Split (1)

train · 2.59M rows

text stringlengths 9 93k
Then he pivoted, saying those in the political arena "must stop treating political opponents as being morally defective."
"The language of moral condemnation and destructive, routine -- these are arguments and disagreements that have to stop," he said.
He complained of "mobs" -- a reference to protesters, who opposed Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination and confronted Republican senators on Capitol Hill, and who have challenged GOP lawmakers and Trump Cabinet officials at restaurants and in public.
"No one should carelessly compare political opponents to historical villains, which is done often and all the time. It's got to stop. We should not mob people in public spaces or destroy public property. There is one way to settle our disagreements -- it's called peacefully, at the ballot box. That's what we want," Trump said.
He then said it's the news media's responsibility to set the national political tone.
"The media also has a responsibility to set a civil tone and to stop the endless hostility and constant negative and oftentimes false attacks and stories. Have to do it," he said.
Trump took no responsibility for his own rhetoric -- which has included attacks on news outlets and Democratic opponents, as well as moments like a recent rally in Montana where he praised a Republican congressman who pleaded guilty to charges stemming from his body-slamming a reporter.
3 World Trade Center opens at twin towers site in N.Y.
NEW YORK (AP) -- An 80-story office building set to open this week at the World Trade Center will be the third completed skyscraper at the site where the twin towers stood.
Monday's (June 11) ribbon-cutting for the 1,079-foot 3 World Trade Center marks a major step in the rebuilding of the site, stalled for years by disputes among government agencies, trade center developer Larry Silverstein, insurers and 9/11 victims' family members who wanted the entire site to be preserved for eternity as a memorial.
That designation seemed elusive in 2009 when the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the trade center site and was battling with Silverstein over costs associated with rebuilding, sought to reduce 3 World Trade to a four-story "stump."
The financial situation improved in 2012, Silverstein said. "It was like somebody came to us and said, 'The curtain has gone up, you can now access this pool of financing.'"
The Port Authority's current executive director, Rick Cotton, joined the agency in 2017 and missed out on the fights with Silverstein. Cotton said the opening of 3 World Trade is "really a major transformative step in the ongoing evolution of the World Trade Center from a construction site to an active, living, breathing campus of office buildings and a memorial."
Three World Trade's 62-foot lobby faces the National Sept. 11 Museum. Wedged between the Santiago Calatrava-designed transportation hub and 4 World Trade Center, also built by Silverstein, the new building consists of an 80-story tower straddling a 17-story "podium."
Zigzagging beams down the east and west faces of the tower look like an embellishment but are actually structural components that will allow for column-free spaces inside. "It's a load-bearing system," said Carlos Valverde, a Silverstein Properties vice president who has supervised construction of the building.
The skyscraper boasts an annealed glass exterior with 10,000 glass panels that have been cooled slowly to reduce internal stress, meaning the glass shouldn't break into shards if it is struck.
There are outdoor terraces on the 17th, 60th and 76th floors including an outdoor deck that will be shared by all the building's tenants.
A mural of a dancer in a red dress adorns a wall on the otherwise bare 68th floor, which will eventually be covered with street artists' work.
The new building is the second Silverstein skyscraper to feature graffiti artists' work. Street artists were invited to wield their spray cans on the 69th floor of the new building's neighbor, 4 World Trade, last year. The artwork inspired the streaming service Spotify to sign a lease for the top floors of the building including the "graffiti in the sky" floor.
Silverstein said 40 percent of 3 World Trade's office space is leased. GroupM will start moving in July 16, Valverde said. Management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. has leased space and will move in next year.
Myers Mermel, the chief executive of TenantWise, a real estate advisory firm, said the McKinsey deal will spur other prestigious financial services firms to consider moving to the area. "McKinsey marks a turning point in front office acceptance of the new World Trade Center," he said.
Silverstein, now 87, thought he had gotten "the brass ring" when he signed a 99-year lease on the trade center in July 2001. Two planes piloted by terrorists destroyed the trade center complex six weeks later.
Silverstein recalled a conversation with his wife, Klara, about whether he should try to rebuild or not. "We can either walk away from this place as many people are advising me to do and as the insurers want me to do or we can stay and rebuild," Silverstein recalled saying. "But I said, 'It's going to be a tough 10 years,' because I thought we could do it all in 10 years."
The still unfinished 2 World Trade Center, immediately north of the transportation hub, is awaiting an anchor tenant and financing before it can be built beyond a stump. "We've just got to find the occupant of that last tower. Get that done," Silverstein said.
