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Others had more mercenary reasons for participating. "Purity" author Franzen explained his involvement with characteristic honesty: "Honestly, Chipotle store credit was a decisive factor. Chipotle is my go-to fast food restaurant. I also admire its wish to be a good corporate citizen." |
Previous participating authors in the series include Toni Morrison, Amy Tan, Jeffrey Eugenides and Judd Apatow. |
All companies desire to be number one in the world in whatever field they are in. That title, as far as smartphone companies are concerned, currently belongs to Samsung, but apparently this is a title that Huawei is aiming for and are hoping to take it for their own by 2020, with plans of being at least on par with the... |
Huawei has already managed to overtake Apple for the number two spot, so the idea of them possibly overtaking Huawei doesn’t seem completely out of the question. The company has a lot going for them, especially with their P and Mate series of flagship phones, all of which have been very well-received by reviewers in te... |
That being said, Huawei definitely has challenges in front of them. The company was supposed to make its grand entrance in the US market earlier this year by partnering up with local carriers, but those plans were ruined when US lawmakers decided that Chinese companies such as Huawei could pose a national security thre... |
Filed in Cellphones. Read more about Huawei and Samsung. |
Long-awaited blueprints for a "world-leading" cancer research hub in Belmont have been unveiled. |
The London Cancer Hub is proposed to include an expansion of the existing Royal Marsden Hospital and Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) as well as a new secondary school, shops, cafes and hotel space for patients and families. |
The science campus would be the second biggest of its kind in the world, create more than 13,000 jobs and double the space available for cancer research, which could see the ICR increase deliver at least two extra cancer drugs every five years. |
In a joint announcement, Sutton Council and the ICR said the hub would "bring together 10,000 scientists, clinical and support staff in a vibrant community of collaborating organisations served by research, educational and leisure facilities". |
They added: "It will be a hotbed for talent, offering research and development space for biotech, pharma and software companies, and equipment manufacturers." |
It will take about 20 years and £1 billion to finish the revamp of the 265,000 sq m site, which Sutton Council expects to generate £5m in business rates per year. |
The council will look to private investors, low interest loans and grants to pay for the hub. |
The plan also calls for improved transport links to and from the site, including extending the Tramlink from Wimbledon to Sutton and improving Belmont station. |
Sutton Council leader Ruth Dombey said: “The London Cancer Hub will do for South London what Tech City has done for East London. |
“It will create thousands of employment and training opportunities for local people and we will be supporting young people to get into the sector by facilitating the building of a school on the site which specialises in the life sciences. |
Professor Paul Workman, chief executive of the ICR London, said: “The ICR and The Royal Marsden are already world leaders in cancer research and treatment, but by working with the London Borough of Sutton and the Greater London Authority, we aim to take our facilities and outputs to a new level. |
Mayor of London Boris Johnson said the proposed cancer hub would be a “real coup” for London and “would help to ensure that the capital remains on the frontline of developing new treatments to cure the disease”. |
The council said the aim was to fund the hub through “a combination of private investment, government grants, philanthropy and commercial rental income”. |
But the plan to build a ‘life-science focused’ secondary school on the site has proved troublesome. |
The council bought land on the Sutton Hospital site for £8 million in March last year to build the school but its hopes were damaged when free-school provider Greenshaw Learning Trust and the Education Funding Authority said the land was too small. |
Despite interest from other school providers the council is yet to announce who will build the school. |
In September last year the council held consultation events at the ICR before commissioning a feasibility study in December. |
The Greater London Authority and Epsom and St Helier Hospital NHS Trust have also backed the plan. |
The masterplan will be put out for public consultation later this month as part of the councils overall local plan. |
When Rosaline Truong, 27, led her friends into Tao, a pan-Asian restaurant, they anticipated the too-cool reception that one often encounters in trendy spots festooned with oversize Buddhas. |
Instead, they were greeted warmly and seated at a prime table — right at the dining room’s center. Then the manager popped by to make sure that everything was going well, and a waiter ferried glasses of complimentary Champagne to the table. Truong, an immunologist living on the Upper East Side, looked like a big shot. |
Truong played coy. She did not let on that the special treatment wasn’t because she was a well-connected high roller, but rather because she’d signed up for a $7-per-month service. |
