukraine and that the Ukrainian officials would provide said recording to the FBI and the House Intelligence Committeeâs Democratic minority staff.
But thatâs not all. The pranksters told Schiff that Trumpâs ex-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn met with Russians in Brighton Beach in Brooklyn speaking in code words. From the Atlantic piece here is more:
He told Schiff about meetings that Trumpâs former national-security adviser Michael Flynn had had with a Russian pop singer who served as an intermediary for the Kremlin. Theyâd met at a café in Brighton Beach a Russian-immigrant enclave in Brooklyn where Parubiy said âthey used a special password before their meetings.â One would say âWeather is good on Deribasovskaya.â The right response was âIt rains again on Brighton Beach.â
|
[TGT] ) fell for a spoof by Russian pranksters who promised in a call with the top House Democrat to furnish [TGT] withâkompromatââcompromising dirtâon President Donald Trump.
The notorious Russian pranksters who the Daily Mailâs Alana Goodman notes are âcomedians nicknamed âVovanâ and âLexusââ who have become famous for âtheir phony calls to high-ranking American officials and celebrities including UN Ambassador Nikki Haley and Elton John â posed as leading Ukrainian officials in their call to Schiff in early 2017.
âOn an audio recording of the prank call posted online Adam Schiff can be heard discussing the committeeâs Russia investigation and increasingly bizarre allegations about Trump with a man who claimed to be Andriy Parubiy the chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament â Goodman wrote in the Daily Mail.
On April 10 2017 an assistant to Adam Schiff the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee which is investigating Donald Trumpâs campaign for possible collusion with the Kremlin patched in a long-planned call from Andriy Parubiy the speaker of the Rada the Ukrainian parliament. Parubiy said he had some potentially explosive information about Trumpâs visit to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant in 2013.
The call per the audio available on YouTube begins with platitudes and introductions and Schiff thanks the man he thinks is Parubiy for his time addressing him as âMr. Chairman.â
The man then pitches that he wants to provide materials to Schiff for his committeeâs investigation on âTrumpâ and the âRussian government â to which Schiff cautions him that the Russians were likely listening to the call.
âI would just caution that our Russian friends may be listening to the conversation so I wouldnât share anything over the phone that you donât want them to hear â Schiff said.
After the Russian prankster posing as the Ukrainian official said he had no concerns with what the Russians may or may not hear he proceeded to tell Schiff about what would have been explosive allegations against the now-sitting president of the United States if they were true.
Sobchak has extensive ties to Putin the prankster told Schiff adding that she is âalso known as a person who provides girls for escort for oligarchs. And she met with Trump and she brought him one Russian girl celebrity Olga Buzova.â The prankster even told Schiff that Sobchak is a âspecial agent of Russian secret service.â
In reality Sobchak is actually anti-Putinâan ex-Playboy model running against the Russian president on an anti-corruption platform after her time as a television anchor. But no matter to Schiff ; he was entranced by the possibility of âkompromatâ on Trump.
After per the Russian pranksters posing as Ukrainian officials in their conversation with Schiff Sobchak introduced Trump to Buzova Buzova âgot compromising materials on Trump after their short relations.â
Schiff per the Atlantic report âbetrayed no emotion.â
âAnd so Putin was made aware of the availability of the compromising material?â Schiff asked the man he thought was a Ukrainian leader.
Adding insult to injury the pranksters convinced Schiff that they had a recording of Sobchak and Buzov discussing this during a recent visit to Ukraine and that the Ukrainian officials would provide said recording to the FBI and the House Intelligence Committeeâs Democratic minority staff.
But thatâs not all. The pranksters told Schiff that Trumpâs ex-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn met with Russians in Brighton Beach in Brooklyn speaking in code words. From the Atlantic piece here is more:
He told Schiff about meetings that Trumpâs former national-security adviser Michael Flynn had had with a Russian pop singer who served as an intermediary for the Kremlin. Theyâd met at a café in Brighton Beach a Russian-immigrant enclave in Brooklyn where Parubiy said âthey used a special password before their meetings.â One would say âWeather is good on Deribasovskaya.â The right response was âIt rains again on Brighton Beach.â
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
|
2,139 |
âArnoldâ the angry alligator captured in Long Island home
|
Roy Gross
|
âHis tail was whipping around I had his head and his body twisting it took everything I had to hold him without him getting away from me â the Chief of Department for the Suffolk County SPCA Chief Roy Gross told The Post.
But Gross said having an illegal reptile like an alligator in a residential home is no joke.
The gator was discovered on Friday after Suffolk Police were called to the home for an unrelated matter. They found the reptile believed to be about 4-years-old in a shed filled with complete with heat lamps water and plenty of food. Gross said it was being kept as a pet.
Keeping a wild animal like an alligator in a home in New York is illegal unless the residence is a licensed habitat aquarium or zoo Gross said. The owner was charged with illegal possession of a wild animal by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation and faces a fine up to $250. If the Suffolk SPCA discovers the animal was abused or neglected which Gross said is unlikely the owner could face jail time.
|
âHis tail was whipping around I had his head and his body twisting it took everything I had to hold him without him getting away from me â the Chief of Department for [TGT] told The Post.
But [TGT] said having an illegal reptile like an alligator in a residential home is no joke.
The gator was discovered on Friday after Suffolk Police were called to the home for an unrelated matter. They found the reptile believed to be about 4-years-old in a shed filled with complete with heat lamps water and plenty of food. [TGT] said [TGT] was being kept as a pet.
Keeping a wild animal like an alligator in a home in New York is illegal unless the residence is a licensed habitat aquarium or zoo [TGT] said. [TGT] was charged with illegal possession of a wild animal by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation and faces a fine up to $250. If the Suffolk SPCA discovers the animal was abused or neglected which Gross said is unlikely [TGT] could face jail time.
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,140 |
Protests to Richard Spencer's speech at UF featured uplifting messages
|
Richard Spencer
|
White nationalist Richard Spencer spoke at UF and protesters attended the speech .
Florida governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency in advance of a speech at the University of Florida by noted white nationalist Richard Spencer .
It was Spencer 's first speech on a college campus since he and other white supremacists participated in the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville Virginia that turned deadly.
While the atmosphere was tense at times it was also peaceful. Many protesters who decry Spencer 's message and presence on campus chose to voice uplifting messages.
|
[TGT] spoke at UF and protesters attended the speech .
Florida governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency in advance of a speech at the University of Florida by noted [TGT] .
It was Spencer 's first speech on a college campus since he and other white supremacists participated in the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville Virginia that turned deadly.
While the atmosphere was tense at times it was also peaceful. Many protesters who decry [TGT] 's message and presence on campus chose to voice uplifting messages.
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,141 |
Art Shay's life in 2 million (or so) photos
|
Art Shay
|
This man is Art Shay and his life which is now deep into its 95th year is sprinkled with all sorts of stories of people â famous infamous and âordinary.â He has these stories in his head alongside images of them (and of many many places) because he has had a camera in his hands for 80 years and it was his job and his passion to capture life through his lens.
Photographer Art Shay will be honored by the American Writers Museum with the installation of a special exhibit âCaptured Stories: American Writers Through the Lens of Art Shay .â (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune) Photographer Art Shay will be honored by the American Writers Museum with the installation of a special exhibit âCaptured Stories: American Writers Through the Lens of Art Shay .â (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune) SEE MORE VIDEOS
Erica DeGlopper is here too. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute with degrees in photography and printmaking she first encountered Shay more than a decade ago when she saw him interviewed on television.
â He was so fascinating that I just had to meet him â she says. So she showed up at his house and offered to help him as she says put his âprevious life in order" by organizing his work. She drives to Deerfield a few days a week and some weekends from her home in Wisconsin to continue cataloging more than 2 million of his photographs.
DeGlopperâs understanding of and affection for Shay are palpable. She is friend archivist aide de camp and ardent admirer. âWe have got to keep things going until at least his 100th birthday â she says. âThatâs when I am hoping we can have a major retrospective of his work.â She wants it to be at the Art Institute.
I am at the house of course and I have known Shay for more than 50 years because he and my father were friends and I have written about him many times including a story about the two of us dangerously searching for the apartment where Algren made love to Simone de Beauvoir.
Here also is the photographer Jason Wambsgans recent winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his work with a camera taking photos and video and listening to Artâs stories some of them about people long gone but others about such contemporary stars as Corgan with whom Shay is collaborating on a yet another project.
We are in split-level Deerfield house where Shay has lived for nearly 60 years and it is a glorious mess of photos books racquetball trophies art work ⦠a panorama of his life.
Art says that Florence is always on his mind and when he starts to put those thoughts into words his eyes fill with tears as he says âI miss her common sense. I miss her smile.â
He also misses their son Harmon who vanished presumably murdered without a trace at 20 in 1972 in what Art refers to as the âhippie jungles of Miami.â But in addition to Richard Art has three accomplished grown children (Jane an attorney in Los Angeles; Lauren a photographer also in L.A.; and Steve a photographer in Seattle). He hopes to see some or all of them soon at two big events taking place this week.
On Thursday he will be honored by the American Writers Museum (americanwritersmuseum.org) 180 N. Michigan Ave. with the installation of a special exhibit âCaptured Stories: American Writers Through the Lens of Art Shay.â
|
This man is Art Shay and his life which is now deep into its 95th year is sprinkled with all sorts of stories of people â famous infamous and âordinary.â He has these stories in his head alongside images of them (and of many many places) because he has had a camera in his hands for 80 years and it was his job and his passion to capture life through his lens.
[TGT] will be honored by the American Writers Museum with the installation of a special exhibit âCaptured Stories: American Writers Through the Lens of Art Shay .â (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune) [TGT] will be honored by the American Writers Museum with the installation of a special exhibit âCaptured Stories: American Writers Through the Lens of Art Shay .â (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune) SEE MORE VIDEOS
Erica DeGlopper is here too. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute with degrees in photography and printmaking she first encountered Shay more than a decade ago when she saw him interviewed on television.
â He was so fascinating that I just had to meet him â she says. So she showed up at his house and offered to help him as she says put his âprevious life in order" by organizing his work. She drives to Deerfield a few days a week and some weekends from her home in Wisconsin to continue cataloging more than 2 million of his photographs.
DeGlopperâs understanding of and affection for Shay are palpable. She is friend archivist aide de camp and ardent admirer. âWe have got to keep things going until at least his 100th birthday â she says. âThatâs when I am hoping we can have a major retrospective of his work.â She wants it to be at the Art Institute.
I am at the house of course and I have known Shay for more than 50 years because he and my father were friends and I have written about him many times including a story about the two of us dangerously searching for the apartment where Algren made love to Simone de Beauvoir.
Here also is the photographer Jason Wambsgans recent winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his work with a camera taking photos and video and listening to Artâs stories some of them about people long gone but others about such contemporary stars as Corgan with whom Shay is collaborating on a yet another project.
We are in split-level Deerfield house where Shay has lived for nearly 60 years and it is a glorious mess of photos books racquetball trophies art work ⦠a panorama of his life.
Art says that Florence is always on his mind and when he starts to put those thoughts into words his eyes fill with tears as he says âI miss her common sense. I miss her smile.â
He also misses their son Harmon who vanished presumably murdered without a trace at 20 in 1972 in what Art refers to as the âhippie jungles of Miami.â But in addition to Richard Art has three accomplished grown children (Jane an attorney in Los Angeles; Lauren a photographer also in L.A.; and Steve a photographer in Seattle). He hopes to see some or all of them soon at two big events taking place this week.
On Thursday he will be honored by the American Writers Museum (americanwritersmuseum.org) 180 N. Michigan Ave. with the installation of a special exhibit âCaptured Stories: American Writers Through the Lens of Art Shay.â
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,142 |
U.S. Envoy Calls for Emergency U.N. Session on Iran Protests
|
Nikki Haley
|
âThe people of Iran are crying out for freedom â Nikki Haley said at a news conference. âAll freedom-loving people must stand with their cause.â
She said the United States would be seeking emergency sessions of the UN Security Council and the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Commission in the coming days.
Haley rejected as âcomplete nonsenseâ charges by Iranâs supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that the five-day-old protests were being fomented by the countryâs âenemies.â
âThe freedoms that are enshrined in the United Nations charter are under attack in Iran. Dozens have already been killed. Hundreds have been arrested â she said.
âIf the Iranian dictatorshipâs history is any guide we can expect more outrageous abuses in the days to come â she said.
|
âThe people of Iran are crying out for freedom â [TGT] said at a news conference. âAll freedom-loving people must stand with their cause.â
[TGT] said the United States would be seeking emergency sessions of the UN Security Council and the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Commission in the coming days.
[TGT] rejected as âcomplete nonsenseâ charges by Iranâs supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that the five-day-old protests were being fomented by the countryâs âenemies.â
âThe freedoms that are enshrined in the United Nations charter are under attack in Iran. Dozens have already been killed. Hundreds have been arrested â she said.
âIf the Iranian dictatorshipâs history is any guide we can expect more outrageous abuses in the days to come â she said.
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,143 |
Rock Superstar Tom Petty Dies at 66
|
Tom Petty
|
LOS ANGELES (AP) â Tom Petty an old-fashioned rock superstar and everyman who drew upon the Byrds the Beatles and other bands he worshipped as a boy and produced new classics such as âFree Fallin â² âRefugeeâ and âAmerican Girl â has died.
Petty passed away Monday night at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles after he suffered cardiac arrest at his home in Malibu California spokeswoman Carla Sacks said. He was 66.
Petty and his longtime band the Heartbreakers had recently completed a 40th anniversary tour one he hinted would be their last.
âIâm thinking it may be the last trip around the country â Petty told Rolling Stone last year. âWeâre all on the backside of our 60s. I have a granddaughter now Iâd like to see as much as I can. I donât want to spend my life on the road. This tour will take me away for four months. With a little kid thatâs a lot of time.â
Usually backed by the Heartbreakers Petty broke through in the 1970s and went on to sell more than 80 million records. The Gainesville Florida native with the shaggy blond hair and gaunt features was loved for his melodic hard rock nasally vocals and down-to-earth style. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame which inducted Petty and the Heartbreakers in 2002 praised them as âdurable resourceful hard-working likeable and unpretentious.â
Petty didnât just sing about not backing down he lived it. In 1979 he was enraged when his record label was sold and his contract transferred. Stating that he would not be âbought and sold like a piece of meat â he self-financed what became âDamn the Torpedoesâ and declared bankruptcy rather than allowing his label MCA to release it. He eventually reached a new deal with MCA for better terms. In the early 1980s he was again at war with MCA this time over the labelâs plans to charge extra money a dollar higher than the standard $8.98 for his album âHard Promises.â He again prevailed.
Petty was both a musician and obsessive fan one who met his childhood heroes and lived out the fantasies of countless young rock lovers. He befriended Byrds leader Roger McGuinn and became close to George Harrison who performed on âI Wonât Back Downâ and joined Petty Bob Dylan Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne in the impromptu super group the Traveling Wilburys. Petty inducted Harrison into the Rock Hall in 2004; two years earlier Dylanâs son Jakob inducted Petty . In the 1980s Petty and the Heartbreakers supported Bob Dylan on a nationwide tour.
He would speak of being consumed by rock music since childhood to the point where father whom Petty would later say beat him savagely thought he was âmental.â Awed by the chiming guitars of the Byrds the melodic genius of the Beatles and the snarling lyrics of Dylan he was amazed to find that other kids were feeling the same way.
By his early 20s Petty had formed the group Mudcrutch with fellow Gainesville natives and future Heartbreakers (guitarist) Mike Campbell and (keyboardist) Benmont Tench. They soon broke up but reunited in Los Angeles as the Heartbreakers joined by bassist Ron Blair and drummer Stan Lynch. Their eponymous debut album came out in 1976 and they soon built a wide following fitting easily into the New Wave sounds of the time.
The world changed more than Petty did over the past few decades. In 2014 around the time he received an ASCAP Founders Award he told The Associated Press that he thought of himself as âkind of a music historian.â
âIâm always interested in the older music and Iâm still always discovering things that I didnât know about â he said. âTo be honest I really probably spend more time listening to the old stuff than I do the new stuff.â
|
LOS ANGELES (AP) â [TGT] an old-fashioned rock superstar and everyman who drew upon the Byrds the Beatles and other bands [TGT] worshipped as a boy and produced new classics such as âFree Fallin â² âRefugeeâ and âAmerican Girl â has died.
[TGT] passed away Monday night at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles after [TGT] suffered cardiac arrest at [TGT] home in Malibu California spokeswoman Carla Sacks said. He was 66.
[TGT] and [TGT] longtime band the Heartbreakers had recently completed a 40th anniversary tour one [TGT] hinted would be their last.
âIâm thinking it may be the last trip around the country â [TGT] told Rolling Stone last year. âWeâre all on the backside of our 60s. I have a granddaughter now Iâd like to see as much as I can. I donât want to spend my life on the road. This tour will take me away for four months. With a little kid thatâs a lot of time.â
Usually backed by [TGT] broke through in the 1970s and went on to sell more than 80 million records. The Gainesville Florida native with the shaggy blond hair and gaunt features was loved for his melodic hard rock nasally vocals and down-to-earth style. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame which inducted Petty and the Heartbreakers in 2002 praised them as âdurable resourceful hard-working likeable and unpretentious.â
[TGT] didnât just sing about not backing down he lived it. In 1979 he was enraged when his record label was sold and his contract transferred. Stating that he would not be âbought and sold like a piece of meat â he self-financed what became âDamn the Torpedoesâ and declared bankruptcy rather than allowing his label MCA to release it. He eventually reached a new deal with MCA for better terms. In the early 1980s he was again at war with MCA this time over the labelâs plans to charge extra money a dollar higher than the standard $8.98 for his album âHard Promises.â He again prevailed.
Petty was both a musician and obsessive fan one who met his childhood heroes and lived out the fantasies of countless young rock lovers. He befriended Byrds leader Roger McGuinn and became close to George Harrison who performed on âI Wonât Back Downâ and joined Petty Bob Dylan Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne in the impromptu super group the Traveling Wilburys. Petty inducted Harrison into the Rock Hall in 2004; two years earlier Dylanâs son Jakob inducted Petty . In the 1980s Petty and the Heartbreakers supported Bob Dylan on a nationwide tour.
He would speak of being consumed by rock music since childhood to the point where father whom Petty would later say beat him savagely thought he was âmental.â Awed by the chiming guitars of the Byrds the melodic genius of the Beatles and the snarling lyrics of Dylan he was amazed to find that other kids were feeling the same way.
By his early 20s Petty had formed the group Mudcrutch with fellow Gainesville natives and future Heartbreakers (guitarist) Mike Campbell and (keyboardist) Benmont Tench. They soon broke up but reunited in Los Angeles as the Heartbreakers joined by bassist Ron Blair and drummer Stan Lynch. Their eponymous debut album came out in 1976 and they soon built a wide following fitting easily into the New Wave sounds of the time.
The world changed more than Petty did over the past few decades. In 2014 around the time he received an ASCAP Founders Award he told The Associated Press that he thought of himself as âkind of a music historian.â
âIâm always interested in the older music and Iâm still always discovering things that I didnât know about â he said. âTo be honest I really probably spend more time listening to the old stuff than I do the new stuff.â
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 0Negative
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,144 |
Even more astounding warnings missed in Florida school shooting
|
Nikolas Cruz
|
Broward County police admitted that even more warning flags were missed that could have prevented the horrible shooting by Nikolas Cruz at a Florida high school .
The Miami Herald reports that a tipster called the Broward Sheriffâs Office warning them that Cruz âcould be a school shooter in the making.â Deputies neglected to write up the warning in a report.
Two weeks prior to that tip being called in a relative of Cruz also told police that they should seize his weapons.
Astoundingly a third report was missed when two years before the shooting a deputy investigated a warning about Cruz saying he âplanned to shoot up the school.â
|
Broward County police admitted that even more warning flags were missed that could have prevented the horrible shooting by [TGT] at a Florida high school .
The Miami Herald reports that a tipster called the Broward Sheriffâs Office warning them that Cruz âcould be a school shooter in the making.â Deputies neglected to write up the warning in a report.
Two weeks prior to that tip being called in a relative of Cruz also told police that they should seize his weapons.
Astoundingly a third report was missed when two years before the shooting a deputy investigated a warning about Cruz saying he âplanned to shoot up the school.â
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,145 |
Austin man shot friend because she was 'being too loud ' prosecutors say
|
Terrell Washington
|
Terrell Washington 37 was charged with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a firearm after the victim identified him as her shooter according to court records.
On Jan. 18 Washington came over to the victimâs apartment in the 4000 block of West Gladys Avenue about 9:15 p.m.
They were talking and smoking cigarettes and Washington became âincreasingly angryâ and repeatedly told the woman to lower her voice according to Assistant Stateâs Attorney Julia Ramirez.
The woman became frustrated and told Washington to leave her apartment. He pulled a handgun from his waistband and shot her in the arm and leg prosecutors said.
Washington then ran from the apartment through the front door leaving it open Ramirez said.
The victim was taken to the hospital and was treated for gunshot wounds. She later identified Washington as the person who shot her.
Washington of the 5300 block of West Adams was arrested Friday. He was ordered held without bail during a Sunday court hearing before Judge Mary Marubio.
|
Terrell Washington 37 was charged with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a firearm after the victim identified him as her shooter according to court records.
On Jan. 18 Washington came over to the victimâs apartment in the 4000 block of West Gladys Avenue about 9:15 p.m.
They were talking and smoking cigarettes and Washington became âincreasingly angryâ and repeatedly told the woman to lower her voice according to Assistant Stateâs Attorney Julia Ramirez.
The woman became frustrated and told Washington to leave her apartment. He pulled a handgun from his waistband and shot her in the arm and leg prosecutors said.
Washington then ran from the apartment through the front door leaving it open Ramirez said.
The victim was taken to the hospital and was treated for gunshot wounds. She later identified Washington as the person who shot her.
Washington of the 5300 block of West Adams was arrested Friday. He was ordered held without bail during a Sunday court hearing before Judge Mary Marubio.
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,146 |
UK EU claim Brexit breakthrough; eye talks on future ties
|
Theresa May
|
"I believe that we have now made the breakthrough that we needed " EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told reporters during a news conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May.
British Prime Minister Theresa May and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker address a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels on Friday Dec. 8 2017. British Prime Minister Theresa May met with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker early Friday morning following crucial overnight talks on the issue of the Irish border.(AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
Nigel Farage who led the drive to leave the EU as chairman of the U.K. Independence Party said May had caved on critical points. Farage tweeted that the deal was "good news for Mrs. May as we can now move on to the next stage of humiliation."
British Prime Minister Theresa May left walks with European Council President Donald Tusk prior to a meeting at the Europa building in Brussels on Friday Dec. 8 2017. British Prime Minister Theresa May met with EU officials early Friday morning following crucial overnight talks on the issue of the Irish border. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
|
"I believe that we have now made the breakthrough that we needed " EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told reporters during a news conference with British Prime Minister [TGT] .
British Prime Minister [TGT] and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker address a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels on Friday Dec. 8 2017. British Prime Minister [TGT] met with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker early Friday morning following crucial overnight talks on the issue of the Irish border.(AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
Nigel Farage who led the drive to leave the EU as chairman of the U.K. Independence Party said May had caved on critical points. Farage tweeted that the deal was "good news for Mrs. May as we can now move on to the next stage of humiliation."
British Prime Minister [TGT] left walks with European Council President Donald Tusk prior to a meeting at the Europa building in Brussels on Friday Dec. 8 2017. British Prime Minister [TGT] met with EU officials early Friday morning following crucial overnight talks on the issue of the Irish border. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,147 |
Some good some bad for Blackhawks in 3
|
Patrick Kane
|
Skill was everywhere. Patrick Kane had his first multi-goal game of the season. Victor Hedman made a spectacular drop pass that led to a shorthanded goal for the Lightning. And the overtime kept the arena breathless until Brayden Point won the game at 3 minutes 25 seconds on a power-play goal.
Sandwiched around that were Kane 's goals. The first came on a wrist shot from the left circle at 3:49 the second he stuffed in from a narrow angle on a 5-on-3 Hawks power play. Kane 's breakout came after he had scored just one goal in his last 10 games.
"I guess you measure yourself by production so it's never fun when you're not scoring for a little bit of a period of time " Kane said. "But you know you're going to have those stretches during the season. Just try to do the right things in practice work on your game and hopefully it comes around."
Kane wasn't totally thrilled with himself however after a giveaway led to a Lightning shorthanded goal in the second. He lost the puck and Hedman tracked it down dropped it back to Ryan Callahan on a heady pass and Callahan set up Ondrej Palat for a one-time goal at 4:27.
"I have to be better on that play for sure " Kane said. "Make sure sometimes it's better to make the easy play and play it safe especially that time of the game when you're up 2-0 and it's better not to get anything at all than give them one."
Brandon Saad and Richard Panik two members of the snake bit top line missed consecutive choice chances 5:30 into the period. Nick Schmaltz fired wide on a 2-on-1 and 1:51 into the overtime. Kane had a breakaway on Andrei Vasilevskiy that Vasilevskiy stopped with a pad.
"If you're going to make a move on him he has such long legs you're going to have to get it up " Kane said. "I made the move I wanted just maybe got a little bit too close and got it up but not enough."
2. Patrick Kane Blackhawks: Had first multi-goal game of season.
|
Skill was everywhere. [TGT] had [TGT] first multi-goal game of the season. Victor Hedman made a spectacular drop pass that led to a shorthanded goal for the Lightning. And the overtime kept the arena breathless until Brayden Point won the game at 3 minutes 25 seconds on a power-play goal.
Sandwiched around that were Kane 's goals. The first came on a wrist shot from the left circle at 3:49 the second he stuffed in from a narrow angle on a 5-on-3 Hawks power play. [TGT] 's breakout came after he had scored just one goal in his last 10 games.
"I guess you measure yourself by production so it's never fun when you're not scoring for a little bit of a period of time [TGT] said. "But you know you're going to have those stretches during the season. Just try to do the right things in practice work on your game and hopefully it comes around. [TGT]
wasn't totally thrilled with [TGT] however after a giveaway led to a Lightning shorthanded goal in the second. [TGT] lost the puck and Hedman tracked it down dropped it back to Ryan Callahan on a heady pass and Callahan set up Ondrej Palat for a one-time goal at 4:27.
"I have to be better on that play for sure [TGT] said. "Make sure sometimes it's better to make the easy play and play it safe especially that time of the game when you're up 2-0 and it's better not to get anything at all than give them one."
Brandon Saad and Richard Panik two members of the snake bit top line missed consecutive choice chances 5:30 into the period. Nick Schmaltz fired wide on a 2-on-1 and 1:51 into the overtime. [TGT] had a breakaway on Andrei Vasilevskiy that Vasilevskiy stopped with a pad.
"If you're going to make a move on him he has such long legs you're going to have to get it up [TGT] said. "I made the move I wanted just maybe got a little bit too close and got it up but not enough."
2. [TGT] Blackhawks: Had first multi-goal game of season.
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,148 |
Man died after West Town crash shooting
|
Neftali Reyes
|
Neftali Reyes was driving in the 2300 block of West Grand Avenue in the West Sideâs West Town neighborhood police said when a black Hyundai Santa Fe with two men and a woman rammed the back of his Chevrolet several times around 4:05 a.m.
Reyes lost control of the car and crashed into a parked Mercedes police said.
The Hyundai pulled up and someone fired shots at him striking him in the chest.
Reyes was rushed to Stroger Hospital in serious condition where he was pronounced dead about two hours later at 6:26 a.m.
He lived in the 1800 block of North Talman Avenue in the Logan Square neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
|
[TGT] was driving in the 2300 block of West Grand Avenue in the West Sideâs West Town neighborhood police said when a black Hyundai Santa Fe with two men and a woman rammed the back of [TGT] Chevrolet several times around 4:05 a.m.
[TGT] lost control of the car and crashed into a parked Mercedes police said.
The Hyundai pulled up and someone fired shots at [TGT] striking [TGT] in the chest.
[TGT] was rushed to Stroger Hospital in serious condition where [TGT] was pronounced dead about two hours later at 6:26 a.m.
[TGT] lived in the 1800 block of North Talman Avenue in the Logan Square neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,149 |
NPR's Tom Ashbrook suspended amid 'creepy' misconduct allegations from men women
|
Tom Ashbrook
|
The allegations against "On Point" host Tom Ashbrook include that he engaged in "creepy" sex talks and gave unwanted hugs neck and back rubs to 11 mostly young women and men who worked on the show. They were contained in a document and confirmed in multiple interviews by WBUR-FM the Boston station that produces the show.
Ashbrook was put on leave last week.
In a text to the station Ashbrook said: "I am sure that once the facts come out that people will see me for who I am â flawed but caring and decent in all my dealings with others."
"On Point" is carried by more than 290 NPR stations. Ashbrook has hosted for 16 years.
|
The allegations against "On Point [TGT] include that he engaged in "creepy" sex talks and gave unwanted hugs neck and back rubs to 11 mostly young women and men who worked on the show. They were contained in a document and confirmed in multiple interviews by WBUR-FM the Boston station that produces the show.
[TGT] was put on leave last week.
In a text to the station [TGT] said: "I am sure that once the facts come out that people will see me for who I am â flawed but caring and decent in all my dealings with others."
"On Point" is carried by more than 290 NPR stations. [TGT] has hosted for 16 years.
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,150 |
With Saudi Arrests Crown Prince Shows He Can Force Change. But It's Not Democracy : Parallels : NPR
|
Mohammed bin Salman
|
"It is unprecedented more for the speed and the scale " says H.A. Hellyer a fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London and the Atlantic Council. Mohammed bin Salman is sending a message he says: "This guy is in charge and nobody is off the table."
The crown prince is a Saudi-educated son of the current King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud Salman . In a surprise move he was elevated in June to become next in the succession replacing his older cousin.
" His position is already secure. It's not like he was being challenged. Everyone suspects he will be announced as the new king. But you can always consolidate more " says Hellyer.
In one of his first TV interviews after his June promotion Mohammed bin Salman pledged to tackle endemic corruption in the kingdom. "No one who got involved in a corruption case will escape regardless if he was a minister or a prince " he warned.
"Many of them have been known as deeply corrupt " said a Saudi official who supports the crown prince and requested anonymity to discuss the arrest list â which includes former CEOs of Saudi Telecom and Saudi Airlines four sitting cabinet ministers and high-profile business leaders from Jeddah Saudi Arabia's business capital on the Red Sea coast. Some had close personal relations to the crown prince .
It has been shocking indeed in a kingdom used to a glacial pace of change. While Mohammed bin Salman launched the blitz of arrests he also announced elements of an anti-corruption campaign that appears designed to win public approval especially among Saudi youth.
His anti-corruption commission launched a new probe into an old corruption case involving damage after floods devastated the Red Sea city of Jeddah in 2009. Torrential rains washed away thousands of homes and killed more than 120 people.
But Mohammed bin Salman is playing a high-stakes game and there are grave risks says F. Gregory Gause head of the international affairs department at Texas A&M's Bush School of Government and Public Service.
|
"It is unprecedented more for the speed and the scale " says H.A. Hellyer a fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London and the Atlantic Council. [TGT] is sending a message [TGT] says: "This guy is in charge and nobody is off the table."
The crown prince is a Saudi-educated son of the current King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud Salman . In a surprise move he was elevated in June to become next in the succession replacing his older cousin.
