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Breitbart’s report is further evidence that key figures in the national populist movement would love to see Priebus jettisoned from the president’s inner circle. That starts with casting blame on Priebus for high-profile White House stumbles in a news outlet that the president likes to read. |
“Multiple sources close to President Trump with internal knowledge of White House operations told Breitbart News on Monday night that the buck stops with Priebus when it comes to the botched rollout of the executive order temporarily banning most travel to the United States from seven nations with a history of exportin... |
Breitbart’s claim that Priebus is responsible for the the slow Cabinet confirmation process on Capitol Hill earned a testy rebuke from Spicer, who only days earlier sat with the news outlet for an exclusive interview in the White House. |
“What are you talking about? What possibly could have been done to get [attorney general] Sessions done quicker? Is there some way he could have made Democrats vote?” Spicer said in an email to Boyle. |
Trump went out of his way this week to gave Priebus a public vote of confidence after one of his friends, Newsmax founder Chris Ruddy, said Priebus looked like he is in over his head. |
“Reince is doing a great job. Not a good job. A great job,” Trump told reporters. |
Ruddy later walked the remarks back — albeit, according to Axios, only after a "pleading call" from Priebus. |
Reince just briefed me on new WH plans. Impressive! CNN today my personal view. Told him I have 'open mind' based on his results. |
Ruddy's remarks and Breitbart's story aren't the only signs that some aligned with Trump want Priebus out. Roger Stone Jr., an informal Trump adviser, tweeted Tuesday that Priebus had organized a "purge" of Flynn that represented a new "Pearl Harbor" for Trump allies. |
The Bosnian wars ended in 1995, but peace brought its own terrible realities: a fractured Bosnia divided between Serbs and a Croat/Muslim federation, thousands of dead (most of them Muslim), uprooted families, a ravaged landscape, economic ruin. Books on Afghanistan and Iraq have taken over bookstore shelves, but the r... |
In the spare and bleak “Like Eating a Stone: Surviving the Past in Bosnia,” the Polish journalist Wojciech Tochman chronicles the aftermath of war in Bosnia and, if anything, confirms that the so-called peace has brought little actual peace. Yet he is not polemical about this point; instead, he relies on suggestive det... |
Crisscrossing Bosnia several years after the war’s end, Tochman follows several Muslim women as they search for the remains of loved ones: husbands, children, parents. By the end of the war, nearly 20,000 Muslims were missing, and the process of recovering bodies, many of them dumped into mass graves, mine shafts and w... |
The survivors themselves don’t view things with such scientific detachment. Jasna Ploskic, a Muslim widow searching for the remains of her small children, presumed killed in 1992 when they fled their village after it came under attack, says of the Serbs: “In every one of them I see a murderer.” Many Muslims, expelled ... |
Matthew Price’s reviews have appeared in Bookforum, The Boston Globe and other publications. |
The Woodway Public Safety Department released photos of the suspects and their vehicle. |
WOODWAY, Texas — ATM skimmers are active in the Woodway area, Woodway Public Safety Department Captain Todd Gill said. |
If you have any information on the subjects or vehicle, you can contact Gill and the department at 254-772-4407 or Waco Crime Stoppers at 254-753-4357. |
WINTER Olympic hero Kristan Bromley returned to Rossendale for his first medal of the season the Rossendale Alive medal. |
Kristan, known as Dr Ice, was brought up in East Lancashire and attended Waterfoot Primary School and Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School. His parents still live in the valley. |
Following his fifth place at this year's Turin Winter Olympics in the bob skeleton event, the then Mayor of Rossendale Coun Jeffrey Cheetham invited him to receive a token of the council's appreciation of his success. |
Kristan, who designs the sled he races, began his visit to Ski Rossendale last week with a question and answer session with 20 keen winter sports enthusiasts from his old school, Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School. Ski Rossendale is where Kristan first learned to ski and developed his passion for winter sports. |
He attended a civic presentation in honour of his engineering and sporting achievements with the bob skeleton event and for what he did to raise the profile of Rossendale during the 2006 Winter Olympics. |
He was presented with the Rossendale Alive Medal and a signed certificate from the Mayor in recognition of his outstanding technical and sporting success. |
His brother Richard, who manages Kristan, planted a tree in nearby Whitaker Park to permanently mark Kristan's achievements and the borough's civic presentation. |
Entertainment was provided throughout the presentation event with live performances from the visiting JBO Brass Quintet from Rossendale's twin town of Bocholt and an aerial acrobatics show on the Ski Slope from the Salomon freestyle team. |
Rossendale's Mayor Peter Steen said: "We are delighted to welcome Kristan back to his home borough to celebrate his achievements. |
"We thought he was very unlucky at the Olympics and wanted to make sure he wasn't empty handed." |
