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Her Majesty the Queen addressed the Scottish Parliament as part of 20th anniversary celebrations.
She told a gathering of MSPs, officials and invited members of the public: "It is perhaps worth reflecting that at the heart of the word 'parliament' lies its original meaning: a place to talk. I have no doubt that for most of these last 20 years this striking chamber has provided exactly that, a place to talk.
"But of course it must also be a place to listen - a place to hear views that inevitably may differ quite considerably, one from another - and a place to honour those views." | null | 0 | -1 | null | 4 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Where has this Nazi art gone?
Germany says it will return a painting stolen by Nazi troops from the Uffizi Gallery in the Italian city of Florence in 1943.
Vase of Flowers, estimated to be worth millions of euros, has been in the hands of a German family.
In January Uffizi head Eike Schmidt said Germany had a "moral duty" to help bring it back to the museum.
Dutch master Jan van Huysum painted the still life and it was first displayed in Florence in 1824.
German troops stole the work as they retreated north during World War Two.
Why did it take so long to return?
The painting resurfaced in 1991 following German reunification, but efforts to return it failed.
The unidentified family had demanded up to €2m for the painting, reports said, while the German authorities had cited a statute of limitations on crimes more than 30 years old that it said prevented it from intervening.
But after Mr Eiche's call for the painting's return, the German government contacted the descendants of the Nazi soldier who took it.
Image copyright Reuters Image caption The Uffizi Gallery head said Germany had a "moral duty" to return the stolen work
The authorities said the painting had not been looted as part of organised Nazi persecution but had simply been stolen. This, lawyers argued, meant that the soldier who took it could not be seen as its owner and did not have the right to bequeath it to anyone, Die Zeit newspaper reported.
Lawyers for the family meanwhile argued that the soldier had simply bought it at a market to have something nice to send to his wife, whose home had been bombed.
No details of the agreement reached between the German government and the family have been released.
What happened to the Vase of Flowers?
According to the gallery, Grand Duke Leopold II of Tuscany originally bought the work at the start of the 19th Century.
It was on display for over a century alongside works by other Dutch masters but was evacuated to a nearby village when Italy joined the war in 1940.
German troops then seized it with other paintings as they moved north in 1943 following the Allied invasion of Italy.
A black and white photo of Vase of Flowers has been hanging in the gallery - inscribed with the word "stolen" in English, German and Italian - during the wait for the original's return.
Mr Schmidt - himself German - has called on Germany to abolish the statute of limitations on works stolen by the Nazis so all looted art can return to its "legitimate owners".
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | A federal judge on Friday prohibited President Trump from tapping $2.5 billion in military funding to build high-priority segments of his prized border wall in California, Arizona and New Mexico. Judge Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr. in Oakland acted in two lawsuits filed by California and by activists who contended that the money transfer was unlawful and that building the wall would pose environmental threats.
"All President Trump has succeeded in building is a constitutional crisis, threatening immediate harm to our state," said California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who led a 20-state coalition of attorneys general in one lawsuit.
Speaking Saturday at a press conference marking the end of the Group of 20 summit in Osaka, Japan, Mr. Trump called the decision "a disgrace."
"So we're immediately appealing it and we think we'll win the appeal," he went on to say. "There was no reason that that should have happened. And a lot of wall is being built."
The decisions are in line with Gilliam's ruling last month that blocked work from beginning on two of the highest-priority projects — one spanning 46 miles in New Mexico and another covering 5 miles in Yuma, Arizona.
But the fight is far from over. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to take up the same issue of using military money next week.
At issue is Mr. Trump's February declaration of a national emergency so that he could divert $6.7 billion from military and other sources to begin construction of the wall, which could have begun as early as Monday.
Mr. Trump declared the emergency after losing a fight with the Democratic-led House that led to a 35-day government shutdown.
The president identified $3.6 billion from military construction funds, $2.5 billion from Defense Department counterdrug activities and $600 million from the Treasury Department's asset forfeiture fund.
The judge Friday didn't rule on funding from the military construction and Treasury budgets.
In the second suit, brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Sierra Club and the Southern Border Communities Coalition, the judge determined that the use of the $2.5 billion for two sectors of the wall was unlawful, although he rejected environmental arguments that wall construction would threaten species such as bighorn sheep. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 15 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | (CNN) Fifteen people, including two children, have died after a wall collapsed in Pune, India.
Two people were rescued by India's National Disaster Response Force and are in hospital, Pune police commissioner K Venkatesham said.
The squad recovered the bodies of nine men, four women and two children.
And Venkatesham suggested that the wall, near a residential area, may have been brought down intentionally.
Pune Police are conducting an investigation into the reason for the collapse, he said, adding: "Whoever is responsible, firm action will be taken against them."
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | President Donald Trump extended an offer Saturday to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. In a unique round of Twitter diplomacy, the president invited Kim to meet him at the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea.
Trump revealed that he will travel to South Korea after attending the G20 summit in Japan.
“While there, if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)!” Trump wrote on Twitter. North Korea responded to Trump’s invitation through its state media.
“I consider this a very interesting suggestion, but we have not received any official proposal,” Choe Son-hui, North Korea’s first vice foreign minister, said in a statement.
Trump confirmed to reporters Saturday that the United States had heard from North Korea and had extended an official invitation.
“It will be very interesting,” he said when asked if the meeting would actually happen. “We’re going to see”:
TRUMP-KIM meeting is real possibility. White House is preparing an official invitation for Kim Jong Un to meet Mr Trump in the DMZ after North Korea responded positively to Mr Trump’s invitation ON Twitter to meet, according to someone familiar with the situation. — Demetri Sevastopulo (@Dimi) June 29, 2019
Regardless, Trump plans to visit the DMZ and South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Sunday. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 12 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Hello readers!
When it comes to feeding your baby, When it comes to feeding your baby, it seems like everyone whose viewpoint you value — doctors, siblings, lactation consultants — has a different opinion about what you should do. So why would someone voluntarily dive into a network of strangers to find more of them?
Because, as is the case with so many women-oriented communities, sometimes you have to find your people. That’s certainly been a factor for women in France who are choosing to pump. They’ve found real support in a private Facebook group that gives them the kind of information they can’t find elsewhere.
Annabel Benhaiem wrote about the group — which resonates with her personally — for HuffPost France this week.
“I breastfed my kids and when I was in front of the breast pump, I didn’t know how to use it ... and then never used it. Until I found this group,” she said.
Women in France have historically had low breastfeeding rates when compared to other developed countries, which Annabel said she believes stems from the feminist movement of the 1970s.
“Breastfeeding was seen as enslavement to their condition,” she explains. “It was a feminist lecture. Baby bottles and artificial milk were seen as liberators. It took us many years to realize how good breastfeeding was for the baby.”
while the pendulum has started swinging the other way, there’s still an element of curiosity when a woman breastfeeds in public — and “not in a nice way,” according to Annabel.
She plans to continue her coverage of how mothers are using social networks by taking a look at a Facebook group that discusses non-chemical products. After a study found traces of dangerous materials in diapers earlier this year, it’s been a topic parents can’t help but be concerned about.
There’s been a lot of information lately about the, well, lack of information when it comes to women’s health. This story really speaks to the way in which women fill in those gaps with creativity, generosity and friendship, and I can’t wait to read more about it.
Thanks for reading,
For more from Le HuffPost, follow Annabel Benhaiem (@AnnabelBe) and HuffPost’s C’est la vie (@HuffPost_CLaVie).
Wendy Li was a candidate for Manhattan District 2 Civil Court Judge in the 2018 midterm elections.
Diversity hasn’t exactly been politics’ strong suit, but when it came to who ran for office — and who won — in the 2018 U.S. midterm elections, the candidate pool looked a lot more interesting. Great strides were made by women and people of color. As the director of the Reflective Democracy Campaign put it, “While white men still hold a monopoly on political power, they definitely do not hold a monopoly on electability.”
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You know what’s not necessary in this day and age? Being told you have childbearing hips. Or being bought a vacuum for your birthday. (Well, unless you really wanted a vacuum. That can happen.) But these were just a couple of the things British women flagged as annoyances in their day-to-day life, and they’re relatable worldwide. Another one I couldn’t help but nod my head at? Being left with the wives of your partner’s friends at dinner. Come on.
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Ruha Benjamin is an associate professor of African American studies at Princeton University, and lectures around the intersection of race, justice and technology. She founded the Just Data Lab, which aims to bring together activists, technologists and artists to reassess how data can be used for justice. Her latest book, Race After Technology, looks at how the design of technology can be discriminatory.
Where did the motivation to write this book come from?
It seems like we’re looking to outsource decisions to technology, on the assumption that it’s going to make better decisions than us. We’re seeing this in almost every arena – healthcare, education, employment, finance – and it’s hard to find a context which it hasn’t penetrated.
Something which really sparked my interest was a series of headlines and articles I saw which were all about a phenomenon dubbed “racist robots”. Then, as time went on, these articles and headlines became less surprised, and they started to say, of course, the robots are racist because they’re designed in a society with these biases.
The idea that software can have prejudice embedded in it is known as algorithmic bias – how does it amplify prejudice?
Many of these automated systems are trying to identify and predict risk. So we have to look at how risk was assessed historically – whether a bank would extend a loan to someone, or if a judge would give someone a certain sentence. The decisions of the past are the input for how we teach software to make those decisions in the future. If we live in a society where police profile black and Latin people, that affects the police data on who is likely to be a criminal. So you’ll have these communities overrepresented in the data sets, which are then used to train algorithms to look for future crimes, or predict who’s seen to be higher risk and lower risk.
The passing of a law can be a placeholder for progress: people celebrate prematurely, even if not much has changed
Are there other areas of society – such as housing or finance – where the use of automated systems has resulted in biased outcomes?
Policing and the courts are getting a lot of attention, as they should. But there are other areas too, such as Amazon’s own hiring algorithms, which discriminated against female applications, even though gender wasn’t listed on those résumés. The training set used data about who already worked at Amazon. Sometimes, the more intelligent machine learning becomes, the more discriminatory it can be – so in that case, it was able to pick up gender cues based on other aspects of those résumés, like their previous education or their experience.
In your book, you assert that the treatment of black communities is an indication of what’s to come for other communities more generally. How would you say this extends to technology?
Thinking about how risk is racialised is one way into understanding how those systems can eventually be deployed against many more people, not just the initial target. This is one of the things we can see with these new digital scoring systems – these companies which don’t just look at your personal riskiness, but also your social media and the people you’re connected with. If someone has defaulted on a loan, that can affect you. So actually, incorporating and gathering more data can be even more harmful to people’s lives.
What role can legislation or regulation play in changing this direction?
I’m personally a little cynical – the passing of a law can be a placeholder for much more significant progress because people prematurely celebrate, even if not much changes. But I do increasingly think that legislation has a role to play. Even if a particular law is just a regulation in a state, or one country in Europe, it can be very effective because if these companies want to roll out technologies universally, and then they find they have to change something up for a certain jurisdiction, it can then be an obstacle. Other elements, like state-level protections for whistleblowers are vital, because there has been retaliation against workers at these tech companies.
Home DNA testing kits are increasingly popular, and genomics screening is more commonplace too. Are you concerned about how technologies are being used, and weaponised?
We did an informal audit of three DNA testing companies when I was a postdoc at UCLA. The results we got back were completely different across the three companies, because of their own reference data. These companies have access to our data, which they can buy and sell to other companies, and there’s really very few regulatory safeguards on how this is going to be used. The similarity between those technologies – the DNA testing kits, artificial intelligence, machine learning – is that the reference data shape | null | 0 | -1 | null | 36 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | During the spring legislative session, Democrats argued that forcing felons who’ve completed their prison sentences and probation to also pay court fees and fines goes against the spirit of the constitutional amendment voters passed in November. The amendment to restore voting rights for felons other than convicted murderers and sex offenders was approved with 64.5% of the vote. But the language said felons must complete their sentences, and Republicans interpreted that to include restitution, court costs, fines and fees imposed by a judge at sentencing. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 3 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | When most Americans think of espionage, we think of debonair foreign spies sneaking around military compounds – or bespectacled hackers hammering away at keyboards to steal top-secret information from foreign adversaries.
But there is an entire world of espionage happening right under our noses – at American colleges and universities.
Foreign intelligence services routinely probe computer systems at higher education institutions in the United States – and they also enlist (or implant) students and professors as assets to pass important research and findings to their spy agencies.
WHAT CHINESE SPIES WANT FROM AMERICANS
The main goal isn’t typically to learn any classified state secrets (not in academic espionage anyway). Foreign actors want to steal the important technological advancements, research, and innovations created by our nation's best and brightest researchers and scientists.
In 2013, the Commission on the Theft of Intellectual Property said that this academic espionage made up a significant part of the estimated $300 billion of intellectual property theft America endured that year.
According to the commission, "American scientific innovations and new technologies are tracked and stolen from American universities, national laboratories, private think tanks, and start-up companies, as well as from the major R&D centers of multinational companies."
This is a serious problem for the United States. If this level of academic espionage continues, our ability to lead the world in innovation and new technology could be severely hampered – and the future could be defined by the countries who are stealing our ideas.
One of the biggest offenders is China. Former National Counterintelligence Executive Michelle Van Cleave told the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on June 9, 2016 that "hundreds of thousands of students and academicians" aid China’s spy operations.
Many of these students, professors, and researchers (either willingly or through intense pressure and coercion from the Chinese Communist Party) help to "potentially extend the reach of Chinese intelligence into the core structures of our nation's security," Van Cleave told the commission.
Of particular concern are China’s Confucius Institutes that have been established on campuses in the U.S. and across the world. At first blush, these institutes appear to be legitimate academic foreign exchange programs promoting Chinese language and cultural studies. However, they are also used to spread Chinese Communist Party propaganda and soft power by promoting the party’s vision of China. Concerns have been raised that they could be used for espionage efforts.
On Feb. 13, 2018, FBI Director Christopher Wray told the Senate Intelligence Committee that China is beginning to pull back on this effort, but the institutes are still "something that we're watching warily and in certain instances have developed ... appropriate investigative steps."
Luckily, there is an ongoing effort in Congress to curb this activity and protect American colleges and universities from being helpless targets of foreign espionage. The "Stop Higher Education Espionage and Theft Act of 2019," or SHEET Act, was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. Rep. Francis Rooney, R-Fla., is carrying the proposal in the House.
This bill would create a new way for federal law enforcement to designate an entity suspected of spying in our colleges and universities as a "foreign intelligence threat to higher education." (The designation will be promptly appealable when warranted.)
Colleges and universities that accept gifts from or enter into contracts with designated threats will have more stringent reporting requirements under the Higher Education Act. If evidence of espionage is found, authorities will be able to quickly remove identified threats.
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This is a critically important problem that we must solve. When foreign countries steal our research and ideas, American researchers, innovators, and thinkers lose the ability to lead our country into the future. Ultimately, this costs American jobs – and our security.
Congress should pass the SHEET Act as soon as possible.
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | A woman who was attacked by a group of men armed with weapons in Greenock is critically ill in hospital.
Police say they are treating the "extremely violent attack" on the 37-year-old as attempted murder.
A 43-year-old man who was seriously assaulted in the same incident is being treated for a head injury. Hospital staff say his condition is serious.
Two men aged 31 and 36 have been arrested in connection with the Friday night incident.
Police want to speak to anyone who witnessed the attack in Belville Street at 23:45.
Det Sgt Ross MacDonald said: "This was an extremely violent attack on this man and woman and I am appealing to anyone who was in the Belville Street area around the time of the incident last night, who may have witnessed this attack take place, or who was driving by and may have dash-cam footage to come forward to police.
"I would like to speak to the driver of a grey Mini who was in the street at the time, as she may have information that is vital to this investigation.
"Officers are currently carrying out enquiries in the local area, and uniformed officers are also providing public reassurance and I would ask anyone with concerns to speak to officers." | null | 0 | -1 | null | 9 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Federal authorities are warning that white supremacists and other political radicals could look to attack Independence Day revelers on July 4, noting in a bulletin to law enforcement around the country that domestic terrorists “have attacked perceived oppressors, opponents, or enemies engaged in outdoor First Amendment-protected rallies or protests during past summers.”
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The warning came in a joint intelligence bulletin issued by the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and National Counterterrorism Center, urging law enforcement personnel to remain vigilant for suspicious activity.
Adam Hunger/AP, FILE
Such bulletins are routinely distributed in the days before a major national holiday, but previous bulletins have often focused on “homegrown” terrorists inspired by overseas groups like ISIS or al-Qaeda rather than “domestic” terrorists radicalized by domestic issues such as abortion or white supremacy.
The bulletin, which was issued Wednesday, makes prominent mention of both threats inside the U.S. homeland.
“The FBI, DHS, and NCTC remain concerned that [they] could target upcoming Independence Day celebrations, gatherings, or parades, though we are unaware of any current plots specifically targeting such events,” stated the bulletin, obtained by ABC News. “We note that attacks can occur with little to no warning because of the frequently lower levels of security around civilian targets, challenges in securing large crowds, and calls for attacks against soft targets.”
Craig Ruttle/AP, FILE
Both “domestic” and “homegrown” terrorists “likely would use simplistic tactics and relatively easily obtainable weapons such as firearms, knives, and vehicles—although some violent extremists have historically sought to use explosive devices.”
Beyond domestic terrorism threats, the bulletin warns that ISIS has recently renewed calls for sympathizers to launch their own attacks inside the United States.
Last week, the FBI arrested a 21-year-old Pennsylvania man for allegedly plotting to bomb a church in Pittsburgh. He had come to the United States as a refugee from Syria and was allegedly inspired by ISIS.
The FBI is currently tracking about 1,000 suspected “homegrown” terrorists inside the United States who authorities believe have been inspired by ISIS, al Qaeda or other foreign terrorist organizations, a senior FBI official recently testified to Congress.
Meanwhile, the FBI is currently investigating about 850 suspected “domestic” terrorists, the official said. And since late last year, the agency has seen a significant uptick in domestic terrorism investigations involving white supremacists, officials told ABC News.
“In fact, there have been more arrests and deaths in the United States caused by domestic terrorists than international terrorists in recent years,” the head of the FBI's counterterrorism division, Assistant Director Michael McGarrity, recently told a House panel.
Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail via AP, FILE
The bulletin issued Wednesday ahead of the July 4 holiday mentioned the case of James Fields, who in 2017 drove his car into a crowd of counter-protesters at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing a woman and injuring scores of others.
On Friday, Fields was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of federal hate crimes.
Wednesday’s bulletin emphasized: “The FBI, DHS, and NCTC are not aware of any specific, credible threats surrounding the upcoming Independence Day holiday, but note that previous attacks in the Homeland have happened with little to no warning.”
Asked about the new bulletin, an FBI spokeswoman said in a statement, “The FBI regularly assesses intelligence regarding possible threats to the U.S. and will continue to work closely with our federal, state, and local law enforcement partners should there be any potential threat to public safety. We ask members of the public to maintain awareness of their surroundings and to report any suspicious activity to law enforcement immediately.” | null | 0 | -1 | null | 17 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Image copyright Unison Image caption About 300 protesters held a rally in Stourbridge on Saturday against the closure plans
Hundreds of people have taken to the streets to protest against a planned college closure.
Stourbridge College is set to shut in the summer, with almost 1,000 students due to transfer to Dudley and Halesowen colleges from September.
Birmingham Metropolitan College (BMet), which runs the site, said the move was needed due to £6m debts and was "in the best interests of our learners".
Unions claim disadvantaged students will be worst affected.
The Stourbridge site is being sold off and the University and College Union (UCU) claimed staff and students were paying the price for poor management.
It said the plans would increase travel times and costs for students.
The UCU also claimed the move made "little financial sense" with millions of pounds being spent refurbishing the Hagley Road campus.
Leigh Powell, Unison national officer, said staff expected the Stourbridge site to be sold to another college group.
Image caption Unions are calling for another consultation and a commitment to no compulsory redundancies
Ms Powell said unions wanted to know exactly how the decision had been reached to sell off the site, and called for another consultation.
"These people are sitting in a room with spreadsheets and they're not looking at what effect it will have on people's lives," she said.
"Suddenly, for students and staff to be told at the beginning of May your college is shutting down was a shock."
BMet took over Stourbridge College in 2013 and its chief executive Cliff Hall said the college was "performing really well", but with the level of debt, the closure was "in the best interests of our learners" across its sites in the Black Country and Birmingham.
He said the decision had "not been taken lightly" and had the "full support of the FE Commissioner and the Education and Skills Funding Agency". | null | 0 | -1 | null | 13 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | “We'll see what happens, but we are going to have a good deal and a fair deal or we're not going to have a deal at all and that's OK too,” President Donald Trump said at his re-election rally. | Susan Walsh/AP Photo G-20 Trump tries to persuade supporters that no deal on China is a win The president is running for reelection with a major unfulfilled campaign promise — a trade deal with China.
OSAKA, Japan — President Donald Trump departed a gathering of world leaders Saturday without striking his long-sought trade deal with China, leaving him with a major unfulfilled campaign promise just as he revs up his reelection bid.
But the leaders of the world’s biggest economies agreed that their teams should resume negotiations that had broken down several weeks ago with Trump pushing off another round of tariffs on $300 billion on Chinese imports.
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That incremental step is far from what he promised Americans when he was on the campaign trail in 2016 pledging to beat China — the so-called “enemy” that cost the U.S. jobs, spied on U.S. businesses and stole U.S. technology.
Trump will now need to try to persuade supporters — some of whom have been hurt by rising prices due to his many trade disputes — that not accepting a bad deal with China is actually a win.
“I don’t think they will see this as a failure. I think they will see this as him fighting,” said Jonathan Felts, who worked in the George W. Bush White House and now lives in the swing state of North Carolina and remains close to the Trump White House. “What they see is a man who is doing exactly what he said he would.”
At a rally kicking off his reelection campaign in Florida earlier this month, Trump, a businessman who prides himself on making shrewd deals, tried to put a positive spin on his failure to secure a deal with China.
“We'll see what happens, but we are going to have a good deal and a fair deal or we're not going to have a deal at all and that's OK too,” Trump told the crowd.
Trump held a series of meetings in Japan while he attended the G-20, an annual gathering of the world’s biggest economies, but did not announce any major agreements with those he spoke with, including the leaders of Japan, Germany and Russia.
Most of the attention, however, was on trade. Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping and their top aides talked for more than an hour at a meeting closely watched by foreign leaders and business executives worried that the trade impasse will continue to hurt the global economy.
World leaders attend a family photo session at G-20 summit on June 28 in Osaka, Japan. | Kim Kyung-Hoon - Pool/Getty Images
“You know, we've never really had a deal with China,” Trump said at a news conference Saturday. “Tremendous amounts of money was put into China — $500 billion a year. And I mean, you know, not just surplus and deficit. I'm talking about real, hard cash. And it should have never, ever been allowed to have happened for all of our presidents over the last number of years.”
Trump had already hit China with two rounds of tariffs after unsuccessfully pushing Beijing to change longstanding trade practices that he deems unfair. China retaliated with its own set of tariffs.
“I think you've heard the president say publicly on a number of occasions that he's quite comfortable with where we are, and he's quite comfortable with any outcome of those talks,” a senior administration official said.
On Saturday, at least, they agreed to the ceasefire.
A former Trump adviser who remains close to the White House said Trump still looks engaged on the issue in contrast to lawmakers of both parties who try to tackle tough issues, such as immigration, only to give in when they can’t initially work out a deal. “The minute things got tough, they bailed,” the former adviser said. “He’s going to keep talking.”
But David Dollar, who served as economic and financial emissary to China for the Treasury secretary and is now a leading expert on China for the center-left Brookings Institution, said Trump was never going to leave his meeting with Xi this week with a win when the two sides hadn’t been talking for weeks.
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“There hasn't been enough preparation for there to be a really detailed trade deal between China and the United States,” he said.
Now, after more than two years of negotiations and his reelection campaign looming, Trump faces intense pressure to find a compromise before his yet-to-be-named opponent criticizes his lack of deal-making skills and his tariff threats continue to cost Americans money, including in states that helped him win in 2016.
And some of Trump’s allies fear that the tariffs could put a dent in the economy — his strongest reelection selling point — though they note the economy has stayed strong despite earlier Trump-imposed tariffs.
“Exporters are suffering from the retaliatory tariffs from China,” Matthew Goodman, who served as director for international economics on the National Security Council staff and is now senior adviser for Asian economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
“It’s causing some political blowback for the president. His polls in some states that are red states and farm states are not as good as he would like. And so, you know, it’s possible that he has an incentive to do a deal.”
Scott Jennings, who worked under President George W. Bush and is close to the Trump White House, said Trump still has plenty of time left in his term to make good on this campaign promise.
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The US President gave a wide-ranging news conference at the close of the G20 summit of leading economies in Japan.
President Trump answered questions from reporters for more than an hour on topics including China, Iran, Russia and Venezeula.
He said American technology companies could resume selling their products to the Chinese telecom firm, Huawei.
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Image copyright EPA Image caption A Red Arrows flypast took place over Salisbury Cathedral to mark Armed Forces Day
More than 300 events are being held across the UK to mark Armed Forces Day.
The main 11th annual event, which honours servicemen and women from all branches of the armed forces as well as veterans, is being hosted in Salisbury.