" His position is already secure. It's not like he was being challenged. Everyone suspects he will be announced as the new king. But you can always consolidate more " says Hellyer.
In one of his first TV interviews after his June promotion [TGT] pledged to tackle endemic corruption in the kingdom. "No one who got involved in a corruption case will escape regardless if he was a minister or a prince " [TGT] warned.
"Many of them have been known as deeply corrupt " said a Saudi official who supports the crown prince and requested anonymity to discuss the arrest list â which includes former CEOs of Saudi Telecom and Saudi Airlines four sitting cabinet ministers and high-profile business leaders from Jeddah Saudi Arabia's business capital on the Red Sea coast. Some had close personal relations to the crown prince .
It has been shocking indeed in a kingdom used to a glacial pace of change. While [TGT] launched the blitz of arrests [TGT] also announced elements of an anti-corruption campaign that appears designed to win public approval especially among Saudi youth.
[TGT] anti-corruption commission launched a new probe into an old corruption case involving damage after floods devastated the Red Sea city of Jeddah in 2009. Torrential rains washed away thousands of homes and killed more than 120 people.
But [TGT] is playing a high-stakes game and there are grave risks says F. Gregory Gause head of the international affairs department at Texas A&M's Bush School of Government and Public Service.
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,151 |
We Investigated a Niagara Falls Wax Museumâs Disturbing Injustice to Beyoncé
|
Beyoncé
|
Beyoncé our beloved has recently been eternally memorialized at the Louis Tussaud's Wax Museum in Niagara Falls Ontario Canada's answer to Niagara Falls New York. But wait⦠is that Beyoncé or a robotic demon sent to us from an alternative universe? Because that's what I'm seeing.
It is important to note that many celebrities have been brutalized by their wax portrayals. But sorry to all of the wax Morgan Freemans and Elvis Presleys Beyoncé needs us right now.
Is this what the year 2017 holds for us? A white-washed non-bootylicious sad wax Beyoncé?
VICE: You seem very upset looking at the wax Beyoncé . What's up?
Caity: That's my queen. Her ass is supposed to be flawless and it's flat as a pancake here. You know what else I noticed all the other people look so good except Beyoncé ! I feel personally attacked.
It's Beyoncé.
Were they going for the white Beyoncé ? It's way too skinny and doesn't do her justice. And this is coming from a 40-year-old that only knows the song "Halo."
VICE: What do you think of this Beyoncé ?
|
[TGT] our beloved has recently been eternally memorialized at the Louis Tussaud's Wax Museum in Niagara Falls Ontario Canada's answer to Niagara Falls New York. But wait⦠is that [TGT] or a robotic demon sent to us from an alternative universe? Because that's what I'm seeing.
It is important to note that many celebrities have been brutalized by their wax portrayals. But sorry to all of the wax Morgan Freemans and Elvis Presleys [TGT] needs us right now.
Is this what the year 2017 holds for us? A white-washed non-bootylicious sad wax [TGT] ?
VICE: You seem very upset looking at the wax [TGT] . What's up?
Caity: That's my queen. Her ass is supposed to be flawless and it's flat as a pancake here. You know what else I noticed all the other people look so good except [TGT] ! I feel personally attacked.
It's [TGT] .
Were they going for the white [TGT] ? It's way too skinny and doesn't do her justice. And this is coming from a 40-year-old that only knows the song "Halo."
VICE: What do you think of this [TGT] ?
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,152 |
Florida Officials Struggling To Find Affordable Housing For Locals Months After Hurricane Irma : NPR
|
Greg Allen
|
In the Florida Keys a shortage of affordable housing has become a crisis after Hurricane Irma. More than 27 000 homes were damaged or destroyed by Irma's high winds and storm surge. A lot of those were mobile homes or trailers. And NPR's Greg Allen reports that this is having an impact on the service and tourist economy in the Keys.
ALLEN : Yeah. How many do you think are gone now?
ALLEN : Todd Sabin has lived in the Driftwood Trailer Park for decades. He's retired now. He and his wife are lucky. When they returned after Irma their mobile home was intact. Most others weren't as fortunate. Some received enough damage that their mobile homes are slated for demolition. For many like Sabin this is a second home.
ALLEN : Sabin's longtime neighbor Jimmy Aurelio has stopped by. He's moving out. He owns his own business - a towing company. He's staying with a friend for now but says he's looking for a new place to live in the Keys.
ALLEN : Steve Miller has lived on Big Pine Key for 35 years. Like more than a dozen of his neighbors his mobile home was destroyed in Hurricane Irma. This island has long been one of the most affordable places to live in the Keys. One reason for that Miller says are the mobile homes - many of them old but available for rent.
ALLEN : Miller says he has many friends who have already left. He worries many more will follow unless local officials act quickly to make more affordable housing available for the people who staff the Keys' restaurants hotels schools and hospitals. But in the Keys like other resort communities proposals to build workforce housing are often met with strong opposition. At a recent county commission meeting Bill Hunter was one of several residents worried that workforce housing would increase density and traffic in his neighborhood.
ALLEN : This problem the need for workforce housing isn't a new issue here. County Commissioner Heather Carruthers says over the last several years with incentives and help from the county developers have built more than 800 units reserved for workforce housing. But she says Irma has turned a longstanding problem into a crisis. Carruthers says it's about more than protecting the vital tourist economy.
ALLEN : Carruthers says the county is looking at available land where it can build workforce housing. But she knows that's something many residents will oppose.
ALLEN : Carruthers acknowledges that even the fastest plans to build more workforce housing will take a year or more to carry out. That does little to help workers who are struggling to find a place in the Keys where they can afford to live right now. Greg Allen NPR News Miami.
|
In the Florida Keys a shortage of affordable housing has become a crisis after Hurricane Irma. More than 27 000 homes were damaged or destroyed by Irma's high winds and storm surge. A lot of those were mobile homes or trailers. And NPR's [TGT] reports that this is having an impact on the service and tourist economy in the Keys.
ALLEN : Yeah. How many do you think are gone now?
ALLEN : Todd Sabin has lived in the Driftwood Trailer Park for decades. He's retired now. He and his wife are lucky. When they returned after Irma their mobile home was intact. Most others weren't as fortunate. Some received enough damage that their mobile homes are slated for demolition. For many like Sabin this is a second home.
ALLEN : Sabin's longtime neighbor Jimmy Aurelio has stopped by. He's moving out. He owns his own business - a towing company. He's staying with a friend for now but says he's looking for a new place to live in the Keys.
ALLEN : Steve Miller has lived on Big Pine Key for 35 years. Like more than a dozen of his neighbors his mobile home was destroyed in Hurricane Irma. This island has long been one of the most affordable places to live in the Keys. One reason for that Miller says are the mobile homes - many of them old but available for rent.
ALLEN : Miller says he has many friends who have already left. He worries many more will follow unless local officials act quickly to make more affordable housing available for the people who staff the Keys' restaurants hotels schools and hospitals. But in the Keys like other resort communities proposals to build workforce housing are often met with strong opposition. At a recent county commission meeting Bill Hunter was one of several residents worried that workforce housing would increase density and traffic in his neighborhood.
ALLEN : This problem the need for workforce housing isn't a new issue here. County Commissioner Heather Carruthers says over the last several years with incentives and help from the county developers have built more than 800 units reserved for workforce housing. But she says Irma has turned a longstanding problem into a crisis. Carruthers says it's about more than protecting the vital tourist economy.
ALLEN : Carruthers says the county is looking at available land where it can build workforce housing. But she knows that's something many residents will oppose.
ALLEN : Carruthers acknowledges that even the fastest plans to build more workforce housing will take a year or more to carry out. That does little to help workers who are struggling to find a place in the Keys where they can afford to live right now. [TGT] NPR News Miami.
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,153 |
Deaf woman twice the victim of sexual assault gets donated hearing aids
|
Dalesha
|
As Dr. Tom Wardzala turned on the volume to the custom-fitted devices from a nearby computer Daleshaâs eyes darted in his direction and she nodded quickly.
Davis and his partner Judith Powe first met Dalesha about three years ago while investigating her rape in a south suburb where she once lived.
In the ensuing months the detectives along with sheriffâs investigator Ruth Mendez who knows sign language took Dalesha as their charge helping her reach her dream of walking across the stage to graduate high school. During their first meeting she had surprised them with the request saying it was a step to bigger things. Like a job or moving out of a dangerous neighborhood.
The detectives became her contact at the Chicago public school where she enrolled. They took her to appointments helped with community service hours shopped for school supplies and cheered her on when she collected her diploma.
Since her graduation in June even more has changed for Dalesha who is not being identified by the Tribune because she is a rape victim. Donations have been given to her . She was scheduled to start work at a grocery store on Friday. But most life-changing was the offer from HearStrong Foundation to contribute to her college tuition and fit her with hearing aids.
Dalesha whose name has been changed to protect her identity receives new hearing aids at the Sertoma Speech & Hearing Center on Nov. 9 2017 in Palos Hills. The 22-year-old sexual assault survivor was born with total hearing loss. (Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune) (Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune)
Dalesha will be among those honored Monday night at a HearStrong event downtown. The Chicago-based organization raises awareness and advocates for the deaf community.
Brian McCaskey a Bears vice president who suffers from hearing loss and co-founded HearStrong read about Dalesha âs story in the Tribune in June and offered the help.
Dalesha was sexually assaulted by acquaintances in a home in 2013. She had grown angry and confused when the investigation languished â until Davis Powe and Mendez reached out to her .
Dalesha had already faced similar adversity. She had been the victim of another rape in 2010.
Susan Herman a national expert on crime victims who has written a book on the subject says Dalesha has received the kind of support that all victims of violence need.
âThis is an unusual case â the length they have gone to meet her needs â said Herman praising Dalesha for articulating her concerns. âWe have an obligation to not only hold offenders accountable but to help victims rebuild lives.â
In the push to help Dalesha stretch to that next level â attending college â the detectives have learned that she in fact had earned in 2014 the credit hours she needed at a south suburban school to graduate.
âShe had no clue â Mendez the investigator who knows sign language said of Dalesha . âIf anything we gave her that. For that I will be forever grateful. She got the experience to cross that stage to feel like a graduate. It goes to show you how important it is to have a support system.â
Wardzala who works for Sertoma Speech & Hearing Center said the hearing aids given to Dalesha became available only about half a year ago.
Most people with profound hearing loss benefit from hearing aids Wardzala said. But not everyone has access to the devices they need and certainly not the high-end ones given to Dalesha that cost about $6 000 a pair.
|
As Dr. Tom Wardzala turned on the volume to the custom-fitted devices from a nearby computer Daleshaâs eyes darted in his direction and she nodded quickly.
Davis and his partner Judith Powe first met Dalesha about three years ago while investigating her rape in a south suburb where she once lived.
In the ensuing months the detectives along with sheriffâs investigator Ruth Mendez who knows sign language took [TGT] as their charge helping [TGT] reach [TGT] dream of walking across the stage to graduate high school. During their first meeting [TGT] had surprised them with the request saying it was a step to bigger things. Like a job or moving out of a dangerous neighborhood.
The detectives became [TGT] contact at the Chicago public school where [TGT] enrolled. They took [TGT] to appointments helped with community service hours shopped for school supplies and cheered [TGT] on when [TGT] collected [TGT] diploma.
Since [TGT] graduation in June even more has changed for [TGT] . Donations have been given to [TGT] . [TGT] was scheduled to start work at a grocery store on Friday. But most life-changing was the offer from HearStrong Foundation to contribute to [TGT] college tuition and fit [TGT] with hearing aids.
[TGT] receives new hearing aids at the Sertoma Speech & Hearing Center on Nov. 9 2017 in Palos Hills. The 22-year-old sexual assault survivor was born with total hearing loss. (Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune) (Erin Hooley/Chicago Tribune)
[TGT] will be among those honored Monday night at a HearStrong event downtown. The Chicago-based organization raises awareness and advocates for the deaf community.
Brian McCaskey a Bears vice president who suffers from hearing loss and co-founded HearStrong read about [TGT] âs story in the Tribune in June and offered the help.
[TGT] was sexually assaulted by acquaintances in a home in 2013. [TGT] had grown angry and confused when the investigation languished â until Davis Powe and Mendez reached out to [TGT] .
[TGT] had already faced similar adversity. [TGT] had been the victim of another rape in 2010.
Susan Herman a national expert on crime victims who has written a book on the subject says [TGT] has received the kind of support that all victims of violence need.
âThis is an unusual case â the length they have gone to meet [TGT] needs â said Herman praising [TGT] for articulating [TGT] concerns. âWe have an obligation to not only hold offenders accountable but to help victims rebuild lives.â
In the push to help [TGT] stretch to that next level â attending college â the detectives have learned that [TGT] in fact had earned in 2014 the credit hours [TGT] needed at a south suburban school to graduate.
âShe had no clue â Mendez the investigator who knows sign language said of [TGT] . âIf anything we gave [TGT] that. For that I will be forever grateful. [TGT] got the experience to cross that stage to feel like a graduate. It goes to show you how important it is to have a support system.â
Wardzala who works for Sertoma Speech & Hearing Center said the hearing aids given to [TGT] became available only about half a year ago.
Most people with profound hearing loss benefit from hearing aids Wardzala said. But not everyone has access to the devices they need and certainly not the high-end ones given to Dalesha that cost about $6 000 a pair.
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
|
2,154 |
Meet the New Generation of 'Final Girls' in Horror Films
|
Eugenie Brinkema
|
To understand what's going on with the genre VICE turned to Eugenie Brinkema an associate professor of contemporary literature and media at MIT whose research focuses on violence sexuality and horror among other things.
"I think that a lot of the psychoanalytic models of straight identification like the male gaze or the female gaze... I think they're all too simplistic " says Brinkema . "I think the actual work of spectators often involves shifting positions and adopting multiple positions contradictory ones."
"There's been this massive diversification of female fandom queer fandom and non-white fandom " says Brinkema . "Fans now have the capacity to root for different organizations and arrangements in these films."
"Horror's actually really good at saying You think you have one stable point of view from which to look? Sorry it can always be undone " she adds.
"I do wonder in this postâLena Dunham moment of girl vocality and girl identity what that's going to look like for the next generation of horror films " says Brinkema . "I think you're seeing part of it now."
|
To understand what's going on with the genre VICE turned to [TGT] an associate professor of contemporary literature and media at MIT whose research focuses on violence sexuality and horror among other things.
"I think that a lot of the psychoanalytic models of straight identification like the male gaze or the female gaze... I think they're all too simplistic " says Brinkema . "I think the actual work of spectators often involves shifting positions and adopting multiple positions contradictory ones."
"There's been this massive diversification of female fandom queer fandom and non-white fandom " says Brinkema . "Fans now have the capacity to root for different organizations and arrangements in these films."
"Horror's actually really good at saying You think you have one stable point of view from which to look? Sorry it can always be undone " she adds.
"I do wonder in this postâLena Dunham moment of girl vocality and girl identity what that's going to look like for the next generation of horror films " says Brinkema . "I think you're seeing part of it now."
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,155 |
Founder of web browser Opera says worried about online privacy
|
Pedro Nunes
|
Co-Founder and CEO of Vivaldi Jon Von Tetzchner poses for a photo during the Web Summit Europe's biggest tech conference in Lisbon Portugal November 9 2017. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes
Co-Founder and CEO of Vivaldi Jon Von Tetzchner talks with a Reuters reporter during the Web Summit Europe's biggest tech conference in Lisbon Portugal November 9 2017. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes
He has since launched Vivaldi which includes functions he says bigger browsers lack. Vivaldi.net does not track searches and is based on an online community of users who recommend features he said.
Co-Founder and CEO of Vivaldi Jon Von Tetzchner talks with a Reuters reporter during the Web Summit Europe's biggest tech conference in Lisbon Portugal November 9 2017. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes
Google (GOOGL.O) dominates the online advertisement market and it closed Vivaldiâs advertising account. Google partnered Opera before launching the Chrome browser in 2008.
He said he was increasingly concerned about data collection and tracking by tech giants like Google and Facebook.
|
Co-Founder and CEO of Vivaldi Jon Von Tetzchner poses for a photo during the Web Summit Europe's biggest tech conference in Lisbon Portugal November 9 2017. REUTERS/Pedro Nunes
Co-Founder and CEO of Vivaldi Jon Von Tetzchner talks with a Reuters reporter during the Web Summit Europe's biggest tech conference in Lisbon Portugal November 9 2017. [TGT]
[TGT] has since launched Vivaldi which includes functions [TGT] says bigger browsers lack. Vivaldi.net does not track searches and is based on an online community of users who recommend features [TGT] said.
Co-Founder and CEO of Vivaldi Jon Von Tetzchner talks with a Reuters reporter during the Web Summit Europe's biggest tech conference in Lisbon Portugal November 9 2017. [TGT]
dominates the online advertisement market and it closed Vivaldiâs advertising account. Google partnered Opera before launching the Chrome browser in 2008.
[TGT] said [TGT] was increasingly concerned about data collection and tracking by tech giants like Google and Facebook.
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,156 |
What will happen to Salvadorans if the U.S. government rescinds their TPS?
|
Oscar Cortez
|
Oscar Cortez 46 originally from El Salvador is a plumber who has built an American life in the 17 years he has had temporary protected status. The U.S. government will terminate the program for an estimated 200 000 Salvadorans in this country people with knowledge of the plan said Monday. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post)
Oscar Cortez feels like he has an ordinary American life. He carries a Costco card. He roots for the Boston Red Sox. And five days a week he rises before dawn pulls on four shirts and two pairs of pants and ventures into the frigid air to work as a plumber a good job that pays for his Maryland townhouse and his daughtersâ college fund.
The U.S. government opened the door to this life in 2001 when it granted Cortez and about 200 000 other migrants from El Salvador Temporary Protected Status (TPS) a provisional reprieve from deportation that has allowed them to work legally in the United States for 17 years.
At 15th and L streets NW in Washington Cortez saw the news on his mobile phone while taking a break from laying copper pipe at the construction site of the new Fannie Mae headquarters.
Many Salvadorans say they will try to stay in the United States illegally â a fate they find more bearable than facing the rampant gang violence in their homeland. Cortez said he visited his parents in 2016 for the first time since he left and was shocked to see that the house had six locks on every door to ward off burglars. People he knew had left or died. Strangers stared at him on the street.
âI felt like a foreigner in my own land â he said. âEveryone is looking at you like youâre from outer space.â
Both men said they are hoarding their savings in case they lose their jobs along with their protected status. Cortez has put off replacing his old Mitsubishi Montero with 150 000 miles and a sputtering engine.
Like many TPS recipients they say they will try to obtain legal residency. His wife is a legal resident and Cortez hopes she will someday be able to sponsor him . Contreras said he is trying to get a green card through his wife a U.S. citizen. But there are no guarantees.
Cortez nodded. âWeâll lose our jobs â he said. âWeâll lose it all.â
|
[TGT] is a plumber who has built an American life in the 17 years [TGT] has had temporary protected status. The U.S. government will terminate the program for an estimated 200 000 Salvadorans in this country people with knowledge of the plan said Monday. (Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post)
[TGT] feels like [TGT] has an ordinary American life. [TGT] carries a Costco card. [TGT] roots for the Boston Red Sox. And five days a week [TGT] rises before dawn pulls on four shirts and two pairs of pants and ventures into the frigid air to work as a plumber a good job that pays for his Maryland townhouse and his daughtersâ college fund.
The U.S. government opened the door to this life in 2001 when it granted Cortez and about 200 000 other migrants from El Salvador Temporary Protected Status (TPS) a provisional reprieve from deportation that has allowed them to work legally in the United States for 17 years.
At 15th and L streets NW in Washington Cortez saw the news on his mobile phone while taking a break from laying copper pipe at the construction site of the new Fannie Mae headquarters.
Many Salvadorans say they will try to stay in the United States illegally â a fate they find more bearable than facing the rampant gang violence in their homeland. Cortez said he visited his parents in 2016 for the first time since he left and was shocked to see that the house had six locks on every door to ward off burglars. People he knew had left or died. Strangers stared at him on the street.
âI felt like a foreigner in my own land â he said. âEveryone is looking at you like youâre from outer space.â
Both men said they are hoarding their savings in case they lose their jobs along with their protected status. Cortez has put off replacing his old Mitsubishi Montero with 150 000 miles and a sputtering engine.
Like many TPS recipients they say they will try to obtain legal residency. His wife is a legal resident and Cortez hopes she will someday be able to sponsor him . Contreras said he is trying to get a green card through his wife a U.S. citizen. But there are no guarantees.
Cortez nodded. âWeâll lose our jobs â he said. âWeâll lose it all.â
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,157 |
Trump phones John McCain's wife as Arizona senator hospitalized with brain cancer
|
Cindy McCain
|
President Trump on Friday called the wife of Sen. John McCain the Arizona Republican who was hospitalized this week as he battles brain cancer the White House said.
An official said Trump spoke by phone with Cindy McCain on Friday afternoon to âcheck in on Sen. McCainâs condition.â
McCain 81 was diagnosed with brain cancer in July. On Wednesday his office said he had been admitted to the hospital.
â Senator McCain is currently receiving treatment at Walter Reed Medical Center for normal side effects of his ongoing cancer therapy â his office said. âAs ever he remains grateful to his physicians for their excellent care and his friends and supporters for their encouragement and good wishes. Senator McCain looks forward to returning to work as soon as possible.â
âOf course we all wish for Sen. McCain to have a great health for as long as possible â Sen. Rob Portman R-Ohio said Friday on Fox News. âMy sense is that everybody's made a commitment to be there next week. And we will certainly be able to have the vote. Our prayers go to him and his family.â
McCain isnât the only Republican senator with health issues. Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran had a procedure this week to remove a non-Melanoma lesion on his nose his spokesman said.
|
President Trump on Friday called the wife of Sen. John McCain the Arizona Republican who was hospitalized this week as he battles brain cancer the White House said.
An official said Trump spoke by phone with [TGT] on Friday afternoon to âcheck in on Sen. McCainâs condition.â
McCain 81 was diagnosed with brain cancer in July. On Wednesday his office said he had been admitted to the hospital.
â Senator McCain is currently receiving treatment at Walter Reed Medical Center for normal side effects of his ongoing cancer therapy â his office said. âAs ever he remains grateful to his physicians for their excellent care and his friends and supporters for their encouragement and good wishes. Senator McCain looks forward to returning to work as soon as possible.â
âOf course we all wish for Sen. McCain to have a great health for as long as possible â Sen. Rob Portman R-Ohio said Friday on Fox News. âMy sense is that everybody's made a commitment to be there next week. And we will certainly be able to have the vote. Our prayers go to him and his family.â
McCain isnât the only Republican senator with health issues. Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran had a procedure this week to remove a non-Melanoma lesion on his nose his spokesman said.
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,158 |
BlackBerry patent licensing director says he has left company
|
Victor Schubert
|
Victor Schubert who was a licensing director for BlackBerry told Reuters in a brief LinkedIn message that he was no longer with the company. He did not say when he left or why.
Company representatives did not respond to requests for comment on Schubert . Two switchboard operators at the Canadian company said his name was not in a global employee directory.
Schubert joined BlackBerry in March 2015 according to his LinkedIn profile as the company was embarking on a major push to boost licensing revenue.
Schubert has created and executed patent-licensing programs for at least four companies including BlackBerry dating back to 1992 according to his LinkedIn profile. It lists portfolio mining patent valuation and negotiating patent sales as areas of expertise.
He was due to represent BlackBerry at a Seattle-area patent conference next month to discuss how operating companies can make money off their intellectual property according to an agenda posted on the conference website in August. He is no longer listed as a panelist.
BlackBerry disclosed it had secured royalty-bearing deals with Cisco Systems Inc and another company that it did not name soon after Schubert joined. It also filed patent infringement lawsuits during his tenure against Nokia and Avaya Inc [AVXX.UL] that are ongoing.
|
[TGT] told Reuters in a brief LinkedIn message that [TGT] was no longer with the company. [TGT] did not say when [TGT] left or why.
Company representatives did not respond to requests for comment on [TGT] . Two switchboard operators at the Canadian company said his name was not in a global employee directory.
[TGT] joined BlackBerry in March 2015 according to [TGT] LinkedIn profile as the company was embarking on a major push to boost licensing revenue.
[TGT] has created and executed patent-licensing programs for at least four companies including BlackBerry dating back to 1992 according to [TGT] LinkedIn profile. It lists portfolio mining patent valuation and negotiating patent sales as areas of expertise.
He was due to represent BlackBerry at a Seattle-area patent conference next month to discuss how operating companies can make money off their intellectual property according to an agenda posted on the conference website in August. He is no longer listed as a panelist.
BlackBerry disclosed it had secured royalty-bearing deals with Cisco Systems Inc and another company that it did not name soon after [TGT] joined. [TGT] also filed patent infringement lawsuits during [TGT] tenure against Nokia and Avaya Inc [AVXX.UL] that are ongoing.
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,159 |
Motor racing: Gasly's U.S. Grand Prix absence proves in vain
|
Toro Rosso
|
Formula One F1 - Malaysia Grand Prix 2017 - Practice - Sepang Malaysia - September 29 2017. Toro Rosso's Pierre Gasly looks on. REUTERS/Edgar Su
Gaslyâs absence from Austin has paved the way for New Zealander Brendon Hartley to replace him at Toro Rosso and make his Formula One debut in Sundayâs race at the Texas track.
The Frenchman is expected to return to Formula One for the remaining three rounds after Austin and to take on a regular race drive in 2018.
Hartley acquitted himself well in Friday practice completing more than a race distance and could also be in the frame for a race drive next year if Toro Rosso decide to drop Russian Daniil Kvyat.
The driver turmoil at the Red Bull-owned team is a consequence of Kvyatâs poor performances this season and Spaniard Carlos Sainzâs move to Renault as part of an engine deal that will see Toro Rosso switch to Honda in 2018.
|
Formula One F1 - Malaysia Grand Prix 2017 - Practice - Sepang Malaysia - September 29 2017. Toro Rosso's Pierre Gasly looks on. REUTERS/Edgar Su
Gaslyâs absence from Austin has paved the way for New Zealander Brendon Hartley to replace him at [TGT] and make [TGT] Formula One debut in Sundayâs race at the Texas track.
The Frenchman is expected to return to Formula One for the remaining three rounds after Austin and to take on a regular race drive in 2018.
Hartley acquitted himself well in Friday practice completing more than a race distance and could also be in the frame for a race drive next year if [TGT] decide to drop Russian Daniil Kvyat.
The driver turmoil at the Red Bull-owned team is a consequence of Kvyatâs poor performances this season and Spaniard Carlos Sainzâs move to Renault as part of an engine deal that will see [TGT] switch to Honda in 2018.
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,160 |
Tom Petty : 10 songs you should know but probably don't
|
Tom Petty
|
Tom Petty wrote dozens of classic songs (âFree Fallin â âAmerican Girl â âRefugee â and on and on). Here are a few deeper cuts that endure:
âFooled Again (I Donât Like It) â from â Tom Petty and the Heartbreakersâ (1976): The eeriest nastiest track on the bandâs debut.
Watch Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers rip through "Fooled Again (I Don't Like It)." Watch Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers rip through "Fooled Again (I Don't Like It)." SEE MORE VIDEOS
âI Need to Know â from âYouâre Gonna Get Itâ (1978): Petty was initially pegged as a new-wave artist by tastemakers who didnât know what to make of him and this song embodies the fast terse almost slapdash urgency of the form with the guitar interplay of Petty and Mike Campbell.
Watch Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers tear up "I Need to Know" in 1978. Watch Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers tear up "I Need to Know" in 1978. SEE MORE VIDEOS
âLouisiana Rain â from âDamn the Torpedoesâ (1979): This sounds like a battered bruised bluesy outtake from the Rolling Stonesâ âBeggars Banquetâ with Petty channeling Keith Richards.
Listen to "Louisiana Rain" from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers . Listen to "Louisiana Rain" from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers . SEE MORE VIDEOS
Watch the original 1981 video for "A Woman in Love (But It's Not Me) " from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers . Watch the original 1981 video for "A Woman in Love (But It's Not Me) " from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers . SEE MORE VIDEOS
Listen to "The Best of Everything" from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers . Listen to "The Best of Everything" from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers . SEE MORE VIDEOS
Watch Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers perform "Love is a Long Road" from a 2003 episode of "Soundstage." Watch Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers perform "Love is a Long Road" from a 2003 episode of "Soundstage." SEE MORE VIDEOS
âDonât Fade on Me â from âWildflowersâ (1994): One of Pettyâs best and most underrated albums with Rick Rubin production coming off recent work with Johnny Cash focused on intimacy and stripped-down production. Petty has never sounded more vulnerable than he does on this acoustic track.
Listen to "Don't Fade on Me" from Tom Petty 's 1994 solo album "Wildflowers." Listen to "Don't Fade on Me" from Tom Petty 's 1994 solo album "Wildflowers." SEE MORE VIDEOS
Listen to "Come on Down to My House " from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers . Listen to "Come on Down to My House " from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers . SEE MORE VIDEOS
âWays to Be Wicked â from âPlaybackâ boxed set (1995): An outtake handed to Maria McKee and Lone Justice for the bandâs stellar 1985 country-punk debut album. Pettyâs caustic version brims with sex wickedness and hurt.
Listen to "Ways to be Wicked" from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers . Listen to "Ways to be Wicked" from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers . SEE MORE VIDEOS
Watch the official music video for "Swingin'" from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers . Watch the official music video for "Swingin'" from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers . SEE MORE VIDEOS
|
[TGT] wrote dozens of classic songs (âFree Fallin â âAmerican Girl â âRefugee â and on and on). Here are a few deeper cuts that endure:
âFooled Again (I Donât Like It) â from â [TGT] and the Heartbreakersâ (1976): The eeriest nastiest track on the bandâs debut.
Watch [TGT] and the Heartbreakers rip through "Fooled Again (I Don't Like It)." Watch [TGT] and the Heartbreakers rip through "Fooled Again (I Don't Like It)." SEE MORE VIDEOS
âI Need to Know â from âYouâre Gonna Get Itâ (1978): [TGT] was initially pegged as a new-wave artist by tastemakers who didnât know what to make of [TGT] and this song embodies the fast terse almost slapdash urgency of the form with the guitar interplay of Petty and Mike Campbell.
Watch [TGT] and the Heartbreakers tear up "I Need to Know" in 1978. Watch [TGT] and the Heartbreakers tear up "I Need to Know" in 1978. SEE MORE VIDEOS
âLouisiana Rain â from âDamn the Torpedoesâ (1979): This sounds like a battered bruised bluesy outtake from the Rolling Stonesâ âBeggars Banquetâ with [TGT] channeling Keith Richards.
Listen to [TGT] . Listen to [TGT] . SEE MORE VIDEOS
Watch the original 1981 video for "A Woman in Love (But It's Not Me) [TGT] . Watch the original 1981 video for "A Woman in Love (But It's Not Me) [TGT] . SEE MORE VIDEOS
Listen to " [TGT] . Listen to " [TGT] . SEE MORE VIDEOS
Watch [TGT] and the Heartbreakers perform "Love is a Long Road" from a 2003 episode of "Soundstage." Watch [TGT] and the Heartbreakers perform "Love is a Long Road" from a 2003 episode of "Soundstage." SEE MORE VIDEOS
âDonât Fade on Me â from âWildflowersâ (1994): One of Pettyâs best and most underrated albums with Rick Rubin production coming off recent work with Johnny Cash focused on intimacy and stripped-down production. [TGT] has never sounded more vulnerable than [TGT] does on this acoustic track.
