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[] | 2016-08-28T18:48:41 | null | 2016-08-28T18:08:06 | A woman who went missing on her bus journey from Wellington to Hamilton has been found safe in Levin. - New Zealand Herald | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nzherald.co.nz%2Fnz%2Fnews%2Farticle.cfm%3Fc_id%3D1%26objectid%3D11701293%26ref%3Drss.json | http://media.nzherald.co.nz/webcontent/image/png/201636/Capture_1024x768.png | en | null | Missing Hamilton woman Adele Townsend found safe in Levin | null | null | www.nzherald.co.nz | A woman who went missing on her bus journey from Wellington to Hamilton has been found safe in Levin.
Adele Townsend was found on Sunday evening by police after her husband reported her missing on Saturday night when she failed to meet him at the Hamilton Transport Centre at 6.15pm.
Speaking to the Herald yesterday, Graeme Townsend said his "quiet" wife was not on the bus when it arrived and he had no idea where she could be.
Townsend had been on medication but her husband of eight years was worried it had stopped working.
It was the first time he had known her to disappear.
"She still seemed to be fine. It was just at night she was having these nightmares," he said yesterday.
"She took off down to Wellington the week before [last Sunday] and she didn't say anything and her brother is down there. She went into hospital for a week."
Townsend's brother, Michael, collected her from hospital on Saturday morning before dropping her at the bus station.
Police thanked the public for their assistance in finding the 53-year-old.
- NZ Herald | http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11701293&ref=rss | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.nzherald.co.nz/8c291d0c942991b295d21ba286f838e86d543aa96f0466aa816b7fa319ba9b3f.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T08:49:47 | null | 2016-08-30T07:30:59 | Unsuspecting children are being lured to play explicit, animated sex games through a website that purports to be a children's gaming site. - New Zealand Herald | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nzherald.co.nz%2Ftechnology%2Fnews%2Farticle.cfm%3Fc_id%3D5%26objectid%3D11701995%26ref%3Drss.json | http://media.nzherald.co.nz/webcontent/image/jpg/201636/Funny_1024x768.jpg | en | null | Kids free gaming website luring children to play explicit adult games | null | null | www.nzherald.co.nz | By Caroline Helen Przibilla of news.com.au
Unsuspecting children are being lured to play explicit, animated sex games through a website that purports to be a children's gaming site.
Designed to attract children with bright, multicoloured banners and childlike wording, the Funny-Games.biz/ main page looks like any child's gaming site.
Listed as Google's top site when searching for funny games, the site encourages children to play with friends. More than 100 interactive Flash games are featured on the front page. From initial glances, parents would not have cause for concern.
Scroll to the bottom of the web page and every parent's nightmare becomes apparent. Featured under the "Want More" heading, the site states there are thousands of online games including children's games and online sex games. A hidden link embedded under "online sex games," links directly to the adult content.
These sex games feature graphic sexual scenarios, all accessible for children to play. Links and adverts for real-life pornographic content pop-up within this area.
Take a stroll through the forum section, linked from the main page and it quickly becomes apparent this forum has also been used for grooming children. Headings titled "Homework Help" appear innocent enough, but closer inspection reveals sinister undertones throughout the forum.
Posts such as "Like Young Boys", state the writer has swapped many pictures with young boys online. The same thread creator has posted similar child-sex related forum posts. Administrators blocked the forum from accepting new users and comments in mid-2015, however the posts are still readily available.
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Web developer Daniel Van Leeuwen, from Lion Websites in Sydney, searched the history of the Funny-Games.biz website, finding it has been operating since 2004.
"There is evidence that this website was set up originally with the intent of combining children's games and adult sex games within the one site," said Mr Van Leeuwen.
The identity of the Funny-Games.biz website owners is concealed, but Mr Van Leeuwen found the registrant information directed to a company operating as Moniker Privacy Services LLC, based in the United States. We contacted the company for a comment, but did not receive a response.
Nine out of 10 other sites owned by the Funny-Games proprietor are adult sex sites. A web analytic search found the amount of people looking at this site from schools is much higher than for the general internet population.
Mother of two pre-teen boys, Charlotte McCarthy, says her sons are avid gamers. She normally oversees what her boys are playing online, but said she could easily be fooled to think the site was OK for her boys to use.
"The link is less obvious than I thought, but the porn is only one click away, which is frightening ... It's deceptive, dangerous and malicious ... the kids could click on a link that takes them to another world that is entirely inappropriate for them," said Mrs McCarthy.
Senior clinical psychologist and director of The Resilience Centre, Lyn Worsley, said parents had good reason to be concerned about gaming sites like this one.
She said pornography takes away children's innocence and normalises behaviour that is not normal for children.
Dr Worsley said the games on this site advocate rape and male dominance, giving children a sense that that conduct is OK.
She said games showing pleasure and pain as if it is OK, are confusing for a developing child, who is learning to read people's emotions.
"They don't always understand what the right emotion is ... With the heightened use of internet gaming, we are seeing a lot of children coming out with Asperger's behaviour; they are not able to read emotions and what people's faces are telling them," Dr Worsley said.
If children are found to have stumbled across this type of site, Dr Worsley said parents need to be ready to have an explicit sex talk with their child and not just tell their child off for accessing the site. She said parents need to express the notion of dominance and people's rights to their own body.
"You have to go through an open conversation about what might happen if someone clicks on these things," she said.
"You have to explain that it's not OK and that they are not allowed to touch other people's bodies, unless they have permission."
Preparing your children to be internet savvy is a way of protecting them from being groomed.
Dr Worsley says when she clicked on this site, she was asked to give her name and then told off when she didn't do as instructed.
"A child would think, 'I'm going to get into trouble', so they better put their name in," Dr Worsley said. She said it would have been very easy to talk to someone, especially as there is a private message feature within this site.
Professor Elizabeth Handsley, president for the Australian Council on Children and the Media, advises parents to stick to tried and tested sites that are connected to brands they know and trust. "Don't just look at sites and say, 'Yes they are all right'. Think really hard before giving your child a mobile device with internet access," she said.
Parents should allow devices based on a negotiated deal in which the parent still gets to see the history and has access to all the device passwords.
"That way the parent can keep tab on what the child is doing," Prof Handsley said. "It's the parents that need to set the terms of their child's interaction with the device or website."
Prof Handsley suggests families enter into an online safety contract, that outlines the rules for the children using the internet. She said these contracts are available online for parents to download or use as a base to design a contract that suits their own family.
- news.com.au | http://www.nzherald.co.nz/technology/news/article.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=11701995&ref=rss | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.nzherald.co.nz/0b188ed561b7ec2126ee2e22c458120b1d5d47b0a4f46e81bd3fb007ed425b30.json |
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] | 2016-08-27T02:47:17 | null | 2016-08-27T00:21:15 | Average Auckland house prices are tipped to pass $1 million this month . - New Zealand Herald | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nzherald.co.nz%2Fbusiness%2Fnews%2Farticle.cfm%3Fc_id%3D3%26objectid%3D11701052%26ref%3Drss.json | http://media.nzherald.co.nz/webcontent/image/jpg/201635/SCCZEN_A_301208NZHGPJAUCKLAND02_1024x768.jpg | en | null | Auckland house prices poised to hit $1m this month | null | null | www.nzherald.co.nz | Average Auckland house prices are tipped to pass $1 million this month .
CoreLogic analyst Nick Goodall said it was "safe to assume" the average residential property value in the Auckland urban area would pass $1 million when the August figures are released by Quotable Value (QV) on September 6 - months earlier than expected.
"It was $975,000 in June and $992,000 in July, so I think it's safe to assume it will be more than $1 million in August," he said.
He said the annual growth rate in Auckland prices had slowed from a peak of 24 per cent late last year to 16 per cent in the year to July, but was unlikely to have slowed dramatically in August.
Given average values of $874,851 in August last year, the growth rate would need to slow to below 14.3 per cent to hold this month's average below $1 million.
Goodall said the growth rate was slowing in the wake of Reserve Bank requirements for investors to have deposits of at least 40 per cent of the value of properties bought after this Thursday, September 1. But the market was slowing only gradually.
"The Reserve Bank said they expected the latest round of investor restrictions to slow the rate of growth by 2 to 5 per cent," he said.
"Given that it's 16 per cent now, that implies the growth rate slowing to between 11 and 14 per cent. So it's still growing, it's just that the rate of growth is slowing down.
"Immigration, even though it's coming down, is still strong; supply is obviously not a quick fix; and interest rates are still low and projected to continue to be low for the foreseeable future. So even with further restrictions it's not going to completely curtail the market."
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QV spokeswoman Andrea Rush told the Herald's Focus programme on July 5 that Auckland average prices were not expected to surpass $1 million until next year.
"The average value in Auckland now is $975,000 across the whole region. If the rate of growth increases as it is at the moment, we will have an average value of $1 million by 2017," she said then.
Goodall said the $1 million average was based on CoreLogic's monthly revaluations of all residential properties across Auckland, and was different from the average of recent sales which was affected by the kinds of properties being sold each month.
CoreLogic's average of all Auckland residential properties actually sold in the June quarter was only $884,337, and half of all sales in that quarter were below $767,000 (the median price).
Sales data also points to a more steeply slowing market, with the annual growth in average sale prices dropping from 23 per cent late last year to just 5.2 per cent in the latest June quarter, while growth in median prices slowed from 23 per cent to 6.7 per cent.
But Goodall said the lower sales figures reflected more apartments and properties in below-average parts of Auckland coming on to the market.
"What we do tend to see is that when growth is quite strong, the lower part of the market tends to do quite well, so areas like Manukau and Waitakere are tending to be doing well," he said.
"The sale price is only reflecting what properties happen to be selling at the time. The reason we prefer to use the total value of all properties is because it measures all the properties in the region."
Auckland residential properties - the figures
Value ($) and growth in past year (%)
Median - sales
June quarter 2015 $719,000 + 20.4%
Sept quarter 2015 $737,000 + 23.0%
Dec quarter 2015 $745,000 + 15.7%
Mar quarter 2016 $750,000 + 10.3%
June quarter 2016 $767,000 + 6.7%
Average - sales
June quarter 2015 $840,493 + 20.9%
Sept quarter 2015 $861,784 + 23.0%
Dec quarter 2015 $876,641 + 15.8%
Mar quarter 2016 $992,292 + 10.7%
June quarter 2016 $884,337 + 5.2%
Average - all property values
June 2015 $840,165 + 17.0%
July 2015 $855,672 + 18.8%
Aug 2015 $874,851 + 20.4%
Sept 2015 $896,676 + 22.6%
Oct 2015 $918,153 + 24.4%
Nov 2015 $931,807 + 24.4%
Dec 2015 $933,264 + 22.5%
Jan 2016 $928,921 + 19.8%
Feb 2016 $925,656 + 17.8%
Mar 2016 $931,061 + 16.9%
Apr 2016 $942,760 + 16.5%
May 2016 $955,793 + 15.4%
June 2016 $975,087 + 16.1%
July 2016 $992,207 + 16.0%
Aug 2016 Due Sept 6
- NZ Herald | http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11701052&ref=rss | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.nzherald.co.nz/a1790b75950b6a9019a18324e3e185c94182c230f97cdcb89586602c20dc23c3.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T02:48:19 | null | 2016-08-28T01:26:26 | A 17-year-old boy from Mexico City died of a hickey, Mexican media reported. - New Zealand Herald | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nzherald.co.nz%2Flifestyle%2Fnews%2Farticle.cfm%3Fc_id%3D6%26objectid%3D11701205%26ref%3Drss.json | http://media.nzherald.co.nz/webcontent/image/jpg/201636/GettyImages-470852415_1024x768.jpg | en | null | Mexican teen dies of stroke after hickey | null | null | www.nzherald.co.nz | A 17-year-old boy from Mexico City died of a hickey, Mexican media reported.
Julio Macias Gonzalez had a bruise on his neck, given to him by his 24-year-old girlfriend, according to Hoy Estado De Mexico.
He was at home with his family in the Iztapalapa borough when he began having strong convulsions.
Julio's relatives caused emergency services, but paramedics could not save him. They later attributed his death to the hickey on his neck.
They said the bruise caused a blood clot to form, which then traveled to his brain, causing a stroke.
Julio's parents said they did not approve of the pair's relationship due to their age difference, Hoy Estado De Mexico wrote.
The 24-year-old woman's whereabouts were unknown.
A woman from New Zealand was left partially paralyzed after a hickey gave her a stroke in 2011.
The 44-year-old lost movement in her left arm, causing doctors to believe she had had a small stroke.
They attributed it to a hickey on the right side of her neck, which had left a bruise.
The doctors gave her anti-coagulant medication and the clot disappeared in a few days.
- Daily Mail | http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11701205&ref=rss | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.nzherald.co.nz/9921b6bca5ab1c2db525a7511b521043652902835ec80b6f2899bb16151e4f8b.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T04:48:09 | null | 2016-08-28T03:16:19 | A massive police presence has been spotted around the Warkworth area. - New Zealand Herald | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nzherald.co.nz%2Fnz%2Fnews%2Farticle.cfm%3Fc_id%3D1%26objectid%3D11701224%26ref%3Drss.json | http://media.nzherald.co.nz/webcontent/image/jpg/201636/SCCZEN_A_030912mm32bop_1024x761.jpg | en | null | Large police presence in Warkworth | null | null | www.nzherald.co.nz | A massive police presence has been spotted around the Warkworth area.
Witnesses say they have seen police paddy wagons, patrol cars and a dog van travelling along State Highway 1.
A Herald reporter at the scene said at least one police car was stationed at the entrance of the road to the Dome Valley carpark.
"One of the first paddy wagons had two police cars travelling very close alongside as if it was under tight chaperone," she said.
Another Herald staffer said: "Heading back from Warkworth and about 10 police cars and a couple of vans have passed us going north with sirens on."
Members of the Armed Offenders Squad and ambulances were also seen.
The Herald are awaiting comment from police.
- NZ Herald | http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11701224&ref=rss | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.nzherald.co.nz/178600889b19979bf18a57309e1bd15d5656dee9a8799342eef7a4d9878349a8.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T20:47:46 | null | 2016-08-27T19:15:18 | The family of a New Zealand man missing in Western Australia for almost a week say the 23-year-old may be on a spiritual journey. - New Zealand Herald | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nzherald.co.nz%2Fnz%2Fnews%2Farticle.cfm%3Fc_id%3D1%26objectid%3D11701139%26ref%3Drss.json | http://media.nzherald.co.nz/webcontent/image/jpg/201636/xxx_1024x768.jpg | en | null | New Zealand man Michael Huria missing in Western Australia may be on a 'spiritual journey' | null | null | www.nzherald.co.nz | The family of a New Zealand man missing in Western Australia for almost a week say the 23-year-old may be on a "spiritual journey".
Police have launched a massive search for Michael Junior Huria, 23, who was last seen in Ellenbrook, Perth on Monday when he left his home about 4.15am.
Police are investigating whether his disappearance is linked to reports of a car hitting a pedestrian in the area, according to the Herald Sun.
Huria's father, Mark, and brother, Tamati, made a public appeal yesterday. Speaking at the Ellenbrook Police Station, they said Michael's disappearance was "unusual".
"He's a bit lost at the moment," Tamati Huria said of his brother who recently quit his job as a builder.
"We don't know but we think he might have gone out on a spiritual journey of some kind - he's quite inclined in that way."
Mark had flown from Wellington to assist.
Huria's stepmother, Lynell Huria, said the family was extremely worried.
"We don't really know the current status apart from what the police have said to everyone through the releases in Perth.
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"The family is really worried, really worried about him and hoping he turns up soon."
Father & brother of MISSING 23y/o Michael Huria asking public for info. Mr Huria not seen for 5 days @abcnewsPerth pic.twitter.com/3xPyZ9Ghrn — Briana Shepherd (@_brianashepherd) August 27, 2016
Police and SES volunteers have been searching in nearby Upper Swan where a woman thought she might have struck a pedestrian on Monday night.
Despite searching the area at the time no one was found near the road.
Huria's white ute was subsequently located in Ellenbrook but the 23-year-old remains missing.
"The search for Michael will continue throughout the day and will perhaps conclude early this evening," a WA Police spokeswoman said yesterday afternoon.
"Assessments will then take place regarding any future searches."
SES crews searching in Upper Swan for Michael Huria #perthnews pic.twitter.com/CK3vQnTcYX — Claire Tyrrell (@Claire_Tyrrell) August 25, 2016
Upper Swan is five kilometres east of Ellenbrook in Perth's outer northeastern suburbs.
Huria was believed to be wearing a white shirt, blue shorts (possibly denim) and was not wearing shoes.
- NZ Herald | http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11701139&ref=rss | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.nzherald.co.nz/4be9555cce1b8e25dc5885cc93c29bd67caa2d1cd192cfcd6c109ccdda59ba51.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T22:50:09 | null | 2016-08-30T21:49:51 | Locals are describing a mass brawl in South Auckland as a one-off incident, but one which has a negative impact on the area's reputation. - New Zealand Herald | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nzherald.co.nz%2Fnz%2Fnews%2Farticle.cfm%3Fc_id%3D1%26objectid%3D11702117%26ref%3Drss.json | http://media.nzherald.co.nz/webcontent/image/jpg/201636/BRAWL_1024x768.jpg | en | null | KFC brawl: 'They've got nothing else to do' | null | null | www.nzherald.co.nz | Locals are describing a mass brawl in South Auckland as a one-off incident, but one which has a negative impact on the area's reputation.
About 80 students from at least two nearby schools were involved in the fight, which started in Walter Massey Park in Mangere East before moving down Massey Rd and spilling into a KFC restaurant.
It is understood weapons such as knives and shanks were used, and four people were arrested.
A community leader in South Auckland says fights like yesterday afternoon's mass brawl will continue until the council starts giving the funding to create facilities in the area.
Mangere East community centre director Roger Fowler criticised the "dearth" of facilities like skate parks, swimming pools or drop in centres in the area, saying tensions were bound to bubble over when kids were bored.
"Not having those sorts of facilities leaves a vacuum and if kids have got nothing else to do ... that causes or exacerbates social problems," he said.
"It's all very well telling young kids to go home but if that home is a damp and cramped garage, which it often is, all of these things add up to an environment which is not conducive to good social behavior."
Mangere, an already huge community which was rapidly growing, did not appear to be a priority for the council, Fowler said.
"We've got a big push on now for a decent modern community centre with a gymnasium, child care, classrooms, and other facilities.
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"These sorts of incidences highlight the need for these facilities which are sorely lacking and have been for some time."
The local board was supportive of providing such facilities, he said, but lacked the funding from Auckland Council.
"We'd like to see the Auckland Council release decent funding to the local board so projects of this nature and community projects generally can be expanded to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population."
Auckland Council chief operating officer Dean Kimpton refuted Fowler's claims, saying there are a "significant" number of "facilities, projects and opportunities" for youth in Mangere.
"Much of the council's role is led through the Mangere-Otahuhu Local Board, which supports groups and organisations focused on boosting education and employment opportunities for youth. The board provides youth a voice and an opportunity to be active in local matters."
Kimpton said the suburb's arts centre, pool and library were popular with young people.
"There are also several parks in the area, a number of which have facilities for youth. Examples include the Walter Massey Park exercise equipment, a skate park at Mangere Bridge, and basketball courts opposite the town centre in David Lange Park," Kimpton said.
"A recent initiative at the library is the "teen club" which met for the first time on Monday. This initiative involves teenagers acting in the role of the library manager and designing programmes relevant to young people. Ideas include homework stations, music jams, quiz nights, iPad access and places to socialise. The next step is to advance these initiatives. The library also actively visits local schools, offering a book club and promoting literacy."
There is a also a significant number of local community and the Māngere Community House had a particular emphasis on youth-focused programmes and activities, including school holiday programmes and the BikeFIT programme.
