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Mueller seeks tough sentence for ex-Trump campaign chairman Manafort

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 06:56 PM PST

Mueller seeks tough sentence for ex-Trump campaign chairman ManafortIn their sentencing memo filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, prosecutors said Manafort, who is 69, deserves between 19.6 and 24.4 years in prison and a fine of between $50,000 and $24 million. "While some of these offenses are commonly prosecuted, there was nothing ordinary about the millions of dollars involved in the defendant's crimes, the duration of his criminal conduct or the sophistication of his schemes," prosecutors said in the memo. "Manafort did not commit these crimes out of necessity or hardship," they said.


Sarah Huckabee Sanders Interviewed by Special Counsel’s Team

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 02:33 PM PST

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Interviewed by Special Counsel's TeamWhite House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders sat for an interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigators, she revealed Friday."The president urged me, like he has everyone in the administration, to fully cooperate with the special counsel. I was happy to voluntarily sit down with them," Sanders said.While the details of the interview are not public, one area investigators are interested in is how Trump crafted his public statements on the investigation, a matter Sanders would have knowledge of. As a public face of the administration, Sanders has made numerous statements defending the president's conduct as it pertains to the investigation.Former White House chief of staff John Kelly, former White House communications director Hope Hicks, former press secretary Sean Spicer, and other White House officials have also answered questions from Mueller's team.Mueller is expected to soon wrap up his investigation into Russia's efforts to influence the 2016 election. Then-acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker said in January that the investigation is "close to being completed."


Iran points to Pakistan after deadly attack on Guard

Posted: 17 Feb 2019 06:22 AM PST

Iran points to Pakistan after deadly attack on GuardTEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's parliament speaker said Sunday that an attack that killed 27 members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard was "planned and carried out from inside Pakistan," which he said should answer for it.


It Looks Like the Land Rover Discovery SVX Is Dead

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 02:54 PM PST

It Looks Like the Land Rover Discovery SVX Is DeadThis looks like another miss from Jaguar Land Rover Special Vehicle Operations.


5 killed as gunman opens fire at Illinois warehouse

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 03:57 PM PST

5 killed as gunman opens fire at Illinois warehouseA gunman opened fire in an industrial warehouse in Aurora, Ill., on Friday, killing five people and wounding five police officers before he was slain.


A national emergency has been declared. Now what?

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 01:51 PM PST

A national emergency has been declared. Now what?On Friday morning, President Trump declared a national emergency in order to secure funding for a border wall, triggering what will likely be a long legal battle before anything is built.


How to Watch the Super Snow Moon, the Biggest Supermoon of 2019

Posted: 17 Feb 2019 06:00 AM PST

How to Watch the Super Snow Moon, the Biggest Supermoon of 2019Here's what to know about the upcoming February full moon, also known as the 'super snow moon'— and what the best time is to see it.


US ‘tells India it respects its right to self-defence’ after cross-border militant attack kills 44 paramilitary police

Posted: 16 Feb 2019 11:35 AM PST

US 'tells India it respects its right to self-defence' after cross-border militant attack kills 44 paramilitary policeThe US has supported India's right to "self defence" against cross-border terrorism after an attack claimed by Pakistan-based militants killed at least 44 police officers in the disputed territory of Kashmir. In comments that will please Indian hawks but also raise fears that tensions between India and Pakistan could escalate yet further, US national security advisor John Bolton reportedly told his counterpart in Delhi, that America "offered all assistance to India" to bring the perpetrators of the attack to justice. Mr Bolton and Ajit Doval also "resolved to hold Pakistan to account for its obligations under UN resolutions", India's foreign ministry said in a statement.


Amazon invests in electric vehicle startup Rivian

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 11:45 AM PST

Amazon invests in electric vehicle startup RivianElectric vehicle startup Rivian on Friday announced a $700 million investment round led by Amazon, which recently pumped money into a young self-driving car technology firm. Details of Amazon's stake in US-based Rivian were not disclosed, but the company said it will remain independent. The potential Tesla rival late last year unveiled an electric pickup truck and an electric sport utility vehicle at an auto show in Los Angeles.


Five killed in Aurora, Illinois shooting

Posted: 16 Feb 2019 05:39 AM PST

Five killed in Aurora, Illinois shootingThe shooter allegedly shot fellow coworkers after discovering he was going to be fired; Jeff Paul has more details.


