id
stringlengths 1
4
| title
stringclasses 1
value | context
stringclasses 1
value | question
stringlengths 64
253
| answers
dict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1637
|
I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Magnitude 5.1 quake jolts Albania, no injuries reproted
|
{
"text": [
"TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albanian authorities say an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 has struck off western Albania. No injuries or damage has been reported so far.\nThe Institute of GeoSciences, Energy, Water and Environment on Wednesday reported that the quake occurred at 0901 GMT (1101 local time) around 18 kilometers (11 miles) underground near Lalesi Bay, a spot frequented by tourists some 30 kilometers (18 miles) west of the capital, Tirana.\nThe tremor was strongly felt in Tirana."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1638
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Israel PM visits Russia for talks on Iran's actions in Syria
|
{
"text": [
"MOSCOW (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Russia on Monday for talks focused on Syria, warning that Israel will not accept Iran's growing military presence there and in neighboring Lebanon.\nBefore departure for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Netanyahu said that Iran is trying to turn Lebanon into \"one giant missile site, a site for precision missiles against the state of Israel, which we will not tolerate.\"\nThe Israeli leader also pointed at what he described as \"Iran's relentless efforts to establish a military presence in Syria, which we strongly oppose and are also taking action against.\"\nRussia and Iran have joined forces to back President Bashar Assad throughout the Syrian conflict. Russia has waged a military campaign in Syria since September 2015, helping Assad's forces score a series of victories and win back key ground.\nAt the same time, Russia has sought to maintain friendly ties with Israel, and the two countries' militaries have established close communications to avoid collisions in Syria.\nSpeaking in a video statement after his talks with Putin, Netanyahu hailed what he described as a \"good and in-depth\" meeting.\n\"I told him that Israel views with severity two developments,\" Netanyahu said. \"One, the attempts by Iran to base itself militarily in Syria and the second, Iran's attempt to produce in Lebanon accurate weapons against the state of Israel. I made it clear to him that we will not agree to any of those developments and we will act accordingly.\"\nIsrael's chief military spokesman, Brig. Gen. Ronen Manelis, posted a rare op-ed on Sunday on several Arabic-language websites, warning Lebanon of Iran's entrenchment and saying Israel is \"prepared for all the scenarios.\"\nPutin and Netanyahu also jointly visited Moscow's Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center to see an exhibition about a 1943 uprising at the Nazis' Sobibor camp in occupied Poland. Netanyahu noted that the uprising was led by a Jewish Red Army officer and praised the heroism of the Red Army in defeating the Nazis.\nThe Russian president expressed his appreciation, saying that the Israeli attitude contrasts with the removal of monuments to Red Army heroes in some European nations.\nPutin noted that Russia and Israel are \"cooperating closely in resisting attempts to falsify history and revise the results of WWII, deny Holocaust and downplay a decisive role the Soviet Union played in defeating the Nazis.\"\n\"The main lesson from the rise of the Nazis and later the defeat of the Nazis is the need to stand up powerfully to murderous ideology in time,\" Netanyahu said. \"That is our mission today as well.\"\n___\nIan Deitch in Jerusalem contributed to this report."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1640
|
I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about 'No mercy for the thieves' in Kenya graft scandal: President
|
{
"text": [
"NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's president says his government will spare no effort to recover all of the millions of dollars lost to a corruption scandal as diplomats representing 18 Western countries including the United States urge strong action against graft.\nPresident Uhuru Kenyatta says \"there will be no mercy for the thieves.\"\nKenyatta spoke a day after 24 officials were charged with corruption-related offenses in a probe linked to the alleged diversion of nearly $80 million.\nThe president, who won a second term last year, has been criticized for not acting against corrupt officials despite numerous vows to crack down.\nIn a statement, the diplomats urge strong political leadership and zero tolerance of corruption.\nKenya is ranked 143th out of 180 states by Transparency International"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1641
|
I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Global Forecast-Asia
|
{
"text": [
"Global Forecast - Asia as of 13:30 GMT Wednesday, July 4, 2018\nMinimum and maximum temperatures in Celsius, precipitation in centimeters and weather conditions as recorded for the previous day (Jul 3 except Asia and Australia where data is for Jul 4) and forecast for the current and following day in each city as of 1330 GMT:\n_____\nCITY;MIN;MAX;COND;PRECIP;MIN;MAX;COND;MIN;MAX;COND\nAbidjan;24;29;c;1.4;24;29;pc;24;28;rn\nAbu Dhabi;32;44;pc;0;34;46;clr;34;46;clr\nAleppo;22;38;clr;0;22;37;clr;21;37;clr\nAlgiers;19;27;clr;0;18;27;clr;20;27;c\nAmsterdam;14;25;clr;0;15;23;pc;14;24;pc\nAnchorage;13;22;pc;0;13;22;c;14;24;pc\nAshgabat;24;40;clr;0;25;39;clr;26;41;clr\nAstana;11;24;clr;0.38;15;28;clr;19;32;c\nAsuncion;14;22;rn;32.13;16;27;clr;19;30;c\nAthens;23;34;clr;0;22;35;clr;22;34;clr\nAuckland;9;14;clr;0;6;13;pc;7;13;pc\nBaghdad;31;48;clr;0;30;47;clr;30;47;clr\nBahrain;32;41;pc;0;31;39;clr;32;40;clr\nBanda Aceh;23;35;pc;0;23;34;c;23;34;pc\nBangalore;20;28;c;2.79;21;29;c;20;27;c\nBangkok;27;33;rn;3.96;28;33;rn;27;33;rn\nBarcelona;22;28;clr;0;22;27;clr;21;26;clr\nBeijing;25;36;pc;1.27;24;37;pc;23;33;rn\nBelgrade;17;29;pc;0;18;31;pc;18;30;rn\nBerlin;16;31;clr;0;15;30;pc;14;26;clr\nBogota;8;18;c;0.03;9;17;c;9;17;c\nBrasilia;9;28;clr;0;7;26;clr;8;26;clr\nBratislava;17;30;pc;0;19;30;rn;17;29;rn\nBrisbane;16;23;pc;0;17;24;pc;17;24;rn\nBrussels;15;28;rn;0;13;27;pc;13;27;pc\nBucharest;19;30;pc;0;17;27;pc;19;30;pc\nBudapest;16;27;pc;0;17;31;rn;18;29;rn\nBuenos Aires;7;10;c;0;8;12;c;11;14;rn\nBujumbura;16;28;pc;0;15;27;clr;15;28;clr\nBusan;23;28;pc;76.68;22;26;rn;20;24;pc\nCairo;25;39;clr;0;25;39;clr;25;39;clr\nCape Town;9;18;clr;0;7;18;clr;9;21;clr\nCaracas;20;27;rn;1.32;19;28;clr;19;28;pc\nChennai;27;35;pc;6.65;26;38;pc;28;36;c\nChicago;25;31;rn;0;20;31;rn;18;25;clr\nColombo;26;31;rn;5.92;26;31;pc;27;30;rn\nCopenhagen;13;24;clr;0;13;20;clr;13;23;pc\nDakar;24;28;pc;0;25;28;pc;25;28;clr\nDallas;24;35;rn;0;26;35;pc;25;36;rn\nDar es Salaam;21;29;pc;0;22;28;pc;21;27;rn\nDenver;16;31;pc;0.25;16;28;rn;17;32;rn\nDhahran;29;46;pc;0;30;44;clr;29;44;clr\nDhaka;26;32;rn;24.05;27;33;rn;28;34;rn\nDili;23;34;pc;0.61;22;31;pc;23;31;pc\nDubai;35;44;clr;0;35;45;clr;34;44;clr\nDublin;11;24;pc;0;11;21;pc;13;23;pc\nDushanbe;19;36;pc;0;19;33;pc;21;36;clr\nGibraltar;19;27;clr;0;20;28;clr;19;28;clr\nHanoi;30;39;pc;0;29;39;pc;28;38;pc\nHarare;8;20;pc;0;7;18;pc;9;17;pc\nHavana;23;31;pc;2.36;25;32;pc;24;31;pc\nHelsinki;12;19;rn;17.75;13;20;rn;14;21;pc\nHo Chi Minh City;26;33;rn;7.01;25;32;rn;25;31;rn\nHong Kong;29;33;c;9.78;28;33;rn;28;33;rn\nHonolulu;23;31;rn;0.63;24;31;pc;24;30;pc\nHyderabad;23;33;rn;3.25;22;31;c;22;28;rn\nIslamabad;22;30;pc;21.79;24;34;pc;26;37;pc\nIstanbul;22;32;clr;0;20;29;clr;21;29;clr\nJakarta;24;32;c;0;22;33;pc;21;33;clr\nJeddah;29;40;pc;0;28;36;pc;29;37;clr\nJerusalem;20;32;clr;0;20;31;clr;20;31;clr\nJohannesburg;3;15;clr;0;2;16;clr;4;14;clr\nKabul;16;36;clr;0;16;31;clr;17;33;clr\nKarachi;30;33;pc;0.79;29;34;pc;29;34;pc\nKathmandu;20;27;rn;10.01;21;28;rn;21;27;rn\nKhartoum;28;41;clr;0;28;39;c;28;39;pc\nKiev;13;25;pc;0;16;26;pc;15;28;rn\nKingston;27;33;pc;0.23;27;33;pc;26;33;pc\nKinshasa;21;31;c;0;21;31;pc;21;32;pc\nKolkata;26;33;rn;17.5;26;31;rn;26;33;rn\nKuala Lumpur;23;32;rn;2.64;23;33;pc;23;32;rn\nKuwait;34;47;clr;0;33;46;clr;33;46;clr\nLa Paz;-2;15;pc;0;-3;16;pc;-3;16;pc\nLagos;23;30;pc;5.72;23;29;rn;24;29;rn\nLima;16;19;pc;0;16;19;c;16;19;c\nLisbon;16;24;pc;0;17;25;clr;17;26;clr\nLondon;16;26;c;5.03;17;27;pc;17;28;pc\nLos Angeles;18;26;pc;0;21;31;pc;25;40;clr\nLuanda;20;26;clr;0;21;27;c;21;27;pc\nMadrid;15;29;clr;0;18;30;clr;19;32;clr\nMale;26;31;pc;0.23;27;31;pc;27;31;rn\nManaus;25;33;pc;0;23;33;clr;24;31;pc\nManila;25;30;rn;3.56;25;30;rn;25;29;rn\nMecca;30;43;c;0;30;42;pc;32;44;clr\nMelbourne;11;15;pc;0;11;15;rn;9;14;clr\nMexico City;13;23;rn;8.64;12;23;rn;12;22;rn\nMiami;26;31;pc;5.74;27;32;rn;24;32;rn\nMinsk;11;20;rn;5.54;11;22;pc;14;22;rn\nMogadishu;24;28;pc;0.41;24;28;c;24;28;c\nMontevideo;5;10;pc;0;8;11;c;11;15;rn\nMontreal;23;35;clr;0;23;33;rn;13;24;pc\nMoscow;11;18;c;0;12;22;pc;14;22;rn\nMumbai;26;30;rn;41.48;27;30;rn;26;30;rn\nNairobi;12;18;rn;1.5;11;22;c;11;23;c\nNew Delhi;28;36;rn;0.99;30;37;pc;30;37;pc\nNew York;23;30;rn;3.84;24;31;pc;18;28;rn\nNicosia;24;38;clr;0;25;38;clr;24;38;clr\nNovosibirsk;10;20;pc;9.5;10;19;pc;11;20;pc\nOsaka-shi;24;29;rn;3.91;22;26;rn;22;25;rn\nOslo;13;28;clr;0;13;25;clr;13;30;pc\nOttawa;21;35;clr;0;21;34;rn;10;24;pc\nPago Pago;24;26;rn;68.86;24;27;rn;23;27;rn\nPanama City;24;31;rn;3.81;25;31;rn;24;30;rn\nParamaribo;23;30;rn;1.78;23;29;rn;23;30;pc\nParis;18;30;rn;1.98;15;27;rn;17;29;pc\nPerth;11;18;rn;2.31;7;16;rn;10;17;pc\nPhnom Penh;25;33;rn;8.76;25;33;rn;25;32;c\nPort Moresby;23;30;pc;0;24;32;pc;23;30;c\nPort-au-prince;24;36;pc;2.26;22;36;clr;23;35;pc\nPrague;16;30;clr;0;17;30;rn;14;25;pc\nPyongyang;21;33;rn;1.98;19;30;rn;15;26;pc\nQuito;10;23;pc;0;8;23;c;10;23;c\nRabat;15;24;clr;0;15;25;clr;17;26;clr\nRecife;22;28;pc;0.99;23;28;rn;23;28;rn\nReykjavik;7;11;rn;4.11;5;11;c;7;11;pc\nRiga;10;20;rn;4.85;12;20;pc;13;21;rn\nRio de Janeiro;19;25;rn;4.45;20;28;clr;20;27;clr\nRiyadh;30;42;pc;0;29;45;clr;30;44;clr\nRome;19;31;clr;0;19;31;clr;19;31;clr\nSaint Petersburg;12;20;c;0.25;13;18;rn;15;20;rn\nSan Francisco;13;19;pc;0;14;20;pc;13;21;pc\nSan Jose;18;25;rn;10.46;18;26;rn;19;26;rn\nSan Juan;26;31;pc;0;25;30;pc;26;30;pc\nSan Salvador;19;25;rn;2.54;19;25;rn;18;25;rn\nSana'a;15;28;pc;0.81;15;28;pc;14;29;clr\nSantiago;6;12;rn;1.02;6;12;rn;1;12;rn\nSanto Domingo;24;31;pc;2.97;23;31;clr;23;31;pc\nSao Paulo;15;22;pc;0;14;24;pc;14;25;clr\nSeattle;16;28;pc;0;16;28;pc;15;25;pc\nSeoul;23;32;pc;1.78;21;29;rn;17;27;pc\nShanghai;25;32;rn;2.26;24;29;rn;24;28;rn\nSingapore;26;32;c;8.84;26;31;c;26;30;pc\nSofia;17;28;rn;0.25;15;27;rn;16;27;rn\nSt. John's;25;30;pc;0;25;30;pc;25;30;pc\nStockholm;10;23;clr;0;13;23;clr;13;26;pc\nSydney;11;20;clr;0;16;23;clr;9;25;clr\nTaipei City;28;35;c;0;28;36;pc;27;36;pc\nTallinn;11;19;pc;9.91;13;20;rn;14;19;rn\nTashkent;23;35;clr;0;24;37;clr;26;39;clr\nTbilisi;20;39;clr;0;20;37;clr;20;34;clr\nTehran;25;41;clr;0;25;37;clr;26;38;clr\nTel Aviv;24;32;clr;0;24;32;clr;25;32;clr\nTirana;20;31;clr;0;20;33;clr;21;34;pc\nTokyo;25;29;c;0;24;30;rn;24;28;rn\nToronto;21;28;clr;0;18;29;rn;15;24;pc\nTripoli;24;30;clr;0;25;33;clr;24;31;clr\nTunis;24;34;clr;0;23;37;clr;21;33;clr\nUlan Bator;12;28;pc;0.76;15;25;c;9;22;pc\nVancouver;19;28;c;0;16;27;clr;14;23;rn\nVienna;17;30;pc;0;19;31;rn;17;28;rn\nVientiane;25;35;pc;0;24;35;pc;25;34;pc\nVilnius;11;20;rn;5.49;12;23;pc;13;22;rn\nWarsaw;14;28;pc;0;16;30;pc;15;26;pc\nWellington;5;11;clr;0.25;8;12;c;11;13;pc\nYangon;25;33;rn;7.98;25;31;rn;25;31;rn\nYerevan;20;39;clr;0;23;37;clr;19;35;clr\nLegend: clr...clear;pc...partly cloudy;c...cloudy;rn...rain;sn...snow\n_____\nCopyright 2018 AccuWeather"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1642
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about London firefighters search for more building inferno victims
|
{
"text": [
"LONDON (AP) — London fire investigators are painstakingly searching for more victims of an inferno that engulfed a high-rise apartment building and killed at least 12 residents.\nAuthorities say the death toll is expected to rise as emergency workers sift through more of the wreckage on Thursday.\nThe fire early Wednesday in the 24-story building in west London's North Kensington district also injured dozens, 18 of them critically, and left an unknown number missing. The cause of the blaze is under investigation, but a tenants' group had complained for years about the risk of a fire.\nMore than 1 million pounds ($1.27 million) has been raised to help victims of the tragedy as volunteers and charities worked through the night to find shelter and food for people who lost their homes."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1643
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Journalist joins ranks of stranger-than-fiction faked deaths
|
{
"text": [
"LONDON (AP) — In a twist straight out of a spy thriller, Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko showed up at a news conference in Kiev on Wednesday — a day after he was reportedly shot dead in the Ukrainian capital. Babchenko explained that his death had been faked as part of sting by Ukrainian security services to catch his would-be assassin.\nIt's an astonishing saga, but not the first time people under stress or duress have gone to the extreme of faking their own deaths. Here are a few cases:\nJUAN PUJOL\nSpanish chicken farmer Juan Pujol, codenamed Agent Garbo, played a key role in the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II. He pretended to be an agent of Germany, but was really working for Britain's MI5, feeding the Nazis misleading information about Allied war efforts.\nHis greatest success was persuading German commanders that the Allied invasion would come in France's Pas de Calais region, far north of the real Normandy landing beaches.\nAfter the war, fearing revenge from surviving Nazis, he traveled with MI5 help to Angola where in 1949 he faked his death from malaria. Pujol, very much alive, moved to Venezuela, where he ran a bookshop. He died in 1988.\n____\nKEN KESEY\nKen Kesey — ringmaster of acid-tripping band of 1960s jesters the Merry Pranksters — had published the acclaimed novel \"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest\" when he was arrested in 1965 for marijuana possession.\nFearing prison, he left his truck parked on a cliff-side road in California with an apparent suicide note reading \"Ocean, Ocean, I'll beat you in the end\" and was smuggled into Mexico in the trunk of a friend's car. He returned to the United States several months later, was arrested and served several months in prison.\nKesey spent the rest of his life in Oregon and died in 2001 at the age of 66.\n___\nJOHN STONEHOUSE\nJohn Stonehouse was a British Labour lawmaker with financial troubles. With his business ventures crumbling, Stonehouse went to Florida in 1974 and faked his own death by leaving his clothes in a bundle on a Miami beach.\nHe was arrested a month later in Australia where he was living under an alias taken from a dead former constituent. Extradited to Britain, he was sentenced to seven years for theft, fraud and deception.\nAfter being released, Stonehouse reinvented himself as the author of several thrillers. He died in 1988, aged 62.\nTwo decades after his death, it was revealed that Stonehouse had been a Czech spy throughout the 1960s. Papers released by Britain's National Archives revealed that the British government had found out about Stonehouse's spying while he was still alive, but covered it up as there was too little evidence to put him on trial.\n___\nDAVID FRIEDLAND\nNew Jersey state senator Friedland was a rising star in political circles until he was caught taking $300,000 in kickbacks in 1980. He was sentenced to seven years in jail, but avoided prison by agreeing to help the government catch other thieves.\nFriedland resumed his fraud, looting the pension funds of the Teamsters Union of more than $1 million. In 1985, when he learned an indictment was imminent, he traveled to the Bahamas and faked his death in a scuba-diving accident. Friedland eluded authorities until 1987, when he was captured in the Maldives, where he was running a scuba-diving business.\nOn his release from prison in 1997, he had few regrets about his years on the run.\n\"It would play better to say I had a miserable time, but that isn't true,\" he told the Asbury Park Press. \"It was fun.\"\n___\nPHILIP SESSAREGO\nTom Carew was the best-selling author of \"Jihad!\" — an account of special forces operations in Afghanistan written by a former member of Britain's elite Special Air Service. In the weeks after the Sept, 11 attacks, Carew appeared on television as an expert on the Taliban.\nBut Carew was really Philip Sessarego, who had served in the regular British army, not the SAS. In 1993, Sessarego had faked his death in a car bombing in Croatia and reinvented himself as the dashing Carew.\nAfter the ruse was exposed by the BBC in November 2001, Sessarego moved to Belgium. His decomposed body was found in a garage in Antwerp in 2008. Police said he had likely died of carbon monoxide poisoning."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1644
|
I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Needs go unmet 6 months after Maria hit Puerto Rico
|
{
"text": [
"SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Generators are still humming. Candles are still flickering. Homes are still being repaired.\nPuerto Rico was hit by Hurricane Maria exactly six months ago, and the U.S. territory is still struggling to recover from the strongest storm to hit the island in nearly a century.\n\"There are a lot of people with needs,\" said Levid Ortiz, operating director of PR4PR, a local nonprofit that helps impoverished communities across the island. \"It shouldn't be like this. We should already be back on our feet.\"\nSome 250 Puerto Ricans formed a line around him on a recent weekday, standing for more than two hours to receive bottles of water and a box of food at a public basketball court in the mountain town of Corozal. Many of those waiting were still without power, including 23-year-old Keishla Quiles, a single mother with a 4-year-old son who still buys ice every day to fill a cooler to keep milk and other goods cold amid rising temperatures.\n\"Since we're a family of few resources, we have not been able to afford a generator,\" she said. \"It's been hard living like this.\"\nCrews already have restored water to 99 percent of clients and power to 93 percent of customers, but more than 100,000 of them still remain in the dark. Justo Gonzalez, interim director for Puerto Rico's Electric Power Authority, said he expects the entire island to have power by May, eight months after the Category 4 storm destroyed two-thirds of the island's power distribution system — and just as the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season is about to start.\nGonzalez also pledged to inspect dozens of wooden and cement poles still leaning haphazardly across the island after a wooden telephone pole fell on a car. It killed an elderly couple on Sunday as they returned from a town fair in the mountains of western Puerto Rico. The deaths of Luis Beltran, 62, and Rosa Bosque, 60, have angered Puerto Ricans and raised concerns about the safety of people as they recover from the hurricane.\n\"It worries me because ... it can happen anywhere,\" Mayor Edwin Soto told The Associated Press, adding that crews were going to inspect poles across the mountain town of Las Marias to ensure they are in good condition.\nBeltran's youngest sister, Migdalia Beltran, said her brother was living in New Jersey when Hurricane Maria hit, but that he moved back three months ago to be with family.\n\"He was No. 1,\" she said as her voice cracked and she began to cry. \"He was the one who gave me support to keep going.\"\nThe storm caused an estimated $100 billion in damage, killed dozens of people and damaged or destroyed nearly 400,000 homes, according to Puerto Rico's government.\nIn the six months since the hurricane, more than 135,000 people have fled to the U.S. mainland, according to a recent estimate by the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College in New York.\nMore than 40 percent of them settled in Florida, followed by Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania, the study found.\nMeanwhile, those who stayed behind say they need more help.\nThe AP recently found that of the $23 billion pledged for Puerto Rico, only $1.27 billion for a nutritional assistance program has been disbursed, along with more than $430 million to repair public infrastructure. The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Administration also has spent more than $6 billion from its standing emergency fund.\nMeanwhile, the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources issued a letter on Friday demanding that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers explain why it is reducing the number of crews helping restore power when there are still people who remain in the dark.\n\"While we recognize that much progress has been made in restoring power to the majority of customers, the job is not done,\" the letter stated."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1645
|
I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Pentagon chief Mattis makes clear that US committed to NATO
|
{
"text": [
"BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday made clear that the United States was committed to NATO while also reinforcing the Trump administration's demand that allies pay their fair share.\nSpeaking at his first NATO defense minister's meeting, Mattis called the alliance \"a fundamental bedrock for the United States and for all the trans-Atlantic community.\"\nThat message, delivered as Mattis stood alongside NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, comes amid mixed signals from President Donald Trump and as chaos swirls in Washington. The Pentagon chief made no references to the abrupt forced resignation Monday of Michael Flynn, the U.S. national security adviser, over his pre-inauguration discussions with Russia, and what the change may mean for U.S. policy toward Moscow.\n\"I haven't changed what I'm heading there for,\" Mattis told reporters traveling with him to the NATO gathering. \"It doesn't change my message at all.\"\nThe allies' interest and concern about the latest furor in Washington was evident early on as officials crowded around televisions at the NATO meeting to watch Mattis' initial appearance with Stoltenberg. Ministers immediately clustered around the retired Marine general as he entered the meeting room.\nIn public statements, however, NATO leaders brushed aside questions about the turmoil in Washington.\nStoltenberg said he has spoken to Trump twice on the phone, and has gotten the same reassurance from Mattis and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.\n\"They have all conveyed the same message to me as they have conveyed to other leaders in NATO countries, and that is that the United States will stay committed to the trans-Atlantic partnership,\" Stoltenberg said.\nMattis also urged that \"all who benefit from the best defense in the world carry their proportionate share of the necessary cost to defend freedom.\" The U.S. wants allies to increase their military funding to the benchmark goal of 2 percent of gross domestic product. Some NATO members have been slowly moving toward that.\nHe also was expected to press for greater assistance, including additional trainers, in the military campaigns in Afghanistan and elsewhere.\nDuring his Senate confirmation hearing last month, Mattis said he wanted the U.S. to \"maintain the strongest possible relationship with NATO.\"\nTrump has criticized NATO as \"obsolete,\" repeatedly praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and threatened that the U.S. might not defend allies that don't fulfill their financial obligations as NATO members. It's all rattled European leaders, who are looking for some clarity from Mattis.\nSuch comments are playing into fears that Trump will ease U.S. sanctions imposed on Moscow after it annexed Ukraine's Crimea region in 2014 and supported an insurgency in eastern Ukraine. Another concern is lessened U.S. military support for Eastern European allies near Russia's border who worry about being the next target.\nIn recent weeks, Trump's public statements on NATO have softened somewhat.\nAfter meeting Trump, British Prime Minister Theresa May told reporters that he assured her he was \"100 percent\" behind NATO. A joint statement issued after Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke by telephone said the two agreed on the \"fundamental importance that the NATO alliance has for trans-Atlantic relations\" and the need for all members to pay their fair share. Trump made similar comments in a call with French President Francois Hollande.\nOnly four countries other than the U.S. — Britain, Estonia, Greece and Poland — are meeting NATO's 2 percent spending target. Many are increasing their budgets in response to Russia's actions.\nStill, the U.S. spends more on its armed forces than all the others combined. Washington also pays more than 22 percent of NATO's commonly funded budget.\nThe U.S. also would like to see an increased NATO commitment in Afghanistan, where forces have been fighting the Taliban since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Washington wants more trainers in Afghanistan, where about 8,400 American troops are still deployed.\nThere also will be discussions about how to accelerate the newer, U.S.-led campaign to defeat the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1646
|
I am asking in the domain of entertainment. Tell me about Reyes returns as Cardinals lose 3-2 to Brewers
|
{
"text": [
"MILWAUKEE (AP) — It was a memorable return for Alex Reyes. Same for Orlando Arcia, albeit for much different reasons.\nReyes pitched four scoreless innings for St. Louis in his return from Tommy John surgery, but Arcia hit a tiebreaking RBI single in Milwaukee's two-run seventh and the Brewers held off the Cardinals for a 3-2 win on Wednesday.\n\"It was fun. It was fun knowing that I had the ball today,\" Reyes said. \"Being able to go out there that first inning and execute pitches pretty quickly and strike out two. It was huge.\"\nMaking his first major league appearance since Sept. 29, 2016, the 23-year-old right-hander allowed three hits, struck out two and walked two. He worked out of a bases-loaded jam in the second.\n\"My job is to get outs,\" Reyes said. \"That's what I was trying to do.\"\nFatigue was a bit of a factor for the rookie.\n\"Not necessarily in the second, more in the third,\" he said. \"I felt a little fatigue. I try not to think about it much when I'm out there.\"\nCardinals manager Mike Matheny noticed a change and went out to check on Reyes in the fourth.\n\"Saw a drop in velocity,\" Matheny said. \"Needed to go out check out, see what was going on. He said it was nothing that he didn't normally feel. It was just something that got us concerned.\"\nReyes was done after throwing 73 pitches, 42 for strikes.\n\"Obviously, we're going to be extra cautious with him,\" Matheny said.\nReyes was 4-1 with a 1.57 ERA two years ago, striking out 52 in 46 innings. He felt pain during a pre-spring training bullpen session in February 2017 and was operated on by Cardinals physician Dr. George Paletta.\nReyes went 3-0 in four minor league injury rehabilitation starts this month at Class A Palm Beach and Peoria, Double-A Springfield and Triple-A Memphis. He struck out 44 in 23 innings.\n\"This was the first time he's had to work,\" Matheny said. \"All those minor league rehab starts he had barely had anybody on base. So, he had to bear down. Didn't give up any runs. His stuff looked right. His stuff looked good.\"\nArcia was recalled from Triple-A Colorado Springs. He was sent down to work on his batting and was surprised at being recalled so soon.\n\"Things weren't going my way and they wanted me to go down there to work on my hitting and reset everything.\" Arcia said through a translator. \"Thankfully, things were starting to go a lot better.\"\nHe looked pretty good in the seventh. With two out and runners on first and second, Arcia stopped a 0-for-15 slide with a base hit against Sam Tuivailala (1-1).\nJeremy Jeffress (5-0) got the win despite allowing two runs in the top of the seventh. Josh Hader struck out the side in the eighth and got two outs in the ninth, and Corey Knebel struck out Jose Martinez for his fifth save in seven chances.\nMilwaukee went 1 for 10 with runners in scoring position, but the NL Central leaders still improved to 19-8 in May, setting a team record for wins in the month. Christian Yelich homered for the Brewers, and Erik Kratz had two hits and scored a run.\nHarrison Bader homered for St. Louis, and Dexter Fowler had three singles.\nMAKING MOVES\nReyes was reinstated from the 60-day disabled list. Right-hander Mike Mayers was optioned to Memphis, and right-hander Dominic Leone was transferred to the 60-day DL. Leone has been out since May 5 with right upper arm nerve irritation.\nTRAINER'S ROOM\nCardinals: Fowler returned to the starting lineup after missing three games with a bruised right knee. He was hit by a pitch Saturday at Pittsburgh. ... LF Marcell Ozuna was a late scratch and replaced by Tyler O'Neill. Ozuna pinch-hit in the ninth and walked.\nBrewers: SS Tyler Saladino (left ankle sprain) was placed on the 10-day DL. He got hurt Tuesday night. Eric Sogard started in his place, and Arcia took over in the seventh.\nUP NEXT\nCardinals: RHP Jack Flaherty (2-1, 2.15 ERA) is scheduled to make his third career start against Pittsburgh on Friday. RHP Trevor Williams (5-3, 3.43 ERA) starts for the visiting Pirates.\nBrewers: RHP Chase Anderson (4-3, 4.42 ERA) faces the Chicago White Sox on Friday night in the opener of an eight-game trip. He beat the White Sox 5-1 for Arizona in his major league debut on May 11, 2014.\n___\nMore AP baseball: https://apnews.com/tag/MLBbaseball"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1647
