| Special counsel Robert Mueller delivers report marking end of investigation into Trump's campaign, Russia Posted: 22 Mar 2019 09:28 PM PDT  Robert Mueller has delivered his long-awaited report on Russian interference to AG William Barr, marking the end of an investigation that has shadowed President Trump.
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| 'We are one' says PM Ardern as New Zealand mourns with prayers, silence Posted: 22 Mar 2019 12:21 AM PDT  Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern joined about 20,000 people standing quietly at Hagley Park, in front of the Al Noor mosque where most of the victims were killed during Friday prayers last week. "New Zealand mourns with you. Ardern, who swiftly denounced the shooting as terrorism, has announced a ban on military-style semi-automatic and assault rifles.
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| 115 reported dead after attack on central Malian village Posted: 23 Mar 2019 11:05 AM PDT ![115 reported dead after attack on central Malian village]( "115 reported dead after attack on central Malian village") BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Militia fighters descended on a village in central Mali before dawn Saturday, killing at least 115 people in the latest deadly attack blamed on an ethnic militia, local authorities said.
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| Economic gloom hits world stock markets Posted: 22 Mar 2019 05:10 PM PDT  New York (AFP) - Worries about economic growth prospects hit global stock markets on Friday, causing sharp price drops on both sides of the Atlantic.
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| Mainstream media stunned as Mueller report filed with no new indictments planned Posted: 23 Mar 2019 08:22 AM PDT  The mainstream media is stunned as the Mueller report is filed with no new indictments planned.
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| The fight is not over, but Daesh no longer has land to call their own Posted: 23 Mar 2019 10:16 AM PDT  On Saturday we marked a turning point in our fight against the Daesh fanatics with the liberation of the last vestiges of land held under their brutal rule. At one point these barbaric extremists controlled territory roughly the size of the United Kingdom and had advanced to within a few miles of the gates of Baghdad. But in the last few days they have been rooted out of their last enclave along the Euphrates and their so-called caliphate destroyed. I pay tribute to all our Armed Forces and allies who have helped fight Daesh. They have hunted down this nihilistic death-cult night and day. Our RAF Tornados, Typhoons, and Reaper have struck almost 2,000 times – eliminating terrorists, overwhelming their headquarters and cutting off their supplies. It is fitting that Tornado is ending its illustrious career with this achievement. There is the work of others which should not go unrecognised. The crews who tirelessly flew our Reaper drones. Last month I announced they will now receive the Operation Shader medal, without clasp. This is the first time our Reaper crews have received such recognition. Our troops on the ground have – as part of the Coalition – also helped train some 90,000 Iraqis in everything from bridge-building to defusing bombs. We also pay tribute to the Syrian Democratic Forces, the Peshmerga and the Iraqi security forces who sustained heavy casualties to liberate 7.7 million people from Daesh's tyranny. Those British nationals who turned their back on our country to fight for Daesh made a fatal mistake. They should expect to bear the full force of the law for their actions in the country where they have committed crimes. So today we mark a major milestone but we also count the cost. Mercifully, there have been very few deaths of British and allied personnel and hostages. But we feel each one of those very keenly. Our sympathies go to their families and friends for their loss. They did not die in vain. Their bravery is to be commended for ensuring the UK's national security by tackling this threat. No-one will ever forget the damage and destruction wrought by Daesh's barbarism. Their frenzy of violence has left behind a trail of destruction: innocents sold into slavery, thousands dead, millions displaced and some of the world's greatest cultural treasures sacked. It was imperative that we acted. But we cannot say this fight is over. The terrorists are as much an evil ideology as a geographical entity. We've always known that cutting off one head of the snake could lead to others springing up elsewhere. We're painfully aware of the threat these extremists still pose whether to Iraq, the wider region or to our own shores. That's why the next phase of our campaign is well underway. The UK is helping the Iraqis rebuild their homeland so they can remain free from Daesh. It is continuing to provide vital humanitarian aid in Syria where we have already committed more than £2.7 billion. And it is continuing to champion a political settlement which, ultimately, will be the only way to achieve lasting peace in the region But, above all, it means continuing to do everything in our power, alongside the Global Coalition against Daesh, to check the spread of insurgency and draw the sting from its poisonous ideology. As I said to RUSI recently, a Global Britain must to be ready to intervene, using all the hard power at our disposal to defend the international rules-based system. And we are well placed to do that. Our Armed Forces will remain deployed in the region, to provide continuing assistance to the Syrian Democratic Forces and the Iraqi security forces against any attempt by Daesh to re-establish an active presence. We have world-class F35 stealth fighters, we have an aircraft carrier that is the most powerful surface vessel ever to leave our shores and new sophisticated equipment coming into play. Not only will we fight this evil ideology on land but in the cyber sphere where the UK heads the Global Coalition Communications Cell, working to reduce the impact of Daesh's ability to use propaganda to recruit, inspire and incite supporters. None of this will be easy. Daesh is the evil of our generation and we must be prepared to stay the course. In the past five years, our Armed Forces, alongside our allies have turned the tide. Daesh no longer has land to call their own. But we will not rest until the danger they pose to our people is ended once and for all.