Regarding “Support Mueller? Tillis knows better” (Apr. 19): The Mueller investigation is not unchecked power. Mueller was given that power by a Republican, Rod Rosenstein, whose credentials are impeccable. Trump should want this investigation to conclude and not fight against it. If there is no wrongdoing then why obstruct it?
Our government has not strayed from the rule of law. Those who oppose getting at what Russia did and may do again should be supportive of Mueller. There is no overreach, search warrants are legitimate, a look into possible criminal activity within the Trump family or organization is warranted.
Zane’s perspective places him on the wrong side of history in this possible case of Russian collusion and obstruction of justice .
“Calling Erskine Bowles. Please fix the deficit.” (Apr 18) and “How Congress’ and Trump’s deficit binge paves way for next one” (Apr. 17) deserve the serious attention of all Americans. Noteworthy plans to fix the deficit like that of Erskine Bowles and Sen. Alan Simpson have now passed into the dustbin of history. Future generations will look back on our current generation of lawmakers as the generation that failed America in the early 21st century with its costly wars and spending/tax programs leading to record setting deficits.
Therefore, the question for all Americans is: Will our next generation of lawmakers and presidents step up to the plate and return the country to a sound financial system of lower deficits along with reforms to Social Security and Medicare to ensure their future solvency? Will they remind us of Tom Brokaw’s “The Greatest Generation” of the WWII era by declaring war on excessive spending and deficits? Only time will tell.
Despite the admirable coverage of reproductive health advocates calling to reduce New York’s maternal mortality rate among black women, “Advocates call for action on state’s maternal mortality rate” does not address the larger global issues plaguing reproductive health and maternal mortality, specifically among women of color.
Trump’s global gag rule, which denies desperately needed funding to global healthcare organizations if they even mention the word abortion, will have a far more devastating affect on maternal mortality rates for black women around the globe. When a similar policy was in place between 2001-2009, abortion rates in sub-Saharan Africa nearly doubled. Nearly all were unsafe.
The Global Health, Empowerment, and Rights (HER) Act is currently a bill in Congress working to block Trump’s global gag rule. Senators Richard Burr and Thom Tillis will not be voting to pass this bill, and are clearly not supporting reproductive rights for women around the world. We must demand for our policymakers to take action for the rights of women around the globe, as it is our duty as Americans and citizens of the world to do so.
Newcastle United are continuing to monitor developments at Chelsea as Rafa Benitez looks to add to his squad during the transfer window.
The Magpies have a long-standing interest in winger Kenedy, having initially tried to loan the player in the summer.
Benitez remains keen on the Brazilian, who operates on the left side, but is waiting on Chelsea giving the green light to the 21-year-old to move.
Kenedy has barely featured for the first team under Antonio Conte, but the Blues chief wants further cover for left wing-back Marcos Alonso before allowing him to leave Stamford Bridge.
But one youngster who will be allowed to go out on loan is Charly Musonda.
The 21-year-old Belgian Under-21 international is desperate for more first-team action, and has been told he can leave this month after Chelsea completed the £15million signing of Ross Barkley from Everton.
Bournemouth, Watford, Newcastle United and West Bromwich Albion are all thought to have been alerted to Musonda’s availability.
Musonda, who can play in central midfield or out wide, has made just two substitute appearances in the Premier League this season and also stepped off the bench in Chelsea’s FA Cup draw with Norwich City at the weekend.
He played for Chelsea’s Under-21s against Portsmouth in the Checkatrade Trophy on Tuesday night and scored twice, with Bournemouth boss Eddie Howe understood to be leading the chase to sign him.
However, ex-Blues boss Benitez is repotedly keeping tabs on the situation as he waits to hear what transfer budget he has to work with this month.
A potentail takeover of the club shows few signs of happening soon, leaving Newcastle – and their manager – in a state of limbo. Benitez has sought talks with owner Mike Ashley and Lee Charnley over his transfer kitty, but at the moment is working on the assumption that he may have to rely on loan deals.
Another left-sided player linked with a temporary switch to Newcastle is Crystal Palace left-back Pape Souare, who is working his way back to fitness after being involved in a car crash.
Port Authority Police Department Sgt. Edwin Rivera is cashing in on overtime hours, so much that the New York Post dubbed him "the Port Authority's undisputed overtime king."
Rivera earned $273,946 in 2011, including $166,035 in overtime pay — more than double his base salary of $107,911.
Rivera's duty as sergeant is to oversee police officers working the PATH line. Rivera's hourly wage is already a nice $51.88, but for overtime hours, that wage increases to $77.82. Overtime pay is 1.5 times a worker's normal hourly rate if he exceeds 40 hours a week.