Council leader Coun Duncan Ruddick added: "Kristan has demonstrated everything that is good about Rossendale working hard, being willing to take risks and a tenacious determination to succeed against all odds. |
"He is a very worthy recipient of the Rossendale Alive Medal. |
"He has truly lived up to the Rossendale Alive values of our borough." |
In 2003/2004 Kristan was world No.1 and won the bob skeleton World Cup Series. |
Lady Gaga has launched her own social networking site - LittleMonsters.com - as a place for her disciples to meet each other and discuss Little Monsterdom. |
"Request an invite to be among the first to experience a new community only for Little Monsters. Because you were born this way!" |
According to those in the know, however, the site is similar to Reddit and Pinterest. Gaga fans are expected to sign up in their droves to create videos, share photos and highlight web content they are interested in. |
Ambitioulsy, the company which created the social networking site, claims it will "change the world". |
"Backplane is about bringing together communities and Gaga's community just so happens to be the community we're using to learn about proper functionality. We think we can really change the world." |
Gaga has more than 19 million followers on Twitter. |
Meanwhile, the singer has revealed that she battled bulimia for years and only stopped making herself sick after eating when she realised the damage it was doing to her vocal cords. |
The number of forcibly displaced people around the world was now approaching 66 million, and that sharp rise reflected the weakness of international cooperation in responding to the crisis, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees told the Security Council today. |
High Commissioner Filippo Grandi pointed out that whereas many refugee‑hosting countries — particularly those adjacent to conflict zones — kept their borders open, certain others — often the wealthy States least affected by refugee flows — had closed their borders, restricting access to asylum and deterring entry. |
He went on to stress that a full response to the prevailing massive displacement could only be achieved through action to restore security, resolve conflict and build peace. Recalling that the New York Declaration on Refugees and Migrants, adopted in 2016, called for comprehensive responses to refugee flows, he noted t... |
Complex migratory movements in fragile, unstable situations must also be addressed, he continued, noting that refugees and migrants continued to face grave exploitation and abuse along the Central Mediterranean route to Europe. Strong, collective action was needed to tackle the abuses perpetrated by traffickers, he sai... |
Millions of severely traumatized children, deprived of education and their lives blighted by atrocities, faced an uncertain future, he said. Thousands of people were stranded at borders, and women struggled to care for their children in makeshift shelters, their partners dead or missing. Stressing the power of internat... |
Vincenzo Amendola, Italy’s Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and Council President for November, said the refugee crisis required an urgent, coherent and collective response as well as preventive action whenever possible. “We cannot close our eyes in front of human suffering,” h... |
Council members pointed to such causes of forcibly displacement as conflict, terrorism, gang violence, poverty and the consequences of climate change and natural disasters. They stressed that preventing or settling conflicts addressing their root causes was the best way to stem the flow of refugees and forcibly displac... |
Japan’s representative emphasized that lasting solutions could not be achieved solely through emergency humanitarian assistance, because it was necessary to support refugee self-reliance for when the time came for them to decide on repatriation or resettlement. |
The Russian Federation’s representative said responsibility for the refugee flows rested with those States that had intervened in the Middle East and Africa. Stressing the importance of preventing terrorist infiltration, he said that his country hosted many refugees and forced migrants, including about 1 million Ukrain... |
Several speakers addressed the issue of Rohingya refugees, hailing Bangladesh for its handling of that situation. China’s representative urged patience, saying the international community should allow the Governments of Bangladesh and Myanmar to solve the problem through bilateral cooperation. |
Council members expressed their deepest condolences to the families of those killed in the “cowardly and unconscionable” terrorist attack in New York City on 31 October, offering their sympathy to the people and Governments of the United States, Argentina and Belgium. The Council observed a moment of silence for the vi... |
Also speaking today were representatives of Ethiopia, United Kingdom, Sweden, France, United States, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Bolivia, Uruguay, Egypt and Senegal. |
The meeting began at 10:05 a.m. and ended at 12:24 p.m. |
FILIPPO GRANDI, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, said the number of forcibly displaced people was now approaching 66 million, and they included 17.2 million refugees under the responsibility of his office. Syria and Iraq accounted for a quarter of all forcibly displaced people, and new crises had develope... |