Illinois factory gunman obtained firearm permit despite felony conviction

Posted: 16 Feb 2019 05:12 PM PST

Illinois factory gunman obtained firearm permit despite felony convictionGary Martin, 45, who carried his pistol to work on Friday apparently suspecting he faced dismissal from his job, opened fire after being told of his termination in a meeting at the Henry Pratt Company plant in Aurora, Illinois, about 40 miles (64 km) west of Chicago, police said. The dead included the plant manager, a human resources supervisor, a human resources intern and two other workers. A sixth employee and five police officers responding to the scene were wounded, and the gunman himself was slain about 90 minutes later in a gunfight with police who stormed the building.


Email Address Given to Ocasio-Cortez Beau Sparks Heated Exchange

Posted: 16 Feb 2019 11:51 AM PST

Email Address Given to Ocasio-Cortez Beau Sparks Heated Exchange"While you were having a nice Valentine's Day, @AOC decided to put her boyfriend on staff -- drawing a salary on the taxpayer's dime. Nice to see her adapting to the swamp so quickly," the conservative magazine's Luke Thompson said on his Twitter feed. Other conservative voices piled on, with Katrina Pierson, an adviser to President Donald Trump's re-election campaign, who suggested that "her jobs for everyone starts with her boyfriend.


Did This Old Russian Jet Help Inspire the F-35?

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 08:00 PM PST

Did This Old Russian Jet Help Inspire the F-35?Or one big feature of the VTOL version?


After Auschwitz visit, Pence accuses Iran of Nazi-like anti-Semitism

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 11:46 AM PST

After Auschwitz visit, Pence accuses Iran of Nazi-like anti-SemitismAfter visiting the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, Pence said the Nazi death camp had made him more determined to confront Tehran, saying it was "breathing out murderous threats, with the same vile anti-Semitic hatred that animated the Nazis in Europe." Iran's ancient Jewish community has slumped to an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 from 85,000 at the time of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, but is believed to be the biggest in the Middle East outside Israel. Pence, who said he was deeply moved by his Auschwitz visit, cited Iran's stated desire to destroy Israel as justification for singling out the country, rather than focusing on anti-Semitism across the Middle East. Iranian Brigadier General Hossein Salami, deputy head of the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said in January Iran's strategy was to wipe "the Zionist regime" (Israel) off the political map, Iran's state TV reported.


Fact-check: Does Amazon pay '$0' in taxes?

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 04:15 PM PST

Fact-check: Does Amazon pay '$0' in taxes?A tweet by a popular US Congresswoman spotlighted a report about US tech behemoth Amazon's tax burden for the past two years. While the company paid no US federal income tax, it reported "cash taxes paid" of $1.2 billion last year and $957 million in 2017. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a rising Democratic star in the US Congress, tweeted (1) about media reports on research by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a Washington think tank, stating Amazon paid no US federal income tax for two years.


Why You Should Shop at Restaurant Supply Stores

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 01:16 PM PST

Why You Should Shop at Restaurant Supply Stores


San Jose hostage situation involving UPS truck ends, suspect shot, killed

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 06:47 PM PST

San Jose hostage situation involving UPS truck ends, suspect shot, killedThe Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office says the suspect who was in a standoff in a UPS truck was shot and killed after attempting to run from the truck. Friends have identified the suspect as Mark Morasky.


White House Press Secretary says she was interviewed by investigators working for Robert Mueller

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 01:03 PM PST

White House Press Secretary says she was interviewed by investigators working for Robert MuellerThe White House press secretary is among a series of people linked to President Donald Trump who have been questioned by special counsel Robert Mueller.


The Latest: Cardinal calls McCarrick punishment 'important'

Posted: 16 Feb 2019 03:21 PM PST

The Latest: Cardinal calls McCarrick punishment 'important'VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Latest on the defrocking of former U.S. cardinal Theodore McCarrick (all times local):


Stacey Abrams calls voter suppression 'the crisis of our day'

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 10:33 AM PST

Stacey Abrams calls voter suppression 'the crisis of our day'Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams said Friday that "voter suppression … has to be considered the crisis of our day," a clear rebuke to Trump's declaration of a national emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border.