Thousands of people have paid their respects in the city, including the Princess Royal, who received a salute during a parade of more than 1,300 service personnel, veterans and cadets.
Rock band the Kaiser Chiefs will headline a concert later.
Also performing on Saturday are military musicians including the Military Wives Choirs and bands from the Royal Marines and the Royal Air Force.
The day is being celebrated with military displays, including a flypast by the RAF's Red Arrows and an aerial display by the Army's Parachute Regiment.
Image copyright PA Media Image caption Members of the armed forces marched through Salisbury city centre
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In a video on social media, Prime Minister Theresa May said: "Thank you to all of you who choose to serve your country whether Royal Navy, Army or Royal Air Force, full-time or reserve, the longest-serving veteran or the newest recruits."
She also recognised the sacrifices family members of servicemen and women make.
"It is also a chance to remember the wider service community, whether it is children who endure long periods apart from their mothers and fathers, or friends and families who do so much to support loved ones in uniform," she said.
The Royal Family - including Clarence House,Kensington Palace and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex - also posted on social media thanking the military community.
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Image copyright EPA Image caption Bandsmen from the Royal Marines marched through Salisbury with smiles on their faces
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The RAF's leading charity, the RAF Benevolent Fund used the celebrations as an opportunity to call on the public for support.
It said there are more than 300,000 members of the RAF's current serving personnel and veterans or their close families in need of support but not seeking it.
Air Vice-Marshal David Murray, the charity's chief executive, said: "The selflessness and self-reliance needed to make these can often mean that our veterans don't seek support, even when it's available.
"We want to change this and reach veterans and their dependants who need help now, before it's too late."
Jeremy Corbyn, who met military personnel earlier this week, used the day to set out Labour's plans for the armed forces, promising to treat them with the "dignity and respect they deserve".
Conservative leadership candidate, Jeremy Hunt, also took the opportunity to thank service personnel and reaffirmed his pledge to "boost our defence by £15bn" if he becomes prime minister.
Boris Johnson attended a flag raising ceremony in Shropshire, and said it was "an honour" to meet armed forces personnel, who have "so selflessly served our country".
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | CLOSE It's Pride Month! Here are 20 retailers giving back to the LGBTQ+ community this month. Melissa Rorech, Reviewed.com
When Senator Elizabeth Warren used “Latinx” in her opening remarks during the first Democratic debate Wednesday, it was one of the highest profile uses of the term since its conception.
It was also the first time many people heard the term and it probably won’t be the last as the candidates attempt to target young, progressive voters in their campaigns.
And while some public figures and politicians are quickly adapting to the term, others within the Latin American community are trying to resist it.
So what does “Latinx” mean and why is there so much controversy surrounding it?
Latinx/Latino/Latina
"Latinx" is a gender-neutral term used in lieu of "Latino" or "Latina" to refer to a person of Latin American descent.
Using the term "Latinx" to refer to all people of Latin American decent has become more common as members in the LGBTQ community and its advocates have embraced the label. The gendered structure of the Spanish language has made "Latinx" both an inclusive and controversial term.
Pronounced “luh-TEE-neks,” Merriam-Webster dictionary added the word in 2018 to describe those of Latin American descent who don't want to be identified by gender, or who don't identify as being male or female.
The word was created as a gender-neutral alternative to “Latinos,” not only to better include those who are gender fluid, but also to push back on the inherently masculine term used to describe all genders in the Spanish language.
Even though "Latinos" technically refers to all genders of Latin American descent, it's still a masculine word in Spanish.
For example, a group of females would be called "Latinas" and a group of males would be called "Latinos." However, a group of males and females of Latin American descent would revert to the masculine "Latinos."
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George Cadava, Director of the Latina and Latino Studies program at Northwestern University, said terms to describe Latin Americans in the U.S. have constantly been evolving over the course of history. "Latinos" gained popularity as a rejection of the word "Hispanic," which many argued was imposed by the government.
“Latinx is an even further evolution that was meant to be inclusive of people who are queer or lesbian or gay or transgender,” said Cadava. “In some cases, it was a rejection of binary gender politics.”
Many believe that the patriarchal nature of the Romantic language is not inclusive and can’t keep up with societal progress, as explained by this Twitter thread by investigative immigration reporter Aura Bogado.
However, as “Latinx” grows in popularity, it also becomes more controversial within the Latin American community. The word was rejected in 2018 by the Real Academia Española, the official source on the Spanish language. Many who agree with this decision believe it is important to conserve the language, which is spoken by over 500 million people, according to a 2017 report by the Cervantes Institute in Spain.
Another argument against “Latinx” is that it erases feminist movements in the 1970s that fought to represent women with the word “Latina,” Cadava said.
Hispanic
This controversy is similar to one that surrounded the word “Hispanic," which was first introduced by the Nixon administration on the 1970 census.
“People will say that it was an imposed term rather than something embraced by the community itself,” Cadava said. He added that some argue the word “Hispanic” is a nod towards Spanish colonialism and shouldn’t be interchangeable with Latinx/Latino/Latina.
However, the university professor said his studies found most Hispanic Republicans prefer the word when describing their families. Democrats, on the other hand, tend to use more progressive terms like "Latinos" and more recently "Latinx."
Regardless of political affiliation, people of Latin American decent tend to identify first with their country of heritage and then second as "Latino/Latina/Latinx" or "Hispanic" to identify with a collective group, according to Dr. Rubén Martinez, director of the Julian Samora Research Institute at Michigan State University.
For example, a person's family who is from Mexico will typically identify as "Mexican-American" before identifying as "Latino/Latina/Latinx" or "Hispanic."
The U.S. Census still uses "Hispanic" and defines it as the “heritage, nationality, lineage, or country of birth of the person or the person’s parents or ancestors before arriving in the United States.”
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | The likelihood I would ever be invited to serve on a network panel questioning the Democratic presidential candidates is equivalent to an invitation to take the next trip to the moon.
Still, as I tortured myself watching the two "debates," which were not really debates, but mostly a show of memorized sound bites, I thought of unasked questions that ought to have been put to them all.
Question 1: Some of you have, or had, the power to change many of the things you now say are wrong with America. Why didn’t you?
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Question 2 (for Joe Biden): You and President Obama, for a time, had a Democratic majority in Congress. Why didn’t you reform immigration laws and address homelessness? Your administration deported a lot of people who were in the country illegally, so why criticize President Trump for wanting to follow your example? Do our laws mean nothing?
Question 3: During the second debate, all of you raised your hands when asked if you would provide free health care to immigrants who are here illegally. Aren’t you inviting even more to come to America with such a policy, and wouldn’t that add to our already staggering debt? Follow-up: Trump said we should take care of Americans first. Why would you use American tax dollars to pay for people who break our laws?
Question 4: Is there anything Trump has done that you could praise? Many of you talk as if unemployment hasn’t declined — especially for minorities — and wages haven’t risen. Unemployment is at, or near, record lows and wages are up.
Question 5: Some of you think raising taxes again is a good idea, but with $22 trillion in federal debt and with record amounts of revenue already coming into Washington, isn’t the real problem uncontrolled spending? Follow-up: Are there any government programs you would cut or eliminate?
Question 6: Many of you have a lot of complaints about the United States. Is there anything positive you could say?
Question 7: Many of you have criticized President Trump for confronting Iran and withdrawing from the nuclear deal. Iran is a major sponsor of terrorism in the world and its leaders say they have a religious mandate to wipe out Israel and impose Islamic law on everyone. How would you negotiate with their leaders and what is your plan for fighting terrorism?
Question 8: Some of you say Russia is the greatest existential threat and others name China. Russia has been supporting the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad and the crumbling dictatorship of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. Russia has also sent a warship to Cuba. How would you oppose Russia’s adventurism and China’s expansionism? How would you deal with China spying on us?
Question 9 (for Sen. Kamala Harris): You attacked Joe Biden for working with segregationist senators during his time in the Senate. He (and Lyndon Johnson, who pushed through significant civil rights legislation in the ’60s) said it was necessary in order to accomplish anything. If you were in the Senate at that time, would you have refused to work with those senators, possibly scuttling significant legislation that has led to improvements in the lives of many Americans, including African-Americans?
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Question 10: There have been 60 million abortions in America since the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, black women are more than five times as likely as white women to have an abortion. Does this trouble you? Follow-up: Some states allow babies to die if they survive an abortion and some call that infanticide. Are you opposed to that practice?
These questions and others might have provided more useful information to the public than the ones tossed at the candidates. As I say, though, it is unlikely I will ever have a chance to ask them and the network stars won’t either.
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | BERLIN (AP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she understands reporters’ questions surrounding her health after two incidents this month in which she was seen shaking at public events, but insisted: “I’m fine.”
Merkel said Saturday at the end of the Group of 20 summit in Japan that included a long-distance flight and gruelling negotiations with other world leaders that “I’m convinced, just as this reaction occurred it will go away again.”
The 64-year-old appeared unsteady and was seen shaking at a ceremony in Berlin on Thursday. Last week, Merkel’s whole body shook as she stood outside in hot weather alongside Ukraine’s president. Merkel said afterward that she was fine after drinking three glasses of water, which she “apparently needed.”
WATCH: German Chancellor Merkel was seen shaking as she stood next to new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy during a ceremony in Berlin; the chancellor later asserted that she was fine, and only needed a few glasses of water. https://t.co/CeFE9HHnB4 pic.twitter.com/wxLd1v1Bhe — NBC News (@NBCNews) June 18, 2019 | null | 0 | -1 | null | 4 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' criminal fraud trial for allegedly misleading investors as well doctors and patients about her blood-testing company is scheduled to start next summer.
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A federal judge at the U.S. District Court in San Jose set a trial date for Aug, 4, 2020, for Holmes and her former No. 2 at the defunct company, Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, during a status hearing on Friday.
The trial is expected to last for three months.
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Holmes and Balwani, who prosecutors say were romantically involved while running Theranos, were each charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and nine counts of wire fraud in a federal indictment handed up last July.
Holmes claimed the Theranos technology required a few drops of blood to test for numerous diseases and at a fraction of the cost of existing lab tests.
The charges are a result of allegations that Holmes engaged in a multi-million-dollar scheme to defraud investors, and a separate scheme to defraud doctors and patients, according to the indictment.
“This indictment alleges a corporate conspiracy to defraud financial investors,” John F. Bennett, the special agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in San Francisco said at the time of the indictment.
“More egregiously, this conspiracy misled doctors and patients about the reliability of medical tests that endangered health and lives,” Bennett said.
If convicted, Holmes could face 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000 for each count of wire fraud and for each conspiracy count.
Both Holmes and Balwani have pleaded "not guilty."
Just a decade ago, Theranos was revered as a symbol of the best of Silicon Valley -- with a $9 billion valuation -- and seemed poised to disrupt the laboratory blood testing business with groundbreaking technology the company claimed could analyze blood with just a couple of drops at home. It also attracted investors such as the media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
The company's fortunes began to unravel after reporting from The Wall Street Journal suggested its devices did not deliver on their promises. The company and Holmes settled fraud charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2018.
Balwani is still fighting the SEC charges.
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | CLOSE If you want all the majestic nature without sharing it with the annoying crowds, visit one of the least visited American national parks. 10Best Editors, USA TODAY 10Best
DENVER — From the Grand Canyon to Old Faithful to the Great Smoky Mountains, millions of tourists flocking to national parks this summer will find bears, bison and other wildlife in abundance. They'll wade in crystal clear streams, stare up at towering redwoods and marvel at the Milky Way dusting the dark night sky.
But there's one thing they're sure to see less of: The iconic National Park Service park law enforcement rangers, whose numbers have been declining for decades despite huge increases in park visitation, according to an exclusive analysis conducted by the USA TODAY Network using data obtained via the federal Freedom of Information Act. Former park managers and longtime park advocates say the shrinking staff means the broad-hatted rangers are spending less time patrolling backcountry areas to keep animals and people safe.
“It’s a tough time," said Phil Francis, a former park service superintendent who retired in 2013 after a 41-year career that began as a law enforcement ranger and is now chairman of the nonprofit Coalition to Protect America's National Parks. "The superintendents are having to make tough decisions about what jobs to fill due to inadequate funding. Do you fill a maintenance job or do you fill law enforcement or run visitor centers?”
National Park Service ranger David O'Brien talks to visitor Dan Casali, after Casali and his family saw a black bear in Rocky Mountain National Park. (Photo: Trevor Hughes-USA TODAY NETWORK)
In all, the number of law enforcement rangers has declined by more than 20% since 2005, dropping to just 1,766 full-time and seasonal rangers in June, according to park service data.
Meanwhile, national parks are seeing historically high visitation numbers: 318.2 million recreation visits last year and nearly 331 million each in 2017 and 2016, during the Park Service's Centennial celebration. In contrast, the nation's parks saw 273.4 million visitors in 2005, when there were 1,922 full-time and seasonal law enforcement rangers.
There's been an overall decline in park service staffing, which has also dropped 20% over the past decade. The current number of “full-time equivalent” National Park Service employees, which includes permanent, temporary and seasonal workers of all kinds, from interpretive specialists to maintenance workers, is 22,076, down from 27,484 in June 2010, according to park service data.
Budget cuts, as well as a longstanding battle within park service leadership over the appropriate role of armed police within America's national parks, have fueled the staff reductions.
It adds up to much fewer rangers and many more visitors. And critics say the problems are only going to get worse as the Trump administration works to shrink the size of federal government, which includes trimming the National Parks Service operating budget.
“The thin green line patrolling our national parks is in danger of snapping," said Jeff Ruch, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, a nonprofit which advocates for public transparency and provides whistleblower services for current or former government employees.
Death on the trail
Former rangers say the diminishing numbers of law enforcement officers means visitors may have to wait longer for help, increasing safety risks in remote areas that were already hard to effectively patrol.
Critics point to the brutal May 11 killing of hiker and military veteran Ronald S. Sanchez Jr., 43, of Oklahoma City, who was thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, a winding 2,200-mile-long footpath from Georgia to Maine overseen by the park service.
Under normal circumstances, the Appalachian Trail has two full-time rangers assigned to manage and monitor hikers, and to coordinate communication with the local sheriffs and police departments along its route. But because of reassignments, today it's overseen only by a head ranger on loan from another park who is assisted by other rangers working part-time patrols while maintaining their own positions elsewhere.
On the night of May 11, Sanchez, an Army veteran who served three tours in Iraq, and three fellow campers were camped in a remote area of the trail in Smyth County, Virginia, when they were approached by a man they said threatened to pour gas on their tents and burn them to death. Investigators said two of the hikers ran away and called 911. The man then fatally stabbed Sanchez and wounded his hiking partner, who hiked six miles while bleeding to get help, law enforcement officials said.
Ronald S. Sanchez Jr., 43, of Oklahoma City, seen here hiking in November 2018 on the Ozark Highlands Trail in Arkansas, was stabbed to death in Virginia while on a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail in May. (Photo: Courtesy of Brenda Kelley)
It took local sheriffs deputies nearly four hours to reach the campsite where Sanchez died. Investigators said the two hikers who initially fled identified the suspect, James Jordan, via a photo on their cell phone because they had already been warned about him by other hikers further down the trail.
Critics say multiple Appalachian Trail hikers flagged Jordan as a threat — he was even briefly jailed by a sheriff in Tennessee — and that having more rangers on patrol might have prevented the attack or provided more warning to hikers moving along the trail. Jordan is facing charges of murder and assault with intent to murder. His case is on hold while authorities investigate whether he's mentally incompetent.
A park system the size of two Floridas
A big part of park service's law enforcement challenge is the sheer size and diversity of the park service's sites and facilities, from the historic lodges rimming the Grand Canyon in Arizona to the climbing camps of California's Yosemite National Park and the 444-mile-long Natchez Trace Parkway, a winding low-speed road through Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee that traces historic trading and migration trails.
The National Park Service and its $3.2-billion budget is responsible for more than 84 million acres of land, the equivalent of two Floridas, starting with the first national park, Yellowstone — spread across Wyoming, Montana and Idaho — which was initially patrolled by the U.S. Army because it was deemed so valuable.
The dramatic increase in visitation, up roughly 20% in the last decade, should have in theory resulted in increased law enforcement, in the same way that a growing city adds more police officers. But critics say that hasn't happened.
Today, the service manages 417 park units, 23 national scenic and national historic trails, and 60 wild and scenic rivers with fewer rangers that it did two decades ago.
“It’s a sad state of affairs," said Paul Stevens, who retired in 2015 from his post as chief ranger for North Carolina's Cape Hatteras National Seashore, which stretches 70 miles along the Outer Banks.
Stevens, 59, said he left his job in part because of ongoing budget cuts at the park, which reduced ranger staffing. "There’s a definitely a negative aspect, without a doubt,” he said.
Trump administration shifts focus
Critics say parks have been underfunded for decades by both Democratic and Republican presidents. But the Trump administration has exacerbated those existing staffing shortages by shifting some rangers and National Park Police officers, who patrol the Statue of Liberty and the Washington Monument, into border areas like Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, a common site for illegal crossings by drug traffickers. In the past two years, rangers have seized more than 600 pounds of marijuana and made multiple arrests.
Stevens said even during the best of times when he had a large staff, it could take a ranger 30 minutes to respond to a call for help at Cape Hatteras, because there were rarely more than a handful of law enforcement rangers working at any one time. Cutting rangers invariably causes longer delays, he said, and forces parks to call on local police departments for help during emergencies, like serious car crashes or assaults.
"Who are the ones really protecting the resource? It’s not the people doing the bird surveys, it’s the law enforcement rangers," Stevens said. "When the bad things happen that people do, we're the first ones called."
A visitor photographs an elk and its velvet--covered antlers at Rocky Mountain National Park. In addition to monitoring speeds and responding to car crashes, rangers at national parks must also help keep visitors and wildlife from getting too close. (Photo: Trevor Hughes-USA TODAY NETWORK)
National Park Service officials say they're trying to balance competing needs at a time when funding is tight. The park service has never had a large law enforcement corps, in part because many park superintendents want to downplay the presence of armed officers to help visitors feel welcome.
"Generally, law enforcement program budgets are controlled at the local level, thus park superintendents, using a risk-based approach, ultimately decide which programs and/or positions are prioritized for funding and staffing," said NPS spokeswoman Kathy Kupper.
Taken at the individual park level, the overall decline in numbers don't seem significant. Rocky Mountain National Park, for instance, has 16 authorized ranger positions but only 14 full-time rangers on the job because two posts remain unfilled. However, the park is twice the size of Chicago, and last year saw a record 4.6 million visitors. In 2015, when the park had one additional ranger, visitation was 4.1 million.
In other words, the ranger-to-visitor ratio went from 1 ranger for 277,000 visitors in 2015 to 1 ranger per 370,000 visitors last year. And Rocky Mountain is the country's third-busiest park.
"It seems kind of weird that the employee count is decreasing," said Mira Rodriguez, 24, who was visiting Rocky Mountain National Park with her father, who shipped his Acura SUV over from Hawaii so they could visit a dozen national parks across the West. Rodriguez, a teacher in Las Vegas, said she hadn't felt the first five parks they visited were understaffed, but knew visitation had been going up overall.
"As long as they have enough rangers to manage the traffic, I'm happy," said Ricardo Rodriguez, her father, as he proudly showed off his Hawaii license plate.
National parks relying on volunteers for law enforcement
At the Blue Ridge Parkway, there are now only 30 rangers to patrol 83,000 acres of land, 1,110 boundary miles and 469 miles of the mountainous Depression-era road across the spine of the Blue Ridge Mountains from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina. The park has 34 ranger positions but, like many other national parks, hasn't been able to keep all those posts filled despite hosting 14.7 million visitors last year. That's a 12% drop in staffing from what's authorized.
A U.S. Park Ranger at Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve in southern Colorado patrols the Medano Creek Road, a backcountry area near the tallest sand Dunes in North America. (Photo: Trevor Hughes/USA TODAY)
Park officials say they're trying to hire more law enforcement rangers, and are using volunteers to patrol some areas.
“I think if you can ask any law enforcement agency out there, they’ll say they need more folks," said Neal Labrie, chief law enforcement ranger at the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Labrie's rangers respond to thousands of calls for service annually, from theft and speeding to rape and murder. In 2018, there were 20 fatalities in the park, most from motor vehicle accidents and suicides.
Other rangers also say they're doing what they can with the resources they have. Some parks are using more volunteers, while others, including Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which straddles the North Carolina-Tennesee border, are using more surveillance cameras and training janitors to help with backcountry rescues. The park today has only 32 rangers working or undergoing the hiring process, down from 37 rangers 20 years ago.
"Times are lean. We recruit people who are very passionate," Great Smoky superintendent Clayton Jordan said. "We recruit people who like to work hard. You would not come to the Smokies if you were looking for Sleepy Hollow.”
National Park Service volunteer Kat Barrow, in forefront, assists ranger staff in the annual synchronous firefly display in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on June 3, 2019. The week-long natural phenomenon draws 1,000 people a night to a quarter-mile trail, requiring the use of 50 volunteers, interns and other NPS staff to assist law enforcement rangers. (Photo: Angeli Wright/[email protected])
Seasonal National Park Service ranger Iliana Rosa talks with a park visitor after a black bear scampered past the road in Rocky Mountain National Park. (Photo: Trevor Hughes-USA TODAY NETWORK)
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | President Donald Trump responded to accusations from former President Jimmy Carter, who said Trump is an illegitimate president.
“Jimmy Carter, look, he’s a nice man; he was a terrible president,” Trump said during a press conference in Japan after the G20 summit.
Trump noted that Carter is a Democrat and that it is a “typical talking point” for the left.
“He’s loyal to the Democrats, and I guess you should be, but as everybody now understands, I won not because of Russia, not because of anybody, but myself,” he said.
Trump said he won the 2016 election because he campaigned “better, smarter, harder than Hillary Clinton” and won states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
“I’ll say this: Jimmy Carter, I was surprised that he would make a statement,” he said.
Trump said he felt bad for Carter, whom even Democrats trashed for his failures as president.
“Virtually, he’s like the forgotten president, but I understand why they say that he was not a good president,” he said.
Carter spoke about the 2016 election Friday during a panel discussion at the Carter Center.
“There’s no doubt the Russians did interfere in the election, and I think the interference, although not yet quantified if fully investigated, will show that Trump didn’t actually win the election in 2016,” Carter said.
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Britain's Prime Minister, Theresa May, meets Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, during a bilateral meeting on the first day of the G20 summit on June 28, 2019, in Osaka, Japan. (Photo: Carl Court, Getty Images)
A meticulous, minute-by-minute examination of cellphone data points to a high-ranking Russian military intelligence officer, who spent barely 48 hours in London, as commander of a two-man Russian team that carried out the Novichok poisoning attack on a former Russian double agent.
The information was compiled and examined by the investigative website Bellingcat and BBC Newsnight.
Bellingcat, founded in 2014 by a British journalist, specializes in fact-checking and open-source intelligence in its investigative work, including groundbreaking pieces on human rights abuses and the criminal underworld.
While Bellingcat had previously named Denis Sergeev, using the alias Sergei Fedotov, as a GRU officer who arrived in Britain on the same day as the suspected attackers, the new information suggests he was allegedly involved in a "supervising, coordinating role" in the attack.
Russia has denied any involvement in the attack.
Police officers in protective suits and masks work near the scene where former double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, were discovered after being attacked with a nerve-agent on March 16, 2018, in Salisbury, England. (Photo: Jack Taylor, Getty Images)
Skripal, a former GRU colonel who turned double agent for Britain's MI6, was sentenced to 13 years in prison by a Russian court in 2006 for treason.
In 2010, he was part of a British-Russian spy swap. He and his daughter, Yulia, who also survived the poisoning, settled in Salisbury, outside London, where the attack occurred.
An unwitting local resident, Dawn Sturgess, died after inadvertently coming in contact with a discarded bottle contaminated with the nerve agent.
The Skripal case has been a point of bitter contention between Britain and Russia. Britain expelled 23 Russian diplomat following the incident.
During a meeting at the G20 in Osaka this week, Prime Minister Theresa May condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin's "irresponsible" actions regarding the Salisbury case.
In this file photo taken on Aug. 9, 2006, former Russian military intelligence colonel Sergei Skripal, who was accused of treason as a double agent, attends a hearing at the Moscow District Military Court in Moscow. (Photo: Yuri Senatorov, AFP/Getty Images)
Photos show a grim-faced May shaking hands before talks with Putin in which she said the use of the nerve agent Novichok was a "truly despicable act," the BBC reports. She also said Britain had "irrefutable" evidence that Russia was behind the attack.
Putin, in a recent interview with the Financial Times, dismissed the incident as "fuss about spies and counter-spies" that was "not worth serious interstate relations," adding that "traitors must be punished," apparently a reference to Skripal.
Two men, Alexander Mishkin and Anatoly Chepiga, GRU colonels, have been accused of carrying out the attempted murder.
In this video grab provided by the RT channel , Ruslan Boshirov, left, and Alexander Petrov attend their first public appearance in an interview with the Kremlin-funded RT channel in Moscow on Sept. 13, 2018. (Photo: AP from RT)
In September, Scotland Yard and a British prosecutor said the suspects had been charged with attempted murder and noted they had arrived in Britain on valid Russian passports in the names of Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov.
