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"Americans don't choose to be victimized by mysterious fees, changing terms and pages and pages of fine print. And while innovation should be encouraged, risky schemes that threaten our entire economy should not," he said. "We can't afford to let the same phony arguments and bad habits of Washington kill financial reform and leave American consumers and our economy vulnerable to another meltdown."
Obama has scheduled a meeting Monday at the White House with financial services industry leaders to seek support for his effort to tighten federal oversight of the industry and to limit pay for top executives at institutions that accepted billions in bailout money from the government.
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Jon Stewart: How Does London Have So Many Pre-Olympics Security Problems?
On The Daily Show tonight, Jon Stewart previewed the upcoming London Olympics and how England is preparing for the games. He ended up bewildered at how many problems the nation is facing leading up to the Olympics, from a security guard with some fun ideas about stabbings to an opening ceremony that seems less-than-inspiring.
But then Stewart brought out British correspondent John Oliver to celebrate the country’s fantastic transportation, giving effusive praise to the East Midland Train line. Naturally, the train drivers are going on a three-day strike during the Olympics.
LYON, France (Reuters) - Hungary and Portugal reached the Euro 2016 knockout stages after a rip-roaring 3-3 draw in which Cristiano Ronaldo netted twice and became the first player to score in four European Championships on Wednesday.
Portugal came from behind three times as Ronaldo, who also set a tournament record of 17 appearances, finally rediscovered his touch to help them secure a third straight draw that left them third in Group F and set up a last-16 meeting with Croatia.
Hungary, appearing in a major tournament for the first time in 30 years, topped the group with seven points thanks in large part to their captain Balazs Dzsudzsak, who scored two deflected goals.
Iceland also qualified in second after a last-gasp goal in their 2-1 win over Austria dramatically changed the outcome of the group. Until then, Portugal had been heading for a last-16 tie against England.
Hungary will now play the Group E runners-up, which will be decided later on Wednesday between Belgium, Sweden and Ireland, while Iceland will face England.
After Zoltan Gera's early strike was cancelled out by Nani just before the break, Dzsudzsak had twice put his side ahead soon after the break only for Ronaldo to respond each time with touches of his true mastery.
"The most important thing was to make it through to the next stage but we wanted to do it as the group winners," said Portugal coach Fernando Santos.
"That's why we pressed on for a fourth goal although we knew we were taking risks. Three times we were out of the tournament and three times we came back; it shows character akin to only a few teams."
While Portugal regularly reach the knockout stages of big tournaments, this is Hungary's first since they made the last four of the European Championship in 1972 and the first time they have got through a group stage since the 1966 World Cup.
"I am not surprised by the performance or the result," said Hungary coach Bernd Storck.
"We had a very good history in the 1950s and 60s but this is a bygone era and I want to talk about this team.
"We know Ronaldo is a world-class player and he cannot be stopped every time. But I am very happy how we played, we improved with each game in this tournament and are delighted to be in the last 16."
As in their previous two matches against Iceland and Austria, Portugal enjoyed sterile possession in the early stages and it was Hungary who struck in the 19th minute as 37-year old Gera took a half-cleared corner into his stride and unleashed a fizzing low-half volley past Rui Patricio from 25 metres.
Ronaldo then released Nani with a defence-splitting pass and his strike partner beat Gabor Kiraly with a neat finish three minutes before the break.
The Hungarians were back in front in the 47th minute as Dzsudzsak beat Patricio with a free kick that took a big deflection.
After throwing a reporter's microphone into a lake earlier in the day during a morning walkabout, Ronaldo, who had been struggling at Euro 2016, finally produced a touch of his finest work in the 50th, beating Kiraly with a clever back-heel after good work by Nani.
Hungary took the lead for the third time as Dzsudzsak seized a rebound in his stride on the edge of the area and fired a speculative shot which sailed past Patricio, again taking a deflection along the way.
Hungary's joy was short-lived, however, as Ronaldo levelled with a thumping header after a superb cross by substitute Ricardo Quaresma.
With the score ensuring both teams would progress, both then seemed happy to keep it at 3-3, although Iceland's winner did not delight the Portugal manager.
"Croatia are one of the sharks and we've been trying to avoid them," said Santos. "But now they are standing in our way and we have to hunt them down."
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Regent University, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2016, in Virginia Beach, Va.
Donald Trump on Tuesday called for an investigation into President Barack Obama after hacked emails from Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, published by WikiLeaks, suggested Obama may have known about Clinton's use of a private email server.
In an interview with Reuters, Trump called the revelation "a big thing."
"This means that he has to be investigated," Trump said.
During a rally in Sanford, Florida, on Tuesday afternoon, Trump addressed the latest emails.
"But newly public emails — WikiLeaks — prove otherwise," he said of Obama's knowledge of the private server Clinton used while she was his secretary of state.
The Republican presidential nominee said "now I understand" why Obama supported Clinton in the presidential election.
