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Yelling to press waiting across the street from Chelsea Clinton's apartment, she said: "It's a beautiful day in New York."
But the cancellation of the trip is likely to add fuel to the flames of rumours circulating on the internet surrounding the White House hopeful's health.
Clinton left a 9/11 memorial service in New York early yesterday and collapsed on her way to her car, with sources saying that she lost a shoe as she was helped into a van.
In footage of the incident, Clinton can be seen resting on a concrete barrier as her car is driven up.
But as she makes her way to the car, the presidential candidate can be seen to stagger and sway, with helpers desperately trying to keep her upright.
She appears to almost fall to the floor before she is bundled into the car and whisked away.
A source told Fox News that Clinton's knees appeared to buckle as she left the service.
A spokesman for Clinton, Nick Merrill, said Clinton had attended the service for an hour and 30 minutes.
He said: "Secretary Clinton attended the September 11th Commemoration Ceremony for just an hour and thirty minutes this morning to pay her respects and greet some of the families of the fallen.
"During the ceremony , she felt overheated so departed to go to her daughter's apartment, and is feeling much better."
Fox News also reported that the former Secretary of State had to wait for her motorcade for several minutes as her security detail had not realised she would be leaving early.
Clinton arrived at the New York ceremony in the morning, wearing dark glasses, having released a statement saying it was important to honour the lives and "tremendous spirit" of the victims and responders of September 11, 2001.
She and opposing candidate Donald Trump both attended the morning service to mark 15 years on from the September 11 attacks, with Trump remaining after she had left.
Clinton has been plagued by speculation that she is not fit enough to serve as US President.
She was even jokingly challenged to show she could open a jar of pickle to prove she was in good health.
The candidate also had her pulse taken as part of the joke.
Clips of Clinton appearing to cough up green mucus also sent ripples through the presidential race.
Clinton had a coughing fit while speaking at a rally in Cleveland, Ohio, forced to take a moment to sip some water and recover.
Her opposing candidate Trump has used the incidents to claim that Clinton is too weak to serve as the US president, also saying she takes too many naps to properly serve.
He also said he had "no idea" what had happened to Clinton when he was asked about her health following the ceremony.
Clinton emerged from her daughter Chelsea's home two hours later walking unaided and waving to reporters.
The Democratic candidate repeatedly said she "felt great" when asked by journalists but failed to answer questions about what exactly happened.
She also stopped to hug a child before walking out of shot.
Shoppers are seen at a supermarket in Tokyo. Japan’s annual core consumer inflation accelerated slightly in January but remained distant from the central bank’s 2% target, reinforcing market expectations the country is nowhere near an exit from ultra-loose monetary policy.
Japan’s annual core consumer inflation accelerated slightly in January but remained distant from the central bank’s 2% target, reinforcing market expectations the country is nowhere near an exit from ultra-loose monetary policy.
The price data underscores the fragile nature of Japan’s economic recovery, as escalating Sino-US trade frictions and slowing Chinese growth weigh on exports and business sentiment.
The nationwide core consumer price index (CPI), which includes oil products but excludes volatile fresh food costs, rose 0.8% in January from a year earlier, government data showed yesterday.
It matched a median market forecast and accelerated slightly from a 0.7% rise in December, the data showed.
An index the BoJ focuses on – the so-called core-core CPI that strips away the effect of both volatile food and energy costs – rose 0.4% in January, ticking up from the previous month’s 0.3% gain. The increase was driven by a rise in service inflation, which may be a sign firms are passing on rising wage costs, said Ma...
“We expect the labour market to remain tight over the coming year so service inflation may strengthen a little further.
Even so, falling energy prices mean that inflation will slow from 1% in 2018 to around 0.5% this year,” he said.
The BoJ faces a dilemma.
Years of heavy money printing have dried up market liquidity and hurt commercial banks’ profits, stoking concerns over the rising risks of prolonged easing.
And yet, subdued inflation has left the BoJ well behind its US and European counterparts in dialling back crisis-mode policies, and with a dearth of ammunition to battle an abrupt yen spike that could derail an export-driven economic recovery.
Some analysts say core consumer inflation may grind to a halt in coming months as recent oil price falls push down gas and electricity bills, which could put the Bank of Japan under pressure to ramp up an already massive stimulus programme.
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Second of the twice-weekly series following young vets in the field.
Allfourofthe Leonard brothers have followed in their father's footsteps to become vets. Tonight's episode follows the professional and love lives of Steve Leonard and his younger brother Keith. See today's choices.