The pair denied in an interview with the Kremlin-funded RT network that they worked for Russian military intelligence or had any connection to the Skripal case.
Although they were only in Britain for 48 hours, for what they said was a business trip, they visited Salisbury twice, once purportedly on a surveillance trip.
The pair told RT that they went to Salisbury to visit its "famous" cathedral, then left the country the next day.
Around the time of the attack, Sergeev's movements can be meticulously traced, including suggestions of when he was traveling on the London Underground, and could not use his cell, according to Bellingcat. At one point, it places him in central London at almost the exact time the two operatives were in the same area in what Bellingcat suggested was either a brief face-to-face meeting, or a "brush-by" on the street to deliver something.
Bellingcat says the final link between Sergeev, the alleged commander of the attack, and his alias came via phone data when Sergeev's wife called the phone number of the fictitious Fedotov.
Bellingcat said it was aided by phone information provided by a whistleblower working at a Russian mobile operator. It said the whistleblower "was convinced s/he was not breaching any data privacy laws due to the fact that the person to whom this phone number was registered (“Sergey Fedotov”) does not in fact exist."
The BBC and Bellingcat said billing records showed Sergeev used secure messaging apps like WhatsApp during his visit to Britain, suggesting it may have been the way he communicated with the two would-be assassins.
Sergeev also spoke 11 times, sometimes for only a few seconds, with a Russian "ghost mobile," believed to be his connection to GRU headquarters.
"The pattern of his communications while in the U.K. indicates that Maj. Gen Sergeev liaised with officers in Moscow," the BBC said. "Independently, sources speaking to Newsnight have pointed to Maj Gen Sergeev being the operational commander."
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Image copyright Zach Gibson/Getty Images Image caption Luis Alvarez and Former Daily Show Host Jon Stewart appeared before Congress on 11 June
A former New York Police Department detective has died after campaigning to extend compensation for those who suffered injury, illness or trauma due to the 9/11 attacks.
Luiz Alvarez, 53, underwent 68 rounds of chemotherapy to fight cancer caused by toxic exposure at Ground Zero.
He spoke at a congressional hearing on 11 June in support of a bill to extend medical funding from 2020 to 2090.
Alverez said the fund was not "a ticket to paradise".
Appearing alongside comedian Jon Steward, he said the Victims Compensation Fund (VCF) was "there to provide for our families when we can't".
On 19 June, Alverez posted on Facebook that he would be entering a hospice due to liver failure.
"I'm resting and I'm at peace," he said. "I will continue to fight until the Good Lord decides it's time."
He said he would try to do more interviews to "keep a light" on the fight for VCF benefits.
"Please take care of yourselves and each other," he concluded.
Chief of Detectives at New York Police Department, Dermot F Shea, posted on Twitter that Alvarez was "an inspiration, a warrior, a friend".
Skip Twitter post by @NYPDDetectives He exemplified the NYPD motto, “Fidelis Ad Mortem” or “Faithful Unto Death.” Detective Lou Alvarez has lost his battle with 9/11-related cancer. An inspiration, a warrior, a friend—we will carry his sword. https://t.co/utRphj7owx — Chief Dermot F. Shea (@NYPDDetectives) June 29, 2019 Report
The lasting impact of 9/11
As of September 2018, 2,000 deaths were attributed to 9/11 related illness. By the end of 2018, many estimate that more people will have died from toxic exposures than were actually killed in the attack.
UP to 80,000 people including firemen, police officers, emergency workers, contractors and cleaning staff rushed to help victims of the attacks.
Toxic debris in the air, such as asbestos, lead and pulverized concrete put them at risk of disease.
The congressional panel voted in favour of the bill and now moves to the US House of Representatives for a full vote.
Jon Stewart said it was "shameful" that many lawmakers did not attend to hear testimonies from first responders at the hearing on 11 June. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 19 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | The intelligence community plays a vital role in our national security. The brave men and women who serve our nation in this capacity rarely – if ever – are recognized publicly for their courageous work.
This is why I’m starting a new series on my “Newt’s World” podcast called "Spies Like Us," in which I will speak to some of these American heroes and allow them to tell their remarkable stories in their own words.
In the years following World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency was created under the National Security Act of 1947, which President Truman signed on July 26 of that year. The CIA officially came into existence on Sept. 18, 1947 and has continued to adjust to ever-changing global landscapes.
CIA SHATTERS A GLASS CEILING WITH THE APPOINTMENT OF A WOMAN TO LEAD ITS CLANDESTINE ARM
The agency’s mission is to collect, analyze, evaluate, and disseminate foreign intelligence to assist the president of the United States and senior government policymakers in making decisions relating to national security. The work of the men and women of the CIA is remarkable, complex, and vital to our survival in the modern world.
Charlie Allen, who joined me for this week’s episode, is one of the great legends of American intelligence.
I was first introduced to Allen in the early 2000s, when then-CIA Director George Tenet offered me the opportunity to come review the war on terrorism and the situation in Iraq. Ultimately, I got involved across the entire agency.
Allen and I would spend Saturdays together, and he would guide me around the building, introduce me to people, and set up briefings to help me understand the various challenges America was facing. Over the course of a few years, Charlie and I spent time trying to think through America’s threats – and how we could improve our ability to survive.
Allen was the perfect teacher. He's been actively involved since 1958 and has served in a series of key roles. When the Reagan administration decided we had to rebuild our capacity to withstand nuclear war (to convince the Soviets they couldn't knock us out with a first strike) Allen led that expensive, incredibly complicated project.
Allen was then tasked with setting up the initial intelligence center looking at terrorism. He was fully engaged in the 1990s long before 9/11. He also was part of the large team that thought through tracking down Usama bin Laden and other key enemies.
Allen’s vast experience makes him a mentor, a professional, somebody today's intelligence operatives look up to – and somebody whose depth of knowledge is unparalleled.
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I think you're going to find this interview with Allen, a fascinating insight into how the intelligence community works and what America does to try to protect itself in a dangerous world.
I hope you will listen to this episode – and future episodes of the “Spies Like Us” series.
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | China’s President Xi Jinping (R) shakes hands with President Donald Trump before a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Osaka on June 29, 2019. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/Getty Images
Global markets can breathe a sigh of relief. At least for now. President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping agreed to restart trade talks that had broken down almost two months ago. That means there won’t be an escalation in the tariff war between the two largest economies in the world that had worried financial markets, businesses and farmers.
In practical terms, the agreement doesn´t actually change anything about the current situation since existing import tariffs will remain in place. But Trump said he would not impose new tariffs that he had threatened and could have affected pretty much every Chinese export to the United States. “We’re holding back on tariffs and they’re going to buy farm products,” Trump said at a news conference. He didn’t give any details about what the promise to buy “farm products” would entail. “We will give them a list of things we want them to buy,” he said.
Trump and Xi agreed to the resumption of talks during an 80-minute sit-down on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Japan that the U.S. president said went better than expected. “We had a very, very good meeting with China,” Trump said, “I would say probably even better than expected, and the negotiations are continuing.” As part of the agreement, Trump also promised to lift some restrictions that had been imposed on Chinese technology giant Huawei.
Despite Trump’s optimism, there are still lots of unanswered questions, including when talks will actually resume. Analysts also cautioned that all the optimistic talk can’t change the fact that the United States and China don’t actually seem any closer to coming to a resolution on their disagreements. “This is candy for markets but it doesn’t really get us closer to resolving our deep differences,’’ Scott Kennedy, a China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, tells Bloomberg. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 15 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | President Trump, always one to think about the ratings, built anticipation ahead of a Sunday visit to the Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea – abruptly offering to meet dictator Kim Jong Un for a handshake and even saying he’s willing to cross the border.
No sitting U.S. president has set foot in North Korea.
TRUMP OFFERS TO MEET KIM JONG UN AT NK BORDER
The tantalizing possibility of such a historic photo op – which Trump would cast as part of his effort to secure a nuclear deal, but Kim could exploit to burnish his cult of personality – was first dangled in a tweet.
“After some very important meetings, including my meeting with President Xi of China, I will be leaving Japan for South Korea (with President Moon),” Trump tweeted Friday. “While there, if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)!”
The president is in Seoul after meeting with world leaders at the G20 summit in Japan.
While in Japan, Trump said at a news conference that he was “literally visiting the DMZ,” but wasn’t sure whether Kim would meet him.
Trump said he’d “feel very comfortable” crossing the border into North Korea if Kim showed up, saying he’d “have no problem” becoming the first U.S. president to step into North Korea.
It was not immediately clear what the agenda, if any, would be for the potential third Trump-Kim meeting.
“If he’s there we’ll see each other for two minutes,” Trump predicted.
North Korea responded by calling the offer a “very interesting suggestion.”
There have been no public meetings between Washington and Pyongyang since the breakdown of a Trump-Kim summit in Vietnam earlier this year. The chances for a resumption of U.S.-North Korea diplomacy have brightened since Trump and Kim recently exchanged personal letters. Trump called Kim's letter "beautiful," while Kim described Trump's as "excellent," though the contents of their letters have not been disclosed.
TRUMP MEETS TOP K-POP BAND
The prospect now of a cross-border handshake and even a foray by an American president into the internationally isolated, hermetic North could, if nothing else, kick-start movement toward resuming formal negotiations – even as it surely would attract Democratic criticism that Trump is cozying up to dictators.
But Trump, at least publicly, discussed the offer to Kim in casual terms, leaving unclear the likelihood of such an encounter.
“All I did is put out a feeler, if you’d like to meet,” Trump said later of the message to Kim.
Despite the deadlocked nuclear negotiations, both Trump and Kim have described their personal relationship as good.
But in yet another reminder of North Korea's continued mistrust of the United States, its foreign ministry said Wednesday it won't surrender to U.S.-led sanctions and accused Washington of trying to "bring us to our knees."
Fox News’ Alex Pappas and The Associated Press contributed to this report. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 19 |
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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
OSAKA, Japan – President Donald Trump said Sen. Kamala Harris was being given "too much credit" for her debate performance against Joe Biden, explaining that he thought the former vice president was attacked more than he should have been.
Trump spoke for more than an hour at a news conference marking the end of the G-20 summit and took on a variety of subjects, including the powerful exchange between Harris and Biden that defined the second night of the first Democratic primary debate.
Harris challenged Biden over his remarks last week about working with segregationist senators James Eastland and Herman Talmadge early in his political career. Turning to Biden on Thursday, Harris said she doesn’t think he’s racist, but she said it’s “hurtful” to hear him talk about finding common ground with two senators who built their reputation and career on segregation.
'That little girl is me': Kamala Harris attacks Biden with personal story about race
Harris cited Biden’s fight against school busing and told the story of a young California girl who was part of the second class to integrate her school.
“That little girl is me,” she said.
While the exchange quickly became the most-talked-about moment from the two days of debating, Trump didn't appear impressed.
"I thought that she was given too much credit," the president said. "He didn't do well, certainly, and maybe the facts weren't necessarily on his side. I think she was given too much credit for what she did. It wasn't that outstanding."
Debate winners and loser: Who were the winners and losers
Trump went on to say that Harris' response was "straight out of the can, what she said. That thing was right out of a box," and added that Biden "didn't respond great."
"This was not Winston Churchill we're dealing with, OK," he said of Biden, "but it wasn't, I don't think, nearly as bad as they portended it to be."
During the press conference, Trump also defended his exchange with Russian President Vladimir Putin where he appeared to joke about that country’s meddling in the 2016 election. He also responded to recent criticism from former president Jimmy Carter by calling him a "nice man" but a "terrible president."
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | The New York Times recently published an article outlining how a hacker infiltrated a popular grief support Facebook group, and the fact the company was slow to offer any help.
In an article titled “Grieving People Gathered on a Facebook Support Group. Then a Hacker Showed Up,” the New York Times outlines how a hacker managed to infiltrate a popular grief support group on Facebook, terrorizing members for weeks with no Facebook representatives taking action. The page, tilted Grief the Unspoken, has more than 500,000 followers and was first breached by hackers on May 9, when the hacker posted a photo of a disfigured child along with a number of other gruesome photos. Moderators initially managed to remove the photos but a short while later were unable to access the page altogether.
The Times writes:
The moderators reported the breach Wednesday to the F.B.I. Internet Crime Complaint Center, saying they considered it a cyberattack on a vulnerable population. They had even tagged Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and the chief executive of Facebook, on the social media platform. “Triggering videos can be the last thread for someone who is emotionally fragile,” said Ms. Cheldelin Fell, who lives north of Seattle and is the founder of the International Grief Institute. “This hijacker is toying with the emotions of a vulnerable group of people. Facebook has to take action.” A personal account of one of the page’s original administrators appeared to have been compromised, according to Facebook, which restored access on Thursday after being alerted to the problem by The New York Times.
So far it appears that the hacker behind the attack has not been found, but the damage has been done with the Facebook page losing 30,000 followers since the hack:
Efforts to reach the hacker, who had used different Facebook profile names to communicate with one of the page moderators, were unsuccessful. Ms. Cheldelin Fell said the grief support page lost 30,000 followers since the first attack in May. After the attack, Grief the Unspoken directed followers to a new page it set up June 12. “We went through all the right channels,” she said. “We tried different venues.”
Read the full report on the New York Times here.
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan or email him at [email protected] | null | 0 | -1 | null | 18 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Last week the House of Commons marked the 40th anniversary of the creation of select committees to scrutinise the work of individual government departments. I chair one of these – digital, culture, media and sport – but the scope of its work has extended beyond holding individual ministers to account. We now investigate much wider issues of concern, where the intervention of parliament could help expose wrongdoing and prevent vulnerable people from being exploited.
On 25 June, as part of our inquiry into reality TV, we questioned executives from ITV about the Jeremy Kyle Show, which used techniques such as lie detector tests to try to resolve disputes between families and neighbours. This show was taken off air by ITV after a participant who had failed such a test took his own life.
This tragic event prompted a wider debate about whether TV companies that make such programmes are operating with sufficient duty of care to the members of the public who tak | null | 0 | -1 | null | 6 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | President Donald Trump taunted Jim Acosta on Saturday after the CNN journalist returned to the beat after promoting his book.
Acosta asked if Trump purposely ignored a journalist’s question about the death of Jamal Khashoggi during a meeting with Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman because he was afraid of offending him.
“No, not at all,” Trump replied. “I don’t really care about offending people, I sort of thought you’d know that.”
“By the way, congratulations, I understand your book, is it doing well?” Trump added.
“It’s doing very well Mr. President,” Acosta replied.
“Really?” Trump asked.
“I’ll get you an autographed copy,” Acosta continued.
“Good,” Trump replied. “Send it. I want to see it, send me a copy.”
Although Acosta’s book briefly made the New York Times’ top ten best sellers list last week, it is currently ranked at #1,308 on Amazon. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 10 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | The former vice president used his appearance to defend his past positions on race and clear his name after Democrat rival Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) questioned his race record directly during Thursday night’s Democrat debate.
“I heard and I listened to and I respect Senator Harris,” Biden said. “But we all know that 30 seconds and 60 seconds on a debate exchange can’t do justice to a lifetime committed to civil rights.”
Biden reiterated, as he did during the debate, that he never opposed voluntary busing, although Harris was correct in suggesting that Biden opposed federally mandated public busing.
“I did not oppose busing in America. What I opposed is busing ordered by the Department of Education. That’s what I opposed,” Biden claimed during the debate.
Regardless, Biden’s remarks did not clear the air. Some say he experienced yet another gaffe after making a remark about people assuming a young person in a hoodie could be a “gangbanger.”
“That kid wearing a hoodie may very well be the next poet laureate and not a gangbanger,” Biden said during the remarks.
Booker took issue with Biden’s characterization and swiftly jumped in.
“This isn’t about a hoodie,” he tweeted Friday. “It’s about a culture that sees a problem with a kid wearing a hoodie in the first place. Our nominee needs to have the language to talk about race in a far more constructive way”:
This isn’t about a hoodie. It’s about a culture that sees a problem with a kid wearing a hoodie in the first place. Our nominee needs to have the language to talk about race in a far more constructive way. https://t.co/c2BFSSOHro — Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) June 28, 2019
This is not the first time Booker has taken aim at Biden.
The two reportedly spoke on the phone last week to clear the air following Biden’s praise of late segregationists Sens. James Eastland (D-MS) and Herman Talmadge (D-GA). Booker said the 10–15-minute phone conversation was “constructive,” but it did not sound like either of them apologized.
“I understood where his intentions were. I understood where his heart was. The fact is, though, it’s not about me or him. He said things that are hurtful and are harmful,” Booker told MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell last week.
“I believe he should be apologizing to the American people and having this discussion with all of us,” he continued.
Booker also appeared on MSNBC’s Live on Friday and reiterated that the next president needs to have the ability to address race relations in a way that everyone can hear, once again labeling Trump as a racist and using that as a backdrop for his plea.
“After this president – with the way he overtly uses racism as a political currency – the next leader, whoever is a leader of our party, has to be up to the challenge of bringing reconciliation and healing and addressing these issues,” Booker said.
“They can’t fall into a defensive crouch or try to shift blame as he said to me that I should apologize to him,” he continued.
“That’s not the kind of leadership we need. We need the kind of leadership that can reignite the sense of common purpose that we all have a challenge to deal with the persistent realities of racial discrimination in this country,” he added. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 28 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | CLOSE Jon Stewart delivers a statement chiding members of Congress for not showing up to a hearing on reauthorizing the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund. USA TODAY
WASHINGTON – Luis Alvarez, a retired New York Police Department detective and 9/11 first responder who urged Congress earlier this month to extend benefits for those who responded to the 2011 terror attacks, died on Saturday after years battling cancer.
"We told him at the end that he had won this battle by the many lives he had touched by sharing his three-year battle," his family said in a statement announcing his death. "He was at peace with that, surrounded by family."
On June 20, just days after giving emotional testimony before a House panel, Alvarez announced he was entering hospice care after complications from his treatment that caused his liver to shut down.
6/11/19 10:44:46 AM -- Washington, DC, U.S.A -- Jon Stewart helps Luis Alvarez, Detective (Ret.) and 9/11 Responder, New York Police Department, as they are sworn before testimony in front of the House Judiciary Committee on the need to reauthorize the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund on June 11, 2019 in Washington. -- Photo by Jack Gruber, USA TODAY Staff ORG XMIT: JG 138068 Jon Stewart Cong 6/11 (Via OlyDrop) (Photo: Jack Gruber, USA TODAY)
Alvarez joined former "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart and other advocates to plead with Congress to reauthorize the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund (VCF) on June 11. The fund created after 9/11 helps pay for medical and economic losses as a result of the terrorist attacks. The fund is running out of money and is being forced to make drastic cuts to its payments to 9/11 victims and their families unless it is reauthorized.
The day after Alvarez and Stewart spoke, legislation to permanently reauthorize the fund passed the House Judiciary Committee.
We lost another 9/11 first responder. Our thoughts are with the family and friends of NYPD Detective Luis Alvarez. pic.twitter.com/rnbhYuFNGJ — RayPfeiferFoundation (@RayPfeiferFDTN) June 29, 2019
Contributing: Nicholas Wu
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Angela Merkel seen shaking during ceremony in Berlin
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she is "fine" following two bouts of shaking in public that have sparked concerns about her health.
Speaking at the G20 summit in Osaka, she said she was convinced that "this reaction will disappear just as it has arisen", German news agency DPA said.
Asked what lay behind it and whether she had seen a doctor, she said she had "nothing in particular to report".
On Thursday she was seen shaking for two minutes at a ceremony in Berlin.
The chancellor, who turns 65 next month, gripped her arms until she became steadier. She was offered a glass of water but did not drink it.
The previous incident - which she later blamed on dehydration - saw her shaking while standing next to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky in hot sunshine.
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption 18 June: Mrs Merkel was seen trembling and later said she had been dehydrated
In 2017 she had an earlier bout of shaking in hot weather on a visit to Mexico as she was attending a military honours ceremony.
Reports said that subsequent medical checks had found nothing to be wrong.
In Osaka, Mrs Merkel has been attending G20 sessions and holding bilateral meetings with leaders such as US President Donald Trump, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Government spokesman Steffen Seibert tweeted a video of her making a speech covering topics such as extremism, women's empowerment and climate change. It showed her standing and speaking in a relaxed manner.
Mrs Merkel is now in her fourth term as chancellor, a role she began in November 2005. She has said she will leave politics when her current term ends in 2021.
She has a reputation for remarkable stamina - during intensive late-night discussions at EU summits, for example.
She has been in good health while in office, and even worked from home after a knee operation in 2011; she suffered a fall while skiing in 2014. Her absences were only brief on those occasions. Her mother died earlier this year. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 18 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Image copyright Google Image caption The Charity Commission said the RAF "failed to adequately protect funds" at RAF Honington's two mess charities
The RAF has been criticised for "serious management failures" after a former clerk stole more than £72,000 from two mess charities.
Zowie Davis admitted stealing the money over a two-year period while working at RAF Honington in Suffolk and was jailed for 18 months in 2016.
A Charity Commission report said the "significant" fraud left the charities in "a precarious financial position".
An RAF spokesman said action had been taken to address issues raised.
Mess charities provide facilities and activities for RAF personnel.
The commission's head of investigations and enforcement, Harvey Grenville, said: "The RAF failed to adequately protect the funds at RAF Honington, thereby allowing an unscrupulous individual to steal significant sums from the mess charities over a sustained period of time.
"The fraud was so significant... it left them in a precarious financial position which could have resulted in their collapse and had a direct impact on serving RAF personnel."
'Ineffective safeguards'
Davis, formerly of Honington, transferred cheques and cash amounting to £72,690 between February 2012 and October 2014 in her role as a civilian clerk.
She pleaded guilty at Ipswich Crown Court in April 2016 and was sentenced to 18 months in jail.
The Charity Commission class inquiry found there were "serious governance and management failures and "an ineffective application of basic safeguards" at RAF Honington - and that all the RAF's 72 mess charities had used the same financial control procedures.
Third-party service providers were contracted by the service to run its messes in 2012 to 2013.
At the time, the RAF told the commission "adequate controls were in place to protect charity assets".
After Davis was jailed, the RAF's own inquiry found it had losses of more than £200,000, which started before the new contract arrangements began.
Since 2016, the RAF has made good the losses to the charity funds.
An RAF spokesman said: "We welcome the Charity Commission's report into RAF mess charities, and we have already taken action to address any issues in the report.
"We are committed to ensuring a robust system of policies, procedures and assurances is in place to mitigate against risk." | null | 0 | -1 | null | 16 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | FILE PHOTO: Iran's national flags are seen on a square in Tehran February 10, 2012, a day before the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl/File Photo
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran will soon exceed an enriched uranium limit under its nuclear deal, after remaining signatories to the pact fell short of Tehran’s demands to be shielded from U.S. sanctions, the semi-official Fars news agency cited an “informed source” as saying.
Iran’s envoy to a meeting of the remaining signatories to the 2015 nuclear accord said on Friday that European countries had offered too little at last-ditch talks to persuade Tehran to back off from its plans to breach limits imposed by the deal.
“As the commission meeting in Vienna could not satisfy Iran’s just demands ... Iran is determined to cut it commitments to the deal and the 300 kg enriched uranium limit will be soon breached,” the unnamed source said, according to Fars. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 4 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | CLOSE A retired New York firefighter was among the 9/11 families and responders who watched the pretrial hearings at Guantanamo Bay via closed-circuit television at the Fort Hamilton Army Base.
A former New York Police Department detective who last month pleaded alongside comedian John Stewart in Congress for health insurance for 9/11 responders died Saturday. He was 53.
Luis Alvarez, who joined the NYPD in 1990 and became a top champion of the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund year, had entered a hospice center a week after his appearance with Stewart.
"It is with peace and comfort, that the Alvarez family announce that Luis (Lou) Alvarez, our warrior, has gone home to our Good Lord in heaven today," the family wrote in a statement on Facebook. "Please remember his words, 'Please take care of yourselves and each other.'"
More: 9/11 first responder who testified with Jon Stewart in Congress enters hospice care
The family added: "We told him at the end that he had won this battle by the many lives he had touched by sharing his three year battle. He was at peace with that, surrounded by family. Thank you for giving us this time we have had with him, it was a blessing!"
Jon Stewart helps Luis Alvarez as they are sworn in before testimony in front of the House Judiciary Committee on the need to reauthorize the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund on June 11, 2019. (Photo: Jack Gruber, USA TODAY)
Alvarez died from complications related to colorectal cancer, which he was diagnosed with in 2016.
Our NYPD family & all 1st responders mourn as we remember retired NYPD Bomb Squad Det. Luis Alvarez, who passed this morning. His strength — physical, mental & emotional — led us all, & we vow to #NeverForget him or his legacy — which was, simply, to have others do what’s right. pic.twitter.com/cwpsMQO2Sw — Commissioner O'Neill (@NYPDONeill) June 29, 2019
Alvarez had been undergoing chemotheropy, completing his 69th round earlier this month, he said during his June 11 testimony with Stewart.
In an impassioned appearance, Stewart lambasted Congress for not acting to reauthorize the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund, created after the attacks for medical and economic losses. The fund is running out of money and is being forced to make drastic cuts to its payments to 9/11 victims and their families unless it is reauthorized.