- NZ Herald | http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11702117&ref=rss | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.nzherald.co.nz/7bcedcfccf5c9af40fb0e949bf2de2eb5d902fb7ad3fa737483fa82fb8433442.json |
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] | 2016-08-28T06:48:15 | null | 2016-08-28T03:15:05 | Australia have been dispatched and now the All Blacks will turn their attention to an Argentina side who will travel to New Zealand on a high after their victory over South Africa - New Zealand Herald | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nzherald.co.nz%2Fsport%2Fnews%2Farticle.cfm%3Fc_id%3D4%26objectid%3D11701222%26ref%3Drss.json | http://media.nzherald.co.nz/webcontent/image/jpg/201636/SCCZEN_270816NZHMMTEST19_1024x768.jpg | en | null | Rugby: Game against the Pumas 'going to be a goodie' | null | null | www.nzherald.co.nz | Australia have been dispatched and now the All Blacks will turn their attention to an Argentina side who will travel to New Zealand on a high after their victory over South Africa this morning.
The All Blacks, who retained the Bledisloe Cup with a 29-9 victory over the Wallabies in what was a bitterly-fought test in Wellington, will reassemble in Hamilton next Sunday for the test against the Pumas at Waikato Stadium in a fortnight.
A win against the Argentines, who beat the Springboks 26-24 in Salta, will put them in a commanding position in terms of the Rugby Championship with tests against the Pumas in Buenos Aires and the Boks in Durban to come.
The victory by Hansen's men at Westpac Stadium wasn't quite as emphatic as the week before in Sydney, won 42-8, but it proved once again that the All Blacks are on a different level in terms of their skill level and game understanding.
In the two tests against their trans-tasman rivals, the All Blacks scored 10 tries while conceding only one. They blooded a new talent in second-five Anton Lienert-Brown and coped well with the spoiling tactics of Australia, who arrived in Wellington with a refusal to take a backwards step but left demoralised, their coach Michael Cheika resorting to a swipe at the performance of referee Romain Poite and the Frenchman's non-existent pre-test meeting with Hansen.
Australia's next assignment is a test against South Africa in Brisbane in a fortnight. Already at a low ebb after their sixth consecutive test defeat, another loss would pile more pressure on Cheika and his employers the Australia Rugby Union.
The All Blacks machine, which stuttered on occasion in the drizzle in Wellington in the face of a vastly improved defensive effort from the Wallabies, is clearly on the right track, and Hansen will have even more options in terms of personnel in a fortnight.
Midfielder Ryan Crotty and hooker Codie Taylor will be available to play the Pumas, Hansen revealing today that the Crusaders pair, out with concussion, could have played last night if required.
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Argentina will ask different questions of the All Blacks in terms of their set piece, but it's hard to see how they can seriously challenge the world champions, who have now won 13 tests in a row.
The performance on debut of 21-year-old Lienert-Brown was truly special and Dane Coles' performance at hooker suggested he is one of the best tight forwards in the game at present.
Told the result of the test between the Pumas and Springboks, Hansen said: "It's going to make our Hamilton game a goodie isn't it? They were pretty unlucky [against South Africa] last time. They were right in the hunt until the last few minutes.
"That's good. Both of those sides are playing well and it's now for us to take a wee breather and in the middle of the week we'll start to look at them a bit more thoroughly."
There is unquestionably a lot of pleasure for the All Blacks in sealing the Bledisloe Cup for the 14th year in succession, but little for the pain that Australian rugby is going through. Former skipper Richie McCaw spoke beforehand of his hope that the test in Wellington would be more of a contest that the humiliation in Sydney, with Hansen saying afterwards that it was important for the game that the Wallabies bounced back.
"We want a strong Southern Hemisphere game and we want our closest neighbours to be really strong," he said. "They'll come right, though, I'm confident of that. They've certainly go the players to be a very good side."
- NZ Herald | http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11701222&ref=rss | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.nzherald.co.nz/fe8ec65e37733cc72b7ac6ce26d374ba34e2a430a9f6a1976cf6961001518576.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:56:58 | null | 2016-07-17T20:40:41 | Last Saturday, I attended a youth mentorship programme in Wajir County. It was another of those uplifting experiences that make life worthwhile.Powered by | http%3A%2F%2Feastandard.net%2Fcommentary-women-are-turning-tables-on-men%2F.json | http://eastandard.net/wp-content/themes/multinews/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png | en | null | Commentary: Women are turning tables on men | null | null | eastandard.net | Last Saturday, I attended a youth mentorship programme in Wajir County. It was another of those uplifting experiences that make life worthwhile.
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[] | 2016-08-26T12:51:48 | null | 2016-07-19T00:00:30 | "The Africa Union has now adopted the resolution to give visas allowing citizens from member states to move freely. We will first start with government | http%3A%2F%2Feastandard.net%2Fkenya-au-to-roll-out-visa-free-travel-for-all-member-states-in-two-years%2F.json | http://eastandard.net/wp-content/themes/multinews/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png | en | null | Kenya: AU to roll out visa-free travel for all member states in two years | null | null | eastandard.net | “The Africa Union has now adopted the resolution to give visas allowing citizens from member states to move freely. We will first start with government officials before being rolled to other population,” said Mohamed.
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[] | 2016-08-26T12:52:20 | null | 2016-07-19T00:00:30 | Investigators are pursuing the theory that he had unsuccessfully tried to use the cash to buy the freedom of terror suspect, Omar Okwaki, who was detained at | http%3A%2F%2Feastandard.net%2Fkenya-officer-who-killed-7-at-kapenguria-police-station-had-sh3m-in-bank%2F.json | http://eastandard.net/wp-content/themes/multinews/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png | en | null | Kenya: Officer who killed 7 at Kapenguria Police Station had Sh3m in bank | null | null | eastandard.net | Investigators are pursuing the theory that he had unsuccessfully tried to use the cash to buy the freedom of terror suspect, Omar Okwaki, who was detained at the station at the time of the attack.
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[] | 2016-08-26T12:51:17 | null | 2016-07-17T20:40:39 | The Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) head Jackson ole Sapit has decried the rise in crime rate.Powered by WPeMatico | http%3A%2F%2Feastandard.net%2Fkenya-anglican-church-head-condemns-increase-in-violent-crimes%2F.json | http://eastandard.net/wp-content/themes/multinews/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png | en | null | Kenya: Anglican Church head condemns increase in violent crimes | null | null | eastandard.net | The Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) head Jackson ole Sapit has decried the rise in crime rate.
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[] | 2016-08-26T12:57:26 | null | 2016-07-17T20:40:41 | The appointment of the Chief Justice and Deputy Chief Justice of the Republic of Kenya has reached fever pitch, with Kenyans from all walks of life calling on | http%3A%2F%2Feastandard.net%2Fcommentary-jsc-should-follow-criteria-for-choosing-kenyas-chief-justice%2F.json | http://eastandard.net/wp-content/themes/multinews/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png | en | null | Commentary: JSC should follow criteria for choosing Kenya's Chief Justice | null | null | eastandard.net | The appointment of the Chief Justice and Deputy Chief Justice of the Republic of Kenya has reached fever pitch, with Kenyans from all walks of life calling on the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) to give us the Chief Justice we want.
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[] | 2016-08-26T12:54:07 | null | 2016-07-19T08:28:30 | Africa needs trade partners, Uhuru says as he criticises West President Uhuru Kenyatta renewed his onslaught against the West, accusing it of hypocrisy and | http%3A%2F%2Feastandard.net%2Fkenya-uhuru-faults-un-africa-spending-urges-reform%2F.json | http://eastandard.net/wp-content/themes/multinews/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png | en | null | Kenya: Uhuru faults UN Africa spending, urges reform | null | null | eastandard.net | Africa needs trade partners, Uhuru says as he criticises West President Uhuru Kenyatta renewed his onslaught against the West, accusing it of hypocrisy and double standards in dealings with Africa.
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[] | 2016-08-26T12:55:04 | null | 2016-07-19T11:28:05 | Philip Kinisu becomes the latest chairman of EACC to claim cartels were out to finish him after at least his two other predecessors suffered a similar fate | http%3A%2F%2Feastandard.net%2Fkenya-i-will-not-resign-says-eacc-chairman-kinisu-over-nys-deals%2F.json | http://eastandard.net/wp-content/themes/multinews/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png | en | null | Kenya: I will not resign, says EACC Chairman Kinisu over NYS deals | null | null | eastandard.net | Philip Kinisu becomes the latest chairman of EACC to claim cartels were out to finish him after at least his two other predecessors suffered a similar fate.
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[] | 2016-08-26T12:55:31 | null | 2016-07-19T00:00:30 | This is the second time the county chief was appearing before the Anyang' Nyong'o-led committee to answer to audit queries from the 2013-2014 financial year | http%3A%2F%2Feastandard.net%2Fkenya-house-team-questions-nakuru-governor-over-workforce%2F.json | http://eastandard.net/wp-content/themes/multinews/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png | en | null | Kenya: House team questions Nakuru governor over workforce | null | null | eastandard.net | This is the second time the county chief was appearing before the Anyang’ Nyong’o-led committee to answer to audit queries from the 2013-2014 financial year.
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[] | 2016-08-26T12:56:01 | null | 2016-07-17T20:40:41 | Three weeks ago, Heads of State met at the 71st session of the UN General Assembly to deliberate on the status of HIV and AIDS globally.Powered by WPeMatico | http%3A%2F%2Feastandard.net%2Fcommentary-sustainable-financing-for-hiv-is-possible%2F.json | http://eastandard.net/wp-content/themes/multinews/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png | en | null | Commentary: Sustainable financing for HIV is possible | null | null | eastandard.net | Three weeks ago, Heads of State met at the 71st session of the UN General Assembly to deliberate on the status of HIV and AIDS globally.
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[] | 2016-08-26T12:54:37 | null | 2016-07-17T20:40:40 | Police have impounded 58 bags of subsidised fertiliser worth Sh100,000 in Burnt Forest.Powered by WPeMatico | http%3A%2F%2Feastandard.net%2Fkenya-police-impound-subsidised-fertiliser-being-sold-illegally%2F.json | http://eastandard.net/wp-content/themes/multinews/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png | en | null | Kenya: Police impound subsidised fertiliser being sold illegally | null | null | eastandard.net | Police have impounded 58 bags of subsidised fertiliser worth Sh100,000 in Burnt Forest.
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:07:10 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hibiscus ... about Hibiscus rosa-sinensis please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10578%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhibiscus-sinensis-information-about-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10579.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10578/%EF%BB%BFhibiscus-sinensis-information-about-medicinal-other-plant?show=10579 | en | null | Hibiscus rosa-sinensis information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis?
If you know websites containing any information about Hibiscus rosa-sinensis please link to them. | http://www.herald-news.com/10578/%EF%BB%BFhibiscus-sinensis-information-about-medicinal-other-plant?show=10579 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.herald-news.com/96ff7c3d89925bc0be45dec4ddadc80c056e27ab4b9a4edc7d0b2aab6be57f56.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:52:50 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Humulus ... Humulus lupulus var. lupulus please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10620%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhumulus-lupulus-lupulus-information-about-medicinal-plant%3Fshow%3D10621.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10620/%EF%BB%BFhumulus-lupulus-lupulus-information-about-medicinal-plant?show=10621 | en | null | Humulus lupulus var. lupulus information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Humulus lupulus var. lupulus?
If you know websites containing any information about Humulus lupulus var. lupulus please link to them. | http://www.herald-news.com/10620/%EF%BB%BFhumulus-lupulus-lupulus-information-about-medicinal-plant?show=10621 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.herald-news.com/3146a8dc5854eb9423fd77282409dc8a94b6435f7c8d341e21de125f784721d0.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:05:01 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... about Hybanthus enneaspermus please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10626%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhybanthus-enneaspermus-information-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10627.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10626/%EF%BB%BFhybanthus-enneaspermus-information-medicinal-other-plant?show=10627 | en | null | Hybanthus enneaspermus information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hybanthus enneaspermus?
If you know websites containing any information about Hybanthus enneaspermus please link to them. | http://www.herald-news.com/10626/%EF%BB%BFhybanthus-enneaspermus-information-medicinal-other-plant?show=10627 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.herald-news.com/2e5981e8e67881964486f3f49dc76a1c5a511256cc2ac4f273ac63c1a3cec2dd.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:49:38 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Hydrangea paniculata please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10640%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhydrangea-paniculata-information-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10641.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10640/%EF%BB%BFhydrangea-paniculata-information-medicinal-other-plant?show=10641 | en | null | Hydrangea paniculata information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hydrangea paniculata?
If you know websites containing any information about Hydrangea paniculata please link to them. | http://www.herald-news.com/10640/%EF%BB%BFhydrangea-paniculata-information-medicinal-other-plant?show=10641 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.herald-news.com/e0a199171464d8974fb619b9efe2992b6288a3b74392f7f9b781233f3c2d78d2.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:56:36 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... about Hydnocarpus anthelminthicus please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10630%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhydnocarpus-anthelminthicus-information-medicinal-plant%3Fshow%3D10631.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10630/%EF%BB%BFhydnocarpus-anthelminthicus-information-medicinal-plant?show=10631 | en | null | Hydnocarpus anthelminthicus information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hydnocarpus anthelminthicus?
If you know websites containing any information about Hydnocarpus anthelminthicus please link to them. | http://www.herald-news.com/10630/%EF%BB%BFhydnocarpus-anthelminthicus-information-medicinal-plant?show=10631 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.herald-news.com/42b4c3fd25786ac873dd35db1be77ef66f038caf61effaf8eb1b65ba9483abbd.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:57:02 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... about Hydnocarpus pentandrus please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10634%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhydnocarpus-pentandrus-information-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10635.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10634/%EF%BB%BFhydnocarpus-pentandrus-information-medicinal-other-plant?show=10635 | en | null | Hydnocarpus pentandrus information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hydnocarpus pentandrus?
If you know websites containing any information about Hydnocarpus pentandrus please link to them. | http://www.herald-news.com/10634/%EF%BB%BFhydnocarpus-pentandrus-information-medicinal-other-plant?show=10635 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.herald-news.com/f625e53e97df04e340b231545a0131183f6f1284f10aeb7316d778de53ae711c.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:05:44 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Hydnocarpus alcalae please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10628%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhydnocarpus-alcalae-information-about-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10629.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10628/%EF%BB%BFhydnocarpus-alcalae-information-about-medicinal-other-plant?show=10629 | en | null | Hydnocarpus alcalae information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hydnocarpus alcalae?
If you know websites containing any information about Hydnocarpus alcalae please link to them. | http://www.herald-news.com/10628/%EF%BB%BFhydnocarpus-alcalae-information-about-medicinal-other-plant?show=10629 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.herald-news.com/16d9076849291d5a079c686ac3e98b901c3272b94069732e6c356e9d5c69b223.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:00:54 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Hydnocarpus kurzii please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10632%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhydnocarpus-kurzii-information-about-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10633.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10632/%EF%BB%BFhydnocarpus-kurzii-information-about-medicinal-other-plant?show=10633 | en | null | Hydnocarpus kurzii information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hydnocarpus kurzii?
If you know websites containing any information about Hydnocarpus kurzii please link to them. | http://www.herald-news.com/10632/%EF%BB%BFhydnocarpus-kurzii-information-about-medicinal-other-plant?show=10633 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.herald-news.com/c27c3ab560d1c28b1f457035a98af5252f93fd74889ce2d69b66b37114158605.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:02:17 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hoya ... information about Hoya carnosa please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10614%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhoya-carnosa-information-about-medicinal-other-uses-plant.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10614/%EF%BB%BFhoya-carnosa-information-about-medicinal-other-uses-plant | en | null | Hoya carnosa information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hoya carnosa?
If you know websites containing any information about Hoya carnosa please link to them. | http://www.herald-news.com/10614/%EF%BB%BFhoya-carnosa-information-about-medicinal-other-uses-plant | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.herald-news.com/102121e272144daecf2e9333edc55c1dad246e51b55d79f53710a0f4750cc75b.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:49:08 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Hydrilla verticillata please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10642%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhydrilla-verticillata-information-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10643.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10642/%EF%BB%BFhydrilla-verticillata-information-medicinal-other-plant?show=10643 | en | null | Hydrilla verticillata information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hydrilla verticillata?
If you know websites containing any information about Hydrilla verticillata please link to them. | http://www.herald-news.com/10642/%EF%BB%BFhydrilla-verticillata-information-medicinal-other-plant?show=10643 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.herald-news.com/07a2a874fc3b44cb327f1883baaf57c8963a85be872cf9fffe605041db3e2f22.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:03:57 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Huperzia serrata please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10622%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhuperzia-serrata-information-about-medicinal-other-plant.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10622/%EF%BB%BFhuperzia-serrata-information-about-medicinal-other-plant | en | null | Huperzia serrata information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Huperzia serrata?
If you know websites containing any information about Huperzia serrata please link to them. | http://www.herald-news.com/10622/%EF%BB%BFhuperzia-serrata-information-about-medicinal-other-plant | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.herald-news.com/226f8c56d1037d86c50f1e6fd93fdbabbfa34a4d4b67a4b9b7bb92839be45535.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:07:54 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Heracleum sosnowskyi please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10552%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFheracleum-sosnowskyi-information-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10553.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10552/%EF%BB%BFheracleum-sosnowskyi-information-medicinal-other-plant?show=10553 | en | null | Heracleum sosnowskyi information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Heracleum sosnowskyi?
If you know websites containing any information about Heracleum sosnowskyi please link to them. | http://www.herald-news.com/10552/%EF%BB%BFheracleum-sosnowskyi-information-medicinal-other-plant?show=10553 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.herald-news.com/d492567b949772775d17f5aed369df3cf8a961bfc9692101b584fa481b0caec8.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:07:26 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Hibiscus radiatus please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10576%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhibiscus-radiatus-information-about-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10577.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10576/%EF%BB%BFhibiscus-radiatus-information-about-medicinal-other-plant?show=10577 | en | null | Hibiscus radiatus information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hibiscus radiatus?
If you know websites containing any information about Hibiscus radiatus please link to them. | http://www.herald-news.com/10576/%EF%BB%BFhibiscus-radiatus-information-about-medicinal-other-plant?show=10577 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.herald-news.com/640c3575888020ae22ef5d98199e86d93f3483d974fa746e685d911ca5c95e88.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:50:07 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Hydrocotyle javanica please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10644%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhydrocotyle-javanica-information-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10645.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10644/%EF%BB%BFhydrocotyle-javanica-information-medicinal-other-plant?show=10645 | en | null | Hydrocotyle javanica information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hydrocotyle javanica?
If you know websites containing any information about Hydrocotyle javanica please link to them. | http://www.herald-news.com/10644/%EF%BB%BFhydrocotyle-javanica-information-medicinal-other-plant?show=10645 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.herald-news.com/5284d9d4ffd27ba56a5c42007fa035e40417cd50dd43c83b554183bd708846d2.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:55:35 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... about Himatanthus lancifolius please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10584%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhimatanthus-lancifolius-information-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10585.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10584/%EF%BB%BFhimatanthus-lancifolius-information-medicinal-other-plant?show=10585 | en | null | Himatanthus lancifolius information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Himatanthus lancifolius?
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[] | 2016-08-26T12:50:41 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Hydrangea arborescens please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10638%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhydrangea-arborescens-information-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10639.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10638/%EF%BB%BFhydrangea-arborescens-information-medicinal-other-plant?show=10639 | en | null | Hydrangea arborescens information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hydrangea arborescens?
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:03:08 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Hoppea dichotoma please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10604%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhoppea-dichotoma-information-about-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10605.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10604/%EF%BB%BFhoppea-dichotoma-information-about-medicinal-other-plant?show=10605 | en | null | Hoppea dichotoma information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hoppea dichotoma?
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[] | 2016-08-26T12:51:49 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Hydrangea anomala please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10636%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhydrangea-anomala-information-about-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10637.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10636/%EF%BB%BFhydrangea-anomala-information-about-medicinal-other-plant?show=10637 | en | null | Hydrangea anomala information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hydrangea anomala?
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:08:08 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Hintonia latiflora please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10586%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhintonia-latiflora-information-about-medicinal-other-plant.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10586/%EF%BB%BFhintonia-latiflora-information-about-medicinal-other-plant | en | null | Hintonia latiflora information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hintonia latiflora?
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:08:44 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... about Heterotheca grandiflora please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10566%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFheterotheca-grandiflora-information-medicinal-other-plant.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10566/%EF%BB%BFheterotheca-grandiflora-information-medicinal-other-plant | en | null | Heterotheca grandiflora information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Heterotheca grandiflora?