"Because he didn't want to get caught up in the big lie," he said. "We have to investigate the investigation. We have to investigate."
The latest hacked emails showed top Clinton aide Cheryl Mills' response when Clinton's traveling press secretary, Nick Merrill, forwarded a tweet that quoted Obama as saying he learned about the private server "the same time everybody else" did.
"We need to clean this up," Mills wrote to Podesta. "He has emails from her — they do not say state.gov."
The exchange seemed to imply that Obama knew about Clinton's use of a private email server, which would contradict what he said during an interview with CBS News in March 2015.
When CBS White House correspondent Bill Plante asked Obama when he learned that Clinton used an email system outside the US government for official business while she was secretary of state, Obama responded, "The same time everybody else learned it through news reports."
The White House has addressed this supposed inconsistency. Press secretary Josh Earnest said after the CBS interview aired that Obama "was referring specifically to the arrangement associated with Secretary Clinton's email."
"Yes, the president was aware of her email address," Earnest said. "He traded emails with her. That shouldn't be a surprise that the president of the United States is going to trade emails with the secretary of state. But the president was not aware of the fact that this was a personal email server and that this was the email address that she was using exclusively for all her business. The president was not aware of that until that had been more widely reported."
The FBI investigated Clinton's use of the server, but ultimately declined to recommend the Justice Department move forward with charges against her.
The Clinton campaign has tied WikiLeaks to Russian hackers looking to swing the election in favor of Trump. US intelligence has claimed Russia was behind the hacks of American political organizations in 2016.
Pamela Engel contributed to this report.
It's been more than a month and that idiot Trump hasn't contacted me or tweeted about me since he met with Putin again. That's all he did when we talked, was gush about Putin and how they're such good friends as if that's supposed to impress me.
I'm sorry I ever let Trump see the Pleasure Squad. Well, I'd better go check on the secret nuclear lab.
Prime Minister Li Peng of China arrived in Moscow today for talks expected to focus on expanded trade and troop cuts along the Soviet-Chinese border.
Mr. Li, the highest ranking Chinese official to visit Moscow since 1964, told reporters that he was confident his meetings with President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and others would speed the normalization of relations that was agreed to when Mr. Gorbachev visited Beijing last May.
The Chinese Prime Minister also hopes the visit will help ease his country's diplomatic isolation after the army crackdown on the democracy movement last June.
The relationship between the two Communist powers has been strained by Chinese disdain toward the decline of Communism in Eastern Europe and by the fact that dissident Chinese looked to Mr. Gorbachev as a model.
Included in Mr. Li's entourage was the governor of the northwestern province of Xinjiang, Tumur Dawamet, whose region has recently been the scene of violence the Chinese suggest was encouraged by Islamic unrest in neighboring regions of Soviet Central Asia.
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The tubes have been buzzing over a new New York Times report on Secretary of State John Kerry's aggressive pursuit of a new global climate agreement, which has some clear implications for approval of the controversial Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline.
The Pentagon's Africa Command will tell you there's one military base on the entire continent. Don't believe them.
Boris Johnson has triggered a new row over alleged cronyism after it emerged that he has offered the post of cycling adviser to Andrew Gilligan, the journalist who did more than any other to topple the London mayor's main rival, Ken Livingstone.
Gilligan is expected to take up the post part-time while retaining his current staff position at the Daily Telegraph, but will curtail his coverage of London issues. It is understood he will be paid the normal adviser rate on a pro-rata basis. Most of the mayor's advisers are paid more than £90,000.
The two have a long-standing relationship. Johnson hired Gilligan at the Spectator after the award-winning journalist lost his job following the BBC's war with Alastair Campbell over the Iraq dossier and the furore over the death of government scientist David Kelly.
In 2008, investigative articles by Gilligan about Livingstone, his associates and the running of the London Development Agency were said to have inflicted serious damage on the Labour candidate and his election campaign, allowing Johnson to seize the mayoralty. In 2012, Gilligan played another prominent role, airing accusations about Livingstone's tax arrangements which seriously hampered his ill-fated campaign.
The mayor has the power to make a limited number of direct appointments without reference to the normal recruitment processes of city hall. But the arrangement is bound to cause disquiet, with Labour sources already questioning whether Gilligan, a keen cyclist, has the policy and municipal experience to have been chosen above any other possible candidates.
Critics have already raised concerns about other appointments. Despite misleading him and resigning in disgrace, Johnson's former deputy mayor Ray Lewis has been brought back into the fold to help the London mayor boost mentoring.
Veronica Wadley, Johnson's former colleague at the Telegraph and editor of the Evening Standard during the 2008 campaign, has an arts and volunteering advisory role. It is said she first suggested Johnson to David Cameron as the man to win the mayoralty for the Conservatives.
A spokesman for Johnson said: "It has always been the mayor's intention to appoint a cycling commissioner. Final discussions with Andrew Gilligan have been taking place regarding a part-time role but at this stage no formal announcement has been made."