More: Jon Stewart slams Mitch McConnell over 9/11 victim fund on Stephen Colbert's show
Alvarez told Fox News in an interview after his congressional appearance, “I got sick 16 years after the fact. And there’s workers out there who say, ‘This isn’t going to happen to me. I’m OK. The time has passed.’ The time doesn’t – is not going to pass.”
New York Police commissioner James O'Neill issued a statement lauding Alvarez's legacy.
"Our NYPD family & all 1st responders mourn as we remember retired NYPD Bomb Squad Det. Luis Alvarez, who passed this morning. His strength – physical, mental & emotional – led us all, & we vow to #NeverForget him or his legacy — which was, simply, to have others do what’s right."
Reach Joey Garrison on Twitter @joeygarrison.
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | New reinforced panels are being used to strengthen the border wall in the Calexico area of California.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), in partnership with the Army Corps of Engineers, announced a new panel installation on an 11-mile section of wall within the Border Patrol's San Diego sector on Thursday.
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The new panels will replace the existing secondary barrier with 30-foot tall steel bollards as well as technology improvements, according to the CBP.
CBP says the El Centro and San Diego Sectors have been experiencing high levels of illegal-immigrant traffic. They hope this new addition to the wall will help support the Department of Homeland Security in hindering illegal crossings, and in quelling drug and smuggling activities.
The CBP announced the project earlier this month along with a new border wall project in Tecate, Calif. The $127 million contract to construct both projects was awarded to SLSCO Ltd. in December 2018. It's being paid to fix dilapidated or outdated border wall designs.
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CBP says the additions were not associated with President Trump's Executive Order 13767, also known as the Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements.
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Construction for the Tecate and Calexico projects is expected to cover 15 miles and will continue into 2020, according to CBP.
This news comes as a judge on Saturday blocked Trump from using $2.5 billion in military funding to build the border wall. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 11 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | London (CNN) Ahead of this weekend's G20 summit in Japan, an elderly idol group called Obachaaan released a music video welcoming the new visitors to their city, Osaka.
The energetic seniors dance and rap through the port city in the slapstick rap-style video, called "Oba Funk Osaka" -- which charmed at least one world leader.
"Like Japan, Singapore too has an aging population," Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong wrote in a Facebook post in reference to the demographic issue being on the global agenda at the G20 for the first time this year.
"Staying active and engaged with current affairs is certainly one lesson we can learn from these obachans (grandmothers)."
Policy-makers, like Lee, are puzzling over how to deal with world's aging population . The over-60s are growing faster than all younger age groups, thanks to people living longer, healthier lives and declining birth rates in many countries.
It's an issue that is feared to have a swathe of socio-economic consequences -- such as lower economic growth , high public debt burdens, intergenerational tensions, higher health care or pension costs.
And if you delve into the regional data, it is Europe that is leading the demographic change.
According to United Nations population data , the continent is home to the oldest populations in the world where one in four of all Europeans are aged 60 and over.
The European Union's birth rate is at 1.6 , far below the average 2.1 births per women needed for a population to sustain itself from one generation to the next.
A gendered issue
According to Umberto Cattaneo, an economist at the International Labor Organization (ILO), the rise in short-term employment contracts, the gender pay gap and lack of affordable childcare are some of the reasons why couples are opting against having children in Europe.
And the situation poses a Catch-22 for women, with the burden of elderly care potentially falling on them if policy-makers fail to provide long-term programs for the elderly.
"In Europe and Central Asia women perform 67% of the total care in unpaid care work in the region," Cattaneo said. "The risk is that if there is not enough investment in this sector basically women will take up the additional unpaid care work."
The aging population feeds into a broader trend in Europe, the only region in the world whose population is falling.
In the next 30 years, the United Nations projects t he global population will reach nearly 10 billion people; in Europe though it will fall by as much as 26 million by 2050.
According to UN projections, between 2015 and 2017 countries in eastern Europe saw the biggest decreases in population -- with Bulgaria, Latvia, Ukraine, Poland and Hungary falling the most.
"I would say it's dire in eastern Europe," said Brienna Perelli-Harris, a lecturer in demography at the University of Southampton, adding that the trend began after the collapse of socialism in eastern Europe -- with fertility rates declining to 1.3 or lower.
"Eastern European countries have the added burden of emigration," where people are moving to richer European nations for work, she said.
But financial incentives and public awareness campaigns can come across as overbearing. A Polish government public awareness campaign, which called on couples to "breed like rabbits," was widely criticized in Poland, according to AFP.
While a 2007 policy in Russia, which gave maternity capital of up to $10,000 for mortgages for mothers with a second child resulted in black market trading of the capital. "Many of the couples just wanted the cash," Perelli Harris said.
Immigration has been cited as a way to plug the elderly care gap and even out population decline, but it has turned into too toxic an issue for governments to advocate for in recent years.
"Germany allowed refugees in partially because there is awareness they needed more workers and higher labor force," Perelli Harris said, but the issue has faced backlash from more nativist elements in Europe.
The far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, made ethno-nationalistic appeals in a 2017 election poster that showed a pregnant white woman with a caption, "New Germans? We'll make them ourselves." It was a campaign that was criticized for echoing Germany's Nazi past.
But aging should not be cause for pessimism, said Lars Sondergaard, the World Bank's program leader for education, health social protection and jobs for EU member states.
It is instead an "opportunity," he said. "At the heart, you've got to make individuals more productive to offset aging," he said.
The ILO estimates that doubling investments into the care economy by European and Central Asian countries would be lucrative. "It would result in 83 million jobs, with 70 million in care sector and 30 million indirect jobs by 2030," ILO economist Cattaneo said. "But they need to start investing now."
Sondergaard said a holistic approach is needed for an individual country's needs. Solutions could include keeping the older population in the labor force with greater skills training, ensuring pension inequality does not crop up and raising the retirement age.
All of which could prove -- as the Osaka-based Obachaaan dancing group already knows -- that life certainly does not stop at 60. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 37 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended two “large groups” of mostly Haitian, South American, and African migrants. On two days this week, the Del Rio Station agents apprehended a total of 310 migrants.
“Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents have apprehended people from over 45 countries around the world,” Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Raul L. Ortiz said in a written statement. “Our agents, along with the assistance of our DHS partners, continue to meet each new challenge as the ongoing humanitarian crisis evolves.”
On June 24, Del Rio Station agents apprehended a large group of 205 illegal aliens who crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico. Officials reported the group consisted of 122 Haitian nationals. The remaining migrants came to the U.S. from African and South America, officials reported.
The video below shows one of the large groups streaming from the Rio Grande to awaiting Border Patrol agents.
Border Patrol officials define a “large group” as more than 100 migrants.
Two days earlier, the agents apprehended another large group of 105 mostly Haitian migrants illegally crossing the border river from Mexico. The group consisted of 82 migrants from Haiti and the remainder from Africa and South America.
The agents transported all of the migrants to the Del Rio Border Patrol station where they underwent a medical screening and comprehensive biometric background investigation to determine if the migrants have any history of criminal or immigration violations or gang affiliation. Following the screenings, the migrants are processed under Del Rio Sector guidelines.
About a month ago, Del Rio Sector Border Patrol officials noted that migrants groups from African and other regions of the world were adopting the strategy of moving across the border in “large groups,” Breitbart News reported. In addition to African and Haitian migrants, Cuban migrants illegally crossing the border illegally from Mexico jumped by 1,600 percent. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 14 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | It may be known as the Forgotten War, but what happened in a freshly divided Korea between 1950 and 1953 left more than 600,000 people dead. Cliff Benoit served in the Army during the war, and survived. He's now 90 years old and lives outside Boston, where he grew up.
Seven decades ago he met another Massachusetts boy, 19-year-old George Schipani, in Army training. The pair became fast friends.
"He was a very likable guy," Benoit said. "Very likable. He'd do anything for you."
In Korea, Benoit and his fellow soldiers at first took Pyongyang, the capital of the north. But after China entered the war, the soldiers were surrounded and captured near the village of Unsan. They were forced to march in freezing temperatures over 150 miles to Pyoktong.
Schipani was badly wounded. He had a leg amputated in a makeshift mud hut hospital, but died not long after. Benoit buried his friend in the winter of 1951.
"We dug a hole maybe six inches deep," Benoit recalled. "Put him in, covered him with rocks, dirt and branches."
"Why was it so important for you to do that?" asked "CBS This Morning Saturday" co-host Jeff Glor. "He was a friend," Benoit said. "A friend in the service is the best friend you'll ever have. If you get along good with them, you got your ass covered."
"He had me and I had him," he added.
Benoit was held for another 28 months as a prisoner of war before he was released. He returned to a hero's welcome, got married, and raised seven children with his wife. But he never forgot about Schipani, whose body was left behind in a distant land.
Cliff Benoit at the service commemorating his fallen friend CBS News
This January, Schipani's remains were identified by the U.S. government. When Benoit found out that his friend's remains had been recovered, he said, his first reaction was "Thank God."
"When we're able to repatriate a soldier from a previous war, that's more of a celebration. It gives the community an opportunity to come out and not only appreciate and show their love and respect for the soldier we're burying, but they're also showing a love and respect for all who have served and sacrificed," said Bob Bean, a casualty officer with the U.S. military.
And 68 years after he first buried his friend, Benoit did it again last weekend – this time, in Somerville, Massachusetts. Schipiani's final resting place is less than two miles away from where Benoit lives. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 31 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Why didn’t Jeremy Corbyn go to Glastonbury this year? Couldn’t he find his wellies? Was it too late to hire a yurt? Or is he hiding from Remain supporters? Again.
When Corbyn attended the festival in 2017, preaching to the euphoric masses, it turned into a veritable Glastonbury on the Mount. Are members of that 2017 crowd a little embarrassed now – too much whooping, weeping and “Jez-mania” and not enough scrutiny? When Corbyn had cancelled appearing at Glastonbury the previous year, straight after the referendum result, the official line was that he was “focusing on the issues”. No one thought to ask why the rent-a-protest Labour leader, usually never happier than when air-punching at a mic stand before uncritical throngs, was suddenly too shy to appear before a massive festival crowd of hyper-emotional Remain voters needing reassurance?
Three maddening, mendacious, slippery, gormless, prevaricating years later – even after polling data emerged saying that, contrary to popular thinking, there appeared to be a majority of Remain-Labour members and voters – Corbyn remains the invisible man of Brexit.
Ask him a straight question and the bandages unravel, spool on to the floor, and you’re left staring at nothingness. Oh, some say, but it’s very hard for Jeremy, what with all those tricky Leave territories, blah blah, blah. To which the only logical response is: diddums. Isn’t this Corbyn’s actual job – hasn’t he had 36 months to do it?
There’s also the small matter of personal integrity. But never mind that now, because Labour might have zombie-walked into a whole new problem: Remain-irrelevance.
Ask Corbyn a straight question and the bandages unravel, spool on to the floor, and you’re left staring at nothingness
I’ve long been anti-Corbyn for reasons beyond Brexit (antisemitism, anybody?). However, even I’m confounded by the sheer arrogance of Corbyn behaving as though all Labour has to do is eventually (grudgingly) support a people’s vote and all would be forgiven. That’s not what I’m seeing in the (many) Remain groups I’m a member of. Time was, the Remain vote was such a cheap date that Corbyn would only have to vaguely hint at backing a second referendum and the knickers would fly off.
Not any more. These days, when Corbyn comes out with his “definitely/maybe/people’s vote” guff, the majority groan, jeer or say they no longer trust him and won’t vote for Labour. Worse, sometimes people don’t even react or care. Remain supporters have learned how to live without Labour.
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It’s a marked change from even six to nine months ago. Corbyn appears to have made the exact same mistake he accused New Labour of – taking decent, loyal voters for granted until they can stick it no more. For the Remain-minded “many, not the few”, Labour reluctantly “coming around” to supporting a second referendum won’t cut it any more. There would have to be unequivocal official support, sustained wooing and crawling, maybe even the removal of a tainted, unpopular leader. (Along with music festivals, that’s another thing Team Corbyn has been avoiding – a new leadership contest.) As for Glastonbury, of course Corbyn didn’t go this year – he knew he’d be soundly booed.
Joan Crawford’s child abuse should never be a laughing matter
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How strange to think that a terrorised child could ever be considered amusing?
Christina Crawford, 80, has been publicising the stage musical version of her 1978 book, Mommie Dearest, her account of her abusive childhood at the hands of her adoptive moth | null | 0 | -1 | null | 32 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | President Donald Trump and South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in stand together before a working dinner at the tea house on the grounds of the presidential Blue House in Seoul on June 29, 2019. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/Getty Images
President Donald Trump continued with his strategy of diplomacy via Twitter on Saturday morning when he tweeted out what he described as a spontaneous invite to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Trump sent the tweet as he was getting ready to leave Japan to go to South Korea. “While there, if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello (?)!” Trump tweeted.
After some very important meetings, including my meeting with President Xi of China, I will be leaving Japan for South Korea (with President Moon). While there, if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 28, 2019
The president later told reporters it was all spur of the moment. “I just thought of it this morning,” Trump said, adding that what he did with his tweet was “put out a feeler if he’d like to meet.” Trump also mentioned that “he sent me a very beautiful birthday card.” The president went on to say that “we seem to get along very well,” adding “that’s a good thing, not a bad thing … it’s good to get along.” He went on to suggest that Americans should be grateful for that because “frankly if I didn’t become president you’d be right now in a war with North Korea … and by the way that’s a certainty, it’s not like maybe.” Trump claimed Pyongyang welcomed his invitation. “I can tell you exactly what they did: respond very favorably,” Trump said in Osaka.
It’s unclear whether the meeting will actually happen, but if it does there is no sign that it would be anything beyond a photo-op. “If he’s there, we’ll see each other for two minutes. That’s all we can,” Trump said. Trump told reporters he didn’t want it to be referred to as a summit. “We won’t call it a summit, we’ll call it a handshake,” Trump said. The president also told reporters he would be willing to step foot into North Korea. “I feel very comfortable doing that. I would have no problem,” Trump said in Osaka. It would make him the first sitting U.S. president to step foot in North Korea.
Trump offers to meet North Korea's Kim at the DMZ this weekend. More here: https://t.co/5tWfJdfPBc pic.twitter.com/DukMOjgPMG — Reuters Top News (@Reuters) June 29, 2019
A North Korean official called Trump’s invitation a “very interesting suggestion” but failed to say whether Kim would accept. “We have not received an official proposal,” Choe Son Hui, a senior North Korean diplomat, told state-run news agency KCNA.
Although Trump took pains to frame his invitation as spontaneous and unplanned, there are hints that may not be quite accurate. The president had discussed a possible meeting with Kim at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) during an interview with the Hill Monday morning but the White House asked for that information to be withheld due to security concerns. “I’m gonna be there for a day. I understand that’s one of the places I’ll be visiting,” Trump told the Hill on Monday. When he was asked whether he would meet with Kim, Trump said, “I might, yeah.” | null | 0 | -1 | null | 27 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Facebook's latest update on its ongoing companywide civil rights audit has been criticized by activists who say that the social network needs to do much more to tackle hate on its platform.
In its update, released Sunday, Facebook describes its efforts to prevent harmful content circulating on the social network, fight discrimination in Facebook Ads, protect the 2020 Census and Elections against intimidation, and formalize the company's 'Civil Rights Task Force'.
Activists, however, say that the tech giant's efforts are inadequate. The Change the Terms coalition, which aims to reduce hate online, has been working with Facebook to develop a civil rights accountability structure. In a statement, the group said that the audit represents "important steps, not significant strides" by Facebook.
“We cannot rely on Facebook to tell us whether the changes they are making to address hateful activity on their platform protect their diverse users," said Henry Fernandez, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and member of Change the Terms. "In this audit, the company commits to improvements consistent with Change the Terms’ recommendations in some key areas, including moving responsibility for addressing hateful activities to senior management and tackling teams of trolls and bots pushing hate in the election context. But, we still need much broader transparency so independent researchers can look at data and answer whether these changes make a difference."
Fernandez added that Facebook needs to do much, much more in its battle to combat hate on the social network. “Given the tragic mass killings at the mosques in Christchurch livestreamed on Facebook Live, we hoped Facebook would go much further, much faster," he explained. "Yet Facebook remains turtle slow to change. They need to move now to build a diverse team of experts with real authority to oversee ending hate on their platform to get it moving. Relying primarily on monthly meetings of executives and a couple of outside consultants with civil rights expertise is a step forward but insufficient."
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Civil rights advocates have long complained that the social network has been harnessed for hate speech, harassment campaigns, voter suppression and disinformation and racially biased housing and credit advertisements.
Muslim Advocates, one of several major civil rights organizations demanding board level leadership changes at the Menlo Park, Calif. company, described the company's approach as "perfunctory half-steps."
“Instead of building a permanent, board and staff-level civil rights infrastructure with the expertise needed to address this crisis, Facebook has chosen to take perfunctory half-steps all while anti-Muslim bigots and white nationalists continue to use the company’s platforms to organize and spread hatred and bigotry,” said Madihha Ahussain, Muslim Advocates special counsel for anti-Muslim discrimination, in a statement emailed to Fox News. "The audit process will not be successful if Facebook does not take seriously and implement the audit team's recommendations for improving content moderation."
With its audit, Facebook wants to reflect the values of America's civil rights tradition.
After years of consistent pressure from outside advocacy groups like Color of Change, the company opted to set a new course. Facebook embarked one year ago on the civil rights audit of its policies and practices led by Laura Murphy, a civil rights advocate who was the American Civil Liberties Union’s top lobbyist on Capitol Hill for 17 years and worked with Democrats and Republicans.
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“We want to make sure we’re advancing civil rights on our platform,” Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said in a statement. “Over the past year, I’ve had the privilege of meeting with many key leaders and our conversations have been humbling and invaluable.”
Murphy, with the assistance of civil rights law firm Relman, Dane and Colfax, and with the support of Sandberg, undertook meetings with 90 civil rights organizations and interviewed people who handle product, policy and enforcement at the tech giant as part of the audit.
“Facebook has been through a storm in the last couple of years,” Murphy told Fox News in an interview two days before the report’s release. “They’re taking this seriously.”
While the first update focused mostly on the Mark Zuckerberg-led company’s election efforts in the second half of last year, the latest update focuses on content moderation and enforcement; advertising targeting practices; elections and census; and a civil rights accountability structure. Here’s what changes the auditors recommend and what Facebook has planned policy-wise.
Content Moderation and Enforcement
Hate speech is probably the hardest problem to solve when you operate at Facebook’s scale. Factors like country of origin, language, nuance and context can be challenging for humans to parse out, let alone algorithms.
In addition to the tech giant’s already announced ban against white nationalism and white separatism, the audit report makes several specific recommendations. First, Facebook has now updated its events policy to ban posts from people who intend to bring weapons to events with the intent to intimidate or harass members of minority groups or vulnerable people.
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Second, the report recommends that Facebook ban content that supports white nationalist ideology even if the terms “white nationalism” and “white separatism” are not explicitly used. The company will be working to identify hate slogans and symbols connected to these movements in order to enforce the policy.
Although the auditors mention Facebook’s broader crackdown on “dangerous individuals and organizations” that amplify hate, they also note that some people and groups have been able to circumvent the new bans and persist on the platform with ease.
In a widely circulated USA Today article earlier this year, Facebook was slammed by frustrated black users who were banned from the social network after they called out hate speech or spoke against racism on the platform.
As one way to address this, Facebook is piloting a program in the U.S. to have a portion of its 15,000-plus content moderators focus only on hate speech — instead of misrepresentation, bullying, nudity, etc. — as a way to develop deeper expertise and more accurate enforcement over time.
Even so, with 2.3 billion monthly active users across the world adding millions of posts, videos, photos and memes every hour, completely solving hate speech is like trying to drink from a raging firehose.
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“I don’t know that you could ever hire enough people to get it right. And I don’t think the algorithms are close to capturing what constitutes hate speech,” Murphy said, adding that this is a challenge for other Big Tech firms as well.
Civil Rights Accountability Structure
The biggest demand from Color of Change and other racial justice organizations has been to get Facebook — whether through a leadership or board governance change — to apply a civil rights lens with all of its products, services and policies and create a permanent structure within the company to address these issues.
The tech giant has created a Civil Rights Task Force, that will be chaired by Sandberg and made up of senior leaders, which will onboard civil rights expertise to make sure key areas around content policy, voting and elections are addressed. It will serve as an executive body where employees, as well as outside groups, can “escalate civil rights questions or issues” to leaders and decision-makers, according to the audit update. In addition, the task force will be empowered to impact contemplated products and policies that might raise civil rights concerns at an early stage.
Facebook is also holding civil rights training for all senior leaders on the task force and for key employees on the product and policy side.
“I believe that this is a start. This is in no way the end of the conversation on a civil rights accountability infrastructure,” Murphy, who was first woman and first African-American to direct the ACLU’s Washington legislative office, told Fox News during an interview. “I think it is important that you hold senior management to account.”
Murphy also said that civil rights organizations would likely question whether the task force is enough in terms of accountability and structure, but noted that she sees it as a starting point.
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Elections and 2020 Census
According to Murphy, Facebook wants to make sure that the core functions of democracy — including voting and the census — are respected and not attacked.
In order to do that, the tech company is unveiling a range of policy updates and new initiatives that include protections against voter interference; a new policy prohibiting “don’t vote” ads; efforts to address so-called racial appeals, which the audit update defines as “explicit or implicit efforts to appeal to one’s racial identity and/or use race to motivate someone to vote for or against a given candidate; more proactive detection of voter suppression; combatting “coordinated information operations” by sophisticated bad actors.
Facebook will also launch a “war room” for the 2020 elections in the U.S., similar to the one it piloted for the 2018 midterms, to bring key employees together as an added security measure to address any outbreaks of voter intimidation, voter suppression and hate speech in the lead up to and during the elections.
Whether these efforts—the auditors will issue a third and final update early next year—end up having a long-lasting impact remains to be seen. As regulators in the United States and overseas are zeroing in on Facebook and Silicon Valley generally, the company can at least say it’s trying to improve in this area.
“I don’t think it’s any small thing for a company to say ‘we want to embrace civil rights laws and principles across our platform,’” said Murphy. “I don’t know how many other companies are going that. There’s movement but I think there’s a ways to go.”
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Neil Potts, Facebook’s director of public policy, said he remains hopeful about the changes he’s seen and those yet to come in the pursuit of advancing civil rights on the ubiquitous platform.
“I’ve noticed a shift in the company from the top. Sheryl’s been very, very hands-on. I have seen that trickle down to various other areas—policy, products and enforcement,” Potts told Fox News during an interview before the report’s release. “Based off of Sheryl’s leadership, the leadership of Laura and her team, the feedback that we’ve received from the community—people get this now and we’re going to make sure we instill this throughout the company.”
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Activist group Color of Change described the audit update as an "important step forward," but added that Facebook now has to deliver on its civil rights promises. "This victory is the result of a collaborative, long-term strategy to hold Facebook accountable to all of its users, including people of color, and a strong partnership with Laura Murphy and promising commitment from Sheryl Sandberg," Rashad Robinson, president of Color of Change, told Fox News in a statement. "The updated audit is an important step forward, but the broader impact for our 1.5 million members and all black Facebook users will depend on the company's commitment to enforcement and transparency of policies developed by this promised civil rights infrastructure to protect all Facebook users from harm."
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, may have described the G20 summit as a success on Saturday afternoon, but the two days that the leaders of the world’s 20 richest economies spent in the rainy-season humidity of Osaka also magnified deep and potentially unbridgeable divides on everything from climate change to the future of western liberalism.
The G20 nations, Abe said, “have a responsibility to squarely face global problems and to come up with solutions through frank dialogue”. Their communique, which had looked in doubt 24 hours earlier as the EU and the US sparred over how to describe the climate crisis, went some way towards meeting his demands.
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Vladimir Putin and Shinzo Abe Photograph: Mikhail Klimentyev/AP
Their compromise enabled 19 of the 20 leaders to reaffirm their commitment to the Paris agreement, but left enough room for Washington to attempt to justify its increasing isolation from the global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with a reference to the harm it would inflict on “American workers and taxpayers”.
The “frank dialogue” Abe craved proved more problematic, however.
The opening day of the summit was overshadowed by the China-US trade war, the presence of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammad bin Salman, and for British audiences at least, Theresa May’s confrontation with Vladimir Putin over the Salisbury novichok poisonings. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 6 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Elon Musk’s Tesla claims that an isolated battery fault caused a Model S vehicle to burst into flames in a Shanghai parking lot two months ago, causing widespread problems for Tesla in China.
Bloomberg reports that electric car manufacturer Tesla is blaming an isolated battery fault for causing a Model S vehicle in a Shanghai parking lot to burst into flames two months ago. An investigation by Chinese and U.S. experts reportedly found no “systematic defect” with the vehicle, Tesla claims. Initial investigations show a problem with a single battery module in the front of the vehicle, according to Tesla.
Tesla claims that the car’s safety system worked correctly and kept the rest of the battery intact. “Anyone inside the cabin would have had time to exit safely,” Tesla said. Tesla’s statement comes shortly after Chinese competitor NIO recalled 4,800 vehicles due to battery-safety issues.