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| 'Humiliated and ashamed': Paul Manafort, former Trump campaign chairman, sentenced to nearly 4 years in prison Posted: 21 Mar 2019 05:52 PM PDT Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman, must pay more than $24 million in fines and restitution. He faces more prison time next week.
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| Israeli ex-spy who helped capture Nazi mastermind Eichmann dies at 92 Posted: 23 Mar 2019 11:40 AM PDT ![Israeli ex-spy who helped capture Nazi mastermind Eichmann dies at 92]( "Israeli ex-spy who helped capture Nazi mastermind Eichmann dies at 92") Rafi Eitan, a former Israeli minister and veteran spy who led the operation to capture fugitive Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann, died on Saturday at the age of 92. "We have lost a brave fighter whose contribution to Israel's security will be taught for generations to come," President Reuven Rivlin said. Eitan died after being hospitalized in Tel Aviv, YNET news website and other Israeli media reported.
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| Indonesia's Garuda says to cancel 49-jet Boeing 737 deal after crashes Posted: 21 Mar 2019 09:35 PM PDT  Indonesia's national carrier Garuda has told Boeing it will cancel a multi-billion-dollar order for 49 Boeing 737 Max 8 jets after two fatal crashes involving the plane, in what is thought to be the first formal cancellation for the model. "We have sent a letter to Boeing requesting that the order be cancelled," Garuda spokesman Ikhsan Rosan said. "The reason is that Garuda passengers in Indonesia have lost trust and no longer have the confidence" in the plane, he said, adding that the airline was awaiting a response from Boeing.
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| IRS Loosens Tax Penalty for Millions Posted: 23 Mar 2019 08:22 AM PDT  The IRS said today that because of changes and confusion caused by the new Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, it will penalize fewer taxpayers who didn't withhold enough federal taxes in 2018. Before the rul...
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| 2020 Vision: Is Biden-Abrams the ticket for Democrats? Posted: 22 Mar 2019 11:15 AM PDT  As the former vice president bides his time, current Democratic candidates stake out policy positions.
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| Report: Sydney Aiello, who survived the Parkland high school shooting, dies by suicide Posted: 23 Mar 2019 07:41 AM PDT  Reports say Sydney Aiello was 19 and was at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School during the Parkland school shooting.