The sharp rise in forced displacement reflected weaknesses in international cooperation, he continued, noting that neglected local crises had gathered pace and taken on a transnational character. With the global focus on short-term interests rather than long-term collective stability, weaknesses in international solida... |
Recalling that the New York Declaration called for comprehensive responses to refugee flows, he said important steps had been taken, but a full response to the current massive displacement could only be launched through action to restore security, resolve conflict and build peace. Prevention was possible, he said, poin... |
Emphasizing the critical role of peacekeepers in enhancing security and enabling displaced people, he said those in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, Darfur, Mali and the Central African Republic had contributed to the safety of humanitarian staff and helped to enhance access. The neutral, impartial ch... |
Sustainable peace was critical to securing solutions to displacement, he continued, noting that only 500,000 refugees around the world had returned home in 2016. However, the peace process in Colombia offered hope. In Myanmar, security and respect for human rights and the rule of law in Rakhine State would be essential... |
He went on to state that many internally displaced inside Syria had returned home, as had smaller numbers of refugees, often to places devastated by the conflict. However, significant obstacles to sustainable return persisted, including ongoing military operations and lack of legal status, he said, stressing that inter... |
TEKEDA ALEMU (Ethiopia), expressed alarm over the magnitude of the prevailing conflict-driven displacement, in Africa and around the world. In East Africa, the surge of refugees from Somalia, South Sudan and other countries had created a record burden. Agreeing that there was a great deficit in burden‑sharing, he affir... |
It was, therefore, absolutely imperative to create suitable conditions for voluntary repatriation and reintegration, he continued. That would mean ending conflicts and creating lasting peace, including by providing adequate support for countries emerging from conflict, particularly Somalia. Of course, there was no bett... |
MATTHEW RYCROFT (United Kingdom), also acknowledging the depth of the refugee crisis, recounted the story of a woman forced to flee Myanmar’s Rakhine State due to killings and the burning of villages. He paid tribute to Bangladesh for the assistance it had provided to her, but expressed regret that her story was repeat... |
IRINA SCHOULGIN-NYONI (Sweden) affirmed the linkage between international peace and security and refugee issues, expressing deep concern over the situations in Myanmar and Bangladesh. Sweden encouraged all Member States to ensure that UNHCR and its partners had the resources needed to respond. Agreeing with the Secreta... |
In order to enable refugees to return home in all cases, the Security Council must fulfil its responsibility by using all the tools available to end conflict and sustain peace, she stressed. It was also critical to ensure that all parties to conflict abided by international humanitarian law and international human righ... |
FRANÇOIS DELATTRE (France) assured UNHCR of his country’s strong support and affirmed the links between the refugee crisis and the maintenance of international peace and security. He also acknowledged the enormous scale of the current displacement. Reiterating his country’s condemnation of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, ... |
MICHELE J. SISON (United States) said the Council had an important role to play in stemming conflicts and the rise of displacement, emphasizing that it was imperative that it act on its mandate to mitigate conflict. Referring to Myanmar, she said the Government of Bangladesh had stepped up impressively to handle the re... |
EVGENY T. ZAGAYNOV (Russian Federation) said assistance to refugees and stateless people was a key component of support for international stability. The refugee situation was a consequence of State interventions in the Middle East and Africa, he said, emphasizing that responsibility for the refugee flows rested with th... |
WU HAITAO (China) noted that UNHCR had improved its emergency response, and the international community should enhance its cooperation in tackling the refugee problem, including by addressing the root causes. Assistance to host countries should be increased and discrimination against refugees addressed. Emphasizing the... |
YURIY VITRENKO (Ukraine) said there was need to reform UNHCR, given the scale of conflicts on the global map and the constantly growing number of affected persons. The agency’s remarkable effort to involve international development actors in the search for long-term solutions to humanitarian crises was noteworthy. He s... |
BARLYBAY SADYKOV (Kazakhstan) said that given the magnitude of the current refugee crisis, it was crucial to reinforce all efforts to prevent conflict and protect vulnerable populations. Suitable conditions must be created for the return of refugees, including the removal of landmines and ensuring food security, he sai... |
PEDRO LUIS INCHAUSTE JORDÁN (Bolivia) affirmed that the suffering of refugees did not necessarily end when they left conflict zones because they faced many difficulties in a variety of settings. Thanking all those hosting and assisting refugees, he emphasized the need to address root causes of war and to ensure the avo... |
LUIS BERMÚDEZ (Uruguay) said that, given the historic number of refugees fleeing war, UNHCR must brief the Council at least once a year. The relationship between conflict and refugee flows was incontrovertible, and it was therefore critical to redouble conflict-prevention and conflict-resolution efforts. As a supporter... |