The extended pursuit of a seamless process for getting departing servicemembers’ complete health records into the hands of the Department of Veterans Affairs took yet another turn on Wednesday when the Pentagon announced it was shopping for a new health records system.
The announcement came even as members of both the House and Senate held press conferences to voice their commitment to ending the VA’s disability claims backlog, which both VA and Pentagon officials acknowledge is partly due to incompatible records systems between agencies.
One source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the new system will cost billions over the life of the contract.
Hagel’s move comes as the backlog increasingly gains traction with Congress. On Wednesday, it was the sole agenda item for the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee hearing, where Under Secretary for Benefits Allison Hickey said the number has dropped by about 50,000 claims.
The backlog also was the subject of a roundtable discussion among Hagel, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki, and members of the Senate Appropriations Committee. House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi also raised the topics at a special press conference attended by House Democrats.
Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., who chairs the Senate Appropriations committee, said the first legislation her group would pass this June would be the VA budget as a way to show their commitment to veterans.
Mikulski was joined during the press conference by Sen. Tim Johnson, D-SD, who chairs the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee, and Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill., ranking member of that subcommittee. These three joined other subcommittee members at the roundtable.
On the House side, members of the Veterans Affairs Committee went before the press to highlight a “package” of bills they were submitting aimed at improving the backlog situation and helping vets awaiting decisions on their claims.
One bill, filed by Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., would allow vets claiming multiple conditions to begin receiving payments when each claim is approved. Currently, veterans may begin receiving compensation only after all their claims have been adjudicated.
Until recently, the backlog and attempts by the VA to bring it down have been issues dealt with few lawmakers outside the two houses’ veterans’ affairs committees.
Hagel made his first public comment about a new Defense Department health system at a press conference following the roundtable. The Defense Department had announced the decision earlier in the day.
The defense secretary told reporters that he and Shinseki have worked very closely together, and that there is cooperation between the two departments.
Shinseki spoke for less than two minutes, reiterating that the backlog was unacceptable and that VA is committed to ending it. He made no mention of Hagel’s decision, though the department has made no secret of the fact it hoped the Pentagon would develop a new system based on the VA’s Veterans Health Information Syste...
That appeared to be the plan up until February, when outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced the Defense Department would be going its own way. He said a new Defense Department system would still be able to share data with the VA.
Shortly after taking over from Panetta, Hagel said he wanted to rethink the Defense Department’s strategy. That, along with the fact Hagel once served as a VA deputy administrator, gave some at the department hope that he would opt for VISTA.
The VA’s records system, when it came online more than a decade ago, was hailed as top notch. It is continuing to upgrade and modernize that system, but DoD believes its needs would be better met with something entirely new, Hagel told the roundtable meeting, according to a draft copy of his remarks given to Military.c...
Hagel’s remarks did not offer details, but one DoD source said department officials do not believe they could adapt VISTA and broaden it to meet DoD requirements for a system at every level, from the combat theater to a field hospital to a stateside medical facility.
NEW YORK (AP) _ Maybe Rick Perry should have worn a different jacket.The Republican presidential hopeful’s new campaign ad, “Strong,” has become a viral video sensation since being released last week, but not necessarily for the reasons the campaign might hope for.
In the ad, Perry suggests that President Barack Obama is waging a “war on religion” after signing legislation allowing gays to serve in the military. It’s drawn some 6 million views on YouTube, more than any other campaign video this year, company officials said.
As he struggles for traction three weeks before the GOP nominating contest opens in Iowa, Perry is using the ad to appeal to the kind of Christian conservatives who typically dominate the state’s precinct caucuses. In it, he makes some eyebrow-raising claims.
Perry is seen walking up a grassy hillside, dressed in a brown barn jacket and blue shirt.
In fact, Obama has had nothing to do with banning school prayer _ the Supreme Court ruled in 1962 that prayer in public school was an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment. Perry’s suggestion that gays serving in the military represent an assault on religious faith has drawn scorn from Democrats and gay rig...
First, there’s the jacket. Many videos have noted that it’s the same type worn by actor Heath Ledger in the 2005 movie “Brokeback Mountain,” which centers on a long love affair between two cowboys.
Many of the video parodies feature actors wearing the shirt and jacket combo, including video satirist Andy Cobb.
Another video shows a brown-jacketed rabbi, Jason Miller.
Some videos include a message from Jesus.
“I’m ashamed to admit that you are (a Christian),” a cartoon Jesus says to Perry in one.