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| The Latest: Flood levels reached record in 3 towns Posted: 22 Mar 2019 02:06 PM PDT  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Latest on flooding in the Midwest (all times local):
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| Mueller Report Delivered to Attorney General Posted: 22 Mar 2019 02:13 PM PDT  Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Friday evening delivered a report to attorney general William Barr detailing his nearly two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign.Barr will now be tasked with deciding what information from the report will be made available to Congress and what will subsequently be shared with the public."I may be in a position to advise you of the special counsel's principal conclusions as soon as this weekend," Barr wrote in a letter to the leadership of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees obtained by the Associated Press.White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced shortly after the report was delivered to Barr that no White House officials had yet examined it.> The next steps are up to Attorney General Barr, and we look forward to the process taking its course. The White House has not received or been briefed on the Special Counsel's report.> > -- Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) March 22, 2019In a statement released Friday evening, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer and House speaker Nancy Pelosi called on Barr to make the report available to Congress immediately and warned him not to give the White House a "sneak preview" before doing so."It is imperative for Mr. Barr to make the full report public and provide its underlying documentation and findings to Congress," the statement read.Mueller's investigation, which began in May 2017, yielded substantial evidence of an extensive Russian influence operation designed to sway the election in Trump's favor, but the special counsel had not, as of the report's delivery to Barr, produced any evidence that anyone associated with the campaign assisted in that effort.Several dozen Russian entities and individuals, who cannot be extradited to the U.S., were indicted in a mostly symbolic gesture for their role in hacking the Democratic National Committee's servers and spreading disinformation on social media in an attempt to disrupt the 2016 election. Six Trump aides were also indicted based on evidence collected by Mueller on charges that largely resulted from their having lied to Congress and federal investigators.President Trump, who has lambasted Mueller and his team over the last two years for engaging in a partisan "witch hunt," expressed a desire for the report to be made public when speaking to reporters this week."Let people see it," Trump said. "There was no collusion. There was no obstruction. There was no nothing."While Trump has welcomed Mueller's findings, he refused to sit for an interview with investigators and provided them with written answers instead on advice of counsel.During his Senate confirmation hearing, Barr vowed to make public as much information from the report as possible, but would not agree to several lawmakers' demands that he promise to release the report in full. "The country needs a credible resolution of these issues," he said.Department of Justice guidelines require only that Mueller explain in his report to Barr why he sought, or declined to seek, criminal charges against suspects in the probe. As a result, the report may not provide a detailed accounting of his investigation akin to the one that was produced by Independent Counsel Ken Starr following his investigation into Bill Clinton.
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| Lakers G Ball fires family friend after $1.5M goes missing Posted: 23 Mar 2019 08:50 AM PDT ![Lakers G Ball fires family friend after $1.5M goes missing]( "Lakers G Ball fires family friend after $1.5M goes missing") Los Angeles Lakers guard Lonzo Ball said he no longer is working with a family friend after $1.5 million from Ball's personal and business bank accounts apparently remains missing. The second-year player told ESPN that the man, Alan Foster, "used his access to my business and personal finances to enrich himself. Foster owns 16.3 percent of the family's Big Baller Brand and also has managed the family companies.
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| Video Shows 78-Year-Old Woman Being Kicked Multiple Times on NYC Subway Posted: 22 Mar 2019 02:19 PM PDT  Authorities are searching for a man seen in cellphone video kicking a woman`s face and body several times on a train in the Bronx, police said Friday.
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| Nobody knows if NASA’s OSIRIS-REx can pull off its daring asteroid-sampling maneuver Posted: 22 Mar 2019 04:05 PM PDT  NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft first arrived at the large space rock known as Bennu late last year, and it's spent the first few months of 2019 observing its new space companion and teaching NASA more about the rock's surface. Unfortunately for NASA engineers, the asteroid's surface is nothing like what they assumed it would be, and that poses a serious challenge going forward.The OSIRIS-REx mission includes multiple objectives, with the first being the successful insertion of the spacecraft into orbit around the rock itself. NASA nailed it and things seemed to be great, or at least until scientists got a good look at Bennu's surface. As Sky & Telescope reports, it has complicated matters greatly.With limited capability to observe the asteroid from Earth or in-flight towards the rock, scientists believed the asteroid would be fairly smooth. A smooth surface would make the spacecraft's final maneuver -- and up-close-and-personal sample retrieval -- a lot less risky, but that's not what Bennu had in store.Bennu is, to put it simply, an absolute mess. The asteroid is covered in debris of all sizes, ranging from dust and small rocks to massive boulders and everything in between. This poses a massive challenge for sample collection since the spacecraft will have to avoid obstacles as it inches its way towards the space rock's surface.The plan has always been for OSIRIS-REx to remain in orbit around Bennu for around a year, making observations of its surface and relaying data and images back to its handlers on Earth. However, with its rubble-covered surface now posing a threat to its most anticipated action, NASA will need to work diligently to find a safe place on the asteroid for the spacecraft to gather a sample before leaving Bennu and returning home. It they can pull it off, it'll be a monumental achievement.