Listen to "Don't Fade on Me" from [TGT] 's 1994 solo album "Wildflowers." Listen to "Don't Fade on Me" from Tom Petty 's 1994 solo album "Wildflowers." SEE MORE VIDEOS
Listen to "Come on Down to My House [TGT] . Listen to "Come on Down to My House [TGT] . SEE MORE VIDEOS
âWays to Be Wicked â from âPlaybackâ boxed set (1995): An outtake handed to Maria McKee and Lone Justice for the bandâs stellar 1985 country-punk debut album. Pettyâs caustic version brims with sex wickedness and hurt.
Listen to " [TGT] . Listen to " [TGT] . SEE MORE VIDEOS
Watch [TGT] . Watch [TGT] . SEE MORE VIDEOS
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
|
2,161 |
The Atlantic Interview: Nikole Hannah
|
Jeffrey Goldberg
|
The public schools in gentrifying neighborhoods seem on the cusp of becoming truly diverse as historically underserved neighborhoods fill up with younger whiter families. But the schools remain stubbornly segregated. Nikole Hannah-Jones has chronicled this phenomenon around the country and seen it firsthand in her neighborhood in Brooklyn. âWhite communities want neighborhood schools if their neighborhood school is white â she says. âIf their neighborhood school is black they want choice.â Charter schools and magnet schools spring up in place of neighborhood schools where white students can be in the majority. âWe have a system where white people control the outcomes and the outcome that most white Americans want is segregation â she says. In a recent episode of The Atlantic Interview Nikole Hannah-Jones and The Atlanticâs editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg discuss how integrated schools are good for white children and black children.
âIf one were to believe that having people who are different from you makes you smarter that you engage in a higher level of thinking that you solve problems better there are higher-level ways that integration is good for white folks â Jones says. For black children the benefits of attending an integrated school are much more drastic. âItâs literally will you receive a quality education or not? Will you be a full citizen in the country of your birth?â In a hyper-competitive economy where test scores and college admissions and lifetimes earnings are all linked Hannah-Jones has seen that the soft benefits of integration like empathy or compassion are low on a familyâs priority list. âMost white people are willing to trade that â she has found. An edited transcript of their conversation is below. Jeffrey Goldberg : You and I have both had these conversations with my colleague Ta-Nehisi Coates about the arc of history and which way it bends. Iâve adopted the viewpoint of Barack Obama that history is an arrow and the moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice. And Ta-Nehisi says that there really is no moral arc but if there were it would just bend toward chaos. Are you in the camp of people who say that long-term optimism is premature?
Nikole Hannah-Jones: I think it has not a lot of basis in historical fact. I would say the arc is actually a circle. It just perpetually turns back on itself. Goldberg : But letâs use African-Americans as an example. Life has gotten better no? Before there was before there was Brown v. Board of Education there was no Brown v. Board of Education. Before there was a Civil Rights Act there was no Civil Rights Act. We donât live in a period of history free of lynchings but the number of lynchings has gone down. There are more African-Americans in the middle class since Reconstruction. Life in America for African-Americans has gotten better. Itâs been stutter stepped but we ainât in 1866 or 1873. Hannah-Jones: I am not a slave. That's true. Goldberg : Well ⦠All right. Hannah-Jones: If thatâs the bar. Goldberg : No no no. Hannah-Jones: None of us would argue that there hasnât been progress in a range of things. I guess I get almost offended by people who want us to pause and be congratulatory about forward progress. Goldberg : I just want it known for the record that I'm offending you already. And we havenât even started. Hannah-Jones: I mean in a country that has set itself apart as a beacon of democracy the fact that weâre applauding that black folks now have had for 40 years full citizenship rights in the country of their birth in the country of their grandparentsâ birth in the country their great grandparentsâ birthâit's just hard to feel a lot of optimism.
Goldberg : Iâm not arguing for applauding. Obviously there is a long road to go. Iâm just saying that there is a direction to things. Hannah-Jones: Well thereâs forward progress and then we move back. Weâre clearly right now moving back. So yes we get the Voting Rights Act and now we get the gutting of the Voting Rights Act. We see a wave of voter suppression. We get Brown v. Board of Education and now black children are more segregated than theyâve been since the 1970s. We never made any real progress on housing segregation outside of the South and the West even though we outlawed housing discrimination in 1968. The wealth gap for black and white Americans is the largest that itâs been since we started really recording this in the 1970s. There are more black men incarcerated than were black men enslaved during slavery. There are more black men killed by police than there were black men lynched in a year. Goldberg : Okay fine. You win. Hannah-Jones: For small numbers of us thereâs a lot of progress. And for large numbers of us I think the progress can be very hard. Itâs still really bad. Goldberg : Iâm not disagreeing with your analysis on any of those. It just seemed two years ago that we were moving in the right direction. Hannah-Jones: And then what happened? Goldberg : Well a reaction. I want you to analyze the root of these continuing dilemmas. Is at the bottom what weâre talking about a lack of understanding on the part of white America about the actual lived lives of African-Americans? I mean Germany grappled with what it did in a way that Americaâs never grappled with what it did. As Ta-Nehisiâwho can always out-pessimism meâonce said Germanyâs easy because Germany killed all the people it hated.
Hannah-Jones: I would say weâre not grappling what this country is about. Period. Not for African Americans. Goldberg : Youâre not one of these people who says âThis is not who we are.â Hannah-Jones: No this is clearly who we are. I write about race from the year 1619. The English landed at Jamestown is 1607. Twelve years later we have imported Africans to be enslaved and determined that they will be a wholly different caste of people with no legal rights in this country. Thatâs one hundred and forty years before we declare independence and decide that we want to be a country. This is embedded in the DNA of this country. I mean Ta-Nehisiâs claim to fame is âThe Case For Reparations â which says weâve never even repaired the damage that weâve done and we only grudgingly even give legal rightsâon paperâto this group of people. Goldberg : It is amazing that we are talking about Robert E. Lee and voter suppression as issues in 2017. Hannah-Jones: I mean tell me another country where a group of people break off from a country try to fight that country and lose and those people are glorified and defended by the highest office in the land. Goldberg : So the South won in one key cognitive wayâin a narrative way? Hannah-Jones: Yes of course. What we were fighting in the South was a national sin. We want to pretend it was a Southern sin but it was a national sin. We canât grapple with the South unless we grapple with ourselves.
Goldberg : Two issues preoccupy you: housing segregation and education segregation. Theyâre linked obviously. To get to a place where thereâs actual equality in housing and actual equality in educational opportunities for African-Americans what has to happen? Itâs not just a legislative process. Hannah-Jones: It is not. Though equal rights for black Americans has always had to be legislated. Itâs never been willingly given. What it would take if weâre honest is a fundamental restructuring of society. Our public schools are not broken but are operating as designed. Our public schools were set up to provide unequal inadequate education for black children. So thatâs what they do. Goldberg : But arenât the public schools just a downstream problem of housing segregation policies? Hannah-Jones: No. They are clearly linked but whether you have integrated communities or segregated communities we have school segregation. In communities that are gentrifying the gentrification stops at the schoolhouse door. White communities want neighborhood schools if their neighborhood school is white. If their neighborhood school is black they want choice. Housing segregation just becomes a convenient excuse. The problemâand I never use the phrase âwhite supremacyâ because itâs a word that people automatically discount as soon as you use it but that is the problem. We have a system where white people control the outcomes. And the outcome that most white Americans want is segregation. And I donât mean the type of segregation that we saw in 1955. I don't mean complete segregation. I don't think there are very many white Americans who want entirely white schools. What they do want is a limited number of black kids in their schools.
Goldberg : What do you call âcurated diversity.â Hannah-Jones: I never talk about school inequality in terms of âdiversityâ because I think itâs a useless word. I think itâs a word that white people love. When I say âcurated diversity â it means white parents like a type of diversity so theyâll still be the majority and there wonât be too many black kids. White Americans in general are willing to accept about the ratio of black Americans at large: 10 to 15 percent. Goldberg : But you get into the 20s... Hannah-Jones: When you get into the 20s white folks start to exaggerate how large the percentage is. So in New York City one of the most segregated school systems in the country if youâre a white parent in the public schools you donât want all-white schools. Goldberg : Because youâre a liberal? Hannah-Jones: Yeah. But what you want is a majority-white school with a small number of black kids and a good number of Latino a good number of Asian. That makes you feel very good about yourself because you feel like your child is getting this beautiful integrated experience. The problem is that the public schools in New York City are 70 percent black and Latino. So for you to have your beautiful diversity that means that most black and Latino kids get absolutely none. The tolerance for increasing particularly the percentage of black kids is very low and even lower if those black kids are poor. No white parents in New York City mind having my kid in their school because they feel like Iâm on their level. But if you get too many of kids like mine who are black but poor thereâs very little tolerance.
Goldberg : Do most white parents in New York City achieve curated diversity for their children? Hannah-Jones: Yes. Goldberg : Theyâre winning that? Hannah-Jones: Oh definitely. Goldberg : And itâs the black and Latino kids who are not winning because thereâs not enough whites in that sense to go around? Hannah-Jones: There would be. I hear this all the time: âYou canât integrate schools in York City because thereâs not enough white kids.â But that's only based on the premise that you canât expect white kids to be in the minority. The demographics of the New York City public schools are about 40 percent Latino almost 30 percent black 15 percent Asian 15 percent white. If you picture a classroom like that that's a beautiful school. Thatâs a beautifully diverse integrated school. You could have that if you chose. We just donât choose it because we automatically say âYou canât expect that a white parent will put their kid in school with all those black kids.â Goldberg : If you were the dictator of America would you outlaw private schools? Would you force all the white kids and all the upper-middle class and upper-class African-American kids into the public-school system? Youâd have a deep level of parental involvement right? Are private schools immoral in this context? Hannah-Jones: Interestingly right after Brown there was consideration of whether or not Brown had to apply to private schools or whether we should get rid of private schools in the United States altogether understanding that the way to subvert Brown is to simply withdraw from public schools. Which is what happened all across the Southârather than share a public good with black folks state legislatures decided to shut down public schools altogether and pay vouchers for white students to go to private segregation academies. We think it sounds absolutely crazy to consider ending private schools but that was a consideration.
The answer to your question is yes you would have to. If you truly wanted to equalize and integrate schools you would have to. But you can go a step shorter than that. New York City public schools are majority black and Latino. But you can go to any of the suburbs around and theyâre very heavily white. So in New York and all across the North you could simply move into an all-white community and go to all-white public schools. And thatâs how you avoided desegregation. In the South most school districts were countywide. So you either paid for private school or you dealt with desegregation. In the North you didnât have to do that. The key difference between the North and the South is for the vast majority of the history of this country 90 percent of all black people lived in the South. The South responds with Jim Crow by passing laws that restrict the movement of black people. The North doesnât have to do that. It has a very tiny black population. Itâs only once black people start migrating out of the South in the 1900s that the North shows its true ugly racist head. Goldberg : Youâve described something that I actually experienced as a kid in the 70s. I was in a school system growing up that was about 60 percent black 35 whiteâthe local system right outside New York City. Very unusual. My experience going from kindergarten through 12th grade in that situation was fairly tension-free. People actually got along. There was mixing there was interracial datingâ¦
Hannah-Jones: Your first crush was a black girl? Goldberg : No weâre not even going there. Hannah-Jones: OK. Goldberg : But yes. And the second and the third. Hannah-Jones: Why are you turning red right now? Goldberg : Because Iâm interviewing you and youâre not interviewing me. But yes. My high-school sweetheart for many years was an African-American woman whoâs a very delightful person. It was an atmosphere where that could happen without consequence. Granted a lot of the people from the white parts of town went to Catholic parochial schools. If the school district actually took in all of the kids who lived within the boundaries it probably would have been 30 percent black. For the whites who went it was a fairly beneficial experience. I can look back on that and say it was better for my intellectual moral civic developmentâmy emotional developmentâto do that. That you argue is disappearing slowly as an experience for whites and blacks. The country is resegregating. Talk a little bit about the benefits for whites of integration. Hannah-Jones: I think this is where you struggle trying to convince white people they should do this. Thereâs a clear imbalance for black kids. Itâs literally will you receive a quality education or not? That is what integration means for black kids. Will you be able to transcend poverty? Will you be a full citizen in the country of your birth? Goldberg : Hitching a ride to the white majorityâ¦
Hannah-Jones: Hitching a ride to the white majority with the understanding that in a country built on racial caste they get an inordinate amount of the resources. Things that are acceptable for black children are never acceptable for white children. So if you want what white children get you have to be where white children are. White kids donât need black kids in the same way. Segregation does benefit white families. That is why the whole institution of segregation comes about. Goldberg : How does it benefit white families though in a practical way? Hannah-Jones: In a practical way because you get to hoard resources. You get the best of everything. Even in a community where the schools pretty much suck if thereâs a school with black kids itâs going to suck worse. Goldberg : I would disagree with the whole premise. Hannah-Jones: Would you? Goldberg : Well going to the second half. The benefits of integration for whites I think outweigh whatever resource hoarding you could do. Hannah-Jones: Itâs soft benefits versus hard benefits. The soft benefits of integration which I think are also very importantâitâs just a much harder argument. White people understand that theyâre fighting to get into white schools for a reason. It is a benefit. Theyâre going to get the best teachers. Theyâre going to get the best instruction. Theyâre going to get the best curriculum. Goldberg : With the assumption that itâs a zero-sum game.
Hannah-Jones: With the assumption that there are good teachers and bad teachers. Goldberg : And that the bad teachers are going to be... Hannah-Jones: ...overwhelmingly put into our schools. Yes. Nothing about the American experiment tells us that we value black kids the same. We just donât. I wrote about school resegregation in Tuscaloosa for The Atlantic. They created an all-black high school and an integrated high school. They promised the all-black high school it would have the same courses and they just donât do it. There was actually no reason not to do it. The white parents who wanted the integrated school didnât give a damn what courses you offered in the black school. They werenât fighting against giving those kids physics. They just didnât care. In the end they were poor black kids and they didnât have that much value and no one thought they were going to go to college anyway. Now if one were to believeâwhich I believeâthat having people who are different from you makes you smarter that you engage in a higher level of thinkingâand thereâs been research that shows thatâthat you solve problems better there are all these higher-level ways that integration is good for white folks. Goldberg : The richness of the human experience. Hannah-Jones: Right. My daughter is in a high-poverty school. Weâre clearly not poor. I think it makes her a better human being. I think she gets to see that these kids arenât any less than her. They just have less than her. But those are all hard soft-arguments to make to people who fundamentally view education as how my kid will rise to the top above every other kid and get into Harvard. They donât actually give a damn about their kid being a better person.
Goldberg : You talk about âhardâ benefits and âsoftâ benefits. I don't think they are that soft. Hannah-Jones: Most white people are willing to trade that. There is an explicit racial fear that black kids are more dangerous that if they put their kids in these schools their kids are going to be exposed to violence theyâre going to be exposed to bad culture. Thereâs no longer the belief that black people are racially inferior but that black culture is inferior. Goldberg : They donât say it in such a blunt way do they? Hannah-Jones: They said it in a blunt way. In my daughterâs school when white parents who lived next door to my daughterâs school would come and tour they would tell the principal âWe'll bring our kids but only if our kids are in classroom by themselves and you keep them together through fifth grade.â Goldberg : You mean a white class. Hannah-Jones: Yes. This is what is being demanded. Goldberg : And this is in âprogressiveâ Brooklyn. Hannah-Jones: This is Brooklyn. Hipster Brooklyn. There is this intrinsic racial fear that cannot be mitigated by facts. Thatâs the thing that is really embedded in all of usâthe belief that black children are not as smart. There are exceptional black children right? âOf course I know little Johnny is smart but heâs not like the rest of the black kids that are culturally depraved. That bad culture is going to rub off. We need to protect our kids from large numbers of these kids.â I've had parents tell me âThe middle-class black parents at the school are fine.â
Goldberg : Whatâs so interesting here is that you're not talking about stereotypical Trump voters in Alabama. You're talking about hipster Brooklyn. Liberals kind of piss you off? Hannah-Jones: I am only writing and speaking to liberals at this point. I'm trying to get people who say they believe in equality and integration but act in ways that maintain inequality and segregation to live their own values. The most segregated parts of the country are all in the progressive North. If you could just get white liberals to live their values you could have a significant amount of integration. Goldberg : You know what group of people who would be really uncomfortable listening to you talk? The heads of progressive private schools in New York City Boston Washington. Hannah-Jones: But hereâs the thing. Weâre in a capitalist country and if you can pay for something then so be it. What Iâm dealing with are public schools which are publicly funded for the public good. Every child should walk into a public school and get the same education. Those are the parents that Iâm speaking to. What we are finding are parents who say they believe in a common good but they want a public school that operates like a private schoolâyou can screen out the kids you donât want you can hoard resources in the school you can hoard all the best teachers you can determine what curriculum youâre going to get. And if that means that two miles down the road another publicly-funded school doesnât get any of that then so be it. That to me is the height of hypocrisy.
|
The public schools in gentrifying neighborhoods seem on the cusp of becoming truly diverse as historically underserved neighborhoods fill up with younger whiter families. But the schools remain stubbornly segregated. Nikole Hannah-Jones has chronicled this phenomenon around the country and seen it firsthand in her neighborhood in Brooklyn. âWhite communities want neighborhood schools if their neighborhood school is white â she says. âIf their neighborhood school is black they want choice.â Charter schools and magnet schools spring up in place of neighborhood schools where white students can be in the majority. âWe have a system where white people control the outcomes and the outcome that most white Americans want is segregation â she says. In a recent episode of The Atlantic Interview Nikole Hannah-Jones and The Atlanticâs editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg discuss how integrated schools are good for white children and black children.
âIf one were to believe that having people who are different from you makes you smarter that you engage in a higher level of thinking that you solve problems better there are higher-level ways that integration is good for white folks â Jones says. For black children the benefits of attending an integrated school are much more drastic. âItâs literally will you receive a quality education or not? Will you be a full citizen in the country of your birth?â In a hyper-competitive economy where test scores and college admissions and lifetimes earnings are all linked Hannah-Jones has seen that the soft benefits of integration like empathy or compassion are low on a familyâs priority list. âMost white people are willing to trade that â she has found. An edited transcript of their conversation is below. [TGT] : You and I have both had these conversations with my colleague Ta-Nehisi Coates about the arc of history and which way it bends. Iâve adopted the viewpoint of Barack Obama that history is an arrow and the moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice. And Ta-Nehisi says that there really is no moral arc but if there were it would just bend toward chaos. Are you in the camp of people who say that long-term optimism is premature?
Nikole Hannah-Jones: I think it has not a lot of basis in historical fact. I would say the arc is actually a circle. It just perpetually turns back on itself. [TGT] : But letâs use African-Americans as an example. Life has gotten better no? Before there was before there was Brown v. Board of Education there was no Brown v. Board of Education. Before there was a Civil Rights Act there was no Civil Rights Act. We donât live in a period of history free of lynchings but the number of lynchings has gone down. There are more African-Americans in the middle class since Reconstruction. Life in America for African-Americans has gotten better. Itâs been stutter stepped but we ainât in 1866 or 1873. Hannah-Jones: I am not a slave. That's true. [TGT] : Well ⦠All right. Hannah-Jones: If thatâs the bar. [TGT] : No no no. Hannah-Jones: None of us would argue that there hasnât been progress in a range of things. I guess I get almost offended by people who want us to pause and be congratulatory about forward progress. [TGT] : I just want it known for the record that I'm offending you already. And we havenât even started. Hannah-Jones: I mean in a country that has set itself apart as a beacon of democracy the fact that weâre applauding that black folks now have had for 40 years full citizenship rights in the country of their birth in the country of their grandparentsâ birth in the country their great grandparentsâ birthâit's just hard to feel a lot of optimism.
Goldberg : Iâm not arguing for applauding. Obviously there is a long road to go. Iâm just saying that there is a direction to things. Hannah-Jones: Well thereâs forward progress and then we move back. Weâre clearly right now moving back. So yes we get the Voting Rights Act and now we get the gutting of the Voting Rights Act. We see a wave of voter suppression. We get Brown v. Board of Education and now black children are more segregated than theyâve been since the 1970s. We never made any real progress on housing segregation outside of the South and the West even though we outlawed housing discrimination in 1968. The wealth gap for black and white Americans is the largest that itâs been since we started really recording this in the 1970s. There are more black men incarcerated than were black men enslaved during slavery. There are more black men killed by police than there were black men lynched in a year. [TGT] : Okay fine. You win. Hannah-Jones: For small numbers of us thereâs a lot of progress. And for large numbers of us I think the progress can be very hard. Itâs still really bad. [TGT] : Iâm not disagreeing with your analysis on any of those. It just seemed two years ago that we were moving in the right direction. Hannah-Jones: And then what happened? [TGT] : Well a reaction. I want you to analyze the root of these continuing dilemmas. Is at the bottom what weâre talking about a lack of understanding on the part of white America about the actual lived lives of African-Americans? I mean Germany grappled with what it did in a way that Americaâs never grappled with what it did. As Ta-Nehisiâwho can always out-pessimism meâonce said Germanyâs easy because Germany killed all the people it hated.
Hannah-Jones: I would say weâre not grappling what this country is about. Period. Not for African Americans. [TGT] : Youâre not one of these people who says âThis is not who we are.â Hannah-Jones: No this is clearly who we are. I write about race from the year 1619. The English landed at Jamestown is 1607. Twelve years later we have imported Africans to be enslaved and determined that they will be a wholly different caste of people with no legal rights in this country. Thatâs one hundred and forty years before we declare independence and decide that we want to be a country. This is embedded in the DNA of this country. I mean Ta-Nehisiâs claim to fame is âThe Case For Reparations â which says weâve never even repaired the damage that weâve done and we only grudgingly even give legal rightsâon paperâto this group of people. [TGT] : It is amazing that we are talking about Robert E. Lee and voter suppression as issues in 2017. Hannah-Jones: I mean tell me another country where a group of people break off from a country try to fight that country and lose and those people are glorified and defended by the highest office in the land. [TGT] : So the South won in one key cognitive wayâin a narrative way? Hannah-Jones: Yes of course. What we were fighting in the South was a national sin. We want to pretend it was a Southern sin but it was a national sin. We canât grapple with the South unless we grapple with ourselves.
[TGT] : Two issues preoccupy you: housing segregation and education segregation. Theyâre linked obviously. To get to a place where thereâs actual equality in housing and actual equality in educational opportunities for African-Americans what has to happen? Itâs not just a legislative process. Hannah-Jones: It is not. Though equal rights for black Americans has always had to be legislated. Itâs never been willingly given. What it would take if weâre honest is a fundamental restructuring of society. Our public schools are not broken but are operating as designed. Our public schools were set up to provide unequal inadequate education for black children. So thatâs what they do. [TGT] : But arenât the public schools just a downstream problem of housing segregation policies? Hannah-Jones: No. They are clearly linked but whether you have integrated communities or segregated communities we have school segregation. In communities that are gentrifying the gentrification stops at the schoolhouse door. White communities want neighborhood schools if their neighborhood school is white. If their neighborhood school is black they want choice. Housing segregation just becomes a convenient excuse. The problemâand I never use the phrase âwhite supremacyâ because itâs a word that people automatically discount as soon as you use it but that is the problem. We have a system where white people control the outcomes. And the outcome that most white Americans want is segregation. And I donât mean the type of segregation that we saw in 1955. I don't mean complete segregation. I don't think there are very many white Americans who want entirely white schools. What they do want is a limited number of black kids in their schools.
[TGT] : What do you call âcurated diversity.â Hannah-Jones: I never talk about school inequality in terms of âdiversityâ because I think itâs a useless word. I think itâs a word that white people love. When I say âcurated diversity â it means white parents like a type of diversity so theyâll still be the majority and there wonât be too many black kids. White Americans in general are willing to accept about the ratio of black Americans at large: 10 to 15 percent. [TGT] : But you get into the 20s... Hannah-Jones: When you get into the 20s white folks start to exaggerate how large the percentage is. So in New York City one of the most segregated school systems in the country if youâre a white parent in the public schools you donât want all-white schools. [TGT] : Because youâre a liberal? Hannah-Jones: Yeah. But what you want is a majority-white school with a small number of black kids and a good number of Latino a good number of Asian. That makes you feel very good about yourself because you feel like your child is getting this beautiful integrated experience. The problem is that the public schools in New York City are 70 percent black and Latino. So for you to have your beautiful diversity that means that most black and Latino kids get absolutely none. The tolerance for increasing particularly the percentage of black kids is very low and even lower if those black kids are poor. No white parents in New York City mind having my kid in their school because they feel like Iâm on their level. But if you get too many of kids like mine who are black but poor thereâs very little tolerance.
[TGT] : Do most white parents in New York City achieve curated diversity for their children? Hannah-Jones: Yes. [TGT] : Theyâre winning that? Hannah-Jones: Oh definitely. [TGT] : And itâs the black and Latino kids who are not winning because thereâs not enough whites in that sense to go around? Hannah-Jones: There would be. I hear this all the time: âYou canât integrate schools in York City because thereâs not enough white kids.â But that's only based on the premise that you canât expect white kids to be in the minority. The demographics of the New York City public schools are about 40 percent Latino almost 30 percent black 15 percent Asian 15 percent white. If you picture a classroom like that that's a beautiful school. Thatâs a beautifully diverse integrated school. You could have that if you chose. We just donât choose it because we automatically say âYou canât expect that a white parent will put their kid in school with all those black kids.â [TGT] : If you were the dictator of America would you outlaw private schools? Would you force all the white kids and all the upper-middle class and upper-class African-American kids into the public-school system? Youâd have a deep level of parental involvement right? Are private schools immoral in this context? Hannah-Jones: Interestingly right after Brown there was consideration of whether or not Brown had to apply to private schools or whether we should get rid of private schools in the United States altogether understanding that the way to subvert Brown is to simply withdraw from public schools. Which is what happened all across the Southârather than share a public good with black folks state legislatures decided to shut down public schools altogether and pay vouchers for white students to go to private segregation academies. We think it sounds absolutely crazy to consider ending private schools but that was a consideration.
The answer to your question is yes you would have to. If you truly wanted to equalize and integrate schools you would have to. But you can go a step shorter than that. New York City public schools are majority black and Latino. But you can go to any of the suburbs around and theyâre very heavily white. So in New York and all across the North you could simply move into an all-white community and go to all-white public schools. And thatâs how you avoided desegregation. In the South most school districts were countywide. So you either paid for private school or you dealt with desegregation. In the North you didnât have to do that. The key difference between the North and the South is for the vast majority of the history of this country 90 percent of all black people lived in the South. The South responds with Jim Crow by passing laws that restrict the movement of black people. The North doesnât have to do that. It has a very tiny black population. Itâs only once black people start migrating out of the South in the 1900s that the North shows its true ugly racist head. [TGT] : Youâve described something that I actually experienced as a kid in the 70s. I was in a school system growing up that was about 60 percent black 35 whiteâthe local system right outside New York City. Very unusual. My experience going from kindergarten through 12th grade in that situation was fairly tension-free. People actually got along. There was mixing there was interracial datingâ¦
Hannah-Jones: Your first crush was a black girl? [TGT] : No weâre not even going there. Hannah-Jones: OK. [TGT] : But yes. And the second and the third. Hannah-Jones: Why are you turning red right now? [TGT] : Because Iâm interviewing you and youâre not interviewing me. But yes. My high-school sweetheart for many years was an African-American woman whoâs a very delightful person. It was an atmosphere where that could happen without consequence. Granted a lot of the people from the white parts of town went to Catholic parochial schools. If the school district actually took in all of the kids who lived within the boundaries it probably would have been 30 percent black. For the whites who went it was a fairly beneficial experience. I can look back on that and say it was better for my intellectual moral civic developmentâmy emotional developmentâto do that. That you argue is disappearing slowly as an experience for whites and blacks. The country is resegregating. Talk a little bit about the benefits for whites of integration. Hannah-Jones: I think this is where you struggle trying to convince white people they should do this. Thereâs a clear imbalance for black kids. Itâs literally will you receive a quality education or not? That is what integration means for black kids. Will you be able to transcend poverty? Will you be a full citizen in the country of your birth? [TGT] : Hitching a ride to the white majorityâ¦
Hannah-Jones: Hitching a ride to the white majority with the understanding that in a country built on racial caste they get an inordinate amount of the resources. Things that are acceptable for black children are never acceptable for white children. So if you want what white children get you have to be where white children are. White kids donât need black kids in the same way. Segregation does benefit white families. That is why the whole institution of segregation comes about. [TGT] : How does it benefit white families though in a practical way? Hannah-Jones: In a practical way because you get to hoard resources. You get the best of everything. Even in a community where the schools pretty much suck if thereâs a school with black kids itâs going to suck worse. [TGT] : I would disagree with the whole premise. Hannah-Jones: Would you? [TGT] : Well going to the second half. The benefits of integration for whites I think outweigh whatever resource hoarding you could do. Hannah-Jones: Itâs soft benefits versus hard benefits. The soft benefits of integration which I think are also very importantâitâs just a much harder argument. White people understand that theyâre fighting to get into white schools for a reason. It is a benefit. Theyâre going to get the best teachers. Theyâre going to get the best instruction. Theyâre going to get the best curriculum. [TGT] : With the assumption that itâs a zero-sum game.
Hannah-Jones: With the assumption that there are good teachers and bad teachers. [TGT] : And that the bad teachers are going to be... Hannah-Jones: ...overwhelmingly put into our schools. Yes. Nothing about the American experiment tells us that we value black kids the same. We just donât. I wrote about school resegregation in Tuscaloosa for The Atlantic. They created an all-black high school and an integrated high school. They promised the all-black high school it would have the same courses and they just donât do it. There was actually no reason not to do it. The white parents who wanted the integrated school didnât give a damn what courses you offered in the black school. They werenât fighting against giving those kids physics. They just didnât care. In the end they were poor black kids and they didnât have that much value and no one thought they were going to go to college anyway. Now if one were to believeâwhich I believeâthat having people who are different from you makes you smarter that you engage in a higher level of thinkingâand thereâs been research that shows thatâthat you solve problems better there are all these higher-level ways that integration is good for white folks. [TGT] : The richness of the human experience. Hannah-Jones: Right. My daughter is in a high-poverty school. Weâre clearly not poor. I think it makes her a better human being. I think she gets to see that these kids arenât any less than her. They just have less than her. But those are all hard soft-arguments to make to people who fundamentally view education as how my kid will rise to the top above every other kid and get into Harvard. They donât actually give a damn about their kid being a better person.