Rivera worked 41 extra hours a week on average in 2011 to earn that much overtime pay.
Wait...you're allowed to work that much? According to New York's labor laws, you can. And the Port Authority is notorious for granting its sergeants and lieutenants incredulous hours of overtime instead of increasing their base pay or hiring more workers. The Post ha s even called them out on it.
In 2010, he earned $259,304, including $152,193 in overtime pay.
In 2009, he earned $228,460, including $126,251 in overtime pay.
In 2008, he earned $220,257, including $124,581 in overtime pay.
This year, Rivera has already clocked 888 hours of overtime through the end of May, amounting to $69,164 of overtime pay so far. Looks like the overtime king is on track to earn more than ever this year.
With the election of Ehud Barak as the prime minister of Israel last year, some senior Clinton administration officials were almost giddy with the prospect of peace in the Middle East. They even had their eye on creating an enduring White House photograph: the trifecta of the Syrian, Palestinian and Israeli leaders all lined up with President Clinton as the triumphant peacemaker.
But time is running out on Mr. Clinton's administration. Though the president has pledged to work until the very end of his term on a Middle East accord, realistically, he would like to have the makings of a peace deal fashioned in the coming months.
And circumstances in the region are not marching apace.
Mr. Barak is no longer seen as the popular new man easily able to make bold moves on the peace front. Rather, he is a leader weakened by a party fund-raising scandal and facing an electorate distrustful of a deal with Syria.
The Palestinian leader, Yasir Arafat, is described by diplomats as furious that the Syrians, with whom he has poor relations, are getting so much attention.
The Syrian president, Hafez al-Assad, appears to have retreated to his Damascus palace, where he is busy trying to calm internal squabbling over who will succeed him.
Then there is the new crisis in southern Lebanon, inspired, many Israelis believe, by Mr. Assad: Hezbollah guerrillas have killed six Israeli soldiers and Mr. Barak has reluctantly responded with air strikes.
For the Clinton administration, such delays are decidedly unhelpful. The longer the Syrian talks are on hold, a Western diplomat in the region said, the harder it will be to restart them. But restarting them will remain a tantalizing objective for Washington, the diplomat added, because the issues separating the Syrians and the Israelis are fairly stark, especially when compared with the complicated issues between the Palestinians and the Israelis.
But Mr. Assad, who is embroiled in fights between his army officers and backers of his brother, Rifat, and his desire to have his son, Bashir, succeed him, appears disinclined to return to the negotiating table. ''The Syria talks won't get off in a hurry,'' the diplomat said.
A hurry is what is needed. By July, Mr. Clinton runs into the political convention season. In September, the general election will be under way. Another consideration is his wife's Senate campaign in New York, where the large number of Jewish voters will be closely watching for a peace deal.
''Every month that goes by, the time factor looms larger and larger,'' said Thomas Smerling, the Washington director of the Israel Policy Forum. ''The clock is ticking on the longevity of the administration, on the longevity of Arafat and Assad,'' both of whom are ailing.
Fairly soon, said Mr. Smerling, the administration may have to lower its sights on what can be realistically accomplished by the end of the year. This may well entail choosing where to put the emphasis: the Syrian track or the Palestinian track.
If the administration tries to plug along on both tracks, as is most likely the case for the moment -- because this is Mr. Barak's preference -- decisions will have to be made on whether to aim for a final agreement between the Palestinians and Israelis as called for by Sept. 13, or to make do with what is called a general framework agreement. The latter was supposed to have been achieved by next week, but is now hung up on bickering between Mr. Barak and Mr. Arafat over a land transfer on the West Bank.
Mr. Arafat has what he believes to be a trump card: If a final agreement is not reached by September, he has said he will declare a Palestinian state anyway. It would be a patchwork affair of disjointed pieces of the West Bank as well as Gaza but would probably be recognized by some European countries.
Despite the tight timetable, administration officials claim to be relatively upbeat that Mr. Clinton can manage a decent outcome, if not the whole success that they had envisioned when Mr. Barak came to power. They are counting a payoff from seven years of dealings by Mr. Clinton and his aides in the Middle East -- ranging from former Secretary of State Warren Christopher's work with Mr. Assad, to the accords between the Palestinians and the Israelis at Wye, Md.
But whatever the trust Mr. Clinton may have built with the Middle East leaders, Mr. Clinton remains at their mercy. In the end, they will act to satisfy their own interests, not Mr. Clinton's desire for a page in history.
So pretty quiet weekend in terms of news. The PSN saga continues unabated, and has not been brought back (as far as I know).
