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The two have been trading long-distance barbs for years. She, a former Harvard law professor, calls him a bully. He, a real estate magnate and former reality star, nicknamed her “Pocahantas” for saying she’s got Native American ancestry.
It’s far from clear that Warren has a viable constituency outside Massachusetts, or that her legislation has much support in the Senate.
The proposal would impose a lifetime ban on lobbying across senior levels of all three branches of government, starting with presidents, vice presidents, members of Congress, federal judges and Cabinet secretaries. It would also ban other federal employees from lobbying their former office, department, house of Congress or agency for years.
Current lobbyists, meanwhile, would be barred from taking government jobs for extended periods of time after lobbying. She also would force federal appellate courts to livestream audio of their proceedings and establish an independent office of public integrity that would have new investigative and disciplinary powers.
Like other potential presidential candidates, Warren is traveling the country campaigning for Democrats running in 2018 even as she runs for her own second Senate term. Doing so gets her in position to gauge enthusiasm and fundraising power should she decide to run for president in 2020.
Applying lessons learned after Hurricane Harvey, the Texas Department of Insurance has upgraded its procedures for collecting and reporting data following a disaster.
TDI recently released its new catastrophe data collection guidelines, which the department says will improve the data collection and reporting process.
Sullivan became insurance commissioner a month after Harvey made landfall in Texas in late August 2017.
Sullivan asked staff to undertake a process that’s become the standard across the agency since his arrival – review best practices, modernize systems and processes, and communicate clearly with their audience.
TDI also upgraded its capabilities, adding Tableau software licenses, to speed the analysis of data.
TDI catastrophe data call reporting guidelines are available online at https://www.tdi.texas.gov/company/documents/catastrophe-data-call-reporting-guidelines-2019.pdf.
The suspect fled prior to officers' arrival and is described as an Asian man in his 20s with long, braided hair.
MANITOWOC - No one was shot after a handgun was fired during a fight involving several males Saturday night at Manitowoc County Expo grounds, police said.
Police said in a press release Sunday that officers responded to the grounds, 4921 Expo Drive, at around 10:35 p.m. Saturday for the report of a fight with shots being fired. When they arrived, officers learned a physical fight had occurred involving several males and a handgun was fired during the incident.
Police found shell casings at the scene and said a male fired a handgun during the altercation, although they don't believe anyone was hurt as a result of the gunshot. They said there were injuries from the physical altercation.
The suspect who witnesses said fired the gun fled prior to officers' arrival in either a red sports utility vehicle or a black sedan. He is described as an Asian man in his 20s with long, braided hair. Police said he was wearing a black jacket and was reportedly bleeding from his face.
Anyone with information about the incident should call Manitowoc Police Department at 920-686-6551 and reference case No. 2018-00016262 or call Crime Stoppers at 920-683-4466.
Stephanie Chandler is a writer and speaker who lives near Sacramento.
The tragic suicides of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain and fashion designer Kate Spade can be a trigger for many who live with depression as well as those who’ve lost a loved one this way. It's a reminder that depression doesn't care about fame or fortune, about family or status.
For many people, it can seem that suicide is a matter of choice — sometimes considered a “selfish” one. I, too, once held that view — until I lost my husband to depression in 2013 and set out to better understand what happened. Now I know just how wrong that thinking is.
My husband was the least selfish person I’ve ever known. He would have never wanted to inflict such pain on his family, especially on our then 7-year-old son, whom he adored. My husband also wasn’t under the influence of any substances. He worked for the same company for more than 20 years and was a steady force in so many ways — except that he battled depression daily.
The only logical explanation for him dying by suicide is that his brain got stuck in what is known as the “suicide trance” and that he thought we would be better off without him. It seems to me it was more of a selfless act than a selfish one.
I didn’t know either Bourdain or Spade personally, but I can promise that they, too, didn't want to leave their young children behind. In the depths of illness and the suicide trance, they both likely thought the same thing that my husband did.
Think about it. What parent wants to leave their child? Or to miss seeing their child grow up?
Depression is an illness that lies to those who have it. When they reach the point of suicide, they feel worthless and hopeless. They experience a level of pain the rest of us cannot begin to fathom.