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| Fix to 737 MAX anti-stall software is ready: industry sources Posted: 23 Mar 2019 03:43 PM PDT  A fix to the anti-stall system suspected in the crash of a Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet that killed 189 people in Indonesia is ready, industry sources said Saturday, as the company tries to avoid a lengthy grounding of its planes. Boeing was due to present the patch to officials and pilots of US airlines -- American, Southwest and United -- in Renton, Washington state, where the plane is assembled, other sources said. "Boeing has already finalized the necessary corrective measures for the MAX," an aviation sector source told AFP on condition of anonymity.
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| The Latest: Flight attendant 'just so happy' to be free Posted: 22 Mar 2019 07:29 PM PDT  HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on a flight attendant detained by U.S. immigration authorities (all times local):
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| UPDATE 1-U.S. imposes sanctions on Venezuela bank Bandes after Guaido aide's arrest Posted: 22 Mar 2019 12:05 PM PDT ![UPDATE 1-U.S. imposes sanctions on Venezuela bank Bandes after Guaido aide's arrest]( "UPDATE 1-U.S. imposes sanctions on Venezuela bank Bandes after Guaido aide's arrest") The United States imposed sanctions on Venezuela's development bank Bandes, a day after the Trump administration warned there would be consequences for the arrest of opposition leader Juan Guaido's top aide. The U.S. Treasury said it was slapping the sanctions on the Banco de Desarrollo Economico y Social de Venezuela, including its subsidiaries in Uruguay and Bolivia. "(President Nicolas) Maduro and his enablers have distorted the original purpose of the bank ... as part of a desperate attempt to hold onto power," U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement announcing the action.
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| A father 'breastfed' his newborn when his wife was away with this clever hack Posted: 22 Mar 2019 11:06 AM PDT ![A father 'breastfed' his newborn when his wife was away with this clever hack]( "A father 'breastfed' his newborn when his wife was away with this clever hack") He cut a hole in his shirt and slipped a bottle under it to simulate a breast so that his newborn could "breastfeed."
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| FEMA Released Personal Info of 2.3 Million Hurricane and Wildfire Survivors, Watchdog Says Posted: 22 Mar 2019 04:04 PM PDT  Potentially exposing the victims to identity fraud and theft
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| American Jews, caught between Ilhan Omar and Donald Trump, are lost in a wilderness Posted: 22 Mar 2019 01:00 PM PDT  And where would American Jews turn then? The Jews he talks to are furious over Democrats' inability to condemn Omar's anti-Semitism. "The American Jewish community retains a very strong commitment to social justice." "Frankly, I think they are anti-Jews."
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| More Misconceptions about College Posted: 22 Mar 2019 03:30 AM PDT  Now that we've all had a good airing of grievances about elite colleges and their attendant injustices, let's get some perspective.While the numbers of high-school graduates heading off to college have increased in recent years, the percentages graduating with a four-year degree have not increased much. Many students, especially those who are the first in their families to attend college, drop out before receiving a degree. (They cannot drop out of student-loan payments, though.)Data from the Lumina Foundation show that among Americans aged 25–64, 52.4 percent have no more than a high-school diploma (though 15.4 percent of them attended college for a while). An additional 5.2 percent received a certificate of some kind, and 9.2 percent obtained an associate's degree. What most people think of when you say "college" is a four-year institution. Only 21.1 percent received bachelor's degrees, and another 12.2 percent also earned graduate degrees. Adding the last two categories brings the fraction of Americans with college or graduate degrees to just over one-third.While most of the conversation in the past week has focused on highly selective colleges such as Yale and Penn, it's important to remember that only a small number of America's colleges are selective. As FiveThirtyEight has reported, more than 75 percent of undergrads attend colleges that accept at least half of all applicants. The number who attend selective colleges -- i.e., schools that accept 25 percent or fewer — is just 4 percent. And the number who attend schools in the very top tier, colleges that reject 90 percent or more, can be counted on your fingers and toes. You can probably guess most of them. (Though not all. On this U.S. News list, Pomona College came in at No. 11, and the Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute came in first.) Less than 1 percent of college students attend these elite schools.Most students attend commuter schools, which tend to be community colleges. Even among those at four-year institutions, almost 25 percent attend part-time. Half of college students are also working, not getting plastered at frat parties.There's a healthy debate in