|
I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Roku to Soon Launch Enhanced Voice Search in UK
|
{
"text": [
"LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 24, 2018--Roku, Inc.(NASDAQ: ROKU) today announced that it will soon make its Enhanced Voice Search feature available to Roku users in the UK. Enhanced Voice Search enables users to use their voice to find entertainment to watch. The new feature will be available for Roku® players through the Roku mobile app, and for the Roku Streaming Stick+ through the remote control. Roku OS 8.1 will begin to roll out through a software update beginning on May 1.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005254/en/\nRSS+ with Roku mobile app and Roku OS (Graphic: Business Wire)\nEnhanced Voice Search allows for more natural language understanding and can search for movies, shows, actors and directors, or even launch streaming channels, in a more conversational tone. For example, a user can say things like, “show me comedies”, “find The Grand Tour” or “launch hayu”.\n“We want to get our customers to the show they want to watch quickly,” said Lloyd Klarke, Director of Product Management at Roku. “Enhanced voice search makes it even easier for our users to find new movies and TV shows to watch.”\nThe Roku mobile app, available for iOS® and Android™, acts as a remote, streams media from a mobile device to the TV, includes a keyboard and offers features like voice search and private listening. In addition, Roku OS 8.1 will enable private listening for up to four devices concurrently for all Roku players.\nAvailability\nRoku OS 8.1 will begin to roll out on May 1. The Roku Streaming Stick+ is available from all major retailers for a suggested retail price of £79,99.\nAbout Roku, Inc.\nRoku pioneered streaming to the TV. We connect users to the streaming content they love, enable content publishers to build and monetize large audiences, and provide advertisers with unique capabilities to engage consumers. Roku streaming players and Roku TV™ models are available around the world through direct retail sales and licensing arrangements with TV OEMs and service operators. Roku was founded by Anthony Wood and is headquartered in Los Gatos, Calif. U.S.A.\nCautionary Statement Regarding Roku Forward-Looking Statements\nThis press release contains “forward-looking” statements that are based on our beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to us on the date of this press release. Forward-looking statements may involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These statements include, but are not limited to the timing and availability of future software releases and the functionality enabled in such releases. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements publicly, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future. Important factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially are detailed from time to time in the reports Roku, Inc. files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Form 10-K for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2017. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are posted on Roku’s website and are available from Roku without charge.\nRoku, Roku TV and Streaming Stick are registered trademarks of Roku, Inc. in the U.S. and in other countries.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005254/en/\nCONTACT: Roku, Inc.\nMike Duin\nmduin@roku.com\nKEYWORD: UNITED KINGDOM UNITED STATES EUROPE NORTH AMERICA CALIFORNIA\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: ENTERTAINMENT TV AND RADIO TECHNOLOGY CONSUMER ELECTRONICS HARDWARE INTERNET SOFTWARE AUDIO/VIDEO MOBILE/WIRELESS\nSOURCE: Roku, Inc.\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/24/2018 04:30 AM/DISC: 04/24/2018 04:30 AM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005254/en"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1648
|
I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Missile defense test failed to intercept target
|
{
"text": [
"WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. official says a missile interceptor failed to hit its target in a test conducted in Hawaii on Wednesday.\nThe official was not authorized to discuss the outcome and spoke on condition of anonymity.\nThe official said test data is being analyzed to determine why the interceptor, known as a Standard Missile 3 Block IIA, did not hit the target.\nThe failed test was first reported by CNN.\nThe Missile Defense Agency, which manages U.S. missile defense systems, issued a statement saying the interceptor was launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility at Kauai, Hawaii, but did not reveal the outcome.\nThe interceptor is being developed in cooperation with Japan and is to be deployed on land as well as aboard ships."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1649
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about 'SNL' comedian Leslie Jones returns to Olympics as super fan
|
{
"text": [
"NEW YORK (AP) — Super fan Leslie Jones is returning to the Olympics.\nThe \"Saturday Night Live\" comedian is joining NBC's coverage of the Pyeongchang Olympics as a contributor, reprising her role from the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.\nThe network said Tuesday that Jones will attend Olympic events, meet athletes and spread her enthusiasm for the games on television and online. The games run Feb. 9-25.\nJones posted a photo on Twitter of her dressed in red, white and blue gear while working out on an exercise machine with the caption, \"Guess What Time It is Y'all!!!!! And Guess Where I'm Going!!!!! Slay All Day USA!!!!!!!\"\nDuring the Rio Games, Jones had been live-tweeting while watching the games in the U.S. and posted a video of herself decked out in the American flag and wearing plastic gold medals. Upon seeing it, NBC Olympics president Jim Bell invited her to Rio.\nBell says: \"Experiencing the Olympics through the lens of Leslie is unlike anything else. Her passion for Team USA is contagious, and her adventures in South Korea should be fascinating.\"\nJones was an Emmy nominee for \"SNL\" and hosted last year's BET Awards.\n___\nMore AP Olympic coverage: https://wintergames.ap.org"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1650
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Walker's 38 points, career-high 8 3s lift Hornets past Hawks
|
{
"text": [
"ATLANTA (AP) — Kemba Walker sank a career-high nine 3-pointers and scored 38 points, leading the Charlotte Hornets to a dominant 123-110 win over the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday night.\nCharlotte never trailed while building double-digit leads in each half.\nDwight Howard had 20 points and 12 rebounds in his first return to Atlanta after his one season with his hometown Hawks. It was Howard's second double-double in less than a week against the Hawks. He had 18 points and 15 rebounds in Charlotte's 121-110 win over the Hawks on Friday.\nNicolas Batum had 10 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists for Charlotte.\nWalker had 18 points in the third quarter as the Hornets withstood the Hawks' rally. Charlotte's biggest lead in the first half was 15 points, last held at 62-47. Kent Bazemore had 12 of his 25 points in the third quarter to help Atlanta cut into the deficit.\nDennis Schroder's basket shrunk the Hornets' lead to 77-76. Walker answered with a 3-pointer that started his scoring streak that carried through the end of the third period.\nThe Hornets' lead was back to 13 points entering the fourth.\nThe win was already decided when Howard added powerful jams over Ersan Ilyasova and Mike Muscala in the fourth.\nOfficial Eric Lewis called an unusual technical foul on Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer in the second quarter. Budenholzer complained when no foul was called as Bazemore had his shot denied. Budenholzer had no more to say when the action moved to the other end of the floor, where Batum scored. Lewis then called the technical foul on Budenholzer, who reacted with shock, and another technical foul on Bazemore.\nTIP-INS\nHornets: F Marvin Williams (left ankle sprain) was held out. X-rays were negative after he left the fourth quarter of Monday night's loss to Indiana. Frank Kaminsky started for Williams, who may miss another game. ... The Hornets wore their black \"Buzz City\" alternate uniforms. ... Charlotte has won the first three games of the four-game season series.\nHawks: Schroder had his right shoulder wrapped as he sat on the bench at the end of the third quarter, but he returned about four minutes into the final period and had 13 points and nine assists. ... Budenholzer said F DeAndre Bembry (left abductor strain) was making progress but there was no change in his status. ... Muscala started the second half instead of Miles Plumlee and hit a 3-pointer on the team's first possession following the break. ... Marco Belinelli, who had 22 points, made his first four 3-pointers before three misses.\nHOWARD'S HOMECOMING\nDuring the first timeout, fans had a mixed reaction to a tribute to Howard. There were boos and some cheers when the Hawks posted an image of Howard on the video board with the message \"Thanks for being true to Atlanta.\" There was another mixed reaction when the PA announcer urged fans to \"give it up for Dwight Howard.\"\nThere were a few boos during Howard's pregame introduction.\nUP NEXT\nHornets: Host Indiana on Friday night.\nHawks: Visit Boston on Friday night.\n___\nFor more NBA coverage: https://apnews.com/tag/NBAbasketball"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1651
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Expanded Conference Glance
|
{
"text": [
"All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Home Away Div Tampa Bay 49 34 12 3 71 175 125 17-5-1 17-7-2 9-3-1 Boston 48 29 11 8 66 157 119 16-6-4 13-5-4 10-1-2 Washington 49 29 15 5 63 150 138 18-7-1 11-8-4 8-4-3 Toronto 51 28 18 5 61 162 146 13-8-2 15-10-3 6-4-1 New Jersey 49 25 16 8 58 147 147 13-8-3 12-8-5 5-6-1 Columbus 49 27 19 3 57 131 137 16-8-0 11-11-3 8-5-2 Pittsburgh 51 27 21 3 57 151 153 17-7-1 10-14-2 10-4-0 Philadelphia 49 24 17 8 56 141 141 13-9-4 11-8-4 5-2-4 N.Y. Rangers 50 25 20 5 55 153 151 17-8-3 8-12-2 7-6-3 N.Y. Islanders 51 25 21 5 55 173 184 13-8-3 12-13-2 7-7-1 Carolina 50 23 19 8 54 139 155 11-7-4 12-12-4 6-5-3 Florida 48 20 22 6 46 136 159 11-8-3 9-14-3 6-4-1 Detroit 48 19 21 8 46 126 146 10-10-7 9-11-1 6-9-2 Montreal 49 20 23 6 46 129 156 12-10-5 8-13-1 9-6-2 Ottawa 48 15 24 9 39 125 168 9-11-5 6-13-4 5-8-3 Buffalo 50 14 27 9 37 115 166 6-13-3 8-14-6 3-5-2 WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Home Away Div Vegas 48 32 12 4 68 164 128 19-3-2 13-9-2 11-1-1 Winnipeg 50 29 13 8 66 164 136 17-3-1 12-10-7 7-5-2 Nashville 47 29 11 7 65 145 123 16-4-3 13-7-4 10-3-2 St. Louis 51 30 18 3 63 148 130 17-10-0 13-8-3 7-4-1 Dallas 50 28 18 4 60 155 134 17-7-1 11-11-3 7-10-0 San Jose 48 26 15 7 59 143 133 14-7-3 12-8-4 12-2-3 Anaheim 51 25 17 9 59 144 142 14-9-3 11-8-6 8-5-5 Calgary 49 25 16 8 58 137 135 12-11-3 13-5-5 8-5-3 Colorado 48 27 18 3 57 157 139 18-7-1 9-11-2 7-6-1 Los Angeles 49 26 18 5 57 139 121 12-9-3 14-9-2 6-9-3 Minnesota 49 26 18 5 57 144 140 17-4-4 9-14-1 8-8-0 Chicago 49 23 19 7 53 146 136 12-10-3 11-9-4 5-7-2 Edmonton 49 22 24 3 47 135 157 11-13-1 11-11-2 10-2-0 Vancouver 49 19 24 6 44 127 159 8-13-3 11-11-3 5-9-1 Arizona 50 12 29 9 33 118 172 6-15-3 6-14-6 1-7-5\nNOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.\nMonday's Games No games scheduled\nTuesday's Games\nFlorida 4, N.Y. Islanders 1\nAnaheim 3, Boston 1\nCarolina 2, Ottawa 1\nNew Jersey 3, Buffalo 1\nMinnesota at Columbus, 7 p.m.\nSan Jose at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.\nTampa Bay at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.\nMontreal at St. Louis, 8 p.m.\nChicago at Nashville, 8 p.m.\nLos Angeles at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.\nVegas at Calgary, 9 p.m.\nColorado at Vancouver, 10 p.m.\nWednesday's Games\nN.Y. Islanders at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.\nSan Jose at Detroit, 8 p.m.\nPhiladelphia at Washington, 8 p.m.\nThursday's Games\nToronto at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.\nMontreal at Carolina, 7 p.m.\nSt. Louis at Boston, 7 p.m.\nFlorida at Buffalo, 7 p.m.\nAnaheim at Ottawa, 7 p.m.\nPhiladelphia at New Jersey, 7 p.m.\nVegas at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.\nLos Angeles at Nashville, 8:30 p.m.\nTampa Bay at Calgary, 9 p.m.\nDallas at Arizona, 9 p.m.\nColorado at Edmonton, 9 p.m.\nChicago at Vancouver, 10 p.m.\nFriday's Games\nWashington at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.\nDetroit at Carolina, 7 p.m.\nSan Jose at Columbus, 7 p.m.\nVegas at Minnesota, 8 p.m."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1652
|
I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Spain: Mallorca to ban renting apartments to tourists
|
{
"text": [
"MADRID (AP) — Palma on the island of Mallorca plans to become the first Spanish city to prohibit the rental of apartments to tourists.\nPalma mayor Antoni Noguera says Tuesday that his government will vote for the ban in a city council because \"there is nothing worse than having residents who can't live in their city nor afford a rent.\"\nRents in Mallorca and in most Spanish cities have increased in recent years. Many residents and local lawmakers blame the price rise on internet sites and apps that allow travelers to rent apartments short-term directly from homeowners.\nNoguera says that houses will be excluded from the ban, unless they are in protected areas, near airports or in industrial areas."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1653
|
I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about A Battle For Talent And Concerns Over Threats to Plans Will Make 2018 The Year of The Employee According To A New Report Released By The Worldcom Public Relations Group
|
{
"text": [
"NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 24, 2018--The Worldcom Public Relations Group, the world’s leading partnership of independently owned public relations firms, announced today the release of the Worldcom Confidence Index (CI) – the first annual report of the issues global CEOs and CMOs believe will most influence business success. The comprehensive survey of business leaders uncovered what they see as the biggest threats to achieving their plans. It also revealed a 43% increase in the number of business leaders planning to give employees the most attention in 2018 than did so in 2017.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005435/en/\nThis leap in attention for employees – the only audience to see an increase – seems to be driven by concerns over three main threats: government or legislative changes (#1 threat), lack of available talent (#2 threat) and cyber crime (#3 threat). It may also be a response to very low confidence levels when it comes to their ability to attract (2 nd lowest CI Score) and retain (4 th lowest CI Score) the best talent.\nEmployees have a crucial role in ensuring compliance with regulations and essential cyber protection practices. As a result, the Report’s findings are a clear signal that leaders see employees as a vital ingredient for success. In fact, attracting the best talent ranked highest as the criteria that will have the most influence on success in 2018 – just ahead of the strength of the global economy. It was three times higher than disruptive competition, which declined to almost half its 2017 score.\nDespite a lower than average confidence in ability to attract and retain the best talent, business leaders remain surprisingly optimistic about their ability to satisfy customers, rating it as their top source of optimism for 2018. However, leaders indicate only moderate confidence (CI Score of 26.4, 1.1 points above average) in ability to increase productivity by energizing and engaging employees.\n“When you look at the data, you start to see some very interesting contradictions and inconsistencies which highlight global uncertainty,” said Todd Lynch, Managing Director Worldcom Public Relations Group. “As engaged employees are fundamental to delivering a great customer experience, the report suggests that leaders’ confidence in the ability to satisfy customers might be misplaced if they struggle to retain their best talent. The combination of issues uncovered places the employee front and center for global businesses like never before. It is for this reason we believe 2018 will be the year of the employee.”\nAvailable in its entirety at https://worldcomgroup.com/confidence-index., the Worldcom Confidence Index also highlights key issues and trends, and uncovers interesting differences in the confidence levels of respondents across 18 demographic categories, including business roles, ages, gender, business size, geographic presence and more. Highlights of the 2018 Confidence Index include:\nCyber Crime Concerns: Overall, business leaders are least confident in their ability to protect their organization from cyber crime, and at least 50% more American companies than those in the other regions see cyber crime as the biggest threat. American Confidence: Organizations headquartered in America sit atop the Confidence Index with an overall score of 34.9/100, nearly nine points above the average and almost two and a half times the confidence score for Japan. Asian Hesitation: Organizations headquartered in Asia are at the bottom of the Confidence Index with an overall score of 19.1. Generation Gap: Confidence in the ability to both attract and keep the best talent declines significantly as leaders age. Brand Power: When compared to larger organizations, 71% more of smaller organizations think the ability to attract talent with the quality of their Employer Brand will have the most influence on business success in 2018. Unknown Course: Nearly one in 12 of all business leaders see global instability as the biggest threat to achieving their plans. Political Positivity: More than double the number of organizations from America (28%) than EMEA (13%) think the style of political leader communications positively impacts their optimism about growth potential. Mid-Market Squeeze: Midsize organizations are the least confident (along with smaller sized organizations) about their ability to protect their brand in the event of a crisis.\n“The high-level challenges and opportunities identified in Worldcom’s first global confidence survey provide the insights and knowledge necessary to help CMOs and CEOs make informed and knowledgeable decisions,” said Patrik Schober, Group Chair of the Global Board, Worldcom Public Relations Group. “We believe this report highlights what’s on the C-suite’s mind and focuses on the challenges and opportunities impacting their future actions and outcomes.”\nThe global report was conducted by two independent research companies, Research Now and 3Gem, and gathered responses via an online survey in six of the G7 countries (France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom and the United States) as well as China. The methodology resulted in a total of 585 responses (167 America; 106 Asia; 312 EMEA) from leaders of all ages and business sizes.\nThe report concludes with an analysis of the issues and key recommendations that business leaders can implement to increase their probability of success in 2018.\nAbout The Worldcom Public Relations Group\nThe Worldcom Public Relations Group is the world’s leading partnership of independently owned public relations firms, with 143 offices employing some 2,000 staff in 115 cities across six continents. In total, Worldcom partners reported combined revenue of US$288 million last year from 3,034 clients. Established in 1988, the group was formed so that the strongest, most capable independent firms could deliver immediate impact and sustained value through the intelligent use of communications – wherever in the world a client needs support. Partners serve national, international and multinational clients, while retaining the flexibility and client-service focus inherent in independent agencies. Through Worldcom, clients have on-demand access to in-depth communications expertise from professionals who understand the language, culture and customs of the geographic areas in which they operate. www.worldcomgroup.com\nConnect with Worldcom PR Group on Facebook and LinkedIn.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005435/en/\nCONTACT: McGrath/Power Public Relations & Communications\nAllyson Scott, 408-727-0351\nAllysonScott@mcgrathpower.com\nKEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA NEW YORK\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMMUNICATIONS ADVERTISING MARKETING PUBLIC RELATIONS/INVESTOR RELATIONS\nSOURCE: Worldcom Public Relations Group\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/24/2018 08:00 AM/DISC: 04/24/2018 08:01 AM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005435/en"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1654
|
I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about UN rights chief: Syria siege involved 'war crimes'
|
{
"text": [
"UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief told an informal meeting of the Security Council Monday that the Syrian government's five-year siege of the Damascus suburbs of eastern Ghouta has involved \"pervasive war crimes,\" use of chemical weapons and starvation as a weapon of war.\nHigh Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein was blocked from addressing a formal council meeting by a Russian procedural maneuver, but he delivered his hard-hitting speech to an open meeting anyway, decrying \"mind-numbing crimes\" committed by all parties in Syria using \"unlawful methods of warfare.\"\nHe said multiple parties to the conflict, now in its eighth year, \"claim to justify their military offensives based on their struggle against terrorism.\"\nBut Zeid said \"never before have the campaigns against terrorism been used more often to justify the unconscionable use of force against civilians than in the last few months in Syria.\"\nHe was especially critical of Syria, singling out President Bashar Assad's claim that his government makes every effort to protect civilians.\nThe U.N.'s top human rights official dismissed it, saying: \"When you are capable of torturing and indiscriminately killing your own people, you have long forfeited your own credibility.\"\nZeid pointed to eastern Ghouta as an example.\n\"The siege of eastern Ghouta by the Syrian government forces, half a decade long, has involved pervasive war crimes, the use of chemical weaponry, enforced starvation as a weapon of warfare, and the denial of essential and life-saving aid,\" he said.\nZeid said this has culminated \"in the current relentless, month-long bombardment of hundreds of thousands of terrified trapped civilians.\"\n\"Families are now streaming out of the area,\" he said, \"but many civilians fear reprisals will be taken against them for their perceived support for opposition groups.\"\nZeid stressed that \"those who have perpetrated and are still perpetrating these mind-numbing crimes committed in Syria must be made to answer before a properly constituted court of law.\"\n\"This must be assured and made non-negotiable — for the victims,\" he said, but also for the legitimacy of the U.N. and the Security Council, and to prevent future violations and advance human rights around the world.\nHe again urged the council to refer Syria to the International Criminal Court.\nThat remains highly unlikely, however, since both Russia and China vetoed a resolution backed by more than 60 countries in May 2014 that would have referred the Syrian conflict to the ICC.\nZeid also said justice and respect for human rights must be at the center of any peace talks.\n\"No settlement which shields the perpetrators from prosecution is worth discussing, simply because such a settlement would be utterly empty,\" he said. \"For peace in Syria to be meaningful and lasting, a guarantee of justice for the Syrian people must be assured.\"\nZeid had been scheduled to speak at an open council meeting Monday afternoon, but when it started, Russian Deputy Ambassador Gennady Kuzmin protested that it was a question for the Human Rights Council in Geneva, not the Security Council, which is charged with ensuring international peace and security.\nHe demanded a procedural vote on whether the meeting should be held.\nTo proceed, at least nine of the 15 council members had to vote \"yes,\" but only eight did so. Four countries voted \"no\" — Russia, China, Bolivia and Kazakhstan — while the three African countries, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast and Equitorial Guinea abstained.\nLongtime U.N. observers said it was exceedingly rare for a scheduled council meeting to be halted by a procedural vote.\nFrance's U.N. Ambassador Francois Delattre criticized Russia for refusing any discussion of human rights in the Security Council, when rights violations in Syria \"are at their very peak.\"\nBritain's deputy U.N. ambassador Jonathan Allen said Russia \"doesn't want the truth of ... the appalling human rights abuses taking place.\"\nBut he said: \"We mustn't let them silence us.\""
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1655
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about EtherNet/IP™ Encoders Rise to Oil & Gas Industry Challenges
|
{
"text": [
"SCHAUMBURG, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 24, 2018--EtherNet/IP™ encoders from Leine & Linde are available for oil and gas equipment applications, as they are certified for use in ATEX/IECEx zone 1/21 - areas where a high level of protection is needed such as in atmospheres with gas and dust. These encoders will be on exhibit at the upcoming Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) held April 30 – May 3 in Houston, Texas ( Booth #1705 ) .\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005237/en/\nLeine & Linde EtherNet/IP™ encoders are available for oil and gas equipment applications (Photo: Business Wire)\nUseful in all hazardous or explosive environments, the Leine & Linde singleturn rotaryEx 647 encoder and the multiturn Ex 648 are both available with solid shaft or hollow-shaft mounting to fit well into the oil and gas industry applications. The reliability of Leine & Linde encoders is well established and appreciated, especially among the most physically demanding industry applications.\nLeine & Linde is a pre-qualified supplier for oil and gas industries, listed on the Achilles FPAL and JQS supplier lists. EtherNet/IP™ is one of the most widespread communication protocols for industry solutions where accuracy, flexibility, and high-speed performance are vital factors. EtherNet/IP is a trademark of ODVA, Inc.\nLeine & Linde’s EtherNet/IP™encoder functionality:\nEncoder device profile 0x22 Cycle time can be as low as 1 ms Supports up to 64-bit data Ready-to-use assemblies Position Scaling: free, binary and non-binary Preset functionality Speed limits: low and high Acceleration limits: low and high Position limits: low and high Boot loader for firmware upgrade and IP search included\nMore information on these encoders is available online here.\nLeine & Linde is based in Sweden with exclusive North American distribution through HEIDENHAIN CORPORATION in Schaumburg, IL. Leine & Linde is well known for offering high quality, heavy duty encoders of both the incremental and absolute type, are noted for their product robustness and design to cope with the harshest of environments, such as those with high vibration, dirt and cold temperatures. These heavy, severe duty encoders are suited for drive and measurement applications and are often found in industries such as pulp and paper, forest and wood processing, agriculture, aggregate and mining equipment.\nMore information is available from North American Product Specialist Jonathan Dougherty at 847-519-4218 or .\nImage Available for Download here:\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005237/en/\nCONTACT: HEIDENHAIN CORPORATION\nJonathan Dougherty, 847-519-4218\nNorth American Product Specialist\njdougherty@heidenhain.com\nKEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA ILLINOIS TEXAS\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: ENERGY OIL/GAS TECHNOLOGY HARDWARE INTERNET MANUFACTURING OTHER MANUFACTURING\nSOURCE: HEIDENHAIN CORPORATION\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/24/2018 08:34 AM/DISC: 04/24/2018 08:34 AM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005237/en"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1656
|
I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Poll: Seniors ready to Skype docs, worry about care quality
|
{
"text": [