For that humble fee, I Know the Chef, an app that launched in February, claims to get subscribers special treatment and tough reservations at 52 city restaurants, from trendy Catch to old standby Blue Water Grill. |
asset manager who lives on the Upper East Side, felt pretty special when he used I Know the Chef to get a desirable reservation at his new neighborhood hot spot, Arlington Club. “I called on my own for Thursday night, and was told that they only had 5 or 11 p.m.,” he recalls. |
I Know the Chef doesn’t pay participating restaurants for the perks, nor does it get money from them, but it does help keep tables full in a city obsessed with the newest spots. |
White is also offering a limited number of last-minute (and perhaps less-than-prime) reservations at two of his other restaurants, acclaimed high-end seafood spot Marea and new steakhouse Costata. |
But the extra level of service doesn’t always come through. Such was the case for Maegan Simpson, a 35-year-old customer insights specialist who lives in Manhattan. After being treated like a queen when she used the service at Fatty ’Cue — two rounds of free cocktails, a complimentary fried bacon appetizer and a table ... |
JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR: That's it for "THE LEADER. I now turn you over to Wolf Blitzer in THE SITUATION ROOM. Thanks so much for watching. |
[17:00:14] WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: Happening now, breaking news. Walking away. President Trump follows through on his pledge to walk away from the Iran nuclear deal and announces the U.S. will renew its sanctions. Will Iran now renew its nuclear program? |
Pompeo in Pyongyang. The president reveals that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has gone to North Korea to prepare for a summit with Kim Jong-un. Could he set the stage by bringing home American detainees? |
Irritated. Sources say President Trump has grown irritated and frustrated over the negative coverage generated by his new lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. Could Giuliani's brash comments on the Russia probe get him and the president in hot water? |
And scandal and resignation. The New York's powerful state attorney general resigns just hours after a shocking article in "The New Yorker" magazine, in which four women accused him of violent abuse. I'll speak with one of the co-authors, Ronan Farrow. |
BLITZER: Breaking news. President Trump is making good on this threat to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal, announcing a U.S. withdrawal along with plans to reimpose sanctions on Tehran. |
There's a chorus of regrets from U.S. allies. Israel has gone on high alert, and Iran is warning it's ready to start nuclear enrichment, quote, "without limitations." |
I'll speak with the top Democrat in the House Intelligence Committee, Congressman Adam Schiff. And our correspondents and specialists are also standing by with full coverage. |
First let's go straight to our chief White House correspondent, Jim Acosta. Jim, the president is making a risky move in withdrawing from the Iran deal. |
JIM ACOSTA, CNN CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Wolf, President Trump is rolling the nuclear dice, pulling the U.S. out of the Iran deal. National security advisor John Bolton briefed reporters earlier this afternoon, telling the press that sanctions on Iran are now in the process of being reimposed. |
But by all appearances, the Trump administration does not have much of a plan for stopping Iran from pursuing nuclear weapons. As one top European official put it, there doesn't appear to be a Plan B. |
ACOSTA (voice-over): For the U.S., it's a deal no more, as President Trump abruptly pulled the U.S. out of the agreement designed by the Obama administration to prevent Tehran from developing nuclear weapons. |
DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The Iran deal is defective at its core. Therefore, I am announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. |
ACOSTA: The president didn't hide why he's scrapping the Iran deal. |
TRUMP: The United States no longer makes empty threats. When I make promises, I keep them. |
ACOSTA: Mr. Trump is delivering on one of his first campaign promises: to abandon a deal he repeatedly savaged at his rallies. |
TRUMP: It could go down as one of the worst deals in history. |
ACOSTA: The president accused Iran of lying about its participation in the agreement despite the fact that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testified at his confirmation hearing that he had no proof that Tehran was not in compliance with the deal. |
MIKE POMPEO, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: With the information I've been provided, I have no -- I've seen no evidence that they are not in compliance today. |
ACOSTA: The Iran deal is the latest Obama policy dumped by the president, joining the Paris climate agreement, the Trans-Pacific trade deal, the DACA program protecting the DREAMers and the Obamacare individual mandate. |
Obama's former secretary of state, John Kerry, who helped broker the Iran agreement, tried in vain to save the deal. |
JOHN KERRY, FORMER U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: Our friends are safer if we stay in this agreement. We made an agreement. Iran is living by the agreement. Yes, we have concerns on the missiles, on Yemen, other things, but we should be working on those. |