In other news - remember that quote from Valve about the whole not doing single-player stuff again? Well, Gabe Newell himself clarifies the whole statement here. Can I get a collective 'phew' from you guys?
I know there are a tonne of you out there who are completely done with Call of Duty, but apparently Modern Warfare is about to get a June reveal. I'm curious just to see who is developing it, what it looks like and the direction the game has been taken in, especially in the wake of the whole Infinity Ward debacle.
PSP sales are gathering steam for some reason, we take a look at LA Noire's map, and the report that a next gen xbox is already at EA is a total fabrication.
The recent rise in stocks and talk about green shoots in the markets are optimistic assumptions, as the world downturn "still has a way to run," Hugh Hendry, Chief Investment Officer at Eclectica, told CNBC Tuesday.
World gross domestic product looks overestimated, because global consumption has been based on debt, and this cannot continue, Hendry told "Squawk Box Europe."
"In the last five weeks we had a rally in risk. Big deal," he said.
"I am fearful of the surplus countries, like China and Germany. I think GDP has been overstated," Hendry added.
"My notion was, you had Bernie Madoff doing US GDP accounting." China "built capacity to serve a world that doesn't exist. We're drowning in capacity. The idea to propose we build more… that ain't a remedy," he explained.
Although companies' results beat forecasts, this is mainly because they marked their expectations too low, but their outlook is grim, according to Hendry.
"I believe the downturn in the global economy still has a way to run. We've only been given evidence of further deterioration," he said.
The rise in bond yields shows that the yield curve is flattening, pointing to more economic weakness ahead.
"What it reveals is that it's terrifying. This rise in bond yields shows… the private sector is countering the Fed and is tightening policy," Hendry said.
During the Great Depression, there had been rallies in the stock market, but stocks generally fell, Hendry reminded, explaining his bearish stance on stocks. He added that nobody can predict where the bottom was for the stock market.
"Monkeys spend all their time picking bottoms. I refuse to pick bottoms as I don't live in trees," he said.
- Watch the full interview with Hugh Hendry above.
If Manchester United want Jose Mourinho then why not do it now?
If Jose Mourinho has a sense of mischief, on December 28 he will be in a seat in the directors’ box at Manchester United. If the directors of Manchester United have a sense of mischief, of course, he will be in the seat once occupied by his old friend Louis van Gaal.
December 28: Manchester United versus Chelsea at Old Trafford. Guus Hiddink’s second match as interim manager, and a revenge drama of Jacobean proportions if Mourinho goes up against the players who so brazenly withdrew their labour during his final months at Stamford Bridge.
It would be a huge call, which is probably why it will not happen. The United fans were singing his name on Saturday, during the home defeat by Norwich. But it would look very bad for Manchester United to sack a second manager mid-season, even if Van Gaal’s record of three wins in 13 games, including elimination from an ordinary Champions League group and a Capital One Cup defeat by Middlesbrough at home, is worse than any equivalent spell under David Moyes.
Van Gaal is lucky. Moyes wasn’t. Moyes’s low point was winning just five times in 13 games between January 1 and March 8, 2014. Manchester United’s league position did not change — they were sixth when the run started, sixth when the run ended — but they slipped from being three points off Champions League football, to nine.
Van Gaal has got away with it so far because the teams around him have been inconsistent, too.
On October 17, after winning comfortably at Everton, Manchester United were third in the table. They are now fifth — but on the same points total as Tottenham in fourth, so very much in contact with the leading group.
Manchester United’s rivals are doing a better job for Van Gaal than his players, by failing to pull away.
It is a dilemma for Manchester United, have no doubt of that.
Halfway through season 2010-11, West Ham were deliberating over the future of manager Avram Grant. On the morning of December 13, the club were bottom of the table, three points adrift of Wolverhampton Wanderers.
That day, Sam Allardyce was harshly sacked by Blackburn Rovers. West Ham were due to play Blackburn the following weekend. The club seriously considered giving Allardyce the job in time to have him line up against his old employers, with a point to prove.
Great theatre, yes, but a bold move, too. In the end, confidence failed them. Grant lasted until the end of the season and took West Ham down — at which point they gave the job to Allardyce anyway.
Had they acted earlier, with a little more daring, his first task might not have been to win promotion back to the Premier League.
It is the same with Mourinho. If he is to be a summer target, as seems likely, what are the club waiting for now? A run of three wins in 13? To slip slowly out of the top four? To exit the Champions League before Christmas?
Even if Van Gaal’s only mission was to improve on last season, there is scant evidence of that.

Subsets and Splits

No community queries yet

The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.