You may view it as a choice, but most who die this way viewed it as the only way to stop the intense pain, which has been compared to feeling like surgery without anesthesia. If you had to endure an open-heart operation without anesthesia, you’d probably want to die in the process (and you might actually die from suffering the pain alone). Those of us who have been fortunate enough never to suffer from the darkest depths of depression and suicidal ideation can’t begin to relate to what this experience is like.
We need to stop using the phrase “committed suicide.” Spade and Bourdain died by suicide and from depression. So did Robin Williams and Avicii and my husband. Suicide is also rarely a sudden decision. It's most commonly the result of persistent voices that its victims have struggled with for years.
The Foundation for Suicide Prevention reports that 123 people die by suicide every day, and those numbers have been increasing in recent years. Please don’t judge Bourdain, Spade or anyone else who dies by suicide or lives with depression. And please don’t focus on how it happened or why they died this way. None of this does anything to help the mental-health crisis in the United States.
Instead, reach out to the people in your life who could use some extra support. Spread a little extra love in the world. You never know whose life you might impact with a simple compliment or a moment of kindness. If you encounter a grumpy clerk at the grocery store, do your part to make her day a bit brighter. It just might improve your day, too.
If you’re reading this and are battling depression, please don’t give up. Don't listen to the lies that depression spews. You are loved. You are needed in this world. Help is available, including at the suicide hotline (800-273-8255).
I promise that the people who love you will not be better off without you.
Richard Cohen: Anthony Bourdain, R.I.P.
Thomas E. Ricks: Why do so many veterans kill themselves? Here are four theories.
In this file photo taken on September 8, 2007 shows the coast line of South Andaman Island near Port Blair, capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. A US tourist was killed by arrows shot by tribesmen living in one of the world's most isolated regions tucked in India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands, police said November 21, 2018.
NEW DELHI — The first time American John Allen Chau made it to the remote North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean, he came bearing gifts that included a football and fish.
He interacted with some of the missionary — who survive by hunting, fishing and collecting wild plants and are known for attacking anyone who comes near with bows and arrows and spears — until they became angry and shot an arrow at him.
In this October 2018 photo, American adventurer John Allen Chau, right, stands for a photograph with Founder of Ubuntu Football Academy Casey Prince, 39, in Cape Town, South Africa, days before he left for in a remote Indian island of North Sentinel Island, where he was killed.
At its meeting last week the Logan City Municipal Council voted unanimously to approve a one-time funding assistance of $150,00 to help the Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre get through what has become a financially difficult year. That funding <a href=”http://www.cachevalleydaily.com/news/local/article_4834c624-b42d-11e7-92c5-2bfc46980b04.html” target=”_blank”>came with conditions</a>.
Tuesday, members of the Cache County Council were also asked to make a donation and a public hearing has been set to deal with a request for $80,000 to help the organization.
If approved at a public hearing next month, $40,000 will come from the tourism budget and the remaining $40,000 from restaurant funds.
Mark Ensign, representing the opera company, said the contribution means a great deal to the company.
It's time to exhume your guitars and get the band back together.
"We should totally start a band!"
It's a line from just about every music comedy to come out of Hollywood in the last 30 years.
And it's likely that it's something you or someone you know have declared enthusiastically while listening to the magic that is your favourite musical artist, or reminiscing of the days when your epic garage band belted out a mean tune.
Those pipe (band) dreams need no longer go unfulfilled. The ABC want you to redeem yourself and your music dreams and enter 'Exhumed'.
Exhumed is a National band competition for enthusiastic amateur bands that are unsigned, unrecorded, unrecognised and until now have been overlooked. It's a radio competition, a chance to play at a live event, and a TV series all rolled into one.
It's like triple j's Unearthed, but for grownups. 612 ABC Brisbane will choose a winner, but you've got to be in it to win it.
Entries open on June 24 - so rehearsal's start tonight.
Visit ABC Exhumed for more.
The seat of Dickson takes in established suburbs like Albany Creek and semi-rural areas like Samford.
Yacht ignites in flames off the coast of South-East Queensland.
Will Canada stand on guard for Islamic State fighter and propagandist?
