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"Dylan Stableford",
"Senior Editor"
] | 2016-08-26T13:12:28 | null | 2016-08-25T19:15:39 | Donald Trump responded to Hillary Clinton’s attempt to tie his campaign to hate groups by comparing her email scandal to one of the most infamous scandals in American political history. “A secretary of state sold her office to corporations and foreign governments, betraying the public trust— putting | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Ftrump-clinton-watergate-over-again-000000687.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/snvxGNHcnmcmcn0LH4oK.w--/aD00OTY7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/527042eae201a98787ce65f09fa0e4ad | en | null | Trump on Clinton: ‘It’s Watergate all over again’ | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Donald Trump responded to Hillary Clinton’s attempt to tie his campaign to hate groups by comparing her email scandal to one of the most infamous scandals in American political history.
“It’s Watergate all over again,” Trump said at a rally in Manchester, N.H., on Thursday afternoon. “A secretary of state sold her office to corporations and foreign governments, betraying the public trust— putting innocent lives in danger — and then she went to great lengths to hide, delete, destroy and lie about the evidence. Just like her lie that she never sent any material marked classified. Lie after lie after lie.
“This is the corruption we expect to see in a Third World country, but not in America,” the Republican nominee continued. “Just imagine the damage to our security, to our integrity, to our standing in the world, if Hillary Clinton is allowed to sell the Oval Office the same way she sold her office as secretary of state. We cannot let this happen. We must vote on Nov. 8 to keep the American government from being sold to the highest bidder.”
Trump was making the allegations based on recent developments related to the Clinton Foundation. The conservative group Judicial Watch released emails earlier this week showing that a foundation official reached out to Clinton’s State Department for favors. And the Associated Press reported Tuesday that a number of people who met with Clinton when she was secretary of state also donated to her family foundation.
Clinton and her campaign have strongly pushed back on the insinuation that she had traded government favors for donations to the foundation.
“My work as secretary of state was not influenced by any outside forces,” Clinton said Wednesday on CNN. “I made policy decisions based on what I thought was right, to keep Americans safe and protect U.S. interests abroad. No wild political attack by Donald Trump is going to change that. And, in fact, the State Department has said itself that there is no evidence of any kind of impropriety at all.”
Trump’s rally began shortly before Clinton was expected to deliver a speech in Reno, Nev., linking the Republican nominee to the so-called “alt-right” movement.
“The news reports are that Hillary Clinton is going to try to accuse this campaign, and the millions of decent Americans who support this campaign, of being racists,” Trump said. “It’s the oldest play in the Democratic playbook. When Democratic policies fail, they are left with only this one tired argument. ‘You’re racist, you’re racist, you’re racist,’ they keep saying it. It’s a tired and disgusting argument. It’s the last refuge of the discredited politician.
“They keep going back to this same well,” he added. “But you know, the people have become very smart. They have heard it too many times before. The well is dry.”
Earlier Thursday, the Clinton campaign released a video showing white supremacists and members of the Ku Klux Klan praising Trump, and the Trump campaign quickly fired back.
There's a reason the most hateful fringe of the right wing is supporting Donald Trump.https://t.co/AqB3DM2m0N — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 25, 2016
“Hillary Clinton and her campaign went to a disgusting new low today as they released a video tying the Trump campaign with horrific racial images,” the Rev. Mark Burns, a Trump campaign surrogate, said in a statement. “This type of rhetoric and repulsive advertising is revolting and completely beyond the pale. I call on Hillary Clinton to disavow this video and her campaign for this sickening act that has no place in our world.”
Trump’s comments were hardly the only heated anti-Clinton remarks he has offered in recent days. At a rally in Mississippi Wednesday night, Trump called Clinton “a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings.”
In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper moments later, Clinton returned fire by dismissing the insult as the latest in a series of Trump smears.
“He is taking a hate movement mainstream,” Clinton said. “He’s brought it into his campaign. He’s bringing it to our communities and our country, and someone who’s questioned the citizenship of the first African-American president, who has courted white supremacists, who’s been sued for housing discrimination against communities of color, who’s attacked a judge for his Mexican heritage, and promised a mass deportation force is someone who is very much peddling bigotry and prejudice and paranoia.”
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:56 | null | 2016-08-24T17:40:02 | Scientists Wednesday announced the discovery of an Earth-sized planet orbiting the star nearest our Sun, opening up the glittering prospect of a habitable world that may one day be explored by robots. "We have finally succeeded in showing that a small-mass planet, most likely rocky, is orbiting | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fhabitable-planet-found-solar-system-next-door-171818166.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YtppQWm_X.xjR_gaKUk_SA--/aD0zNjA7dz02NDA7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-us/video/video.cbsnewsvideos.com/17be49a521725db3c22ecbd41d2541f5 | en | null | Habitable planet found in solar system next door | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Paris (AFP) - Scientists Wednesday announced the discovery of an Earth-sized planet orbiting the star nearest our Sun, opening up the glittering prospect of a habitable world that may one day be explored by robots.
Named Proxima b, the planet is in a "temperate" zone compatible with the presence of liquid water -- a key ingredient for life.
The findings, based on data collected over 16 years, were reported in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.
"We have finally succeeded in showing that a small-mass planet, most likely rocky, is orbiting the star closest to our solar system," said co-author Julien Morin, an astrophysicist at the University of Montpellier in southern France.
"Proxima b would probably be the first exoplanet visited by a probe made by humans," he told AFP.
An exoplanet is any planet outside our Solar System.
Lead author Guillem Anglada-Escude, an astronomer at Queen Mary University London, described the find as the "experience of a lifetime".
Working with European Southern Observatory telescopes in the north Chilean desert, his team used the so-called Doppler method to detect Proxima b and describe its properties.
The professional star-gazers spent 60 consecutive days earlier this year looking for signs of gravitational pull on its host star, Proxima Centauri.
Regular shifts in the star's light spectrum -- repeating every 11.2 days -- gave a tantalising clue.
They revealed that the star alternately moved towards and away from our Solar System at the pace of a leisurely stroll, about five kilometres (three miles) per hour.
- Goldilocks zone -
After cross-checking an inconclusive 2000-2014 dataset and eliminating other possible causes, the researchers determined that the tug of an orbiting planet was responsible for this tiny to-and-fro.
"Statistically, there is no doubt," Anglada-Escude told journalists in a briefing.
"We have found a planet around Proxima Centauri."
Proxima b is a mere four light years from the Solar System, meaning that it is essentially in our back yard on the scale of our galaxy, the Milky Way.
It has a mass around 1.3 times that of Earth, and orbits about seven million kilometres (4.35 million miles) from its star.
A planet so near to our Sun -- 21 times closer than Earth -- would be an unlivable white-hot ball of fire.
But Proxima Centauri is a so-called red dwarf, meaning a star that burns at a lower temperature.
As a result, the newly discovered planet is in a "Goldilocks" sweet spot: neither so hot that water evaporates, nor so cold that it freezes solid.
But liquid water is not the only essential ingredient for the emergence of life.
An atmosphere is also required, and on that score the researchers are still in the dark.
It all depends, they say, on how Proxima b evolved as a planet.
"You can come up with formation scenarios that end up with and Earth-like atmosphere, a Venus-like atmosphere" -- 96 percent carbon dioxide -- "or no atmosphere at all," said co-author Ansgar Reiners, an expert on "cold" stars at the University of Goettingen's Institute of Astrophysics in Germany.
Computer models suggest the planet's temperature, with an atmosphere, could be "in the range of minus 30 Celsius (-22 Fahrenheit) on the dark side, and 30C (80F) on the light side," Reiners told journalists.
Like the Moon in relation to Earth, Proxima b is "tidally locked," with one face always exposed to its star and the other perpetually in shadow.
Emerging life forms would also have to cope with ultraviolet and X-rays bombarding Proxima b 100 times more intensely than on Earth.
- Search for life -
An atmosphere would help deflect these rays, as would a strong magnetic field.
But even high doses of radiation do not preclude life, especially if we think outside the box, scientists say.
"We have to be very open-minded as to what we call 'life'," Jean Schneider, an expert on exoplanets at the Observatoire de Paris, told AFP.
Some 3,500 exoplanets have been discovered since the first confirmed sighting in 1995.
Most of these distant worlds -- like our own Jupiter and Neptune -- are composed of gas, an inhospitable environment for life.
Even the 10 percent that do have rocky surfaces are mostly too cold or too hot to host water in liquid form.
And -- until today -- the handful that are in a temperate zone are effectively beyond reach. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/habitable-planet-found-solar-system-next-door-171818166.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/d90a545fe19f62187bdbaac49237396a4c1cd522f144ff16362dcf035de56dbc.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T06:50:36 | null | 2016-08-29T21:03:00 | Celebrities remembered the actor for his comedic genius and talent. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fmel-brooks-russell-crowe-other-210200798.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/9tNvJ8E7bjDmJ547ggV1cg--/aD0zNjA7dz02NDA7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/homerun/etonline.tv/b19f34f5a0e747c8a77c8347ff28dc2b | en | null | Mel Brooks, Russell Crowe and Other Celebrities React on Social Media to Gene Wilder's Death: 'One of the Truly Great Talents' | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Beloved Willy Wonka actor Gene Wilder died Aug. 28, and as the news spread on Monday, celebrities took to social media to remember the star, his iconic films and his contributions to comedy.
Wilder, who was 83, passed away from complications resulting from Alzheimer's disease, his family reported on Monday. His frequent collaborator and friend, Mel Brooks, remembered Wilder as "one of the truly great talents."
NEWS: Iconic Comedian Gene Wilder Dies At Age 83
"Gene Wilder - One of the truly great talents of our time. He blessed every film we did with his magic & he blessed me with his friendship," he tweeted on Monday.
Gene Wilder-One of the truly great talents of our time. He blessed every film we did with his magic & he blessed me with his friendship. — Mel Brooks (@MelBrooks) August 29, 2016
Russell Crowe shared fond memories of watching the Wilder-Brooks classic, Blazing Saddles. "I saw Blazing Saddles 7 times at the cinema with my school friends. George St. Cows outside. Gene Wilder you were a genius. Rest in Peace," he wrote.
I saw Blazing Saddles 7 times at the cinema with my school friends . George St. Cows outside.
Gene Wilder you were a genius. Rest in Peace. — Russell Crowe (@russellcrowe) August 29, 2016
News Radio star Dave Foley said Wilder's talent was too great for the term 'actor.'
"Gene Wilder's talent was too great to be contained by the term 'actor.' Instead he should be thought of as a 'genre.' #RIPGeneWilder."
Gene Wilder's talent was too great to be contained by the term "actor". Instead he should be thought of as a "genre". #RIPGeneWilder — Dave Foley (@DaveSFoley) August 29, 2016
Comedian Gilbert Gottfried posted a throwback pic of himself with Wilder and his Silver Streak co-star, the late Richard Pryor.
RIP Gene Wilder pic.twitter.com/TuMQheQCa4 — Gilbert Gottfried (@RealGilbert) August 29, 2016
PHOTOS: Stars We've Lost In Recent Years
Read more tributes to the great comedic actor below.
Gene Wilder was a giant of comedy. His legacy of films is inspiring. A true genius.. — Billy Crystal (@BillyCrystal) August 29, 2016
Goodbye, Gene Wilder. You were one of the great screen comedians. Original and surprising every time. — Steve Martin (@SteveMartinToGo) August 29, 2016
#GeneWilder Au revoir to a gifted actor whose films I suggest you re-visit if you want to be thoroughly entertained. pic.twitter.com/FgcO4OVkYg — carl reiner (@carlreiner) August 29, 2016
Gene Wilder as one of my earliest heroes. Blazing Saddles, Willy Wonka, are CLINICS on comic acting. Sad to hear of his passing. — Rob Lowe (@RobLowe) August 29, 2016
Farewell #GeneWilder, comic genius. Thank you for all those happy happy hours. pic.twitter.com/O6oHS9TQqX — Stephen Fry (@stephenfry) August 29, 2016
I just read my Willy Wonka passed away. #RIPower Gene Wilder — Freddie Prinze Jr (@RealFPJr) August 29, 2016
so sad to learn of the passing of my good friend, gene wilder... such an incredible man... i'll miss you ❤️ — Harry Connick Jr (@HarryConnickJR) August 29, 2016
"Good Day Sir!"
RIP Gene Wilder — Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) August 29, 2016
R.I.P to the incomparable Gene Wilder. You filled so many childhoods, mine included, with wonder, laughter & joy. Thank you. — Zelda Williams (@zeldawilliams) August 29, 2016
The greatest comedic mind of my childhood is now gone. #RIP #GeneWilder & thank you 4 your pure imagination. This one hits hard. — Josh Gad (@joshgad) August 29, 2016
Oh, no. Gene Wilder. Seriously one of the funniest humans ever. Sad. RIP — marc maron (@marcmaron) August 29, 2016
"Come with me and we'll be in a world of pure imagination!" #GeneWilder pic.twitter.com/rNM3ZnUFdj — Allen Leech (@Allenleech) August 29, 2016
Bye bye Willie Wonka , God speed . Mr Gene Wilder R. I .P 🕊 — Roma Downey (@RealRomaDowney) August 29, 2016
Gene Wilder was such a HUGE part of my childhood!!! Thanks for everything Gene! You made a massive difference to millions. — Dave Navarro (@DaveNavarro) August 29, 2016 | https://www.yahoo.com/news/mel-brooks-russell-crowe-other-210200798.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/780a8bc4e9f41847df94f23fda97853b4028ff8e37504bcddcedeb4fac49ec7d.json |
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"Caitlin Dickson",
"Breaking News Reporter"
] | 2016-08-26T13:10:48 | null | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | A political movement most Americans have never heard of is suddenly in the spotlight, thanks to Donald Trump — who has hired one of its leading spokesmen to run his campaign — and Hillary Clinton, whose speech planned for Thursday afternoon is expected to denounce it. It’s the “alt-right,” a loose aggregation | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Falt-beginners-guide-000000002.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | What is the ‘alt-right’? A beginner’s guide | null | null | www.yahoo.com | A political movement most Americans have never heard of is suddenly in the spotlight, thanks to Donald Trump — who has hired one of its leading spokesmen to run his campaign — and Hillary Clinton, whose speech planned for Thursday afternoon is expected to denounce it.
It’s the “alt-right,” a loose aggregation of bloggers, radio hosts, think tanks and activists that emerged from the “white nationalist” movement of the 1980s and 1990s. It occupies positions on the far right of American politics, but it is not primarily about the issues that motivate mainstream conservatives, such as taxes or government spending. Instead, it postulates that the culture of white America is under attack, and sees itself as its defender.
Trump has for much of his campaign flirted with “alt-right” themes, mostly through retweets, some of which he later disavowed. When former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke — a major figure in the “alt-right” world — urged his supporters to back Trump, the candidate maintained, implausibly, he didn’t know anything about Duke before grudgingly disavowing the support.
But with the hiring of Breitbart Media chairman Steve Bannon as CEO of his campaign, Trump has embraced someone at the heart of the movement, who boasted of turning Breitbart.com into “the platform of the alt-right.” Duke himself celebrated the hiring with the boast: “We’ve taken over the Republican Party,” although presumably the party’s mainstream leadership would disagree.
There are, of course, many strains of thinking under the “alt-right” umbrella. Some factions are preoccupied with a return to “traditional values,” while others espouse a philosophy called “Human Biodiversity”: the belief that there are significant biological differences between people of different races, which justifies treating them differently. (The other name for this is “scientific racism.”) Anti-Semitism is common, in various forms, ranging from Holocaust denial to full-bore denunciations of Jews as agents of the collapse of white Christian society. Bannon, personally, has not been accused of anti-Semitism, however.
The common thread, however, that connects members of these different factions is a shared desire to protect Western civilization from what many refer to as “white genocide.” This manifests in opposition to things like immigration and multiculturalism, as well as a steadfast aversion to political correctness and to establishment politics of all kinds, including Republican.
From left, Andrew Anglin, The Daily Stormer; Richard Spencer, The Alternative Right; Jared Taylor, American Renaissance; Matthew Heimbach; David Duke; Milo Yiannopoulos and Steve Bannon. (Yahoo News photo illustration; photos: AP, Facebook, Getty Images, Reuters) More
The term “alt-right” was coined in 2008 by Richard Spencer, who runs the National Policy Institute, a white nationalist think tank. Spencer founded the influential Alternative Right blog in 2010 to define the movement’s core principles.
The term represented a “shallow rebranding” of white nationalism, according to Heidi Beirich, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks extremist groups. “They don’t want to be identified as white nationalists anymore,” she said. “People associate that with white supremacy, which is what it is, so instead they changed it to ‘alt-right.’”
And with that, Beirich said, the movement quickly made its way from the fringe “into right-wing politics.”
“They’re self-mainstreaming,” she said. “But it should be called out for what it is, which is just pure racism.”
Spencer’s own reasons for supporting Trump seem to directly reflect the alt-right’s central “white genocide” fears.
Asked by a reporter at the Republican National Convention about the possibility that some of Trump’s policy proposals, such as banning Muslims from entering the country or abolishing birthright citizenship, might be unconstitutional, Spencer replied, “Who cares? The whole point is that we’ve got to survive.”
Read More | https://www.yahoo.com/news/alt-beginners-guide-000000002.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/300f7e414ef4c5c6bfae7a1bcaf098318f89258967ec591ef2e4b8616b736fb0.json | |
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"Michael Walsh"
] | 2016-08-30T22:50:45 | null | 2016-08-30T21:10:19 | Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, speaks with reporters on his way to a vote at the Capitol. Donald Trump has railed against wind energy for years, but he’d face a backlash from members of his own party if he wins the White House and his administration pushes too hard on the issue. Sen. Chuck Grassley, | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fsen-chuck-grassley-trump-rid-000000600.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/2rE1_KN7x3DW112lyh6ixA--/aD00OTY7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/b00c0e0fa290099b1cbae5be48e8df66 | en | null | Sen. Chuck Grassley: Trump can get rid of wind energy ‘over my dead body’ | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Donald Trump has railed against wind energy for years, but he’d face a backlash from members of his own party if he wins the White House and his administration pushes too hard on the issue.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the author of the original wind energy tax credit in 1992, said a hypothetical President Trump wouldn’t be able to get rid of wind power in the U.S. as long as he’s alive. The GOP nominee has railed for years that wind farms are “ugly,” “obsolete” and “terrible for the environment,” among many other criticisms.
“If he wants to do away with it, he’ll have to get a bill through Congress, and he’ll do it over my dead body,” Grassley said Tuesday in an interview with Yahoo News.
Throughout President Barack Obama’s tenure in the Oval Office, electricity production from wind power in the U.S. has tripled, according to the industry’s major trade association.
The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), a trade group representing the industry, told Yahoo News exclusively that the nation’s installed wind power capacity has reached a milestone of 75 gigawatts, which is enough to power 20 million American homes with electricity.
Grassley said when the wind energy tax credit was first developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s, everyone believed that the U.S. was going to run out of fossil fuels, in particular petroleum and natural gas.
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“We knew it had environmental benefits that were very important, but I would say making sure we were more energy independent was the most important reason for supporting all forms of alternative energy,” Grassley continued. “When I got it passed, I didn’t know it would be the big thing it is today, where 31 percent of the electricity in Iowa comes from wind.”
For Iowans, he said, wind energy has created many jobs in construction, manufacturing and maintenance — and it supplements the incomes of farmers. The senator also said alternative energy sources bolsters U.S. national security, as it makes the country less dependent on the volatile Middle East.
According to Grassley, current members of his own party are mistaken when they cite small-government principles to argue that the U.S. should not subsidize wind energy. Those Republicans do not understand the environment from which the wind energy tax credit grew, and they should let the industry grow to maturity before phasing the incentive out, he said.
“Everything about alternative energy is good, good, good, good,” he said. “You’ve got a whole batch of new Republicans in town, and they take the position that government shouldn’t pick winners and losers, but they weren’t around back in the ’80s and early ’90s when we thought we were going to run out of it.”
According to the data provided by AWEA, at the end of 2008, when Obama was first elected president, installed wind power capacity in the United States was 25,065 megawatts — but now it’s 75,221 megawatts, or more than 75 gigawatts.
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“That’s been some exciting growth,” Tom Kiernan, CEO of the AWEA, said in a phone interview with Yahoo News. “President Obama and his administration have been strong supporters of wind energy, as have Republicans and Democrats up on Capitol Hill. It’s been the combination of strong policy support from the administration and from Congress.” | https://www.yahoo.com/news/sen-chuck-grassley-trump-rid-000000600.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/885334898d02cd5551f516c3e5f0bb8fea90d0dae845ed61e23e2722a9ff5cf8.json |
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"Jason Sickles",
"National Reporter"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:06 | null | 2016-08-23T20:00:15 | Violence erupted earlier this month in Milwaukee after a man fleeing a traffic stop was shot and killed by police. Authorities say video from the shooting will not be released during the investigation. Increasingly, citizens want video proof before they’ll accept what authorities tell them about police | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fpics-didn-t-happen-internet-000000525.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lJmQnIS91_JSdzAE30YcMQ--/aD03MjA7dz0xMjgwO3NtPTE7YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b24-/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/38fe0b8e15237c19e617c820ba9468e8 | en | null | ‘Pics or it didn’t happen’ puts increased pressure on cops to release body-cam video in police shooting cases | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Violence erupted earlier this month in Milwaukee after a man fleeing a traffic stop was shot and killed by police. Authorities say video from the shooting will not be released during the investigation. (Photo: Calvin Mattheis/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP)
“Pics or it didn’t happen.”
It’s a popular response on the Internet when someone makes an extraordinary or unverifiable claim.
But in many ways, it’s also become the voice of the public in the aftermath of officer-involved fatal shootings. Increasingly, citizens want video proof before they’ll accept what authorities tell them about police shootings. The demand is creating a Catch-22 for police chiefs trying to juggle the public’s right to know, officer safety and the integrity of a criminal investigation.
“Police departments in major cities across the country are aware of the delicate balance between what the community needs to know … and the criminal justice process,” Milwaukee Chief Edward Flynn said the day after an officer-involved fatal shooting sparked rioting in his city earlier this month.
View photos A Los Angeles Police officer wears body camera during a 2014 police presentation. (Photo: Damian Dovarganes/AP) More
Milwaukee, like a growing number of U.S. cities seeking better accountability and transparency, requires its officers to wear body cameras. The camera on patrolman Dominique Heaggan-Brown’s uniform was recording on Aug. 13 when he shot and killed Sylville Smith during a foot chase. Two other officers on the scene were also wearing body cameras.
A day after the shooting, Flynn described to reporters what he saw on the video.
“The individual was armed,” the chief said. “The individual did turn toward the officer with the firearm in his hand. You can’t tell when the officer discharges his firearm.”
The video hasn’t been released to the public, nor will it be anytime soon.
“Release of the videos would compromise the integrity of the investigation,” Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel told reporters Monday. Schimel, head of the state’s Department of Justice, which is leading the probe, said the footage most likely won’t be shown to the public unless charges are filed.
That decision isn’t sitting well among residents and activists.
“What the video depicts already has been described by local authorities, and keeping it from the public only fuels speculation on what it reveals,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel wrote in an editorial last week. “More harm in the form of unwarranted speculation can come from not releasing the video than from releasing it. Tensions in the Milwaukee community remain high.”
View photos Police stand guard during disturbances following the police shooting of a man in Milwaukee in early August. (Photo: Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) More
Milwaukee officials want the video released as soon as possible, but are at the mercy of state investigators. Some argue the police chief is already forming public opinion by discussing what he viewed on the cameras.
To release or not release has been a source of scrutiny in recent years, and the fact that seven sessions at an upcoming national conference for police chiefs will be devoted to body cameras is reflective of the increased spotlight on the issue.
“When there is an officer-involved shooting, I think police departments should err on the side of releasing that footage after they’ve made sure privacy concerns are protected,” Kami Chavis, a Wake Forest University law professor recently told Time. “There’s been so much distrust and a history of tensions between some communities and police. This can help the public in terms of increasing transparency.”
There is no national policy on when a police department must release body camera video. Footage is generally considered public information under state freedom of information laws, with the exception for video that is part of an ongoing investigation. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/pics-didn-t-happen-internet-000000525.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-23T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/74dc06edbbdd0326fcc1d1846788e95d02ac2e77ddd5ec1fd6d459c06e18969f.json |
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"Jason Sickles",
"National Reporter"
] | 2016-08-29T22:50:34 | null | 2016-08-29T18:41:42 | For the second time this year, the former New York City mayor and prominent Donald Trump surrogate is sharply criticizing Queen B — this time following the megastar’s show-stealing tribute to Black Lives Matter at Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards. “It’s a shame!” Giuliani said on Fox News on Monday morning | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Frudy-giuliani-calls-beyonces-vma-000000373.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/DIzUfy1mCr4W0g5PFu3FIw--/aD00NjU7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/33e5a02fccec0a974a5a976ecea18501 | en | null | Rudy Giuliani calls Beyoncé’s VMA performance ‘a shame’ | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Rudy Giuliani vs. Beyoncé, Round 2.
For the second time this year, the former New York City mayor and prominent Donald Trump surrogate is sharply criticizing Queen B — this time following the megastar’s show-stealing tribute to Black Lives Matter at Sunday’s MTV Video Music Awards.
“It’s a shame!” Giuliani said on Fox News on Monday morning while discussing Beyoncé’s 15-minute performance, which included a visual composition about gun violence against black people in America.
Just as he did in June, the former mayor asserted, “I saved more black lives than any of those people you saw on stage.”
View photos Beyoncé, Rudy Giuliani (Photos: Lucas Jackson/Reuters, Carlo Allegri/Reuters) More
Beyoncé arrived at the VMAs with the mothers of four victims of fatal police shootings whose deaths sparked the national outrage that gave rise to the Black Lives Matter movement. Accompanying the pop superstar were the mothers of Trayvon Martin (Sybrina Fulton), Michael Brown (Lesley McSpadden), Eric Garner (Gwen Carr) and Oscar Grant III (Wanda Johnson). Fulton, McSpadden and Carr were also featured in a scene holding portraits of their slain sons in the film component of Beyoncé’s visual album “Lemonade,” which was released earlier this year.
During a performance of the song “Pray You Catch Me,” the opening track on the album, Beyoncé stood among 16 dancers all bathed in white spotlights. As she sang, the dancers fell to the ground alone or in pairs in time with beats from the music, and the lights pooling around them turned blood red, another apparent nod to the victims of gun violence.
After all 16 dancers had fallen, Beyoncé walked forward onstage alone and a black man wearing a hoodie followed her as the song ended — an image that recalled slain Florida teen Trayvon Martin. Martin was wearing a hoodie when he was deemed suspicious by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, who fatally shot the young man in February 2012.
View photos Beyoncé’s guests at the VMAs included the mothers of four victims of fatal police shootings. (Getty Images) More
“Her dancers were circling around her and one by one, they fell to the ground, and there were red lights underneath them. And that was supposed to symbolize cops killing black individuals,” “Fox & Friends” co-host Ainsley Earhardt told Giuliani while discussing the performance.
Giuliani responded: “You’re asking the wrong person because I had five uncles who were police officers, two cousins who were, one who died in the line of duty. I ran the largest and best police department in the world, the New York City Police Department. And I saved more black lives than any of those people you saw on stage by reducing crime and particularly homicide by 75 percent.”
Giuliani scowled when co-host Brian Kilmeade commented, “And Beyoncé is an extremely popular and powerful performer, and when she does stuff like that, that message to the next generation is pretty indelible.”
“It’s a shame!” Rudy remarked. “It’s a shame!”
It was not the first time the 2008 Republican presidential hopeful attacked Beyoncé for being anti-police: He called her appearance at this year’s Super Bowl “ridiculous.” Some interpreted the costumes and choreography from her Super Bowl halftime performance of “Formation” as a political statement and homage to the Black Panther party.
Giuliani was among her critics.
“This is football, not Hollywood, and I thought it was really outrageous that she used it as a platform to attack police officers who are the people who protect her and protect us, and keep us alive,” he said during an appearance on the Fox News Channel. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/rudy-giuliani-calls-beyonces-vma-000000373.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/766d286a65e7c23393e80b3472803a58f738f3a167847b60484de239e867d30e.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T16:50:09 | null | 2016-08-28T10:54:30 | AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The U.S. will reach its target this week of taking in 10,000 Syrian war refugees in a year-old resettlement program, the U.S. ambassador to Jordan said Sunday, after meeting families headed to California and Virginia. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2F10-000th-syrian-reaches-us-week-resettlement-program-075552811.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | 10,000th Syrian reaches US this week in resettlement program | null | null | www.yahoo.com | AMMAN, Jordan _ In this photo taken Sunday, August 28, 2016, Syrian refugee Nadim Fawzi Jouriyeh, 49, speaks to reporters at the Amman, Jordan office of the International Organization for Migration. Jouriyeh is flanked by his sons Farouq, 8, and Hamzeh, 12. The six-member Jouriyeh family will head to San Diego, California, as part of a year-long program to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees in the United States.(AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The U.S. will reach its target this week of taking in 10,000 Syrian war refugees in a year-old resettlement program, the U.S. ambassador to Jordan said Sunday, after meeting families headed to California and Virginia.
The resettlement program has emerged as an issue in the U.S. presidential campaign, with Republican nominee Donald Trump alleging displaced Syrians pose a potential security threat.
Alice Wells, the U.S. ambassador to Jordan, said Sunday that keeping Americans safe and taking in some of the world's most vulnerable people are not mutually exclusive.
"Refugees are the most thoroughly screened category of travelers to the United States, and Syrian refugees are subject to even greater scrutiny," she said.
Wells said the target of resettling 10,000 Syrian refugees in the U.S. in the 2016 fiscal year will be reached Monday, as several hundred Syrians depart from Jordan over 24 hours.
The Jouriyeh family, which attended Sunday's short ceremony, is headed to San Diego, California.
Nadim Fawzi Jouriyeh, 49, a former construction worker from the war-ravaged Syrian city of Homs, said he feels "fear and joy, fear of the unknown and our new lives, but great joy for our children's lives and future."
Jouriyeh, who suffers from heart problems, will be traveling with his wife, Rajaa, 42, and their four children. Their oldest son, 14-year-old Mohammed, said he is eager to sign up for school in San Diego and hopes to study medicine one day.
The resettlement program focuses on the most vulnerable refugees, including those who were subjected to violence or torture or are sick.
Close to 5 million Syrians have fled civil war since 2011. Most struggle to survive in tough conditions in neighboring countries, including Jordan, which hosts close to 660,000 Syrian refugees.
Only a small percentage of Syrian refugees have been resettled to third countries. Instead, donor countries are trying to invest more in job creation and education for refugees in regional host countries to encourage them to stay there instead of moving onward, including to Europe.
Wells said the U.S. has taken in more refugees from around the world over the years than all other nations combined. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/10-000th-syrian-reaches-us-week-resettlement-program-075552811.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/9de5b1080d114d01e2827b91423dd96efde002ca1dc5417993a657044f7178e5.json | |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:26 | null | 2016-08-23T11:41:57 | A white man charged with the shooting deaths of nine black churchgoers in Charleston “self-radicalized” in the months before the attack and grew more entrenched in his beliefs in white supremacy, according to court papers prosecutors filed this week in federal court. The information filed Monday was | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Ffeds-church-shooting-suspect-entrenched-beliefs-114157914.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Feds: Church shooting suspect entrenched in his beliefs | null | null | www.yahoo.com | This June 18, 2015, file photo, provided by the Charleston County Sheriff's Office shows Dylann Roof. The Justice Department intends to seek the death penalty against Roof, the man charged with killing nine black parishioners last year in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Tuesday, May 24, 2016. (Charleston County Sheriff's Office via AP)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A white man charged with the shooting deaths of nine black churchgoers in Charleston “self-radicalized” in the months before the attack and grew more entrenched in his beliefs in white supremacy, according to court papers prosecutors filed this week in federal court.
The information filed Monday was part of a list of more than a dozen expert witnesses whom prosecutors intend to call in Dylann Roof’s federal death penalty trial later this year.
Roof, 22, is charged in the June 2015 deaths of nine black parishioners at Emanuel AME Church. He also faces a possible death sentence if convicted of murder charges in state court.
Roof’s actions, according to the government, were “consistent with the concept of leaderless resistance and martyrdom advocated by white supremacy extremist groups and self-radicalization leading to violence.” Experts in white supremacy, the government notes, are expected to testify on Roof’s “extremist ideology, including a belief in the need to use violence to achieve white supremacy.”
Slideshow: 9 killed at church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina >>>
View photos Cathleen Thomas (R) leads a prayer with Kinlee Thomas (L), Hannah Blystone, and Caylee Thomas outside of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, June 17, 2016 in Charleston, South Carolina. Suspect Dylann Roof is charged with killing nine parishioners during a bible study session one year ago today at the historic Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images) More
Roof’s increasing tendency toward white supremacist ideology, the government alleges, came in Roof’s “travel to such race-relevant destinations as the site of his crimes and locations that have connections to the antebellum and Confederate eras.” Experts also will comment on patterns in Roof’s travel, personal interests and dress, which the government says will show as being “consistent with the adoption of white supremacist beliefs through self-radicalization.”
Authorities have long said they believed Roof was the author of an online manifesto in which he embraced Confederate symbols and talked about white supremacy. Handwriting analysis experts are expected to testify that he wrote another similar document while jailed after his arrest.
Slideshow: Funeral services for Sen. Clementa Pinckney >>>
Also Monday, a media attorney objected to closing a hearing on request by Roof’s defense to keep some evidence out of Roof’s federal trial. U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel has set a Sept. 1 hearing, which he has said he intends to close to protect Roof’s right to a fair trial.
Attorney Jay Bender, representing The Post and Courier of Charleston, has written the judge asking to be heard before any decision to close the hearing. Bender says reasonable alternatives should be considered and if the hearing is closed, reasons for doing so should be on the record.
In another filing Monday, prosecutors disputed earlier arguments made by Roof’s attorneys that the death penalty is unconstitutional and should therefore be removed as a possible punishment if he’s convicted in federal court.
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Kinnard can be reached at http://twitter.com/MegKinnardAP. Read more of her work at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/meg-kinnard/ . | https://www.yahoo.com/news/feds-church-shooting-suspect-entrenched-beliefs-114157914.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-23T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/8901975ad0627dc8fa36cfebb658f5bc8b72ecd974d810edc7518db977d37faf.json | |
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"Jon Ward",
"Senior Political Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-26T13:13:35 | null | 2016-08-25T19:23:34 | One of the many ways that Donald Trump has weakened the Republican Party is by doing little in his presidential campaign to target voters through the use of data, analytics and digital tools, a group of Republicans said Thursday. “I don’t think there’s anyone who’s going to look at the Trump campaign | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Ftrumps-lack-of-a-data-operation-is-hurting-the-gop-operatives-say-192334775.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MxWFqcNKtOnAVdDoJ_5aeg--/aD0xMjMzO3c9MjA0ODtzbT0xO2FwcGlkPXl0YWNoeW9u/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/d1c7f0d9da39b678cdece77682aceee9 | en | null | Trump’s lack of a data operation is hurting the GOP, operatives say | null | null | www.yahoo.com | One of the many ways that Donald Trump has weakened the Republican Party is by doing little in his presidential campaign to target voters through the use of data, analytics and digital tools, a group of Republicans said Thursday.
“I don’t think there’s anyone who’s going to look at the Trump campaign and think that they ran a strong data operation,” said Chris Wilson, who oversaw data analytics for Sen. Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign.
Wilson’s concern is that a presidential campaign is the biggest opportunity a political party has to create a culture that helps the party win elections up and down the ticket.
“The last two campaigns, even though you may have had losing [Republican] campaigns, you had very solid operations for digital and analytics — the overall data side — that came out of those campaigns. I don’t feel that there’s anything that continues from the Trump campaign,” Wilson said. “We are losing the ability to grow our Republican ecosystem from a standpoint of the areas where we are already behind, and that is on the digital side and the data side and the analytics side.”
“That’s a shame,” Wilson said during a panel conversation at Washington’s Howard Theater, convened by the Republican data firm Targeted Victory, which has handled some electronic payment processing for the Trump campaign this year.
After the 2008 and 2012 campaigns, Republicans vowed to improve their use of data in elections. President Obama’s two presidential campaigns were lauded for their innovative uses of technology. Some press coverage of Obama’s wizardry might have been overhyped, but smart Republican consultants understood that data and digital are important new tools that can make big differences in close elections.
Yet Trump has for much of his candidacy scoffed at the role of data and individualized targeting of voters. He dismissed it as “overrated” in May, and said his candidacy would succeed based on holding large rallies.
Since then, his campaign has paid a paltry sum of $100,000 to one data targeting group, Cambridge Analytics, according to the most recent federal disclosure forms. Cruz’s campaign paid the same group almost $6 million in the primary.
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton inherited the data-infused campaign culture built during Obama’s two election cycles — people, best practices and information — and is currently preparing to maximize her vote totals in the increasingly important area of early voting.
Trump, by contrast, is not only woefully underprepared to run a ground game in most battleground states, but has also recently reshuffled his top campaign leadership for the third time this year. Now, with former Fox News chairman Roger Ailes advising him and preparing him for the fall debates with Clinton, he is betting everything on a mass media approach to the campaign.
David Carney, a Republican consultant who ran Rick Perry’s 2012 campaign, drew laughs from the crowd inside the Howard Theater when he mocked the Trump campaign’s lack of investment in data and digital.
“His digital effort will be cost-efficient,” Carney said. “Money spent on digital and data per vote will be a record low.” | https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-lack-of-a-data-operation-is-hurting-the-gop-operatives-say-192334775.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/44b946fbf67b459bcb5d85121a6728b8e503cb93737cf540ecd0052af25c0fb6.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T00:49:46 | null | 2016-08-26T21:40:59 | WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday blocked the University of North Carolina from enforcing a state law requiring transgender people to use single-sex restrooms and locker rooms that correspond to the gender on their birth certificate. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Schroeder' | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Frelief-granted-transgender-students-fighting-north-carolinas-bathroom-214059033.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Relief granted to transgender students fighting North Carolina's bathroom law | null | null | www.yahoo.com | A gender-neutral bathroom is seen at the University of California, Irvine in Irvine, California September 30, 2014. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo
By Colleen Jenkins
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday blocked the University of North Carolina from enforcing a state law requiring transgender people to use single-sex restrooms and locker rooms that correspond to the gender on their birth certificate.
U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Schroeder's order granting a preliminary injunction applies only to the three transgender plaintiffs named in a lawsuit challenging the measure, known as House Bill 2 or HB 2. North Carolina in March became the first U.S. state to bar people from using restrooms in government buildings and public schools consistent with their gender identity.
“In short, UNC may not apply HB2’s one-size-fits-all approach to what must be a case-by-case inquiry,” wrote Schroeder, noting that his order effectively returned all involved to the status quo before the new law passed “wherein public agencies accommodated the individual transgender Plaintiffs on a case-by-case basis, rather than applying a blanket rule to all people in all facilities under all circumstances.”
The judge, an appointee of Republican former President George W. Bush, heard oral arguments in the case on Aug. 1 in Winston-Salem.
Lawyers for Republican Governor Pat McCrory and other Republican lawmakers who support the measure said it offered common-sense protection of state residents' privacy and safety, even though it included no specific language for enforcement.
The U.S. Justice Department and the American Civil Liberties Union, which sued the state on behalf of three transgender people, called the law stigmatizing and unconstitutional.
Bathroom access has become a flashpoint in the legal and cultural battle over transgender rights in the United States. An estimated 0.6 percent of U.S. adults identify as transgender, according to the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law. Debates about which public restroom facilities they and transgender children should use have divided courts, state legislatures and schools.
(Additional reporting by Letitia Stein; Editing by Sandra Maler and Andrew Hay) | https://www.yahoo.com/news/relief-granted-transgender-students-fighting-north-carolinas-bathroom-214059033.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/8d6d092504f8f47a70a8b59e18684d311904b912bc8c1bee5bb6046e0c637024.json | |
[] | 2016-08-29T20:50:31 | null | 2016-08-29T20:41:33 | NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — About 400 elementary school students attended school in Sandy Hook Monday for the first time since a shooting rampage there killed 20 first-graders and six educators. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fschool-opens-sandy-hook-shooting-rampage-173649261.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | New school opens at site of Sandy Hook shooting rampage | null | null | www.yahoo.com | FILE - In this July 29, 2016 file photo, people attend an open house at the new Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Students attended the first day of classes there on Monday, Aug. 29, 2016. The new building replaced the one that was demolished where 20 first graders and six educators were shot and killed in December 2012. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — About 400 elementary school students attended school in Sandy Hook Monday for the first time since a shooting rampage there killed 20 first-graders and six educators.