Recent reports also claim that the electric car manufacturer recently lost its Vice President of Production Peter Hochholdinger who oversaw the manufacturing of vehicles at the company’s plant in Fremont, California. Hochholdinger’s departure comes just as the company is attempting to beat its delivery record from 2018, a key moment for the firm as it attempts to meet this ambitious goal.
“Hitting the 360k-400k unit demand guidance for 2019 is going to be an Everest-like task in our opinion as 350k is likely the line in the sand as street whisper numbers have continued to come down over the past few months,” Dan Ives, an analyst at Wedbush Securities, stated in a note. Speaking to CNBC, Ives stated: “The departure of Peter is not ideal at this juncture and adds to the executive departures in Fremont which have concerned investors over the past 6 months.”
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is confident, however, stating in an email this week “the reality is that we are on track to set an all-time record, but it will be very close.” Tesla stock has fell 34 percent overall this year, new production numbers are set to be revealed on July 4th.
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Image example Ecowas leaders for di summit
Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari say west African leaders must form common strategy to tackle security wahala for di region.Oga Buhari tok dis one for di 55th ordinary session of di summit of di Ecowas Authority of Heads of States and government for Abuja, Nigeria capital."We have to send strong and unified signal to di pipo wey dey carry out violence, we don make up our mind to face dem and defeat dem." Im explain.
West African kontries don dey battle with terrorism, communal conflict, farmer/herders crisis tey-tey and di issue don lead to di death of thousands and millions of pipo wey dey displaced. Dis na why ECOWAS President, Jean-Claude Kassi Brou say di security wahala don affect development for all di states.E say di best way for di region to solve security wahala na for dem to build dia national defence.Meanwhile, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, head of UN office for West Africa say no be only military approach di leaders need to use to tackle terrorism, im say dem need to chook eye inside di root cause of di wahala." In di past month, attacks from terrorist group on military base and civilian infrastructure for Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger don kontinu and dis one fit destabilise di region." Na so im tok. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 7 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | A survey from the Swedish National Board of Housing, Building, and Planning has shown that while young people are struggling to find homes, half of the local governments give new migrants priority.
The survey, which saw data gathered from 290 Swedish municipalities, highlighted the fact that young Swedes are having an increasingly difficult time finding housing with 230 saying they had a shortage for young people, Nyheter Idag reports.
Fewer municipalities, 221, said they had a shortage of housing for new migrants, and 135 said they had given preference to new migrants for housing, compared to just 12 who said they had given young people priority for homes in their areas.
The National Board of Housing, Building, and Planning wrote that the figures were “alarmingly high, and they show a very strained situation for young people in the housing market”.
One municipality defended the move to prioritise new migrants, saying, “It would be desirable for the newly arrived to get leases first, so that they don’t have to move around” and claiming that it would also aid in integration.
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“The housing shortage can lead to the municipalities not being able to take advantage of the opportunities offered by an increased number of new arrivals. As most of the new arrivals are of working age, this can mean opportunities for growth and development, for example for municipalities with an ageing population. The lack of housing can lead to these opportunities being lost,” they added.
Sweden has been plagued with housing shortages in recent years, with the capital of Stockholm seeing a record 636,000 people on the housing queue and only 85 vacant properties in December last year.
Mass migration has played a role in the housing shortage, with Sweden seeing a surge in population growth due to migration. In 2016, the country saw the second-highest growth in population in the European Union due to migration.
In 2016, less than a year after the height of the migrant crisis, Swedish authorities attempted to ask wealthy homeowners to give up their country homes to help house new arrivals. In November of the same year, 16 disability associations were evicted to make way for migrants.
Sweden Needs To Build A New Stockholm To House The Migrant-Booming Population https://t.co/OmzyyqvBg9 pic.twitter.com/HW20cNMufl — Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) July 1, 2016 | null | 0 | -1 | null | 14 |
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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
CINCINNATI, Ohio — A day after the Democratic debates, Sen. Bernie Sanders made an appeal to black Americans in his bid for the Democratic presidential nod.
Sanders flew into Cincinnati on Friday evening and found a receptive audience when he addressed the convention of the National Newspaper Publisher's Association's (NNPA), which represents more than 200 black-owned newspapers across the country.
Sanders scheduled the appearance in Ohio as his first public one after the debate and before he headed off to New Hampshire on Saturday.
Sanders started his speech slamming President Donald Trump, to enthusiastic applause.
"We have a president who is, in fact, a racist and a bigot," Sanders said. "I wish I did not have to say it."
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U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders delivers remarks, Friday, June 28, 2019, during the 2019 National Newspapers Publishers Association Convention at the Westin Hotel in Cincinnati. (Photo: Kareem Elgazzar/The Enquirer)
Sanders hit the highlights of his platform: free college, canceling student debt and Medicare-for-all.
He didn't mention how he'd pay for it or the need to raise taxes on the middle class, something he acknowledged during Thursday's debate.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders delivers remarks, Friday, June 28, 2019, during the 2019 National Newspapers Publishers Association Convention at the Westin Hotel in Cincinnati. (Photo: Kareem Elgazzar/The Enquirer)
To the mostly black audience, Sanders focused on racial and economic inequality.
"There is no excuse for white families to own 10 times more wealth than black families," Sanders said.
It was clear the senator from Vermont still had work to do if he wants more black people to vote for him.
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Speaking at the convention for black-owned newspaper publishers is a good start, said Felicia Williams. The 53-year-old resident of Clifton said she voted for Sanders in 2016. But she's undecided this year and says Sanders needs to continue talking about issues of racial inequality and better training of police.
He also needs to lose that grumpy exterior, she said.
"Bernie is not there yet," Williams said. "He’s still got to somehow translate that passion and energy and that sort of grandfather, Santa Claus demeanor into a real connection with the black and brown community. I think his sincerity comes across."
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Jack Harris wants to hear more candidates talking about poor people. Harris, the publisher of The Minority Communicator weekly newspaper in Columbus, said so far, California Sen. Kamala Harris is his favorite. But he wouldn't rule Sanders out.
"If he were to become president, I think we'd be in good shape," Harris said. "Anybody but what we have now, which is despicable. We all want someone that goes against Trump."
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | North Korea’s foreign minister issued a statement on Saturday about U.S. President Donald Trump’s “interesting” Twitter proposal to meet dictator Kim Jong-un at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) when he visits this weekend, but he confirmed that Pyongyang has yet to receive an official invitation.
Trump left Osaka, Japan, on Friday following the conclusion of the G20 summit held there and made his way to South Korea for a scheduled state visit. On Friday evening American time, Trump confirmed rumors that had been circulating in South Korean media all week that Trump would visit the DMZ – the heavily armed border between North and South Korea – and that he was trying to schedule a meeting with Kim Jong-un:
After some very important meetings, including my meeting with President Xi of China, I will be leaving Japan for South Korea (with President Moon). While there, if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 28, 2019
First Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui responded positively but indicated that, without an official invitation, Pyongyang could not move to accept the proposal.
Choe’s statement read:
I am of the view that if the DPRK [North Korea]-U.S. summit meetings take place on the division line, as is intended by President Trump, it would serve as another meaningful occasion in further deepening the personal relations between the two leaders and advancing the bilateral relations.
“We see it as a very interesting suggestion, but we have not received an official proposal in this regard,” the statement added, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap. The statement has not at press time appeared at the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) website in English.
In a press conference at Seoul’s presidential palace, the Blue House, Trump confirmed that his team was in communication with North Korean diplomats, but he did not elaborate on how the process of planning a meeting was going.
Rumors that Washington was attempting to plan an impromptu Trump-Kim summit were circulating in South Korean media all week. Trump and Kim had not met in person since February, when their scheduled summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, ended with Trump walking out abruptly and complaining that the North Koreans were demanding too many concessions without offering to end their illegal nuclear weapons program. North Korean officials disputed the claim and told reporters following the summit that they had offered to shut down the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center, where the communist regime enriches most of its nuclear material. Subsequent reports revealed the North Koreans wanted Trump to recognize them as a nuclear power and to send Pyongyang “famous basketball players.”
South Korean President Moon Jae-in confirmed to reporters in a question and answer session with several international outlets this week that planning for another summit between the two countries had begun.
“First and foremost, I want to highlight the fact that, even though there has been no official dialogue between North Korea and the United States since the Hanoi summit, their leaders’ willingness to engage in dialogue has never faded,” Moon said.
“Moreover, both sides have been engaged in dialogue in regard to a third summit. It’s noteworthy that the behind-the-scenes talks have been preceded by the mutual understanding of each other’s position gained through the Hanoi summit.”
North Korea’s Foreign Ministry responded to Moon’s remarks by confirming that Washington and Pyongyang were discussing a new summit but then scolding the South Koreans for giving the impression that they were mediating between the two sides.
“Even though we are to think of holding a dialogue with the U.S., we need first to see a proper approach towards the negotiation on the part of the U.S.,” a North Korean diplomat said in a statement, adding, “The South Korean authorities would better mind their own internal business.”
Trump and Kim had maintained communication despite the fallout from the Hanoi summit. Kim reportedly rekindled direct talks this month by sending Trump a personal letter congratulating him on his birthday. Trump called the letter “beautiful” and responded but did not divulge its contents. A week ago, North Korean state media published a photo of Kim reading Trump’s letter, describing it as containing “excellent content.”
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Why are so many gray whales dying?
Why are so many gray whales dying?
On Monday, Japan will resume commercial whaling for the first time in 30 years. Its withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission (IWC), which regulates whaling globally, formally takes effect July 1.
In December, Japan withdrew from the IWC after failing to convince the commission to allow it to resume commercial whaling.
"At the IWC general meeting... it became evident once again that those supporting the sustainable use of whale stocks and those supporting protection cannot co-exist, leading us to this conclusion," top government spokesman Yoshihide Suga said last September.
In this September 2013 photo, a minke whale is unloaded at a port in Kushiro, on the main island of Hokkaido. On Monday, commercial whaling in Japanese coastal waters will resume. AP Photo/Kyodo News
In 1982, the IWC banned commercial whaling, which went into effect globally in 1986. Ever since, Japan has limited its activities to "scientific whaling" — a long-exploited loophole to continue the country's sale of whale meat.
When the withdrawal becomes official, Japanese whalers will be able to resume hunting minke, Bryde's and sei whales — all currently protected by the IWC and at risk of endangerment — in Japanese coastal waters.
However, Japan will not be allowed to continue the so-called "scientific research" hunts in the Antarctic and elsewhere that it had been allowed to conduct as an IWC member. Since 1986, this rule has allowed Japan to kill several hundred whales annually.
The plan takes effect as world leaders meet in Osaka for the G20 Summit. In an open letter published Friday, organizations called on G20 leaders to intervene and publicly condemn commercial whaling.
The letter has been signed by a number of celebrities, including Stephen Fry, Dr. Jane Goodall and Ricky Gervais, as well as dozens of global conservation and welfare organizations.
Whales are set to suffer agonising deaths as Japan leaves the IWC & returns to commercial whaling. We’ve joined global NGOs & @rickygervais @stephenfry etc to ask #G20 for a #WhalingIntervention at this weekend’s #G20OsakaSummit RT if you support 🐳 https://t.co/g32QR9BqN4 pic.twitter.com/84hpRuV5wp — Humane Society Int'l (@HSIGlobal) June 28, 2019
"Commercial whaling is an inherently and exceptionally cruel practice which has no place in the 21st Century," the letter reads. "There is no reliably humane way to kill whales at sea and exploding harpoons often cause these animals to die slowly and in agony."
Japan joins Iceland and Norway in openly defying the IWC's ban on commercial whale hunting. Its decision sparked international criticism from activists and anti-whaling countries.
"Australia remains resolutely opposed to all forms of commercial and so-called 'scientific' whaling," Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne and Environment Minister Melissa Price said in a statement.
"Whaling is an outdated and unnecessary practice. We continue to hope Japan eventually reconsiders its position and will cease all whaling," New Zealand's Foreign Minister Winston Peters said.
Greenpeace Japan's executive director Sam Annesley said the decision was "out of step with the international community."
It was not yet clear how many whales would be caught each year once Japan resumes commercial whaling, but officials are expected to announce an estimate after the G20 Summit has ended. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 26 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Meet the 'don't ask, don't tell' veteran who became Stonewall's first park ranger
Jamie Adams served in the military under the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. Now, she's the out and proud park ranger for the Stonewall National Monument. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 2 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Following Saturday’s meeting between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Japan, it is clear that Trump’s strategic use of tariffs to end China’s rampant illegal trade cheating and intellectual property theft is putting pressure on the Chinese to negotiate a more balanced trade agreement.
It’s about time we had a president willing to stand firm and bargain hard with China to serve our national interest.
Trump’s tough stand and refusal to turn a blind eye to China’s misconduct has the potential to open the door to trade that is genuinely free and fair between the world’s two largest economies. This could lead to a sweeping trade agreement that would be one of the most important economic compacts in world history and benefit both nations for decades to come.
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In an important vindication of Trump’s refusal to surrender to Chinese pressure, he and Xi agreed to resume stalled U.S.-China trade negotiations. Xi appears to have finally realized that unlike past American presidents, Trump is a master negotiator who will not surrender to Chinese pressure tactics. As Trump has pointed out before, a bad deal is worse than no deal.
While the talks proceed and as a show of good will, Trump said he would not impose tariffs on an additional $300 billion in Chinese imports, as he had planned to do.
However, the U.S. president wisely said he will maintain tariffs he imposed earlier on $250 billion in Chinese products to keep the pressure on China to reach a fair trade deal with the U.S. China imposed tariffs on $60 billion in U.S. products in response to Trump’s earlier tariffs.
“We discussed a lot of things, and we’re right back on track,” Trump said after he and Xi concluded their talks. “We had a very, very good meeting with China.” Trump said the talks went “even better than expected.”
Trump also said that Xi agreed that China will buy a “tremendous amount” of U.S. agricultural products. That’s great news for America’s farmers.
In return for China’s agreement to buy more from our farmers, Trump agreed to allow
American companies to sell products to Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies. That’s a plus for the U.S. because it brings money from China into our country and supports jobs for American workers.
You would think even Trump critics would acknowledge that the president has made great progress in getting China to the negotiating table and open to reaching a final agreement. But sadly, the days when Democrats would support a Republican president negotiating with a global competitor seem to be a distant memory.
Trump’s tough stand and refusal to turn a blind eye to China’s misconduct has the potential to open the door to trade that is genuinely free and fair between the world’s two largest economies.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., made the point Saturday following the president’s obviously successful trip to Japan. Schumer criticized Trump for supposedly giving up “one of few potent levers we have to make China play fair on trade” by agreeing that American companies can sell products to Huawei.
Of course, China isn’t going to enter into an agreement where it gets nothing in return. In any negotiation, you have to give something to get something.
So what exactly did Trump give? As stated by the president: “U.S. companies can sell their equipment to Huawei” but only “equipment where there’s no great national security problem with it.”
Trump neither conceded nor suggested that he was backing off plans to prohibit the import of Huawei equipment for U.S. 5G telecommunications networks. That issue is the main concern of America’s intelligence community.
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There is nothing wrong with American companies generating more revenue to support American jobs by selling non-secure products to a large Chinese company. If that’s the best criticism Schumer and his allies have got, you have to feel pretty good about the way the negotiations are going for the Trump administration – and for America.
There will certainly be hard bargaining ahead to make long-overdue repairs to our trading relationship with China. We won’t know for certain if a deal will be reached until the talks conclude. But both parties are at the table and, importantly, all Americans can have confidence that President Trump will drive a hard bargain that prevents China from continuing to take advantage of our country with unfair and illegal practices.
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | (Adds comment from senior Japanese government official)
OSAKA, June 29 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said he had told Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that a decades-old security treaty between their countries must be changed, reiterating his criticism of the pact as unfair.
Trump said he was not planning to withdraw from the treaty, which the partners have long called a linchpin of Asia-Pacific stability, but that it placed too great a burden on the United States.
“I told him we’ll have to change it,” Trump told a news conference after a two-day summit of the Group of 20 major economies in Japan’s western city of Osaka.
“I said, look, if someone attacks Japan, we go after them and we are in a battle, full force, in effect,” he added. “If somebody should attack the United States, they don’t have to do that. That’s unfair.”
It was not clear exactly when Trump had told Abe this, however. The two met on Friday on the sidelines of the G20, but a senior Japanese government spokesman said no bilateral security issues were discussed.
But the spokesman, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Kotaro Nogami, declined to comment when asked by reporters if Trump had ever mentioned his dissatisfaction with the treaty to Abe in the past. Instead he reiterated the official stance of the two governments.
“In the joint statement issued in February 2017, Prime Minister Abe and President Trump confirmed that the Japan-U.S. alliance based on the security treaty is the foundation of peace, prosperity and freedom in the Asia-Pacific region,” he told reporters at a briefing.
“Between the Japanese and U.S. governments, there are no such talks at all about reviewing the security treaty.”
The treaty, signed after Japan’s surrender in World War Two, commits the United States to defend Japan.
In return, Japan provides military bases that Washington uses to project power deep into Asia, including the biggest concentration of U.S. Marines overseas on Okinawa, and the forward deployment of an aircraft carrier strike group at the Yokosuka naval base near Tokyo.
An end to the security pact is widely seen as raising the risk of forcing Washington to withdraw a major portion of its military forces from Asia at a time when China’s military power is growing. (Reporting by Chris Gallagher, Roberta Rampton and Kiyoshi Takenaka; Writing by Ritsuko Ando in Tokyo; Editing by Malcolm Foster, Clarence Fernandez and Hugh Lawson) | null | 0 | -1 | null | 14 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Asked by his spin doctor in 2016 how a Brexit referendum could backfire, David Cameron replied in cod-Shakespearian English: “You could unleash demons of which ye know not.” Well, ye know now.
Brexit has pushed the right into a demonic orgy. It is throwing off the standards it once pretended to abide by – parliamentary sovereignty, family values, monarchism, unionism. For all its rage, don’t underestimate how much it is enjoying the release from its taboos. The Brexiters’ bacchanal is giving Conservatives a rolling revolution, which is pushing the country into a crisis no one foresaw.
In 2014, opponents of the EU put forward a moderate programme that balanced restoring power to Westminster and protecting the economy. “We are perfectly at liberty to pursue participation in the single market without being saddled with the EU as a political project,” Owen Paterson wrote in a representative example of the propaganda of the time. Talk of compromise had vanished by 2016. Vote Leave offered no programme at all. In their complacent belief that a Remain victory was guaranteed, Cameron, parliament and the media did not insist that we must define what Brexit meant before voting on it. The referendum therefore didn’t produce a mandate but a blank cheque, which fanatics have scribbled on ever since.
Revolutions devour their children because what is radical one day in a crisis becomes a sellout the next. We forgot that Theresa May’s “red lines” delineated a hard Brexit in 2018. By 2019, her one compromise, the backstop to protect the Irish peace process, had become too much for the right to bear.
By any empirical measure the Tory party has ceased to exist. Half of its members support Nigel Farage
“At no time and in no circumstances should a communist place his personal interests first,” said Chairman Mao. In the Conservative and Unionist party, as in the Chinese Communist party, personal interests are discarded if they threaten the purity of the Brexit cause.
Not so long ago, a Conservative who had left two wives, walked out on his children and jumped into the bed of a woman almost half his age could never have been prime minister. The Tories were the party of the family and traditional values. Now they are the party of broken families and no values apart from leaving the EU.
Not so long ago, Conservatives were unionists. Now a majority of party members say they would be prepared to see an independent Scotland and united Ireland rather than stay in the EU. They add that they could also live with “significant damage” to the British economy, which reminds me that not so long ago the Conservatives were the party of business rather than the party that wants to “fuck business”.
The first Tories were defined by their willingness to defend Charles II. Now the party of throne and state is willing to provoke a constitutional crisis by ordering Elizabeth II to prorogue parliament. Since the Treaty of Rome was signed in 1957, every Tory leader from Macmillan to Cameron believed Britain must be part of the EU. Now you cannot lead the Tory party unless you believe Britain must leave the EU.
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We don’t have a revolutionary past and have no memory of how people dismissed as creepy failures by all who knew them can suddenly appear in power. That moment can’t be far off. Talentless nobodies fill the Labour frontbench. Their sole “quality” is loyalty to the leader. Meanwhile, Johnson’s likely victory is allowing sleazy losers to curry failure and follow him into power. Gavin Williamson, fired by May after a secrets leak because she had “lost confidence in his ability to serve”, Iain Duncan Smith, the architect of the cruel universal credit “reform”, and Grant Shapps, an all-but-forgotten party chairman, who used a false name to pitch schemes to get “stinking, filthy rich” to easily impressed punters, have resurrected themselves as Johnson loyalists in the expectation that their new master will reward his friends. You don’t need to ask why they are attracted to a mendacious leader or he to them.
Imagine the release ripping through a rightwing England, so often portrayed as the home of the uptight and old fashioned. Just as Jeremy Corbyn’s example gives his otherwise politically correct supporters permission to engage in antisemitism and misogyny for the good of the cause, and Trump gives evangelical Christians permission to break the Ten Commandments, so Johnson gives Conservatives permission to stop pretending they believe in family life or personal responsibility. They can let it all hang out now. Who cares about their divorces and affairs, their dirty secrets and their little swindles? Johnson’s very presence at the top of the party proves that none of that old stuff matters. Indeed, when set against the lies and betrayals of such a leader, the sins of ordinary Conservatives appear to be so small they are barely sins at all.
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Johnson seems to be the demon that Cameron predicted would take over the British right. I can’t see him as a master villain, though. He is too fatuous to be a frightening leader, as it is far from clear whether he is leading anyone. By any empirical measure, the Tory party has ceased to exist. Half of its members support Nigel Farage, who has an effective veto over Johnson’s Brexit policy. Unless Johnson clears his actions with him, Farage can split the rightwing vote by running Brexit candidates against Conservative MPs who provoke his disapproval.
On this reading, Johnson isn’t a Mao or even a Trump or Corbyn, just straw in the wind. He has used Brexit to bring himself to power. But he’s a fool if he doesn’t know that the passions that are blowing him to Downing Street could blow him away. When I think of how his supporters will turn on him when his promises prove to be false, or of how his cocky words of June 2019 will turn to dust by October, I could almost feel sorry for the fraud. Almost.
• Nick Cohen is an Observer columnist | null | 0 | -1 | null | 52 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | "Well guess what, I refuse to accept, 'He's the old guy.' I refuse to accept the status quo," Former Vice President Joe Biden said. | Wilfredo Lee/AP Photo 2020 elections Biden rejects 'old guy' label at Bay Area fundraiser
Joe Biden on Saturday rejected criticism that he's "the old guy" of the Democratic presidential field during a northern California fundraising swing.
Answering critics over his debate performance — and a moment where he was asked to "pass the torch" to a younger generation of candidates — the former vice president said: “I know I get criticized, 'Biden says he can bring the country together.' Well guess what, I refuse to accept, 'He's the old guy.' I refuse to accept the status quo."
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“The status quo will not sustain us. I really mean it. It can't happen. If we unite this country, think about it, there's not a damn thing we can't do," Biden added, drawing applause.
Biden was attending a Bay Area fundraiser at the home of former Twitter executive Katie Jacobs Stanton ahead of Sunday's second-quarter fundraising deadline. About 200 guests attended the backyard event, where Biden largely recounted sections of his stump speech for 28 minutes, according to a pool report.
Biden, who is 76, is the second oldest Democratic candidate after Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is one year his senior.
The generational issue came to a head during a memorable exchange at the Democratic debate on Thursday night, when Rep. Eric Swalwell said he was 6 years old when then-senator Biden asked the California Democratic convention to pass the torch to a new generation.
“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. … Pass the torch," Swalwell, 38, said.
Biden quickly shot back that he was "still holding on to that torch."
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After the debate, Sanders came to Biden's defense by saying the attacks were a form of "ageism." Sanders would become the oldest president if elected to office.
President Donald Trump, who is 73, took a shot at Biden's age the day after the former vice president announced he was a contender for president, and has since referred to Biden as "Sleepy Joe" and questioned his mental capacity.
"I just feel like a young man. I’m so young. I can’t believe it. I’m the youngest person. I am a young, vibrant man," Trump said before continuing, "I look at Joe? I don’t know about him. I don’t know.” | null | 0 | -1 | null | 28 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | A toddler who underwent spinal surgery while still inside his mother’s womb is now able to stand on his own.
Charley Royer, 1, was diagnosed with spina bifida by doctors during an ultrasound, a condition in which the neutral tube does not close completely, which can lead to damage of the spinal cord and nerves.
The groundbreaking surgery was a risk, but Charley’s parents were willing to try anything to help their son. The procedure, called fetalscopic surgery, was performed in September 2017 by doctors at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas.
The technique involved pulling the uterus outside Royer’s belly and making small incisions that enabled doctors to insert tools and microscopic cameras. The surgeons then fused the entire base of the child’s spinal column back together.
“I felt in my gut that this was the best thing for us, for him. That it could give him the best chance,” the boy’s mother said.
After researching the procedure online, both parents made the decision to move forward with the surgery.
“So I knew it was the right thing but it was hard. I just prayed and prayed,” Royer commented.
Even after the surgery proved to be a success, she still had concerns about whether her son would be able to stand on his own.