do is be tougher on Iran, address the concerns of the president, and not throw the baby out with the bath water, not junk a deal. Because as I say, Plan B does not seem to me to be particularly well-developed at this stage. |
ACOSTA: As the president is pulling back from the Iran deal, he's moving toward his own nuclear agreement with North Korea, announcing Pompeo will meet with regime leaders to continue working on an upcoming summit. |
TRUMP: We have our meeting set. The location is picked. The time and date, everything is picked, and we look forward to have a very great success. |
ACOSTA: But Democrats worry the president is sending the wrong message to the North Koreans by signaling to the world that U.S. commitments are only good for one administration at a time. |
SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY), MINORITY LEADER: You're making it harder to go after Hezbollah. You're making it harder to go after Iranian activities that are really dangerous. And you're probably making it harder to come to a North Korea deal. |
[17:05:07] ACOSTA: Now as for North Korea, the president was asked about the fate of the Americans being held prisoner there. Mr. Trump hinted there could be an announcement on the detainees soon. |
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in the region now, working on their release, although he told recorders earlier this afternoon that perhaps it's not a done deal just yet, as far as those prisoners being released from North Korean custody. |
And as for the Iran deal, there are mixed signals coming out of Tehran that they may resume their enrichment activities while still continuing to work with the other world powers that crafted the original agreement. Wolf, that outcome may mean Iran restarts its nuclear program while isolating the U.S. -- Wolf. |
BLITZER: Lots of uncertainty right now. Jim Acosta at the White House, thanks very much. |
Let's dig deeper right now with our chief national security correspondent, Jim Sciutto. Jim, you know, the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, says Iran is complying with all the terms of the nuclear deal. |
Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, says the same thing. Mike Pompeo, the former CIA director, now the secretary of state, he says there's no evidence Iran is violating the terms of this agreement. Has the president come up with some specific new violations that justify this action? |
JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT: He hinted at something new, but the fact is the intelligence doesn't back it up. On compliance with the Iran nuclear deal, U.S. intelligence agencies, officials, the president's appointees, the current secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, during his confirmation heari... |
What President Trump referred to was new Israeli intelligence about what Iran's intentions were regarding having a nuclear weapons program. Now we know from my colleague, our colleague Oren Leiberman, that when pressed, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said that those documents, the most recent documents... |
We also know that the U.S. assessed in 2007 that Iran ended its nuclear weapons program in 2003. That intelligence has not changed. This dates back. |
But the president in -- did something of a rhetorical flourish here, saying that that Israeli intelligence shows that Iran having only a peaceful program is, as he said, "a lie" there. But the fact is there is no new intelligence, as far as we know. |
I have asked the White House -- I've sent them back this very phrase and said, "Do you have new intelligence to change this assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Committee"? They promised me an answer, but I don't have an answer yet. |
BLITZER: If you get it, let us know. Jim Sciutto, thank you. |
And also more breaking news. The Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted he's heading back to North Korea, confirming what President Trump announced earlier in the day. The secretary's tweet says, "Headed back to DPRK" -- the Democratic People's Republic of Korea -- "at the invitation of the North Korean leadership and ... |
Let's go to Brian Todd and tell us more about the surprise announcement and the impact on efforts to free those three Americans being held by the North Koreans. |
BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Wolf, just a short time ago Secretary Pompeo said he's going to talk about the fate of those three Americans during his meetings with the North Koreans. Tonight, Pompeo's mission is to nail down some crucial details of a summit between President Trump and Kim Jong-un, and there is conside... |
TODD (voice-over:: Tonight the secretary of state is on an urgent mission to North Korea, a flurry of shuttle diplomacy to prepare for a summit which President Trump says it set, a date and location finalized, but not yet announced. The president was asked if the three Americans detained in North Korea will be released... |
TRUMP: We will soon be finding out. It would be a great thing if they are. We'll soon be finding out. |
TODD: This comes five days after the president's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, announced that the detainees would be released that day. |
RUDY GIULIANI, ATTORNEY FOR DONALD TRUMP: We got Kim Jong-un impressed enough to be releasing three prisoners today. |