Johnson has been under pressure to dispel claims that he has not been taking the issue of cycling seriously. Campaigners have been critical of his vision for the use of road space and have raised concerns following a string of fatal cycling accidents in the capital, most involving lorries.
at City Hall. This is truly startling. It looks like Boris has just appointed one of his friends without any independent evaluation of his skills or suitability for the post.
leader of the Conservative party.
everyone else to tighten their belts?"
Michelle Hanson, the mother of Kaden Young who was swept away in the Grand River in February after their minivan went into the water during flooding, has been charged with impaired driving causing death.
The mother of a three-year-old boy who was swept away in the Grand River during flooding in February has been charged with impaired driving causing death by Ontario Provincial Police.
Michelle Hanson, 35, who lives in the Southern Ontario township of Amaranth was in a minivan with her son, Kaden Young, on Feb. 21 when she went around a road closure sign, police said.
Water was over the road, about one kilometre from their home, and the minivan wound up in the Grand River around 1 a.m.
As they exited the vehicle, Hanson lost her grip on her son and he was swept away in the river, police said.
His body was recovered April 21.
Hanson is facing charges of impaired driving causing death, dangerous driving causing death and criminal negligence causing death. She's due to appear in an Orangeville courtroom on Nov. 6.
Dufferin OPP Const. Paul Nancekivell said officers went to Hanson's home Thursday morning and she agreed to come to the detachment. When she arrived around 12:30 p.m., she was arrested on the three charges.
He said he could not say whether police believed Hanson was impaired by alcohol or drugs "because we're worried about the integrity of the investigation."
He added the difference between the second and third charges is that dangerous driving "is when somebody's life is endangered by dangerous driving and when you drive past road barricades and around road closures signs, you're endangering somebody.
"Criminal negligence causing death, anybody who's responsible for children has an obligation not to be negligent in their care. And by driving around those barricades and him dying, that's basically the last [charge] as well."
In a release, Dufferin OPP said, "The OPP sympathizes with and expresses its heartfelt condolences to the family of Kaden Young on his tragic loss.
"We also remember and recognize the many community residents and visitors who gave of their time to search for Kaden during the aftermath of this tragic incident."
In the two months the boy was missing, hundreds of people searched for him along the banks of the Grand River.
Richard Croft, a local tow truck driver who heard the call to emergency services the night the boy went missing, organized grid searches to cover as much ground as possible.
In March, he said people came from across the province to volunteer, including over the Easter weekend.
"We're not just a community now, we're family," he said of the volunteers. "[Kaden's] just an amazing little boy. We've got to bring him home."
Township of Amaranth Mayor Don MacIver said at the time the support from the community to find Kaden was incredible.
Kaden's father, Cam Young, and friends of the family declined to speak to CBC News on Thursday.
Nancekivell said the case "gripped the community" as well as officers investigating the case. He was there the day they found Kaden's body near a bridge just north of Belwood Lake.
"It was tough. We were fortunate the OPP provided good mental health counselling for us and some of us had to take some time off and rest up and reflect a bit and then come back at it. It's not an easy job sometimes and nobody wants to find anybody dead, let alone a little child," he said.
In an earlier version of this story, a secondary reference misidentified the last name of the mother. It has been clarified and corrected.
Hooray! The Tax Policy Center has analyzed Ted Cruz’s tax plan, which means we now have data for all of the top four Republican candidates: Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and Cruz. Click the links for details. Or just look at the charts below for the nickel summary.
Folks, Ted Cruz is killing it. The other guys are touting tax plans that give paltry income gains to the middle class and big income gains to the rich. Cruz gives the usual paltry sop to the middle class, but incomes of the rich would skyrocket 26 percent under his plan. 26 percent! That’s what I call a tax plan.
Trump is still the winner in the budget-busting contest, but Cruz is close. His plan would increase the deficit $8.6 trillion over ten years. Overall, I have to say that Cruz is bringing his A game. If you calculate his Richie Rich Index™—percentage deficit increase plus percentage income increase for the rich—Cruz clocks in with a score of 87.4, beating out Trump by a hair. Congratulations, Ted.
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Adam Henrique scored a goal, added an assist and got the shootout winner as the Anaheim Ducks ended the Winnipeg Jets' three-game winning streak with a 4-3 victory Thursday night.
Nick Ritchie and Ryan Kesler also had goals in regulation for Anaheim, which went 4-1 on its homestand.
Ducks goaltender John Gibson made 24 saves before he left the game with 6:40 left in the third period after Blake Wheeler lost an edge and hit into him. Ryan Miller didn't face a shot on goal in place of Gibson, but stopped all five Jets shooters in the shootout.
Winnipeg's Connor Hellebuyck stopped 36 shots in the loss. Jack Roslovic scored his first career NHL goal to tie it at 3 in the third, and Patrick Laine and Brandon Tanev also had goals for the Jets.
The Ducks improved to 3-5 in shootouts this season, while the Jets fell to 2-2.

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