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:01:23 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Humulus lupulus please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10618%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhumulus-lupulus-information-about-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10619.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10618/%EF%BB%BFhumulus-lupulus-information-about-medicinal-other-plant?show=10619 | en | null | Humulus lupulus information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Humulus lupulus?
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[] | 2016-08-26T12:57:56 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Hibiscus syriacus please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10582%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhibiscus-syriacus-information-about-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10583.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10582/%EF%BB%BFhibiscus-syriacus-information-about-medicinal-other-plant?show=10583 | en | null | Hibiscus syriacus information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hibiscus syriacus?
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:09:30 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Heuchera micrantha please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10570%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFheuchera-micrantha-information-about-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10571.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10570/%EF%BB%BFheuchera-micrantha-information-about-medicinal-other-plant?show=10571 | en | null | Heuchera micrantha information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Heuchera micrantha?
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:00:01 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Hippophae rhamnoides please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10590%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhippophae-rhamnoides-information-medicinal-other-plant.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10590/%EF%BB%BFhippophae-rhamnoides-information-medicinal-other-plant | en | null | Hippophae rhamnoides information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hippophae rhamnoides?
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:04:41 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Houttuynia cordata please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10610%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhouttuynia-cordata-information-about-medicinal-other-plant.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10610/%EF%BB%BFhouttuynia-cordata-information-about-medicinal-other-plant | en | null | Houttuynia cordata information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Houttuynia cordata?
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:02:43 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Holboellia coriacea please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10596%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFholboellia-coriacea-information-about-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10597.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10596/%EF%BB%BFholboellia-coriacea-information-about-medicinal-other-plant?show=10597 | en | null | Holboellia coriacea information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Holboellia coriacea?
If you know websites containing any information about Holboellia coriacea please link to them. | http://www.herald-news.com/10596/%EF%BB%BFholboellia-coriacea-information-about-medicinal-other-plant?show=10597 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.herald-news.com/d4d281747063004fb0492b8ee6ba4d28fb10822b436c3463e32a742766e3d21c.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:53:22 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hoodia ... information about Hoodia gordonii please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10602%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhoodia-gordonii-information-about-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10603.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10602/%EF%BB%BFhoodia-gordonii-information-about-medicinal-other-plant?show=10603 | en | null | Hoodia gordonii information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hoodia gordonii?
If you know websites containing any information about Hoodia gordonii please link to them. | http://www.herald-news.com/10602/%EF%BB%BFhoodia-gordonii-information-about-medicinal-other-plant?show=10603 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.herald-news.com/20fea8a16f088d727ab9140da6eb20ece3c612766222bea79fd59552e53d4d9f.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:06:04 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Holarrhena pubescens please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10594%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFholarrhena-pubescens-information-medicinal-other-plant.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10594/%EF%BB%BFholarrhena-pubescens-information-medicinal-other-plant | en | null | Holarrhena pubescens information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Holarrhena pubescens?
If you know websites containing any information about Holarrhena pubescens please link to them. | http://www.herald-news.com/10594/%EF%BB%BFholarrhena-pubescens-information-medicinal-other-plant | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.herald-news.com/5e198f4f8da95ca702b97d209ca744f3c92ba85fadbcf29284efada5d0450f04.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:06:20 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Heracleum hemsleyanum please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10548%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFheracleum-hemsleyanum-information-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10549.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10548/%EF%BB%BFheracleum-hemsleyanum-information-medicinal-other-plant?show=10549 | en | null | Heracleum hemsleyanum information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Heracleum hemsleyanum?
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:08:21 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Heracleum sphondylium please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10554%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFheracleum-sphondylium-information-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10555.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10554/%EF%BB%BFheracleum-sphondylium-information-medicinal-other-plant?show=10555 | en | null | Heracleum sphondylium information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Heracleum sphondylium?
If you know websites containing any information about Heracleum sphondylium please link to them. | http://www.herald-news.com/10554/%EF%BB%BFheracleum-sphondylium-information-medicinal-other-plant?show=10555 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.herald-news.com/6c76b95c365bcf6b55fb0a3ceee5899536c373f5a7916ac41df2e526ecfccdfd.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:08:33 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Heracleum rigens please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10550%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFheracleum-rigens-information-about-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10551.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10550/%EF%BB%BFheracleum-rigens-information-about-medicinal-other-plant?show=10551 | en | null | Heracleum rigens information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Heracleum rigens?
If you know websites containing any information about Heracleum rigens please link to them. | http://www.herald-news.com/10550/%EF%BB%BFheracleum-rigens-information-about-medicinal-other-plant?show=10551 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.herald-news.com/b5aa579d3d940d2199d0cefebe80690f73aa3548fe018a257736781d1ae51525.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:09:42 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Heterotheca inuloides please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10568%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFheterotheca-inuloides-information-medicinal-other-plant.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10568/%EF%BB%BFheterotheca-inuloides-information-medicinal-other-plant | en | null | Heterotheca inuloides information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Heterotheca inuloides?
If you know websites containing any information about Heterotheca inuloides please link to them. | http://www.herald-news.com/10568/%EF%BB%BFheterotheca-inuloides-information-medicinal-other-plant | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.herald-news.com/a47879b25532d63e87e9227d839d661f76b4023924133f1c77bd171106839e9f.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:04:20 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Humulus japonicus please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10616%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhumulus-japonicus-information-about-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10617.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10616/%EF%BB%BFhumulus-japonicus-information-about-medicinal-other-plant?show=10617 | en | null | Humulus japonicus information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Humulus japonicus?
If you know websites containing any information about Humulus japonicus please link to them. | http://www.herald-news.com/10616/%EF%BB%BFhumulus-japonicus-information-about-medicinal-other-plant?show=10617 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.herald-news.com/8bf4ea9397ca205d72975fba5f060f6addd5d5ca5c98f345eee2e75d42cd1b10.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:07:41 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Heracleum ... sphondylium subsp. sibiricum please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10558%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFheracleum-sphondylium-sibiricum-information-medicinal%3Fshow%3D10559.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10558/%EF%BB%BFheracleum-sphondylium-sibiricum-information-medicinal?show=10559 | en | null | Heracleum sphondylium subsp. sibiricum information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Heracleum sphondylium subsp. sibiricum?
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:09:08 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Heracleum ... sphondylium subsp. montanum please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10556%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFheracleum-sphondylium-montanum-information-medicinal-other%3Fshow%3D10557.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10556/%EF%BB%BFheracleum-sphondylium-montanum-information-medicinal-other?show=10557 | en | null | Heracleum sphondylium subsp. montanum information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Heracleum sphondylium subsp. montanum?
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[] | 2016-08-26T12:52:20 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Hordeum vulgare please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10606%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhordeum-vulgare-information-about-medicinal-other-plant.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10606/%EF%BB%BFhordeum-vulgare-information-about-medicinal-other-plant | en | null | Hordeum vulgare information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hordeum vulgare?
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[] | 2016-08-26T12:54:41 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Holigarna arnottiana please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10598%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFholigarna-arnottiana-information-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10599.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10598/%EF%BB%BFholigarna-arnottiana-information-medicinal-other-plant?show=10599 | en | null | Holigarna arnottiana information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Holigarna arnottiana?
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[] | 2016-08-26T12:59:37 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Hodgsonia macrocarpa please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10592%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhodgsonia-macrocarpa-information-medicinal-other-plant.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10592/%EF%BB%BFhodgsonia-macrocarpa-information-medicinal-other-plant | en | null | Hodgsonia macrocarpa information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hodgsonia macrocarpa?
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:06:38 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Hibiscus sabdariffa please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10580%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhibiscus-sabdariffa-information-about-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10581.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10580/%EF%BB%BFhibiscus-sabdariffa-information-about-medicinal-other-plant?show=10581 | en | null | Hibiscus sabdariffa information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hibiscus sabdariffa?
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[] | 2016-08-26T12:55:09 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hovenia ... information about Hovenia dulcis please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10612%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhovenia-dulcis-information-about-medicinal-other-uses-plant.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10612/%EF%BB%BFhovenia-dulcis-information-about-medicinal-other-uses-plant | en | null | Hovenia dulcis information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hovenia dulcis?
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:09:53 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Heynea ... information about Heynea velutina please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10574%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFheynea-velutina-information-about-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10575.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10574/%EF%BB%BFheynea-velutina-information-about-medicinal-other-plant?show=10575 | en | null | Heynea velutina information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Heynea velutina?
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:10:05 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Hesperoyucca whipplei please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10562%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhesperoyucca-whipplei-information-medicinal-other-plant.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10562/%EF%BB%BFhesperoyucca-whipplei-information-medicinal-other-plant | en | null | Hesperoyucca whipplei information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | I didn't find in Dr. Duke's database, any information about the uses of Hesperoyucca whipplei
Here is some basic information about Hesperoyucca whipplei.
Hesperoyucca whipplei basic info
Scientific Name: Hesperoyucca whipplei (Torr.) Trel..
Family: Asparagaceae.
Genus: Hesperoyucca.
Common names in English: Our Lord's-candle, quixote yucca.
Description: Hesperoyucca whipplei is a flowering plant, native to southern California, United States and Baja California, Mexico. The plant was used extensively by Native Americans, They use fiber from the leaves for sandals, cloth, and ropes. The young flowers are edible but may be bitter. The Kumeyaay of San Diego County boil them in water and then pour off the water three times before eating them. The stalk of the plant can be eaten. Fruits can be eaten raw, roasted, or pounded into meal. Seeds were roasted and eaten whole or ground into flour. - for more info about Hesperoyucca whipplei Hesperoyucca whipplei is a flowering plant, native to southern California, United States and Baja California, Mexico. The plant was used extensively by Native Americans, They use fiber from the leaves for sandals, cloth, and ropes. The young flowers are edible but may be bitter. The Kumeyaay of San Diego County boil them in water and then pour off the water three times before eating them. The stalk of the plant can be eaten. Fruits can be eaten raw, roasted, or pounded into meal. Seeds were roasted and eaten whole or ground into flour. - for more info about Hesperoyucca whipplei See link
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Hesperoyucca whipplei common names, economics importance, distributional range and more in the USDA GRIN website - See link
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:01:49 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Hippomane mancinella please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10588%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhippomane-mancinella-information-medicinal-other-plant.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10588/%EF%BB%BFhippomane-mancinella-information-medicinal-other-plant | en | null | Hippomane mancinella information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hippomane mancinella?
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:05:24 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hura ... information about Hura crepitans please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10624%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhura-crepitans-information-about-medicinal-other-uses-plant%3Fshow%3D10625.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10624/%EF%BB%BFhura-crepitans-information-about-medicinal-other-uses-plant?show=10625 | en | null | Hura crepitans information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hura crepitans?
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:09:20 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Hexastylis arifolia please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10572%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhexastylis-arifolia-information-about-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10573.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10572/%EF%BB%BFhexastylis-arifolia-information-about-medicinal-other-plant?show=10573 | en | null | Hexastylis arifolia information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hexastylis arifolia?
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:00:28 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Homalomena occulta please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10600%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhomalomena-occulta-information-about-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10601.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10600/%EF%BB%BFhomalomena-occulta-information-about-medicinal-other-plant?show=10601 | en | null | Homalomena occulta information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Homalomena occulta?
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:06:54 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Herniaria glabra please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10560%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFherniaria-glabra-information-about-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10561.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10560/%EF%BB%BFherniaria-glabra-information-about-medicinal-other-plant?show=10561 | en | null | Herniaria glabra information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Herniaria glabra?
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:10:15 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... about Heteromorpha arborescens please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10564%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFheteromorpha-arborescens-information-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10565.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10564/%EF%BB%BFheteromorpha-arborescens-information-medicinal-other-plant?show=10565 | en | null | Heteromorpha arborescens information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Heteromorpha arborescens?
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[] | 2016-08-26T12:57:31 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Hoslundia opposita please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10608%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFhoslundia-opposita-information-about-medicinal-other-plant.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10608/%EF%BB%BFhoslundia-opposita-information-about-medicinal-other-plant | en | null | Hoslundia opposita information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Hoslundia opposita?
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:08:56 | null | null | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of ... information about Heracleum grande please link to them. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.herald-news.com%2F10546%2F%25EF%25BB%25BFheracleum-grande-information-about-medicinal-other-plant%3Fshow%3D10547.json | http://www.herald-news.com/10546/%EF%BB%BFheracleum-grande-information-about-medicinal-other-plant?show=10547 | en | null | Heracleum grande information about medicinal uses and other uses of the plant | null | null | www.herald-news.com | Does anybody know what are the medicinal uses or any other ethnobotanical uses of Heracleum grande?
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] | 2016-08-26T13:13:03 | null | 2016-08-26T09:00:49 | BASHIR, Iraq — A group of Kurdish men arrive at sunrise, at an undisclosed location in Kirkuk Province, just steps behind the front lines of battle. Explosives are carefully piled in trenches and tied together so they will all blow up at once. An Iraqi official checks in on progress made by the Swiss | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fisis-clearing-mines-amid-rubble-000000343.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/BfnMwpEHfM9of4LDTzb9kQ--/aD05OTU7dz0xNzUwO3NtPTE7YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b24-/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/82d8c661783068d39e2583174f7ee646 | en | null | After ISIS: Clearing mines amid the rubble of war | null | null | www.yahoo.com | BASHIR, Iraq —A group of Kurdish men arrive at sunrise, at an undisclosed location in Kirkuk Province, just steps behind the front lines of battle. They work quickly in the sweltering heat.
Explosives are carefully piled in trenches and tied together so they will all blow up at once.
Then, after a successful detonation, the men bow their heads for a moment of silence, to remember a colleague who died the day before, more than 180 miles away.
But these men aren’t soldiers. They are a demining team made up mostly of Kurdish civilians.
View photos An Iraqi official checks in on progress made by the Swiss Foundation for Mine Action in its efforts to demolish explosives left by ISIS. He walks along the trenches and hills behind the frontline, and a hill fortified by Peshmerga forces to prevent ISIS from getting a view of the demining teams. (Photo: Ash Gallagher for Yahoo News) More
The man they remembered was a British national who had been in Ramadi, a city west of Baghdad, who had been attempting to deactivate an unexploded device when it blew up and killed him.
Demining teams in Iraq work to clear bombs, mines, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and unexploded ordinance (UXOs) left in territory recaptured from the Islamic State.
Their work is personal. Some have lost friends or loved ones to ISIS; others want to do their part to make sure their country is safe again; some just need the work.
There are at least three million internally displaced people in Iraq, according the United Nations Office for Coordination of Human Affairs (UNOCHA). But before people can go home, it is up to mine-clearing specialists to inspect and clear towns and villages of explosives.
In the town of Bashir in Kirkuk, a community of Shia Turkmen was forced to flee when ISIS took over in June 2014. But in May, Bashir was liberated by joint Peshmerga forces and Popular Mobilization forces, which are typically recruited from Shia Muslim communities.
View photos Bashir, Iraq, a town formerly populated by Shia Turkmen, has been ravaged by foreign airstrikes and fighting since ISIS took over two years ago. The town is deserted, and demining teams have not yet been able to sweep through the homes, but are working instead on the surrounding farmland. (Photo: Ash Gallagher for Yahoo News) More
The battles have left the streets like a ghost town. Clouds of dust swell up as military vehicles drive through. And with the exception of a few police keeping watch, no one is home. Many structures in Bashir have been flattened by coalition airstrikes. Bullet holes adorn the walls of homes and businesses.
Despite the heat, an older man and several young teenagers sit out on blankets in front of a building reduced to a pile of rubble. One of the boys, Hussein, told Yahoo News that he came back to try to rebuild his house.
Many Iraqi displaced are desperate to return to their homes, and some will still come back just to see what is left. A team from the Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD) was able to enter Bashir in July. Guarded by Shia Turkmen militia on one side and Kurdish Peshmerga on the other, they have been working to clear the area of explosives.
Demining is a humanitarian mission. The U.S. State Department funds several global demining organizations. In 2015, with congressional approval, it made grants of at least $25 million to groups working in Iraq.
“It’s a fine line between military and civilians,” a State Department representative in Washington, D.C., told Yahoo News. “[On] the humanitarian assistance part, we have a lot of coordination meetings together. We rely on our military colleagues to provide an update.” Before civilians can be sent in to do the work, military operations have to be complete.
View photos Just after dawn on Wednesday, the demining team rigs together the explosives it has collected in the previous week to detonate and destroy them behind the frontlines. The fortified positions are held by Kurdish Peshmerga forces. (Photo: Ash Gallagher for Yahoo News) More | https://www.yahoo.com/news/isis-clearing-mines-amid-rubble-000000343.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/7f1fd7c549d804f0697c1f037a52094284abd59e35f913c4858b98628226b12c.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T16:50:30 | null | 2016-08-29T12:28:35 | Pope Francis has met with Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Zuckerberg's wife, Priscilla Chan, at the Vatican. Vatican spokesman Greg Burke says one topic of discussion at Monday's meeting was ... | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fpope-francis-chats-person-facebook-ceo-zuckerberg-122835578.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Pope Francis chats in person with Facebook CEO Zuckerberg | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Pope Francis meets Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, at the Santa Marta residence, the guest house in Vatican City where the pope lives, Monday, Aug. 29, 2016. Vatican spokesman Greg Burke says a topic of discussion at Monday’s meeting was “how to use communication technologies to alleviate poverty, encourage a culture of encounter, and make a message of hope arrive, especially to those most in need.’’ (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP)
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis has met with Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Zuckerberg's wife, Priscilla Chan, at the Vatican.
Vatican spokesman Greg Burke says one topic of discussion at Monday's meeting was "how to use communication technologies to alleviate poverty, encourage a culture of encounter, and make a message of hope arrive, especially to those most in need."
The atmosphere appeared informal, with the chat taking place in the Santa Marta residence, the guest house in Vatican City where the pope lives.
Zuckerberg wore a dark suit and tie for the occasion while Chan wore a black, knee-length dress. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/pope-francis-chats-person-facebook-ceo-zuckerberg-122835578.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/2d1d3de6f4c1c4fef113a65d48adbc3c2232c5abd957bbde2c9a23cea2525450.json | |
[] | 2016-08-27T14:49:46 | null | 2016-08-27T12:09:32 | Anne Holton first stepped into the spotlight in 1970 as a white student enrolling in a predominantly black middle school in Virginia's capital as part of a push for school integration by her father, the ... | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fkaines-wife-anne-holton-no-stranger-political-stage-063153632--election.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Kaine's wife, Anne Holton, no stranger to political stage | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Democratic vice presidential candidate, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., accompanied by his wife Anne Holton, speaks to students on the Florida A&M University campus in Tallahassee, Fla., Friday, August 26, 2016. (AP Photo/Mark Wallheiser)
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Anne Holton first stepped into the spotlight in 1970 as a white student enrolling in a predominantly black middle school in Virginia's capital as part of a push for school integration by her father, the state's governor at the time.
Decades later she's stepping onto an even bigger stage as she works to get Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Holton's husband, vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine, elected to the White House.
A vivacious Harvard Law graduate, former judge and former state secretary of education, Holton has begun campaigning solo for Clinton. She's expected to stay on the campaign trail, both with her husband and by herself, through Election Day.
Officially, Holton is going to a focus on promoting Clinton's plans for education, foster care reform, and other issues. But her unofficial role appears to be trying to make Clinton more relatable. She often highlights Clinton's role as a new grandmother in campaign appearances, sometimes eliciting "awwws" from friendly audiences.
"I'm not intimidated by politicians. I understand that, at least the good ones, can be pretty normal people," Holton said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. "I really do feel like voters, while they think they know a lot about Hillary, they really don't know as much as they think they know."
Friends and associates say Holton is well qualified for the rigors of a national campaign and, like her husband, is viewed by supporters as down to earth, approachable and someone with a genuine passion for public service.
Kaine and Holton are also known for not taking themselves too seriously. At a recent campaign stop in North Carolina, the Virginia senator played harmonica with a band while his wife showed off some folk dancing moves.