"WASHINGTON (AP) — Every morning, 92-year-old Sidney Kramer wraps a blood pressure cuff around his arm and steps on a scale, and readings of his heart health beam to a team of nurses — and to his daughter's smartphone — miles from his Maryland home.\nRed flags? A nurse immediately calls, a form of telemedicine that is helping Kramer live independently by keeping his congestive heart failure under tight control.\n\"It's reassuring both psychologically and physically. The way he's put it to me, it's like having a doctor appointment every morning,\" said Miriam Dubin, Kramer's daughter.\nThe vast majority of older Americans and their caregivers are ready to give virtual health care a try: Nearly 9 in 10 adults age 40 and over would be comfortable using at least one type of telemedicine for themselves or an aging loved one, says a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.\nBut they want to make sure that an e-visit or other remote care is just as good as they'd get in person, and that their health information stays private, according to the survey released Thursday.\nLong considered an option mainly for improving access to health care in rural areas with few doctors, telemedicine is gaining ground with tech-savvy younger consumers — they text their physician with questions or Skype with a mild complaint. For seniors with chronic illnesses or mobility problems that make simply reaching a doctor's office an ordeal, telehealth could be more than a convenience. The graying population is raising serious questions about how the nation will provide enough quality long-term care.\nBut while private insurance often covers a video visit or other digital health care, seniors have had a harder time because Medicare tightly restricts what it will pay for.\nThat's starting to change, with a law Congress passed last winter that expands Medicare coverage for such options as video visits to diagnose stroke symptoms or check on home dialysis patients. Also, Medicare Advantage programs used by a third of beneficiaries can start offering additional telehealth options.\n\"While the interest is huge, one of the big barriers remains reimbursement,\" said Johns Hopkins University telemedicine chief Dr. Ingrid Zimmer-Galler, who has turned to grants to help fund such services as telepsychiatry for dementia patients. The new law \"is really a huge step in the right direction. It certainly doesn't cover everything.\"\nCosts are a major issue for people who need ongoing living assistance. Less than a third of adults age 40 and over have set aside any money for their future long term care needs, the AP-NORC survey shows, and more than half mistakenly think they'll be able to rely on Medicare to help cover nursing care or home health aides.\nTelemedicine will have to replace in-person care, not add to it, to help with those costs, cautioned Zimmer-Galler.\nAs access for seniors promises to grow, the AP-NORC Center poll shows widespread interest in telehealth. More than half of adults of all ages would be comfortable with a video visit via Skype or FaceTime to discuss medications, for ongoing care of a chronic illness or even for an urgent health concern.\nIn fact, adults 40 and older are just as open to at least some forms of telemedicine as those under 40, with one exception: The older crowd is slightly less comfortable discussing health care by text.\nAmong caregivers, 87 percent say they'd be interested in using at least one form of telemedicine for that person's medical needs.\n\"I think the parents would be happier at home instead of being in the doctor's office waiting an hour to see a doctor for 15 minutes,\" said Don Withey of Courtland, New York, who helps his 92-year-old father and 89-year-old mother get to their appointments. But, \"we don't know much more about it other than the fact you can talk to a doctor over the computer or smartphone.\"\nJust 12 percent of adults say they wouldn't use any form of telemedicine.\nThere are concerns. More than 30 percent of people worry about privacy or the security or health information. About half fear that telemedicine could lead to lower-quality care, the poll found.\n\"It's not about having a video screen or Skype in the home or even a blood pressure cuff in the home. It's about the team that's behind it and the clinicians who are supporting the care of that patient,\" said Rachel DeSantis, chief of staff at Johns Hopkins Home Care Group, which provides the 92-year-old Kramer's remote monitoring.\nThe Hopkins program provides no-cost monitoring for a month or two to select high-risk patients after a hospitalization because research found it reduces their chances of readmission.\nWhen the monitor recorded Kramer's weight creeping up one week, nurses immediately knew it was fluid build-up, a heart failure symptom that needed quick treatment. The machine is programmed for some educational feedback, too.\nDubin says her dad learned quickly when to cut back. \"If he enjoys a pastrami sandwich one day, he can see his numbers may be higher the next day.\"\nDubin says the reassurance was worth privately paying, about $250 a month, to keep the monitoring once Kramer's initial time in the program ended.\n___\nThe survey was conducted March 13 to April 5 by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, with funding from the SCAN Foundation.\nIt involved interviews in English and Spanish with 1,945 adults, including 1,522 adults age 40 and over, who are members of NORC's probability-based AmeriSpeak panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. Results from the full survey have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.\n___\nOnline:\nAP-NORC long term care polls: http://www.longtermcarepoll.org/"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1657
|
I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Review: Roger Daltrey aces set of soulful covers, originals
|
{
"text": [
"Roger Daltrey, \"As Long As I Have You\" (Republic Records)\nIt may seem paradoxical to begin a review of a Roger Daltrey album by mentioning Pete Townshend, but The Who vocalist himself credits his bandmate for encouragement in getting \"As Long As I Have You\" finished.\n\"I'd lost confidence in it, due to a long break recovering from meningitis,\" Daltrey says in a touching liner note on his first solo record since 1992.\nDaltrey has embodied many characters on record, stage and screen — pinball wizard Tommy and real-life reformed criminal John McVicar among them — but he's not the kind of singer whose personality gets lost in the song. Instead, his credibility and authenticity as a vocalist make the tunes his own no matter who wrote them.\nTownshend's also plays acoustic guitar and a few electrifying solos on seven of the 11 songs on the album, an exquisitely chosen selection of tunes by Stephen Stills, Parliament, Stevie Wonder, Nick Cave, K.T. Oslin by way of Dusty Springfield and Boz Scaggs, among others.\nDaltrey tips his cap to his band and youth by covering a pair of tracks The Who played when they were starting out — the dynamic title song and a Joe Tex ballad, \"The Love You Save.\"\nBoth Stills' \"How Far\" (from the first Manassas album) and Parliament's \"Get On Out of the Rain\" (aka \"Come In Out of the Rain\") could be The Who circa 1972, Daltrey singing with gusto and Townshend's guitar lines providing real lift. Oslin's soulful \"Where Is a Man to Go\" and Cave's \"Into My Arms\" are also great.\nThe end of the album brings a rarity: Daltrey originals. The tender \"Certified Rose,\" with Stax-like horns, is dedicated to his daughter, while thoughtful closer \"Always Heading Home\" attains added poignancy in light of his brush with mortality.\nDaltrey says he's ready for another Who album and this record and his 2014 collaboration with Wilko Johnson show he's still in great form. It would be an amazing journey, Pete."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1658
|
I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about BC-US--Sugar, US
|
{
"text": [
"New York (AP) — Sugar futures trading on the IntercontinentalExchange (ICE) Wednesday:\n(112,000 lbs.; cents per lb.)"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1659
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about National Hockey League
|
{
"text": [
"All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 50 34 13 3 71 176 128 Boston 48 29 11 8 66 157 119 Washington 50 30 15 5 65 155 141 Toronto 52 29 18 5 63 167 146 Pittsburgh 52 28 21 3 59 156 155 New Jersey 49 25 16 8 58 147 147 Columbus 50 27 19 4 58 133 140 Philadelphia 50 24 18 8 56 144 146 N.Y. Rangers 50 25 20 5 55 153 151 N.Y. Islanders 52 25 22 5 55 173 189 Carolina 50 23 19 8 54 139 155 Detroit 49 20 21 8 48 128 147 Florida 48 20 22 6 46 136 159 Montreal 50 20 24 6 46 130 159 Ottawa 48 15 24 9 39 125 168 Buffalo 50 14 27 9 37 115 166 WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vegas 49 33 12 4 70 168 130 Winnipeg 51 30 13 8 68 167 137 Nashville 48 29 12 7 65 146 125 St. Louis 52 31 18 3 65 151 131 San Jose 50 26 16 8 60 146 140 Dallas 51 28 19 4 60 155 137 Los Angeles 50 27 18 5 59 142 121 Minnesota 50 27 18 5 59 147 142 Anaheim 51 25 17 9 59 144 142 Colorado 49 27 18 4 58 160 143 Calgary 50 25 17 8 58 139 139 Chicago 50 24 19 7 55 148 137 Edmonton 49 22 24 3 47 135 157 Vancouver 50 20 24 6 46 131 162 Arizona 50 12 29 9 33 118 172\nNOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.\nTuesday's Games\nMinnesota 3, Columbus 2, SO\nPittsburgh 5, San Jose 2\nFlorida 4, N.Y. Islanders 1\nAnaheim 3, Boston 1\nCarolina 2, Ottawa 1\nNew Jersey 3, Buffalo 1\nWinnipeg 3, Tampa Bay 1\nSt. Louis 3, Montreal 1\nChicago 2, Nashville 1\nLos Angeles 3, Dallas 0\nVegas 4, Calgary 2\nVancouver 4, Colorado 3, OT\nWednesday's Games\nToronto 5, N.Y. Islanders 0\nDetroit 2, San Jose 1, SO\nWashington 5, Philadelphia 3\nThursday's Games\nToronto at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.\nMontreal at Carolina, 7 p.m.\nSt. Louis at Boston, 7 p.m.\nFlorida at Buffalo, 7 p.m.\nAnaheim at Ottawa, 7 p.m.\nPhiladelphia at New Jersey, 7 p.m.\nVegas at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.\nLos Angeles at Nashville, 8:30 p.m.\nTampa Bay at Calgary, 9 p.m.\nDallas at Arizona, 9 p.m.\nColorado at Edmonton, 9 p.m.\nChicago at Vancouver, 10 p.m.\nFriday's Games\nWashington at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.\nDetroit at Carolina, 7 p.m.\nSan Jose at Columbus, 7 p.m.\nVegas at Minnesota, 8 p.m.\nSaturday's Games\nOttawa at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.\nAnaheim at Montreal, 1 p.m.\nDetroit at Florida, 7 p.m.\nPittsburgh at New Jersey, 7 p.m.\nSt. Louis at Buffalo, 7 p.m.\nColumbus at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.\nColorado at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.\nToronto at Boston, 7 p.m.\nN.Y. Rangers at Nashville, 8 p.m.\nMinnesota at Dallas, 8 p.m.\nTampa Bay at Vancouver, 10 p.m.\nChicago at Calgary, 10 p.m.\nArizona at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1660
|
I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Victim to Nassar: 'What you did to me was twisted'
|
{
"text": [
"CHARLOTTE, Mich. (AP) — More women and girls are giving victim statements or having them read in a Michigan courtroom in a third sentencing hearing for Larry Nassar, the disgraced former gymnastics doctor who has been convicted of molesting people under the guise of medical treatment.\nNassar, 54, worked at Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics, the governing body that also trains Olympians. He was sentenced last week to 40 to 175 years in prison for assaulting seven people in the Lansing area; more than 150 statements were given in that seven-day hearing. He was sentenced in December to 60 years in federal prison for possessing thousands of images of child pornography.\nHere are excerpts of some victims' statements from the hearing that started Wednesday in Charlotte, Michigan, where Nassar pleaded guilty to molesting three gymnasts at an elite club run by an Olympic coach:\n___\nJessica Thomashow, 17, said Nassar molested her at ages 9 and 12 when she had rib displacement and a stress fracture in her ankle.\n\"You took advantage of my innocence and trust. You were my doctor. Why? I ask myself that question all the time. What you did to me was twisted. You manipulated me and my entire family. How dare you?\"\nShe said at Twistars, injured gymnasts were instructed to see Nassar, not their family doctor. She said she wanted to be a sports doctor, but the dream \"died\" after Nassar's abuse.\nThomashow also testified in the first day of the earlier sentencing hearing. She is a victim in both the Eaton County and Ingham County criminal complaints.\n___\nMichigan State University student Katherine Ebert said she was a gymnast since the age of 5 and began seeing Nassar when she was 15.\n\"You are most vile, disgusting creature I have ever met,\" she told him in court. \"There are black holes in my memory that come back as nightmares or flashbacks, not wanting to believe they're true.\"\n___\nAnnie Labrie was a full-time gymnast through adolescence. She traveled to Twistars gymnastics club, spending 25 hours a week there, not including the hour-and-a-half drive each way. Nassar was her doctor for five years. Said she saw him for a back injury and was treated at Twistars, Michigan State and the basement of his home.\nShe said his treatments \"made my skin crawl. I rejected my intuition anyway because every adult and authority figure around me assured me that this, that competing was the only option.\"\nLabrie said she hid it from her parents, \"because in Larry's words, 'They wouldn't understand.'\"\n\"A pedophile cannot flourish in the way Larry did and in an environment that is not conducive to his behavior. ... It is imperative we as society do not view this as an isolated incident.\"\n___\nTiffany Dutton said she was a competitive gymnast from a young age. She suffered back pain around age 12 or 13 and was referred to Nassar by coaches at age 14. She said she was inspired to come forward publicly by the people who appeared at the earlier hearing where Nassar was sentenced last week.\n\"On this day, I've decided to fully relinquish my anonymity as a symbol to myself that there is absolutely nothing I have to be ashamed or afraid of,\" she said. \"Due to the bravery and courage of the many women who appeared in Ingham County to face our predator, I am no longer fearful. To all of them I will be ever grateful.\"\n\"It takes a monster to sexually assault a child. But it takes a monster backed by ego, experience and power — fueled by multiple institutions — to sexually assault a child in front of their own mother. It was uncomfortable and terrifying. But who was I to question the treatment that was supposed to heal me?\"\nNassar's accusers have said that he would sometimes molest them even with their parents in the room and would use his body or a sheet to block their view."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1662
|
I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Officials: Trucker damaged part of Peru's prized Nazca lines
|
{
"text": [
"LIMA, Peru (AP) — Authorities in Peru have detained a truck driver accused of damaging part of the world-renowned Nazca lines.\nThe nation's Ministry of Culture says Jainer Flores drove into an unauthorized section of the U.N. World Heritage site on Saturday, leaving tracks and damaging part of three lines.\nThe Nazca lines are huge etchings depicting imaginary figures, creatures and plants that were scratched on the surface of a coastal desert between 1,500 and 2,000 years ago.\nThey are believed to have had ritual astronomical purposes.\nGreenpeace activists damaged the lines by leaving footprints in the adjacent desert during an event in 2014."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1663
|
I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Last of WWII black paratrooper pioneers dies at 96
|
{
"text": [
"HUNTINGTON STATION, N.Y. (AP) — The last living member of a pioneering unit that paved the way for the U.S. military's first black paratroopers has died. Clarence Beavers was 96.\nThe A.L. Jacobsen Funeral Home in Huntington Station, New York, says Beavers died Dec. 4.\nNewsday reports the Harlem-born Beavers joined the segregated U.S. Army in 1941 and rose to the rank of sergeant. In 1944, he and 19 other black soldiers became part of a test platoon for airborne training. Beavers and 16 others passed, setting the foundation for what became the all-black 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, known as the Triple Nickels.\nBeavers, who lived in Huntington Station on Long Island, was the last of the original 17.\nThe 555th spent the last year of the war fighting forest fires set in the Pacific Northwest by Japanese balloon-transported bombs.\n___\nInformation from: Newsday, http://www.newsday.com"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1664
|
I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about McConnell: Premature to talk of Trump winning Nobel Prize
|
{
"text": [
"LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Senate's top leader says it's \"premature\" to tout President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize in pursuing a peace deal with North Korea.\nBut Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell chuckled as he mentioned the \"chagrin\" it would cause the Nobel committee to award Trump the world's most coveted diplomatic prize.\nThe Republican senator made the comments this week to WHAS-AM in his home state of Kentucky.\nU.S. and North Korean officials are continuing talks aimed at salvaging a summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. McConnell says the U.S. should always be \"skeptical\" when dealing with North Korea, but says it's good that Trump and Kim could meet."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1665
|
I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about The Greatest Royal Rumble® is Sold Out
|
{
"text": [
"RIYADH, Saudi Arabia & STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2018--A sold-out crowd will witness history as the Saudi General Sports Authority in partnership with WWE presents the first-ever Greatest Royal Rumble at the King Abdullah Sports City Stadium in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia this Friday, April 27 at 7:00 p.m. AST.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423006630/en/\n(Photo: Business Wire)\nThe Greatest Royal Rumble event will stream live on WWE Network and be available on pay-per-view outside of the Middle East. The event will air live in the Middle East on MBC Action, KSA Sports 1, Abu Dhabi Sports 1 and Abu Dhabi Sports 6, as well as stream live on Dawri Plus.\nGeneral Sports Authority of Saudi Arabia Chairman His Excellency Turki Al Sheikh, WWE Chairman & CEO Vince McMahon, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, invite the world to celebrate this signature event. It is the first event as part of a long-term partnership between WWE and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.\nThe Greatest Royal Rumble card includes the first-ever 50-man Greatest Royal Rumble match, John Cena™ vs. Triple H™, The Undertaker™ vs. Rusev™ in a Casket match, Brock Lesnar™ vs. Roman Reigns™ in a Steel Cage Universal Championship match, WWE Championship match: AJ Styles™ vs. Shinsuke Nakamura™, Intercontinental Championship Ladder match: Seth Rollins™ vs. The Miz™ vs. Samoa Joe™ vs. Finn Bálor™, United States Championship match: Jeff Hardy™ vs. Jinder Mahal™ with Sunil Singh, Raw Tag Team Championship match: Matt Hardy™ and Bray Wyatt™ vs. Sheamus™ and Cesaro™, SmackDown Tag Team Championship match: The Bludgeon Brothers™ vs. The Usos™ and the Cruiserweight Championship.\nAbout WWE\nWWE, a publicly traded company (NYSE: WWE), is an integrated media organization and recognized leader in global entertainment. The company consists of a portfolio of businesses that create and deliver original content 52 weeks a year to a global audience. WWE is committed to family friendly entertainment on its television programming, pay-per-view, digital media and publishing platforms. WWE’s TV-PG, family-friendly programming can be seen in more than 800 million homes worldwide in 20 languages. WWE Network, the first-ever 24/7 over-the-top premium network that includes all live pay-per-views, scheduled programming and a massive video-on-demand library, is currently available in more than 180 countries. The company is headquartered in Stamford, Conn., with offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Mexico City, Mumbai, Shanghai, Singapore, Dubai, Munich and Tokyo.\nAdditional information on WWE (NYSE: WWE) can be found at wwe.com and corporate.wwe.com. For information on our global activities, go to http://www.wwe.com/worldwide/.\nTrademarks: All WWE programming, talent names, images, likenesses, slogans, wrestling moves, trademarks, logos and copyrights are the exclusive property of WWE and its subsidiaries. All other trademarks, logos and copyrights are the property of their respective owners.\nForward-Looking Statements: This press release contains forward-looking statements pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which are subject to various risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, risks relating to: WWE Network; major distribution agreements; our need to continue to develop creative and entertaining programs and events; a decline in the popularity of our brand of sports entertainment; the continued importance of key performers and the services of Vincent K. McMahon; possible adverse changes in the regulatory atmosphere and related private sector initiatives; the highly competitive, rapidly changing and increasingly fragmented nature of the markets in which we operate and greater financial resources or marketplace presence of many of our competitors; uncertainties associated with international markets; our difficulty or inability to promote and conduct our live events and/or other businesses if we do not comply with applicable regulations; our dependence on our intellectual property rights, our need to protect those rights, and the risks of our infringement of others’ intellectual property rights; the complexity of our rights agreements across distribution mechanisms and geographical areas; potential substantial liability in the event of accidents or injuries occurring during our physically demanding events including, without limitation, claims relating to CTE; large public events as well as travel to and from such events; our feature film business; our expansion into new or complementary businesses and/or strategic investments; our computer systems and online operations; a possible decline in general economic conditions and disruption in financial markets; our accounts receivable; our revolving credit facility; litigation; our potential failure to meet market expectations for our financial performance, which could adversely affect our stock; Vincent K. McMahon exercising control over our affairs, and his interests may conflict with the holders of our Class A common stock; a substantial number of shares which are eligible for sale by the McMahons and the sale, or the perception of possible sales, of those shares could lower our stock price; and the relatively small public “float” of our Class A common stock. In addition, our dividend is dependent on a number of factors, including, among other things, our liquidity and cash flow, strategic plan (including alternative uses of capital), our financial results and condition, contractual and legal restrictions on the payment of dividends (including under our revolving credit facility), general economic and competitive conditions and such other factors as our Board of Directors may consider relevant. Forward-looking statements made by the Company speak only as of the date made, are subject to change without any obligation on the part of the Company to update or revise them, and undue reliance should not be placed on these statements.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423006630/en/\nCONTACT: WWE\nMedia:\nMatthew Altman, 203-352-1177\nMatthew.Altman@wwecorp.com\nor\nInvestor:\nMichael Weitz, 203-352-8642\nMichael.Weitz@wwecorp.com\nKEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA CONNECTICUT SAUDI ARABIA MIDDLE EAST\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: ENTERTAINMENT WRESTLING TV AND RADIO CELEBRITY EVENTS/CONCERTS SPORTS\nSOURCE: WWE\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/23/2018 09:43 PM/DISC: 04/23/2018 09:43 PM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423006630/en"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1666
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Hot dog! Eye-catching LA wiener stand finds museum home
|
{
"text": [
"LOS ANGELES (AP) — An eye-catching Los Angeles hot dog stand designed in the 1940s to look like a giant wiener on a bun has found a home a decade after closing.\nThe Tail o' the Pup, which fed working people and Hollywood stars for 60 years, will be moved Thursday for permanent display at Valley Relics Museum, home to many pop culture items. The unique structure, which appeared in TV shows and movies and was named a Los Angeles cultural landmark, has been in a storage yard since its walk-up window shut for the final time in 2005.\nNicole Miller, whose husband Jay's family has owned the Pup since the 1970s, said they'd hoped to find a new location to serve its famous all-beef franks once again, but couldn't secure permits.\nThe family is glad the museum \"is willing to take it, restore it, and put it on display,\" she told the Los Angeles Daily News (http://bit.ly/2saLuci ).\nThe chicken wire and stucco dog measured 18 feet from nose to tail with a line of mustard running across its service window.\nDesigned by architect Milton Black and opened in 1946, the Tail o' the Pup was built to catch the attention of passing motorists during an era when cars were king.\nIt's a rare surviving example of when giant doughnuts, chili bowls and coffee cups dotted Los Angeles curbs from the 1920s to after World War II, the newspaper said.\n\"The Tail o' the Pup was clearly among the best known of the 'programmatic' buildings — buildings that often looked like products sold inside,\" said Cindy Olnick of the Los Angeles Conservancy, a preservation group. \"The whole building, besides the sign, was an advertisement.\"\n___\nInformation from: (Los Angeles) Daily News, http://www.dailynews.com"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1667
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Michigan police department 'missed' chance to get Nassar
|
{
"text": [
"DETROIT (AP) — A police department in the Lansing, Michigan, area missed an opportunity to pursue criminal charges in 2004 against Larry Nassar after a teenager complained that the doctor had molested her during treatment for an abnormal spine, an official said Wednesday.\nMeridian Township will make a public apology Thursday to Brianne Randall-Gay and announce changes in how it handles sexual misconduct investigations, township Manager Frank Walsh said.\nNassar, who was a sports doctor at Michigan State University and USA Gymnastics, convinced police that he had performed a legitimate procedure with his hands and even provided a Power Point presentation to explain. The case was dropped, effectively allowing Nassar to continue to molest girls and young women, including Olympians, for years until his arrest in 2016. A total of 265 women and girls have said Nassar sexually assaulted them.\n\"We missed it. We're not going to hide it. We were deceived,\" Walsh said.\nThe township released the 2004 police report on Randall-Gay's allegations against Nassar. Walsh said the township was told to withhold it from the public until Nassar was sentenced last week to 40 to 175 years in prison for sexually assaulting young women and girls in Ingham County. Another sentencing is underway this week in a similar case nearby in Eaton County.\nIn 2004, Randall-Gay was 17 when she and her mother visited Nassar to discuss treatment for scoliosis, a curvature of the spine. He sent her to physical therapy but saw her again, this time alone.\nRandall-Gay had a back problem. But she told police that Nassar had removed her underwear, forcibly cupped her genitals with his hand and rubbed her breasts — all without gloves.\n\"She thought it was 'weird' and it 'freaked her out,'\" the police report says.\nNassar told police he applied pressure to the \"perineum,\" using a formal word for an area between the legs, and said it was done to manipulate a ligament, according to the report.\nNassar provided a paper version of a technical Power Point presentation about the ligament procedure, titled \"The Grand Junction.\" There's no indication that police shared his explanation with an outside expert. The case was closed.\nWalsh said questions about the investigation will be answered during a news conference Thursday with the police chief and Randall-Gay, who now lives in Washington state. Meridian Township paid for her to travel to Michigan to testify at Nassar's sentencing last week.\nBack in 2004, Nassar \"had the audacity to tell (police) I misunderstood the treatment because I was not comfortable with my body,\" Randall-Gay said.\nIt was not the only investigation over the years. A Michigan State University police investigation ended in 2014 with no charges filed. Another investigation by the university, required under federal anti-discrimination law, cleared Nassar of assault.\n___\nFollow Ed White at http://twitter.com/edwhiteap"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1668
|
I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Keio Plaza Hotel Tokyo Hosts "The 38th Arita and Imari Porcelain Exhibition"
|
{
"text": [
"TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 30, 2018--Keio Plaza Hotel Tokyo (KPH), one of Japan’s most prestigious international hotels located in Shinjuku, Tokyo, will host the “38 th Arita and Imari Porcelain Exhibition – From Origin to Modern Style” from July 1 (Sunday) to August 1 (Wednesday), 2018, introducing to guests the Arita and Imari porcelain, the first ceramics made in the southern island of Kyushu, Japan. Art items representing the Ko-Imari and other styles of porcelain will be displayed in exhibition. Also, seven renowned and modern porcelain makers from the Arita and Imari regions of Saga Prefecture will display their products and be available for sale. In addition, eight of our restaurants will serve specially prepared foods using porcelain from the Arita and Imari regions. Many guests can purchase porcelain products after dining at our restaurants and actually seeing and feeling how they are used to accentuate foods.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180530005443/en/\nJapanese Dinner Using Arita and Imari Porcelain (Photo: Business Wire)\nThis year marks the 38 th time that this exhibition has been held, and is a reflection of the strong interest in Arita and Imari porcelain products. This exhibition is also designed to provide our international guests, who account for over 75% of total guests, with an opportunity to experience the beauty of Japan’s traditional Arita and Imari porcelain products.\nThis year’s exhibition will focus upon “Ko-Karatsu” and “Ko-Imari” porcelain established in the southern island of Kyushu. “Ko-Karatsu” is known for its simple and sturdiness during the reign of the Lord Toyotomi in the late 16 th century. “Ko-Imari” became popular art items amongst European aristocrats during the 17 th century Edo Period. Beautiful porcelain items made by the renowned pottery makers that have evolved over the 400-year history of the art will be on display.\nArchive of Press Release\nAbout the Keio Plaza Hotel\nKeio Plaza Hotel Tokyo, located in Shinjuku at the very heart of the nation’s capital Tokyo, is one of Japan’s leading international hotels. Our hotel boasts of over 20 restaurants and bars, and we host a wide range of local and international guests who visit us for our welcoming facilities, warm hospitality and unique services that allow them to experience Japanese culture, including our Hello Kitty themed rooms and Japanese cultural experience programs. For more information about our facilities and services, please visit our website, YouTube, Facebook or Instagram.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180530005443/en/\nCONTACT: Keio Plaza Hotel Tokyo\nKeiko Kawashima, +81-3-5322-8010\nPublic Relations Manager\nkeiko-kawashima@keioplaza.co.jp\nKEYWORD: ASIA PACIFIC JAPAN\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: ENTERTAINMENT ARTS/MUSEUMS TRAVEL LODGING RESTAURANT/BAR RETAIL\nSOURCE: Keio Plaza Hotel Tokyo\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 05/30/2018 10:05 AM/DISC: 05/30/2018 10:05 AM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180530005443/en"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1669
|
I am asking in the domain of entertainment. Tell me about Opposition figure voices rare criticism of Iran's top leader
|
{
"text": [
"DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian opposition figure under house arrest has voiced rare criticism of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, blaming him for the \"disastrous results\" of the Revolutionary Guard's vast political and economic influence.\nIn a rare letter published Tuesday, Mahdi Karroubi says Khamenei violated the constitution, and called on him to order the Guard to loosen its grip on the economy. The letter was published on a website affiliated with Karroubi.\nKarroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi both lost in the 2009 presidential election, which sparked mass protests and allegations of vote-rigging. They were placed under house arrest two years later.\nUnder Iran's political system, Khamenei is considered the representative of God on earth, with the final say on all major policies. Iranians can go to jail for publicly criticizing him."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1670
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Study of footballers' brains highlights dementia concerns
|
{
"text": [
"LONDON (AP) — The degenerative damage potentially caused by repeated blows to the head in soccer has been highlighted by a rare study of brains of a small number of retired players who developed dementia.\nFourteen former players were part of the research that began around 40 years ago and six brains, which underwent post-mortem examinations, had signs of Alzheimer's disease.\nFour brains were found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) pathology, a possible consequence of repeated impacts to the brain, including heading the ball. A previous study of 268 brains from the general population in Britain found a far lower CTE detection rate of 12 percent.\nThe small sample size of former footballers prevented researchers from University College London and Britain's National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery from drawing any conclusions about the dangers posed by playing soccer as they released their research.\nBut researchers hope the findings provide the impetus for more substantial studies in conjunction with soccer authorities. The researchers require current or retired players to be willing to take part of investigations that could take decades to produce conclusions.\n\"Our findings show there is a potential link between repetitive head impacts from playing football and the later development of CTE,\" lead author Dr. Helen Ling of the UCL Institute of Neurology told The Associated Press.\n\"This will support the need for larger scale studies of a larger number of footballers who need to be followed long term, looking at various aspects in terms of their mental functions, imaging of the brain and also markers that might identify neurological damage.\"\nEngland's Football Association said it is committed to \"independent, robust and thorough\" research, which it is jointly funding with the players' union. The Alzheimer's Society maintained that the latest \"results do not provide proof that heading a football, or sustaining a head injury by any other means during the sport, is linked to developing dementia.\"\n\"Exercise is one of the best ways to reduce your risk of dementia and it's important to ensure that people playing any kind of sport are able to do so safely,\" Dr. James Pickett, research head at the Alzheimer's Society, said.\nConcerns have grown in Britain about the impact of head injuries after campaigning by the family of former England striker Jeff Astle, whose death at age 59 in 2002 was attributed to repeatedly heading heavy, leather balls.\nAstle's daughter, Dawn, is urging \"current footballers or families of footballers to pledge the brain\" for medical research.\n\"If we hadn't donated dad's brain, we wouldn't know what we know now — we wouldn't know what had killed him,\" Dawn Astle said. \"It's too late for dad. The research is so important for current players and for future players. That's why we need it.\n\"I think that's what is so very frustrating — the fact that it's nearly 15 years since my dad died. And the fact that nothing from any footballing authorities has been done. It is really indefensible and disgraceful.\"\nAt least four members of England's 1966 World Cup-winning squad have developed dementia or memory loss.\nIn the United States, there has been a $1 billion settlement between the NFL and thousands of its former American football players who have been diagnosed with brain injuries linked to repeated concussions.\nThe British soccer research was instigated by consultant psychiatrist Dr. Don Williams, who started to monitor former players who were diagnosed with dementia from 1980. From Swansea in south Wales, Williams monitored the retired players and collected data on their playing and concussion history.\n\"In 1980 the son of a man with advanced dementia asked me if his father's condition had been caused by heading the ball for many years as a powerful center half,\" Williams said. \"As the brain is a very fragile organ, well protected within the skull, this was a constructive suggestion. As a result I looked out for men with dementia and a significant history of playing soccer, followed them up and where possible arranged for post-mortem studies to be carried out.\n\"The results suggest that heading the ball over many years, a form of repetitive sub-concussive head injury, can result in the development of CTE and dementia. Thus the original suggestion has been shown to be of merit and worthy of further investigation.\"\n___\nRob Harris is at www.twitter.com/RobHarris"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1671
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Jeff Sessions weathers turbulent year as attorney general
|
{
"text": [
"WASHINGTON (AP) — Jeff Sessions was in his office, looking unusually deflated. He had just received another public lashing from President Donald Trump.\nTrump had browbeaten his attorney general for months after Sessions' decision to step aside from the intensifying Russia investigation. Never mind that Sessions has proved fiercely devoted to his boss, carrying out Trump's agenda while giving him credit every step of the way. Trump was unforgiving.\nThis attack came on an autumn day, and Sessions discussed it with a longtime friend and adviser who had stopped by to chat.\nSessions shrugged. \"I do the best I can,\" he said. Then he got back to work.\nAnd, somewhat surprisingly, he's still working.\nSessions will soon mark his first year on the job, having survived a barrage of insults from Trump, antipathy from some Justice Department employees and even calls from some fellow Republicans for him to resign. Last week, America's top law enforcement officer was himself questioned as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into possible obstruction of justice and Trump campaign ties to Russian meddling in the 2016 election.\nTrump's relentless attacks have been a wearing distraction, say friends and associates of the former Alabama senator. The Associated Press interviewed more than a dozen of them, many of whom spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss private interactions.\nWhat keeps him going, friends say, is his Methodist faith, support from his wife and his awareness that, at age 71, leading the Justice Department is his best and perhaps final chance to carry out the policy changes he long has sought.\nSessions, the first senator to endorse Trump's candidacy, declined to be interviewed for this story but did agree to respond to written questions. He did not directly address his personal relationship with Trump but said his first year was marked by progress on a number of Trump's priorities: fighting crime, combating gangs and helping police.\n\"We are doing what the people sent us here to do,\" he said.\nWhile Sessions is proud of his first year, friends see signs of stress. At an annual Justice Department Christmas party, one friend noted, the usually upbeat attorney general looked sullen and tired.\n\"We have talked about some of the difficult times he's had since he has been attorney general,\" said the Senate's second-ranking Republican, John Cornyn of Texas, a Sessions' confidant. \"My comment to him was, as long as you're doing the right thing, I don't think you have anything to apologize for.\"\nWhat Sessions sees as doing the right thing, though, often appears to others as doing Trump's bidding.\nCritics say Sessions is too loyal, dangerously politicizing his department in an effort to appease Trump. Sessions told senior prosecutors to look into Hillary Clinton's activities after Trump demanded investigations of his 2016 Democratic rival, and he has been eager to pursue investigations into Trump grievances, such as media leaks. Lawmakers accuse Sessions of stonewalling congressional committees investigating the Trump campaign by repeatedly saying he doesn't recall key events.\nSome say Sessions' public silence in the face of Trump's assaults on the department is demoralizing to employees and threatens its independence from the White House. Sessions said Friday that it's the department's responsibility to identify past mistakes and that a \"culture of defensiveness is not acceptable.\"\n\"It seems he recognizes he is in such a weakened position, if he wants to stay in Trump's good graces he has to at least make a show of responding to Trump's demands, and that's extremely dangerous,\" said William Yeomans, who spent nearly 30 years at the department under Democratic and Republican administrations.\nOne example that raised eyebrows: Sessions' plan to confront the opioid crisis hews so closely to Trump's that White House aide Kellyanne Conway was on hand in the Justice Department's seventh-floor conference room when he announced it.\nSessions declined to address specific actions by his department but said it carries out \"the law without regard to the political consequences or to poll numbers or who benefits and who doesn't,\" and Trump supports that.\nEven if Sessions is complying with Trump's demands and pursuing his agenda, the attorney general has yet to find himself back in favor with the president. Before Sessions' decision to withdraw from the Russia investigation, Trump used to call Sessions periodically and seek his counsel. Now the two men rarely speak, and Sessions at times has resorted to asking West Wing aides to pass messages to Trump.\nThe rupture stems from Sessions' move on March 2 to step aside from that investigation after acknowledging he had had two previously undisclosed encounters with the Russian ambassador in Washington during Trump's campaign. Sessions said it would be improper for him to oversee an investigation into a campaign in which he played a prominent role.\nTrump was furious. Sessions had disregarded a plea from Trump's White House lawyer, Don McGahn, who, at Trump's request, had urged the attorney general to retain oversight of the investigation. But by then, Sessions had already consulted with ethics officials and had made up his mind. Sessions' action left Trump without a close political appointee keeping a hand in the investigation of his campaign,\nSessions offered to resign. Trump declined to accept it. Sacking Sessions would have been politically perilous for the president.\nBut the barrage of tweets and public and private comments from Trump haven't ended. He disparaged Sessions in comparisons with Eric Holder, whom Trump says he respects for protecting President Barack Obama while serving as attorney general.\nSessions has endured with a courtly stoicism. If he's frustrated, friends said, he mostly keeps it to himself. At a recent get-together with Terry Lathan, a friend and chairwoman of the Alabama Republican Party, Sessions seemed more interested in what was going on back home than in complaining about job pressures.\n\"He's not going to sit around and yank the president's tie in private conversation with a group of his buddies,\" said Ken Blackwell, a domestic policy adviser to Trump's transition team who has known Sessions for years. \"He's more like, this is what we need to get done, how do we get it done?\"\nTrump's antagonism has distressed Sessions' friends and supporters because they don't believe Sessions' stepping aside from the Russia investigation was a close call. One Sessions' ally said the attorney general's attitude remains that he is going to work 18-hour days to promote the administration's agenda.\nTrump's priorities reflect the interests Sessions long has advocated, first as a federal prosecutor and then as a senator: illegal immigration, violent crime, illegal drugs, defending the rights of those who say they've been discriminated against based on religion.\n\"President Trump knows how to give clear orders, and he told us to reduce crime, take on the gangs and cartels, and back the men and women in blue,\" Sessions said. \"The good news for us is that these directives are exactly what I want to do.\"\nThat agenda has unsettled liberals who say Sessions' focus on tough prosecutions marks a return to failed tactics that unduly hurt minorities and the poor. They say his rollbacks of protections for gay and transgender people amount to discrimination.\nFor Sessions, there's satisfaction in being able to reverse Obama-era policies that he and other conservatives say flouted the will of Congress. \"The progress he has made has been very gratifying to him,\" said former Attorney General Ed Meese, who sees Sessions periodically.\nSessions takes pride in his many visits to U.S. attorney offices, where he speaks with local authorities, some of his most ardent fans, about how the federal government can help them. During a particularly tense stretch in November, when Sessions faced attacks from Trump and members of Congress, department officials held a call urging law enforcement groups to be vocally supportive of him, a person familiar with the call said.\nJonathan Thompson, executive director of the National Sheriffs' Association, recalled a December meeting when Sessions said he had to cut his appearance short. His voice was hoarse and he lamented his full schedule.\n\"He said, 'I wish I could sit here and talk with you all day,'\" before his staff moved him along, said Thompson.\n___\nAssociated Press writers Eric Tucker, Jonathan Lemire, Mary Clare Jalonick and Bill Barrow contributed to this report."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1672
|
I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Finnish FM: North, South Korean envoys in talks in Finland
|
{
"text": [
"HELSINKI (AP) — Finland's foreign minister says representatives from North and South Korea are holding diplomatic talks in the Nordic country and describes Finland's role as a \"facilitator.\"\nForeign Minister Timo Soini told the Finnish news agency STT on Monday that Finland \"is making this meeting possible\" by helping arrange it but wouldn't mediate in the actual negotiations. He gave no other details.\nSenior North Korean diplomat Choe Kang Il, who handles North American affairs in Pyongyang, arrived in Helsinki on Sunday for talks with South Korean security experts and allegedly also with former U.S. diplomats, including the former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, Kathleen Stephens.\nThe meeting comes just two days after North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho held days of diplomatic talks in neighboring Sweden."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1673
|
I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Top Factors Driving the Global Smart Ceiling Fans Market
|
{
"text": [
"LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 24, 2018-- market research analysts forecast the to grow at a CAGR of above 4% during the period 2018-2022, according to their latest report.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424006460/en/\nTechnavio has published a new market research report on the global smart ceiling fans market from 2018-2022. (Graphic: Business Wire)\nIn this report, Technavio highlights the innovation in product features and user interfaces as one of the key emerging trends driving the .\nOne of the key trends in the market is the development of innovative features and user interfaces. Smart ceiling fans are integrated with easy-to-use digital control panels and built-in energy-saving functionalities. Lately, they are being incorporated with remote control, Wi-Fi, and 3G or 4G connectivity. They can be controlled using mobile apps and be connected to mobile devices using Bluetooth. Smart ceiling fans use Wi-Fi and can rebroadcast both IR and RF signals from remote controls, which has the capacity to manage up to six ceiling fans. Innovation in terms of features and user interface will augment demand for smart ceiling fans during the forecast period.\nThis report is available at a USD 1,000 discount for a limited time only:\nSave more with Technavio. Buy2 reports and get the third for FREE:\nIn this report, Technavio analysts highlight the increased adoption of smart products as a key factor contributing to the growth of the global smart ceiling fans market:\nIncreased adoption of smart products\nThe fast-changing lifestyles and preference for convenience are driving consumers to adopt the latest technologies quickly. In recent times, the concept of controlling a household appliance through the Internet and smartphones is attracting considerable attention. Smart ceiling fans are designed precisely to provide convenience by offering the feature of unique remote location operability (using wireless connecting devices).\nAccording to a senior analyst at Technavio for , “Consumers can easily operate and monitor the process by downloading the relevant app on their mobile devices and connecting the ceiling fans through Wi-Fi. Consumers can turn the ceiling fan on, before getting home from work or any place and turn it off from outside after forgetting to shut it down before leaving the house. Such features enhance consumer comfort and overall experience and attract them to networked lifestyles.”\nLooking for more information on this market?\nTechnavio’s sample reports are free of charge and contain multiple sections of the report such as the market size and forecast, drivers, challenges, trends, and more.\nGlobal smart ceiling fans market segmentation\nThis market research report segments the into the following end-users, including residential and commercial and key regions, including the Americas, APAC, and EMEA.\nOf the two major end-users, the residential segment held the largest market share in 2017, accounting for nearly 84% of the market. The market share for this end-user is expected to decrease by 2022. The fastest growing end-user is commercial, which will account for nearly 16% of the total market share by 2022.\nAPAC was the leading region for the global smart ceiling fans market in 2017, accounting for a market share of nearly 61%. However, by 2022, APAC is expected to continue dominating the market and register the highest growth rate.\nAbout Technavio\nis a leading global technology research and advisory company. Their research and analysis focuses on emerging market trends and provides actionable insights to help businesses identify market opportunities and develop effective strategies to optimize their market positions.\nWith over 500 specialized analysts, Technavio’s report library consists of more than 10,000 reports and counting, covering 800 technologies, spanning across 50 countries. Their client base consists of enterprises of all sizes, including more than 100 Fortune 500 companies. This growing client base relies on Technavio’s comprehensive coverage, extensive research, and actionable market insights to identify opportunities in existing and potential markets and assess their competitive positions within changing market scenarios.\nIf you are interested in more information, please contact our media team at .\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424006460/en/\nCONTACT: Technavio Research\nJesse Maida\nMedia & Marketing Executive\nUS: +1 844 364 1100\nUK: +44 203 893 3200\nwww.technavio.com\nKEYWORD:\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: TECHNOLOGY INTERNET SOFTWARE HOME GOODS RETAIL\nSOURCE: Technavio Research\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/24/2018 03:16 PM/DISC: 04/24/2018 03:16 PM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424006460/en"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1674
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about High school student carries collapsed marathoner to victory
|
{
"text": [
"DALLAS (AP) — In just 24 hours, her face and name have become world famous for what's seen as a supreme act of sportsmanship.\nDallas-area high school student Ariana Luterman was finishing the anchor leg of a girls' relay in Sunday's Dallas Marathon when she saw the legs of the women's marathon leader, Dr. Chandler Self, start to buckle from exhaustion yards from the finish line.\nActing apparently instinctively, Luterman helped Self to her feet and half-carried her to the finish line, giving the New York City psychiatrist the women's championship. Self's family later told her she'd been credited with the win\nSelf said Luterman came alongside her two miles from the finish and encouraged her to finish the race. Video of the finish has gone viral."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1675
|
I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Duma recommends registering journalists as 'foreign agents'
|
{
"text": [
"MOSCOW (AP) — A committee of the Russian parliament has recommended the adoption of a proposed law that would require journalists working for media outlets designated as foreign agents to register as agents themselves.\nThe measure, which the lower parliament's information committee recommended on Tuesday, follows a law adopted last year under which Russia can designate media outlets receiving foreign government funding as foreign agents.\nNaming an outlet as a foreign agent does not block its work but casts aspersions on its credibility. Demanding that individual journalists register as agents could produce a chilling effect.\nThe proposed law \"is the latest step in the Russian authorities' systematic policy towards obstructing the free flow of news,\" said Gulonoza Said of the Committee to Protect Journalists in a statement Tuesday."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1676
|
I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Cypress Empowers Developers With New Sensing Solutions for State-of-the-Art Industrial Designs Incorporating Metals
|
{
"text": [
"SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2018--Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY), the embedded solutions leader, today unveiled the PSoC ® 4700 series of microcontrollers (MCUs) that uses inductive sensing to detect touch inputs for products using metal surfaces. Consumer, industrial, and automotive products are using metallic materials to differentiate with their customers through improved aesthetics. The new series frees developers to incorporate these metals by making inductive sensing as easy to use as Cypress’ industry-leading CapSense ® solutions for capacitive-sensing. By empowering developers to solve their capacitive and inductive sensing problems, the PSoC 4700 series is the ideal choice for modern, state-of-the-art industrial design.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005487/en/\nPictured is Cypress' PSoC 4700 series of microcontrollers that uses inductive sensing to detect touch inputs for products using metal surfaces, enabling designers to create more sleek and durable user interfaces. (Graphic: Business Wire)\nThe PSoC 4700 inductive sensing solution is supported in Cypress’ PSoC Creator™ Integrated Design Environment (IDE), which allows users to drag and drop production-ready hardware blocks, including the new inductive sensing capability, into a design and easily configure them via a simple graphical user interface. More information on the PSoC 4700 series, the inductive sensing solution and registration for the early access program for kits and collateral is available at www.cypress.com/PSoC4700.\n“Customers want to improve the aesthetics and reliability of their products with high-quality metallic user interfaces,” said John Weil, vice president of the MCU business unit at Cypress. “Inductive-sensing technology is ideal for these applications, however, it has been difficult for customers to implement due to manufacturing variability. The PSoC 4700 MCU series overcomes this problem by leveraging our 15 years of experience with CapSense and SmartSense™ Autotuning to offer an easy-to-use, tunable inductive-sensing solution.”\nThe PSoC 4700 MCUs are based on a 32-bit Arm ® Cortex ® -M0+ core and integrate programmable analog and digital blocks. The devices can support up to 16 sensors to implement digital functions or custom algorithms for interfaces in various form-factors, including buttons, linear and rotary encoders, proximity sensing or free-form. The PSoC 4700 inductive-sensing solution provides superior noise immunity for reliable operation, even in extreme environmental conditions. The highly integrated solution enables cost-efficient system designs by reducing bill-of-material costs.\nCypress’ free PSoC Creator IDE simplifies system design by enabling concurrent hardware and firmware development using PSoC Components—embedded ICs represented by an icon in the IDE. Engineers can easily configure the programmable analog and digital blocks in PSoC by dragging and dropping components on the PSoC Creator schematic and customizing them with graphical component configuration tools. The tool features auto-calibration that automatically compensates for manufacturing variations.\nAvailability\nThe PSoC 4700 series is sampling now to lead customers with production expected in the third quarter of 2018. Early adopters are invited to register for more information at www.cypress.com/PSoC4700Registration.\nFollow Cypress Online\nJoin the Cypress Developer Community, read our blog, follow us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, and watch Cypress videos on our Video Library or YouTube.\nAbout Cypress\nCypress is the leader in advanced embedded solutions for the world’s most innovative automotive, industrial, smart home appliances, consumer electronics and medical products. Cypress’ microcontrollers, analog ICs, wireless and USB-based connectivity solutions and reliable, high-performance memories help engineers design differentiated products and get them to market first. Cypress is committed to providing customers with the best support and development resources on the planet enabling them to disrupt markets by creating new product categories in record time. To learn more, go to www.cypress.com.\nCypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC and CapSense are registered trademarks and PSoC Creator is a trademark of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005487/en/\nCONTACT: Cypress PR\nSamer Bahou, 408-232-4552\nsamer.bahou@cypress.com\nKEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA CALIFORNIA MINNESOTA\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: TECHNOLOGY CONSUMER ELECTRONICS DATA MANAGEMENT ELECTRONIC DESIGN AUTOMATION HARDWARE INTERNET SOFTWARE AUDIO/VIDEO TELECOMMUNICATIONS OTHER TECHNOLOGY SECURITY SEMICONDUCTOR MOBILE/WIRELESS MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING AUTOMOTIVE GENERAL AUTOMOTIVE\nSOURCE: Cypress Semiconductor Corp.\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/23/2018 08:00 AM/DISC: 04/23/2018 08:01 AM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005487/en"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1677
|
I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Q&A: Should you reboot your router like the FBI says?