“They said most children born with a lesion that high and that severe are paralyzed from the waist down.”
Now, Charley is on his way to being able to walk on his own.
“They’re very confident that he’ll walk at this point,” Joshuwa Royer, Charley’s father said of the doctors.
Charley’s mother stated that she is so thankful and happy for her little boy. “It’s just so much joy and so much thanks. He’s so happy. When he walks he says, ‘Woah!’ [It’s] almost like he can’t believe he’s doing it himself.”
Reports state that spina bifida affects 24 babies in 100,000 and is sometimes associated with a deficiency in vitamin B and folic acid. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 18 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Sen. Kamala Harris raised $2 million in the 24 hours after the first Democratic debate on Thursday, according to her campaign. She received donations from 63,277 people, 58% of whom were new contributors. The campaign said it was its best online fundraising day yet.
"We have momentum," said Lily Adams, the campaign's communications director. Adams said "supporters across this country are fueling our campaign because they saw her empathy, her passion, and her direct focus on the issues that keep people up at night."
The average contribution was $30, and the campaign quadrupled their share from Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada.
Harris drew praise from progressives after the debate because of her clash with Vice President Joe Biden over his relationships with segregationists during his tenure in the Senate and his past stance against busing to desegregate public schools.
The California Democrat stood out amongst the packed crowd of 10 candidates on stage, eliciting some of the loudest applause after she forced moderators to give her time to answer a question on race relations -- noting that she was the only African American present on the debate stage.
Harris later said she does not believe the former vice president is a racist but called his statement about finding "common ground" with segregationists personally "hurtful" to people of color like her.
"It was not only that, but you also worked with them to oppose busing. There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day," Harris, 54, told Biden. "That little girl was me."
"That's a mischaracterization of my position across the board," Biden shot back at Harris, defending his support for civil rights and highlighting his work as a public defender.
In an interview with "CBS This Morning" Friday, Harris responded to criticism from Biden's camp that the contentious moment was a "low blow."
"It was about just speaking truth and as I've said many times, I have a great deal of respect for Joe Biden but he and I disagree on that," Harris said.
She added, "My purpose was to really just make sure that in this conversation we are appreciating the impact on real people of policies that have been pushed in the history of our country."
Biden defends civil rights record after debate attack
Biden has lately been heavily scrutinized for his problematic past with America's black communities. In the 1970s, Biden opposed busing to desegregate public schools, later explaining he opposed "busing ordered by the Department of Education."
As chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he oversaw the contentious Anita Hill hearings during the confirmation process for then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas in 1991.
He also helped spearhead efforts to pass the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which many believe fueled a period of mass incarceration that disproportionately affected African Americans and other minority groups.
Asked if Biden's past remarks and standpoints disqualify him from ever being president, Harris said that was an issue for the voters to decide. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 21 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Image copyright Brian Lawless/PA Image caption Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar poses for a photo with PSNI officers ahead of the start of the Pride parade in Dublin
Police officers from Northern Ireland have taken part in Dublin's Pride parade on Saturday for the first time.
They paraded in uniform along with about 100 Gardaí (Irish police) and Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) staff.
Last year, PSNI officers paraded in uniform for the first time at Belfast Pride.
The PSNI said the decision came after an invitation from Garda Commissioner Drew Harris, who also took part.
The first Dublin Pride parade took place in 1983 with 200 participants.
This year's event includes more than 150 groups and is expected to be one of the biggest in recent years.
A number of 'firsts' are taking place during the day including the flying of rainbow flags above both the iconic General Post Office and Leinster House, home of the Irish parliament, the Oireachtas.
Taoiseach (prime minister) Leo Varadkar and minister for justice Charlie Flanagan also attended.
"Over the last few years, officers from An Garda Síochána have participated with us as part of Belfast Pride," said Deputy Chief Constable Stephen Martin.
Image copyright Brian Lawless/PA Image caption Garda Commissioner Drew Harris (front row, second right) takes part in the Pride parade
He added that the event was "an opportunity to continue to support, and build upon our relationship with, the LGBTQ community and our colleagues in An Garda Síochána". | null | 0 | -1 | null | 10 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | "This is not how our democracy is supposed to work," said Tara Hurst, executive director of the lobbying group Renew Oregon, which helped craft the climate proposal. "Continuing to capitulate to demands of a small minority, which has taken our Legislature hostage, will only lead to more of the same because there are no consequences." | null | 0 | -1 | null | 2 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Video
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn says he's shocked by reports that senior civil servants have questioned his mental and physical health.
He described the article in The Times newspaper about his health as "a farago of nonsense"
The Times' report said senior figures in Whitehall were concerned that he was too frail to serve as Prime Minister.
Mr Corbyn warned that the civil service had to remain impartial. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 3 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The treaty was signed in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles
Ever since it was signed on 28 June 1919, historians have debated whether the cause of World War Two was rooted in the imperfect World War One peace Treaty of Versailles.
Certainly Versailles' harsh terms sowed the seeds for the German dissatisfaction which bore the Nazis to power.
But was it even a good peace for the victors?
The Welsh coal-exporting economy in particular was devastated by the amount of "reparation coal" dumped on the market by Versailles' demands that Germany should repay the allies' estimated war costs of 132bn Marks (about £300bn in today's prices).
However, Swansea University historian Dr Gethin Matthews believes the picture is more complicated than that.
"There are two schools of thought about the Treaty of Versailles, that it was too harsh on the Germans, and conversely that it was far too lenient.
"Both are true to some extent; it weakened Germany enough to cause genuine hardship for its citizens, but not enough to prevent it from being able to recover and re-arm less than 20 years later.
"Though to say that Versailles directly led to the demise of the coal industry in Wales is to ignore several other factors."
Versailles' main provisions
Image copyright AFP Image caption UK Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian President Vittorio Orlando, French President Georges Clemenceau and US President Woodrow Wilson led the negotiations in Paris
The creation of a League of Nations, to prevent further world conflict
Germany had to accept the responsibility for causing all the loss and damage during the war - the War Guilt clause
Germany had to pay reparations to the value of 132bn Marks
The German armed forces were reduced to 100,000 troops, no tanks, a navy of six battleships and no submarines, and no air force
All German and Turkish colonies were forfeited and put under Allied control
Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Czechoslovakia all became independent countries
Austria-Hungary was split up and Yugoslavia was created
Seemingly by far the most significant of these for Wales was the war reparations provision.
Even at the time of its signing, economist John Maynard Keynes prophesied that reparations would ruin the economy of Europe, and he was scarcely alone in this opinion.
Then Prime Minister David Lloyd George had been the moderating voice of the "Big Three", interceding between the hard-line French Prime Minister George Clemenceau and the lighter-touch American President Woodrow Wilson.
He accepted the plaudits for concluding the peace treaty at the time, when everyone was relieved the fighting was over, and yet he was also quoted as predicting that: "We shall have to fight another war in 25 years' time."
British diplomat Harold Nicolson concurred, calling it: "Neither just nor wise." He described the people who drafted the Treaty as "stupid".
With the Mark diminishing from 7.80 Marks-per-Dollar in 1919 to more than four-trillion Marks-per-Dollar by November 1923, the Allies chose to instead redeem their reparations in hard goods, such as coal from Germany's Ruhr Valley.
"France effectively had a free supply of coal throughout the 1920s," explains Dr Matthews.
Image copyright Swansea University Image caption Dr Gethin Matthews is a senior lecturer at Swansea University
"That had a massive impact on Welsh coal exports, as how can you compete with a supplier who is effectively giving away their coal?"
In 1914 Wales had employed a quarter of a million men mining 57 million tonnes of coal a year.
At the time this represented a third of the world's coal output, but by 1929 this had diminished to 3%.
Undoubtedly reparation coal had played a part in this, though Dr Matthews says this was not the only factor.
"During the war virtually the entire coal production of Wales had gone to serve the Allied war effort. Meanwhile the traditional markets had been forced to find new suppliers, such as Australia, USA, and China.
"At the same time technology had advanced coal production exponentially; technology with which Wales hadn't kept pace.
"Industrial disputes during the 1920s made Welsh coal still less competitive."
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Coal miners descending the Bargoed Mine in the early 1900s
Indeed, in addition to Versailles, Dr Matthews argues it could have been the lesser-known treaties of Sèvres and Lausanne - which established peace with the Ottoman Empire - which contributed to the decline of Welsh coal.
"Sèvres and Lausanne ceded vast tracts of the Middle East to Allied control, such as the British protectorates of Iraq and Palestine.
"The British-controlled Iraq Petroleum Company for the first time granted the UK virtually limitless access to oil, which speeded up the conversion of shipping from coal, and also assisted the proliferation of the car, to the detriment of the train.
"Thus the bottom fell out of the market for steam coal - which was a speciality of places such as the Rhondda valleys.
"Who's to say whether this ultimately harmed the Welsh coal industry as much or more than the Treaty of Versailles?" | null | 0 | -1 | null | 29 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Even with Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, and Mean Little Mayor Pete backing him up, Joe Biden was only able to draw 15 percent more debate viewers than Elizabeth Warren drew for her debate.
Nevertheless, the numbers are still way below President Trump’s first debate in 2016 and barely ahead of Hillary Clinton’s first debate in 2016.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, “Preliminary ratings for the second wave of presidential candidates on NBC are up 15 percent over Wednesday’s telecast.”
The first half of the Democrat Demolition Derby aired on Wednesday night and drew 15.26 million viewers on three different networks: NBC, MSNBC, and Telemundo.
Despite broadcasting on three channels, Wednesday night’s debate still failed to top the 15.45 million viewers who tuned in for Hillary and Bernie’s first debate in October 2015, and that debate was broadcast only on one channel, the far-left, fake news outlet CNN.
This 15 percent bump, if that holds, will put Thursday night’s debate audience closer to 17 million, which is still way, way, way below the 24 million who tuned in to see Trump’s first debate in August 2015. That GOP debate also broadcast on only one network, the Fox News Channel.
It is striking, though, that Thursday’s night’s debate only drew 15 percent more viewers when you look at the difference in star power.
The only frontrunner to appear in Wednesday’s debate was Warren. Thursday’s debate not only featured the top man, former Vice President Joe Biden, but the rest of the first and second tier: Buttigieg, Sanders, and Harris.
While Thursday’s numbers are higher than the 2008 and 2012 primary debates, that doesn’t mean a whole lot. Much has changed in eight years, especially the way in which the cable news networks drive these debates as major, must-see sporting events, complete with pre-game hype, countdown clocks, and post-game analysis.
Basically, the Trump Factor has lifted D.C. politics into a whole other orbit.
As I wrote Wednesday, timing might be part of the problem. This political primary launched earlier than most, well before the summer began, and asking people to tune in when summer is only a week old is a bit much.
On the other hand, these numbers might also show that the passion and fire among Democrat voters to find a Trump Killer is nowhere near as white-hot as GOP’s desire in 2016 to win back the White House, even if it meant handing it over to a Manhattan real estate billionaire and reality TV star.
There are 20 people running to be the Democrat nominee, but there is no superstar, no Barack Obama or Bill Clinton, not even a Hillary Clinton.
When Joe Biden is the best you got, you probably shouldn’t expect a whole lot of excitement … or viewers.
Follow John Nolte on Twitter @NolteNC. Follow his Facebook Page here. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 19 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | A prominent pro-Remain MP has called for urgent talks about an anti-Brexit alliance, signalling she is prepared to stand down if necessary to help it happen.
Sarah Wollaston, who resigned from the Conservative party over its Brexit stance, said the threat of a “populist” autumn election meant there was now a sense of urgency for Remain parties to come together to fight the threat of a hard Brexit.
“We do not have the luxury of time,” she told the Observer. “An election could easily happen in the autumn and we have to be prepared for that, rather than trying to put something together in a hurry and find it’s too late. There should be a sense of urgency.
“At both local and national level, the pro-Remain parties need to be talking about how a Remain alliance could work in practice, looking at all the available data on how it could be done, and which party is best placed in each seat. It won’t work everywhere, nor will the model necessarily be the same in every seat, but I think Remain voters want to see a progressive, Remain alliance across the country.”
Her comments come amid predictions that a Boris Johnson victory in the Tory leadership contest would precipitate an autumn election, as a result of his vow to leave the EU at the end of October, even without a deal.
An attempt to forge a Remain alliance during the Peterborough byelection last month broke down, despite talks between the Lib Dems, Greens and Change UK. However, Jo Swinson, one of two candidates to become the next leader of the Lib Dems, has said she wants to work with other groups and alliances to stop the UK leaving the EU through a second referendum.
Asked about her future in her Totnes constituency, Wollaston said she would “welcome the opportunity” to run again if local parties thought she was the best unity candidate.
However, she added: “I would not want to obstruct them or get in the way, either. I would not run against a Remain-alliance candidate. I would stand aside in those circumstances, but I would love to carry on my work representing the Totnes constituency and fighting against a disastrous no-deal Brexit.
“It looks like [we] could be heading for a populist election campaign and we need to be in as strong a position as possible should that happen.”
Wollaston is one of six MPs who defected to join pro-Remain Change UK, and then left the group to sit as an independent. One of the others, Chuka Umunna, has since joined the Lib Dems, who were the strongest pro-Remain party at last month’s European elections.
Wollaston, chair of the Commons health select committee, said she would wait to see who the Lib Dems appointed as their next leader before deciding whether to consider joining the party. “I am currently sitting as an independent and that fits well with my work as a select committee chair,” she said. “I am waiting to see how the party’s leadership election plays out before making any decisions.
“Jo Swinson seems to have indicated she is more open to alliances.”
She said she had been alarmed by the number of Tory MPs who were against a no-deal Brexit, but had been unwilling to break party unity to stop it happening. “It has amazed me that so many MPs seem to have put the future of the Conservative party above everything else and that they would rather a no | null | 0 | -1 | null | 20 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Jeremy Corbyn: "I am a fit, very healthy, very active person"
Jeremy Corbyn has questioned the civil service's neutrality after officials reportedly told a newspaper he was "too frail" to lead Labour.
The Times said it was briefed by two senior civil servants with suggestions that the Labour leader may have to stand down over supposed health issues.
Mr Corbyn has called it "a farrago of nonsense" and "tittle tattle".
He said the briefing of a newspaper by senior officials against a politician "should be very concerning" to people.
"The civil service has to be independent," he said, adding: "It has to be non-political and has to be non-judgemental of the politicians they have a duty to serve.
"I would make that very clear if we were elected to government."
He added: "I am a very fit, health active person. I love what I do and I love my community and love being outdoors."
The article in the Times - published on Saturday - reported an official saying there was a "real worry" the 70-year-old is not up to the job "physically or mentally", is "losing his memory" and is being "propped up by those around him".
The official is quoted as saying: "There's growing concern that he's too frail and is losing his memory. He's not in charge of his own party."
The BBC has not verified the quotes made in the newspaper.
Earlier, Labour denied the claims, saying suggestions Mr Corbyn does not make his own decisions are "laughable" and "demonstrably false".
A spokesman said Mr Corbyn runs and cycles regularly, and added: "Reports to the contrary are scurrilous and a transparent attempt to undermine Labour's efforts to redistribute wealth and power from the few to the many."
Mr Corbyn was also asked about MP Chris Williamson, who has been suspended from the party for a second time - two days after being readmitted.
Mr Williamson was suspended in February for remarks about the party's handling of anti-Semitism.
Mr Corbyn said: "It's an internal party matter. I cannot comment. I am not involved in the details of the case." | null | 0 | -1 | null | 19 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Video
EU leaders will head back to Brussels on Sunday night for a special meeting to try and agree on who should be the next president of the European Commission.
This video has been optimised for mobile viewing on the BBC News app. The BBC News app is available from the Apple App Store for iPhone and Google Play Store for Android. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 3 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | (CNN) For 15 years, oil from one particular spill has been leaking into the Gulf of Mexico.
new federal study estimates that each day, about 380 to 4,500 gallons of oil are flowing at the site where a company's oil platform was damaged after a hurricane. That's about a hundred to a thousand times worse than the company's initial estimate, which put the amount of oil flowing into the ocean at less than three gallons a day.
The report, released this past week and written by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and one at Florida State University, also contradicted assertions from the Taylor Energy Company about where the oil was coming from.
The leak started in 2004, when an oil platform belonging to the Taylor Energy Company was damaged by a mudslide after Hurricane Ivan hit the Gulf of Mexico. A bundle of pipes and wells sank to the ocean floor and became partially buried under mud and sediment.
To respond to the leak, Taylor Energy tried to cap nine of the wells and place containment domes over three of the plumes in 2008.
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Chair of select committee says new powers required to punish witnesses who fail to appear before parliament
Witnesses who refuse to give evidence before parliament could be fined or face a “real-world sanction” in the future, a select committee chair has warned.
Writing in the Observer days after the presenter Jeremy Kyle chose not to appear before his committee’s inquiry into reality television, Damian Collins, the Conservative MP for Folkestone and Hythe, says new powers are required that would punish witnesses who fail to give evidence.
Collins, chair of the all-party digital, culture, media and sport committee, writes: “We need to formalise | null | 0 | -1 | null | 3 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Oregon Republican senators end walkout over carbon bill
"Our mission in walking out was to kill cap and trade," Oregon's state senate minority leader said. "And that's what we did." | null | 0 | -1 | null | 2 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Reno, Nevada — Burning Man organizers say they won't challenge the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's plans to cap their attendance at current levels under a new 10-year permit but they will fight any move toward federally-sanctioned screenings for weapons and drugs at the counterculture celebration.
The agency proposed in a final environmental impact statement June 14 that a private security firm eventually be hired to screen all vehicles, participants, vendors, contractors, staff and volunteers upon entry to the temporary Black Rock City in the northern Nevada desert 100 miles north of Reno.
Burning Man organizers say that would subject "a peaceable gathering of people to searches without probable cause other than a desire to attend Burning Man."
"This is one requirement we are prepared to push back on," the group said on its website, adding that it would be a "massive shift from Burning Man's 30-year history running our own operations."
Group leaders assured fellow Burners in the post last week that screenings would not begin in 2019, and Bureau of Land Management officials said they did not foresee any major changes to its law enforcement routine this year.
The final environmental impact statement, which details the conditions of the event moving forward for the next decade, would cap annual attendance at the current 80,000.
Burning Man organizers, who had proposed a boost to 100,000, said in their recent post they didn't have any immediate plans to grow when they proposed to expand the cap but had wanted to better understand the potential impacts of a bigger event.
"A possible population bump in the future is still on the table, but for 2019 we are satisfied to remain steady," they said.
Burning Man organizers said they'd received assurances trash dumpsters won't be required at the 2019 event, something they say undermines their pack-in-pack-out philosophy and fear would result in garbage piling up around the dumpsters.
"The Bureau of Land Management has now indicated they will impose this mitigation in the future ONLY IF it is needed to address unresolved issues," the group said. "But we must all do better ... We're simply not doing a good enough job disposing of our trash after we leave Black Rock City." | null | 0 | -1 | null | 11 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | California’s Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a $215 billion budget on Thursday, which includes taxpayer-funded health care for illegal aliens.
Newsom signed the massive $214.8 billion funding bill into law, which includes a provision that would expand health care for people who are illegally in the U.S. and penalizes people who do not purchase health insurance, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The California Democrat had proposed expanding health care for illegal aliens long before he took office.
In an August 2018 interview, Newsom said he would use an executive order to give universal health care to those residing in the U.S. illegally. Once Newsom took office in January, he proposed expanding Medi-Cal, the state version of Medicaid, to illegal aliens up to 26 years old.
The plan sailed through California’s Democrat-controlled legislature, although there were concerns over how much money the state should provide for expanding Medi-Cal for low-income illegal aliens.
Newsom proposed that $98 million in the budget should go to expanding taxpayer-funded health care for illegal aliens between 19 and 25 years old, but one state Assembly bill proposed setting aside $3.4 billion to cover all illegal aliens over 19 years old.
The bill is Newsom’s first budget since he took office in January, largely helped along by a $21.5 billion surplus carrying over from his fellow Democrat, former Gov. Jerry Brown’s, administration. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 10 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) raised $2 million just 24 hours after her first debate performance, she told supporters in an email Saturday.
Harris reportedly told supporters that her campaign raised $2 million from 63,277 people after the debate. More than half, 58 percent, of those donors had not donated to her campaign prior to the debate, according to the New York Times.
The donor rush will help seal Harris’s spot for the next debate, with second-quarter fundraising ending Sunday.
The New York Times adds:
Ms. Harris and other presidential candidates are required to report their fund-raising figures to the Federal Election Commission by July 15, though many are expected to release their totals as soon as Monday morning. Mr. Biden and Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., are expected to post large fundraising numbers for the second quarter of 2019.
The California senator had a number of breakout moments during the debate, gaining significant notoriety for grilling Joe Biden (D) for his past remarks and positions on racial issues and making “that little girl was me” her new rallying cry.
During the debate, she said:
But I also believe, and it’s personal — and I was actually very — it was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United
States senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country. And it was not only that, but you also worked with them to oppose busing. And, you know, there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bussed to school every day. And that little girl was me.
She also addressed Biden directly, asking, “Do you agree today — do you agree today that you were wrong to oppose busing in America then? Do you agree?”
“I did not oppose busing in America. What I opposed is busing ordered by the Department of Education. That’s what I opposed,” Biden responded.
Harris also gained applause after lecturing her fellow candidates for bickering, dropping the line, “Hey, guys, you know what? America does not want to witness a food fight; they want to know how we’re going to put food on their table”:
The generational differences within the 2020 Dems were on full display tonight. Here's the moment chaos erupted as the candidates fought over age – and then Kamala Harris brought down the house with a perfectly timed zinger at the end. https://t.co/u73nMVOVMG pic.twitter.com/5NVmAOToao — POLITICO (@politico) June 28, 2019
Harris has consistently found herself among the second tier of candidates. The current Real Clear Politics average shows her with seven percent support, behind Biden and Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), but the numbers are likely to change moving into next week. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 21 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Italy’s populist deputy prime minister and minister of the interior Matteo Salvini has proposed a border barrier to halt illegal immigration from the Balkans, similar to the one U.S. President Donald Trump wants along the Mexican-American frontier.
Salvini, whose League (La Lega) turned in one of the best performances of any European political party in the recent European Parliament elections, has proposed the barrier — which may be similar in design to the protective fences built by Hungarian premier Viktor Orbán, which slashed illegal migrant numbers by over 99 per cent — after increased activity on the Balkan migrant route.
“The Balkan route has reopened,” the Italian deputy prime minister said in comments reported by The Times.
“If the migrant flow does not stop we don’t rule out physical barriers on the frontier as an extreme remedy,” he added.
Hungary builds a wall; cuts illegal immigration by over 99 per cent. Lessons for President Trump…? https://t.co/ME09N3n3eg — Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) September 16, 2017
Tens of thousands of illegal migrants have massed in Bosnia, which is outside the European Union, in recent months, although crossing from there into the largely borderless political bloc is not as easy as it was in 2015, when hundreds of thousands marched through Europe to Germany and other prosperous welfare states in the continents north and west.
Deputy Prime Minister Salvini’s proposed wall would run along its border with Slovenia, a fellow EU member-state — but an EU source conceded to The Times that “Being in [the open borders Schengen area] does not preclude infrastructure on the border although the EU would not pay for it, and is not in favour [of it].”
The number of illegal migrants — often of Pakistani origin — who cross through woodlands from into Italy from Slovenia is up significantly, to 780 this year so far from a total of 446 last year.
The numbers pale in comparison to the hundreds of thousands who have crossed to Italy by boat, however, often facilitating by so-called “rescue” ships operated by pro-migration NGOs — which Salvini has also taken a tough line on, declaring Italy’s ports closed to boat migrants and massively reducing the influx by doing so.
Italy Arrests Migrant Transporter, Impounds NGO Vessel https://t.co/EX9P9nIOWe — Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) June 29, 2019
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Cartel violence in the border state of Sonora continued late Thursday and early Friday morning as gunmen carried out a series of attacks. The attacks left three people dead. The gunmen went on to riddle a police substation with gunfire.
The violence began on Thursday at approximately 8 p.m. in the tourist port city of Guaymas. Cartel gunmen stormed a residence in colonia Nacionalización del Golfo and killed a 35-year old wheelchair bound male identified as Francisco Javier “N”. The victim died from multiple gunshot wounds.
The second attack occurred in the Linda Vista section, of Guaymas Norte just after midnight. A group of cartel gunmen in a vehicle opened fire on a Hummer which just arrived at a residence. A male later identified as Juan Carlos died instantly in the Hummer after being struck multiple times by gunfire including a shot to the head.
According to witnesses, the victim’s wife exited the house after hearing gunfire and was immediately accosted by cartel gunmen who forced her back into the residence. The attackers beat her with a baseball bat and then killed her execution style with a gunshot to the face before fleeing.
In the third attack at approximately 2 a.m., cartel gunmen in a passing vehicle opened fire on the police substation located in the eastern section of Guaymas in colonia Punta Arena. A police officer later identified as Jesus “N”, 38, sustained a gunshot wound during the attack. The injuries are considered non-life-threatening injuries. Gunmen reportedly fired approximately 20 rounds at the police station.