"Anne will be an asset to the team, if they let her be herself," said Tag Greason, a Republican state lawmaker who worked with Holton on education issues. "That authenticity will come through."
Holton's father, A. Linwood Holton Jr., is a moderate Republican who worked to improve race relations when he became, in 1970, the first GOP governor in Virginia in nearly a century. He enrolled his children in predominantly black public schools in Richmond to spur integration in a state whose capital had also been the capital of the Confederacy.
Linwood Holton said his daughter took her attendance at a new middle school in stride.
"Anne could handle anything and made a lot of fun of the way the newspapers were treating it," Holton wrote in his autobiography.
After graduating from Princeton and then Harvard Law school, where she met Kaine, Anne Holton returned to Richmond to work as a legal aid lawyer before becoming a family court judge. She and Kaine raised three children and became fixtures in their North Richmond neighborhood and their racially mixed Catholic church.
Like her husband, Holton enjoys the outdoors. She helped start a cycling club in her neighborhood for women, called Mother Bikers, complete with its own T-shirts.
"This was when our kids were little and it was partly an excuse to get away on Saturday morning," Holton said.
When Holton became Virginia's first lady she moved back to the same Executive Mansion where she had lived as a child. Though she resigned her judgeship, she made clear to her husband's staff she was eager to contribute. "I really want to work!" Holton wrote in a 2006 memo.
Holton devoted herself to reforming the state's foster care system, particularly in helping older children get adopted. Official figures show the number of Virginia children in foster care started dropping steadily after Kaine's first year as governor.
Marilyn Tavenner, who was Kaine's secretary of health and human services and later became head of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said Holton used her perch as first lady "in a very graceful way" — as a strong advocate who did not micromanage.
"She was in the background, constantly being a voice of conscience," Tavenner said.
Holton continued to work on foster care issues after Kaine's four-year term — Virginia's governors cannot have consecutive terms — before becoming secretary of education under Gov. Terry McAuliffe in 2014.
Holton also campaigned with Kaine in his successful 2012 race for the Senate. She visited deep-red Southwest Virginia, home of the state's struggling coal country and where she was born, in Roanoke, in 1958.
Holton said she'd be happy to visit similar communities around the country and hopes to be put to use in key battleground states.
But one thing she won't do, Holton said, is go on the attack. She noted that her father remained friends with William C. Battle, the man he beat in the 1969 gubernatorial race, and gave the eulogy at Battle's funeral many years later.
"That's my dad's training," she said. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/kaines-wife-anne-holton-no-stranger-political-stage-063153632--election.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/ac8bda51bf4d9237e2c8be595e4b7d1d72862ebd253a65afe5d0df4ca54509a4.json | |
[
"Pat Forde",
"Yahoo Sports College Football",
"Basketball Columnist"
] | 2016-08-26T13:10:08 | null | 2016-08-25T12:42:29 | Laremy Tunsil appeared to twice ask an Ole Miss staffer for money on his social media accounts. The NCAA’s protracted investigation of Mississippi has taken a new twist within the last month – investigators have interviewed players at two or more rival Southeastern Conference schools about their recruitment | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsources-ncaas-ole-miss-investigation-expands-beyond-laremy-tunsil-124229650.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QoEsqdaxb4c4ps_rcTnHig--/aD0xMzY1O3c9MjA0ODtzbT0xO2FwcGlkPXl0YWNoeW9u/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/05188901b164277865591e655b70eda5 | en | null | Sources: NCAA's Ole Miss investigation expands beyond Laremy Tunsil | null | null | www.yahoo.com | The NCAA’s protracted investigation of Mississippi has taken a new twist within the last month – investigators have interviewed players at two or more rival Southeastern Conference schools about their recruitment by the Rebels, multiple sources told Yahoo Sports.
NCAA Enforcement representatives have visited Auburn and Mississippi State, and perhaps at least one more SEC Western Division school, this summer to speak with players who were recruited by Ole Miss. The players were granted immunity from potential NCAA sanctions in exchange for truthful accounts of their recruitment, sources said.
Those interviews indicate that the NCAA investigation has expanded beyond the spring focus on former All-American offensive tackle Laremy Tunsil.
OIe Miss officials declined comment other than to say the school is continuing to cooperate with the NCAA during the investigation. The NCAA, citing longstanding policy, declined comment as well.
Mississippi has been under investigation for years, and in late January was charged with 28 violations in three sports – 13 of them in football, with the rest coming in women’s basketball and track and field. Nine of those alleged violations occurred during the tenure of current coach Hugh Freeze, who has a 34-18 record in four seasons in Oxford.
View photos Hugh Freeze is 34-18 in four seasons as the Rebels’ coach. (Getty) More
The investigation was near an end when a new issue erupted in April on the first night of the NFL draft: star offensive tackle Tunsil’s social media accounts were hacked, releasing an alleged text exchange between Tunsil and Ole Miss director of football operations John Miller. In the texts, Tunsil on two separate occasions asks Miller for money – once ostensibly for his rent, and once for his mother’s $305 utility bill. In one of the exchanges, Miller directs Tunsil to assistant athletics director for high school and junior college relations Barney Farrar.
ESPN reported in May that the text messages are real, citing sources, but that the school is investigating whether the messages were altered in any way.
Tunsil already was named in many of the major violations alleged in the January Notice of Allegations, relating to his use of numerous loaner vehicles and impermissible benefits received by his stepfather, Lindsey Miller. In its response to that notice, the university is not disputing the veracity of those NCAA allegations but has questioned the severity of the charges.
This latest development in the ongoing investigation could be a distraction for the Ole Miss coaching staff, which is preparing the No. 11-ranked Rebels for a Labor Day night season opener against No. 4 Florida State in Orlando. With an amended Notice of Allegations still to come from the NCAA, the process is far from over and is unlikely to be completed through the Committee on Infractions ruling until sometime in 2017.
More college football coverage from Yahoo Sports: | https://www.yahoo.com/news/sources-ncaas-ole-miss-investigation-expands-beyond-laremy-tunsil-124229650.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/e745bfb98ebf360332276323293aea021d952fdb200389519af7b8df07220a7d.json |
[
"Caitlin Dickson",
"Breaking News Reporter"
] | 2016-08-26T20:49:41 | null | 2016-08-26T17:18:40 | Tim Kaine struck all the right notes with “Late Show” viewers Thursday night, showing off his mean harmonica skills in a bluesy jam session with “Late Show” house band Jon Batiste and Stay Human. It wasn’t the first time Kaine has broken out the old mouth harp since he hit the campaign trail as Hillary | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Ftim-kaine-channels-bill-clinton-000000678.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Fq6vD9X7XOYXbikXWfpmGw--/aD00OTU7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/c3a0b7681a749ae5849e4b9e0fe74ceb | en | null | Tim Kaine channels Bill Clinton with ‘Late Show’ harmonica performance | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Then-Gov. Tim Kaine plays the harmonica for a packed house at the Floyd Country Store in Floyd, Va. (Photo: Douglas Graham/CQ Roll Call)
Tim Kaine struck all the right notes with “Late Show” viewers Thursday night, showing off his mean harmonica skills in a bluesy jam session with “Late Show” house band Jon Batiste and Stay Human.
It wasn’t the first time Kaine has broken out the old mouth harp since he hit the campaign trail as Hillary Clinton’s running mate this summer. During a visit to North Carolina earlier this month, Kaine jumped onto the stage at an Asheville brewery and played along with a local bluegrass band to classics by Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.
The Virginia senator, whose debut at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia earned him a reputation as America’s dorky dad, has a propensity for flexing his cultural dexterity, often finding opportunities to show off his Spanish-speaking abilities or reference the time he spent volunteering in Honduras in 1980.
But Thursday night’s harmonica performance had a particularly Clintonian quality to it, calling to mind Bill Clinton’s now-famous 1992 appearance on “The Arsenio Hall Show,” during which the then-presidential candidate donned a pair of sunglasses and surprised the audience with a soulful saxophone rendition of “Heartbreak Hotel.”
Though former President Clinton is now known for his popularity among African-American voters, at the time, this seemingly lighthearted act was considered a pivotal campaign moment for the man acclaimed author Toni Morrison would later deem America’s “first black president.”
Hours before Kaine channeled Hillary Clinton’s husband on the “Late Show,” the current Democratic presidential nominee had accused Republican rival Donald Trump of promoting a “steady stream of bigotry” and “racially tinged” conspiracy theories during a speech in Reno, Nev.
The video above of Kaine rocking out onstage with Dave Matthews Band violinist Boyd Tinsley back in 2009 is just one example of the vice presidential hopeful’s long history of impromptu harmonica performances that will likely continue through the 2016 campaign. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/tim-kaine-channels-bill-clinton-000000678.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/2bf3f31bac29b5d0ce622003e401c599f24ca0260832f6e9f58fb999495b656a.json |
[
"Michael Walsh"
] | 2016-08-28T18:50:06 | null | 2016-08-28T16:35:47 | Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said that if you want to know the specifics of Donald Trump’s immigration policy, you’ll have to ask the real estate magnate himself. The GOP leader declined to spell out what his party’s presidential nominee planned to do about the estimated 11 | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Frnc-chair-reince-priebus-don-000000962.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eJFJW3GPOFF8flOPvz6Ksw--/aD01NDE7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/9aace39b9f278c78288a4c4a59e81864 | en | null | ‘I don’t speak for Donald Trump,’ says RNC Chair Reince Priebus | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said that if you want to know the specifics of Donald Trump’s immigration policy, you’ll have to ask the real estate magnate himself.
The GOP leader declined to spell out what his party’s presidential nominee planned to do about the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday.
This distancing comes after a week of Trump softening his anti-illegal-immigration stance, which had included calls for a deportation force to kick out every undocumented immigrant. The reality TV star now says that he will immediately deport violent criminals and put the rest through a fair but humane process.
On the morning news show, Chuck Todd asked Priebus what Trump’s position is specifically on undocumented immigrants.
“Well, you’re going to find out from Donald Trump very shortly,” Priebus said. “He’s going to be giving prepared remarks on this issue, I think, very soon. I don’t want to give a date.”
Todd replied, “We don’t know? I mean, it is sort of remarkable that we don’t know.”
“I don’t speak for Donald Trump. That’s what I do know,” Priebus said. Then he broke down what his party’s standard-bearer has promised to do about the U.S.-Mexico border and deporting violent criminals but declined to elaborate on the presidential candidate’s plans for nonviolent undocumented immigrants.
“Here is what I know: His position will be tough. His position will be fair, but his position is going to be humane,” he said. “He’s going to build and complete the border wall that was set in place in 2006 by Congress. It’s going to be paid for. I believe that he is going to — when he talks about deportation– he’s going to go after people here who are criminals and shouldn’t be here.”
Priebus conceded that Trump had simplified his immigration policy during the primaries but is now reflecting on it. Regardless, he said, Trump would be tougher on illegal immigration than any presidential candidate the U.S. has ever had and will be a “law and order president.”
Todd asked what Priebus thinks of political analysts who argue that Trump has backed down from his radical policy to something that’s more or less former presidential candidate Jeb Bush’s policy.
“No, I really don’t [think this is Bush’s policy], because I think that you’re not going to see an easy path to legalization. You’re not going to see that in a Donald Trump plan,” Priebus said. “That’s off the table. There is no method by which someone is here illegally that is going to become a citizen and jump the line as [Democratic presidential nominee] Hillary Clinton wants to do.”
Just as New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday, Priebus said people should focus on the real issue: the difference between the immigration policies of Clinton and Trump.
“She wants to put [President] Barack Obama’s immigration plan on steroids. She wants millions of people who are here illegally to cut the line,” Priebus said.
Todd pointed out that Donald Trump’s official campaign website still says he will end birthright citizenship and asked Priebus if that should be the Republican Party’s stance on this issue.
“I believe in the interpretation of the Supreme Court on the issue,” he replied. “I’m comfortable with [birthright citizenship]. I’m comfortable with it. I’m comfortable with it, with the Supreme Court rulings on the issue.”
Priebus added that a Republican presidential nominee is not obligated to toe the party line on every issue. He speaks with Trump every day and knows what he thinks about a lot of these issues, he said.
“This is a good and decent man that wants to do the right thing,” Priebus said. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/rnc-chair-reince-priebus-don-000000962.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/ef01e680ed744990f1bc8c309e80b8a106443e8e501f05473c09464eeeb09ea6.json |
[
"Jason Sickles",
"National Reporter"
] | 2016-08-30T18:50:43 | null | 2016-08-30T17:19:27 | Chessy Prout, a former student at the prestigious St. Paul’s School in Concord, N.H., told NBC’s “Today” that she’s coming forward to embolden all victims of sexual assault. Former St. Paul’s School student Owen Labrie testifies at his trial in 2015. Owen Labrie, now 20, was accused of raping Prout | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fst-paul-school-sexual-assault-000000514.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kXBd0Ai5taiHQo0s3EDRBg--/aD00MjU7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/b9cee2866c9add4953a7b73beb867664 | en | null | Chessy Prout, St. Paul’s School sexual assault survivor, speaks out about case and attacker Owen Labrie | null | null | www.yahoo.com | The teenage victim in a high-profile prep school rape case revealed her identity on national TV Tuesday morning, saying she’s “not afraid or ashamed anymore.”
Chessy Prout, a former student at the prestigious St. Paul’s School in Concord, N.H., told NBC’s “Today” that she’s coming forward to embolden all victims of sexual assault.
“I want other people to feel empowered and just strong enough to be able to say, ‘I have the right to my body. I have the right to say no,’” said Prout, whose name was previously withheld because of the nature of the crime. “I just can’t imagine how scary it is for other people to have to do this alone, and I don’t want anybody else to be alone anymore.”
View photos Former St. Paul’s School student Owen Labrie testifies at his trial in 2015. He is currently out on bail while appealing the verdict in the sexual assault case against him. (Photo: AP/Charles Krupa) More
Owen Labrie, now 20, was accused of raping Prout at the historic co-ed school in May 2014. His arrest and conviction exposed a tradition at the $55,290-a-year boarding school called “senior salute,” in which some graduating boys allegedly kept score of how many younger students they had sex with.
The trial, which took place a year ago, was the focus of national media attention.
Labrie was acquitted of three felony charges and misdemeanor assault but convicted on three counts of misdemeanor sexual assault and misdemeanor endangering the welfare of a child. Jurors also found him guilty of using a computer to “seduce, solicit, lure or entice a child under the age of 16,” a felony.
“They said that they didn’t believe that he did it knowingly, and that frustrated me a lot because he definitely did do it knowingly,” Prout said Tuesday. “And the fact that he was still able to pull the wool over a group of people’s eyes bothered me a lot and just disgusted me in some way.”
View photos The entrance to the elite St. Paul’s School in Concord, N.H., where Owen Labrie assaulted Chessy Prout in May 2014. (Photo: AP/Jim Cole) More
On the stand, Labrie described their activity, which he said was consensual, but he denied having sex with Prout.
“It wouldn’t have been a good move to have sex with this girl,” he recalled thinking at the time when he said he and the girl were kissing in a school tower.
A judge sentenced Labrie to a year in jail, but he is currently out on bail while appealing the verdict.
Prout now volunteers with the advocacy group PAVE (Promoting Awareness/Victim Empowerment). On Tuesday, the nonprofit organization launched a social media campaign tied to the St. Paul’s case, which they said prompted an important conversation about sexual assault and bullying in high school.
“I hope he learns,” Prout told “Today.” “I hope he gets help. And that’s all I can ever hope for in any sort of process like this. Because if he doesn’t learn, he will do it to another young woman.” | https://www.yahoo.com/news/st-paul-school-sexual-assault-000000514.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/212975312d1ea6894efc376f3b2b27c2b135c4fdd83cc2c777687dd3c5aad210.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:49 | null | 2016-08-24T14:48:57 | Black Republicans cheer Donald Trump for a newfound outreach to African-Americans, but say the GOP presidential nominee must take his message beyond arenas filled with white supporters and venture into the inner cities. Many rank-and-file black voters, meanwhile, dismiss the overtures as another racially | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fblacks-trump-outreach-delivered-white-audiences-071335385--election.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/acu1cNX_wPvqP.tGxbVUBw--/aD05NjA7dz0xMjgwO3NtPTE7YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b24-/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/1124c41b7884a0e6bc5b90991f8c66c4 | en | null | As Trump tries minority outreach, many blacks unconvinced | null | null | www.yahoo.com | AKRON, Ohio (AP) — Black Republicans cheer Donald Trump for a newfound outreach to African-Americans, but say the GOP presidential nominee must take his message beyond arenas filled with white supporters and venture into the inner cities.
Many rank-and-file black voters, meanwhile, dismiss the overtures as another racially charged pitch from a campaign aimed exclusively at whites, from Trump’s emphasis on “law and order” to his withering critiques of President Barack Obama, the nation’s first black chief executive. It was Trump in 2011 who fiercely challenged Obama’s U.S. birth.
“Any minority who would vote for him is crazy, ought to have their head examined,” said Ike Jenkins, an 81-year-old retired business owner in the predominantly black suburb of East Cleveland.
Foluke Bennett, a 43-year-old from Philadelphia, went further, labeling the GOP standard-bearer’s remarks as “racist,” pointing, among other things, to his referencing African-Americans as “the blacks.”
Trump is scheduled to appear Wednesday in Jackson, Mississippi, an 80 percent African-American city and capital of the state with the nation’s highest proportion of black residents. It is unclear whether he will address black voters directly; so far, his appeal to them has been delivered before white audiences in mostly white cities.
Mississippi is overwhelmingly Republican because of whites’ loyalties, as opposed to battlegrounds such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida, states Obama won twice and where the largest cities offer at least a theoretical chance for Trump to pursue marginal shifts among significant black populations.
Trump has previously rejected high-profile speaking slots at the NAACP’s annual gathering, along with events sponsored by the Urban League and the National Association of Black Journalists.
“He’s got to take his arguments to the streets,” said Brandon Berg, a black pastor who drove Monday from Youngstown, Ohio, to hear Trump at the University of Akron. Berg said he’s an outlier: an undecided black Republican. For most African-Americans, Berg said, Trump must “meet them where they are.”
Trump has scheduled an event Thursday billed as a roundtable with black and Latino leaders invited to his New York offices, and his aides say he is considering more rallies in heavily minority cities in swing states. The Washington Post first reported those plans, specifically mentioning charter schools, small businesses and churches in black and Latino communities.
It’s a well-known electoral conundrum for Trump and Republicans: The United States population grows less white with each election cycle, so to defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton, the New York billionaire must attract more non-white voters or run up an advantage with white voters to a level no candidate has reached since Ronald Reagan’s 1984 landslide.
Obama won 93 percent of black voters in 2012 and 95 percent in 2008, according to exit polls. This year, polls suggest Trump could fare even worse than the Republicans who lost to Obama.
Trump has confronted his steep path in the last week, asking minorities, “Give Trump a chance!”
In Wisconsin, he declared to minorities: “You live in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed? What the hell do you have to lose?” He argues illegal immigration disproportionately affects economic opportunities of blacks and Hispanics.
In Ohio, he insisted without evidence that foreign “war zones” are “safer than living in some of our inner cities.” He pledged a Trump administration would “get rid of the crime,” allowing minorities to “walk down the street without getting shot.”
Calvin Tucker, the lone black GOP convention delegate from Pennsylvania, says Trump’s arguments resonate with him. “We need a change agent,” said Tucker, 64, of Philadelphia. “He’s breaking down his overall economic platform and relating it to African-Americans,” Tucker added, extolling the GOP’s emphasis on entrepreneurial pursuits.
Certainly, each Trump pronouncement drew roaring approval from his rally audiences. Many black voters, however, hear the appeal differently.
As he sold Cleveland Cavaliers NBA championship swag, street vendor Steve T, 47, said the “disrespectful” comments represent “the real Trump.”
