| Joe Biden leads Bernie Sanders, Beto O'Rourke, Kamala Harris in latest Quinnipiac poll Posted: 28 Mar 2019 09:53 AM PDT  Joe Biden held a lead over Bernie Sanders, Beto O'Rourke and Kamala Harris in latest Quinnipiac poll. Survey found 23 percent of voters viewed AOC unfavorably.
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| Iceland's WOW Air budget carrier collapses, cancels all flights Posted: 27 Mar 2019 05:21 PM PDT  Iceland's budget carrier WOW Air said it had ceased operations and cancelled all flights on Thursday, stranding thousands of passengers. The collapse of the troubled airline, which transports more than a third of those travelling to Iceland, comes after buyout talks with rival Icelandair collapsed earlier this week. Passengers are advised to check available flights with other airlines," the carrier said in a statement.
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| Netanyahu says Israel ready for Gaza campaign if needed; Palestinians plan huge march Posted: 28 Mar 2019 10:52 AM PDT  In Gaza, organizers announced plans for a massive protest on Saturday along the border to mark the anniversary of weekly demonstrations at which Israeli forces have, according to Gaza medical officials, already killed nearly 200 Palestinians. Israel launched air strikes and moved troops and armor reinforcements to the Gaza border this week after a rocket attack from the Hamas Islamist-run enclave wounded seven Israelis in a village north of Tel Aviv on Monday. "All Israelis should know that if a comprehensive campaign is required, we will enter it strong and safe, and after we have exhausted all of the other possibilities," Netanyahu said after visiting the Gaza frontier and meeting with Israeli commanders.
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| NASA spots ