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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Chris Lawton on Unsplash and Anne Jarman.
As the LGBTQ community reflects on the 50 years since the Stonewall riots this Pride season, Outward wanted to chat with a group of queer elders about their experiences and ask what advice they have for the generations following in their footsteps. Hence, this special, weeklong LGBTQ edition of our regular series Interview With an Old Person.
Chip Brownlee: How old are you?
Anne Jarman: I’m 86 years old.
Where were you born, and where do you live now?
I was born in Nashville, Tennessee. I live in Washington, D.C.
When and how did you realize that you were a lesbian?
I came out when I was 50, so it was 1983. I was a massage therapist, and I oftentimes did counseling for people. This woman called up and said, “I feel a lot of sadness when I’m with you. I wonder if we could talk about it?” I said, “Of course.” We were walking along the towpath over there in Vienna, [Virginia,] and she was just weeping and weeping about the fact that her husband had died in Alaska. She was not there, she had been working, and she hadn’t been able to grieve. And I guess she felt that I was giving her permission to grieve. So she cried, and cried, and cried.
I was actually married to a Southern Baptist minister at the time, and I had three children and six grandchildren. And so I had never been open really to gay and lesbian people because, as a Southern Baptist, that wasn’t something we did. Anyway, I said, “Why don’t we sit over here?” I found a log that I could sit on, and she sat on the ground. And I put my arm around her just to comfort her. As I put my arm around her stomach area, all of a sudden this kind of explosion went off in me. To this day, I don’t know what that was. But we kept on talking, and I didn’t mention that to her.
I was in therapy two days later, and I said to the therapist, “I had this really strange experience.” And she said, “Look, you have got enough problems—we are not going to talk about you being a lesbian.” I found out later that she had a husband who was coming out who was an Episcopal priest; I was really too much to handle. She wasn’t going to help me. So I went to the library and got these books on people who were lesbians. And I hid them under the mattress so nobody would see them. And my daughter, who is my youngest child, she said, “Mom, what are you doing with these books about being a lesbian?” And I said, “Just to find out about everybody.”
How did you meet your partner?
It was at a company happy hour. I never went to happy hour because I didn’t drink. [But once, a colleague convinced me.] And it was that time, when I went to that happy hour, when I met my Barbara, the one that I lived with for 18 years.
Barbara was sitting all by herself at this table. And when I walked in, as a Southerner, I was raised to always be social and to make people feel at home. So I thought, well, I know everybody here, I’ll go and talk to that woman who I don’t know. We had a wonderful visit. Just a nice talk. I didn’t tell her that I was a lesbian because I was kind of still uptight about that. I told her that I had just divorced and was having a real struggle about that. I went to supper with Barbara, and then I didn’t see Barbara anymore after that—that was in January. And in April of that same year, so we’re now in ’84, this person called me up and said, “Would you like to come to dinner tonight?” And I said, well, I’d love to come to dinner, but you have to tell me who you are, because I didn’t have any clue who she was. It was Barbara.
So that night, Barbara and I just had a really good visit. I probably told her I was a lesbian then. She had had just one lesbian experience in her life, and she was mostly dating men. This was Easter. After dinner, she said, “What are you doing tomorrow?” And I said, “Well, I’m going to church.” So she came to church with me at the cathedral, and she cried all during the service. And I thought, of course, the Lord has led me to her to lead her to Christ. That’s why I’m a lesbian. That obviously wasn’t the right reason, but that’s what I thought. I went to supper at her house that night, and I told her about being a lesbian and how hard it was for me and how strange it was for me. And suddenly, there was passion for both of us. And we fell on the floor in an embrace, and I never went home after that. It was magnificent, it was wonderful. We were together for eight years.
Did something happen?
“We fell on the floor in an embrace, and I never went home after that.” — Anne Jarman
She had a ferocious temper. After eight years, I said, “Listen, I think I need to be by myself. You need to move out.” And we were separated for about 10 years, I guess. But always she would send me a Christmas card at Christmas wherever she was. I felt badly about Barbara, kicking her out of the house. In 2001, it was 10 years, she came to town because she would have meetings in Washington often. And she called and said, “I’m going to be in town. Are you available this weekend?” So we visit, and I just realize what a neat, fun person she was. I was missing her. I came home, and I told my then-partner that I wanted to be friends with Barbara. And she said no. But after a couple of months she did say, well, just go on and go. I called up Barbara, and I said, “I want to come and visit you, platonic, just want to be your friend.” I went to visit her, and we had a wonderful time. Straight, no sex, nothing, and just wonderful. Barbara walked me to the plane, to the gate, and she winked at me and blew me a kiss.
When I sat down on the plane, I thought, oh, my gosh, I have left my heart where Barbara lives, which was in Ohio. The next day, I called her up, and I said, “I left my heart where you live.” And she said, “What are you going to do about it?” I said, “I’m going to ask you to come back.” And she said, “Well, I don’t think it would be safe. I almost had a nervous breakdown when you kicked me out the first time.” So I said, “Listen, I change my mind all the time. I want you to feel safe. I’m going to go home and I’m going to tell my person that I live with that she’s got to go. And the house will be ready for you if you ever decide you want to come back.”
[After a few months of transition and visits,] Barbara eventually gets a job in the District and comes back. And we have a total of 18 years together. Then, she gets two kinds of cancers in 2011, and she dies in November 2012. And it has almost wrecked me, it’s just so hard for me to have this woman that I love be gone. And I’ve gone to lots of grief groups, and I don’t seem to be doing much better about it. But that was, like, more than six years ago.
Would you ever be interested in dating again?
I’m not interested in finding anybody else. I mean, there will never be another Barbara. She was magnificent.
What was the first time you became aware of LGBTQ movements?
I was a massage therapist then, and I was massaging guys with AIDS. That was the most blessed thing I ever have done in my life, because it was at that time that everybody thought that if you even looked at somebody with AIDS, you were going to die. They would say, “We’re not going to come be on your table because you massage people with AIDS, and you’re probably going to die, and we don’t want to die.” And I thought, well, we’ve all got to go somehow. And I need to do this work. But I really wasn’t all that aware of the LGBT stuff. I was just doing the AIDS massage because they just needed it. There were no rules—I mean, I would go to the hospital on Sundays and ask them if they had anybody with AIDS, and you know, they didn’t even want to take care of the people with AIDS. And so I would go in and give them a massage for an hour, and I really felt like a leper myself because of all I was going through, and I felt that everybody was treating the people with AIDS as lepers. It was awful how we treated, everybody treated people back then, especially the guys with AIDS.
What role has queer community played in your life? Like, knowing other LGBT people and being part of LGBT organizations?
I’ve had very few lesbian friends, that I know about. I haven’t been involved. At one point, I worked for Whitman-Walker [a D.C. clinic specializing in LGBTQ health care], and I led a group for people whose partners and mothers and brothers and sisters had AIDS. And that was a wonderful experience for me because I had this motorcycle guy who had chains and tattoos on, and I never thought I would meet anybody like that. And he was just dear, and his partner was dying of AIDS. So, I guess, rather than the community helping me, it was the partners and the guys with AIDS that were really the ones that helped me get into the community.
Do you have any LGBTQ friends today?
What a good question. Yes, I have one at my church. I have two dear friends that I was really close to, but they moved away to Chapel Hill, and I see them when they come back to town. And my therapist is a lesbian. And I’ve been going to therapy for five years.
What was your favorite age to be lesbian? I know that you weren’t lesbian until you were 50, or you hadn’t realized it yet, but after that, when was your favorite time?
To be with Barbara—those 18 years were just magnificent. So we’re talking about from when I was 50, and when she died I was 80, I guess. So 50 to 80 were my best years. And when I told my friends where I am from, they of course didn’t understand that and didn’t appreciate it. And so, you know, that wasn’t much fun to talk to people that thought I was something I shouldn’t have been.
What about your former husband?
My former husband has been so incredibly supportive. And his wife has been absolutely wonderful. They’re probably my best friends right now.
[As I said,] we were both Southern Baptists. The new wife, he’s been married to her for 10 years at least, maybe 20 years. The ex-husband and I are very comfortable talking about religion, and he was very supportive of me when Barbara died. And he came to the funeral with her, and the grandchildren were all there, you know.
Were you surprised, though, that he was so supportive, given that he was a Southern Baptist preacher?
I’m surprised that I’m comfortable with my ex-husband, yes. It’s like he’s one of my best friends. And he was never my best friend when I was married to him.
Have you ever been to Pride or celebrated it?
I was with Barbara, and I was studying at the dining room table, and it was Pride day. She said, “It’s Pride Sunday. Let’s go to Pride, the march.” I said, “Oh, Lord, I don’t want to go to the march.” She said, “We don’t have to march. We’ll just be on the side.” But now I never think about going to Pride. I have a bad leg that was injured, but I have walked for AIDS. I would say most of my lesbian experience has been with AIDS.
What about the time that you did go? Did you end up going with Barbara? And what did you think?
I did, I did. I mean, she was much more comfortable than I was. But we didn’t march, because I was afraid somebody would see me. I was uncomfortable with it for so long, until I was 50. And do you remember the quilts? People who had partners with AIDS, they would make these beautiful quilts, their friends would. And they spread out the quilts down at the [Washington] Monument. And they went all the way down, you know, on the grass. It was beautiful. Must have been I don’t know how many quilts. But, you know, I was very comfortable going to see the quilts. I think it was just—I don’t know what it was. I just—I’ve never done that.
Do you have regrets that you didn’t know about your sexuality earlier?
Oh, yes, yes. I think it would have been so much fun to have been in school. … Of course, when I was in school, people were so closeted, maybe it would have been different. But it would be great to be in school now, where people are so out. But, you know, I never met anybody who was a lesbian until I was 50. So of course I have regrets. But then I met Barbara, who was just magnificent and changed my life, and that was wonderful.
What kind of advice would you have for younger people, who are just realizing that they’re LGBT or trying to come out?
I’m very open to anybody who is struggling, whether it’s someone who is transgender or whether it’s being a lesbian. And if anybody wants to come and talk to me, I would love to talk to them. Just to listen to them, to be ears. To tell them what a great life it is, to have fallen in love with a woman. But I would have to listen to them first. Then I would certainly be one that would companion them on the way.
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Ken Cuccinelli blames migrant father for border drowning deaths captured in photo
“Until we fix the attractions in our asylum system, people like that father and that child are going to continue to come through a dangerous trip," the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said | null | 0 | -1 | null | 2 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | POLITICO Press Archives Select Date… May, 2019 April, 2019 March, 2019 February, 2019 January, 2019 December, 2018 November, 2018 October, 2018 September, 2018 August, 2018 July, 2018 June, 2018
Must See POLITICO TV: June 21st - June 27th
On Wednesday and Thursday evening, Alex Thompson appeared on NBC News Now for pre- and post-debate analysis.
Watch the clip here.
Marc Caputo previewed the Democratic debates with Chuck Todd on a special episode of his podcast “The Chuck ToddCast.”
Listen to the podcast here.
On Thursday afternoon, Elena Schneider joined MSNBC with Kasie Hunt in Miami to recap and preview the Democratic debates.
Watch the clip here. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 5 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | A memorial garden was dedicated in Annapolis, Maryland, Friday in honor of the five newspaper employees shot dead in their newsroom in a "senseless attack" one year ago.
On June 28, 2018, four journalists -- Wendi Winters, Rob Hiaasen, Gerald Fischman and John McNamara -- and a sales assistant -- Rebecca Smith -- were gunned down at the Capital Gazette in what became the largest killing of journalists in U.S. history.
The suspected gunman, who allegedly had a long grudge against the Capital Gazette, has pleaded not criminally responsible.
The garden at Acton's Cove Waterfront Park has five rose bushes and a memorial plaque, the Capital Gazette reported.
Brian Witte/AP
That park was a favorite spot for Hiaasen, an assistant editor, who would go there for "solitude" and to think of his next story, Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley said at Friday's dedication ceremony.
The Baltimore Sun via AP
The waterfront garden will serve as a place for community members to "contemplate what was stolen from those five beautiful people," Buckley said.
Capital Photo/The Baltimore Sun via AP
"It's extremely fitting that this is where this garden is. Because people will come here... and it will be empty," said Capital Gazette editor Rick Hutzell. "Come here and think about what these five lives meant."
"I'm far richer for having known them," said Hutzell, overcome with emotion. "And I'm far poorer for having lost them."
In the hours after the massacre, the Capital Gazette staff chose to continue to report on the tragedy to publish the next day's newspaper.
Handout/facebook/The Baltimore Sun via AP
Trif Alatzas, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Baltimore Sun Media Group, told the journalists gathered at the ceremony, in the wake of the "senseless attack," "we have a purpose."
"Wendy, Rebecca, John, Gerald and Rob would've expected us to carry on with an even greater purpose. To carry on and nurture our first amendment rights despite the horror that they faced," he said. "It's that strength that gives me peace even when I think back to that awful day."
David Dreier, a former congressman and chair of the newspaper's parent company, called the attack the "most brutal form of attempted censorship."
The Baltimore Sun via AP
Yet the "brave people of the Capital Gazette have been honoring their fallen colleagues by making sure... the finest work product is being provided," Dreier said.
"The horror that took place last year has inspired plans for the building of a memorial in our nation's capital," Dreier said. He hopes within the next "seven-plus years," Washington, D.C., will have a memorial for fallen journalists.
The Baltimore Sun via AP
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan tweeted Friday morning, "As I reflect on that tragic day — the chaos, the grief, the outpouring of support, the survivors’ commitment to sharing the news — I am reminded of both the strength of my local community and the necessity of freedom of the press."
Hogan proclaimed June 28 to be "Freedom of the Press Day" in the victims' honor. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 23 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | THE HAGUE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Ekaterina’s father was dying she could not visit him in Uzbekistan because she did not have a passport – so she tried to get herself deported.
But as a stateless person living in the United States, she could not even do that.
Ekaterina is among hundreds of thousands of ex-Soviet citizens who have not been able to acquire the nationality of any of the successor states since the break-up of the bloc.
Some like Ekaterina, who was abroad when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, have been stranded in limbo ever since.
Ekaterina told her story in a film shown at a global conference on statelessness in The Hague that ends on Friday.
Stateless people do not have passports so were unable to attend in person to tell their stories, although delegates included a number of formerly stateless people.
An empty chair was placed next to panelists speaking at the conference to symbolize the people who could not be there.
Ekaterina is a member of United Stateless, a campaign group comprising stateless people from various backgrounds living in the United States.
There are an estimated 10 to 15 million stateless people globally who are not recognized as a citizen of any country. There are no statistics on the number in the United States.
People end up stateless for a host of complex historical, social and legal reasons - including migration, flawed citizenship laws and ethnic discrimination.
Sometimes called “nowhere people” or “legal ghosts”, they are often deprived of basic rights and vulnerable to exploitation.
“Stateless people live in fear of detention - all the time,” said another woman in the video called D.A. who was born stateless in Kuwait.
Ekaterina said she had not been able to end her statelessness even though she was married to an American.
“Several years ago I learnt my father was dying. I made the heart-wrenching decision to deport myself to be by his side. I was denied deportation,” she said, adding she had not seen her family for 24 years.
Miliyon, born to an Eritrean father and Ethiopian mother, said he had spent $50,000 on legal fees but still had no solution in sight.
“I’m a tax payer and I cannot open a bank account, I cannot get a driving license, I cannot report a crime,” he said.
The United Nation launched an ambitious campaign in 2014 to eradicate statelessness within a decade.
Some countries, including Brazil, the Netherlands and Britain, have set up procedures which provide stateless people with a way to legalize their residence so they can rebuild their lives.
Melanie Khanna, head of the U.N. refugee agency’s section on statelessness, urged the United States to set up a stateless determination procedure to help those like Ekaterina.
She said stateless people often lived isolated lives and hoped United Stateless would spur the creation of similar groups around the world. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 24 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Conservative Party leader candidate Boris Johnson is reportedly planning a special no-deal Brexit budget to get the British economy “going gangbusters” by October 31st if the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
According to The Times, Mr Johnson is planning a series of tax cuts, raising the threshold for land tax on purchasing homes, a “Trump-style” freeze on new regulations, and raising the investment allowance threshold to stimulate business.
It is believed that if Tory Party members vote for Mr Johnson to be the next party leader, and he becomes prime minister, he will bring forward the budget, which is normally delivered in October or November, to September.
Other fiscal measures being considered to stimulate the economy and support taxpayers includes raising the threshold for the 40p rate of income tax from £50,000 to £80,000. He is also considering a proposal initially put forward by his former leadership rival and fellow Brexiteer Dominic Raab to increase the national insurance contribution threshold from £8,632 to £12,500, meaning Britons will see more money in their paycheques every month.
Turning Point’s Charlie Kirk: Johnson, Trump Could Have ‘Unprecedented Alliance’ https://t.co/AcFm25m129 — Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) June 26, 2019
Mr Johnson could also end stamp duty — the land tax paid when buying a property — on houses costing less than £500,000. Currently, only the first £125,000 is exempt.
He is expected to discuss plans next week at a meeting chaired by Sir Edward Lister, with three senior sources from the former foreign secretary’s campaign telling the newspaper confirming that the ideas were under consideration.
Earlier this week, the Institute for Fiscal Studies attacked proposals by Boris Johnson to cut taxes, claiming that the former foreign secretary’s plans to raise the threshold on the upper rate would cost “many billions”, the assertion gaining widespread mainstream media coverage.
Last week, Brexit supporter and chairman of Capital Economics Roger Bootle wrote that he believes tax cuts will “offset any short-term difficulties and sending signals to both businesses and individuals about our post-Brexit future” and “can play a vital role in getting the best results from Brexit”.
Tory Remainers Threaten to Bring Down Govt over a Johnson No Deal Brexit https://t.co/urTAHaAOgt — Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) June 25, 2019
The TaxPayers Alliance announced earlier in the month that it supported Mr Johnson’s pledge to cut taxes for higher earners should he become prime minister, with the group’s Chloe Westley telling talkRADIO that Mr Johnson’s plans are about “encouraging and rewarding success”, saying: “If you’re considering working harder to get a promotion, or starting that small business, but you see that the tax takes for earning more is so high that you won’t see much of a difference at all, what’s the point in trying harder?”
“I think most people understand that if you don’t have an incentive for success then people won’t want to go out on their own and do the things that actually make the economy grow,” she added.
In terms of how President Trump’s tax cuts benefitted Americans, the TPA’s campaign manager said: “You will find that when you cut these taxes for higher earners often actually the government gets more revenue in. In the United States when they cut income tax like this, their revenue intake for that year actually went up because the economy was growing, more hires were happening.” | null | 0 | -1 | null | 13 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | The House Ethics Committee has launched an investigation into Rep. Matt Gaetz's tweet targeting Michael Cohen ahead of his public testimony before Congress in February, the panel announced Friday, after Gaetz declined to sit for an interview with the committee.
Before President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer appeared before the House Oversight Committee, Gaetz, a fierce defender of the president, tweeted: “Hey @MichaelCohen212 - Do your wife & father-in-law know about your girlfriends? Maybe tonight would be a good time for that chat. I wonder if she’ll remain faithful when you’re in prison. She’s about to learn a lot...”
J. Scott Applewhite/AP, FILE
The congressman, who apologized for the tweet in public and in a text message to Cohen, dismissed the news of the investigation Friday afternoon.
"If members of Congress want to spend their time psychoanalyzing my tweets, it certainly their prerogative," he told ABC News in a text message. "I won't be joining them in the endeavor. Too busy."
Rep. Kathleen Rice, D-N.Y., asked the House panel to investigate the matter in February, arguing that the message constituted witness tampering.
Asked at the time if the tweet was a threat, Gaetz said, “Absolutely not. We’re witness testing not witness tampering. And when witnesses come before Congress their truthfulness and voracity ought to be tested and we have the opportunity.”
The subcommittee, led by Rep. Anthony Brown, D-Md. ,will have the ability to issue subpoenas in its investigation, and will eventually recommend a course of action to the full panel for consideration.
The committee could drop the matter if no wrongdoing is found in the investigation. It could also recommend the House take up additional action, such as a vote to reprimand, censure or fine Gaetz, Bryson Morgan, a former investigative counsel for the House of Representatives Office of Congressional Ethics, previously told ABC News.
In a press release Friday, the panel noted that the establishment of a subcommittee does not indicate any wrongdoing. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 16 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | The Supreme Court will settle the legal fight over President Barack Obama’s DACA 2012 amnesty — and may boost Donald Trump’s ability to force pro-American concessions from Democrats in 2020.
If the court says Trump’s deputies properly ended DACA in 2017, Trump will gain a major trading card in migration negotiations with Democrats. Trump has repeatedly said he wants to trade DACA for pro-American immigration reforms, despite Democratic claims that ending DACA will force the 800,000 young illegals to return home.
Trump’s opponents have persuaded judges that then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions improperly shut down the DACA program in 2017. Trump has complained that the judges’ interventions reduced his ability to make an immigration deal in 2018.
So far, Trump has not used other legal avenues to end the DACA amnesty, partly because the resulting uproar will weaken his hand during immigration negotiations.
If the Supreme Court decides that Sessions properly shut down the program, the 800,000 DACA illegals will be able to stay if Democrats agree to roll back their efforts to import foreigners into Americans’ blue-collar workplaces, schools, and neighborhoods. The DACA illegals were brought to the United States as children by their parents.
The court’s decision is expected in early 2020, and immigration-reform advocates hope that Justice Neil Gorsuch will tip the decision in favor of Trump.
The sleeper issue in the case is Obama’s decision to also grant work permits to the DACA illegals.
A court in Texas already ruled that Obama’s work-permit decision was illegal, so the top court — likely pressured by Gorsuch — may also strike down the government claim that it has the right to create work permits for foreigners.
But that sleeper legal issue — dubbed “1324a” — could also torpedo similar work-permit awards to foreigners. Those other programs include the Optional Practical Training Program and the H4EAD program which allow at least 300,000 other foreigners to work white-collar jobs in the United States.
Those 300,000 imported visa-workers help suppress wages for American college graduates — and also generate huge revenues for the nation’s university sector.
Feds use a fake university to bust college-grad labor traffickers who funneled at least 600 Indian grads into jobs around the US. The trafficking was hidden within the quasi-legal workforce of 1.5 million H-1B, OPT, L-1, TN, etc. white-collar visa-workers. https://t.co/EBenDh5wE3 — Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) January 31, 2019
Business lobbyists want the court to strike down Sessions’ cancellation of DACA because that would help protect their supply of cheap migrant labor, and would also reduce Trump’s ability to force pro-American concessions from the pro-migrant Democrats.
For example, the DACA amnesty is defended by FWD.us, a lobbying group created by West Coast investors to protect their supplies of cheap labor:
NEW AND IMPORTANT – SCOTUS TO HEAR DACA CASE NEXT TERM The Supreme Court is going to hear the case on the unlawful and currently blocked rescission of DACA. Here is what you need to know and to be informed and prepared. In summary: DACA is lawful, great and renewals remain… — Todd Schulte (@TheToddSchulte) June 28, 2019
FWD.us is trying to defend the establishment’s policy of legally importing 1 million new immigrant workers, consumers, and renters each year, even though roughly 4 million young Americans turn 18 and join the labor market each year.
The 1 million imported workers and renters deflate the value of Americans’ wages and raise their real estate costs, so generating at least $500 billion in extra annual profits for investors.
The case is Regents of the University of California, et al. v. United States Department of Homeland Security, et al., No. 3:17-cv-05211, in the Supreme Court of the United States.
Immigration by the Numbers
Each year, roughly four million young Americans join the workforce after graduating from high school or university.
But the federal government then imports about 1.1 million legal immigrants and refreshes a resident population of roughly 1.5 million white-collar visa workers — including approximately one million H-1B workers — and approximately 500,000 blue-collar visa workers.
The government also prints out more than one million work permits for foreigners, tolerates about eight million illegal workers, and does not punish companies for employing the hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants who sneak across the border or overstay their legal visas each year, despite the rising loss of jobs to automation.
This policy of inflating the labor supply boosts economic growth for investors because it ensures that employers do not have to compete for American workers by offering higher wages and better working conditions.
Flooding the market with cheap, foreign, white-collar graduates and blue-collar labor also shifts enormous wealth from young employees towards older investors, even as it also widens wealth gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, and hurts children’s schools and college educations. It also pushes Americans away from high-tech careers and sidelines millions of marginalized Americans, including many who are now struggling with fentanyl addictions. The labor policy also moves business investment and wealth from the Heartland to the coastal cities, explodes rents and housing costs, shrivels real estate values in the Midwest, and rewards investors for creating low-tech, labor-intensive workplaces. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 32 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | To address Alaska's increasingly dire public safety needs, the Justice Department announced Friday that it will be providing the state with over $10 million in funding -- just under a month after Attorney General William Barr visited Alaska in his first major trip as the nation's top law enforcement official.
Alaska, which is over twice the size of Texas but has under 750,000 residents, has the highest crime rate per capita of any state in the U.S., according to the Justice Department. The Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica found in an investigation that a third of Alaskan villages lack a local law enforcement presence, while the rates of crimes like sexual assault are about three times the national average.
"Someone asked me, 'Why are you here? Why did you pick Alaska?' And it's because, to me, my job is to go where the need is greatest, and I think the need is greatest here," Barr told CBS News' Jan Crawford in an interview earlier this month.
"These are people that are just asking for the basic physical security, and it's not much to ask," Barr said.
Now, the attorney general has declared a law enforcement emergency for the nation's 49th state, making $6 million in emergency funding immediately available under the Federal Law Enforcement Assistance Program to support law enforcement efforts in Native Alaskan villages. That money will help hire, equip, and train local law enforcement organizations, including Village Public Safety Officers, Village Police Officers and Tribal Police Officers.
"Criminal Justice in our communities is really an issue," Richard Peterson, of the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, said during a roundtable discussion with the attorney general in May. He and other council members talked with Barr about the unique public safety challenges many Native Alaskan's face, and how common it is for crimes like murder to go unsolved.
"If a moose gets shot out of season, in three hours three wildlife law enforcement folks will be there. A young Tlingit girl is murdered and it can take 19 hours. There's a true disparity there, and that's a reality."
Native Alaskan communities, made up of 229 total tribes, are among the most vulnerable populations because of the unique geographical challenges within the state. That's why the department is allocating $4.5 million to fund the positions, equipment and training of 20 police officers to Alaskan Native grantees.
"With this emergency declaration, I am directing resources where they are needed most and needed immediately, to support the local law enforcement response in Alaska Native communities, whose people are dealing with extremely high rates of violence," Barr said in a statement on Friday.
During his visit to the state, Barr went to a women's shelter in southwest Alaska, and one of its staff members told him how the lack of resources affected the shelter, saying, "It's a common thing to be over capacity. So, we've got people staying in the living room and in our playroom."
To combat the high incidence of domestic violence in the state, Barr also unveiled the new Rural Alaska Violent Crime Reduction Working Group, which will focus on curbing domestic violence and crimes against children in rural communities.
The working group will be led by U.S. Attorney for Alaska Bryan Schroder and will also draw upon the efforts of federal, state and tribal law enforcement. An additional $162,000 in funding has been made available to Schroder's office to create another Project Safe Neighborhoods site.
The attorney general will also be requiring every law enforcement component and agency in the state to submit a plan in the next month to improve Alaskan public safety. The plans must prioritize reducing sexual assaults, combating the influx of opioids and other illicit drugs into the state, and developing solutions to improve the response times of law enforcement to remote areas. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 24 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Inga Zasowska holds a placard reading 'Summer Climate Strike' in front of the Polish Parliament building in Warsaw, Poland June 28, 2019. Agencja Gazeta/Jedrzej Nowicki/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. POLAND OUT.
WARSAW (Reuters) - A teenager started her summer holidays by campaigning in front of Poland’s parliament on Friday in a bid to get politicians to act on climate change before an election later this year.
Thirteen-year-old Inga Zasowska takes her inspiration from Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg’s weekly school strikes, and plans to follow in her footsteps by sitting outside parliament every Friday in July urging lawmakers to act on global warming.
“At least in this one situation, politicians should unite and together take decisive action with the aim of cutting greenhouse gas emissions,” Zasowska told journalists, flanked by supporters carrying banners.
“I don’t want empty words during the election campaign, I want real action from politicians — now, at this moment! This is the last moment to stop the climate catastrophe!”
The Polish government came in for criticism from environmental groups this month when, along with the Czech Republic and Hungary it resisted a push by most European Union nations for the bloc to go carbon-neutral by 2050. The goal was relegated to a footnote. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 9 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Staffordshire firm was cleared of being source of outbreak but will shut with loss of 125 jobs
A food supplier has gone into liquidation with the loss of 125 jobs after it was the subject of a listeria investigation that ultimately cleared it of being the source of the outbreak.
The Food Standards Agency inquiry meant The Good Food Chain had to suspend production for weeks but on Wednesday the FSA confirmed the company was not to blame.
The Staffordshire-based company said on Friday it would cease trading due to the impact of the suspension, which was voluntarily enforced on 5 June.
The investigation was launched after five people were suspected to have died after eating pre-packaged sandwiches and salads produced by the company.
The Good Food Chain’s products were withdrawn from hospitals across the UK while the source of the infection was investigated.
The company’s owner and founder, Martyn Corfield, said: “I was absolutely devastated to hear that people had died after contracting listeriosis and have been thinking constantly about all those affected and their families over the last few weeks.
“We have been cooperating very closely with the investigating authorities, and while Wednesday’s confirmation that The Good Food Chain was not the source of the outbreak was welcome, it ultimately came too late in the day for us to get the business back on to a sustainable footing.
“I feel desperately sorry for our brilliant and hardworking staff who, through no fault of their own, now find themselves out of work. I would like to thank them for everything they have done for The Good Food Chain, and particularly for their loyalty and patience over the last few weeks.”
Listeria infection is rare, causing mild illness such as flu, and can be dangerous for pregnant women and babies. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 9 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | The Democrat Governor of Montana, Steve Bullock, vetoed a bill that would have expanded free speech rights on campus across the state.
According to a report by Campus Reform, Montana Governor shut down a campus free speech bill that would have expanded free expression rights for Minnesota college students. The bill, which was introduced by Republican state representatives, would have outlawed free speech zones that restrict where students are permitted to engage in activist speech.
Montana Commissioner of Higher Education Clayton Christian argues that the fight to expand speech protections on campus is not over. “Nothing is more important in the Montana University System than free speech, academic freedom, and the free exchange of ideas,” Christian said. “I reported to the board last month that I have asked our campuses to review their policies and procedures pertaining to free speech and to share information with our system office. That review is underway. We look forward to ensuring that free speech is protected and encouraged in the Montana University System.”
Republican State Representative David Bedey says that he will continue to fight for free expression on campus. “I am encouraged by the prospect of a thorough review of free speech policies across the Montana University System and expect the Regents to take the matter seriously,” Bedey said in a comment. “Intellectual diversity is under attack at many colleges in America. Montanans must ensure that this erosion of our First Amendment rights does not occur in our state’s colleges.”
Breitbart News has reported extensively on the rise of “free speech zones” on campus. University officials have created free speech zones as a means of regulating the areas on college campuses where students are permitted to engage in political activism. Lawmakers around the country have introduced bills to ban the practice, which some have argued amounts to a violation of the First Amendment.
Stay tuned to Breitbart News for more updates on this story. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 14 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | The father of a man stabbed to death during the London Bridge attack has said his life has been “destroyed” by the atrocity and he is still haunted by the loss of his son, who was killed as he tried to help others.
Philippe Pigeard, 51, told the Guardian he believed the attack should have been prevented by MI5 and the police, and that British authorities failed by not putting barriers in place to protect people on the bridge from a vehicle attack.
His son, Alexandre, 26, was a waiter at Boro Bistro restaurant next to London Bridge on 3 June 2017, when three terrorists carried out the attack.
The ringleader, Khuram Butt, had been under investigation by MI5, which failed to spot his plot and the danger he posed.
Pigeard, a musician and poet from Paris, said he understood counter-terrorism investigators had a difficult job but believed they should have done better.
He said he found their evidence to the inquest into the deaths of eight people during the attack unconvincing and “frustrating”, because the security services were certain they had not made mistakes.
The inquest heard Butt’s brother-in-law rang the police because he was so concerned about his Islamist extremism, but nothing was done and the information was mishandled.
Pigeard said: “Despite the warnings, the direct warnings, with calls from relatives of Butt, they did not put more pressure on the guy … Many of Butt’s actions are unknown by the investigators, even though they were supposed to have him under investigation.
“The question is: could this attack have been prevented? The answer is really difficult – but yes, probably. I think they could have done a better job.”
Pigeard criticised an MI5 witness known only as “L”, who testified at the inquest, and said: “It was very frustrating when I listened to witness L. I was irritated by the way he talks, he was very aggressive, we were 3 metres away. He was so sure of himself and so proud of what they had done.
“When he was questioned … there was not a moment when he said things could have been better. All he said was they had done the best job possible. I don’t think so – too many failings.”
Pigeard said the March 2017 attack on Westminster Bridge, in which a car was driven into pedestrians, should have led authorities to do more to protect London Bridge. “First Westminster, three months before – where were the barriers on [London] Bridge? If there were barriers on the bridge then [there would have been] no attacks in that area.
“I still don’t know who is responsible for the decision not to put barriers on the bridge.”
Pigeard said of the impact on relatives of the victims: “If you add all the parents, it is a lot of people. My life is destroyed, for the last two years, it is stopped. It is a long night, I am obsessed.”
Alexandre Pigeard ran to help others after the van driven by the terrorists crashed into railings above the courtyard of the restaurant where he worked.
His father said: “I still shout in my sleep when I manage to sleep, I still shout no, as to tell him not to go. When he heard the bang in the restaurant, he rushed to the place where the crash was, because he wanted to help.”
“It is a matter of seconds. He could have been in another place in the restaurant and not hear[d] the bang.” | null | 0 | -1 | null | 23 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Image copyright Storybook Pride Prom
A prom organised for LGBT teenagers in Florida has been cancelled after fears that protests against the event would jeopardise the safety of attendees.
The Jacksonville Public Library was set to host a "Storybook Pride Prom" which invited teens to "create their own 'happily ever after'", and "come dressed inspired by your favourite book character — casual, formal, or in drag — whatever makes you feel great".
However, after a campaign against the event, spearheaded by conservative activist Elizabeth Johnston, the library decided to cancel the gathering.
Ms Johnston, known as "The Activist Mommy" on social media, urged her 636,000 Facebook followers to call the venue to "express your disgust that this perversion is taking place in a taxpayer funded library".
A spokesman for the Library told WOKV that the prom was intended to be "a fun night for teens who may not feel comfortable in other situations or other places, they may not feel comfortable at another prom. We thought we would give them a nice little prom, where they could have a good time".
In a statement published on its Facebook page, the library said "the co-opting of the event" for political purposes meant they are "not confident that it will be 100% prepared to provide a safe, secure environment."
Local drag queen BeBe Deluxe was set to perform at the prom, and is disappointed that the library "caved under pressure... from a religious hate group".
Explaining the importance of the event, BeBe wrote on Instagram: "Trans kids need to see themselves represented in healthy trans adults. Gay kids need to see happy gay adults. Straight kids need to learn to help make the world better for everybody".
Image copyright BeBe Deluxe Image caption Drag queen BeBe Deluxe also reads to children at a 'Drag Queen Story Hour' event
Despite the prom not going ahead at the library, BeBe is determined to host an alternative event for LGBT teenagers in Jacksonville, to be organised in conjunction with local businesses, charities and churches.
BeBe came out at the age of 13 "in the deep south", and says the experience was "brutal".
"LGBTQ+ youth are told their existence is up for debate and their visibility is inherently perversion at work," BeBe told the BBC. "Safe, age-appropriate spaces are essential for all young people. Unfortunately, many LGBTQ+ kids aren't given that opportunity."
By George Pierpoint, BBC News | null | 0 | -1 | null | 17 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Conclusion comes after inquests in which relatives of eight victims challenged authorities’ actions
A coroner has cleared MI5 and the police of failing to prevent the London Bridge terrorist attack.
The chief coroner of England and Wales, Judge Mark Lucraft QC, delivered his conclusions on Friday at the end of inquests into the deaths of eight people in the June 2017 attacks.
The coroner said he “was not persuaded” that chances were lost by counter-terrorism investigators, who had been monitoring the ring leader, Khuram Butt, since 2015, that could have “realistically saved lives”.
But he said there was an “arguable” breach of the state’s duty to protect life by the failure to place protective barriers on London Bridge, where two people were killed by a van driven by the attackers.
Lucraft said no formal physical security measures were installed on London Bridge despite it being a location that was particularly vulnerable to a vehicular attack. “There were weaknesses in systems for assessing the need for such measures on the bridge.”
He described the MI5-led pre-attack investigation into Butt as “thorough and rigorous”.
“I am not persuaded that investigation opportunities were lost which realistically could have saved lives,” he said.
He also criticised Butt’s family, who he said were aware of his extremist views but did not report him to the authorities.
Lucraft ruled all eight victims were unlawfully killed as he delivered his conclusions following weeks of evidence, including from bereaved families who challenged the authorities over whether more could have been done.
On 3 June 2017, three terrorists drove a rented van into pedestrians walking on London Bridge, killing two people. They then ran amok with 30cm (12in) knives in a stabbing rampage that killed six people. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 11 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Democratic presidential candidates' policy platforms will run the nation deeper into debt and transform American society, according to Mark Levin.
Americans must unite against the candidates' agendas to prevent "socialism" and retain "Americanism," Levin claimed Sunday on "Life, Liberty & Levin."
"They have plans that will do nothing but destroy this society," he said.
"We never talk about liberty anymore or individualism anymore or success or true free market capitalism. Look around you look at all the wealth that we have. You go to a grocery store there's everything you want in a grocery store look around your home.
MARK LEVIN: MAINSTREAM MEDIA 'ABANDONED THE PURSUIT OF OBJECTIVITY'
"Why would we destroy such a society? It's time to take on the left. Time to take on the Democrat leadership. It's time to take on socialism with Americanism ... We never talk about liberty anymore, or individualism anymore, or success."
He mentioned several proposals including wealth taxes, Medicare-for-all, paid family leave and student debt forgiveness.
Levin claimed the Soviet Union's 1936 Constitution inspired or mirrors such initiatives, which he said were heralded by two candidates in particular.
MARK LEVIN: PRESIDENT TRUMP 'THE MOST ABUSED PRESIDENT IN AMERICAN HISTORY'
"Article 118: Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to work, that is, are guaranteed the right to employment and payment for their work in accordance with its quantity and quality," he said.
"Article 119: Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to rest and leisure ... the institution of annual vacations with full pay for workers and employees and the provision of a wide network of sanatoria, rest homes and clubs for the accommodation of the working people -- Sounds just like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren."
The conservative radio host continued, arguing some Democrats, "embrace not the American dream, but the Soviet dream."
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"Why is it that we don't have serious, substantive discussions about what they're proposing and how they're going to be paid for?" he asked.
The "Unfreedom of the Press" author said he believed such policies will make the nation's debt problems even worse.
"We have a crushing debt," he said.
"We have a fiscal operating debt of $22 trillion. Our economy produces slightly over $18 trillion in goods and services every year. That's enormous." | null | 0 | -1 | null | 22 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | (CNN) Lawmakers in Ohio are considering legislation that would stop employers, including hospitals, from mandating employees get vaccinations.
The legislation would allow "the 'Medical Consumer Protection Act' to prohibit an employer from taking an adverse employment action against a person who has not been or will not be vaccinated," according to House Bill 268.
Proponents of the bill say they are leery of the safety and efficacy of vaccinations, and others say its a rights issue, according to CNN affiliate WHIO . Meanwhile, opponents of the bill say it has the potential to put patients at risk. if healthcare workers go unvaccinated and pass on a life threatening disease.
This isn't the only vaccination-related bill pending in the Ohio General Assembly. House Bill 132 would require schools to notify parents of immunization requirements, and the schools would also be required to inform parents of how to opt out of the vaccinations.
All 50 states have legislation requiring specific vaccines for students but exemptions vary from state to state. According to The National Conference of State Legislatures , 45 states and Washington DC allow for exemptions for people who object to immunizations on religious grounds. And 15 states allow for philosophical exemptions for those who object to immunizations because of personal, moral or other beliefs.
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | A Florida library canceled an LGBTQ-inclusive prom after receiving threats, fearing objections to the event would jeopardize the safety of those attending.
The Jacksonville Public Library organized a “Storybook Pride Prom,” inviting teenagers to “come dressed inspired by your favorite book character – casual, formal, or in drag – whatever makes you feel great.”
However, the event met opposition when conservative activist Elizabeth Johnston campaigned against the affair, urging her supporters to follow her lead. That was when the library decided to cancel the prom.
“Express your disgust that this pervasion is taking place in a taxpayer funded library,” Johnston told her 636,000 Facebook followers. She is known as “The Activist Mommy” on social media.
Chris Boivin, Jacksonville Public Library Assistant Director of Community Relations and Marketing, said the event was intended to be “a fun night for teens who may not feel comfortable in other situations or other places… We thought we would give them a nice little prom, where they could have a good time.”
Boivin added the library heard rumors of protests against the gathering and “it really started to shape up as something where the entire environment around the library would be something that we thought we just weren’t gonna be able to control the risk.”
JPL subsequently released a message on its Facebook page reading:
According to The Florida Times-Union, over 100 teenagers registered to attend the event.
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Local drag performer Beatrice Palmer, also known as “BeBe Deluxe,” was disappointed that the library “caved under pressure… from a religious hate group.” Palmer was set to perform at the event.
“Safe, age-appropriate spaces are essential for all young people,” Palmer said. “Unfortunately, many LGBTQ+ kids aren’t given that opportunity.”
Fox News' Morgan Cheung and the Associated Press contributed to this report. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 9 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Video
A parliamentary debate on child poverty has heard how pupils in Stoke-on-Trent are going hungry.
Ruth Smeeth, Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent North, said one child fainted as he had not eaten over the weekend since his free school meal the previous Friday.
She said another scheme to cater for children expected to go hungry over the summer holidays in Kidsgrove proved so popular, it ran out of food and needed extra volunteers. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 3 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | As the unemployment rate dips to historic lows, Americans seeking work can find opportunities in the booming technology and health care sectors in 2019.
Nearly half of the 10 fastest-growing jobs compiled by job search company Monster require extensive knowledge of computers.
The company also listed top cities for job openings and companies that are hiring.
As the U.S. unemployment rate dips to the lowest it's been in a half-century, Americans seeking work can find opportunities in the booming health care and technology sectors in 2019. Those two areas were the leaders among the top 10 jobs over the past six months, according to a report released Thursday by job search company Monster.
Nearly half of the jobs that made the list require extensive knowledge of computers, including software developer, computer support specialist and network systems administrator positions. Other top jobs include registered nurse, computer support specialist, product demonstrator, maintenance and repair technician, industrial engineer, tractor-trailer driver and customer-service representative.
The Monster report also revealed the companies that are doing the most hiring and the cities with the most jobs available.
Growth: The positions projected to have the most growth over 10 years, from 2016 to 2026, include software developer (31%), registered nurse (15%) and computer support specialist (11%). Jobs that are projected to have the least growth in the top 10 include tractor-trailer truck driver and network systems engineering jobs (both 6%) and customer-service representative jobs (5%).
Salary: The highest salaried jobs include software developer with $99,000 median pay, systems analysts at $84,000 and network systems administrators at $77,000. Jobs with the lowest pay include computer support specialists at $42,000, product demonstrator at $31,000 and customer-service representatives at $30,000.
Top cities
When it comes to where the employment hot spots are, the engine driving job growth in the top 10 cities turned out to be health care. Although flourishing tech meccas like San Francisco failed to make the cities list, a growing health sector boosted midsize and smaller jobs markets like Phoenix and St. Louis. Both made the top 10 for the first time.
The boom in health care is good news for job seekers, even if they aren't medical professionals: Opportunities in the sector also include customer service and accounting jobs.
By far, the largest number of jobs were found in New York City, which listed more than 102,000, according to Monster. Other top cities were Houston; Atlanta; Chicago; Phoenix; Dallas, Washington, D.C.; St. Louis; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Boston. Charlotte clocked in last with just about 20,000 jobs.
Top companies
Here are the leading companies for hiring so far in 2019:
Advantage Solutions Group — Business services
Honeywell — Electrical and electronic manufacturing
Johnson Controls — Mechanical and industrial engineering
U.S. Army — Defense
UPS — Logistics and supply chain
Mercy Health — Health care
Brookdale — Health care
Pfizer — Pharmaceuticals
NTT Data — Info tech
Walgreens — Retail | null | 0 | -1 | null | 20 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Iran may be standing down on its nuclear threat, at least for now, after Europe and China moved on Friday to ignore or bypass U.S. sanctions.
Interested in Iran? Add Iran as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Iran news, video, and analysis from ABC News. Add Interest
It's a sign of the Trump administration's isolation on the world stage when it comes to the Iran nuclear deal, as it tries to cripple Iran financially and drive it to the negotiating table for a "more comprehensive deal" -- something Iran has said won't happen.
The remaining participants in the nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, met for three hours Friday in Vienna, Austria. Iran had vowed that if it did not start to receive financial gain from the nuclear deal by Thursday, it would breach its limits on enriched uranium.
Evan Vucci/AP, FILE
Under the JCPOA, Iran agreed to limitations on and inspections of its nuclear program in exchange for lifting most sanctions on the country. But after President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the accord in May 2018, the U.S. has reimposed sanctions, including on Iran's oil exports, and tried to enforce them vigorously. That's scared away European businesses from Iran and caused the country's economy to contract dramatically.
In response, Iran has threatened to enrich more uranium than it is allowed and at higher levels than permitted under the deal, unless Europe can make up the difference.
After the meeting, China's lead envoy emerged from the meeting and said Iran said "loud and clear that they will remain in this agreement... This is very significant, and we applaud that," said China's director-general for arms control Fu Cong.
But Iran's envoy didn't confirm that, calling the meeting "positive and constructive" and "one step forward," but ultimately deferring to his country's leaders on what comes next.
Simon Dawson/Reuters
"It is still not enough, and it is still not meeting Iran's expectations. I would certainly report back to Tehran that developments which took place in this meeting, the progresses we made in this meeting, and the final decision obviously would be by Tehran to take," said Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
Iran appears to putting its plans on hold because Europe is giving it a way to get relief from U.S. sanctions after promising to do so for over a year.
The European Union announced Friday that INSTEX, its mechanism for financial transactions that will bypass U.S. sanctions, is finally operational, and two or three transactions are already being executed, according to Araghchi. Several European countries have already announced that they will join, and perhaps even more important to its success, China also expressed interest Friday.
But in order for Iran to be satisfied, Araghchi added, "Europeans need to buy oil from Iran or to consider credit lines for this mechanism."
That would cross a U.S. line, as the Trump administration tries to bring Iran's oil exports to zero. Oil is Iran's most important export, and tight sanctions on its supplies was one reason it was willing to negotiate under the Obama administration.
But Chinese envoy Fu Cong already said Friday China won't accept those U.S. limits.
Despite U.S. allies openly working around Washington, Trump's top Iran envoy downplayed any differences between the U.S. and Europe.
"We just disagree on the Iran nuclear deal, but we don't disagree on the end state: Iran can never possess a nuclear weapon," said Special Representative Brian Hook in London. He didn't address INSTEX, although he's previously dismissed it and said it won't change most businesses' calculation about entering the Iranian market.
Iran said the U.S. has closed the door to diplomacy with its intense sanctions, but Hook again blamed Iran for not be willing to talk about a new nuclear deal.
"Iran has just rejected diplomacy too many times... We are open to talks, but Iran keeps rejecting this, so we have intensified our sanctions," he added.
ABC New's Somaye Malekian contributed to this report from Tehran and Ben Gittleson from New York. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 28 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Wife of Wang Quanzhang says his health has deteriorated after four years incarceration
The wife of the jailed Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang has described her husband as a “totally changed man” after she and her son were allowed to see him for the first time since he disappeared nearly four years ago.
Wang, 43, was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison in January for “subverting state power” after a closed-door trial.
The prominent lawyer, who defended political activists and victims of land seizures, vanished in a sweep aimed at courtroom critics of Communist authorities known as the “709” clampdown because the arrests started on 9 July 2015.
Wang was held incommunicado for more than 1,000 days without access to his family or a lawyer prior to his trial and authorities have repeatedly denied requests by his wife, Li Wenzu, to visit him in jail.
“He is a totally changed man … he was so agitated and anxious that I couldn’t even talk to him just then,” Li told the South China Morning Press.
“My husband’s health has deteriorated during the long incarceration, he had lost so much weight,” Li told AFP.
“When I asked him what he had for breakfast, he kept scratching his head. But he couldn’t remember,” she said.
“It was really emotional. This was the first time my son and I got a chance to see him after being separated for four years.”
'My husband is innocent': Wife of detained Chinese lawyer barred from trial Read more
The couple’s six-year-old son, Wang Guangwei, was a toddler when his father disappeared.
Li saw her husband at the Linyi jail in the eastern province of Shandong, where he was transferred in May after years spent at a detention centre in Tianjin.
“I felt like he was not the earlier Wang Quanzhang,” said his sister Wang Quanxiu, who was also at the meeting.
“He was very agitated when he spoke to us. He had made a draft about what to discuss and had to constantly keep looking at his notes to remind himself of what to say,” she said.
Wang Quanzhang was the last of more than 200 lawyers and activists swept up in the 2015 crackdown to be tried or released.
Li, who has actively protested against her husband’s detention and sentencing, has repeatedly demanded proof of life from the authorities.
She was placed under de facto house arrest the day before Wang’s 26 December trial to prevent her from attending.
Earlier that month, before Wang’s court date was announced, Li and three supporters shaved their heads and tried to submit a petition to a Beijing court, protesting against his detention.
In April last year, she attempted to march 60 miles to the Tianjin detention centre where Wang was previously held.
This week, a video was posted on Twitter showing Li shouting over the prison wall asking whether Wang Quanzhang was alive.
It was only on Thursday morning that she received a call from Shandong provincial authorities saying she would be allowed a 30-minute visit.
“I’ve never really known if he was alive all these years, and finally there was a clear message I can meet him,” Li tweeted Thursday.
Authorities had also called Wang Quanxiu on Thursday at about 11 am and told her she could meet her brother at 2pm that day.
“I rushed to the Linyi jail as soon as I received the call, but when I got there it was already 5 pm so I missed the chance to see him that day,” Wang Quanxiu said.
“We have been calling the prison authorities all week to no avail, and then suddenly they changed their mind.”
The timing of the meeting, which coincides with the G20 summit in Japan, has led to speculation that the Chinese Communist party “might be offering a compromise” to embellish China’s chequered human rights record, said Chan Yue, an activist from the Human Rights Concern Group in Hong Kong.
Beijing has stepped up its crackdown on civil society since President Xi Jinping took power in 2012, tightening restrictions on freedom of speech and detaining hundreds of activists and lawyers. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 26 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Washington (CNN) Former President Jimmy Carter suggested Friday that a full investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election would show that Donald Trump didn't win the presidency.
"There's no doubt that the Russians did interfere in the election. And I think the interference, although not yet quantified, if fully investigated would show that Trump didn't actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf," Carter said at the Carter Center's retreat in Leesburg, Virginia.
Asked if he believes Trump is an illegitimate president, Carter paused for a moment.
"Based on what I just said, which I can't retract," Carter said to audience laughter.
Special counsel Robert Mueller's report found that Russia waged a "sweeping and systematic" influence campaign during the 2016 election with the goal of electing Trump, but did not establish a conspiracy between Trump's campaign and Moscow. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 7 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Myron Brilliant is executive vice president and head of International Affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own.
All eyes will be on President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping when they meet this week at the G20 summit in Japan.
The stakes couldn't be higher. This summit offers an important chance to stave off a prolonged trade war between the world's two largest economies, one that would throw the entire global economy into a tailspin.
Until May, US-China relations seemed on the mend. Top officials on both sides engaged in intense shuttle diplomacy and late-night trade talks. It looked like a year of tit-for-tat tariffs — which President Trump originally imposed to combat China's forced technology transfers, intellectual property theft, market protectionism and other unfair trade practices — might soon come to an end.
But then negotiations faltered after months of progress. Both sides hiked tariffs yet again in May.
Tariffs have already hammered businesses in both nations. Total US exports to China from January through April fell roughly 21% compared to the same period last year. And costlier imports have forced US manufacturers to lay off workers to cut costs. Meanwhile, US imports from China from January through April dropped nearly 13% from the previous year. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 14 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | FILE PHOTO: Corn grows in a field outside Wyanet, Illinois, U.S., July 6, 2018. REUTERS/Daniel Acker/File Photo
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. farmers planted more corn than expected despite heavy rains and flooding that market watchers had said kept farmers out of the fields for much of the spring, the U.S. government said on Friday.
Soybean acreage came in below forecasts, however. Analysts had expected that farmers had boosted their soybean acres due to the corn planting delays.
The U.S. Agriculture Department’s annual acreage report showed that farmers seeded 91.7 million acres of corn and 80.0 million acres of soybeans.
That compares to the government’s March forecasts of 92.8 million corn acres and 84.6 million soybean acres.
Analysts had been expecting the acreage report to show that farmers had planted 86.6 million acres of corn and 84.4 million acres of soybeans, according to the average of estimates given by analysts in a Reuters poll.
Chicago Board of Trade soybean futures <0#S:> rallied sharply after the report was released. Corn futures <0#C:> which had been trading slightly higher before the report was released, sank 2.8% to their lowest in more than two weeks. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 9 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Texas Bishop Mark J. Seitz accompanied migrants from Central America across the U.S.-Mexico border Thursday to protest conditions of migrant holding facilities.
“Standing here at the U.S.-Mexico border, how do we begin to diagnose the soul of our country?” Seitz said, speaking in both Spanish and English.
The Roman Catholic bishop told protestors the “heart-sick government and society” of America views “fleeing children and families as threats.”
Seitz condemned Americans by stating “a government and society who turn their backs on pregnant mothers, babies and families and make them wait in Ciudad Juarez without a thought to the crushing consequences on this challenged city . . . This government and this society are not well.”
The bishop led migrants, protestors, and members of the clergy across the Lerdo International Bridge in what he called a “Faith Action” demonstration to highlight the “Remain in Mexico” program that returns migrants to Ciudad Juarez, where they wait for border agents to retrieve them and process their asylum claims.
The diocese issued a statement regarding the protest which stated:
As part of the recently expanded “Remain in Mexico” program, hundreds of migrants are returned daily to Ciudad Juárez from El Paso, including families, women and children. These migrants often experience distressing conditions in immigrant detention for several days before being returned, where there is a critical lack of access to shelter, food, legal aid and basic services. Thousands of migrants have already been returned to Ciudad Juárez as a result of “Remain in Mexico.”
More than 15,000 asylum seekers have reportedly been forced to return to Mexico while their cases are processed.
“We don’t want to be here,” said migrant Tania Palma.”We appreciate the help from some kind people, but we made the sacrifice to leave our homeland so that our children can have a better life, a better future.”
However, John Zmirak, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration, told Breitbart News last year that Catholic bishops have financial interests in both legal and illegal immigration.
He said: | null | 0 | -1 | null | 10 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Dame Margaret Beckett is behind one of the latest move to block a no-deal Brexit
After long weeks becalmed in the parliamentary doldrums, Westminster will be moving again next week - with a couple of significant moments expected.
On Brexit there's an innovative backbench attempt to block a no-deal exit, and the long awaited publication of Gemma White QC's independent inquiry into bullying and harassment within the parliamentary community is expected early in the week.
Both could generate considerable aftershocks.
First the Brexit manoeuvre. The Labour former Foreign Secretary, Dame Margaret Beckett, and the Conservative former Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, have come up with a new line of attack.
They're proposing amendments in next week's Estimates Day debates which would block the funding of key government departments: international development, education, work and pensions and housing, unless MPs agree a Brexit outcome. In other words they aim to make it impossible for the government to bypass Parliament and impose a no-deal exit from the EU, because if ministers did, the flow of cash to government services would stop.
To succeed, this will need Labour to whip in support and deliver most, if not all, its troops, as well as the support of independents and the smaller parties; and after talking to both pro-Brexit and Remain Labour MPs, I doubt they will fancy the idea of switching off large chunks of government spending on top of a no-deal exit.
The estimates are the formal process by which MPs approve the spending of taxpayers' money, and despite recent attempts to make them a more meaningful exercise, they remain something of an empty ritual.
But if these amendments were passed (there's one for each department) there would be real impact; the amendments must then be written into the otherwise unamendable Supply and Estimates Main Appropriations Bill that goes before MPs on Wednesday.
This is one of the relatively few opportunities for opponents of a no-deal exit to seek to block it in the Commons, and the number of Conservative votes for the amendments will be an interesting barometer of the mood of Tory Remainers, and an important indicator of the scale of the parliamentary challenge which will confront the incoming prime minister.
At the moment Mr Grieve's name is joined by that of ex-minister Phillip Lee; will more rebels join them?
There are also hints the cross-party alliance behind this manoeuvre may have further tricks up its collective sleeve. Suddenly everyone seems to be on a three-line whip for Wednesday, which suggests more action to come - perhaps another Letwin-style amendment to the Business of the House Motion, to set aside another Commons day for some anti-Brexit legislation?
There is also some Brexit action in the Lords, where peers will debate a motion calling for the creation of a joint Commons Lords Committee, to report on the impact of a no-deal Brexit.
On the abuse of staff, the Gemma White report has been in the pipeline for a while - its focus is on bullying and mistreatment of staff working directly with MPs - and the parliamentary authorities are braced for another hammer blow to their institution.
It should lead to more action to protect staff, but the key thing to watch is whether generalised statements of support from the bewildering number of players in the administration of the Commons are matched by a concrete action plan.
Will they, for example, launch inquiries into historic allegations against a number of prominent figures? The point about this is staff have to have confidence in any complaints system - and maybe the only way to achieve that if for a well-known figure to publicly named and shamed.
And finally there's significant movement in the campaign to allow medical use of cannabis. Here's my rundown of the week ahead:
Monday 1 July
The Commons week begins (14:30 BST) with Work and Pensions Questions, after which the normal crop of post weekend ministerial statements and urgent questions will doubtless appear.
The day's main event is a Estimates Day debate on government spending estimates for the Department for International Development and the Department for Education, complete with Beckett-Grieve amendments (see above).
There are also a more conventional amendment from the Labour front bench, calling for a government report on the impact of the spending plans on issue like child poverty and social justice.
The day ends with an adjournment debate on children's palliative care - with the Conservative, Dr Caroline Johnson, pointing to the patchy provision of an essential service.
In Westminster Hall (16:30), Daniel Zeichner will lead a debate on e-petition 239444 which calls for homophobia to be made a specific criminal offence. It attracted 152,458 signatures.
The government responded to the petition in March recognising the "harm that homophobic online messages can cause". They say they are "working cross-government to challenge inequality and make the UK's online environment a safer place".
On the Committee Corridor, the Public Accounts Committee (16:00) has a session on penalty charge notices in healthcare. They will be examining whether the system is failing - with millions in fines uncollected and millions having to be repaid.
In the Lords (14:30) questions include Labour's Lord Haskel asking about the motion by the House of Commons declaring an environment and climate emergency.
The main debates are on two select committee reports the Chairman of the Economic Affairs Committee Lord Forsyth of Drumlean will raise their recommendations of their report on measuring inflation which found that the UK Statistics Authority is at risk of being in breach of its statutory duties on the publication of statistics, by refusing to correct an error that it openly admits exists in the Retail Prices Index (RPI).
The report calls for the authority to follow the procedure for correcting the error and resume a programme of regular methodological improvements. It also recommends a single measure of general inflation for use by the government.
Next, Lord Bassam of Brighton will lead a debate on the report from his Select Committee on Regenerating Seaside Towns and Communities: The future of seaside towns. This warned of a long-term decline in domestic tourism, fishing, shipbuilding and port activities, with seaside towns facing neglect.
It recommends that the Local Enterprise Partnerships should support seaside regeneration through Local Industrial Strategies.
Tuesday 2 July
Will this be the Chancellor Philip Hammond's final question time? He's been increasingly outspoken in recent weeks, and Treasury Questions (11:30) could provide him with the chance for another jeremiad about the promises for tax cuts and extra spending emanating from the Conservative leadership contenders.
Conservative MP Andrew Griffiths has a Ten Minute Rule Bill to entitle women aged under 40 and with a family history of breast cancer to breast screening services, and then it's back to Estimates Day debates, this time covering the Department for Work and Pensions and the Ministry of Housing. Communities and Local Government.
In Westminster Hall Labour's Chris Bryant leads a debate (9:30) on Acquired Brain Injury (ABI). He is the chair of the All-Party Group on ABI, and he wants to highlight the extent of the injury and the need to improve the support and services.
Former Defra minister George Eustice leads a debate on the religious slaughter of farm animals (11:00). There are concerns that the failure to stun animals before killing them under some methods of slaughter is cruel, and that Halal and Kosher meat should be labelled by method of slaughter.
In 2014, the All Party Group for Beef and Lamb conducted an inquiry into non-stun slaughter in accordance with religious rites and whether the right of Freedom of Religious Expression outweighs animal welfare considerations.
On the Committee Corridor, following the government's recent change in the law to commit the UK to achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050, the Treasury Committee (9:30) takes evidence on decarbonisation and green finance. And there's a session on drugs policy at the Health and Social Care Committee (14:30) with witnesses including senior police officer and pressure groups.
In the Lords (14:30) proceedings open with the introduction of the new Bishop of Derby the Rt Rev Libby Lane. She was the first woman ever to be appointed a bishop in the Church of England, in 2015.
But because she was appointed initially as a suffragan (junior) bishop, she had to wait a while because it is only the more senior diocesans who enter the Lords. After four years as Bishop of Stockport in the Chester diocese, she was made Bishop of Derby earlier this year.
Her arrival brings the total of female bishops in the Lords up to five (of the 26). The others are, in order of entry, Gloucester, Newcastle, London and Bristol. The introduction will itself be a bit of a rarity, because it will be conducted by both Archbishops, Canterbury and York.
Then peers will approve the third reading of the Courts and Tribunals (Online Procedure) Bill before debating the Augar Review of post-18 education and funding.
Wednesday 3 July
The Commons day begins (11:30) with half an hour of Northern Ireland questions - will this be the swansong for Secretary of State Karen Bradley? And then it's Prime Minister's Question Time, which has become a rather diminished occasion, with most Conservative MPs not bothering to turn up (one count had just 99 Tories present on the green benches during this week's PMQs).
Maybe the player to watch is the SNP's Ian Blackford, who for the last two weeks has been pushing the boundaries of permitted parliamentary language, in his attacks on Tory Leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson; will he double down this week, and add to the accusations he has already made of lying and racism.
So far the Speaker has not risen to the bait and ordered him to withdraw the offending words, perhaps suspecting that the SNP leader rather hopes to be ordered out of the chamber - something his predecessor Alex Salmond never minded. But Mr Blackford may be reaching the limits of the Chair's tolerance.
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The day's Ten Minute Rule Motion from the Lib Dem ex-Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael calls for the government to set targets for the reduction of plastic pollution - and for the government to produce an annual report on progress.
Next there's the Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) (No. 3) Bill, which may or may not include amendments from the previous day's estimates debates. This is normally a brief rubber stamping exercise, with all the Commons stages taken in a single gulp.
MPs will also be asked to approve the statutory instruments on Capital Allowances (Structures and Buildings Allowances) Regulations and on the Misuse of Drugs Act.
That last one is highly significant, because it amends the definition of a range of synthetic cannabinoids currently classified as Class B drugs under the Act to remove the ban on compounds now known to have legitimate medical uses
This follows the long parliamentary campaign in around the case of Alfie Dingley whose seizures can only be controlled with cannabis-based medicines.
The Backbench Business Committee have scheduled a debate on whistleblowing with former Health Minister Norman Lamb and the Conservative Stephen Kerr calling for a review of whistleblowing regulation.
The key issue is whether the 1998 Public Interest Disclosure Act provides sufficient protection for a broader range of people. Mr Kerr (chair) and Mr Lamb (vice-chair) head up the All-Party Parliamentary Group on whistleblowing and its importance in a transparent society.
MPs will debate the effectiveness of the 1998 Public Interest Disclosure Act which was introduced to protect employees who speak out. The APPG believes the act needs to be reformed to stop unfair practice of whistleblowers losing their jobs.
Norman Lamb, the former health minister has urged the government to look into the treatment of whistleblowers in the NHS in light of the treatment of the nurses who tried to "blow the whistle" in the 1991. 456 people lost their lives as a result of the prescribing of opioids. Mr Lamb set up the Gosport inquiry when he was health minister and attempted to transform the NHS care programme in 2012.
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In Westminster Hall (9:30) the Conservative Trudy Harrison will lead the debate in Westminster Hall on the red squirrel - the Wildlife Trust has predicted that red squirrels could become extinct in England in 10 years, because of competition from grey squirrels.
Then at 14:30, there will be a debate over investment in the provision of English for speakers of other languages, particularly for refugees. It's led by Labour's Preet Kaur Gill who has been lobbying the government to improve access to ESOL provision for refugee women who have childcare and caring responsibilities.
She is also a big supporter of speech, language and communication support for children. Last year she told the Commons that in 1978, as an eleven-year-old immigrant, she had the opportunity to move to England and learn English within six months.
On the Committee Corridor, the International Trade Committee hears from Secretary of State Dr Liam Fox (10:00). I daresay the implications of a no-deal Brexit might come up.
In the Lords (15:00) the main event is the Labour-led motion calling for a joint committee of Lords and Commons be appointed to report, by 30 September, on the costs and implications for the UK of exiting the EU without a withdrawal agreement on 31 October 2019.
The motion has been tabled by shadow leader of the Lords, Labour's Baroness Angela Smith with support from the Liberal Democrat leader Dick Newby, security and intelligence expert David Anderson from the Crossbenches, and the Conservative Lord Patrick Cormack.
Given the overwhelmingly pro-EU composition of the Lords, this will probably be approved, but it would also need the backing of the Commons, and it may not even be discussed there.
Image caption The sunken ammunition ship the SS Richard Montgomery lies in the Thames Estuary
Finally, there's a short debate on "Mitigating the risks posed by the wreck of SS Richard Montgomery" - this is an American cargo ship which sank in the Thames Estuary in 1944, carrying 1400 tons of munitions.
Labour's Lord Harris of Haringey would like the government to take responsibility for the surveillance of the wreck. It is generally agreed that the bombs are relatively safe as long as they aren't exposed to sudden shock, friction or heat. But recent surveys confirm the wreck is gradually disintegrating, and if it collapsed that could cause the sympathetic detonation of the remaining explosives, with potentially devastating consequences.
Thursday 4 July
The Commons day begins (9:30 am) with Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Questions, followed by questions to the Attorney General and the weekly Business Questions to the Leader of the House, Mel Stride.
The two main debates are on motions chosen by the Backbench Business Committee - the first is another offshoot of the plan to move Britain to a zero-carbon economy, a call to end the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and vans. Under current plans, the government's goal is for all new cars and vans to be "effectively zero-emission" by 2040.
But there are calls to bring the target forward to 2032, including from the Business Select Committee Chair, Labour's Rachel Reeves, who wants the ban to be brought forward to 2032. She is calling for an "effectively zero-emission target".
That is followed by a general debate on the law on assisted dying. Following the defeat of the last attempt at legalisation, the Assisted Dying (No.2) Bill, which would have allowed a terminally ill person to be given assistance to end their life, in September 2015. This debate will focus on the circumstances in which it should be possible for people to be assisted to die.
Its main sponsors are the Independent Conservative, Nick Boles who chairs the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Choice at the End of Life, the former Health Minister Norman Lamb and Labour's Sarah Champion.
In Westminster Hall (13:30) the Chair of the International Development Committee, Labour's Stephen Twigg, leads a debate on their report on "Forced Displacement in Africa: Anchors not walls".
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Four million of Venezuelans have left their country since 2015 due to the social, political and economic crisis
The report found that there are 68.5 million forcibly displaced people worldwide - 20 million of which live in Sub-Saharan Africa, including 13 million internally displaced people (IDPs), 5.6 million refugees and over 700,000 stateless individuals. It urges the government to 'practice what it preaches' when it comes to its policies on migration and forced displacement and to look to adopt a cross-government approach and national strategy.
That is followed by a debate over the changes to immigration rules for religious workers (15:00). Concerns over the working of so-called Tier 5 of the Religious Worker Visas will be raised by David Linden (SNP), Paul Masterton (Conservative) and Ged Killen (Labour).
The issue is a new 'cooling-off period' which prevents Tier 5 Religious and Charity Worker visa holders from returning to the UK for 12 months after their visa expires.
In the Lords (11:00) the main debates are on protecting the NHS in future trade deals entered into by the UK; the apprenticeship levy and the case for the effective delivery of workplace opportunities for young people and the role of reducing inequality and job insecurity in tackling the prevalence of mental illness - that last is led by the Crossbencher and Big Issue founder, Lord Bird.
Friday 5 July
Neither the Commons nor the Lords will be sitting - but the UK Youth Parliament's select committee on knife crime will be in action, taking evidence from four panels of witnesses, including the Home Office Minister, Victoria Atkins. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 106 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | This Fourth of July weekend, as we prepare to celebrate America’s independence, let’s especially recognize all the military families who serve and sacrifice to keep our country strong and free. A big salute to them, as I too know what it’s like to support a deployed loved one.
Here’s what it was like for me:
When I was a little girl, my father, who was a high-ranking officer, pilot, and an avionics specialist in the United States military, would hoist me up onto the elevator – the flight control surface located at the tail of his airplane.
HARRIS FAULKNER: IN WAR AND IN LIFE, SUCCESS DEPENDS ON A PLAN
From up there I could get a glimpse of the world as he saw it. Always eager for an even better view, I wanted time in the cockpit too. That required special permission, which wasn’t often granted, but my dad would share his perspective with me in other ways.
We’d have enlightening conversations every opportunity we could get. We’d discuss life and the military values he had learned to apply to its many challenges.
Today, as a breaking news anchor, I sometimes feel as if I’m back on the elevator of that plane, looking at the world and events as they unfold around me. I’ve assumed some of the role my father played, trying to convey the details, importance, and meaning of these events to my viewers.
From where I sit now, I see people strained by the rapid rate of social change. Technology has made our lives both more efficient and more demanding.
I see people squeezed by the shifting economies, not only by disappearing jobs, but by disappearing industries. I see people’s morals and values being tested too. I also see that many have fallen out of meaningful dialogue with people of differing viewpoints.
Because the military exists to deal with challenging situations, so much of what they teach our troops about achieving success in trying times applies to us civilians trying to succeed in these times.
n this climate, I find myself returning to the touchstones of my youth, realizing more clearly just how lucky I was to grow up as the daughter of a lieutenant colonel. Because the military exists to deal with challenging situations, so much of what they teach our troops about achieving success in trying times applies to us civilians trying to succeed in these times.
I may not have served myself, but I grew up witnessing service, and it was perhaps my most foundational experience.
For a little background, I’m what’s called a brat in military circles. It’s an endearing term used to describe the children of officers and is actually an acronym for Born Raised And Transferred, which describes my early days perfectly.
My mother gave birth to me at Fort McPherson in Atlanta, Georgia. A short while later we were living in Stuttgart, Germany.
We relocated several more times after that to various cities and military outposts before I finally ventured to college in Santa Barbara, California.
Being given the honorary rank of brat is the armed services’ way of saying thank you to us kids for having grit too. They understand that when one member of a family joins the military, the whole family bears the weight of their service.
We sacrifice time with that parent while they are deployed; we move wherever our loved one is needed; we uproot our lives; we leave our friends behind; and we start all over again with a supportive and positive attitude because it helps our loved one do his or her job effectively and return home to us safely.
We are also expected to have much of the same discipline as our commissioned parent has, because we are considered a reflection of their ability to lead.
Although the connotation of the word brat, as it’s used by the general public, isn’t flattering, I think I was “spoiled” in the best of ways.
I got to travel to some pretty awesome places, learn other people’s customs, and see what works in their world differently than in ours.
I also got to witness our troops returning from battles won and lost, and to hear some of the thinking that led to victory and some of the thinking that ultimately helped formulate better strategies from the lessons of defeat.
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I am forever grateful for the lessons learned from growing up Brat! To honor the military families serving our nation this Fourth of July I have three words for you: gratitude and love.
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Adapted from Harris Faulkner’s bestselling book, “9 Rules of Engagement A Military Brat’s Guide to Life and Success.” Copyright 2018 by Harris Faulkner. Published with permission from Harper Books and HarperCollins Publishers. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 35 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Steven Greenhouse is a former New York Times labor reporter and author of Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor, to be published by Knopf this August. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own.
With the 2020 presidential debates officially underway, the candidates need to be asked about their positions on some fundamental worker rights. The United States is the world's wealthiest nation, but when it comes to basic rights like paid leave and health care, its workers are far behind those in other advanced industrial nations.
The United States is among a small group of countries that does not have laws guaranteeing paid maternity leave, for example. The only other nations without such protections are Suriname, Papua New Guinea and several Pacific island states. Over 100 countries have legislation that guarantees workers at least 14 weeks' paid maternity leave. In the United Kingdom , for instance, parents of newborns can generally share up to 50 weeks of leave, including 37 weeks of paid leave.
The United States is also the only industrial nation that doesn't have a national law guaranteeing workers any vacation, paid or unpaid. The European Union guarantees workers at least four weeks' paid vacation in all 28 member countries. The UK calls for 28 days' vacation, and France guarantees six weeks' vacation.
The United States is the only country among 34 industrial nations (other than South Korea) that doesn't guarantee paid sick days. While many Americans take paid sick days for granted, over half of workers in the bottom fourth of wage earners receive no paid sick leave. I've interviewed grocery store workers and nurses whose bosses fired them for taking a day off because they were sick or they had a sick child.
I never cease to be astonished that when it comes to these basic rights — family-friendly protections that are fundamental to reducing work-life stress — American workers are so far behind their counterparts in other nations. Whenever a lawmaker in Congress introduces a bill to require employer-paid sick leave or employer-paid parental leave, these proposals go nowhere because many corporate lobbyists scream that these are horrific "mandates" that will be hugely expensive and may force corporations to lay off workers or even go out of business. These lobbyists mysteriously ignore that myriad businesses in other industrial nations survive and thrive even with these worker-friendly rules.
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | West Virginia isn't the first state to offer free college tuition for in-state students, but it has come up with a novel requirement.
In addition to some typical requirements, such as achieving a certain GPA, students must also pass a drug test before each semester.
The state's lawmakers hope their program will both enhance the state's economy and help combat its terrible rate of opioid addiction.
West Virginia has a deal for students who want to better themselves with a college degree: Starting July 1, you can enroll in one of the state's local community colleges -- and the state will pay for your tuition to earn an associate's degree or training certificate. But here's the catch: The students must first pass a drug test before each semester.
West Virginia isn't alone in rolling out free tuition programs, a trend that has spread to 19 U.S. states during the past five years, according to a June report from progressive think tank Century Foundation. But in addition to some typical requirements, such as achieving a certain GPA, the Appalachian state is alone in requiring its students to also pass a drug test to qualify for free tuition, according to education publication Inside Higher Education.
West Virginia's free tuition program -- and its unusual hitch -- reflect two social trends that policymakers say are taking a toll on the economy. First, the rising cost of a college degree has burdened more than 40 million Americans with $1.6 trillion in student debt, hobbling their chances to save to buy a home or car. Second, the opioid crisis, which has sapped the U.S. economy of $1 trillion from 2001 to 2017, has hit West Virginia especially hard.
Clinging to coal: West Virginia's fight over green jobs
As in other states, West Virginia's lawmakers designed the free tuition program to give their local economy a boost. It's especially needed in the tiny landlocked state, where poverty has surged since Donald Trump's 2016 election and only one of five prime-age workers as a college degree, compared with one in three nationally.
Providing West Virginia's residents with free tuition "will not only improve the general well-being of its citizens, but greatly enhance the economic prosperity of the state," according to the new law. It also suggests that giving more West Virginians access to a college degree could help stave off the opioid epidemic.
"West Virginia is currently facing a devastating drug epidemic, and the hope that comes with increased access to career education and higher quality employment opportunities is an indispensable tool against the spread of drug addiction," it noted.
Testing for THC and opiates
The law doesn't specify which drugs will be screened, but a consultant who worked on the program told West Virginia's Herald-Dispatch newspaper that students will be tested for THC, marijuana's active ingredient, as well as opiates such as oxycodone and hydrocodone and other drugs. Students with prescriptions, including for medical marijuana, will be exempted, according to the report.
One lawmaker told the publication that the drug testing will prepare students for jobs after graduation, when many will be required to be tested. It's unclear how many students might be affected.
How many qualify?
Free tuition programs have spread at an "astonishing" rate during the past five years, according to Century Foundation. But because of their requirements, including earning above a certain GPA or income limits, as few as 5% of students may qualify in some states, its report noted.
Bernie Sanders proposes eliminating all student debt
At the same time, the debate about student debt and the cost of a college degree is taking center stage in the 2020 presidential campaign. Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have rolled out plans to enact new taxes to wipe out the nation's college debt and provide free college tuition.
The argument for providing free tuition to college students is often posed as an economic good: By providing no-cost college degrees to America's youth, the economy will reap the rewards as graduates juice up their earnings potential while sidestepping college debt.
In Wednesday's debate between Democratic presidential hopefuls, Warren cited her own experience enrolling in college. The cost, she said, was $50 a semester. Today, the average annual tuition and fees at an in-state public college is more than $25,000. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 28 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | The victory lap is set to continue Monday with events in Rockford, Chicago and Waukegan — all proposed sites of new casinos authorized in the plan. That will be followed by Tuesday stops in southern Illinois at Walker’s Bluff Casino in Carterville and a construction-themed event in Marion. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 2 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption With more than 48,000 followers online, Curlture uses its influence to represent and inspire black women
California is set to become the first US state to ban discrimination against natural hair.
The new bill, which the Senate passed in April, amends anti-discrimination laws to include "traits historically associated with race" and "blackness".
It bars discrimination against black hairstyles in schools and workplaces.
California's assembly voted unanimously in favour of the measure on Thursday, sending it to Governor Gavin Newsom's desk for signing into law.
The update to the law comes after years of nationwide reports of black students being sent home from school over braids or natural styles that violated dress code rules.
In the workplace, black employees have often reported unfair policies that describe natural hair as unhygienic and unprofessional. The US military had a ban on dreadlocks for women until 2017.
"Professionalism was, and still is, closely linked to European features and mannerisms, which entails that those who do not naturally fall into Eurocentric norms must alter their appearances, sometimes drastically and permanently, in order to be deemed professional," the California bill states.
"Hair remains a rampant source of racial discrimination with serious economic and health consequences, especially for black individuals."
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Children speak about their afro hair: "My hair is unique, I feel really lucky'"
The bill has been referred to as the Crown (Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair) Act and was sponsored by Democratic Senator Holly Mitchell, who is black.
It passed 69-0 and notes that while afros are protected federally by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, black individuals are unfairly affected - deterred, burdened or punished - by dress code policies targeting "braids, twists and locks".
New York City enacted a similar anti-discrimination policy in February. The city's Human Rights Law now protects "natural hair or hairstyles that are closely associated with their racial, ethnic or cultural identities".
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The BBC's Pumza Fihlani looks at the politics around African hair
Black hair has been controlled and policed for centuries - during the 1700s in Louisiana, women of colour, whether they were enslaved or not, were ordered to cover their hair with scarves.
For decades in the US, black women have used sometimes dangerous or damaging chemical methods to straighten their natural hair. These harsh treatments could permanently damage hair, cause it to fall out, or burn the scalp.
California's measure, which is expected to be signed into law by the governor, has been praised on social media.
But some supporters have also pointed out that no other hair texture has needed legislation to prevent discrimination. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 18 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Jimmy Carter says Trump only won the election because Russia 'interfered on his behalf'
While in Japan for the G20 summit, a reporter asked Trump if he would tell Russia not to meddle in U.S. elections, to which he responded, "Yes, of course I will." | null | 0 | -1 | null | 1 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | "He lost the election, and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf," Jimmy Carter said of President Trump at a conference Friday in Leesburg, Va.
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | WASHINGTON, DC – The Supreme Court announced on Friday it will decide the legal challenges to the Trump administration’s decision to end the DACA amnesty program for illegal aliens, with a decision in the first half of 2020 before the presidential election.
Barack Obama told the American people for three years that the Constitution and federal law did not allow him to grant amnesty for illegal aliens, that amnesty could only be authorized by Congress. In Article I, Section 8, Clause 4, the Constitution grants Congress plenary power over immigration.
After years of failing to get even a Democrat-controlled Congress to enact amnesty Barack Obama in 2012 announced a form of amnesty for illegal aliens who had entered the country as children. Then-Secretary Janet Napolitano of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a memorandum to DHS personnel mandating that they not enforce immigration law for over 400,000 illegal aliens, creating a form of amnesty.
This program was called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, commonly known as DACA. In 2014, Obama expanded that amnesty to cover over 1 million adults under the similarly named program, DAPA, bringing the total number of noncitizens receiving amnesty from deportation to roughly 1.5 million.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton led a coalition of over a dozen states in a challenge against DAPA, arguing that the amnesty program violated (1) the Administrative Procedure Act’s (APA) requirements for public notice and comment, (2) could not be reconciled with Congress’s Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), and (3) the Take Care Clause of the Constitution.
In 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit struck down DAPA, holding that DAPA violated APA’s notice-and-comment requirements and also the INA. The Supreme Court took up the case, but tied 4-4 after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016.
After President Donald Trump took office, the Department of Justice (DOJ) determined that the Fifth Circuit’s reasoning was correct on DAPA, and that the same reasons that made DAPA illegal doomed DACA as well. DHS consequently announced that it would end DACA.
Various liberals sued, including the regents of University of California (ironically currently led by the same Napolitano who first created DACA in 2012), arguing that even though Obama and Napolitano created these programs out of thin air, it nonetheless is illegal for President Trump’s team to end the program. The challengers filed suits federal districts dominated by liberal judges, and won in the lower courts.
In the final set of orders the Supreme Court handed down in its annual term – which began in October – the justices announced on Friday that they will now hear these appeals. Arguments would typically take place in November or December with a decision likely in May or June of 2020, but given the urgency of aspects of this situation, DOJ could potentially ask the Court to expedite consideration of the case. An expedited case could result in a decision closer to January.
Lawyers were curious as to why the Court did not take up these challenges sooner, but an answer might be found in the Court’s Thursday decision in the census citizenship question case, Department of Commerce v. New York. One of the hotly contested issues in that case was whether Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’s decision to reinstate the census question is subject to judicial review under the APA, or instead if it falls within the APA exemption for matters committed by law to agency discretion.
Roberts wrote for a majority of the Court in Department of Commercethat federal judges have jurisdiction to review the census question. But it is common practice for the Court to delay voting on whether to take a new case when it has a pending case involving an overlapping issue. One of the questions presented in the DACA cases is whether DHS’s decision to end DACA is subject to APA judicial review at all, so it is possible that the Court was just waiting until it clarified in Department of Commercethe legal standard for APA review before taking a case where the lawyers would need to argue over how that standard applies to DACA.
The Supreme Court granted review in three DACA challenges. In all three, liberal district judges had decided the challenges against DHS. But only one had been decided by the federal appellate courts. The other two still have appeals pending, and in an extremely rare move, the justices granted review in those cases as well – called a grant of certiorari before judgment – signaling the High Court agrees that this litigation is an urgent priority.
The cases are Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California, No. 15-587, Trump v. NAACP, No. 15-588, and McAleenan v. Vidal, No. 15-589, in the Supreme Court of the United States.
Ken Klukowski is senior legal analyst for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @kenklukowski | null | 0 | -1 | null | 32 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | In the debates, Biden worked to sell the idea that he is the next incarnation of Barack Obama. One problem, of course, is that Barack Obama is very much alive and Biden is not Barack Obama, neither in style nor substance. Another is that this is not Barack Obama’s time. Obama first ran before the financial crisis and before Trump, which is to say in a different world. His supporters’ hope became strained by their circumstances and, over time, we observed some of the former president’s failings up close. Obama has a reserve of magic still, but there’s not enough left for someone else to hook a sprig to. Hillary Clinton tried; Obama campaigned for her everywhere in 2016. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 7 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Friday said a full investigation into the 2016 presidential election would reveal President Donald Trump “didn’t actually win.”
“He lost the election and was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf,” he said during a panel event hosted by The Carter Center.
When asked whether he believes Trump is an illegitimate president, Carter suggested that he does.
“Based on what I just said, which I can’t retract,” he said to laughter and applause.
Questions over the legitimacy of Trump’s presidency cropped up in the months after the 2016 election after several U.S. intelligence agencies found Russia interfered in the campaign to help Trump win. Concerns reemerged this year after special counsel Robert Mueller released a report detailing his two-year investigation. Mueller also concluded that Russia launched a systematic attack on the 2016 presidential election on Trump’s behalf.
Carter, who was elected in 1976, served as the 39th president of the United States. Since losing his 1980 reelection bid, he has founded The Carter Center, a nonprofit human rights organization that has been active in over 80 countries.
At Friday’s conference, the former president also took on the migrant crisis, referring to Trump’s immigration policies as “a disgrace to the United States.”
The Trump administration has faced significant criticism for its increasingly hard-line policies — especially for its decision to separate children from their families and hold them in overcrowded detention centers that lack basic amenities.
“Every day we send a disgraceful signal around the world, that this is what the president of the United States government stands for,” Carter said. “And that is torture and kidnapping of little children, separation from their parents and deprivation of those who are incarcerated.” | null | 0 | -1 | null | 11 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Lovitz said other cities that have extended their supplier diversity programs have turned to the national LGBT chamber to certify businesses as lesbian, gay bisexual or transgender owned. Business owners must show that a majority of the company is owned, operated, controlled or managed by one or more LGBT people. More than 1,200 companies have been certified through this process nationwide, Lovitz said. Chicago has 43 businesses that have been certified by the national LGBT chamber. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 4 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Sen. Kamala Harris said Friday that she does not support eliminating private health insurance, after she and Sen. Bernie Sanders raised their hands in response to a question from debate moderators about whether they would abolish private health insurance in favor of a government-run plan at the Democratic debate Thursday.
Harris told "CBS This Morning" on Friday that she had misheard the question by debate moderator Lester Holt.
Holt had posed the question, "Many people watching at home have health insurance through their employer. Who here would abolish their private health insurance in favor of a government-run plan?"
Harris and Sanders were the only two to raise their hands.
The California Democrat said that she had interpreted the question to mean, "Would you be willing to give up your private insurance?" She said that her answer was for herself personally, but that she believed private insurance could still supplement "Medicare for All."
"I am supportive of Medicare for All. And under Medicare for All policy, private insurance certainly exist for supplemental coverage," Harris told "CBS This Morning." "But under Medicare for All, in my vision of it, we would actually extend benefits."
Of the 20 candidates who appeared at the debate this week, only Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren support fully abolishing private health insurance. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 11 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Officers work to identify body found on Isle of Wight, near where 22-year-old disappeared
Police searching on the Isle of Wight for missing Rosie Johnson, 22, have found the body of a woman in Wootton in the north-east of the island, close to where she disappeared.
A statement released by Hampshire police said: “Formal identification procedures are ongoing but Rosie’s next of kin have been made aware of the discovery.
“At this stage, the death is not being treated as suspicious and a file is being prepared for the coroner.”
Johnson, the niece of Daniel Johnson, the Scottish Labour MSP for Edinburgh Southern, has been missing since Sunday night when she was last seen near Wootton Creek at 10.15pm.
She was working at the 50-acre PGL Little Canada holiday camp which is located on the inlet. The Glasgow University zoology graduate had been at the camp since February.
Search and rescue specialists had focused their efforts on the creek, launching extensive investigations there throughout the week.
Earlier on Friday, Hampshire police said they would carry out “targeted door knocks” at properties with boathouses and outbuildings.
A spokesman from the force said: “A search is ongoing in the New Road area of Wootton; this is near Wootton Creek.
“This is ground that has already been covered, however the teams are revisiting this with a view to doing some targeted door knocks.”
The Ventnor coastguard rescue team has also been assisting police. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 9 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Image copyright PSNI Image caption Police released a photograph of part of the home-made mortar found in a derelict house in Lurgan in September 2016
A County Armagh man has been jailed for six years following the discovery of an armour-piercing mortar.
Luke O'Neill, 25, of Silverwood Green, Lurgan, pleaded guilty to two counts of the attempted possession of explosives.
The device was found by undercover police investigating suspected dissident republican activity in the Lurgan area in 2016.
O'Neill was a "vulnerable patsy manipulated by more sinister people", Belfast Crown Court heard.
A senior prosecutor said undercover police officers observed O'Neill carrying a camouflage rucksack between two addresses in Lurgan in August and September.
He said the officers found the rucksack in the attic of the second property in Woodland Avenue and discovered an "improvised forward projectile explosive device'' and detonator.
Designed to "penetrate armour"
The prosecutor said the device was designed to "penetrate armour'' and would have been capable of firing once when connected to a battery.
He added that it was the first time such a device was observed in Northern Ireland.
The court heard officers replaced the device with an "inert surrogate device'', which O'Neill later removed from the loft.
Police believed the device was to have been used in an attack on the Tullygally Road with the use of a 40 feet long command wire.
"The device could have been placed close to the road and the bomber could lie in wait in the shrubbery at a safe distance to detonate the device,'' the prosecutor said.
The court heard O'Neill was arrested in September 2016 and was questioned on 23 occasions over five days but "remained silent throughout''.
'Vulnerable patsy'
"In a prepared statement he denied being a member of the IRA," the prosecutor added.
The prosecutor accepted that O'Neill was guilty of the attempted possession of the explosive device.
"The device had been made inert and police had control of the main, sophisticated device which prevented any injuries or death," he said.
"There was no evidence this defendant was involved in the construction of the device. He was responsible for transporting the device from the house to the deployment area."
A defence lawyer said O'Neill was a "vulnerable patsy who was manipulated by more sinister people not before the court'' because of mental health and addiction issues.
He described O'Neill as a "courier... he did not know the nature of the device but anyone who couriers something like that is extremely foolish''.
Judge David McFarland told O'Neill: "You were responsible for moving the device from storage to an area where it could have been deployed and then removing it back to its storage.''
He said the main device "could have caused serious injury or death''. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 21 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | If you were seeking to be positive about the likely premiership of Boris Johnson – which is absolutely not my intention – you might liken him to one of his predecessors as foreign secretary and prime minister, Lord Palmerston, who dominated British politics in the 1850s and 60s and, for all his foibles (and sexual excesses), was much loved by the public.
The similarities in their worldviews are striking. Palmerston was popular because his politics were founded on foreigner-bashing. His vision of the world was simple: Britain had perfected the art of democracy and was entitled to impose its views on everyone else. As one historian has noted, the “ideological strand to Palmerston’s diplomacy … appealed to the aggressive national chauvinism that was such an important component of the mid-Victorian psyche”.
Everything Johnson has ever said about the world is jokey, insensitive, stupid and needlessly provocative
That foreigner-bashing finds its modern parallel in Johnson, who has spent much of his career being beastly about those who had the misfortune not to be born British. This despite his own Turkish ancestry – a severe case of over-compensation perhaps. His rude poem about Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan having sex with a goat (“There was a young fellow from Ankara / Who was a terrific wankerer”) certainly seems to bear out this psychological interpretation.
Johnson’s far-from-sunny view of the French has also now been revealed. He thinks they are “turds”, a remark disgracefully pulled from a BBC documentary on the Foreign Office last year because it threatened to derail the Brexit negotiations – what self-respecting news organisation censors its greatest scoop? – but now exposed by the Daily Mail.
Calling the French “turds” for being intransigent on Brexit is a sign of Johnson’s vulgarity and stupidity. As his second-class degree suggests, his is a second-rate mind trying desperately to persuade us it is a first-rate one by using Latin tags and improper jokes. His useless, vapid books are the measure of the man.
Everything that Johnson has ever said about the world is jokey, insensitive, stupid and needlessly provocative. His racism is well-rehearsed. Where does one begin? Perhaps in 2002 when he discussed a visit to Africa by Tony Blair in an article in his mouthpiece, the Daily Telegraph: “What a relief it must be for Blair to get out of England,” he wrote. “It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving piccaninnies.”
One racist allusion was, however, not enough. He went on: “They say he [Blair] is shortly off to the Congo. No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and their tribal warriors will all break out in watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird.”
In 2006 Johnson had to apologise when he suggested that the inhabitants of Papua New Guinea were cannibals. “For 10 years we in the Tory party have become used to Papua New Guinea-style orgies of cannibalism and chief-killing,” he wrote (in the Telegraph again, of course), “and so it is with a happy amazement that we watch as the madness engulfs the Labour party.” During the 2016 referendum campaign, Johnson suggested that President Obama’s view of the UK was attributable to his “part-Kenyan” heritage and “ancestral dislike of the British empire”.
Johnson, who once referred to Africa as “that country”, would agree with Palmerston that colonialism is a jolly good thing. “The problem is not that we were once in charge [in Africa],” he wrote in the Spectator in 2002, “but that we are not in charge any more. The best fate for Africa would be if the old colonial powers, or their citizens, scrambled once again in her direction; on the understanding that this time they will not be asked to feel guilty.”
Johnson and his supporters usually claim he is being quoted out of context, or put his statements down to Johnsonian wit and love of rhetorical hyperbole. “Boris is Boris,” they chortle. Will that really wash if he becomes prime minister? Johnson is a classic example of arrested development: he remains the eternal privileged 15-year-old having everything done for him at Eton, devoid of empathy, failing to understand that words have consequences, useless with money (as his current inamorata has noted), utterly self-centred, childlike. You can see this play out once again in l’affaire turd, as the foreign office is left to clean up Johnson’s diplomatic mess with the help of an acquiescent broadcaster.
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Arrogance and lack of emotional intelligence no doubt explain many of his remarks but, as others have noted, beneath the endless layers of bluster there is a yearning for empire and a kernel of nationalism that ultimately led him to support Brexit in 2016. Reciting fragments of Rudyard Kipling’s poem Mandalay on a visit to a Buddhist temple in Myanmar in 2017 suggests that a nostalgic imperial vision still lurks in that atrophied adolescent brain.
The words of Mandalay are almost guaranteed to cause a war on the spot – and especially on this sacred spot: “An’ I seed her first a-smokin’ of a whackin’ white cheroot, / An’ a-wastin’ Christian kisses on an ’eathen idol’s foot: / Bloomin’ idol made o’ mud / Wot they called the Great Gawd Budd / Plucky lot she cared for idols when I kissed ’er where she stud! / On the road to Mandalay …” Yes, our foreign secretary really did think referencing that poem was appropriate.
Johnson’s racist remarks – set alongside equally outrageous examples of sexism and homophobia – should disqualify him as prime minister. Instead, they appear to endear him to the Tory membership, who feel an urgent need to out-Farage Farage, perhaps even to trump Trump. The US president gets away with it by being the leader of the world’s most powerful country, as Palmerston did when Britain was top dog in the 1860s. A Johnsonian UK will just look ridiculous. Xenophobia and gunboat diplomacy only really work if you have enough gunboats. Someone needs to tell Johnson that we no longer do.
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Image caption Hull City Council said it welcomed the appointment of the government's adviser
An adviser is being sent in to help improve children's social services in Hull after they were rated "inadequate".
The government has issued an Improvement Notice on the city council after a critical Ofsted report in May.
Inspectors said there were "serious failures in the recognition of risk and in the quality of social work practice".
Hull City Council said it welcomed the appointment of an adviser.
The Department for Education (DfE) warned that if improvements were not made by 2020 there could be further intervention by the secretary of state.
Options could include services being taken from the council and run by independent commissioners.
The Ofsted report said the local authority had "failed to deliver the improvements needed since its last inspection in 2015".
"There are widespread and serious failures in the recognition of risk and in the quality of social work practice for children in need of help and protection," the report said.
"Arrangements to safeguard children with specific vulnerabilities, such as disabled children, children living in private fostering arrangements, and 16-year-old homeless children, are ineffective."
Alison Murphy, director of children's services, said the council had already set up an "improvement board".
"We are already accelerating our service improvement plans and we welcome the appointment of an improvement advisor to ensure we make sustainable improvements to our children's social care services," she said.
She added: "The needs of the city's children are paramount and we will work hard to ensure the services we provide to our children and their families are of the highest standard."
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A group of police officers have lost a legal bid to stop disciplinary procedures over claims they shared offensive content on WhatsApp.
The 10 officers said their right to privacy was being compromised after superiors said they would be reprimanded over the messages.
One of the messages was alleged to have contained anti-Semitic content.
Judge Lord Bannatyne ruled in favour of employers Police Scotland at the Court of Session.
The officers legal team had argued that using the private messages against them amounted to a breach of article eight of the European Convention on Human Rights.
'Decline in Public Confidence'
However, Lord Bannatyne wrote in his ruling that the "principal purpose" of the police was the protection of the public.
He refused to grant the orders being sought by the officers, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, and said that Police Scotland was entitled to launch disciplinary proceedings.
He said: "Officers behaving in the way set out in these messages may have contravened the standards.
"An officer who fails to meet these standards, for the reasons put forward in the present case on the basis of the messages, can reasonably inferred to be likely to be someone who would lose the confidence of the public and cause a decline in the general public confidence in the police."
Much of the content of the messages remains unknown and Lord Bannatyne did not discuss the exact content in his ruling.
However, at an earlier hearing the court heard one of the groups frequented by the officers on the social media platform was called Quality Polis.
The messages in the private group chat came to light as part of an investigation into a fellow officer over alleged sex offences.
The officer was cleared of any wrongdoing, but detectives passed on the messages to colleagues working for the force's professional standards team.
Lord Bannatyne concluded that as police officers, the group had a different right to privacy than an ordinary member of the public.
He wrote: "I consider the argument comes to this: given the standards and the regulatory framework to which a police officer is subject, then he or she is in a different category from an ordinary member of the public and that is because of their position as police officers their reasonable expectation of privacy is different from an ordinary member of the general public." | null | 0 | -1 | null | 15 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | CLOSE Alaska is a sprawling state with a population about the size of Seattle, but a staggering 59 percent of adult women in Alaska have experienced intimate partner violence, sexual violence or both. Sandy Hooper, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON – Attorney General William Barr declared a public safety "emergency" in Alaska on Friday, directing more than $10 million in immediate law enforcement aid to largely rural communities ravaged by domestic violence and sexual abuse.
The federal declaration, the first of its kind for Alaska, comes as the state grapples with the highest per capita crime rate in the United States. Barr visited the state last month, meeting with local authorities and crime victims.
"I witnessed first-hand the complex, unique and dire law enforcement challenges the state of Alaska and its remote Alaska native communities are facing," Barr said. "With this emergency declaration, I am directing resources where they are needed most and needed immediately."
Earlier this week, USA TODAY detailed the staggering level of violence directed against women in Alaska, where 59% of adult women have experienced domestic violence, sexual abuse or both in their lifetimes; and where child sexual assault is nearly six times the national average. Of those victimized, nearly 30% had no access to help.
As part of the directive, the attorney general also ordered the FBI and other Justice Department components to submit plans within the next 30 days to further support the federal effort.
"Lives depend on it, and we are committed to seeing a change in this unacceptable, daily reality for Alaska native people," the attorney general said.
More: Alaska is the most dangerous state in the U.S. for women
While the bulk of the federal aid will fund the hiring of new officers, training and equipment, federal officials said state authorities also will be able to apply for a portion of $167 million set aside for crime victim services. The money would pay for temporary shelters, rape crisis services, elder abuse programs and advocates for children.
Alaska has struggled for years with violent crime, specifically domestic and sexual abuse, but Justice officials said Barr was personally drawn to the issue after discussions with Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Ak., around the time of his Senate confirmation earlier this year.
Katie Sullivan, who oversees Justice's grant-making arm at the Office of Justice Programs, characterized the federal delegation's Alaskan visit as "life changing," where local authorities recounted a scourge of violence in which women and children are often the primary victims.
Law enforcement emergencies are declared, according to federal law, when "state and local resources are insufficient to protect the lives and property of citizens or to enforce criminal law."
At least four such declarations have been issued in the past three years, including in the aftermath of the 2017 Las Vegas massacre, where 58 people were shot to death by a single gunman; and following the 2018 Santa Fe, Texas high school shooting that left 10 dead.
Attorney General William Barr. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Women’s rights issues like abortion, the pay gap, childcare, maternity health and more have taken center stage during the Democratic presidential debate in Miami. While abortion usually gets attention, other women’s issues are being taken more seriously than ever before on the campaign trail. This Vox.com article argues that the candidates will definitely need the women’s vote to win, and that many 2020 hopefuls have comprehensive plans to address these issues, unlike previous election years.
The gender gap in computer science research won't close for 100 years.
According to a study released Friday, the gender gap in computer science research won’t close for another 100 years. The Allen Institute found that in 2018, the number of male authors in a large collection of computer science papers was about 475,000 compared to 175,000 women. Judging by trends over the years, women will not achieve parity until 2137, if ever. Some reasons cited include a lack of female mentorship and men choosing all-male collaborators for their research teams.
Nancy Pelosi said the House will pass the Senate version of the border funding bill
After days of bipartisan infighting, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House would pass the Senate version of a border funding bill in order to provide aid for the children in detention. The bill includes $4.6 billion in funding toward the border crisis, which is the same amount allotted in the House’s version of the bill — however, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has stated that the Senate will not cut ICE or Department of Defense funding. For days, progressives argued for the House version, saying that they couldn’t trust Trump to allot the funds properly and that additional protections were needed. On Thursday however, Pelosi said the Senate version would be passed. “The children come first," Pelosi said in a statement. "At the end of the day, we have to make sure that the resources needed to protect the children are available."
Harvard Business Review: Women score higher than men in most leadership skills
In light of the uptick in women running for U.S. office and the subsequent backlash against female leaders, Harvard Business Review updated some of its research from 2012. The findings proved once again that women are just as effective, if not more, than male leaders. They implemented 360-degree reviews to men and women leaders to assess their competence and found that women had a statistically significant advantage over men. Women particularly rated highly in taking initiative, acting with resilience, practicing self-development, driving for results, and displaying high integrity and honesty.
U.S. Women’s Soccer player Megan Rapinoe stands by comments about Trump and The White House
As the U.S. Women’s Soccer team fights its way through the 2019 FIFA World Cup, player Megan Rapinoe has been embroiled in a battle with President Donald J. Trump. Rapinoe said “I’m not going to the f------ White House,” in a video clip with Eight by Eight. She also has refused to sing the national anthem during games. President Trump criticzed her on Twitter, saying “Megan should WIN first before she TALKS! Finish the job!” When asked if she stood by her comment, she said: “I stand by the comments I made about not wanting to go to the White House, with the exception of the expletive. My mom will be very upset about that.”
Elizabeth Banks: It's getting harder to make money in Hollywood
Actress Elizabeth Banks sat down with columnist Kyle Buchanan to discuss the changing face of Hollywood economics. She argued that there is a lot more work out there for people in production, but that it’s a lot harder to make a living than ever, particularly for people on the lower end of the production ladder. “In the old days, you could pay off student loans making a commercial — and that happened to me in the early 2000s!” said Banks. “That’s because the union did a great job of protecting us. Now, most commercials are nonunion, and somehow the advertising industry is getting away with that.
The 6 women running for president have answers
The New York Times asked 21 out of 22 the Democratic presidential candidates the same 18 questions regarding major issues in the U.S. They outlined the answers from all six women running. Questions include: “Do you think Trump has committed crimes while in office?” “Do you think it’s possible for the next president to stop climate change?” and “In an ideal world, would anyone own handguns?” Read answers from candidates Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Tulsi Gabbard, Kirsten Gillibrand, Amy Klobuchar and Marianne Williamson.
FDA approves new injectable drug to boost women’s sex drive
A new drug called Vyleesi has been approved by the FDA to treat hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD), a condition affecting women that causes low libido and distress. Vyleesi is injected into the abdomen or thigh 45 minutes before patients expect to engage in sexual activity, but should not be used more than once in 24 hours or more than eight times per month. Vyleesi is only the second FDA-approved treatment for HSDD apart from Addyi, a once-daily pill that was introduced in 2015. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 34 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | On Friday, Eric Swalwell followed up his Democrat debate gun control push by tweeting that the “NRA enables the deaths of 1000s of kids.”
He made this statement in reaction to Joe Biden’s claim that gun controllers’ enemy “is the gun manufacturers, not the NRA.”
Swalwell countered Biden by pointing fingers at the NRA, claiming the organization “enables the deaths of 1000s of kids.”
Swalwell’s go-to gun control has been a forced buyback of AR-15s and other commonly-owned semiautomatic rifles. He elaborated on the confiscatory buyback during the debate, saying, “Keep your pistols, keep your rifles, keep your shotguns, but we can take the most dangerous weapons from the most dangerous people.”
Swalwell claimed that the NRA is “on the ropes” because of groups like Moms Demand Action, March For Our Lives, the Brady Campaign, and others.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at [email protected]. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 7 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Remember Barack Obama? He was the 44th president and a Democrat, and so one might think that those Democrats aspiring to be the 46th president would pay him some admiring attention. Yet in the first Democratic debate, on June 26, the ten candidates on stage for two hours mentioned him a grand total of twice. And what of Bill Clinton? The 42nd president wasn’t mentioned at all.
Then, in the second Democratic debate, on June 27, Obama was again mentioned twice, both times by his former vice president, Joe Biden. And as for Clinton, again, zero mention of him.
Isn’t that interesting: two two-term presidents almost entirely ignored. And come to think of it, not a single mention either night of Hillary Clinton.
So what’s going on? Why have the most prominent Democrats of the two generations been consigned to obscurity?
The answer, of course, is that the Democratic Party is moving way to the left, and so Obama and the Clintons are regarded as too conservative for the party’s tastes.
It was Bill Clinton who, back on January 23, 1996, proclaimed, “The era of Big Government is over.” The government stayed big, of course, and yet still, in the mind of progressive Democrats, Clinton was all-too willing to concede rhetorical ground to smaller-government Republicans.
And as for Obama, he was given to saying things like this, on November 20, 2014, about the need for border enforcement:
We’re also a nation of laws. Undocumented workers broke our immigration laws, and I believe that they must be held accountable -– especially those who may be dangerous. That’s why, over the past six years, deportations of criminals are up 80 percent.
Once again, Obama will not be remembered by conservatives, or even moderates, as a tight-border guy, and yet increasingly, any border enforcement at all is abhorred by the left. So farewell, Barack.
And as for Hillary, on October 11, 2002, then-Sen. Clinton voted “aye” on the Iraq War. (As did Biden, and he was attacked hard for that vote Thursday night.)
The point here is not to argue that the Clintons, or Obama, were conservatives. Instead, it’s that most activist Democrats think that they were conservative—at least too conservative for the newly “woke” Democratic Party.
As political science graduate student Zach Goldberg has documented, many Democrats—especially whites living in urban areas, the kind who tend to be most active in primary politics and on social media—have, in fact, moved sharply to the left. As Goldberg explains:
As woke ideology has accelerated, a growing faction of white liberals have pulled away from the average opinions held by the rest of the coalition of Democratic voters . . . The revolution in moral sentiment among this one segment of American voters has led to a cascade of consequences ranging from changes in the norms and attitudes expressed in media and popular culture, to the adoption of new political rhetoric and electoral strategies of the Democratic Party.
This new rhetoric, and these new strategies, were on full display the past two nights, as when Cory Booker said, “We do not talk enough about trans-Americans, especially African American trans-Americans.”
Julián Castro went even further: He proved that he was oh-so-woke by demanding “reproductive justice” for transgender women—the implication being that men who become women might need an abortion.
The next day, after widespread mockery, Castro clarified. Yet sill, he used that clarification as an opportunity to display his fluent vocabulary of politically correct jargon:
Last night I misspoke – it’s trans men, trans masculine, and non-binary folks who need full access to abortion and repro healthcare. And I’m grateful to ALL trans and non-binary folks for their labor in guiding me on this issue.
Got that?
The New York Post captured the wokey spirit with its June 27 cover: “10 Left Feet: Dems trip over each other to be most liberal.”
That same day, Politico headlined: “Democrats lead with their left: It’s not an illusion: The party is presenting its most liberal face since the 1970s.” The 70s of course, were the decade that saw the presidential nomination of George McGovern—who lost 49 states in the 1972 general election, but remains a progressive icon—as well as the far-left presidential candidacies of Fred Harris, Shirley Chisholm, and John Lindsay.
Indeed, it was fitting that some of the sharpest moments in the second debate concerned the issue of school busing, which was hot as hell in the 1970s. School busing—putting school children on buses for as long as 60, even 90 minutes, sometimes to dangerous neighborhoods, in the name of desegregation—was profoundly unpopular, and caused the near collapse of many school systems. Mercifully, busing went away after even liberal judges came to their senses. The last Gallup poll on the topic, taken in 1999, showed that 82 percent of Americans opposed busing.
Yet on Thursday night, school busing was one of the issues that Sen. Kamala Harris used to attack Biden. As a senator from Delaware in the early 70s, Biden had opposed busing. And on Thursday night, the nation learned that in those years, Harris, as a young black schoolgirl, was herself bused. (School busing wasn’t all that popular among blacks, either, and yet now, Harris recalls it as a great idea.)
For his part, Biden, mindful of the need to placate the left wing of his party, tried to mumble around about his record, and yet he facts, nevertheless, are clear—Biden had, in fact, worked hard to stop busing. It took MSM researchers no time to uncover Biden quotes such as this, from 1975: “I oppose busing. It’s an asinine concept, the utility of which has never been proven to me.”
Once again, Biden’s anti-busing position was popular at the time—there’s a reason he won six senate terms—and yet Biden’s not in Delaware anymore. Indeed the new mood on the left is so woke that MSNBC host Chris Matthews got with the program when he asked Harris about her busing experience, “How did you come out of that and not have hatred towards white people generally?”(Harris didn’t take the bait.)
Still, one must wonder what would happen to Harris if she were actually to win the Democratic nomination and carry her retro pro-school busing message into the general election. Middle America might have to be reminded what school busing was actually like, and yet once the lesson of that disaster was re-learned, the 82-percent opposition would likely revive. Still, the general election is a long way away; for Harris, now, the name of the game is to keep hitting Biden from the left.
Yet amidst all this progressing toward Peak Progressivism, a few Democrats pointed out the obvious—that the party is at risk of going so far to the left as to go overboard.
One such cautionary figure on the first night was John Delaney, who spoke out on a different issue, “Medicare for All.” Delaney said it was “bad policy” to impose a single-payer plan to the exclusion of all private health insurance; that could lead, Delaney added, to mass closings of U.S. hospitals.
Yet Delaney went into the debate at the back of the pack, and he was even further back when it was over. In other words, for today’s Democrats, the Era of Really Big Government is just beginning. Sorry, Bill Clinton! (As Politico’s Jeff Greenfield slyly noted, Republican opposition researchers are taking careful notes, fully intending to bring up these negative data points in the general election.)
The second night was, if anything, even leftier. All ten candidates were asked if crossing the border without the legal right to do so should be de-criminalized, and all ten raised their hands in agreement. In the words of the Washington Examiner’s Byron York, “That moment was perhaps the Democratic Party’s most significant step yet toward embracing a policy of open borders.”
And oh yes, all ten of Thursday night’s Dems were also for taxpayer-funded health insurance, for for the undocumented; that’s somewhere between 11 and 22 million beneficiaries—although, of course, nobody really knows for sure how many there are.
We can observe that these new stances on immigration leave Hillary Clinton even further out in the cold; back in 2007, she took a strong position against driver’s licenses for illegal aliens.
Once again, a few brave Democratic hopefuls have taken exception to this progressive pied-piper-ing. For instance, Rep. Seth Moulton, who was excluded from the debates due to low numbers, had this to say about decriminalization:
If you cross the border illegally, then that’s illegal. I want a system that encourages them to come legally. I think that that plan would do the opposite.
And once again, Republicans are cocked and loaded. On Thursday night, Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale chortled as he tweeted: “Democrats say: ‘Open Borders!’ Get here and we will let you in! So, let’s just let all 7 billion people in. That will completely work. What??”
Democrats say: “Open Borders!” Get here and we will let you in! So, let’s just let all 7 billion people in. That will completely work. 😳 What??? — Brad Parscale (@parscale) June 28, 2019
Of course, Parscale was already in Donald Trump’s corner. And yet tens of millions of American voters are undecided, and perhaps even hostile, toward Trump. And yet if the ’20 Democrats prove themselves to be the worse alternative, well, Trump could come out ahead by default.
Indeed, there are already indicators that the Democrats’ leftward lurch is hurting them with the middle—and even some regular Democrats. On Thursday night, Rachael Bade, a reporter for the Washington Post, was moved to tweet: “Overheard while watching the debate just now: “I’m not sure I’m a Democrat anymore.” — Democrat next to me complaining abt how far left the party has moved.”
Overheard while watching the debate just now: “I’m not sure I’m a Democrat anymore.” -Democrat next to me complaining abt how far left the party has moved — Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) June 28, 2019
Yes, Democrats just had their left-fest in Miami. And yes, the legacies of Barack Obama and Bill Clinton mostly went down the memory hole. And yet those two ex-presidents were smart enough, and moderate-seeming enough, to each win a pair of national elections. In other words, they have wisdom to offer Democrats.
Yet today’s woke Dems are hightailing it down the left lane to nowhere. And as they showed the nation in Miami, they want to drive that wayward bus even faster. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 80 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Missouri's last remaining abortion clinic, Planned Parenthood of St. Louis, will be allowed to continue providing abortions after a state administrative commissioner gave the clinic a motion to to stay on Friday afternoon. The decision effectively will let the clinic continue operations despite not having a license from the state.
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services declined to renew the clinic's license to perform abortions last week, a decision that Planned Parenthood appealed to the state's Administrative Hearing Commission. Even though the clinic was denied its license, Planned Parenthood had been allowed to continue providing abortion this week, protected by a judge-ordered injunction that's set to expire Friday at 5 p.m.
This is a developing story and will be updated. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 5 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Image copyright Google Image caption The shooting happened in Renfrew's Cardon Square on Thursday evening
A gunman who fired a shot during a row with a man in a street in Renfrew is being hunted by police.
The shooting, which police believe was a targeted attack, happened in the town's Cardon Square at about 20:25 on Thursday.
The gunman, described as being of heavy build with a shaven head, pointed a weapon at a 36-year old man and fired it.
The bullet hit a nearby flat and no-one was injured.
The gunman then got into a white Audi RS3 car, which was parked in the street, and made off. It is believed there was also a passenger in the car.
Intended victim
Det Insp Robert Bowie said: "The information I have at present leads me to believe that this was not a random attack and the 36-year-old man was the intended victim.
"If you have information about the identity of the driver or recognise his description, or that of the car he was driving, I would urge you to get in touch as a matter of urgency.
"Although this is most likely to be a targeted incident, there will be increased uniform and high-visibility patrols in the Renfrew area to help reassure the public. Anyone with any concerns should engage with any of the officers." | null | 0 | -1 | null | 10 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | FILE PHOTO: A mechanical shovel scoops up rocks to be loaded onto waiting dump trucks during a normal work day at the Chuquicamata open pit copper mine in northern Chile, in this April 1, 2011 file picture. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado/Files
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile’s Codelco, the world’s top copper miner, said on Friday its Chuquicamata mine was fully operational following a two-week long strike that had docked output from the sprawling deposit.
The three largest labor unions at the mine voted late Thursday to accept Codelco’s latest labor contract offer, officially ending the walk-off.
“The shift workers entered [the mine] as normal and Chuqui is operating at 100%,” Codelco told Reuters.
Chuquicamata, or “Chuqui,” one of Codelco’s key copper deposits, is undergoing a complex $5 billion-plus transformation into an underground shaft mine to counter plummeting ore grades. The change has meant job cuts in some areas, straining relations with workers.
The 14-day strike had raised fears of global supply shortfalls. Early in the strike, Codelco said it had been forced to slash production by as much as half.
Codelco said on Friday it had decided to delay the inauguration of the new portion of the mine, which had been scheduled for next Wednesday, but gave no further details.
Union leaders told Reuters they were pleased with the new contract, which included a bonus and loan options of as much as $20,000 per worker and strengthens details of the worker’s retirement plan. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 10 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Nearly every TV political analyst said Harris — who took on Biden over his recent comments about being able to work with segregationists in the U.S. Senate — delivered the strongest performance. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 1 |
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A new US cancer database - the Firefighter Cancer Registry which was fully funded by Congress in June - aims to track the careers and health histories of thousands of firefighters in order to better understand the link between emergency work and disease, writes Victoria Oldridge.
For thousands of years, firefighters have entered into battles against infernos knowing of the blazing dangers they combat.
But modern-day crews storm through doors knowing that the leading cause of US firefighter deaths is now cancer, which can lurk for decades in the human body after the embers are out.
"I always thought if you got killed on the job it would be in a fire or something, but cancer wasn't something you thought about back then," says Jim Brown, a 21-year firefighter from Washington state.
Mr Brown, who was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer in 2015, says: "The majority of my career it was always cool to have a burned helmet and to have stinky gear - that was a badge of honour."
But now, as government health workers prepare to collect data from hundreds of thousands of firemen and women to study the dangers of fire exposure, he says any chief would be "negligent" to allow that behaviour.
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Carcinogenic chemical contaminants and toxic fumes, released by burning buildings and the charred objects within, has led cancer to become the number one cause of death among firefighters, according to the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF).
Awareness of the issue arose in the years after the 11 September World Trade Center attack, in which thousands of Ground Zero workers got sick. Comedian Jon Stewart, who has championed funding for ill 9/11 emergency workers, has continued to lobby on Capitol Hill for Congress to fund their ongoing health costs.
Mr Brown now spreads awareness of best practices to other fire departments.
"When you have a guy standing in front of you who absolutely, one-hundred-percent should not have cancer, educating you about how to potentially not have cancer, it's an easy sell."
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Comedian Jon Stewart on funding for firefighter illnesses: 'Why is it so damn hard?'
The Firefighter Cancer Registry Act was signed into law last year, federally funding the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) with $2.5m (£2m) over four years to conduct a study on the largest firefighter cohort to date.
The law, which drew bipartisan support and had its funding boosted by Congress in June, seeks to find common threads between firefighters' work and increased risk for cancer.
Image copyright Handout Image caption Jim Brown has been diagnosed with lung cancer
Dr Kenneth Fent, a lead researcher at the CDC, says the database is in "the planning stages right now and requesting input from stakeholders".
"Ideally within a couple of years we could have the initial reports on those cancer risks."
Dr Fent says a "cultural change" is taking place in fire brigades across the country as stations learn to better handle the dangers at the scene of the fire, as well as follow-up medical care.
He says that by registering, firefighters can by advised on crucial safety changes immediately, even before the scientific data begins to yield definitive trends.
Image copyright Handout Image caption Pat Morrison says dangers lurk even after the fire is out
"If we can register firefighters we can communicate with them directly on best practices out there to control exposures," he says.
Pat Morrison, a 22-year career firefighter and Assistant General President for Health, Safety, and Medicine at the IAFF estimates it will be five years until the registry yields results.
But before those results emerge, he says officials will be trying to immediately identify easy fixes, to communicate to those on the registry.
One example he cites is breathing masks, which can vary in use and approach from department to department.
"Sometimes that's when we let our guard down and we're getting more exposures," he says.
Mr Morrison reinforces the importance of firefighters' annual medical screenings, a thorough decontamination protocol, diet and exercise. "Even our gloves are an issue because it's only a matter of time before you touch your lips and now you're exposed," he says.
Compliance of safety practices and resource allocation varies between states and even at the department level. "This is a leadership issue," Mr Morrison says, describing failures of budgeting.
"One station might spend up to $1m on a fire truck. But the preventive measures that should be in place for the people on it is the one thing that's cut or even forgotten about."
"If we're not doing the prevention side for the firefighters then we're missing the whole boat," he continues.
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Soviet firefighters pictured in 1986 before cleaning debris from the roof of Chernobyl
In May, the IAFF announced their latest step toward firefighter cancer protection - a mobile phone app.
Exposure Tracker creates a personal diary for logging exposure and incident details in a private, online environment.
Participating emergency responders will be able to easily enrol in the Firefighter Cancer Registry, the makers say.
The registry - though promising in revealing the links between firefighters' occupation and cancer risk - is one of many puzzle pieces required to protect those on the front lines, experts say.
Another issue firefighters say must be addressed is the presence of highly toxic cocktail of chemicals produced by Swiss manufacturer 3M called PFAS. The material is found in household items and used at firefighter training facilities, airports and military bases.
New Jersey's governor has identified the material as a threat to firefighters and has opened a lawsuit against 3M.
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption WATCH: Helmet gives firefighters 'X-ray vision'
Despite the challenges, Mr Morrison is optimistic that changes can be made.
"I think this new generation sees what's happening. We're more aware than ever," he says.
"We can't stare at the past - we've got to move. What are the things we can do today to safeguard this next generation of firefighters?" | null | 0 | -1 | null | 42 |
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As a teenager, Khuram Butt - the ringleader of the London Bridge terror attack - was a cannabis-smoking "wannabe bad man" who regularly indulged in petty crime.
As an adult, he retained all of those habits - even as he attacked others for being "bad" Muslims.
Those closest to him paint a picture of an easily-influenced man given to obsessions. It was that obsessive nature which led him to Islamic extremism and, ultimately, to murder.
Details of his life emerged during the inquest into those deaths. Although coroner Mark Lucraft said none of the members of Butt's family who gave evidence was a "convincing witness", their accounts reveal a controlling man with a history of violence, who lived a life of contradictions.
Born in Jhelum, Pakistan, on 20 April 1990, Khuram Butt had two older siblings, brother Saad and sister Haleema.
His father ran a furniture business and while his family members were practising Muslims, they were not particularly religious.
They arrived in the UK in 1998 on a visitors' visa when Butt was eight.
All three of the children attended schools in Forest Gate and Stratford in east London, with Butt doing well in his end of school exams - he gained 11 GCSEs.
The family attempted to claim asylum, which was initially refused. But in 2004 - following the death of his father from a heart attack - Butt was given indefinite leave to remain in the UK.
He worked as a cashier at a pizza takeaway after school, before getting a job in the stockroom at Topshop on London's Oxford Street.
He received his first police caution at 18 for fraudulently using a friend's payment card on public transport.
From his teenage years Butt went clubbing, smoked drugs, indulged in casual sex and was described as a "wannabe gangster".
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In 2009 he became an office assistant at a removals firm.
But despite being in full-time employment, later working in a number of KFC takeaways, the life of petty crime still appealed.
In December 2010, when he was 20, he received a second caution for common assault occasioning actual bodily harm after a scuffle with a security guard at a shopping centre.
Haleema's wedding
Two year's later, Butt's sister married.
At the wedding he met a man named Hashim Rehman, whose uncle had worked with his father.
Afterwards Butt began to be more observant. He spent time with him, reading Islamic literature and praying five times a day. He also ended a relationship with his then girlfriend because she refused to convert to Islam.
Mr Rehman told police that rediscovering religion changed Butt, initially making him a softer and more humble man. Butt went on to ask Mr Rehman for his sister Zahrah's hand, and they were married on 25 December.
Initially, his newly found fervour for Islam was seen as a good thing. He began staying in and attended his mosque more regularly.
But the inquest heard his religious devotion began tipping into an increasingly extreme version of Islam.
On their wedding day, Butt insisted his new wife should wear a burqa and sat her behind a wooden screen so she could only be seen by him. His brother later took the screen down.
After returning from their honeymoon in Pakistan, Butt moved Ms Rehman into the home he shared with his mother, brother and sister-in-law.
His brother, Saad, said that Butt insisted his new wife wore a full-face veil and gloves inside the house.
"I think that says it all. He was the sort of person who did everything 100%," Mr Butt told the inquest. "Random sexual encounters, lots of girlfriends, drug taking and now that he has gone into Islam he wants to do it 100%."
Curtain pole
Saad said this was one of a series of things his brother did that made him "uncomfortable".
Butt would also get angry with his sister, he said, if she came to visit without wearing a headscarf, and asked for videos of him dancing at her wedding to be deleted.
In September 2014, he and his wife moved into a small one-bedroom flat in Barking, east London.
Once there, Butt put up a curtain pole in their hallway so that male visitors couldn't see his wife.
"With his friends he was 100% strict," his wife told the inquest. "I was not allowed to see them and they were not allowed to see me."
Instead she would prepare and cook meals for the gatherings he would regularly hold, before spending the rest of the night in their bedroom watching television on her laptop.
Image copyright Metropolitan Police Image caption Inside the flat Butt shared with his wife and two children
Ms Rehman said for a time she and their son, born in 2014, were his sole focus - but he soon became intensely focused on the war in Syria.
His manager at KFC said they also noticed a marked change in his behaviour and appearance at work.
Butt began to shave his head and grew a beard. A colleague said around this time they had a discussion about the murder of soldier Lee Rigby and Butt told them it was "an eye for an eye".
His wife became aware that he was associating with hate preacher Anjem Choudary towards the end of 2014.
She said she warned him to "stay away from people like that" but told the inquest Butt was stubborn and would never do what people asked of him.
'A lion out of a cage'
Ms Rehman said her husband met Choudary at a dawah stall (a public display promoting Islam) in Stratford or nearby East Ham. After that initial meeting Butt would listen to Choudary's speeches on YouTube, and he hosted him at his home on at least one occasion.
A friend said Butt was "energised" in Choudary's company and described him as being "like a lion out of a cage".
Yet despite his new obsession with religion, Butt still dabbled in drug use and petty crime. His brother-in-law described him as "very impressionable".
In September 2015 another brother-in-law, Usman Darr, reported Butt to the anti-terrorist hotline after he defended the Islamic State group's execution of a Jordanian pilot who was burned to death in a cage.
Butt already had an "anger problem", Ms Rehman said. Soon, he began starting fights with other Muslims who he believed were not "true" followers of Islam.
Butt and his wife had a "massive" argument in late 2015 when he decided he wanted a second wife and she left him for a month.
It was at this time that The Jihadis Next Door aired on Channel 4. The documentary filmed a number of British extremists meeting across the country and included scenes showing Butt and others confronting police officers in London's Regent's Park.
Ms Rehman told the inquest she first became aware of the programme when she watched it at her parents' house. Butt hadn't told her anything about the programme or being filmed.
The inquest heard that between 2015 and 2017 Butt expressed strong anti-Western views, shared videos of beheadings on WhatsApp, and was expelled from a mosque.
He became increasingly angry, Saad told the inquest, over "foreign policy, the wars, the injustices overseas".
He said that after several disagreements Butt stopped talking to his family about Syria. They thought he had changed his way of thinking - but he was secretly plotting an attack similar to those in Manchester and Westminster Bridge.
"In that sense he lived a double life," his brother added.
Image caption In May 2016, Butt began to work for London Underground as a customer service assistant
Just a couple of months later, Ms Rehman's family confiscated the couple's passports after Butt paid for flights to Turkey. She told her parents she suspected he wanted to take them and their infant son to Syria to join the Islamic State group and so her father destroyed the documents.
In May 2016, Butt began to work for London Underground as a customer service assistant.
His wife and family were delighted with his new job, but within weeks he started claiming sick pay after complaining his work-issued boots were damaging his feet.
His wife told the inquest: "It wasn't a genuine sickness - he just did not want to work."
Butt privately told his brother-in-law that he could not do the job because "in the summer there are too many naked women walking around".
His employers later terminated his contract after deciding he had failed his probation. It was around this time he began coming home smelling of cannabis again.
No kiss goodbye
His wife said Butt began to attend the Ummah Fitness Centre while he was on sick leave.
The gym was run by Sajeel Shahid and his partner, Sophie Rahman, who was the headteacher of the Ad-Deen Primary School in Ilford, a large commuter town to the east of London.
Butt was asked by the couple to teach the Koran to children at the school - despite his criminal cautions, his appearance on The Jihadis Next Door, his lack of references and background checks.
He began teaching a group of about six or seven children aged between seven and nine for two hours every afternoon. The school changed its name before closing in 2017.
Image copyright Met Police Image caption Rachid Redouane, Youssef Zaghba and Zhuram Butt outside the Ummah Fitness Centre
In May 2017, just weeks before he launched his murderous attack, Butt and his wife had another child. By this point, his wife said, he simply wasn't interested in her or their growing family.
Just minutes after she had given birth to their daughter he announced he was leaving the hospital "to go the gym" - where, it later emerged, he was meeting his fellow London Bridge attackers.
Although Ms Rehman repeatedly asked him to spend more time at home with her and their children, her pleas fell on deaf ears.
On Saturday 3 June 2017, Butt left their home for the last time.
He left without kissing or saying goodbye to either of his children.
Eight people were killed that evening.
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Jimmy Carter has called Donald Trump an “illegitimate president” who was helped into office by Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Jimmy Carter calls Donald Trump an 'illegitimate president' – live Read more
At a conference for his human rights organization the Carter Center, the former president said a full investigation “would show that Trump didn’t actually win the election in 2016”.
“He lost the election and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf,” Carter added.
The event moderator, Jon Meacham, asked if that meant Carter thought that Trump was an illegitimate president. Carter then briefly paused and replied: “Based on what I just said, which I can’t retract,” Carter said. The remark then triggered laughter in the audience and from Meacham.
Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election, and the Kremlin’s ties to Trump’s campaign, were exhaustively investigated by Robert Mueller. In his 448-page report, submitted in April, the special counsel concluded there was not enough evidence to establish a conspiracy between Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia. But he did detail numerous incidents of Russian interference, many of which have led to indictments.
Carter also called for Trump to condemn Russia for their actions and said the current president should “admit that it happened”.
“There’s no doubt that the Russians did interfere in the election,” he said.
On Friday Trump, and Vladimir Putin met at the G20 summit in Japan – and Trump jokingly raised the issue. As the pair sat for photographs, a reporter asked if Trump would tell Putin not to meddle in the 2020 US election. Without looking at Putin, Trump said: “Don’t meddle in the election, please.’” He then repeated the phrase with a mock finger wag. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 14 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Restaurants across the country could soon be forking up more dough to pay their tipped employees.
The "Raise the Wage" Act, which is set to come to a vote after the July Fourth holiday, would eliminate the $2.13 federal minimum wage for tipped employees in favor of a single $15 minimum wage for everyone. Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called the status quo "indentured servitude."
Several states, including Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Vermont, have also recently considered the change on the state level.
Boston-area server Emma Ruff said the change is necessary because of the unpredictability of her income.
"You'd be making a fair wage and not feel like you're dependent on tips," said Ruff, who works at a family-owned seafood restaurant. "Our livelihood and my ability to pay rent my ability to feed myself are all dependent on the customer."
GERMANY TO INTRODUCE MINIMUM WAGE FOR APPRENTICE
Proponents argue that instituting one single minimum wage will combat poverty.
"This is trying to get at the structural issues around addressing income inequality," said Massachusetts Democratic State Rep. Tricia Farley-Bouvier, who is sponsoring the bill there. "We know that tip workers are much more likely to live in poverty than other workers."
But not all restauranteurs are embracing the proposal. Some are calling foul.
"Servers are our highest compensated employees, so this isn't really necessary," said Massachusetts Restaurant Association president Bob Luz. "It takes away dollars that could be used to take care of cooks, hosts, hostesses."
Seven states already have one standard wage for tipped and non-tipped workers alike – Alaska, California, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington. In California, home to the largest restaurant industry in the country, service industry growth is slowing due to the recent wage changes, an April study from UC Riverside School of Business found.
OLIVE GARDEN PATRON CAPTURES PICTURE OF GROUNDHOG ENJOYING BREADSTICK
The initiative has fallen flat in several areas that have recently tried it, including Connecticut, New Mexico, and Indiana. In Washington, D.C., and Maine, legislators reversed ballot measures due to pushback from the industry – including servers at high-end restaurants who may end up making less money from patrons feeling less obligated to leave a tip.
Heather Black, a server and bartender at The Local in Waltham, Mass., does not think tips should go away if the tipped wage does.
"We're doing you a service," Black said. "Even though we're getting paid for it, I feel like you should still tip."
Rep. Farley-Bouvier said in the seven states in which the single wage is already in place, patrons still regularly tip.
"Those states have thriving restaurant industries, from big chain restaurants to small mom and pop shops," Farley-Bouvier said. "Diners have gotten in this habit of tipping and they continue to tip."
Industry leaders fear that the change could put small businesses under.
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"We need a common-sense approach to the minimum wage that reflects the different economic realities of each city, state, and region,” said Karen Bremer, president of the Council of State Restaurant Associations in an email. “Increasing it too high or too soon can cripple small- and family-owned restaurants which already operate with slim single-digit margins.”
The House is set to vote on the Raise the Wage act over the course of the next month. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 27 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Despite China’s demands that Hong Kong not be discussed in any way at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo confronted Chinese Communist Party chief Xi Jinping on Thursday over China’s human rights abuses and told him “a free and open Hong Kong” must be allowed to “prosper under the ‘One Country, Two Systems’ policy.”
Japanese officials said Abe stressed the importance of “guaranteeing freedom, human rights, rule of law and other universal values” during a meeting on Thursday ahead of the G20 kickoff.
Abe also criticized China’s persecution of the Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang province during his meeting with Xi, according to Japanese Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasutoshi Nishimura.
Abe signaled before the meeting that he intended to welcome Xi warmly and pursue improved relations between Japan and China, and perhaps conduct a little advance diplomacy before Xi meets with U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday. Abe publicly extended an invitation to Xi to visit Japan next spring, “when the cherry trees are in blossom,” so the two leaders could “raise Japan-China ties to the next level.”
However, Abe made it clear he would discuss unfair business practices, China’s militarization of the South China Sea, and Chinese attempts to annex disputed islands during his meeting with Xi. His decision to discuss Hong Kong directly contradicted Chinese orders that it would allow no discussion of Hong Kong and its massive pro-democracy demonstrations during the G20 event.
CNN credited Hong Kong’s intrepid demonstrators with helping to inspire Abe’s conversation with Xi. Activists were able to stage demonstrations in both Osaka and Hong Kong, connecting them with a live video feed. Their campaign to finance full-page advertisements in newspapers of the G20 countries exceeded its fundraising goals and was able to place ads in at least ten international papers.
Activists told the Hong Kong Free Press they were delighted by Abe’s support for their cause. The activists said:
Nineteen-year-old university student Vivian Yuen Ching-yan told HKFP she welcomed Abe’s comments and hopes it will spur more world leaders to raise similar concerns. “I hope the international community can also put pressure on the Hong Kong government to actually respond to our demands, instead of giving bullshit excuses,” she said. Gigi Tang, a 22-year-old university student, also said she hopes Abe’s comments will influence more world leaders to speak out about Hong Kong. “Of course it is welcomed. His opinion is more powerful than two million Hong Kong people coming out to protest,” she said. “I hope the [newspaper] campaign will raise awareness not just with world leaders but people across the world.”
Andy Chan Ho-tin, founder of the banned pro-independence Hong Kong National Party, thanked Abe for discussing the issue with Xi and said he is “looking forward to other leaders doing the same and speaking up for Hong Kong people.”
The Hong Kong contingent in Osaka found allies in activists for the Uighurs and Tibetans, appearing in support of each others’ demonstrations as the G20 summit got underway. Chan, in fact, expressed his thanks to Abe in a press conference held by the Free Indo-Pacific Alliance, a group representing oppressed and exiled minorities that is currently headed by the former president of the World Uighur Congress.
The group has organized rallies and marches against China throughout the G20 summit. In addition to respect for Hong Kong’s autonomy and closing the infamous re-education camps of Xinjiang province, the Free Indo-Pacific Alliance wants China to stop threatening military action against Taiwan. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 18 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Image copyright EPA Image caption RAF crews dropped tonnes of ballast and sand in the breach in an attempt to prevent further flooding
The government will face a bill of up to £1m after deploying RAF helicopters to plug flood defences when a river burst its banks in Lincolnshire.
Heavy rainfall caused the River Steeping to burst its banks at Wainfleet on 12 June.
About 580 homes were evacuated, with some people not expected to be able to return for months.
RAF crews dropped tonnes of ballast and sand in the breach in an attempt to prevent further flooding.
The costs were revealed at a meeting of the Lincolnshire Police and Crime Panel during a discussion about the effect of the flooding on local service budgets.
Police and Crime Commissioner Marc Jones said the final bill was likely to be between £750,000 and £1m.
"I expect the RAF will put in a bill, but it won't be borne by our budget," Mr Jones told the panel.
Image copyright EPA Image caption The cost of the operation is expected to be up to £1m
Lincolnshire Police's Chief Constable Bill Skelly said the force had received assurances the full cost of the RAF operation would be met by central government.
According to the Local Democracy Reporting Service, Mr Jones said he would also seek further funding to help cover other flood-related costs.
The RAF, with support from a Joint RAF and Army unit, flew in about 100 one-tonne bags of gravel suspended under Chinook helicopters
The operation was designed to reinforce the flood defences and drastically reduce the chances of further flooding.
Work on a more permanent fix to the river bank, which involves steel rods being driven into the river bank and backfilled with gravel, is under way,
Image copyright PA Image caption The River Steeping burst its banks after the equivalent of about two months' rain fell in two days
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | A "predatory" police officer sent "flirty" messages to a teenage recruit and a crime victim, a misconduct hearing was told.
Essex Police PC Matthew Langford was found guilty of gross misconduct after taking a woman's number from case files in order to send her personal messages.
He also sent texts to an 18-year-old who was hoping to join the force, calling her "a pretty little thing".
The panel ruled the officer would have been sacked if he had not resigned.
Panel chairman John Bassett said: "We have seen a course of predatory conduct towards young and vulnerable females."
He said PC Langford's messages had been "testing the water in the hope of developing a sexual relationship".
'Weird and unprofessional'
PC Langford, who was based at Clacton and did not attend the hearing, had previously gone through disciplinary proceedings for a similar incident in which he messaged an 18-year-old crime victim in 2009, the hearing at Chelmsford Civic Centre was told.
Stephen Morley, acting for Essex Police, said between 2014 and 2015 PC Langford had messaged the 18-year-old, known as Miss A, telling her she was a "pretty little thing" and asking if she needed picking up from a night out as "my wife's out and you can come back to mine".
The officer, who quit in May 2018, had been contacted by Miss A as her aunt had put her in touch with him to find out how to join the special constabulary.
She later quit the role due to her fears of working with PC Langford, the hearing was told.
Mr Morley said PC Langford obtained "Miss B's" mobile phone number from police files in 2017 after she reported a domestic abuse incident involving her ex-partner.
He sent her "weird and unprofessional" messages including asking her if she was "thinking the same as me", which she took to be him "chatting her up", the hearing was told. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 12 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Former Vice President Joe Biden didn't offer his best debate performance Thursday, according to former DNC chair Ed Rendell, who also dismissed Rep. Eric Swalwell's, D-Calif. critiques about the former senator's age.
Biden also has more crossover appeal than many of the other 2020 Democratic contenders, Rendell claimed Friday on "Outnumbered Overtime."
"It wasn't his best performance by any means," he said.
"But look, it's a long way to Iowa. There are going to be eight or ten debates."
DEM DEBATE: SWALWELL ZINGS BIDEN ON HIS AGE, CALLS ON HIM TO 'PASS THE TORCH'
The former DNC chairman added that former President Ronald Reagan did not look sharp during his first bout with then-Sen. Walter Mondale, D-Minn. in 1984.
"Remember, Ronald Reagan looked like a guy who had lost his intellectual balance in the first debate against Walter Mondale," Rendell claimed.
"He cured that in the second debate, and as I recall he won 49 states. So don't take one debate and necessarily write someone off.
"Joe Biden's views are not only in line with the majority of Democratic voters, but they are also in line with independents and some Republicans, as well."
JOE SCARBOROUGH LAMBASTES 2ND DEM DEBATE: A 'DISASTER' FOR DEMOCRATS, BIDEN'S PERFORMANCE 'DISTURBING'
Turning to Swalwell's performance, Rendell claimed the 38-year-old northern California lawmaker worked admirably to express his platform, but missed the mark in his critique of Biden.
"I think Eric Swalwell is trying to make the case as best he can for his candidacy," the former Pennsylvania governor and ex-Philadelphia mayor claimed.
"But, people are judged by who they are, what they believe in, and what they've done, what they are capable of doing. That's true for African-Americans, Latinos, LGBT, the white candidates... Is Pete Buttigieg too young to run? No.
"I think Eric Swalwell is way off base... particularly considering I belong to the biggest voting bloc in the election."
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Swalwell criticized Biden Thursday, asking him to "pass the torch," in reference to a similar remark the then-Delaware senator made during a previous run for president.
“I was six years old when a presidential candidate came to the California Democratic Convention and said ‘it’s time to pass the torch to a new generation of Americans.’ That candidate was then-Senator Joe Biden,” Swalwell said.
“Joe Biden was right 32 years ago, and he’s still right today.”
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Despite a tumultuous week Boris Johnson remains the overwhelming favourite to become the next Conservative leader, and thus prime minister, in just over three weeks from now. So what can we expect from a Johnson premiership, based on his claimed past record, and promises on the campaign trail?
Success as foreign secretary
What he has claimed: When Johnson has talked about his time in the Foreign Office he has mainly pointed to the UK’s success in persuading other nations to expel Russian diplomats in the wake of the Sergei Skripal poisoning.
The reality: The Skripal aftermath is hard to assess – such efforts are international, and span dozens of officials and ministers – but critics would point to Johnson’s otherwise very mixed record in the job, notably his gaffes over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
Crime
What he has claimed: Johnson has mainly talked up his eight years as London mayor, from 2008, saying he halved the city’s murder rate and reduced knife crime.
The reality: Much more mixed. London had 155 murders in 2008, and 109 in 2016. Even at the lowest level, of 94 in 2016, this is a 40% reduction. The | null | 0 | -1 | null | 9 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | CLOSE Rep. Eric Swalwell of California had a simple message for former Vice President Joe Biden during Thursday's debate: It's time to pass the torch. USA TODAY
WASHINGTON – California Rep. Eric Swalwell went after former Vice President Joe Biden – the current frontrunner in the 2020 Democratic primary – for his age during the Democratic primary debate in Miami on Thursday, saying it was time for Biden to "pass the torch to a new generation of Americans," and claiming that Biden had made that same argument in 1987 during his first run for the White House.
"I was six-years-old when a presidential candidate came to the California Democratic Convention and said, 'It's time to pass the torch to a new generation of Americans.' That candidate was then-Sen. Joe Biden," Swalwell said. "Joe Biden was right when he said it was time to pass the torch to a new generation of Americans 32 years ago. He's still right today.
"If we're going to solve the issues of automation, pass the torch. If we're going to solve the issues of climate chaos, pass the torch. If we're going to solve the issue of student loan debt, pass the torch. If we're going to end gun violence for families who are fearful of sending their kids to school, pass the torch."
Biden responded that he is "still holding onto that torch."
Analysis: Biden's image as the inevitable nominee, the one to beat Trump, was dinged Thursday
More: Bernie Sanders claims 'ageism' after Eric Swalwell attacked him and Joe Biden in Democratic debate
But Swalwell's memory of what Biden said when he was 6 was not entirely accurate.
As a clip of Biden's remarks shared by Swalwell on Twitter shows, Biden was actually quoting from President John Kennedy's inaugural address on Jan. 20, 1961. And it appears he was citing the president's words more for nostalgia and the feeling they gave him as a young man, rather than using them to call for his older contemporaries to make way.
I was 6 when a presidential candidate said it is time to pass the torch to a new generation of Americans. That candidate was Joe Biden. He was right 32 years ago. He’s still right today. Let's #PassTheTorch!
Help me fight for YOU! Donate $1 now: https://t.co/n0sDpUiItypic.twitter.com/GtxJ4JdGZ6 — Eric Swalwell (@ericswalwell) June 28, 2019
Biden's exact words were, "It sounds corny, but remember how you used to feel? Remember how you felt when you heard, 'Let the word go forth from this time and place' that 'the torch has been passed,' passed 'to a new generation of Americans'?" Biden asked the crowd at the California Democratic Convention in a speech delivered on Feb. 3, 1987, according to C-SPAN.
He went on to quote Martin Luther King Jr., asking, "Remember how you felt when you heard the man say, 'I have a dream' that one day the son of the slave and the son of the slaveholder will sit down 'at the table of brotherhood'?"
Swalwell also claimed that Biden delivered the remarks as a presidential candidate, but Biden did not enter the 1988 Democratic primary race until June 1987, more than four months after the speech Swalwell cited.
Former Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., speak during a break in the second night of the first Democratic presidential debate on June 27, 2019 in Miami, Florida. (Photo: Drew Angerer, Getty Images)
Though Biden concluded his speech aimed at his fellow Baby Boomers by saying "our time has come," the context of the speech was not about calling for older Democrats to stand aside, but rather for his generation to overcome political apathy and reclaim the spirit that drove their activism in the 1960s and '70s.
"Just because our heroes were murdered, does not mean that the dream does not still live very deep in the broken hearts of tens of thousands of Americans. For I can still hear those dreamers, and so can you, speaking to us from across the divide of those wilderness years," Biden said in the speech.
Biden was addressing what was a common theme in the 1980s, reflected in popular culture by films like "The Big Chill," that the hippies and yippies of the 1960s had "sold out" and exchanged idealism for materialism in 1980s America.
"The cynics believe that my generation has forgotten. They believe that the idealism and compassion and conviction that changed the world, that marked our youth, is now nothing but a long, faded whisp of adolescence. They believe that having reached the conservative age of mortgage payments, pediatricians' bills and concern for our children's education, that we have forgotten," he said.
"But I'm here to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that they have misjudged us."
Rep. Swalwell's campaign did not immediately reply to USA TODAY's request for comment.
See the full 1987 speech here.
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rose on Friday, as big banks gained after clearing the Federal Reserve’s stress test, while investors kept a watch on the G20 summit where a meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping could lay the groundwork to resolve their trade dispute.
FILE PHOTO: Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., June 5, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo
Trump said he hoped for productive talks with the Chinese president, but said he had not made any promises about a reprieve from escalating tariffs. The two leaders are scheduled to meet on the sidelines of the G20 summit this weekend in Japan.
“What investors expect are good talks, no implementation of tariffs right away and a continuation in negotiations. Which is also the most likely outcome from G20,” said Randy Frederick, vice president of trading and derivatives for Charles Schwab in Austin, Texas.
“There are still hopes that things won’t be worse after the weekend.”
The uncertainty caused by conflicting reports on a potential trade truce stalled this month's rally, with the S&P 500 index .SPX on pace to post its first weekly loss in June.
Still, the bellwether index is up nearly 7% for the month, putting it on track to clock its best six-month run since March 2012. Global stocks, meanwhile, recorded their best first-half of the year ever.
Lifting Wall Street were gains in financials .SPSY, up 1.39%, the most among the 11 major S&P sectors, closely followed by a 0.9% rise in trade-sensitive industrials .SPLRCI.
Banks stocks .SPXBK jumped 2.41% after the Fed on Thursday approved capital plans of 16 banks, including JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N), Bank of America Corp (BAC.N) and Citigroup Inc (C.N), in its final stress test hurdle.
At 12:31 p.m. ET the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI was up 94.21 points, or 0.36%, at 26,620.79 and the S&P 500 .SPX was up 13.78 points, or 0.47%, at 2,938.70.
The Nasdaq Composite .IXIC was up 37.26 points, or 0.47%, at 8,005.02.
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) dipped 0.3% after the iPhone maker said Jony Ive, a close creative collaborator with the company’s co-founder Steve Jobs, will leave later this year.
Constellation Brands Inc (STZ.N) jumped 4.5% after the Corona beer maker reported quarterly results above analysts’ estimates.
Giving the Fed more ammunition to cut interest rates next month was data that showed consumer spending increased moderately in May and prices rose slightly, pointing to slowing economic growth and benign inflation pressures.
Advancing issues outnumbered decliners by a 3.10-to-1 ratio on the NYSE and by a 2.81-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq.
The S&P index recorded nine new 52-week highs and no new low, while the Nasdaq recorded 59 new highs and 30 new lows. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 19 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | “Mayor Lightfoot is committed to building a comprehensive and reliable transportation system that alleviates congestion, equitably serves Chicago’s residents and moves our city forward,” the statement said. "In the months ahead, she and her team will be reaching out and engaging with everyday Chicagoans, neighborhood groups, mobility experts and other stakeholders to listen to their needs and collaborate on developing fiscally responsible and environmentally sustainable solutions to our shared goals.” | null | 0 | -1 | null | 2 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | VIENNA (Reuters) - European countries offered too little at last-ditch talks on Friday to persuade Iran to back off from its plans to breach limits imposed by its nuclear agreement with world powers, Iran’s envoy said.
Iran's top nuclear negotiator Abbas Araqchi and Secretary General of the European External Action Service (EEAS) Helga Schmit attend a meeting of the JCPOA Joint Commission in Vienna, Austria, June 28, 2019. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger
A week after Washington called off air strikes just minutes before impact, diplomats say Iran is days away from exceeding the maximum amount of enriched uranium allowed under its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, which Washington quit last year.
The countries that are still signed up to the agreement — European powers Britain, Germany and France plus Russia and China — held urgent talks with Iranian officials on Friday in Vienna in hope of persuading Tehran to hold off.
The Europeans say breach of the agreement by Iran would escalate confrontation at a time when Tehran and Washington are at risk of a miscalculation that could trigger a war.
Iran’s envoy, Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, said the talks were “a step forward, but it is still not enough and not meeting Iran’s expectations”.
He said it was ultimately up to his superiors in Tehran to decide whether to call off plans to exceed limits in the nuclear deal, but he did not believe the talks’ outcome was likely to change their minds.
“The decision to reduce our commitments has already been made and we will continue unless our expectations are met,” he said. “I don’t think the progress made today will be enough to stop our process but the decision will made in Tehran.”
The likelihood that Iran could exceed the deal’s limits as soon as the next few days is the next looming worry for European leaders trying to keep confrontation between Washington and Tehran from spiraling out of control.
Despite abandoning the deal, Washington has demanded European countries ensure Iran keeps complying with it. Iran says it cannot do so unless the Europeans provide it with some way to receive the deal’s promised economic benefits.
In particular, it wants its oil exports restored to the level of April 2018, before Trump reimposed sanctions.
French President Emmanuel Macron said this week that he would ask U.S. President Donald Trump to ease sanctions to allow negotiations to begin. But the plea seemed to have fallen on deaf ears, with Trump’s Iran envoy saying on Friday sanctions would remain in place to end Iranian oil exports altogether.
China, long a big importer of Iranian oil, said it rejected U.S. sanctions, but Fu Cong, director general of the Department of Arms Control of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, would not be drawn on whether Beijing planned to keep buying.
BARTER MECHANISM LAUNCHES
So far, European proposals to protect Iran from the impact of U.S. sanctions have failed, with Iran largely shunned in international oil markets and all major companies cancelling plans to invest there for fear of falling afoul of U.S. rules.
After Friday’s talks, Araqchi said he had been informed that INSTEX, a new barter mechanism set up by the Europeans to facilitate some trade with Iran, was now operational.
A European diplomat said it was now working on the European side and transactions had been identified, but work on the Iranian end had yet to be completed.
Araqchi said the new mechanism would help only if it enables Iran to sell its oil. The Europeans say it is likely to be able to handle only small transactions for items such as medicine, already permitted under sanctions.
Iran has said it is ramping up its nuclear program and has announced dates when this would push it past limits in the deal. The first big deadline passed on Thursday, the day Tehran said it would accumulate more enriched uranium than the deal allows.
Diplomats who follow the work of U.N. inspectors told Reuters that their data suggested Iran had not breached the limit on Thursday, but was on course to do so over the weekend.
Another deadline falls on July 7 when Iran says it will have enriched some uranium to a purity forbidden under the deal. Tehran says it still aims to keep the deal alive and any breaches could be reversed.
The crisis between Iran and the United States that began with Trump’s withdrawal from the pact has escalated in recent weeks after Washington sharply tightened its sanctions from the start of May to halt all Iranian oil exports.
The Trump administration argues that the 2015 agreement reached under his predecessor Barack Obama was too weak because many terms are not permanent and it excludes non-nuclear issues such as missiles and Iran’s regional behavior. Washington says the aim of sanctions is to force Tehran to renegotiate.
Tehran says there can be no talks as long as sanctions are in place and Washington is ignoring the deal it already signed.
The confrontation took on a military dimension in recent weeks, with Washington blaming Tehran for attacks on ships in the Gulf, which Iran denies. Iran shot down a U.S. drone last week, saying it had entered its air space. Washington said the drone was in international skies, and Trump ordered, then aborted, retaliatory air strikes on Iranian targets.
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Any move by Iran that violated the terms of the nuclear deal would put pressure on the Europeans to take sides.
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Image copyright AFP Image caption Canan Kaftancioglu has suggested the charges are politically motivated
A leading figure in Istanbul politics has appeared in court over accusations she insulted President Erdogan and the Turkish state online.
Canan Kaftancioglu leads the Istanbul branch of the secular Republican People's Party (CHP).
The opposition group claimed a stunning election victory over Turkey's ruling AK party in Istanbul's mayoral election last weekend.
Ms Kaftancioglu could face up to 17 years in prison.
Hundreds showed up to court to support Ms Kaftancioglu on Friday. Her trial has now been adjourned until 18 July.
The newly inaugurated Istanbul mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, has alleged the charges against Ms Kaftancioglu amount to "political interference".
"It is an attempt to restrict rights and freedoms. I will always stand by her," he said.
Mr Imamoglu's victory came after an earlier March result was annulled over alleged irregularities.
The CHP candidate dramatically increased his winning margin in the re-run.
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Supporters and opponents of Istanbul's new mayor explain why they think Ekrem Imamoglu won
What is she accused of?
Canan Kaftancioglu is standing trial over a number of tweets, reportedly dating back up to six years ago.
She is accused of "insulting" President Erdogan and the Turkish state in the posts, as well as allegedly "spreading terror propaganda".
Reports say the alleged comments relate to 2013 anti-government protests and the outlawed Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK).
As leader of the CHP in Istanbul, Ms Kaftancioglu is seen as having played a significant role in Mr Imamoglu's victory - which ended 25 years of AKP rule in the nation's largest city.
The mayoral election was widely viewed as a referendum on President Erdogan's rule. The leader, who has ruled since 2003 as both prime minister and president, had previously said himself that "whoever wins Istanbul, wins Turkey".
The hashtag #TurkiyeSeninleCananBaskan (Turkey Stands With You, Chief Canan) trended online as she appeared in court.
The leftist Birgun newspaper quoted Ms Kaftancioglu as saying: "The light of hope in Istanbul has unsettled certain people" as she left the Caglayan courthouse. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 20 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Charlie Sykes Democrats say they want to beat Trump in 2020. But the debates suggest differently.
There are millions of voters who are horrified by Trump and open to voting for a reasonable Democratic alternative — but not for a party that ignores or scares them. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 3 |
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In a CBS interview, Senator Kamala Harris defended her heated exchange with former Vice-President Joe Biden during the Democratic debate, in which she addressed his past position on desegregation bussing, a policy to integrate schools across the country. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 1 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | CLOSE In night two of the Democratic debate, candidates bore down into issues, and each other. Kamala Harris went after Joe Biden for his past on busing. USA TODAY
The second Democratic presidential debate, held Thursday night with 10 more candidates, was at times a loud, raucous free-for-all, with face-offs and passion and yelling and interrupting and some genuine weirdness.
It was nuts.
And it was great TV.
Also: Chuck Todd is terrible.
It stood in stark contrast with the debate Wednesday night, a comparatively sleepy affair that will be remembered most for NBC technical difficulties with microphones left on after a moderator change. (The debate again was televised on NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo.)
Not so Thursday night, which included Sen. Kamala Harris getting personal in an astonishing takedown of former Vice President Joe Biden over his record on (and her personal experience with) busing and, by extension, race. The post-debate round-ups shredded Biden over this. CNN’s Van Jones put it simply: “I’m hurt.”
Again, I’ll leave the politics to greater minds than mine, but at least on the TV front (and on social media, where she was trending), it was a great night for Harris, who at one point basically took over as moderator.
Good thing. Someone should have. Todd and Rachel Maddow, who again handled the second hour, and Lester Holt, Savannah Guthrie and and Jose Diaz-Balart, too often let the debate get out of hand. Granted, there were 10 people on the stage, but there were times when all 10 were shouting at the same time; it made the Tower of Babel look like a focused conversation.
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., greets the audience from the debate stage in Miami on June 27, 2019. (Photo: Leah Voss, Treasure Coast News via USA TODAY Network)
Harris, at one point, silenced the rest with the quote of the night: “Guys, you know what, Americans don’t want to witness a food fight. They want to know how we’re going to put food on their table.”
That shut them up. Momentarily, at least.
Winners and losers: Who were the winners and losers of Thursday's Democratic debate
If Wednesday night was the Sen. Elizabeth Warren Show with a supporting cast, tonight was more of an ensemble, though Harris was the clear star. What made it such good TV were the contributions from, say, author Marianne Williamson, who seems truly odd, in a comforting, New-Age sort of way. In her closing statement, evidently directly addressing those who attended Woodstock, she said, “So Mr. President, if you’re listening, I want you to hear me, please. You have harnessed fear for political purposes, and only love can cast that out. So I, sir, I have a feeling you know what you’re doing. I’m going to harness love for political purposes. I will meet you on that field, and sir, love will win.”
Rock on.
Obviously Biden, as the front-runner in polls, was the focus of a lot of questions and comments. But he didn’t seem as relaxed as, say, South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg, whose calm, reasoned approach contrasted with, for instance, that of Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during the second Democratic primary debate in Miami on June 27, 2019. (Photo: Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images)
At one point I thought the sound mix was flawed so that it made it sound as if Sanders was yelling. Then I realized, no, Sanders was yelling.
Biden and Bernie: Wide-eyed Joe Biden dodges Bernie Sanders' hand in viral debate moment
Another difference between this bunch and Wednesday’s: They went after President Donald Trump, by name, a lot more strongly. In one remarkable tell-us-how-you-really-feel moment, Sanders called Trump a racist, a fraud and a pathological liar.
For his part, Trump, who is in Japan, tweeted only once during the debate: “All Democrats just raised their hands for giving millions of illegal aliens unlimited healthcare. How about taking care of American Citizens first!? That’s the end of that race!”
All Democrats just raised their hands for giving millions of illegal aliens unlimited healthcare. How about taking care of American Citizens first!? That’s the end of that race! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 28, 2019
In fact, it’s just the beginning. And as we move forward with more rounds of debates — the election is 16 months away, remember — here’s hoping we see more nights like this.
Reach Goodykoontz at [email protected]. Facebook: facebook.com/GoodyOnFilm. Twitter: @goodyk.
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | The Dalai Lama turns 84 on July 6, and he’s apparently been thinking a lot about his successor ― especially their looks.
In a recent interview with the BBC, the Tibetan Buddhist leader is open to the possibility that his successor could be female ― but only if she’s pretty.
“If a female Dalai Lama comes, she should be more attractive,” he said while laughing and scrunching up his face. “People, I think, prefer not to see that face.”
When the interviewer pointed out that the Dalai Lama’s emphasis on looks seemed strange for a man who preaches tolerance and inner confidence, he doubled down, saying both inner and outer beauty are important in Buddhist teachings.
He then stressed that he supported women’s rights and equal pay in the workplace.
The Dalai Lama has spoken about this before, telling the BBC in 2015 that an unattractive female Dalai Lama “would not be much use.”
The Dalai Lama has a vested interest in the matter since Tibetan Buddhists believe the Dalai Lama can personally pick the body of their next incarnation.
The Dalai Lama’s comments about women weren’t the only ones attracting attention. The Buddhist leader responded to a question about letting refugees resettle in Europe by saying a “limited number” is “OK.” But he added, laughing, that the idea of Europe becoming Muslim or African is “impossible.”
He then echoed a far-right talking point: “Keep Europe for Europeans.”
The Dalai Lama has made similar comments in recent years.
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | (CNN) Amid the huzzahs and high-fives for Kamala Harris' star turn at Thursday night's 2020 presidential debate, a sour note emerged: Harris, again, seemed to walk back her position on whether she supports the total elimination of the private health care insurance industry.
In the debate itself, the moderators asked the 10 candidates on stage to raise their hand if they supported the abolishing of the private health care market in favor of a government-run program -- as outlined in Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All plan. Only two candidates -- Sanders, obvi, and Harris -- raised their hands.
Which seemed pretty cut and dry. But, it wasn't!
After the debate, Harris and her team sought to amend her seeming support for the total elimination of the private industry. She had misunderstood the question, they argued, believing that she was raising her hand to say that her own health care -- as a member of Congress -- would be eliminated and put into a government-run system.
"So, the question was would you be willing to give up your private insurance," Harris said on CBS's "This Morning" Friday . When one of the CBS anchors noted that that wasn't how the question was asked, Harris replied, "that is certainly what I heard." She then added: "I am supportive of a Medicare for All policy, and under a Medicare for All policy, private insurance would certainly exist for supplemental coverage."
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Vladimir Putin is on a high. Kicked out of the G8 in 2014 after the start of his military operations in Ukraine, he’s been making full use of the G20 summit in Osaka to bask in meetings with world grandees and soak up all the international media attention he possibly can, complete with a not very challenging interview with the Financial Times.
Ever the opportunist, he takes what’s on offer, he glides, he smirks. And he watches with glee as we huff and puff at his provocations, whose over-riding purpose is to keep us on edge and play on our divisions.
This is now international showtime for Putin. After all, few people outside Russia paid much attention to his four-hour annual Direct Line TV show last week. I did watch part of it though, and what struck me was that Putin is getting older, and that he’s deploying particularly intensive PR work to try to neutralise a flurry of domestic tensions.
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Russian friends tell me the country “feels like 2010, when things were starting to bubble up”, ahead of the street protests that broke out during the following two years. Russia’s economy isn’t doing brilliantly. Putin’s decision to have the investigative journalist Ivan Golunov released and the handing over of the initiative to local protesters in Ekaterinburg in a recent dispute over the building of a cathedral were unexpected developments. OK, this wasn’t the end of political repression, but these were gestures that seemed an attempt to signal a softer touch – if only for now.
As Fiona Hill, one of the best Russia analysts around and now a departing Trump adviser, wrote in her 2012 book, Mr Putin, Operative in the Kremlin: “Uncovering the ‘real Putins’ requires looking beyond the staged performances and the deliberately assumed guises that constitute the Putin political brand.” File the comment to the FT about liberalism being “obsolete” in that category. A few years ago, take note, he was saying the exact opposite, telling us: “I’m a liberal.” Words tossed out like this have little meaning. They’re like small grenades or stink bombs aimed at deepening our self-doubt, despondency and fractiousness.
To fathom this, read Peter Pomerantsev’s book, Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, a memoir from inside Russia’s state propaganda machine. Putin will love western far-left and far-right criticisms of “liberalism”, just as he enjoys whatever anger can be fired up among eastern European politicians who are understandably worried about his next territorial encroachment. To his domestic audience it’s all perfect proof that Russia is back, and its leader is a slick mastermind. Putin is so good at exploiting our obsessions and weak spots: it’s a tactic he’s long perfected to deflect attention from his own record. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 18 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | PARIS (Reuters) - French police used riot shields and pepper spray to clear scores of climate activists blocking a bridge over the Seine in Paris on Friday, as the city sweltered under a record-breaking heatwave that many blame on global warming.
French CRS riot police remove French youth and environmental activists as they block a bridge during a demonstration to urge world leaders to act against climate change, in Paris, France, June 28, 2019. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
Protesters from Extinction Rebellion, a civil disobedience movement that began in Britain, blocked traffic on the Pont de Sully bridge in the center of the city, the latest surge of climate activism across northern and western Europe.
“We are trying to make people aware of the ecological problems that are a symptom of the system,” said Sophia Karpenko, a French neuroscientist and spokeswoman with Extinction Rebellion.
A police officer at the scene estimated that some 90 protesters had taken part, while Extinction Rebellion put the number at 200. Two people were briefly detained but no arrests were made, protesters said. There were no reports of injuries.
Extinction Rebellion describes itself as a non-violent direct-action group. It has carried out a number of high-profile protests in London, including disrupting road and rail travel as part of its efforts to raise awareness of climate change.
Last week, the group disrupted an advertising industry festival in the French Riviera city of Cannes, staging sit-ins and banner drops to urge executives to focus more of their efforts on the climate crisis.
In March, tens of thousands of climate activists marched through Paris, although their protests were overshadowed by much larger and sometimes violent demonstrations by the Gilets Jaunes, a social movement opposed to President Emmanuel Macron.
Public unease over climate change has increased markedly over the past year following a series of worrying reports from climate scientists about the impact of global warming.
There has also been a higher incidence of extreme weather, including colder winters and warmer summers, that have alarmed citizens, voters and the scientific community. Europe’s current heatwave has seen temperatures hit 45 degrees Celsius (113°F).
In elections to the European Parliament in May, Green parties saw a surge in support in Germany, France and other member states, which many saw as a recognition of the increasing concern among voters about climate-related issues. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 15 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Chief Justice John Roberts. Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.
When Justice Anthony Kennedy retired a year ago, it was obvious that Chief Justice John Roberts—nobody’s median anything—would become the court’s center of gravity, while remaining its center of gravitas.
As Roberts’ first term as the court’s decisive vote in major political cases has drawn to a close, he has centered that gravity around upholding the legitimacy of the court as an institution—while pushing our nation’s laws as far to the right as possible without cracking the façade of that institutional integrity. In an age of crudeness and ugliness, the Last Reasonable Man still values moral seriousness over scoring points or throwing tantrums, much to the chagrin of the enemies on his own side.
If there could be a one-sentence summary of his majority opinion in the term’s census case—in which the chief joined the court’s liberals to refuse to allow Donald Trump’s commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census—it would be this: “Go ahead and lie to me, but at least do it with gravitas.” Ross and his crew of Keystone Cops had attempted to add the citizenship question that would depress Hispanic response rates and boost white voting power in future redistricting, using pretextual reasons about which the secretary lied But his goals did not offend John Roberts’ politics; that much is clear from his opinion, which accepts the premise that Ross has the right to do what he did so long as he gives a better reason next time. They offended his sense of dignity and politesse with their sloppiness. Lie better next time. That’s the real holding of this case, and it tells you what you need to know about the chief.
To the extent Roberts is the “swing” vote, the chief justice is a very, very different swing voter than Kennedy. When Kennedy defected to join with the liberals, he was all in, ideologically and emotionally. Whether he was the fifth vote to bless marriage equality or a reluctant vote to prop up affirmative action or the right to choose, he consulted with his own conscience and made the most dignity-affording call he could muster. A conservative at heart, Kennedy was also a romantic, with grandiose notions about the centrality of the court in public life. Kennedy’s votes were about Kennedy.
Roberts is not a romantic. He is a tactician and an able steward of the court’s path through troubled political times. It is true that he is principally concerned about the court’s legacy and his own, but it is also true that he knows exactly which lines to push before producing a public outcry, and precisely how far to push them. He was fine with Donald Trump’s racist tweets and statements that became the travel ban because they were ably covered by government lawyers (the third time around). He would not have been fine having his name tacked onto the shoddy lawyering and feeble cover-up produced by the DOJ lawyers in the census case. He will, should the opportunity arise, be mollified with better pretexts next time. Appearances matter a lot to the chief justice, and the appearance of blatant corruption and craven lawlessness offends him.
John Roberts is not a romantic.
John Roberts is, as Joan Biskupic reveals in her new biography of the man, a fundamentally political animal, and he will triangulate against politics in ways that make him an enemy to the right and a much more lethal long-term threat to the left. He will do it decorously, genteelly, and with moral seriousness not in evidence in, say, Justice Clarence Thomas’ accusations that a federal judge in the census case might as well have been a JFK conspiracy theorist. Thomas’ conservatism has arrived at a place of the theater of grievance. Roberts will continue to try to counterprogram that with the appearance of studied fairness and moderation. Does it mean that the court will continue to chart a middle course under Roberts’ leadership? Hardly. It was not charting a middle course when Kennedy held the tiller, either. But it does mean that at moments of greatest political turmoil, when the court is in the crosshairs because governmental bad behavior or Trumpian bungling puts it there, Roberts will take public sentiment into account and modulate the uproar.
There is at least some reason to believe that recent census revelations—indicating that the citizenship question had been added thanks to the overtly racist and white supremacist values of a Republican operative—made blessing the question that much more unpalatable to the canny chief. There is, similarly, reason to believe that states passing cruel and unconstitutional abortion bans will make it harder for the chief to vote in support of TRAP laws that shutter clinics without technically banning abortion. In short, the more badly Trumpists (like Ross) and Trump enthusiasts (like Thomas) behave, the more likely Roberts will be drawn to a center, or at least to an appearance of center.
Because there is, in fact, no real center to this court. We haven’t had a truly centrist justice since Sandra Day O’Connor retired in 2006; Kennedy was, as Jeffrey Toobin famously put it, “not a moderate but an extremist—of varied enthusiasms.” Roberts sometimes plays the role of a centrist, as when he votes to push Eighth Amendment law one centimeter to the left or tells the Trump administration to lie better when it wants to undermine civil rights. But when Roberts casts a “liberal” vote, it’s cramped and qualified, sometimes laying the groundwork for a doctrinal shift to the right. When he casts a conservative vote, meanwhile, it’s often sweeping and momentous, overturning decades of progressive precedent. Where Kennedy veered wildly left and right, the chief’s swinginess is largely a one-way ratchet. He feeds liberals a few crumbs, then breaks their hearts.
Indeed, if Kennedy is to have a swingy successor, it won’t be Roberts or even Kennedy’s replacement on the court, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who cast staunchly conservative votes throughout his first term. It might be Justice Neil Gorsuch. Make no mistake: Gorsuch is a rock-ribbed conservative who is no consistent friend to criminal defendants. But his skepticism of state power occasionally eclipses his Republican instincts. Twice this term, Gorsuch joined the liberals in 5–4 decisions, authoring opinions that led his conservative colleagues to accuse him of triggering an earthquake in constitutional law. After Gorsuch invalidated one criminal law as unconstitutionally vague, Kavanaugh howled that he had “destabilize[d] the criminal justice system” and led the court “off the constitutional cliff.” After Gorsuch struck down another law depriving defendants of a jury trial, Justice Samuel Alito warned that his “dangerous” opinion had “potentially revolutionary implications.”
Do not expect Roberts to write an opinion that spurs his conservative colleagues to accuse him of being a liberal revolutionary. Don’t expect Gorsuch to do it, either, when a case has political implications. The five justices who shut partisan gerrymandering claims out of federal court forever on Thursday will stick together in the big, front-page cases unless Republican officials lie so egregiously, or break the law so incompetently, that Roberts cannot rule in their favor without embarrassing himself and bringing shame upon the court. Avoiding humiliation, personal and institutional: That appears to be Roberts’ M.O. in the Trump years. Which means the Supreme Court will do everything it can to shore up the Trump administration’s pro-business, deregulatory, anti–civil rights, pro–religious establishment, and vote-suppressive goals without openly degrading itself in service of the president. If you’re counting small blessings, that’s more than Senate Republicans have been willing to do.
In a world in which the norms of trust, civility, fact finding, and good faith are sliding away, as the president tweets out preschool insults from the G-20 and senators “joke” about third terms for Trump, John Roberts has shown tolerance for the ugliness that swirls around the court’s neighborhood. But his tolerance isn’t infinite. If Republicans learn the lesson of the 2018 term, it’s that the chief justice is on their side, until and unless they do it ugly. He has limits, which is more than one can say for most of the GOP. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 56 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | I'm queer: Prominent Latina syndicated columnist Esther Cepeda shares her journey
"Imagine what it is like for a young person struggling with their sexuality or gender identity — it is much worse for them." | null | 0 | -1 | null | 1 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Northamptonshire's health and council bosses have asked the government for more money for adult social care
MPs have told a cash-strapped council it needs a "radical plan" to solve its bed blocking crisis.
About 900 patients are stuck in Northamptonshire hospitals and the county council has overspent on adult social care by £6m in three months.
In a meeting on Thursday, the county's MPs said health and adult social care should be combined to attract more funds.
Ian Morris, from the county council, said they were "working" on the issue.
The county's health and council bosses met with the seven MPs to lobby for more money, reported the Local Democracy Reporting Service.
The conservative MPs told them to look at the model in Greater Manchester where health and adult social care is provided by one organisation.
Image copyright PA Media Image caption Ninety over-65s are currently being admitted to Northampton and Kettering hospitals, twice the national average
Kettering MP Philip Hollobone said the council reorganisation in Northamptonshire was the perfect time to make the change.
The county council, along with district and borough councils will be dissolved in 2021 and two new unitary authorities will take over, after the authority overspent its budget by millions of pounds.
'Under pressure'
Mr Hollobone said: "There is a sensible plan for a combined health and social care organisation that is more likely to attract more funding."
Conservative, Mr Morris, the county councillor in charge of adult social care, did not specifically comment on the MPs proposal but said they were "already working closely" with hospitals and health care providers.
He said the £6m overspend would be "managed within the overall budget" and it was caused by a "20% increase in demand" on adult social care.
Image copyright PA Media Image caption The county council says it has one of the largest over-65 populations in the county
Labour councillor Mick Scrimshaw said: "The answer had to come from central government."
He warned that if the new unitary authorities do not get extra funding "day-to-day services, such as bin collections, will come under pressure". | null | 0 | -1 | null | 13 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Homeless people are among the victims in 7% of all reported modern slavery cases in Britain, according to research by the anti-slavery charity Unseen released on Friday.
Unseen said traffickers were “purposefully targeting homeless people for exploitation”, including making them commit crimes, most commonly through forced begging.
Homeless people were involved in 276 cases of modern slavery reported to the Modern Slavery Helpline since the dedicated hotline was set up in October 2016 by Unseen, the charity found.
Labor abuse was the main form of exploitation, accounting for 54 percent of cases and three-quarters of victims recorded by the hotline, which receives calls from the public, police, activists, healthcare professionals and modern slaves directly.
“Traffickers often gain people’s trust at soup kitchens and drop ins and trick them into slavery through false stories of success and money,” said Andrew Smith, chief executive of the charity Hull Homelessness.
Britain is home to at least 136,000 modern slaves, according to the Global Slavery Index by rights group Walk Free Foundation - a figure 10 times higher than a government estimate from 2013.
The manager of the Modern Slavery Helpline Rachel Harper said common recruitment tactics included targeting various vulnerabilities such as poverty, substance dependencies and language barriers.
The study also showed a high number of people escape from modern slavery only to find themselves homeless.
More than 350 of the potential victims in cases reported to the hotline between October 2016 and April 2019 were homeless either before, during or after they escaped captivity, it found.
Unseen runs safe houses for survivors and works with businesses, police, government and others to end slavery. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 10 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Missouri's only abortion clinic gets another extension, will remain open until August
Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region will continue to be allowed to provide abortions after another reprieve, this time from a state administrative commissioner. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 1 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | My colleague Richard Moore, who has died aged 88, was one of the few remaining party stalwarts from the 1950s whose understanding of liberalism, added to a determination to promote it, ensured the Liberal party’s survival when at times its future seemed precarious. He told me that he had attended every Liberal assembly and Liberal Democrat conference from 1953 to 2017. His whole working life was occupied with various aspects of liberalism, domestic or international.
Richard was born in London, the son of Sir Alan Moore, a surgeon who was medical officer of health in Sussex, and his wife, Hilda (nee Burrows), who gave him a private education, from which he won an exhibition to Trinity College, Cambridge, to read history. At Cambridge he became president of the union and anchored the Liberal Club. It is said that it was the existence of Jewish refugees from Hitler in the family home before the war that instilled in Richard an early awareness of the consequences of totalitarianism.
A modest legacy enabled him to take on a succession of poorly paid jobs within the Liberal family. Soon after graduation he joined the Liberal daily paper, the News Chronicle, as a leader writer. When that closed in 1960, he became secretary to the Liberal peers and, later, political secretary and speechwriter to Jeremy Thorpe, the party leader, on whose behaviour he studiously refused to comment, apart from the understatement that “he was not very wise in his choice of friends”.
His internationalism found expression in becoming adviser to the Liberal group in the European parliament, in between two terms as secretary general of Liberal International.
Richard was eight times an unsuccessful parliamentary Liberal candidate, between 1955 and October 1974. Remarkably for the time, he lost his election deposit only once, in 1970, when, believing it was vital that a Liberal oppose the Rev Ian Paisley in Antrim North, he packed a bag and did it himself. He also fought the 1984 European parliament election in Somerset and Dorset West.
He was a brilliant platform orator and some of his phrases stayed in the memory for years afterwards, but surprisingly there is only one publication under his own name, The Liberals in Europe (1974). His main literary endeavours appeared under others’ names.
His liberalism was on the radical wing of the party in the 1950s but became more establishment in later years. For instance, his lifelong opposition to totalitarian regimes and his belief in the need to intervene to counter them led him to disagree openly with the party over its opposition to the Iraq invasion in 2003.
In 1955 he married Ann Miles, a Liberal activist. She survives him, as do their two sons, Charles and Rowan, and daughter, Charlotte, seven grandchildren and | null | 0 | -1 | null | 19 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Stocks closed out a rocky second quarter on Wall Street Friday with solid gains as banks led indexes higher.
Shares in financial sector companies climbed after the Federal Reserve gave the country's 18 biggest banks permission to pay more dividends and buy back more of their own stock. The rally came as investors looking ahead to this weekend's scheduled trade meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
On Friday:
The S&P 500 index rose 16.84 points, or 0.6%, to 2,941.76.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 73.38 points, or 0.3%, to 26,599.96.
The Nasdaq composite added 38.49 points, or 0.5%, to 8,006.24.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller company stocks climbed 20.02 points, or 1.3%, to 1,566.57.
For the week:
The S&P 500 fell 8.70 points, or 0.3%.
The Dow dropped 119.17 points, or 0.4%.
The Nasdaq lost 25.46 points, or 0.3%.
The Russell 2000 gained 16.94 points, or 1.1%.
For the year:
The S&P 500 is up 434.91 points, or 17.3%.
The Dow is up 3,272.50 points, or 14%.
The Nasdaq is up 1,370.97 points, or 20.7%.
The Russell 2000 is up 218.01 points, or 16.2%. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 15 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | A Minneapolis city council has voted to omit the Pledge of Allegiance from their meetings to appear more inclusive to the community.
The St. Louis Park City Council members voted to no longer recite the pledge so that members of their community would not feel intimidated by the traditional practice.
“I hope it’s not too controversial,” said Council Member Tim Brausen. “Our community tends to be a very welcoming and increasingly diverse community, and we believe our citizens will understand.”
Brausen cited “racial equity initiatives” as the reason for the move, stating that “given the current Washington politics that are going on now, there’s a lot of people that are afraid of our government, and we worry about that.”
However, the community has since made their voices heard regarding the decision to scrap the pledge from council meetings.
Jacque Smith, the city’s communications and marketing manager, said in an email to the Washington Post that the council plans to revisit the vote “after hearing many comments from the community.”
There was little discussion when the council voted 5-0 on June 17 to cut the pledge from their meetings. Council Member Anne Mavity who sponsored the vote said, “We all love our country dearly, and we demonstrate that by our service as elected officials all the time.”
“I want to make sure that we are welcoming to everyone in our community, and so I just felt that was an unnecessary component to include every single week in our work,” she concluded.
St. Louis Park Mayor Jake Spano, who was not present at initial meeting and did not vote, tweeted Thursday that he was not in favor of the decision.
“Historically when a decision is made by the council, it’s over and we move on but after hearing from more people than I can count in the last day (many admittedly not from SLP), I asked my colleagues to revisit this decision and a majority of them agreed,” he wrote.
Brausen said the council may use the pledge for some circumstances.
“If we have an appropriate opportunity, if we have Boy Scout color guards or others in attendance, or if it’s a special occasion, we will consider using the Pledge of Allegiance before the meetings.”
The council plans to revisit the topic during a study session that will take place July 8. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 10 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Image copyright Counter Terrorism Policing South East Image caption Haider Ahmed was aged 16 when he planned the attack
A supporter of Islamic State (IS) who planned a terror attack with a hunting knife has been jailed for six years.
Haider Ahmed, 19, from Redhill in Surrey, was found guilty of preparing an act of terrorism at an earlier hearing at Kingston Crown Court.
Ahmed was aged 16 and 17 at the time he planned the attack, which was uncovered he was arrested in October 2016 on suspicion of money laundering.
He had told contacts he wanted to conduct a suicide mission.
During the trial, jurors heard he bought a knife for £25 using Paypal, but his mother took it away after finding it in his bag.
Andrew Hall QC, who defended Ahmed, said: ""He came across highly effective radicalisers who were fishing for the young, the isolated and the gullible.
"They found this boy in his bedroom in Surrey and he was brainwashed with a pernicious ideology and they turned him into their creature."
Image copyright Counter Terrorism Policing South East Image caption The court heard Ahmed bought a knife for £25
Sentencing, Judge Peter Lodder QC said: "I very much hope that you take advantage of the programmes available to you in prison and realise that radicalisation is not the way forward for you."
Outside court, Ahmed's sister, Fizza Ahmed, said the government should take action on internet sites promoting IS ideology and she believed her brother was a victim.
"My brother was only 16, even less than that, when he began searching all of this and it shouldn't have been accessible to him in the first place.
"I'm very disappointed there was not enough protection."
Ahmed, of Wordsworth Mead, also pleaded guilty to four counts of disseminating violent IS propaganda, collecting a record of terrorist information and assisting another person to prepare acts of terrorism.
Det Ch Supt Kath Barnes, head of Counter Terrorism Policing South East, said: Ahmed was "a dangerous young man".
"A prominent presence online, he possessed a significant amount of shocking material promoting a warped ideology." | null | 0 | -1 | null | 14 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | WASHINGTON, June 28 (Reuters) - Drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil industry in May originated in Iraq, not Yemen, U.S. officials have concluded, drawing questions from Iraqi officials who have asked Washington for more information supporting the claim, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
U.S. officials familiar with the intelligence on the May drone attacks say they originated in southern Iraq, the Journal reported, saying that most likely pointed a finger at Iran-backed militias in that region. (Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Tim Ahmann) | null | 0 | -1 | null | 3 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is an entirely innocent woman who has been held on trumped-up charges of espionage in Iranian jails since 2016. She holds dual British and Iranian citizenship, which the Iranian government does not recognise. Her husband Richard Ratcliffe has been on hunger strike immediately outside the Iranian embassy for the last fortnight, in solidarity with the hunger strike she is herself maintaining in Evin jail in Tehran. The Iranian ambassador has complained that this protest makes his work impossible – and if it does, so much the better. The resolution to this crisis lies entirely in Iranian hands. Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe should be released and reunited with her family. But – while the blame for her arrest and imprisonment belongs squarely to the Iranian regime – successive British governments have made the situation harder to resolve.
Boris Johnson’s career as foreign secretary was undistinguished by anything except a lack of diplomacy but quite his worst gaffe was saying that Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been “teaching journalism” in Iran when in fact she had simply been on a family holiday. This helped the Iranian authorities to politicise the case against her, since independent journalism is a subversive activity in Iran, as elsewhere in the Middle East. The Iranian government did not need any encouragement to seize and jail Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe but Mr Johnson anyway gave them what he could. Jeremy Corbyn, to his credit, has spoken out in support of her, and spent 40 minutes talking to Mr Ratcliffe outside the embassy earlier this week.
Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested at the airport at the end of a family trip to take her then 22-month-old daughter to visit her grandparents. Gabriella, the daughter, is now five, and has not seen her father since. It seems one motive was to use Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe as a hostage against the British government’s reluctance to release £400m paid over to Britain by the shah’s government before his overthrow in 1979 as part of an arms deal that was never completed. For nearly 40 years, British governments have refused to hand over the money on grounds that look wholly specious. The Foreign Office is prepared to bow to the numerous court judgments in Iran’s favour but the Ministry of Defence claims that the money would only be spent on unsavoury military adventures. This is an excuse that is distasteful as well as risible in the light of the UK’s support for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, which is causing immense civilian suffering. Releasing the money would be the right thing to do. It might also be expedient.
Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her family are the entirely innocent victims of international power politics. Freeing her, and reuniting them, is the clear moral obligation of the Iranian government. The Zaghari-Ratcliffes have been on their hunger strikes, one in England and one in Tehran, for two weeks. It is past time to end their suffering with an act of justice and generosity. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 23 |
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G-20 leaders clash over values, face calls to protect growth
OSAKA, Japan (AP) — Leaders of the Group of 20 have begun talks on how to fend off threats to global growth in meetings in Osaka, Japan. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and European Union officials urged others attending the summit to resist a trend toward protectionism and keep their economies open. Looming over the meetings is the question of whether the U.S. and China will take steps to resolve a bitter dispute over trade and technology that has cast a shadow over the global recovery.
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Study: Retirees lose by taking Social Security at wrong time
It's tough to decide when to start taking Social Security benefits and it appears many people are shorting themselves with their choice. A new study finds that only 4% of retirees start claiming their Social Security benefits at the most financially optimal time; overall, households lose an average of $110,000 in net income by choosing to take the retirement benefit at a less than ideal time.
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Court hears appeal on 'Pharma Bro' Shkreli's fraud case
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court in New York City is considering whether the securities fraud conviction against the former drug company executive known as "Pharma Bro" should be thrown out. An attorney for Martin Shkreli urged the court to overturn a 2017 guilty verdict for Shkreli, claiming the trial judge gave confusing instructions to the jury about the law. A prosecutor insisted the instructions were proper. The court was expected to issue a written decision at a later date.
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Facebook's digital currency may flourish where banks don't
NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook's new Libra digital currency is aimed at a huge potential market for financial services — the entire developing world, with billions of people in areas such as India and Sub-Saharan Africa, where financial services are often less sophisticated and many people don't use traditional banking accounts. Whether or not these billions will want to make the switch is anyone's guess.
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Senators offer bill to limit heavy truck speeds to 65 mph
DETROIT (AP) — Two U.S. senators have introduced a bill that would electronically limit tractor-trailer speeds to 65 mph, a move they say would save lives on the nation's highways. Sens. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., and Chris Coons, D-Del., introduced the measure Thursday, saying it would take the place of a proposed Department of Transportation regulation that has "languished in the federal process" for over a decade.
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Secondhand fashion site The RealReal shares rise in debut
NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of The RealReal, the secondhand-fashion online retailer, jump nearly 45% in their debut Friday, testing investors' appetite for the staying power of pre-owned discounted Gucci and other luxury goods. The company was founded in 2011 by CEO Julie Wainwright and is listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the ticker "REAL." On Thursday, the initial public offering of 15 million shares was priced above expectations at $20 apiece. That raised $300 million before expenses.
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Report: Apple to shift assembly of Mac Pro from US to China
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A newspaper is reporting that Apple will manufacture its new Mac Pro computer in China, shifting away from a U.S. assembly line it had been using for that product in recent years. The Wall Street Journal reported the plan Friday, citing unidentified people familiar with the move. Apple issued a statement saying the new Mac Pro will be designed and engineered in California, but wouldn't say where it will be assembled. Apple has been assembling Mac Pros in Austin, Texas, since 2013.
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South American bloc strikes long-sought Europe trade deal
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — South America's Mercosur trade bloc has struck a "strategic association" trade deal with the European Union after two decades of negotiations. The EU says the agreement clinched in the Belgian capital of Brussels is "an ambitious, balanced and comprehensive agreement" that sends a strong positive signal amid global trade tensions.
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Honda to recall 1.6M vehicles, finish Takata recalls early
DETROIT (AP) — Honda says it's recalling 1.6 million vehicles in the U.S. to replace potentially deadly Takata air bag inflators, finishing its required recalls six months ahead of schedule. When the latest recall is done, Honda says it will have recalled 22.6 million inflators in about 12.9 million vehicles.
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Stocks close out rocky quarter with solid gains
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street ended a wobbly week with broad gains Friday, closing the books on June with its biggest monthly gain since January. June marked a sharp about-face from May, when traders fled to safer holdings because of increased anxiety over the trade war between the U.S. and China, and signs of slowing global economic growth. Even after a roller-coaster second quarter, the benchmark S&P 500 is up 17.3% this year and the technology-heavy Nasdaq has gained 20.7%.
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The S&P 500 index rose 16.84 points, or 0.6%, to 2,941.76. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 73.38 points, or 0.3%, to 26,599.96. The Nasdaq composite rose 38.49 points, or 0.5%, to 8,006.24. The Russell 2000 index climbed 20.02 points, or 1.3%, to 1,566.57. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 33 |
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The number of migrants crossing into the U.S. typically drops as temperatures rise in summer, but the Homeland Security chief said the decline is more than just seasonal. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 1 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | CLOSE House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed a recent wave of abortion restrictions while speaking in Southern California on Monday, calling them "scary" and "dangerous." Pelosi was speaking on a health care panel at East Los Angeles College. (June 17) AP, AP
ST. LOUIS — A Missouri commissioner on Friday ruled that the state's only abortion clinic can continue providing the service at least until August as a fight over its license plays out, adding that there's a "likelihood" that the clinic will succeed in the dispute.
Administrative Hearing Commissioner Sreenivasa Rao Dandamudi granted what's called a "stay," which will allow the St. Louis Planned Parenthood clinic to continue providing abortions past Friday.
The state health department last week refused to renew the clinic's license, but a St. Louis judge issued a court order allowing the procedure to continue through Friday.
St. Louis Circuit Court Judge Michael Stelzer wrote in his ruling that the order would give Planned Parenthood time to take their case to the Administrative Hearing Commission, where Stelzer said the licensing fight must begin.
The Administrative Hearing Commission scheduled a hearing on whether the state was right to not renew the license Aug. 1 in St. Louis.
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In this June 4, 2019, file photo, anti-abortion advocates gather outside the Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis. (Photo: Jeff Roberson, AP)
The state has said concerns about the clinic arose from inspections in March. Among the problems health department investigators have cited were three "failed abortions" requiring additional surgeries and another that led to life-threatening complications for the mother, The Associated Press previously reported, citing a now-sealed court filing.
The Department of Health and Senior Services wants to interview physicians involved in those abortions, including medical residents who no longer work there. Planned Parenthood has said it can't force them to talk.
The interviews are a major sticking point in the fight over the clinic's license, and attorneys for the health department wrote in legal filings to the commission that physicians' refusal to talk "presents the final, critical obstacle."
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Missouri abortion access: St. Louis Planned Parenthood defiant
But Dandamudi wrote that the physicians' stonewalling "in itself does not constitute a failure to comply with licensure requirements."
"Because DHSS relies substantially on the lack of these interviews as grounds for denial, we find there is a likelihood that Petitioner will succeed in its claim," Dandamudi wrote in his order granting a stay, referring to the clinic and its effort to stay open.
Planned Parenthood has said Missouri is using the licensing process as a weapon aimed at halting abortions.
The fate of the clinic has drawn national attention because Missouri would become the first state since 1974, the year after the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, without a functioning abortion clinic if it loses its license. The battle also comes as abortion rights supporters raise concerns that conservative-led states, including Missouri, are attempting to end abortion through tough new laws and tighter regulation.
Republican Gov. Mike Parson signed legislation on May 24 to ban abortions at or beyond eight weeks of pregnancy, with exceptions for medical emergencies but not for rape or incest.
The number of abortions performed in Missouri has declined every year over the past decade, but uncertainty in Missouri is sending women to neighboring states, particularly Illinois and Kansas.
Missouri health department statistics show that abortions in Missouri reached a low of 2,910 last year. Of those, an estimated 1,210 occurred at eight weeks or less of pregnancy.
The Hope Clinic in Granite City, Illinois, 10 miles (16 kilometers) from St. Louis, has seen a big increase in Missouri clients since 2017, said Alison Dreith, the clinic's deputy director. That year, Missouri adopted a more restrictive abortion law, including giving the attorney general power to prosecute violations.
Dreith said about 55 percent of patients at Hope Clinic are from Missouri, 40 percent from Illinois and 5 percent from elsewhere around the country. The clinic attracts clients from across the U.S. in part because Illinois allows the procedure for up to 24 weeks of pregnancy, longer than most states, she said.
The Granite City clinic saw about 3,000 total patients in 2017. Missouri's more restrictive law played a big role in the number spiking to 3,800 in 2018, Dreith said.
This year, she expects well over 4,000 patients. So far in 2019, the number of Missourians at the Hope Clinic has spiked 30 percent due to concerns about the St. Louis clinic's license and other anti-abortion efforts, Dreith said.
"Our patients are calling us with a lot of anxiety because they're seeing the headlines that abortion is banned," Dreith said.
Information from the state of Kansas shows that about 3,300 of the 7,000 abortions performed there last year involved Missouri residents, meaning that more Missourians get abortions in Kansas than in their home state. Kansas has an abortion clinic in Overland Park, a Kansas City suburb just 2 miles (3 kilometers) from the state line.
Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/06/28/abortion-missouri-clinic-continue-providing-services/1596987001/ | null | 0 | -1 | null | 35 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Image example Ethelbert Nwokorie claim say im and two odas epp comot pipo reach 43 from kpotokpoto
One rescuer Ethelbert Nwokorie claim say im comot 43 deadibody from di swamp wia pipeline explosion happen for Komkom, Oyigbo local goment area for Rivers State, South South Nigeria.
Nwokorie tell BBC Pidgin say, "dat Saturday wey di tin happen, I bring out 32 deadibody. On Sunday we bring out 8 den on Monday we come bring out anoda 3 bodies. But since dat time we neva bring out any body again."
Di BBC no fit verify oga Nwokorie claim by oursef.
Police for Rivers State tell us say dem still dey investigate di mata, say wen dem finish, dem go submit dia report give di commissioner of police.
Ethelbert Nwokorie wey be bus driver say since dat time, dem neva see any goment pesin wey come help to bring out di remaining bodies wey still dey di swamp but im dey treat imsef and di oda boys for hospital as dem enta di swamp without anytin to protect dem sef.
Image example Rivers State pipeline explosion kill pipo wey near am
Im come add say since den, e neva see work because "pipo dey wonder which kain man o be wey go ente day swamp go bring pipo out. Di man wey dey give me motor drive no gree give me again.
But I do am out of love. Dis na pipo wey I know and dem dey help me sometimes so na just to help dem." Na so im tok.
Victims family dem tok how dem take recognise dia pipo
Some of di families wey lose dia pesin for di explosion dey try cope with wetin don happen.
Wasimeba Igonikon wey be retiree lose im two sons wey dey 25 and 22 years. Dem bin follow go scoop fuel wen di explosion happen.
Igonikon tell BBC Pidgin say im come visit im family from Buguma ask im wife wia di boys dem dey. She tell am say dem go wia pipleine burst go carry fuel. E no tey news come say pipeline explosion happen naim dey rush go dia.
"Pipo full dia. Some I no fit recognise dem. Dem come show me my sons say see dem. We carry di cloth dem wear recognise dem. Di senior one, im brain don comot, di oda one, face peel, like dat. Wetin I go do? Na im I arrange ambulance carry dem go Buguma go bury."
Ndifreke Friday, di younger brother to Daniel Friday wey also die for di explosion say "as I see im leg, I know say na my brother so I call our father because dis one pass me."
National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency NOSDRA day dem go soon release di result of di joint investigation visit wey dem go carry out for di site wia e happen. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 27 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Image caption Deputy Mary Lowe is president of the Home Affairs Committee
Guernsey's Policy and Resources Committee (P&R) has called on the head of Home Affairs to resign, following allegations she bullied staff.
Deputy Mary Lowe has so far resisted pressure to step down as a result of a damning report on her committee's governance released on Monday.
Two of Deputy Lowe's fellow committee members resigned last Friday in anticipation of the report's issue.
The only means of removing a head of committee is a vote of no confidence.
In an letter to Deputy Lowe, the members of P&R argued that it was in the "best interests" of the government that she resign and seek a "fresh mandate".
They described her position of accepting the findings of the report, while also dismissing its contents as "unsustainable and incoherent".
In reply, Deputy Lowe declined to step down at the request of P&R, noting that it was the States that was responsible for appointing her.
She also noted that remaining members of Home Affairs rejected many of the criticisms levelled in the report, suggesting that there was a "woeful lack of evidence" to support them. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 8 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Last decade, when American was embroiled in the Iraq War, a high-ranking U.S. Army Corps of Engineers put her career on the line to stand up to some of the most powerful men in America. She believed that a major corporation had been benefiting from a collection of well-connected contracts that were costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars in waste, fraud and abuse.
Although she was warned against it by supervisors, she blew the whistle on national TV in front of a Senate committee. "My name is Bunnatine H. Greenhouse. I have agreed to voluntarily appear at this hearing," she addressed the committee.
Bunny Greenhouse was an unlikely whistleblower. In 2005, Greenhouse was the highest-ranked civilian at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
"When I took my oath of office it said that you will conduct the business of contracting impartially … and with preferential treatment toward none. I saw preferential treatment toward KBR," she told "Whistleblower" host Alex Ferrer in "Bunny's War: The Case Against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers."
KBR was Kellogg Brown and Root — back then, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the oil services firm Halliburton. In the weeks prior to the invasion, Greenhouse learned that KBR was being considered for a massive no-bid contract known as Restore Iraqi Oil, or RIO.
"What was the size of this contract?" Ferrer asked.
"Seven billion dollars," she replied.
What Greenhouse didn't know is that even more powerful forces may have been involved.
"A lot of attention fell on Dick Cheney, the vice president, and the fact was that he had been the head of Halliburton for … six years," Vanity Fair journalist Michael Shnayerson explained. "So, the suspicion began to grow that perhaps Cheney was steering government contracts to KBR."
A spokesperson for Dick Cheney told CBS News that the former vice president severed all ties with Halliburton and KBR in the summer of 2000 when he became candidate for vice president.
A representative for KBR said "it's unfortunate that misinformation and myths about KBR's role in supporting the military in Iraq continue to be circulated. These assertions have repeatedly been shown to be false."
For Greenhouse, biting her tongue was never an option. "I can unequivocally state that the abuse related to contracts awarded to KBR represents the most blatant and improper contract abuse I have witnessed during the course of my professional career," she told the Senate committee.
A 2004 government report decided the RIO contract was properly awarded. But the Army eventually split up the contract and, as Greenhouse had requested from the beginning, opened it up to competition.
"Eventually, your enemies at the Army Corps of Engineers caught up with you," Ferrer commented.
"I felt that I was physically being threatened," Greenhouse replied. "They set up a booby trap that caused me to fall," she added.
Born and raised in Rayville, Louisiana, Greenhouse and her six siblings grew up poor in the segregated south. Her parents instilled in her and her siblings a strong sense of morals, integrity and honor; no excuse for being less than the best. In the 1960s, she became the first African American teacher at the newly integrated Unity H.S.
In 1997, she accepted a job with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. She was hired by Lt. General Joe Ballard and was the first African American woman to become the head of contracting within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Greenhouse started to notice a "good ole boys club" forming again at USACE after her boss and mentor, Lt. General Ballard, retired in 2000. Then, in the weeks leading up to the Iraq War in 2003, she attended a top-secret meeting at the Pentagon to discuss details of the Restore Iraqi Oil contract. Present in the room were representatives of Kellogg Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, Cheney's former employer.
Greenhouse was concerned about awarding KBR with the no-bid, 5-year contract and urged to accept other bids and limit the duration of the deal. But her objections were never addressed, and KBR received the contract. Later, it was revealed in a draft audit that the company had overcharged the government for fuel purchases by $61 million. She ultimately testified in front of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee.
Greenhouse was the highest-ranked civilian at the Army Corp and she was incredibly good at her job. Because the top brass at USACE couldn't actually fire her, which was a perk of having a high station in the government, they demoted her. When this happened, she was stripped of her security clearance and sent off to a remote cubicle somewhere; she was basically condemned to oblivion. After she filed her whistleblower lawsuit, someone placed a trip wire placed around her cubicle and she fell, permanently damaging her knee.
The Defense Authorization Act Of 2009 reformed some of the very contracting practices that Greenhouse had objected to five years earlier and it limited the duration of certain no-bid contracts.
Greenhouse filed a mixed case lawsuit against the Department of Defense and the Army Corps of Engineers. The whistleblower case claimed that Greenhouse had been retaliated against for speaking out and had faced discrimination based on race, age, and gender. In July 2011, she agreed to a settlement of $970,000.
"Bunny's War: The Case Against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers" aired Friday, June 28 at 8/7c on CBS. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 48 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Everybody knows Donald Trump will be the Republican candidate for US president in 2020. Nobody has a clue who his Democratic opponent will be. The contest to find the answer to this question will be a marathon not a sprint, and the marathon has only just begun. The first real votes will not be cast until February; the nominee will not be formally adopted for more than a year. It is also an unusually crowded field this time. As many as 20 hopefuls qualified (on the basis of their poll ratings and their fundraising) for the first candidates’ debates in Miami this week. This meant they were randomly divided in two groups of 10, putting their cases on successive nights. Since there is no clear favourite, this underscored that this week was not the conclusive battle but more the start of a winnowing process.
That reminder is timely because the two debates this week also had different dynamics. In the first, it was always clear that today’s hopefuls have significantly less faith than earlier Democratic leaders in the US economy’s automatic ability to expand and solve the material problems of ordinary voters, as well as a greater appetite for ambitious government programmes to achieve these ends. This made things straightforward for Elizabeth Warren, who puts these issues – including higher taxes on the super-rich – at the top of her agenda. Ms Warren arrived as the only one in her debate with poll support in double figures. She surely departed with that position enhanced. None of her rivals – who included the more centrist Cory Booker and the much touted Beto O’Rourke – wrested the initiative from her. The fact they missed this first best chance does not mean their campaigns are finished; but it means they are weakened.
The second debate not only contained more Democratic heavyweights but also the early frontrunner, Joe Biden. Mr Biden had a bad evening, with both his age and his record under attack. Eric Swalwell led the calls for a new generation to take over, while Kamala Harris, whose campaign had stalled in recent times, made a particularly effective series of assaults on Mr Biden’s record of political compromise on race. Partly as a result, the predicted focus on the differences between Bernie Sanders’ radical agenda and Mr Biden’s more cautious approach never quite materialised. Mr Sanders did not have a bad evening, but he made a less energised case than Ms Warren had done the previous evening.
Individually and together, this week’s debates show the Democratic party moving to the left, partly in response to the frustrating caution of the Clinton and Obama years, but also in response to widening inequality and the aggressive conservatism of Mr Trump. The big question the party will have to try to resolve over the coming months – the next debates are in July and September – is whether to fight Mr Trump’s rightwing radicalism with a more leftwing programme than in the past or to try to defeat him by tacking more to the centre to attract disgruntled independents and Republicans. There is no doubt that much of the party wants to follow the former course. The times undoubtedly warrant radical action. But the political risks cannot simply be ignored. The Democrats have an immense responsibility to America and the world to find the most effective way to beat Mr Trump. That may work in Ms Harris’s favour. The winnowing will begin to sort out the stayers from the sprinters in September. But there are miles still to go.
In any case, the famous axiom that all politics is local still applies in America. This week, in a ruling with immense implications for US elections, the supreme court voted 5-4 that it could not intervene in the partisan gerrymandering of electoral districts by state legislatures. The upshot, for the time being, is that the states can do what they like. Since Republicans control more states than Democrats and since even the most ambitious Democratic president would have little immediate prospect of overturning the ruling, the state-level elections of 2020 and 2022 have suddenly become far more significant. As Ms Harris said in response to the decision, the essence of democracy is that voters choose their politicians. It should not, she added, be the other way around. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 35 |
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French police have pepper sprayed at close range climate activists blocking roads in the capital Paris, before removing them by force.
The protesters, many of them students, were trying to draw government and media attention to climate change.
They complained that the police response was excessive considering that the protest was peaceful.
The protest happened as France baked in a heatwave, with temperatures in Paris around 33C (91F). | null | 0 | -1 | null | 4 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | A year after Toys R Us closed, tens of thousands of laid-off workers are getting a portion of the severance promised and then rescinded as the retailer unraveled.
While workers are getting $2 million, a fraction of the $56 million in fees awarded to Kirkland & Ellis, the law firm representing Toys R Us, the decision is still a victory of sorts. That's because pensions and severance payments are labeled as unsecured debt when a company files Chapter 11, making them low priority and less likely to be paid.
A bankruptcy judge on Thursday approved the settlement to a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of 33,000 former Toys R Us workers, a figure that means each will receive about $60.
"That'll pay my phone bill," said Michelle Perez, a resident of Vancouver, Washington, who worked as a supervisor at a Toys R Us store in Portland, Oregon, for four years until June 30, 2018. "This has really shown how the bankruptcy system is broken. It's taken us a year and we're making pennies on the dollar," she added.
"We feel employees should be taken care of first, a lot of employees had been there 30 years," said Perez, a 29-year-old mother of two, ages 6 and 4. "It shows how little employees are valued. Many of us still don't have jobs."
Back of the line
Out of work for the past year, Perez said she is relying on family, friends and public assistance to get by. "It's terrifying. I was working full time, and have been looking since then," she said. In hunting for another job, Perez is trying to avoid retail, pointing to other bankruptcies in the industry. "Look at Shopko, Kmart and Sears, the same thing is happening to them that happened to us."
Judge Keith Philips of the Eastern District of Virginia awarded the $2 million to workers who had been told they would receive severance at the start of the bankruptcy as part of a benefit package that was then voided during the legal proceedings.
A class-action claim made to the court in 2018 on behalf of Ann Marie Reinhart Smith, a 30-year Toys R Us employee, had requested that severance be treated on par with administrative claims.
"It's a shame they aren't getting more, but this settlement sends a message that employees deserve a place in the front of the line of creditors when businesses fail, and that is important to people who work in retail and their families," Jack Raisner, an attorney with Outten & Golden who represented Reinhart Smith, said in a statement.
In the wake of protests by workers organized by the non-profit group United for Respect, two Toys R Us owners -- KKR and Bain Capital -- in November set aside $20 million for workers impacted by the company's liquidation.
Advocates had earlier estimated workers were entitled to $75 million in severance after the retailer closed its more than 700 U.S. stores last year. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 20 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam said it was committed to free and fair trade with the United States on Friday, following threats by U.S. President Donald Trump to impose tariffs on products from the Southeast Asian country amid its ongoing trade war with China.
FILE PHOTO: A woman rides a motorcycle as she passes containers at Hai Phong port, Vietnam September 25, 2018. REUTERS/Kham
Trump said on Wednesday his government was in discussions with Vietnam on trade, but said that Hanoi treated the United States “even worse” than China in terms of trade.
Responding to the comments, Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang said on Friday that Vietnam wanted a mutually beneficial trading relationship with the United States.
“Vietnam seeks to further economic, trade and investment ties with the United States which promote freedom and fairness, based on mutual benefits,” Hang said in an emailed statement.
“Vietnam has made efforts to improve the bilateral trade balance, and promotes the imports of U.S. goods that Vietnam needs,” Hang said.
The statement also pointed to recent efforts by Vietnam to crack down on goods of foreign origin illegally relabeled “Made in Vietnam” by exporters seeking to dodge tariffs.
Vietnam’s largest export market is the United States, with which it has a rapidly growing trade surplus. The country’s economic growth remained strong in the second quarter, backed by robust exports and foreign investment amid the ongoing trade war between Washington and Beijing.
Following a meeting between Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Trump on the sidelines of the two-day Group of 20 (G20) summit in Japan on Friday, Vietnam said it would import more liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States.
Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade and the U.S. Department of Energy will soon sign a memorandum of understanding on LNG imports, Vietnam’s government said in a statement, also issued on Friday.
The statement did not elaborate as to how much LNG would be imported, but said it was a “long-term and strategic energy cooperation”.
Exports to the U.S. from Vietnam, which has been touted as one of the largest beneficiaries of the trade war, rose 29% in the first five months of this year, according to Vietnam’s customs data.
Vietnam ran a trade surplus of $17 billion with the U.S. in the first five months of this year, compared to last year’s surplus of $12.9 billion in the same period, according to the data. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 14 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Following the first 2020 debates, George Stephanopoulos goes one-on-one with Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, exclusively on “This Week” Sunday.
Plus, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro comes to “This Week” Sunday.
And the Powerhouse Roundtable debates all the week’s politics, with former New Jersey Governor and ABC News Contributor Chris Christie, Democracy for America CEO and ABC News Contributor Yvette Simpson, Fox News Contributor and former DNC Chair Donna Brazile, and National Review Editor Rich Lowry.
Like “This Week” on Facebook here. You can also follow the show on Twitter here. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 5 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Image caption Paul Davies has been Welsh Conservative leader in the National Assembly for Wales since last year
Boris Johnson can "deliver for Wales" because of his time as Mayor of London, according to the Conservative leader in the Welsh Assembly.
Paul Davies is backing the former foreign secretary to become the next prime minister.
The assembly Tory leader said Mr Johnson, who once stood as a candidate in Wales, "understands devolution".
He would the best candidate to "keep Jeremy Corbyn out of Downing Street", Mr Davies said.
Mr Johnson is widely seen as the frontrunner to win the ballot for the Tory leadership of about 160,000 party members against his opponent, Jeremy Hunt.
The two contenders are taking part in 15 hustings across the UK with the result expected on 23 July.
Image caption Boris Johnson is considered to be the frontrunner in the Conservative leadership contest
"I think he understands devolution given that he ran London for eight years, so I think he's got a good grasp of devolution," Mr Davies told BBC Wales.
Pushed three times to say what plans Mr Johnson had for Wales, Mr Davies refused to give details.
He insisted that private conversations between the two should not be made public but that "we had a very positive conversation about infrastructure here in Wales and how he can support Wales going forwards".
Mr Johnson, who served as Mayor of London from 2008-2016, stood as a Conservative candidate in Clwyd South in 1997. He came second behind Labour. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 11 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | The Trump administration on Friday announced sanctions on the son of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in a move to increase pressure on family members of top officials backing the socialist leader and suspected of corruption.
The action by the U.S. Treasury Department freezes any U.S. assets belonging to Nicolas Maduro Jr. and prohibits Americans from doing business with him.
"Maduro's regime was built on fraudulent elections, and his inner circle lives in luxury off the proceeds of corruption while the Venezuelan people suffer," said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. "Maduro relies on his son Nicolasito and others close to his authoritarian regime to maintain a stranglehold on the economy and suppress the people of Venezuela. Treasury will continue to target complicit relatives of illegitimate regime insiders profiting off of Maduro's corruption."
Until recently, the 29-year-old Maduro Jr. kept a low profile as a little-known flutist in Venezuela's world-famous network of youth orchestras. But his political career took off shortly after his father was elected president in 2013 and he was named to lead a newly created corps of inspectors of the presidency, fueling allegations of nepotism.
He's also a member of the constitutional assembly, a rubber-stamping rival of the opposition-controlled congress charged with rewriting the nation's charter. In 2017, he delivered a fiery speech from the assembly vowing to storm the White House in response to President Donald J. Trump's threat of military force to remove his father from power.
"The rifles would arrive to New York, Mr. Trump. We would arrive and take the White House," he said.
His sanctioning marks the start of a new strategy targeting family members of insiders.
A senior U.S. administration official said the Trump administration is considering expanding actions against family members of Maduro officials as part of its focus on corruption by the socialist leader's top allies. To date, the Trump administration has sanctioned more than 100 top government officials and other insiders accused of corruption, human rights violations and drug trafficking, including Maduro himself and his wife, Cilia Flores.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity due to lack of authorization to discuss the matter on the record.
The Trump administration has pursued a similar approach to the children of businessmen close to Russian President Vladimir Putin — so-called second generation oligarchs — as well the kin of leaders from the designated terrorist group Hezbollah.
Maduro Jr., who closely resembles his father and is known almost universally as "Nicolasito" — or "Little Nicolas" — is also a leader in the ruling socialist party's youth wing and previously was coordinator of the government-run film school, despite having no known previous experience in cinema.
According to the U.S. Treasury Department, Maduro Jr. has also been involved in propaganda and censorship effort and has profited from Venezuelan mines along with Maduro and Flores. Treasury also alleges that he helped devise a strategy this year to pressure Venezuela's military to deny humanitarian aid from entering the country by characterizing it as an attempt to undermine democracy. He also allegedly worked to increase censorship of Venezuela's telecommunications infrastructure, framing the censorship as necessary because of U.S. Government activities.
There was no immediate response from Maduro Jr., his father or any other government official. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 21 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Image copyright PAcemaker Image caption Willie Frazer was a well known loyalist campaigner for victims of republican violence
Victims campaigner Willie Frazer has died. He was 58.
He was the founder of Families Acting for Innocent Relatives (Fair), a group set up in 1998 to support victims of republican violence.
Mr Frazer stood down from the group in 2012 after its funding was frozen.
His father Bertie, a part-time member of the Ulster Defence Regiment, was killed in an IRA gun attack in 1975. He was one of several family members murdered by republicans.
Mr Frazer was also involved in the flag protests at Belfast City Hall after the council decided only to fly the union flag on designated days in 2012.
He faced several allegations of misspending cash given to his victims group with funding being withdrawn more than once. He dismissed the claims as political.
Abu Hamza attire
In February 2013, Mr Frazer was charged with three counts of taking part in an unnotified public procession and obstructing traffic in a public place.
Those charges were dropped in May 2014, but at one court appearance he arrived dressed as radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza.
Wearing a black robe, skullcap, fake beard, eye-patch and hooked hand, Mr Frazer was protesting at being charged under legislation that, he claims, was brought in to deal with militant Islamic preachers.
He said the only people in the United Kingdom to be charged under these "hate preaching laws" had been peaceful Protestant or Christian protesters from Northern Ireland.
Image copyright PAcemaker Image caption Mr Frazer dressed as Muslim cleric Abu Hamza for a 2013 court appearance
Mr Frazer was also a spokesman, along with Jamie Bryson, for the Ulster People's Forum, an unelected group set up in the wake of the union flag protests.
In 2015, he protested against the arrival of Syrian refugees in Northern Ireland.
"The last thing we need is to bring people into this country who do not integrate into our community, who do not believe in Christianity," he said.
Electoral challenges
Mr Frazer contested a number of elections, but failed to get elected on any occasion.
In the 1998 Assembly elections he stood for the Ulster Independence Movement in Newry and Armagh, getting 933 first preference votes: The quota was 7,734.
Image copyright PACEMAKER Image caption Willie Frazer unsuccessfully contested seats in both Assembly and General Elections
Five years later he stood as an independent in the same constituency, polling just 632 first preference votes. In 2007 he got just 605.
In the 2010 General Election he got 656 votes. The Newry and Armagh seat was won by Sinn Féin's Conor Murphy who polled 18,857 votes.
In August 2018, Mr Frazer spoke of his "disgust" at a sign placed on an anti-internment bonfire in Newry, County Down.
The sign, which was widely condemned by politicians, said: "Willie Frazer have you found your daddy yet?"
His death was announced on Friday evening. He died in hospital surrounded by his family after a long battle with cancer.
TUV leader Jim Allister paid tribute to Mr Frazer and said politicians must honour his memory by "ensuring that the past is not rewritten".
He said: "William's passion for innocent victims and desire to honour the memory of those in his own family who paid the supreme sacrifice at the hands of terrorists is beyond question.
"We must all ensure that innocent victims are not forgotten".
His fellow campaigner Jamie Bryson said: "Willie Frazer died as he lived, fighting until the very end." | null | 0 | -1 | null | 30 |
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