School Superintendent Joseph Erardi says it was a great and uneventful day at the new 86,000-square-foot Sandy Hook Elementary School, which was built to replace the one torn down after the December 2012 shooting.
The $50 million replacement was built on the same property, but not in the old footprint.
About 70 current Sandy Hook students attended the old school when the shooting occurred. School officials say about 35 of them were in the building at the time, but none witnessed the shootings. Those students are now fourth graders.
Erardi credited parents for creating a smooth first day back for those students.
After the shooting, the students were sent to a school in neighboring Monroe. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/school-opens-sandy-hook-shooting-rampage-173649261.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/dabf9b380386d9713740dd539bfcefe9d4a1c453e8d1cd52c4628c99dd152490.json | |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:58 | null | 2016-08-24T01:29:00 | “Sometimes when these kinds of things happen, it can seem too much to bear, but what I want the people of Louisiana to know is that you’re not alone on this,” he said. The president praised the Federal Emergency Management Agency for its efforts coordinating a federal response, which he said has already | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fpresident-obama-arrives-louisiana-survey-flood-damage-173005525--abc-news-topstories.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | President Obama Pledges to Rebuild Louisiana After Surveying Flood Damage | null | null | www.yahoo.com | After touring recovery efforts in a flooded Baton Rouge neighborhood this afternoon, President Obama pledged to help rebuild Louisiana, insisting his visit there “is not a photo-op.”
“I come here first and foremost to say that the prayers of the entire nation are with everybody who lost loved ones. We are heartbroken by the loss of life,” he said during remarks after his tour of the flooding. “There are also still people who are desperately trying to track down friends and family. We are going to keep on helping them every way that we can.”
Obama observed that “people’s lives have been upended by this flood.”
“Sometimes when these kinds of things happen, it can seem too much to bear, but what I want the people of Louisiana to know is that you’re not alone on this,” he said. “Even after the TV cameras leave, the whole country is going to continue to support you and help you until we get folks back in their homes and lives are rebuilt.”
The president praised the Federal Emergency Management Agency for its efforts coordinating a federal response, which he said has already reached $127 million in assistance.
“Now, federal assistance alone won’t be enough to make people’s lives whole again, so I’m asking every American to do what you can to help get families and local businesses back on their feet,” Obama said. “So let me just remind folks: Sometimes once the floodwaters pass, people’s attention spans pass. This is not a one-off. This is not a photo-op issue. This is ‘How do you make sure that a month from now, three months from now, six months from now, people still are getting the help that they need?’”
Slideshow: Obama visits flood-damaged Baton Rouge >>>
View photos President Barack Obama (2nd R), flanked by U.S. Senator David Vitter (R-LA) (3rd R) and U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) (R), tours of a flood-affected neighborhood in Zachary, La., Aug. 23, 2016. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst) More
Before he leaves this afternoon, the president is scheduled to meet with the family of Alton Sterling as well as the families of deceased and injured officers of the Baton Rouge Police Department and East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office.
Air Force One touched down at approximately 11:45 a.m. Central time. The president then traveled in his motorcade to the Castle Place neighborhood, where he visited residents affected by the flood.
For days, critics hammered Obama for continuing his vacation on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts as flooding wreaked havoc on Louisiana, claiming the lives of at least 13 people and displacing tens of thousands of residents.
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Obama declared a major disaster for Louisiana on Aug. 14, making federal resources available to help with home repairs, temporary housing, low-cost loans for uninsured property losses and other programs to help individuals and business owners recover. The White House disclosed that he received a series of briefings on the flooding during his vacation.
In Castle Place he viewed some of the flood damage, thanked rescuers, spoke with to officials who have been managing the response effort and greeted citizens whose lives have been thrown into chaos because of the flooding. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/president-obama-arrives-louisiana-survey-flood-damage-173005525--abc-news-topstories.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/f882f0d0aaf826b56f570aa74bb344614ca722cf64aba0e64afd10dc123f40a4.json | |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:11:59 | null | 2016-08-24T01:51:38 | WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation. It's an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fmany-donors-clinton-foundation-met-her-state-183315225--election.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/zb4DuVG2lho7mEdPJgEBXg--/aD0xMDgwO3c9MTkyMDtzbT0xO2FwcGlkPXl0YWNoeW9u/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/video/video.associatedpressfree.com/7e48908750335e9dfec0718351dc9c2a | en | null | Many donors to Clinton Foundation met with her at State | null | null | www.yahoo.com | WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half the people outside the government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation. It's an extraordinary proportion indicating her possible ethics challenges if elected president.
At least 85 of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs, according to a review of State Department calendars released so far to The Associated Press. Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and 20 gave more than $1 million.
Donors who were granted time with Clinton included an internationally known economist who asked for her help as the Bangladesh government pressured him to resign from a nonprofit bank he ran; a Wall Street executive who sought Clinton's help with a visa problem; and Estee Lauder executives who were listed as meeting with Clinton while her department worked with the firm's corporate charity to counter gender-based violence in South Africa.
The meetings between the Democratic presidential nominee and foundation donors do not appear to violate legal agreements Clinton and former president Bill Clinton signed before she joined the State Department in 2009. But the frequency of the overlaps shows the intermingling of access and donations, and fuels perceptions that giving the foundation money was a price of admission for face time with Clinton. Her calendars and emails released as recently as this week describe scores of contacts she and her top aides had with foundation donors.
The AP's findings represent the first systematic effort to calculate the scope of the intersecting interests of Clinton Foundation donors and people who met personally with Clinton or spoke to her by phone about their needs.
The 154 did not include U.S. federal employees or foreign government representatives. Clinton met with representatives of at least 16 foreign governments that donated as much as $170 million to the Clinton charity, but they were not included in AP's calculations because such meetings would presumably have been part of her diplomatic duties.
Clinton's campaign said the AP analysis was flawed because it did not include in its calculations meetings with foreign diplomats or U.S. government officials, and the meetings AP examined covered only the first half of Clinton's tenure as secretary of state.
"It is outrageous to misrepresent Secretary Clinton's basis for meeting with these individuals," spokesman Brian Fallon said. He called it "a distorted portrayal of how often she crossed paths with individuals connected to charitable donations to the Clinton Foundation."
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump fiercely criticized the links between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department, saying his general election opponent had delivered "lie after lie after lie."
"Hillary Clinton is totally unfit to hold public office," he said at a rally Tuesday night in Austin, Texas. "It is impossible to figure out where the Clinton Foundation ends and the State Department begins. It is now abundantly clear that the Clintons set up a business to profit from public office."
Last week, the Clinton Foundation moved to head off ethics concerns about future donations by announcing changes planned if Clinton is elected.
On Monday, Bill Clinton said in a statement that if his wife were to win, he would step down from the foundation's board and stop all fundraising for it. The foundation would also accept donations only from U.S. citizens and what it described as independent philanthropies, while no longer taking gifts from foreign groups, U.S. companies or corporate charities. Clinton said the foundation would no longer hold annual meetings of its international aid program, the Clinton Global Initiative, and it would spin off its foreign-based programs to other charities.
Those planned changes would not affect more than 6,000 donors who have already provided the Clinton charity with more than $2 billion in funding since its creation in 2000.
"There's a lot of potential conflicts and a lot of potential problems," said Douglas White, an expert on nonprofits who previously directed Columbia University's graduate fundraising management program. "The point is, she can't just walk away from these 6,000 donors." | https://www.yahoo.com/news/many-donors-clinton-foundation-met-her-state-183315225--election.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/924c1a67e58c0762c2bb48b822bcef0dcea42b092d9dd83d6ce2644fd0a397c6.json |
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"Ash Gallagher"
] | 2016-08-29T10:50:20 | null | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | For many peshmerga, it is the first time many have fired an M16 assault rifle. Between training sets, they laugh and joke with each other, but when it’s time to focus, they work hard over the long days of the burning summer. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fground-peshmerga-preparing-retake-mosul-090042341.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | On the ground with the peshmerga, preparing to retake Mosul | null | null | www.yahoo.com | ERBIL, Iraq — Kurdish peshmerga forces in Northern Iraq raise their rifles during another day of training; Italian soldiers carefully instruct them on how to accurately hit their target, which is a dummy board 25 meters away.
For many peshmerga, it is the first time many have fired an M16 assault rifle. They are learning new methods of fighting and experimenting with new firearms.
They are exchanging Russian weapons for American ones.
Their shots pop across the field, and small puffs of smoke jump off the ground as bullet shells are shed on the grassy hills.
When they’ve finished their rounds, they walk down the line to their targets with coalition trainers to review their shots and see if they made their target.
In another area of the base, soldiers sit in the shade with unloaded M16s, practicing disassembling and reassembling the weapons. Each one carefully lays the pieces of the weapon in front of him and then works out the right way to put it back together again.
At three different locations in Northern Iraq, the United States and coalition forces from seven nations are training nearly 2,500 peshmerga soldiers in infantry tactics, heavy weapons training as well as medical and chemical training.
At this base, Italian soldiers were conducting most of the training. The American military is not directly training the peshmerga, but takes a supporting role, advising on U.S. weapons and equipment.
The Kurdish peshmerga soldiers have a reputation as one of the toughest fighting forces in the region.
They are in training, now, for what some consider one of the most important battles in the war against the Islamic State — the fight to retake Mosul. The armed group has controlled the key Iraqi city for more than two years.
A U.S. Army spokesperson in Erbil told Yahoo News, “The training is 10 weeks. [Then] they’re given back to the ministry of peshmerga” to be assigned to units facing off with fighters from the Islamic State.
Some of the men were old enough to have adult sons and have been fighting for many years. But the U.S. spokesperson believes their experience will help with the younger soldiers and in the fight ahead.
“Some have [already] been on the front line,” the spokesperson said. “They’re motivated, and we give them brand-new equipment.”
The peshmerga soldiers seemed grateful to the coalition forces for their training and excited to learn new tactics.
Between training sets, they laugh and joke with each other, but when it’s time to focus, they work hard over the long days of the burning summer.
One of the peshmerga ground commanders, Wassim, has 32 men under him; he told Yahoo News, “We learn [to fight] three ways: while stand, on our knees and on the ground. We also learn about IEDs [improvised explosive devices].” Identifying and dealing with IEDs is an essential skill for fighting ISIS.
Another soldier, Aram, who had only been training for two weeks, said, “We want to thank the coalition for the training, and we feel we are more ready. We are learning many things.”
View photos Coalition trainers help Kurdish peshmerga check their shots at the shooting range. (Photo: Ash Gallagher/Yahoo News) More
The United States government announced in April it would commit nearly $415 million to aid the peshmerga forces, for various purposes including weapons, training and monthly stipends for fighters.
A military spokesman for coalition operations in Iraq and Syria, Col. John Dorrian told Yahoo News: “We [the U.S.] do provide a lot of funding for the peshmerga and continue to do so because they are a critical element, but ultimately the framework that we have says that the government of Iraq is in charge.”
The entire coalition is made up of 60 countries, and the aim that unites everyone, Dorrian said, is to defeat ISIS. “One unifying factor, all of these groups, everyone has an interest in the eradication of ISIS,” he said. “They have to be militarily defeated here, as a foundational step, and then continued work must be done to drain the swamp on their sick ideology.” | https://www.yahoo.com/news/ground-peshmerga-preparing-retake-mosul-090042341.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/3c0ec9e86ed3791e9baf403edf9921709d6f0ba782b0b5e7cdea0485e6c4de13.json | |
[
"Hunter Walker",
"National Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-29T16:50:32 | null | 2016-08-29T15:44:26 | Huma Abedin, a top campaign aide to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, said Monday that she had decided to separate from her husband, former Rep. Anthony Weiner. The announcement followed a New York Post report detailing allegations that he had conducted sexually explicit communications | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fhuma-abedin-anthony-weiner-000000126.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/zmOZhKU3h481d2IO2A.puA--/aD01MjE7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/682e76cf2f34029960dc21975a964c40 | en | null | Huma Abedin announces separation from Anthony Weiner | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Huma Abedin, a top campaign aide to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, said Monday that she had decided to separate from her husband, former Rep. Anthony Weiner.
The announcement followed a New York Post report detailing allegations that he had conducted sexually explicit communications with yet another woman on the Internet.
“After long and painful consideration and work on my marriage, I have made the decision to separate from my husband,” Abedin said in a statement that has been published by multiple media outlets. “Anthony and I remain devoted to doing what is best for our son, who is the light of our life. During this difficult time, I ask for respect for our privacy.”
Weiner, who also mounted an unsuccessful mayoral campaign in New York City in 2013, did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Yahoo News.
The Democrat resigned from the House of Representatives in 2011 after accidentally tweeting a photo he intended to send to a woman online. Weiner was defeated in the mayoral election after a new series of photos and messages he exchanged were leaked by the woman he sent them to. His failed mayoral bid was documented in the movie “Weiner,” released earlier this year.
His latest sexually explicit communications were revealed in a Post article published on Sunday night. The paper described a series of messages Weiner reportedly sent to a woman over a period of 19 months. The correspondence included one shot of Weiner lying next to his young son.
Weiner and Abedin were married in 2010. Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, performed the ceremony.
Disclosure: This reporter briefly worked with Weiner when the former congressman was a columnist at Business Insider. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/huma-abedin-anthony-weiner-000000126.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/21b0482d73f7e87362984fccd85b6495595035ece5ddd85f8611bc87f43f635f.json |
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"Dylan Stableford",
"Senior Editor"
] | 2016-08-26T13:12:23 | null | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | The U.S. Army has pulled a slide from a training presentation that described Hillary Clinton as an “insider” threat to national security. The slide, which was used in a PowerPoint presentation at Missouri’s Fort Leonard Wood, included the image of the Democratic nominee alongside pictures of disgraced | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Farmy-training-slide-clinton-fort-000000872.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Army pulls training slide listing Hillary Clinton as example of ‘insider’ threat | null | null | www.yahoo.com | The U.S. Army has pulled a slide from a training presentation that described Hillary Clinton as an “insider” threat to national security.
The slide, which was used in a PowerPoint presentation at Missouri’s Fort Leonard Wood, included the image of the Democratic nominee alongside pictures of disgraced retired Gen. David Petraeus, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan and Washington Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis and described them as “insiders” who were “careless or disgruntled” government employees.
An image of the slide, which had been used in local training presentations at the outpost since early 2015, was posted to Facebook on Sunday.
According to Maj. Thomas Campbell, a U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command spokesman, the slide has since been removed from the presentation.
View photos An image of the slide. (U.S. Army W.T.F! Moments via Facebook) More
“As is common with Army training requirements, the local unit was given latitude to develop their own training products to accomplish the overall training objective,” Campbell said in a statement to the Army Times. “This particular presentation had not been reviewed or approved by the unit’s leadership and does not reflect the position of the Army.”
Petraeus, who served 37 years in the Army, resigned as CIA director in 2012 over reports he provided Paula Broadwell, his biographer turned mistress, with classified information.
Manning, a former Army soldier, was convicted in 2013 of disclosing thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks.
Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor turned whistleblower, disclosed classified information that revealed the spy agency’s controversial domestic surveillance program before fleeing the United States in 2013 and ending up in Russia.
Clinton’s use of a private email server for State Department business was investigated by the FBI, which declined to pursue criminal charges. However, FBI Director James Comey did say there was evidence that Clinton and her colleagues were “extremely careless” while handling some classified information.
According to the Army Times article, military officials “recently strengthened its insider-threat training protocols, requiring more soldiers to receive in-person presentations.” | https://www.yahoo.com/news/army-training-slide-clinton-fort-000000872.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/c42283b6b09a3cb18a6f5e8aa711c113418d66632c29c933cb122e36e43efdc8.json | |
[] | 2016-08-26T14:49:40 | null | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | France's highest administrative court on Friday suspended a ban on full-body burkini swimsuits that has outraged Muslims and opened divisions within the government, pending a definitive ruling. The Conseil d'Etat gave the ruling following a request from the League of Human Rights to overturn | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Ftop-french-court-makes-initial-ruling-suspend-burkini-131639196.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Top French court makes initial ruling to suspend burkini ban | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Protesters demonstrate against France's ban of the burkini, outside the French Embassy in London, Britain August 25, 2016. REUTERS/Neil Hall
PARIS (Reuters) - France's highest administrative court on Friday suspended a ban on full-body burkini swimsuits that has outraged Muslims and opened divisions within the government, pending a definitive ruling.
The Conseil d'Etat gave the ruling following a request from the League of Human Rights to overturn the burkini ban in the Mediterranean town of Villeneuve-Loubet on the grounds it contravenes civil liberties.
The court said in a statement the decree to ban burkinis in Villeneuve-Loubet "seriously, and clearly illegally, breached the fundamental freedoms to come and go, the freedom of beliefs and individual freedom."
Under the French legal system, temporary decisions can be handed down before the court takes more time to prepare a judgement on the underlying legality of the case.
The ban, which spread to more than a dozen coastal towns, had exposed cracks within the Socialist government's unity as Prime Minister Manuel Valls defended it on Thursday while some ministers criticised it.
The issue has shone a light on secular France's difficulties responding to homegrown jihadists and foreign militants following Islamist attacks in Nice and a Normandy church in July.
It has also made French cultural identity a hot-button issue along with security in political debates as the country switches into campaign mode ahead of a presidential election next April.
(Writing by Leigh Thomas and Ingrid Melander; Editing by Richard Lough) | https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-french-court-makes-initial-ruling-suspend-burkini-131639196.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/b7556b8c738a716bbb1907a451d01c8580b63afcb91e0e4de3ba46f06d9153bd.json | |
[] | 2016-08-31T04:50:46 | null | 2016-08-31T04:16:45 | U.S. Sen. John McCain beat back a primary challenge Tuesday from a Republican tea party activist to win the right to seek a sixth Senate term in November in a race that has been inundated with questions ... | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fmccain-challenge-sheriffs-latest-bid-top-arizona-primary-184841352.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eriPvFO9hPKZPW4vT5j1yw--/aD0xMDgwO3c9MTkyMDtzbT0xO2FwcGlkPXl0YWNoeW9u/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/video/video.associatedpressfree.com/6c1669593b8227aa17a1699b9211fe48 | en | null | McCain defeats Republican challengers to win Arizona primary | null | null | www.yahoo.com | PHOENIX (AP) -- U.S. Sen. John McCain beat back a primary challenge Tuesday from a Republican tea party activist to win the right to seek a sixth Senate term in November in a race that has been inundated with questions about GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.
The 2008 GOP presidential nominee easily defeated former state Sen. Kelli Ward and two other Republicans.
He faces a tough Democratic challenge in the November general election from U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick. She advanced Tuesday after facing only a write-in opponent in the primary.
McCain, who turned 80 on Monday, had been campaigning hard, rallying campaign workers and making get-out-the-vote stops in keeping his vow not to take the primary for granted.
"I'm humbled by and grateful for our success tonight and for the honor to be the Arizona Republican Party's nominee for election to the United States Senate," McCain said in prepared remarks.
Ward had been mainly ignored by McCain, but she got national attention by saying in recent interviews that the senator would be unable to complete another six-year term because of his age.
Ward cast the race as a David and Goliath battle.
"I thought we ran an amazing race like had never been seen against an entrenched career politician," Ward told The Associated Press. "Of course I would have rather we won. I think it would have been better for Arizona, better for America and better for the world. But we did what we could with very limited resources and it's been amazing."
The contest between Ward and McCain was often overshadowed by Trump and his outspoken comments.
Trump had attacked many issues dear to the Arizona senator, including the family of a fallen soldier, NATO and even McCain's own military service.
Yet McCain has stuck by his support for Trump, at times seemingly through gritted teeth. He has repeatedly avoided calling Trump by name, instead saying he'll support his party's nominee.
McCain is one of two longtime politicians in their 80s who easily won primaries.
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio won the Republican primary despite a cloud of legal troubles hanging over him. He trounced three opponents with little money after raising $11.3 million — a staggering sum for a sheriff's race. He will face retired Phoenix police Officer Paul Penzone, who is the same opponent who took him on in 2012.
Ryan Lukens, a deliveryman, stopped by a central Phoenix polling site after work. The Republican said McCain continues to have his support.
"He has the influence that is needed to keep Arizona great," he said
Kim Martinetti, a real estate broker, said she voted for someone other than McCain for the first time. She thinks McCain acts more like a Democrat and wants to grant amnesty.
"I don't believe in what Trump says about sending them all home — all the illegal immigrants — but I don't think an open border is the answer," Martinetti said. "McCain believes in that."
All nine U.S. House seats also are on the primary ballot, though just a few are tight races.
A heavily GOP district in the eastern Phoenix suburbs, for instance, features a four-way race among Republicans who want to replace retiring Rep. Matt Salmon.
And in a sweeping district that includes much of Arizona outside the Tucson and Phoenix metro areas, five Republicans are vying for the chance to advance to November and face the Democrat seeking Kirkpatrick's seat.
Rep. Paul Gosar won his primary in a heavily Republican district that stretches from the Phoenix suburbs all the way to the California border.
The other statewide contest features a five-way race among Republicans seeking three seats on the state's utility regulation panel, the Arizona Corporation Commission.
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AP reporter Terry Tang contributed to this story. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/mccain-challenge-sheriffs-latest-bid-top-arizona-primary-184841352.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/1f5f7d5050dcfd0e57175ac414ca279e77246efaaa9db78e43ed9fb93e4c2669.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T18:50:44 | null | 2016-08-30T18:44:39 | WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department says about 30 emails that may be related to the 2012 attack on U.S. compounds in Benghazi, Libya, are among the thousands of Hillary Clinton emails recovered during the FBI's recently closed investigation into her use of a private server. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Ffbi-soon-release-documents-related-clinton-email-probe-154047921--election.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | State: Benghazi emails involving Clinton recovered by FBI | null | null | www.yahoo.com | FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2014 file photo, State Hillary Clinton speaks at a fundraiser for Democratic congressional candidates hosted by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, in San Francisco. The National Rifle Association’s political committee is pooling together small contributions to run attack ads against Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg. File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department says about 30 emails that may be related to the 2012 attack on U.S. compounds in Benghazi, Libya, are among the thousands of Hillary Clinton emails recovered during the FBI's recently closed investigation into her use of a private server.
Government lawyers told U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta Tuesday that an undetermined number of the emails among the 30 were not included in the 55,000 pages previously provided by Clinton. The State Department's lawyer said it would need until the end of September to review the emails and redact potentially classified information before they are released.
Mehta questioned why it would take so long to release so few documents, and urged that the process be sped up. He ordered the department to report to him in a week with more details about why the review process would take a full month.
The hearing was held in one of several lawsuits filed by the conservative legal group Judicial Watch, which has sued over access to government records involving the Democratic presidential nominee. The State Department has said the FBI provided it with about 14,900 emails purported not to have been among those previously released.
Clinton previously had said she withheld and deleted only personal emails not related to her duties as secretary of state. With the November election little more than two months away, Republicans are pressing for the release of as many documents related to Clinton as possible.
In a separate development Tuesday, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press that the FBI is expected to release documents soon related to its investigation, which focused on whether Clinton and her aides mishandled government secrets.
The official, who wasn't authorized to discuss the matter by name and spoke on condition of anonymity, said documents in the case would be made public as the FBI responds to Freedom of Information Act requests. It wasn't immediately clear when the documents would be released or exactly what they would include.
Though he described Clinton's actions as "extremely careless," FBI Director James Comey said his agents found no evidence that anyone intended to break the law and said "no reasonable prosecutor" would have brought a criminal case.
The FBI this month provided Congress portions of its file from the agency's yearlong investigation.
The FBI interviewed Clinton for several hours at FBI headquarters in Washington just days before announcing its decision to close the investigation. The Justice Department accepted the FBI's recommendation.
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Follow Associated Press reporters Eric Tucker on Twitter at http://twitter.com/etuckerAP and Michael Biesecker at http://twitter.com/mbieseck | https://www.yahoo.com/news/fbi-soon-release-documents-related-clinton-email-probe-154047921--election.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/884d2ee9bbacf54d74f87bd419eeef66b3901f5e3abe5d88b48da6c28481df19.json | |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:11:39 | null | 2016-08-24T22:11:04 | By Steve Scherer ACCUMOLI, Italy (Reuters) - Rescue teams were working through the night to try to find survivors under the rubble that remained of central Italian towns flattened by an earthquake that hit in the early hours of Wednesday, killing at least 159 people. One hotel that collapsed in the | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fmagnitude-6-4-quake-hits-italy-near-perugia-015222205.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.rTvLPMn6tmaDeKeYWE1rQ--/aD03MjA7dz0xMjgwO3NtPTE7YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b24-/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/video/video.kabc.abc.news.com/e568fdac7262280e8fb115be02885062 | en | null | Italy rescuers toil through night seeking quake survivors as death toll hits 159 | null | null | www.yahoo.com | The quake struck just after 3:30 a.m. and was felt across a broad section of central Italy, including the capital Rome where people in homes in the historic center felt a long swaying followed by aftershocks. First images of damage showed debris in the street and some collapsed buildings in towns and villages that dot much of the Umbrian countryside.
By Steve Scherer
ACCUMOLI, Italy (Reuters) - Rescue teams were working through the night to try to find survivors under the rubble that remained of central Italian towns flattened by an earthquake that hit in the early hours of Wednesday, killing at least 159 people.
One hotel that collapsed in the small town of Amatrice probably had about 70 guests, and only seven bodies had so far been recovered, said the mayor of the town that was one of the worst hit by the quake.
The strong 6.2 magnitude quake razed homes and buckled roads in a cluster of mountain communities 140 km (85 miles) east of Rome. It was powerful enough to be felt in Bologna to the north and Naples to the south, each more than 220 km (135 miles) from the epicenter.
"Tonight will be our first nightmare night," said Alessandro Gabrielli, one of hundreds preparing to sleep in tents erected by rescue workers in fields and parking lots, each one housing 12 people whose homes had been destroyed.
"Last night, I woke up with a sound that sounded like a bomb," he added.
Rescuers working with emergency lighting in the darkness saved a 10-year-old girl, pulling her out of the rubble alive, where she had lain for some 17 hours in the hamlet of Pescara del Tronto.
Many other children were not so lucky. In the nearby village of Accumoli, a family of four, including two boys aged 8 months and 9 years, were buried when their house imploded.
As rescue workers carried away the body of the infant, carefully covered by a small blanket, the children's grandmother blamed God: "He took them all at once," she wailed.
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said the Cabinet would meet on Thursday to decide measures to help the affected communities.
"Today is a day for tears, tomorrow we can talk of reconstruction," he told reporters late on Wednesday as he announced 120 bodies had been found and 368 people had been taken to hospital.
TOLL COULD CLIMB
The death toll rose to 159 a few hours later. With people still unaccounted for, the civil protection department warned it could climb higher.
Aerial photographs showed whole areas of Amatrice, last year voted one of Italy's most beautiful historic towns, flattened by the quake. Inhabitants of the four worst-hit small towns rise by as much as tenfold in the summer, and many of those killed or missing were visitors.
Amatrice's mayor, Sergio Pirozzi, said its best-known accommodation, Hotel Roma, which probably had around 70 guests at the time of the quake, had collapsed and only seven bodies had been found under the rubble.
The civil protection agency said it was trying to determine how many people were staying in the hotel.
Most of the damage was in the Lazio and Marche regions, with Lazio bearing the brunt of the damage and the biggest toll. Neighboring Umbria was also affected. All three regions are dotted with centuries-old buildings susceptible to earthquakes.
Italy's earthquake institute, INGV, said the epicenter was near Accumoli and Amatrice, which lie between the larger towns of Ascoli Piceno to the northeast and Rieti to the southwest.
It was relatively shallow at 4 km (2.5 miles) below the earth's surface. INGV reported 150 aftershocks in the 12 hours following the initial quake, the strongest measuring 5.5.
Italy sits on two fault lines, making it one of the most seismically active countries in Europe.
The last major earthquake to hit the country struck the central city of L'Aquila in 2009, killing more than 300 people.
The most deadly temblor since the start of the 20th century came in 1908, when an earthquake followed by a tsunami killed an estimated 80,000 people in the southern regions of Reggio Calabria and Sicily.
(Additional reporting by Gabriele Pileri and Roberto Mignucci, Writing by Philip Pullella and Gavin Jones; Editing by Louise Ireland and Peter Cooney) | https://www.yahoo.com/news/magnitude-6-4-quake-hits-italy-near-perugia-015222205.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/ae8c5dbee695ae4f2aaa0cddf7ab8da25cf363a8dd798a94635392e5974a4ec7.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T18:49:50 | null | 2016-08-27T12:32:31 | By Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh security forces killed three Islamist militants on Saturday, including a Bangladesh-born Canadian citizen accused of masterminding an attack on a cafe in Dhaka last month that killed 22 people, mostly foreigners, police said. The militants were cornered | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fbangladesh-security-forces-kill-mastermind-dhaka-cafe-attack-052046170.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Bangladesh police kill 'mastermind' of Dhaka cafe attack | null | null | www.yahoo.com | By Serajul Quadir
DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladesh security forces killed three Islamist militants on Saturday, including a Bangladesh-born Canadian citizen accused of masterminding an attack on a cafe in Dhaka last month that killed 22 people, mostly foreigners, police said.
The militants were cornered in a hideout on the outskirts of the capital and, having refused to surrender, were killed in the ensuing gunbattle, Monirul Islam, the head of the Dhaka police counterterrorism unit, told Reuters.
He initially said four militants had been killed but later revised the number to three.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is due to visit on Monday to discuss security after a series of killings targeting liberals and religious minorities in the mostly Muslim country.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the assault on the cafe in a posh neighborhood where militants singled out non-Muslims and foreigners, killing Italians, Japanese, an American and an Indian.
The government has consistently denied the presence in the country of any transnational militant organization such as al Qaeda or Islamic State.
But police believe that Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, which has pledged allegiance to Islamic State, was involved in organizing the cafe attack.
The scale of that attack and the targeting of foreigners has cast a shadow over foreign investment in the poor South Asian economy, whose $28 billion garments export industry is the world's second largest.
"This operation definitely will uphold confidence and the image of Bangladesh," said Bangladesh's prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
She told a news conference: "With this killing (Tamim) one curse has been removed from our shoulders."
MASTERMIND'S DEATH
The suspected mastermind killed in Saturday's raid was identified as Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury, a 30-year-old Canadian citizen born in Bangladesh. Analysts say Islamic State in April identified Chowdhury as its national commander.
"According to our evidence we are now sure that Tamim was among the three killed," Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told reporters. "So the chapter of Tamim has ended here."
Khan said Chowdhury was one of the main suppliers of funds and arms for several recent attacks. He had returned to Bangladesh in October 2013 via Abu Dhabi, A.K.M. Shahidul Hoque, the inspector general of police, said.
The raid followed a tip off from the landlord of the house where the militants were staying, Hoque told reporters. The landlord said the militants had described themselves as businessmen in the medical trade.
Police spokesman Masudur Rahman said the fingerprints of two associates of Tamim who were also killed on Saturday have been sent to the election commission to confirm their identity.
"Police collected evidence from the house though they (the associates) destroyed a laptop and some other documents," he told Reuters.
They rented the house earlier this month and police recovered several grenades, arms and bullets.
Last month police offered a 2 million taka ($26,000) reward for information enabling them to detain Tamim.
Police have also detained two men who had been among the survivors of the restaurant attack.
Hasnat Karim, who holds dual British and Bangladeshi citizenship, and Tahmid Hasib Khan, a student of Toronto University, had been dining separately in the restaurant.
A lawyer for Karim, a 47-year-old engineer, has said his client is innocent. Relatives of Khan, 22, say he is innocent too.
Earlier this month, security forces arrested four women suspected of being members of Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh.
(Reporting by Serajul Quadir; writing by Krishna N. Das; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore/Ruth Pitchford) | https://www.yahoo.com/news/bangladesh-security-forces-kill-mastermind-dhaka-cafe-attack-052046170.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/a44b4f69686ab4cd3c8aa7a47d120fa501707a59ca3d7b0636f3479381e4483a.json | |
[
"Liz Goodwin",
"Senior National Affairs Reporter"
] | 2016-08-26T13:10:19 | null | 2016-08-24T19:28:03 | Hillary Clinton will make the case in a speech Thursday that Donald Trump’s campaign is led by people who propagate extreme and racist viewpoints that belie Trump’s recent attempts to pivot to the center ahead of the election. “[Trump] is taking a hate movement mainstream,” Clinton said in an interview | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fclinton-tries-to-stop-trump-mid-pivot-by-tying-him-to-alt-right-192803698.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/n0_.XIWuMw8in7r2MxG_yw--/aD00MjY7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/f5eb0b60a70cbf51ab623c2b1eeef000 | en | null | Clinton tries to stop Trump, mid-pivot, by tying him to ‘alt-right’ | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Hillary Clinton will make the case in a speech Thursday that Donald Trump’s campaign is led by people who propagate extreme and racist viewpoints that belie Trump’s recent attempts to pivot to the center ahead of the election.
“[Trump] is taking a hate movement mainstream,” Clinton said in an interview with CNN Wednesday. “He’s brought it into his campaign. He’s bringing it to our communities and our country.” Clinton said Trump has “courted white supremacists” and is “very much peddling bigotry and prejudice and paranoia.”
Ahead of the speech, the campaign released a video showing white supremacists and members of the KKK praising Trump. The Trump campaign released a statement from campaign surrogate Pastor Mark Burns, who is black, calling the ad “repulsive” for using “horrific racial images.”
Clinton campaign officials say the speech will “call out” Trump’s embrace of an “alt-right” political philosophy propagated by his new campaign chair, Stephen Bannon, the executive chairman of the conservative website Breitbart News.
“Trump’s newly installed brain trust of Steve Bannon, Roger Ailes and Roger Stone completes Donald Trump’s disturbing takeover of the Republican Party,” said John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chair, in a statement to Yahoo News. “We intend to call out this ‘alt-right’ shift, and the divisive and dystopian vision of America they put forth, because it tells voters everything they need to know about Donald Trump himself.”
Clinton’s speech, scheduled for Thursday afternoon at a rally in Reno, Nev., will paint Trump’s views and advisers as outside mainstream conservatism. “Republicans up and down the ticket are going to have to choose whether they want to be complicit in this lurch toward extremism or stand with the voters who can’t stomach it,” Podesta said.
Although most voters probably have no idea what “alt-right” means, the Clinton campaign has been attempting to associate Trump with the political movement since he announced his staff shakeup last week. “Alt-right” stands for the Alternative Right, and is defined by the Southern Poverty Law Center as “a set of far-right ideologies, groups and individuals whose core belief is that ‘white identity’ is under attack by multicultural forces using ‘political correctness’ and ‘social justice’ to undermine white people and ‘their’ civilization.” Bannon recently told a Mother Jones reporter that Breitbart News is “the platform for the alt-right,” though he insisted that the movement is nationalist, not racist.
The Clinton campaign suggests that Bannon’s hiring confirms the Trump campaign’s embrace of Breitbart’s racially tinged worldview. Last week, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook accused Bannon’s Breitbart News of peddling “divisive, at-times racist, anti-Muslim, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories,” including “birther” attacks that claim that President Obama was not born in the United States.
“We absolutely expect with this change for Donald Trump to double down on more hateful and divisive rhetoric, more conspiracy theories,” Mook said.
Clinton’s speech will broadly focus on Trump’s “hateful rhetoric in general,” a campaign aide said.
Since Bannon joined the campaign together with Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway as campaign manager, Trump has made some gestures toward moderating his tone. He made a surprising admission of regret at a rally in Charlotte, N.C., apologizing for any of his past statements that “may have caused personal pain.” He also began making a direct appeal to black voters, saying that voting for Democrats had not improved their economic standing. “What the hell do you have to lose?” he asked, addressing African-Americans, although speaking before a mostly white crowd in Michigan last week. Trump even appeared to walk back his hardline stance on immigration, saying he might be open to “softening” his plan to deport every undocumented immigrant from the United States.
By focusing on his campaign leadership, Clinton is trying to ensure that voters don’t forget the original Trump, who is on display, cursing and sneering, in TV ads by Clinton-supporting PACs. The candidate has insisted that Trump cannot change his stripes. “There is no new Donald Trump. This is it,” she told supporters at an Ohio rally last week.
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:17 | null | 2016-08-26T04:09:20 | SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California court said Thursday that a judge who was harshly criticized and subjected to a recall campaign for the leniency of a six-month jail sentence for a former Stanford University swimmer who sexually assaulted an unconscious woman will no longer hear criminal cases, a move | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fjudge-stanford-rape-case-asks-move-civil-cases-013358582.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Judge over Stanford sex assault leaving criminal cases | null | null | www.yahoo.com | FILE - This June 27, 2011 file photo shows Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky, who drew criticism for sentencing former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner to only six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. The California judge has recused himself from making his first key decision in another sex case. The Mercury News reported Monday, Aug. 22, 2016 that Persky filed a statement saying that some people might doubt that he could be impartial. The judge is the target of a recall campaign after he sentenced a former Stanford swimmer to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman. (Jason Doiy/The Recorder via AP, File)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California court said Thursday that a judge who was harshly criticized and subjected to a recall campaign for the leniency of a six-month jail sentence for a former Stanford University swimmer who sexually assaulted an unconscious woman will no longer hear criminal cases, a move that came at his own request.
Santa Clara County Presiding Judge Rise Pichon said she has granted the request for reassignment of Judge Aaron Persky.
"While I firmly believe in Judge Persky's ability to serve in his current assignment, he has requested to be assigned to the civil division, in which he previously served," Pichon said in a statement. "Judge Persky believes the change will aid the public and the court by reducing the distractions that threaten to interfere with his ability to effectively discharge the duties of his current criminal assignment."
The move is not necessarily permanent. The assignment is subject to an annual review and takes effect Sept. 6.
Pichon said that another judge's desire to transfer to Palo Alto has made a quick swap with Persky possible. Normally such changes don't happen until a new year.
Persky ordered the six-month sentence for Brock Turner, a Dayton, Ohio, resident who had been attending Stanford on a swimming scholarship. The judge cited a probation department recommendation and the effect the conviction will have on Turner's life.
Authorities say Turner sexually assaulted the girl while she was passed out near a trash bin.
The case sparked a national debate on college drinking and sexual assault and led to a recall effort against the judge.
Michelle Dauber, the Stanford law professor behind the recall effort, said that while the move from Persky is welcome, the recall attempt will continue, in part because Persky "can still transfer back to hearing criminal cases any time he chooses."
"The issue of his judicial bias in favor of privileged defendants in sex crimes and domestic violence still needs to be addressed by the voters of Santa Clara County," Dauber said in an email. "In our opinion, Judge Persky is biased and should not be on the bench."
Dauber and other organizers have said they will begin collecting signatures in April to qualify the issue for the November 2017 ballot.
Persky had already departed from two sex-crimes cases since his June sentencing of the 20-year-old Turner exploded in national media.
On Monday he formally recused himself from deciding whether to reduce a San Jose plumber's felony child pornography charges to misdemeanors.
That came two months after the district attorney's office removed Persky from a different sexual assault case, saying "we lack confidence" in the judge's ability to decide it impartially.
In addition to his supervising judge, attorneys who have argued in front of Persky cite his abilities. Santa Clara County deputy public defender Gary Goodman in June called him a "solid and respected judge," while defense attorney Barbara Muller said he's "one of the fairest judges" in the county.
A jury convicted Turner, a former Olympic hopeful, of sexually assaulting the young woman he met at a campus fraternity party in January 2015 after she passed out behind a trash bin.
The sentence along with the long and much-shared statement the victim read in court made the case a national rallying cry for a reconsideration of how rape is handled by the law.