“Not all of us live in poverty, crime,” he said. “You can’t get votes from people you don’t even understand.” | https://www.yahoo.com/news/blacks-trump-outreach-delivered-white-audiences-071335385--election.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/3f5dc6ae5e21ceffafc9f20b2e551f275b0b9ca109b933da9865d435bd485206.json |
[
"Lisa Belkin",
"Chief National Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-31T00:50:44 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | “Most of Donald’s supporters don’t even support him,” Green Party candidate Jill Stein says. “Most are motivated by dislike of Hillary Clinton." | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fjill-stein-debate-trump-voters-000000240.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Green Party’s Jill Stein makes pitch to both Trump and Clinton voters | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Though she’s often described as potentially sapping votes from Hillary Clinton, Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein instead appeared to be wooing Donald Trump voters during a Tuesday interview.
“Most of Donald’s supporters don’t even support him,” she told Yahoo News Guest Anchor Stephanie Sy. “Most are motivated by dislike of Hillary Clinton. Let’s let them know they have another choice.”
Stein conceded that it would be tough to get that message out unless she qualifies for the nationally scheduled debates, and that the 5 percent of the vote she currently garners in polls, while her highest yet, is far short of the 15 percent required for a place on the stage. That requirement, she said, is undemocratic. “There are four candidates” who will be on the ballot in nearly every state, she said. “American people are begging for other choices. Let’s insure that we have a real debate here, then let the chips fall as they may.”
She went on to describe her platform, which she calls the Green New Deal, which aims to create 20 million new jobs — all in the green energy sector — with an infusion of $500 billion into the economy. When Sy vigorously questioned the economics of such a plan, Stein stressed that the cost would be less than the $800 billion spent to bail out the nation’s banks in 2008.
Stein, a medical doctor, said she is “now practicing political medicine” because the failure of the political system is “the mother of all illnesses. If we want to fix these things … poverty, racism, climate change, these expanding wars … we need to fix this sick political system.”
She also discussed such topics as campaign finance reform, the erasure of all student loan debt and the current safety of drugs, particularly for vaccines. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/jill-stein-debate-trump-voters-000000240.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/05e855b01c258045987df75839e89d6cc0b20f3f7fbe5f92d075fad4ec6661a4.json | |
[
"Liz Goodwin",
"Senior National Affairs Reporter"
] | 2016-08-31T00:50:45 | null | 2016-08-30T22:28:04 | In a Wednesday night immigration policy speech in Arizona, Trump could clear up some confusion on his immigration stance, but the Clinton campaign is not expecting Trump to significantly alter his stance on wanting to deport all undocumented immigrants. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fclinton-camp-doesnt-expect-softer-000000321.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/mREMuumqYr80sir3yXfhOw--/aD00MDY7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/91b6475ef3a3347f19b8f2dabbc42f20 | en | null | Clinton camp expects Trump to repackage old policies in big immigration speech | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Donald Trump has taken the political world on a rollercoaster ride over the past two weeks on his signature issue of immigration, suggesting last Tuesday he may be “softening” his deport-them-all stance. He then backtracked on that stance only two days later, saying many would consider his position “hardening.”
In a Wednesday night immigration policy speech in Arizona, Trump could clear up some of this confusion. His remarks are being written by staffer Stephen Miller, a former aide to immigration hardliner Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., according to a Trump adviser.
The Hillary Clinton campaign is not expecting Trump to significantly alter his stance on wanting to deport all undocumented immigrants and is prepared to remind voters of his previous statements if he does. As soon as the speech is over, the Democratic nominee’s team is prepared to deploy numerous surrogates — many on Spanish-language TV and radio — to argue that Trump cannot be trusted and is not “pivoting” on the immigration issue.
A Clinton campaign aide said the fact that Miller is writing the speech, instead of Kellyanne Conway, for example, suggested that Trump would not give much ground on the issue. Conway, Trump’s newly minted campaign manager, has hedged in recent TV interviews on whether Trump still embraces some of his most hard-line proposals. Meanwhile, Miller worked closely with Sessions to block a 2013 comprehensive immigration-reform bill in the Senate. Miller also wrote Trump’s convention speech, in which the GOP nominee darkly warned of a crime-filled America.
Immigration hard-liners agree with the Clinton team’s expectations for Trump’s speech. “Having Stephen Miller working on this immigration speech gives people like us assurance that there’s going to be things in it that we’re going to like,” said Eric Ruark, the director of research for NumbersUSA, a group that advocates for lower legal and illegal immigration levels.
Frank Sharry, the executive director of the pro-immigration reform group America’s Voice, said he believes Trump is likely to stop calling for a “deportation force” or “mass deportations,” since those phrases are unpopular with Republicans and Democrats alike.
But Sharry said he does not think Trump will alter his core position that all of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country should leave. Trump hasn’t called for a deportation force since early in the Republican primary, instead saying he would like to end so-called sanctuary cities, rescind President Obama’s executive order shielding young undocumented immigrants from deportation, and enforce immigration checks in the workforce.
“I have somewhere between a cynical and a skeptical perspective on this,” Sharry said. “At most, it’s going to be a slight rhetorical shift without a meaningful policy pivot.”
Trump’s language has certainly changed. In a town hall meeting with Fox News’ Sean Hannity last week, Trump said he might be open to “softening” his stance on undocumented immigrants and having the government “work” with them, and he asked the spectators what they thought should be done. Facing fire from conservatives like Ann Coulter, Trump later told CNN there is a “good chance” he would stick to his original plan to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants, after first focusing on immigrants who have committed crimes. Meanwhile, his spokeswoman, Katrina Pierson, said he’s just “changed the words” he’s saying, not the policy.
Clinton’s surrogates plan to make that case after Trump’s speech, whether or not he changes his tone. On a Tuesday call with reporters, Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., said “no matter what Trump happened to say, into the future, no matter how he plays with his words or who he tries to surround himself with, his one consistent proposal throughout this campaign has been his promise to forcibly remove” immigrants. “That’s always been his agenda,” Becerra said.
Holly Bailey contributed to this report. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/clinton-camp-doesnt-expect-softer-000000321.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/fc7ceffa732c19acc1d6c6116f1ff3d5fdde13a00da1f37dee967f675845235b.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T08:49:45 | null | 2016-08-27T08:08:55 | A man suspected in the slayings of two Mississippi nuns who were found dead inside a residence within the community they served has been arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder, Mississippi ... | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fman-faces-2-capital-murder-charges-mississippi-nun-055414010.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/VmsVyH7clv59oLdqBe_IXA--/aD0xMDgwO3c9MTkyMDtzbT0xO2FwcGlkPXl0YWNoeW9u/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/video/video.associatedpressfree.com/b8874dfe3d229da38bbff022ef3cd436 | en | null | Man faces 2 capital murder charges in Mississippi nun deaths | null | null | www.yahoo.com | LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) -- A man suspected in the slayings of two Mississippi nuns who were found dead inside a residence within the community they served has been arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder, Mississippi authorities said.
Rodney Earl Sanders, 46, of Kosciusko, Mississippi, was charged in the deaths of Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill, both 68, Mississippi Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain said in a statement released late Friday night.
The bodies of both women were discovered Thursday after they failed to show up for work at a clinic in Lexington, Mississippi, about 10 miles from where they lived.
"Sanders was developed as a person of interest early on in the investigation," Lt. Colonel Jimmy Jordan said in the statement.
Authorities said Sanders was being held in an undisclosed detention center pending a court appearance.
Meanwhile, in the poverty-stricken Mississippi county where the two nuns were slain, forgiveness for their killer is hard to find, even if forgiveness is what the victims would have wanted.
Sisters Margaret Held and Paula Merrill were nurse practitioners who dedicated their lives to providing health care to people in the poorest county in the state. And as authorities sought the killer, many residents wondered how they will fill the hole the women's deaths have left.
"Right now, I don't see no forgiveness on my heart," said Joe Morgan Jr., a 58-year-old former factory worker who has diabetes and was a patient of Merrill's at the clinic where the two nuns worked.
He said Merrill would want him to forgive whoever killed the women, but he hopes the perpetrator is arrested, convicted and executed.
"She doesn't deserve to die like this, doing God's work," Morgan said, shaking his head. "There's something wrong with the world."
Both women worked Man, 46, faces 2 at the clinic, where they gave flu shots, dispensed insulin and provided other medical care for children and adults who couldn't afford it.
Their stolen car was found abandoned a mile from their home, and there were signs of a break-in, but police haven't disclosed a motive.
Authorities have not said how the women were killed, but the Rev. Greg Plata of St. Thomas Catholic Church in Lexington, where the nuns had led Bible study for years, said police told him they were stabbed.
The state posted a reward of $20,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction.
Plata said both nuns' religious communities have asked that people pray for the killer or killers. Asked about people's struggles to forgive, the priest said: "Forgiveness is at the heart of being a Christian. Look at Jesus on the cross: 'Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.'"
On Friday, a handwritten sign on the front door of Lexington Medical Clinic said it was closed until Monday.
The clinic and the nuns' home in Durant are in Holmes County, population 18,000. With 44 percent of its residents living in poverty, Holmes is the seventh-poorest county in America, according to the Census Bureau.
The slayings did more than shock people and plunge the county into mourning. They leave a gaping hole in what was already a strapped health care system.
Dr. Elias Abboud, who worked with the sisters for years and helped build the clinic, said it provided about 25 percent of all medical care in the county.
The two nuns cultivated relationships with drug company representatives, who often left extra free samples, according to clinic manager Lisa Dew.
"This is a poor area, and they dignified those who are poor with outreach and respect for them," Plata said. "They treated each person as a child of God."
Merrill's sister Rosemarie, speaking by telephone from her Stoneham, Massachusetts, home, said her sister had been in Mississippi helping the poor since 1981 and had previously worked in Holly Springs, where she used to ride around on a moped and was instrumental in locating the source of a tuberculosis outbreak.
Merrill was raised in the suburbs of Boston and came from a working-class family, her father a laborer and her mother a bookkeeper, her nephew David said. He said his aunt had worked with Held for many years.
"We always considered Margaret just part of the family," he said. "The word 'sister' has many meanings, and they fulfilled all of them." | https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-faces-2-capital-murder-charges-mississippi-nun-055414010.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/12244c311322e8d93eec1e7c6541b2e37075087bc4bd696faba1e8ea3c4b50be.json |
[
"Liz Goodwin",
"Senior National Affairs Reporter"
] | 2016-08-26T13:12:11 | null | 2016-08-25T20:23:20 | Hillary Clinton on Thursday laid out a comprehensive critique of Donald Trump’s worldview as full of “racially tinged” conspiracy theories outside of mainstream Republicanism. The speech is part of a sustained effort by the Clinton campaign to delegitimize Trump as unfit for the presidency in the eyes | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fhillary-clinton-says-trump-campaign-000000679.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/xpgBZVcXTmEqYYTgNoFA1A--/aD00NjY7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/dfb3deb86adad05a0e1992f9f2535951 | en | null | ‘Steady stream of bigotry’: Clinton rips Trump in speech linking him to ‘alt-right’ | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Hillary Clinton on Thursday laid out a comprehensive critique of Donald Trump’s worldview as full of “racially tinged” conspiracy theories outside of mainstream Republicanism. The speech is part of a sustained effort by the Clinton campaign to delegitimize Trump as unfit for the presidency in the eyes of mainstream voters.
Clinton’s speech in Reno, Nev., came about a week after Trump shook up his campaign team and started making direct pitches to black and Latino voters.
The Democratic nominee told her supporters that Trump has peddled “a constant stream of bigotry” during his campaign. She said Trump is not a mainstream conservative, but rather part of a “fringe element” called the “alt-right.”
“He has continued pushing discredited conspiracy theories with racist undertones,” Clinton said, mentioning Trump’s innuendos about her health, his insistence that President Obama was not born in the United States, and his association with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Among other things, Jones has said the Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.
Clinton warned voters not to give Trump “the benefit of the doubt,” detailing, one by one, the provocative comments he has made since he began running for president — from questioning the fitness of a federal judge due to his Mexican ancestry to retweeting the views of a white supremacist.
“Trump took this fringe bigot with a few dozen followers and spread his message to 11 million people,” she said.
Trump began directly appealing to African-American voters last week, and recently said he is open to shifting his stance on deporting all undocumented immigrants in the country. Trump has asked minority voters what they have to lose in voting for him, arguing that Democrats have not improved their economic standing or crime in their neighborhoods. (Clinton called Trump’s outreach comments “insulting and ignorant.”) The real estate tycoon, who is trailing Clinton in most polls of battleground states, brought on Breitbart News chair Stephen Bannon and pollster Kellyanne Conway to run his ailing campaign two weeks ago.
Clinton warned voters not to be fooled by the change in personnel. “He may have some new people putting new words in his mouth, but we know where he stands,” Clinton said.
She also directly attacked Bannon, Trump’s new campaign chair, by reading headlines out loud from Breitbart. Clinton’s quotes created a fairly surreal moment in this unusual campaign.
“To give you a flavor of his work, here are a few headlines they’ve published,” Clinton said, adding she wasn’t making them up. “Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy. Would You Rather Your Child Had Feminism or Cancer? Gabby Giffords: The Gun Control Movement’s Human Shield. Hoist It High and Proud: The Confederate Flag Proclaims a Glorious Heritage.”
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Clinton contrasted Trump’s rhetoric with that of Republicans in the past, saying that Trump’s brand of conservatism is part of a “rising tide of hardline, right-wing nationalism” that does not represent the mainstream GOP.
“Twenty years ago, when Bob Dole accepted the Republican nomination, he pointed to the exits and told any racists in the party to get out,” she said, also mentioning George W. Bush’s embrace of Muslim Americans and Sen. John McCain’s defense of Obama from birther conspiracy theories.
She then made an appeal to Republicans who are alienated by Trump to back her instead.
“Every day, more Americans are standing up and saying ‘Enough is enough,’ including a lot of Republicans,” Clinton said. “I’m honored to have their support.”
Before Clinton began speaking, Trump told a crowd in Manchester, N.H., that her attempt to tie him to extreme elements in the party is “one of the most brazen attempts at distraction in the history of politics.”
Repeatedly accusing Clinton of desperation, the celebrity businessman strongly denied he was a racist, casting it not just a smear against his campaign but the “decent Americans” supporting his unlikely bid for the presidency. He called it the “oldest play in the Democratic playbook.” | https://www.yahoo.com/news/hillary-clinton-says-trump-campaign-000000679.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/f316bab5faa955f44e61a8ec9558cb1652632dcb07ce4804e7719a351ccdafd1.json |
[
"Dylan Stableford",
"Senior Editor"
] | 2016-08-26T13:14:13 | null | 2016-08-23T00:00:00 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says Donald Trump’s pitch to African-American voters won’t resonate in the black community unless the Republican nominee actually visits one. “If he’s going to change hearts and minds in African-American communities, he needs to go there and talk to African-Americans,” Abdul-Jabbar | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fkareem-abdul-jabbar-000000159.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Trump has no credibility with black voters | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says Donald Trump’s pitch to African-American voters won’t resonate in the black community unless the Republican nominee actually visits one.
“If he’s going to change hearts and minds in African-American communities, he needs to go there and talk to African-Americans,” Abdul-Jabbar told Yahoo News on Tuesday. “He hasn’t done that.”
Last week, Trump argued that Democrats have taken black voters for granted and that those voters should vote for him.
“You’re living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs,” Trump said Friday at a rally in Dimondale, Mich., a predominantly white suburb. “What the hell do you have to lose?”
In a speech in Charlotte, N.C., the night before, the real estate mogul appealed to African-Americans to “give Donald Trump a chance.”
“The result for them will be amazing,” he said. “What do you have to lose by trying something new?”
Like other critics, Abdul-Jabbar noted to Yahoo News that Trump’s speeches were in heavily white cities.
“Those speeches were delivered in front of a basically all-white audience,” Abdul-Jabbar said. “I don’t know what he was trying to do with that.”
The 69-year-old NBA legend and author said the only 2016 Republican candidate he saw make an effort to talk directly to the black community about solutions to systemic problems like poverty and racism was Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul.
“He’s the only one who had any credibility as far as I was concerned,” Abdul-Jabbar said of Paul. “They don’t come to the black community to talk about the solutions because they don’t have any.”
Abdul-Jabbar, a Hillary Clinton supporter who spoke at last month’s Democratic National Convention, said that a lot of progress has been made on race relations under President Barack Obama.
“But there’s also been a retrenchment by some people who have a nostalgia for the time when all our faces in our government were white,” he said. “That fear of change has caused some of them to move things backwards. I think that’s what Mr. Trump is talking about when he says, ‘Let’s make America great again.’ I think he wants it to look like it did in the ’40s and ’50s.”
The former Los Angeles Lakers center has long been a vocal critic of Trump.
In September, Abdul-Jabbar — whose new book, “Writings on the Wall: Searching for a New Equality Beyond Black and White,” was published Tuesday — penned an op-ed for the Washington Post critical of Trump’s attacks on reporters.
In response, he received a handwritten note from the GOP presidential hopeful.
The handwritten note Donald Trump sent to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. (Image courtesy the recipient) More
“Now I know why the press always treated you so badly,” Trump wrote. “They couldn’t stand you. The fact is that you don’t have a clue about life and what has to be done to make America great again! Best wishes.”
“I basically crumpled it up,” Abdul-Jabbar recalled Tuesday. “This is what you would expect from somebody with that type of ego and someone who is so narcissistic and feels so self-important.”
He added: “If I’m that thin-skinned, I can’t write. So I keep writing.” | https://www.yahoo.com/news/kareem-abdul-jabbar-000000159.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-23T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/c7a1bb90f8843d2922720ef4e23c8954d50b064f95be8b8d8cb115c832a1be05.json | |
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"Yahoo News Now"
] | 2016-08-29T22:50:32 | null | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | Despite currently polling below the 15 percent threshold, Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson is “really optimistic” about his chances of making the general election presidential debates. Since 2000, the Commission on Presidential Debates has required a candidate to reach at least 15 percent | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fgary-johnson-better-50-percent-000000917.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Gary Johnson: I have better than '50 percent chance' at making a debate | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Despite currently polling below the 15 percent threshold, Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson is “really optimistic” about his chances of making the general election presidential debates.
“We really think we’re going to make it happen, I think there’s better than a 50 percent chance that it will happen,” said Johnson in an interview Monday with Yahoo News. “Right now we’re reaching over 30 million people on social media, of course at the fringes that just means they’re hearing the name for the first time, really optimistic this is going to happen.”
Since 2000, the Commission on Presidential Debates has required a candidate to reach at least 15 percent in an average of five national polls in order to qualify for the autumn’s general election debates. Recent four-way polling (featuring Johnson, along with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and Green Party candidate Jill Stein) has him in the high single digits, with some state polling placing him right at the necessary number.
Johnson said he could still make the later debates if he misses the first bout, which takes place on Sept. 26.
“They keep the polling going on even though you wouldn’t make the first debate,” said Johnson. “It’s conceivable you could make 15 percent for the second or third, so that remains a possibility.”
He added: “If you’re not in the presidential debate, there’s no way you’re going to win the presidency, given that the first presidential debate is estimated to garner more viewership than the Super Bowl.”
Johnson, a two-term former governor of New Mexico, cited social media as critical in getting his message out.
“We addressed a group the other night in Vermont, there were over 400 people at the event but within two hours after the event over 300,000 had viewed it on Facebook Live.”
In the wide-ranging interview with Yahoo News, Johnson — who was also the Libertarian candidate in the 2012 presidential election — shared his views on the Clinton Foundation, Trump’s immigration plan, the necessity of the EPA, his plans for North Korea and Syria, his support among the military and the Black Lives Matter movement. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/gary-johnson-better-50-percent-000000917.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/c00361c28145ba5e1271963d3a7ba0baaee6bc4632ec8e75cf0c2c7e2ceba2c1.json | |
[] | 2016-08-30T20:50:46 | null | 2016-08-30T20:18:32 | By Angus McDowall and Yara Bayoumy BEIRUT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Islamic State group announced on Tuesday that one of its longest-serving and most prominent leaders, responsible for attacks overseas, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, had been killed in Aleppo province in Syria. Adnani had been one of the | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fislamic-state-says-spokesman-killed-syria-amaq-news-181847491.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Islamic State leader in charge of foreign attacks killed in Syria | null | null | www.yahoo.com | An Islamic State flag is seen in this picture illustration taken February 18, 2016. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
By Angus McDowall and Yara Bayoumy
BEIRUT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Islamic State group announced on Tuesday that one of its longest-serving and most prominent leaders, responsible for attacks overseas, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, had been killed in Aleppo province in Syria.