|
{
"text": [
"Last week, the FBI recommended rebooting home and small office routers that could have been infected with disruptive malware, allegedly by sophisticated state-backed Russian hackers . An estimated half million routers and network-attached storage devices have been infected.\nBut even the FBI acknowledges this step will only \"temporarily disrupt\" the malware. Here are some questions and answers about the situation:\nQ: How can I tell if my router is infected?\nA: Short answer: You probably can't. Routers aren't very consumer-friendly, and most people lack the ability to get deep enough inside the device to tell if it's infected.\nQ: If my router was infected and I reboot, is it safe?\nA: No. Turning an infected router off and on again only removes some of the malware — such as elements that could snoop on your internet activity or even overwrite the basic code on your router, thus \"bricking\" it (that is, turning it into an inoperable brick). The core infection persists on reboot and there's no simple way to delete it.\nThe good news is that last week, the FBI seized of the command-and-control server that sends instructions to the infected routers, disrupting the zombie network that could be used to mount a crippling internet-based attack. The bad news is that the persistent malware is in listening mode, awaiting instructions. \"So all the cards are still on the table,\" said Craig Williams of Cisco's Talos cyberthreat intelligence team, which identified the operation it calls VPNFilter.\nQ: Why can't I completely remove the malware from my router?\nA: For starters, routers are difficult for ordinary users to fiddle with. They have publicly known vulnerabilities that aren't easy for average users to patch and typically aren't equipped with anti-virus software packages or intrusion protection systems. That said, if you can update your router's \"firmware\" to the latest version — something you can often do via the router's phone app or web interface — you should. It may not fix the problem, but it won't hurt and may help.\nQ: Which devices are affected and where can I learn more?\nA: Cisco identified these companies as makers of affected devices: Linksys, Mikrotik, Netgear, TP-Link and QNAP. It said most of the infected routers are in Ukraine. You can find more details from Talos and the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team . The FBI says it has nothing new to report beyond the announcement it put out Friday.\n___\nLinks:\nFBI announcement: https://www.ic3.gov/media/2018/180525.aspx\nTalos blog: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/05/VPNFilter.html\nU.S. CERT release: https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA18-145A"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1678
|
I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about BC-TEN--French Open Results
|
{
"text": [
"BC-TEN--French Open Results\nTEN--French Open Results\nPARIS (AP) — Results Wednesday from the French Open at Stade Roland Garros (seedings in parentheses):\nMen's Singles\nSecond Round\nDavid Goffin (8), Belgium, def. Corentin Moutet, France, 7-5, 6-0, 6-1.\nGael Monfils (32), France, def. Martin Klizan, Slovakia, 6-2, 6-4, 6-4.\nMarco Cecchinato, Italy, def. Marco Trungelliti, Argentina, 6-1, 7-6 (1), 6-1.\nPablo Carreno-Busta (10), Spain, def. Federico Delbonis, Argentina, 7-6 (0), 7-6 (2), 3-6, 6-4.\nRoberto Bautista-Agut (13), Spain, def. Santiago Giraldo, Colombia, 6-4, 7-5, 6-3.\nNovak Djokovic (20), Serbia, def. Jaume Antoni Munar Clar, Spain, 7-6 (1), 6-4, 6-4.\nFernando Verdasco (30), Spain, def. Guido Andreozzi, Argentina, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2.\nGrigor Dimitrov (4), Bulgaria, def. Jared Donaldson, United States, 6-7 (2), 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 10-8.\nMatteo Berrettini, Italy, def. Ernests Gulbis, Latvia, 6-2, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3.\nKei Nishikori (19), Japan, def. Benoit Paire, France, 6-3, 2-6, 4-6, 6-2, 6-3.\nGilles Simon, France, def. Sam Querrey (12), United States, 1-6, 7-6 (3), 6-4, 6-1.\nKaren Khachanov, Russia, def. Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, Spain, 6-2, 7-6 (7), 6-7 (0), 6-3.\nDamir Dzumhur (26), Bosnia-Herzegovina, def. Radu Albot, Moldova, 6-3, 6-3, 5-7, 1-6, 7-5.\nAlexander Zverev (2), Germany, def. Dusan Lajovic, Serbia, 2-6, 7-5, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2.\nWomen's Singles\nFirst Round\nSimona Halep (1), Romania, def. Alison Riske, United States, 2-6, 6-1, 6-1.\nSecond Round\nKaterina Siniakova, Czech Republic, def. Kateryna Kozlova, Ukraine, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-4.\nBarbora Strycova (26), Czech Republic, def. Ekaterina Makarova, Russia, 6-4, 6-2.\nYulia Putintseva, Kazakhstan, def. Jennifer Brady, United States, 6-4, 6-3.\nQiang Wang, China, def. Petra Martic, Croatia, 6-1, 6-1.\nMadison Keys (13), United States, def. Caroline Dolehide, United States, 6-4, 6-1.\nNaomi Osaka (21), Japan, def. Zarina Diyas, Kazakhstan, 6-4, 7-5.\nMihaela Buzarnescu (31), Romania, def. Rebecca Peterson, Sweden, 6-1, 6-2.\nElina Svitolina (4), Ukraine, def. Viktoria Kuzmova, Slovakia, 6-3, 6-4.\nPetra Kvitova (8), Czech Republic, def. Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino, Spain, 6-0, 6-4.\nAnett Kontaveit (25), Estonia, def. Alexandra Dulgheru, Romania, 7-5, 6-2.\nCamila Giorgi, Italy, def. Mariana Duque-Marino, Colombia, 6-0, 6-3.\nSloane Stephens (10), United States, def. Magdalena Frech, Poland, 6-2, 6-2.\nMaria Sakkari, Greece, def. Carla Suarez-Navarro (23), Spain, 7-5, 6-3.\nPauline Parmentier, France, def. Alize Cornet (32), France, 6-7 (2), 6-4, 6-2.\nCaroline Wozniacki (2), Denmark, def. Georgina Garcia Perez, Spain, 6-1, 6-0.\nMen's Doubles\nFirst Round\nLukasz Kubot, Poland and Marcelo Melo (1), Brazil, def. Marco Cecchinato, Italy and Marton Fucsovics, Hungary, 6-4, 7-5.\nGregoire Jacq, France and Benjamin Bonzi, France, def. Scott Lipsky, United States and Tennys Sandgren, United States, 6-2, 6-4.\nMaximo Gonzalez, Argentina and Nicolas Jarry, Chile, def. Paolo Lorenzi, Italy and Mischa Zverev, Germany, 6-1, 6-2.\nStephane Robert, France and Calvin Hemery, France, def. Donald Young, United States and Matthew Ebden, Australia, 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (6).\nMarcel Granollers, Spain and Pablo Cuevas (11), Uruguay, def. Daniel Nestor, Canada and Jeremy Chardy, France, 7-5, 6-2.\nSteve Johnson, United States and Jack Sock, United States, def. Nicholas Monroe, United States and John-Patrick Smith, Australia, 7-6 (6), 6-4.\nNicolas Mahut, France and Pierre Hughes Herbert (6), France, def. Robert Lindstedt, Sweden and Marcin Matkowski, Poland, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (6).\nEvgeny Donskoy, Russia and Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela, Mexico, def. Aisam Qureshi, Pakistan and Jean-Julien Rojer (7), Netherlands, 6-7 (2), 7-6 (5), 6-4.\nLeonardo Mayer, Argentina and Joao Sousa, Portugal, def. Constant Lestienne, France and Geoffrey Blancaneaux, France, 7-6 (3), 6-3.\nSantiago Gonzalez, Mexico and Marcelo Demoliner, Brazil, def. Roman Jebavy, Czech Republic and Andrei Vasilevski, Belarus, 7-6 (5), 6-7 (8), 7-6 (2).\nFeliciano Lopez, Spain and Marc Lopez (12), Spain, def. Andres Molteni, Argentina and Guillermo Duran, Argentina, 6-3, 6-4.\nDaniele Bracciali, Italy and Andreas Seppi, Italy, def. Philipp Petzschner, Germany and Maximilian Marterer, Germany, 2-6, 7-6 (6), 6-4.\nGuido Pella, Argentina and Diego Schwartzman, Argentina, def. Antonie Hoang, France and Ugo Humbert, France, 6-3, 6-3.\nRajeev Ram, United States and Ivan Dodig (9), Croatia, def. Hans Podlipnik, Chile and Jackson Withrow, United States, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1.\nJames Cerretini, United States and Marcelo Arevalo-Gonzalez, El Salvador, def. Jan-Lennard Struff, Germany and Ben Mclachlan (14), Japan, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (3), 6-3.\nDivij Sharan, India and Yuki Bhambri, India, def. Fabrice Martin, France and Purav Raja, India, 6-3, 5-7, 6-4.\nOliver Marach, Austria and Mate Pavic (2), Croatia, def. Adil Shamasdin, Canada and Sander Arends, Netherlands, 6-2, 6-2.\nWomen's Doubles\nFirst Round\nKristina Mladenovic, France and Timea Babos (1), Hungary, def. Shuai Zhang, China and Ajla Tomljanovic, Australia, 6-1, 6-4.\nKveta Peschke, Czech Republic and Nicole Melichar (13), United States, def. Shuai Peng, China and Christina McHale, United States, 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (3).\nMakoto Ninomiya, Japan and Eri Hozumi, Japan, def. Polona Hercog, Slovenia and Alison Van Uytvanck, Belgium, 6-0, 6-4.\nYi-Fan Xu, China and Gabriela Dabrowski (5), Canada, def. Fiona Ferro, France and Tessah Andrianjafitrimo, France, 6-3, 6-1.\nBethanie Mattek-Sands, United States and Latisha Chan (4), Taiwan, def. Virginie Razzano, France and Jade Suvrijn, France, 6-4, 6-1.\nKaterina Bondarenko, Ukraine and Aleksandra Krunic, Serbia, def. Abigail Spears, United States and Alicja Rosolska (15), Poland, 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (2).\nSorana Cirstea, Romania and Sara Sorribes Tormo, Spain, def. Elena Vesnina, Russia and Jelena Ostapenko (10), Latvia, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4.\nSvetlana Kuznetsova, Russia and Lucie Safarova, Czech Republic, def. Belinda Bencic, Switzerland and Marketa Vondrousova, Czech Republic, 6-2, 6-4.\nAna Isabel Medina Garrigues, Spain and Arantxa Parra Santonja, Spain, def. Alison Riske, United States and Johanna Konta, Britain, 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (3).\nZhaoxuan Yang, China and Hao-Ching Chan (8), Taiwan, def. Su-Wei Hsieh, Taiwan and Andrea Petkovic, Germany, 6-4, 6-4.\nTatjana Maria, Germany and Heather Watson, Britain, def. Manon Arcangioli, France and Sherazad Reix, France, 6-3, 6-4.\nRenata Voracova, Czech Republic and Taylor Townsend, United States, def. Jessika Ponchet, France and Sara Cakarevic, France, 6-4, 6-1.\nJohanna Larsson, Sweden and Kiki Bertens (9), Netherlands, def. Alla Kudryavtseva, Russia and Veronika Kudermetova, Russia, 7-5, 6-2.\nVenus Williams, United States and Serena Williams, United States, def. Shuko Aoyama, Japan and Miyu Kato (14), Japan, 4-6, 6-4, 6-1.\nDarija Jurak, Croatia and Donna Vekic, Croatia, def. Coco Vandeweghe, United States and Ashleigh Barty (7), Australia, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4.\nAnastassia Rodionova, Australia and Nadiia Kichenok (16), Ukraine, def. Mandy Minella, Luxembourg and Anastasija Sevastova, Latvia, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5.\nAliaksandra Sasnovich, Belarus and Ying-Ying Duan, China, def. Olga Savchuk, Ukraine and Ana Bogdan, Romania, 6-3, 3-6, 6-1.\nSamantha Stosur, Australia and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Russia, def. Lidziya Marozava, Belarus and Lesley Kerkhove, Netherlands, 6-3, 6-4.\nMixed Doubles\nFirst Round\nMatwe Middelkoop, Netherlands and Demi Schuurs, Netherlands, def. Michael Venus, New Zealand and Hao-Ching Chan (6), Taiwan, 6-3, 6-2."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1679
|
I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Arizona lawmakers haggle over funding before teacher strike
|
{
"text": [
"PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona policymakers have yet to agree how to increase teacher pay or education funding ahead of a first-ever statewide walkout this week, prompting calls from Democrats and even one Republican to generate new tax revenue in the conservative state.\nRepublicans who control the state Legislature have yet to fully back Gov. Doug Ducey's plan for a 20 percent teacher raise, which would cost $650 million by 2020. Many have shared concerns about the rosy revenue projections Ducey is using to cover the increase.\nTeachers have protested for weeks and took a vote on whether to launch the first statewide strike after Ducey unveiled his plan, saying they're concerned it doesn't increase funding for classrooms and students.\nWith Ducey and legislative leaders meeting behind closed doors to negotiate a deal, Republican state Rep. Noel Campbell offered a plan for a sales tax increase. He said the three-year boost of 1 percent would generate $1 billion annually.\nCampbell said he's concerned the governor's proposal is too optimistic and believed the hike would bring in money to support all-day kindergarten, technical training and lower in-state tuition at public universities.\nMost lawmakers agree higher pay and school funding is a good idea — the issue is how to fund them, he said. The governor and many Republicans have taken pledges against tax hikes.\n\"There's no way that we're going to get an income tax increase through this body, it's not gonna happen,\" he said. \"You have to make a choice here. Do you want to have a perfect bill that doesn't pass or do you want to have a good bill that might have some chance?\"\nThe relative novelty of a Republican calling for a sales tax increase contrasts with Democrats warning against any such hike. They raised concerns about rural towns that already have 10 percent sales tax rates.\n\"Another increase would unfairly put the burden on the poor and working class, who pay an inordinately larger share of their income on sales tax,\" Senate Minority Leader Katie Hobbs said.\nInstead, Democrats called for funding from new revenue streams, such as taxing new products or reversing income tax cuts on wealthy residents.\nNew dollars are necessary to meet a key demand: $1 billion to return school funding to levels seen before the Great Recession, said Joe Thomas, president of the Arizona Educators Association, the largest teacher membership group.\nDucey spokesman Daniel Scarpinato said the governor's plan goes a long way toward addressing classroom funding concerns. It includes $371 million phased in over five years that districts can decide where to direct — that money could be used for support staff raises or other needs, Scarpinato said.\n\"The only way to get back to 2008 levels is to continue driving up the dollars we put into education,\" he said. \"This is a big, sustained step toward the overall goal.\"\nThe political dealing comes as some of the state's largest school districts plan to close Thursday and Friday due to striking teachers, who are among the lowest-paid in the U.S.\nOver a dozen of Colorado school districts, including the 10 largest, also will shut down both days because of teacher protests. The two states are part of a movement that started in West Virginia, where a strike garnered a raise, and spread to Oklahoma, Kentucky and beyond.\nIn the run-up to Arizona's statewide strike, parents and community members have been supportive, said Melissa Girmscheid, a science teacher at Centennial High School in suburban Phoenix.\nThey're giving gift cards for support staffers who may not be paid, and some teens are volunteering to watch teachers' children so they can go to a rally Thursday, she said.\n\"We've had a lot of parents who've stepped up to the plate,\" Girmscheid said.\nThomas, with the teachers association, said teachers were pushed to the drastic step.\n\"Every educator wishes this didn't have to happen,\" Thomas said. \"But nothing has worked. Phone calls, emails, letters, many rallies, days at the Capitol where we go down and bring 100 people. Nothing has worked. We have been absolutely ignored, and they're not going to be able to ignore us Thursday.\""
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1680
|
I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about A look at Egypt-Russia relations as Putin visits Cairo
|
{
"text": [
"CAIRO (AP) — Relations between Russia and Egypt have rapidly grown over the past three years, with Presidents Vladimir Putin and Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi forging a multi-faceted relationship that features economic, military and political cooperation.\nHere is a look at the history of this relationship and where it might be headed, as Putin pays his latest visit to Cairo.\n____\nCOLD WAR TIES\nThe young Egyptian officers who seized power in Egypt in 1952 and later toppled the monarchy initially flirted with the United States through various channels. But vociferous, anti-Israel rhetoric from Egypt's Arab nationalist leader Gamal Abdel-Nasser, coupled with Cold War realities, doomed any hope that Washington could become Cairo's superpower patron.\nA 1955 deal to buy Soviet weapons through Czechoslovakia brought Egypt into the Soviet camp despite Cairo's efforts to remain non-aligned. Moscow later agreed to build a massive hydroelectric dam on the Nile in southern Egypt after the World Bank, reportedly at Washington's behest, declined to finance the project.\nRelations plunged deeper when Egypt accused the United States of colluding with Israel in the 1967 Six Day War, in which Israeli troops seized the Sinai Peninsula. Following that war, Egypt's ties with Russia became much closer, with thousands of Russian military advisers stationed in Egypt, some with their families. Soviet-made military hardware poured into Egypt, from tanks and fighter-jets to helicopters and artillery pieces. Russian pilots even flew reconnaissance flights for the Egyptians over Israeli installations.\n____\nSWITCHING CAMPS\nThe United States began to reassert its influence over Egypt when Washington brokered a 1970 cease-fire that ended months of intensive fighting between Egypt and Israel in the Suez Canal region and along the Red Sea coastline.\nIn a surprise move, President Anwar Sadat in 1972 expelled the Soviet military advisers, arguing that Moscow was not doing enough to help the Egyptians match Israel's military might. A year later, Egypt and Israel fought the last of their four wars and the road was paved for Washington to replace Moscow as the most dominant foreign power in the Middle East.\nThe U.S.-brokered Camp David peace accords between Egypt and Israel cemented the new American-Egyptian alliance, transforming Egypt into a key U.S. ally and the recipient of $1.3 billion in annual foreign aid, which continues to this day.\n___\nRENEWING TIES\nEgyptian-American relations took a plunge after the military overthrew Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, the country's first freely elected leader, amid mass protests against his divisive rule in 2013.\nPresident Barack Obama's administration criticized the move, which effectively ended Egypt's troubled transition to democracy, angering the country's new leaders. Since then, pro-government media have regularly accused Obama of siding with Morsi's now-banned Muslim Brotherhood group.\nEl-Sissi, who as defense minister led the overthrow of Morsi and was elected president the following year, was quick to pivot toward Moscow. He has visited Russia twice since assuming office, and has struck deals to buy billions of dollars' worth of military hardware, including helicopter gunships and fighter jets.\nAn agreement to have a Russian company build a nuclear reactor was signed in Cairo on Monday. Late last month, Russia said it approved a draft agreement with Egypt to allow its warplanes to use Egyptian bases.\nEl-Sissi has also cultivated close ties with U.S. President Donald Trump, however, and relations with Moscow have not been problem-free.\nThe bombing of a Russian airliner over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula in October 2015, which killed all 224 people on board, prompted Moscow to suspend all flights to Egypt. More than two years later, the suspension remains in force and Egyptian tourism, heavily dependent on Russian tourists, is suffering. Egypt has spent millions of dollars to upgrade security at its airports, but the Russians remain reluctant to resume flights."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1681
|
I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about How major US stock indexes fared Wednesday
|
{
"text": [
"Banks and energy companies surged Wednesday and smaller companies made huge gains as stocks got back almost all the ground they lost the day before. Investors reversed course as they hoped Italy would be able to avoid a new round of elections after all.\nOn Wednesday:\nThe S&P 500 index advanced 34.15 points, or 1.3 percent, to 2,724.01.\nThe Dow Jones industrial average rose 306.33 points, or 1.3 percent, to 24,667.78.\nThe Nasdaq composite added 65.86 points, or 0.9 percent, to 7,462.45.\nThe Russell 2000 index soared 24.34 points, or 1.5 percent, to 1,647.99.\nFor the week:\nThe S&P 500 is up 2.68 points, or 0.1 percent.\nThe Dow is down 85.31 points, or 0.3 percent.\nThe Nasdaq is up 28.60 points, or 0.4 percent.\nThe Russell 2000 is up 21.06 points, or 1.3 percent.\nFor the year:\nThe S&P 500 is up 50.40 points, or 1.9 percent.\nThe Dow is down 51.44 points, or 0.2 percent.\nThe Nasdaq is up 559.06 points, or 8.1 percent.\nThe Russell 2000 is up 112.48 points, or 7.3 percent."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1682
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about The Latest: Kim Kardashian West arrives at White House
|
{
"text": [
"WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Kim Kardashian West at the White House (all times local):\n5:05 p.m.\nReality television star Kim Kardashian West has arrived at the White House for a meeting with presidential senior adviser Jared Kushner.\nKardashian West was seen posing for photos in front of the West Wing before entering to discuss criminal justice reform with Kushner, the president's son-in-law.\nKardashian West has urged the president to pardon Alice Marie Johnson, who is serving a life sentence without parole for a nonviolent drug offense.\nAttorney Brittany K. Barnett, who says she's part of Johnson's legal team, says Kardashian West also hopes to meet with President Donald Trump to discuss the case.\nKardashian West's husband, rapper Kanye West, sparked a social media maelstrom earlier this month with his support for Trump.\n__\n4:10 p.m.\nReality TV star Kim Kardashian West was heading to the White House to make a star-powered case for prison reform and advocate on behalf of a woman serving a life sentence.\nKardashian West has urged the president to pardon Alice Marie Johnson, 63, who is serving a life sentence without parole for a nonviolent drug offense.\nIn an interview with Mic, Kardashian West said she'd been moved by Johnson's story after seeing a video by the news outlet.\n\"I think that she really deserves a second chance at life,\" Kardashian told Mic. \"I'll do whatever it takes to get her out.\""
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1683
|
I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Experts: Minnesota woman likely to face Florida charge first
|
{
"text": [
"MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota woman who led authorities on a weekslong manhunt after she allegedly killed her husband, then went to Florida and befriended — then killed — a woman who resembled her, is now facing charges in two states.\nLois Riess is in custody in Texas, awaiting transfer to Florida or Minnesota for trial. If the Florida charges against Riess are elevated to first-degree murder, she could face the death penalty.\nHere are some details about how this case might unfold:\n'COLD-BLOODED MURDERER'\nRiess, 56, killed her husband, 54-year-old David Riess, in late March, then forged checks to steal $11,000 from his account, according to authorities. David Riess's body was found on March 23 at the couple's home in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, with multiple gunshot wounds. Lois Riess was gone.\nThe search for Riess began and seemed to intensify after another woman, Pamela Hutchinson, 59, of Bradenton, Florida, was found dead in Fort Myers Beach on April 9. Authorities said at the time that Riess targeted Hutchinson because they looked alike, then killed her to assume her identity.\nLee County Undersheriff Carmine Marceno said Riess was armed and dangerous and her mode of operation was to befriend women who resembled her, then steal their identity. He called her a \"cold-blooded murderer.\"\nA national manhunt for Riess continued until she was arrested Thursday in the South Texas beach resort town of South Padre Island after someone recognized her at a restaurant.\n___\nWHAT HAPPENS NEXT?\nRiess is charged in Florida with one count each of second-degree murder, grand theft, grand theft of a motor vehicle and criminal use of personal identification information.\nIn Minnesota, Riess is charged with one count of felony theft. Authorities have said a second-degree murder charge is pending, but they are taking time to build the strongest possible case.\nA judge in Brownsville, Texas, ruled that Riess could be extradited to either state for trial, and whomever picked her up first could take custody.\nDavid Weinstein, a former federal and state prosecutor in Florida, said the Florida case seems to be farther along so it's likely that Riess will head there first. In addition, the second-degree murder charge filed by way of an arrest warrant in Florida is going to weigh heavier than the theft charge in Minnesota. Weinstein said authorities in both states have to discuss the next steps together.\n___\nTHE DEATH PENALTY\nFlorida is a death penalty state, while Minnesota is not. The death penalty is currently not a factor with the charges Riess faces, but that could change.\nIn order to seek the death penalty, Florida prosecutors must charge Riess with first-degree murder and that can only be done through a grand jury indictment. State Attorney's Office spokeswoman Samantha Syoen said the office doesn't discuss such matters.\nWeinstein, who is not part of the case, said that from what he's seen about Riess's alleged plan to befriend Hutchinson, steal her identity and then escape, it seems authorities will move forward with a first-degree, premeditated, murder charge.\nBut that charge doesn't automatically mean prosecutors will seek the death penalty, or that it would be imposed if she's convicted.\nProsecutors have to evaluate aggravating and mitigating factors. Some aggravating factors for the death penalty include how a murder was planned and carried out, the manner of death, and whether the death was heinous, atrocious and cruel. Some mitigating factors that might weigh against the death penalty include the defendant's age or mental health, Weinstein said.\n___\nSOME WRINKLES\nThe death penalty issue could be a factor as authorities discuss where Riess should face trial first.\nOne aggravating factor for the death penalty is a prior crime of violence. So, Florida prosecutors could theoretically opt to let Minnesota try its case first, get a murder conviction, and then use that conviction to bolster their argument for the death penalty, Weinstein said.\nPete Mills, chairman of the Florida Public Defenders Association Death Penalty Steering Committee, said prosecutors in Minnesota also might feel that the death penalty shouldn't be an option, so they might seek to try Riess first for that reason. They also might seek to bring her to Minnesota first so they can seek justice for family members there.\n___\nHISTORY OF THEFT AND GAMBLING\nRiess has a history of stealing money and gambling, and authorities dubbed her \"Losing Streak Lois\" for her habit of frequenting casinos.\nIn 2012, Riess was appointed conservator and guardian for her disabled sister, who has the cognitive level of a 10-year-old, according to court records. In a September 2015 affidavit, a social worker said she received a report that Riess transferred funds from the guardianship account to Riess' own account, then spent some of the funds at a casino. Riess was never charged, but was directed to repay her sister, court records show. An attorney on the case said she has not.\nDuring her time on the run, authorities said Riess gambled at casinos in Iowa and Louisiana, where she won a $1,500 jackpot on slot machines and used her own identification to claim the prize.\n___\nAssociated Press writer Jeff Baenen contributed to this report from Minneapolis.\n___\nFollow Amy Forliti on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/amyforliti . More of her work at: https://apnews.com/search/amy%20forliti"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1684
|
I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Some in GOP heed call to return Wynn money, post-allegations
|
{
"text": [
"Some Republicans in Congress are donating their contributions from Las Vegas billionaire Steve Wynn to charity in light of sexual misconduct allegations against the former Republican National Committee finance chairman.\nThe announcements come in light of a Wall Street Journal report Friday that Wynn, a casino mogul and prolific Republican donor, sexually harassed several women. Wynn, chairman and CEO of Wynn Resorts, has denied the allegations\nWynn's home-state senator Dean Heller, who is running for re-election this year, is donating the $5,400 his campaign received last year from the casino mogul to a yet-determined charity, campaign aides said Monday. A spokeswoman for Sen. Rob Portman said the Ohio Republican would donate the $5,400 his campaign received from Wynn for his 2016 campaign to charities aimed at stemming human sex-trafficking. Likewise, an aide to Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson said he was giving the $5,400 he got in 2016 from Wynn to a domestic abuse victims service in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.\nThe Republican Governors Association, the chief campaign fundraising group for GOP governor candidates, was returning $100,000 from Wynn's company. It also canceled a contract to hold its 2020 annual convention at the Wynn Las Vegas resort, and said it will not accept contributions from Wynn or his company unless the claims against him are proven false.\nAides to House Speaker Paul Ryan confirmed he would donate $1,000 from a Wynn-related business group to a Wisconsin homelessness charity. Rep. Karen Handel of Georgia, who won a special election last year, was giving the $2,700 her campaign received from Wynn to a Georgia charity for sexual and domestic abuse victims.\nThe announcements by Heller, Portman and Johnson follow calls Sunday by Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina to return the money.\n\"I don't even think it's a close call to return the money,\" Collins said on CNN's \"State of the Union.\"\nRNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel told committee members Saturday she had accepted Wynn's resignation as finance committee chairman. The committee convenes in Washington this week for its annual winter meeting.\nThe allegations against Wynn are part of a wave of sexual misconduct claims against prominent media, entertainment and political figures that gained momentum last fall after the emergence of detailed allegations of rape and harassment involving movie producer Harvey Weinstein.\nDuring the fall, RNC officials, including McDaniel, noted that Weinstein had been a top donor for Democrats, including 2016 presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.\nIn October, McDaniel tweeted that if the Democratic National Committee \"truly stands up for women like they say they do, then returning Weinstein's dirty money should be a no-brainer.\" The RNC has not yet said whether it will return any money donated by Wynn.\nHeller and Portman and are part of a long list of mainly Republican lawmakers, candidates and party organizations Wynn has contributed to in recent years, though he has also previously backed Democrats.\nWynn contributed $5,400 to the 2016 campaigns of Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Marco Rubio of Florida and Tim Scott of South Carolina. That year, Wynn also contributed $167,000 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee.\nSince 2013, Wynn has contributed nearly $2.4 million to GOP candidates and party organizations around the country, including 2017 special election winners.\nThe fallout to Wynn's business interests continued Monday. Shares of Wynn Resorts had falling about 18 percent since first allegations were reported.\nThough the company and Wynn have vehemently denied the allegations, the company's board said a committee of independent directors would investigate the allegations.\nIt will be headed by Patricia Mulroy, a board member and former member of the Nevada Gaming Commission.\n_\nAssociated Press reporters Scott Bauer in Madison, Wisconsin, and Damian Troise in New York contributed to this report.\n___\nThis story has been corrected to show Wynn contribution to Heller was $5,400, not $10,800."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1686
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about The Latest: Moscow theater cancels screenings of Stalin film
|
{
"text": [
"MOSCOW (AP) — The Latest on Russia's response to the satirical film \"The Death of Stalin\" (all times local):\n11:30 p.m.\nA Moscow movie theater that had been showing a satirical film about Soviet leader Josef Stalin in defiance of an official Russian government ban has canceled further screenings.\nThe announcement came several hours after Moscow police visited the Pioner theater on Friday. Police didn't declare the purpose of their visit, but it followed the Russian Culture Ministry's warning that the theater could face sanctions that included fines.\nThe ministry this week rescinded the permit allowing Scottish writer-director Armando Iannucci's \"The Death of Stalin\" to be shown in theaters after communists and others criticized the movie as a mockery of Russian history.\nThe Pioner theater said on its Facebook page that pre-purchased tickets would be refunded and \"for all further questions, we ask you to turn to the Ministry of Culture.\"\n___\n5:10 p.m.\nPolice officers have shown up at a Moscow movie theater that screened a satirical film about Soviet leader Josef Stalin in defiance of an official Russian government ban.\nMoscow police didn't immediately declare the purpose of their visit to Pioner theater on Friday, but it followed the Russian Culture Ministry's warning that the theater could face sanctions in line with the law.\nThe ministry this week rescinded the permit allowing Scottish writer-director Armando Iannucci's \"The Death of Stalin\" to be shown in theaters after communists and others criticized the movie as a mockery of Russian history.\nPioner ignored the decision and has been screening the film since Thursday. Showing an unlicensed movie is punishable by a fine.\nStalin remains widely admired in Russia, despite his brutal purges that killed millions."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1687