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Dalton reported from Los Angeles. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-stanford-rape-case-asks-move-civil-cases-013358582.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/8f36b1f87a6da55434c932eeb4ff7d6b15c89bcbcef43d78ae0284c4d16eb917.json | |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:30 | null | 2016-08-26T10:07:11 | By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Barack Obama became the first African-American to win the White House in 2008, his victory was a turning point in U.S. race relations that set high expectations for progress to come. Nearly eight years later, with Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton attacking | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fracial-politics-loom-over-election-obamas-legacy-seen-100711718.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | As racial politics loom over election, Obama's legacy is seen as mixed | null | null | www.yahoo.com | U.S. President Barack Obama, having completed a tour of flood-affected boards Air Force One at Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S., August 23, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
By Jeff Mason
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When Barack Obama became the first African-American to win the White House in 2008, his victory was a turning point in U.S. race relations that set high expectations for progress to come.
Nearly eight years later, with Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton attacking each other over racial politics, the legacy of Obama's presidency looks decidedly mixed, black leaders said.
To some, the tone of the Republican presidential nominee's campaign, as well as a recent series of racially charged shootings involving police, show that the United States has come no closer to overcoming its history of racial strife.
Having a black president, two attorneys general and a chief of homeland security did not result in basic fairness for victims of racially charged violence, said Cornel West, an academic and former Obama supporter who has become a high-profile critic of the Democratic president.
"How many policemen who have murdered unarmed innocent black civilians have gone to jail with that kind of black power at the top? Zero," West said.
Obama could have acted more directly while in office to help blacks, West added, citing persistently high childhood poverty among African-Americans. “The (economic) recovery has not filtered over into black and working poor communities,” he said.
Others said Obama showed leadership on race while making real achievements on healthcare and the economy that helped Americans of all ethnicities.
Al Sharpton, a civil rights leader with close ties to the White House, described Obama as a "transformative" president held back by the need to serve varying constituencies and compromise with lawmakers who had different priorities.
"He tried to be as balanced and respectful as he could, to the chagrin of many in the black community, who felt that he was leaning over backwards,” Sharpton said.
Unemployment among African-Americans fell by half under Obama, Sharpton noted, while Obama's remarks on race elevated the issue. In 2012 at the White House, Obama referred to Trayvon Martin, a black youth gunned down by a white Hispanic man, as a boy who would have resembled the son he did not have.
“We’ve never had a president do that,” Sharpton said.
FALSE SENSE OF PROGRESS
Andrew Young, a former Atlanta mayor, congressman, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and adviser to slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., said Obama, as a black leader, had to seek compromise more than previous white presidents.
"It was easier for (Jimmy) Carter or Lyndon Johnson, even Bill Clinton as southern whites to do things specifically for black people," Young said.
Backlash from white working class voters had contributed to Trump's rise, Young said.
"We really haven’t had a complete psychological adjustment to a multi-racial society," he said. "That’s what’s rallying people behind Trump. They're frustrated by the complexities of this day and age. And (Trump), like others, gives a simple answer and blames it on somebody else."
Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, blasted Trump on Thursday as a divisive candidate who was stoking racist groups. Trump criticized Clinton, saying she had let black Americans down and was falsely labeling Republicans as bigoted.
Clinton supporters were more likely to want to address race relations than Trump supporters, a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll of more than 2,800 people found in late March.
Obama has said race relations are not as bad as some suggest. Friends say he never expected his presidency to wipe away centuries of racism and slavery's legacy.
"To expect to erase all of that legacy of injustice or racism and discrimination in eight years is unrealistic," said Valerie Jarrett, a White House adviser and close Obama friend.
"Were there people who probably had a false sense of progress based just on an election? Sure," she said.
The administration wants to advance criminal justice reform legislation before Obama leaves office, aiming for a win on an issue watched closely in the black community. But prospects of passage in Congress during an election year are uncertain.
Obama, who has made clear his disdain for Trump and his frustration with Congress, has said he hoped his own voice on race would help improve things for future generations. "We plant seeds, and somebody else maybe sits under the shade of the tree that we planted," Obama said at a news conference in July.
(Editing by Kevin Drawbaugh) | https://www.yahoo.com/news/racial-politics-loom-over-election-obamas-legacy-seen-100711718.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/f0b3dd91817e7fe2742732f84bf4543b3d9e287318587823146e814802ba9ee8.json | |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:14:26 | null | 2016-08-23T00:42:40 | AKRON, Ohio (Reuters) - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump urged the Justice Department on Monday to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate if donors to the Clinton Foundation got special treatment from the State Department when it was run by his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. Trump | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Ftrump-calls-special-prosecutor-investigate-clinton-foundation-004240452.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/X.uSKAGJbeqeOnGzyPuU3g--/aD03MjA7dz0xMjgwO3NtPTE7YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b24-/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/video/wall_street_journal_733/b2f5d847b3ee180decd9e467d8b2400e | en | null | Trump calls for special prosecutor to investigate Clinton Foundation | null | null | www.yahoo.com | By Steve Holland
AKRON, Ohio (Reuters) - Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump urged the Justice Department on Monday to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate if donors to the Clinton Foundation got special treatment from the State Department when it was run by his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton.
Trump made the appeal at a rally before thousands of cheering supporters in Akron, Ohio, as he tries to rebound from a slide in national opinion polls with little more than two months to go until the Nov. 8 election.
Trump accused former President Bill Clinton and his wife of turning the Clinton Foundation charity into a “pay-for-play” scheme in which wealthy donors, foreign and domestic, got favors from the State Department during Hillary Clinton’s 2009-2013 tenure as the country’s top diplomat.
Trump faulted both the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation for not indicting Clinton over her use of a private email server as secretary of state. FBI Director James Comey cited her careless handling of classified emails but opted not to prosecutor her.
“The Justice Department is required to appoint a special prosecutor because it has proved to be, sadly, a political arm of the White House,” Trump said. “Nobody has ever seen anything like it before."
Trump’s appeal came the same day a conservative watchdog group, Judicial Watch, released 725 pages of State Department documents, including some it said were examples of preferential treatment provided to donors at the request of former Clinton Foundation executive Douglas Band.
Trump’s call for an independent investigation followed an announcement by the Clinton Foundation that it would no longer accept foreign donations should Clinton be elected president.
The Clinton campaign fired back at Trump, saying the foundation had already laid out "the unprecedented steps the charity will take if Hillary Clinton becomes president."
Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta said in a statement that Trump "needs to come clean with voters about his complex network” of businesses that are in debt to big banks, including the state-owned Bank of China, after a New York Times report on the subject.
“Donald Trump should stop hiding behind fake excuses and release his tax returns and immediately disclose the full extent of his business interests,” Podesta said.
SEEKING TO EXPAND BASE
While keeping up the attack on Clinton, Trump in his speech also outlined some agenda items, as Republicans have been urging him to do for months. The more disciplined Trump followed a campaign shake-up last week that brought in veteran pollster Kellyanne Conway as campaign manager.
But in a sign that organizational challenges remain, Trump canceled a rally planned for later this week in Las Vegas and postponed an immigration speech in Denver.
Earlier on Monday, Trump insisted he was not “flip-flopping” on immigration, despite a comment by Conway on Sunday that his plan to deport 11 million illegal immigrants was still under review.
In his Akron remarks, Trump, struggling to broaden his support beyond the white working-class voters who have been his base of support, again urged blacks and Hispanics to give him a chance, saying: “What the hell do you have to lose?” repeating a line he delivered on Friday that was criticized by Clinton as “ignorant."
Trump said Democratic politicians had not been able to stem crime and poverty in inner cities despite pledges to do every election year.
"I say it and I’m going to keep saying it and some people say: ‘Wow that makes sense’ and some people say: 'That’s not very nice,’” Trump said. “And I say it with such a deep-felt feeling, what do you have to lose? We’ll bring jobs back. We’ll bring spirit back. We’ll get rid of the crime."
(Additional reporting by Mohammad Zargham and Ginger Gibson; Editing by Peter Cooney) | https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-calls-special-prosecutor-investigate-clinton-foundation-004240452.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-23T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/b037f96e1c305f8af8a8aca146d09cd9a53703ddc174dc4fc8d00b0c58b30b56.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T14:50:43 | null | 2016-08-30T13:13:23 | Donald Trump fired back at football star Colin Kaepernick on Monday, suggesting in a radio interview that the San Francisco 49ers quarterback find a new country if he isn’t happy with the United States. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fdonald-trump-colin-kaepernick-000000872.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wFO8lCvvQA6YdlARUKp_Ag--/aD00ODU7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/8020e83a434ef7350724759d0f0f53e6 | en | null | Donald Trump says Colin Kaepernick should perhaps ‘find a country that works better for him’ | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Donald Trump fired back at football star Colin Kaepernick on Monday, suggesting in a radio interview that the San Francisco 49ers quarterback find a new country if he isn’t happy with the United States.
“I think it’s — personally — not a good thing,” Trump said on the “Dori Monson Show” on Monday, as BuzzFeed reported. “I think it’s a terrible thing, and you know, maybe he should find a country that works better for him. Let him try. It won’t happen,” the Republican presidential nominee continued.
Kaepernick ignited a firestorm last Friday by refusing to stand during the national anthem when it was played before the 49ers game against the Green Bay Packers.
“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick explained to NFL Media in an interview published Saturday.
The quarterback subsequently made it clear that he is neither a fan of Trump nor Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
“I think the two presidential candidates that we currently have also represent the issues that we have in this country right now,” Kaepernick said Sunday, according to CBS Sports.
“You have Hillary [Clinton], who has called black teens or black kids super predators. You have Donald Trump, who is openly racist.”
On Monday, the White House also weighed in on the controversy. During a regular media briefing, President Obama’s top spokesman, Josh Earnest, called Kaepernick’s stance “objectionable,” but Earnest also defended Kaepernick’s right to protest. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-colin-kaepernick-000000872.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/e7b2e03985eaa4dd5d3221e3db4beb0f69c39c5d0d4e080ab1ced393f9e753cf.json |
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"Michael Walsh"
] | 2016-08-30T16:50:49 | null | 2016-08-30T14:33:30 | Donald Trump reaffirmed his commitment Tuesday morning to building a massive wall along the U.S.-Mexico border amid reports that the GOP nominee’s planned project might actually be a “virtual” rather than physical construction. Trump, whose proposed wall has been a centerpiece of his campaign since | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Ftrump-doubles-down-great-wall-000000143.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/enUCwR0L7TkwVPuaqObUgw--/aD00OTY7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/834f05fb9239f455e98c967a91c83f0d | en | null | Trump doubles down on ‘great wall’ amid latest policy confusion | null | null | www.yahoo.com | T: WOW! The DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS “PLANTED” CROOKED, LYING, IMMORAL AND CORRUPT HILLARY. The Democrats’ primary was totally RIGGED behind the scenes to PRE-SELECT crooked Hillary as the only nominee from the beginning according to leaked DNC emails. This is an election CRIME committed by the Democratic Party. CROOKED HILLARY should be a DISQUALIFIED DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE from the beginning. The Clintons are evil people and corrupt to the bone. SATAN IS TAKING OVER THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Crooked Hillary is a CRIMINAL and should go to jail. “LOCK HER UP”. How could you let a criminal running for US president? This b**** has no morals, is a world-class pathological liar and corrupt to the bone. Look at what the Clintons DID not what they preached. The cancerous corruption of Democrats is so widespread all the way to the top. Below are just some of many immoral things that the corrupt Clintons did: - HOME EMAIL SYSTEM - Crooked Clinton installed a home email system FOR WORK that violated federal security protocol, record-keeping rules and jeopardized national security to hide shady communications between her and unfriendly foreign governments related to quid pro quo transactions to the Clinton Foundation in exchange for influence on U.S. policy while she was Secretary of State. Crooked HILLARY DELETED 33,000 emails to avoid criminal prosecution. Crooked Hillary would not delete these emails if they were truly personal and not related to shady quid pro quo deals. This b**** sold out USA and committed TREASON. COLLIN POWELL used private email for truly personal communication but still had GOVERNMENT EMAIL FOR WORK. Shame on crooked Clinton who is trying to blame on Collin Powell for her home email system FOR WORK. - LIES AFTER LIES - Crooked Clinton’s lies after lies to Congress, FBI and Americans on Bosnia sniper fire, Benghazi attack, her home email system, blamed on Collin Powell for her home email system FOR WORK, etc. The list goes on. - ELECTION RIGGING – Crooked Clinton colluded with DNC to rig 2016 primary according to 19,000 leaked DNC emails released by WikiLeaks. DNC PRE-ANOINTED crooked Hillary as the only nominee from the beginning according to leaked DNC emails. DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned after email release, and crooked Hillary immediately offered Debbie a job for keeping her mouth shut. The emails clearly showed a collusion of top DNC officials to plant and strategize to make crooked Clinton to be the ONLY nominee from the beginning. The DNC emails also showed that DNC is a racist organization which ridiculed Bernie's Jewish heritage and labeled him as an atheist to drive away his supporters. Crooked Hillary DID NOT win but stole the nomination. This was a rigged democratic primary. - CLINTON FOUNDATION – this is basically a front company so the immoral Clintons can pocket through implicit bribery and money laundering. While abusing the public office, the Clintons have used the Clinton Foundation, which is based in Canada for non-disclosure policy of charitable contributors, to make “quid pro quo” deals with special interests and foreign governments. The Clinton Crime Syndicate (Foundation) KEEPS 93% OF DONATIONS and only donates 7% to the charities. They list 93% of the income taken in as used for "Administrative Expenses". - CORRUPTION OF DEMOCRATS ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP - A FIX was in through a SECRET meeting between immoral Bill Clinton and corrupt AG Loretta Lynch NOT to charge Crooked Hillary on home-based emails and made her ABOVE THE LAW. AG Loretta Lynch is the boss of FBI director James Comey. - CROOKED HILLARY IS TRULY AN IMMORAL LOW-LIFE WHITE TRASH - After leaving the White House, crooked Hillary was forced to return an estimated $200,000 in White House furniture, china, silverware, and artwork that she had stolen. HOW COULD YOU VOTE FOR THIS TRASH TO BE US PRESIDENT? - QUID PRO QUO case out of many - THE CLINTON SCHOOL KICKBACKS. In April 2015, Bill Clinton was forced to abruptly resign from his lucrative perch as honorary chancellor of Laureate Education, a for-profit college company. The reason for Clinton’s immediate departure: Clinton Cash revealed, and Bloomberg confirmed, that Laureate funneled Bill Clinton $16.46 million over five years while Hillary Clinton’s State Department pumped at least $55 million to a group run by Laureate’s founder and chairman, Douglas Becker, a man with strong ties to the Clinton Global Initiative. Laureate has donated between $1 million and $5 million (donations are reported in ranges, not exact amounts) to the Clinton Foundation. - CLINTON THEFT OF RELIEF FUNDS FOR HAITI EARTHQUAKE - Here’s what really happened. The Clinton Foundation selected Clayton Homes, a construction company owned by WARREN BUFFETT’s Berkshire Hathaway, to build temporary shelters in Haiti. BUFFETT is an active member of the Clinton Global Initiative who has donated generously to the Clintons as well as the Clinton Foundation. The contract was supposed to be given through the normal United Nations bidding process, with the deal going to the lowest bidder who met the project’s standards. UN officials said, however, that the contract was never competitively bid for. Clayton offered to build “hurricane-proof trailers” but what they actually delivered turned out to be a disaster. The trailers were structurally unsafe, with high levels of formaldehyde and insulation coming out of the walls. There were problems with mold and fumes. The stifling heat inside made Haitians sick and many of them abandoned the trailers because they were ill-constructed and unusable. The Clintons also funneled $10 million in federal loans to a firm called InnoVida, headed by Clinton donor Claudio Osorio. Osorio had loaded its board with Clinton cronies, including longtime Clinton ally General Wesley Clark; Hillary’s 2008 finance director Jonathan Mantz; and Democratic fundraiser Chris Korge who has helped raise millions for the Clintons. Normally the loan approval process takes months or even years. But in this case, a government official wrote, “Former President Bill Clinton is personally in contact with the company to organize its logistical and support needs. And as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has made available State Department resources to assist with logistical arrangements.” InnoVida had not even provided an independently audited financial report that is normally a requirement for such applications. On the basis of the Clinton connection, InnoVida’s application was fast-tracked and approved in two weeks. The company defaulted on the loan and never built any houses. An investigation revealed that Osorio had diverted company funds to pay for his Miami Beach mansion, his Maserati, and his Colorado ski chalet. He pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering in 2013, and is currently serving a twelve-year prison term on fraud charges related to the loan. And these are only 2 examples of the dozens of thefts the Clintons and their cronies did just to Haiti. TRUMP was NEVER labeled a racist by liberal media and crooked Hillary until his running for POTUS. DONALD TRUMP, as the Republican presidential candidate, is truly an OUTSIDER who goes against the corrupt PROFESSIONAL DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS who have led USA on a wrong track of economic and military disadvantage for the last eight years. SINCE CROOKED HILLARY BECAME SECRETARY OF STATE IN 2009 WITH FAILED FOREIGN POLICY, USA has been unsafe and being attacked by RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISTS MORE THAN EVER BEFORE. American citizens are ANGRY of these corrupt PROFESSIONAL politicians like crooked, lying, immoral and corrupt HILLARY. VOTE TRUMP 2016. The West has been blinded and lured by the big Chinese market. However, it forgot that it has been dealing with a Communist China inside its disguising Capitalist shell. The Chinese GDP has increased from $303B in 1980 to current around $11,000B, an increase of more than 35 times along with Intellectual Property thefts from the West worth a few trillions of dollars and millions and millions of job losses in the West. Only top few % in the West including the corrupt CLINTONS were significantly benefited from the BAD trade deals with China. The Americans are getting poorer while the Chinese are getting MUCH richer due to BAD trades deals with the West. That was why Donald Trump, who is NOT racist but puts USA first, said the trade deals with China are all BAD that cost millions and millions of domestic jobs. BOYCOTT Chinese-made products and BRING BACK JOBS FROM CHINA. VOTE TRUMP 2016 AND TRUMP WILL RE-NEGOTIATE ALL BAD TRADE DEALS, BRING JOBS BACK AND REBUILD US MANUFACTURING. The liberal mainstream media is pro-Clinton. It is getting paid big from the crooked Clinton campaign and putting out LYING POLL NUMBERS and ARTICLES TO BASH TRUMP. A majority of people thought crooked Hillary should have been INDICTED. People in government would be in JAIL or lose their jobs at least if they just have done 10% of what crooked Hillary has done. This is a tremendous US national security implication. HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT USA HAS BEEN ON A DOWN HILL BIG TIME IN TERMS OF BEING RESPECTED BY PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD AND FOREIGN DIPLOMACY SINCE CROOKED HILLARY BECAME SECRETARY OF STATE IN 2009 ??? Hacking of the crooked Clinton's home, low-secured private email system by foreign agents would have caused tremendous damage to USA since 2009. Russian agents along with agents from other countries like China or Iran most likely have hacked the crooked Clinton's home, low-secured private email system and retrieved all her emails including nationally sensitive emails, shady communications between her and unfriendly foreign governments related to quid pro quo transactions to the Clinton Foundation in exchange for influence on U.S. policy while she was Secretary of State. Crooked HILLARY DELETED 33,000 emails to avoid criminal prosecution, sold out USA and committed TREASON. Crooked Hillary would not delete these emails if they were truly personal and not related to shady quid pro quo deals. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-doubles-down-great-wall-000000143.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/1c8ff61d98ec76151ed8553e7cf6cc49b66cee7659cea231b8fa624d890a04a4.json |
[
"Dylan Stableford",
"Senior Editor"
] | 2016-08-26T13:12:54 | null | 2016-08-24T15:53:24 | Ben Carson says “elderly” presidential candidates like Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton should disclose their current medical records to voters before the election. “I think that somebody who is running for president of the United States, particularly if they’re elderly — and that would include both | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fben-carson-elderly-candidates-medical-000000764.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/XUuDP_GfNsxX.lly9NtKuQ--/aD00OTY7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/4a1624e4935538c25ae21d8a2a7d4d9d | en | null | Dr. Ben Carson: ‘Elderly’ presidential candidates like Trump and Clinton should release medical history | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Ben Carson says “elderly” presidential candidates like Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton should disclose their current medical records to voters before the election.
“I think that somebody who is running for president of the United States, particularly if they’re elderly — and that would include both major candidates — should disclose their medical history,” Carson, a retired neurosurgeon and former Republican presidential hopeful, said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Wednesday. “And I’m not talking about from a year ago or two years ago. I’m talking about currently.”
“I think that is common sense,” Carson, who turns 65 next month, continued. “Because as people get older, things begin to happen to them.”
.@RealBenCarson says 'elderly' candidates Trump and Clinton should disclose their medical history https://t.co/4kZjR2z7E2 — Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) August 24, 2016
Both Trump and Clinton have each released statements from their doctors stating that they have a clean bill of health.
Last month, the Clinton campaign released a letter from her doctor showing results of a March 21 physical.
“She is in excellent physical condition and fit to serve as president of the United States,” her doctor stated.
In December, the Trump campaign released a one-page letter filled with hyperbolic language, declaring the Republican hopeful would be “the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”
Trump, 70, would be the oldest newly elected president in U.S. history. (Ronald Reagan was just two weeks shy of 70 when he was inaugurated in 1981.) Clinton, who turns 69 in October, would be the second oldest.
View photos Ben Carson and Donald Trump speak at a campaign event in Palm Beach, Fla., on March 11, 2016. (Carlo Allegri/Reuters) More
Carson, one of Trump’s surrogates, also tossed some shade on recent claims by former New York City Rudy Giuliani about Clinton’s health. Many conspiracy theorists on the right have accused the Democratic nominee of hiding a severe illness from the public.
“All you’ve got to do is go online,” Giuliani said Sunday on Fox News. “Go online and put down ‘Hillary Clinton illness’ and take a look at the videos for yourself.”
“As a physician, physicians and scientists generally will not make a diagnosis based on something they see from a long distance,” Carson said Wednesday, smiling. “They want to have the facts.”
“My diagnosis would be that anybody that is elderly should expose their records,” he added. “And we the people should know what they are.” | https://www.yahoo.com/news/ben-carson-elderly-candidates-medical-000000764.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/bdbed0873619e531232f8cccad8a17a10837e6365f2731938c4a0e3d473f0be7.json |
[
"Michael Walsh"
] | 2016-08-26T16:49:38 | null | 2016-08-26T15:16:01 | After Hillary Clinton’s denunciations of Donald Trump as a race-baiting demagogue, he dug up the oldest comeback in the book: I know you are but what am I? You look at what’s happening to African-Americans and Hispanics in this country,” Trump said during a Thursday night interview with CNN’s Anderson | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fclinton-trump-repeatedly-accuse-other-000000553.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/xZk95KtKO.AI6bEt_SWKIA--/aD00OTY7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/db16c5c260c794298df3513753c75636 | en | null | No, you’re a racist! Clinton, Trump repeatedly accuse each other of bigotry | null | null | www.yahoo.com | After Hillary Clinton’s denunciations of Donald Trump as a race-baiting demagogue, he dug up the oldest comeback in the book: I know you are but what am I?
The Republican presidential candidate says that Clinton talks a good game about helping African-Americans and Hispanics but that she’s actually a bigot whose policies are “selling them down the tubes.”
“She is a bigot, because you look at what’s happening to the inner cities. You look at what’s happening to African-Americans and Hispanics in this country,” Trump said during a Thursday night interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “She’s not doing anything for those communities.”
Cooper pressed Trump, who had called Clinton a bigot at a rally Wednesday night, on the definition of “bigotry” and whether the GOP nominee thinks Clinton has antipathy or hatred toward a particular group, or if he just thinks her policies are bigoted.
“She is. Of course she is! Her policies — they’re her policies. She comes out with policies, and others that believe like she does also,” Trump continued. “But she came out with policies over the years — this is over the years, long time — she’s totally bigoted. There’s no question about that.”
View photos Donald Trump, with Ben Carson to his right, meets with the Republican Leadership Initiative at Trump Tower in New York on Thursday. (Photo: Gerald Herbert/AP) More
In general, Trump said Clinton has been “extremely bad for African-Americans” and “extremely bad for Hispanics.”
“You look at what’s happened with her policies and the policies of President Obama and others. Look at the poverty. Look at the rise in poverty. Look at the rise in violence,” he said.
Asked again if hatred is at the core of Clinton’s alleged shortcomings, Trump suggested that she might also just be lazy.
Earlier Thursday in Reno, Nev., Clinton gave a speech in which she denounced Trump as a bigot who has capitalized on discredited conspiracy theories and racial resentment to fuel his campaign.
Casting her candidacy as a nonracist alternative, Clinton praised black poet Maya Angelou as “a great American who I admire very much” and quoted an “old Mexican proverb” in order to argue that Trump had revealed his true colors with his provocative comments and his associations with fringe figures.
View photos Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign event at Truckee Meadows Community College in Reno, Nev., on Thursday. (Photo: Carolyn Kaster/AP) More
On Friday morning, like clockwork, both candidates continued to accuse each other of racism — this time through video.
Trump’s team posted a video to his Instagram page with the caption, “The Clinton’s are the real predators…” It showed Clinton in 1994 defending the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which her husband, former President Bill Clinton, signed into law.
“They are often the kinds of kids that are called superpredators,” she said at the time. “No conscience. No empathy. We can talk about how they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel.” Black Lives Matter activists and others have challenged her past use of the term “superpredators” this election cycle.
Trump’s attack video also incorporated a moment from the Democratic primary debates. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said “superpredators” was “a racist term and everybody knew it was a racist term.”
Not to be outdone, the Clinton campaign also released a new attack ad that accused Trump of being out of touch with the African-American community. The 30-second video strings together several controversial quotes from Trump — such as “look at my African-American” and “I have a great relationship with the blacks” — while dramatic music plays in the background. The video also quotes Trump asking, “What the hell do you have to lose” by voting for him. The Clinton camp’s answer: everything. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/clinton-trump-repeatedly-accuse-other-000000553.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/d08cac987fcb90ef3bf422df9afa839ce1b8610c2b538ee002b98672687e66f0.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T20:50:48 | null | 2016-08-27T16:53:19 | The more than 430 fundraisers posted on the GoFundMe website after the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando have exposed weaknesses inherent in these popular do-it-yourself charity campaigns: waste, ... | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fscams-waste-loom-charity-millions-donated-orlando-155126638.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Scams & waste loom as charity millions donated after Orlando | null | null | www.yahoo.com | FILE - In this Sunday, June, 12, 2016 file photo, Wilhemina Justice looks at a photo of her son, Eddie Justice, who was killed in the Pulse nightclub mass shooting, as she speaks to a reporter in Orlando, Fla. In the wake of his death, a friend of Eddie and another man set up a GoFundMe charity page in his memory, saying the money would pay for his funeral and victim counseling. But Justice's mother said no one consulted her about the appeal in her son's name or made arrangements to give her proceeds. "To me, it's fraud," she said. (AP Photo/Tamara Lush)
The more than 430 fundraisers posted on the GoFundMe website after the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando have exposed weaknesses inherent in these popular do-it-yourself charity campaigns: waste, questionable intentions and little oversight.
The fundraisers — an average of more than four for each of the 49 killed and 53 wounded — include travelers asking for cash, a practitioner of ancient healing, a personal safety instructor who sells quick loaders for assault rifles, and even convicted identity impostors.
"There was a deluge," said Holly Salmons, president of the Better Business Bureau for Central Florida. "It was almost impossible for us or anyone else to be able to vet."
The crowdfunding sites operate outside traditional charitable circles and often beyond the reach of government regulation. Appeals can be created in minutes by almost anyone and shared around the world.
The officially sanctioned Equality Florida campaign raised more than $7 million via GoFundMe, but another $1.3 million went to smaller appeals — mostly set up by people with little or no charity experience.
The Associated Press examined 30 campaigns chosen from throughout the lengthy list produced by a GoFundMe search for "Orlando shootings." Within a month of the June 12 shootings, they had raised more than $265,000.
Half said donations would be used for legitimate-sounding purposes: to cover funeral, medical and other costs. Some campaign organizers were relatives of the dead or wounded. A high school basketball coach raised $15,297 for the family of Akyra Murray, a star player who had just graduated before dying in the attack.
But most campaigns lacked key details, such as exactly what the donations would cover or even who was asking for them. Only nine of the 30 organizers agreed to interviews.
One man wanted money for travel costs to Orlando to shoot independent news video. He hadn't raised anything two months later. Another organizer raised just $25 for travel money to hold a community healing ceremony inspired by ancient shamanic rituals. She dropped that plan in favor of sending painted rocks with an inspiring word of support.
Jackson Yauck of Victoria, British Columbia, put up a lighthearted appeal to let the highest donor burn a pair of skimpy gold-colored shorts he wore to gay-pride events. He had created the appeal on Jan. 1 on behalf of other charities and when he tried to switch it to benefit the Orlando victims, GoFundMe froze his account for at least a week, he said. He agreed to transfer the donations to Equality Florida, and GoFundMe let the appeal go forward.
Yauck said he knew all but one of his 11 donors personally and didn't feel a need to tell them of the switch. "It was just for fun. If you look at the bigger picture, we raised $600 off a pair of underwear," he said.
Several businesses asked for contributions. One appeal raised $1,375 from 14 donors within two months to keep open a hair salon run by partners killed in the attack. A counseling center raised $150 to subsidize services to victims but closed its campaign when it found grant money elsewhere. GoFundMe helps make refunds when contributions go unused.
Weapons-accessory dealer Craig Berberich, of Bradenton, Florida, proposed holding public classes on personal safety. He posted a link to his business at the bottom of his appeal. He said he "wasn't trying to promote my business." Then he added: "I hope we didn't give the impression that we were a charity."
He said he was shutting down his appeal. It remained online over a month later — but with only $100 in donations. Among his store products: a high-speed loader for assault weapons.
Efe Atalay, of Clermond, Florida, raised $1,145 from 81 donors to buy security wands for nightclub entrances, but didn't say which clubs and spoke vaguely of lobbying politicians to require such security measures. He didn't respond to emails sent to his GoFundMe address.
Florida charities law generally requires no filings by crowdfunding campaigns meant for particular victims or their families or in support of other established charities. That accounts for the vast majority of appeals. Other states apply a patchwork of laws.
Yet, crowdfunding campaigns can distribute aid more quickly than large bureaucratic funds. And they have less overhead than traditional charities, with only 8 percent of donations on GoFundMe going to the website and credit card fees. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/scams-waste-loom-charity-millions-donated-orlando-155126638.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/dd76a5b45ed95abf273c28e7d3a1bedcfc6e4fecd62f0b715ede0057a3454e55.json | |
[
"Rick Newman"
] | 2016-08-26T13:12:04 | null | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | Wealthy donors spent nearly $400 million during the primary elections supporting candidates who dropped out. “Maybe they’re fed up, but I doubt it,” Anthony Scaramucci, founder of Skybridge Capital and a Donald Trump adviser, tells Yahoo Finance in the video above. Trump has struggled to raise money | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fwhy-rich-donors-keep-giving-000000462.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Why rich donors keep giving to losing candidates | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Wealthy donors spent nearly $400 million during the primary elections supporting candidates who dropped out. You’d think maybe they’d grow weary of wasting money on politics.
You’d be wrong. “Maybe they’re fed up, but I doubt it,” Anthony Scaramucci, founder of Skybridge Capital and a Donald Trump adviser, tells Yahoo Finance in the video above. “At the end of the day there’s seduction and some level of intoxication with the process.”
Trump has struggled to raise money, for a couple of reasons. He partly self-funded his campaign until June and didn’t have a fundraising operation in place until mid-summer. Some regular GOP donors have shunned Trump because of his unorthodox style or controversial positions he has taken on issues like Muslims, immigration and free trade.
Hillary Clinton seems likely to outraise and outspend Trump, especially when it comes to the super PACs able to raise unlimited sums from the wealthiest Americans. Still, Trump has begun to haul in some big-money donors himself, including investors Paul Singer, Cliff Asness, Warren Stephens, and Bruce Kovner, businessmen Richard Uihlein and Bill Oberndorf, and the Rickets family, which owns the Chicago Cubs.
Trump may very well lose the election, adding millions more to the ledger of futile campaign donations. But donors may not necessarily care. “What donors like is the opportunity to have access to and conversations with the potential candidates,” Scaramucci says. “I think it’s fun for people. They want to have a say or a window on the inside.” And even losing candidates often remain VIPs worth calling for a favor from time to time.
Filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi explored the question of what big donors get for their money in the recent documentary, “Meet the Donors.” She seems to agree with Scaramucci. ““It’s about the access,” she told Yahoo Finance in July. “Most people on the street can’t just sit down with Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. But the megadonors can because they write the big checks.”
In Pelosi’s film, several of America’s biggest check writers said they enjoy having a say in how a campaign is run, but don’t expect explicit favors in return for their contributions. Several showed off framed photos of themselves with members of the Bush or Clinton families, as if that sort of rarified memento were reward enough for their largesse.
This year’s presidential campaign includes a twist on the troubling role money plays in politics, thanks to revelations that some donors to the Clinton Foundation sought special access to Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state. Pelosi’s film makes clear that big political donors seek special access as a matter of course. The difference with the Clinton Foundation is that it’s a nonprofit appearing to hide political activities behind the curtain of charity work. If fundraisers are one thing, they’re bold.
Rick Newman’s latest book is Liberty for All: A Manifesto for Reclaiming Financial and Political Freedom. Follow him on Twitter: @rickjnewman. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-rich-donors-keep-giving-000000462.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/1d7304dc540905fca42150ba4a97943205919d40c66bc5b6cede20e68cedcbf7.json | |
[
"Michael Walsh"
] | 2016-08-26T13:14:01 | null | 2016-08-25T15:49:16 | The National Park Service is inviting people to take part in the celebration of its 100th anniversary on Thursday. Since 1916, the federal agency has been entrusted with the conservation of the United States’ national parks, national monuments and other protected areas. “One hundred years ago today | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fthe-national-parks-service-celebrates-100th-anniversary-154916086.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/M4QIPoflki_EbEgP8b9e3g--/aD01NjI7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/bf111860e8df03d6ae2ad0aee3c24875 | en | null | The National Park Service celebrates 100th anniversary | null | null | www.yahoo.com | The National Park Service is inviting people to take part in the celebration of its 100th anniversary on Thursday.
Since 1916, the federal agency has been entrusted with the conservation of the United States’ national parks, national monuments and other protected areas. More than 275 million people visit these breathtaking preserved places every year.
“One hundred years ago today, Woodrow Wilson signed the Organic Act, which essentially established the National Park Service, and he did that explicitly to preserve and protect the natural resources of the country to make sure that future generations would be able to enjoy them,” Tom Crosson, a spokesman for the National Park Service, said in a phone interview with Yahoo News.
The Organic Act of 1916 clearly states the agency’s mission: “to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wildlife therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.”
To usher in the centennial, the service is offering free admission to all 412 national parks from Thursday until Sunday and holding special events across the country, including music performances, naturalization ceremonies, festivals and sporting events.
“There are events happening all over the park service system. Just about every park out there is having some kind of event, from guided walks to concerts,” Crosson said.
Related slideshow: Vintage postcards of U.S. National Parks >>>
Crosson, who is based in Washington, D.C., told Yahoo News that as he spoke roughly 1,000 people were gathering in the shape of an arrowhead at the base of the Washington Monument on the National Mall. The arrowhead has been the service’s official emblem since 1951.
To kick off the service’s second century, Yellowstone National Park is holding a sold-out event called “An Evening at the Arch” for 6,000 people on Thursday. The event will feature musicians such as Emmylou Harris and John Prine, as well as Teddy Roosevelt reenactor Joe Wiegand and various dignitaries. Yellowstone, the world’s first national park, is located mostly in Wyoming and actually predates the National Park Service. It was established in 1872 by President Ulysses S. Grant.
On Aug. 25, 2006, the service’s 90th anniversary, then-Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne spearheaded the National Park Centennial Initiative. The initiative consulted with experts, citizens, park partners and others to learn about what people envisioned for the park service’s second century.
The National Park Service held a series of more than 40 sessions where the public’s vision for the parks was laid out. This helped to create five centennial goals, which were presented to then-President George W. Bush in a report titled “The Future of America’s National Parks.” | https://www.yahoo.com/news/the-national-parks-service-celebrates-100th-anniversary-154916086.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/e1d3147b383e5c32c5b8f4fbc5ea34d3f72e9933c0cb78927eabe1c0fbec1fec.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T20:50:10 | null | 2016-08-28T17:01:51 | NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — With soaring approval ratings and prospects of a landslide re-election in the fall of 2013, it appeared little could slow New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's political ascension. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fvaried-ways-costs-jersey-bridge-scandal-add-163157632.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | In varied ways, costs of New Jersey bridge scandal add up | null | null | www.yahoo.com | NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — With soaring approval ratings and prospects of a landslide re-election in the fall of 2013, it appeared little could slow New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's political ascension.
Then came the traffic cones.
It likely took a matter of minutes for police to move them on the morning of Sept. 9 and reduce an approach to the George Washington Bridge from three lanes to one.
Three years later, the repercussions linger — for the Republican governor and others.
Next month, one of his former aides and a former top appointee to the agency that operates the bridge into New York City go on trial for allegedly causing gridlock in neighboring Fort Lee, New Jersey, to punish a Democratic mayor for not endorsing Christie.
A brief look at who has been affected by the lane-closing scandal:
THE TAXPAYERS
New Jerseyans are on the hook for well over $10 million in legal expenses stemming from the scandal, the bulk of it billed by Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, a law firm that has represented members of Christie's office who have been subpoenaed by the U.S. attorney's office or by a state legislative committee.
The firm also authored a March 2014 report that absolved Christie of blame, though it didn't interview several people at the heart of the alleged scheme.
A special state legislative panel investigating the lane closures racked up about $1 million in legal fees. Its report issued in December 2014 also concluded Christie didn't know about the plan to close the lanes.
THE GOVERNOR
Christie's approval rating hit 70 percent in a Monmouth University poll early in 2013, a residual effect of his high visibility and round-the-clock efforts in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. By June 2014, that number had fallen to 50 percent, and by May 2015, to 35 percent. Last month, a Rutgers-Eagleton poll of registered voters put his approval rating at 26 percent.
Perhaps more telling, 69 percent of people polled by Monmouth University in May 2015 felt Christie hadn't told the whole truth about the scandal. That month, an indictment charged former Port Authority of New York and New Jersey executive Bill Baroni and former Christie deputy chief of staff Bridget Kelly with wire fraud and civil rights violations.
The bridge scandal "has completely altered the trajectory of Chris Christie's career," said Ben Dworkin, director of the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics at Rider University.
It broke open just as Christie was embarking on his second term with a clear mandate, Dworkin said. His unsuccessful presidential run took more time away from tackling key issues including public pensions, funding for transportation projects and property tax relief.
"The impact is that New Jersey hasn't really been dealing with its biggest issues until the presidential campaign ended for Christie," Dworkin said. "And that meant two-and-a-half years of circling the runway."
At an event Friday, Christie reiterated he had no role in the scandal and scolded reporters for harping on it.
"I know you guys all hope for this story to go on forever. But unfortunately for you, I suspect by the time we get to October or so, it will finally be over," he said.
THE INVESTIGATION
Assemblyman John Wisniewski, a Democrat who co-chaired the committee investigating the lane closures, said the scandal has further eroded citizens' confidence in government.
He added an ironic twist to the story.
The Assembly transportation committee he chaired had been stonewalled in a separate probe of the Port Authority regarding steep toll hikes at its bridges and tunnels. Granted subpoena power, the committee was able to pry loose key documents when the bridge story broke.
"Had the Port Authority simply complied with the requests, there probably wouldn't have been a rationale for the committee to get subpoena power," Wisniewski said.
One of the thousands of documents eventually released to the public was the infamous "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee" email sent by Kelly in August 2013.
Michael Patrick Carroll, a Republican who served on the investigative committee, said the panel should have spent more time on a broader investigation into the Port Authority.