[TGT] : You talk about âhardâ benefits and âsoftâ benefits. I don't think they are that soft. Hannah-Jones: Most white people are willing to trade that. There is an explicit racial fear that black kids are more dangerous that if they put their kids in these schools their kids are going to be exposed to violence theyâre going to be exposed to bad culture. Thereâs no longer the belief that black people are racially inferior but that black culture is inferior. [TGT] : They donât say it in such a blunt way do they? Hannah-Jones: They said it in a blunt way. In my daughterâs school when white parents who lived next door to my daughterâs school would come and tour they would tell the principal âWe'll bring our kids but only if our kids are in classroom by themselves and you keep them together through fifth grade.â [TGT] : You mean a white class. Hannah-Jones: Yes. This is what is being demanded. [TGT] : And this is in âprogressiveâ Brooklyn. Hannah-Jones: This is Brooklyn. Hipster Brooklyn. There is this intrinsic racial fear that cannot be mitigated by facts. Thatâs the thing that is really embedded in all of usâthe belief that black children are not as smart. There are exceptional black children right? âOf course I know little Johnny is smart but heâs not like the rest of the black kids that are culturally depraved. That bad culture is going to rub off. We need to protect our kids from large numbers of these kids.â I've had parents tell me âThe middle-class black parents at the school are fine.â
[TGT] : Whatâs so interesting here is that you're not talking about stereotypical Trump voters in Alabama. You're talking about hipster Brooklyn. Liberals kind of piss you off? Hannah-Jones: I am only writing and speaking to liberals at this point. I'm trying to get people who say they believe in equality and integration but act in ways that maintain inequality and segregation to live their own values. The most segregated parts of the country are all in the progressive North. If you could just get white liberals to live their values you could have a significant amount of integration. [TGT] : You know what group of people who would be really uncomfortable listening to you talk? The heads of progressive private schools in New York City Boston Washington. Hannah-Jones: But hereâs the thing. Weâre in a capitalist country and if you can pay for something then so be it. What Iâm dealing with are public schools which are publicly funded for the public good. Every child should walk into a public school and get the same education. Those are the parents that Iâm speaking to. What we are finding are parents who say they believe in a common good but they want a public school that operates like a private schoolâyou can screen out the kids you donât want you can hoard resources in the school you can hoard all the best teachers you can determine what curriculum youâre going to get. And if that means that two miles down the road another publicly-funded school doesnât get any of that then so be it. That to me is the height of hypocrisy.
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,162 |
Jared Kushner 's Security Clearance Has Been Downgraded: Reports
|
Jared Kushner
|
Jared Kushner President Donald Trumpâs son-in-law and White House adviser has had his security clearance downgraded Politico reports.
He has been downgraded from SCI (sensitive compartmented information) access to Secret level according to the publication.
All other White House aides working on high-level interim clearances also had their access downgraded according to a memo reportedly sent to staffers on Friday. Earlier that same day Trump said he would leave it up to his chief of staff John Kelly to decide what access Kushner should have.
âGeneral Kelly respects Jared a lot and General Kelly will make that call â Trump said at a joint news conference with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at the time.
Kushner no longer receives the Presidentâs Daily Brief a top-secret roundup of global issues compiled by intelligence officials. His access to the highly classified intelligence briefing has been cut off in the past few weeks sources told Reuters.
Kushner is reportedly accepting the decision and âwill not ask for special permissionâ from the president according to CNN.
Kusher has the vague title of senior adviser. Throughout his career at the White House he has been assigned a wide-ranging portfolio on an array of highly sensitive issues â solving the Israeli-Palestinian crisis keeping the U.S.-Mexico relationship afloat and heading up diplomacy with China for example.
âThis action will definitely impact Kushner âs ability to cure the world of all ills but not necessarily prevent him from doing aspects of his job â Mark Zaid a lawyer who specializes in national security law told HuffPost in an email. One of the most significant effects of Kushner âs clearance downgrade is no longer having access to the Presidentâs Daily Brief according to Zaid.
Government officials who perform the type of high-level diplomacy Kushner is tasked with doing typically get access to highly sensitive raw data about the players involved in the negotiations. Without the highest-level security clearance Kushner will have to get a âreduced and more limited versionâ of those background briefings said Brad Moss also a national security lawyer.
âIt really undermines his ability to do the work he âs supposed to be doing and makes him into more of a figurehead â Moss said.
Kushner will also lose access to the National Security Agencyâs intercepted communications Ned Price a former White House and CIA official wrote on Twitter.
âWhether or not he couldâve been successful before he no longer can be an effective Middle East mediator â Price wrote.
Kushner âs colleagues have an incentive to block off Kushner âs access to highly classified information. If they arenât careful they could lose their own clearances â or even face criminal charges said Moss.
Ultimately Kushner âs ability to do his job will depend on how strictly people around him restrict his access to sensitive meetings calls or documents Zaid wrote.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to answer questions regarding Kushner âs security clearance during a press briefing earlier Tuesday. Last week Sanders said Kushner would continue the work he has been doing whether or not he has full security clearance.
|
[TGT] President Donald Trumpâs son-in-law and White House adviser has had his security clearance downgraded Politico reports.
He has been downgraded from SCI (sensitive compartmented information) access to Secret level according to the publication.
All other White House aides working on high-level interim clearances also had their access downgraded according to a memo reportedly sent to staffers on Friday. Earlier that same day Trump said he would leave it up to his chief of staff John Kelly to decide what access Kushner should have.
âGeneral Kelly respects Jared a lot and General Kelly will make that call â Trump said at a joint news conference with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at the time.
Kushner no longer receives the Presidentâs Daily Brief a top-secret roundup of global issues compiled by intelligence officials. His access to the highly classified intelligence briefing has been cut off in the past few weeks sources told Reuters.
Kushner is reportedly accepting the decision and âwill not ask for special permissionâ from the president according to CNN.
Kusher has the vague title of senior adviser. Throughout his career at the White House he has been assigned a wide-ranging portfolio on an array of highly sensitive issues â solving the Israeli-Palestinian crisis keeping the U.S.-Mexico relationship afloat and heading up diplomacy with China for example.
âThis action will definitely impact Kushner âs ability to cure the world of all ills but not necessarily prevent him from doing aspects of his job â Mark Zaid a lawyer who specializes in national security law told HuffPost in an email. One of the most significant effects of Kushner âs clearance downgrade is no longer having access to the Presidentâs Daily Brief according to Zaid.
Government officials who perform the type of high-level diplomacy Kushner is tasked with doing typically get access to highly sensitive raw data about the players involved in the negotiations. Without the highest-level security clearance Kushner will have to get a âreduced and more limited versionâ of those background briefings said Brad Moss also a national security lawyer.
âIt really undermines his ability to do the work he âs supposed to be doing and makes him into more of a figurehead â Moss said.
Kushner will also lose access to the National Security Agencyâs intercepted communications Ned Price a former White House and CIA official wrote on Twitter.
âWhether or not he couldâve been successful before he no longer can be an effective Middle East mediator â Price wrote.
Kushner âs colleagues have an incentive to block off Kushner âs access to highly classified information. If they arenât careful they could lose their own clearances â or even face criminal charges said Moss.
Ultimately Kushner âs ability to do his job will depend on how strictly people around him restrict his access to sensitive meetings calls or documents Zaid wrote.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to answer questions regarding Kushner âs security clearance during a press briefing earlier Tuesday. Last week Sanders said Kushner would continue the work he has been doing whether or not he has full security clearance.
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| -1no label
|
2,163 |
Ice Bowl documentary examines Ice Bowl impact from both sides
|
Michael Meredith
|
A new NFL Films documentary "The Timeline: The Ice Bowl " by Michael Meredith looks at the 1967 NFL Championship game from a more Dallas-centric view than usual though it does not shortchange the Packers.
"I hope people can empathize a bit and understand what he went through and how hard he tried " Michael Meredith said. "I also hope it puts a spotlight on Jerry Kramer. I don't want to jinx anything but that would be a perfect end to this journey."
Michael Meredith was fortunate enough to meet and interview Starr before the Hall of Fame quarterback suffered a series of strokes. He hopes to go to Starr's home in Birmingham Alabama next week to show him the finished film in person.
Michael Meredith related two instances beyond winning the Ice Bowl where history could have been much different.
Michael Meredith directed Danson in the movie "The Open Road" in 2009.
Michael Meredith is a director and screenwriter. He has directed two full-length movies a couple of shorts and some documentaries. His movies have included actors Peter Falk Jeff Bridges Justin Timberlake Kate Mara and Harry Dean Stanton. He's working on a documentary on the founding of the Cowboys.
The Ice Bowl wasn't all bad for Meredith. His son said his "Monday Night Football" role for which Michael said he was well suited evolved from his postgame interview with Frank Gifford.
" He had an improvisational style. He was a much more intelligent guy than his image " he said.
|
A new NFL Films documentary "The Timeline: [TGT] looks at the 1967 NFL Championship game from a more Dallas-centric view than usual though it does not shortchange the Packers.
"I hope people can empathize a bit and understand what [TGT] went through and how hard [TGT] tried " [TGT] said. "I also hope it puts a spotlight on Jerry Kramer. I don't want to jinx anything but that would be a perfect end to this journey."
[TGT] was fortunate enough to meet and interview Starr before the Hall of Fame quarterback suffered a series of strokes. [TGT] hopes to go to Starr's home in Birmingham Alabama next week to show [TGT] the finished film in person.
[TGT] related two instances beyond winning the Ice Bowl where history could have been much different.
[TGT] directed Danson in the movie "The Open Road" in 2009.
[TGT] is a director and screenwriter. [TGT] has directed two full-length movies a couple of shorts and some documentaries. [TGT] movies have included actors Peter Falk Jeff Bridges Justin Timberlake Kate Mara and Harry Dean Stanton. [TGT] 's working on a documentary on the founding of the Cowboys.
The Ice Bowl wasn't all bad for [TGT] . [TGT] son said his "Monday Night Football" role for which Michael said he was well suited evolved from his postgame interview with Frank Gifford.
" [TGT] had an improvisational style. [TGT] was a much more intelligent guy than [TGT] image " [TGT] said.
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,164 |
Dianne Feinstein : No Law Could've Stopped Vegas Attacker but 'We Need a Law' Against Bump Stocks
|
Dianne Feinstein
|
During the October 8 airing of Face the Nation Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) admitted that no law would have stopped the Las Vegas attacker then proceeded to push for a law to ban bump stocks.
Feinstein responded âNo [the attacker] passed background checks registering for handguns and other weapons on multiple occasions.â She then promoted a bill she authored this week creating a law to ban bump stocks and said she already has 38 co-sponsors for it.
When Dickerson mentioned that the NRA is pushing for the ATF to review its 2010 approval of bump stocksâa review which could result in new regulations âFeinstein said âI thought that was as step forward and itâs appreciated [but] regulations arenât going to do it. We need a law.â
Again Feinstein said no law could have stopped the Vegas attacker but âwe need a lawâ against bump stocks.
She made another convoluted statement when asked if her legislation to ban bump stocks also bans semiautomatic firearms. Feinstein said her legislation does not ban semiautomatic firearms; that it is âwritten in clean Englishâ and she will send a copy to anyone who calls her office so they can see for themselves.
Feinstein answered âI agree with them to a great extent.â
|
During the October 8 airing of Face the Nation [TGT] admitted that no law would have stopped the Las Vegas attacker then proceeded to push for a law to ban bump stocks.
[TGT] responded âNo [the attacker] passed background checks registering for handguns and other weapons on multiple occasions.â [TGT] then promoted a bill [TGT] authored this week creating a law to ban bump stocks and said [TGT] already has 38 co-sponsors for it.
When Dickerson mentioned that the NRA is pushing for the ATF to review its 2010 approval of bump stocksâa review which could result in new regulations âFeinstein said âI thought that was as step forward and itâs appreciated [but] regulations arenât going to do it. We need a law.â
Again [TGT] said no law could have stopped the Vegas attacker but âwe need a lawâ against bump stocks.
[TGT] made another convoluted statement when asked if [TGT] legislation to ban bump stocks also bans semiautomatic firearms. [TGT] said [TGT] legislation does not ban semiautomatic firearms; that it is âwritten in clean Englishâ and [TGT] will send a copy to anyone who calls [TGT] office so they can see for themselves.
[TGT] answered âI agree with them to a great extent.â
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,165 |
Mike Adamle's struggle and his crusade: 'I can feel the decline every single day'
|
Mike Adamle
|
Mike Adamle was holding court.
In the kitchen of his Evanston home he was waving his arms telling jokes like a late-night host reciting an old football poem he wrote âThe Ballad of Special Teams â and rattling off phrases in Spanish Russian and Korean.
But the Mike Adamle who can command a room is just the surface.
Adamleâs neurologist Michael Smith of Rush University Medical Center said Adamle has post traumatic epilepsy which is âcaused by sort of a bruising of the brain and that happens with concussions.â
Adamle âs wife Kim said her husbandâs life has changed dramatically in the last few years. She relates a story from last winter that illustrates how one loose thread can leave him unraveled.
â Mike 's able to be pretty independent right â she said. âHe hasn't been able to drive for a year and a half but he can take the train go down to the East Bank Club (gym) and use his CTA card to come back.
The Adamles rely on routines but one small problem can send Mike into a spiral. Impulsivity frustration and anger set in. While Kim was trying to figure out his location Mike hung up on her.
She called the NBC Sports desk where Mike had worked until he went on leave in 2016 a year before he retired in March and asked if someone could go out and see if he was wandering near NBC Tower put him in a taxi and send him home.
Photos of former Bears running back and NBC-5 sportscaster Mike Adamle .
â Mike luckily had come into the building â she said âand was talking to the security guard.â
He made it home safely
Asked how he felt in those moments Mike burst out âYou (bleeping) idiot! How did you lose that? Itâs so â¦â
His thought trails off.
Mike Adamle is adamant that he âs not going to wait around for the disease to claim the rest of his faculties. He and Kim have gone on the offensive partnering with Boston Universityâs CTE Center and the Concussion Legacy Foundation to create a national support network for suspected CTE victims and their families called the Mike Adamle Project: Rise Above set to launch in late January.
Mike Adamle admitted during his Tribune interview that he sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night thinking about his mortality.
âYou pop up like this. Itâs hard not to it happens to a zillion people every day on the planet Earth â he said. âIâll be gone. Iâd like to make that a little longer and I definitely donât want to spend it in an old folks home; thatâs never going to happen. So we just keep on going until.â
|
[TGT] was holding court.
In the kitchen of [TGT] Evanston home [TGT] was waving [TGT] arms telling jokes like a late-night host reciting an old football poem [TGT] wrote âThe Ballad of Special Teams â and rattling off phrases in Spanish Russian and Korean.
But [TGT] is just the surface.
Adamleâs neurologist Michael Smith of Rush University Medical Center said [TGT] has post traumatic epilepsy which is âcaused by sort of a bruising of the brain and that happens with [TGT]
âs wife Kim said her husbandâs life has changed dramatically in the last few years. She relates a story from last winter that illustrates how one loose thread can leave him unraveled.
â [TGT] 's able to be pretty independent right â she said. âHe hasn't been able to drive for a year and a half but he can take the train go down to the East Bank Club (gym) and use his CTA card to come back.
The Adamles rely on routines but one small problem can send [TGT] into a spiral. Impulsivity frustration and anger set in. While Kim was trying to figure out his location [TGT] hung up on her.
She called the NBC Sports desk where [TGT] had worked until [TGT] went on leave in 2016 a year before [TGT] retired in March and asked if someone could go out and see if he was wandering near NBC Tower put him in a taxi and send him home.
Photos of former Bears running back and NBC-5 sportscaster Mike Adamle .
â [TGT] luckily had come into the building â she said âand was talking to the security guard.â
He made it home safely
Asked how he felt in those moments [TGT] burst out âYou (bleeping) idiot! How did you lose that? Itâs so â¦â
[TGT] thought trails off.
Mike Adamle is adamant that he âs not going to wait around for the disease to claim the rest of his faculties. He and Kim have gone on the offensive partnering with Boston Universityâs CTE Center and the Concussion Legacy Foundation to create a national support network for suspected CTE victims and their families called the Mike Adamle Project: Rise Above set to launch in late January.
Mike Adamle admitted during his Tribune interview that he sometimes wakes up in the middle of the night thinking about his mortality.
âYou pop up like this. Itâs hard not to it happens to a zillion people every day on the planet Earth â he said. âIâll be gone. Iâd like to make that a little longer and I definitely donât want to spend it in an old folks home; thatâs never going to happen. So we just keep on going until.â
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
|
2,166 |
Nat Geo Teams With Will Smith For 'One Strange Rock'
|
Nat Geo
|
I love science. I love Will Smith. I love the original content that Nat Geo is producing these days. Thatâs why âOne Strange Rockâ is shaping up to be an epic series that I canât wait to see.
Will Smith revealed the news that he will be hosting the new 10-part Nat Geo series with a brief teaser video on his Facebook page. The premise of the series is to provide viewers with a thrilling and unique perspective on planet Earth and how this particular rock hurtling through space happens to be brimming with wonderfully diverse life.
Other astronauts in the lineup include Mae Jemison and Peggy Whitson. Jemison was the first African-American woman to go to space and a consultant for the phenomenal Nat Geo series Mars. Whitson recently completed her third journey to space and set a NASA record for the most days in space with 665.
The series claims to redefine both the natural history and science genres taking viewers on an epic journey that spans 45 countries six continents and even outer space. âOne Strange Rockâ will premier on Nat Geo in March of 2018 in 43 languages across 172 countries.
|
I love science. I love Will Smith. I love the original content that Nat Geo is producing these days. Thatâs why âOne Strange Rockâ is shaping up to be an epic series that I canât wait to see.
Will Smith revealed the news that he will be hosting [TGT] with a brief teaser video on his Facebook page. The premise of the series is to provide viewers with a thrilling and unique perspective on planet Earth and how this particular rock hurtling through space happens to be brimming with wonderfully diverse life.
Other astronauts in the lineup include Mae Jemison and Peggy Whitson. Jemison was the first African-American woman to go to space and a consultant for the phenomenal Nat Geo series Mars. Whitson recently completed her third journey to space and set a NASA record for the most days in space with 665.
[TGT] claims to redefine both the natural history and science genres taking viewers on an epic journey that spans 45 countries six continents and even outer space. âOne Strange Rockâ will premier on [TGT] in March of 2018 in 43 languages across 172 countries.
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,167 |
Would the Miami Marlins dare trade Giancarlo Stanton after the season?
|
Giancarlo Stanton
|
Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE Giancarlo Stanton is hitting home runs at a ridiculous pace this season but the distance they are traveling is equally hard to believe. USA TODAY Sports
Giancarlo Stanton slugs his 50th home run of the season -- a two run home run in the eighth inning. (Photo: Jasen Vinlove USA TODAY Sports)
They want Miami Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton and while itâs not realistic now it could be by the start of the 2018 season.
Stanton who passed through waivers without a sniff a few weeks ago suddenly has a captive audience hitting his 50th home run Sunday earlier than any player since Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa in 2001.
Despite his exploits no team has informed the Marlins they would be willing to pay the remainder of Stanton âs entire salary a cool $295 million over the next 10 years beginning in 2018.
Yet not even the Marlins who will be sold as soon as their season ends to a group led by Derek Jeter and Bruce Sherman are stupid enough to trade Stanton now.
Stanton will be wearing a Marlinsâ uniform right up until the their season finale on Oct. 1 or longer if they happen to make the playoffs.
The Marlins with Jeter running the show once the sale closes will trade Stanton .
It would be altogether different of course if Jeffrey Loria was still owning the team. He would be lampooned to Cuba if he dared trade Stanton .
The difference now of course is that when Stanton is traded Jeter will be in charge.
The Marlins who want to keep their payroll around $100 million simply canât have one-third of their payroll tied into one player no matter how many homers Stanton hits.
Letâs face it considering Stanton âs injury-plagued past his trade value may never be higher.
The Cardinals have the money and certainly the most prospects of any team interested in Stanton but Stanton also has complete no-trade rights. Itâs unknown what teams he would be willing to approve a trade.
Stanton âs preference would be the Dodgers where he grew up in the Los Angeles area and still lives during the offseason. But sorry the Dodgersâ days of wild spending are over vowing to shed payroll.
Letâs see if Stanton can hit two more home runs this month and break Rudy Yorkâs record of 18 homers in August of 1937; hit 12 more homers to pass Maris; or even continue this crazy tear and produce a 70-homer season.
When itâs all over and he puts away his bats for the winter we can watch Stanton establish yet another record.
|
Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE [TGT] is hitting home runs at a ridiculous pace this season but the distance they are traveling is equally hard to believe. [TGT]
slugs [TGT] 50th home run of the season -- a two run home run in the eighth inning. (Photo: Jasen Vinlove USA TODAY Sports)
They want [TGT] and while itâs not realistic now it could be by the start of the 2018 season.
[TGT] suddenly has a captive audience hitting [TGT] 50th home run Sunday earlier than any player since Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa in 2001.
Despite his exploits no team has informed the Marlins they would be willing to pay the remainder of [TGT] âs entire salary a cool $295 million over the next 10 years beginning in 2018.
Yet not even the Marlins who will be sold as soon as their season ends to a group led by Derek Jeter and Bruce Sherman are stupid enough to trade [TGT] now.
[TGT] will be wearing a Marlinsâ uniform right up until the their season finale on Oct. 1 or longer if they happen to make the playoffs.
The Marlins with Jeter running the show once the sale closes will trade [TGT] .
It would be altogether different of course if Jeffrey Loria was still owning the team. He would be lampooned to Cuba if he dared trade [TGT]
The difference now of course is that when [TGT] is traded Jeter will be in charge.
The Marlins who want to keep their payroll around $100 million simply canât have one-third of their payroll tied into one player no matter how many homers [TGT] hits.
Letâs face it considering [TGT] injury-plagued past [TGT] trade value may never be higher.
The Cardinals have the money and certainly the most prospects of any team interested in [TGT] but [TGT] also has complete no-trade rights. [TGT] unknown what teams [TGT] would be willing to approve a trade.
[TGT] would be the Dodgers where [TGT] grew up in the Los Angeles area and still lives during the offseason. But sorry the Dodgersâ days of wild spending are over vowing to shed payroll.
Letâs see if [TGT] can hit two more home runs this month and break Rudy Yorkâs record of 18 homers in August of 1937; hit 12 more homers to pass Maris; or even continue this crazy tear and produce a 70-homer season.
When itâs all over and he puts away his bats for the winter we can watch [TGT] establish yet another record.
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
|
2,168 |
Reports: Simon Cowell taken to hospital after falling at London home
|
Simon Cowell
|
Simon Cowell is in the hospital after what his rep called a "bad fall" at his London home. (Photo: Jon Kopaloff FilmMagic)
America's Got Talent judge Simon Cowell was taken by ambulance to a hospital after falling at his London home Friday People and The Hollywood Reporter said Friday.
A rep for Cowell 58 told the outlets that he was outfitted with a neck brace after suffering a "bad fall" and was undergoing tests at a hospital.
It's unclear whether he 'll recover quickly enough to take part in Saturday's live episode of his other reality show ITV's X Factor U.K.
USA TODAY has reached out to Cowell 's representative for comment.
|
[TGT] is in the hospital after what [TGT] rep called a "bad fall" at [TGT] London home. (Photo: Jon Kopaloff FilmMagic)
America's Got Talent judge [TGT] was taken by ambulance to a hospital after falling at [TGT] London home Friday People and The Hollywood Reporter said Friday.
A rep for [TGT] told the outlets that [TGT] was outfitted with a neck brace after suffering a "bad fall" and was undergoing tests at a hospital.
It's unclear whether [TGT] 'll recover quickly enough to take part in Saturday's live episode of [TGT] other reality show ITV's X Factor U.K.
USA TODAY has reached out to [TGT] 's representative for comment.
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,169 |
Judge hears evidence on 1982 case linked to disgraced ex
|
Jackie Wilson
|
Burge was not in court but Jackie Wilson wearing a gray-and-black striped jumpsuit repeatedly picked up a black-and-white picture of the former officer as he emphatically and sometimes tearfully alleged that officers beat him kicked him in the groin put a gun in his mouth and gave him electric shocks. Believing he would be killed if he didnât confess Wilson said he told officers he was present when his brother Andrew shot and killed officers Richard OâBrien and William Fahey in February 1982.
Wilson now 57 said he would have confessed to shooting the president if the detectives had asked him. âI told them âGame over ⦠whatever you want me to say Iâm gonna say it â â he said. âI wanted it to stop.â
Wednesdayâs hearing part of Wilson âs attempt to win a new trial illustrates the broad and long-lasting consequences of the Burge scandal. The all-day hearing barely touched on Wilsonâs guilt or innocence instead turning on the question of whether his confession was coerced. Wilson âs lawyers argue that he should be granted a new trial with the confession suppressed which could make it difficult for prosecutors to retry him .
Wilsonâs bid is based in part on evidence that Burge or his subordinates tortured other men including his late brother Andrew who was found by doctors to have numerous injuries after his interrogation. Jackie Wilson âs attorney Flint Taylor described a âmountain of evidenceâ of torture by officers including Burge who was never prosecuted for torture but was convicted in 2010 of lying about the abuse of suspects.
In a deposition related to the Wilson case Taylor said Burge invoked his Fifth Amendment right to not incriminate himself. On Wednesday a former stateâs attorney involved in the case Lawrence Hyman did the same.
Michael OâRourke a private attorney working as a special prosecutor acknowledged abusive practices by officers in other cases but denied that Jackie Wilson was harmed or coerced into confessing. OâRourke pointed to photos of Wilson taken after his interrogation that showed no visible injuries.
âItâs almost like he wants to metamorphosize into Andrew Wilson â OâRourke said. âThis case is not Andrew Wilson .â
Faheyâs brother Mike who sat through the hearing alongside his sister said he does not believe Jackie Wilson was abused. He said he believes Wilson committed the crime and is just echoing other abuse allegations against Burge and his men.
Wilson âs case is central to a saga that continues some three decades after allegations of torture against Burge and his âmidnight crewâ burst into public view.
Scores of African-American men have accused Burge who is white and his colleagues of torturing or abusing them during the 1970s and 1980s on the South Side. The allegations include claims similar to those Wilson makes; officers have been accused of using electric shocks to the genitals of suspects and forcing them to play Russian roulette among other things.
Wednesdayâs hearing on the Wilson case was mandated by the Illinois Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission which found âcredible evidenceâ that Wilson was tortured after his arrest in 1982 though the commission noted discrepancies in his statements over the years.
Prosecutors said Wilson looked on as his brother Andrew grabbed Fahey's gun and shot him in the head. In his confession Jackie Wilson said that after he shouted that O'Brien was alive and moving his brother shot the officer again as he lay wounded on the ground.
Andrew Wilson also confessed and also alleged his confession was coerced through torture. He was found by doctors after his arrest to have numerous cuts bruises and burns.
On the stand Wednesday Jackie Wilson said he was viciously abused by officers including Burge after his arrival at a South Side police station. Wilson occasionally weeping said his denials of knowledge of the crime were met by escalating abuse. He said officers hit him with a phone book and put a gun in his mouth before Burge brought in an electrical device police used to shock him .
After OâRourke raised an objection to a question involving the word âtorture â Wilson pointed at him and angrily asked âWhat would you call it?â
|
Burge was not in court but [TGT] wearing a gray-and-black striped jumpsuit repeatedly picked up a black-and-white picture of the former officer as he emphatically and sometimes tearfully alleged that officers beat him kicked him in the groin put a gun in his mouth and gave him electric shocks. Believing he would be killed if he didnât confess [TGT] said [TGT] told officers [TGT] was present when [TGT] brother Andrew shot and killed officers Richard OâBrien and William Fahey in February 1982.
[TGT] now 57 said [TGT] would have confessed to shooting the president if the detectives had asked [TGT] . âI told them âGame over ⦠whatever you want me to say Iâm gonna say it â â he said. âI wanted it to stop.â
Wednesdayâs hearing part of [TGT] âs attempt to win a new trial illustrates the broad and long-lasting consequences of the Burge scandal. The all-day hearing barely touched on Wilsonâs guilt or innocence instead turning on the question of whether his confession was coerced. [TGT] argue that [TGT] should be granted a new trial with the confession suppressed which could make it difficult for prosecutors to retry [TGT] .
Wilsonâs bid is based in part on evidence that Burge or his subordinates tortured other men including his late brother Andrew who was found by doctors to have numerous injuries after his interrogation. Jackie Wilson âs attorney Flint Taylor described a âmountain of evidenceâ of torture by officers including Burge who was never prosecuted for torture but was convicted in 2010 of lying about the abuse of suspects.
In a deposition related to the [TGT] case Taylor said Burge invoked his Fifth Amendment right to not incriminate himself. On Wednesday a former stateâs attorney involved in the case Lawrence Hyman did the same.
Michael OâRourke a private attorney working as a special prosecutor acknowledged abusive practices by officers in other cases but denied that [TGT] was harmed or coerced into confessing. OâRourke pointed to photos of [TGT] taken after [TGT] interrogation that showed no visible injuries.
âItâs almost like [TGT] wants to metamorphosize into Andrew Wilson â OâRourke said. âThis case is not [TGT] .â
Faheyâs brother Mike who sat through the hearing alongside his sister said he does not believe [TGT] was abused. [TGT] said [TGT] believes [TGT] committed the crime and is just echoing other abuse allegations against Burge and his men.
[TGT] âs case is central to a saga that continues some three decades after allegations of torture against Burge and his âmidnight crewâ burst into public view.
Scores of African-American men have accused Burge who is white and his colleagues of torturing or abusing them during the 1970s and 1980s on the South Side. The allegations include claims similar to those [TGT] makes; officers have been accused of using electric shocks to the genitals of suspects and forcing them to play Russian roulette among other things.
Wednesdayâs hearing on the [TGT] was mandated by the Illinois Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission which found âcredible evidenceâ that [TGT] was tortured after [TGT] arrest in 1982 though the commission noted discrepancies in [TGT] statements over the years.
Prosecutors said [TGT] looked on as [TGT] brother Andrew grabbed Fahey's gun and shot him in the head. In his confession [TGT] said that after he shouted that O'Brien was alive and moving his brother shot the officer again as he lay wounded on the ground.
[TGT] also confessed and also alleged [TGT] confession was coerced through torture. [TGT] was found by doctors after [TGT] arrest to have numerous cuts bruises and burns.
On the stand Wednesday [TGT] said [TGT] was viciously abused by officers including Burge after [TGT] arrival at a South Side police station. [TGT] occasionally weeping said [TGT] denials of knowledge of the crime were met by escalating abuse. He said officers hit him with a phone book and put a gun in his mouth before Burge brought in an electrical device police used to shock him .
After OâRourke raised an objection to a question involving the word âtorture â [TGT] pointed at [TGT] and angrily asked âWhat would you call it?â
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| -1no label
|
2,170 |
U.S. Imposes Toughest Sanctions Ever Against North Korea's Communist Regime
|
Steven Mnuchin
|
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced Friday that the United States is imposing the toughest sanctions ever put in place against the Communist regime in North Korea for its nuclear program.
âThis action targets the deceptive shipping practices that enable the Kim regime to fund its dangerous weapons programs â Mnuchin said. âOur actions target shipping and trade companies vessels and individuals across the world who we know are working on North Koreaâs behalf.â
Specifically Mnuchin said the sanctions target 27 entities 28 vessels and 1 individual for evading existing sanctions.
âTodayâs actions will significantly hinder North Koreaâs ability to conduct evasive maritime activities that facilitate illicit coal and fuel transports limit the regimeâs ability to ship goods through international waters â Mnuchin said. âOur actions are part of the ongoing maximum economic pressure campaign to cut off sources of revenue that this regime derives from the U.N. and U.S. prohibited trades to fund its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.â
âWe are releasing new imagery of the deceptive shipping practices used by those who aid and profit from illicit trade with North Korea â Mnuchin said.
Mnuchin said the images from December of last year show transfer of fuel and other products from ships to ships bound for North Korea.
âThey shine a spotlight on the practices employed by the government of North Korea to falsify identifying information on ships and conceal illicit cargo â Mnuchin stated noting this behavior also violates the United Nations Security Council resolutions.