NASA posts image of ghostly blue objects, deep in the cosmos

Posted: 17 Feb 2019 08:19 AM PST

NASA posts image of ghostly blue objects, deep in the cosmosWhen a star is born, a chaotic light show ensues. NASA's long-lived Hubble Space Telescope captured vivid bright clumps moving through the cosmos at some 1,000 light years from Earth. The space agency called these objects clear "smoking gun" evidence of a newly formed star -- as new stars blast colossal amounts of energy-rich matter into space, known as plasma. Seen as the vivid blue, ephemeral clumps in the top center of the new image below, these are telltale signs of an energy-rich gas, or plasma, colliding with a huge collection of dust and gas in deep space.As NASA says, these blue masses are transient creations in the cosmos, as "they disappear into nothingness within a few tens of thousands of years."Bright lights inside a nebula.Image: ESA/Hubble/NASA/K. StapelfeldtThese blue clumps are traveling at 150,000 mph toward the upper left direction (from our view, anyhow). In total, there are five of these ghostly clumps, hurtling through space. SEE ALSO: Opportunity rover's last picture is as grim as it is darkNASA doesn't identify the new star itself, called SVS 13, perhaps because it's obscured by thick clouds of cosmic matter.This collection of dust and gas is a part of a distant nebula, which are often the remnants of exploded stars swirling through the infinity of space. WATCH: Ever wonder how the universe might end?


Iran's Zarif accuses Israel, U.S. of seeking war

Posted: 17 Feb 2019 04:29 AM PST

Iran's Zarif accuses Israel, U.S. of seeking warAddressing the Munich Security Conference, Mohammad Javad Zarif, also criticized the U.S. administration after Vice President Mike Pence this week called on European powers to pullout of the nuclear deal with Iran. Zarif urged France, Germany and Britain to do more to save that accord. "Certainly, some people are looking for war ... Israel," Zarif said.


Washington state snow plow rage: 2 plow drivers threatened

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 12:47 PM PST

Washington state snow plow rage: 2 plow drivers threatenedSPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Unusually heavy snow in the Spokane area has caused snow plow rage: Two plow drivers clearing streets this week were threatened by people infuriated when their driveways ended up blocked with mounds of snow.


Southwest declares operations 'emergency' amid labor dispute with mechanics

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 06:00 PM PST

Southwest declares operations 'emergency' amid labor dispute with mechanicsThe airline sent a strongly worded memo to mechanics ordering all hands on deck in response to a higher than usual number of planes out of service.


India ends police protection for Kashmir leaders after bombing

Posted: 17 Feb 2019 05:17 AM PST

India ends police protection for Kashmir leaders after bombingIndian authorities withdrew police protection for five separatist leaders in Kashmir on Sunday amid mounting fallout from a suicide bombing that killed 41 soldiers in the disputed region. New Delhi has vowed to retaliate after a van packed with explosives ripped through a convoy transporting 2,500 soldiers across the Indian-administered territory on Thursday, the deadliest-ever attack in a 30-year-old armed conflict. Indian officials said police protection had been withdrawn for Muslim cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and four other leaders.


Gone in a New York minute: How the Amazon deal fell apart

Posted: 16 Feb 2019 11:59 AM PST

Gone in a New York minute: How the Amazon deal fell apartNEW YORK (AP) — In early November, word began to leak that Amazon was serious about choosing New York to build a giant new campus. The city was eager to lure the company and its thousands of high-paying tech jobs, offering billions in tax incentives and lighting the Empire State Building in Amazon orange.


U.S. Supreme Court to decide legality of census citizenship query

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 03:51 PM PST

U.S. Supreme Court to decide legality of census citizenship queryThe justices, in a brief order, granted the administration's request to hear its appeal of Manhattan-based U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman's Jan. 15 ruling even before a lower appeals court has considered the matter. Furman's ruling came in lawsuits brought by 18 U.S. states, 15 cities and various civil rights groups challenging the Republican administration's decision to include the question. Furman ruled that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had concealed the true motives for his "arbitrary and capricious" decision to add the citizenship question in violation of federal law.