Adnani had been one of the last living senior members, along with self-appointed caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, that founded the group and stunned the Middle East by seizing huge tracts of Iraq and Syria in 2014.
As Islamic State's spokesman, he was its most visible member. As head of external operations, he was in charge of attacks overseas, including Europe, that have become an increasingly important tactic for the group as its core Iraqi and Syrian territory has been eroded by military losses.
Advances by Iraq's army and allied militia toward Islamic State's most important possession of Mosul have put the group under new pressure at a moment when a U.S.-backed coalition has cut its Syrian holdings off from the Turkish border.
Those military setbacks have been accompanied by airstrikes that have killed several of the group's leaders, undermining its organizational ability and dampening its morale.
A U.S. counter-terrorism official who monitors Islamic State said that Adnani's death will hurt the militants "in the area that increasingly concerns us as the group loses more and more of its caliphate and its financial base ... and turns to mounting and inspiring more attacks in Europe, Southeast Asia and elsewhere".
Under Adnani's auspices, Islamic State has launched large-scale attacks, bombings and shootings, on civilians in several countries outside its core area, including France, Belgium and Turkey.
The official said Adnani's role as propaganda chief and director of external operations have become "indistinguishable" because the group uses its online messages to recruit fighters and provide instruction and inspiration for attacks.
Islamic State's Amaq News Agency reported that Adnani was killed "while surveying the operations to repel the military campaigns against Aleppo". Islamic State holds territory in the province of Aleppo, but not in the city where rebels are fighting Syrian government forces.
Amaq did not say how Adnani, born Taha Subhi Falaha in Syria's Idlib Province in 1977, was killed. Islamic State published a eulogy dated Aug. 29 but giving no further details.
INROADS INTO ISLAMIC STATE
Recent advances by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias, and by Syrian rebels backed by Turkey, have made inroads into Islamic State holdings in Aleppo province, cutting them off from the Turkish border and supply lines along it.
Iraqi army advances against the jihadist group meant that Baghdad was on track to retake Mosul from it by the end of this year, the head of the U.S. military's Central Command General Joseph Votel said earlier on Tuesday.
Among senior Islamic State officials to have been killed in airstirkes this year are both Abu Ali al-Anbari, Baghdadi's formal deputy, and the group's "minister of war", Abu Omar al-Shishani. Adnani had joined the group under its founder Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
There are conflicting reports as to where and how he died.
A senior Syrian rebel official said Adnani was most probably killed in the Islamic State-held city of al-Bab in an air strike. Citing unconfirmed reports, he said Adnani was in the Aleppo region to raise morale as the group comes under mounting pressure.
Hisham al-Hashimi, a security analyst who advises the Iraqi government on Islamic State, said Adnani was injured in a coalition strike on Aug. 17 near al-Rai, north of Aleppo, where Islamic State is fighting Turkish and U.S.-backed Syrian rebels.
Hashimi said he died from his wounds on Monday.
Islamic State's territory around Aleppo is of particular significance to the group because it is also the location of Dabiq, where an Islamic prophecy holds the last battle between Muslims and infidels will rage, heralding the end of time.
FACE OF GROUP
Iraq said in January that Adnani had been wounded in an air strike in the western province of Anbar and then moved to the northern city of Mosul, Islamic State’s capital in Iraq.
Adnani is a Syrian from Binish in Idlib, southwest of Aleppo, who pledged allegiance to Islamic State's predecessor al Qaeda more than a decade ago and was once imprisoned by U.S. forces in Iraq, according to the Brookings Institution. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/islamic-state-says-spokesman-killed-syria-amaq-news-181847491.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/7580e64acf71cffffcdb6341fde5e273751c6b8b7f1986715da9135ef591e2be.json | |
[] | 2016-08-26T16:49:29 | null | 2016-08-26T16:19:52 | LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) — The two nuns who were killed in Mississippi were by all accounts some of the most friendly, helpful people in town, cooking and caring for anyone in their poor community — making their slayings all the more puzzling. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fslain-nuns-leave-void-mississippi-community-served-071322000.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/VmsVyH7clv59oLdqBe_IXA--/aD0xMDgwO3c9MTkyMDtzbT0xO2FwcGlkPXl0YWNoeW9u/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/video/video.associatedpressfree.com/b8874dfe3d229da38bbff022ef3cd436 | en | null | Slain nuns leave void in Mississippi community they served | null | null | www.yahoo.com | LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) — The two nuns who were killed in Mississippi were by all accounts some of the most friendly, helpful people in town, cooking and caring for anyone in their poor community — making their slayings all the more puzzling.
Their car was found abandoned a mile away from their home, and there were signs of a break-in, but police haven't released any leads or suspects in the investigation.
The women, both 68 and nurse practitioners, were found dead Thursday morning when they didn't report to work at the nearby clinic where they provided flu shots, insulin and other medical care for children and adults who couldn't afford it.
They were identified as Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill.
Dr. Elias Abboud, who worked with the sisters for years and helped build the Lexington Medical Clinic, said he's not sure what will happen to the facility in light of their deaths.
"I think the community is going to be different after this. You need somebody with that passion to love the people and work in the underserved area," Abboud said.
"For somebody to come and do this horrible act, we are all shocked," he added.
Authorities did not release a cause of death, but the Rev. Greg Plata said police told him the nuns were stabbed. Autopsies were to be done Friday.
"They were two of the sweetest, most gentle women you can imagine. Their vocation was helping the poor," said Plata, who oversees a 35-member Catholic church the sisters attended.
Maureen Smith, a spokeswoman for the Catholic Diocese of Jackson, said there were signs of a break-in at the home in Durant and the nuns' car was taken.
The abandoned Toyota Corolla was found undamaged late Thursday, barely a mile from the home and authorities were looking for clues inside it.
Abboud said the clinic provided about 25 percent of all the medical care in the county, which has a population of about 18,000, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates for July 2015.
The two nuns provided almost all the care at the clinic and cultivated relationships with drug company representatives, who often left extra free samples, according to clinic manager Lisa Dew.
"I think their absence is going to be felt for a long, long time. Holmes County, it's one of the poorest in the state," Dew said. "There's a lot of people here who depended on them for their care and their medicines. It's going to be rough."
Authorities didn't release a motive and it wasn't clear if the nuns' religious work had anything to do with the slayings.
Police Chief John Haynes said officers were canvassing the area and trying to look at video from surveillance cameras in town to see if they spot anything unusual.
The Catholic community in Mississippi is relatively small. Of nearly 3 million people, the diocese said there are about 108,000 Catholics.
Held had been a member of the School Sisters of St. Francis in Milwaukee for 49 years "and lived her ministry caring for and healing the poor," a statement from the order said.
Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki said whoever killed Held "robbed not only the School Sisters of St. Francis, but also the entire Church of a woman whose life was spent in service."
Merrill had worked in Mississippi for more than 30 years, according to the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in Kentucky. She was from Massachusetts and joined the order in 1979.
Two years later, she moved south and found her calling in the Mississippi Delta community, according to a 2010 article in The Journey, a publication by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth.
During an early part of her career, she helped bring a tuberculosis outbreak under control in the region, Dew said.
Merrill saw children and adults, and helped in other ways.
"We do more social work than medicine sometimes," Merrill told The Journey. "Sometimes patients are looking for a counselor."
After Hurricane Katrina left much of the town without power for weeks in 2005, the sisters allowed people to come to their house to cook because they had a gas stove, neighbor Patricia Wyatt-Weatherly said.
They were skilled in stretching resources, and routinely produced amazing dishes out of what seemed like a very small garden at their home, said Sam Sample, lay leader of St. Thomas Catholic Church in Lexington, where the sisters were members. The small congregation called off its weekly Bible study and meal Thursday night.
"They would do anything for anybody. Folks in Holmes County don't realize the impact it will have without them being here," Sample said.
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Associated Press writers Jeff Amy in Durant, Mississippi, and Elizabeth Campbell in Louisville, Kentucky, contributed to this report. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/slain-nuns-leave-void-mississippi-community-served-071322000.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/43730982bb03bf347bd5028ca5164b83a1cc3b678ccdd546a2fada47546198c3.json |
[
"Wil Selby"
] | 2016-08-27T16:49:50 | null | 2016-08-27T11:00:25 | While many experts say the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria is on the decline, you wouldn’t know it from the organization’s public narrative. The ISIS propaganda strategy compels people to action: ISIS has persuaded an estimated 30,000 people from more than 85 countries to travel to hostile war | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fdisturbing-reasons-isis-marketing-effective-000000482.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/cnzakgFrwdx7mZ7DpJNeIg--/aD00MTk7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/a322241744f82e02f2589e0c0a9098f9 | en | null | Here are the disturbing reasons ISIS marketing is so effective | null | null | www.yahoo.com | While many experts say the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria is on the decline, you wouldn’t know it from the organization’s public narrative.
ISIS aggressively promotes the attacks it directs, supports or inspires. The extremist group recently took credit for attacks in Orlando and Brussels, reinforcing its image of being an unstoppable and legitimate network. And it has built that image through a troublingly savvy combination of traditional and new media.
The ISIS propaganda strategy compels people to action: ISIS has persuaded an estimated 30,000 people from more than 85 countries to travel to hostile war zones in Iraq and Syria and inspired other supporters to commit acts of violence on ISIS’ behalf in their home countries. And ISIS propaganda does not only focus on its military activity: ISIS also tries to portray itself as an effective government, but that effort rarely gets the level of attention in mainstream U.S. press that its military activity does.
The caliphate’s narrative helped fuel expansion beyond Iraq and Syria to regions such as Libya, Yemen, and even Afghanistan, where its competitor al-Qaida has been operating and messaging for years. Instead of selling a physical product, ISIS executes a robust and technically savvy propaganda strategy to sell the image of the caliphate. ISIS’ propaganda engine yields four key marketing insights that highlight why the group’s messaging is so resilient.
(Note: We considered embedding some specific examples of ISIS propaganda but decided against it because we do not wish to boost the legitimacy and exposure of the images.)
1. ISIS knows its target audience
It is crucial for any international corporation to master the ability to adapt marketing strategies and content for assorted foreign audiences and to make that content easily discoverable. ISIS is able to sustain a global reach while resonating locally by adopting a broadly consistent narrative of different themes to appeal to recruits.
In home-base countries like Iraq and Syria, ISIS propaganda often depicts ISIS’ governance successes to reinforce support from local populations. When fomenting hatred of Western governments, ISIS relies on highly sophisticated, multilingual content intended to outrage the public and get picked up by the mainstream press.
Foreign recruits in ISIS’ media department are critical to ensuring that the content targeting a specific region has the substance and timing to achieve maximum impact. These recruits provide basic translation services, monitor the reaction to ISIS’ propaganda, and use that feedback to tailor future content.
Once the content is tailored to the target audience, consumers need to be able to quickly and reliably obtain it across multiple channels and devices. Digital aggregators such as search engines and social media platforms allow anyone to filter content and pull ISIS propaganda. The group uses hashtags to spread campaigns on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, while those very companies try to identify and block terrorist content. ISIS has even gone so far as to develop its own digital aggregators, including language-specific websites, Telegram channels and mobile apps to further filter out noise and push content to an active audience.
2. ISIS saturates the market
Modern marketing departments recognize the importance of saturating their diverse target audience with content of varying formats and production value.
The scale and variety of ISIS’ propaganda system are immense. The system is composed of videos, photo essays, magazines, audio programs and news bulletins in more than a half dozen languages. ISIS saturates the market with an average of 38 pieces of such content a day.
How can ISIS create that much daily content? By primarily relying on more than 35 provincial media offices to frequently publish visual content (even if relatively unsophisticated), ensuring that ISIS’ audience has constant access to a large volume of timely content. Complementing these efforts is a group of professional media developers capitalizing on the democratization of modern media development tools. These developers are creating highly sophisticated content, including feature-length cinematic films containing meticulously rehearsed scenes with stylized special effects. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/disturbing-reasons-isis-marketing-effective-000000482.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/389ac0ea53758934c0db8a404d8fca56c536b3154d78db5ccf20121a46bf1c26.json |
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"Colin Campbell",
"Deputy Politics Editor"
] | 2016-08-26T13:13:47 | null | 2016-08-24T16:35:50 | Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, argued that polls showing her candidate losing are missing the “undercover Trump voter” who is embarrassed to admit support for the Republican nominee. “Our internal polling is proprietary and confidential so I won’t discuss it,” Conway said, according | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fkellyanne-conway-undercover-trump-voter-000000313.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EdJ.e1vbc.idj6NjevJLMw--/aD00MTE7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/818f9f590017fcbaee51c893d3833986 | en | null | Trump campaign manager: Here’s why we think the polls are wrong | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, argued that polls showing her candidate losing are missing the “undercover Trump voter” who is embarrassed to admit support for the Republican nominee.
“Our internal polling is proprietary and confidential so I won’t discuss it,” Conway said, according to an interview transcript published earlier this week by the British Channel 4 network. “Donald Trump performs consistently better in online polling where a human being is not talking to another human being about what he or she may do in elections,” she continued.
Hillary Clinton has led Trump in all of the recent major public polls of the national election. On Wednesday afternoon, the RealClearPolitics average of national polls gave the Democrat a 6-point edge over Trump.
Conway, a pollster by trade, asserted that the social pressure of a live phone conversation led some Trump supporters to hide their support. She said it’s “become socially desirable especially if you’re a college [educated] person in the USA to say that you’re against Donald Trump.”
“It’s a project we’re doing internally,” she said. “I call it the ‘undercover Trump voter,” but it’s real and I think that if you go around this country and you talk to people you see it’s real as well.”
On the other hand, phone surveys can sometimes underestimate Democratic-leaning groups, such as younger voters and racial minorities, who are less likely to have landlines and are more difficult to reach.
There are some professional pollsters who conduct online-only surveys, and they indeed find Trump doing a bit better, according to poll expert Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight. Silver noted on his site Tuesday that “traditional landline telephone polls have been Clinton-leaning as a group, although not uniformly.” His forecast model, which averages both online and traditional phone surveys based on historical accuracy and other factors, on Wednesday gave Clinton an 85 percent chance of prevailing in November.
It’s not uncommon for boosters of a presidential candidate to claim that the polls are systemically flawed when their candidate is down. In 2012, some Mitt Romney supporters infamously asserted that media organizations’ polls were inaccurately “skewed” in President Obama’s favor. But Obama actually outperformed his public poll numbers on Election Day. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/kellyanne-conway-undercover-trump-voter-000000313.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/0266285f5e9b4b6927bc76a8db993105fb4ce1b7f16877b86bb7e7f04bb32eaf.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T12:50:05 | null | 2016-08-28T12:46:05 | Bulldozers with huge claws pulled down dangerously overhanging ledges Sunday in Italy's quake-devastated town of Amatrice as investigators worked to figure out if negligence or fraud in building codes ... | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fitalian-museums-giving-sunday-proceeds-rebuild-quake-zone-075205964.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/DRu2Yq.XptPmd2XK3IuuMg--/aD0zMDA7dz00MDA7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/video/video.associatedpressfree.com/9533dfe745b03889080787971ba99950 | en | null | Italy investigates quake buildings, checking for code fraud | null | null | www.yahoo.com | AMATRICE, Italy (AP) -- Bulldozers with huge claws pulled down dangerously overhanging ledges Sunday in Italy's quake-devastated town of Amatrice as investigators worked to figure out if negligence or fraud in building codes had added to the quake's high death toll.
The quake that struck before dawn Wednesday killed 290 people and injured hundreds as it flattened three medieval towns in central Italy. Giuseppe Saieva, the prosecutor in the regional capital of Rieti, said the high human death toll "cannot only be considered the work of fate."
Investigations are focusing on a number of structures, including an elementary school in Amatrice that crumbled despite being renovated in 2012 to resist earthquakes at a cost of 700,000 euros ($785,000). No one was in the school at the time, but many were shocked that it did not withstand the 6.2 magnitude quake.
After an entire first grade class and teacher were killed a 2002 quake in San Giuliano di Puglia, Italian officials had vowed to ensure the safety of schools, hospitals and other critical institutions.
Questions also surround a bell tower in Accumoli that collapsed, killing a family of four sleeping in a neighboring house, including a baby of 8 months and a 7-year-old boy. That bell tower also had been recently restored with special funds allocated after Italy's last major earthquake, which struck nearby L'Aquila in 2009.
Italy's national anti-terrorism prosecutor, Franco Roberti, also vowed to work to prevent the mafia from infiltrating in public works projects to rebuild the earthquake zone.
"This risk of infiltration is always high," he said in comments Sunday in the La Repubblica newspaper. "Post-earthquake reconstruction is historically a tempting morsel for criminal groups and colluding business interests."
Roberti said, although he does not wish to prejudge the outcome of the investigation into the area's damaged buildings, the high number of public buildings to collapse in the quake raises suspicions.
He said if buildings are well-constructed according to regulations for earthquake zones, "parts of buildings can be damaged and cracked but they don't pulverize and implode."
Italy's state museums, meanwhile, embarked on a fundraising campaign, donating their proceeds Sunday to relief and reconstruction efforts in the earthquake zone.
Wednesday's quake destroyed not only private homes but also churches and other centuries-old cultural treasures. The idea is to use art for art — harnessing the nation's rich artistic heritage to help recover and restore other objects of beauty in the hard-hit towns.
It's one of several efforts that have sprung up to help the towns rebuild: restaurants in Italy and elsewhere are also serving up pasta all'Amatriciana, the region's most famous dish, in another fundraising effort.
Also Sunday, Pope Francis vowed in his weekly address from a window over St. Peter's Square to visit people of the earthquake region soon and bring them "the comfort of faith."
Amatrice bore the brunt of earthquake's destruction, with 229 fatalities and a town turned into rubble and dust. Eleven others died in nearby Accumoli and 50 more in Arquata del Tronto, 10 miles (16 kilometers) north of Amatrice.
Overnight was relatively calm, the first since the quake struck without strong aftershocks. In all, the region has seen 1,820 aftershocks, according to the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology.
On Saturday, a state funeral took place for 35 of the victims in the town of Ascoli Piceno, where mourners prayed, hugged, wept and even applauded as coffins carrying earthquake victims passed by ahead of being buried.
"It is a great tragedy. There are no words to describe it," said Gina Razzetti, a resident at the funeral.
Saturday's funeral involved most of the dead from Arquata del Tronto. Many of the dead from Amatrice, however, are still awaiting identification in a refrigerated morgue in an airport hangar in Rieti, 65 kilometers (40 miles) away. On Tuesday, a memorial service — without the bodies — will be held for the dead of Amatrice.
Nobody has been found alive in the ruins since Wednesday and hopes have vanished of finding any more survivors. The number still missing is uncertain, due to the many visitors seeking a last taste of summer in the Apennine mountains.
Hundreds of people have also been left homeless by the quake, with many spending their nights in tent cities and a gym in Amatrice. Longer-term housing needs for earthquake survivors will be another key challenge for Italian authorities.
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Gera reported from Rome. Frances D'Emilio in Rome contributed. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/italian-museums-giving-sunday-proceeds-rebuild-quake-zone-075205964.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/b04210ecf37c57f5e5a9613223e9ad39d48330736bde571c3b9957b4b0dec472.json |
[
"Hunter Walker",
"National Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-30T00:50:46 | null | 2016-08-29T22:30:14 | On Monday morning, Donald Trump released a statement on former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s latest sexting scandal. In his statement, Trump praised Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, a top aide to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, for deciding to separate from the former Queens congressman. Trump | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fdonald-trump-anthony-weiner-sexting-000000444.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/cfVIaFoKzHKaXyqMxYCAlQ--/aD00NjU7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/e3ecd85c013417595cdefbb1207285e7 | en | null | Donald Trump waged a ‘personal’ social media crusade against Anthony Weiner for over 5 years | null | null | www.yahoo.com | On Monday morning, Donald Trump released a statement on former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s latest sexting scandal. But it was far from the first time the Republican presidential nominee has weighed in on the explicit messages Weiner is accused of sending to women online.