KORO BESSHO (Japan) said his country had contributed approximately $150 million to UNHCR as of October. Considering the critical situation of refugees from Syria, Japan had also delivered assistance to host communities around the world, also accepting Syrian students who would continue their education. Regarding the si... |
AMR ABDELLATIF ABOULATTA (Egypt) said forced displaced had become a global phenomenon, with millions fleeing conflict, terrorism, poverty, the negative effects of climate change or other threats. Looking at the situation in Africa and the Middle East, one could deduce that armed conflicts, including terrorism, were the... |
FODÉ SECK (Senegal), citing “clear complementarity” between the role of the High Commissioner and that of the Council, asked for more frequent briefings, emphasizing that 20 people, mostly women and children, were becoming refugees or displaced persons every minute. He asked why — when humanity had the resources to gua... |
VINCENZO AMENDOLA, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy, and Council President for November, spoke in his national capacity. He said the refugee crisis called an urgent, coherent and collective response, as well as preventive action whenever possible. “We cannot close our ... |
There was a need to enhance capacity to tackle the root causes of the refugee crisis, and to restore hope and dignity to the most vulnerable segments of populations around the world, particularly young people, he continued. Describing the 2016 New York Declaration as a step forward, he said the commitments made through... |
Mr. ZAGAYNOV (Russian Federation) took the floor a second time in response to the anti-Russian propaganda of Kyiv, saying Ukrainian citizens had taken up residence in his country to escape the situation in their own. That was the real cause of the mantra against Russia, he added. |
Mr. GRANDI, High Commissioner for Refugees, thanked Council members for their contributions and urged them to redouble their efforts to prevent and end conflicts so that, perhaps on his next visit, he could report a decline in the figures from the record level of displacement he had reported today. He expressed appreci... |
This stock is about to enter new territory. |
The Dow Jones Industrial Average's march to 20,000 hit another roadblock on the first trading day of the year as crude oil prices reversed course. |
The Dow Jones Industrial Average's march to 20,000 proves a challenge in the new year as stocks more than halve earlier gains by Tuesday afternoon. |
It's a little tough to try to judge just how far along the re-weighting has gone, due to light volume. |
The Dow Jones Transportation Index has gained a rough 12% over the last month. |
Rail and ground transporters stand to gain (or lose) the most from President-elect Donald Trump's infrastructure, trade and tax plans. |
Cramer shares his views on the loss of some of his theses. Dow Chemical, TJX and Google are among the stocks discussed. |
Is Norfolk Southern Pulling Back onto a Siding? |
Lately, signals for this railroad's stock have been more red than green. |
Defense is fantastic, housing is so-so, timber's weaker. Who can understand this stuff? |
Railroad Norfolk Southern has been headed lower on a downgrade. What do the charts say? |
Norfolk Southern's (NSC) stock rating was reduced to 'underperform' at Avondale on Wednesday. |
Jim Cramer says railroad stocks like CSX Corp. can go higher so long as coal inventories have bottomed. |
Major indices close up ahead of Yellen's congressional testimony. |
The risks of a September interest rate hike are now too great to be ignored, Cramer says. |
Once past its April peak, NSC has a clear track to $98.75. |
Google+ and Apple iCloud are vying for mobile developer market share, according to Appcelerator and IDC. Developers believe Google+ membership can one day catch Facebook's massive user base. |
Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) new social network edged Apple's (NASDAQ:AAPL) iCloud as the Web service that developers believe will most facilitate the growth of mobile application development, according to mobile cloud platform provider Appcelerator. |
Along with researcher IDC, the startup learned that 25 percent of 2,012 Appcelerator developers surveyed around the world believe Google+ will be a major priority for app developers. Twenty-two percent of those surveyed said Apple's iCloud storage service would be a top draw for the mobile Web. |
Google+ is only a month old and Apple just announced pricing for iCloud, which isn't available yet. So this could be just a case of developers seeking opportunity in these shiny new green fields of Google social network and Apple Web-based storage services. Even so, it's hard to argue with either choice. |
Google and Apple have become the incumbent software purveyors for the mobile Web by dint of Google's Android operating system and Apple's iOS platform. Canalys this week put Android at 48 percent worldwide market share, with iOS at 19 percent. |
Naturally, developers want to ride the hot horses, with Apple boasting more than 400,000 mobile applications and Android Market offering more than 200,000 apps. |
"Google and Apple are pushing mobile competition beyond OS platforms into the cloud and into social integration," said IDC analyst Scott Ellison, who worked on the report with Appcelerator. |
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