He said the U.S. is âputting companies and countries on noticeâ about dealings with North Korea and that the Trump administration âviews compliance with U.S. and U.N. sanctions as a national security imperative.â
âThe United States will leverage our economic strength to enforce President Trumpâs directive that any company that chooses to help North Korea fund its nuclear and ballistic missile programs will not be allowed to do business with anyone in the United States â Mnuchin said.
Mnuchin slammed North Korea for financing nuclear weapons while its people suffer and starve.
Meanwhile at the White House Mnuchin said the U.S. is determined to reach its ultimate goal for North Korea.
âThe United States will not sit idly by while he threatens American allies and territories â Mnuchin said. âThis administration is committed to full irreversible and permanent denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.â
|
[TGT] announced Friday that the United States is imposing the toughest sanctions ever put in place against the Communist regime in North Korea for its nuclear program.
âThis action targets the deceptive shipping practices that enable the Kim regime to fund its dangerous weapons programs â [TGT] said. âOur actions target shipping and trade companies vessels and individuals across the world who we know are working on North Koreaâs behalf.â
Specifically Mnuchin said the sanctions target 27 entities 28 vessels and 1 individual for evading existing sanctions.
âTodayâs actions will significantly hinder North Koreaâs ability to conduct evasive maritime activities that facilitate illicit coal and fuel transports limit the regimeâs ability to ship goods through international waters â [TGT] said. âOur actions are part of the ongoing maximum economic pressure campaign to cut off sources of revenue that this regime derives from the U.N. and U.S. prohibited trades to fund its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.â
âWe are releasing new imagery of the deceptive shipping practices used by those who aid and profit from illicit trade with North Korea â [TGT] said.
[TGT] said the images from December of last year show transfer of fuel and other products from ships to ships bound for North Korea.
âThey shine a spotlight on the practices employed by the government of North Korea to falsify identifying information on ships and conceal illicit cargo â [TGT] stated noting this behavior also violates the United Nations Security Council resolutions.
[TGT] said the U.S. is âputting companies and countries on noticeâ about dealings with North Korea and that the Trump administration âviews compliance with U.S. and U.N. sanctions as a national security imperative.â
âThe United States will leverage our economic strength to enforce President Trumpâs directive that any company that chooses to help North Korea fund its nuclear and ballistic missile programs will not be allowed to do business with anyone in the United States â [TGT] said.
[TGT] slammed North Korea for financing nuclear weapons while [TGT] [TGT] people suffer and starve.
Meanwhile at [TGT] said the U.S. is determined to reach its ultimate goal for North Korea.
âThe United States will not sit idly by while he threatens American allies and territories â [TGT] said. âThis administration is committed to full irreversible and permanent denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.â
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,171 |
Shaun White wins 3rd Olympic gold in contest for the ages
|
Shaun White
|
They will definitely still be talking about Shaun White.
It wasnât so much that White won his third gold medal to place his name among the greatest to compete in the Olympics or in any realm of sports for that matter.
It was the way he did it.
His winning run capped a contest that even before he dropped in for the finale was the best in terms of pure difficulty showmanship and guts that has ever been seen on a halfpipe.
It came with the heart-thumping pressure of knowing he had to land the most difficult run he ever attempted or settle for silver.
It included back-to-back jumps each with 1440 degrees of spin that are quite literally death-defying. They were tricks White said afterward that he had never landed in succession â not in practice and of course never in a contest.
âI knew I had it in me â he said. âThe fear was out of the door. Iâm at the Olympics. I had to do it . Iâm standing at the top in my favorite position with the pressure of the world and one run to go. Man it brings out the best in me. Iâm so glad thatâs a part of me as a competitor.â
On the winning trip White got the tough stuff out of the way early dropping straight into the halfpipe flying nearly 20 feet above it and whipping his body around twice while going head-over-heels two times. He landed high enough on the wall to gather sufficient speed to head to the other side and essentially do a mirror image of the first trick.
From there he performed what he calls a Sky Hook â a 20-foot vault above the deck in which he bent himself into the shape of a comma while grabbing the board and tweaking it up toward his backside to show judges the style they demand. His final trick was one he patented: the Double McTwist 1260 in which he took off from the wall for two flips with 1 ½ twists grabbing the board and practically wrestling it over his head to complete the jump and stick the landing.
He knew he âd done it but the wait â about 120 seconds â was agonizing.
The score came up. A 97.75. It was enough to beat Ayumu Hirano the 5-foot-2 19-year-old from Japan who has been asked quite often exactly when he was going to beat Shaun White.
But it was Hirano who now has back-to-back Olympic silvers who set the stakes for these games by becoming the first man to land the back-to-back 14s at the Winter X Games last month. He did it again on his second run under a slate-gray sky in Pyeongchang to set the mark (95.25) that White would have to beat.
He did it . Shortly after his winning score came up White was hugging friends and family and sobbing almost uncontrollably â the sort of emotion rarely seen from the man who burst onto the scene as the ebullient redhead shredder dude then grew into a multi-platform megastar whose light shines well beyond any halfpipe.
White would be the first to admit that a lot of that fame came because of the Olympics. So the win wasnât so hard to put into perspective.
âHe ripped his face in half more or less and you can still see the scars â said Whiteâs coach JJ Thomas. âAnd I donât know if anyone else in this world has the mental strength to overcome that fear and lay it down on the world stage. It âs amazing. Heâs legendary.â
The debate is now on about where exactly White stands in the pantheon of Olympic stars or sports stars in general.
|
They will definitely still be talking about Shaun White.
It wasnât so much that White won his third gold medal to place his name among the greatest to compete in the Olympics or in any realm of sports for that matter.
It was the way he did it.
His winning run capped a contest that even before he dropped in for the finale was the best in terms of pure difficulty showmanship and guts that has ever been seen on a halfpipe.
It came with the heart-thumping pressure of knowing he had to land the most difficult run he ever attempted or settle for silver.
It included back-to-back jumps each with 1440 degrees of spin that are quite literally death-defying. They were tricks White said afterward that he had never landed in succession â not in practice and of course never in a contest.
âI knew I had it in me â he said. âThe fear was out of the door. Iâm at the Olympics. I had to do it . Iâm standing at the top in my favorite position with the pressure of the world and one run to go. Man it brings out the best in me. Iâm so glad thatâs a part of me as a competitor.â
On the winning trip White got the tough stuff out of the way early dropping straight into the halfpipe flying nearly 20 feet above it and whipping his body around twice while going head-over-heels two times. He landed high enough on the wall to gather sufficient speed to head to the other side and essentially do a mirror image of the first trick.
From there he performed what he calls a Sky Hook â a 20-foot vault above the deck in which he bent himself into the shape of a comma while grabbing the board and tweaking it up toward his backside to show judges the style they demand. His final trick was one he patented: the Double McTwist 1260 in which he took off from the wall for two flips with 1 ½ twists grabbing the board and practically wrestling it over his head to complete the jump and stick the landing.
He knew he âd done it but the wait â about 120 seconds â was agonizing.
The score came up. A 97.75. It was enough to beat Ayumu Hirano the 5-foot-2 19-year-old from Japan who has been asked quite often exactly when he was going to beat Shaun White.
But it was Hirano who now has back-to-back Olympic silvers who set the stakes for these games by becoming the first man to land the back-to-back 14s at the Winter X Games last month. He did [TGT] again on his second run under a slate-gray sky in Pyeongchang to set the mark (95.25) that White would have to beat.
He did [TGT] . Shortly after his winning score came up White was hugging friends and family and sobbing almost uncontrollably â the sort of emotion rarely seen from the man who burst onto the scene as the ebullient redhead shredder dude then grew into a multi-platform megastar whose light shines well beyond any halfpipe.
White would be the first to admit that a lot of that fame came because of the Olympics. So the win wasnât so hard to put into perspective.
âHe ripped his face in half more or less and you can still see the scars â said Whiteâs coach JJ Thomas. âAnd I donât know if anyone else in this world has the mental strength to overcome that fear and lay [TGT] down on the world stage. [TGT] âs amazing. Heâs legendary.â
The debate is now on about where exactly White stands in the pantheon of Olympic stars or sports stars in general.
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
|
2,172 |
Man gets 2 years for arranging sex with teen in 'ridiculous' welfare scheme: report
|
Jon-Paul Patterson Snyder
|
Jon-Paul Patterson Snyder 32 was arrested early last year after reaching out to an undercover officer on Craigslist with an upfront pick-up line: "Get you pregnant naturally no strings m4w."
After making contact the supposed teenage girl reportedly told Snyder she had heard that getting pregnant could net her welfare benefits.
A Spotsylvania Circuit Court judge technically sentenced Snyder to 10 years in jail with eight years suspended. He accepted a plea deal for electronic soliciation of a minor.
Snyder was arrested along with 11 other men as part of a sweeping cyber-sting organized by the Spotsylvania County Sheriffâs Office the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. One of the men reportedly worked as a custodian at a local school.
|
[TGT] 32 was arrested early last year after reaching out to an undercover officer on Craigslist with an upfront pick-up line: "Get you pregnant naturally no strings m4w."
After making contact the supposed teenage girl reportedly told [TGT] she had heard that getting pregnant could net her welfare benefits.
A Spotsylvania Circuit Court judge technically sentenced [TGT] to 10 years in jail with eight years suspended. He accepted a plea deal for electronic soliciation of a minor.
[TGT] was arrested along with 11 other men as part of a sweeping cyber-sting organized by the Spotsylvania County Sheriffâs Office the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. One of the men reportedly worked as a custodian at a local school.
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,173 |
Jessica Chastain recalls fighting back after her mother's boyfriend slapped her
|
Jessica Chastain
|
Jessica Chastain will not be bullied.
The 40-year-old actress along with Michael B. Jordan covers WSJ magazine's Talents and Legends February issue and recalls having to physically stand up for herself as a child.
After disclosing that she grew up with a single mom and to this day does not know who her biological father is Chastain shared a "turning point" in her life when she had an encounter with her mother's then-boyfriend.
"He did something -- my room was messy or whatever and he had taken my clothes and I was telling him to give me back my stuff -- and he slapped me. And I just kicked him in the genitals and he fell to the ground immediately " she revealed. "It was me my sister and my brother -- and I remember looking at my sister âs face and we were both like âOh my God what did I just do?â And then I ran out of the house."
Chastain added "I always look back on that moment as knowing that 'OK if anything happens to me Iâm capable of fighting back.' He never messed with me again."
"If you allow a bully to intimidate or victimize you theyâll continue to do it " she said. "Bullies are actually weak; they donât go after strong people."
Jessica Chastain Opens Up About Salma Hayek's 'Heartbreaking' Op-Ed on Harvey Weinstein
Chastain seems to practice this point of view in her professional life and notes the time former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein -- who has been accused of sexual misconduct by numerous women -- introduced her at the premiere of "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby " which was distributed by the Weinstein Company.
"He actually told the audience âIf I had to get in a boxing ring with Muhammad Ali or Jessica Chastain I would choose Muhammad Ali " she recalled.
Jessica Chastain Says She Feared Speaking Out Against Sexual Harassment Would Affect Her Career
It's been a good year for Chastain . In addition to gaining critical acclaim for her lead role in Aaron Sorkin's "Molly's Game " she also married Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo in June.
Further gushing over her home life Chastain continued "I actually love being married. I never thought I would but this is a spectacular human being and I am celebrating that I get to share my life with him."
Jessica Chastain Insists That 'Change Is Coming' During Powerful PSIFF Awards Speech
"I want to be a part of an industry that is very inclusive " she proclaimed. "One that teaches empathy and the only way you do that is you learn about someone who doesn't look like you. And I think there's a generation of artists that that is their goal."
|
[TGT] will not be bullied.
The 40-year-old actress along with Michael B. Jordan covers WSJ magazine's Talents and Legends February issue and recalls having to physically stand up for [TGT] as a child.
After disclosing that [TGT] grew up with a single mom and to this day does not know who [TGT] biological father is [TGT] shared a "turning point" in [TGT] life when [TGT] had an encounter with [TGT] mother's then-boyfriend.
"He did something -- my room was messy or whatever and he had taken my clothes and I was telling him to give me back my stuff -- and he slapped me. And I just kicked him in the genitals and he fell to the ground immediately " [TGT] revealed. "It was me my sister and my brother -- and I remember looking at my sister âs face and we were both like âOh my God what did I just do?â And then I ran out of the house."
Chastain added "I always look back on that moment as knowing that 'OK if anything happens to me Iâm capable of fighting back.' He never messed with me again."
"If you allow a bully to intimidate or victimize you theyâll continue to do it " she said. "Bullies are actually weak; they donât go after strong people. [TGT]
Opens Up About Salma Hayek's 'Heartbreaking' Op-Ed on Harvey Weinstein
Chastain seems to practice this point of view in her professional life and notes the time former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein -- who has been accused of sexual misconduct by numerous women -- introduced her at the premiere of "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby " which was distributed by the Weinstein Company.
"He actually told the audience âIf I had to get in a boxing ring with Muhammad Ali or Jessica Chastain I would choose Muhammad Ali " she recalled.
[TGT] Says She Feared Speaking Out Against Sexual Harassment Would Affect [TGT] Career
It's been a good year for Chastain . In addition to gaining critical acclaim for [TGT] lead role in Aaron Sorkin's "Molly's Game " she also married Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo in June.
Further gushing over her home life Chastain continued "I actually love being married. I never thought I would but this is a spectacular human being and I am celebrating that I get to share my life with him. [TGT]
Insists That 'Change Is Coming' During Powerful PSIFF Awards Speech
"I want to be a part of an industry that is very inclusive " [TGT] proclaimed. "One that teaches empathy and the only way you do that is you learn about someone who doesn't look like you. And I think there's a generation of artists that that is their goal."
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,174 |
Hawksâ Dennis Schröder charged with battery after hookah
|
Dennis Schröder
|
Dennis Schröder could be in a bit of trouble. (Todd Kirkland/AP)
ESPNâs Adrian Wojnarowski is reporting that Atlanta Hawks guard Dennis Schröder was arrested on a misdemeanor battery charge early Friday morning in Brookhaven Ga. the Atlanta suburb where he lives.
âWe are aware of an incident involving Dennis Schröder earlier this morning â the Hawks said in a statement. âWe are still gathering information as it pertains to the situation and out of respect for the legal process we will have no further comment at this time.â
According to TMZ Sports which obtained the police report Schröder was with a group of friends outside a hookah bar called 6am when he shoved another man triggering a brawl. Police said they obtained surveillance video that showed Schröder and his friends in a âverbal heated exchangeâ with the other man who was âstruck by hands and feet by the offendersâ and transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after the fracas was broken up by security.
Schröder 24 was released on bail and will join his teammates for their preseason game in Miami on Sunday the team told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The German-born Schröder broke through during the 2016-17 season his first as a full-time NBA starter. The point guard set career highs in points (17.9 per game) assists (6.3) rebounds (3.1) field goal percentage (. 451) and free throw percentage (.855).
|
[TGT] could be in a bit of trouble. (Todd Kirkland/AP)
ESPNâs Adrian Wojnarowski is reporting that Atlanta Hawks guard [TGT] was arrested on a misdemeanor battery charge early Friday morning in Brookhaven Ga. the Atlanta suburb where [TGT] lives.
âWe are aware of an incident involving [TGT] earlier this morning â the Hawks said in a statement. âWe are still gathering information as it pertains to the situation and out of respect for the legal process we will have no further comment at this time.â
According to TMZ Sports which obtained the police report Schröder was with a group of friends outside a hookah bar called 6am when [TGT] shoved another man triggering a brawl. Police said they obtained surveillance video that showed Schröder and his friends in a âverbal heated exchangeâ with the other man who was âstruck by hands and feet by the offendersâ and transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after the fracas was broken up by security.
Schröder 24 was released on bail and will join his teammates for their preseason game in Miami on Sunday the team told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The German-born Schröder broke through during the 2016-17 season his first as a full-time NBA starter. The point guard set career highs in points (17.9 per game) assists (6.3) rebounds (3.1) field goal percentage (. 451) and free throw percentage (.855).
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 2Positive
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,175 |
Why is Ira Silverstein still a member of the Illinois Senate?
|
Ira Silverstein
|
In other words theyâve patched the holes in the accountability system that kept Denise Rotheimerâs sexual harassment complaint against Sen. Ira Silverstein D-Chicago from going anywhere for more than a year. Thatâs a good start. Now what?
A more immediate question: Why is Ira Silverstein still in the General Assembly?
Yes voters can fire him and we think they will if they have to. At least two potential opponents have stepped forward for next yearâs Democratic primary and the party isnât likely to back Silverstein . Heâs toast.
But legislative leaders could nudge Silverstein to make an early exit. Theyâve certainly done it when other members engaged in conduct that was inappropriate unethical unprofessional and embarrassing.
Theyâve already stripped Silverstein of his leadership position and the $20 649 stipend that went with it .
Itâs like he âs been kicked to the couch but not the curb.
As a practical matter Democrats needed Silverstein âs votes this week in several close override attempts. But theyâll be on the spot once the veto session ends. Rotheimer a victimsâ rights activist who is running for a House seat says Silverstein made unwanted overtures for 18 months while sponsoring a bill she wanted to pass. She backed up her complaint with a trove of unseemly Facebook correspondence.
Really Sen. Silverstein . We âve all seen enough. Why havenât you resigned?
|
In other words theyâve patched the holes in the accountability system that kept Denise Rotheimerâs sexual harassment complaint against Sen. Ira Silverstein D-Chicago from going anywhere for more than a year. Thatâs a good start. Now what?
A more immediate question: Why is Ira Silverstein still in the General Assembly?
Yes voters can fire him and we think they will if they have to. At least two potential opponents have stepped forward for next yearâs Democratic primary and the party isnât likely to back [TGT] . Heâs toast.
But legislative leaders could nudge [TGT] to make an early exit. Theyâve certainly done it when other members engaged in conduct that was inappropriate unethical unprofessional and embarrassing.
Theyâve already stripped Silverstein of his leadership position and the $20 649 stipend that went with it .
Itâs like he âs been kicked to the couch but not the curb.
As a practical matter Democrats needed [TGT] âs votes this week in several close override attempts. But theyâll be on the spot once the veto session ends. Rotheimer a victimsâ rights activist who is running for a House seat says [TGT] made unwanted overtures for 18 months while sponsoring a bill [TGT] wanted to pass. [TGT] backed up [TGT] complaint with a trove of unseemly Facebook correspondence.
Really Sen. Silverstein . We âve all seen enough. Why havenât you resigned?
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,176 |
Cuomo donates $111K from Weinstein to charity
|
Cuomo
|
ALBANY N.Y. â Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has followed through on a promise to donate campaign contributions he has collected from disgraced Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein.
State campaign finance filings show Cuomo gave $111 000 he received from Weinstein to Womenâs Justice Now a New York City-based charitable organization associated with the National Organization for Women.
Cuomo first said he would give the money back in October after several women stepped forward to accuse Weinstein of sexual misconduct. Weinstein has denied any nonconsensual sexual activity.
Cuomo says he plans to seek a third term this November. He also has been mentioned as a possible White House candidate in 2020.
A fundraising report filed Wednesday says Cuomo has $30 million in his campaign account.
|
ALBANY N.Y. â [TGT] has followed through on a promise to donate campaign contributions [TGT] has collected from disgraced Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein.
State campaign finance filings show [TGT] gave $111 000 [TGT] received from Weinstein to Womenâs Justice Now a New York City-based charitable organization associated with the National Organization for Women.
[TGT] first said [TGT] would give the money back in October after several women stepped forward to accuse Weinstein of sexual misconduct. Weinstein has denied any nonconsensual sexual activity.
[TGT] says [TGT] plans to seek a third term this November. [TGT] also has been mentioned as a possible White House candidate in 2020.
A fundraising report filed Wednesday says [TGT] has $30 million in [TGT] campaign account.
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,177 |
When Humans Need a Nudge Toward Rationality
|
Thaler
|
In their book and in a blog (nudges.wordpress.com) Mr. Thaler and Mr. Sunstein favor nudging people to save more eat better weigh less invest more sensibly pay down debt avoid hazardous mortgages drive safely and wear bike helmets â a list that expands as new ideas and new problems conducive to nudging emerge.
In a phone conversation Mr. Thaler said that carefully applied nudges might help ameliorate some of the problems that led to the financial crisis. Some nudges need to be more forceful than others. For example rigorous public disclosure of leverage (the ratio of debt to capital) would be a burden. But it might be necessary to induce the people who run hedge funds insurance companies and big banks to behave more sensibly.
âDisclosure does help at every level â he said. âMaybe itâs not a panacea but thatâs not a reason not to do it.â
Mr. Sunstein and Mr. Thaler say that this apparent contradiction is reconciled through what they call âchoice architecture.â This is the deliberate imposition of structure in an environment â etching flies in a urinal â to induce people to make better choices. Consider a cafeteria where healthy foods like fruit and yogurt are placed in a prominent location while junk foods are relegated to an out-of-the way spot. People are free to choose but they are being nudged toward healthier decisions.
Similarly Mr. Thaler and Shlomo Benartzi an economist at U.C.L.A. applied these theories to 401(k) plans with the âSave More Tomorrowâ program which gives employees the option of increasing payroll deductions in the future. This arrangement acknowledges the human desire to enjoy life now and put off self-discipline â a tendency observed by Aesopâs fable of the ant and the grasshopper and confirmed through much recent behavioral research. With âSave More Tomorrow â you can have it both ways â consuming as much as you like now while automatically increasing your savings rate on the next Jan. 1 and in every successive year.
Nudging derives from research by Daniel Kahneman a Nobel laureate in economics; by Mr. Kahnemanâs late colleague Amos Tversky; and by Mr. Thaler and others over several decades. Mr. Kahneman a psychologist gives Mr. Thaler considerable credit for the birth of behavioral economics.
Mr. Thaler has found that people often donât act rationally and in their own best interests as is assumed by traditional economic models. He calls such idealized people âEcons â as distinguished from âHumans.â Econs are walking computers and behave according to the laws of classical economics; Humans are quirky like the people you meet on the street. Humans may know that they should eat less and exercise more but they often miss the mark. They may know that they should save more but often donât. And so Mr. Thaler says most of us would benefit from a nudge.
DISCLOSURE aimed at enabling people to make more informed choices is often Mr. Thaler âs preferred solution for complex issues involving markets. He cites disclosure rules imposed on mutual funds by the Securities and Exchange Commission that imperfect as they may be have allowed third-party firms like Morningstar and Lipper to create Web sites comparing fees and performance. The point is to make it âeasier for Humans to make decisions as if they were Econs â he said. Such comparisons arenât really possible now when it comes to hedge funds for which standard reliable data is not available.
In financial markets where evidence of irrationality has been abundant lately he says he would increase regulations but very carefully. Thereâs no evidence he said that regulators could actually determine appropriate leverage for specific investments for example and âheavy-handed regulationâ could shut down financial markets and weaken the economy further.
âThe trick is to try and figure out a way of forcing these firms to disclose more of what theyâre doing without giving away so much that they can no longer make a living â he said. Such information would help individuals decide whether to invest in the funds and would help regulators assess overall risk imposed on the financial system and the economy. In addition he said disclosure itself often has a salutary effect on behavior because people tend to be mindful of the opinions of others.
As a principal in the firm of Fuller & Thaler Asset Management he has applied his own theories looking for behavioral biases that may affect specific stocks or market sectors. Two mutual funds managed by the firm havenât done very well lately though with returns over the last year that have slightly lagged the miserable stock market.
âWeâre not exceptions â he said with a chuckle. âWeâre just Humans.â
|
In their book and in a blog (nudges.wordpress.com) Mr. Thaler and Mr. Sunstein favor nudging people to save more eat better weigh less invest more sensibly pay down debt avoid hazardous mortgages drive safely and wear bike helmets â a list that expands as new ideas and new problems conducive to nudging emerge.
In a phone conversation Mr. Thaler said that carefully applied nudges might help ameliorate some of the problems that led to the financial crisis. Some nudges need to be more forceful than others. For example rigorous public disclosure of leverage (the ratio of debt to capital) would be a burden. But it might be necessary to induce the people who run hedge funds insurance companies and big banks to behave more sensibly.
âDisclosure does help at every level â he said. âMaybe itâs not a panacea but thatâs not a reason not to do it.â
[TGT] say that this apparent contradiction is reconciled through what [TGT] call âchoice architecture.â This is the deliberate imposition of structure in an environment â etching flies in a urinal â to induce people to make better choices. Consider a cafeteria where healthy foods like fruit and yogurt are placed in a prominent location while junk foods are relegated to an out-of-the way spot. People are free to choose but they are being nudged toward healthier decisions.
Similarly Mr. Thaler and Shlomo Benartzi an economist at U.C.L.A. applied these theories to 401(k) plans with the âSave More Tomorrowâ program which gives employees the option of increasing payroll deductions in the future. This arrangement acknowledges the human desire to enjoy life now and put off self-discipline â a tendency observed by Aesopâs fable of the ant and the grasshopper and confirmed through much recent behavioral research. With âSave More Tomorrow â you can have it both ways â consuming as much as you like now while automatically increasing your savings rate on the next Jan. 1 and in every successive year.
Nudging derives from research by Daniel Kahneman a Nobel laureate in economics; by Mr. Kahnemanâs late colleague Amos Tversky; and by Mr. Thaler and others over several decades. Mr. Kahneman a psychologist gives [TGT] considerable credit for the birth of behavioral economics.
[TGT] has found that people often donât act rationally and in their own best interests as is assumed by traditional economic models. [TGT] calls such idealized people âEcons â as distinguished from âHumans.â Econs are walking computers and behave according to the laws of classical economics; Humans are quirky like the people you meet on the street. Humans may know that they should eat less and exercise more but they often miss the mark. They may know that they should save more but often donât. And so [TGT] says most of us would benefit from a nudge.
DISCLOSURE aimed at enabling people to make more informed choices is often Mr. Thaler âs preferred solution for complex issues involving markets. [TGT] cites disclosure rules imposed on mutual funds by the Securities and Exchange Commission that imperfect as they may be have allowed third-party firms like Morningstar and Lipper to create Web sites comparing fees and performance. The point is to make it âeasier for Humans to make decisions as if they were Econs â he said. Such comparisons arenât really possible now when it comes to hedge funds for which standard reliable data is not available.
In financial markets where evidence of irrationality has been abundant lately he says he would increase regulations but very carefully. Thereâs no evidence he said that regulators could actually determine appropriate leverage for specific investments for example and âheavy-handed regulationâ could shut down financial markets and weaken the economy further.
âThe trick is to try and figure out a way of forcing these firms to disclose more of what theyâre doing without giving away so much that they can no longer make a living â he said. Such information would help individuals decide whether to invest in the funds and would help regulators assess overall risk imposed on the financial system and the economy. In addition he said disclosure itself often has a salutary effect on behavior because people tend to be mindful of the opinions of others.
As a principal in the firm of Fuller & Thaler Asset Management he has applied his own theories looking for behavioral biases that may affect specific stocks or market sectors. Two mutual funds managed by the firm havenât done very well lately though with returns over the last year that have slightly lagged the miserable stock market.
âWeâre not exceptions â he said with a chuckle. âWeâre just Humans.â
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,178 |
Sgt. La David Johnson killed in Niger laid to rest in Florida
|
La David Johnson
|
Sgt. La David Johnson's funeral was held in Florida on Saturday.
His death has become ensnared in controversy after a Congresswoman said President Donald Trump was disrespectful to Johnson 's widow during a condolence call on Tuesday.
Some of the 1 200 mourners exiting the church after the service said the portrait of Sgt. La David Johnson 25 was joined on stage by photographs of his slain comrades. The four died Oct. 4 in Niger when they were attacked by militants tied to the Islamic State. Johnson 's family asked reporters to remain outside for the service.
Staff Sgt. Bryan C. Black 35 of Puyallup Washington; Staff Sgt. Jeremiah W. Johnson 39 of Springboro Ohio; and Staff Sgt. Dustin M. Wright 29 of Lyons Georgia were killed along with La David Johnson in Niger.
La David Johnson 's pregnant widow Myeshia had held the arm of an Army officer as she led her two young children and her family dressed in white into the Christ the Rock Community Church in suburban Fort Lauderdale. The modern hymn "I'm Yours" could be heard coming from inside.
Johnson 's sister Angela Ghent said after the service that "it don't feel real" that her brother was killed.
The fight between Trump and Wilson had taken the focus off Johnson whose widow is due to have a daughter in January. Sgt. Johnson told friends she will be named La'Shee.
Johnson 's mother died when he was 5; he was raised by his aunt. His family enrolled him in 5000 Role Models a project Wilson began in 1993 when she was an educator where African-American boys are paired with mentors who prepare them for college vocational school or the military.
"We teach them to be a good man a good husband and a good father. Sgt. Johnson typified all of those characteristics " said mourner Carlton Crawl a public school consultant who is one of the program's mentors.
In 2013 a year before he enlisted Johnson was featured in a local television newscast for his ability to do bicycle tricks earning the nickname "Wheelie King." He said he learned his tricks by going slow.
"Once you feel comfortable you could just ride all day " he told the interviewer.
The war of words between the president and Wilson began Tuesday when the Miami-area Democrat said Trump told Myeshia Johnson in a phone call that her husband "knew what he signed up for" and didn't appear to know his name a version later backed up by Johnson 's aunt.
Wilson was riding with Johnson 's family to meet the body and heard the call on speakerphone. She was principal of a school Johnson's father attended.
|
Sgt. [TGT] funeral was held in Florida on Saturday.
[TGT] death has become ensnared in controversy after a Congresswoman said President Donald Trump was disrespectful to Johnson 's widow during a condolence call on Tuesday.
Some of the 1 200 mourners exiting the church after the service said the portrait of Sgt. [TGT] 25 was joined on stage by photographs of his slain comrades. The four died Oct. 4 in Niger when they were attacked by militants tied to the Islamic State. [TGT] 's family asked reporters to remain outside for the service.
Staff Sgt. Bryan C. Black 35 of Puyallup Washington; Staff Sgt. Jeremiah W. Johnson 39 of Springboro Ohio; and Staff Sgt. Dustin M. Wright 29 of Lyons Georgia were killed along with [TGT] in Niger.
[TGT] pregnant widow Myeshia had held the arm of an Army officer as she led her two young children and her family dressed in white into the Christ the Rock Community Church in suburban Fort Lauderdale. The modern hymn "I'm Yours" could be heard coming from inside.
[TGT] 's sister Angela Ghent said after the service that "it don't feel real" that her brother was killed.
The fight between Trump and Wilson had taken the focus off [TGT] whose widow is due to have a daughter in January. Sgt. [TGT] told friends she will be named La'Shee.
[TGT] 's mother died when [TGT] was 5; [TGT] was raised by his aunt. His family enrolled him in 5000 Role Models a project Wilson began in 1993 when she was an educator where African-American boys are paired with mentors who prepare them for college vocational school or the military.
"We teach them to be a good man a good husband and a good father. Sgt. [TGT] typified all of those characteristics " said mourner Carlton Crawl a public school consultant who is one of the program's mentors.
In 2013 a year before he enlisted [TGT] was featured in a local television newscast for [TGT] ability to do bicycle tricks earning the nickname "Wheelie King." [TGT] said [TGT] learned [TGT] tricks by going slow.
"Once you feel comfortable you could just ride all day " [TGT] told the interviewer.