In his statement, Trump praised Weiner’s wife, Huma Abedin, a top aide to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, for deciding to separate from the former Queens congressman. Trump also suggested that Weiner’s closeness to Clinton could have posed a threat to national security.
“Huma is making a very wise decision. I know Anthony Weiner well, and she will be far better off without him. I only worry for the country in that Hillary Clinton was careless and negligent in allowing Weiner to have such close proximity to highly classified information,” Trump said. “Who knows what he learned and who he told? It’s just another example of Hillary Clinton’s bad judgment. It is possible that our country and its security have been greatly compromised by this.”
The statement was the culmination of more than five years of social media attacks Trump has launched against Weiner. Based on a fairly intensive search online, Trump recorded videos on multiple social media platforms and sent at least 75 tweets about Weiner since his sexting habit was revealed in 2011. One member of Trump’s inner circle told Yahoo News the issue is “personal” for Trump.
Trump weighed in each time there was a new revelation about the sexting or reports on a potential Weiner political comeback. In his commentaries, Trump repeatedly predicted that Weiner could “never be healed.” Trump also hurled a wide variety of insults at Weiner, including calling him a “sick puppy,” “sleazebag,” “unwanted porn star,” “sexual pervert,” a “whacko sicko sexter” and many more. Weiner did not respond to a request for comment on this story.
Weiner’s intimate internet messages first emerged in 2011, when he accidentally tweeted a lewd photo he meant to privately send to a woman. The fallout eventually caused Weiner to resign from his seat in the House of Representatives. Trump’s first post about Weiner was a YouTube video posted on June 7, 2011, the day after Weiner admitted to sending the picture after initially lying and attempting to blame the photo on a hacker.
In the video, which he also tweeted, Trump claimed, “Many people have been asking me about Anthony Weiner.” He also provided some insight into their existing relationship.
“I know him very well. He called me all the time looking for campaign contributions. It would never stop,” Trump said, later adding, “The fact is Anthony Weiner is a bad guy. He’s a psycho, and when this came out, I was not surprised at all.”
According to Trump, “One thing good came out of Anthony’s mess.”
“I’ll never have to give him campaign contributions, and that’s really wonderful,” he said.
Federal Election Commission reports show Trump donated to Weiner’s campaign account in 2007 and 2010 for a total of $4,300. While the donations may have sparked Trump’s fascination with the former congressman, they clearly aren’t the only factor behind Trump’s fixation on Weiner. In a conversation with Yahoo News on Monday, Michael Cohen, a longtime attorney at Trump’s real estate company, Weiner may have earned Trump’s ire by firing back with his own insults. Cohen suggested Trump lets no slight go unanswered.
“This is personal to him because Anthony Weiner has continuously attacked Mr. Trump,” Cohen said. “You know it just doesn’t work that way.”
Weiner initially stayed out of the public eye following his departure from Congress. However, in 2012 there was a smattering of reporting that he was planning to mount a comeback.
The reports got Trump’s attention. Throughout 2012, in his tweets and another YouTube video, Trump suggested that Weiner was a “sick [and] perverted man” who would not change. Trump also advised Abedin to “drop him before it happens again.” At multiple points in 2012, Trump’s tweets described Weiner as a public menace.
“Scary thought: What is the pervert Anthony Weiner doing with all the free time he has. Does he collect unemployment?” Trump asked on Aug. 15.
During the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., Trump worried that Weiner could be a danger to the attendees. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-anthony-weiner-sexting-000000444.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/99b100d2201d269aeb3ebe0c3fb8e0668102f1c1a95bb0be63ca3a2f6c534db5.json |
[
"Andrew Romano",
"West Coast Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-26T13:13:08 | null | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | Down Ticket is Yahoo News’ complete guide to the most fascinating House, Senate and governors’ races of 2016. On Tuesday, we took a breather from cataloging the many Donald Trump-related problems facing down-ballot Republicans in order to point out that, hey, maybe not everything is doom and gloom for | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fdown-ticket-6-why-republicans-000000217.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Down Ticket #6: Why Republicans who want to win in November - despite Trump - should be watching Nevada | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Down Ticket is Yahoo News’ complete guide to the most fascinating House, Senate and governors’ races of 2016. Coming to you every Tuesday and Thursday until Nov. 8. What you need to know today.
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This Republican Senate candidate is showing the rest of the GOP how not to get dragged down by the Donald
On Tuesday, we took a breather from cataloging the many Donald Trump-related problems facing down-ballot Republicans in order to point out that, hey, maybe not everything is doom and gloom for the GOP right now.
One of the bright spots: Three vulnerable Republican senators — Marco Rubio in Florida, Rob Portman in Ohio, Chuck Grassley in Iowa — are leading their Democratic challengers in swing states where Trump is nonetheless trailing or tied with Hillary Clinton.
Turns out, however, that there’s a fourth GOP Senate candidate who may be an even better example of how Republicans can save themselves from Trump.
His name is Joe Heck, and he’s running for Harry Reid’s seat in Nevada.
As you may have heard, Reid — a 30-year veteran of the chamber who served as majority leader from 2007 to 2015 and is probably the second most powerful Democrat in the country — will be retiring in January. There is no race Republicans are more determined to win: in part to ensure that they keep control of the Senate, and in part to embarrass Reid.
Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto should be the favorite. She is Reid’s handpicked successor, which means she is backed by the minority leader’s powerful political machine and a Nevada Democratic Party that is much more organized than the state’s notoriously sloppy GOP. (Reid himself has said that he is “devoting a huge amount of my time” to the race.) As the granddaughter of an immigrant from Chihuahua, Mexico, she would be the first Latina senator in U.S. history — a leg up in a state with a large Latino population (28 percent) that votes heavily Democratic. (Barack Obama won 71 percent of Nevada’s Latino vote in 2012). From 2007 to 2015, she served as Nevada’s attorney general, one of the highest-profile offices in the state. And in general, Democrats — who enjoy a statewide voter-registration advantage over Republicans — tend to benefit from presidential-year turnout patterns in Nevada.
Yet Cortez Masto hasn’t led in a single poll since May; in fact, Heck is slightly ahead at this point, according to the RealClear Politics average. Trump, meanwhile, lags a few points behind Clinton.
This wasn’t what the pundits predicted. “If there was any state where Trump would hurt the chances of down-ballot congressional candidates, Nevada was supposed to be it,” the Washington Post’s Dave Weigel recently wrote. “President Obama carried it twice, both times losing the white vote but winning landslides with the state’s enormous Latino population. [But now] Nevada is the only competitive Senate race in the nation where Democrats are playing defense.”
So what’s going on?
Like Rubio, Portman and Grassley, Heck is running ahead of his party’s presidential nominee because he is defining himself in a way that keeps Trump from defining him. Unlike Rubio, Portman and Grassley, however, Heck (a congressman from Nevada’s third district) is doing so as a non-incumbent in a race for an open Democratic seat. This makes his early success more impressive — and potentially more instructive for other down-ballot Republicans.
On paper, Heck looks like exactly the sort of candidate Republicans would want on their team: a physician and a brigadier general in the Army Reserve who has served three tours of active duty. He also has an excellent track record at the ballot box, having narrowly defeated a Democratic incumbent in 2010 before going on to win reelection by widening margins in 2012 and 2014, in a district that twice voted for Obama.
Also important: As one Democratic strategist recently told top Nevada political reporter Jon Ralston, “in Congress, [Heck] has represented 25 percent of the voters of the state, and three-quarters of the voters are in [the] same media market as his congressional district, so he started better defined than Catherine.” | https://www.yahoo.com/news/down-ticket-6-why-republicans-000000217.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/9fcd203751bc2655fb9927c4c360031195e227f419a771533957649745241a66.json | |
[] | 2016-08-26T20:49:43 | null | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | Congressman Steve King, R-Iowa, a staunch proponent of strict immigration laws, spoke with Yahoo News about Donald Trump’s apparent changes to his stance on immigration. Will Trump really soften his stance? And, if he does, will he lose substantial support from his base? | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Frep-steve-king-trump-immigration-050019805.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Rep. Steve King on Trump’s immigration stance | null | null | www.yahoo.com | By Alex Bregman
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, a staunch proponent of strict immigration laws, spoke to Yahoo News Guest Anchor Stephanie Sy about Donald Trump’s position on immigration, which has come into question in recent days.
On the question of whether Trump has softened his stance on deporting all 11 million undocumented immigrants, which is something Trump hinted at earlier in the week before pushing back in a new interview Thursday, King told Sy, “It’s an open question at this point, and the question has been getting opened up a little bit more in the last two or three days. I don’t see how this language turns it into a hardening, but it doesn’t necessarily mean he’s softening his position, either.”
King said if Trump is wavering on his mass deportation policy, that would be against the rule of law. He said, “I would say the question to ask Donald Trump is: Will you or will you not support a legalization of people who are in this country unlawfully today, and if you support legalization for people that are unlawfully in America, then you’ve rewarded law-breaking, and you cannot support the respect for the rule of law if you reward law-breaking.”
King also indicated that if Trump is changing his position, it could lead to a lot of his potential supporters to stay home in November. He told Sy, “Our choices really are Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, but there’s another choice out there that people exercised in 2012: 5 to 8 million evangelicals stayed home, or we’d be talking about the reelection of Mitt Romney today.” He continued, “I think Donald Trump has to watch that very carefully. Not enough evangelicals have come forward. His core base are the rule-of-law, seal-the-border and enforce-immigration-law people, and if they lose faith in him, they could stay home the same way evangelicals stayed home in 2012.”
King insisted, though, that he will vote no matter what: “I won’t stay home. I’ll go in every election that I can.”
On Hillary Clinton accusing Trump of “a steady stream of bigotry,” Rep. King said it reminded him of former president Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign. He said, “It causes me to roll my eyes a little bit and exhale. How many generations of this do we have to hear? Bill Clinton started this in 1992 when he said he would name his cabinet to, quote, ‘look like America,’ and it turned out to be a color-coded quota cabinet, not a meritocracy. He found that he could build coalitions of minorities and got to enough votes that he could be elected president.”
On Trump calling Hillary Clinton a “bigot,” King was critical of the term but blamed its use on Clinton’s campaign tactics. He said to Sy, “I prefer not to use the name-calling myself, and I wouldn’t say I’m completely absolved of that. All of us have things that we carry along with us, but I do think that it cheapens the use of the word. But the word that is being hurled back at her is, I believe, being hurled back at her and not initiated by Donald Trump.”
Finally, King refused to make any predictions about who will win in November but said, “I think either one of them could implode. I think Donald Trump, though, has shown a significant resilience, so I don’t know how that actually happens. In Hillary’s case, there have been so many holes poked in her boat, it’s a wonder it’s still afloat.” | https://www.yahoo.com/news/rep-steve-king-trump-immigration-050019805.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/33df361b47f644b7d7c284521fe7eb5ac11c86d7f493be43e5623c8572efeeba.json | |
[
"Michael Walsh"
] | 2016-08-28T16:50:08 | null | 2016-08-28T14:53:58 | New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says that the core of Donald Trump’s immigration policy has been consistent — kicking criminals out of the country and denying amnesty to undocumented immigrants. The onetime Trump rival who is now the chairman of the Republican presidential nominee’s transition team defended | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fchris-christie-defends-donald-trumps-000000640.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/O6iZBKgGcPYKxYagmsCA9A--/aD01MTM7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/50177bc15344a8e4fa93dbd8d225ef6b | en | null | Chris Christie defends Donald Trump’s immigration policy as ‘completely consistent’ | null | null | www.yahoo.com | New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says that the core of Donald Trump’s immigration policy has been consistent — kicking criminals out of the country and denying amnesty to undocumented immigrants.
The onetime Trump rival who is now the chairman of the Republican presidential nominee’s transition team defended Trump’s softening of his immigration policy during an appearance on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday morning.
In a conversation with journalist Martha Raddatz, Christie highlighted that Trump has said no undocumented immigrants will be eligible for citizenship unless they leave the United States and reenter through legal channels.
“The way to look at it is that this is a guy who’s been very consistent on no amnesty, no legalization, for folks who have been coming to the country illegally,” Christie said. “And that’s always been the underpinning of his policy, along with the building of the wall on the United States-Mexican border. And those things have remained completely consistent.”
Raddatz asked if the softening of Trump’s immigration policy will turn off some of his early supporters who liked the idea of using a deportation force to round up all of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants and make them leave the nation altogether.
View photos Chris Christie speaks in Randolph, N.J. (Photo: Mel Evans/AP) More
Christie said that Trump’s primary supporters will stick with the nominee during the general election because Trump’s immigration policy stands in stark contrast with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s.
“Hillary Clinton has a 100-day amnesty plan, where everybody here, no matter whether you’ve been a criminal or not, no matter how you got here or not, is going to wind up becoming American citizens under Hillary Clinton’s plan,” Christie said. “And I think when voters look at that, they’re going to say that’s not what we want to have happen in this country.”
Raddatz brought up former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s comments to a New Jersey publication that Trump softened his immigration policy in part because of Christie.
The New Jersey governor said that throughout his political career — running for president once, running for governor twice and serving as governor for nearly seven years — his best advisers have been the people who could give him smart advice and then “keep their mouths shut.”
“And so if I want advisers that way, that’s the kind of adviser I’m going to be for Donald Trump,” Christie told Raddatz. “I’ve said consistently, the advice I give to Donald is to Donald. And that’s based upon our friendship over the last 14 years and the way I would expect to. So Rudy could talk about whatever he wants to talk about. He’s my friend, I like him a lot and respect him, but I don’t talk about the advice I give to Donald Trump.” | https://www.yahoo.com/news/chris-christie-defends-donald-trumps-000000640.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/02cbc9e9d4f5382d403d5ee81bb0132a224ccb8bdd04420d2c0a0a8659ce9594.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:52 | null | 2016-08-25T02:40:30 | CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A deaf man shot to death by a North Carolina state trooper after a chase was scared of police after several misunderstandings with officers, his brother said Wednesday. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fdeaf-drivers-shooting-death-trooper-under-investigation-072302902.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/zMd3fwGcU8.Kc_cr30hjcw--/aD0zMDA7dz00MDA7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/video/video.associatedpressfree.com/a7b58b6521270d13dfcb4e38f97914c5 | en | null | Brother: Deaf man shot by state trooper was afraid of police | null | null | www.yahoo.com | CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A deaf man shot to death by a North Carolina state trooper after a chase was scared of police after several misunderstandings with officers, his brother said Wednesday.
Standing beside a memorial where his brother died near the family's home, Sam Harris said police are all too often inaccessible to deaf people, relating his own story about how he ended up with a gun in his face because he, too, is deaf and couldn't follow the officer's shouted orders.
Daniel Kevin Harris "had times where because of the inaccessibility with police, there were misunderstandings that led to him being afraid of the police," his brother said through an interpreter near a large picture of Harris with "Police Brutality Domestic Terrorism" written underneath.
Daniel Harris had arrests in several states on minor charges, including three for resisting police officers. But those charges in 2010 in Florida and 2008 in Denver were dropped. He pleaded guilty to interfering with or resisting police in Watertown, Connecticut, in 2010. Details of the arrests were not available.
Sam Harris cut short a prearranged interview with The Associated Press after a reporter asked for more information about the police confrontations and if that was what made him more afraid of officers, walking away and motioning for his interpreter to come with him back to the family home.
Authorities have released few details about the shooting, including why Trooper Jermaine Saunders fired at the end of the 10-mile chase that started about 6:15 p.m. Aug. 18 when Harris did not pull over as Saunders, with blue lights on, tried to stop him for speeding on Interstate 485 near Charlotte.
The Highway Patrol's last statement Tuesday asked for patience as the investigation unfolds.
Saunders, 28, has been placed on administrative leave. Authorities said Wednesday he is black and he became a trooper about two years ago. Harris, 29, was white.
Harris' family said he was unarmed. The State Bureau of Investigation has not said whether any weapon was found on or near Harris.
Harris loved to play with his 3-year-old son, and his nieces and nephews, his brother said. Sam Harris said his brother also enjoyed the Yu-Gi-Oh trading card game and was eager to get home the night because he had mail saying he had won an important contest.
The family is raising funds for Harris' funeral and plans to use any extra money to begin a foundation to help educate police officers on interacting with the hearing impaired and calling for a computerized system to alert officers they are dealing with a deaf driver.
"My brother is going to be a hero," Sam Harris said. "This is what is going to change the system."
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Associated Press writers Jim Anderson in Denver; Curt Anderson in Miami; David Collins in Hartford, Connecticut; and Martha Waggoner in Raleigh contributed to this report.
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Follow Jeffrey Collins on Twitter at http://twitter.com/JSCollinsAP. His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/jeffrey-collins . | https://www.yahoo.com/news/deaf-drivers-shooting-death-trooper-under-investigation-072302902.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/ac864d7d06e2f61f79556f2c5d4d2a7b44650cd14e329c7a04da6f9385983c0c.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T00:50:16 | null | 2016-08-28T23:12:32 | MEXICO CITY (AP) — Juan Gabriel, a superstar Mexican songwriter and singer who was an icon in the Latin music world, died Sunday at his home in California at age 66, his publicist said. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fjuan-gabriel-mexican-superstar-singer-dead-66-221949577.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Juan Gabriel, Mexican superstar singer-songwriter, has died | null | null | www.yahoo.com | FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2009, file photo, Juan Gabriel performs at the 10th Annual Latin Grammy Awards in Las Vegas. Representatives of Juan Gabriel have reported Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016, that he has died. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Juan Gabriel, a superstar Mexican songwriter and singer who was an icon in the Latin music world, died Sunday at his home in California at age 66, his publicist said.
Juan Gabriel was Mexico's leading singer-songwriter and top-selling artist. His ballads about love and heartbreak and bouncy mariachi tunes became hymns throughout Latin America and Spain and with Spanish speakers in the United States.
He brought many adoring fans to tears as they sang along when he crooned his songs about love and heartbreak, including his top hits, "Hasta Que Te Conoci" ("Until I Met You") and "Amor Eterno" ("Eternal Love"). His hit "Querida" ("Dear") topped Mexico's charts for a whole year.
A flamboyant performer, Juan Gabriel, whose real name was Alberto Aguilera Valadez, liked to wear jackets covered in sequins or dress in shiny silk outfits in hot pink, turquoise blue or canary yellow, and he was known for tossing his head before dancing or jumping around the stage.
"He has passed on to become part of eternity and has left us his legacy through Juan Gabriel, the character created by him for all the music that has been sung and performed all around the world," his press office said in a statement.
It gave no details on his death. Publicist Arturo de la Mora told The Associated Press that he died at 11:30 a.m. in his home. He said the family would provide a statement later.
Juan Gabriel performed to packed auditoriums, including New York's Madison Square Garden and the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles. His last concert was Friday night at the Forum in Inglewood, California. He was scheduled to perform Sunday in El Paso, Texas.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said through his official Twitter account: "I regret the death of Juan Gabriel, one of the great musical icons of our country. My condolences to his relatives and friends."
Juan Gabriel broke ground in Mexico in 1990 by becoming the first commercial singer to present a show at Mexico City's majestic Palace of Fine Arts, until then a forum reserved for classical musicians. The proceeds from the three sold- out concerts went to support the National Symphony Orchestra and became his most celebrated performances. His album "Juan Gabriel live from the Palace of Fine Arts" set record sales.
A six-time Grammy nominee, Juan Gabriel was inducted into the Billboard Latin Music Hall of Fame in 1996 and received countless industry awards, including ASCAP Songwriter of the Year in 1995, Latin Recording Academy's Person of the Year 2009, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame that same year.
The singer, who was born Jan. 7, 1950, wrote his first song at age 13 and went on to compose more than 1,500 songs.
"There are no rules when I compose songs," he said, according to a biography published by Mexico's Society of Music Authors and Composers. "There are times when I'm really happy and I write something really sad, and vice versa."
Artists across Latin America and in the United States covered many of his songs, including Paul Anka and Marc Anthony, who broke into the salsa music world in the U.S. with Juan Gabriel's "Hasta Que Te Conoci." Juan Gabriel also wrote and produced albums for artists such as Mexican singer Lucha Villa and Spain's Rocio Durcal.