policy circles about whether our current cultural preoccupation with college for all is a good thing. Some people who are funneled toward college might be a better fit for vocational training, apprenticeships, or other life paths; and while there is no doubt about the association between college completion and higher income, there is uncertainty about the causal relationship.Rather than gnash our collective teeth about whether Jason or Jessica can get into MIT, we might want to focus on all students, those who are headed for college and those who are not. Every student in elementary and high school should be learning about the "success sequence." The phrase was introduced by Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins of the Brookings Institution and has lately been reinforced with a study by W. Bradford Wilcox and Wendy Wang of the Institute for Family Studies.What they've found is that students have it within their power to virtually guarantee a middle- or upper-class income if they follow three steps. Those three basics are 1) finish high school, 2) get a full-time job, and 3) get married before having children. Young people who follow all three steps have only a 3 percent likelihood of living in poverty when they reach young adulthood. Eighty-six percent of Millennials who put marriage first had incomes in the middle or upper third, compared with 53 percent who had children before marriage. The success sequence works for those born into poverty, too. Seventy-one percent of Millennials who grew up in the bottom third of the income distribution were in the middle or upper third by young adulthood if they followed the three steps. Among African Americans, 76 percent who followed the success sequence achieved the middle class or above, and among Hispanics, the percentage was 81 percent.With all of the emphasis on a tiny sliver of the top 1 percent of students, most young people can get the impression that they are doomed to a lesser life. In fact, avoiding a few pitfalls like dropping out of high school, having a baby out of wedlock, and failing to find employment is a ticket to success.There's a bias among writer types to pay attention to Princeton and Columbia. But that's not really where the action is in helping most Americans.© 2019 Creators.com
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| Energy giants spent $1bn on climate lobbying, PR since Paris: watchdog Posted: 21 Mar 2019 06:26 PM PDT  The five largest publicly listed oil and gas majors have spent $1 billion since the 2015 Paris climate deal on public relations or lobbying that is "overwhelmingly in conflict" with the landmark accord's goals, a watchdog said Friday. Despite outwardly committing to support the Paris agreement and its aim to limit global temperature rises, ExxonMobil, Shell, Chevron, BP and Total spend a total of $200 million a year on efforts "to operate and expand fossil fuel operations," according to InfluenceMap, a pro-transparency monitor. Two of the companies -- Shell and Chevron -- said they rejected the watchdog's findings.
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| EXPLAINER-Does Islamic State still pose a threat? Posted: 23 Mar 2019 01:03 AM PDT ![EXPLAINER-Does Islamic State still pose a threat?]( "EXPLAINER-Does Islamic State still pose a threat?") U.S.-backed fighters say they have captured Islamic State's last shred of ground in eastern Syria - but while its era of territorial rule may be over for now, there is near universal agreement that IS remains a threat. Islamic State's possession of land in Iraq and Syria set it apart from other like-minded groups such as al Qaeda and became central to its mission when it declared a caliphate in 2014, claiming sovereignty over all Muslim lands and peoples.
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| Who was Renty? The story of the slave whose racist photos have triggered a lawsuit against Harvard Posted: 22 Mar 2019 07:14 AM PDT  The photos of Renty and his daughter Delia, taken in nude in 1850 against their will for a Harvard University professor, are now the subject of a lawsuit that Tamara Lanier has filed this week.
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| ACLU: Black man detained while moving into own Kansas home Posted: 21 Mar 2019 06:57 PM PDT  ACLU requested a state investigation after a black man was detained by local police while moving into his own home, then allegedly harassed for weeks afterward and blocked by the police chief from filing a racial bias complaint with the department.
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| Trump news - live: Mueller submits report to attorney general William Barr Posted: 22 Mar 2019 02:34 PM PDT  Donald Trump has yet again attacked John McCain in an interview with Fox Business, calling out the late senator's "very evil purposes" in handing the FBI the Steele Dossier, which, he told host Maria Bartiromo, was "paid for by Hillary Clinton".
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| UN chief visits mosque, stresses sanctity of religious sites Posted: 22 Mar 2019 04:07 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres went to the first mosque built in New York City on Friday to show solidarity with the Muslim community, urging people everywhere "to reaffirm the sanctity of all places of worship and the safety of all worshippers."