On January 13, US-backed Kurdish forces captured an Islamic State jihadi who identified himself as Mohammad Abdullah Mohammad, a Canadian from Toronto and reportedly the English-language narrator of Islamic State propaganda. The ISIS fighter had been sought for some time, but in Canada the focus of the story became the Islamic State’s displeasure over the jihadi’s capture.
In the penultimate paragraph readers learn that Ridwan is “believed to be the same man as the masked narrator of a notorious ISIL propaganda video that features the mass execution of captured Syrian government soldiers. The narrator appears to take part in the firing squad. The same man is believed to be behind several recorded claims of responsibility by ISIL for deadly terror attacks on the West as well as reading news reports on ISIL radio networks.” So only in the walk-off do readers get key details about Ridwan, now 35 years old.
So is the fate of at least 13 other Canadian Islamic State fighters. Some, like Jack Lett, also known as “Jihad Jack,” want to “live a normal life” in Canada. Some Canadian officials are uneasy about repatriating ISIS fighters and favor revocation of their Canadian citizenship. Others want to put the ISIS troops through Canadian courts, as though they stuck up a bank in Halifax instead of fighting in open combat, torturing and executing prisoners, enslaving women and other atrocities.
Canada paid $10 million, plus an apology, to Omar Khadr, an al Qaeda combatant captured in Afghanistan. So it’s not out of the question that Islamic State combatant and propagandist Abu Ridwan Al-Kanadi would serve little if any time and perhaps bag a monetary award plus veterans benefits. Given the Muslim fighter’s experience in broadcasting, he might get his own show on CBC radio. As this plays out, another prominent figure may be heading for Canadian shores.
Pakistan has upheld the acquittal of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman accused of insulting the prophet of Islam in a dispute over a drink of water. Bibi spent eight years on death row for blasphemy, a capital crime under Pakistan’s Islamic law, and Muslim mobs continue to demand the woman’s execution.
“She deserves to be murdered according to sharia,” Islamic activist Hafiz Ehtisham Ahmed told reporters. “If she goes abroad, don’t Muslims live there? If she goes out of Pakistan, anybody can kill her there.” Two of Bibi’s children are reportedly in Canada and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has offered help. Australia, Spain and France may also be considering sanctuary for the Christian woman.
Attacker Habibullah Ahmadi was 21, a full adult, but police never released his booking photo. News reports described him as a “Windsor man,” who goes by the name “Daniel.” Local and national news stories contained no statements from Habibullah Ahmadi, nor any indication that he had declined an interview. Likewise, news reports contained no quotes from Habibullah Ahmadi’s family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, or fellow students in Windsor.
At this writing, no judge has been named and a trial date has yet to emerge. In Windsor, Ontario, Canada, justice delayed remains justice denied.
The logo for Hot Pod, Quah's newsletter.
Radio aficionados and die-hard fans of longform journalism often cite the fall of 2014 as the moment the mainstream media finally began paying attention to podcasting.
All the sudden attention seemed a bit strange to Nick Quah, who was then a 25-year-old working as a research associate at Business Insider. As an undergraduate at Wesleyan University, podcasts had buoyed him during a bout of depression and remained a fixture in his life after graduation. He thought he could do a better job covering the burgeoning industry. So, in his spare time, he launched an email newsletter called Hot Pod — a name he conceived after knocking back a few drinks with his roommate.
The timing, combined with Quah’s insouciant tone and steady stream of GIF-garnished scooplets, was just right. Fifty-seven weekly editions later, the newsletter now has thousands of subscribers, an open rate that far outstrips the industry average and a firm grip on a business that has undergone transformational change since he began chronicling it more than a year ago.
The growth in total subscribers — which still number less than 10,000 — combined with the higher-than-average open rate, are an indicator that there might be a market for expanded coverage of podcasting, Quah said. That’s why he announced this morning plans to leave his job managing audience development for the podcast network Panoply and turn his newsletter into a “sustainable publication” focused entirely on the business of podcasting.
Subscribers to Hot Pod will continue to receive weekly updates on the vagaries of the industry, including important personnel moves, the debut of new companies and the introduction of technologies that change the business. But they’ll also have the option of paying a fee to receive more frequent updates and analysis from Quah.