The youngest of 10 children, he rose rags to riches. He was born in the western state of Michoacan. His father, Gabriel Aguilera, was a farmer and his mother, Victoria Valadez, a housewife. The family lost contact with his father after he was taken to a psychiatric hospital in Mexico City when Juan Gabriel was still a baby. Unable to support her children, his mother moved the family to the border city of Ciudad Juarez, where he grew up as she worked as a maid.
Juan Gabriel said his mother was one of the people he most loved in his life even though he spent most of his childhood away from her. Unable to care for him, she sent him to an orphanage.
He said he wrote "Eternal Love," one of his greatest hits, thinking about his mother, who died in 1974.
"Even though I don't have my mother's love today, I have the love of millions," he told the newspaper La Jornada in an interview in 2012. "Her love comes through all the mothers of Mexico."
He went to school only until fifth grade after he escaped the orphanage, where he met music teacher and mentor Juan Contreras. He said his artistic name came from Contreras and his father. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/juan-gabriel-mexican-superstar-singer-dead-66-221949577.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/d147d8ba200c1a2c763fed1381ee6a19eacc77559d6486a2dbbb21cadafb2c19.json | |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:14 | null | 2016-08-25T14:25:55 | Martin Blackwell, 48, was convicted by a jury on Wednesday of 10 charges of aggravated battery and aggravated assault, said the spokesman for Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard Jr. Blackwell told police he heated water and poured it over Anthony Gooden Jr. and Marquez Tolbert while they slept | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fgeorgia-man-gets-40-sentence-boiling-water-attack-142555927.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Georgia man gets 40-year sentence for boiling water attack on gays | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Martin Blackwell watches arguments in his trial in Atlanta, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016. Blackwell was convicted of pouring hot water two gay men as they slept and sentenced to 40 years in prison. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
(Reuters) - A Georgia truck driver was sentenced to 40 years in prison for pouring boiling water over a gay couple, a district attorney's spokesman said on Thursday.
Martin Blackwell, 48, was convicted by a jury on Wednesday of 10 charges of aggravated battery and aggravated assault, said the spokesman for Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard Jr.
Blackwell told police he heated water and poured it over Anthony Gooden Jr. and Marquez Tolbert while they slept because he was disgusted by their relationship.
The attack occurred in February in an apartment in the Atlanta suburb of College Park where Gooden's mother, who was dating Blackwell, lived.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Henry Newkirk sentenced Blackwell to 40 years in prison.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution quoted prosecutors as saying both victims required skin grafts after the attack. Gooden spent nearly a month in a hospital, including two weeks in a medically induced coma, and Tolbert was hospitalized for 10 days, it said.
Tolbert was 21 and Gooden 23 at the time of the attack.
(Reporting by Ian Simpson in Washington; Editing by Bill Trott) | https://www.yahoo.com/news/georgia-man-gets-40-sentence-boiling-water-attack-142555927.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/4ec1ecd5f638356b3ab98e5f4260dd25eef6586f81047ef8207c5b16f84d85d3.json | |
[] | 2016-08-30T18:50:42 | null | 2016-08-29T23:44:14 | By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California lawmakers, responding to outrage over the six-month jail term given to a former Stanford University swimmer after his conviction for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, passed legislation on Monday closing a loophole that allowed the sentence. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fcalifornia-lawmakers-pass-rape-bill-inspired-stanford-case-230654766.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | California lawmakers pass rape bill inspired by Stanford case | null | null | www.yahoo.com | A hand-made sign referencing consent in relation to sexual assault lays on the ground at the Stanford University commencement ceremony in Palo Alto, California, U.S. June 12, 2016. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage
By Dan Whitcomb
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California lawmakers, responding to outrage over the six-month jail term given to a former Stanford University swimmer after his conviction for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, passed legislation on Monday closing a loophole that allowed the sentence.
The bill now goes to Democratic Governor Jerry Brown for his approval. He has not indicated whether he will sign it into law.
The measure was introduced in response to the sentence given to 20-year-old Brock Turner by Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky in June, which was widely condemned as too lenient.
Prosecutors had asked that Turner be given six years in state prison. He is scheduled to be released on Friday from jail in Northern California.
"Sexually assaulting an unconscious or intoxicated victim is a terrible crime and our laws need to reflect that," Democratic Assemblyman Bill Dodd, a co-author of the legislation, said in a written statement following its passage.
Turner was convicted of assault with intent to commit rape, penetration of an intoxicated person and penetration of an unconscious person in the January 2015 attack. Under California law, those charges are not considered rape because they did not involve penile penetration.
The uproar over the sentence, fueled in part by the victim's harrowing letter in which she detailed the assault in graphic terms, comes amid growing outrage over sexual assault on U.S. college campuses.
“This bill is about more than sentencing, it’s about supporting victims and changing the culture on our college campuses to help prevent future crimes," Dodd said.
The case has also led to efforts to remove Persky from the bench. Earlier this month, the judge asked for a transfer to civil court.
According to the legislators, current California law calls for a mandatory prison term in cases of rape or sexual assault where force is used, but not when the victim is unconscious or severely intoxicated and thus unable to resist.
The bill, which faced no serious opposition in the Democratic-controlled legislature, would eliminate a judge's discretion to sentence defendants convicted of such crimes to probation. Under its provisions, Turner would have faced a minimum of three years behind bars.
(Reporting by Dan Whitcomb; Editing by Leslie Adler and Peter Cooney) | https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-lawmakers-pass-rape-bill-inspired-stanford-case-230654766.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/861ff56ed37d86222bd1d121d13fe2af4fdefa0cb014f68a55cfe3b485309f1e.json | |
[] | 2016-08-31T02:50:44 | null | 2016-08-31T01:54:35 | TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and Democratic U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy each easily won their Senate primaries Tuesday, setting up a November showdown that's guaranteed to be nasty as each party grapples for a majority in the chamber. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fflorida-pick-democrat-face-rubio-november-153012823--election.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Rubio, Murphy win Florida's Senate primaries | null | null | www.yahoo.com | TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and Democratic U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy each easily won their Senate primaries Tuesday, setting up a November showdown that's guaranteed to be nasty as each party grapples for a majority in the chamber.
Rubio, who decided at the last second to seek a second term, easily fended off millionaire homebuilder Carlos Beruff and Murphy used the backing of President Barack Obama and other Democratic leaders to defeat U.S. Rep Alan Grayson, who was counting on his party's most faithful liberal voters to overcome Murphy's money and establishment support.
In other races, U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown lost a primary as she faces felony fraud charges. She was one of the first African-Americans elected to Congress from Florida since Reconstruction. U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who recently resigned as Democratic National Committee chair, won her primary — the first tough race since being elected to Congress in 2004.
Rubio's and Murphy's victory speeches set the tone for the Senate race.
"Marco Rubio is the worst of Washington because he puts himself first every time. He gave up on his job. He gave up on Florida. He earned the worst voting record for any Florida senator in 50 years," Murphy said shortly after polls closed.
Rubio spoke about an hour later and said Murphy has lied about his education and his career and is only successful because of his wealthy father.
"How can someone with that kind of record think he can be elected to the U.S. Senate? The answer is he has a sense of entitlement, because when everything you've ever had in your life is given to you, you think you deserve it all," Rubio said.
Rubio had declared during his failed presidential campaign that he would not run again for Senate. But he nearly cleared what had been a crowded GOP field with his last-minute turnabout.
Beruff rolled the dice to see if the anti-establishment mood powering Donald Trump's presidential campaign could send him to Washington as well. But after spending $8 million of his own money and going nowhere in the polls, he essentially shut down his campaign ahead of the primary.
"I voted for Marco only because I've been a longstanding supporter," said Diane Martin-Johnson, 66, after voting early Tuesday in Pinellas Park. "It's unfortunate he didn't do his job fully in Washington this term. I do think he deserves another chance. He thought he was doing the right thing (by running for president). That's my only complaint against him. He's a good man."
Murphy, a former Republican, quickly earned party support and raised significantly more money. He was also backed by Vice President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. Grayson, a fiery liberal known for brash comments and hamstrung by a difficult divorce, relied mostly on small donors and feuded with party leaders.
Todd Martin, 53, and his 18-year-old daughter Haley, voted together in Tallahassee, where they recently moved as she starts college. They both chose Murphy, in part because they like his efforts to get government to address algae outbreaks near their former home in Vero Beach.
"I grew up on the river and it's a shame what they let happen," Todd Martin said. "I like where Patrick Murphy stands on the algae. It's very important to me."
More than 1.75 million Floridians already cast ballots by mail or at early-voting stations before polls opened Tuesday.
This year's primary turnout could top ones held in 2012 and 2014— a sign that competitive races for Congress and the Florida Legislature could be driving up turnout this time around.
Wasserman Schultz easily beat Tim Canova, a Bernie Sanders-backed law professor who was able to raise more than $3 million in a primary colored by leaked emails revealing that DNC officials had worked against Sanders to favor Hillary Clinton in the presidential race.
Brown lost to longtime state lawmaker Al Lawson, who has previously run for Congress.
Democrats hope to gain seats in Florida's heavily Republican House delegation after court-mandated redistricting chipped away the advantages of some incumbents.
Florida had to rip up and redraw its congressional maps after they were found to violate the state constitution's provision requiring compact districts that don't favor incumbents or political parties. That spurred one of the state's most heavily contested congressional election years. Several races will essentially be decided in the primary and Florida will eventually send at least seven new House members to Washington. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-pick-democrat-face-rubio-november-153012823--election.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/22c0347bccf70c8f2407c67707e01de58f34d704e5294525d7cf474bed715f3c.json | |
[] | 2016-08-27T16:49:53 | null | 2016-08-27T13:44:38 | Members of the far-right Identitarian Movement scaled Berlin's Brandenburg Gate on Saturday and unfurled a banner to protest against the "Islamisation" of Germany via mass immigration. Around 15 protesters spent about 50 minutes on top of the Brandenburg Gate, a short walk from the German | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fgerman-rightists-scale-brandenburg-gate-protest-immigration-134438989.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | German rightists scale Brandenburg Gate to protest immigration | null | null | www.yahoo.com | A German police officer searches the pockets of a member of far right Identitarian movement (Identitaere Bewegung) after the activists staged a demonstration on top of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany August 27, 2016. REUTERS/Stefanie Loos
BERLIN (Reuters) - Members of the far-right Identitarian Movement scaled Berlin's Brandenburg Gate on Saturday and unfurled a banner to protest against the "Islamisation" of Germany via mass immigration.
More than a million people, many of them Muslims, flocked to Germany last year from the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere. The IAB German labor office research institute says around 16,000 are still arriving per month.
Around 15 protesters spent about 50 minutes on top of the Brandenburg Gate, a short walk from the German parliament, before coming down, a spokesman for Berlin's police force said.
They hung a banner calling for "secure borders - secure future" from the structure and waved flags bearing the Identitarian Movement's black and yellow logo.
Flyers from the movement said Germans were "becoming a minority" due to immigration and urged people to take action against "Islamisation".
A poll this month showed just over half of Germans thought Chancellor Angela Merkel's migrant policy was bad.
Support for anti-immigrant groups has risen and the right-wing Alternative for Germany is expected to do well in regional elections in Berlin and the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in September.
The Identitarian Movement is being monitored by the Germany's domestic intelligence agency. A spokesman for the agency said this month there were indications the group's activities went "against the free democratic order".
(Reporting by Reuters TV; Writing by Michelle Martin; Editing by Andrew Roche) | https://www.yahoo.com/news/german-rightists-scale-brandenburg-gate-protest-immigration-134438989.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/ac10202f777145029c4dff4cf5f65fa319f0c7e66cd19ee3324f813fbc8127ee.json | |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:39 | null | 2016-08-25T20:35:56 | By Steve Scherer and Gabriele Pileri AMATRICE, Italy (Reuters) - The death toll from a devastating earthquake in central Italy climbed to 250 on Thursday as rescue teams scoured mounds of rubble for a second day in towns and villages flattened by the natural disaster. "People like myself have | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fitaly-earthquake-death-toll-rises-247-regional-officials-044626380.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vbfZrCtlpXRCNKLejmbiQg--/aD05NjA7dz0xMjgwO3NtPTE7YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b24-/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/538a7f753fb3d1ad570c64d1c9f0e6af | en | null | Italy quake toll hits 250 as rescuers search flattened towns | null | null | www.yahoo.com | By Steve Scherer and Gabriele Pileri
AMATRICE, Italy (Reuters) - The death toll from a devastating earthquake in central Italy climbed to 250 on Thursday as rescue teams scoured mounds of rubble for a second day in towns and villages flattened by the natural disaster.
The 6.2 magnitude quake struck a cluster of mountain communities 140 km (85 miles) east of Rome early on Wednesday as people slept, destroying hundreds of homes.
Dozens of emergency workers with sniffer dogs clambered over piles of debris trying to find anyone still trapped, while cranes removed huge slabs of fallen masonry and trucks full of rubble left the area every few minutes.
"People like myself have lost everything, but at the same time the fact that we have survived means we have to move forward one minute at a time," said Alessandra Cioni, 45, who managed to crawl out of her crumpled house after the quake.
"We have been saved, not like half the people in this place who have lost their lives," she said, breaking down in tears.
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi promised to rebuild the shattered houses and said he would renew efforts to bolster Italy's flimsy defenses against earthquakes that regularly batter the country.
"We want those communities to have the chance of a future and not just memories," he told reporters in Rome.
A violent aftershock on Thursday afternoon sent rescuers fleeing as stones fell from the already severely damaged bell tower of the 15th century church of St. Augustine in Amatrice.
The jolt, which struck fear and panic in survivors, detached the church's facade, leaving it leaning dangerously over the main street where the emergency services were working under blue skies and a hot summer sun.
Almost 200 of the victims died in Amatrice, which is famed for a local pasta dish and was full of holidaymakers ahead of its 50th annual food festival, set for this weekend.
It was unclear how many visitors were in the area on Wednesday, making it hard to track the number of deaths.
"We need to know firstly the exact number of people who are missing before we can say what work is waiting for us," said fire department spokesperson Luca Cari.
"We will obviously move forward without interruption until we are sure there is no one left."
Five Romanians, one Spaniard, one Canadian and a number of other foreigners, some of them care-givers for the elderly, were believed to be among the dead, officials said.
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Aerial video taken by drones showed swathes of Amatrice, last year voted one of Italy's most beautiful historic towns, completely flattened.
The nearby towns of Pescara del Tronto, Arquata del Tronto and Accumoli fared little better, leaving thousands of people homeless. The Civil Protection Department has sent up tents for survivors, which risk being their homes for many weeks.
Italy has a poor record of rebuilding after quakes. About 8,300 people who were forced to leave their houses after a deadly earthquake in L'Aquila in 2009 are still living in temporary accommodation.
Renzi declined to predict when the homeless might be rehoused, but said it was his government's top priority. "This is not about setting challenges and making promises. We need the pace of a marathon runner," he said.
About 365 people injured in Wednesday's quake were hospitalized, the Civil Protection said, noting that about 5,000 people, including police, firefighters, soldiers and volunteers, were involved in post-quake operations.
As night fell on Thursday, rescuers said they had pulled 215 people from the rubble, but as the hours passed only bodies were recovered, including many children who had been spending their summer holidays in the region.
Two young boys and their parents died in the nearby town of Accumoli when the church bell tower crashed through their roof. Magistrates opened an investigation into whether there had been any negligence in recent restoration work.
Another investigation was opened into why Amatrice's school had collapsed, despite the fact it had only opened in 2012 and was meant to have been earthquake-proof.
Most of the buildings in the area were built hundreds of years ago, helping to explain the widespread destruction. Cultural Minister Dario Franceschini said all 293 culturally important sites, many of them churches, had either collapsed or been seriously damaged. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/italy-earthquake-death-toll-rises-247-regional-officials-044626380.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/c1a7f07b5def6e422ceb03a9ee3c4e8cf40deeade5af58f3627ddd4315145c4f.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T08:50:05 | null | 2016-08-28T04:55:37 | NEW YORK (AP) — The hero, a police inspector, prowls a city known more for its political malevolence than its street crime. If you read the local newspapers, you could think it's a city with almost no crime at all. There have been no murders reported there for years, no bank robberies, no muggings | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fnorth-korea-hardboiled-fictional-cop-keeps-watch-045313964.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | In North Korea, a hardboiled (and fictional) cop keeps watch | null | null | www.yahoo.com | FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2015, file photo, dawn breaks over Pyongyang, North Korea, as buildings poke through the midst. The hero, a police inspector, prowls a city known more for its political malevolence than its street crime. There have been no murders reported there for years, no bank robberies, no muggings. The city is Pyongyang. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)
NEW YORK (AP) — The hero, a police inspector, prowls a city known more for its political malevolence than its street crime. If you read the local newspapers, you could think it's a city with almost no crime at all. There have been no murders reported there for years, no bank robberies, no muggings, no rapes.
The city is Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, which has long hidden so many realities beneath layers of propaganda and isolation.
The hero is Inspector O, a policeman who knows those realities. And so, in many ways, does the policeman's creator, the bearded man in the crowded Manhattan restaurant who calls himself James Church.
Church doesn't want you to know his real name, his nationality or the name of the organization where he worked for so many years. All he'll say is that he was raised in California, that he spent decades watching North Korea as an intelligence officer for a Western country, and that he traveled there dozens of times.
Church has also, in novels about a tormented Pyongyang police inspector who loves his country despite its many failings, found a way to write about the country he studied for so long.
Inspector O — his first name is never given; his surname is common in Korea — is a hard-boiled, old-school investigator, a Raymond Chandler character trying to do the right thing in a brutal world. But he is also quick to defend that world, especially when outsiders criticize it.
"We know how the world sees us," he tells a Swiss intelligence official in "Bamboo and Blood," the third Inspector O novel. "But we are not as weak as people think — or hope."
Inspector O is "a good, solid police detective who just wants to do his work," said Church, whose sixth book in the series, "The Gentleman from Japan," will be released late this year. "He really doesn't care about politics. He knows it gets in the way, that it's annoying. He knows that sometimes he has to bow to it."
But O still refuses to wear one of the small lapel pins, decorated with portraits of North Korea's leaders that are ubiquitous in the country.
Church's books often center around outsiders — an Israeli spy, a Scottish policeman, that Swiss intelligence guy — thrust into a North Korea they constantly misunderstand.
"I couldn't pretend that I was writing from the inside. I couldn't pretend that I was a North Korean," said Church, whose first Inspector O novel was released a decade ago, and whose work has been warmly received by critics. Now retired from government work, he was in New York recently for a visit. "What interested me was the point at which the North Korean reality and our reality meet. Because I have a lot of experience with that, and that's where it illuminates what they think."
The world has spent years misunderstanding the North Korean reality, Church says, reducing it to cliches of goose-stepping soldiers, brain-washed people, and dictators waiting for the chance to reduce the world to a smoldering, radioactive pulp.
But much of what Inspector O encounters would be familiar anywhere.
Church's North Korea is a place of squabbling relatives, office bullies, bureaucratic turf wars and bitter spouses. It's a place where most people quietly go along with the government, but a few find ways to quietly push back. It's a place where politics is a constant presence, something to be extremely wary of, but where most people are more worried about office politics or troublesome children.
"We've seen time after time, when authoritarian countries fall, that people pretty much live normal lives," he said. "Some aspects of life are exaggerated in North Korea in many ways. But I think that when the end finally comes and we understand more fully how people live their lives, we'll be surprised."
Still, North Koreans do face myriad dangers, from arrests by the country's web of security agencies to powerful bureaucrats who can upend a person's life in a moment.
"There are always storm clouds on the horizon," said Church. "There is a thunderstorm that could break at any moment."
O regularly hints at those storms.
"We all knew that we were drifting, and we knew where," the policeman reflects in "Bamboo and Blood," which takes place during North Korea's brutal mid-1990s famine. "A nation of shriveled leaves floating on a doomed river toward the falls. A winter of endless sorrow." | https://www.yahoo.com/news/north-korea-hardboiled-fictional-cop-keeps-watch-045313964.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/0fc3ec974b505f63f967b92dc5c6ff996b2952b735899281d15c74374c38aa26.json |
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