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| Toxicologist denies manipulating studies in Monsanto damages proceedings Posted: 22 Mar 2019 07:35 PM PDT  A toxicologist from Roundup weedkiller manufacturer Monsanto denied Friday that she had influenced scientific studies to hide the dangers of the product, in the damages phase of a trial in California. One of the lawyers for the plaintiff -- a 70-year-old retiree with cancer -- asked Dr Donna Farmer to explain internal documents from Monsanto made public in 2017. Among other documents, a February 2015 email sent to Farmer by another senior Monsanto scientist refers to the technique of writing scientific articles and then paying recognized scientists -- presented as independent -- to sign them.
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| Indonesian airline wants to cancel Boeing order after crash Posted: 22 Mar 2019 05:15 PM PDT  JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — In a blow for Boeing, Indonesia's flag carrier is seeking the cancellation of a multibillion dollar order for 49 of the manufacturer's 737 Max 8 jets, citing a loss of confidence after two crashes within five months.
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| Democratic Socialists of America back Bernie: 'The best chance to beat Trump' Posted: 21 Mar 2019 07:35 PM PDT  The group helped leftwing candidates Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib win long-shot elections to Congress in 2018Bernie Sanders waves to workers at a rally at the University of California Los Angeles, on Wednesday 20 March 2019. Photograph: Richard Vogel/APThe Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has officially endorsed Bernie Sanders for president, with the organization throwing its growing political clout behind the Vermont senator ahead of the 2020 election.The DSA's National Political Committee leadership team voted to back Sanders during a meeting on Thursday night, after the rank-and-file membership had earlier overwhelmingly pledged their support.The backing of the DSA will provide a further fillip to Sanders, who quickly outraised most of his rivals for the Democratic nomination. The DSA endorsed Sanders in 2016 and helped the leftwing candidates Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib win long-shot elections to Congress in 2018."He has the best possible chance of the Democratic field to beat Trump," said Jeremy Gong, a member of the NPC who voted to endorse Sanders."Specifically because he has a working-class political agenda, as opposed to an elite, or moderate, or corporate-friendly agenda that is not exciting to anyone electorally – except a very small number of either Democratic party diehards or upper middle class or wealthy people."Sanders announced his run for president on 19 February and raised $5.9m in the first 24 hours of his campaign, second only to Texas's Beto O'Rourke among Democratic candidates. Sanders is running second, behind Joe Biden, in most polling of Democratic candidates – although the pair are probably benefitting from superior name recognition at this point in the election cycle.The DSA has seen a dramatic increase in membership since the 2016 election, rising from 5,000 members to more than 55,000. Ocasio-Cortez is the highest-profile beneficiary of the DSA's political heft, her victory in New York's 14th congressional district aided by the wealth of volunteers DSA can offer access to.Gong said the DSA was still working on its strategy to support Sanders, who is advocating for Medicare for All, a $15 minimum wage and a Green New Deal climate policy. There are more than 100 chapters in the US and each will decide how to promote Sanders. But Gong said the DSA was looking beyond just electing Sanders as president."Sanders alone, once in office, is not capable of pushing through these reforms," Gong said."We need to have a mass movement of ordinary people building organizations like the DSA, building their union, going on strike, demonstrating in the streets, pushing for his radical reform agenda."The DSA also aims to elect progressive candidates to local government across the country. Six democratic socialists are running for election to the Chicago city council this year, and despite Republicans seeking to use the term "democratic socialist" to denigrate Democrats, the DSA is continuing to grow.Sanders, 77, has been criticized in some quarters for entering what promises to be the most diverse race for the Democratic nomination in history, but Gong pointed to some polling which shows Sanders is popular among black and Latino voters, and said there is "not a deep bench" of candidates who have the politics and reach of the veteran senator."It'd be better and preferable if Sanders was not an old white man, and that there be someone who has the same track record, and the same politics and the same potential to transform our society that Sanders does," Gong said."[But] there is no one else who is advancing the Sanders agenda and building a movement in the way that Sanders is who could also be elected president."
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| Amid U.S. Midwest flooding, residents in Missouri, Kansas rush to fill sandbags Posted: 21 Mar 2019 06:04 PM PDT ![Amid U.S. Midwest flooding, residents in Missouri, Kansas rush to fill sandbags]( "Amid U.S. Midwest flooding, residents in Missouri, Kansas rush to fill sandbags") Flooding of the Missouri River triggered by last week's so-called "bomb cyclone" storm has already inflicted damage estimated at nearly $1.5 billion in Nebraska, killed at least four people in Nebraska and Iowa and left a man missing below Nebraska's collapsed Spencer Dam. Missouri Governor Mike Parson declared a state of emergency for his state as high water forced evacuations of several small farm communities. Larger towns from St. Joseph to Kansas City braced for additional flooding forecast through the weekend.