|
I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about German jobless rate edges up in January on seasonal factors
|
{
"text": [
"BERLIN (AP) — Germany's unemployment rate climbed to 5.8 percent in January due to seasonal factors, but the underlying trend of the labor market in Europe's biggest economy remained positive.\nThe Federal Labor Agency said Wednesday the unadjusted jobless rate climbed from 5.3 percent in December, with the number of unemployed rising by 185,000 to 2.57 million. However, that figure was 207,000 lower than a year earlier.\nIt's typical for the unadjusted rate, the headline figure in Germany, to rise in January but labor agency chief Detlef Scheele said the increase was smaller than usual.\nIn seasonally adjusted terms, the jobless rate ticked down to 5.4 percent from 5.5 percent, with 25,000 fewer people out of work than the previous month — slightly better than economists' forecasts of a 17,000 drop."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1688
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about BC-US--Silver, US
|
{
"text": [
"New York (AP) — Silver futures trading on the NY Merc Monday:\n(5,000 troy oz.; cents per troy oz.)"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1689
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about 'Roseanne' finishes as most-watched comedy in last week
|
{
"text": [
"NEW YORK (AP) — \"Roseanne\" has finished its final episode in the same way the rebooted series began — as the top-watched television comedy.\nThe series reached 10.58 million last Tuesday, second only to the CBS drama \"NCIS\" in the weekly Nielsen rankings. Last week's season finale turned out to be the series final episode.\n\"Roseanne\" was expected to come back next year, but ABC canceled the series on Tuesday following a racist tweet sent out by star Roseanne Barr. The show's revival lasted three months.\nAnother ABC comedy that had its last episode last week, \"The Middle,\" was seen by 7.09 million. That last episode was planned."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1690
|
I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Egypt chief-of-staff mediates between Libyan rivals in Cairo
|
{
"text": [
"CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's chief-of-staff has mediated between two Libyan rivals who refused to meet face to face in Cairo but later agreed to form a committee to renegotiate a U.N. peace deal.\nCol. Tamer el-Rifai, an Egyptian army spokesman, says the two — the head of Libya's U.N.-backed government, Fayez Serraj, and Khalifa Hifter, the country's most powerful army commander — met separately with Egypt's chief-of-staff, Lt. Gen. Mahmoud Hegazy late on Tuesday.\nHe says they agreed to form a joint committee that would make key changes to the 2015 U.N.-brokered peace deal.\nOnce the parliament, based in eastern Libya, endorses the changes, it would pave the way for parliamentary and presidential elections next year.\nLibya's east-based parliament does not recognize the U.N.-backed government set up in the country's capital, Tripoli."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1691
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about QDOBA Mexican Eats® Reinforces Commitment to Fresh Food with Return of Mango Salsa
|
{
"text": [
"SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 24, 2018--Fans asked, and QDOBA ® delivers! QDOBA Mexican Eats ® announces the return of fan favorite – Mango Salsa – for a limited time this summer. Offering a refreshing flavor, QDOBA’s Mango Salsa combines mangoes, red bell peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes, red onions, jalapeños, cilantro and lime juice. The perfect tropical topping to burritos, burrito bowls, salads or tacos, Mango Salsa can be added to any QDOBA entrée for free.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005501/en/\nQDOBA's Chicken Mango Salad (Photo: Business Wire)\n“Our Mango Salsa is made with real ingredients and is prepared in our restaurants’ kitchens every day,” said Jill Adams, vice president of marketing at QDOBA. “Sure, it would be easier for our restaurant teams to get all the ingredients for Mango Salsa pre-chopped and from a can, but that would mean compromising freshness and flavor – two components we’ll never sacrifice when it comes to our food.”\nMango Salsa can also be enjoyed on QDOBA’s latest chef-inspired dish – the new Chicken Mango Salad. Served in a crispy flour tortilla shell that’s fried in-restaurant, this salad is made with hand-chopped Romaine lettuce, grilled adobo chicken, tropical Mango Salsa and a drizzle of homemade cilantro-lime dressing.\n“Our culinary team handcrafts our chef-inspired dishes based on what ingredients they think will offer the best flavor combinations,” continued Adams. “For example, when they were developing Chicken Mango Salad, the team liked how the sweetness of the mangoes and bold flavor of the bell peppers paired with the subtle heat of our grilled adobo chicken. With the addition of the crisp cucumbers and the cilantro-lime dressing, this salad balances a range of fresh flavors and textures. We can’t wait for our guests to try it.”\nLike summer, guests are encouraged to enjoy Mango Salsa and the Chicken Mango Salad at participating locations, before it says adios. QDOBA has more than 740 restaurants across the United States and in Canada. Guests can find their nearest QDOBA by visiting QDOBA.com/locations or on the QDOBA app available for download on the iTunes App Store or Google Play.\nAbout QDOBA\nAt QDOBA, everyone is invited to live a more flavorful life. The QDOBA experience comes to life through its multi-dimensional approach to flavor, which encompasses its people, its restaurants and, of course, its fresh, craveable food. Through the Brand’s vision, guests and team members alike are encouraged to celebrate individuality and boldly craft a meal that’s packed full of flavors like 3-Cheese Queso and hand-smashed guacamole. Getting its start in 1995, QDOBA now has more than 740 restaurants in 47 states, the District of Columbia and Canada. Discover more at QDOBA.com and connect with QDOBA on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005501/en/\nCONTACT: Bolt Public Relations\nMackenzie Martin, (949) 218-5454\nmmartin@boltpr.com\nKEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA CANADA CALIFORNIA\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: WOMEN RESTAURANT/BAR TEENS RETAIL FOOD/BEVERAGE CONSUMER MEN\nSOURCE: QDOBA Mexican Eats\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/24/2018 06:00 AM/DISC: 04/24/2018 06:01 AM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005501/en"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1692
|
I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Weinstein attorney: McGowan's rape allegations ' a bold lie'
|
{
"text": [
"LOS ANGELES (AP) — A lawyer for Harvey Weinstein says actress Rose McGowan's claims of rape against the former Hollywood producer are \"a bold lie.\"\nAttorney Ben Brafman says in a statement Tuesday that McGowan is trying to \"smear\" Weinstein to promote her new book \"Brave.\"\nMcGowan details her allegations against Weinstein in the memoir released Tuesday. Scores of women have publicly accused Weinstein of sexual harassment or assault.\nBrafman says Weinstein denies McGowan's claims. The attorney also cites correspondence from \"two witnesses\" to corroborate his client's position: Entertainment manager Jill Messick and Oscar winner Ben Affleck.\nThe statement released through crisis management firm Sitrick & Co. also included several photos of McGowan looking cordial with Weinstein at an industry event years ago.\nRepresentatives for McGowan and Affleck did not immediately respond to requests for comment."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1694
|
I am asking in the domain of entertainment. Tell me about US officials seek packaging fix for diarrhea-drug abuse
|
{
"text": [
"WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators want makers of popular anti-diarrhea drugs to sell their tablets in smaller amounts to make them harder to abuse.\nThe request comes amid a spike in overdoses from large doses of the over-the-counter drugs, which contain a small amount of an opioid.\nThe Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it is asking manufacturers to package their medications in smaller quantities, such as eight tablets per package. Currently, some generic versions are sold in boxes of up to 200 tablets.\nThe key ingredient in anti-diarrhea medications like Imodium is part of the opioid family, an addictive drug class that includes morphine and oxycodone. At low doses, the medicine helps control diarrhea. But recent statistics show a rise in abuse of massive doses to try and get high."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1695
|
I am asking in the domain of entertainment. Tell me about China's premier promises 'wider opening' of economy
|
{
"text": [
"BEIJING (AP) — Premier Li Keqiang has promised China \"will open even wider\" to imports and investment and will fully open manufacturing industries to foreign competitors.\nLi, the country's No. 2 leader, said Tuesday at a news conference that Beijing plans to eliminate import tariffs on drugs and reduce tariffs on other goods. He said the country will \"fully open the manufacturing sector,\" with better protection for intellectual property.\nLi said, \"If there is one thing that will be different from the past, that will be that China will open even wider.\"\nChinese leaders are under pressure to make their slowing, state-dominated economy more productive. They have promised to open more industries to private and foreign competition, but business groups complain they are moving too slowly."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1696
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about New offshore wind farm project will dwarf nation's 1st one
|
{
"text": [
"PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island company is going to build a wind farm that will be 10 times the size of the nation's first offshore wind farm.\nDeepwater Wind says the new 400-megawatt wind farm will also create more than 800 jobs in Rhode Island.\nDemocratic Gov. Gina Raimondo and other officials visited the Port of Providence on Wednesday for the announcement.\nMassachusetts and Rhode Island announced offshore wind projects last week aimed at delivering 1,200 megawatts of energy, enough to power about 600,000 homes.\nThe company also built the nation's first offshore wind farm off Block Island, Rhode Island. It has five turbines. This latest project will have up to 50 turbines south of Martha's Vineyard.\nDeepwater Wind's CEO says it will be \"an enormous clean energy machine.\""
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1697
|
I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about EnvisionTEC Unveils New In-Vivo Medical-Grade Materials and Feature Options for 3D-Bioplotter
|
{
"text": [
"DEARBORN, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2018--EnvisionTEC, a leading global manufacturer of desktop and full-production 3D printers and materials, today announced two new medical-grade materials that make printing parts for implantation in humans safe and easy.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005689/en/\nEnvisionTEC today launches two new medical-grade materials that make 3D printing parts for implantation in humans safe and easy on its bioprinters. UV Silicone 60A MG, shown here, is a ready-to-print liquid silicone appropriate for microfluidics, wound dressings and more. EnvisionTEC also launched a biodegradable PCL polyester for use with its 3D-Bioplotter printers. (Graphic: Business Wire)\nEnvisionTEC’s two new ready-to-print Medical Grade (MG) materials – a liquid silicone rubber and a biodegradable PCL polyester ― are manufactured with the highest purity and can be implanted in humans after 3D printing on the company’s 3D-Bioplotter series printers.\nThe world’s leading bioprinter since 2002, EnvisionTEC’s 3D-Bioplotter is offered in three models ― Starter, Developer and Manufacturer ― that make bioprinting accessible to educators, medical researchers and global manufacturing companies.\nDemonstration parts 3D printed in the new materials will be on display this week in Fort Worth, Texas, at RAPID + TCT, the premier event for 3D manufacturing in North America. EnvisionTEC is sponsoring the event’s Medical Manufacturing Innovations conference and will also be showcasing other innovations in Booth 1304.\n“These new materials show that EnvisionTEC continues to work closely with our customers and partners to develop materials that can be easily used on our highly accurate and reliable 3D-Bioplotter,” said CEO Al Siblani.\nFDA Master Files are available upon request for the two new materials, which are now available for purchase:\nUV Silicone 60A MG ― a biocompatible, bio-inert, non-biodegradable liquid silicone rubber that is cured with a UV light and delivers a Shore A hardness of 60. A transparent material, it can also be mixed with pigments. Approved only for short-term use in the body (29 days or less). Sold by the kilogram. Suitable applications include microfluidics, wound dressings, bio-sensor housings and prototyping. HT PCL MG ― a biodegradable thermoplastic polyester that is processed at high temperatures. To be offered in two molecular weights that affect stiffness, flexibility and degradation time: 80 kDa and 120 kDa. Available in 1 kg or 100 g packages. Suitable for both short-term and long-term use in the body (longer than 29 days). Ideal applications include bone regeneration, cartilage regeneration, drug release and hybrid scaffolds.\nCustomers can change between 365 nm and 405 nm light sources just as quickly and easily as changing material cartridges on a low temperature printing head.\nHistory of Ready-to-Print Biomaterials\nThe 3D-Bioplotter is EnvisionTEC’s only open-source materials printer ― a feature designed to give medical researchers and manufacturers the flexibility to develop their own materials for unique research or a specific patient.\nFor more than 15 years, 3D-Bioplotter users have been printing silicones, thermoplastics, hydrogels and more, to advance groundbreaking research in regenerative medicine, drug delivery and materials science, among other topics.\nAs the 3D-Bioplotter has become ever more popular, however, with more than 200 citations in peer-reviewed journals, there has been increasing demand for standard 3D printing materials.\nFor convenience, EnvisionTEC now sells three grades of materials, with varying levels of purity and cost, to expedite research and manufacturing, such as printing supports for tissue engineering applications or structures for soft implants:\nTechnical Grade (TG) Research Grade (RG) Medical Grade (MG)\nSeveral of EnvisionTEC’s standard bioprinting materials also come with low-temperature (LT) or high-temperature (HT) designations, to meet different printing needs. For example, EnvisionTEC offers LT and HT versions of its Support RG material. These research-grade materials can be used to create sacrificial supports that are dissolved in distilled water after the support is no longer needed. The LT version is cellulose-based and has a processing temperature of 23°C or 73°F, while the HT version is sugar-based and can be processed at 150°C or 302°F.\nAs the world leader in bioprinting solutions, EnvisionTEC continues to develop bioprinting materials with its global partners as the field of regenerative medicine evolves and bioprinting expands in the coming years into clinical trials and manufacturing production.\nMore information about the company’s new biomaterials can be found at EnvisionTEC.com/biomaterials.\nAbout EnvisionTEC\nEnvisionTEC is a leading global provider of professional-grade 3D printing solutions. Founded in 2002 with its pioneering commercial DLP printing technology, EnvisionTEC now sells 3D printers based on six distinct technologies that build objects from digital design files. The company’s technology serves a variety of medical, professional and industrial markets, and is valued for precision, surface quality, functionality and speed. EnvisionTEC’s intellectual property includes more than 140 pending and granted patents. Learn more at EnvisionTEC.com.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005689/en/\nCONTACT: EnvisionTEC\nSarah A. Webster, +1-313-888-4460\nswebster@envisiontec.com\nKEYWORD: AUSTRIA UNITED STATES EUROPE NORTH AMERICA CANADA MICHIGAN GERMANY SWITZERLAND\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: TECHNOLOGY OTHER TECHNOLOGY MANUFACTURING CHEMICALS/PLASTICS OTHER MANUFACTURING\nSOURCE: EnvisionTEC\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/23/2018 08:30 AM/DISC: 04/23/2018 08:30 AM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180423005689/en"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1698
|
I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Man says friend duped him; pocketed lottery ticket money
|
{
"text": [
"LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man is suing his friend for misleading him about the value of his $1 million lottery ticket, and for pocketing the proceeds after helping him cash it in.\nThe Lakeland Ledger (http://bit.ly/2ssuIs8) reports 45-year-old John Rhoades asked his 28-year-old friend Tyler Scott for help after realizing the scratch-off ticket he bought in April was a winner. Rhoades says he didn't know how much the ticket was worth or how to cash it in.\nThe lawsuit says Scott told Rhoades it was worth $100,000. Attorneys for Scott say he gave Rhoades the money to buy the ticket, and that Scott scratched the ticket and won, later giving his friend $64,000.\nA judge issued an order freezing both men's bank accounts until ownership of the winning ticket can be determined."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1699
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Scandal-plagued Weinstein Co. files for bankruptcy protection with buyout offer in hand
|
{
"text": [
"NEW YORK (AP) — Scandal-plagued Weinstein Co. files for bankruptcy protection with buyout offer in hand."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1700
|
I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Trump's time, Democrats' grumbles, Melania's white pantsuit
|
{
"text": [
"WASHINGTON (AP) — Scenes from the Capitol on a night of pomp, pageantry and politics for the State of the Union address:\n___\nIt wasn't the longest State of the Union address. That designation still goes to former President Bill Clinton.\nBut an hour and 20 minutes of President Donald Trump talking Tuesday was plenty long enough for House Democrats. Just before Trump finished, their leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, made eye contact with Rep. Joe Crowley of New York and pointed toward the back of the House chamber.\nDemocrats followed their lead and made an unusually quick beeline for the exits.\nEarlier, Pelosi had warned House Democrats not to leave the chamber mid-speech.\nTrump's first State of the Union address clocked in at about eight minutes shorter than the final such address by Clinton.\n___\nThey could all agree to support 12-year-old Preston Sharp and his project to plant flags on the graves of veterans. But it was a different story when President Donald Trump used that good deed to scold athletes, ahead of the Super Bowl, who kneel during the national anthem.\nMembers of Congress, the Cabinet, the Supreme Court and assorted guests applauded Trump's shout-out to Preston, who noticed that not every grave was decorated with a flag at the California veterans' cemetery where his grandfather was buried. He started collecting donations and, two years later, had decorated 23,000 graves.\n\"Preston's reverence for those who have served our nation reminds us why we salute our flag, why we put our hands on our hearts for the pledge of allegiance,\" Trump said during his speech, drawing applause.\nBut the mood changed when the president added: \"... and why we proudly stand for the national anthem.\"\nGOP lawmakers erupted in applause. Democrats were far more muted.\nTrump was a leading critic of NFL players, predominantly African-American, during last fall's protests. Vice President Mike Pence abruptly left an Indianapolis Colts game after almost two dozen members of the San Francisco 49ers knelt during \"The Star-Spangled Banner.\"\n___\nTheir leader, Nancy Pelosi, warned Democrats to behave during Trump's address and \"let the attention be on his slobbering self.\" The president didn't slobber.\nSome Democrats couldn't hold back, especially when Trump mentioned immigration issues.\n\"Oh, c'mon,\" Rep. Joe Crowley, D-N.Y., audibly enough to be heard in the gallery overhead, as Trump mentioned open borders, letting in drugs and gangs.\nThey laughed out loud when Trump cast his immigration proposal as a down-the-middle compromise.\nAnd they groaned when Trump spoke of ending \"chain migration.\"\nPelosi extended her hands to try to quiet her colleagues.\n___\nWith all eyes on her, a poised Melania Trump took her seat in the gallery above the packed House moments before her husband delivered his State of the Union speech.\nMrs. Trump, sheathed in an all-white Dior pantsuit, had traveled to the Capitol separately from President Donald Trump after holding White House and Capitol receptions for her guests. A White House aide said the couple was expected to return together to the White House after the speech.\nFirst ladies typically get everyone's attention when they enter the chamber for their husbands' addresses. But Mrs. Trump had not been seen in public with her husband since The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month that in 2016, Trump's lawyer paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about an affair she said she had with the future president. Daniels on Tuesday issued a statement denying the affair happened.\nAfter the report, the couple's anniversary passed without public comment. Mrs. Trump abruptly canceled plans to accompany her husband to Davos, Switzerland.\nLast year, President and Mrs. Trump traveled to the speech together.\nMrs. Trump did not react as Trump began his speech with an acknowledgement of \"the first lady.\"\n___\nRep. Rodney Davis, R-Ill., strolled through the Capitol before the speech with a guest who was attracting more attention than he was.\nTall and sporting a ponytail was Jayson Werth, an outfielder who played the last several years for the local Washington Nationals. Werth said he has an organic farm in Davis' district.\nAsked if he was a Trump supporter, Werth said he was a moderate.\n\"I'm just spreading my wings a little bit,\" he said.\n___\nAssociated Press writers Matthew Daly and Alan Fram contributed to this report.\n___\nFollow Kellman on Twitter at www.twitter.com/APLaurieKellman"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1701
|
I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Softbank adds Fortress Investment to growing tech empire
|
{
"text": [
"TOKYO (AP) — The $3.3 billion acquisition by SoftBank Group Corp., the Japanese telecommunications, internet and solar energy giant, of Fortress Investment Group marks tycoon Masayoshi Son's latest step in building a technology investment empire.\nSon said the deal, announced by both sides Wednesday, will immediately contribute to his strategy for growth and complement his Softbank Vision Fund plan for investing in leading technologies including artificial intelligence and the \"internet of Things,\" which links devices through the Internet.\n\"Fortress' excellent track record speaks for itself, and we look forward to benefiting from its leadership, broad-based expertise and world-class investment platform,\" Son said in a statement.\nTokyo-based Softbank has been aggressive in global acquisitions and has been seeking partners for the billion private fund for technology investments that it says may grow to $100 billion.\nIts shares jumped 1.6 percent Wednesday in Tokyo trading.\nThose ambitions dovetail with Son's promise to President Donald Trump to invest $50 billion in U.S. startups to create 50,000 jobs.\nSoftbank also owns the U.S. wireless company Sprint Corp. and Britain's ARM Holdings, which is known as an innovator in the \"internet of things,\" and in technology used in smartphones.\nNew York-based Fortress, which manages global investments, said its senior professionals will stay to keep up its fund performance.\nFortress co-chairmen Pete Briger and Wes Edens praised Son as \"visionary.\" They said the companies have much in common, and the deal will benefit shareholders.\n\"We join a company with tremendous scale and resources, and a culture completely aligned with our focus on performance, service and innovation,\" they said in a joint statement.\nSoftBank, the first carrier to offer the iPhone in Japan, also sells the Pepper human-shaped companion robot. The company, founded in 1981, has within its investment empire financial technology and ride-booking services.\nLast week, the company reported its October-December profit soared to about 40 times what it was a year ago.\n___\nFollow Yuri Kageyama on Twitter at https://twitter.com/yurikageyama\nHer work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/yuri-kageyama"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1702
|
I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Ex-VP Biden elected chair of National Constitution Center
|
{
"text": [
"PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden has been elected chair of the board of trustees at Philadelphia's National Constitution Center.\nThe center made the announcement Wednesday that Biden will succeed former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, whose term ended in January.\nJeffrey Rosen, President and CEO of the center, says Biden's \"love for the constitution, and passion for teaching all Americans about its enduring principles, have inspired people around the world.\"\nBiden says he's honored to succeed former presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush at the head of such a \"national treasure.\"\nBiden will also be splitting his time between programs at the University of Delaware and the University of Pennsylvania as part of his post-White House life."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1703
|
I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Anthem fires back at Cigna
|
{
"text": [
"INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Anthem is countering Cigna a day after its smaller rival sued to terminate a $48 billion buyout agreement.\nAnthem on Wednesday sought a restraining order to block that maneuver and force it to comply with the deal, which has already been blocked by a federal judge.\nThe rapid-fire consolidation in the health care industry appears to be hitting a wall. On Tuesday, Aetna said it was abandoning its $34 billion acquisition of Humana. That was followed by the Cigna lawsuit.\nBoth deals drew in the Justice Department and separate federal courts ruled the deals could hurt consumers.\nCigna Corp. is seeking a $1.85 billion termination fee from Anthem and more than $13 billion in damages.\nAnthem Inc. said Wednesday that Cigna doesn't have a right to terminate the agreement."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1704
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Prince Harry promotes Invictus Games in Canadian interview
|
{
"text": [
"TORONTO (AP) — Prince Harry says his late mother drew a spotlight to causes and issues that didn't get attention. Now he's following in her footsteps as he promotes the Invictus Games for wounded veterans.\nThe 32-year-old prince said in an excerpt of an interview with Canada's CTV television network that Diana would put everybody before herself. He says she was very good at inviting and taking the cameras to causes and areas where they had never been before. Diana's handshake in the late 1980s with a man with AIDS amid the fears of that era is an example.\nThe Invictus Games were created by Prince Harry as a way to inspire and motivate wounded soldiers on their path to recovery. The 2017 Games will be held in Toronto this September."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1705
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Tanzania to auction 3 tons of hippo teeth, despite criticism
|
{
"text": [
"JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Authorities in Tanzania plan an auction of 3.5 tons of hippo teeth next week, drawing criticism from conservation groups who say the sale could encourage increased killing of the vulnerable species for its body parts.\nLicensed dealers on Monday can bid for the 12,500 pieces of hippo teeth at the tourism and natural resources ministry in the East African nation's commercial hub of Dar es Salaam, according to Tanzanian wildlife authorities. Buyers will receive documents confirming ownership.\nMany hippo populations across Africa face intense pressure from hunting for their ivory and meat, the WWF conservation group said.\n\"Therefore, even though some countries still have healthy populations, WWF discourages the consumption of hippopotamus ivory and are disappointed to see auctions such as this taking place,\" said Colman O'Criodain, a WWF expert in wildlife trade.\nAnother conservation group, Born Free, said it was concerned there could be more demand for hippo ivory as efforts to end the trafficking of elephant ivory intensify.\nChina, long the world's largest consumer of elephant ivory, announced a ban on its trade that took effect at the beginning of this year.\nAn international \"red list\" of endangered species classifies the hippo as vulnerable and estimates there are up to 130,000 hippos in sub-Saharan Africa. Hippo teeth are carved into ornaments for sale in parts of Asia.\nA regulated trade in hippo parts is allowed under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES.\n___\nFollow Christopher Torchia on Twitter at www.twitter.com/torchiachris"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1706
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about The Latest: Kristen Bell stays warm before Globes noms
|
{
"text": [
"LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on nominations for the 75th annual Golden Globe Awards (all times local):\n5 a.m.\nDecked in a large cozy sweater, actress Kristen Bell is sipping coffee and staying warm before she takes the stage to announce the nominees for the 75th Golden Globe Awards.\nJournalists gathered early Monday at the Beverly Hilton Hotel for the reading of the nominations, which honor acting and other work in film and television.\nThe hotel is a flurry of activity in these early hours with publicists and members of the press chatting and grabbing a little bite of fruit, bagels and croissants before the nominations announcement begins.\nPhotographers and camera crews took test shots of the stage where Bell, Alfre Woodard, Garrett Hedlund, and Sharon Stone will read the nominations in 25 categories beginning at 5:15 a.m.\nThe Golden Globe will be hosted Jan. 7 by Seth Meyers and broadcast by NBC from the Beverly Hilton.\n___\n12 a.m.\nNominations for the 75th annual Golden Globe Awards will be announced Monday morning from Beverly Hills, California.\nThe nominations will begin at 8:15 a.m. Eastern, with a second batch of nominees announced live on NBC's \"Today\" show. Among the favorites are Steven Spielberg's \"The Post\" and Christopher Nolan's \"Dunkirk.\"\nIn the television categories \"The Handmaid's Tale\" and \"Big Little Lies\" could be in for a big morning.\nThe Golden Globe will be hosted Jan. 7 by Seth Meyers and broadcast by NBC from the Beverly Hilton Hotel."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1707
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Egypt sentences 6 alleged Islamists to life over violence
|
{
"text": [
"CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's state news agency says a court has sentenced six alleged Muslim Brotherhood members to life in prison over charges including the attempted murder of soldiers and police.\nMENA says Tuesday's ruling by the Cairo Criminal Court sentenced four other defendants to 15 years on similar charges, including belonging to a terrorist group, murder and planning attacks against the state. Another two defendants got five years in prison.\nThe verdict can be appealed.\nThe Muslim Brotherhood won a series of free elections after Egypt's 2011 uprising, and a senior Brotherhood figure, Mohammed Morsi, was elected president in 2012.\nA year later, the military overthrew Morsi amid mass protests against his rule. Authorities have since arrested thousands of Brotherhood members and branded it a terrorist organization."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1708
|
I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Is Viktor Orban the EU's hardline hero or villain?