"If legislation could have sprung from it, then it would have been a proper investigation," Carroll said. "Just to investigate the events struck me as not having a specific legislative purpose." | https://www.yahoo.com/news/varied-ways-costs-jersey-bridge-scandal-add-163157632.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/0811c1c968b0a26cfc24e1b0c8a6e99ecfc8bccea364b9b4cb562a6299289710.json | |
[
"Frank Schwab",
"Shutdown Corner Editor"
] | 2016-08-28T02:50:02 | null | 2016-08-27T18:35:49 | San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick knew that not standing for the national anthem would draw some criticism. A couple former NFL quarterbacks weighed in. Miami Dolphins running back Arian Foster, a former teammate of Yates with the Texans, argued with Yates on Twitter after saying it | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Ft-j-yates-is-not-a-fan-of-colin-kaepernicks-national-anthem-protest-183549336.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0fIzqWLvU1ZTjhgABu10og--/aD0yOTc7dz00MjA7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/34f10d2d15a0915b3d2b1837f4107f1f | en | null | Criticism of Colin Kaepernick's national anthem protest begins | null | null | www.yahoo.com | San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick knew that not standing for the national anthem would draw some criticism.
A couple former NFL quarterbacks weighed in. T.J. Yates, formerly of the Houston Texans and currently a free agent, retweeted a criticism of Kaepernick not standing for the anthem in Friday night’s preseason game against the Green Bay Packers, and followed it up with this tweet of his own:
It blows my mind how many people hate the country they live in. — T.J. Yates (@TJ_Yates) August 27, 2016
Miami Dolphins running back Arian Foster, a former teammate of Yates with the Texans, argued with Yates on Twitter after saying it was Kaepernick’s right to protest. Here’s part of the conversation:
the flag represents freedom. the freedom to choose to stand or not. that's what makes this country beautiful. … https://t.co/Ev5D9ACe78 — Feeno (@ArianFoster) August 27, 2016
you can't be be selective and dictate what freedoms this country stands for. you're free to have any religious/political views you feel. — Feeno (@ArianFoster) August 27, 2016
lol bro, where do rights come from? RT @TJ_Yates: @ArianFoster protest for all the rights you want, that is … https://t.co/XeI3pw8sar — Feeno (@ArianFoster) August 27, 2016
loving and understanding your freedoms and rights isn't hate. RT @TJ_Yates: It blows my mind how many people hate the country they live in. — Feeno (@ArianFoster) August 27, 2016
a protest isn't disrespect. RT @TJ_Yates: @ArianFoster interesting how he is disrespecting the same country … https://t.co/j6Y17i55nK — Feeno (@ArianFoster) August 27, 2016
Jeff Garcia, a former 49ers Pro Bowl quarterback, didn’t seem to like Kaepernick’s protest.
What happened 2 being a leader for your team, your family & the young people looking up to U? Appreciating the 1000's who have died for you? — Jeff Garcia Football (@JeffGarciaJGFA) August 28, 2016
Longtime quarterback Matt Hasselbeck, who is currently an analyst on ESPN, seemed to focus on how Kaepernick might have hurt his standing within the 49ers organization as he tries to win a starting job. Kaepernick, who missed most of the offseason recovering from surgeries, didn’t play in the first two preseason games either. He’s fighting Blaine Gabbert for a starting spot.
Easy way to make sure you're NOT the starting QB on opening day. #Sept11 https://t.co/DyQrIOGGO5 — Matthew Hasselbeck (@Hasselbeck) August 27, 2016
Be who you can afford to be. — Matthew Hasselbeck (@Hasselbeck) August 27, 2016
Kaepernick said he didn’t stand during the national anthem as a protest against the civil unrest across the country.
“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick told NFL Network’s Steve Wyche after the game against Green Bay.
Dan Graziano of ESPN said Kaepernick has chosen to not stand during the anthem in each of the 49ers’ preseason games. The NFL said that players are “encouraged but not required” to stand during the anthem. The 49ers put out a statement of their own.
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“The national anthem is and always will be a special part of the pre-game ceremony,” the team said, via NFL.com. “It is an opportunity to honor our country and reflect on the great liberties we are afforded as its citizens. In respecting such American principles as freedom of religion and freedom of expression, we recognize the right of an individual to choose and participate, or not, in our celebration of the national anthem.”
It’s a story that’s going to draw strong feelings on both sides. Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf of the NBA’s Denver Nuggets was involved in a huge controversy in 1996 over his decision to not stand for the national anthem. Kaepernick’s situation will likely follow suit.
Kaepernick said he knew there would be a reaction to his protest. The backlash, and the support, have already started.
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[] | 2016-08-30T08:50:34 | null | 2016-08-29T19:48:44 | OFF THE COAST OF LIBYA (AP) — Italian naval ships and vessels from non-government groups rescued thousands of migrants off the Libyan coast on Monday, the latest surge in desperate attempts to flee to Europe driven by war, poverty, and human traffickers. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Feuropean-ships-rescue-thousands-migrants-off-libyan-coast-144347904.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LPQ2qQA4KTIfVwsuWw6kRw--/aD0zMDA7dz00MDA7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/video/video.associatedpressfree.com/3dc218f031df8a588d7e76f51e67d687 | en | null | European ships rescue thousands of migrants off Libyan coast | null | null | www.yahoo.com | OFF THE COAST OF LIBYA (AP) — Italian naval ships and vessels from non-government groups rescued thousands of migrants off the Libyan coast on Monday, the latest surge in desperate attempts to flee to Europe driven by war, poverty, and human traffickers.
The dramatic operation took place just 21 kilometers (13 miles) north of the town of Sabratha in Libya. Groups such as Proactiva Open Arms and Doctors Without Borders helped take on some 3,000 people who had been travelling in some 20 small wooden boats.
In images and video by The Associated Press, migrants from Eritrea and Somalia cheered as the rescue boats arrived, with some jumping into the water and swimming toward them while others carefully carried babies onto the rescue ships.
Their boats too weak and technically unequipped for a voyage across the stretch of the Mediterranean to the shores of Italy, the migrants had set off with a bit of gasoline in the overcrowded vessels, hoping to make it at least 15-20 miles out to sea and reach awaiting rescuers.
Tens of thousands of Africans take the dangerous Mediterranean Sea route as a gateway to a better life in Europe, alongside those fleeing wars from Syria to Afghanistan.
Libya's chaos and lack of border controls have made it into a transit route. Since the 2011 ouster and killing of longtime Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, the country has sunk into lawlessness, facing a myriad of militias vying for influence and an emerging Islamic State affiliate.
In June, the European Union expanded its anti-smuggling operation in the central Mediterranean to include training Libyan coastal and naval forces, which are intercepting boats and returning migrants to Libya, where some are being held in abusive conditions.
Rights groups and experts estimate that there are about 3,500 migrants held in roughly 20 official detention facilities across Libya. Others are held in informal detention centers controlled by criminal gangs or armed groups.
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This story has been corrected to show that the Spanish navy did not take part in the operation. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/european-ships-rescue-thousands-migrants-off-libyan-coast-144347904.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/abac8d1b518afdaa59c7f38955c2fea956ba277497cb2ad426f9eb881d377e8a.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T16:50:27 | null | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | “In Hillary Clinton’s America, the middle class gets crushed, spending goes up, taxes go up, hundreds of thousands of jobs disappear,” a narrator darkly warned in the commercial. “In Donald Trump’s America, working families get tax relief, millions of new jobs created, wages go up, small businesses | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Ftrump-launches-new-tv-ad-blitz-134234075.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Trump launches new TV ad blitz | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Donald Trump’s presidential campaign unveiled a new TV ad on Monday that characterized Hillary Clinton’s agenda as “more of the same, but worse.”
“In Hillary Clinton’s America, the middle class gets crushed, spending goes up, taxes go up, hundreds of thousands of jobs disappear,” a narrator darkly warned in the commercial.
The ad then switched to an upbeat tone. “In Donald Trump’s America, working families get tax relief, millions of new jobs created, wages go up, small businesses thrive,” the narrator continued. “The American dream: achievable.”
The spot was apparently part of the Trump campaign’s new ad campaign, which is planned to total more than $10 million across nine swing states, according to the Associated Press. The wire service reported that he had previously spent about $5 million on ads.
Trump didn’t launch his first TV ad of the general election until Aug. 19, a delay that confused some election experts as he fell behind Clinton in the polls. His first commercial, which was focused on illegal immigration, accused the Democratic nominee of advocating open borders.
In contrast, Clinton and her allied super-PACs have for weeks been flooding the airwaves with tens of millions of dollars in ads. Last week alone, Clinton’s campaign released TV spots highlighting Trump’s comments about African-Americans, depicting him as a reckless when it comes to national security, and hitting him for manufacturing products overseas. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-launches-new-tv-ad-blitz-134234075.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/dfaf5ed20f8d90d6b01505dbd6a249cd729e189758d1bbed0095a587ec2b2b27.json | |
[] | 2016-08-30T00:50:40 | null | 2016-08-29T21:09:58 | ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The U.S. on Monday urged Turkish troops and Kurdish forces in northern Syria to halt their fighting, saying it hinders efforts to defeat the Islamic State group. But Turkey's president vowed to press ahead with the military operation until the IS and Kurdish Syrian fighters | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fturkey-warns-more-strikes-syrian-kurds-dont-retreat-120111553.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | US urges halt to Turkish, Kurdish clashes in northern Syria | null | null | www.yahoo.com | A Turkish tank stationed near the Syrian border, in Karkamis, Turkey, Monday, Aug. 29, 2016. Turkey's state-run news agency says three rockets fired from Syria have hit Turkish border town of Kilis, injuring five children, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey will press ahead with its military operations in Syria until the Islamic State group and Kurdish militants no longer pose a security threat. Erdogan said Turkey was determined to take all steps necessary both inside Turkey and abroad to protect Turkish citizens.(Ismail Coskun/IHA via AP)
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The U.S. on Monday urged Turkish troops and Kurdish forces in northern Syria to halt their fighting, saying it hinders efforts to defeat the Islamic State group. But Turkey's president vowed to press ahead with the military operation until the IS and Kurdish Syrian fighters no longer pose a security threat to Ankara.
It was the first U.S. criticism of its NATO ally since it launched a U.S.-backed incursion into northern Syria to help Syrian rebels seize the town of Jarablus from the Islamic State group. They have been clashing with Kurdish Syrian forces around the town to try to halt their advance.
The battle now pits Turkey against the Kurdish-led force known as the Syria Democratic Forces— a U.S.-backed proxy that is the most effective ground force battling IS militants in Syria's 5-year-old civil war. It puts Washington in the difficult spot of having to choose between two allies, and it is likely to divert resources from the fight against IS.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Washington has asked Turkey to "stay focused" on the fight against the Islamic State and not to engage with the SDF.
"We've called on both sides not to fight one another, not to fight each other," Carter said.
He told reporters at the Pentagon that Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke to his Turkish counterpart Sunday. Carter added that he intends to discuss the issue next week in Europe with Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Isik.
Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said the clashes were of "deep concern," adding that they were not coordinated with U.S. forces, "and we do not support them."
"Uncoordinated operations and maneuvers only provide room for ISIL to find sanctuary and continue planning attacks against Turkey, the SDF, the United States, and our partners around the world," the statement said.
Turkish officials responded by insisting that Kurdish forces "immediately" withdraw east of the Euphrates River or face more attacks by Turkish forces.
"No one has the right to tell Turkey to 'fight this terror organization but don't fight that terror organization,'" said Omer Celik, a Turkish cabinet minister.
Turkey's Hurriyet newspaper, in an online edition, quoted Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus as responding to the Pentagon by saying the U.S. should keep to its promise and use its influence to press its Kurdish allies to withdraw to the east.
The sharp rhetoric — and the continued fighting — reflects the complicated and conflicting interests at stake in northern Syria after Turkish tanks rolled across the border Aug. 24 with the dual aim of containing the IS group and Kurdish forces.
The U.S. has supported Turkey in its demand that the SDF withdraw east of the Euphrates, which cuts into Jarablus. The goal is to clear the region south of Jarablus of Kurdish forces, thus keeping them from linking with other Kurdish-controlled areas in Afrin in Syria's northwestern corner.
Turkey pressed ahead with its offensive, seemingly bent on creating a de facto "safe zone" free of IS and the Kurds near its border. The Turkish military said Turkey-backed Syrian rebels — a mix of various Islamist rebel factions — have cleared 10 more villages of "terrorist entities" and now control of an area totaling some 400 square kilometers (about 150 square miles) south and west of Jarablus.
In an emailed statement, Turkish military officials said Syrian opposition forces were continuing their operations to clear IS-controlled areas.
Syrian opposition groups, meanwhile, reported that Turkish-backed Syrian rebels have captured more towns and villages as part of the operation named "Euphrates Shield," now in its sixth day.
Cook said the U.S. doesn't support reported Turkish airstrikes and artillery shelling of U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish fighters — or Kurdish attacks on Turkish troops — in areas where IS fighters no longer operate.
In another sign of brewing discord, Cook said the Kurdish pullback to the east side of the Euphrates has "largely occurred."
At the White House, Ben Rhodes, President Barack Obama's deputy national security adviser, expressed concern that further action by Turkish troops against the Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces "would complicate efforts to have that united front against ISIL that we want," using another acronym for the Islamic State group. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/turkey-warns-more-strikes-syrian-kurds-dont-retreat-120111553.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/df4212dd49291a3901e11a5ac4aff380e436910b9d5f87fba2f4aeed34a354b2.json | |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:14:29 | null | 2016-08-23T17:07:09 | WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump portrays himself as an indispensable cash resource for fellow Republicans. So far, they're not seeing much of a benefit. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Ffellow-republicans-still-waiting-trumps-072801314.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Trump's boast of aid to GOP not backed up by finance report | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally in Akron, Ohio, Monday, Aug. 22, 2016. Behind is former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump portrays himself as an indispensable cash resource for fellow Republicans. So far, they're not seeing much of a benefit.
The presidential nominee's July fundraising provided the Republican National Committee with less than half as much as Mitt Romney's efforts four years ago, an Associated Press review of the campaign finance documents found.
"Typically you see the nominee lift everyone up," said Chris Schrimpf, a spokesman for Ohio Gov. John Kasich, one of Trump's defeated primary rivals. The battleground state features a critical Senate race this year, but Trump has all but ignored the Ohio state party. "This time, if anything, everyone else is carrying his water."
The RNC received $18.1 million from joint fundraising with Trump last month, but only $10.6 million can be used to help Republicans — including Trump — win elections this fall, the filings show. The remainder is earmarked for convention and legal proceedings accounts, or was eaten up by Trump-centered fundraising costs.
RNC chairman Reince Priebus defends Trump as a strong fundraising partner for Republicans. Trump has made the same argument.
"I'm the one that's raising the money, and other people are getting to use the money that I raised," Trump said in an Aug. 11 interview with Fox News, adding that he is "raising a lot of money for the Republican Party."
The Trump campaign said that as of Aug. 1 his victory accounts contained $37 million to be disbursed to his campaign, the RNC and other partners. Trump's national finance chairman, Steven Mnuchin, said it was a strategic decision not to transfer the money right away.
"It has been a major priority of Donald to fundraise for the party, and the money for field expenses helps not only him but the rest of the ticket," Mnuchin said Monday.
Still, each day that money isn't in action puts Republicans a little further behind. Election Day is fewer than 80 days away, and early voting in some states begins in a few weeks. Effective voter contact and turnout operations are time-consuming and costly.
Mnuchin said there is "plenty of money" available. "We're deploying money as we think we need to deploy money," he said.
Andrew Weinstein and more than 100 other Republicans wrote an open letter to Priebus earlier this month urging the RNC to ditch Trump and focus on Senate and House candidates. Weinstein said Trump's lackluster aid to others "validates our entire point."
"He's all downside and no upside for the party," said Weinstein, a former communications director for Bob Dole's 1996 campaign.
Beyond the RNC, Trump could be helping state parties directly. But he has been particularly stingy with the states that have the toughest Senate elections, such as Ohio and New Hampshire, where Sens. Rob Portman and Kelly Ayotte could be key to maintaining GOP control of the chamber.
Trump's joint fundraising agreement overlooks those and other states, instead naming 11 partners that are somewhat head-scratching. Several of them, including West Virginia and Tennessee, don't have a Senate race and are expected to vote Republican in the presidential, while Democrats are heavily favored to win Senate races in other states, such as New York and Connecticut.
Mnuchin called the choice of benefactors a "strategic decision" and declined to explain it.
Regardless, the Trump Victory Committee hadn't transferred money to any of his state allies as of July 31.
In another change from 2012, Trump is not helping raise money for the National Republican Senatorial Committee or the National Republican Congressional Committee; Romney's joint fundraising account included both groups.
Trump's opponent, Hillary Clinton, is taking a broader approach to helping fellow Democrats. Her fundraising agreement spans 38 state and territory party groups and provided them at least $20.3 million last month, federal filings show. That doesn't include money used for the convention.
The Republican nominee has had a touchy relationship with his party, from threatening to quit the party and run as an independent to disparaging GOP stars and withholding endorsement of House Speaker Paul Ryan.
Raising money for others could help smooth things over, and that may be a reason Trump frequently talks up his efforts. When he formed his fundraising partnership in late May, Trump told the AP he is only raising money because "the RNC really wanted to do it, and I want to show good spirit." | https://www.yahoo.com/news/fellow-republicans-still-waiting-trumps-072801314.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-23T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/6fdc144ca8bbebe39df832ccaf67699a1eb64151c81b3619ca18d582dbd1d0b6.json | |
[] | 2016-08-29T22:50:39 | null | 2016-08-29T20:10:05 | Facebook’s newly-tweaked “Trending” module, barely three days old, is has already made its first big gaffe: promoting a seemingly-baseless article about Fox News host Megyn Kelly. The article, which features the headline “Fox News Exposes Traitor Megyn Kelly, Kicks Her Out For Backing Hillary,” was | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Ffacebook-changes-trending-section-accusations-political-bias-174520825--abc-news-tech.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Facebook 'Trending' Section Makes Editorial Gaffe After Changes to Reduce Political Bias | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Facebook’s newly-tweaked “Trending” module, barely three days old, is has already made its first big gaffe: promoting a seemingly-baseless article about Fox News host Megyn Kelly.
The article, which features the headline “Fox News Exposes Traitor Megyn Kelly, Kicks Her Out For Backing Hillary,” was added to the trending section over the weekend, according to a source at Facebook, who said that it was reviewed on Monday and removed.
The article's promotion came after Facebook made significant changes to the influential Trending module, removing some human influence and making it more “automated,” in an effort to address bias claims that it has faced in recent months.
The changes see the module reduced to topic names and small headlines (essentially keywords) instead of snippets written and published by human beings.
Human beings are still in the mix, the company said in a blog post on its website. Topics are served up by software that monitors the network for the most talked-about news, which is then filtered for publication on the module by human beings who are charged with filtering to make sure the topics are indeed newsworthy. In wake of the report about Kelly, a Facebook spokesperson said that the company was working to strengthen its detection of fake stories.
However, according to Quartz, the changes also saw Facebook sack “the entire editorial staff” that previously worked with the module, leaving the Trending team to be “staffed entirely by engineers, who will work to check that topics and articles surfaced by the algorithms are newsworthy.”
Asked about the Quartz report, a Facebook spokesperson told ABC News in an email: “In this new version of Trending we no longer need to draft topic descriptions or summaries, and as a result we are shifting to a team with an emphasis on operations and technical skillsets, which helps us better support the new direction of the product.”
Human influence over the section, which has the ability to bring lots of eyeballs to news topics, has been the topic of heated controversy in recent months after a Gizmodo report in May in which an unnamed former journalist who worked on the project said that staff “routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers.”
In wake of the report, Facebook was forced to release more information about how the module -- which sits prominently, just to the right of users’ newsfeeds -- worked.
The company has said that it “looked into these claims and found no evidence of systematic bias,” but that making the changes, “allows our team to make fewer individual decisions about topics.”
In the blog post announcing the change the company said that it was a “platform for all ideas, and we’re committed to maintaining Trending as a way for people to access a breadth of ideas and commentary about a variety of topics.”
This article has been updated with new details and a comment from Facebook. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/facebook-changes-trending-section-accusations-political-bias-174520825--abc-news-tech.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/218d8ed4b360bf609bb484928c18f3b2d56ddbe88843e47eb10347aa27c9b6e6.json | |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:14:16 | null | 2016-08-25T07:13:26 | REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — Hillary Clinton mingled with Hall of Fame basketball player Magic Johnson and Apple CEO Tim Cook, vamped in a photo booth with actor Justin Timberlake and dined with some of California's richest families on what was likely the most lucrative fundraising swing of her presidential | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fclintons-gold-rush-18-million-raised-three-day-071326253--election.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Clinton's Gold Rush: $18 million raised on three-day swing | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton greets people outside on the street as she leaves a fundraiser in Piedmont, Calif., Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — Hillary Clinton mingled with Hall of Fame basketball player Magic Johnson and Apple CEO Tim Cook, vamped in a photo booth with actor Justin Timberlake and dined with some of California's richest families on what was likely the most lucrative fundraising swing of her presidential campaign.
The Democratic presidential candidate raised $18 million on a three-day trip through California, or roughly $270,000 an hour.
The visit to the West Coast comes amid a prosperous August for Clinton's campaign, with the candidate and her surrogates hosting at least 54 events over the final two weeks of the month, according to a fundraising schedule obtained by The Associated Press. A weekend trip to Cape Cod featured stops at seaside estates and a Sunday "summer celebration" with the pop star Cher.
Clinton is trying to use the relatively quiet month of August, when voters are more focused on vacation than politics, to fill her campaign war chest.
In the Golden State, many of her events were at well-worn stops on the Democratic money trail. In Los Angeles, she stopped by Johnson's Beverly Hills compound, where she spoke to the 500 supporters gathered outside.
Then she headed a few house down the street to entertainment executive Haim Saban's sprawling property, where she was feted at a 100-person dinner on grounds that included some of Saban's lighted animal-shaped topiary. The price of admission: $50,000 a plate.
President Barack Obama had visited the same homes in 2013. But unlike Obama, who allows reporters to observe some of his opening remarks to donors, Clinton leaves the press waiting outside in vans and guesthouses, giving no hints at what she might be telling some of the country's most powerful people.
Behind closed doors, Clinton soothed the worries and answered the questions of some of her most ardent backers.
At an intimate Bay Area dinner for 30, one donor asked about "healthers," likening the unfounded rumors about Clinton's health to the so-called birthers who questioned Obama's birthplace.
Outside the Piedmont mansion, a crowd of children and their parents waited over two hours for Clinton, chanting her name in the chilly night air.
Clinton emerged from the home and, for about a few brief moments, campaigned. She made her way down the hastily assembled police line, shaking hands, snapping selfies and admiring the homemade signs.
Then it was back in the motorcade to prepare for another busy day raising money
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Keep track on how much Clinton and Trump are spending on television advertising, and where they're spending it, via AP's interactive ad tracker. http://elections.ap.org/content/ad-spending .
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Associated Press writer Julie Bykowicz contributed to this report from Washington.
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[] | 2016-08-29T20:50:41 | null | 2016-08-29T19:19:18 | Hillary Clinton rolled out a comprehensive plan to address millions of Americans coping with mental illness, pointing to the need to fully integrate mental health services into the nation's health care ... | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fclinton-proposes-plan-address-mental-health-treatment-101500958.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Clinton proposes plan to address mental health treatment | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, center left, leaves the home of Marcia Riklis, center right, following a private fundraiser in Southampton, N.Y., Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) -- Hillary Clinton rolled out a comprehensive plan to address millions of Americans coping with mental illness, pointing to the need to fully integrate mental health services into the nation's health care system.
Clinton's campaign released a multi-pronged approach to mental health care on Monday, aimed at ensuring that Americans would no longer separate mental health from physical health in terms of access, care and quality of treatment.
"We've got to break through and break down the stigma and shame. We've got to make clear that mental health is not a personal failing. Right now it's our country which is failing people with mental health issues," she said.
The Democratic presidential nominee's agenda would focus on early diagnosis and intervention and create a national initiative for suicide prevention. If elected, Clinton would hold a White House conference on mental health within her first year in office.
Clinton's proposal would also aim to enforce mental health parity laws and provide training to law enforcement officers to deal with people grappling with mental health problems while prioritizing treatment over jail for low-level offenders.
The former secretary of state held a town hall meeting by telephone with stakeholders on Monday during a three-day fundraising spree in the Hamptons on New York's Long Island. The policy rollout would overlap with a Clinton plan to address drug and alcohol addiction which she campaigned on in Iowa and New Hampshire after hearing frequently about the problems from voters.
Clinton noted that suicides were at their highest levels in years and people were dying from connected health conditions that "too often go undetected and untreated." She said during the campaign "it has seemed like a floodgate has opened" from parents, students, veterans and others sharing their stories of mental health problems.
The federal government estimated in 2014 that about 43.6 million adults in the U.S. had mental illness in the past year, or about 1 in 5 adults age 18 and over. It estimated nearly 10 million adults suffered from serious mental illness.
An estimated 17 million children in the U.S. experience mental health problems, including 1 in 5 college students, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Nearly 1 in 5 veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan experienced post-traumatic stress or depression.
Clinton's campaign said the plan would attempt to integrate the nation's health care system to create a more seamless way of providing both medical and mental health treatment to patients.
It would expand the reimbursement systems for collaborative care models under Medicare and Medicaid that aim to treat patients through a team of health care professionals, including a primary care doctor, a care manager and a behavioral health specialist.
It would also be helped by a Clinton proposal to boost funding for community health centers that she announced earlier in the summer along with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, her primary rival.
Money for the centers, a priority for Sanders, was increased under the Affordable Care Act. Clinton's plan would make the money for the centers permanent and expand it by $40 billion over the next decade.
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On Twitter, follow Ken Thomas at @kthomasdc | https://www.yahoo.com/news/clinton-proposes-plan-address-mental-health-treatment-101500958.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/ceaf6a4ce6f73ed477a497cbba0840455e457a42c2efb60a5ec3c4bb5ed9853a.json | |
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"Michael Walsh"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:46 | null | 2016-08-23T17:41:57 | Donald Trump’s nebulous immigration policy appears to be shifting away from the promise of mass deportations to something a bit more tenable: a focus on criminals living in the United States illegally. During the primary campaign, Trump advocated for a “deportation force” to remove the estimated 11 | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fdonald-trump-muddles-hardline-immigration-stance-from-gop-primary-174157234.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Nl7Xk569iaBpxffKWbJhwg--/aD00Nzg7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/55619d2f0e66375909536d4e6fd06581 | en | null | Donald Trump muddles hardline immigration stance from GOP primary | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Donald Trump’s nebulous immigration policy appears to be shifting away from the promise of mass deportations to something a bit more tenable: a focus on criminals living in the United States illegally.
During the primary campaign, Trump advocated for a “deportation force” to remove the estimated 11 million people who have illegally immigrated into the United States. The proposal, along with his call for a massive border wall that Mexico would pay for, fired up the red blood of the party’s base.
But recent reports have suggested that the immigration hardliner may be looking at softening his stance as the November election approaches.
Last weekend, BuzzFeed and Univision reported that he told a Hispanic advisory council he would support legal status for some immigrants. The Trump campaign insists his position hasn’t changed.
Amid talk that Trump has flip-flopped, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly asked the Republican candidate Monday night if he was actually rethinking his mass-deportation policy.
“I just want to follow the law. What I’m doing is following the law,” Trump replied.
On “The O’Reilly Factor,” Trump outlined a two-tier immigration policy: Violent criminals will be deported “so fast your head will spin” and others will go through the process currently in place, but with “perhaps a lot more energy.”
“We got gang members. We have killers. We have a lot of bad people that have to get out of this country,” he said. “We’re going to get them out, and the police know who they are. They’re known by law enforcement who they are. We don’t do anything. They go around killing people and hurting people.”
Trump said he would deal with illegal immigration using laws that are already on the books. To justify his new position, he cited the examples of former President George W. Bush, and, somewhat surprisingly, President Obama.
“What people don’t know is that Obama got tremendous numbers of people out of the country. Bush, the same thing. Lots of people were brought out of the country with the existing laws. Well, I’m going to do the same thing,” he said.
The real estate magnate’s focus on deporting criminals does in fact echo current Obama administration policies. In November 2014, in an address to the nation, the president said, “We’re going to keep focusing enforcement resources on actual threats to our security. Felons, not families. Criminals, not children. Gang members, not a mom who’s working hard to provide for her kids. We’ll prioritize, just like law enforcement does every day.”
O’Reilly pressed Trump on the logistics of deporting people en masse and took issue with the prospect of the government placing people in a “detention center” until their immigration status can be determined.
Trump — who during the primary praised the Eisenhower administration’s mass-deportation program — swiftly shut down O’Reilly’s suggestion that he supported rounding people up and placing them in a detention center.
“You don’t have to put them in a detention center. Bill, you’re the first one to mention detention center,” Trump told the Fox News host. “I never even heard the term detention center. I’m not going to put them in a detention center.”
Trump steered the conversation back toward targeting violent criminals and going through a fair process for everyone else, “only through the system of laws.”
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[] | 2016-08-27T20:51:12 | null | 2016-08-27T17:44:36 | CHICAGO (AP) — After threatening to sue, the Chicago Tribune has obtained data from the city's police department that tracks every time an officer has opened fire in the city over the past six years. The vast majority of those hit were black men or boys. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Freport-black-men-boys-shot-most-chicago-police-170939959.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Report: Black men, boys shot most by Chicago police | null | null | www.yahoo.com | CHICAGO (AP) — After threatening to sue, the Chicago Tribune has obtained data from the city's police department that tracks every time an officer has opened fire in the city over the past six years. The vast majority of those hit were black men or boys.
There were 435 police shootings from 2010 through 2015, in which officers killed 92 people and wounded 170 others. In all, officers fired 2,623 bullets.
The newspaper's findings (http://trib.in/2bkSzNO ) show about four out of every five people shot were African-American males. It found that about half of the officers involved were African-American or Hispanic and most of them had years of experience and were not rookies.
The review also said the number of police shootings has declined over the period, from more than 100 in 2011 to 44 last year.
The city is making major changes to the department and various oversight bodies after the uproar over a 2014 shooting in which a white officer fired 16 bullets into a black teenager. Video of that fatal shooting, which was released upon a judge's order in November, contradicted officers' accounts that the teen lunged at them threateningly with a knife. The officer who fired those shots has been charged with first-degree murder.
Despite heightened scrutiny of the department and promises from the city of more transparency, the Tribune said it took seven months of arguing and the threat of a lawsuit to prod the city to release the data.
Most of the police shootings took place in South and West Side neighborhoods beset by gang violence and poverty. At least one of every five shootings involved plainclothes tactical officers charged with taking on gangs, the newspaper found.
Police union President Dean Angelo Sr. defended the department's record against accusations of racial bias.
"When you look at the map, 80 percent of narcotics arrests, gun arrests and gang arrests happen in these poor areas," he told the newspaper. "Where you've got dope, you've got guns. It's not about ethnicity — it's about criminal involvement."
He also said officers face split-second decisions about when to use lethal force to protect themselves.
But community activist Charles Jenkins told the Tribune he believes the race of those shot influences the investigations into the shootings.
"It's easier to believe, because they're black, that an officer was in fear of their life and get(s) off," he said.
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"Caitlin Dickson",
"Breaking News Reporter"
] | 2016-08-27T16:49:48 | null | 2016-08-27T14:45:40 | Instead of offering condolences Saturday morning, Donald Trump looked ahead to Election Day when reacting to news that Chicago Bulls star Dwyane Wade’s cousin had been killed. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fdonald-trump-dwyane-wade-cousin-000000613.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Z0JG1UxTSVrH2J04JrflQQ--/aD00MDE7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/96299a91c89db3e298f53d578bffa1a3 | en | null | Trump sparks outrage with tweet about Dwyane Wade’s cousin’s death | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Instead of offering condolences, Donald Trump looked ahead to Election Day when reacting to news that Chicago Bulls star Dwyane Wade’s cousin had been killed. Nykea Aldridge, a mother of four, was reportedly caught in the crossfire while pushing a baby stroller in Chicago’s South Side on Friday.
“Dwayne [sic] Wade’s cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago. Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!” the GOP nominee tweeted Saturday morning.
The tweet stunned many on Twitter. It was somewhat similar to the “appreciate the congrats” message Trump had posted in June, in the aftermath of the mass shooting at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub.
There's nothing more horrifying than a presidential candidate patting himself on the back after someone is killed. https://t.co/TrrmEl0zpw — Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) August 27, 2016
this is… literally the worst tweet ever https://t.co/MZjSFomv6r — Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) August 27, 2016
This is not human.https://t.co/gF8GS8i37u — Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) August 27, 2016
This is the digital equivalent of passing out yard signs at a funeral. Emotional intelligence here is less than 0 https://t.co/llFI8kDOcX — Tim Miller (@Timodc) August 27, 2016
.@realDonaldTrump I'm sure you are all Dwayne Wade's family can even think about right now!! — Lauren Duca (@laurenduca) August 27, 2016
You're a national disgrace. My god, man. https://t.co/cDaoSle5Vi — Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) August 27, 2016
Trump has making direct appeals to black voters in recent weeks. Last week, Trump held a rally in the predominantly white suburb of Dimondale, Mich., and asked the African-American community what they had to lose by supporting him.
“You’re living in your poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed,” Trump said. His stereotype of African-American neighborhoods was widely criticized as offensive. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-dwyane-wade-cousin-000000613.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/bff71d799633b251039932579420bd05771b43c6e92c16c010539fd9cea98452.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:14:23 | null | 2016-08-24T07:44:15 | When President Barack Obama ran for re-election, Democrats made no secret of their disdain for Mitt Romney. Horrified by the prospect of Trump in the White House, Obama and his party have changed their tune about Romney. As they denounce Trump as “unhinged” and unfit, they’re getting nostalgic about | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fhorrified-trump-democrats-getting-nostalgic-romney-073548086--election.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/aRHkTOKfgbQSdcO2LIkfzw--/aD02ODI7dz0xMjgwO3NtPTE7YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b24-/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/46344c6663da57a091341979a4356876 | en | null | Horrified by Trump, Democrats getting nostalgic about Romney | null | null | www.yahoo.com | WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Barack Obama ran for re-election, Democrats made no secret of their disdain for Mitt Romney. That was all before Donald Trump.
Horrified by the prospect of Trump in the White House, Obama and his party have changed their tune about Romney. As they denounce Trump as “unhinged” and unfit, they’re getting nostalgic about the 2012 Republican nominee they now describe as principled, competent and honorable.
It’s a sharp reversal from four years ago. Back then, Democrats spent hundreds of millions of dollars portraying the former Massachusetts governor as a callous, unpatriotic, pet-abusing caricature of the uber-rich.
Yet as Trump is proving, everything in politics is relative.
“He was in it for the right reasons,” Stephanie Cutter, Obama’s 2012 deputy campaign manager, said of Romney. “He truly believed in wanting to make this country better. We just differed significantly on how to do that.”
Cutter said that in 2012 Democrats had ideological clashes with Romney, but didn’t doubt his temperament or basic competence. She said unlike Trump, Romney didn’t “insult his way through his campaigning,” malign minorities, or threaten to violate the Constitution or to abandon U.S. allies.
New York Rep. Steve Israel, one of the Democratic Party’s top campaign strategists, said “Romney was qualified, but he had the wrong ideas. Trump is unqualified, dangerous and still has the wrong ideas.”
And Obama’s 2012 campaign press secretary, Ben LaBolt, put it this way: “I don’t think anybody would have truly expected the country to go to hell in a handbasket” if Romney had won. “Trump presents an entirely different level of threat,” he said.
Rewind to 2012.
A pro-Obama super PAC aired a TV ad indirectly alleging that Romney caused a woman’s death. Democrats accused him of animal cruelty over a decades-old story about Seamus, the family dog, forced to ride rooftop on a road trip. Vice President Joe Biden told a largely black audience that Romney and his running mate were “going to put y'all back in chains.”
All the while, Obama attacked Romney’s business record ruthlessly, as Democrats questioned whether Romney’s use of offshore accounts made him unpatriotic. Obama’s campaign even suggested Romney might have committed a felony by misrepresenting his employment status to federal regulators.
It’s this year’s great irony that the same Democratic attacks that landed hard on Romney seem to bounce right off of Trump. Where Romney had to downplay his wealth, Trump boasts of his riches, and brushes off controversies over remarks perceived as insensitive to women or minorities.
Russ Schriefer, a top Romney adviser in 2012, said he hoped Democrats were learning that words matter, even in politics. He described a campaign equivalent of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.”
“Don’t be surprised when your accusations against Trump are falling upon deaf ears and aren’t working, when you’ve used them in the past against a person for whom the descriptions didn’t fit,” he said.
But Israel, who oversaw Democrats’ efforts to win House seats that year, said he didn’t think the attacks had gone too far. After all, Romney and Republicans were similarly tough on Obama, calling him a liar and a failed president.
“The rhetoric gets heated on both sides of the aisle in any campaign,” Israel said.
Many Republicans, too, have declared Trump dangerous and unsuitable for the Oval Office. Chief among them is Romney, who implored fellow Republicans during the primary not to nominate Trump and called him a phony, a fraud, a bully and a con man.
“I have never seen anything like it, and kudos to Romney for having the courage of his convictions when it comes to Trump,” said Dan Pfeiffer, Obama’s White House communications director during the campaign.
These days, even Obama seems to acknowledge that Romney wouldn’t have been awful — at least not compared to Trump. Earlier this month, Obama said he would have been disappointed had he been defeated by Romney in 2012 or by Sen. John McCain in 2008, but never questioned either Republican’s ability to do the job.
A representative for Romney declined to comment on Democrats’ newfound affection. But Eric Fehrnstrom, a longtime Romney adviser, called it an attempt to make GOP voters more comfortable with the idea of voting for Clinton.
“He knows whatever expressions of support for him now coming from Democrats are purely political,” Fehrnstrom said. “They’re totally insincere.”
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[
"Dylan Stableford",
"Senior Editor"
] | 2016-08-26T13:10:38 | null | 2016-08-25T14:27:49 | “He is taking a hate movement mainstream,” Clinton told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in a phone interview shortly after Trump made the remark at a rally in Mississippi. Recently released emails showed a foundation official reaching out to the State Department on behalf of donors. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fhillary-clinton-trump-bigot-foundation-000000610.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/mnA2oNOBg2r7p_RiUQeo5Q--/aD00OTU7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/d64a6a1dcae8c3ecaad391a4b695699b | en | null | Hillary Clinton on foundation attacks: ‘I know there’s a lot of smoke, and there’s no fire’ | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Hillary Clinton responded to the latest attacks and questions surrounding her campaign on Wednesday night, firing back at Donald Trump moments after the Republican nominee called her “a bigot.”
“He is taking a hate movement mainstream,” Clinton told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in a phone interview shortly after Trump made the remark at a rally in Mississippi. “He’s brought it into his campaign. He’s bringing it to our communities and our country, and someone who’s questioned the citizenship of the first African-American president, who has courted white supremacists, who’s been sued for housing discrimination against communities of color, who’s attacked a judge for his Mexican heritage, and promised a mass deportation force is someone who is very much peddling bigotry and prejudice and paranoia.”
Hillary Clinton responds to Trump calling her a bigot: “He is taking a hate movement mainstream” https://t.co/xyYjhBKRms — Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) August 25, 2016
The Democratic nominee also dismissed Trump’s call for an investigation of the Clinton Foundation, which has come under intense scrutiny amid conservatives’ allegations of pay-for-play politics while she was secretary of state. Recently released emails showed a foundation official reaching out to the State Department on behalf of donors.
“My work as secretary of state was not influenced by any outside forces,” Clinton said. “I made policy decisions based on what I thought was right, to keep Americans safe and protect U.S. interests abroad. No wild political attack by Donald Trump is going to change that. And, in fact, the State Department has said itself that there is no evidence of any kind of impropriety at all.”
Hillary Clinton: “My work as secretary of state was not influenced by any outside forces” https://t.co/YZ32bCBsdM https://t.co/aEFjdXt7pi — Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) August 25, 2016
Clinton said the Clinton Foundation has been far more transparent than the real estate mogul’s business interests.
“The foundation is a charity,” Clinton said. “Neither my husband nor I have ever drawn a salary from it. You know more about the foundation than you know about anything concerning Donald Trump’s wealth, his business, his tax returns. I think it’s quite remarkable. His refusal to release his tax returns is even more concerning given the recent news that his businesses are hundred of millions of dollars in debt to big banks, including the state-owned bank of China, and business groups with ties to the Kremlin.”