Stephen Farnsworth, an associate professor of communications at George Mason University, said the ad may well help Perry in Iowa, where polls are starting to show him inch up a bit. But Farnsworth said the ad’s message _ and the parodies it has spawned _ won’t help in the long run, particularly when it comes to connect...
“The worst thing to be in American politics is a joke,” Farnsworth said.
The Perry campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
AIRO bracelet can determine the makeup of the food you've eaten recently and track stress and sleep.
Keeping track of exercise, sleep and stress levels is nothing remarkable for wearable technology, but now it would seem there is one that can also keep track of how much you’ve been eating. The AIRO Wristband uses tiny LEDs on the wristband’s underside to detect metabolites in the bloodstream, which means it can even b...
After a Brexit, Could Poland and Austria Be Next?
FILE - People walk past the Polish Mleczko delicatessen and restaurant in London, April 5, 2016. Following right-wing election gains, Eurosceptics in Austria and Poland are keeping a close eye on Britain’s June 23rd referendum to stay or quit the European Union.
When Poland’s right-wing Prime Minister Beata Szydlo swept to an election victory late last year, one of the first things her government did was remove the blue European Union flag from the backdrop of her news conferences, and leave only the red and white Polish flag.
It was a symbolic, patriotic gesture that signaled a more distant relationship with Brussels.
At the same time in Austria, more than 260,000 citizens signed a petition that forced the Austrian parliament to open a discussion on a referendum to leave the European Union.
Eurosceptics in both countries are now watching Britain’s march to a June 23 referendum closely.
“We need a referendum similar to the referendum in Great Britain, so the people of Austria can decide,” said Robert Marschall, leader of Austria’s EU Exit Party, in a VOA interview.
FILE - A Pro-Brexit campaigner hands out leaflets at Liverpool Street station in London, March 23, 2016. Following right-wing election gains, Eurosceptics in Austria and Poland are keeping a close eye on Britain’s June 23rd referendum to stay or quit the European Union.
Like in Britain, the migrant crisis that saw more than 1 million mostly Muslim newcomers enter Europe last year is a key driver of the movement to part with the EU.
Austria last year took in 90,000 asylum-seekers – an equivalent of 1 percent of its population, at a time when unemployment is more than 8 percent.
“Many people do not understand why they want people to come to Austria if there is such a high unemployment rate,” Marschall said.
In Poland, where the burning of EU flags has become common at demonstrations, anti-EU sentiments are stoked by memories of historic foreign intervention by Russia, but perhaps more poignantly by Germany.
The mandate proposed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel for EU members, including Poland, to accept a share of the migrants has galvanized support for Szydlo’s Law and Justice Party’s pledge to defy the quotas.
At the beginning, “there were a lot of voices in Poland in favor of taking refugees from the Middle East,” said George Byczynski, head of the British Poles Initiative, a Polish civic group in London. But the threat of financial penalties for not doing so changed those attitudes.
“Suddenly, Poles started feeling this is again an authoritarian approach to helping people,” he said.
Illustration picture of postal ballot papers in London ahead of the June 23 BREXIT referendum when voters will decide whether Britain will remain in the European Union, June 1, 2016.
Andriy Korniychuk, an analyst at the Institute of Public Affairs, a research organization in Warsaw, says antimigrant sentiments helped bring Szydlo to power, and he says the anti-EU wave is showing no signs of slowing.
“The Eurosceptic movement is growing. If you look just at the general tendencies, recent polls show there are more skeptic movements are growing in Poland,” Korniychuk told VOA.
But movements in both countries have failed to gain the same traction that the Brexit campaign has in Britain.
In Austria, the petition to launch a campaign to leave the EU led to a discussion on a referendum in parliament on January 27, but it resulted in no action after none of the 183 lawmakers introduced a bill.
In Poland, analysts say the country’s status as the largest beneficiary of EU aid is the chief reason the movement has not led to any concrete, significant action for a Polish exit.
“Poland is a poster child of European integration. It has a lot of financial support from the cohesion,” Korniychuk said.
FILE - Poland's Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, right, and EU Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans before talks on ways of ending Poland's political conflict that has strained ties with Brussels, in Warsaw, Poland, May 24, 2016.
Szydlo’s government removed the EU flag from her news conferences but that was, for many, the limit of her willingness to express anti-EU intentions.
Since taking office, the Polish leader has never proclaimed quitting the European Union as one of her government’s goals.
No one, however, is ready to declare efforts to leave the EU dead in Poland or Austria.
Recent gains by right-wing parties in elections in both countries surprised many.
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