|
{
"text": [
"Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is no fan of refugees and not one to mince words.\nIn September 2015, he declared: \"European politicians, who spark migrants' hopes of finding a better life in Europe, encouraging them to leave everything behind and risk their lives to come here, are irresponsible. If Europe does not return to the path of reason, it will go under.\"\nOrban made this statement at the height of the refugee crisis. He was the first European leader to close his country's border with barbed wire — to prevent new arrivals from getting in. That step solidified Orban's reputation as a hardliner.\nRead more: Viktor Orban: Era of 'liberal democracy' is over\nRailing against refugees\nFew of his compatriots were surprised by their leader's tough stance. Orban, who co-founded and presently leads Hungary's national-conservative Fidesz party, has been serving as the country's prime minister since 2010. He also led Hungary between 1998 and 2002. In the beginning, many considered Orban a liberal. In recent years, however, he has shifted markedly to the right, putting anti-refugee policies at the top of his agenda. He is also no stranger to fearmongering, comparing migration to a Trojan horse that breeds terrorism in Europe. He is eager to preserve Hungary's ethnic homogeneity and explicitly warns against \"mixing races.\"\nIt's little wonder then that Orban officially opposes EU quotas to relocate refugees throughout the bloc. His position sparked massive protests and court cases, with Brussels even launching an infringement procedure against Budapest. Although earlier this year, Hungarian authorities admitted they had taken in 1,300 refugees in 2017 — which corresponds to Hungary's EU quota.\nPopular at home and abroad\nOrban's uncompromising approach has earned him a loyal following at home. In Hungary's parliamentary elections on April 8, the Fidesz party scored a major victory. Together with its coalition partner, the Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP), the governing parties command a two-thirds majority in parliament.\nWhile Orban faces opposition from left-leaning politicians, he can also count on numerous foreign supporters. He has been a regular guest at the Bavarian Christian Social Union's (CSU) annual closed-door summit, and since October 2016, Orban and Horst Seehofer — the CSU party leader and German interior minister — even seem to be on a first-name basis. Indeed, Orban even declared Fidesz and the CSU were \"brothers in arms.\"\nBlowing things out of proportion\nThere is a huge discrepancy between Orban's fierce anti-refugee rhetoric and the reality in EU. Only about 2.3 million refugees live across the bloc's 28 member states, which together have a total population of more than 500,000 million inhabitants. Refugees, therefore, make up just 0.45 percent of the population.\nThese figures are even lower in Hungary. Currently, only several hundred asylum-seekers are housed in purpose-built transit centers on the Hungarian-Serbian border. According to official reports, some 3,350 individuals applied for asylum in Hungary last year. Most of these individuals hail from Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. While some 1,000 of them were granted temporary subsidiary protection, only about 100 were granted asylum. They are allowed to remain in the country and live in a refugee shelter and will have access to health care services. After one month, however, they will have to fend for themselves.\nIn Hungary, there are just six refugees per 10,000 inhabitants. In Germany, for comparison, there are 177 refugees per 10,000 inhabitants.\nDespite these limited numbers of refugees, Orban's state visit to Germany will focus on the question of migration. Orban takes issue with German Chancellor Angela Merkel's policy-making, which he made abundantly clear at a press conference in Brussels in 2017: \"We're facing a German problem, not a European problem.\"\nDW editors send out a selection of the day's hard news and quality feature journalism. You can sign up to receive it directly here."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1709
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Numbers reveal breadth of investigation into Texas bombings
|
{
"text": [
"AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The series of bombings this month in the Texas capital city of Austin has generated a vast response by state and federal law enforcement agencies that are sifting through hundreds of tips to find what Austin Police Chief Brian Manley has described as a serial bomber.\nHere's a look at the investigation so far, by the numbers:\n— 2, 4: Number of people killed and the number wounded. The first explosion occurred March 2, killing a 39-year-old man. The latest happened Sunday evening, injuring 22- and 23-year-old men.\n— 500: The number of leads that have been closed since the bombings began, according to Fred Milanowski, special agent in charge of the Houston division of the ATF.\n— $115,000: Amount of reward being offered for a tip leading to a conviction.\n— 350: Number of FBI agents currently involved in the investigation, according to FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs. Hundreds of other law enforcement personnel also are involved, including those with Austin police and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.\n— 240: Approximate number of interviews conducted with witnesses, people calling in tips and others since the first explosion.\n— 600: Calls that Austin police have responded to for suspicious packages since the second and third blasts happened March 12."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1710
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about The Latest: No verdict after morning session by Castile jury
|
{
"text": [
"ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Latest in the manslaughter trial of a Minnesota police officer who fatally shot a black motorist during a traffic stop (all times local):\n12:30 p.m.\nThere's no verdict yet in a Minnesota trial for a police officer charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a motorist.\nThe jury hearing the case has broken for lunch on their third day of deliberations.\nOfficer Jeronimo (yeh-RON'-ih-moh) Yanez shot driver Philando Castile five times just seconds after Castile told him he was carrying a handgun. Yanez had pulled Castile's car over in a St. Paul suburb last July 6.\nYanez testified last week that Castile was pulling out his gun despite his commands and he feared for his life. Prosecutors question whether Yanez ever actually saw a gun and say he overreacted.\n___\n12:08 a.m.\nIt's day three of deliberations for a Minnesota jury in the case of a police officer charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a black motorist.\nOfficer Jeronimo (yeh-RON'-ih-moh) Yanez shot 32-year-old cafeteria worker Philando Castile during a traffic stop in a St. Paul suburb last July 6. Castile had just informed the officer that he was carrying a gun.\nYanez testified that Castile was drawing the gun against his orders. Prosecutors say he overreacted.\nThe jury surfaced briefly Tuesday with a request for another look at two key videos in the case. One video was captured by the officer's squad car. It shows a wide view of the traffic stop and the shooting. The other video was made by Castile's girlfriend. It starts moments after the shooting."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1712
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Taliban assail Trump's rejection of talks, vow to fight on
|
{
"text": [
"ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Taliban are assailing President Donald Trump's rejection of peace talks, interpreting his assertion that \"there's no talking to the Taliban\" as a dictate to the Afghan government.\nThe English-language statement released Tuesday, says: \"The true authority of war and peace is not with the Kabul regime, but with the American invaders.\"\nTrump on Monday railed against \"atrocities\" in Afghanistan, ruling out talks with the Taliban after earlier indicating negotiations could be a way out of America's longest war.\nWhile saying talks remained an option to peace, the Taliban warned Trump's talks veto would most certainly result in more war and bloodshed.\nThe Taliban took responsibility for a brutal bombing last week that used an ambulance to evade detection, killing more than 100 people."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1714
|
I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about The Latest: Game 2 under way between Vegas and Capitals
|
{
"text": [
"LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on Game 2 of the Stanley Cup final between the Washington Capitals and Vegas Golden Knights (all times local):\n6:25 p.m.\nGame 2 of the Stanley Cup Final is under way in Las Vegas.\nImagine Dragons kicked up the pregame festivities a notch, playing its hit \"Whatever It Takes,\" following the Vegas Golden Knights' elaborate show that precedes each game.\nThe Washington Capitals trail Vegas 1-0 but are used to playing from behind. Washington fell behind in each of the first three rounds and rallied to win.\nThe Capitals opened the playoffs with two losses to Columbus before roaring back to win four straight. They lost Game 1 in the second round against Pittsburgh before bouncing back with a win in Game 2 and eliminating the two-time defending champion Penguins in Game 6.\nWashington won its first two games against Tampa Bay in the Eastern Conference finals, but then lost three straight, forcing the franchise to win two decisive games to advance.\nIf the Capitals end up winning the Final, they will join the 1991 Pittsburgh Penguins as the only Stanley Cup champions to trail in every series.\n___\n4:20 p.m.\nHours before Vegas hosted Washington in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final, fans filed in the plaza outside T-Mobile Arena on a 98-degree day in the desert.\nSome of those gathered were holding the hottest ticket in town. Many planned to simply soak up the atmosphere while watching the game on big screens outside the arena with thousands of new friends.\nThe Golden Knights' logo was worked into hairdos of fans willing to make the commitment while others opted to have their face painted in black and gold.\n___\n2:15 p.m.\nThe Strip has hosted countless events over the years, featuring stars on stage and in the ring.\nLas Vegas can now add a championship game in a major professional sports league to its list.\nAnd, Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final has a tough act to follow.\nThe Vegas Golden Knights opened with a 6-4 win over the Washington Capitals, co-starring teams that combined for a Final-record four lead changes.\nThere also were big hits, some which might have lingering effects Wednesday night.\nWashington's Tom Wilson was penalized for blindsiding Vegas' Jonathan Marchessault after he passed the puck in Game 1. Ryan Reaves scored a tying goal Monday night after appearing to get away with cross-checking Capitals defenseman John Carlson.\n___\nMore Stanley Cup coverage: https://apnews.com/tag/StanleyCupFinals"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1715
|
I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Perreault scores 2, Jets end skid with 5-1 win over Canucks
|
{
"text": [
"WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Mathieu Perreault scored two goals and added an assist to help the Winnipeg Jets halt a three-game losing streak with a 5-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Monday night.\nThe win was the Jets' seventh straight victory at home and they have points in their last 11 games (10-0-1) at Bell MTS Place.\nThe Canucks have lost three straight in regulation for the first time this season.\nDmitry Kulikov, Josh Morrissey and Nikolaj Ehlers also scored for Winnipeg (18-8-5). Ehlers' 14th of the season was on the power play and gave him goals in three straight games.\nBrock Boeser scored his team-leading 16th goal for the Canucks. He also extended his goal-scoring streak to three games.\nConnor Hellebuyck made 25 saves for Winnipeg.\nJacob Markstrom stopped 19 shots for Vancouver (14-13-4).\nThe teams were tied 1-1 after the first period and Winnipeg led 3-1 after two. Markstrom let in a surprising goal 88 seconds into the first, squeezing his pads on Kulikov's point shot, but the puck slid into the net behind him.\nBoeser tied it up at 6:53 after Henrik Sedin took the puck around the back of Winnipeg's net and fed a pass to Boeser in the slot.\nThe Canucks outshot the Jets 10-4 in the opening frame.\nWinnipeg carried a late man advantage into the second, but Markstrom made a quick save on Kyle Connor's deflection right in front of him and a glove grab on an Ehlers' shot to help kill the penalty.\nWinnipeg got another power play at 2:55 when Sam Gagner was called for holding and Perreault fired in his goal from the slot exactly two minutes later.\nThe Jets capitalized on their next power play when, 37 seconds after Nic Dowd went off for hooking, Tyler Myers' blast produced a long rebound to Ehlers at the top of the circle that made it 3-1 at 14:09.\nThe Canucks' shot advantage after two periods was 17-15.\nMorrissey scored his fourth goal of the season with a redirection on a 3-on-1 with Adam Lowry and Andrew Copp at 11:38. Christopher Tanev was the lone defender.\nPerreault netted an unassisted goal with 44 seconds left. Vancouver was 0 for 2 on the power play and Winnipeg 1 for 3.\nNotes: Winnipeg was without defenseman Dustin Byfuglien, who was put on injured reserve with a lower-body injury suffered in last Saturday's 4-3 overtime loss to Tampa Bay. Head coach Paul Maurice said he didn't expect him back on the ice until after Christmas. Rookie Tucker Poolman took his roster spot ... Vancouver was missing top-line forwards Bo Horvat (broken foot) and Sven Baertschi (fractured jaw).\nUP NEXT:\nCanucks: host Nashville on Wednesday night.\nJets: host Chicago on Thursday."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1716
|
I am asking in the domain of entertainment. Tell me about The Latest: Regulator: We weren't told of Wynn settlement
|
{
"text": [
"BOSTON (AP) — The Latest on Massachusetts Gaming Commission review of Wynn casino license (all times local):\n3:45 p.m.\nA Massachusetts Gaming Commission investigator says information about a $7.5 million settlement was kept from Massachusetts officials when they were reviewing the suitability of casino magnate Steve Wynn in 2013 as his company sought a casino license in the state.\nKaren Wells made the statement Wednesday as the commission opened its investigation into a report by The Wall Street Journal that a number of women said they were harassed or assaulted by Wynn. One case led to a $7.5 million settlement.\nWynn, whose company is building a $2.4 billion casino outside Boston, has denied the allegations.\nCommission Chairman Stephen Crosby said that any decision, including possibly revoking the license, will be based on facts gleaned during the commission's ongoing probe.\nGambling regulators in Nevada said Tuesday they are also investigating Wynn.\n___\n8:53\nMassachusetts gambling regulators are holding a special meeting to discuss sexual misconduct allegations against casino magnate Steve Wynn, whose company is building a $2.4 billion casino outside Boston.\nThe Massachusetts Gaming Commission will receive an update on an investigation Wednesday.\nRepublican Gov. Charlie Baker says if the allegations are true, Wynn would \"fail to meet the suitability standard under the state gaming law.\"\nGambling regulators in Nevada said Tuesday they are also investigating Wynn.\nThe Wall Street Journal reported Friday that a number of women said they were harassed or assaulted by Wynn, and that one case led to a $7.5 million settlement. Wynn has denied the allegations.\nUnder the 2011 Massachusetts casino law, a license can be suspended or revoked if a licensee is found \"unsuitable to operate a gaming establishment.\""
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1717
|
I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about BC-US--Copper, US
|
{
"text": [
"New York (AP) — Copper futures trading on the NY Merc Wed:\n(25,000 lbs., cents per lb.)"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1718
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Iceland closes gender gap but violence against women remains
|
{
"text": [
"REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — For nine years in a row, the World Economic Forum has ranked Iceland as having the world's smallest gender-equality gap, and for about as long gender studies professor Gyda Margret Petursdottir has been asked how the Nordic island nation became such a paradise for women.\nHer reply: \"It isn't.\"\nIceland has a female prime minister and some of the world's strongest laws on workplace equality and equal pay.\nIt also has one of Europe's highest per-capita levels of reported rapes, according to statistics agency Eurostat, although legal definitions differ from country to country, complicating comparisons.\nA 2010 University of Iceland study found that 30 percent of Icelandic women aged 18 to 80 reported having been physically attacked by a man at least once, including 13 percent who reported suffering rape or attempted rape.\nIcelanders are experiencing a stark realization: Equal representation does not, by default, eliminate gender-based violence.\nPetursdottir said the \"myth\" that Iceland's record on gender equality makes it a safe haven for women is a distraction from the steps needed to fight systematic abuse.\n\"Men need to find ways to change their ideas about masculinity,\" Petursdottir said. \"That's the biggest challenge now.\"\nThe sexual misconduct allegations against powerful men in Hollywood, politics and beyond, and the \"Me Too\" campaign launched by women speaking out against abuse, have reached this volcanic island below the Arctic Circle.\nHundreds of women in Icelandic politics, entertainment and academia recently signed a pledge against sexual harassment and urged male colleagues to change their behavior.\nMore than 40 percent of lawmakers in Iceland's parliament, the Althingi, are women. Last month left-wing leader Katrin Jakobsdottir became prime minister in a coalition government — Iceland's second female leader in the last decade.\nHer appointment is another point on the Global Gender Gap index for a country regarded as a champion of gender equality.\nThe index measures life expectancy, educational opportunities, political representation, equal pay and other factors — but not gender-based violence.\nFeminists argue that Iceland's star ranking masks continuing violence, harassment and everyday sexism — and that fixing the problem will need a transformation in the way men — and women — think and behave.\nIn a series of 137 anonymous accounts from women in politics recently published in local media, one female legislator illustrated everyday sexism with a story of a male opponent who complimented her looks right before she took the podium in an attempt to throw her off-topic.\nAndres Ingi Jonsson, a lawmaker for the Left Green Movement, said the example shows how parliament, even more than other workplaces, risks becoming a harmful environment for women, since disarming opponents is a key part of politics.\n\"The basic tools we use can be influenced by sexually degrading language, and we need to remove that from the toolbox,\" said Jonsson, who is among a group of male parliamentarians seeking to get men to become actively engaged in promoting gender equality.\nThe group successfully petitioned the speaker of parliament to host a workshop in February during which Iceland's 63 legislators have been invited to openly discuss sexual harassment in the workplace.\n\"It won't be an easy day,\" Jonsson said.\nHe is optimistic that everyone will attend, even though some will approach the workshop with a more open mind than others.\n\"We have to be ready to open our hearts a bit,\" Jonsson said.\nIceland may be far from perfect, but its politicians have taken gender equality seriously.\nIcelandic law requires private companies to have at least 40 percent women on their boards and offers men parental leave equal to women. Starting next year, the Equal Pay Law will audit companies to prove that they are paying men and women the same for comparable work.\nThere are indications of a change in social attitudes and an unwillingness to turn a blind eye toward sexual harassment.\nIceland's capital, Reykjavik, has a vibrant nightlife scene, and dozens of bars and clubs have tried to create a safer atmosphere by putting up posters urging guests to notify staff if they feel harassed.\nActivist Helga Lind Mar said the scene has changed noticeably from a few years ago.\n\"We still have creeps,\" she said, sitting by Reykjavik's bar- and-restaurant-lined Laugavegur Street, famous for its long party nights. \"But they are more afraid to be called out on their behavior.\"\nAnd educators have started to think about how to raise a generation of non-sexist adults.\nAt Reykjavik's Borgarholtsskoli high school, teacher Hanna Bjorg Vilhjalmsdottir oversees lively discussions in her Introduction to Gender Studies class.\nThe aim of the class is to get young adults to notice everyday discrimination, stereotyping and harmful messages, she said.\nWhen Vilhjalmsdottir, a pioneer of the concept, pitched the idea to school administrators 10 years ago \"they were extremely skeptical,\" she said. Now versions of the course are taught in 27 of Iceland's 33 high schools.\nStudent Tinna Karen Victorsdottir said the course has changed her perception of life more than any other class.\nShe said she often brings class discussions to her family's dinner table and shares course readings and videos with her parents. Over time, her parents have changed their behavior, too.\n\"My dad has taken on totally new house chores,\" she said. \"I guess it inspired him to see me this eager.\""
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1719
|
I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Police look at phone records for clues in jealousy shooting
|
{
"text": [
"Police on Monday were focusing on phone records to try to piece together how a group of friends wound up at a Pennsylvania self-serve car wash, where a gunman lying in wait in the early morning hours killed four of them and injured one who managed to hide.\nThe suspected shooter, 28-year-old Timothy Smith, suffered a gunshot wound to the head in the Sunday shooting at Ed's Car Wash in Melcroft, a rural town about 55 miles (89 kilometers) southeast of Pittsburgh. He's on life support and isn't expected to survive what authorities believe may be a self-inflicted injury.\nSmith was a jealous ex-boyfriend of 25-year-old victim Chelsie Cline, according to family members of some of the victims.\nAlso killed were William Porterfield, 27; Courtney Snyder, 23; and Seth Cline, 21. Another woman was able to hide in the back seat of a truck and only suffered minor injuries from broken glass, police said. Chelsie Cline and Seth Cline were half-siblings.\nFour days before the shooting, Chelsie Cline had shared a meme on Facebook reading \"After this week, I rlly need to get taken out ... on a date or by a sniper either one is fine w me at this point.\"\nA Facebook friend, Tim Smith, replied: \"I could do both.\"\nTimothy Smith was obsessed with Cline after they dated, leaving beer for her on her car and sending her flowers and other presents, said Chelsie Cline's half-sister, Sierra Kolarik, in an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review\nKolarik said Smith \"came off as the most kind-hearted person\" but that his interests were \"guns and guns and guns and shooting and beer and rolling cigarettes.\"\nPorterfield and Chelsie Cline spent time together in the days before the shooting after Cline broke off a relationship with Smith, Porterfield's widow, Jenna Porterfield, 24, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She said a state police investigator told her Smith was Cline's jealous former boyfriend.\n\"I was told my husband was cheating on me with (one of the victims), and that she had broken up with her previous boyfriend two days ago, and he went crazy and shot them all,\" she said.\nState police said Smith was the first person to arrive at the car wash and parked his pickup truck on the side of the two-bay car wash. They said he shot Porterfield and Chelsie Cline when they got out of their car and walked to the side of the car wash.\nSnyder and Seth Cline arrived in a pickup truck and were both shot and killed in their vehicle, state police said.\nA man who lives nearby said he heard about 30 gunshots over a span of several minutes.\nVicki Snyder lives down the road from Smith's family and said her children were in school with the Smith children. Smith's brother was the best man in her son's wedding.\n\"He seemed like a normal kid,\" she said of Smith, who was in the same grade as her daughter. \"He seemed kind of quiet, but he was the youngest and he was always polite and very nice.\"\nShe said Smith lived at home and helped out his older sister who uses a wheelchair after injuring her spine in a car accident a few years ago.\n\"They are just a typical family that had some tragedy and dealt with it,\" Snyder said. \"They're down-to-earth, nice, regular people.\""
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1720
|
I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Tokyo Olympic marathon starts and finishes at new stadium
|
{
"text": [
"TOKYO (AP) — The men's and women's marathon for Tokyo's Olympics in 2020 will start and finish in the new Olympic stadium, which organizers say last happened in the Atlanta Olympics in 1996.\nThe organizing committee announced the course layout on Thursday. It's a flat route with an uphill finish leading to the new stadium that is still under construction.\nOrganizers said the original bid had the marathon scheduled to start at 7:30 am to avoid Tokyo's summer heat and humidity. Tokyo spokesman Masa Takaya said a confirmed starting time was expected to be announced in July at a meeting of the International Olympic Committee's executive board."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1721
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about UN official says Rohingya crisis has 'hallmarks of genocide'
|
{
"text": [
"SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The U.N. special envoy on human rights in Myanmar says the military's violent operations against Rohingya Muslims bear \"the hallmarks of a genocide.\"\nYanghee Lee told reporters Thursday in Seoul, where she is based, that she couldn't make a definitive declaration about genocide until a credible international tribunal or court had weighed the evidence but \"we are seeing signs and it is building up to that.\"\nResponding to a question about an Associated Press report that details a massacre and at least five mass graves in the Myanmar village of Gu Dar Pyin, Lee said that while she didn't have specific details on the village, \"you can see it's a pattern\" that has emerged in the Rohingya persecution.\nNearly 700,000 Rohingya have fled their villages into Bangladesh since August."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1722
|
I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Not just a drunken revelry: Mardi Gras for kids as well
|
{
"text": [
"NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A red wagon decorated as a shrimp boat with nets extending out from either side carried a waving 2-year-old dressed as a shellfish being pulled by his parents who wore white rubber shrimping boots.\nThe family was among more than 100 revelers marching through the streets of New Orleans on Jan. 20 in the Krewe of Confetti Kids parade — one of the many kid-centered events held during the Carnival season leading up to Fat Tuesday on Feb. 13. Other children dressed as princesses, mermaids, and firefighters while a brass band serenaded the crowd.\n\"I love Mardi Gras,\" said 7-year-old Virginia Strong, who wore a 1950's style polka dot dress with a string of pearl beads around her neck. \"It's fun to dress up and have fun with your friends.\"\nThe weeks-long celebration leading up to Fat Tuesday is often perceived as an adults-only holiday with drunken roguishness and women flashing their breasts for beads. And to be fair, that's certainly a factor in the French Quarter's famed Bourbon Street festivities. But elsewhere, children and families are as much a part of the revelry as anyone — many say they're the heart and soul of the holiday. Children can be seen lining the parade routes, families spend weeks making costumes together and there's even kid-centered parades.\n\"This is the best quality family time we get all year, because we spend more weekends together costuming and going to parades together, and it's just wonderful,\" said Ariana Maria Ybarra, a married mother with two young girls.\nYbarra said her family has been spending recent weeks preparing for Chewbacchus, the Star Wars-themed walking parade in the city's Marigny neighborhood slated for Feb. 3: \"We're going as a family of Martians.\"\nThe largest of the kid parades is Little Rascals, which has floats, marching bands, dancing groups, Mardi Gras Indians in full feathered headdresses, Cajun Indians on horseback, and kids tossing cups, beads, toys, pralines, moon pies and other snacks.\n\"There's something for everyone, and the great thing about it is that the kids are just kids,\" said Maureen Spittler, who co-founded the parade in 1983 with her husband, Jack. Launched 35 years ago with about 50 kids and three floats, the parade now has nearly 20 floats and nearly 300 kids. There's even a Little Rascals ball — the only formal ball children are allowed to attend. The more than 200 kids riding in Sunday's parade danced the night away Thursday at a glitzy ball held in their honor.\nOn Sunday, even a drizzly rain didn't stop thousands of people from lining the parade route in Metairie to see the Little Rascals parade.\n\"This parade is great because it's all kids,\" said Angie Eymard, who arrived at the route hours ahead of the parade with cousins and friends donning Mardi Gras colors of purple, green and gold. \"It's all kids throwing stuff, and it's nice to see their smiling faces. And I don't have to worry about people getting too rowdy. It's very family-oriented.\"\nFamilies and kids are a fixture at all the parades rolling along the oak tree-lined St. Charles Ave. Families camp out early, often setting up specially-designed ladders with a seat on top for kids. The seat gives kids a special vantage point to catch beads or other items given out by people on the floats. The ladders are usually artfully painted and equipped with wheels on them to make it easier for the families to roll home at the end of the day. On the weekends, families usually spend the day camped out on the parade route, often with a picnic, watching parade after parade go by.\nThe New Orleans suburb of Metairie hosts an annual \"Family Gras\" celebration with live music. This year's celebration is Feb. 2-3.\nParades like Little Rascals are one-day events but preparations happen year-round.\n\"It is hard, hectic work all year long, and then you see the kids, and you see those smiles, and you see how beautifully they do with their costumes, and it's all worth it,\" she said.\nJoshua Maurice, the Spittlers' 18-year-old great-grandson, has — like his mother before him — ridden in every Little Rascals parade since birth.\nHe said he takes pride in helping to carry on his family's legacy of community and Carnival fun.\n\"I play with all the little kids, make them feel like they're a part of something,\" he said. \"So that ... it's something that they're going to want to come back and do every year.\""
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1723
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Moldova claims to break up extremist Islamic group
|
{
"text": [
"CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Moldova's intelligence agency says it has broken up a suspected extremist Islamic group that was spreading propaganda online and whose members had illegal weapons.\nThe Intelligence and Security Service said Wednesday that agents had searched the homes of a number of Moldovan citizens in the northeastern town of Soroca, and found pistols, semi-automatic rifles and other weapons.\nIt says members are accused of \"propagating radical Islamic ideology,\" on social media and elsewhere and illegally possessing firearms.\nThe agency did not provide details about the number of suspects or whether they had been detained.\nIf found guilty, suspects face up to seven years in prison."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1724
|
I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about 2 children, 2 adults missing after fire guts Cleveland home
|
{
"text": [
"CLEVELAND (AP) — Authorities say two children and two adults are unaccounted for after an overnight house fire in Cleveland.\nFirefighters say a woman believed to be the children's mother escaped the fire early Tuesday morning by jumping from the home on the city's east side. She was taken to a hospital, and information about her condition wasn't immediately released.\nInvestigators say a 4-year-old boy, an 8-year-old girl, their father and another man are missing.\nFirefighters say the blaze caused severe damage, hindering their ability to search the charred home.\nThere was no immediate word on what caused the fire. The state fire marshal's office will help investigate."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1725
|
I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Lawmakers: EPA security chief improperly runs outside firm
|
{
"text": [
"WASHINGTON (AP) — The security chief for the head of the Environmental Protection Agency has been operating an outside consulting firm without proper approval from ethics officials, Democratic lawmakers said Tuesday.\nEPA Administrator Scott Pruitt last year tapped EPA special agent Pasquale \"Nino\" Perrotta to be his security chief and lead his 20-member personal protective detail. Perrota also is the top executive at Sequoia Security Group, a Maryland-based security firm.\nPerrotta received clearance in March 2013 for limited non-government consulting work, but was required to get updated approval if his job duties changed. Perrotta received a significant promotion and pay raise last year.\nThe 2013 approval, which was in effect for a five-year period that expired last month, also barred Perrotta from using his government position to advance his personal interests.\nThe Associated Press reported in December that EPA paid $3,000 to contractor Edwin Steinmetz Associates last year to search Pruitt's office for secret listening devices. Steinmetz is also listed as a vice president at Perrotta's security firm.\nEmails obtained by congressional Democrats showed that Perrotta played a role in the decision to conduct the bug sweep, the contract for which the lawmakers allege he improperly steered to Steinmetz.\nTuesday's letter was signed by Democratic Sens. Tom Carper of Delaware and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, who serve on a committee with oversight of EPA. They ask an agency ethics official to re-examine whether Perrotta's outside employment violated agency rules.\nSteinmetz found no listening devices. EPA's Office of Homeland Security later determined the sweep was \"very basic and cursory\" and \"did not employ the equipment, proper certification, or necessary processes\" to be approved by the U.S. government for sensitive facilities, according to internal EPA documents.\nIn an interview with AP on Monday, Steinmetz defended the quality of his work.\nThe bug sweep was part of a larger push by Pruitt to enhance his personal security that included spending on first-class airfare he claims was justified after unpleasant interactions with other travelers. The Government Accountability Office found earlier this month that a $43,000 privacy booth bought for Pruitt to make private phone calls violated federal purchasing laws.\n___\nFollow Associated Press environmental reporter Michael Biesecker at http://twitter.com/mbieseck"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1726
|
I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Russia critic Bill Browder briefly arrested in Spain
|
{
"text": [
"Prominent Russia critic and financier Bill Browder was temporarily detained by Spanish police on Wednesday over a Russian arrest warrant. There was conflicting information over whether the tax evasion warrant was valid.\n\"Just was arrested by Spanish police in Madrid on a Russian Interpol arrest warrant. Going to the police station right now,\" Browder wrote in his Twitter account of the incident, delivered almost in real time.\nThe US-born British hedge fund manager has a tense history with the administration of Russian President Vladimir Putin. At one point his firm, Hermitage Capital Management, was the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia. However, beginning in 2005, Browder was barred from entering Russia – according to Moscow, because he was a threat to national security, but according to Browder, because he exposed corruption.\nThings took a turn for the worse in 2009, when Browder's employee Sergei Magnitsky died in prison after accusing a number of Russian officials of involvement in a tax fraud scheme.\nIn 2012 Browder successfully lobbied the US Congress to pass the Magnitsky Act, which officially held the Kremlin responsible for Magnitsky's death. In retaliation, Moscow barred US adoptions of Russian children.\nSince then, Russian courts have convicted Browder of tax evasion in absentia multiple times.\nBrowder in Madrid to present Magnitsky evidence\nBrowder said he was in Spain \"to give evidence to senior Spanish anti-Russian mafia prosecutor Jose Grinda about the huge amount of money from the Magnitsky case that flowed to Spain.\"\nSpain is one of 15 countries allegedly used to launder 30 million euros ($35 million) connected to Magnitsky's death. Browder later said he was able to meet with Grinda after his release from Spanish custody.\nSpanish authorities said that he was arrested in error and released when they found the Interpol warrant against him to be outdated and therefore invalid, details Browder disputed: \"Just to be clear, my arrest this morning in Madrid was the result of a SIXTH Russian arrest warrant using Interpol channels. It was NOT an expired warrant, but a live one. Interpol is incapable of stopping Russian abuse of their systems.\nGlobal criminal justice watchdog Fair Trials also criticized Russia's abuse of the Interpol warrant system, but said that \"Interpol should scrutinize alerts before it puts them out through its international networks… Spain should also exercise sense and discretion before arresting people. The result could have been very different if it weren't for Browder's high profile.\"\nes/msh (AP, Reuters)"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1727
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Manchester Arena concert attack thief handed prison sentence
|
{
"text": [
"LONDON (AP) — A British judge has handed a prison sentence to a homeless man who admitted stealing from victims of the Manchester Arena bombing while pretending to help them.\nChris Parker received worldwide renown after claiming to have helped comfort the injured and the dying after suicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated a bomb at the end of an Ariana Grande concert on May 22, killing 22 people.\nThough first praised as a hero, closed-circuit TV footage showed the 33-year-old Parker stealing a purse and mobile phone from victims.\nIn sentencing Parker to four years and three months, Judge David Hernandez said it was hard to imagine a \"more reprehensible set of circumstances.\"\nHernandez told Parker: \"You were not the hero you pretended to be, you were just a common thief.\""
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1728
|
I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Lawyer whose work got entangled in Mueller probe leaves firm
|
{
"text": [
"WASHINGTON (AP) — A prominent Washington lawyer who authored a report that's a key part of the special counsel's investigation into Paul Manafort has left his law firm.\nSkadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom confirmed Tuesday that Greg Craig, a former White House counsel under President Barack Obama, is no longer with the firm. His biography has been removed from the law firm website. The firm didn't immediately comment beyond confirming his departure.\nCraig wrote a report funded by the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice about the trial of a former Ukrainian prime minister.\nThat report is cited in the indictment against Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman. Manafort is accused of using offshore accounts to secretly funnel more than $4 million to fund the report.\nCraig is not accused of any wrongdoing."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1729
|
I am asking in the domain of tech. Tell me about Father of boy with Down syndrome suing Boy Scouts
|
{
"text": [
"PAYSON, Utah (AP) — The father of a boy who has Down syndrome is suing the Boys Scouts of America for blocking his son from becoming an Eagle scout and revoking his merit badges.\nLogan Blythe has been a scout through the National Parks Council in Utah. His father, Chad, says the 15-year-old has advanced because the council has made accommodations when necessary.\nHe had planned to create kits for special-needs babies for his Eagle project when the family learned the national organization voided every merit badge he obtained.\nThe family sued the Boy Scouts and the Utah National Parks Council for \"outrageous and reckless conduct.\"\nThe organization says it worked with the committee and the Blythe family to offer \"alternative merit badges\" and a path to becoming an Eagle."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1730
|
I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about Suicide car bomber detonates outside Somalia restaurant
|
{
"text": [
"MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at the gate of a popular restaurant in Somalia's capital, and gunmen were fighting their way inside, police said Wednesday night.\nA hostage situation was under way at the Pizza House restaurant, said Capt. Mohamed Hussein. Many of the restaurant's workers are foreigners, mostly from Ethiopia.\nHussein had no immediate information about any casualties.\nThe Somalia-based extremist group al-Shabab often targets high-profile areas of Mogadishu, including hotels, military checkpoints and areas near the presidential palace. It has vowed to step up attacks after the recently elected government launched a new military offensive against it.\nAl-Shabab last year became the deadliest Islamic extremist group in Africa, with more than 4,200 people killed in 2016, according to the Washington-based Africa Center for Strategic Studies.\n___\nThis version corrects the name of the restaurant to Pizza House."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1731
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Agency: St. Louis paramedic lied about Boston Marathon help
|
{
"text": [
"ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis Fire Department says a paramedic training officer falsely claimed he ran to the aid victims at the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.\nShawn Daniel was honored at a St. Louis Blues hockey game in January. A posting on the Fire Department's Facebook page on Jan. 18 said he was among the emergency workers who hurried to help those injured in the bombing. Daniel was working at the time for a private ambulance company near Boston.\nBut the Fire Department says in a statement Tuesday that Daniel was never on the scene of the bombing and did not provide medical assistance. The Fire Department apologized.\nThe statement does not say what discipline Daniel might face. A message left with a department spokesman Wednesday wasn't immediately returned."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1732
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Koreas begin basketball friendlies in latest peace gesture
|
{
"text": [
"SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The rival Koreas began two days of friendly basketball games in Pyongyang in their latest goodwill gesture amid a diplomatic push to resolve the nuclear standoff with North Korea.\nWomen from North and South Korea were mixed into two teams that competed against each other Wednesday at Pyongyang's Ryugyong Jong Ju Yong Gymnasium. A game between the men's mixed teams will be held later in the day.\nThe South Koreans will play against the North Korean men's and women's teams on Thursday before returning home on Friday.\nThe games will precede a planned three-day visit to North Korea by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for meetings over the future of the North's nuclear program."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1733
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Facebook's 'fixes'- meaningful or just skin deep?