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| Apple's Tim Cook urges China to continue to open up its economy Posted: 23 Mar 2019 03:03 AM PDT  Apple chief executive Tim Cook on Saturday urged China to keep opening up its economy as local rivals bit into the profits of the US tech giant caught in the crosshairs of a trade spat between Beijing and Washington. "We have seen China continue to change and evolve... We encourage China to continue to open up," he said during a speech at the annual China Development Forum in Beijing on Saturday. Apple in January revealed that it took a hit in the "Greater China" region, where revenue plunged almost 27 percent in the most recent quarter.
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| How gun laws in a dozen countries compare to New Zealand's new ban on semi-automatic weapons Posted: 23 Mar 2019 12:58 PM PDT  The approach to gun laws in each of the 12 countries varies widely depending on whether owning a gun is considered a right or a privilege.
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| Save up to 30% off bed and bath must-haves during The Home Depot’s Spring Savings Posted: 23 Mar 2019 11:53 AM PDT  It's been a loong winter with way too much time spent binge-watching in bed. All the more reason to strip those stale sheets, replace your threadbare towels, and hit up The Home Depot's online-only Spring Savings. Think high-quality basics: super-soft sheets, bath mats, and towels that aren't adorned with weird bleach stains. In other words: bedding and bath essentials that make you feel like a grown-up. Below, find a look to match your style and then shop The Home Depot's Spring Savings. Image: The Home Depot Save up to 30% on bed and bath essentials at The Home Depot through April 3rd See Details Grown up neutralsImage: The Home DepotA neutral color palette opens up even the smallest studio in a big way. You can play with pops of color, experiment with textures, or layer crisp whites with neutrals for a sophisticated Instagram backdrop. To get this dressed-to-impress look, start with a crisp white duvet and pair with some sweet flax sheets. Breezy bohoImage: The Home DepotThis laid-back look is a breeze to create. For bedding, opt for cool blues in a breathable fabric like this linen duvet set. Add some throw pillows in sunset tones that remind you of the Pacific Ocean, then bring cabana vibes to your bathroom with aqua towels, a bathmat, and shower curtain. And of course, the more houseplants the better! Pattern playerImage: the home depotWhether you're a graphic designer or an Insta-artist, adding bold patterns to your space screams creative genius. Go bold with a chevron duvet set, then add some contrasting geometric sheets. Next, hang some funky towels in your bathroom. The trick is to mix hues and shapes that seem like they shouldn't work together -- but somehow do. It's all part of your mystery. Image: The Home Depot Save up to 30% on bed and bath at The Home Depot through April 3rd See Details
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| Fox and Friends co-host criticises Trump for attacks on John McCain: ‘It makes absolutely no sense’ Posted: 22 Mar 2019 07:07 AM PDT  Co-host Brian Kilmeade went after Mr Trump on Thursday for the jabs, saying that the president diverted attention away from his accomplishments in order to unearth his feud with a dead man. "The problem is he swapped his own message by going after George Conway and in that speech inexplicably segueing to go after John McCain," Mr Kilmeade said Thursday morning, reviewing a speech Mr Trump made in Ohio where he attacked the late senator and the husband of White House adviser Kellyanne Conway.
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| Markets Right Now: Stocks, yields drop on growth worries Posted: 22 Mar 2019 01:08 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):
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| It Looks Like the Dodge Charger Is Getting a Widebody Variant Posted: 22 Mar 2019 08:00 PM PDT  Dodge shows off a "concept" version of its muscle sedan with a widebody setup like its Challenger sibling.
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| 1969 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 428 Cobra Jet Posted: 22 Mar 2019 06:00 AM PDT  With 355-horsepower from a 428 cubic-inch, 7.0-liter V8, a four-on-the-floor manual transmission, and this brilliant red paint with gold side stripes, this 1969 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 is a must-have car for any die-hard American muscle collector. The 1969 Ford Mustang was the third and final evolution of the original pony car.
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