With today’s announcement, Quah joins the ranks of a select group of media entrepreneurs who have struck out on their own to convert scoops and analysis delivered through a newsletter into a steady stream of income. They include Ben Thompson, the consultant behind the tech newsletter Stratechery and Luke Timmerman, a former reporter for Bloomberg News who runs the biotechnology newsletter The Timmerman Report. Both make some of their work available for free — Timmerman at Forbes and STAT, Thompson on his website — and offer subscribers frequent tidbits of analysis and news for a marginal fee.
The ultimate goal, Quah says, is to glean enough paying subscribers to put together a livelihood. By quitting his job at Panoply, he plans to free up enough time to become a more diligent observer of the podcasting industry and distance himself professionally from a company that has a stake in the podcasting business. By owning a narrow sliver of coverage, he hopes to distinguish himself from competitors who cover the media industry writ large.
But even within his own small bailiwick, Quah has competition. The recent podcast boom has been accompanied by heightened interest among large, general interest news organizations and at least one niche publication. Podster, a new magazine from Shelf Media, just published its first issue. Startup, an offering from the podcasting network Gimlet Media, just finished up a short season covering the triumphs and travails of its own fledgling business. And there’s no shortage of tech publications that pay close attention to the minutiae of anything Apple-related, including podcasting.
Despite this competition and the financial pressures that come with quitting his job, Quah says he’s willing to give entrepreneurship a shot, even if it doesn’t work out. He’s got some money saved and says he’s young enough to try something else if the whole scheme comes crashing down.
Until Donald Trump’s latest round of White House Apprentice ended with yet another “You’re fired,” I had been among those who considered Trump’s impeachment a Democratic pipedream. Now, after the ouster of Reince Priebus and the failed repeal vote, I see it as a potential likelihood.
Why? Recent bloodlettings have made Trump’s claims to office more tenuous and contentious than ever. And the defections of Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and John McCain on the Obamacare repeal vote mean three more G.O.P. senators who have publicly lost faith in, or openly quarreled with, the president.
Whether Collins’, Murkowskis’, and McCains’ reservations about this president run deep enough to vote against him in a hypothetical impeachment “trial” remains to be seen. But if their votes against his legislation, and against the alleged bullying of his surrogates, are any measure, Trump could be in trouble.
Add to this toxic stew the ongoing feuds with “beleaguered” attorney general Jeff Sessions and the firing of “establishment” figure and former R.N.C. Chair Priebus and that’s two more high-profile, high-influence Republicans on the outs with the chief executive. And in tapping a general, John Kelley, and the now-also-fired Wall Street financier Anthony “The Mooch” Scaramucci, as his newest hires, the president moves further away from the grand old party whose nomination he once coveted.
Chief Strategist Steve Bannon may be next to go, and when he does, the last of the “president’s men” that helped engineer his election will have exited the scene.
Meanwhile, an angry, frustrated Trump appears to be hunkering down, draining the swamp by first savaging whatever remnants of its establishment players are alive and gasping within it. In purging Priebus and ex-White House Communications Director Sean Spicer, Trump shows he is in lock-down mode, relying on an ever-shrinking circle of those he feels he can trust: his family, his generals, his friends (like Scaramucci), and the few cabinet officials who have supported the president and his agenda unequivocally.
The unprecedented governing coalition Trump has stitched together from a patchwork of populists, nationalists, and Republican party insiders is now badly frayed and unlikely to be saved. In tearing it up, the president moves dangerously free of the practical, grounding forces that helped install him in the White House at a time when his appeal among the people is at an all-time low.
Soon it will be a besieged, isolated Team Trump versus a number of Republicans, every Democrat, and the majority of the American people. And that’s a scenario in which we are all imperiled.
I worry for the Trump presidency because I worry for consequences to governance, the Constitution, and democracy in the increasingly likely scenario that an impeachment case would be brought against him. And with every Republican Trump fires, or, in the case of Sessions, publicly ridicules, he alienates not just that senator, but the electorate in the states where such senators are supported. In so doing he inches us all closer to the precipice of a potential constitutional crisis. Left for dead is sure to be Mitch McConnell, who may, sooner than later, lose his Majority Leader status over this most recent failure to advance Trump’s conservative agenda.
Trump got elected to “drain the swamp” in Washington, but with this latest round of departures and dust-ups that swamp has turned into a fishbowl, a holding tank, and a democracy-endangering echo chamber in which the only voice the president hears may soon be his own.