Clinton’s comments came hours after her campaign slammed an Associated Press report that more than half the people outside government that she met with while she was secretary of state also donated to the Clinton Foundation. Clinton’s team and other critics said the report relied on “utterly flawed” data.
Clinton: “You know more about the Foundation than you know about anything concerning Donald Trump’s wealth…” https://t.co/5SGukTzLmh — CNN (@CNN) August 25, 2016
And Clinton continued the pushback against the AP article during her CNN interview.
“I know there’s a lot of smoke, and there’s no fire,” she told Cooper. “This AP report — put it in context — excludes nearly 2,000 meetings I had with world leaders, plus countless other meetings with U.S. government officials when I was secretary of state. It looked at a small portion of my time.
“It drew the conclusion and made the suggestion that my meetings with people like the late, great, Elie Wiesel, or Melinda Gates, or the Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus were somehow due to connections with the foundation instead of their status as highly respected global leaders,” Clinton continued. “That is absurd. These are people I was proud to meet with, who any secretary of state would have been proud to meet with, and hear about their work and their insight.”
Clinton also addressed the issue that continues to dog her campaign: her use of a private email server for official State Department business. Last week, former Secretary of State Colin Powell told People magazine that the Clinton campaign has been trying “pin” the email scandal on him after it was revealed that Clinton told the FBI that he advised her to use a private server.
“I want people to know that the decision to have a single email account was mine,” Clinton said. “I take responsibility for it. I’ve apologized for it. I would certainly do differently if I could, but obviously I’m grateful the Justice Department concluded there was no basis to pursue this matter further, and I believe the public will be, and is, considering my full record and experience as they consider their choice for president.” | https://www.yahoo.com/news/hillary-clinton-trump-bigot-foundation-000000610.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/7d284bf9b5c9654292590b8f9dab91588e1d9c5836bdc2837c3cbb18a7f668ee.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:17 | null | 2016-08-25T02:32:26 | Asked if the data could be a game-changer in the election, the Australian told Fox News in an interview conducted by satellite: “I think it’s significant. Assange has been living in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London for five years to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he faces sexual assault accusations | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fassange-says-wikileaks-release-significant-clinton-campaign-data-023226471.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/6YgY40QDFYBJsNY1oq1Knw--/aD0zMDA7dz00MDA7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/video/video.associatedpressfree.com/68a4f1fe83cc0667161ff761ccb7a441 | en | null | Assange says WikiLeaks to release 'significant' Clinton campaign data | null | null | www.yahoo.com | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange said on Wednesday his organization planned to release “significant” information linked to the campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton before the Nov. 8 election.
Asked if the data could be a game-changer in the election, the Australian told Fox News in an interview conducted by satellite: “I think it’s significant. You know, it depends on how it catches fire in the public and in the media.”
Assange has been living in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London for five years to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he faces sexual assault accusations. He denies the allegations.
WikiLeaks released files in July of what it said were audio recordings pulled from the emails of the Democratic National Committee that were obtained by hacking its servers.
That release, during the Democratic National Convention where Clinton was officially named the party’s presidential nominee, was the second batch in a series that deeply rattled the party and prompted the committee’s chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, to step down.
"I don’t want to give the game away, but it’s a variety of documents, from different types of institutions that are associated with the election campaign, some quite unexpected angles, some quite interesting, some even entertaining,” Assange said when asked how the next revelations would compare with those in July.
WikiLeaks publishes leaked material, mostly from governments. In 2010, the organization published classified U.S. military and diplomatic documents in one of the largest information leaks in U.S. history.
(Reporting by Eric Walsh; Editing by Paul Tait)
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[
"Holly Bailey",
"National Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-31T14:50:51 | null | 2016-08-31T13:04:36 | In another strange twist in an already unusual campaign season, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will make a last-minute Wednesday visit to Mexico City. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fdonald-trump-mexico-trip-000000931.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/2FCcjbO9aU9RCQ9G3Pqn7Q--/aD00OTY7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/a1ba91ae23074506d88191273e0f3283 | en | null | Donald Trump’s surprise trip to Mexico threatens to overshadow immigration speech | null | null | www.yahoo.com | PHOENIX — In yet another strange twist in an already unusual campaign season, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will make a last-minute Wednesday visit to Mexico City, where he will meet privately with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto.
The sit-down, confirmed late Tuesday night by Trump and the Mexican leader in separate Twitter posts, will take place just hours before the GOP nominee is set to make what aides have billed as a pivotal immigration speech Wednesday evening in Phoenix.
The Trump campaign did not respond to repeated inquiries about the trip, which came at the request of Peña Nieto. According to a statement from his office, the Mexican president sent invitations late last week to meet with both Trump and Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee. Her campaign confirmed early Wednesday that she had received the invitation but offered no details on when or if she might accept.
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Trump’s abrupt decision to visit Mexico City, which took even some of his own staff and close advisers by surprise, takes him into a nation that he has repeatedly trashed on the campaign trail. Kicking off his unlikely bid for the presidency last year, Trump made immigration his pivotal issue, suggesting that many Mexican immigrants illegally entering the country are rapists and drug dealers.
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best,” Trump declared at his announcement speech in June 2015 and has repeated the sentiment many times since. “They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime. They’re rapists, and some, I assume, are good people.”
One of Trump’s signature campaign issues has been his pledge to crack down on illegal immigration by building a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico, a structure he has insisted he would force Mexico to pay for. The proposal has earned scorn from all corners of the political spectrum, including from Pope Francis, who memorably criticized Trump over the issue during the GOP primary earlier this year.
View photos Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. (Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP) More
Peña Nieto and other Mexican leaders have repeatedly rebuffed Trump’s plan, insisting Mexico would never pay for a border wall — even amid the GOP nominee’s threats to curb trade or issue financial sanctions. At the same time, Peña Nieto has been highly critical of what he has called Trump’s “anti-Mexican” rhetoric, even going so far as to compare it to the “strident” tone used by dictators like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
“There have been episodes in human history, unfortunately, where these expressions of strident rhetoric have led to very ominous situations,” Pena Nieto told the Mexican newspaper Excélsior in an interview in March. “That’s how Mussolini got in, that’s how Hitler got in: They took advantage of a situation, a problem perhaps, which humanity was going through at the time, after an economic crisis.”
Word of Trump’s visit was greeted with disdain within Mexico, where the celebrity businessman turned politician has already been the subject of protests over the last year because of his heated rhetoric. But Peña Nieto, whose own approval ratings have plummeted to record lows in recent months, defended the meeting in a message on Twitter late Tuesday. He said he believed in “dialogue” to promote and protect Mexicans all over the world.
Perhaps by design, Trump’s abrupt detour threatens to overshadow his big immigration speech, which had been expected to clarify his increasingly murky stance on immigration reform. Though he has not backed down from his pledge to build a wall, Trump has recently appeared to waver in on some of his more hardline views, including a proposal to mass deport the estimated 11 million people already inside the U.S. illegally. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-mexico-trip-000000931.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/2ee9d0b12296e54df6e1a86b8e71690a65f9421cd77c09aedc7d03e1529cd6e7.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T20:50:11 | null | 2016-08-28T12:44:55 | WARREN, Mich. (AP) — Hillary Clinton has landed on a very personal counterpunch to what she says is Donald Trump's checkered business past: her dad. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fclinton-invokes-fathers-memory-hit-trump-business-121837914--election.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Clinton invokes father's memory to hit Trump on business | null | null | www.yahoo.com | FILE - In this July 1992 file photo, Hillary Clinton's father Hugh watches as her mother Dorothy Rodham adjusts her daughter's clothing in a New York Hotel room during the Democratic National Convention. Hillary Clinton has landed on very personal argument against Donald Trump's checkered business past: her dad. As the Democratic presidential nominee seeks to undercut Trump's economic record and promote her plans for small businesses, she is invoking memories of her late father's Chicago drapery business. Recalling Hugh Rodham hard at work making and printing curtains for hotels and office buildings, Clinton argues that he would have been "stiffed" in a deal with the celebrity businessman. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm, File)
WARREN, Mich. (AP) — Hillary Clinton has landed on a very personal counterpunch to what she says is Donald Trump's checkered business past: her dad.
As the Democratic presidential nominee works to undercut Trump's economic record and promote her plans for small businesses, she is invoking memories of her late father's Chicago drapery business. Recalling Hugh Rodham hard at work making and printing curtains for hotels and office buildings, Clinton argues that he would have been "stiffed" in a deal with the celebrity businessman.
"He expected to be paid when he showed up," Clinton said recently during an event in Warren, Michigan. "He did the work. He paid for the supplies and the labor he often hired to help him on big jobs. I can't imagine what would have happened to my father and his business if he had gotten a contract from Trump."
Clinton hopes to remind voters that despite her years in public life that have left her a multimillionaire, she comes from a middle-class background and understands the life of a small-business owner. She also wants to contrast her biography with that of Trump, who was raised by a successful real estate developer and has drawn criticism for his treatment of small businesses during his career.
Trump has promoted his business record as a key qualification for the White House. But Trump casinos failed on several occasions. When the Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey went bankrupt in the early 1990s, some contractors who worked on the property went under because Trump's company didn't pay what they were owed, according to interviews with The Associated Press.
In a statement to the AP, Clinton said her father's business gave her "a sense of responsibility," adding that she was "living proof that a successful small business is at the core of the basic bargain in America, that if you work hard and do your part, you can make your own dreams and those of your children a reality."
Clinton has been pitching her plans to support small businesses and to make it easier to start a company. On a conference call with small-business owners last week, she proposed a new tax deduction for small businesses and offered federal incentives to encourage state and local governments to streamline regulations.
While Clinton has spoken of her father throughout the campaign, the recent recollections have been more detailed and intimate. Clinton tends to speak sparingly about her family while campaigning and when she does, it is typically to make a broader point. She has referenced her grandfather's work in a factory in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and her mother's troubled childhood. Clinton has also spoken of her granddaughter as an example of the future generation she is fighting for.
Mo Elleithee, who worked for Clinton's 2008 presidential bid, said that reminiscing about her family's business could put Clinton "in a different light" with voters. Elleithee, now executive director of the Institute of Politics and Public Service at Georgetown University, noted that "she's never done a very good job of talking about herself."
A Scranton native, Clinton's father moved to Chicago after graduating from college. There he worked as a traveling salesman before enlisting in the Navy during World War II, Clinton writes in "Living History." When he returned from the war, he set up a drapery fabric business in Chicago, called Rodrik Fabrics, and later started a print plant on the city's north side.
Rodham largely worked alone, but Clinton writes that she and her brothers helped when they were old enough. The business did well enough for Rodham to buy a house in the leafy suburb of Park Ridge, where he and wife, Dorothy, raised Clinton and her two brothers.
By all accounts, Rodham was a stern man, but he is also credited with instilling his daughter's powerful work ethic and encouraging her ambition. Clinton's childhood friend Betsy Ebeling said Rodham "could be gruff but he could be very loving."
"Her dad was one that, as Hillary likes to say, he was a chief petty officer, both in the Navy and at home," Ebeling said. "He'd sit at the dinner table and he'd throw out these conversation things and wait for us to go: 'No way.' We really did learn to debate at his feet."
Of course, parental anecdotes may not win over all of those on the fence about Clinton, who has struggled with historically high unfavorability ratings. Still, Republican Rick Tyler, who served as an adviser to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's presidential bid, said Clinton's family-focused hit on Trump was effective.
"She's got a message that's relatable," Tyler said. "There's literally no one on our side who has been able to articulate a counter message. And Donald Trump embodies Hillary Clinton's message that the rich get rich off the backs of the poor."
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Follow Catherine Lucey at http://twitter.com/catherine_lucey | https://www.yahoo.com/news/clinton-invokes-fathers-memory-hit-trump-business-121837914--election.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/4742ed79b2315edddb308959a141d848311419a1b3590a52be3383f025919150.json | |
[] | 2016-08-28T18:50:09 | null | 2016-08-28T17:45:01 | The day after five Dallas officers were killed by a sniper, the city's police chief described the men as "guardians" of democracy, praising them for protecting the freedom to protest at a large ... | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fdallas-police-squelch-critics-questions-sniper-attack-144454692.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Dallas police squelch critics, questions about sniper attack | null | null | www.yahoo.com | FILE - In this July 8, 2016, file photo, Dallas police chief David Brown, front, and Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings, rear, talk with the media during a news conference in Dallas. Nearly two months after the shootings, Dallas police have moved to silence critics and squelch lingering questions about the attack. Officers in riot gear have been told to ticket protesters who block or disrupt traffic, and Brown has refused to meet with demonstrators unless they agree to end their marches through downtown, which he said pose a threat to officers. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
DALLAS (AP) -- The day after five Dallas officers were killed by a sniper, the city's police chief described the men as "guardians" of democracy, praising them for protecting the freedom to protest at a large demonstration against police brutality.
President Barack Obama later eulogized the slain officers, saying they died while defending essential constitutional rights.
But nearly two months after the shootings, Dallas police have moved to silence critics and squelch lingering questions about the attack. Officers in riot gear have been told to ticket protesters who block or disrupt traffic, and Police Chief David Brown has refused to meet with demonstrators unless they agree to end their marches through downtown, which he says pose a threat to officers.
Authorities have also refused to release even the most basic information about the slayings, including any details about the weapons used, the autopsy findings and ballistics tests that could establish whether any officers were hit by friendly fire. Police have indicated that such information could be withheld almost indefinitely.
In addition, the police department's most vocal, visible critic — a 27-year-old self-styled preacher with a criminal history — has been arrested multiple times in the last month on warrants that include unpaid traffic tickets and attempts to revoke his probation from a 2009 felony. On Friday, Dominique Alexander was ordered to prison.
"Why all of a sudden are we the target?" asked Damon Crenshaw, vice president of the Next Generation Action Network, which organized the July 7 protest. "We're not protesting because we're mad at them. We're protesting because the problems still exist and they won't talk to us."
Crenshaw said Alexander was targeted because of his protest activities and that the shooter, Micah Johnson, was not affiliated with their group.
Dallas has a history of cracking down on protesters.
During the Occupy Dallas demonstrations in 2011, the city tried to require protesters to have a $1 million insurance policy, strengthened rules against camping in the city and eventually evicted campers from City Hall in a midnight police raid.
In 2013, the city cited a decades-old rule prohibiting holding signs within 75 feet of major roadways to stop a group that planned to protest the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Center. The city settled a lawsuit from that group before changing the law to prohibit protests on overpasses and other areas near highways. Another group sued over that law leading to another settlement, and the city repealed the rules all together.
Alexander, the founder of the protest network, believes he was targeted because he refused to stop the demonstrations.
"They try to hush and silence people," he said. "It would be a failure to the lives lost if we don't continue. The issues still exist, and they can act like they want to heal, but then they ignore the issues."
The police chief has support from City Hall. Mayor Mike Rawlings said in a statement that he trusts Brown's "judgment in how he communicates with protest organizers."
Alexander, whose record includes convictions for forging a check, evading police and theft, was on probation for a 2009 conviction for causing injury to a child. He said the 2-year-old he was watching had fallen off the couch, but hospital staff said the child's injuries were more consistent with abuse.
Alexander denied injuring the child and said he pleaded guilty because he could not afford a good attorney.
His uncle was killed by police in 2010 after firing on officers. But it was the 2014 death of a woman he knew in high school that prompted his involvement in police protests, Alexander said. The woman was missing for a week before being found dead in an abandoned building. Her family complained that police ignored their initial pleas for help.
Alexander spent the past two weeks under house arrest, wearing an ankle monitor and awaiting a judge's determination of whether his probation would be revoked.
"No new crime has been committed to warrant this kind of action," said Kim Cole, one of Alexander's attorneys. "And the timing does appear suspicious."
Just days after a July 29 silent protest — the first following the sniper attack — authorities asked that Alexander's probation be revoked for a variety of violations, including twice leaving the state without notifying his probation officer, once to attend the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Court records show the judge admonished Alexander and added 30 hours of community service to his sentence. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/dallas-police-squelch-critics-questions-sniper-attack-144454692.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/967b22da3403b4a8a87155bc0b7e75523c89447720a0d1ac8644189d4340680c.json | |
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] | 2016-08-26T20:49:44 | null | 2016-08-26T16:27:34 | The Portland Press Herald reports that the governor left the expletive-filled message after a TV reporter said that Rep. Drew Gattine, D-Westbrook, was among several people who accused him of racism. “Mr. Gattine, this is Gov. Paul Richard LePage. The accusations of racism stemmed from comments LePage | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fi-am-after-you-maine-governor-threatens-lawmaker-in-shocking-profanity-laced-voicemail-162734609.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ub223viLuudeyK0v8mPEeg--/aD0zOTU7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/6f026b57eef71c3a5d8074565e9540e4 | en | null | ‘I am after you’: Maine governor threatens lawmaker in shocking, profanity-laced voicemail | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Maine Gov. Paul LePage left a hostile voicemail for a state lawmaker Thursday morning, calling him a “socialist c***sucker.”
The Portland Press Herald reports that the governor left the expletive-filled message after a TV reporter said that Rep. Drew Gattine, D-Westbrook, was among several people who accused him of racism.
“Mr. Gattine, this is Gov. Paul Richard LePage. I would like to talk to you about your comments about my being a racist, you c***sucker,” he said. “I want to talk to you. I want you to prove that I’m a racist. I’ve spent my life helping black people and you little son of a bitch, socialist c***sucker. You … I need you to, just friggin’. I want you to record this and make it public because I am after you. Thank you.”
The accusations of racism stemmed from comments LePage made during a town hall in North Berwick on Wednesday. LePage had said he has a three-ring binder of photos from drug busts and that most “are black and Hispanic people from Waterbury, Connecticut; the Bronx; and Brooklyn.” According to LePage, Gattine called him a racist in response. Gattine denied this to local outlets.
Unapologetic about his statements, not only did LePage encourage Gattine to record the voicemail, he also invited a journalist from the Press Herald and a TV crew from local ABC affiliate WMTW to the Blaine House, the official residence of the governor, to conduct a half-hour interview on his motivations. He lamented that he could not settle their dispute with a duel.
“When a snot-nosed little guy from Westbrook calls me a racist, now I’d like him to come up here because, tell you right now, I wish it were 1825,” LePage told the local paper. “And we would have a duel, that’s how angry I am, and I would not put my gun in the air, I guarantee you, I would not be [Alexander] Hamilton. I would point it right between his eyes, because he is a snot-nosed little runt, and he has not done a damn thing since he’s been in this legislature to help move the state forward.”
On Friday morning, LePage released an official statement on the controversy, saying that he takes accusations of racism very seriously.
“I didn’t know Drew Gattine from a hole in the wall until yesterday. It made me enormously angry when a TV reporter asked me for my reaction about Gattine calling me a racist. It is the absolute worst, most vile thing you can call a person. So I called Gattine and used the worst word I could think of,” the statement reads.
LePage apologized to the people of Maine but said he makes no apologies for trying to quell the drug epidemic that’s ravaging his state. He said legislators like Gattine are more interested in being politically correct and protecting drug dealers than dealing with the crisis.
He clarified that when he said he would go after Gattine, he did not plan to cause physical harm to the lawmaker.
“I am a history buff, and I referenced how political opponents used to call each other out in the 1820s — including Andrew Jackson, the father of the Democratic Party,” LePage continued. “Obviously, it is illegal today; it was simply a metaphor and I meant no physical harm to Gattine. But I am calling him out to stop giving inflammatory sound bites and get to work to end this crisis that is killing Mainers, destroying families and creating drug-addicted babies, all so the drug dealers Gattine is protecting can make a profit.”
Gattine did not immediately return a request for comment from Yahoo News. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/i-am-after-you-maine-governor-threatens-lawmaker-in-shocking-profanity-laced-voicemail-162734609.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/e341a3fe2563a5678ce0a27aa402fe03690ff745047fd8d446e197c44b5aa60d.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T16:50:54 | null | 2016-08-30T15:30:46 | (Editor's note: This story contains language that may offend some readers in the fifth and final paragraphs adds background on LePage) By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Combative Maine Governor Paul LePage said on Tuesday he would consider resigning as he faces a wave of criticism from both fellow | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fmaine-governor-says-may-not-finish-term-amid-143311014.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Maine governor says may not finish term amid racism flap | null | null | www.yahoo.com | T: WOW! The DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS “PLANTED” CROOKED, LYING, IMMORAL AND CORRUPT HILLARY. The Democrats’ primary was totally RIGGED behind the scenes to PRE-SELECT crooked Hillary as the only nominee from the beginning according to leaked DNC emails. This is an election CRIME committed by the Democratic Party. CROOKED HILLARY should be a DISQUALIFIED DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE from the beginning. The Clintons are evil people and corrupt to the bone. SATAN IS TAKING OVER THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Crooked Hillary is a CRIMINAL and should go to jail. “LOCK HER UP”. How could you let a criminal running for US president? This b**** has no morals, is a world-class pathological liar and corrupt to the bone. Look at what the Clintons DID not what they preached. The cancerous corruption of Democrats is so widespread all the way to the top. Below are just some of many immoral things that the corrupt Clintons did: - HOME EMAIL SYSTEM - Crooked Clinton installed a home email system FOR WORK that violated federal security protocol, record-keeping rules and jeopardized national security to hide shady communications between her and unfriendly foreign governments related to quid pro quo transactions to the Clinton Foundation in exchange for influence on U.S. policy while she was Secretary of State. Crooked HILLARY DELETED 33,000 emails to avoid criminal prosecution. Crooked Hillary would not delete these emails if they were truly personal and not related to shady quid pro quo deals. This b**** sold out USA and committed TREASON. COLLIN POWELL used private email for truly personal communication but still had GOVERNMENT EMAIL FOR WORK. Shame on crooked Clinton who is trying to blame on Collin Powell for her home email system FOR WORK. - LIES AFTER LIES - Crooked Clinton’s lies after lies to Congress, FBI and Americans on Bosnia sniper fire, Benghazi attack, her home email system, blamed on Collin Powell for her home email system FOR WORK, etc. The list goes on. - ELECTION RIGGING – Crooked Clinton colluded with DNC to rig 2016 primary according to 19,000 leaked DNC emails released by WikiLeaks. DNC PRE-ANOINTED crooked Hillary as the only nominee from the beginning according to leaked DNC emails. DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned after email release, and crooked Hillary immediately offered Debbie a job for keeping her mouth shut. The emails clearly showed a collusion of top DNC officials to plant and strategize to make crooked Clinton to be the ONLY nominee from the beginning. The DNC emails also showed that DNC is a racist organization which ridiculed Bernie's Jewish heritage and labeled him as an atheist to drive away his supporters. Crooked Hillary DID NOT win but stole the nomination. This was a rigged democratic primary. - CLINTON FOUNDATION – this is basically a front company so the immoral Clintons can pocket through implicit bribery and money laundering. While abusing the public office, the Clintons have used the Clinton Foundation, which is based in Canada for non-disclosure policy of charitable contributors, to make “quid pro quo” deals with special interests and foreign governments. The Clinton Crime Syndicate (Foundation) KEEPS 93% OF DONATIONS and only donates 7% to the charities. They list 93% of the income taken in as used for "Administrative Expenses". - CORRUPTION OF DEMOCRATS ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP - A FIX was in through a SECRET meeting between immoral Bill Clinton and corrupt AG Loretta Lynch NOT to charge Crooked Hillary on home-based emails and made her ABOVE THE LAW. AG Loretta Lynch is the boss of FBI director James Comey. - CROOKED HILLARY IS TRULY AN IMMORAL LOW-LIFE WHITE TRASH - After leaving the White House, crooked Hillary was forced to return an estimated $200,000 in White House furniture, china, silverware, and artwork that she had stolen. HOW COULD YOU VOTE FOR THIS TRASH TO BE US PRESIDENT? - QUID PRO QUO case out of many - THE CLINTON SCHOOL KICKBACKS. In April 2015, Bill Clinton was forced to abruptly resign from his lucrative perch as honorary chancellor of Laureate Education, a for-profit college company. The reason for Clinton’s immediate departure: Clinton Cash revealed, and Bloomberg confirmed, that Laureate funneled Bill Clinton $16.46 million over five years while Hillary Clinton’s State Department pumped at least $55 million to a group run by Laureate’s founder and chairman, Douglas Becker, a man with strong ties to the Clinton Global Initiative. Laureate has donated between $1 million and $5 million (donations are reported in ranges, not exact amounts) to the Clinton Foundation. - CLINTON THEFT OF RELIEF FUNDS FOR HAITI EARTHQUAKE - Here’s what really happened. The Clinton Foundation selected Clayton Homes, a construction company owned by WARREN BUFFETT’s Berkshire Hathaway, to build temporary shelters in Haiti. BUFFETT is an active member of the Clinton Global Initiative who has donated generously to the Clintons as well as the Clinton Foundation. The contract was supposed to be given through the normal United Nations bidding process, with the deal going to the lowest bidder who met the project’s standards. UN officials said, however, that the contract was never competitively bid for. Clayton offered to build “hurricane-proof trailers” but what they actually delivered turned out to be a disaster. The trailers were structurally unsafe, with high levels of formaldehyde and insulation coming out of the walls. There were problems with mold and fumes. The stifling heat inside made Haitians sick and many of them abandoned the trailers because they were ill-constructed and unusable. The Clintons also funneled $10 million in federal loans to a firm called InnoVida, headed by Clinton donor Claudio Osorio. Osorio had loaded its board with Clinton cronies, including longtime Clinton ally General Wesley Clark; Hillary’s 2008 finance director Jonathan Mantz; and Democratic fundraiser Chris Korge who has helped raise millions for the Clintons. Normally the loan approval process takes months or even years. But in this case, a government official wrote, “Former President Bill Clinton is personally in contact with the company to organize its logistical and support needs. And as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has made available State Department resources to assist with logistical arrangements.” InnoVida had not even provided an independently audited financial report that is normally a requirement for such applications. On the basis of the Clinton connection, InnoVida’s application was fast-tracked and approved in two weeks. The company defaulted on the loan and never built any houses. An investigation revealed that Osorio had diverted company funds to pay for his Miami Beach mansion, his Maserati, and his Colorado ski chalet. He pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering in 2013, and is currently serving a twelve-year prison term on fraud charges related to the loan. And these are only 2 examples of the dozens of thefts the Clintons and their cronies did just to Haiti. TRUMP was NEVER labeled a racist by liberal media and crooked Hillary until his running for POTUS. DONALD TRUMP, as the Republican presidential candidate, is truly an OUTSIDER who goes against the corrupt PROFESSIONAL DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS who have led USA on a wrong track of economic and military disadvantage for the last eight years. SINCE CROOKED HILLARY BECAME SECRETARY OF STATE IN 2009 WITH FAILED FOREIGN POLICY, USA has been unsafe and being attacked by RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISTS MORE THAN EVER BEFORE. American citizens are ANGRY of these corrupt PROFESSIONAL politicians like crooked, lying, immoral and corrupt HILLARY. VOTE TRUMP 2016. The West has been blinded and lured by the big Chinese market. However, it forgot that it has been dealing with a Communist China inside its disguising Capitalist shell. The Chinese GDP has increased from $303B in 1980 to current around $11,000B, an increase of more than 35 times along with Intellectual Property thefts from the West worth a few trillions of dollars and millions and millions of job losses in the West. Only top few % in the West including the corrupt CLINTONS were significantly benefited from the BAD trade deals with China. The Americans are getting poorer while the Chinese are getting MUCH richer due to BAD trades deals with the West. That was why Donald Trump, who is NOT racist but puts USA first, said the trade deals with China are all BAD that cost millions and millions of domestic jobs. BOYCOTT Chinese-made products and BRING BACK JOBS FROM CHINA. VOTE TRUMP 2016 AND TRUMP WILL RE-NEGOTIATE ALL BAD TRADE DEALS, BRING JOBS BACK AND REBUILD US MANUFACTURING. The liberal mainstream media is pro-Clinton. It is getting paid big from the crooked Clinton campaign and putting out LYING POLL NUMBERS and ARTICLES TO BASH TRUMP. A majority of people thought crooked Hillary should have been INDICTED. People in government would be in JAIL or lose their jobs at least if they just have done 10% of what crooked Hillary has done. This is a tremendous US national security implication. HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT USA HAS BEEN ON A DOWN HILL BIG TIME IN TERMS OF BEING RESPECTED BY PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD AND FOREIGN DIPLOMACY SINCE CROOKED HILLARY BECAME SECRETARY OF STATE IN 2009 ??? Hacking of the crooked Clinton's home, low-secured private email system by foreign agents would have caused tremendous damage to USA since 2009. Russian agents along with agents from other countries like China or Iran most likely have hacked the crooked Clinton's home, low-secured private email system and retrieved all her emails including nationally sensitive emails, shady communications between her and unfriendly foreign governments related to quid pro quo transactions to the Clinton Foundation in exchange for influence on U.S. policy while she was Secretary of State. Crooked HILLARY DELETED 33,000 emails to avoid criminal prosecution, sold out USA and committed TREASON. Crooked Hillary would not delete these emails if they were truly personal and not related to shady quid pro quo deals. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/maine-governor-says-may-not-finish-term-amid-143311014.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/56eedf822bdd7bf956e7bd297f8548f16c6f21c409c9ba7dc261a2cb0cceffcb.json | |
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] | 2016-08-30T16:50:52 | null | 2016-08-30T14:01:35 | Alena Khan was catching up with friends at the start of the Pakistan Day parade in Edison, N.J., last weekend when she spotted a large blue-and-white banner for the New Jersey Muslim Voters Project (NJMVP), urging her to register to vote. For most Americans her age, this will be the first presidential | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fmuslim-americans-strive-voice-heard-000000586.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/z85J9e1VNg1LKQfJtCtW4g--/aD0xMzM1O3c9MjAwMDtzbT0xO2FwcGlkPXl0YWNoeW9u/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/702de21653f033913a8f97519b6dcc37 | en | null | Muslim Americans strive to make their voices heard at the polls | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Alena Khan was catching up with friends at the start of the Pakistan Day parade in Edison, N.J., last weekend when she spotted a large blue-and-white banner for the New Jersey Muslim Voters Project (NJMVP), urging her to register to vote.
“I’ll be honest, I’ve been meaning to register,” Kahn, a 19-year-old pre-dental student told Yahoo News, amid billowing green-and-white flags and children lining up to have their faces painted with the star and crescent symbol of Islam. “As unfortunate as it is, I feel like a lot of people my age want to vote, but if you give teenagers a process that takes longer than, like, two minutes, they’re really not gonna want to do it.”
For most Americans her age, this will be the first presidential election in which they can vote. But for Khan, whose Pakistani-born parents are not citizens, it marks an even more momentous passage: She will become the first member of her immediate family to cast a ballot in a U.S. presidential election.
And for many Muslim Americans — who have been the target of vitriol and discriminatory policy proposals throughout much of the 2016 campaign cycle — there’s never been a more important time to get out the vote.
“It’s the divisive rhetoric that makes us feel we’ve got to prove ourselves,” said Shawn Butt, who helped found NJMVP with a small group of local Muslim leaders. He described its mission as “[mobilizing] the Muslim population, get them registered to vote, and push them to go out and vote come Election Day.”
It didn’t take long for others in the community to get onboard. Within about a year and a half, the project had spread from five local groups into a statewide coalition of 120 Muslim organizations.
Though NJMVP explicitly does not endorse candidates, its leaders have no problem crediting Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim statements with helping to drive their effort.
“Primarily because of the Trump situation, people are responding to all of the rhetoric by saying Muslims have to have their voices heard in the democratic process,” said Mohammad Ali Chaudry, president of the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge and a founding member of NJMVP.
So far, Chaudry said, much the outreach has involved meeting with Muslim leaders at various Islamic centers and mosques throughout the state, providing registration forms to share with congregants and helping organize small voter registration drives.
Then last week, for the second year in a row, New Jersey held its own Pakistan Day parade (separate from New York City’s longstanding celebration) in Edison, a South Asian microcosm that is home to New Jersey’s more than 26,000 Pakistani-American residents. The event provided a perfect platform for NJMVP to reach a much larger pool of potential voters, who typically move from New York City to the New Jersey suburbs as soon as they can afford it.
“In the perception of many Pakistani immigrants, New York is a steppingstone,” said Butt. “If you can make something of yourself, you’ll get a house in Jersey.”
Butt followed the same path after he first landed at John F. Kennedy Airport in 1995. A Pakistani born in Iraqi-occupied Kuwait, he left home right before Desert Storm and landed in Manhattan, where he worked a variety of jobs, including waiter, cab driver and call-center operator, before starting a career in computers that gave him the means to establish himself in New Jersey. For the past 13 years, he’s been running his own IT business.
This November will mark the third presidential election in which Butt has been eligible to vote. But whereas in the past he’d approached voting as little more than a civic duty, this year it’s personal.
“Whatever the outcome of this election, [it] is going to affect the future of how this country thinks, and eventually it’s going to affect my kids,” Butt said, gesturing to his twin boys, Adam and Mohammad, clad in matching white tunics. They will turn 10 next month.
“I know how it feels to be displaced out of the place where you’re born and raised,” he said. “I don’t want my kids to feel that ever.”
While Muslim Americans make up an estimated 1 percent of the total U.S. population, approximately 400,000 New Jersey residents — or about 3 percent of the state’s population — are Muslim. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/muslim-americans-strive-voice-heard-000000586.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/717c789aafe8b21bf7e9d2f9db3eccaa1c9e0f12ae9a05922e26d67add21959d.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T08:50:03 | null | 2016-08-27T21:07:17 | NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A Southwest Airlines flight bound for Orlando, Florida, made an emergency landing Saturday morning due to a major problem with one of its two engines. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fflorida-bound-southwest-flight-diverted-193950912.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vupPvBzogzRSR_Hl2cRCWw--/aD03MjA7dz0xMjgwO3NtPTE7YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b24-/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/video/video.abcnewsplus.com/3c4ff435f4bc081f7053cee97083dc5e | en | null | Florida-bound Southwest flight diverted by engine problem | null | null | www.yahoo.com | aswin: Are you still confused about what is going on in the world? The Islamic invasion doesn’t make any sense to you? Let me assure you that it makes perfect sense from the globalist point of view. Their master plan, or final solution for the future One World Government and NWO, involves eliminating 90 percent of the world population or from their point view the so-called useless feeders. You must agree that it is not an easy task to accomplish, but it can be done. So this is their Master Plan: 1) Overthrow authoritarian governments, such as in Iraq, Libya, and Syria. 2) Create unprecedented human suffering. 3) Navigate thus created refugees to Europe and North America against the will of the indigenous population. 4) Add 10 percent genuine terrorist sleeper cells to the mix. 5) When people in Western countries start to rebel against it, call them xenophobes. 6) When the demands of the illegals become unbearable, people in the western countries will turn to violence to defend themselves. 7) Muslim terrorism will hit European landmarks, such as London Bridge, Eiffel Tower, Utrecht Dome, Pisa Tower, St. Peter’s Dome, Acropolis, and so on, as well as large crowds of people in public places. 8) The Western world will lose because political correctness. 9) The victorious Muslim armies will march into Europe and North America and declare Islamic Caliphates. 10) Four world regions are still in the way – Russia, China, India, and Africa. So what to do about those places? 11) The solution is easier than you think. These regions already have tens of millions of their own Muslims. 12) In the meantime, the globalists and their carefully selected minions are moving their families to safe places, such as southern South America, Australia, New Zealand, or underground cities throughout the world. 13) When they have a sufficient number of Muslim warrior cells scattered around the world, they still need a trigger to activate them, preferably all at the same time and on a massive scale. 14) This is easier to do than you think. Simply nuke or otherwise destroy Mecca, the holiest city of Islam. 15) That would definitely activate all Muslims worldwide, even the most moderate ones. 16) But who would do such a thing? It would have to be an absolute outsider country with nuclear weapons, zero Muslim population, and financially so desperate that they would do anything for money. 17) North Korea might be a good bet but not the only one. 18) That diabolical act will trigger the ultimate world-wide genocide. 19) After a few years or decades, when 90 percent of the world population is killed off and most of the world is utterly destroyed, the globalists will come out of their hiding places, carry out a few mopping up actions and take over the world. 20) The NWO has arrived. The drugged, confused, social-media addicted, and submissive surviving population will become the new slave race. Mission accomplished. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-bound-southwest-flight-diverted-193950912.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/2649a0d52e1b41ce0aa86051582fe62981636a84cbe697ab88e9c5077f222527.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T16:49:41 | null | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | The online firestorm in response to a letter to incoming freshmen at the University of Chicago, warning them not to expect to be shielded from ideas and words that might make them uncomfortable, does not surprise the man who touched it off. In fact, says John W. Boyer, dean of the college, that response | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fbehind-u-chicago-trigger-warning-000000448.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Behind the University of Chicago ‘trigger warning’ letter | null | null | www.yahoo.com | The online firestorm in response to a letter to incoming freshmen at the University of Chicago, warning them not to expect to be shielded from ideas and words that might make them uncomfortable, does not surprise the man who touched it off. In fact, says John W. Boyer, dean of the college, that response was somewhat the point.
Boyer is also a professor of history at University of Chicago and specializes in the push and pull of intellectual speech. He is the author of a short book on the subject, “Academic Freedom and the Modern University: The Experience of the University of Chicago.” That book (technically a monograph) was sent to every incoming freshman a few days ago in the hope that it would provide context for what has recently become a heated argument on campuses nationwide. And in an accompanying letter, Dean of Students John Ellison made the declaration about “trigger warnings” and “safe spaces” that has gotten so much attention.
“We do not support so-called ‘trigger warnings,’” Ellison wrote. “We do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual ‘safe spaces’ where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own.”
As Boyer describes it, Ellison’s “was intended as a cover letter asking students to read the book. Instead, the letter is taking on a life of its own.”
Twitter erupted soon after the release of the letter. There was support and a bit of gloating from those who see campuses as becoming too “politically correct” in recent years. There was outrage from sexual assault survivors who felt Ellison was dismissing their trauma, and from critics of racial imbalance on campus, who said it did not protect students of color from hostility.
On the left, New Republic editor Jeet Heer called the letter a “perverse document.”
On the right, the website zerohedge described it as “a refreshing and stark contrast to other universities that have seemingly tripped over themselves to accommodate every silly request from America’s pampered Millennials.”
It is ironic, Boyer says, that those who see trigger warnings as crippling free speech and those who see them as protective of students psyches both believe this is a new debate. It is easy to view it as a modern conundrum, he says, touching as it does on such 21st century nerves as the increased awareness of sexual assault on campus, the perceived trend of overly protective parents, the historical shadows of racism in higher education, and the political rallying cry against political correctness. But the point of his book, he says, and the reason the school wanted students to read it, is that “the questions about academic freedom are as old as university education itself. This goes back to the German universities of the 19th century. It originated in Europe, was adopted by Americans and amplified through the lens of our First Amendment. It’s a perennial issue.”
His research highlights the clash over the decades — during the rise of fascism abroad, McCarthyism at home, protests over the Vietnam War. “Every generation has to confront these issues afresh,” he said.
Students at Princeton staged a sit-in in the university president’s office in 2015, demanding that the school remove the name of former school president and U.S. President Woodrow Wilson from programs and buildings over what they said was his racist legacy. (Photo: Julio Cortez/AP) More
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[] | 2016-08-30T16:50:47 | null | 2016-08-30T10:07:30 | SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) — Longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin has won plaudits for her campaign instincts, her deep-rooted loyalty and her glamorous personal style. But she has been thrust into the spotlight for another attribute — as a wronged political wife. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Flongtime-aide-huma-abedin-second-daughter-clinton-071435801--election.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/dhu5Q8MQ.fR72VbLoGZDWA--/aD0zMDA7dz00MDA7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/video/video.associatedpressfree.com/3f4a7824d9c0bedafe3ba6e291079858 | en | null | Longtime aide Huma Abedin like 'second daughter' to Clinton | null | null | www.yahoo.com | T: WOW! The DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS “PLANTED” CROOKED, LYING, IMMORAL AND CORRUPT HILLARY. The Democrats’ primary was totally RIGGED behind the scenes to PRE-SELECT crooked Hillary as the only nominee from the beginning according to leaked DNC emails. This is an election CRIME committed by the Democratic Party. CROOKED HILLARY should be a DISQUALIFIED DEMOCRAT CANDIDATE from the beginning. The Clintons are evil people and corrupt to the bone. SATAN IS TAKING OVER THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Crooked Hillary is a CRIMINAL and should go to jail. “LOCK HER UP”. How could you let a criminal running for US president? This b**** has no morals, is a world-class pathological liar and corrupt to the bone. Look at what the Clintons DID not what they preached. The cancerous corruption of Democrats is so widespread all the way to the top. Below are just some of many immoral things that the corrupt Clintons did: - HOME EMAIL SYSTEM - Crooked Clinton installed a home email system FOR WORK that violated federal security protocol, record-keeping rules and jeopardized national security to hide shady communications between her and unfriendly foreign governments related to quid pro quo transactions to the Clinton Foundation in exchange for influence on U.S. policy while she was Secretary of State. Crooked HILLARY DELETED 33,000 emails to avoid criminal prosecution. Crooked Hillary would not delete these emails if they were truly personal and not related to shady quid pro quo deals. This b**** sold out USA and committed TREASON. COLLIN POWELL used private email for truly personal communication but still had GOVERNMENT EMAIL FOR WORK. Shame on crooked Clinton who is trying to blame on Collin Powell for her home email system FOR WORK. - LIES AFTER LIES - Crooked Clinton’s lies after lies to Congress, FBI and Americans on Bosnia sniper fire, Benghazi attack, her home email system, blamed on Collin Powell for her home email system FOR WORK, etc. The list goes on. - ELECTION RIGGING – Crooked Clinton colluded with DNC to rig 2016 primary according to 19,000 leaked DNC emails released by WikiLeaks. DNC PRE-ANOINTED crooked Hillary as the only nominee from the beginning according to leaked DNC emails. DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned after email release, and crooked Hillary immediately offered Debbie a job for keeping her mouth shut. The emails clearly showed a collusion of top DNC officials to plant and strategize to make crooked Clinton to be the ONLY nominee from the beginning. The DNC emails also showed that DNC is a racist organization which ridiculed Bernie's Jewish heritage and labeled him as an atheist to drive away his supporters. Crooked Hillary DID NOT win but stole the nomination. This was a rigged democratic primary. - CLINTON FOUNDATION – this is basically a front company so the immoral Clintons can pocket through implicit bribery and money laundering. While abusing the public office, the Clintons have used the Clinton Foundation, which is based in Canada for non-disclosure policy of charitable contributors, to make “quid pro quo” deals with special interests and foreign governments. The Clinton Crime Syndicate (Foundation) KEEPS 93% OF DONATIONS and only donates 7% to the charities. They list 93% of the income taken in as used for "Administrative Expenses". - CORRUPTION OF DEMOCRATS ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP - A FIX was in through a SECRET meeting between immoral Bill Clinton and corrupt AG Loretta Lynch NOT to charge Crooked Hillary on home-based emails and made her ABOVE THE LAW. AG Loretta Lynch is the boss of FBI director James Comey. - CROOKED HILLARY IS TRULY AN IMMORAL LOW-LIFE WHITE TRASH - After leaving the White House, crooked Hillary was forced to return an estimated $200,000 in White House furniture, china, silverware, and artwork that she had stolen. HOW COULD YOU VOTE FOR THIS TRASH TO BE US PRESIDENT? - QUID PRO QUO case out of many - THE CLINTON SCHOOL KICKBACKS. In April 2015, Bill Clinton was forced to abruptly resign from his lucrative perch as honorary chancellor of Laureate Education, a for-profit college company. The reason for Clinton’s immediate departure: Clinton Cash revealed, and Bloomberg confirmed, that Laureate funneled Bill Clinton $16.46 million over five years while Hillary Clinton’s State Department pumped at least $55 million to a group run by Laureate’s founder and chairman, Douglas Becker, a man with strong ties to the Clinton Global Initiative. Laureate has donated between $1 million and $5 million (donations are reported in ranges, not exact amounts) to the Clinton Foundation. - CLINTON THEFT OF RELIEF FUNDS FOR HAITI EARTHQUAKE - Here’s what really happened. The Clinton Foundation selected Clayton Homes, a construction company owned by WARREN BUFFETT’s Berkshire Hathaway, to build temporary shelters in Haiti. BUFFETT is an active member of the Clinton Global Initiative who has donated generously to the Clintons as well as the Clinton Foundation. The contract was supposed to be given through the normal United Nations bidding process, with the deal going to the lowest bidder who met the project’s standards. UN officials said, however, that the contract was never competitively bid for. Clayton offered to build “hurricane-proof trailers” but what they actually delivered turned out to be a disaster. The trailers were structurally unsafe, with high levels of formaldehyde and insulation coming out of the walls. There were problems with mold and fumes. The stifling heat inside made Haitians sick and many of them abandoned the trailers because they were ill-constructed and unusable. The Clintons also funneled $10 million in federal loans to a firm called InnoVida, headed by Clinton donor Claudio Osorio. Osorio had loaded its board with Clinton cronies, including longtime Clinton ally General Wesley Clark; Hillary’s 2008 finance director Jonathan Mantz; and Democratic fundraiser Chris Korge who has helped raise millions for the Clintons. Normally the loan approval process takes months or even years. But in this case, a government official wrote, “Former President Bill Clinton is personally in contact with the company to organize its logistical and support needs. And as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has made available State Department resources to assist with logistical arrangements.” InnoVida had not even provided an independently audited financial report that is normally a requirement for such applications. On the basis of the Clinton connection, InnoVida’s application was fast-tracked and approved in two weeks. The company defaulted on the loan and never built any houses. An investigation revealed that Osorio had diverted company funds to pay for his Miami Beach mansion, his Maserati, and his Colorado ski chalet. He pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering in 2013, and is currently serving a twelve-year prison term on fraud charges related to the loan. And these are only 2 examples of the dozens of thefts the Clintons and their cronies did just to Haiti. TRUMP was NEVER labeled a racist by liberal media and crooked Hillary until his running for POTUS. DONALD TRUMP, as the Republican presidential candidate, is truly an OUTSIDER who goes against the corrupt PROFESSIONAL DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS who have led USA on a wrong track of economic and military disadvantage for the last eight years. SINCE CROOKED HILLARY BECAME SECRETARY OF STATE IN 2009 WITH FAILED FOREIGN POLICY, USA has been unsafe and being attacked by RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISTS MORE THAN EVER BEFORE. American citizens are ANGRY of these corrupt PROFESSIONAL politicians like crooked, lying, immoral and corrupt HILLARY. VOTE TRUMP 2016. The West has been blinded and lured by the big Chinese market. However, it forgot that it has been dealing with a Communist China inside its disguising Capitalist shell. The Chinese GDP has increased from $303B in 1980 to current around $11,000B, an increase of more than 35 times along with Intellectual Property thefts from the West worth a few trillions of dollars and millions and millions of job losses in the West. Only top few % in the West including the corrupt CLINTONS were significantly benefited from the BAD trade deals with China. The Americans are getting poorer while the Chinese are getting MUCH richer due to BAD trades deals with the West. That was why Donald Trump, who is NOT racist but puts USA first, said the trade deals with China are all BAD that cost millions and millions of domestic jobs. BOYCOTT Chinese-made products and BRING BACK JOBS FROM CHINA. VOTE TRUMP 2016 AND TRUMP WILL RE-NEGOTIATE ALL BAD TRADE DEALS, BRING JOBS BACK AND REBUILD US MANUFACTURING. The liberal mainstream media is pro-Clinton. It is getting paid big from the crooked Clinton campaign and putting out LYING POLL NUMBERS and ARTICLES TO BASH TRUMP. A majority of people thought crooked Hillary should have been INDICTED. People in government would be in JAIL or lose their jobs at least if they just have done 10% of what crooked Hillary has done. This is a tremendous US national security implication. HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT USA HAS BEEN ON A DOWN HILL BIG TIME IN TERMS OF BEING RESPECTED BY PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD AND FOREIGN DIPLOMACY SINCE CROOKED HILLARY BECAME SECRETARY OF STATE IN 2009 ??? Hacking of the crooked Clinton's home, low-secured private email system by foreign agents would have caused tremendous damage to USA since 2009. Russian agents along with agents from other countries like China or Iran most likely have hacked the crooked Clinton's home, low-secured private email system and retrieved all her emails including nationally sensitive emails, shady communications between her and unfriendly foreign governments related to quid pro quo transactions to the Clinton Foundation in exchange for influence on U.S. policy while she was Secretary of State. Crooked HILLARY DELETED 33,000 emails to avoid criminal prosecution, sold out USA and committed TREASON. Crooked Hillary would not delete these emails if they were truly personal and not related to shady quid pro quo deals. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/longtime-aide-huma-abedin-second-daughter-clinton-071435801--election.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/a8665060799f9233bfa12f05b1982488a02485052cef4c62e5c6f98295ed7c4f.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:11:32 | null | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | On Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016, the National Director of African American Engagement for the Republican National Committee Ashley Bell joins Yahoo News Guest Anchor Stephanie Sy. Bell addresses Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s attempts at outreach to the African America community. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fashley-bell-on-the-trump-campaigns-outreach-to-african-americans-142257911.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Ashley Bell on the Trump campaign’s outreach to African-Americans | null | null | www.yahoo.com | By Alex Bregman
The national director of African-American outreach for the Republican National Committee, Ashley Bell, spoke to Yahoo Guest Anchor Stephanie Sy after meeting with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump along with a number of Latino and African-American Republicans from the Republican National Committee at Trump Tower in New York City.
On the meeting, Bell said, “We really didn’t have a script, but Donald Trump wanted to hear from everyone. It was a pretty mixed crowd… half Latino, African-American.” Bell continued, “I think he heard a lot of the issues that they’re hearing out there organizing in communities. They heard about criminal justice reform. They talked about education. They all just gave him encouragement to keep talking about the issues no matter what the Democrats try to do and try to deter us with these racist accusations.”
Bell had never met Trump until the meeting and told Sy, “I wish America could see what I saw in the room today. He was very affable, very polite, very courteous, and he listened a lot.”
As to whether Trump is helping the Republican Party with African-American voters, Bell said, “The strategy has been to get the Republican Party in the game and in the discussion with black voters. Donald Trump took a bold move to start this conversation.”
Bell said Trump is taking steps that the previous party nominee, Mitt Romney, never did: “This is something you didn’t see with Mitt Romney. How many times could you say that Mitt Romney made a direct appeal to black voters? So as Republicans we’re excited that we have a candidate who is going out saying I want to go out to compete for this vote, and as long as we’re talking about what’s right and what’s wrong and what’s good and what’s bad in black communities, we’re in the discussion, and we’re glad to be there.”
Bell went on to dispute the notion that Trump has tried to appeal to those voters with racist attitudes in the United States. He said, “I take this very personally when I hear people say that he’s reaching for this bigoted vote, because I’m going to tell you as a strategist as well, there’s no way you could win an election with the very few racially bigoted people left in this country. There are some. They are real, but they’re not the 55 million people, the 60 million people you’re going to need to win. That’s where Hillary Clinton is wrong for trying to call out Donald Trump supporters as racist.”
Finally, Bell said it is “absolutely” a good idea for Trump to directly address minority crowds in person. When will he do that? Bell said, “Stay tuned. You’re going to see Donald Trump in some very new venues, and he’s going to be speaking to different communities of color with a very purposeful attempt to make sure we’re extending our message to as many Americans as possible.” | https://www.yahoo.com/news/ashley-bell-on-the-trump-campaigns-outreach-to-african-americans-142257911.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/feceda80044d572653829b62c0a480e8bfb36cd1717a81136d712e6e413a93cd.json | |
[] | 2016-08-29T22:50:37 | null | 2016-08-29T20:25:05 | Last year 35,092 people died in traffic crashes in the United States, a 7.2 percent year-on-year increase that runs counter to a five-decade trend of declining fatalities, the U.S. Transportation Department said. U.S. officials said lower gasoline prices combined with job growth increased the number | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Ftraffic-deaths-u-7-2-percent-2015-transportation-185108070.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | U.S. traffic deaths rose 7.2 percent in 2015: Transportation Dept. | null | null | www.yahoo.com | A red traffic light stands in front of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington September 30, 2013. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Last year 35,092 people died in traffic crashes in the United States, a 7.2 percent year-on-year increase that runs counter to a five-decade trend of declining fatalities, the U.S. Transportation Department said.
U.S. officials said lower gasoline prices combined with job growth increased the number of miles driven last year by the highest rate in nearly 25 years. Distracted driving was cited in about a tenth of traffic fatalities in 2015, the U.S. DOT said.
Data "showed traffic deaths rising across nearly every segment of the population," the department said in a statement.
The number of fatalities was near preliminary estimates issued nearly two months ago.
The last time U.S. traffic fatalities rose at a greater rate was in 1966, when they went up 8.1 percent. That was two years before the federal government required seat belts in cars.
While the number of fatalities rose in 2015, driving is far safer now in the United States than it was in the past. In 1966, the fatality rate - measured as deaths per miles driven - was five times higher than today. In that year, nearly 51,000 people were killed on U.S. roads.
Almost half of passenger vehicle occupants killed last year were not wearing safety belts, although the belts are standard equipment in all cars and required to be worn in some U.S. states, the DOT said.
“Solving this problem will take teamwork, so we’re issuing a call to action and asking researchers, safety experts, data scientists, and the public to analyze the fatality data and help find ways to prevent these tragedies," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx.
Almost one in three fatalities involved drunk drivers or speeding, the DOT said.
The number of vehicle miles traveled in the United States rose 3.5 percent in 2015 from a year earlier, the DOT said.
In 2005, U.S. traffic deaths were 22 percent higher, at 42,708.
(Reporting by Mohammad Zargham in Washington and Bernie Woodall in Detroit; Editing by Chris Reese and Steve Orlofsky) | https://www.yahoo.com/news/traffic-deaths-u-7-2-percent-2015-transportation-185108070.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/f17a8cdb2158fb9cdd73b4e493546b3b0d4987d83f43fcfff744ffda99e65a92.json | |
[] | 2016-08-28T12:50:06 | null | 2016-08-28T05:27:33 | DURANT, Miss. (AP) — Friends and colleagues who knew two nuns killed in their Mississippi home are gathering Sunday to remember them, as authorities continue to investigate the harrowing crime that shocked people in the small communities where the women committed their lives to helping the poor. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Ffriends-colleagues-remember-slain-mississippi-052737270.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Friends, colleagues to remember slain Mississippi nuns | null | null | www.yahoo.com | This undated photo provided by Sisters of Charity of Nazareth shows Sister Paula Merrill. Sister Margaret Held and Merrill, two nuns who worked as nurses and helped the poor in rural Mississippi, were found slain in their home and there were signs of a break-in and their vehicle was missing, officials said Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016. (Sisters of Charity of Nazareth via AP)
DURANT, Miss. (AP) — Friends and colleagues who knew two nuns killed in their Mississippi home are gathering Sunday to remember them, as authorities continue to investigate the harrowing crime that shocked people in the small communities where the women committed their lives to helping the poor.
Rodney Earl Sanders, 46, of Kosciusko, Mississippi, has been arrested and charged in the deaths of Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill. The county sheriff said Sanders confessed to the killings although many people are struggling to comprehend why anyone would want to take the two women's lives.
A wake is scheduled to be held Sunday at the St. Thomas Church in Lexington where the women led Bible study. That will be followed by a mass Monday in Jackson.
The women's bodies were found in their Durant, Mississippi, home after they failed to show up for work Thursday at a health clinic in Lexington, about 10 miles away.
Willie March, the sheriff of Holmes County where the killings occurred, said Saturday that police work and tips from the community led police to Sanders. Authorities have said Sanders was developed as a person of interest early in the investigation.
He said he had been briefed by Durant police and Mississippi Bureau of Investigation officials who took part in Sanders' interrogation and was told that Sanders confessed to the killings and gave no reason for the crimes. The sheriff said the investigation is ongoing.
Durant police could not be reached for comment Saturday. Warren Strain, a spokesman for the Department of Public Safety which includes the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, said the organization would neither confirm nor deny that Sanders confessed.
Sanders had a criminal record.
He was convicted last year of a felony DUI, said Grace Simmons Fisher, a spokeswoman for the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
He was later released from prison and is currently on probation.
Sanders was also convicted of armed robbery in Holmes County, sentenced in 1986 and served six years, Fisher said.
People who knew the nuns, known for their generosity and commitment to improving health care for the poor, have been grappling with why anyone would want to kill them.
Dr. Elias Abboud, the physician who oversees the clinic in Lexington where the nuns worked, said Saturday that Sanders was not a patient there.
The Rev. Greg Plata, sacramental minister at St. Thomas Catholic Church in Lexington where the wake is to be held, said he does not think people at the church knew Sanders.
Authorities said Sanders was being held in an undisclosed detention center pending a court appearance. They have not given any details on why they think Sanders killed the women or whether he knew them but they do say they believe he acted alone.
Strain said he does not know if Sanders has an attorney.
Merrill's nephew, David Merrill, speaking by telephone from Stoneham, Massachusetts, said Saturday the family was "thankful" Sanders is off the streets.
But the family still has to deal with the loss.
Merrill said he agrees with the idea of forgiveness and that is something his aunt would want for whoever killed her but he's not sure if he's capable of completely forgiving.
Merrill said he would not support the death penalty if Sanders were to be convicted but that decision will ultimately be made by the people in Mississippi. The capital murder charge leaves open the possibility Sanders would face the death penalty but that determination would be made by prosecutors later.
The order Held belonged to — School Sisters of St. Francis — thanked law enforcement officers working on the case and thanked people who offered prayers and support in the wake of the sisters' deaths.
In the poverty-stricken Mississippi county where the two nuns were slain, many people were still mourning their loss.
Jonell Payton, a Durant alderwoman, lives across the street and a few doors down from Held and Merrill's house. She said the nuns were "the most precious two people" and were known for helping provide medicine for those who couldn't afford it.
Both women worked at the clinic, where they gave flu shots, dispensed insulin and provided other medical care for children and adults who couldn't afford it.
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 nuns' death leaves a gaping hole in what was already a strapped health care system.
The clinic provided about 25 percent of all medical care in the county, Abboud said.
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Santana reported from New Orleans. Associated Press writer Steve Karnowski in Minneapolis contributed to this report. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/friends-colleagues-remember-slain-mississippi-052737270.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/1dbbe2ea31554b2025f0141cae527ec838b2e7225e73ce0c933eb5c23a2058c4.json | |
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"Michael Walsh"
] | 2016-08-26T13:09:57 | null | 2016-08-24T17:02:49 | The Republican presidential candidate’s hard-line stance and policy proposals surrounding illegal immigration have been a centerpiece to his campaign. In a Tuesday conversation with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Trump said he would consider changing aspects of immigration law as it relates to people who immigrated | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fdonald-trump-says-hes-open-to-softening-immigration-law-170249802.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZlsfcNEqpK_M9QKyKxROig--/aD00ODg7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/cac90f110fac61e9756d4e0f141f5d3e | en | null | Donald Trump says he’s open to ‘softening’ immigration law | null | null | www.yahoo.com | The Republican presidential candidate’s hard-line stance and policy proposals surrounding illegal immigration have been a centerpiece to his campaign. But over the past week, he’s shown signs of rolling back the more extreme measures, most notably his support for the mass deportation of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S.
In a Tuesday conversation with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Trump said he would consider changing aspects of immigration law as it relates to people who immigrated to the U.S. illegally but have not otherwise broken the law.
“There certainly could be a softening because we’re not looking to hurt people. We want people. We have some great people in this country … but we’re going to follow the laws of this country,” he told the Fox News host during a town hall.
Trump described the two-tier policy toward illegal immigration that he touched upon the day before. He said his administration would follow the laws that are already in place to deport known criminals immediately and then deal with everyone else.
“If you start going around trying to make new laws in this country, it’s a process that is brutal,” he said. “We want to follow the laws of the country. And if we follow the laws, we can do what we have to do.”
Trump’s comments on Tuesday were only the latest in a series of recent statements in which he’s muddled his caustic tone toward illegal immigration. He infamously launched his campaign accusing the Mexican government of sending rapists over the border, and as recently as last week, he released his first general-election TV ad accusing rival Hillary Clinton of wanting to throw open the U.S. border.
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But after Trump met last weekend with a Hispanic advisory council, some members said Trump told them he was open to granting legal status to some of the people who immigrated to the U.S. illegally. His campaign denied that Trump’s position had changed, but in a Monday interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, the GOP nominee said his focus would be on deporting criminals, and he even favorably cited President Obama’s own approach to deportation.
During his Tuesday interview with Hannity, Trump also said allowing people to stay in the U.S. after immigrating illegally would be unfair to others who obeyed the law and immigrated into the country using the appropriate channels.
“You have years and years of people waiting on line. They’ve gone through a process, and they’ve filed — legally — they filed,” he said. “They’re great people in some cases. I guess in some cases maybe not. But you have really great people wanting — and so proudly wanting — to come into our country. And now what you’d be doing is you’d take people away from that line.”
According to the Trump campaign’s website, he believes there are three core principles that would guide effective immigration reform: a nation without borders is not a nation, a nation without laws is not a nation, and a nation that does not serve its own citizens is not a nation.
“We are the only country in the world whose immigration system puts the needs of other nations ahead of our own,” his site reads. “That must change.”
Clinton has promised to introduce within 100 days of stepping into the Oval Office comprehensive immigration reform that provides a pathway to full citizenship. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-says-hes-open-to-softening-immigration-law-170249802.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/923d34f29b8b939833aacf17aae21ac59f8632956a84509e5f67988db8150655.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T14:50:54 | null | 2016-08-31T12:00:41 | BEIRUT (AP) — Russia's Defense Ministry says its airstrike killed the Islamic State group's spokesman and chief strategist. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fislamic-state-group-says-spokesman-killed-syria-182647474.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Russia says it killed IS spokesman al-Adnani in Syria strike | null | null | www.yahoo.com | CORRECTS NAME SPELLING - This undated image posted online Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, by supporters of the Islamic State group on an anonymous photo sharing website, shows Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, IS's spokesman and chief strategist, who laid out the blueprint for the extremist group's attacks against the West. The IS-run Aamaq news agency said Tuesday, Aug 30, 2016, that al-Adnani was killed while overseeing operations in northern Syria, without providing further details. (Militant Photo via AP)
BEIRUT (AP) — Russia's Defense Ministry says its airstrike killed the Islamic State group's spokesman and chief strategist.
The Defense Ministry says in a statement on Wednesday that its intelligence has confirmed that a Russian airstrike on Aleppo province killed 40 IS militants, including spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani.
His death is a major blow to the extremist group, which has been on the retreat in Syria and Iraq.
The United States said it launched an airstrike targeting al-Adnani in the Syrian city of al-Bab, which is northeast of Aleppo. Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said on Tuesday the U.S. was "still assessing the results of the strike."
Al-Adnani persistently called for attacks against the West. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/islamic-state-group-says-spokesman-killed-syria-182647474.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/88172d6d090b31311c9668cc0cea38a1365cbd809af615fd36b9f55dc7273ca8.json | |
[
"Michael Walsh"
] | 2016-08-26T13:13:22 | null | 2016-08-24T20:22:46 | Donald Trump’s recent pivot on immigration should not have come as a surprise to anyone who knows about his career-long knack for giving the crowd what it wants, according to two Trump biographers. Washington Post investigative reporter Michael Kranish and Washington Post senior editor Marc Fisher, | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Ftrump-revealed-writers-immigration-shift-000000064.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tSfmNIDcqf1h0LrJDcvpYQ--/aD00OTY7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/94dd7bc8c54041b0c1ec1e9359e6e92c | en | null | ‘Trump Revealed’ writers: Immigration shift was no surprise | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Donald Trump’s recent pivot on immigration should not have come as a surprise to anyone who knows about his career-long knack for giving the crowd what it wants, according to two Trump biographers.
Washington Post investigative reporter Michael Kranish and Washington Post senior editor Marc Fisher, authors of “Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power,” discussed Trump’s evolving immigration stance in an appearance on Yahoo News Now with Stephanie Sy.
The Republican presidential candidate who during the primary called for a deportation force to round up the nation’s estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants has toned down his rhetoric over the past week. As the general election draws closer, he’s meeting with leaders in the Hispanic community and even entertaining “softening” the immigration laws currently on the books.
For Kranish and Fisher, this change is more or less in line with a lifelong showman who’s more interested in telling the people what they want to hear rather than developing a principled stance on a given issue.
“It’s another example of a basic fact about Donald Trump, which is that he is highly skeptical of ideology. He’s really not a conservative. He’s really not a liberal,” Fisher told Sy. “He’s someone who considers himself a bit of a provocateur, a man of the people, a populist, and so he’s willing to do more or less what the crowd wants.”
He said that the reality TV star knows how to read crowds and thinks of himself as someone who acts upon instinct.
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“He’s very loath to take a principled position because he loves to live life in the moment, as he puts it,” Fisher said. “So on an issue like immigration, he’ll follow the crowd. He’ll follow what’s needed politically in the moment.”
Kranish pointed out that Trump was not always thought of as the anti-illegal-immigration firebrand.
In 2012, during a Republican presidential debate, then presidential candidate Mitt Romney suggested that the solution to illegal immigration was “self-deportation.” That was Romney’s clunky term to describe the use of attrition instead of forcible deportation to reduce the population of people living illegally in the U.S. People would voluntarily return to their home country if the U.S. federal government made it more difficult to stay here, he argued.
At the time, Trump called Romney’s self-deportation policy “crazy” and “maniacal” and predicted that it would alienate Latino voters.
But when he launched his GOP primary campaign last summer, Trump’s caustic statements about illegal immigration made Romney’s proposal look meek in comparison. Among other things, Trump accused the Mexican government of sending “rapists” and criminals over the U.S. border.
“When Donald Trump ran for president and talked about [how] he’s going to have a forced deportation, it was a dramatic shift,” Kranish said Wednesday. “So if he’s now going back to something that’s closer to what Mitt Romney proposed, that is a good example of a pivot.” | https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-revealed-writers-immigration-shift-000000064.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/62b0056b268fcbfe2fbcf2d5f3b5dfbcf7196c6515c34239a870ba5290a43463.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T14:50:45 | null | 2016-08-30T10:38:41 | By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican voters in Arizona and Florida are expected to pick Senators John McCain and Marco Rubio as their respective U.S. Senate nominees when they go to the polls on Tuesday, but one name not on either ballot, Donald Trump, looms large. The Republican presidential | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Ftrump-hovers-over-mccain-rubio-u-senate-election-050503884.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Trump hovers over McCain, Rubio U.S. Senate re-election contests | null | null | www.yahoo.com | By Richard Cowan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican voters in Arizona and Florida are expected to pick Senators John McCain and Marco Rubio as their respective U.S. Senate nominees when they go to the polls on Tuesday, but one name not on either ballot, Donald Trump, looms large.
The Republican presidential nominee has endorsed both McCain and Rubio in their re-election bids even though he has rocky relations with both senators.
Trump offended McCain and many other Republicans last year by suggesting that the maverick senator and party's 2008 presidential nominee was anything but a war hero because he was captured during the Vietnam War after his airplane was shot down during a bombing mission.
In March, Trump ended Rubio's presidential bid by trouncing him in the Florida primary to cap a race in which the New York businessman taunted the first-term senator as "little Marco," and Rubio insulted Trump on everything from his hair color and the size of his hands to misspelled words in tweets.
During their re-election efforts, both McCain and Rubio have offered support for Trump as the party's White House nominee. But they have tiptoed around him, mainly out of concern that his provocative comments on illegal immigration, Muslims and U.S. support for NATO could alienate moderate and independent voters in their states.
At the same time, they have steered clear of attacks on Trump that might antagonize his core supporters.
Adding to the intrigue is that the fates of the two senators will likely play a big role in whether Republicans can upset expectations and maintain majority control of the Senate after the Nov. 8 election.
But first, McCain will have to win Tuesday's Republican primary in Arizona and Rubio will have to prevail in Florida.
McCain, who is trying to extend a 30-year Senate career, faces a challenge from physician and former state Senator Kelli Ward, who is aligned with the conservative Tea Party movement.
McCain leads Ward by 55 percent to 29 percent, according to a CNN opinion poll released last week. But Ward is ratcheting up her attacks, arguing: "It's time to defeat the establishment and retire McCain."
In an interview last week with Politico, Ward called McCain, 80, "a pretty sour old guy." Citing her medical background, she questioned whether he would even live long enough to complete another six-year Senate term.
Ward has aligned herself with Trump, who will face Democrat Hillary Clinton in November's presidential election.
MIXING THE MORTAR
Echoing Trump's call for the building of a wall on the southern border with Mexico, Ward has boasted: "It's time to mix the mortar to fix the border."
Trying to neutralize Ward's appeal with conservatives, McCain has touted his support for gun rights, his vow to cut government waste and endorsements from anti-abortion leaders.
If McCain, who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, wins on Tuesday, he would face Democratic U.S. Representative Ann Kirkpatrick.
While McCain has said he is in the toughest re-election fight of his career, the CNN poll has him opening a 13-point lead over Kirkpatrick.
Rubio, who decided last year not to seek re-election to the Senate in order to pursue the Republican presidential nomination, jumped into the race in June after his failed White House bid.
His late decision to seek a second Senate term came at the urging of Republican Party leaders, who viewed him as their best hope for preventing Democrats from taking the seat.
That prompted the major Republican Senate candidates to quit, leaving Carlos Beruff, 58, a millionaire homebuilder and newcomer to politics, as Rubio's main primary challenger. Like Ward, Beruff has embraced Trump and has accused Rubio of "tap dancing" around the presidential nominee and only offering him lukewarm support.
Rubio is polling well ahead of Beruff. A win on Tuesday means Rubio would likely face U.S. Representative Patrick Murphy, who leads the Democratic field.
(Additional reporting by Dustin Volz; Editing by Caren Bohan and Peter Cooney) | https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-hovers-over-mccain-rubio-u-senate-election-050503884.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/876f29c1c661be6e0662bb418191ee7120c48a7d1689aca2539d196165ed18e4.json | |
[] | 2016-08-31T02:50:46 | null | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | Donald Trump is considering traveling to Mexico City on Wednesday to meet with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, just hours before the Republican presidential nominee delivers a speech in Arizona on immigration policy, according to a source familiar with the situation. The possible trip was first | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Ftrump-may-meet-mexican-president-ahead-immigration-speech-013727083.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Trump may meet with Mexican president ahead of immigration speech | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Republican nominee Donald Trump arrives to speak at "Joni's Roast and Ride" in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S., August 27, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump is considering traveling to Mexico City on Wednesday to meet with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, just hours before the Republican presidential nominee delivers a speech in Arizona on immigration policy, according to a source familiar with the situation.
The possible trip was first reported by the Washington Post, which said talks between the Trump campaign and Mexican officials were ongoing, but logistics and security concerns were still being sorted out.
Peña Nieto had invited Trump to visit Mexico and the Republican's campaign decided over the weekend to accept the invitation and try to work out a visit this week.
In his speech in Arizona, Trump will detail where he stands on illegal immigration after worrying some conservative allies when he said last week he was "softening" his stance on mass deportations.
Trump aides said he would reaffirm his determination to build a border wall to curtail new illegal crossings and to quickly deport illegal immigrants who have committed crimes in the United States.
But the central question facing Trump was how he would treat the majority of the 11 million illegal immigrants who have set down roots in their communities and obeyed U.S. laws, an issue that has bedeviled the immigration debate for years.
(Reporting by Steve Holland; Writing by Eric Beech; Editing by Peter Cooney) | https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-may-meet-mexican-president-ahead-immigration-speech-013727083.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/847cd4aa6700b0f420df14045b8c9eed5df976938bc9bbe13662f36c6ce0922a.json | |
[] | 2016-08-30T12:50:38 | null | 2016-08-30T10:24:19 | By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators ordered Apple on Tuesday to pay up to 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion) in taxes plus interest to the Irish government after ruling that a special scheme to route profits through Ireland was illegal state aid. The massive sum, 40 times bigger | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Feu-hand-apple-hefty-irish-tax-bill-sources-070138965--sector.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | EU demands Apple pay Ireland up to 13 billion euros in tax | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Workers prepare for the opening of an Apple store in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, January 23, 2015. REUTERS/Chance Chan/File Photo
By Foo Yun Chee
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators ordered Apple on Tuesday to pay up to 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion) in taxes plus interest to the Irish government after ruling that a special scheme to route profits through Ireland was illegal state aid.
The massive sum, 40 times bigger than the previous known demand by the European Commission to a company in such a case, could be reduced, the EU executive said in a statement, if other countries sought more tax themselves from the U.S. tech giant.
Apple, which with Ireland said it will appeal the decision, paid tax rates on European profits on sales of its iPhone and other devices and services of between just 0.005 percent in 2014 and 1 percent in 2003, the Commission said.
"Ireland granted illegal tax benefits to Apple, which enabled it to pay substantially less tax than other businesses over many years," said Competition Commission Margrethe Vestager, whose crackdown on mainly U.S. multinationals has angered Washington which accuses Brussels of protectionism.
Online retailer Amazon.com Inc and hamburger group McDonald's Corp face probes over taxes in Luxembourg, while coffee chain Starbucks Corp has been ordered to pay up to 30 million euros ($33 million) to the Dutch state.
A bill of 300 million euros this year for Swedish engineer Atlas Copco AB to pay Belgian tax is the current known record. Other companies ordered to pay back taxes in Belgium, many of them European, have not disclosed figures.
For Apple, whose earnings of $18 billion last year were the biggest ever reported by a corporation, finding several billion dollars should not be an insurmountable problem. The 13 billion euros represents about 6 percent of the firm's cash pile.
As of June, Apple reported it had cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities of $231.5 billion, of which 92.8 percent, or $214.9 billion, were held in foreign subsidiaries. It paid $2.67 billion in taxes during its latest quarter at an effective tax rate of 25.5 percent, leaving it with net income of $7.8 billion according to company filings.
The European Commission in 2014 accused Ireland of dodging international tax rules by letting Apple shelter profits worth tens of billions of dollars from tax collectors in return for maintaining jobs. Apple and Ireland rejected the accusation.
"I disagree profoundly with the Commission," Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan said in a statement. "The decision leaves me with no choice but to seek cabinet approval to appeal.
"This is necessary to defend the integrity of our tax system; to provide tax certainty to business; and to challenge the encroachment of EU state aid rules into the sovereign member state competence of taxation."
Ireland also said the disputed tax system used in the Apple case no longer applied and that the decision had no effect on Ireland's 12.5 percent corporate tax rate or on any other company with operations in the country.
Apple said in a statement it was confident of winning an appeal.
"The European Commission has launched an effort to rewrite Apple’s history in Europe, ignore Ireland’s tax laws and upend the international tax system in the process. The Commission’s case is not about how much Apple pays in taxes, it’s about which government collects the money. It will have a profound and harmful effect on investment and job creation in Europe."
"REVERSE ENGINEERING"
When it opened the Apple investigation in 2014, the Commission told the Irish government that tax rulings it agreed in 1991 and 2007 with the company amounted to state aid and might have broken EU laws.
The Commission said the rulings were "reverse engineered" to ensure Apple had a minimal Irish bill and that minutes of meetings between Apple representatives and Irish tax officials showed the company's tax treatment had been "motivated by employment considerations."
Apple employs 5,500, or about a quarter of its Europe-based staff, in the Irish city of Cork, where it is the largest private sector employer. It has said it paid Ireland's 12.5 percent rate on all the income that it generates in the country.
Ireland's low corporate tax rate has been a cornerstone of economic policy for 20 years, drawing investors from multinational companies whose staff account for almost one in 10 workers in Ireland. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/eu-hand-apple-hefty-irish-tax-bill-sources-070138965--sector.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/a1550482ca5351ac3569eb38ac4e59096678a216d35837ed8c8ecfd757258a94.json | |
[
"Michael Walsh"
] | 2016-08-26T13:10:56 | null | 2016-08-25T19:25:29 | Donald Trump’s campaign insists that he hasn’t flip-flopped on illegal immigration despite backing down on his promise to deport all the estimated 11 million undocumented people living in the United States. The Republican presidential nominee’s hard-line immigration stance and incendiary rhetoric swayed | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Ftrump-past-comments-illustrate-striking-000000458.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/9G_Tc7z_36DUA8NEFb4DZA--/aD00ODY7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/b61aa479dac60abc281b98cadcb7d0c6 | en | null | Trump’s past comments illustrate striking shift on deportation policy | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Donald Trump’s campaign insists that he hasn’t flip-flopped on illegal immigration despite backing down on his promise to deport all the estimated 11 million undocumented people living in the United States.
The Republican presidential nominee’s hard-line immigration stance and incendiary rhetoric swayed primary voters. This past week, however, the candidate has backpedaled on his more extreme measures and said he’s open to “softening” immigration laws and potentially working with people who immigrated to the U.S. illegally but who have otherwise not committed any crimes. Trump even cited President Obama’s approach to deportation as one he would also embrace.
On Wednesday night, Trump asked the audience at his town hall with Fox News’ Sean Hannity to tell him whether he should just throw undocumented immigrants out of the country or if he should “work with them.”
“Can we go through a process, or do you think they have to get out? Tell me. I mean, I don’t know. You tell me,” Trump said to the crowd. “I’d like to know. I’d like to know.”
He then asked the crowd to cheer for the approach they preferred, almost as if they were on a game show.
This shift is striking, as Trump’s absolutist approach to illegal immigration was a hallmark of his primary campaign, and the mogul had long accused rivals of supporting “amnesty” for favoring any position less strict than his own.
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CNN panelists burst into laughter Thursday morning when Trump campaign spokeswoman Katrina Pierson claimed that he had “not changed his position on immigration. He’s changed the words he’s saying.”
“Katrina, he has said, ‘Get them out.’ He’s been very clear about his position. This is a change, this is a shift, this is a flip-flop, it’s an evolution — whatever words you want to use,” CNN host Erica Hill replied.
Here are some of Trump’s past statements that don’t fully square with what he’s said over the past week.
For undocumented immigrants, the entire family has to go
In August 2015, Trump told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd that he would rescind the DREAM Act, which aims to let some people stay who illegally immigrated to the United States as minors.
“So you’re going to split up families,” Todd asked. “You’re going to deport children.”
“Chuck, Chuck, no, no. We’re going to keep the families together. We have to keep the families together,” Trump said. “But they have to go. They have to go.”
“What if they have no place to go?” Todd asked.
“We will work with them,” Trump replied.
The U.S. would have a deportation force
In November 2015, Mika Brzezinski, co-host of “Morning Joe,” pressed Trump on the specifics of his plan to quash illegal immigration.
“OK, conceptually I understand what you’re saying and what you’re describing. But still tell me the how. Are you going to have a massive deportation force?” she asked.
“You’re going to have a deportation force, and you’re going to do it humanely,” Trump said.
Shortly after, Brzezinski asked if people would face ramifications for not leaving or for harboring undocumented immigrants, to which Trump replied, “People will leave.”
“Are they going to get ripped out of their homes? How?” she asked.
“They’re going back where they came. If they came from a certain country, they’re going to be brought back to that country,” Trump said. “That’s the way it’s supposed to be. Now, they can come back, but they have to come back legally. They can come back, but they have to come back legally.”
His comments were met with immediate pushback from many liberals, such as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
The idea of tracking down and deporting 11 million people is absurd, inhumane, and un-American. No, Trump. -H https://t.co/uZyqAWXUdh — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 11, 2015
Deporting all undocumented immigrants is ‘not mean-spirited’
Shortly after his MSNBC interview, Trump told Fox News’ Bret Baier that his plan to deport all undocumented immigrants was not mean-spirited.
“Mine is not mean-spirited. Mine is, it’s business. We have a country,” he said. “You don’t have a country if people are allowed to walk in, cross the border, and stay here for as long as they want. You don’t have a country, and everybody knows it.” | https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-past-comments-illustrate-striking-000000458.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/101a03b3b11345b2356d46c517c26b72eacacb1861406d1789223c33084620ab.json |
[
"Michael Isikoff",
"Chief Investigative Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-29T10:50:22 | null | 2016-08-29T09:00:15 | The FBI has uncovered evidence that foreign hackers penetrated two state election databases in recent weeks, prompting the bureau to warn election officials across the country to take new steps to enhance the security of their computer systems, according to federal and state law enforcement officials | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Ffbi-says-foreign-hackers-penetrated-000000175.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rfPn7povE2gZ1m7Hy1IFJA--/aD04MDA7dz0xMjgwO3NtPTE7YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b24-/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/75bd01ca04def34b44f0d39d6765dbbe | en | null | FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems | null | null | www.yahoo.com | The FBI has uncovered evidence that foreign hackers penetrated two state election databases in recent weeks, prompting the bureau to warn election officials across the country to take new steps to enhance the security of their computer systems, according to federal and state law enforcement officials.
The FBI warning, contained in a “flash” alert from the FBI’s Cyber Division, a copy of which was obtained by Yahoo News, comes amid heightened concerns among U.S. intelligence officials about the possibility of cyberintrusions, potentially by Russian state-sponsored hackers, aimed at disrupting the November elections.
Those concerns prompted Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to convene a conference call with state election officials on Aug. 15, in which he offered his department’s help to make state voting systems more secure, including providing federal cyber security experts to scan for vulnerabilities, according to a “readout” of the call released by the department.
Johnson emphasized in the call that Homeland Security was not aware of “specific or credible cybersecurity threats” to the election, officials said. But three days after that call, the FBI Cyber Division issued a potentially more disturbing warning, entitled “Targeting Activity Against State Board of Election Systems.” The alert, labeled as restricted for “NEED TO KNOW recipients,” disclosed that the bureau was investigating cyberintrusions against two state election websites this summer, including one that resulted in the “exfiltration,” or theft, of voter registration data. “It was an eye opener,” one senior law enforcement official said of the bureau’s discovery of the intrusions. “We believe it’s kind of serious, and we’re investigating.”
The bulletin does not identify the states in question, but sources familiar with the document say it refers to the targeting by suspected foreign hackers of voter registration databases in Arizona and Illinois. In the Illinois case, officials were forced to shut down the state’s voter registration system for ten days in late July, after the hackers managed to download personal data on up to 200,000 state voters, Ken Menzel, the general counsel of the Illinois Board of Elections, said in an interview. The Arizona attack was more limited, involving malicious software that was introduced into its voter registration system but no successful exfiltration of data, a state official said.
FBI Flash PDF : Targeting Activity Against State Board of Election Systems >>>
The FBI bulletin listed eight separate IP addresses that were the sources of the two attacks and suggested that the attacks may have been linked, noting that one of the IP addresses was used in both intrusions. The bulletin implied that the bureau was looking for any signs that the attacks may have been attempting to target even more than the two states. “The FBI is requesting that states contact their Board of Elections and determine if any similar activity to their logs, both inbound and outbound, has been detected,” the alert reads. “Attempts should not be made to touch or ping the IP addresses directly.”
“This is a big deal,” said Rich Barger, chief intelligence officer for ThreatConnect, a cybersecurity firm, who reviewed the FBI alert at the request of Yahoo News. “Two state election boards have been popped, and data has been taken. This certainly should be concerning to the common American voter.”
Barger noted that that one of the IP addresses listed in the FBI alert has surfaced before in Russian criminal underground hacker forums. He also said the method of attack on one of the state election systems — including the types of tools used by the hackers to scan for vulnerabilities and exploit them — appear to resemble methods used in other suspected Russian state-sponsored cyberattacks, including one just this month on the World Anti-Doping Agency.
The FBI did not respond to detailed questions about the alert, saying in a statement only that such bulletins are provided “to help systems administrators guard against the actions of persistent cyber criminals.” Menzel, the Illinois election official, said that in a recent briefing, FBI agents confirmed to him that the perpetrators were believed to be foreign hackers, although they were not identified by country. He said he was told that the bureau was looking at a “possible link” to the recent highly publicized attack on the Democratic National Committee and other political organizations, which U.S. officials suspect was perpetrated by Russian government hackers. But he said agents told him they had reached no conclusions, and other experts say the hackers could also have been common cyber criminals hoping to steal personal data on state voters for fraudulent purposes, such as obtaining bogus tax refunds. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/fbi-says-foreign-hackers-penetrated-000000175.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/7e83cd9a10502684b78aed4137a2f839a6bb5314534934950d614b2596f4dfb5.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T02:50:01 | null | 2016-08-28T01:17:54 | LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian authorities accused the president of a mining federation and two of his top officials of the killing of deputy interior minister Rodolfo Illanes amid a bitter strike, officials said Saturday. Forty miners have been detained in the case. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fmining-leader-2-others-accused-bolivia-officials-death-004712924.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Mining leader, 2 others, accused in Bolivia official's death | null | null | www.yahoo.com | In this Nov. 26, 2014 photo, released by the government-run Bolivian Information Agency, Bolivia's Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Rodolfo Illanes speaks during a press conference at the government palace in La Paz, Bolivia. Government officials said that the striking miners kidnapped and beat Illanes to death after he traveled to the area to mediate in the bitter conflict over mining laws. Government Minister Carlos Romero called it a "cowardly and brutal killing" and asked that the miners turn over the body of his deputy. (Gonzalo Jallasi/Bolivian Information Agency via AP)
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian authorities accused the president of a mining federation and two of his top officials of the killing of deputy interior minister Rodolfo Illanes amid a bitter strike, officials said Saturday. Forty miners have been detained in the case.
Illanes was kidnapped and beaten to death by striking mine workers on Thursday after to going to the town of Panduro, 80 miles (130 kilometers) south of La Paz, to mediate in the dispute over mining laws and dwindling paychecks.
Three protesters have been killed in clashes with riot police, stoking tensions.
The striking miners had armed themselves with dynamite and seized several highways, stranding thousands of vehicles and passengers.
Bolivia's Attorney General's Office has detained 40 miners, among them protest leader Carlos Mamani, president of the National Federation of Mining Cooperatives of Bolivia. On Saturday afternoon, Mamani and two other federation officials were accused by the Public Ministry in Illanes' death.
An autopsy found that Illanes died from trauma to the brain and thorax.
The blockaded highway in Panduro was clear on Friday as the miners returned to their camps. A funeral Mass was held for Illanes in La Paz.
Illanes' murder underscored how President Evo Morales, a former coca growers' union leader, has increasingly found himself at odds with the same kind of popular social movements that fueled his rise to power and have made up his political base.
The leftist president called the beating death of the deputy minister "a conspiracy" to overthrow him.
Bolivia's informal miners number about 100,000 and work in self-managed cooperatives producing primarily zinc, tin, silver and gold.
They want to be able to associate with private companies, which promise to put more cash in their pockets, but are currently prohibited from doing so. The government argues that if they associate with multinational companies they will no longer be cooperatives.
Bolivia has seen increased social agitation as a financial slowdown hit an economy heavily dependent on natural gas and minerals, which account for over 70 percent of foreign export sales. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/mining-leader-2-others-accused-bolivia-officials-death-004712924.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/269c112b5631328516cfeeb4c991b23839928cbee1df07ac96fb5d37e3966650.json | |
[] | 2016-08-26T16:49:34 | null | 2016-08-26T15:25:24 | The Food and Drug Administration wants all U.S. blood centers to start screening for Zika, a major expansion intended to protect the nation's blood supply from the mosquito-borne virus. Friday's advisory ... | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Ffda-advises-zika-screening-us-blood-centers-143457033.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | FDA expands Zika screening to all US blood centers | null | null | www.yahoo.com | FILE - This Aug. 20, 2013 file photo shows blood donated in Indianapolis. On Friday, Aug. 26, 2016, the Food and Drug Administration recommended that all U.S. blood banks start screening for the Zika virus, a major expansion intended to protect the nation's blood supply from the mosquito-borne disease. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration wants all U.S. blood centers to start screening for Zika, a major expansion intended to protect the nation's blood supply from the mosquito-borne virus.
Friday's advisory means all U.S. states and territories will need to begin testing blood donations for Zika. Previously, the FDA had limited the requirement to Puerto Rico and two Florida counties.
"There is still much uncertainty regarding the nature and extent of Zika virus transmission," said Dr. Peter Marks, director of the FDA's biologic products center, in an agency release. "At this time, the recommendation for testing the entire blood supply will help ensure that safe blood is available for all individuals who might need transfusion."
Blood collection sites already test donations for HIV, hepatitis, West Nile virus and other blood-borne viruses.
FDA officials said Zika testing is already underway in Puerto Rico and parts of Florida, where "it has shown to be beneficial in identifying donations infected with Zika virus."
The FDA has authorized use of two experimental blood-screening tests for Zika, one made by Roche and another from Hologic Inc. Several testing sites are already voluntarily using the technology, including blood centers in Texas. The cost of adding Zika testing to the blood screening process is less than $10, according to officials at South Texas Blood and Tissue Center.
Since February, U.S. blood centers have been turning away people who have recently traveled to areas with Zika outbreaks, under a previous FDA directive.
Zika is spread primarily by mosquito bites, as well as sex. There have been cases of Zika transmission through blood transfusion in Brazil.
The FDA works with other federal agencies to set standards for screening, testing and handling blood donations.
Last month, blood centers in Miami and Fort Lauderdale had to halt donations until they could begin screening each unit of blood. The order followed now-confirmed reports of local Zika transmission in the Miami area — the first in the continental U.S.
Puerto Rico suspended blood donations and imported blood products in March until the island began screening its blood.
Friday's announcement follows recent pressure from members of Congress urging the FDA to expand Zika screening.
"We must implement widespread universal screening now to prevent any further contamination of the blood supply before it occurs and to pre-empt a widespread shortfall in the blood supply," stated Reps. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, Patrick Murphy, D-Fla. and a half-dozen other House members, in a letter to the FDA earlier this month.
The Zika virus causes only a mild illness in most people, but scientists have confirmed that infection during pregnancy can lead to severe brain-related birth defects.
The tropical mosquito that spreads Zika and other viruses is found in the southern U.S. While health officials have predicted that mosquitoes in the continental U.S. would begin spreading Zika this summer, they also have said they expect only isolated clusters of infections and not widespread outbreaks. So far, there have been about 40 cases of homegrown Zika in Florida. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/fda-advises-zika-screening-us-blood-centers-143457033.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/9ddc755bafd97af541b2ac8a5fa52e98716f71d089f37e9d444a080d7a5b39e8.json | |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:33 | null | 2016-08-23T00:00:00 | By Ayesha Rascoe BATON ROUGE, La. (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama walked door to door in an East Baton Rouge Parish neighborhood on Tuesday hugging people and offering assurances that the country would help them recover from some of the worst floods ever recorded in Louisiana. "What I | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fobama-tour-flood-battered-areas-louisiana-100520602.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Obama promises support to Louisiana after floods | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards (2nd L) and his wife Donna (L) greet U.S. President Barack Obama as he arrives aboard Air Force One at Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S., August 23, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
By Ayesha Rascoe
BATON ROUGE, La. (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama walked door to door in an East Baton Rouge Parish neighborhood on Tuesday hugging people and offering assurances that the country would help them recover from some of the worst floods ever recorded in Louisiana.
"What I want the people of Louisiana to know is, you’re not alone on this, even after the TV cameras leave," Obama said after touring brick homes whose lawns were cluttered with slabs of drywall and soaked sofas and mattresses.
More than 2-1/2 feet (more than 76 cm) of rain fell on parts of the state in the worst U.S. disaster since 2012's Superstorm Sandy. At least 13 deaths have been attributed to flooding and more than 60,000 homes have been damaged.
More than 100,000 people have applied for federal aid, Obama said, and so far more than $120 million has been approved. Many people did not have flood insurance.
How much will be needed to help residents has yet to be determined, Obama said, noting that Congress may need to approve more aid. He urged Americans to volunteer and to donate money to the Red Cross.
"This is not a one-off. This is not a photo op issue. This is, how do you make sure a month from now, three months from now, six months from now, people still are getting the help that they need," Obama said.
Naketa Woods, who owns a home in Castle Place, stood in her driveway in the sweltering heat with her husband waiting to meet with Obama. She said their home was filled with 3 feet of water and they lost all their furniture and two vehicles.
"To have the president come, it means a lot to show that he cares and the federal government cares about what we are going through," Woods said.
Obama was criticized last week for not cutting short his New England vacation to go to Louisiana.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who was in Louisiana on Friday, said on Twitter, "President Obama should have gone to Louisiana days ago, instead of golfing. Too little, too late!"
However, Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards had asked Obama to delay his visit because presidential visits require a huge retinue of Secret Service agents and tie up local and state law enforcement resources needed elsewhere in disasters. Edwards had asked Trump not to visit for a photo opportunity.
Obama had received updates on the flooding from U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate, both of whom went to Louisiana.
"Nobody gives a hoot whether you're Democrat or Republican. What they care about is making sure they're getting the drywall out, the carpet out, there's not any mold building," he said.
Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser, a Republican, dismissed the debate. "I'm just glad he's here," Nungesser told MSNBC in an interview. He said he hoped Obama's visit would bring hope to the state's residents.
"We're going to need a lot of help, a lot of prayers, and a lot of work to get back," Nungesser said.
The White House said that while in Baton Rouge Obama would meet with the family of Alton Sterling, a black man shot dead by white police officers in July and the families of officers of the Baton Rouge Police Department and East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office who were killed and injured in an attack that month.
(Additional reporting by Susan Heavey, Roberta Rampton, and Dustin Volz in Washington; Editing by Jonathan Oatis, Toni Reinhold) | https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-tour-flood-battered-areas-louisiana-100520602.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-23T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/a8bc29b3ec9dea2ba9aa369afff9b12fe23f0387d7ee55d792008b4963275233.json | |
[] | 2016-08-27T08:49:44 | null | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | The number of people killed in an earthquake that has wrecked parts of central Italy rose to 284 on Saturday, as the country started a day of mourning and prepared for a mass funeral for some of the victims. A further two bodies were found overnight in the worst-hit town, Amatrice, which was flattened | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fitaly-quake-death-toll-hits-284-day-mass-080403552.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Italy quake death toll hits 284 on day of mass funeral | null | null | www.yahoo.com | ASCOLI PICENO, Italy (Reuters) - The number of people killed in an earthquake that has wrecked parts of central Italy rose to 284 on Saturday, as the country started a day of mourning and prepared for a mass funeral for some of the victims.
A further two bodies were found overnight in the worst-hit town, Amatrice, which was flattened by Wednesday's powerful quake causing the deaths of at least 224 residents and tourists.
Although rescuers continued to scour the mounds of rubble -- all that remains of most buildings -- there was little hope of finding survivors.
Italian President Sergio Mattarella flew to Amatrice by helicopter on Saturday to see the damage first hand before traveling on later in the morning to the nearby city of Ascoli Piceno for the funeral of up to 40 of the victims.
Mourners gathered at a sports center in the city, where 35 coffins were lined up by early Saturday.
"Even if I didn't know them my heart broke for them. My thoughts are with them because there are people who have lost everything, homes, loved ones and the sacrifices made in life," said local resident, Luciana Cavicchiuni.
"These things should not happen," she said.
Aftershocks continued to rattle the area overnight, the strongest measuring 4.2. The Italian geological institute said some 1,332 aftershocks have hit Italy's central mountains since Wednesday's predawn 6.2 magnitude quake.
(Additional reporting by Iona Serrapica; Writing by Crispian Balmer; Editing by Susan Fenton) | https://www.yahoo.com/news/italy-quake-death-toll-hits-284-day-mass-080403552.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/26273b438df812817fb6cf13a26b544389ea3f50ca290d15f314052e91868321.json | |
[
"Andrew Romano",
"West Coast Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-30T20:50:48 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | Happy Florida Primary Day! Here are four storylines to watch as the results come rolling in. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fdown-ticket-7-rubio-mccain-000000036.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Down Ticket #7: Rubio. McCain. Wasserman Schultz. Why Tuesday’s primaries in Florida and Arizona matter. | null | null | www.yahoo.com | John McCain, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Marco Rubio. (Yahoo News photo illustration: foreground photos by AP; background photos of Arizona voting sign and Florida voters by Matt York/AP, Alan Diaz/AP)
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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Happy Florida Primary Day! Here are four storylines to watch as the results come rolling in.
If we had to pick just one state to watch for the rest of this election cycle, Florida would be it.
Forget about the marquee slugfest between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. As
“SNL’s” Stefon might say, the Sunshine State’s down-ballot races have everything:
– A former GOP White House candidate, Marco Rubio, who solemnly vowed not to run for reelection to the Senate this year — then decided to do it anyway.
– A Democratic Senate primary between a guy who has been accused of padding his résumé (Rep. Patrick Murphy) and a guy who has been accused of abusing his now ex-wife (Rep. Alan Grayson).
– A race for the latter’s U.S. House seat that features both his current wife, Dena Grayson, and one of his top congressional aides, Susannah Randolph.
– A Democratic congresswoman, Corrine Brown, who is running for reelection while simultaneously being tried in a federal corruption case.
– Another Democratic House contest that pits a former candidate for lieutenant governor, Annette Taddeo, against her close friend and mentor, Joe Garcia. Garcia is a former congressman whose chief of staff was sent to jail in 2013 for orchestrating a fraudulent ballot scheme.
– A former Republican governor, Charlie Crist, who is now running for the House as a Democrat.
– And a recently dethroned chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, fighting for her political life against a nationwide movement of disgruntled progressives — including her party’s 2016 presidential runner-up, Bernie Sanders.
Not to mention the fact that 24 of the state’s 27 congressional districts were redrawn last year after the Florida Supreme Court ruled that the old map was unconstitutional.
It’s basically the electoral version of the Florida Man meme, except with serious implications for control of Congress and the political direction of the nation as a whole.
Oh, and the Sunshine State’s primaries are today — meaning the fall campaigns are about to begin in earnest. If you haven’t tuned in yet, now is the time.
Here are four storylines to watch — all of them with national implications — as Floridians go to the polls.
1. Can anyone else pull a Trump?
Donald Trump may have defeated Marco Rubio by a dizzying 19 percentage points in Florida’s March 15 presidential primary — even though Rubio is a Florida native who has held elected office in the state, in one capacity or another, for nearly 15 years. But that doesn’t mean Trump’s signature blend of hard-edged nativism and politically incorrect bomb-throwing is producing the same sort of results for Republicans who aren’t Donald Trump.
Quite the opposite, actually.
Take Carlos Beruff. When Rubio reversed himself and entered the Florida Senate race at the last minute — literally two days before the June 22 deadline — most of the other GOP candidates dutifully stepped aside.
View photos Carlos Beruff announcing his candidacy in February. (Photo: Giorgio Viera/El Nuevo Herald/TNS via Getty Images) More
Not Beruff. Instead, the wealthy Manatee County developer doubled down on his Donald impression, cutting attack ads that claim Rubio isn’t as tough as Trump; proposing a ban on all Middle Eastern immigrants (except Israelis); and tweeting stuff like “I won’t read a bunch of crap off a teleprompter.” He even parrots one of Trump’s catchphrases: “it’s time to put America first.” The Miami New Times called Beruff “the Cuban-American Donald Trump”; Roll Call labeled him “Little Trump of Florida.”
The only problem? Beruff is going to lose on Tuesday — by a lot. The latest polls show him trailing Rubio by 30 to 60 points. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/down-ticket-7-rubio-mccain-000000036.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/f2e7a2be94040a9fb30a85a3eff9e877a895933590a88fc8412c1b83c67827f9.json | |
[] | 2016-08-28T16:50:06 | null | 2016-08-28T16:16:03 | CHICAGO (AP) — Two brothers have been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of the cousin of NBA star Dwyane Wade as she was walking to register her children for school, Chicago police announced Sunday. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2F2-chicago-men-charged-shooting-nba-star-wades-150814980.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | 2 Chicago men charged in shooting of NBA star Wade's cousin | null | null | www.yahoo.com | FILE- In this July 29, 2016, file photo, Chicago Bulls player Dwyane Wade speaks during a news conference in Chicago. A family spokesman says a cousin of Wade's was fatally shot Friday, Aug. 25, while pushing a baby in a stroller on the city's South Side. Wade posted on Twitter: "My cousin was killed today in Chicago. Another act of senseless gun violence. 4 kids lost their mom for NO REASON. Unreal." (AP Photo/Tae-Gyun Kim, File)
CHICAGO (AP) — Two brothers have been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of the cousin of NBA star Dwyane Wade as she was walking to register her children for school, Chicago police announced Sunday.
Darwin Sorrells Jr. and Derren Sorrells, 22, also were charged with attempted murder in Friday's shooting.
Nykea Aldridge, a 32-year-old mother of four, was pushing her baby in a stroller near the school when two men walked up and fired shots at a third man but hit Aldridge in the head and arm. Police say she wasn't the intended target, and the baby was not injured.
Police say the suspects in the shooting have criminal records. Superintendent Eddie T. Johnson plans to release more information at a news conference later Sunday.
Authorities are investigating whether the encounter between the men was a robbery, possibly involving a driver from a ridesharing company, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Saturday.
Chicago has been in the throes of a major uptick in gun violence this year, largely centered in a few South and West Side neighborhoods, after years of seeing declines. This July alone, there were 65 homicides — the most that month since 2006.
Wade, whose charitable organization, Wade's World Foundation, does community outreach in the Chicago area, signed with the Chicago Bulls in July after 13 years with the Miami Heat. He and his mother, pastor Jolinda Wade, participated Thursday via satellite in a town hall meeting in Chicago on gun violence hosted by ESPN.
Wade has reacted to his cousin's shooting only online, tweeting Friday: "My cousin was killed today in Chicago. Another act of senseless gun violence. 4 kids lost their mom for NO REASON. Unreal. #EnoughIsEnough."
Wade also tweeted Saturday morning: "The city of Chicago is hurting. We need more help& more hands on deck. Not for me and my family but for the future of our world. The YOUTH!" adding in a following tweet, "These young kids are screaming for help!!! #EnoughIsEnough."
It is not the first time Dwyane Wade's family in Chicago has been affected by gun violence. His nephew, Darin Johnson, was shot twice in the leg in 2012 but recovered.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence sidestepped questions Sunday morning on CNN's "State of the Union" about the flow of guns into Illinois from his state as the U.S. presidential campaign delves into the issue of Chicago violence. Chicago police have said more than half of the guns used in crimes come from out of state, including about 20 percent from Indiana. When asked about it, Pence instead brought up failing schools in Chicago and his running mate Donald Trump's pledge to create jobs. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/2-chicago-men-charged-shooting-nba-star-wades-150814980.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/0b5b1f3a7f77a8321749a71e6d599215ef514047ed46ede08211e6461159451e.json | |
[
"Olivier Knox",
"Chief Washington Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-29T22:50:40 | null | 2016-08-29T19:55:36 | The White House said Monday that it disagrees with Colin Kaepernick’s “objectionable” decision to stay seated during the national anthem in protest but defended the San Francisco 49ers quarterback’s right to freedom of speech. President Obama, a devoted sports fan, is “aware of this issue,” press secretary | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fjosh-earnest-colin-kaepernick-000000910.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/9qFF_6gzxtbjFcgoQSnCAw--/aD00NjU7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/45fe251e9f34d4b002be65c35c782df4 | en | null | White House: Kaepernick’s anthem views ‘objectionable’ but protected | null | null | www.yahoo.com | The White House said Monday that it disagrees with Colin Kaepernick’s “objectionable” decision to stay seated during the national anthem in protest but defended the San Francisco 49ers quarterback’s right to freedom of speech.
President Obama, a devoted sports fan, is “aware of this issue,” press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters at his daily briefing.
“In general, what I can say is that I certainly don’t share the views that Mr. Kaepernick expressed after the game in explaining his reasoning for his actions,” Earnest said. “But we surely all acknowledge and even defend his right to express those views in the settings that he chooses. Even as objectionable as we find his perspective, he certainly is entitled to express them.”
Kaepernick sparked a firestorm of controversy by refusing to stand during “The Star-Spangled Banner” before his team’s preseason loss last week to the Green Bay Packers. He subsequently explained his decision as an act of political protest.
“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick told NFL Media on Saturday. “To me, this is bigger than football, and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.”
In a separate statement, posted on the official 49ers website, Kaepernick defended himself from the accusation that his protest is an affront to American servicemen and -women. The quarterback said he has “great respect for the men and women that have fought for this country.”
NFL Media also reported that the league position is that “players are encouraged but not required to stand during the playing of the national anthem.” | https://www.yahoo.com/news/josh-earnest-colin-kaepernick-000000910.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/8181ee4c3fa6426c6cd4bb4430f4dbf296582de900c19eba54ef5ad84c2ac41c.json |
[
"Jon Ward",
"Senior Political Correspondent"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:53 | null | 2016-08-24T21:19:48 | Ed Feulner, former president of the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, has joined Donald Trump’s transition team to help prepare for the possibility of a win by the Republican presidential candidate this fall. Feulner, 75, is the first major figure with deep credibility in the conservative | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Ftrump-adds-former-heritage-foundation-000000419.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/h2MSpkuXDcePQRwAVawjFQ--/aD01MTg7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/cdacf4dc19d92961bea327337007ae08 | en | null | Trump adds former Heritage Foundation president to transition team | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Ed Feulner, former president of the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, has joined Donald Trump’s transition team to help prepare for the possibility of a win by the Republican presidential candidate this fall.
Feulner, 75, is the first major figure with deep credibility in the conservative movement to join the Trump transition effort, which is being run by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Two sources with direct knowledge of Feulner’s involvement confirmed his role.
Contacted by phone, Feulner confirmed that he is working for Trump’s transition team but declined to comment and referred questions to the Trump campaign.
Feulner is credited with building the Heritage Foundation from a small, struggling policy think tank in the 1970s to the influential behemoth it became during the presidency of Ronald Reagan and beyond. He retired as president in 2013, when former U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican, took the reins of the organization.
The addition of Feulner has great symbolic value for Trump, who is viewed with intense suspicion by many conservatives who doubt his commitment to their ideology. However, despite the addition of Feulner, Christie is having trouble finding people to fill many of the slots needed to run a successful transition team, according to one conservative policy expert in Washington, D.C.
When asked about the lack of names announced so far, Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks argued that the transition effort has “a great team and tremendous, overwhelming interest, but the campaign is focused on connecting with voters and Mr. Trump’s message and vision for the country.”
Hicks added that “Hillary Clinton may put an inordinate amount of focus on her transition team because she is relying on a rigged system that has propelled her thus far.”
Clinton has several high-profile Democrats — led by former interior secretary and Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar — running her transition.
Both Trump and Clinton have taxpayer-funded office space provided for a transition effort, the result of a 2010 law that moved up the availability of such money to just after the party conventions, rather than after the election.
In 2012, Republican nominee Mitt Romney was the first presidential candidate to take advantage of the new law, and his transition effort cost taxpayers nearly $9 million. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-adds-former-heritage-foundation-000000419.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/341d36deb5e21ca5886cd8a5096c20bfbbdd8c639de63ddf929bf66c643a02b5.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T22:50:42 | null | 2016-08-30T22:09:24 | WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama cut short on Tuesday the sentences of 111 federal inmates in another round of commutations for those convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fobama-cuts-short-sentences-111-federal-inmates-192440202--politics.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | en | null | Obama cuts short the sentences of 111 federal inmates | null | null | www.yahoo.com | FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2016 file photo, President Barack Obama answers a question during a news conference at the Pentagon. President Barack Obama has cut short the sentences of 111 federal inmates in another round of commutations for those convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama cut short on Tuesday the sentences of 111 federal inmates in another round of commutations for those convicted of nonviolent drug offenses.
Obama has long called for phasing out strict sentences for drug convictions, arguing they lead to excessive punishment and incarceration rates unseen in other developed countries.
White House Counsel Neil Eggleston said the commutations underscored the president's commitment to using his clemency authority to give deserving individuals a second chance. He said that Obama has granted a total of 673 commutations, more than the previous 10 presidents combined. More than a third of the recipients were serving life sentences.
"We must remember that these are individuals — sons, daughters, parents, and in many cases, grandparents — who have taken steps toward rehabilitation and who have earned their second chance," Eggleston said. "They are individuals who received unduly harsh sentences under outdated laws for committing largely nonviolent drug crimes."
Eggleston noted that Obama also granted commutation to 214 federal inmates earlier in the month. With Tuesday's additions, Obama has granted the greatest number of commutations for a single month of any president.
Eggleston says he expects Obama to continue using his clemency authority through the end of his administration. He said the relief points to the need for Congress to take up criminal justice reform. Such legislation has stalled, undercut by a rash of summer shootings involving police and the pressure of election-year politics.
Two goals of the legislation are to reduce overcrowding in the nation's prisons and save taxpayer dollars. In 1980, the federal prison population was less than 25,000. Today, it is more than 200,000.
But the legislation's supporters have encountered opposition from some Republicans who argue that changes could lead to an increase in crime and pose a greater danger to law enforcement.
Eggleston said Obama considered the individual merits of each application to determine that an applicant is ready to make use of their second chance.
One of those granted relief was Tim Tyler, who at 25 was sentenced to life in federal prison for possession with intent to deliver LSD as he followed the Grateful Dead. He is now set to be released on August 30, 2018, conditioned upon enrollment in residential drug treatment. Families Against Mandatory Minimums, an advocacy group, said it had been working on the Tyler family's behalf.
"We applaud the president for using the clemency power to free people who fully expected to die in prison and for shining a light on the excesses of federal drug sentencing." said Julie Stewart, the group's president.
The release dates for the inmates vary. Most are set to be released December 28.
Legal groups supporting the president's actions have formed an organization called Clemency Project 2014 that has submitted some 1,600 clemency petitions to the Justice Department's Office of the Pardon Attorney. The group said a prisoner must have served at least 10 years of his or her sentence to be considered for a commutation grant and must be a non-violent offender without significant ties to gangs or cartels. The inmate also must have demonstrated good conduct in prison while serving a sentence that likely would have been substantially lower if handed out today.
"We are looking forward to many more grants during the remaining months of President Obama's term in office," said the group's project manager, Cynthia Roseberry.
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On Twitter, reach Kevin Freking at https://twitter.com/APkfreking | https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-cuts-short-sentences-111-federal-inmates-192440202--politics.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/8e899b6896a49457ed1b647c557ab3dd4b43098870a361a3540a62698b374e6a.json | |
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] | 2016-08-29T20:50:33 | null | 2016-08-29T19:55:13 | His family confirmed his death Sunday night to the AP | https%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2Fnews%2Fgene-wilder-star-of-blazing-saddles-and-willy-wonka-and-the-chocolate-factory-dies-at-83-195513023.html%3Fref%3Dgs.json | https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/mhCg2J77aorg09medO.gLg--/aD00OTU7dz03NDQ7c209MTthcHBpZD15dGFjaHlvbg--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/1d46b0a323412ad858493f340434dbdc | en | null | Gene Wilder, Star of ‘Blazing Saddles’ and ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,’ Dies at 83 | null | null | www.yahoo.com | Gene Wilder, the blue-eyed, frazzle-haired actor who elevated panic to a comic art form in frequent collaboration with Mel Brooks (The Producers, Young Frankenstein) and Richard Pryor (Silver Streak, Stir Crazy), died on Sunday in Stamford, Conn., from complications from Alzheimer’s disease. His family confirmed the news to the AP. Wilder was 83.
Wilder perhaps is most fondly remembered as the captivating candy man and “Pure Imagination” crooner of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
Blazing Saddles, helmed by Brooks and co-written by Brooks and Pryor, and Bonnie and Clyde are two other classics among Wilder’s roughly three dozen TV and film credits.
Though associated with funnymen Brooks and Pryor — he worked on three movies in all with Brooks and co-starred opposite Pryor in four — Wilder was quietly adamant that he was not a comic.
“I am really not — except in a comedy film,” Wilder said in 2013.
Maybe because others perceived him as an actor first as well, Wilder was the rare comedy star who was made welcome at the grownup table. He was twice nominated for an Oscar: a Best Supporting Actor nod for The Producers and a screenplay nod for his and Brooks’s Young Frankenstein.
Wilder was previously married to Saturday Night Live star Gilda Radner, and in the wake of her death in 1989, he became a leading proponent of ovarian cancer screening and research. He’s survived by his fourth wife, Karen Webb.
Born Jerome Silberman on June 11, 1933, in Milwaukee, the future star became a comic actor almost from the start — and for a tragic reason: His mother suffered from heart disease, and since it was feared stress would kill her, laughter was demanded. Wilder, who went on to be one of the screen’s leading neurotics, would trace his own neuroses to the experience.
“My mother was suffering every day of her life, and what right did I have to be happy if she was suffering?” Wilder told the Washington Post in 2005. “So whenever I got happy about something, I felt the need to cut it off, and the only way to cut it off was to pray. ‘Forgive me, Lord.’ For what, I didn’t know.”
Wilder’s mother survived into his early 20s; she died, as Radner would decades later, of ovarian cancer. By the time of his mother’s death, Wilder was already a veteran actor, having been drawn to the stage as a teen. His early life took the familiar course of the draft-era young man: college (University of Iowa, then England’s Bristol Old Vic Theatre), then the Army, then back to civilian life. The former Jerome Silberman marked his return with a new name: Gene, depending on the source, chosen either in honor of a Thomas Wolfe character or his late mother, Jeanne; Wilder, for the author Thornton Wilder.
Wilder began to appear on the Broadway stage in the early 1960s. The 1963 play Mother Courage and Her Children paired him with Anne Bancroft and brought him into the orbit of her then-boyfriend Mel Brooks.
Four years later, in 1967, and a few months after he’d made his film debut in Bonnie and Clyde, Wilder starred in Brooks’s The Producers. (Because the future classic was a slow starter, to put it mildly, The Producers was not released in New York and Los Angeles until 1968.)
In Bonnie and Clyde and The Producers, Wilder played mild-mannered types driven to hyperventilation by bank robbers (the former) and a scheming Broadway impresario (the latter). The parts arguably were his destiny: “When God saw Gene Wilder,” Brooks was quoted as saying, “He said, ‘That is prey. And we’ll put him on Earth and everybody will chase him and have some fun.'”
In his mid-30s, and amid the “New Hollywood” revolution, Wilder was suddenly a leading man. He was not, however, suddenly everywhere, in everything.
“I was always very selective,” Wilder said of his movie choices. “No, selective isn’t the right word.”
“Egomaniacal,” he decided, was what he was looking for.
For the choosy Wilder, Willy Wonka, a musical rendering of the Roald Dahl children’s book about greed, chocolate, and one good kid, was just his fifth film. At the time of its release, in 1971, and for a few years after, it was portrayed as a flop because, box-office-wise, it was. For a time, even Wilder spoke of Willy Wonka as being one of the films that “ended” the first part of his movie career. | https://www.yahoo.com/news/gene-wilder-star-of-blazing-saddles-and-willy-wonka-and-the-chocolate-factory-dies-at-83-195513023.html?ref=gs | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.yahoo.com/41a8255737c0d92cae38bf45f4d98ca5ad07a0b787c139c902fd7447f43783e3.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T14:49:17 | null | 2016-08-30T15:38:59 | Rain robbed frustrated Stanton Elks of a golden chance to strengthen their position at the top of Division Six North in the Derbyshire County League. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk%2Fsport%2Flocal-sport%2Frain-halts-stanton-elks-charge-towards-league-title-1-8096225.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/webimage/1.8096224.1472567918!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Rain halts Stanton Elks’ charge towards league title | null | null | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk | Rain robbed frustrated Stanton Elks of a golden chance to strengthen their position at the top of Division Six North in the Derbyshire County League.
Travelling to take on relegation-threatened Darley Dale 2nd, Elks were in firm control after reducing their hosts to 132-9.
But then heavy rain began to fall, and it wasn’t long before the match had to be abandoned, leaving the Stanton outfit with just ten points. With two to play, they now head the table by 18 points from second-placed Stainsby Hall, who have a game in hand.
Darley were asked to bat first and although Scott Law bowled an economical spell, conceding only 13 runs from 11 overs, it proved to be a day for the slow bowlers as far as wickets were concerned. Matt Winfield removed both openers for fine figures of 2-27 from 14 overs, but the star turn was Tom Henshaw, who removed the next five batsmen and ended up with 5-41 from 13 overs.
Tom Lockhart also weighed in with 2-26 from six overs, and the only Darley Dale batsmen to offer much resistance were Kevin Thompson with 29 and two players who hit 25, George Riley and Matthew Heath.
This Saturday, Elks are without a fixture, but they return to action on Sunday when entertaining mid-table West Hallam White Rose at The Stute.
THE weather also brought a premature halt to Stanton Elks 2nd’s match in Division Nine North at home to Belper Amateurs.
But not before an alarming batting collapse by the hosts, which did little to quell their relegation fears.
Getting off to a fast start, openers Joe Bird (43) and skipper Mark Aldred (47) put on 72 in 14 overs for the first wicket before Bird was bowled, having hit six boundaries.
However, Belper then introduced leg-spinner Pip Nightingale and although he’d enjoyed little success previously this season, he suddenly popped up with a hat-trick with the first three balls of his fifth over.
Chris Marshall helped Aldred arrest the slide, but after the latter had been caught, the visitors’ opening bowler Mark Green returned to the fray to take the next three wickets to fall, including Marshall for 29 (one six and three fours).
As the skies darkened and the thunder started to strike, Elks lost a ninth wicket too before the rain came and time was called with the board reading 149-9 from 37.2 overs. Green’s final figures were 3-18 from six overs, while Nightingale finished with 3-35 from 12 overs.
This Saturday, Elks travel to bottom-of-the-table Calow. | http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/sport/local-sport/rain-halts-stanton-elks-charge-towards-league-title-1-8096225 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/0a7ffcf08148d1f343cc139f37b692f2301001df0ece2f73d0654f5c06aa3bd8.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:10:11 | null | 2016-08-25T08:15:35 | A fund has been set up to help the family of a Derbyshire woman killed in a | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Ffund-to-help-family-of-derbyshire-backpacker-killed-in-australian-knife-attack-1-8087247.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/webimage/1.8087246.1472109406!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Fund to help family of Derbyshire backpacker killed in Australian knife attack | null | null | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk | A fund has been set up to help the family of a Derbyshire woman killed in a 'frenzied attack' while backpacking.
Mia Ayliffe-Chung, from Wirksworth, died after being stabbed at the Shelley's Backpackers hostel in Home Hill, near Townsville, Queensland, at around 11.15pm local time on Tuesday, August 23.
French national Smail Ayad, 29, has been charged with her murder, as well as two other counts of attempted murder, 12 counts of serious assault and one count of serious animal cruelty.
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Friends of the young woman have set up the crowdfunding page to support her family at this painful time, and have already raised over £3,000 of their £5,000 target.
Judith Ryan said on JustGiving: "Following the horrific murder of Mia in Australia yesterday we would like to offer some kind of assistance to Rosie and the rest of Mia's family with any expenses that may come up so please, even if it is just a couple of pounds, lets try and help."
Mia's family paid tribute to the 'amazing young woman with an adventurous spirit'.
In a statement on behalf of Mia's mother Rosie Ayliffe, her partner Stewart Cormack said: "Mia was full of the kind of open-minded compassion for life that you don't see that often. It felt as though she was reminding us all of the beauty and possibilities we each have that we should live life to the full.
"Mia was a rare person who saw beyond race, creed and belief. She would always treat others with dignity, respect and kindness.
"As a peaceful person Mia had huge respect for everybody. She would not want to be the reason for any hostilities caused by any misrepresentations of the events."
Her sister, Nicola Chung, said from their father Howard Chung-Yep's London home: "She was bubbly, carefree and had trained to be a nanny because she loved children."
Scarthin Books, where Mia worked in Cromford between her studies, paid tribute to her on Facebook. A post read: “We're all deeply shocked and saddened to learn of the tragic death of Mia, who had worked in the bookshop cafe during her studies as a high school pupil and as a college and university student. She was a much-loved and highly respected young woman and our thoughts go out to her family and many, many heartbroken friends. We feel immensely privileged to have known and worked with her.”
Police said the young woman - a former Chesterfield College and Buxton & Leek College student - received multiple stab wounds, and a post-mortem examination is due to be conducted today.
Sources have suggested Mia was dragged from her bed by Ayed - a kickboxer who is said to have been obsessed with Mia, and reacted when he found out her feelings were not mutual.
Popular young woman missed by so many friends
Mia went to Anthony Gell School in Wirksworth and Ecclesbourne School in Duffield. She had studied a course in childcare at Buxton & Leek College and is believed to have been travelling in Bali before visiting Australia for the second time in a year.