|
{
"text": [
"NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made fixing Facebook his personal challenge this year, and the company has already announced several changes to that end.\nFor example, it's showing users more posts from friends and family instead of businesses and publishers.\nBut it's far from clear if these tweaks will produce lasting change, or if they're merely cosmetic adjustments designed to generate goodwill while keeping people glued to Facebook.\nCritics such as Roger McNamee, a venture capitalist and early Facebook investor, say the recent changes don't address the threats to elections or public health that Facebook needs to address.\nZuckerberg says it will take some time — \"months,\" perhaps — for its changes to make their way to users."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1734
|
I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Chenault dealt with crises, competition as head of AmEx
|
{
"text": [
"NEW YORK (AP) — Kenneth Chenault, wearing no sport coat and no tie, with a large cup of tea in front of him, fits an image of a man ready for retirement.\nChenault is days away from stepping down as the chief executive officer and chairman of American Express, the credit card giant and one of the most iconic brands in the country. He will have run American Express for 17 years, guiding the company through the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the global financial crisis and numerous challenges to its position as the go-to payment option for the wealthy and well-traveled.\nThe son of a dentist from Long Island, New York, who grew up as a black man during the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Chenault never expected to be CEO of a major company, let alone work 37 years at the same one.\n\"I can honestly say I was approached by bigger companies, moments where people would say 'wow, that's a great opportunity.' But this has been my dream job,\" Chenault said. He sat down with The Associated Press for his last interview before leaving the company.\nWho can blame Chenault, 66, for moving on? His successor as CEO and chairman, Steve Squeri, is well on his way to be trained for the job. Any problems that happened under Chenault's watch, like the loss of a lucrative Costco partnership, have been neatly cleaned up. Since Chenault became CEO in 2001, American Express' annual profits have risen from $1.31 billion to an adjusted $5.3 billion, excluding the impact of the new tax law. Sales rose from $17.71 billion to $35.58 billion and the stock has more than doubled and is trading at record highs. That said, AmEx shares did underperform the overall S&P 500 index, but outperformed other banks.\n\"I hate to see Ken leave. I mean, he's done a terrific job. His record is really hard to match in corporate America,\" said Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor, in an interview with the AP. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is the largest shareholder of American Express, owning 17.5 percent of the company.\nUnder Chenault, American Express has expanded from its well-to-do and corporate expense account customers into more consumer products. AmEx now markets toward families buying groceries and gasoline an American Express Everyday Card, just as much it markets the Platinum Card toward the jet set who charge six figures a year.\nBut at the same time, AmEx has faced increased competition while Chenault has been CEO. The company once stood alone in the high-end credit card market. Now there's the Sapphire Reserve Card by JPMorgan Chase, and Prestige by Citigroup, each with its own points program designed by former AmEx executives. That competition forced AmEx to respond with increased benefits on its premium cards to either keep up with or outsmart its rivals. Last year, AmEx raised the annual fee by $100 to $550, but added new benefits like a $200 a year credit on Uber. The company said it ended 2017 with the most Platinum Card users ever, despite the fee increase.\n\"Ken and his management team have built a terrific business even through a tough competitive environment,\" said Gordon Smith, who runs the consumer banking division at JPMorgan Chase. He used to run the U.S. cards business at AmEx before going off to compete directly with Chenault.\nThe biggest threat to Chenault's legacy came not from a competitor, but from a customer: Costco. The warehouse chain and American Express had a business partnership that stretched back to 1999, where Costco would only accept AmEx credit cards. There was also a co-brand credit card program between the two companies.\nBut that business relationship came to an abrupt halt in 2015, when Costco announced it was changing its credit card payment network to Visa Inc. and that Citigroup would take over the co-brand card. At the time of the announcement, the retailer represented 8 percent of all spending on the American Express payment network and 20 percent of all loans.\n\"If Chenault had left two years ago, we would be having a different conversation,\" said Sanjay Sakhrani, an analyst with Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, who covers American Express.\nAmerican Express is both a payment processing company as well as a credit card issuer. Unlike Visa, which acts as a middle man between the bank that issues a debit or credit card and the merchant that accepts it, AmEx operates what it calls a \"closed loop\" business where it does both.\nAmEx makes most of its money off its so-called \"discount rate.\" While the rate varies from business to business, and industry to industry, typically AmEx charges the merchant a small percentage of each transaction. The company's average discount rate was 2.41 percent in the fourth quarter last year.\nChenault remained an adamant defender of AmEx's traditional business model, and urged patience from investors. He also argued at the time that the discount rate that Costco wanted for its new contract with AmEx \"didn't make economic sense.\"\nTo make up for the Costco loss, the company successfully pumped billions into increased marketing to existing Costco card users to get them to switch to new AmEx card before handing over the portfolio to Citigroup. And the company is now trying to grow loans on its own products by allowing customers to carry a balance instead of paying the full amount at the end of the month, as was traditional with AmEx's charge cards.\n\"When the Costco deal came along, I'll bet 90 percent of the analysts on Wall Street were all questioning 'how can you give up Costco?' But he was perfectly willing to take some sticks and stones for a couple years and he knew he was doing the right thing,\" Buffett said.\nAmerican Express still faces threats to its business. It is still typically the most expensive card for merchants to accept and some merchants have concluded they can do without the access to AmEx's high-spending card members. Its recent choice to expand into lending could put the company more at risk if a deep recession comes again.\nAlong with increased competition, Chenault faced two other crises under his watch.\nChenault was less than a year into his role as CEO when the September 11th attacks happened. American Express's headquarters, located at 200 Vesey Street in Manhattan, was, and still is, directly across the street from the World Trade Center site. The building was heavily damaged and unusable for months. American Express lost 11 employees in the attack.\nWith no headquarters, American Express had to improvise and move its operations to New Jersey and office parks around New York, Connecticut and New Jersey for months after the attacks.\nThe 2008 financial crisis also fundamentally changed AmEx. While AmEx never held any toxic mortgages or complicated financial products, it did have a direct exposure to the U.S. consumer through its credit cards. Losses skyrocketed as people and businesses failed to pay their bills. AmEx received $3.4 billion in funds from the $700 billion bank bailout program in late 2008, which it then repaid less than a year later. The company came under more regulatory oversight, and now has to participate in the Federal Reserve's \"stress tests.\"\n\"Whether it was the tragedy of 9/11, the financial crisis, or the reordering of our co-brand partnerships (like Costco), we've emerged stronger,\" Chenault said.\nChenault is a reserved person. He doesn't weigh in on big public issues, do interviews often, or carry that big public persona that colleagues like JPMorgan Chase's Jamie Dimon or Goldman Sachs' Lloyd Blankfein have. He does have one role that he's keenly aware of, however. When Chenault became CEO, he was only the third black CEO of a Fortune 500 company ever. And for several years after his appointment, other black men and women were hired as CEOs, at companies such as McDonald's, Xerox and Merrill Lynch. But that trend has reversed. With Chenault retiring, there will be only three black CEOs at Fortune 500 companies: drug company Pfizer, financial company TIAA and retail chain JCPenney.\n\"It's embarrassing. There are thousands of people who are just as qualified or more qualified than I am who deserve this opportunity, but haven't been given the opportunity. You need a pipeline of people coming in. You need to create an environment where people are embraced and engaged rather than just tolerated.\"\nChenault has been well paid for his work at AmEx. He owns 1.26 million shares of American Express, a stake worth more than $120 million, which does not include the options and unvested stock awards he will get when he retires, potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars. He has used his wealth and position to promote African-American causes as well as education and finding treatments for drug addiction. He is chairman of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., and helped raise the money needed to complete the building.\nIn his next chapter, Chenault isn't entirely leaving the corporate world. He will be joining the corporate boards of Facebook and Airbnb, on top of the boards of IBM and Proctor & Gamble that he current sits on.\nChenault said he's excited about joining Facebook, particularly at a time when the social media giant's role in modern culture is under scrutiny. He will be the first black person to join the company's board.\n\"I think (Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg) recognizes Facebook's importance in developing communities, but also understands the responsibilities that come with that,\" Chenault said. \"I'm excited . about the opportunity to help him achieve that vision.\"\n___\nKen Sweet covers banks and financial issues for The Associated Press. Follow him on Twitter at @kensweet."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1735
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Media watchdog urges India to protect journalists
|
{
"text": [
"NEW DELHI (AP) — A media watch group has expressed serious concern at \"an alarming deterioration in the working environment of journalists in India\" and demanded that the government ensure the safety of journalists who are feeling threatened.\nReporters Without Borders said in a report Wednesday that that at least three journalists were killed in India in 2017 and that a fourth case is still under investigation. In 2018, the situation appears to have worsened significantly, with four journalists killed in the first six months of the year.\nThe report said, \"The hate speech directed toward journalists has increased massively, causing serious concern for their safety.\"\nThere was no immediate reaction from the Indian government.\nThe group demanded a swift and independent investigation of cases in which journalists have been targeted."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1736
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about BC-BBA--Top Ten
|
{
"text": [
"BC-BBA--Top Ten\nBASEBALL'S TOP TEN By The Associated Press AMERICAN LEAGUE G AB R H Pct. Betts Bos 68 260 66 88 .338 Segura Sea 79 329 60 110 .334 Altuve Hou 87 341 55 114 .334 JMartinez Bos 83 318 60 104 .327 Simmons LAA 75 277 42 88 .318 MDuffy TB 70 277 26 87 .314 Rosario Min 81 324 57 101 .312 MMachado Bal 83 322 42 100 .311 Trout LAA 86 297 66 92 .310 Castellanos Det 85 343 47 106 .309 Home Runs\nJMartinez, Boston, 26; Trout, Los Angeles, 24; JoRamirez, Cleveland, 24; Judge, New York, 24; Lindor, Cleveland, 23; Cruz, Seattle, 22; Stanton, New York, 21; Betts, Boston, 21; MMachado, Baltimore, 21; 3 tied at 20.\nRuns Batted In\nJMartinez, Boston, 71; Haniger, Seattle, 62; Lowrie, Oakland, 59; MMachado, Baltimore, 59; Encarnacion, Cleveland, 57; Judge, New York, 57; Gattis, Houston, 56; KDavis, Oakland, 56; JoRamirez, Cleveland, 56; 2 tied at 55.\nPitching\nSeverino, New York, 13-2; Kluber, Cleveland, 12-4; Snell, Tampa Bay, 11-4; Morton, Houston, 10-2; Porcello, Boston, 10-3; Rodriguez, Boston, 10-3; Happ, Toronto, 10-4; GCole, Houston, 9-2; McCullers, Houston, 9-3; Verlander, Houston, 9-4."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1737
|
I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about More flight delays, cancellations and complaints on airlines
|
{
"text": [
"WASHINGTON (AP) — Canceled and delayed flights are rising on the nation's leading airlines, and so are consumer complaints.\nThat's according to new figures released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Transportation.\nThe rate of canceled flights nearly doubled to 1.6 percent in April compared to the same month in 2016. Delta Air Lines accounted for nearly half the cancellations — it was crippled for days by a one-day storm in Atlanta.\nAbout 78.5 percent of flights arrived within 14 minutes of schedule, down from the 84.5 percent on-time rate in April 2016.\nComplaints rose 70 percent, although only a tiny fraction of the millions of travelers lodged a protest.\nApril was also the month in which a passenger was dragged from a full United Express flight to make room for crew members."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1738
|
I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Tomato Sauces from The Jersey Tomato Co.™ Launch at All Harris Teeter Neighborhood Food & Pharmacy Stores
|
{
"text": [
"ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 24, 2018--The Jersey Tomato Co., maker of premium New Jersey tomato sauces and salsas, today announced that three flavors of its tomato sauces are now available at all 245 Harris Teeter Neighborhood & Pharmacy stores. The three SKUs available at Harris Teeter are Marinara, Tomato Basil and Spicy. The Jersey Tomato Co. can also be found at Kroger and its family of stores nationwide, including Fred Myer and Ralph’s, bringing the Company’s products to thousands of points of distribution nationally.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005132/en/\nThree tomato sauces from The Jersey Tomato Co., now available at all Harris Teeter stores. (Photo: Business Wire)\n“Harris Teeter is an admired grocery partner who recognizes the premium, better-for-you qualities of our products and the world-renowned attributes of the New Jersey tomato,” said Dave Stoff, Founder and CEO of The Jersey Tomato Co. “Thanks to Harris Teeter, shoppers from the District of Columbia to Florida are able to enjoy the naturally lower sodium and farm fresh flavor of sauces from The Jersey Tomato Co. Our sauces can now be found coast to coast, from California to Florida, demonstrating nationwide appreciation for the New Jersey tomato’s extraordinary flavor.”\nThe Extraordinary New Jersey Tomato\nAll products from The Jersey Tomato Co., including salsas and pizza sauces, are made with 100% New Jersey tomatoes. The New Jersey tomato has been recognized around the world as the best since 1934. The New Jersey tomato is celebrated like the great Italian San Marzano tomato for their outstanding flavor. All products from The Jersey Tomato Co. are marked with the “Made Jersey Fresh” logo, indicating certification from the New Jersey Department of Agriculture that every tomato was grown and harvested in New Jersey.\nBetter-For-You Tomato Sauces Made From World-Renown Tomatoes\nThe New Jersey tomato has distinct attributes such as unmatched sweetness, tartness and epic taste. This premium tomato is the result of the New Jersey soil composition, which has an acidic pH balance, combined with the ideal summer climate, which produces a delicious, better-for-you tomato. Because of the New Jersey tomato’s inherent qualities, the Jersey Tomato Co. sauces have 60% lower sodium than the other leading tomato sauce brands. Bursting with farm fresh flavor, tomato sauces from The Jersey Tomato Co. are lower in calories and fat, naturally lower in sodium and have no added sugar. No added preservatives allow the naturally occurring flavor to shine through – along with antioxidants and vitamins - making these sauces a healthier than most leading tomato sauce brands.\nThe Jersey Tomato Co. is a portfolio company of KEEN Growth Capital, a venture fund that invests in and develops early-stage food and wellness companies.\nAbout The Jersey Tomato Co.\nAll Natural. All Jersey. All Good. The Jersey Tomato Co. sauces and salsas are made with 100% premium New Jersey tomatoes and healthy, fresh ingredients. Five delicious flavors of tomato sauce, two salsas and a pizza sauce, are all bursting with farm fresh flavor and naturally lower sodium - 60% lower sodium than other leading brands. Follow The Jersey Tomato Co. in social media and visit JerseyTomatoCo.com for more.\nAbout KEEN Growth Capital\nKEEN Growth Capital invests in early stage food-related companies that generate meaningful social impact in addition to above market financial returns. KEEN has particular focus on healthy snacking, functional foods and patented, science backed companies that positively impact consumer health, environmental and community wellness, and long term disease mitigation. Keen’s infusion of intellectual and financial capital delivers enriched outcomes for all stakeholders while creating a healthier world. KEEN is based in Orlando. Ideas welcome everywhere. Visit KEENGrowthCaptial.com for more.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005132/en/\nCONTACT: The Jersey Tomato Co. & KEEN Growth Capital\nAddison Ames, 917-721-2961\nAddison@KEENGrowthCapital.com\nKEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA FLORIDA NEW JERSEY\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: CONVENIENCE STORE WOMEN OTHER CONSUMER DISCOUNT/VARIETY ONLINE RETAIL RESTAURANT/BAR NATURAL RESOURCES AGRICULTURE ENVIRONMENT RETAIL FOOD/BEVERAGE SPECIALTY SUPERMARKET CONSUMER MEN\nSOURCE: KEEN Growth Capital\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/24/2018 09:00 AM/DISC: 04/24/2018 09:01 AM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424005132/en"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1739
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about UN won't play any role in Iraqi Kurds' independence vote
|
{
"text": [
"BAGHDAD (AP) — The United Nations says it will not be \"engaged in any way or form\" in the process surrounding the independence referendum in Iraq's northern semi-autonomous Kurdish region that's planned for September.\nThe statement by the U.N. special mission to Iraq, or UNAMI, could cast doubts on the credibility of the vote, which has already sparked wide criticism from the central government in Baghdad and several Western nations.\nUNAMI's statement was released late on Wednesday.\nThe president of the Kurdish region, Masoud Barzani, last week said the vote will determine whether the Kurdish region would secede from Iraq.\nThe vote is to be held in three governorates that make up the Kurdish region and also in areas that are contested by both the Kurds and the central government."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1740
|
I am asking in the domain of politics. Tell me about Philippines eyes more airports to unclog Manila hub
|
{
"text": [
"MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine officials say the government is considering adding airports to serve the capital Manila and nearby areas, including a sprawling airport city complex that could handle 100 million passengers a year.\nManila's congested international airport once was dubbed the world's worst airport in surveys by travel website The Guide to Sleeping in Airports.\nImprovements have allowed it to escape that listing since 2015, but it remains overly congested.\nTransport Undersecretary Roberto Lim said a multi-airport system could include the present airport in Manila, an expanded Clark airport northwest of the capital that could handle 8 million passengers per year, another 2,500-hectare (6,177.5 acre) airport in Bulacan, also north of Manila, and possibly yet another airport and seaport in the former U.S. naval station in Cavite province adjacent to Manila."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1741
|
I am asking in the domain of sports. Tell me about Expanded Conference Glance
|
{
"text": [
"All Times EST EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Home Away Div Tampa Bay 49 34 12 3 71 175 125 17-5-1 17-7-2 9-3-1 Boston 47 29 10 8 66 156 116 16-5-4 13-5-4 10-1-2 Washington 49 29 15 5 63 150 138 18-7-1 11-8-4 8-4-3 Toronto 51 28 18 5 61 162 146 13-8-2 15-10-3 6-4-1 Columbus 49 27 19 3 57 131 137 16-8-0 11-11-3 8-5-2 Pittsburgh 51 27 21 3 57 151 153 17-7-1 10-14-2 10-4-0 New Jersey 48 24 16 8 56 144 146 13-8-3 11-8-5 5-6-1 Philadelphia 49 24 17 8 56 141 141 13-9-4 11-8-4 5-2-4 N.Y. Rangers 50 25 20 5 55 153 151 17-8-3 8-12-2 7-6-3 N.Y. Islanders 50 25 20 5 55 172 180 13-7-3 12-13-2 7-7-1 Carolina 49 22 19 8 52 137 154 10-7-4 12-12-4 6-5-3 Detroit 48 19 21 8 46 126 146 10-10-7 9-11-1 6-9-2 Montreal 49 20 23 6 46 129 156 12-10-5 8-13-1 9-6-2 Florida 47 19 22 6 44 132 158 11-8-3 8-14-3 6-4-1 Ottawa 47 15 23 9 39 124 166 9-11-5 6-12-4 5-8-3 Buffalo 49 14 26 9 37 114 163 6-12-3 8-14-6 3-5-2 WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA Home Away Div Vegas 48 32 12 4 68 164 128 19-3-2 13-9-2 11-1-1 Winnipeg 50 29 13 8 66 164 136 17-3-1 12-10-7 7-5-2 Nashville 47 29 11 7 65 145 123 16-4-3 13-7-4 10-3-2 St. Louis 51 30 18 3 63 148 130 17-10-0 13-8-3 7-4-1 Dallas 50 28 18 4 60 155 134 17-7-1 11-11-3 7-10-0 San Jose 48 26 15 7 59 143 133 14-7-3 12-8-4 12-2-3 Calgary 49 25 16 8 58 137 135 12-11-3 13-5-5 8-5-3 Colorado 48 27 18 3 57 157 139 18-7-1 9-11-2 7-6-1 Los Angeles 49 26 18 5 57 139 121 12-9-3 14-9-2 6-9-3 Minnesota 49 26 18 5 57 144 140 17-4-4 9-14-1 8-8-0 Anaheim 50 24 17 9 57 141 141 14-9-3 10-8-6 8-5-5 Chicago 49 23 19 7 53 146 136 12-10-3 11-9-4 5-7-2 Edmonton 49 22 24 3 47 135 157 11-13-1 11-11-2 10-2-0 Vancouver 49 19 24 6 44 127 159 8-13-3 11-11-3 5-9-1 Arizona 50 12 29 9 33 118 172 6-15-3 6-14-6 1-7-5\nNOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.\nSunday's Games\nCentral All-Stars vs Pacific All-Stars: Pacific 5, Central 2\nMetropolitan All-Stars vs Atlantic All-Stars: Atlantic 7, Metropolitan 4\nAll-Star Game Final: Pacific 5, Atlantic 2\nMonday's Games No games scheduled\nTuesday's Games\nMinnesota at Columbus, 7 p.m.\nSan Jose at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.\nFlorida at N.Y. Islanders, 7 p.m.\nAnaheim at Boston, 7 p.m.\nOttawa at Carolina, 7 p.m.\nNew Jersey at Buffalo, 7 p.m.\nTampa Bay at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.\nMontreal at St. Louis, 8 p.m.\nChicago at Nashville, 8 p.m.\nLos Angeles at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.\nVegas at Calgary, 9 p.m.\nColorado at Vancouver, 10 p.m.\nWednesday's Games\nN.Y. Islanders at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.\nSan Jose at Detroit, 8 p.m.\nPhiladelphia at Washington, 8 p.m.\nThursday's Games\nToronto at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.\nMontreal at Carolina, 7 p.m.\nSt. Louis at Boston, 7 p.m.\nFlorida at Buffalo, 7 p.m.\nAnaheim at Ottawa, 7 p.m.\nPhiladelphia at New Jersey, 7 p.m.\nVegas at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.\nLos Angeles at Nashville, 8:30 p.m.\nTampa Bay at Calgary, 9 p.m.\nDallas at Arizona, 9 p.m.\nColorado at Edmonton, 9 p.m.\nChicago at Vancouver, 10 p.m."
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
||
1742
|
I am asking in the domain of business. Tell me about SeniorWell Hires New Chief Operating Officer
|
{
"text": [
"CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 24, 2018--SeniorWell, a mobile healthcare company delivering on-site podiatry, optometry, dentistry, and audiology services to seniors residing in long-term nursing facilities across the Midwest, today announced the hiring of Sherri Peavy, MBA, BSN, RN as Chief Operating Officer.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424006409/en/\nSherri Peavy Hired as SeniorWell's New Chief Operating Officer (Photo: Business Wire)\nAs SeniorWell’s new Chief Operating Officer, Peavy will increase operational efficiencies to better serve SeniorWell’s employees and patients. Peavy is a lifelong native of Chicago and has more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry. She will bring to SeniorWell an extensive expertise in business development, patient program development, physician relations, professional and technical staffing, clinical operations and strategic planning.\n“My goal is to strengthen an already wonderful culture at SeniorWell, by developing strong teams that work efficiently together to deliver the best service to our clients,” said Sherri Peavy, SeniorWell COO. “Hiring top talent, rewarding strong performers, and developing organizational discipline throughout departments are all priorities.”\n“We are thrilled to add Sherri Peavy to our growing executive team,” said John Moroney, SeniorWell CEO. “Her breadth of experience working with nationally ranked academic medical centers and interacting regularly with physicians and senior leadership to drive significant operational-focused results and enhancements are few of the many reasons she’s a great fit for this role.”\nAbout SeniorWell\nSeniorWell is a mobile healthcare company delivering on-site podiatry, optometry, dentistry, and audiology services to seniors residing in long-term nursing facilities. Through its relationships with nursing facilities across the Midwest, SeniorWell sees a significant amount of patients per year. In addition to providing on-site care, SeniorWell also manufactures and fabricates custom hearing aids, dentures, and eyeglasses in its FDA approved lab for patients in need. For more information about SeniorWell and how it improves quality of life for seniors, visit http://www.SeniorWellGroup.com.\nView source version on businesswire.com:https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424006409/en/\nCONTACT: For SeniorWell\nKristen King, 914-393-5472\nKristenKing@a-capholdings.com\nKEYWORD: UNITED STATES NORTH AMERICA ILLINOIS\nINDUSTRY KEYWORD: SENIORS WOMEN HEALTH DENTAL OPTICAL OTHER HEALTH CONSUMER MEN\nSOURCE: SeniorWell\nCopyright Business Wire 2018.\nPUB: 04/24/2018 02:48 PM/DISC: 04/24/2018 02:48 PM\nhttp://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180424006409/en"
],
"answer_start": [
0
]
}
|
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.