The war of words between the president and Wilson began Tuesday when the Miami-area Democrat said Trump told [TGT] in a phone call that [TGT] husband "knew what he signed up for" and didn't appear to know his name a version later backed up by Johnson 's aunt.
Wilson was riding with Johnson 's family to meet the body and heard the call on speakerphone. She was principal of a school Johnson's father attended.
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,179 |
Georgia defeats Oklahoma in classic Rose Bowl in overtime
|
Baker Mayfield
|
JUST SHORT: Baker Mayfield unable to lead Oklahoma to victory in final game
But things changed radically in the third quarter. Suddenly Georgiaâs defense was dominant. Baker Mayfield felt pressure â and unlike so many games throughout his career was unable to escape it; he was sacked three times in the pivotal third quarter which the Sooners spent bottled up in their own end of the field and threw an interception on the first play of the fourth quarter leading to the Bulldogsâ go-ahead touchdown. Offensively Georgiaâs running game kicked into high gear with Nick Chubb and Sony Michel each scoring touchdowns on long runs.
Although Mayfield tied it with a fantastic drive midway through the fourth quarter â and Oklahoma took the lead on a defensive score â Jake Fromm matched him leading the Bulldogs to the tying score with 55 seconds left.
Georgiaâs freshman quarterback was overshadowed in the run-up to the game by Baker Mayfield the Heisman winner. And he didnât touch the ball on the final play; Sony Michel took a direct snap to the house.
Discombobulated by Oklahoma in the first half Georgia turned things around with a dominant third-quarter performance. Oklahoma led by 14 and got the ball to start the quarter. But Georgia sandwiched a pair of three-and-outs around a 50-yard touchdown run by Nick Chubb then stopped Oklahoma again. Baker Mayfield who was rarely touched in the first half spent the third quarter on his back â including two sacks on consecutive plays to stall one possession. When Mayfield âs third-down pass intended for tight end Mark Andrews sailed high it was an easy interception for safety Dominick Sanders who returned it to the 4.
The rookie head coachâs well-earned reputation as a strategist and playcaller was on full display from the beginning when Baker Mayfield connected with fullback Dimitri Flowers on consecutive plays for 26 and 16 yards. The Sooners mixed runs and passes â and had especially nice calls on third downs including screens to beat blitzes and shallow crossing routes that became long gains. The tour de force came at the end of the first half when on third-and-goal from the 2 Riley dialed up a toss to Flowers going left ⦠that became a reverse to receiver CeeDee Lamb ⦠that finished as a run-pass option for the receiver who lofted an easy touchdown pass to Mayfield in the back corner of the end zone.
|
JUST SHORT: Baker [TGT] unable to lead Oklahoma to victory in final game
But things changed radically in the third quarter. Suddenly Georgiaâs defense was dominant. Baker [TGT] felt pressure â and unlike so many games throughout his career was unable to escape it; he was sacked three times in the pivotal third quarter which the Sooners spent bottled up in their own end of the field and threw an interception on the first play of the fourth quarter leading to the Bulldogsâ go-ahead touchdown. Offensively Georgiaâs running game kicked into high gear with Nick Chubb and Sony Michel each scoring touchdowns on long runs.
Although Mayfield tied it with a fantastic drive midway through the fourth quarter â and Oklahoma took the lead on a defensive score â Jake Fromm matched him leading the Bulldogs to the tying score with 55 seconds left.
Georgiaâs freshman quarterback was overshadowed in the run-up to the game by [TGT] Mayfield the Heisman winner. And he didnât touch the ball on the final play; Sony Michel took a direct snap to the house.
Discombobulated by Oklahoma in the first half Georgia turned things around with a dominant third-quarter performance. Oklahoma led by 14 and got the ball to start the quarter. But Georgia sandwiched a pair of three-and-outs around a 50-yard touchdown run by Nick Chubb then stopped Oklahoma again. [TGT] Mayfield who was rarely touched in the first half spent the third quarter on [TGT] back â including two sacks on consecutive plays to stall one possession. When Mayfield âs third-down pass intended for tight end Mark Andrews sailed high it was an easy interception for safety Dominick Sanders who returned it to the 4.
The rookie head coachâs well-earned reputation as a strategist and playcaller was on full display from the beginning when Baker Mayfield connected with fullback Dimitri Flowers on consecutive plays for 26 and 16 yards. The Sooners mixed runs and passes â and had especially nice calls on third downs including screens to beat blitzes and shallow crossing routes that became long gains. The tour de force came at the end of the first half when on third-and-goal from the 2 Riley dialed up a toss to Flowers going left ⦠that became a reverse to receiver CeeDee Lamb ⦠that finished as a run-pass option for the receiver who lofted an easy touchdown pass to Mayfield in the back corner of the end zone.
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,180 |
Reality bites Trump (opinion)
|
Donald Trump Jr.
|
Trump 's response to blame Gillespie was the latest example of how he responds to reality with yet more denial. While most in politics recognized the results in Virginia as a repudiation of the President Trump remained in his own universe. It's a place he had stubbornly occupied despite other reality bites since assuming office in January.
Beginning with the sparse turnout at his inauguration which White House staff insisted was a vast throng Trump has practiced denial like a champion even in the face of irrefutable facts. The examples are many but a small number considered in chronological order make the point well.
Although it seems like ages ago it was only last January when President Trump 's order barring visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries was suddenly announced. "It's working out very nicely " he said on the weekend when it was put into force. "You see it in the airports."
In reality all was chaos at the major arrival hubs for airlines serving the named countries. Thousands of protesters gathered inside and outside terminals. Lawyers rushed to court to block Trump 's orders and even Theresa May Prime Minister of America's most reliable ally Great Britain disagreed with the ban. The order and two subsequent ones were blocked by federal judges
Next came the revelations that ended Michael Flynn's brief tenure as his national security adviser. Trump insisted despite mounting evidence that Flynn was a "wonderful man." The real problem according to Trump was that " he has been treated very very unfairly by the media as I call it the fake media in many cases." In fact Flynn had misled others in the administration about his recent contacts with Russian officials and he has been under scrutiny by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Flynn's exit would be followed by the departure of other people Trump regarded highly including Sean Spicer Reince Priebus Anthony Scaramucci Steve Bannon Tom Price and Sebastian Gorka. Amid all the turmoil on the day he appointed retired Marine Gen. John Kelly to be his chief of staff he insisted "No WH [White House] chaos!"
As reality revealed a White House in disarray Trump 's policy plans didn't fare much better. Candidate Trump promised to "repeal and replace" Obamacare immediately. Immediately didn't happen but as late as March 7 he said "Our wonderful new Healthcare Bill is now out for review and negotiation. ObamaCare is a complete and total disaster - is imploding fast!" By March 24 the facts of life in Congress led Trump and House leaders to withdraw the proposal. Eight months later Obamacare remains the law of the land and collapse is not at hand.
Bizarrely Trump has even battled reality when things have gone well for him. In June he had a friendly meeting with the President of South Korea and his aides were hoping an appearance at the Department of Energy would boost serious policies. Instead he used the opportunity to complain of "fake news" and took to Twitter once again to rant about TV hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. Calling them "Low I.Q. Crazy Mika" and "Psycho Joe " the President drew attention to his own intellectual and mental condition and away from his more presidential acts.
Any list of Trump collisions with reality must also include the commission on voter fraud that is addressing a nonexistent problem Mexico's refusal to pay for a border wall he said it would fund a court ruling that blocked his attempt to ban transgender troops from the military his assertion that good people were among neo-Nazis rallying in Charlottesville Virginia and his counter-factual claim after Hurricane Maria that "San Juan mayor and others haven't pitched in with Puerto Rico relief."
Looming over all the problems listed here has been of course the issue of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Throughout his time in office Trump has insisted the matter is "fake news" and that no one in his campaign or administration colluded with Russian operatives. Reality has bitten him time and again as evidence connecting members of his campaign team -- Michael Flynn Jeff Sessions Donald Trump Jr. Paul Manafort George Papadopoulos and Carter Page -- has emerged in the press and in court filings made by independent counsel Robert Mueller.
|
Trump 's response to blame Gillespie was the latest example of how he responds to reality with yet more denial. While most in politics recognized the results in Virginia as a repudiation of the President Trump remained in his own universe. It's a place he had stubbornly occupied despite other reality bites since assuming office in January.
Beginning with the sparse turnout at his inauguration which White House staff insisted was a vast throng Trump has practiced denial like a champion even in the face of irrefutable facts. The examples are many but a small number considered in chronological order make the point well.
Although it seems like ages ago it was only last January when President Trump 's order barring visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries was suddenly announced. "It's working out very nicely " he said on the weekend when it was put into force. "You see it in the airports."
In reality all was chaos at the major arrival hubs for airlines serving the named countries. Thousands of protesters gathered inside and outside terminals. Lawyers rushed to court to block Trump 's orders and even Theresa May Prime Minister of America's most reliable ally Great Britain disagreed with the ban. The order and two subsequent ones were blocked by federal judges
Next came the revelations that ended Michael Flynn's brief tenure as his national security adviser. Trump insisted despite mounting evidence that Flynn was a "wonderful man." The real problem according to Trump was that " he has been treated very very unfairly by the media as I call it the fake media in many cases." In fact Flynn had misled others in the administration about his recent contacts with Russian officials and he has been under scrutiny by special counsel Robert Mueller.
Flynn's exit would be followed by the departure of other people Trump regarded highly including Sean Spicer Reince Priebus Anthony Scaramucci Steve Bannon Tom Price and Sebastian Gorka. Amid all the turmoil on the day he appointed retired Marine Gen. John Kelly to be his chief of staff he insisted "No WH [White House] chaos!"
As reality revealed a White House in disarray Trump 's policy plans didn't fare much better. Candidate Trump promised to "repeal and replace" Obamacare immediately. Immediately didn't happen but as late as March 7 he said "Our wonderful new Healthcare Bill is now out for review and negotiation. ObamaCare is a complete and total disaster - is imploding fast!" By March 24 the facts of life in Congress led Trump and House leaders to withdraw the proposal. Eight months later Obamacare remains the law of the land and collapse is not at hand.
Bizarrely Trump has even battled reality when things have gone well for him. In June he had a friendly meeting with the President of South Korea and his aides were hoping an appearance at the Department of Energy would boost serious policies. Instead he used the opportunity to complain of "fake news" and took to Twitter once again to rant about TV hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. Calling them "Low I.Q. Crazy Mika" and "Psycho Joe " the President drew attention to his own intellectual and mental condition and away from his more presidential acts.
Any list of Trump collisions with reality must also include the commission on voter fraud that is addressing a nonexistent problem Mexico's refusal to pay for a border wall he said it would fund a court ruling that blocked his attempt to ban transgender troops from the military his assertion that good people were among neo-Nazis rallying in Charlottesville Virginia and his counter-factual claim after Hurricane Maria that "San Juan mayor and others haven't pitched in with Puerto Rico relief."
Looming over all the problems listed here has been of course the issue of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Throughout his time in office Trump has insisted the matter is "fake news" and that no one in his campaign or administration colluded with Russian operatives. Reality has bitten him time and again as evidence connecting members of his campaign team -- Michael Flynn Jeff Sessions [TGT] Paul Manafort George Papadopoulos and Carter Page -- has emerged in the press and in court filings made by independent counsel Robert Mueller.
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,181 |
Calif. report: Engineer trapped by flames before death in Thomas fire
|
Cory Iverson
|
Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Funeral procession for California firefighter 0:47 A funeral procession was held for a firefighter killed while battling the colossal wildfire that's still threatening homes in Southern California. An autopsy found Cory Iverson died from burns and smoke inhalation. (Dec. 18) AP 1 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Firefighter dies thousands take on Calif. blaze 1:27 Cory Iverson a San Diego-based firefighter who was one of the thousands fighting the blaze northwest of Los Angeles died Thursday. A review team will investigate what happened. (Dec. 15) AP 2 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Over 6 000 firefighters battling southern California blaze 0:49 Over 6 000 firefighters battling southern California blaze Video provided by AFP Newslook 3 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS California wildfire threatens thousands of homes 0:56 California's biggest wildfire has burned through at least 362 square miles and has destroyed at least 683 homes. Thousands of homes are threatened as strong wind pushes the blaze through bone-dry land. (Dec. 12) AP 4 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Crews light backfires to control Calif. Fires 1:12 Firefighting crews are lighting backfires to burn away dry vegetation and contain the massive fire that has burned at least 362 square miles northwest of Los Angeles. (Dec. 12) AP 5 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Flames churn through Santa Barbara region 1:43 Tens of thousands of residents have fled their homes as flames churn through foothill towns near Santa Barbara the latest flare-up after a week of wildfires throughout the region. (Dec. 11) AP 6 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Raw: Giant California wildfire spreads northwest 1:02 California's largest and most destructive wildfire has spread beyond Ventura County and forced evacuations in some coastal parts of Santa Barbara County to the northwest. The fire has burnt at least 270 square miles. (Dec. 11) AP 7 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Wildfires force Californians to buy smoke masks 1:09 California fire officials anticipate fires will keep growing due to gusty winds no rain and decades-old dry vegetation. The biggest fire burned at least 270 square miles northwest of Los Angeles where people are buying masks for the smoke. (Dec. 11) AP 8 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS High winds expected to increase fire threat 0:40 Forecasters say high winds will bring rapid or dramatic increases in wildfire activity. USA TODAY 9 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Displaced horses from wildfires find shelter 1:29 Horses and other animals displaced by the Lilac fire in San Diego County find shelter at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in Southern California. USA TODAY 10 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Wildfire Ravages Calif. Retirement Community 1:04 Firefighters were still working in communities north of San Diego Friday that were hit by a fast-moving wildfire. The blaze tore through the area Thursday as powerful winds are still fanning flames across Southern California. (Dec. 8) AP 11 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Fire and smoke dominate Southern California skylines 1:05 Wildfires continue to destroy land and homes in Southern California. Months of dry conditions and whipping Santa Ana winds have created the perfect equation for devastation. USA TODAY 12 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Newest California fire burns 65 structures 0:55 At least 65 structures have been destroyed by a wildfire in semi-rural north San Diego County. Cal Fire also says there's still no containment of the fire early Friday. Trees were charred for miles along Highway 76. (Dec. 8) AP 13 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Raw: Calif. wildfire forces evacuations along coast 1:02 California's biggest wildfire forced evacuations in Faria Beach a small community on the coast between Ventura and Santa Barbara. (Dec. 8) AP 14 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Raw: Biggest California fire burns 180 Sq. miles 0:55 The massive wildfire in Ventura County north of Los Angeles grew to 180 square miles and destroyed more than 400 buildings by late Thursday. It's forcing the evacuation of communities between Ventura and Santa Barbara. (Dec. 8) AP 15 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Fire near San Diego destroys 20 structures 1:14 A Cal Fire Division Chief says a fire near San Diego destroyed 20 homes and damaged 12 more. The fire tore through mobile homes in a retirement community. The blaze is heading west towards the Ocean threatening Oceanside and Camp Pendleton. (Dec. 8) AP 16 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS California wildfires cause people and their animals to flee 1:06 Four active wildfires in southern California have caused people and pets alike to seek shelter. USA TODAY 17 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Wildfires sweeping Southern California put millions on edge 0:59 Six separate wildfires are threatening millions of people in one of the country's most densely populated areas. USA TODAY 18 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS LA Mayor: Fire near downtown 20 percent contained 2:41 Firefighters continue battle to control the Skirball Fire near downtown Los Angeles. The blaze is 20 percent contained around 475 acres with flare ups in the Bel-Air Crest area. (Dec. 7) AP 19 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Highway travel disrupted by Calif. wildfire 1:52 Authorities closed a major freeway Thursday as flames from the Southern California wildfire jumped lanes and threatened beach front homes. (Dec. 7) AP 20 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Former Cardinals Pitcher Anthony Reyes Fighting California Wildfires 0:45 Anthony Reyes best known for pitching the Cardinals to a Game 1 victory in the 2006 World Series is on the front lines fighting the Californian wildfires. Time_Sports 21 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Man rescues rabbit from California wildfire 0:37 One brave man has become a viral hero after witnesses captured him coming extremely close to danger himself while rescuing a rabbit from the wildfires ravaging California Time 22 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Fire victim: 'This is what's left of our house' 1:31 Darlene Jordon has lived in this home above the city of Ventura California for more than two decades. Her house was filled with memories and souvenirs. But itâs all gone now after a raging wildfire reduced it to ash and rubble. (Dec. 7) AP 23 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Dramatic L.A. wildfire video looks like driving into hell 0:45 This was startling scene along Interstate 405 in Los Angeles as a wildfire engulfed the hills. USA TODAY 24 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Raw: Crews fight to Save Bel-Air homes from fire 1:09 Flames erupted Wednesday in Los Angeles' exclusive Bel-Air neighborhood as multimillion-dollar houses and modest tract homes alike came under siege from an outbreak of wind-whipped wildfires across Southern California. (Dec. 6) AP 25 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Powerful winds boost California fire danger 1:00 Southern California officials are warning of unprecedented dangerous winds on Thursday with gusts possibly reaching 80 mph. The region is dealing with several massive wildfires that have around 200 000 under evacuation orders. (Dec. 7) AP 26 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Devastating wildfires strike Southern California 1:49 At least one person has died as a result of the fast-spreading wildfire plaguing more than tens of thousands of acres in southern California Time 27 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Southern California wildfire has forced thousands to evacuate 0:24 Ferocious winds in Southern California whipped up an explosive wildfire that forced thousands of homes to evacuate and could soon threaten a city of more than 100 000 authorities said. Time 28 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Calif. Evacuees Stunned By Wildfire Devastation 1:15 Residents of Santa Rosa California were allowed to return Friday to areas ravaged by recent wildfires. Officials say more than eight thousand structures were destroyed by flames that tore through the region in Northern California. (Oct. 20) AP 29 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Motorists witness wildfire near L.A. freeway 1:06 Dramatic cell phone video along a busy Los Angeles freeway shows flames from a raging wildfire burning along hillsides early Wednesday. Officials say hundreds of structures may have been lost in wildfires burning across Southern California. (Dec. 6) AP 30 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Firefighters battle flames just feet from LA homes 0:51 Firefighters in southern California are working overtime to protect homes in Los Angeles. A new wildfire broke out in some of Los Angeles' most exclusive neighborhoods which includes the upscale Bel Air Estates. USA TODAY 31 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Wildfires turn California freeway into wall of flames 0:41 As drivers headed down the 405 freeway they were met with giant flames from the several fires burning in Southern California. USA TODAY 32 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS People animals flee California wildfire 1:29 Nearly 200 000 people have been told to evacuate from three massive wildfires in southern California. Many people fleeing the flames are bringing along their animals. (Dec. 6) AP 33 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Wildfires destroy homes across southern Calif. 2:21 Wildfires driven by winds approaching hurricane force swept across Southern California Monday night into Tuesday scorching thousands of acres and destroying hundreds of structures - from Ventura County to communities north of Los Angeles. (Dec. 5) AP 34 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Officials urge southern Calif. residents to flee homes 1:27 Authorities are urging tens of thousands of people to flee their homes as wind-driven wildfires scour communities northwest of Los Angeles. Two fires have burned about 30 homes and are being pushed by Santa Ana gusts. (Dec. 5) AP 35 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS At least 1 dead As fast-moving Brush fire scorches southern California 0:37 According to the Ventura County Fire Department the Thomas Fire was first reported Monday evening north of the city of Santa Paula. Video provided by Newsy Newslook 36 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Wildfires destroy homes across Southern California 2:21 Wildfires driven by winds approaching hurricane force swept across Southern California Monday night into Tuesday scorching thousands of acres and destroying hundreds of structures - from Ventura County to communities north of Los Angeles. (Dec. 5) AP 37 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Homes burn as fire breaks out in Los Angeles 2:13 Mandatory evacuations have been ordered in an exclusive ridge-top neighborhood in Los Angeles as a dangerous new wildfire burns in Southern California. At least two homes are burning in that area. (Dec. 6) AP 38 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Southern Calif. fire grows to 70 square miles 1:12 Authorities estimate a wind-driven Southern California wildfire has grown to more than 70 square miles. (Dec. 5) AP 39 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Ventura County wildfire spreading as fast as the wind 0:49 Whipping Santa Ana winds are playing a huge role in how quickly the Thomas Fire is spreading across Ventura County California. Fire officials say it's a "very bad scenario." USA TODAY 40 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Raw: Wildfires rage in Ventura County Calif. 1:16 Wildfires in Southern California have triggered evacuation orders for nearly 200 000 people and destroyed hundreds of homes. The fires remain mostly out of control. (Dec. 6) AP 41 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS California fire forces thousands to evacuate 0:56 Thousands of homes have been evacuated after a wind-whipped wildfire exploded overnight in Southern California. The fire has burned through at least 40 square miles northwest of Los Angeles. (Dec. 5) AP 42 of 42 Last VideoNext Video Funeral procession for California firefighter
Fire and smoke billow up near Fillmore Thursday afternoon as a helicopter makes a drop. Cal Fire engineer Cory Iverson died at about 9:30 a.m. while battling a flare-up of the Thomas Fire. (Photo: JUAN CARLO/THE STAR)
That's according to a preliminary report recently released by the state agency. It details the chain of events from Dec. 14 when Cory Iverson 32 died in the blaze. The report also lists safety issues for review.
Iverson who had worked for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) since 2009 had responded to help battle the Ventura County blaze as part of a fire engine strike team out of the agency's San Diego unit.
The fire which has now burned 440 square miles in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties has not yet been fully contained. Two people a woman evacuating the fire and Iverson died and 1 063 structures were destroyed.
Four firefighters were able to retreat up an escape route and were uninjured the preliminary report says. Iverson however became trapped while trying to put out the flames and was killed.
This undated photo provided by Cal Fire shows Fire Apparatus Engineer Corey Iverson right with his wife Ashley and their daughter. Iverson who worked for the department's San Diego Unit as a member of a fire strike team died while fighting the Thomas Fire north of Fillmore. (Photo: VIA AP)
Autopsy results showed he died from burns and smoke inhalation. No other injuries were reported.
The steep terrain heavy vegetation and hazardous weather conditions such as erratic winds and low humidity â all which were present when Iverson died â contribute to that extreme fire behavior the report states.
Before Iverson and the team began their 24-hour shift two safety briefings were held according to the report.
The crew was in the second half of their shift when Iverson became trapped. They worked from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Dec. 13 mopping up flames that had gone over a fire line on a ridge southwest of an avocado orchard the report states.
When Iverson and the four other firefighters in his strike team began working that day fire intensity was described as low and the upslope wind was pushing the smoke toward the west.
They each carried 300 feet of hose. Iverson also carried a scraping tool. As they started the fire backed up to the dozer line the report says.
As they worked spot fires flared up. One started burning in front of Iverson and as he worked to put it out with a tool a second one was reported nearby.
Iverson dropped some of the hose from his pack and went to put out the second spot fire. When he got there it erupted.
With spot fires growing fast firefighters' hoses did little to quell the flames. Iverson called in a request for air support. That was his last confirmed radio transmission the report says.
|
Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Funeral procession for California firefighter 0:47 A funeral procession was held for a firefighter killed while battling the colossal wildfire that's still threatening homes in Southern California. An autopsy found Cory Iverson died from burns and smoke inhalation. (Dec. 18) AP 1 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Firefighter dies thousands take on Calif. blaze 1:27 Cory Iverson a San Diego-based firefighter who was one of the thousands fighting the blaze northwest of Los Angeles died Thursday. A review team will investigate what happened. (Dec. 15) AP 2 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Over 6 000 firefighters battling southern California blaze 0:49 Over 6 000 firefighters battling southern California blaze Video provided by AFP Newslook 3 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS California wildfire threatens thousands of homes 0:56 California's biggest wildfire has burned through at least 362 square miles and has destroyed at least 683 homes. Thousands of homes are threatened as strong wind pushes the blaze through bone-dry land. (Dec. 12) AP 4 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Crews light backfires to control Calif. Fires 1:12 Firefighting crews are lighting backfires to burn away dry vegetation and contain the massive fire that has burned at least 362 square miles northwest of Los Angeles. (Dec. 12) AP 5 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Flames churn through Santa Barbara region 1:43 Tens of thousands of residents have fled their homes as flames churn through foothill towns near Santa Barbara the latest flare-up after a week of wildfires throughout the region. (Dec. 11) AP 6 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Raw: Giant California wildfire spreads northwest 1:02 California's largest and most destructive wildfire has spread beyond Ventura County and forced evacuations in some coastal parts of Santa Barbara County to the northwest. The fire has burnt at least 270 square miles. (Dec. 11) AP 7 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Wildfires force Californians to buy smoke masks 1:09 California fire officials anticipate fires will keep growing due to gusty winds no rain and decades-old dry vegetation. The biggest fire burned at least 270 square miles northwest of Los Angeles where people are buying masks for the smoke. (Dec. 11) AP 8 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS High winds expected to increase fire threat 0:40 Forecasters say high winds will bring rapid or dramatic increases in wildfire activity. USA TODAY 9 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Displaced horses from wildfires find shelter 1:29 Horses and other animals displaced by the Lilac fire in San Diego County find shelter at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in Southern California. USA TODAY 10 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Wildfire Ravages Calif. Retirement Community 1:04 Firefighters were still working in communities north of San Diego Friday that were hit by a fast-moving wildfire. The blaze tore through the area Thursday as powerful winds are still fanning flames across Southern California. (Dec. 8) AP 11 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Fire and smoke dominate Southern California skylines 1:05 Wildfires continue to destroy land and homes in Southern California. Months of dry conditions and whipping Santa Ana winds have created the perfect equation for devastation. USA TODAY 12 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Newest California fire burns 65 structures 0:55 At least 65 structures have been destroyed by a wildfire in semi-rural north San Diego County. Cal Fire also says there's still no containment of the fire early Friday. Trees were charred for miles along Highway 76. (Dec. 8) AP 13 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Raw: Calif. wildfire forces evacuations along coast 1:02 California's biggest wildfire forced evacuations in Faria Beach a small community on the coast between Ventura and Santa Barbara. (Dec. 8) AP 14 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Raw: Biggest California fire burns 180 Sq. miles 0:55 The massive wildfire in Ventura County north of Los Angeles grew to 180 square miles and destroyed more than 400 buildings by late Thursday. It's forcing the evacuation of communities between Ventura and Santa Barbara. (Dec. 8) AP 15 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Fire near San Diego destroys 20 structures 1:14 A Cal Fire Division Chief says a fire near San Diego destroyed 20 homes and damaged 12 more. The fire tore through mobile homes in a retirement community. The blaze is heading west towards the Ocean threatening Oceanside and Camp Pendleton. (Dec. 8) AP 16 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS California wildfires cause people and their animals to flee 1:06 Four active wildfires in southern California have caused people and pets alike to seek shelter. USA TODAY 17 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Wildfires sweeping Southern California put millions on edge 0:59 Six separate wildfires are threatening millions of people in one of the country's most densely populated areas. USA TODAY 18 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS LA Mayor: Fire near downtown 20 percent contained 2:41 Firefighters continue battle to control the Skirball Fire near downtown Los Angeles. The blaze is 20 percent contained around 475 acres with flare ups in the Bel-Air Crest area. (Dec. 7) AP 19 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Highway travel disrupted by Calif. wildfire 1:52 Authorities closed a major freeway Thursday as flames from the Southern California wildfire jumped lanes and threatened beach front homes. (Dec. 7) AP 20 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Former Cardinals Pitcher Anthony Reyes Fighting California Wildfires 0:45 Anthony Reyes best known for pitching the Cardinals to a Game 1 victory in the 2006 World Series is on the front lines fighting the Californian wildfires. Time_Sports 21 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Man rescues rabbit from California wildfire 0:37 One brave man has become a viral hero after witnesses captured him coming extremely close to danger himself while rescuing a rabbit from the wildfires ravaging California Time 22 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Fire victim: 'This is what's left of our house' 1:31 Darlene Jordon has lived in this home above the city of Ventura California for more than two decades. Her house was filled with memories and souvenirs. But itâs all gone now after a raging wildfire reduced it to ash and rubble. (Dec. 7) AP 23 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Dramatic L.A. wildfire video looks like driving into hell 0:45 This was startling scene along Interstate 405 in Los Angeles as a wildfire engulfed the hills. USA TODAY 24 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Raw: Crews fight to Save Bel-Air homes from fire 1:09 Flames erupted Wednesday in Los Angeles' exclusive Bel-Air neighborhood as multimillion-dollar houses and modest tract homes alike came under siege from an outbreak of wind-whipped wildfires across Southern California. (Dec. 6) AP 25 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Powerful winds boost California fire danger 1:00 Southern California officials are warning of unprecedented dangerous winds on Thursday with gusts possibly reaching 80 mph. The region is dealing with several massive wildfires that have around 200 000 under evacuation orders. (Dec. 7) AP 26 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Devastating wildfires strike Southern California 1:49 At least one person has died as a result of the fast-spreading wildfire plaguing more than tens of thousands of acres in southern California Time 27 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Southern California wildfire has forced thousands to evacuate 0:24 Ferocious winds in Southern California whipped up an explosive wildfire that forced thousands of homes to evacuate and could soon threaten a city of more than 100 000 authorities said. Time 28 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Calif. Evacuees Stunned By Wildfire Devastation 1:15 Residents of Santa Rosa California were allowed to return Friday to areas ravaged by recent wildfires. Officials say more than eight thousand structures were destroyed by flames that tore through the region in Northern California. (Oct. 20) AP 29 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Motorists witness wildfire near L.A. freeway 1:06 Dramatic cell phone video along a busy Los Angeles freeway shows flames from a raging wildfire burning along hillsides early Wednesday. Officials say hundreds of structures may have been lost in wildfires burning across Southern California. (Dec. 6) AP 30 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Firefighters battle flames just feet from LA homes 0:51 Firefighters in southern California are working overtime to protect homes in Los Angeles. A new wildfire broke out in some of Los Angeles' most exclusive neighborhoods which includes the upscale Bel Air Estates. USA TODAY 31 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Wildfires turn California freeway into wall of flames 0:41 As drivers headed down the 405 freeway they were met with giant flames from the several fires burning in Southern California. USA TODAY 32 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS People animals flee California wildfire 1:29 Nearly 200 000 people have been told to evacuate from three massive wildfires in southern California. Many people fleeing the flames are bringing along their animals. (Dec. 6) AP 33 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Wildfires destroy homes across southern Calif. 2:21 Wildfires driven by winds approaching hurricane force swept across Southern California Monday night into Tuesday scorching thousands of acres and destroying hundreds of structures - from Ventura County to communities north of Los Angeles. (Dec. 5) AP 34 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Officials urge southern Calif. residents to flee homes 1:27 Authorities are urging tens of thousands of people to flee their homes as wind-driven wildfires scour communities northwest of Los Angeles. Two fires have burned about 30 homes and are being pushed by Santa Ana gusts. (Dec. 5) AP 35 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS At least 1 dead As fast-moving Brush fire scorches southern California 0:37 According to the Ventura County Fire Department the Thomas Fire was first reported Monday evening north of the city of Santa Paula. Video provided by Newsy Newslook 36 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Wildfires destroy homes across Southern California 2:21 Wildfires driven by winds approaching hurricane force swept across Southern California Monday night into Tuesday scorching thousands of acres and destroying hundreds of structures - from Ventura County to communities north of Los Angeles. (Dec. 5) AP 37 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Homes burn as fire breaks out in Los Angeles 2:13 Mandatory evacuations have been ordered in an exclusive ridge-top neighborhood in Los Angeles as a dangerous new wildfire burns in Southern California. At least two homes are burning in that area. (Dec. 6) AP 38 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Southern Calif. fire grows to 70 square miles 1:12 Authorities estimate a wind-driven Southern California wildfire has grown to more than 70 square miles. (Dec. 5) AP 39 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Ventura County wildfire spreading as fast as the wind 0:49 Whipping Santa Ana winds are playing a huge role in how quickly the Thomas Fire is spreading across Ventura County California. Fire officials say it's a "very bad scenario." USA TODAY 40 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS Raw: Wildfires rage in Ventura County Calif. 1:16 Wildfires in Southern California have triggered evacuation orders for nearly 200 000 people and destroyed hundreds of homes. The fires remain mostly out of control. (Dec. 6) AP 41 of 42 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE CALIF. WILDFIRES THREATEN L.A. NEIGHBORHOODS SPARK EVACUATIONS California fire forces thousands to evacuate 0:56 Thousands of homes have been evacuated after a wind-whipped wildfire exploded overnight in Southern California. The fire has burned through at least 40 square miles northwest of Los Angeles. (Dec. 5) AP 42 of 42 Last VideoNext Video Funeral procession for California firefighter
Fire and smoke billow up near Fillmore Thursday afternoon as a helicopter makes a drop. [TGT] died at about 9:30 a.m. while battling a flare-up of the Thomas Fire. (Photo: JUAN CARLO/THE STAR)
That's according to a preliminary report recently released by the state agency. It details the chain of events from Dec. 14 when Cory Iverson 32 died in the blaze. The report also lists safety issues for review.