Head of Pastoral Care at Anthony Gell School in Wirksworth, Paul Lovett, said: “Everyone at the school is shocked and saddened at the news that Mia has lost her life in the most tragic of circumstances. We knew Mia as a student with so much joy and energy who was well-liked by her friends and teachers.
“She joined our school in Year 9 and flourished here both in making strong friendships and in achieving high level GCSEs. Mia was a bubbly student who was energetic, caring and who immersed herself in life, enriching the school environment she contributed to. Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this most difficult of times.”
Rachel McVeigh, Childcare leader at Buxton & Leek College, said: “Mia studied Childcare and Education at Buxton & Leek College from 2012 – 2014. She was a bright and hardworking young lady, whose bubbly personality and sense of humour endeared her to everyone she encountered. Mia had a zest for life and was free spirited, with a keen desire to travel. We are devastated and extremely sorry to hear such tragic news. Our thoughts are with her family and friends.”
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said: "We are working with local authorities and providing support to the families of a British national who was killed and another critically injured in an incident in Australia. Our thoughts are with the family at this difficult time”.
Visit JustGiving's site here to donate in support of Mia's family. | http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/news/local/fund-to-help-family-of-derbyshire-backpacker-killed-in-australian-knife-attack-1-8087247 | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/dc45edb23d48c4af2479f50dc8d855600727f154df867b4d9ddaa11fab3f93fd.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T12:47:50 | null | 2016-08-30T12:00:14 | End the summer with the sound of Oasis, The Stone Roses, U2, Coldplay, The Rolling Stones and more at the Big Fake Festival at Thoresby Park. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk%2Fwhat-s-on%2Fout-about%2Ftop-tributes-are-at-festival-1-8090278.json | http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/what-s-on/out-about/top-tributes-are-at-festival-1-8090278 | en | null | Top tributes are at festival | null | null | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk | End the summer with the sound of Oasis, The Stone Roses, U2, Coldplay, The Rolling Stones and more at the Big Fake Festival at Thoresby Park.
Featuring some of the UK’s best tribute bands, the three-day event is now in its third year and is the culmination of a summer of Fake Festivals all around the UK that has included shows in Retford and Thoresby earlier this month.
The action gets underway on Friday, September 2 with Queen tribute Flash, The Fillers (The Killers), Antarctic Monkeys (Arctic Monkeys), Coldplace (Coldplay), The Total Stone Roses (Stone Roses), Green Date (Green Day) and AladdinSane (David Bowie).
The line-up for Saturday, September 3 is led by Prodigy tribute Jilted Generation, along with Oasish (Oasis), Four Fighters (Foo Fighters), Kazabian (Kasabian), Blondied (Blondie), The Really Hot Chili Peppers (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and Stereotonics (Stereophonics).
On the final day, Sunday, September 4, the bill is led by The Stones (Rolling Stones) with Bon Jovi Experience (Bon Jovi), New2 (U2), The Jam’d (The Jam), Musest (Muse) and Kings of Lyon (Kings of Leon).
Jez Lee, Fake Festivals owner, said: “We have had a phenomenal year on the tour, with nearly all the festival dates being sold out.
“The wet weather at the start of the season didn’t seem to deter festival-goers, with crowds reaching maximum capacity in the marquee.”
“As a ‘thank you’ to those who have supported us on this year’s tour, if you enter a valid ticket code from a previous Fake Festival, we will discount your ticket to The Big Fake Festival by a massive 50 per cent.
“This makes the three days even more affordable so everyone can join in the party.”
Camping is available for less than £100 for all three days.
For tickets go to www.fakefestivals.co.uk and click on The Big Fake Festival.
If you can’t find your ticket from previous years, don’t worry as Fake Festivals will be emailing everyone who purchased tickets through their website with their ticket codes as a reminder.
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[] | 2016-08-30T16:48:56 | null | 2016-08-30T16:17:03 | American actor Gene Wilder has died at the age of 83. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Flegend-gene-wilder-s-greatest-on-screen-moments-1-8096329.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/webimage/1.8095707.1472570203!/image/image.jpg | en | null | LEGEND: Gene Wilder’s greatest on-screen moments | null | null | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk | American actor Gene Wilder has died at the age of 83.
Famous for his collaborations with actor/comedian Richard Pryor and director Mel Brooks, Wilder was perhaps best known for his performance as the titular character in 1971’s Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
Before that he had starred in Brooks’ Broadway spoof The Producers, for which he was Oscar nominated and went on to become one of the biggest comedy actors of the 70s and 80s.
He worked again with Brooks on the likes of Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein - earning another Oscar nod - and teamed up to huge success with Pryor for Silver Streak, Stir Crazy and See No Evil, Hear No Evil.
As tributes from co-stars, celebrity fans and ordinary cinema-goers poured in from around the world, pop culture blog i09 put together this compilation of some of Wilder’s greatest on-screen moments. | http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/news/local/legend-gene-wilder-s-greatest-on-screen-moments-1-8096329 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/b9fd42a64ef2618b6e8f0b3f358781f1a72d0bfeaf5329ead33096dc21a0a0c5.json |
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] | 2016-08-31T14:49:28 | null | 2016-08-31T13:59:15 | For anyone who has found the whole process of internet shopping too much like hard work Amazon has come up with a solution. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Famazon-dash-lets-you-order-your-loo-roll-at-the-touch-of-a-button-1-8098147.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/webimage/1.8097633.1472648331!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Amazon Dash lets you order your loo roll at the touch of a button | null | null | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk | For anyone who has found the whole process of internet shopping too much like hard work Amazon has come up with a solution.
The online retailer today revealed that it is introducing its Amazon Dash Buttons to the UK.
The dinky little gadgets are a one-touch way to order a host of popular products without all that complicated rigmarole of actually logging onto your Amazon account and searching for them.
The Dash Buttons are literally that, small plastic boxes housing a button, which when pressed will connect via wi-fi to your Amazon account and using one-click buying order your selected products.
Each button is linked to a particular item and there are 40 brands available from launch so you can get everything from cat food to condoms and nappies to NERF ammunition delivered to your door.
Daniel Rausch, director of Amazon Dash, explained the thinking behind the devices: “We’ve all experienced the frustration of running out of something we need - Dash Button and Dash Replenishment Service are designed to make that moment a thing of the past.
“Dash Buttons offer the convenience of one-click shopping from anywhere in the home - they can be placed near those frequently used items you don’t want to run out of, and when you see supplies running low, the Dash Button makes it easier than ever to order more. Just press the button and your item is on its way.”
The £4.99 devices are only available to Amazon Prime customers, which means you’ll have to sign up to the £79-a-year service to enjoy the Dash Button’s convenience. The good news is that you’ll get £4.99 back off your first order of each product.
Alongside the buttons, Amazon also announced the UK rollout of its Dash Replenishment Service.
Like the button this links to your Amazon account but rather than having to do the ordering yourself it allows connected smart devices to order supplies themselves.
This means the likes of washing machines, dishwashers and printers from big-name brands including Bosch, Samsung, Whirlpool and Siemens can monitor your consumables usage and order more before you run out.
If they could just design a button that remotely loads the dishwasher too, they could be onto a winner. | http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/news/local/amazon-dash-lets-you-order-your-loo-roll-at-the-touch-of-a-button-1-8098147 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/916c978182fd82fd11c9b49c74c85afa59d53bdd712080589f44d88b260e5921.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:08:38 | null | 2016-08-26T12:00:08 | Director of the Ilkeston Academy of Voice and Piano, Dale Forbes-Sutherland, has been honoured by the Royal Society of Arts and elected by the board as a Fellow. He said: “Being born and bred in Ilkeston I have witnessed and experienced the social challenges over the years and I am so honoured and excited to bring the ethos of the RSA closer to home. My mission is to create and develop music education in Ilkeston and make it accessible to all who want to learn to sing or play the piano.” | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fhonour-for-ilkeston-music-tutor-1-8082758.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/webimage/1.8082757.1471881311!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Honour for Ilkeston music tutor | null | null | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk | Cookies are small data files which are sent to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) from a website you visit. They are stored on your electronic device.
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:03:28 | null | 2016-08-26T11:07:05 | Ilkeston will finally begin their Evo-Stik Premier Division campaign at home to Ashton United tomorrow after the Northern Premier League lifted their suspension from all footballing activity. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk%2Fsport%2Flocal-sport%2Fbreaking-ilkeston-fc-have-suspension-lifted-by-northern-premier-league-1-8090452.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/webimage/1.8090504.1472215050!/image/image.jpg | en | null | BREAKING: Ilkeston FC have suspension lifted by Northern Premier League | null | null | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk | Ilkeston will finally begin their Evo-Stik Premier Division campaign at home to Ashton United tomorrow after the Northern Premier League lifted their suspension from all footballing activity.
The NPL enforced the punishment a fortnight ago after claiming Ilkeston had ‘breached rules and regulations.’
The suspension related to non-payment of footballing creditors but the club has told the Advertiser that these debts have now been settled, and at a meeting of NPL officials on Thursday morning it was agreed that the suspension should be lifted with immediate effect.
The Robins will, however, still have to face a league panel next Wednesday to answer charges of failing to fulfil four fixtures, despite the suspension being in place at the time.
Robins skipper Matt Baker says the players are now raring to go for the Ashton game.
He said: “We’re really excited to get going now having had to wait so long. Now it’s all sorted we can get back to doing what we want to do which is play football.
“It’s been frustrating at times as obviously we want to play but we’ve been assured all the time that the club is in a good position and that there’s nothing to worry about, so we’ve always been focused on working hard in training and keeping our fitness levels up and being ready for whenever the first game would be.
“Everyone’s still positive and there’s no negativity about the place, we’re all just looking forward to playing.
“We know it’ll be a tough game against Ashton as it always is but we’re hoping to blow the cobwebs away and put a good performance in.”
Ilkeston last played an official match against Belper Town in a pre-season friendly on Saturday, August 6, so haven’t kicked a ball in a proper match environment for three weeks, but Baker doesn’t feel a lack of match practice will be a major problem against a side who are already four games into their campaign.
He added: “We’re all fit and ready and we’re all young lads so it shouldn’t be an issue.
“There’s no excuses tomorrow if we don’t perform, it will be our fault, not down to a lack of training or anything like that. Everybody seems fit in training so should be ready.”
Following the Ashton game, Ilkeston will quickly be in action again away at Matlock Town on Bank Holiday Monday with a 3pm start. | http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/sport/local-sport/breaking-ilkeston-fc-have-suspension-lifted-by-northern-premier-league-1-8090452 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/edebffb1128a64ef0a0aec319c3c3cbf9172fd8873cdf23145bd998b66c6ae4b.json |
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] | 2016-08-27T16:48:22 | null | 2016-08-27T16:59:48 | Ilkeston’s season belatedly got underway at the New Manor Ground on Saturday but Ashton United were in no mood to ease them in gently. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk%2Fsport%2Flocal-sport%2Fmatch-report-ilkeston-fc-0-ashton-united-2-1-8092501.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/webimage/1.8092557.1472315389!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Match report: Ilkeston FC 0 Ashton United 2 | null | null | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk | Ilkeston’s season belatedly got underway at the New Manor Ground on Saturday but Ashton United were in no mood to ease them in gently.
The Tamesiders went away with all three points as Ilkeston failed to stamp any real authority on the match, and although Robins boss Paul Holland was keen not to allow any excuses before this game, the lack of match practice inevitably proved a key factor in them losing it.
Ashton played well and deserved the three points, Ilkeston in particular lacking much prowess in the attacking third and creativity in midfield.
But given recent events this was always going to be a tough task for Holland’s men to take on, and there were still signs throughout that once their sharpness has improved and perhaps more additions to the team have arrived, points won’t be too long in coming.
Indeed, Ilkeston began well and good interplay between Luis Rose and Mark Shelton on the edge of the penalty area ended with Rose shooting low at keeper Paul Phillips in the third minute.
Hesitancy at the back from Robins defender Jak Kenworthy then gave Lee Gaskell the chance to try and lob keeper Ross Durrant but his effort dropped just wide, the visitors starting to enjoy the better of the possession in the early stages.
One of seven Ilkeston debutants, Anton Brown, then had an opening 12 minutes in but was tackled as he got his shot in and that allowed the ball to roll into Phillips’ hands; half-hearted appeals for a penalty being ignored by the officials although it looked a mis-timed challenge.
After a quiet few minutes with neither side creating many chances, a good move saw Ashton’s Adam Mather break into the box but both of his attempted shots were blocked by Durrant.
Rose was close again from 25 yards and seemed to be the Ilkeston player most likely to make something happen, although on 32 minutes the opener nearly came from an unlikely source.
Rory Coleman floated a corner in from the left and Luke Foster’s header was deflected onto the crossbar by defender Tunji Moses who was stood on the goalline, the ball then cleared from danger.
Gaskell then miscued a good chance wide at the other end as the two sides continued to give as good as they got.
The woodwork shook again four minutes before the break, Ashton’s Chris Baguley’s free-kick from the inside left channel looking destined for the top corner of the net but the crossbar intervened.
The opening goal eventually came as the clock ticked over to 45 minutes and as the rain teemed down. The ball was worked into the penalty area by Ashton and when Gaskell’s shot was parried by Durrant, Mark Lees was left with the easy task of finding the net from a couple of yards out.
After a slow start to the second-half, Baguley placed a shot just wide of the post for Ashton on 58 minutes, but their second goal would follow three minutes later.
Coleman fouled Jack Dorney out on the right and Baguley’s free-kick was headed in by skipper Jason Gorton when Durrant came out but didn’t get there in time. Gorton was then booked for a fracas that followed after the goal.
That left Ilkeston a considerable mountain to climb. Dwyer found the hands of Phillips on 69 and Shelton did similar moments later, but Ilkeston were lacking any real quality in front of goal and much in the way of creativity to help them.
Dwyer was doing his best, a skilful run down the right ending with a ball across goal with which sub Ben Morris was inches from connecting.
But that would be as close as they got to registering as Ashton saw the game out well, Ilkeston left to try and recover in time for the short trip to Matlock on Bank Holiday Monday.
Ilkeston: 1 Ross Durrant, 2 Jak Kenworthy, 3 Rory Coleman, 4 Danny Gordon (Dexter Atkinson 53), 5 Matt Baker (c), 6 Luke Foster, 7 Luis Rose 8 Mark Shelton 9 Anthony Dwyer 10 Anton Brown, 11 Haydn Goddard (Ben Morris 65)
Subs not used: Connor Walters, Ryan Head, Reid Owen
Ashton: 1 Paul Phillips, 2 Richard Smith (Ryan Crowther 77), 3 Adam Mather, 4 Jason Gorton (c), 5 Alex Frost, 6 Tunji Moses (Cavell Coo 57), 7 Jack Dorney, 8 Mark Lees, 9 Daniel Wilkins, 10 Lee Gaskell, 11 Chris Baguley (Joe Connor 70)
Subs not used: Stephen Mason, Jody Banim
Att: 373
Star Robin: Anthony Dwyer | http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/sport/local-sport/match-report-ilkeston-fc-0-ashton-united-2-1-8092501 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/3041df1b68f8a3a0b4588e0f1d554bb26ccb1d4b84f26b61bf37eb386bd3b3e4.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T06:47:08 | null | 2016-08-28T06:00:00 | Izzy, wizzy, Sooty is getting busy conjuring up a fantastic treat for all the family. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk%2Fwhat-s-on%2Fwin-sooty-trio-puppets-and-show-tickets-1-8085259.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/webimage/1.8085258.1472021555!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Win Sooty trio puppets and show tickets | null | null | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk | Izzy, wizzy, Sooty is getting busy conjuring up a fantastic treat for all the family.
The lovable puppet and pals Sweep, Soo and CITV’s Richard Cadell will bring a magic show to Buxton Opera House on the morning of September 10.
The show includes Mel Harvey and his singalong session, magician Tim Bat and twinkle-toed magic man Dion Van Rijt.
That night the International Stars of Magic and Variety will light up the Opera House at 7.30pm. American magician David Kaplan will bring together illusion, juggling and comedy, there will be a magic laser show by Visualize, illusion fom Hungarian act Veres and Alana from Germany will make you wonder just how many hands does she have.
The shows are part of the 80th British Ring Annual Magic Convention.
Tickets for Sooty and Friends Magic Show are £12 (adult), £9 (child) and £28-£38 (family). Tickets for International Stars of Magic and Variety are priced £18.50-£20.50 with £3 off for children.
We have Sooty, Sweep and Soo puppets to give away and four tickets for their show on September 10 at 10.30am.
Tell us who originally created Sooty. Email your answer with contact details, marking Sooty in subject line to: gay.bolton@jpress.co.uk. Entries close on September 5. | http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/what-s-on/win-sooty-trio-puppets-and-show-tickets-1-8085259 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/e2bf657cc3bbe660cad6d123d21473ae3ed1c63efb89ebf3ab048a66afca6535.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T14:46:56 | null | 2016-08-27T14:12:11 | There will be plenty of free fantastic fun for the family on Saturday, September 3, when Nottingham Playhouse holds its Open Day, between 12noon-3pm. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk%2Fwhat-s-on%2Fout-about%2Fopen-day-at-nottingham-playhouse-1-8078779.json | http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/what-s-on/out-about/open-day-at-nottingham-playhouse-1-8078779 | en | null | Open day at Nottingham Playhouse | null | null | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk | There will be plenty of free fantastic fun for the family on Saturday, September 3, when Nottingham Playhouse holds its Open Day, between 12noon-3pm.
Take a peek behind the scenes at the successful city centre venue.
To celebrate the start of the autumn season at the Playhouse, there will be an afternoon of free activites and eye-opening behind-the-scenes events for all ages.
There will be live music, arts and crafts, performance poetry, drama workshops, special effect, make up and much much more.
Organisers are confident this will be a great family-oriented event for all to enjoy.
Some events require reservation in advance, so make sure you give theteam a call at the Nottingham Playhouse box office on 0115 9419419.
Alternatively, you can check out more details at www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk
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[] | 2016-08-30T18:47:54 | null | 2016-08-30T19:00:37 | A local history lectures in aid of the John Eastwood Hospice, is to be given by Denis Hill, taking place on September 3, at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Southridge Drive, Mansfield, at 11am. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk%2Fwhat-s-on%2Fout-about%2Fjobs-in-the-spotlight-for-history-lecture-1-8094618.json | http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/what-s-on/out-about/jobs-in-the-spotlight-for-history-lecture-1-8094618 | en | null | Jobs in the spotlight for history lecture | null | null | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk | A local history lectures in aid of the John Eastwood Hospice, is to be given by Denis Hill, taking place on September 3, at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Southridge Drive, Mansfield, at 11am.
This lecture is entitled Old and Curious Occupations. Over the centuries, we have seen many old and curious occupations disappear. Some have been soaked up by our factories, wothers have either gone abroad or been reduced to curious crafts only to be seen at country fairs or special events.
This illustrated talk takes a look at 60 old occupations in 60 minutes.
Some of them, you will be familiar with, while others you may never have heard of. Denis Hill will take a look at occupations from a wide period of time, from the mediaeval period right up to living memory.
Some of those occupations may have only been part time for a small number of people, while others employed tens of thousands of people. The names of some occupations cause quite a bit of amusement.
In many cases the audience will be given the opportunity to have a guess at what a person did before the answer is revealed, which causes quite a bit of amusement. You will certainly end with a lot of curious facts that you will be able to tease your family and friends with.
Denis Hill has lived and worked in and around Mansfield all his life and has spent most of his working career in heritage related jobs, including lecturing in adult education, mentoring others in research projects and supporting community groups with their local heritage projects.
He has obtained a Masters degree in Local and Regional History and has written many articles relating to the local heritage of Mansfield and area. He has been speaking to local groups since 1984.
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[] | 2016-08-26T12:55:01 | null | 2016-08-25T06:00:00 | Witty songs, romantic ballads and rousing choruses feature in the evergreen light opera classic Merrie England. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk%2Fwhat-s-on%2Fmerrie-england-promises-a-lively-weekend-for-opera-fans-1-8050571.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/webimage/1.8050569.1470305308!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Merrie England promises a lively weekend for opera fans | null | null | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk | Witty songs, romantic ballads and rousing choruses feature in the evergreen light opera classic Merrie England.
Derbyshire’s Present Company will perform Sir Edward German’s patriotic piece in Buxton over the August bank holiday weekend.
The work is set in Windsor where townsfolk are gathering for the crowning of the May Queen and a visit from a real monarch, Queen Elizabeth I.
Murder plots and tales of witchcraft unravel to the background of the May Day revels.
The production includes Raleigh’s ballad, The Perfect English Rose; Queen Elizabeth’s song, O Peaceful England which often features in Last Night of the Proms and The Yeomen of England.
Performances of Merrie England take place at Buxton Opera House on Saturday, August 27 at 2.30pm and 7.30pm and on Monday, August 29, at 3pm. Tickets £14-£19. Contact 01298 72190 or www.buxtonoperahouse.org.uk | http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/what-s-on/merrie-england-promises-a-lively-weekend-for-opera-fans-1-8050571 | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/1baf40bdc05417dea3e3a2bcb543ac3c875f6bc34c1560c1dd9ae416abeb6f80.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T08:47:57 | null | 2016-08-27T08:27:05 | The Met Office has issued a weather warning for heavy rain later today (Saturday), potentially leading to some travel disruption. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fweather-warning-heavy-and-thundery-showers-for-east-midlands-1-8092144.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/webimage/1.8000628.1472282807!/image/image.jpg | en | null | WEATHER WARNING: Heavy and thundery showers for East Midlands | null | null | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk | The Met Office has issued a weather warning for heavy rain later today (Saturday), potentially leading to some travel disruption.
The yellow alert comes into force at 11am today (Saturday), covering Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, and remains valid until 9am on Sunday.
After a dry and cloudy start, showers will spread into much off the region, potentially turning heavy and thundery.
The Met Office has warned there could be the risk of local disruption to transport and outdoor activities.
“Thundery showers are likely to move northwards into some southern parts of England during Saturday morning, becoming more widespread and heavy over central UK through the course of Saturday and overnight into Sunday morning,” they said.
“There remains a lot of uncertainty in where the heaviest and most prolonged thundery showers will occur, with some places having only small amounts of rain. However, there is a risk of some locally large rainfall totals, with 25 to 50 mm of rain possible in places.” | http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/news/local/weather-warning-heavy-and-thundery-showers-for-east-midlands-1-8092144 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/4c50e11ad3d7f1dff9ac98210df854b56a4c3a41222893c593f2d9063b2f5c7b.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:05:15 | null | 2016-08-26T09:45:12 | Arsene Wenger will splash out more than £50million before the transfer deadline on centre half Shkodran Mustafi and striker Lucas Perez, report the Daily Mail. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk%2Fnews%2Ftransfer-rumours-arsenal-to-spend-big-and-joe-hart-keen-to-drum-up-liverpool-interest-1-8090190.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/webimage/1.8090187.1472201094!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Transfer rumours: Arsenal to spend big and Joe Hart keen to drum up Liverpool interest | null | null | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk | Arsene Wenger will splash out more than £50million before the transfer deadline on centre half Shkodran Mustafi and striker Lucas Perez, report the Daily Mail.
The paper reports the Arsene Wenger has had bids accepted on both players.
England goalkeeper Joe Hart is looking to clinch a move to Liverpool by taking a big pay cut, report the Sun.
The Guardian say West Ham have agreed a €28m (£24m) fee with Juventus for Simone Zaza, with the Italy striker set to fly to England on Friday for his medical after agreeing personal terms. Southampton defender Jose Fonte looks set to stay at the club and reject interest from Manchester United after holding one-on-one talks with Saints chairman Ralph Krueger to discuss his future. (Metro)
Manchester United midfielder Juan Mata wants to stay at Old Trafford despite not being guaranteed a starting role under manager Jose Mourinho, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Chelsea forward Patrick Bamford is expected to agree a season-long loan with Burnley on Friday. (Daily Mail) | http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/news/transfer-rumours-arsenal-to-spend-big-and-joe-hart-keen-to-drum-up-liverpool-interest-1-8090190 | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/ce66af8c5613d1e93fc5024e787b2cfa5825708b21c9a3fa4dc49e57a9205cc4.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:03:49 | null | 2016-08-22T14:01:46 | Ilkeston CEO Nigel Harrop says the club’s situation is still ‘too delicate’ for him to comment, despite facing league charges for failing to fulfill fixtures. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk%2Fsport%2Flocal-sport%2Ffrustration-and-optimism-at-ilkeston-as-they-re-hit-by-fresh-league-charges-1-8082295.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/webimage/1.8082294.1471870892!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Frustration and optimism at Ilkeston as they’re hit by fresh league charges | null | null | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk | Ilkeston CEO Nigel Harrop says the club’s situation is still ‘too delicate’ for him to comment, despite facing league charges for failing to fulfill fixtures.
The New Manor Ground outfit were suspended by the Northern Premier League before the start of the season due to a breach of licensing rules regarding the payment of creditors.
A statement released by the league today confirmed that the club will face fresh charges because their first three games of the new season have not taken place.
And the club are yet to provide evidence that they have paid creditors.
It read: “The club’s licence was suspended following charges brought as a result of breaches of league Rule 40/Appendix F, a breach of rule 11 in relation to Football Creditors and a breach of licensing regulation 1.4. The club pleaded guilty to all charges.
“As a result of this suspension, in accordance with licensing regulation 1.6, “… the Club cannot participate in the Competition … until the expiry of seven days from the day of the default is remedied, unless otherwise agreed by the Competition. If the Competition refuse or withdraw a Licence then that club cannot participate in the Competition”.
“In order for the league’s board to review this decision, supporting evidence relating to payments made are required from the club. To date, none has been received despite several requests.”
“Consequently, the club’s licence remains suspended and, in accordance with FA rules, Ilkeston FC, has therefore been charged under league rule 8.6 with three counts of failing to fulfill a fixture.”
Rule 8.6 states that any Club failing to fulfill an engagement to play a competition match on the appointed date shall for each offence be liable to expulsion from the Competition and/or such other disciplinary action the Board may determine.
The charges will be heard by a League Panel next Wednesday.
Ilkeston released a statement late last week in which they claimed the problem was not one of their making and they were bound by legal issues from going into detail.
That remains the case according to Mr Harrop.
“It’s too delicate for me to comment to the press,” he said.
With tomorrow night’s game against Spennymoor Town listed as postponed on the league website, Mr Harrop says he’s ‘very optimistic’ that Ilkeston will get their season underway on Saturday when they’re due to host Ashton United.
First team manager Paul Holland admits he’s frustrated by the situation, but insists he has had no second thoughts about his position or his future at the club.
“I’m very frustrated but the lads have shown a first class attitude and I’m trying to keep away from everything and just preparing them for the next game, whenever that comes along.
“The lads are raring to go and I’m excited for the season to start.”
And despite concerns among supporters that players may start to seek employment elsewhere due to doubts over Ilkeston’s participation in this season’s competition, Holland says he’s still managing to attract talent to the club.
“Once they announce the suspension is lifted I can announce a big signing,” he said.
“We’re just waiting for it to be lifted.
“If it gets lifted in the next 24 hours I can make two signings.
“Things are in place and sometimes when your backs are against the wall you get a lot stronger.” | http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/sport/local-sport/frustration-and-optimism-at-ilkeston-as-they-re-hit-by-fresh-league-charges-1-8082295 | en | 2016-08-22T00:00:00 | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/da6e6c32dc228e44975f055ae944877f0da4124ccede89d21a5aac57df2a8224.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T16:47:47 | null | 2016-08-26T16:53:57 | A boozed-up motorist registered just over three times the drink-drive limit after she was stopped by police following a tip-off from a member of the public. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fboozy-motorist-is-banned-from-driving-for-30-months-1-8091599.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/webimage/1.8091598.1472226820!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Boozy motorist is banned from driving for 30 months | null | null | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk | A boozed-up motorist registered just over three times the drink-drive limit after she was stopped by police following a tip-off from a member of the public.
Chesterfield magistrates’ court heard on Friday, on August 26, of Jane Louise Williamson, 56, of Northwood Avenue, Darley Dale, Matlock, was spotted by police attempting to reverse as she collided with a parked vehicle and she had slurred speech.
Prosecuting solicitor Becky Allsop said: “Police were contacted by a member of the public who reported that they had seen a drink-driver.
“Police went to the home of the keeper of the vehicle and observed an Audi TT driving on to Northwood Avenue and it attempted to reverse park but collided with a Vauxhall Astra.”
Police revealed that Williamson had slurred speech and appeared drunk, according to Mrs Allsop, and the defendant registered 123microgrammes of alcohol in 100millilitres of breath when the legal limit is 35microgrammes.
Williamson pleaded guilty to exceeding the alcohol drink-drive limit after the incident on August 7.
The probation service explained that Williamson had drunk a bottle of wine but she had felt she was okay to drive because she has a high alcohol tolerance level.
Williamson also revealed to the probation service that she drinks when she is faced with difficulties and following a family argument she had drunk to excess.
Defence solicitor Bertie Mather said: “This experience has been a massive wake-up call for Mrs Williamson and brought to the forefront the potential dangers of driving when taking alcohol.”
Mr Mather added that Williamson who works as a student support teacher at a school and works at a shop has been concerned how the offence may affect her employment.
Magistrates sentenced Williamson to a 12 month community order with a Rehabilitation Activity Requirement and an Alcohol Treatment Requirement.
She was also given a three-month curfew and ordered to pay £85 costs and an £85 victim surcharge.
Williamson was also banned from driving for 30 months.
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[] | 2016-08-31T10:49:13 | null | 2016-08-31T11:00:49 | Students at Ormiston Ilkeston Enterprise Academy were inspired to fundraise for a local hospice after a friend’s dad died due to a brain tumour. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fdad-s-tragic-death-inspires-ilkeston-students-1-8096473.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/webimage/1.8096470.1472572792!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Dad’s tragic death inspires Ilkeston students | null | null | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk | Students at Ormiston Ilkeston Enterprise Academy were inspired to fundraise for a local hospice after a friend’s dad died due to a brain tumour.
Evie Young’s dad Andrew, 52, received care from Treetops Hospice, in Risley, in the months before he died.
Treetops provides nursing care and emotional support for anyone affected by a life-limiting illness in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.
In a show of support, Evie’s friends at Ormiston Ilkeston Enterprise Academy decided they wanted to raise money for Treetops, which has to raise more than £3m every year to run.
A representative from Treetops visited the academy to talk to students about the work they do and how they could help.
Students split into two groups and were given £50 each and asked to use it to make more money.
One group held a car wash and a cake sale while the other group ran a raffle and a tombola, sold ice creams and held competitions to guess the name of the teddy and how many sweets were in a jar. The total raised by both groups was £285.76.
Evie said she was grateful to Treetops for the care they provided to her dad.
She said: “In the last few months before he died, Treetops came round and they spoke to my mum and dad and they really helped.
“They provided equipment for him and picked him up and took him to the hospice, where they would give him dinner and he would do bits of art.” | http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/news/local/dad-s-tragic-death-inspires-ilkeston-students-1-8096473 | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/df5b6bf7e0d142ee26e15bdc0867dbff6c2357293b8f894c3b1ab32525e4340b.json |
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In English and maths 72 per cent of students achieved higher grades.
Headteacher Peter Monk said: “It is easy to say ‘best-ever results’ but literally these are the best GCSE results the school has ever achieved.
“I am so proud today of the achievements of students and staff alike as it is a team approach that has led to this success.
“It is a complicated year in terms of accountability measures with both ‘new’ and ‘old’ ones in circulation.
“With regards to ‘new’ measures we are confident that our Attainment 8 score of 52.1 will be well above average and that our Progress 8 score will be a strongly positive one having applied the most recent co-efficients provided.”
Attainment 8 is the students’ average achievement across these eight subjects. From 2016, the floor standard will be based on schools’ results on the Progress 8 measure. Although Progress 8/Attainment 8 are intended to encourage students to take eight qualifications, this is not compulsory.
Mr Monk said: “With regards to ‘old’ measures, 72 per cent of students achieved higher grades in both English and mathematics and the progress data for both subjects was exceptional. Across the board, students have performed extremely well.
“The consistently high achievement in English and mathematics is particularly pleasing. At the same time, however, historically Friesland has a history of excellence in performing arts and even by their high standards drama and dance have performed extremely well this year.”
He added: “Outcomes are also especially strong in MFL, physics, computer science and vocational subjects.”
There were some exceptional individual performances like Matthew Osbiston who achieved 10 *As and one A.
Other top performers include:
Joe Futter: eight A*s and three As
Matthew White: six A*s and five As
Sam Bird: five A*s and six As
Imogen Motler: five A*s and six As
Lydia Taylor: five A*s and six As
Jessica Thompson: four A*s and seven As
Nathaniel Weerasooriya: three A*s and seven As
Lizzie Sarell: three A*s and five As
Ethan Lee: two A*s and six As
Toby Davies: two A*s and seven As
Sarah Thompson: one A* and seven As
Chris Goodall: one A* and seven As
Eleanor Goodwin: one A* and seven As
Matthew Gray: nine As and two Bs
Adam Pritchard: nine As and two Bs | http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/news/local/gcse-results-record-breaking-day-for-pupils-at-friesland-school-1-8089127 | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/04da0084ee422636a670354107d9d106d88e37f62e83110af7e4b0f881ace059.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T10:49:00 | null | 2016-08-30T11:00:59 | Staff and students have said farewell to a ‘legendary’ caretaker who served Saint John Houghton Catholic Voluntary Academy for 18 years. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Ffarewell-to-caretaker-after-18-years-at-ilkeston-school-1-8094550.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/webimage/1.8094548.1472478936!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Farewell to caretaker after 18 years at Ilkeston school | null | null | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk | Staff and students have said farewell to a ‘legendary’ caretaker who served Saint John Houghton Catholic Voluntary Academy for 18 years.
A special ‘act of worship’ involving the whole school was dedicated to David Wain, who is retiring to spend more time with his family.
Students, staff, head teacher Joan McCarthy and ex-head teacher Bernard Monaghan all paid tribute to Mr Wain.
Staff also dressed up as caretakers for the day and wore masks with Mr Wain’s face on them.
Mrs McCarthy told students and staff: “We are here to give thanks for someone who has been a tremendous servant to our school community, someone who does good for others and puts others before himself.
“There is one person who embodies the special community at Saint John Houghton and that is David Wain.
“There are no words that will describe how grateful we are and how much he will be missed and for what you have done for this community.”
Mr Monaghan, who retired from his position as head teacher at Saint John Houghton four years ago, spoke about the respect he had for Mr Wain.
He said: “It’s a real privilege to come back. I first met David Wain 16 years ago when I came for a job interview here and I got this very warm welcome from my friend here which is a hallmark to the person that he is.
“His kindness, thoughtfulness and generosity towards others is legendary.
“Staff, students, visitors, governors, bishops, priests, all receive the same welcome.
“His work ethic is second to none, I’ve never known anybody work so hard.
“He’s here first thing in the morning and last thing at night and I’ve never known him to sit down and have a cup of tea.
“David Wain is a gentleman and he is a gentle man and it’s a privilege to call him a friend.
“He will always be part of the Saint John family and I hope he enjoys the next chapter.”
Mr Monaghan also talked about how Mr Wain introduced the harvest festival to Saint John Houghton CVA.
Mr Wain thanked everyone for their tributes.
He said: “I have enjoyed every minute of being here and the send-off you have given me has been amazing. It’s wonderful to be part of this community.” | http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/news/local/farewell-to-caretaker-after-18-years-at-ilkeston-school-1-8094550 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/9763c63b3b4fa60e354bd522df4bf0e08d996bf30334605cc4b2c4c8726f77e3.json |
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[] | 2016-08-31T06:47:59 | null | 2016-08-31T06:00:22 | Derby Comic Festival will be hosted at Derby Silk Mill on Saturday, September 3. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk%2Fwhat-s-on%2Fout-about%2Fcomic-festival-set-for-derby-1-8096381.json | http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/what-s-on/out-about/comic-festival-set-for-derby-1-8096381 | en | null | Comic festival set for Derby | null | null | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk | Derby Comic Festival will be hosted at Derby Silk Mill on Saturday, September 3.
Taking place on the ground floor of the Silk Mill, the event promises to encompass a colourful spectrum of the comic book world with special guests and creators and is organised by Victor Wright, who runs the Birmingham Comics Festival.
With over 50 exhibitors scheduled to attend, the diverse range of publications, rare books, original art, plus the latest titles hot of the press, alongside convention exclusives, will ensure collectors and fans of all ages will find something to put a smile on all their faces.
And there will be a whole lot more to do besides, from getting those one-off photographs with cosplayers expected in full regalia to having your picture taken in film related vehicles.
Mohammed Suleman, director of resources at Derby Museums, said: “We’re very excited here at Derby Museums to host the first Derby Comic Festival at the Silk Mill. I’m a huge comic book fan and I can’t wait to meet all the stars and of course have my photo taken with the storm troopers!”
Vic Wright, from Comic Festival, said: “The Derby Comic Festival 2016 will be a day not to be missed visitors will have a chance to meet stars from Game of Thrones, Star Wars and Harry Potter. Blues Brothers or Batman fan? - you’ll also be able to see The Tumbler car from Batman and The Blues Brothers’ Dodge car!”
There is parking available within walking distance from the venue in Derby city centre. There will also be refreshments available to purchase at the event.
For more information please visit www.derbycomiccon.com or you can contact the organisers via email info@derbycomiccon.com
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Yorkshire's latest Radio 1 stars The Sherlocks had a muddy great time at Leeds Festival - they drew a crowd of more than 6,000 fans then camped out with them.
The Sheffield indie four piece turned down a five star hotel and proved they are a real band of the people.
After packing out the Festival Republic stage they decided to pitched a tent in one of the muddy camp sites.
360 PHOTO: Take a look around the muddy camp site where hundreds of music fans also pitched their tents at Leeds Festival - CLICK HERE.
Frontan Kiaran Crook, aged 20, revealed: "We played our set then decided to camp through the night. We had an option to go into a five star hotel, with a jacuzzi and everything, but we decided to camp.
"We just love it."
He then joked: "We ended up camping next to the Red Hot Chili Peppers- I could hear Anthony snoring.
"But no, seriously, we love it. We love a bit of mud. We just thought, we might as well have the full festival experience."
Melvin Benn, Reading and Leeds Festival boss, said: "I didn't know The Sherlocks went and pitched up in the camp site. It doesn't surprise me. It's what my kids do. They want to be in the public camp site. Anybody who thinks the VIP area is the place to be, I can tell you it's a bit more boring."
Other Yorkshire bands who played at Leeds over the weekend included Sheffield's The Wired and Liberty Ship, Leeds band Dusk, Fighting Caravans, York based Faux Pas and many more.
The Sherlocks played to over 6,000 people then camped out with fans in muddy fields at Leeds Festival.
The Sherlocks, also featuring Kiaran's brother, drummer Brandon, 23, guitarist Josh Davidson, 22, and his brother and bassist Andy, 17, recently played the biggest music festival in the world, SXSW in Austin, Texas.
They also played at Reading Festival at the weekend but said Leeds, their Yorkshire homecoming, was the highlight of their year.
Kiaran added: "Leeds Festival is really important to us. It's given us a chance to pick up new fans. We had a blast. The tent was packed. It exceeded what we thought it would be.We're going on tour next month, starting in Brighton and finishing in Stockton, with a sold out gig in Leeds.
"It would be nice to do the NME/Radio 1 stage next year, I think that's where we are heading."
The Sherlocks at Leeds Festival
Brandon added: "We are at home when playing Leeds festival. Now we need to get an album out while we've got momentum behind us."
The Sherlocks, who will record their debut album later this year, begin a 16-date UK headline tour later this week, including a sold out show at The Wardrobe in Leeds, on Tuesday, September 20.
For full dates and tickets visit thesherlocksmusic.co.uk
The Sherlocks on stage at Leeds Festival | http://www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/what-s-on/exclusive-video-leeds-festival-stars-the-sherlocks-camp-in-mud-with-fans-1-8093618 | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.ilkestonadvertiser.co.uk/60865b632a30269c9f03b737a1dce69181c07de2aaead5d9143f50f67646635d.json |
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