GILCREST – Valley hit its mark, lapped the field, even had leftover time and energy to celebrate with a proverbial victory lap.
The Vikings were never threatened during the Class 3A Regional Volleyball Tournament, quickly wrapping up a state tournament bid with a trio of dominant sweeps on their home court in Gilcrest on Saturday.
Valley (25-0) swept the field. Defeating Manitou Springs (25-17, 25-10, 25-14) and Platte Valley (25-7, 25-13, 25-17) was enough to clinch one of the region’s two bids to state, starting Friday at the Denver Coliseum.
With everything clinched, the Vikings didn’t stop there though. Coach Rene Aafedt used every player in a Valley uniform in another sweep (25-13, 25-12, 25-25) against the region’s second seed, Platte Canyon.
Freshman outside hitter Courtney Chacon said she and her teammates were determined to not just earn one of the two bids to state. They weren’t going to be satisfied unless they built additional momentum heading into state, by claiming the regional title and doing so in dominant fashion.
Platte Valley (17-7) earned the second bid to state with wins against Platte Canyon and Manitou Springs.
No team has lasted more than three games against Valley this season. The only two teams to take a game from the Vikings are a pair of 4A state qualifiers: Lewis-Palmer – which fell 23-25, 25-23, 10-15 its home tournament to Valley in September – and Pueblo West, which fell 9-25, 26-24, 6-15, also at the Lewis-Palmer Invitational.
On Saturday, the Vikings dominated with their offense and defense, never allowing an opponent to reach 20.
Most impressive, Valley coach Rene Aafedt said, her team made almost no errors, offensively nor defensively.
Valley’s depth was on full display. The state’s leading passer, senior setter Savannah Garcia (98 assists on Saturday), spread the ball to a variety of hitters. Senior outside hitter Sierra Bennett led the Vikings with 30 kills, followed by freshman Brynn Eckhardt (26), freshman Courtney Chacon (19) and junior Reanna Hodgin (18).
Chacon (32 digs) led five Vikings players with 25 or more digs: Bennett (30), junior Stephi Matsushima (30), sophomore Meagan Garcia (27) and Savannah Garcia (25).
Although five-time 3A champion Colorado Springs Christian, the fifth-ranked team in the nation, is likely to get the top seed at state, arguably no team has been better against 3A competition than Valley, which has swept all 19 3A opponents it has faced.
Meagan Garcia said she and her teammates have a clear focus heading into the season’s final week.
VHS – Kills: Reanna Hodgin 9, Sierra Bennett 8, Courtney Chacon 8, Brynn Eckhardt 8. Aces: Eckhardt 3, Savannah Garcia 3, Sierra Bennett 2. Assists: S. Garcia 38. Blocks: Hodgin 4. Digs: Chacon 12, Stephi Matsushima 12, Meagan Garcia 10.
PVHS – Kills: Ariana Olson 4, Nyana Tschacher 4, Laura Gore. Assists: Kyndal Reitzenstein 8. Blocks: Heather Harris 2, Rachael Moralez 2, Tschacher 2. Digs: Jessica Piper 10.
VHS – Kills: Bennett 14, Chacon 9, Eckhardt 9. Aces: Bennett 3, M. Garcia, S. Garcia, Taylor Huntington. Assists: S. Garcia 40. Blocks: Hodgin 4, M. Garcia 2, Eckhardt. Digs: Matsushima 14, Bennett 9, M. Garcia 9.
VHS – Kills: Eckhardt 9, Bennett 8, Hodgin 4. Aces: S. Garcia 6, Chacon 3, Bennett 2. Assists: S. Garcia 20. Blocks: Hodgin 4, Eckhardt 3, Bennett, Samantha Stutts. Digs: Bennett 13, Chacon 12, M. Garcia 8.
Miriam Medina poses in fron of her house in Barrio Palmarejo in Canovanas, Puerto Rico.
Miriam Medina's house in Canovanas, Puerto Rico, was "completely lost" following Hurricane Maria nearly eight months ago and she's lost count of all the times FEMA denied her individual assistance application because she couldn’t prove to them that she owned the home, NBC News reported.