TODD: But tonight, according to reporters on Pompeo's trip, the secretary of state said he would raise the issue of the three American prisoners but had no commitments for their release. |
Joseph Yun, the former U.S. envoy who secured the release of American student Otto Warmbier from North Korea shortly before Warmbier died, says the previous comments by Trump and Giuliani were risky. |
JOSEPH YUN, FORMER U.S. SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE TO NORTH KOREA POLICY: It's Diplomacy 101. You do not say, you know, you're getting prisoner or hostages out before it's done. When I went to get Otto Warmbier, we were on radio silence until we left the North Korean air space. |
TODD: American Kim Dong-chul, accused of espionage, has been held in North Korea the longest, since October 2015. The other two Americans, Kim Hak Song and Tony Kim, were detained under Trump's watch in the spring of last year. They were accused of hostile acts against the North Korean regime. |
[17:10:10] Their fate is in the balance, as Kim Jong-un returns from a dramatic trip of his own, a surprise visit and a crucial consultation with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Kim took a private plane to the Chinese port city of Dalian and spoke with Xi with his sister and most trusted adviser, Kim Yo-jong, by his side... |
FRANK JANNUZI, THE MANSFIELD FOUNDATION: I think Xi Jinping is explaining to Kim Jong-un what kind of a person are you dealing with. What is his attention span? What does he need for the summit to be a win? What kind of a person is he that he requires this summit to be successful. |
TODD: Experts say Xi also likely gave Kim some very important advice on what concessions to make and not to make at his summit with President Trump. And they say this was a key move by the Chinese leader to insert himself as a key player in a nuclear deal on North Korea and not get left out of that mix, Wolf. |
BLITZER: Happening on that North Korean front, as well. Brian, thank you. |
Joining us now, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, the top Democrat, Congressman Adam Schiff of California. |
Congressman, thanks so much for joining us. I want to be in right with all of the breaking news on the Iran nuclear agreement. Do you believe, Congressman, that the president's decision will lead to a total collapse of this deal and all the ramifications that could unfold? |
REP. ADAM SCHIFF (D-CA), RANKING MEMBER, INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE: Well, it's too early to say whether this will lead to a complete collapse of the deal. Europe still wants to make the deal work. The question is what does Iran want at this point? |
But look, this was a terrible mistake by the president. It seems to be motivated by a desire -- a compulsion to eradicate the legacy of his predecessor and not what's in the best national security interests of the United States. |
This makes Iran's development of a nuclear weapon more likely, not less. And makes confrontation -- the conflict of potential war with Iran -- more likely, not less. So there's little to be said for this. Iran was complying and the administration has offered no plan for what comes next. And that puts us on a very dange... |
BLITZER: The president says he is ready to offer a new deal, to work on a new arrangement with the Iranians, provided they no -- not only give up forever their nuclear weapons program but also give up their ballistic missiles, stop international terrorism, stop menacing some countries in the region, like Yemen and Syri... |
SCHIFF: Well, what's wrong with it is what incentive does Iran have to come to the table and try to get a better agreement when it was complying with the agreement it reached with the United States and with the other nations? It's the United States that now is no longer complying with the agreement. That's hardly an in... |
What you usually do, what I think an ordinary administration would do, is try to build on the agreement you've already reached. So we reached an agreement on the nuclear issue. We then seek to build on that and reach an agreement on the missile issue. And each of these are steps that build confidence that you can actua... |
But now the United States has said its word won't be kept and even if a new deal could be struck, other nations have to know, whether it's Iran or North Korea, that that deal may only last the length of the administration or as long as that party is in power. |
It has not been the tradition of the United States. What we gave is our word is something that we upheld, and I think we have just reduced our standing in the world with potentially long-lasting consequences. |
BLITZER: What the administration will argue -- I'm sure the president will argue -- is that the new sanctions that the U.S. will reimpose against Iran right now will be very tough. He's also warning friendly countries, other countries around the world if they get involved and deal with Iran's nuclear program, they will... |
Do you think that kind of pressure on the Iranians could convince them to come back to the negotiating table? |
SCHIFF: No. I think what it will do is it will end up isolating the United States. So are we going to sanction our closest allies, Britain and France and Germany, which have said they're going to continue to comply with the agreement, which means they're not going to reimpose their own sanctions. |
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