[TGT] had responded to help battle the Ventura County blaze as part of a fire engine strike team out of the agency's San Diego unit.
The fire which has now burned 440 square miles in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties has not yet been fully contained. Two people a woman evacuating the fire and [TGT] died and 1 063 structures were destroyed.
Four firefighters were able to retreat up an escape route and were uninjured the preliminary report says. [TGT] however became trapped while trying to put out the flames and was killed.
This undated photo provided by Cal Fire shows Fire Apparatus Engineer Corey [TGT] right with his wife Ashley and their daughter. [TGT] who worked for the department's San Diego Unit as a member of a fire strike team died while fighting the Thomas Fire north of Fillmore. (Photo: VIA AP)
Autopsy results showed he died from burns and smoke inhalation. No other injuries were reported.
The steep terrain heavy vegetation and hazardous weather conditions such as erratic winds and low humidity â all which were present when [TGT] died â contribute to that extreme fire behavior the report states.
Before [TGT] and the team began their 24-hour shift two safety briefings were held according to the report.
[TGT] was in the second half of [TGT] shift when [TGT] became trapped. [TGT] worked from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Dec. 13 mopping up flames that had gone over a fire line on a ridge southwest of an avocado orchard the report states.
When [TGT] and the four other firefighters in [TGT] strike team began working that day fire intensity was described as low and the upslope wind was pushing the smoke toward the west.
They each carried 300 feet of hose. [TGT] also carried a scraping tool. As [TGT] started the fire backed up to the dozer line the report says.
As [TGT] worked spot fires flared up. One started burning in front of [TGT] and as [TGT] worked to put it out with a tool a second one was reported nearby.
[TGT] dropped some of the hose from [TGT] pack and went to put out the second spot fire. When [TGT] got there it erupted.
With spot fires growing fast firefighters' hoses did little to quell the flames. [TGT] called in a request for air support. That was [TGT] last confirmed radio transmission the report says.
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
|
2,182 |
Mental Health Care: China's Next Big Market
|
Guan Weili
|
Guan Weili the 47-year-old founder didnât start out with grand ambitions. He simply was struck by the paucity of treatment when working as a clinician at Wenzhou Mental Hospital his first job on graduation in 1987.
Trained in general practice at Wenzhou Medical University Guan was assigned arbitrarily to work at a mental hospital. Psychiatry hasn't been a popular area of specialization in China but the career suited him well. The hospital was near his home and he met his wife Wang Lianyue a nurse working in the same unit. Today she is his top lieutenant as the company's executive director and general manager. Together they own a third of Kangning.
Sensing both need and opportunity Guan started his own hospital in 1996 initially with 20 beds encouraged by a local government with a reputation for fostering the freest brand of capitalism in China. Soon he bought land in then suburban Wenzhou for future growth. His wife joined two years later when an expanded hospital was built.
Later the city of Wenzhou's freewheeling underground banking network would help him cover cash-flow needs though at usurious rates. He had no choice. Chinese law bars hospitals from pledging their facilities as collateral for bank loans.
No matter how desirable the room services the ultimate goal is to reduce not prolong the stay. Thanks to enhanced efficacy of treatment Guan says his patients now each spend on average 47 days in hospital compared with the Chinese industry's 60 days and as long as 90 days just a decade ago. "With better medications and therapies come better results and shorter therapy sessions " he says.
Still mental patients need longer and more intensive care than most physical hospitalizations. Even one with mild syndromes might stay one or two weeks he adds. That calls for more beds. On average for every 100 outpatient visits a day 400-bed capacity is needed according to Guan --the reverse of the standard hospital formula. Wenzhou Kangning now averages 150 at its owned units.
Private psychiatric care in China grew at a compounded 20% annually to 2014 largely to treat common disorders like anxiety depression substance abuse and psychosis. Among the key hubs is Guangzhou a megacity of 13 million where Xinhua News reported 68 out of every 100 citizens suffer insomnia. Elsewhere large corporate employers such as Foxconn offer 24-hour hotlines and suicide prevention counsel. Guan sees the upsurge as a by-product of the nation's fast economic growth likening it to Japan's experience at a similar stage of development.
Specialized mental hospitals have been around since the Chinese revolution in 1949 many drawing on care houses left behind by Christian missionaries. A drawn-out reform process began only 15 years ago Guan says.
|
[TGT] start out with grand ambitions. [TGT] simply was struck by the paucity of treatment when working as a clinician at Wenzhou Mental Hospital [TGT] first job on graduation in 1987.
Trained in general practice at Wenzhou Medical University Guan was assigned arbitrarily to work at a mental hospital. Psychiatry hasn't been a popular area of specialization in China but the career suited him well. The hospital was near his home and he met his wife Wang Lianyue a nurse working in the same unit. Today she is his top lieutenant as the company's executive director and general manager. Together they own a third of Kangning.
Sensing both need and opportunity Guan started his own hospital in 1996 initially with 20 beds encouraged by a local government with a reputation for fostering the freest brand of capitalism in China. Soon he bought land in then suburban Wenzhou for future growth. His wife joined two years later when an expanded hospital was built.
Later the city of Wenzhou's freewheeling underground banking network would help him cover cash-flow needs though at usurious rates. He had no choice. Chinese law bars hospitals from pledging their facilities as collateral for bank loans.
No matter how desirable the room services the ultimate goal is to reduce not prolong the stay. Thanks to enhanced efficacy of treatment Guan says his patients now each spend on average 47 days in hospital compared with the Chinese industry's 60 days and as long as 90 days just a decade ago. "With better medications and therapies come better results and shorter therapy sessions " he says.
Still mental patients need longer and more intensive care than most physical hospitalizations. Even one with mild syndromes might stay one or two weeks he adds. That calls for more beds. On average for every 100 outpatient visits a day 400-bed capacity is needed according to Guan --the reverse of the standard hospital formula. Wenzhou Kangning now averages 150 at its owned units.
Private psychiatric care in China grew at a compounded 20% annually to 2014 largely to treat common disorders like anxiety depression substance abuse and psychosis. Among the key hubs is Guangzhou a megacity of 13 million where Xinhua News reported 68 out of every 100 citizens suffer insomnia. Elsewhere large corporate employers such as Foxconn offer 24-hour hotlines and suicide prevention counsel. Guan sees the upsurge as a by-product of the nation's fast economic growth likening it to Japan's experience at a similar stage of development.
Specialized mental hospitals have been around since the Chinese revolution in 1949 many drawing on care houses left behind by Christian missionaries. A drawn-out reform process began only 15 years ago Guan says.
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,183 |
Terra Incognita: 'The Planet Factory' And 'The Undiscovered Islands' : NPR
|
Elizabeth Tasker
|
Two recent books look at the very human (sometimes all-too-human) process of trying to make sense of the known universe: The Un-Discovered Islands: An Archipelago of Myths and Mysteries Phantoms and Fakes by Malachy Tallack and The Planet Factory: Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth by Elizabeth Tasker . They 're so stylistically and scientifically disparate as to seem unrelated but reading them in close succession makes for something greater than the sum of its parts â a joint atlas of human guesses in a world that seems destined to confound us.
Elizabeth Tasker knows all about that; The Planet Factory is all about the formation of worlds humanity might never clap eyes on. And if you're hoping for definitive answers about how things work closer to home think again; Tasker 's very clear that the scientific method is as often about being proven wrong. "The problem (and there is always a problem)" isn't just an aside on a particular theory but a thesis for the field. This is a book about trying to map unknown seas in real time; the ghosts of the sailors peering into the dawn looking for Thule live in every telescopic survey.
The Planet Factory can feel intimidating; certainly you must come to it wanting to know everything there is to know about making planets and hang in there as long as you can before the variables overwhelm you. ( Tasker offers easy analogies by the handful and while at first they may seem too easy you'll appreciate them by the time you're trying to understand the optimum timing of planetary migration.)
The Planet Factory Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth by Elizabeth Tasker Hardcover 336 pages purchase close overlay Buy Featured Book Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How?
|
Two recent books look at the very human (sometimes all-too-human) process of trying to make sense of the known universe: [TGT] [TGT] 're so stylistically and scientifically disparate as to seem unrelated but reading [TGT] in close succession makes for something greater than the sum of its parts â a joint atlas of human guesses in a world that seems destined to confound us.
[TGT] knows all about that; The Planet Factory is all about the formation of worlds humanity might never clap eyes on. And if you're hoping for definitive answers about how things work closer to home think again; [TGT] 's very clear that the scientific method is as often about being proven wrong. "The problem (and there is always a problem)" isn't just an aside on a particular theory but a thesis for the field. This is a book about trying to map unknown seas in real time; the ghosts of the sailors peering into the dawn looking for Thule live in every telescopic survey.
The Planet Factory can feel intimidating; certainly you must come to it wanting to know everything there is to know about making planets and hang in there as long as you can before the variables overwhelm you. ( [TGT] offers easy analogies by the handful and while at first they may seem too easy you'll appreciate them by the time you're trying to understand the optimum timing of planetary migration.)
The Planet Factory Exoplanets and the Search for a Second Earth by Elizabeth Tasker Hardcover 336 pages purchase close overlay Buy Featured Book Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How?
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,184 |
Shakira being investigated for possible tax evasion
|
Shakira
|
Pop music star Shakira is under investigation in Spain for possible tax evasion during the three years before she officially moved to Barcelona Spanish authorities said Tuesday.
Shakira switched residences in 2015 from the Bahamas to Barcelona where she lives with her partner Barca soccer player Gerard Pique and the couple's two sons.
Anna Forastier a spokeswoman for auditing firm PwC said the company has been hired by Shakira for the investigation. Forastier declined to disclose any details.
Shakira was named in the "Paradise Papers" leaks that detailed the offshore tax arrangements of numerous high-profile individuals including musical celebrities like Madonna and U2's Bono.
The documents obtained by German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung and investigated by Spanish news website El Confidencial showed that in 2009 Shakira had relocated her intellectual property rights and brands to a company based in Malta the tiny European Union nation that has faced allegations of being a tax heaven.
Shakira and Pique's relationship dates back to 2011 when Shakira started frequenting Barcelona. El Confidencial citing papers it obtained from offshore services providers reported that she listed the Bahamas as her official residence until 2015.
If the probe finds wrongdoing Shakira would engross a list of celebrities that have been in trouble with Spanish tax authorities including footballers Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
In November Shakira cancelled the first concerts to promote her 11th album "El Dorado " for what she said were medical reasons. The tour is scheduled to begin in June in Germany and then stop in nine more European countries before moving to the United States.
|
[TGT] is under investigation in Spain for possible tax evasion during the three years before [TGT] officially moved to Barcelona Spanish authorities said Tuesday.
[TGT] switched residences in 2015 from the Bahamas to Barcelona where [TGT] lives with [TGT] partner Barca soccer player Gerard Pique and the couple's two sons.
Anna Forastier a spokeswoman for auditing firm PwC said the company has been hired by Shakira for the investigation. Forastier declined to disclose any details.
[TGT] was named in the "Paradise Papers" leaks that detailed the offshore tax arrangements of numerous high-profile individuals including musical celebrities like Madonna and U2's Bono.
The documents obtained by German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung and investigated by Spanish news website El Confidencial showed that in 2009 [TGT] had relocated [TGT] intellectual property rights and brands to a company based in Malta the tiny European Union nation that has faced allegations of being a tax heaven.
Shakira and Pique's relationship dates back to 2011 when [TGT] started frequenting Barcelona. El Confidencial citing papers it obtained from offshore services providers reported that she listed the Bahamas as her official residence until 2015.
If the probe finds wrongdoing [TGT] would engross a list of celebrities that have been in trouble with Spanish tax authorities including footballers Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
In November [TGT] cancelled the first concerts to promote her 11th album "El Dorado " for what she said were medical reasons. The tour is scheduled to begin in June in Germany and then stop in nine more European countries before moving to the United States.
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,185 |
Gannett joins ad
|
Tony Haile
|
For example if you are a Scroll subscriber who is not a subscriber to The New York Times you would get five ad-free articles. Times subscribers would get unlimited ad-free articles. Scroll would make it easy to become subscribers. "Our mission is frictionless access to a thriving free press so anything we can do to help remove friction for a user while driving revenue to publishers is important " said Tony Haile co-founder and CEO of Scroll in an interview.
The founding CEO of online publishing analytics company Chartbeat Haile launched Scroll with Sachin Doshi former vice president of Content at Spotify and Kushal Dave the former head of consumer engineering at Foursquare.
With Scroll publishers could make "more money than they would have made from advertising in every scenario " Haile says in a blog post on the announcement.
Other partners with Scroll include The Philadelphia Inquirer and Talking Points Memo. And Scroll is seeking additional ones as it approaches its launch (you can sign up to test Scroll when its available at Scroll.com.) "But weâre thankful for the support and faith of this growing group of innovators particularly our new investor Gannett as we build towards an open web where premium content can make money by delivering the experience consumers want " Haile said.
|
For example if you are a Scroll subscriber who is not a subscriber to The New York Times you would get five ad-free articles. Times subscribers would get unlimited ad-free articles. Scroll would make it easy to become subscribers. "Our mission is frictionless access to a thriving free press so anything we can do to help remove friction for a user while driving revenue to publishers is important " said [TGT] co-founder and CEO of Scroll in an interview.
The founding CEO of online publishing analytics company Chartbeat Haile launched Scroll with Sachin Doshi former vice president of Content at Spotify and Kushal Dave the former head of consumer engineering at Foursquare.
With Scroll publishers could make "more money than they would have made from advertising in every scenario " Haile says in a blog post on the announcement.
Other partners with Scroll include The Philadelphia Inquirer and Talking Points Memo. And Scroll is seeking additional ones as it approaches its launch (you can sign up to test Scroll when its available at Scroll.com.) "But weâre thankful for the support and faith of this growing group of innovators particularly our new investor Gannett as we build towards an open web where premium content can make money by delivering the experience consumers want " Haile said.
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,186 |
Overseas troops will see Sunday NFL games despite government shutdown Defense Department says
|
Dana White
|
âDespite the government shutdown (the department) determined the operational necessity of television and radio broadcasts constitutes them as essential activities â chief Defense Department spokeswoman Dana White said. âWe will continue to find solutions to support our troops at home and abroad.â
Her announcement followed outcry about overseas U.S. service members not being able to see the two games Sunday afternoon particularly since officials have said military personnel wonât get paid during the furlough which started overnight Friday.
White described some legal and manpower maneuvering to get the games on air. She said two of the eight Armed Forces Network channels -- news and sports -- will remain on despite the network being run by civilians who have been furloughed in the shutdown.
âWith minimal manning we can keep the sports channel up without incurring any additional cost or manpower-complying with shutdown guidance " White said in a statement. âThanks to uniform leadership at AFN our comptroller and legal team.â
She said the news channel remains on because the contract has already been paid and the sports channel was turned on because âit doesn't cost any more money or manpower to manage a second channel.â
Still White had some sharp words for Congress whose failure to pass a temporary spending resulted in the shutdown.
âThe shutdown requires us to do a lot of tedious work â she said. âCongress needs to pass a budget.â
|
âDespite the government shutdown (the department) determined the operational necessity of television and radio broadcasts constitutes them as essential activities â [TGT] said. âWe will continue to find solutions to support our troops at home and abroad.â
Her announcement followed outcry about overseas U.S. service members not being able to see the two games Sunday afternoon particularly since officials have said military personnel wonât get paid during the furlough which started overnight Friday.
[TGT] described some legal and manpower maneuvering to get the games on air. [TGT] said two of the eight Armed Forces Network channels -- news and sports -- will remain on despite the network being run by civilians who have been furloughed in the shutdown.
âWith minimal manning we can keep the sports channel up without incurring any additional cost or manpower-complying with shutdown guidance " [TGT] said in a statement. âThanks to uniform leadership at AFN our comptroller and legal team.â
She said the news channel remains on because the contract has already been paid and the sports channel was turned on because âit doesn't cost any more money or manpower to manage a second channel.â
Still White had some sharp words for Congress whose failure to pass a temporary spending resulted in the shutdown.
âThe shutdown requires us to do a lot of tedious work â she said. âCongress needs to pass a budget.â
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,187 |
North Korea says no U.S. talks planned at Olympics Pence vows continued pressure
|
Kim Jong Un
|
However the Northâs high-ranking delegation including the younger sister of its leader Kim Jong Un will meet South Korean President Moon Jae-in and have lunch with him on Saturday.
Kim Jong Un in a black hat and matching coat saluted troops while his wife walked beside him television images showed. One of Kimâs close aides Choe Ryong Hae and Kim Yong Nam were also in attendance.
The Northâs state media also showed what appeared to be intercontinental ballistic missiles on launchers as thousands of North Koreans filled Kim Il Sung Square named after Kim Jong Un âs grandfather in Pyongyang.
âWe have destroyed the enemyâs risk-taking provocations at every move â Kim Jong Un said in a speech. He did not mention the United States which North Korea considers its main enemy and regularly threatens to destroy in a sea of flames.
âBy sending key figures like his sister Kim Jong Un is aiming to send a signal to the South that it is giving more weight to inter-Korean ties while driving a wedge between South Korea and the United States â said Kim Sung-han a former South Korean vice foreign minister.
|
However the Northâs high-ranking delegation including the younger sister of [TGT] will meet South Korean President Moon Jae-in and have lunch with him on Saturday.
[TGT] in a black hat and matching coat saluted troops while his wife walked beside him television images showed. One of Kimâs close aides Choe Ryong Hae and Kim Yong Nam were also in attendance.
The Northâs state media also showed what appeared to be intercontinental ballistic missiles on launchers as thousands of North Koreans filled Kim Il Sung Square named after [TGT] âs grandfather in Pyongyang.
âWe have destroyed the enemyâs risk-taking provocations at every move â [TGT] said in a speech. [TGT] did not mention the United States which North Korea considers its main enemy and regularly threatens to destroy in a sea of flames.
âBy sending key figures like [TGT] sister [TGT] is aiming to send a signal to the South that [TGT] is giving more weight to inter-Korean ties while driving a wedge between South Korea and the United States â said Kim Sung-han a former South Korean vice foreign minister.
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,188 |
Pipe Bomb Detonates in New York in ISIS
|
Akayed Ullah
|
The suspect Akayed Ullah a 27-year-old male from Bangladesh was taken into custody after reportedly being injured by the blast. The man has reportedly been in the U.S. for seven years and lived in the Brooklyn area.
Speaking with MSNBC former NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton said sources claimed Ullah carried out the act in the name of ISIS.
CBS News reported that Ullah was inspired by the terror group online but did not have any actual connections to the group.
A photo of the suspect in custody circulating on social media was confirmed to be legitimate. Authorities said Ullah was also found with a second device.
|
The suspect [TGT] a 27-year-old male from Bangladesh was taken into custody after reportedly being injured by the blast. The man has reportedly been in the U.S. for seven years and lived in the Brooklyn area.
Speaking with MSNBC former NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton said sources claimed Ullah carried out the act in the name of ISIS.
CBS News reported that Ullah was inspired by the terror group online but did not have any actual connections to the group.
A photo of the suspect in custody circulating on social media was confirmed to be legitimate. Authorities said Ullah was also found with a second device.
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,189 |
Burberry's Christopher Bailey to leave iconic British brand
|
Christopher Bailey
|
LONDON (AP) â Designer Christopher Bailey who was replaced as Burberry chief executive earlier this year will leave the British brand in 2018 ending a 17-year stint in which he helped transform a company once known mainly for trench coats into a global luxury icon.
Bailey added the title of CEO to his position as chief creative officer in 2014 taking on unique dual role in recognition of how much his ideas had contributed to Burberry's success. But he struggled to reinvigorate sagging sales in the company's key Asian markets and was replaced by Marco Gobbetti of the French luxury fashion house Celine in July.
It was as a designer however that Bailey made his name. He took the company that made trench coats in World War I and wove its classic plaids into contemporary design. Banking on Britishness he made it the center of Burberry's brand.
Long before other luxury houses even had the notion he championed the use of the digital marketplace embracing the new medium with innovations such as allowing shoppers to immediately buy online what they saw on fashion show catwalks.
"It has been a truly inspiring place to work and the decision to leave was not an easy one " Bailey said in a statement released Tuesday. "I do truly believe however that Burberry's best days are still ahead of her and that the company will go from strength to strength with the strategy we have developed and the exceptional talent we have in place."
Bailey will remain president and chief creative officer until March 31 when he will leave the board of directors Burberry said. He will remain at the company until Dec. 31 2018 to ensure a smooth transition.
Burberry said that as a result of his departure Bailey has agreed to give up a total of 830 550 shares valued at 16 million pounds ($21 million) that were awarded as part of his compensation packages between 2014 and 2017
Bailey took over during a time of strength for the company in May 2014 when former CEO Angela Ahrendts moved to Apple.
Shareholders soon began to ask questions about Bailey 's pay package which could have totaled as much as 7.6 million pounds including salary allowances a bonus and share awards. Others wondered whether the gifted designer had the right skill set to be CEO.
Gobbetti credited Bailey with being "instrumental" in the Burberry's transformation adding that he leaves behind a legacy of talent that gives him "enormous confidence" in the future.
Bailey says that despite his departure he remains fully committed to Burberry's success.
"Burberry encapsulates so much of what is great about Britain " Bailey said in a statement. "As an organization it is creative innovative and outward looking. It celebrates diversity and challenges received wisdoms. It is over 160 years old but it has a young spirit."
|
LONDON (AP) â [TGT] earlier this year will leave the British brand in 2018 ending a 17-year stint in which [TGT] helped transform a company once known mainly for trench coats into a global luxury icon.
[TGT] added the title of CEO to [TGT] position as chief creative officer in 2014 taking on unique dual role in recognition of how much [TGT] ideas had contributed to Burberry's success. But he struggled to reinvigorate sagging sales in the company's key Asian markets and was replaced by Marco Gobbetti of the French luxury fashion house Celine in July.
It was as a designer however that [TGT] made [TGT] name. [TGT] took the company that made trench coats in World War I and wove its classic plaids into contemporary design. Banking on Britishness he made it the center of Burberry's brand.
Long before other luxury houses even had the notion he championed the use of the digital marketplace embracing the new medium with innovations such as allowing shoppers to immediately buy online what they saw on fashion show catwalks.
"It has been a truly inspiring place to work and the decision to leave was not an easy one " [TGT] said in a statement released Tuesday. "I do truly believe however that Burberry's best days are still ahead of her and that the company will go from strength to strength with the strategy we have developed and the exceptional talent we have in place."
Bailey will remain president and chief creative officer until March 31 when he will leave the board of directors Burberry said. He will remain at the company until Dec. 31 2018 to ensure a smooth transition.
Burberry said that as a result of his departure Bailey has agreed to give up a total of 830 550 shares valued at 16 million pounds ($21 million) that were awarded as part of his compensation packages between 2014 and 2017
Bailey took over during a time of strength for the company in May 2014 when former CEO Angela Ahrendts moved to Apple.
Shareholders soon began to ask questions about Bailey 's pay package which could have totaled as much as 7.6 million pounds including salary allowances a bonus and share awards. Others wondered whether the gifted designer had the right skill set to be CEO.
Gobbetti credited Bailey with being "instrumental" in the Burberry's transformation adding that [TGT] leaves behind a legacy of talent that gives [TGT] "enormous confidence" in the future.
Bailey says that despite his departure he remains fully committed to Burberry's success.
"Burberry encapsulates so much of what is great about Britain " Bailey said in a statement. "As an organization it is creative innovative and outward looking. It celebrates diversity and challenges received wisdoms. It is over 160 years old but it has a young spirit."
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,190 |
Dow's historic rise is made in Chicago led by Boeing and Caterpillar
|
Higgins
|
There are more airlines for Boeing to serve in those emerging markets which has helped the company diversify its backlog of plane orders. Investors like to see a strong queue of plane orders set to be filled said Chris Higgins a senior equity analyst at Morningstar .
The backlog size â bolstered by increases in air traffic demand â helped keep the aerospace industry afloat during the downturn in the last economic cycle Higgins said. Some investors are starting to question whether the market is still hinged to global economy cycles.
âItâs giving people a lot of comfort â Higgins said.
Analysts expect the demand for Caterpillarâs and Boeingâs products to continue at least into 2018 though Higgins from Morningstar said it âs going to be hard for Boeingâs stock to repeat what happened in 2017. Higgins also pointed to some potential events at Boeing such as the rumored acquisition of Brazilian jet-maker Embraer that might not make investors too happy but itâs still unclear whether those will pan out he said.
|
There are more airlines for Boeing to serve in those emerging markets which has helped the company diversify its backlog of plane orders. Investors like to see a strong queue of plane orders set to be filled said [TGT]
The backlog size â bolstered by increases in air traffic demand â helped keep the aerospace industry afloat during the downturn in the last economic cycle [TGT] said. Some investors are starting to question whether the market is still hinged to global economy cycles.
âItâs giving people a lot of comfort â [TGT] said.
Analysts expect the demand for Caterpillarâs and Boeingâs products to continue at least into 2018 though [TGT] said it âs going to be hard for Boeingâs stock to repeat what happened in 2017. [TGT] also pointed to some potential events at Boeing such as the rumored acquisition of Brazilian jet-maker Embraer that might not make investors too happy but [TGT] still unclear whether those will pan out [TGT] said.
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,191 |
Battery Storage Steals The Spotlight At Nuclear Power's Birthday Party
|
Crane
|
It was nuclear power's birthday bash but Exelon CEO Chris Crane head of the nation's largest nuclear operator named energy storage the most promising technology of the future one that could render nuclear power unnecessary.
"In our view the long-term viable technology that will drive a cleaner future is economic storage " Crane said at "Reactions: New Perspectives on Our Nuclear Legacy " the University of Chicago's commemoration of the first manmade nuclear reaction 75 years ago under the stands of its abandoned football stadium.
Crane 's comments departed from those of former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz who delivering the event's closing keynote insisted the United States must continue to pursue nuclear energy for reasons of both climate and national security.
Crane who was Exelon's chief nuclear officer before he became CEO still defended his company's 24 existing nuclear plants because he contends energy storage hasn't arrived yet.
Even though the cost of lithium-ion batteries has dropped precipitously and promises to continue to do so Crane contends storage hasn't arrived because lithium-ion does not provide all the features the energy market needs.
"Storage is becoming much more economic but those are one-hour and four-hour discharges and they only have a life cycle of so long " he said. "We need days of discharges."
So Crane is betting on whatever the national labs develop for next-generation energy storage.
"What we need to do is continue with the labs and continue the research that's going on: what is life beyond lithium ion what is the storage mechanism that we can harness more renewable energy in that form?" he said. In the meantime existing nuclear plants should be kept open with license renewals and fairer financial terms he said but with the understanding that they are "transition assets."
Both Crane and Moniz concede new nuclear plants are unlikely to be built at least new nuclear plants that resemble the ones Exelon operates today.
Moniz and Crane both also expressed uncertainty about the prospects of the likely form that innovation will take: small modular reactors.
"I don't know if all of this will come together to give an effective attractive source but we're never going to find out if we don't get there " Moniz said. "It's the kind of thing that we've got to find out if that dog hunts. Is it going to perform economically? It's got great safety characteristics. There are reasons to be optimistic from the point of view that if you have a much smaller plant you don't have the capital at risk. You may get better financing. "
Crane pitted small modular reactors against energy storage:
Then moments later Crane complained about just that kind of comparison:
"We're sitting here debating what is the best technology versus debating what is the best outcome and the best outcome around those economics. And it's distractive conversation that we've all been pushed into " Crane said. "We need to come up with what is the outcome that we want and then how do we get there."
|
It was nuclear power's birthday bash but [TGT] named energy storage the most promising technology of the future one that could render nuclear power unnecessary.
"In our view the long-term viable technology that will drive a cleaner future is economic storage [TGT] said at "Reactions: New Perspectives on Our Nuclear Legacy " the University of Chicago's commemoration of the first manmade nuclear reaction 75 years ago under the stands of its abandoned football stadium.
[TGT] 's comments departed from those of former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz who delivering the event's closing keynote insisted the United States must continue to pursue nuclear energy for reasons of both climate and national security.
[TGT] [TGT] became CEO still defended his company's 24 existing nuclear plants because he contends energy storage hasn't arrived yet.
Even though the cost of lithium-ion batteries has dropped precipitously and promises to continue to do so [TGT] contends storage hasn't arrived because lithium-ion does not provide all the features the energy market needs.
"Storage is becoming much more economic but those are one-hour and four-hour discharges and they only have a life cycle of so long " he said. "We need days of discharges."
So [TGT] is betting on whatever the national labs develop for next-generation energy storage.
"What we need to do is continue with the labs and continue the research that's going on: what is life beyond lithium ion what is the storage mechanism that we can harness more renewable energy in that form?" he said. In the meantime existing nuclear plants should be kept open with license renewals and fairer financial terms he said but with the understanding that they are "transition assets."
Both [TGT] and Moniz concede new nuclear plants are unlikely to be built at least new nuclear plants that resemble the ones Exelon operates today.
Moniz and Crane both also expressed uncertainty about the prospects of the likely form that innovation will take: small modular reactors.
"I don't know if all of this will come together to give an effective attractive source but we're never going to find out if we don't get there " Moniz said. "It's the kind of thing that we've got to find out if that dog hunts. Is it going to perform economically? It's got great safety characteristics. There are reasons to be optimistic from the point of view that if you have a much smaller plant you don't have the capital at risk. You may get better financing. "
[TGT] pitted small modular reactors against energy storage:
Then moments later [TGT] complained about just that kind of comparison:
"We're sitting here debating what is the best technology versus debating what is the best outcome and the best outcome around those economics. And it's distractive conversation that we've all been pushed into " [TGT] said. "We need to come up with what is the outcome that we want and then how do we get there."