Breitbart News reported Thursday that a total of 1,800 Mexican National Guard personnel will deploy to Sonora starting July 1 to help fight the escalating violence attributed to cartel and gang turf wars. The violence in Sonora is attributed to an ongoing territorial dispute between the Sinaloa Cartel and the Beltran Leyva organization’s regionally aligned gangs.
In response to the violence, security personnel in the area launched a joint operation throughout Friday which resulted in the arrest of three suspected cartel gunmen by personnel of the state police (PESP) and Mexican Navy (SEMAR). The arrest took place in the municipality of Empalme where police stopped three men traveling in a red Toyota after receiving reports that the men were armed. A search of the vehicle produced to rifles.
Robert Arce is a retired Phoenix Police detective with extensive experience working Mexican organized crime and street gangs. Arce has worked in the Balkans, Iraq, Haiti, and recently completed a three-year assignment in Monterrey, Mexico, working out of the Consulate for the United States Department of State, International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Program, where he was the Regional Program Manager for Northeast Mexico (Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Durango, San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas.) | null | 0 | -1 | null | 22 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Leaders of the Evangelical Covenant Church voted to defrock a Minneapolis pastor and expel his church for permitting gay marriage.
The Rev. Dan Collison had his credentials removed by a 77 percent vote at the Evangelical Covenant Church's annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, on Friday night.
Leaders also voted to expel Collison's First Covenant Church, a founding member of the 134-year-old denomination.
Collison, who became a pastor at First Covenant in downtown Minneapolis in 2009, told the Star Tribune he was "not surprised" but "saddened" after he was voted out.
"I feel grounded in the path we have chosen. I feel grateful for the pastors and churches who stood up for us. I feel compassion to those caught in the middle," Collison said.
The ECC says First Covenant is free to keep operating as a church and can keep its church building. First Covenant says Collison will continue serving as lead pastor.
A First Covenant staff member officiated at an off-site wedding of two women from the church worship band in 2014. It also put out a "love all" statement that said it welcomes members of the LGBTQ community to participate in the church, including serving in leadership roles. It also says it offers pastoral care, including weddings, "to all in our congregation without regard for ability, race, sex, gender identity or sexual orientation."
ECC leaders also voted Friday night to remove another pastor, Rev. Steve Armfield, a retired Michigan minister who officiated his son's same-sex wedding in Minneapolis. Armfield also was accused of violating the denomination's same-sex marriage ban.
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Leaders had recommended that Collison, Armfield and First Covenant be forced out because they violated Evangelical Covenant Church policies on human sexuality, specifically "celibacy in singleness and faithfulness in heterosexual marriage."
"The ECC is mindful of the complexity, the sensitivity and the pain that matters of human sexuality can bring," said Michelle Sanchez, an ECC executive minister. "We talk about the desire for both freedom and responsibility as a denomination. Those two things were coming into tension in this case."
First Covenant Church was founded by Swedish immigrants in 1874. For decades it was one of ECC's largest churches nationally, until membership declines began in the 1970s. Today, the denomination has about 875 churches with 280,000 members nationally. It is headquartered in Chicago.
"I hope this historic church someday changes its mind and then returns to our family," ECC President John Wenrich said in a statement.
Armfield, an ECC pastor for 47 years, also was suspended in 2017. He had served an ECC church in Red Wing, Minnesota, in the 1970s before moving to Michigan. He officiated his son Matthew Armfield's wedding in 2017.
"It is so unbelievably upsetting to see my father, Dan, and my fellow members of First Covenant experience the hate, deceit and actions that go against the teachings of love and inclusion that Jesus Christ preached," said Matthew Armfield, who attends First Covenant.
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Laverne Cox addressed the troubling realities surrounding the violence against and murders of black transgender women during a recent interview with BuzzFeed’s “AM2DM.”
The “Orange is the New Black” star talked about the disproportionate rate of violence against transgender people, particularly black transgender women, during the sit-down interview released Friday.
“As we celebrate Pride, and there’s so many things to celebrate, we also have to remember that there’s so much work that needs to be done,” she said during the interview, which coincided with the celebration of WorldPride and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising in New York City.
Cox, a longtime activist on preventing violence against trans people, also addressed the recent murders of black transgender women.
Last month, 23-year-old Muhlaysia Booker, a black trans woman who was brutally beaten by a mob the month prior, was found shot to death in Dallas. Chynal Lindsey, a black 26-year-old transgender woman, was found dead in a lake in Dallas earlier this month and just weeks after Booker was found dead.
The Human Rights Campaign identified Booker and Lindsey as two of at least 11 black transgender people who were killed this year.
The devastating list includes, Dana Martin, Jazzaline Ware, Ashanti Carmon, Claire Legato, Michelle “Tamika” Washington, Paris Cameron and Chanel Scurlock, according to the organization.
In 2013, Cox declared the violence against the trans community an “emergency” in an opinion piece for The New York Times.
“It is a state of emergency for trans and gender-nonconforming people in this country, but the emergency remains almost invisible since the trans population is relatively small and our identities are constantly disavowed, our voices silenced,” she wrote.
Cox told The Cut last year that she felt “survivor’s guilt” when she graced the cover of Time in 2014, considering the higher rates of violence against trans people.
“The month I was on the cover of Time magazine, five trans women were killed,” she told the publication. “So I felt a lot of survivor’s guilt. A feeling like, Why me? I felt an obligation, so that year I said yes to a lot of things.”
The National Center for Transgender Equality found in 2015 that transgender and nonbinary people faced higher rates of unemployment, violence and psychological distress due to widespread societal stigma.
When asked in Friday’s “AM2DM” interview how she would like to hear people talk about the issues concerning transgender people, Cox said that she aims to address both the victories and continued adversities within the trans community.
“I try to be in a ‘both and’ place, in the place of celebrating Indya Moore being on the cover of Elle magazine or Janet Mock having this landmark deal at Netflix ... but then also acknowledging ... and particularly for black trans women, that their lives are being taken away from them simply for being who they are ― or because of various intersectional issues,” she said.
She added, “If you are homeless, if you don’t have access to employment or health care, you’re more likely to experience violence. So those systemic things have to be dealt with.”
Cox later addressed cisgender men who are violent against transgender women: “Your attraction to me as a trans woman is not a reason to kill me.”
Watch Cox’s entire interview with BuzzFeed’s “AM2DM” in the clip above. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 18 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Image copyright Reuters Image caption Protests took place outside the Welikada prison on Friday
Sri Lanka has recruited two hangmen as it prepares to carry out four executions - the first in 43 years.
It follows the president's announcement that four prisoners convicted of drug offences are to face the death penalty.
The hanging will end a moratorium of capital punishment that has been in place since 1976.
Over 100 candidates applied for an advert posted in February for executioners with "strong moral character".
They needed to be Sri Lankan, male, aged 18-45 and possess "mental strength".
State-owned media Daily News said two Americans and two women had also applied.
A prisons spokesman said the two successful candidates needed to go through final training which would take about two weeks.
The last hangman resigned five years ago after seeing the gallows and going into shock.
Another was hired last year but did not show up to work.
Why reinstate capital punishment?
In Sri Lanka, rape, drug trafficking and murder are punishable by the death penalty but no executions have taken place since 1976.
President Maithripala Sirisena said capital punishment was being reinstated to clamp down on the drugs trade in Sri Lanka.
Political analysts say the move will boost his popularity in the lead up to an election due to take place by the end of the year.
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Protesters accuse the president of using capital punishment to garner popularity among voters
"I have signed the death warrants of four," President Sirisena said. "They have not been told yet. We don't want to announce the names yet because that could lead to unrest in prisons."
He said there were 200,000 drug addicts in the country and 60% of prisoners were in jail due to drugs charges.
What's the international reaction?
Along with the UK, France and Norway, the EU has condemned Sri Lanka's decision to revive capital punishment.
"The death penalty is a cruel, inhuman and a degrading punishment, and the EU unequivocally opposes its use in all circumstances and all cases," the EU statement said. "While the Sri Lankan authorities have cited the need to address drug-related offences, studies show that the death penalty fails to act as a deterrent to crime."
Amnesty International said it was "shocked" and "outraged" by the president's announcement and argued that executions for drug-related were unlawful because they did not meet the threshold for "most serious crimes", such as intentional killing.
"At a time when other countries have come to the realisation that their drug control policies are in need of reform, and are taking steps to reduce the use of the death penalty, Sri Lanka is bucking the trend," said Biraj Patnaik, AI's South Asia director.
"This will be devastating to the country's international reputation and we hope that President Sirisena will reconsider his decision," he added. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 24 |
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The US President gave a wide-ranging news conference at the close of the G20 summit of leading economies in Japan. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 1 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Image copyright Google Image caption Moriah Methodist Chapel was built in 1856 but the present structure dates back to 1913
Plans to turn a former chapel in Snowdonia's national park into a mosque and meditation centre have been given the go-ahead.
The group behind the scheme said Capel Moriah at Llanbedr, near Harlech in Gwynedd, was the "ideal location to find peace".
The chapel has lain empty for several years.
Residents have said they would welcome the building returning to being used for worship.
"It's been on the market for some time and the application doesn't involve a real change of use - it will continue to be used as its intended purpose," said community councillor Gruffydd Price.
The new Jamia Almaarif Mosque and Meditation Centre will be aimed at a holiday market. According to the last census in 2011, not a single person in the village of Llanbedr identified as a Muslim.
Fatima Bodhee, a director of Jamia Almaarif, told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that the centre would provide "Islamic and non Islamic activities."
"It will be available all year round for anyone from the Muslim faith who is travelling or living within travelling distance to pray in it and we do not expect more than 150 people visiting at any one time," she said.
The chapel is a Grade-II listed building, and planners have insisted that the new centre retains its pulpit and some of the original pews. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 10 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Some progress seemed to be made in a dispute involving the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei, which the Trump administration has branded a national security threat and barred it from buying American technology. Trump said Saturday he would allow U.S. companies to sell their products to Huawei, but he was not yet willing to remove the company from a trade blacklist. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 2 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | But aides say the 35-year-old leader is under increasing pressure from the U.S. and other foreign governments not to walk away from the negotiating table and hand a symbolic victory to Maduro until it's clear the embattled socialist has no real intention of yielding power. The opposition has complained that Maduro has used past negotiations sponsored by the Vatican and others to buy time. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 2 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | A former Wells Fargo executive who defended the bank to the city council of Vallejo after the fake account scandal will hold a fundraiser for Sen. Kamala Harris’s 2020 presidential bid.
Miguel Bustos is scheduled to hold a fundraiser for Harris’s campaign for president on Saturday night in San Francisco. The HuffPost reported attendees must contribute a minimum of $500 for attendance with a “sponsor” level attendance that includes a photo with the candidate, will set an attendee back the FEC maximum contribution amount of $2,800.
The event comes days after Harris took the debate stage with nine other candidates including former Vice President Joe Biden, in Miami, Florida. Within 24 hours of the debate, Harris’s campaign had hauled in $2 million.
Candidates are staring down a second-quarter fundraising deadline on Sunday. The Bustos fundraiser for Harris comes just one day before the deadline, and HuffPost noted that it falls in line with the city’s Pride Weekend celebration.
Bustos worked as senior vice president of government and community relations for Wells Fargo from 2013 to 2017, according to HuffPo. During this time, the bank was exposed for fraudulently opening more than 3.5 million bank and credit card accounts for customers without their knowledge from 2009 to 2015. Close to 200,000 customers were charged fees for those accounts. Wells Fargo was fined close to $3 billion, and its CEO resigned.
Bustos defended the bank when the Vallejo City Council considered dropping use of the bank for their accounts after the scandal broke. The report stated he did admit the bank “made mistakes” as he pled for the relationship to remain. The city council eventually left the bank.
Bustos is not new to presidential campaigns. He previously served Vice President Al Gore as policy adviser and Latino liaison. Upon attending the 2013 inauguration of President Barack Obama, he told NBC Latino, “It meant the world” to be there, specifically saying it was important to him “as a gay Latino.” It was his second inauguration, having attended an inauguration for President Bill Clinton.
Campaign spokesman Ian Sams defended Harris’s record investigating Wells Fargo while serving as California’s attorney general. He pressed that she took on “bad corporate actors on behalf of consumers.” The report identified the investigation as one that looked into the bank for violating “state privacy laws by failing to ‘timely and adequately’ disclose it was recording phone calls with members of the public.”
Michelle Moons is a reporter for Breitbart News — follow on Twitter @MichelleDiana and Facebook. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 19 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Rev Dan Collison had his credentials removed by a 77% vote at the Evangelical Covenant Church’s annual meeting
Leaders of the Evangelical Covenant Church have voted to defrock a Minneapolis pastor and expel his church – for permitting gay marriage.
The Rev Dan Collison had his credentials removed by a 77% vote at the Evangelical Covenant Church’s annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, on Friday night. Leaders also voted to expel Collison’s First Covenant Church, a founding member of the 134-year-old denomination.
Collison, who became a pastor at First Covenant in downtown Minneapolis in 2009, told the Star Tribune he was “not surprised” but “saddened”.
“I feel grounded in the path we have chosen,” he said. “I feel grateful for the pastors and churches who stood up for us. I feel compassion to those caught in the middle.”
The ECC said First Covenant was free to keep operating and can keep its church building. First Covenant said Collison will continue serving as lead pastor.
In 2014, a First Covenant staff member officiated at an offsite wedding of two women from the church worship band. The church has also put out a “love all” statement that said it welcomes members of the LGBTQ community to participate in the church, including serving in leadership roles, and says it offers pastoral care including weddings “to all in our congregation without regard for ability, race, sex, gender identity or sexual orientation”.
ECC leaders also voted on Friday night to remove another pastor, the Rev Steve Armfield, a retired Michigan minister who officiated his son’s same-sex wedding in Minneapolis in 2017. Armfield also was accused of violating the denomination’s same-sex marriage ban.
Leaders recommended that Collison, Armfield and First Covenant be forced out because they violated policies on human sexuality, specifically “celibacy in singleness and faithfulness in heterosexual marriage”.
“The ECC is mindful of the complexity, the sensitivity and the pain that matters of human sexuality can bring,” said Michelle Sanchez, an ECC executive minister. “We talk about the desire for both freedom and responsibility as a denomination. Those two things were coming into tension in this case.”
First Covenant Church was founded by Swedish migrants in 1874. Today, the denomination has about 875 churches with 280,000 members nationally.
“I hope this historic church someday changes its mind and then returns to our family,” ECC president John Wenrich said in a statement.
Armfield, an ECC pastor for 47 years, served an ECC church in Red Wing, Minnesota, in the 1970s.
“It is so unbelievably upsetting to see my father, Dan, and my fellow members of First Covenant experience the hate, deceit and actions that go against the teachings of love and inclusion that Jesus Christ preached,” said Matthew Armfield, who attends First Covenant. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 20 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | CLOSE LGBTQ rights have come a long way in the U.S. But the community still faces threats in the form of legalization, discrimination and even violence. Just the FAQs, USA TODAY
For better or worse, iconic "gayborhoods" are getting way more expensive, pricing out LGBT people in the process.
Neighborhoods such as San Francisco's Castro district or New York's Greenwich Village have cultural and historical significance for the LGBT community and house a large LGBT population.
A home in the Castro district values at nearly $1.8 million, according to the housing app Zillow, while comparable homes in other neighborhoods in the city average at $1.3 million. That's a half-million dollar difference.
"The gayer the block, the faster it rises in value," Amin Ghaziani told USA TODAY. Ghaziani is a professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia and author of There Goes The Gayborhood?
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Ghaziani researched the increased gentrification and rising cost of gayborhoods, and his findings show that areas with larger populations of same-gender households correlate to real estate values that are higher than the average.
Research by Zillow released in May echoes these findings: Most gay neighborhoods have higher home values than their surroundings, sometimes to the tune of double or triple the home value.
Evidence also suggests the neighborhoods' gay identities are eroding.
Cleve Jones, a long-time LGBT activist in San Francisco, has said in recent years that the Castro has largely sloughed off its gay identity in favor of a largely heterosexual, "techie" population.
“In time there will be gay flags, but no gay people," he told the Financial Times.
How did this happen?
Historically, LGBT people who have been unable to reside in well-off neighborhoods — whether due to high costs or discriminatory practices — have flocked to urban neighborhoods even as many heterosexual families began relocating to the suburbs.
LGBT people formed their own enclaves in these areas, building thriving businesses and booming communities. And soon after, families began moving back to cities.
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"The amenities and jobs near and in those urban centers made cohesive, tolerant gayborhoods especially attractive places to live, driving up housing costs in these communities," said Sarah Mikhitarian, a senior economist at Zillow, to USA TODAY.
The overall cost of living in big cities has risen drastically. But Ghaziani told USA TODAY that developers and investors looked to where LGBT people are located in metropolitan cities "as a strategy to increase their return on investment."
As masses of straight people wanted to move back to big cities, he says that moneyed individuals looking to cash in on the urban boom "followed" the gays.
"This is an exploitive strategy, one that reduces the humanity of LGBTQ+ people to their economic potential," he said to USA TODAY. "The spirit of equality and social justice is absent in this type of thinking."
His findings have shown that the population of LGBT people in gayborhoods has fallen.
Research by Florida State University professor Petra Doan shows that once the LGBT population has been ousted due to gentrification, former "gayborhoods" become less welcoming to LGBT people.
Contrary to the notion that gayborhood residents are affluent, said Ghaziani, LGBT people are more likely to be in poverty.
"While these neighborhoods still provide a sense of community and social acceptance, residents often pay a hefty premium to live there," said Mikhitarian.
It's not just straight people
A slew of housing conflicts are taking place, not only just from straight transplants to gayborhoods — but also between specific sects of the LGBT community.
The rising costs of gayborhoods disproportionately affects people of color, women and trans women, said Mikhitarian.
"For people at the intersection of any of these identities, it’s even worse because the pay gap is even larger," she said.
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Additionally, trans people are often harassed and attacked out of existing gayborhoods by its gay, lesbian and bisexual population. Less than half of trans people Doan surveyed felt that the gayborhoods they lived in are safe, she found.
And though the LGBT population faces poverty as a whole, wealth is further stratified within the LGBT community.
A study published in 2018 by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law found that lesbian, gay and bisexual people are more likely to be living in poverty than their straight peers. Lesbian and bisexual women, however, are worse off compared to gay and bisexual men. Making matters worse, transgender people face higher rates of poverty than the rest of the LGBT population.
What can be done?
LGBT people must be able to afford to living in a gayborhood if its culture is to be preserved, and experts and community members say local governments can do more to help.
Ghaziani said that city officials can do more for LGBT people in gayborhoods than just adorn it with rainbows.
"While symbolic strategies like rainbow crosswalks help to (mark) a neighborhood as queer, we need queer residents and business owners to convert a symbolic space into one that has real, material significance in the lives of LGBTQ+ people," he told USA TODAY.
These strategies include rent control for existing neighborhoods and financial incentives for LGBT-owned businesses funded by local governments.
As policies shift toward ensuring that all areas of a city are safe for the LGBT community, the Human Rights Campaign conducts a Municipal Equality Index annually, which looks at how inclusive city laws, policies and services treat a city's LGBT population.
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And even if it can't be found in so-called gayborhoods, LGBT people still need access to safe, affordable housing.
Organizations such as the SF LGBT Center and Detroit's Ruth Ellis Center offer housing services for LGBT people, aiding in searches for affordable housing for poor LGBT folks and resources for first-time LGBT homeowners.
“It’s important that we work on all fronts to ensure economic and cultural viability for the LGBTQ+ community," said Rebecca Rolfe, SF LGBT Center's executive director, This includes advocating for strong affordable housing policies ... and direct service programs that break down economic barriers by providing trainings, economic assistance, or temporary housing options to those most in need.”
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | A federal district judge issued a permanent injunction on Friday blocking construction of President Donald Trump’s border wall, holding that it was illegal for his administration to spend current funding for that purpose. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will immediately appeal.
There are several ongoing lawsuits trying to stop the border wall. This case is before Judge Haywood Gilliam for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, who was appointed by Barack Obama. The left-wing Sierra Club brought suit in that court because it is currently one of the most liberal federal trial courts in the nation.
The Trump administration is reprogramming funds from Sections 8005 and 9002 of the National Defense Authorization Act to build the wall and provide security at the U.S.-Mexican border. The Sierra Club argued that the reprogramming of those funds violates federal law.
DOJ argued in court that “plaintiffs fall outside the zone of interests of § 8005 and thus cannot sue to enforce it,” and besides that, that the Defense Department “has satisfied the requirements set forth in § 8005.” Gilliam rejected those arguments.
He also held that § 8005 funds could be used only for “unforeseen military requirements” and that constructing the border wall did not qualify.
The Sierra Club also argued that the use of these military funds under another part of federal law, 10 U.S.C. § 284, is illegal. But since those funds go through the Sections 8005 and 9002 accounts in any event, Gilliam declined to rule separately on the legality of Section 284 funds.
One win for the Trump administration in this case is that Gilliam continued to reject Sierra Club’s claims under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The left has had high hopes that it could block the wall by arguing that building the wall is illegal because the federal government has not gone through NEPA’s cumbersome and time-consuming requirements, but even Gilliam acknowledged that the Department of Homeland Security had authority to waive those requirements, which the department did.
Finally, although parts of the case are ongoing and therefore normally this case would be stuck in district court for the time being, Gilliam certified his partial summary judgment decision for immediate appeal. As a consequence, the Justice Department will now take the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
The case is Sierra Club v. Trump, No. 4:19-cv-892 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
UPDATE: Gilliam also issued a decision granting partial summary judgment and a permanent injunction in a parallel case brought by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, who has become prolific in litigating against the president. Gilliam’s order in that case addresses the same issues, and is essentially identical to the order in Sierra Club’s case.
The second case is California v. Trump, No. 4:19-cv-872 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Ken Klukowski is senior legal analyst for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @kenklukowski | null | 0 | -1 | null | 24 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | United Nations — More than 7,500 children have been killed or wounded in Yemen in the last 5 1/2 years as a result of airstrikes, shelling, fighting, suicide attacks, mines and other unexploded ordnance, according to a new United Nations report.
The report, which was released Friday by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said the killings and injuries were among 11,779 grave violations against children during the period between April 1, 2013 and Dec. 31, 2018. It said the figures are likely to be worse because monitoring Yemen has become increasingly difficult.
The conflict in the Arab world's poorest country began with the 2014 takeover of Yemen's capital Sanaa by Iranian-backed Houthi Shiite rebels, who toppled the government of Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi. A Saudi-led coalition allied with Yemen's internationally recognized government has been fighting the Houthis since 2015.
Saudi-led airstrikes have hit schools, hospitals and wedding parties. The Houthis have used drones and missiles to attack Saudi Arabia and have targeted vessels in the Red Sea.
Civilians have borne the brunt of the conflict, which has killed thousands of people, created the world's worst humanitarian crisis, and brought Yemen to the brink of famine. According to the U.N., 400,000 children are expected to suffer from severe acute malnutrition, the deadliest form of extreme hunger this year, an increase of 15,000 over 2017.
Analysis: 85,000 children may have died from starvation since start of Yemen war
Virginia Gamba, the U.N. special representative for children in conflict, said that while some positive measures have been adopted by the warring parties, "the suffering of children in Yemen has worsened during the reporting period, becoming simply appalling."
"The children of Yemen had nothing to do with the start of this conflict," she said. "They should now be given the opportunity to exit from it and be assisted to fully recover."
Gamba called on all parties to the conflict and those who can influence them to "prioritize peace and actively engage in the ongoing peace negotiations."
According to the report, the largest number of violations against children in the 5 1/2 years were the 7,508 youngsters who were verified to have been killed or maimed. The recruitment and use of 3,034 children by the warring parties — including 1,940 by the Houthis and 274 by the government — was the second largest violation, it said.
The report also said 340 boys were verified to have been detained for their actual or alleged association with the warring parties.
It said only 11 incidents of rape and sexual violence were verified, explaining that the number remains under-reported "mainly for fear of stigmatization and lack of appropriate response services." The verification of abductions of children was also limited during the reporting period, with just 17 verified incidents, it said.
The report said the number of children denied access to humanitarian assistance sharply increased over the 5 1/2 years, "with catastrophic consequences." It said the U.N. verified 828 incidents where aid was denied.
The secretary-general's second report on children in Yemen's conflict also noted that attacks on schools and hospitals remained high, with 345 of the 381 that were verified causing the partial or total destruction of the building.
Of "great concern," the report said, is the verified military use of 258 schools, which is higher than the 244 schools that were attacked. The result is that thousands of boys and girls were prevented "safe access to education," it said. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 23 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | View of the Mexico-U.S. wall on June 18, 2019, in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. AGUSTIN PAULLIER/Getty Images
A federal judge in Northern California prohibited President Donald Trump from shifting $2.5 billion in military funding toward building the border wall in California, Arizona, and New Mexico. U.S. District Court Judge Haywood Gilliam in Oakland, California said that the effort by the Trump administration to shift money from the Defense Department toward the wall was “unlawful.” The judge had previously temporarily ordered a halt to the transfer of funds but now issued a permanent injunction against it as a result of two lawsuits, one filed by the ACLU on behalf of the Sierra Club and the Southern Border Communities Coalition and another by California and 19 other states.
The Trump administration has said that the use of the funds was lawful because it involves a national emergency. But Gilliam wrote that the administration’s attorneys “present no new evidence or argument for why the court should depart from its prior decision, and it will not.” He also said that those suing against the use of the funds would suffer “irreparable harm” from the construction of the wall.
Those opposed to the border wall celebrated Gilliam’s ruling. “These rulings critically stop President Trump’s illegal money grab to divert $2.5 billion of unauthorized funding for his pet project,” California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a statement. “All President Trump has succeeded in building is a constitutional crisis, threatening immediate harm to our state.” The ACLU also celebrated the decision saying that the judge makes clear the president can’t simply circumvent Congress. “This decision upholds the basic principle that the president has no power to spend taxpayer money without Congress’ approval,” Dror Ladin, staff attorney with the ACLU, said. “We will continue to defend this core principle of our democracy, which the courts have recognized for centuries.”
The fight, however, is far from over. Trump called the ruling a “disgrace” during a news conference Saturday in Japan. “So we’re immediately appealing it and we think we’ll win the appeal,” the president said. “There was no reason that that should have happened. And a lot of wall is being built.” Trump had previously criticized Gilliam when he issued the preliminary injunction last month, characterizing him as “another activist Obama appointed judge.”
Another activist Obama appointed judge has just ruled against us on a section of the Southern Wall that is already under construction. This is a ruling against Border Security and in favor of crime, drugs and human trafficking. We are asking for an expedited appeal! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 25, 2019 | null | 0 | -1 | null | 17 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | As the leadership tour gathers pace, the route to No 10 no longer seems quite so sure for the Tory showman | null | 0 | -1 | null | 1 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | The Brexit party used simple messaging, an active social media presence and a “overwhelmingly negative” attack to win the online battle before the European elections, according to a new analysis of the campaign.
Nigel Farage’s party accounted for 51% of all shared content on Facebook and Twitter during the campaign, despite only producing 13% of the content. The analysis, by the 89up digital agency, said the “scale of their success went beyond what we were expecting”.
Meanwhile, Change UK, made up of pro-Remain former Labour and Tory MPs, were the losers of the internet campaign. Despite spending more than £100,000 on 1,000 Facebook ads in the week before the vote, Change UK generated 1.1% of all shares on the platform – fewer than any other UK-wide party.
The election saw the | null | 0 | -1 | null | 6 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Image copyright AFP Image example Mr Trump bin don threaten to nack $300bn in extra tariffs on Chinese imports
Di US and China agree to begin trade tok-tok again, to cool tension wey don contribute to global economic slowdown.
US Presido Donald Trump and China President Xi Jinping reach agreement for G20 summit for Japan.
Oga Trump also tok say im go allow US companies to continue to sell to Chinese tech giant Huawei.
Oga Trump bin don threaten to nack more trade sanctions ontop China head.
But afta meeting wey happun for G20 summit for Osaka, im confam say US no go add any more tariff ontop Chinese market wey worth reach $300bn (£236bn)
Im also say negotiation with Beijing go continue "for now".
For anoda press conference e do later, di US president declare say US technology companies go now begin sell to Huawei again. Dis one automatically reverse last month ban by di US commerce department.
Image copyright EPA Image example G20 family photo - wit Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for middle
The US and China fight done cause kasala for dia business over di last one year.
Mr Trump bin say China tiff intellectual property say dem force US firms to share trade secrets in order for dem to do business for China, China on im own end say US bin dey ask dem to carry out some kain change for di wey dem dey run dia business wey no make sense.
Di fight hot well-well for di last few months before di summit afta tok-tok between di two kontries scata for May. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 10 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | However it’s exclusively men who consider themselves “of God” who try to blame a supernatural enemy for their disgusting actions, and the church covers for them, allowing them to do it time and time again. Imaginary friends and enemies get us no where. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 2 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | California is set to become the first U.S. state to enact a law banning the workplace discrimination of natural hairstyles worn by black people.
The bill, known as the Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair (CROWN) Act, unanimously passed California’s Assembly with a 69–0 vote on Thursday.
“While we got no ‘No’ votes, there were some people who chose to abstain,” Sen. Holly Mitchell (D-Los Angeles) told National Public Radio (NPR). “I have no idea why they abstained.”
It also passed California’s Senate in April and is awaiting Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature.
The legislation would prohibit employers and schools from taking punitive actions, like firing or demoting, against people who wear “afros, braids, locks, and twists.”
“The history of our nation is riddled with laws and societal norms that equated ‘blackness,’ and the associated physical traits, for example, dark skin, kinky and curly hair to a badge of inferiority,” the bill’s text states.
“Hair remains a rampant source of racial discrimination with serious economic and health consequences, especially for black individuals,” the bill continued.
New York City issued similar guidelines back in February intending to ban discrimination on natural styles not just in workplaces, but in public spaces such as schools, libraries, gyms, and nightclubs.
“Bans or restrictions on natural hair or hairstyles associated with black people are often rooted in white standards of appearance and perpetuate racist stereotypes that black hairstyles are unprofessional,” according to the statement from the New York City Commission on Human Rights.
“Such policies exacerbate anti-black bias in employment, at school, while playing sports, and in other areas of daily living,” the statement added. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 10 |
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Dr. Adadevoh’s sacrifice and heroism, for Nigeria, in the fight against Ebola, will never be forgotten. pic.twitter.com/NicvXfT89x | null | 0 | -1 | null | 3 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | “In its quest to highlight the intimate nature of these relationships, the government fails to meaningfully consider the fact that, just as with Mr. Hunter’s platonic relationships, his friendships often blur the line between personal and professional, which is a widespread occurrence in modern politics,” the lawyers said. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 1 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | President Trump said Saturday that Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) received “too much credit” for attacking Joe Biden (D) during Thursday night’s Democrat debate.
Trump made the remarks during a news conference at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan over the weekend. He even added that she “probably” hit Biden harder than he deserved.
“I think she was given too much credit for what she did. It wasn’t that outstanding,” Trump said, according to Politico. “I think probably he was hit harder than he should have been hit.”
When asked if Harris would be a tough challenger, Trump said, “you never know.”
“You never know who’s going to be tough,” he said. “You never know.”
“I think she’s getting far too much credit for what she said,” the president reiterated. “It was right out of the can. It was right out of the box. He didn’t respond great. This is not Winston Churchill we’re dealing with, but it wasn’t nearly as bad as they pretend it to be.”
Harris launched a direct attack against Biden during Thursday’s debate, using it as a platform to launch her “that little girl was me” rallying cry. She told the story of her former neighbors, whom, she claims, did not allow their children to play with her due to her race.
While she told Biden that she did not believe he is a racist, she grilled him for his opposition to busing.
She said:
I’m going to now direct this at Vice President Biden, I do not believe you are a racist, and I agree with you when you commit yourself to the importance of finding common ground. But I also believe, and it’s personal — and I was actually very — it was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United
States senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country. And it was not only that, but you also worked with them to oppose busing. And, you know, there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day. And that little girl was me. So I will tell you that, on this subject, it cannot be an intellectual debate among Democrats. We have to take it seriously. We have to act swiftly.
She also questioned Biden directly.
“Vice President Biden, do you agree today — do you agree today that you were wrong to oppose busing in America then? Do you agree?” she asked.
“I did not oppose busing in America. What I opposed is busing ordered by the Department of Education. That’s what I opposed,” Biden said before defending his support for the ERA.
“I supported the ERA from the very beginning,” he said. “I’m the guy that extended the Voting Rights Act for 25 years.”
According to reports, Harris’s campaign was planning an attack on Biden for “months.” | null | 0 | -1 | null | 29 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Tunisia’s 92-year-old President Beji Caid Essebsi found himself in “critical condition” while double suicide attacks rocked the North African country’s capital on Thursday, killing one police officer and injuring several other people, including civilians.
Hours after news of the attacks surfaced, Tunisia’s presidential office reportedly revealed that Essebsi “was taken seriously ill and transferred to the military hospital in Tunis.”
The president’s trip to the health facility came after a brief hospitalization less than a week ago.
Via its Amaq news agency, the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attack, Reuters notes.
Tunisia’s Prime Minister Youssef Chahed referred to the bombings as “a cowardly terrorist operation [to] destabilize Tunisians, the economy and democratic transition,” conceding that the attacks took place while the tourist season was in full swing, according to France 24.
“I would like to reassure Tunisians that the president is receiving the necessary care,” he reportedly added in a Facebook post after visiting the president in the hospital, warning against the spread of “false and confusing information.”
Referring to the twin suicide bombings on Thursday, the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency reports:
The violence revived fears for the stability of the North African state, which is seen as a rare democratic success story of the Arab Spring uprisings but has been hit by repeated Islamist attacks. Thursday’s blasts – one on a central avenue and another against a security base – killed a police officer and wounded at least eight people including several civilians, the interior ministry said.
“It was a suicide attack,” Sofiene Zaag, a spokesman for the country’s interior ministry, told AFP.
One of the attacks reportedly targeted a national guard base, judicial police, and a counterterrorism agency in the capital of Tunis.
The attack came during the peak of Tunisia’s tourist season.
“Tunisian officials have sought to reassure tourists after twin suicide bombings targeting security forces struck the country’s capital on Thursday, killing a patrol officer and injuring at least eight people,” France 24 reveals in a separate article.
ISIS has targeted tourists in Tunisia in the relatively recent past.
In 2015, the group claimed responsibility for deadly attacks on a museum (22 deaths) and a seaside resort (38 deaths) frequented by tourists.
Tunisia, in February of this year, sentenced seven jihadis linked to ISIS to life in prison for the attacks. | null | 0 | -1 | null | 13 |
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Name: id, Length: 162994, dtype: int64 | Joe Biden’s attempt to defend his stance on busing at Thursday’s debate has created even more problems for the former vice president, calling into question what he believes the federal government’s role should be in ensuring racial justice.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) dominated the second night of the presidential debate in Miami, in large part due to her confrontation with Biden. She told him that she found it personally hurtful that he boasted about working with segregationist senators on issues like busing, the imperfect and controversial means of desegregating public schools by transporting children to various schools farther away than their neighborhood ones.
Harris, the second black woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate, said she was a beneficiary of busing.
Biden refused to apologize for his stance on busing, on which he made a name for himself in the 1970s. Instead, he clarified that he didn’t oppose all busing, just federal efforts to force busing.
“What I opposed is busing ordered by the Department of Education. That’s what I opposed,” he said, adding that it was fine when it was a “local decision.”
I’ve gotten to the point where I think our only recourse to eliminate busing may be a constitutional amendment. Joe Biden, 1975
But that attempt to make the situation better has, in many ways, made it worse for Biden.
On Saturday, MSNBC host Al Sharpton told a group of civil rights activists how troubling he found Biden’s answer to be:
The thing that was so egregious about Joe Biden’s answer to Kamala Harris the other night was when he said that, ‘Yes, you were bused because the local school board voted for that. That was alright. I was against federal intervention.’ That meant states’ rights. The whole fight of the Civil War was a strong national government against states having the right to vote for slavery state by state. The whole fight around segregation was whether states had the right to say you could sit in the front of the bus or not, or go to a hotel or not. States’ rights [means] opposing a strong federal government that protects the citizens, particularly minorities.
Talking about states rights in my #NANSaturdayActionRally keynote message. pic.twitter.com/ilJnUjyJMA — Reverend Al Sharpton (@TheRevAl) June 29, 2019
After the debate on Thursday, Harris, too, said she was “surprised” by Biden’s answer.
“We have so many examples in history where states have limited or restricted people’s civil rights. ... We have certain values that are national standards, and we’re not going to let states compromise that,” she said.
And Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), the only other competitive black candidate in the 2020 race, said he was floored by Biden’s response. (Booker debated on Wednesday night, since the large field of candidates was divided into two nights.)
“I think that anybody that knows our painful history knows that on voting rights, on civil rights, on the protections from hate crimes, African Americans and many other groups in this country have had to turn to the federal government to intervene because there were states that were violating those rights,” he said on CNN.
In the short time he’s been running, Biden has consistently faced questions on his record, which spanned decades in the Senate. From busing to abortion to Anita Hill to criminal justice, Biden has been called to account for views and statements that are out of line with where the party is today.
His campaign has urged people to look forward, toward what he would do if he defeats Trump, but it’s a tough line to hold when much of his campaign is built on his experience in government. Still, Biden continues to maintain a considerable amount of support from black voters.
Biden initially supported busing during his 1972 Senate campaign, but once in office, he became the chamber’s leading liberal voice against it.
“I oppose busing. It’s an asinine concept, the utility of which has never been proven to me,” he said in a 1975 interview. “I’ve gotten to the point where I think our only recourse to eliminate busing may be a constitutional amendment.”
“The new integration plans being offered are really just quota-systems to assure a certain number of blacks, Chicanos, or whatever in each school,” he added. “That, to me, is the most racist concept you can come up with; what it says is, ’In order for your child with curly black hair, brown eyes and dark skin to be able to learn anything, he needs to sit next to my blond-haired, blue-eyed son.’ That’s racist! Who the hell do we think we are, that the only way a black man or woman can learn is if they rub shoulders with my white child?”
Biden’s shift reflected the politics of his white constituents who were livid about a court-ordered integration plan in Wilmington, Delaware.
Biden’s campaign has taken a two-pronged approach to defending his record since the debate.
His spokespeople have pointed to his more recent record on civil rights, supporting measures like the Voting Rights Act and, of course, his partnership with former President Barack Obama.
“Vice President Biden stood shoulder to shoulder with President Obama for eight years in the White House,” Biden campaign spokesperson Symone Sanders told reporters after the debate in Miami. “And so the idea that he is somehow out of step with the Democratic Party when it comes to civil rights ― I just don’t think it sticks and I don’t think it will stick with the voters.”
But his campaign has also defended his stance on the merits, arguing that African American civil rights leaders were not universally in agreement about busing and that, in fact, busing did not achieve its goals.
“Busing was a remedy that at the time many were saying was not ― many in the African American community, many in the civil rights community ― was not the best way to integrate schools,” Biden campaign communications director Kate Bedingfield said on MSNBC on Friday. “And frankly, that’s been borne out today. I think if we have an honest discussion about the impacts of busing, there are a lot of people who would say it hasn’t been the best remedy to integrate schools.”
The story of support for busing is more complicated. Few people thought busing was the “best way” to integrate schools. Instead, it was usually viewed as a last resort.
ASSOCIATED PRESS Sen. Edward Brooke (R-Mass.), the first black man elected to the chamber by popular vote, was a supporter of busing.
For Sen. Edward Brooke (R-Mass.) ― the first black person elected to the chamber by popular vote and a supporter of busing who went up against Biden on the issue ― busing “was the best thing that we had to at least desegregate the schools at that time in our history.”
Many of the anti-busing measures Biden supported drew bitter opposition from the major civil rights organizations. The NAACP, for example, lobbied hard to stop an amendment Biden introduced in 1977 that would have barred the use of federal funds for busing.
Biden also supported an amendment from segregationist Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) that would have barred the federal government from collecting data on the race of students and teachers. When that measure failed, Biden crafted his own amendment barring federal funding for the purposes of helping school districts “assign teachers or students to schools … for reasons of race.” With Biden, rather than Helms, leading the charge, other liberal Democrats were more comfortable voicing their support and it passed the Senate.
By limiting the federal government’s authority to shape school integration, liberals feared at the time that Biden was setting a far-reaching precedent. The amendment was particularly upsetting to Brooke, who called it “the greatest symbolic defeat for civil rights since 1964.”
And at least some of the African American opposition to busing came from black nationalists who thought culturally sensitive curricula and community self-sufficiency were surer routes to black liberation. For example, one black opponent of busing in San Francisco proposed granting African American parts of the city their own independent school board if they could not get the autonomy they desired in the confines of the present system.
In addition, contrary to what Bedingfield said about its effectiveness, there is evidence that busing achieved its goals in many parts of the country. Nationwide school segregation dropped from nearly two-thirds of black students in segregated schools to about one-third over the period from 1968 to 1980, after busing became a tool available to the federal government. The Northeast was the only region where school segregation rose during that period, according to a 1983 study by the Joint Center for Political Studies.
In a speech to the Rainbow PUSH Coalition in Chicago on Friday, Biden emphasized that he had always supported federally imposed busing to overcome official, rather than de facto, school segregation.
Biden’s position was essentially that busing was acceptable in cases of deliberate segregation ― as in the South with its Jim Crow segregation laws ― but not when there was “de facto” segregation (as in Northern cities, where, as the thinking went, many neighborhoods just happened to be all white or all black).
But of course, that segregation in Northern cities was often just as deliberate ― through such discriminatory real estate practices as redlining ― even if it was less out in the open.
“In many cities, the ‘neighborhood school’ — itself a product of redlining, housing segregation, and discriminatory school transfer policies — remains sacrosanct. But we forget that through the 1960s and 1970s, local school boards and urban whites often resisted every other attempt at school and housing integration,” Jason Sokol, an associate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire, wrote in Politico in 2015. “With their resistance, they narrowed the options down to two: busing or segregation.”
But as Sharpton’s remarks attest, it is the broader philosophical approach that Biden signaled approval of ― one that emphasizes states’ rights and local control as opposed to federal enforcement of civil rights ― that could generate the biggest problems for him on the campaign trail.
After the debate, Sanders, the Biden spokeswoman, declined to directly answer a question from NBC News about whether claiming the mantle of states’ rights was really a “durable” defense of the policy.
“If you want to put the vice president’s record on civil rights up against anyone on that stage,” she said, “he’ll stand the test of time.” | null | 0 | -1 | null | 62 |
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Dallas Jones was supposed to be headed from an Indianapolis inmate re-entry facility to Eskenazi Hospital.
Within three hours of leaving in an ambulance, though, Jones had somehow broken free of his GPS monitoring unit.
Jones, who still had time remaining on his federal sentence on a gun conviction, could not be found, federal court records say.
But within two months, his name would pop up again after Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Detective Dustin Keedy started receiving anonymous tips following a shootout.
On June 12, two houses and a vehicle were shot up near East 29th Street and North Keystone Avenue. Two women were struck by gunfire.
And one man, a local DJ named Albert Germany Jr., lay dying in the street.
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A lengthy affidavit filed in Marion Superior Court last week detailed the homicide investigator's evidence, including items collected from a massive crime scene and footage from an opportune surveillance camera.
But even as authorities zeroed in on their suspect, one big question remains: How did Dallas Jones escape from federal custody in the first place?
Crime scene spans almost a city block
Investigators first learned of the shooting around 6 p.m. June 12, when a woman flagged down Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Officer Thomas Borgmann along North Sherman Avenue. She had been shot.
The woman, who is identified by only her initials in the affidavit, said she was inside her Dodge Charger in the 2900 block of North Dearborn Street when two men started shooting at each other near her.
The Charger was hit by more than a dozen rounds of gunfire, investigators say, and at least one bullet struck the woman in her shoulder.
She wasn't the only bystander injured in the shooting.
Dallas Jones, 28 (Photo: Provided by IMPD)
When IMPD officers drove to the crime scene, they learned of a 20-year-old woman who had been struck in her shoulder, too. A bullet pierced her home and hit her.
Bullets also struck another house, shattering a glass front door and piercing an internal wall of the home.
The worst outcome, though, came to 39-year-old Albert Germany Jr. Officers found him laying in the grass between the street and sidewalk. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Keedy, the homicide investigator, described the crime scene in court records as encompassing "almost the entire city block."
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Investigators collected a Ruger 9mm handgun and other items, but the most important evidence hung nearby.
A surveillance camera, Keedy wrote, "caught the entire incident along with other events of the day."
How the shooting started
The camera recorded, according to the affidavit, a scuffle that would precede the shooting by an hour. A man rode in on a dirt bike. He interacted with another man, later identified by IMPD as Dallas Jones.
A couple of minutes later, Jones pulled out a gun and set it on a nearby vehicle's trunk. He removed his necklace and tied his dreadlocks back into a ponytail. Then the two fought momentarily until the first man rode away on his dirt bike.
After about an hour, a group of people, including Jones, were standing in the area when a Chevrolet Tahoe pulled up. Police said Albert Germany Jr. left the Tahoe. Jones and Germany walked toward each other, meeting outside a parked Dodge Charger.
A man tried to separate them from fighting. Then Germany drew a handgun from his waistband, according to court records, and pointed it at Jones. Jones did the same. Then they started shooting at each other.
Germany ran across the street into a yard, police said, and stopped firing.
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Meanwhile, Jones removed a semi-automatic rifle from a Jeep Liberty parked nearby. He chased down Germany, shooting several times until Germany collapsed to the ground in the spot where officers would eventually find him.
Jones approached the body, Detective Keedy wrote. He stood over Germany's body. Then he fired again and again.
An autopsy found Germany was struck several times in the back, according to the affidavit, with one shot to his head.
Keedy didn't initially know who the alleged shooter was. But then he learned that a man named Dallas Jones was on the loose.
Escape from the hospital
Anonymous tips from the community led Keedy to the name Dallas, according to court records. Then another IMPD officer clued in Keedy to the name Dallas Jones and part of his criminal history, which included the use of a rifle on North Dearborn Street in 2014.
Keedy learned that federal agents were hunting for Jones, too. In November 2015, a federal judge slapped Jones with a four-year sentence followed by three years of probation after a firearms conviction, according to federal court records.
Near the end of Jones' sentence, in July 2018, he moved from a federal prison to a residential re-entry facility in Indianapolis operated by Volunteers of America called Brandon Hall.
On April 12, Jones told the facility's staff that he had blood in his urine, according to federal court records. An ambulance then drove him to Eskenazi Hospital around 11 p.m.
About three hours later, the staff realized that Jones' GPS monitoring unit had been removed. Eskenazi Hospital staff, meanwhile, said they did not know where he was.
It's unclear whether Jones made it to the hospital or how he evaded federal authorities.
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Nicole Knowlton, a Volunteers of America spokeswoman, declined to answer questions, instead sending a statement: "Brandon Hall includes a Federal Bureau of Prisons community residential reentry center that helps men and women rebuild their ties to the community in a structured and supervised environment. Regarding the incident on April 12, 2019, we received proper authorization and clearance from the Federal Bureau of Prisons and followed all program and administrative protocols and procedures."
When asked whether the US Marshals Service should have accompanied Jones to the hospital, Deputy Marshal Gabe Guerrero told IndyStar that they would have no way of knowing about the incident.
"We're not notified until someone is officially put in escape status," Guerrero said. That notification comes from the Bureau of Prisons, Guerrero said.
Questions sent by IndyStar to the Bureau of Prisons were not answered. Instead, an unidentified spokesperson emailed a brief statement saying the incident is under investigation.
The spokesperson did not respond to a question seeking clarification whether specifically the circumstances of the escape were under investigation.
A spokesman for Eskenazi Hospital, meanwhile, said federal privacy laws prevented him from speaking too much about any patient's visit to the hospital.
But he noted that someone from a re-entry facility generally wouldn't face the same kind of security at the hospital as someone who, for example, is under arrest by IMPD.
"Honestly there are lots of individuals that are party of a re-entry program that maybe have a (GPS) bracelet," said Todd Harper, an Eskenazi Hospital spokesman. "If he was part of a re-entry program, and he came in by an ambulance, we probably just treated him."
Jones became a federal fugitive when he ran away. The US Marshals started hunting for him.
An agent spots a familiar vehicle
Two days after the shooting, Detective Keedy heard from an agent about a familiar vehicle that was spotted at an east-side home. They had found the Jeep Liberty that had once held Jones' semi-automatic rifle.
And the owner of the vehicle identified in state records matched the description of someone who had been seen with Jones in recent weeks, Keedy wrote in court documents.
Agents searched the home and a Ford Escape parked outside. Inside the vehicle they found Jones, two other men and a semi-automatic rifle. Officers found another semi-automatic rifle and a handgun in the home.
In addition to three witnesses, detectives questioned Jones.
Albert Germany Jr, 39 (Photo: Provided by Brittany Germany)
Jones admitted to investigators about the gun fight with Germany, according to Keedy's affidavit. But he didn't know the man's name.
The fight stemmed, Jones told police, from a sexual relationship between Jones and the girlfriend of another man. That apparently was the same man who fought momentarily with Jones before riding away on a dirt bike.
When Germany pulled up an hour later, according to Jones' statement, Germany asked, "Where's the guy he was fighting?"
Then the fight and shootout happened.
IndyStar left a message with Jones' court-appointed attorney seeking an interview, but the call was not returned.
Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry's office filed a murder charge against Jones last week.
In addition to the state charges, Jones faces the additional federal charge of escape, which carries a potential penalty of up to five years in prison.
State and federal court records, however, do not provide any answers as to how Jones managed to escape federal custody in the first place.
Jones remains in Marion County Jail. A jury trial is set for August in Marion Super Court.
A jokester, life of the party
Germany leaves behind two sons, who are both 16.
A few days after the shooting, his loved ones gathered to release white and blue balloons into the air in tribute to the man his family called Meatie (and his friends called DJ Sauce).
Then when it came time for his services, they elected to celebrate his life by remembering the good times.
Like how he made everyone laugh by cracking jokes.
"Meatie was a jokester," said Brittany Germany, a cousin. "The life of the party."
Follow Ryan Martin on Twitter: @ryanmartin
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