Potato rösti

Posted: 17 Feb 2019 02:00 AM PST

Potato röstiThis potato rösti is the perfect way to use up that last bit of cheese in the fridge.  SERVES Two INGREDIENTS 500g potatoes, ideally a nice waxy chip potato 1 small onion, finely sliced 1 garlic clove, crushed and chopped Pinch of dried chilli 50g butter 120g mixed grated cheese such as cheddar, gruyere or comté (a great opportunity to use up leftovers) Large pinch of fresh or dried sage METHOD Peel the potatoes and coarsely grate them into a bowl. Add the onion, garlic and chilli and season well. Tip onto a tea towel and squeeze them tightly to remove any excess liquid, then return to the bowl and mix in 25g of the butter, diced. Add 15g of the butter to a large non-stick and ovenproof frying pan (large enough to hold the potato mixture) and allow to melt. Press the potato mixture into the pan and cook over a medium heat until the underside starts to crisp – from around six to 10 minutes. When ready, flip the rosti onto a plate (cooked side up), melt the rest of the butter in the pan and slide the rosti into it to cook on the other side for about 10 minutes, until browned and cooked through. To finish, preheat the grill and sprinkle the rosti with the grated cheese and sage, along with a good grinding of black pepper. Place until the grill until the cheese melts and bubbles. Serve with a crisp green salad. RECIPES | Angela's budget-friendly dishes


Trump denies he takes orders from Sean Hannity

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 11:12 AM PST

Trump denies he takes orders from Sean HannityThe president name-checks Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Tucker Carlson and Ann Coulter at a press conference at which he declared a national emergency.


Iran launches 'cruise missile capable' submarine

Posted: 17 Feb 2019 07:35 AM PST

Iran launches 'cruise missile capable' submarineIran on Sunday launched a new locally-made submarine capable of firing cruise missiles, state TV said, in the country's latest show of military might at a time of heightened tensions with the US. The launch ceremony, led by President Hassan Rouhani, took place in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas. "Today, the Islamic Republic of Iran is fully self-reliant on land, air and sea," Rouhani said.


Man in prison confesses to 90 murders ranging from Los Angeles to Florida, even provides drawings of victims

Posted: 16 Feb 2019 01:34 PM PST

Man in prison confesses to 90 murders ranging from Los Angeles to Florida, even provides drawings of victimsA 78-year-old man in a Texas prison for murder has confessed to 90 killings all over the country and even provided authorities with portraits of some of his victims, according to the FBI.


Sports Illustrated model Kate Upton shares honest 'pregame' breast-pumping picture

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 02:09 PM PST

Sports Illustrated model Kate Upton shares honest 'pregame' breast-pumping pictureThe model and actress posted a photo using a breast pump before her Valentine's Day dinner with husband Justin Verlander.


AP Interview: Karzai worries Pakistan talks risk peace pact

Posted: 16 Feb 2019 04:36 AM PST

AP Interview: Karzai worries Pakistan talks risk peace pactKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday that previously unscheduled peace talks between the Taliban and the United States in Pakistan risk engulfing the country in regional rivalries.


See the 2019 Ford Edge in Photos

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 12:05 PM PST

See the 2019 Ford Edge in Photos


Germany's SPD climbs in polls after welfare rethink

Posted: 17 Feb 2019 05:24 AM PST

Germany's SPD climbs in polls after welfare rethinkSupport for Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) has hit its highest level in almost six months, a poll showed on Sunday, a week after the center-left party outlined new welfare plans aimed at winning back working class voters. Ahead of European elections in May and four regional votes this year, the Emnid poll for the Bild am Sonntag newspaper put support for the SPD, which shares power with German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, on 19 percent, up 2 points from a week ago.


Medical emergency triggers stampede at San Francisco theater

Posted: 16 Feb 2019 02:11 PM PST

Medical emergency triggers stampede at San Francisco theaterSAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Chaos broke out during a performance of the musical "Hamilton" at San Francisco's Orpheum theater Friday night after audience members mistook a medical emergency for a shooting.


Collusion: The Criminalization of Policy Disputes

Posted: 16 Feb 2019 03:30 AM PST

Collusion: The Criminalization of Policy DisputesWhat a weasel word "collusion" is.In Washington, Senator Richard Burr (R., N.C.), chairman of the Intelligence Committee, has now seen fit to pronounce that, after two years of investigation, the panel has found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian regime. Meanwhile, in a nearby courtroom, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's senior staffer, Andrew Weissmann, told a federal judge that an August 2016 meeting between the then-chairman of the Trump campaign and a suspected Russian intelligence officer "goes . . . very much to the heart of what the special counsel is investigating" -- which sure sounds like Mueller's collusion hunt is alive and well.What gives?Readers of these columns know that the "collusion" label has been a pet peeve of your humble correspondent since the media-Democratic "Putin hacked the election" narrative followed hard on the declaration of Donald Trump's victory in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, November 9, 2016.The reason for the collusion label is obvious. Those peddling the "Putin hacked the election" story have always lacked credible evidence that Trump was complicit in the Kremlin's "cyber-espionage." They could not show a criminal conspiracy. Connections between denizens of Trump World and Putin's circle might be very intriguing, and perhaps even politically scandalous. But only a conspiracy -- an agreement by two or more people to commit an actual criminal offense, such as hacking -- would be a reasonable basis for prosecution or impeachment.This dearth of proof was significant. The Russians apparently started hacking operations in 2014, long before Trump entered the race. The FBI first warned the Democratic National Committee about penetration of its servers in September 2015. By the time Trump won, the Bureau and U.S. intelligence agencies had been working hard to understand the nature and extent of Kremlin-directed hacking operations for two years. The investigation was so high-level, so intense, that shortly before the election, there were confrontational conversations between CIA director John Brennan and his Russian counterpart, FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov, and later between President Obama and Russian president Putin.Yet, as thorough as the investigation was, no one could credibly say Trump was a participant in Russia's malfeasance. The best Obama's notoriously politicized CIA could say was that Trump was Putin's intended beneficiary.Unable to establish conspiracy, Trump's opposition settled on collusion. It is a usefully slippery word. Collusion just means concerted activity -- it can be sinister or benign. It can refer to a conspiracy or to any arrangement people have together, including those that may be sleazy but non-criminal.This commitment to ambiguity came in handy for Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein when he appointed Robert Mueller to be special counsel. After President Trump fired FBI director James Comey on May 9, 2017, and then shamefully talked Comey down for the consumption of Russian diplomats visiting the White House the next day, Rosenstein came under intense pressure. Because he had written the memorandum originally used to justify Comey's dismissal, congressional Democrats slammed him for complicity in what they portrayed as Trump's obstruction of the Russia probe. Rosenstein wanted to appease them by appointing the special counsel they were demanding.Special counsels, however, are not supposed to be appointed unless there is a solid basis to believe a crime has been committed. Rosenstein was lawyer enough to know that a president's firing of an FBI director -- a firing that Rosenstein himself had argued was justified -- could not be an obstruction crime. And he knew that there was no proof that Trump had conspired in Russia's cyberespionage. So . . . how to justify appointing a special counsel?Easy: Make it a counterintelligence probe. That way, there would be no need for a crime, since such investigations are just intelligence-gathering exercises.What's that? You say there's no basis in the special-counsel regulations to appoint one for counterintelligence? You say the Justice Department does not appoint prosecutors for counterintelligence investigations, which are the FBI's bailiwick? So what? The special-counsel regulations expressly say that they create no enforceable rights enabling anyone to challenge the Justice Department's flouting of them. Rosenstein knew he could ignore the rules and there was not a thing anyone could do about it.So instead of a prosecutor investigating a crime of conspiracy, we have a bloated staff of prosecutors gathering intelligence about "collusion": Every contact between anyone connected to Trump and anyone connected to Russia.Some of this could be valuable information. That brings us back to that August 2016 meeting Andrew Weissman was talking about, between Trump's campaign chairman and a suspected Russian intelligence operative. Paul Manafort, the campaign chairman, had high-level contacts and conducted multi-million-dollar business with oligarchs close to the Kremlin. Konstantin Kilimnik, his partner in Kiev, certainly is suspected of having a "relationship with Russian intelligence," as Weissmann obliquely put it in the court session.That "relationship," however, goes back to the early 1990s, when the Soviet Union fell and the United States was quite content to do business with lots of people who had "relationships" with Russian intelligence, the Kremlin, and even the Communist party. One of Kilimnik's first jobs when he left the Russian military was to work for the International Republican Institute -- the democracy-promoting enterprise that Senator John McCain ran for over 20 years. Kilimnik started there as a translator -- hired for the skills he'd learned at the military academy that prepared translators for service in Russian intelligence. It didn't seem to bother anyone -- by the early 2000's, Kilimnik was running the IRI's Moscow office.My point is not to defend Kilimnik. Not only has Mueller already him indicted for witness-tampering conspiracy in Manafort's case (a charge to which Manafort has pled guilty). Kilimnik also hovers as an unindicted co-conspirator in the case of Samuel Patten, a lobbyist friend of Manafort's who has pled guilty in a separate Justice Department case to being an unregistered agent of Ukraine and to violating the prohibition against foreign contributions to political campaigns -- enabling Kilimnik and two Ukrainian oligarchs to donate to the Trump presidential-inaugural committee and attend the inauguration festivities.The point is that if we are going to obsess over collusion rather than the actual crime of conspiracy, then we need to evaluate the Russian contacts of Trump associates in the context of everyone who has interacted with Russia in the last quarter-century. Under administrations of both parties, Washington has maintained that post-Soviet Russia was a perfectly fine country to partner with and do business with. Did the Trump campaign hope to tap Kremlin-connected sources for campaign dirt on Hillary Clinton? That seems undeniable. But it is not a crime per se. How does it rank on the scale of unsavory political behavior? You'd have to compare it to, for example, Democratic-party entreaties to the Kremlin -- back when the Russians were our Cold War Soviet antagonist -- for help in the campaigns against Presidents Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.I did not like candidate Donald Trump's blandishments toward the Putin regime. It was part of why Trump was closer to the bottom than the top of my preferred GOP candidates. I thought his performance as president in the meeting with Putin in Helsinki was appalling. But we are talking here about policy disputes. Trump has a right to be wrong, even seriously wrong, on a policy matter. That does not make him a Russian agent.If members of Trump's campaign were corruptly selling accommodations (such as sanctions relief) to Russia, then by all means prosecute them to the full extent of the law. But if the campaign was exploring whether sanctions relief could be traded for Russian actions in America's interests -- just as Obama told us sanctions relief for Iran was being bargained in exchange for what he claimed were advances of America's interests -- that might have been wrong-headed or naïve, but it wasn't criminal.Apparently Senator Burr thinks of "collusion" as criminal conspiracy, and he thus realizes that there was not one. Special Counsel Mueller, by contrast, has been unleashed to probe collusion not just in the form of criminal conspiracy, but in whatever form: All manner of contacts with a regime that, just the blink of an eye ago, President Obama was mocking Mitt Romney for regarding as a geopolitical foe, even as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton helped Moscow build its version of Silicon Valley -- notwithstanding Defense Department and FBI worries that we were thus improving their military and cyber capabilities.What is "collusion," then? Increasingly, it looks like the criminalization of policy disputes.


Merck, Pfizer drug combo extends kidney cancer survival: study

Posted: 16 Feb 2019 02:19 PM PST

Merck, Pfizer drug combo extends kidney cancer survival: studyNearly 90 percent of patients who received the combination therapy were still alive after 12 months compared with about 78 percent of patients who were alive after a year when treated with the older drug Sutent, data showed. Merck on Monday released interim data from the trial, saying the combination reduced the risk of death by 47 percent compared with Sutent. The findings add to an arsenal of positive clinical data for Keytruda, which is approved to treat several types of cancer, making it by far Merck's most important growth driver.


Archaeologists discover Incan tomb in Peru

Posted: 15 Feb 2019 08:07 PM PST

Archaeologists discover Incan tomb in PeruPeruvian archaeologists discovered an Incan tomb in the north of the country where an elite member of the pre-Columbian empire was buried, one of the investigators announced Friday. The discovery was made on the Mata Indio dig site in the northern Lambayeque region, archaeologist Luis Chero told state news agency Andina. Archaeologists believe the tomb belonged to a noble Inca based on the presence of "spondylus," a type of sea shell always present in the graves of important figures from the Incan period, which lasted from the 12th to the 16th centuries.


Problem: The Stealth F-35 Lightning II Can't Handle Lightning

Posted: 16 Feb 2019 12:31 PM PST

Problem: The Stealth F-35 Lightning II Can't Handle LightningIs that an issue?


Polish PM nixes trip to Israel after Netanyahu Holocaust 'comment': govt

Posted: 17 Feb 2019 08:11 AM PST

Polish PM nixes trip to Israel after Netanyahu Holocaust 'comment': govtPolish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has cancelled a visit to Israel for a high-level summit, a government spokesperson told AFP on Sunday, after uproar in Poland over reported comments by Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu about the Poles and the Holocaust. Netanyahu -- who was initially quoted in Haaretz newspaper as saying that "The Poles collaborated with the Nazis" -- has been condemned in Poland for appearing to accuse all Polish people of cooperating with Germany during World War II. Warsaw has long been at pains to point out that Poland, which was occupied by Nazi Germany, could not have and did not collaborate in the Holocaust although individual Poles may have done so.


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