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,192 |
Michael Wolff to Trump : Thanks for Helping Me Sell Books
|
Trumper
|
Thatâs not too far of a fling actually. One really bad move could do it but Trump has insulated himself with people far more competent and worthy of their positions. To date they âre keeping him from stepping over the edge.
I never thought he could do the job. Heâs made some solid moves in his first year in office but I actually give the credit to those around him. As I said from the beginning it was the Cabinet that would do the actual work and much like his business dealings Trump would be the Ronald McDonald of politics. He âs the face of the presidency but the actual work is being done by somebody else.
Wolff leans to some old rumors in the book about Trumpâs campaign plans. Namely he never intended to be president. He was going to clean up by being the almost president build up a ready-made audience and launch a new TV network venture TrumpTV.
Because nobody thought he would win nobody prepared for the job. In fact while Trump bragged openly to his glassy-eyed followers that he âd finance his own campaign and be beholden to none (How many times did I hear a Trumper say â He canât be bought!â) he put very little of his own money into the campaign. He took donations like every other candidate but to this day not a single Trump supporter can be convinced of that.
He didnât run his campaign like somebody that wanted to win. It was a show to him . He was worthless in debates because he obviously didnât understand the questions being asked of him but his base would flood online polls and declare him the winner even before the debates were over (which tells me they didnât understand the questions either nor did they care).
Trump struck out at Wolff on Friday night (on Twitter of course) slamming him as a âloserâ and calling his book âboring and untruthful.â
Ok. Wolff however is thanking Trump for helping him sell books which in turn is opening eyes.
|
Thatâs not too far of a fling actually. One really bad move could do it but Trump has insulated himself with people far more competent and worthy of their positions. To date they âre keeping him from stepping over the edge.
I never thought he could do the job. Heâs made some solid moves in his first year in office but I actually give the credit to those around him. As I said from the beginning it was the Cabinet that would do the actual work and much like his business dealings Trump would be the Ronald McDonald of politics. He âs the face of the presidency but the actual work is being done by somebody else.
Wolff leans to some old rumors in the book about Trumpâs campaign plans. Namely he never intended to be president. He was going to clean up by being the almost president build up a ready-made audience and launch a new TV network venture TrumpTV.
Because nobody thought he would win nobody prepared for the job. In fact while Trump bragged openly to his glassy-eyed followers that he âd finance his own campaign and be beholden to none (How many times did I hear a [TGT] say â He canât be bought!â) he put very little of his own money into the campaign. He took donations like every other candidate but to this day not a single Trump supporter can be convinced of that.
He didnât run his campaign like somebody that wanted to win. It was a show to him . He was worthless in debates because he obviously didnât understand the questions being asked of him but his base would flood online polls and declare him the winner even before the debates were over (which tells me they didnât understand the questions either nor did they care).
Trump struck out at Wolff on Friday night (on Twitter of course) slamming him as a âloserâ and calling his book âboring and untruthful.â
Ok. Wolff however is thanking Trump for helping him sell books which in turn is opening eyes.
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,193 |
How a beloved NYC priest saved Mickey Rourkeâs life
|
Pete
|
The âbig dudeâ was Rev. Peter Colapietro a larger than life priest â he stood 6 feet tall and weighed 325 pounds â beloved among his flock of actors stagehands bus drivers and junkies who lived and worked in the gritty neighborhood near his Times Square church for more than two decades. He died earlier this month.
Father Pete dubbed âthe whiskey priestâ by legendary Post columnist Steve Dunleavy was also a regular at Elaineâs and well-known among the cityâs elite. His Feb. 10 Manhattan funeral was attended by hundreds of mourners and police temporarily shut down the TriBoro Bridge and the FDR Drive in his honor. Rourke did not attend the funeral but sent a giant floral arrangement.
The message âLove you Pete â Mickeyâ was crafted out of red and white carnations and roses and prominently displayed at St. Monicaâs in the Upper East Side which was one of the last churches he presided at.
â Pete saved my ass from myself â he said. âWe had a friendship for over 24 years. He always seemed to have the right thing to say.â
At their first meeting Father Pete led Rourke to the basement of the church on West 42nd St. They chain-smoked cigarettes and drank red wine. Father Pete eventually talked Rourke out of suicide and took the letter he had written to his estranged wife the actress and model Carre Otis. He placed it under the statue of St. Jude the patron saint of lost causes and told him to say 14 Hail Marys as part of his penance Rourke told The Post.
Rourke soon returned for more confessions in the church basement where he would talk to Father Pete about everything from his girlfriends to his dogs. â Pete knew the names of all of my dogs â said Rourke.
âI explained to Pete what I wanted to do because I wanted to know the religious repercussions â said Rourke who is long divorced from Otis his second wife. â Pete sat me down and explained to me about purgatory. It scared the piss out of me .â
Father Pete also grabbed a bible and told the actor âShow me in the bible where it says vengeance is mine Mickey Rourke and I will help you load bullets in your gun.â
Buoyed by his meetings with Father Pete as well as regular sessions with a psychiatrist Rourke restarted his acting career winning a 2009 Golden Globe among other distinctions for best actor for his portrayal of an aging fighter in âThe Wrestler.â He also returned to the boxing ring where he had spent a great deal of his youth before he turned to acting. He told The Post he currently trains an incredible three times a day and is preparing for two more matches as well as working on four new films.
When Rourke asked Father Pete for an explanation for the letterâs disappearance the priest just shrugged Rourke said.
â Pete loved Mickey â said Mike Kane a longtime friend of the priest. âHis eyes would light up and his smile would glow as he focused ⦠on Mickeyâs renewed success.â
Father Pete personally understood how challenging life can be. Born on April 20 1948 in the Castle Hill section of the Bronx where his father was a bar keeper he enrolled at the St. Joseph Seminary in Yonkers but struggled with becoming a priest. He left before they could kick him out for constantly violating the curfew.
âI wouldnât be here today if it wasnât for Pete â
When he left the church in 2013 to head up St. Monicaâs he received an emotional standing ovation from the packed pews and was serenaded by pipes and drums from the Department of Sanitation for which he was the pastor. Although he was briefly at the helm of St. Monicaâs he ended his career at St. Malachyâs the actorsâ chapel on West 49th Street because the church had an elevator and Father Pete could no longer climb stairs in his final years. He was 69 when he died.
The last time Rourke saw Father Pete was over a boozy meal at a Hellâs Kitchen restaurant in the fall of 2016. According to Rourke Father Pete downed four martinis which was not unusual for the portly pastor.
For his part Father Pete also seems to have leaned on the actor.
|
The âbig dudeâ was Rev. Peter Colapietro a larger than life priest â he stood 6 feet tall and weighed 325 pounds â beloved among his flock of actors stagehands bus drivers and junkies who lived and worked in the gritty neighborhood near his Times Square church for more than two decades. He died earlier this month.
[TGT] dubbed âthe whiskey priestâ by legendary Post columnist Steve Dunleavy was also a regular at Elaineâs and well-known among the cityâs elite. His Feb. 10 Manhattan funeral was attended by hundreds of mourners and police temporarily shut down the TriBoro Bridge and the FDR Drive in his honor. Rourke did not attend the funeral but sent a giant floral arrangement.
The message âLove you [TGT] Mickeyâ was crafted out of red and white carnations and roses and prominently displayed at St. Monicaâs in the Upper East Side which was one of the last churches [TGT] presided at.
[TGT] saved my ass from myself â [TGT] said. âWe had a friendship for over 24 years. He always seemed to have the right thing to say.â
At their first meeting [TGT] led Rourke to the basement of the church on West 42nd St. They chain-smoked cigarettes and drank red wine. [TGT] eventually talked Rourke out of suicide and took the letter [TGT] had written to [TGT] estranged wife the actress and model Carre Otis. [TGT] placed it under the statue of St. Jude the patron saint of lost causes and told [TGT] to say 14 Hail Marys as part of his penance Rourke told The Post.
Rourke soon returned for more confessions in the church basement where he would talk to [TGT] about everything from his girlfriends to his dogs. [TGT] knew the names of all of my dogs â said Rourke.
âI explained to [TGT] what I wanted to do because I wanted to know the religious repercussions â said Rourke who is long divorced from Otis his second wife. [TGT] sat me down and explained to me about purgatory. [TGT] scared the piss out of me .â
[TGT] also grabbed a bible and told the actor âShow me in the bible where [TGT] says vengeance is mine Mickey Rourke and I will help you load bullets in your gun.â
Buoyed by his meetings with Father Pete as well as regular sessions with a psychiatrist Rourke restarted his acting career winning a 2009 Golden Globe among other distinctions for best actor for his portrayal of an aging fighter in âThe Wrestler.â He also returned to the boxing ring where he had spent a great deal of his youth before he turned to acting. He told The Post he currently trains an incredible three times a day and is preparing for two more matches as well as working on four new films.
When Rourke asked [TGT] for an explanation for the letterâs disappearance the priest just shrugged Rourke said.
[TGT] loved Mickey â said Mike Kane a longtime friend of the priest. âHis eyes would light up and his smile would glow as he focused ⦠on Mickeyâs renewed success.â
[TGT] personally understood how challenging life can be. Born on April 20 1948 in the Castle Hill section of the Bronx where [TGT] father was a bar keeper [TGT] enrolled at the St. Joseph Seminary in Yonkers but struggled with becoming a priest. [TGT] left before they could kick [TGT] out for constantly violating the curfew.
âI wouldnât be here today if it wasnât for [TGT]
When [TGT] left the church in 2013 to head up St. Monicaâs [TGT] received an emotional standing ovation from the packed pews and was serenaded by pipes and drums from the Department of Sanitation for which [TGT] was the pastor. Although [TGT] was briefly at the helm of St. Monicaâs [TGT] ended [TGT] career at St. Malachyâs the actorsâ chapel on West 49th Street because the church had an elevator and [TGT] could no longer climb stairs in [TGT] final years. [TGT] was 69 when [TGT] died.
The last time Rourke saw [TGT] was over a boozy meal at a Hellâs Kitchen restaurant in the fall of 2016. According to Rourke [TGT] downed four martinis which was not unusual for the portly pastor.
For his part [TGT] also seems to have leaned on the actor.
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
|
2,194 |
The Left Is Still Unable To Face Bill Clintonâs Alleged Sex Crimes
|
Bill Clinton
|
It is fascinating and welcome to see liberals discovering their consciences on Bill Clintonâs alleged rapist tendencies. True this moral revelation comes about two decades later than it should have and at precisely the moment the Left can no longer reasonably ignore it and not a moment sooner.
Just the same it is nice to finally see some honesty on this issue. It is nice to see liberals having no more use for the Clintons finally undertaking what MSNBC host Chris Hayes calls âa real reckoningâ with the very real possibility that Bill Clinton raped Juanita Broaddrick nearly 40 years ago.
And yet. One is tempted to believe weâre witnessing not a âreckoningâ but a quick and guilty kind of moral shrug a sort of Kansas City shuffle meant to absolve a bunch of deeply culpable people of their own deep and stinking culpability. For a real âreckoningâ of American liberalismâs wink-nod approach to Bill Clintonâs alleged sex crimes would implicate American liberalism itself or at least the last few decades of it. That is understandably not something many liberals are willing to do.
A great example of this evasive genre can be found at The Atlantic where Caitlin Flanagan has written an article titled simply â Bill Clinton : A Reckoning.â The article itself is actually not a reckoning of Bill Clinton or even an overture toward a reckoning.
Indeed Flanagan only comes to the sexual assault allegations leveled at Clinton only about two-thirds of the way through after bringing up Clarence Thomasâs alleged sexual harassment of Anita Hill. She places most of the blame for Clinton on âmachine feminismâ rather than Democratic opportunism then lamely asserts Democrats need to âcome to termsâ with how they âabandoned some of [their] central principlesâ in their unthinking defense of Clinton .
Almost as an afterthought Goldberg writes: âItâs fair to conclude that because of Broaddrickâs allegations Bill Clinton no longer has a place in decent society.â Goodness after two decades this is the best we can manage?
Even Hayesâs own viral tweet is couched in a tired and evasive formula. âAs gross and cynical and hypocrtical [sic] as the rightâs âwhat about Bill Clinton â stuff is â he wrote âitâs also true that Democrats and the center left are overdue for a real reckoning with the allegations against him .â Got it: so the Right is âgross and cynical and hypocriticalâ regarding the Leftâs steadfast avoidance of Bill Clintonâs alleged sex crimes but weâre also correct? Are liberals capable of discussing Clinton âs sordid history without having to obsessively refer back to conservatives?
They Let Bill Clinton Keep Legitimacy for 18 More Years
There is a deeper and more cynical politics at work here. âReckoningâ with Bill Clintonâs alleged crimes is not just a matter of the Democratic Party saying sorry for not believing Broaddrick in 1999. Bill Clinton has remained a prominent fixture of the party in the intervening 18 years including as a major fundraiser during his wifeâs two failed campaigns for president and as a stump for other Democrats including President Obama.
Progressives meanwhile adore him . â Bill Clinton couldnât keep it in his pants but he was a great president!â one very liberal woman told me years ago. Broaddrick would surely agree with the first part. Summing up the feelings of millions of progressive millennials comedian John Mulaney described Clinton as a âsmooth and fantastic hillbilly who should be declared emperor of the United State of America.â This kind of hero-worship is only possible if one disbelieves Broaddrickâs testimony entirelyâtestimony that 20 years on remains very credible.
A âreckoningâ of the accusations against Bill Clinton must thus also function as a reckoning of the last couple of decades of Democratic politics a politics that has featured Bill Clinton as an ancillary yet still near-permanent fixture. Every Democrat has known of Broaddrickâs accusations for years. Yet Bill Clinton was still eagerly accepted within âdecent society â and his wifeâwho is quite reasonably seen as both an apologist for her husbandâs perverted behavior and possibly a criminal conspirator regarding his crimesâbecame the standard-bearer of the Democratic Party itself in the last election.
To reckon with all of this means to reckon with the Democratic party in totoâits political instincts its morals and its public credibility and future viability.The Left predictably isnât very keen to do that. So we get what weâve witnessed in the past week: liberals feigning a kind of come-to-Jesus public confessional over Bill Clinton while ultimately just complaining about conservatives.
It is true that in the end we do not know if Bill Clinton raped Broaddrick. It is virtually impossible to prove it one way or the other as it generally is with these types of claims. It would not be wholly unreasonable for someone to doubt Broaddrick after a careful review of the evidence. Then again her claim and the evidence surrounding it is compelling enough to be believable more so than many.
So what does it say about the Democratic Party that it has nevertheless allowed Bill Clinton a revered and permanent spot in its ranks? And what does it say about liberals that even now after all of this time they cannot truly come to grips with it?
|
It is fascinating and welcome to see liberals discovering their consciences on [TGT] alleged rapist tendencies. True this moral revelation comes about two decades later than it should have and at precisely the moment the Left can no longer reasonably ignore it and not a moment sooner.
Just the same it is nice to finally see some honesty on this issue. It is nice to see liberals having no more use for the Clintons finally undertaking what MSNBC host Chris Hayes calls âa real reckoningâ with the very real possibility that [TGT] raped Juanita Broaddrick nearly 40 years ago.
And yet. One is tempted to believe weâre witnessing not a âreckoningâ but a quick and guilty kind of moral shrug a sort of Kansas City shuffle meant to absolve a bunch of deeply culpable people of their own deep and stinking culpability. For a real âreckoningâ of American liberalismâs wink-nod approach to [TGT] alleged sex crimes would implicate American liberalism itself or at least the last few decades of it. That is understandably not something many liberals are willing to do.
A great example of this evasive genre can be found at The Atlantic where Caitlin Flanagan has written an article titled simply â Bill Clinton : A Reckoning.â The article itself is actually not a reckoning of [TGT] or even an overture toward a reckoning.
Indeed Flanagan only comes to the sexual assault allegations leveled at Clinton only about two-thirds of the way through after bringing up Clarence Thomasâs alleged sexual harassment of Anita Hill. She places most of the blame for Clinton on âmachine feminismâ rather than Democratic opportunism then lamely asserts Democrats need to âcome to termsâ with how they âabandoned some of [their] central principlesâ in their unthinking defense of Clinton .
Almost as an afterthought Goldberg writes: âItâs fair to conclude that because of Broaddrickâs allegations [TGT] no longer has a place in decent society.â Goodness after two decades this is the best we can manage?
Even Hayesâs own viral tweet is couched in a tired and evasive formula. âAs gross and cynical and hypocrtical [sic] as the rightâs âwhat about [TGT] â stuff is â he wrote âitâs also true that Democrats and the center left are overdue for a real reckoning with the allegations against him .â Got it: so the Right is âgross and cynical and hypocriticalâ regarding the Leftâs steadfast avoidance of [TGT] alleged sex crimes but weâre also correct? Are liberals capable of discussing [TGT] âs sordid history without having to obsessively refer back to conservatives?
They Let [TGT] Keep Legitimacy for 18 More Years
There is a deeper and more cynical politics at work here. âReckoningâ with [TGT] alleged crimes is not just a matter of the Democratic Party saying sorry for not believing Broaddrick in 1999. Bill Clinton has remained a prominent fixture of the party in the intervening 18 years including as a major fundraiser during his wifeâs two failed campaigns for president and as a stump for other Democrats including President Obama.
Progressives meanwhile adore him . â [TGT] couldnât keep it in his pants but he was a great president!â one very liberal woman told me years ago. Broaddrick would surely agree with the first part. Summing up the feelings of millions of progressive millennials comedian John Mulaney described Clinton as a âsmooth and fantastic hillbilly who should be declared emperor of the United State of America.â This kind of hero-worship is only possible if one disbelieves Broaddrickâs testimony entirelyâtestimony that 20 years on remains very credible.
A âreckoningâ of the accusations against [TGT] must thus also function as a reckoning of the last couple of decades of Democratic politics a politics that has featured [TGT] as an ancillary yet still near-permanent fixture. Every Democrat has known of Broaddrickâs accusations for years. Yet [TGT] was still eagerly accepted within âdecent society â and [TGT] wifeâwho is quite reasonably seen as both an apologist for [TGT] husbandâs perverted behavior and possibly a criminal conspirator regarding his crimesâbecame the standard-bearer of the Democratic Party itself in the last election.
To reckon with all of this means to reckon with the Democratic party in totoâits political instincts its morals and its public credibility and future viability.The Left predictably isnât very keen to do that. So we get what weâve witnessed in the past week: liberals feigning a kind of come-to-Jesus public confessional over [TGT] while ultimately just complaining about conservatives.
It is true that in the end we do not know if [TGT] raped Broaddrick. It is virtually impossible to prove it one way or the other as it generally is with these types of claims. It would not be wholly unreasonable for someone to doubt Broaddrick after a careful review of the evidence. Then again her claim and the evidence surrounding it is compelling enough to be believable more so than many.
So what does it say about the Democratic Party that it has nevertheless allowed [TGT] a revered and permanent spot in its ranks? And what does it say about liberals that even now after all of this time they cannot truly come to grips with it?
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,195 |
Virginia transportation officials plead guilty in bribery drug schemes
|
Kenneth D. Adams
|
Kenneth D. Adams 42 and Anthony Willie 55 pleaded guilty in Alexandria federal court this week to a fraud conspiracy as did three contractors who paid the bribes.
Until their arrests this year the two were in charge of VDOTâs office in Burke and had the power to decide which contractors were used to plow roads during snowstorms. For at least the past six years in exchange for those contracts the two men took a cut of the profits according to court documents. Sometimes snow-removal-company owners paid them cash outside fast-food restaurants and supermarkets in the area. Other times they steered money toward a landscaping company owned by Adams .
Adams also admitted to selling cocaine to his VDOT co-workers; his supplier was the relative of another employee.
Lawyers for Sariri wrote in a court filing that he had contacted law enforcement about âunfair practices and essentially insider tradingâ at VDOT. Adams and Willie âhad a chokehold over the snow-removal businessâ in the area lawyers Peter Greenspun and Mikhail Lopez wrote.
|
[TGT] 42 and Anthony Willie 55 pleaded guilty in Alexandria federal court this week to a fraud conspiracy as did three contractors who paid the bribes.
Until their arrests this year the two were in charge of VDOTâs office in Burke and had the power to decide which contractors were used to plow roads during snowstorms. For at least the past six years in exchange for those contracts the two men took a cut of the profits according to court documents. Sometimes snow-removal-company owners paid them cash outside fast-food restaurants and supermarkets in the area. Other times they steered money toward a landscaping company owned by Adams .
Adams also admitted to selling cocaine to his VDOT co-workers; his supplier was the relative of another employee.
Lawyers for Sariri wrote in a court filing that he had contacted law enforcement about âunfair practices and essentially insider tradingâ at VDOT. Adams and Willie âhad a chokehold over the snow-removal businessâ in the area lawyers Peter Greenspun and Mikhail Lopez wrote.
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,196 |
The mysterious tale of the couple who keep receiving free Amazon packages â and want it to stop
|
Kelly Gallivan
|
It was October. Kelly Gallivan 68 remembers seeing the Amazon box addressed to her husband sitting outside their Acton Massachusetts house. She brought it inside opened it and unwrapped the "techy gizmo stuff."
"What did you order this for?" she remembers asking her 70-year-old husband.
But Mike Gallivan hadn't ordered them. It was easy for the couple to forget about the puzzling package - until many others started arriving.
More than 20 boxes have been sent to the house all addressed to Mike Gallivan none containing the sender's name or invoices or receipts. The gadgets have started piling in a corner of their house: Phone chargers USB cords an outdoor TV plastic cover a computer vacuum cleaner a humidifier powered by a USB a Bluetooth speaker tent lamps high-intensity flashlights a rechargeable dog collar. The most recent one came last Thursday Kelly Gallivan said.
"At first it was kind of weird. Then kind of funny. Then kind of creepy " Kelly Gallivan said. "We don't want this stuff. Some of it's trash some it's pretty good stuff. But we just don't want this stuff and its just an uncomfortable feeling that we keep getting these things."
The Gallivans aren't sure how much longer they'll keep receiving the packages. Some items have been well-received - Mike Gallivan said he plans to use the high-intensity flashlight and a pair of Bluetooth headphones. Other gadgets like a "little gizmo you put around your cellphone that lights up the area when you want to take your selfie " Kelly Gallivan said will likely be donated.
|
It was October. [TGT] 68 remembers seeing the Amazon box addressed to [TGT] husband sitting outside their Acton Massachusetts house. She brought it inside opened it and unwrapped the "techy gizmo stuff."
"What did you order this for?" she remembers asking her 70-year-old husband.
But [TGT] hadn't ordered them. It was easy for the couple to forget about the puzzling package - until many others started arriving.
More than 20 boxes have been sent to the house all addressed to [TGT] none containing the sender's name or invoices or receipts. The gadgets have started piling in a corner of their house: Phone chargers USB cords an outdoor TV plastic cover a computer vacuum cleaner a humidifier powered by a USB a Bluetooth speaker tent lamps high-intensity flashlights a rechargeable dog collar. The most recent one came last Thursday [TGT] said.
"At first it was kind of weird. Then kind of funny. Then kind of creepy " [TGT] said. "We don't want this stuff. Some of it's trash some it's pretty good stuff. But we just don't want this stuff and its just an uncomfortable feeling that we keep getting these things."
The Gallivans aren't sure how much longer they'll keep receiving the packages. Some items have been [TGT] said [TGT] plans to use the high-intensity flashlight and a pair of Bluetooth headphones. Other gadgets like a "little gizmo you put around your cellphone that lights up the area when you want to take your selfie [TGT] said will likely be donated.
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,197 |
'We're not quite there honestly': John Fox's last
|
John Fox.188
|
Not long after John Fox was asked about his faith in Barth the kicker the Bears selected in September 2016 to replace the franchiseâs all-time leading scorer Robbie Gould.
âWeâre in a production-based business â Fox said âand thatâs what we get paid to do. Whether itâs win games as the head coach or whether itâs make kicks as a kicker. Weâll evaluate it.â
Fox meanwhile is 12-30 as Bears coach a three-season struggle that seems likely to soon lead to his exit as well.
Thatâs a 31 percent success rate for those into statistical metrics. And if thatâs piled on to Fox âs .188 winning percentage in division games his permanent residence in the NFC North basement and the reality that the Bears are now staring at a fourth-straight 10-loss season itâs easy to understand how this production-based business may come calling for his Halas Hall key card in the next six weeks.
Late Sunday afternoon Fox attempted to explain why his Bears have had such consistent difficulty succeeding in close games. âWe have lulls â he said. âWe have siestas. We just donât do it for 60 minutes.â
Two long long years ago on Thanksgiving night Fox and the Bears seemed to have their wick lit for a franchise-boosting takeoff. They went to Lambeau Field in prime time and snatched a 17-13 upset. But it wasnât just a road win over the rival Packers that had the sense of belief soaring. At the time it was the Bearsâ fifth win in eight games a surge that spoke of a team figuring out how to win consistently.
Under Fox the Bears have experienced seven losing streaks of three games or longer and have never won three in a row.
|
Not long after John Fox was asked about his faith in Barth the kicker the Bears selected in September 2016 to replace the franchiseâs all-time leading scorer Robbie Gould.
âWeâre in a production-based business â Fox said âand thatâs what we get paid to do. Whether itâs win games as the head coach or whether itâs make kicks as a kicker. Weâll evaluate it.â
Fox meanwhile is 12-30 as Bears coach a three-season struggle that seems likely to soon lead to his exit as well.
Thatâs a 31 percent success rate for those into statistical metrics. And if thatâs piled on to Fox âs .188 winning percentage in division games his permanent residence in the NFC North basement and the reality that the Bears are now staring at a fourth-straight 10-loss season itâs easy to understand how this production-based business may come calling for his Halas Hall key card in the next six weeks.
Late Sunday afternoon Fox attempted to explain why his Bears have had such consistent difficulty succeeding in close games. âWe have lulls â he said. âWe have siestas. We just donât do it for 60 minutes.â
Two long long years ago on Thanksgiving night Fox and the Bears seemed to have their wick lit for a franchise-boosting takeoff. They went to Lambeau Field in prime time and snatched a 17-13 upset. But it wasnât just a road win over the rival Packers that had the sense of belief soaring. At the time it was the Bearsâ fifth win in eight games a surge that spoke of a team figuring out how to win consistently.
Under Fox the Bears have experienced seven losing streaks of three games or longer and have never won three in a row.
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,198 |
Gov. Terry McAuliffe : I'd Respond Physically If President Donald Trump Got in My 'Space'
|
Terry McAuliffe
|
Virginia's Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe said he would respond physically to President Donald Trump if he ever used intimidation tactics and got in his "space " the Washington Examiner reported Friday.
"You would have to pick him up off the floor " McAuliffe told MSNBC's Chris Matthews on "Hardball" Thursday.
"Listen if this guy got in my space â you wanna get in my space? I've always said 'Chris you punch me I'm going to punch back twice as hard.' And it wouldn't be hard to do it. But you know this guy thinks he can intimidate everybody. It's disgraceful. It's embarrassing.
"If he ever came over and leaned on me and got in my space that would be the last time Donald Trump ever did that " McAuliffe said.
McAuliffe has been a vocal opponent of Trump especially on immigration issues. He served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2001 to 2005 and was chairman of the presidential campaigns of former President Bill Clinton in 1996 and Hillary Clinton in 2008.
McAuliffe is due to leave office on Saturday when newly-elected Democratic Gov.-elect Ralph Northam takes office.
|
[TGT] said [TGT] would respond physically to President Donald Trump if [TGT] ever used intimidation tactics and got in his "space " the Washington Examiner reported Friday.
"You would have to pick him up off the floor " [TGT] told MSNBC's Chris Matthews on "Hardball" Thursday.
"Listen if this guy got in my space â you wanna get in my space? I've always said 'Chris you punch me I'm going to punch back twice as hard.' And it wouldn't be hard to do it. But you know this guy thinks he can intimidate everybody. It's disgraceful. It's embarrassing.
"If [TGT] [TGT] ever came over and leaned on me and got in my space that would be the last time Donald Trump ever did that " [TGT] said.
[TGT] has been a vocal opponent of Trump especially on immigration issues. [TGT] served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2001 to 2005 and was chairman of the presidential campaigns of former President Bill Clinton in 1996 and Hillary Clinton in 2008.
[TGT] is due to leave office on Saturday when newly-elected Democratic Gov.-elect Ralph Northam takes office.
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 0Negative
| 0Negative
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,199 |
Mexico requests extradition of former ruling party governor
|
Cesar Duarte
|
Separate requests were made for the extradition of Cesar Duarte who governed the northern state of Chihuahua from 2010 to 2016 a source in the attorney generalâs office said on condition of anonymity.
It is not clear where Duarte is now though current Chihuahua Governor Javier Corral has repeatedly said he is in the United States.
Duarte denied accusations of wrongdoing before disappearing from public view. His whereabouts have been unclear since around the time his term finished in October 2016.
A member of the center-right opposition National Action Party (PAN) Corral was among those who called for Duarte âs extradition.
|
Separate requests were made for the extradition of [TGT] said on condition of anonymity.
It is not clear where [TGT] is now though current Chihuahua Governor Javier Corral has repeatedly said he is in the United States.
[TGT] denied accusations of wrongdoing before disappearing from public view. [TGT] whereabouts have been unclear since around the time [TGT] term finished in October 2016.
A member of the center-right opposition National Action Party (PAN) Corral was among those who called for [TGT] .
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| 1Neutral
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
2,200 |
Inspired or Frustrated Women Go to Work for Themselves
|
Giovanniello
|
But the challenge of returning to work is even greater for women who stay out of the work force for extended periods of time or who take frequent breaks to raise children. That was the case for Lea Giovanniello 59 the Virginia woman who found that resuming a full-time job in the technology sector two years ago required hitting the books for a new degree.
Ms. Giovanniello stepped away from a fast-track information technology job with Northrop Corporation. Over the course of more than two decades after she left she taught math and science in public schools and worked in various I.T. positions at embassies and consulates where her husband was posted with the foreign service.
When her children headed to college she decided to restart her career. âThe problem is that the tech field keeps moving on at a brisk pace and my skills were out of date â Ms. Giovanniello said. âWhen I started looking at the job listings it just felt so futile. I probably sent out maybe a dozen résumés and never got back so much as an automatic response.â
She earned a master of science degree in computer forensics from George Mason University in 2014. Then through FlexProfessionals a part-time job staffing firm she was hired by Corsec Security an I.T. security consulting company in Herndon Va. as a part-time computer security engineer. Today she âs on staff as a certifications analyst.
|
But the challenge of returning to work is even greater for women who stay out of the work force for extended periods of time or who take frequent breaks to raise children. That was the case for [TGT] .
[TGT] stepped away from a fast-track information technology job with Northrop Corporation. Over the course of more than two decades after [TGT] left [TGT] taught math and science in public schools and worked in various I.T. positions at embassies and consulates where [TGT] husband was posted with the foreign service.
When [TGT] children headed to college [TGT] decided to restart [TGT] career. âThe problem is that the tech field keeps moving on at a brisk pace and my skills were out of date â [TGT] said. âWhen I started looking at the job listings it just felt so futile. I probably sent out maybe a dozen résumés and never got back so much as an automatic response.â
[TGT] earned a master of science degree in computer forensics from George Mason University in 2014. Then through FlexProfessionals a part-time job staffing firm [TGT] was hired by Corsec Security an I.T. security consulting company in Herndon Va. as a part-time computer security engineer. Today [TGT] âs on staff as a certifications analyst.
| 2Positive
| 1Neutral
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| 2Positive
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
| -1no label
|
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.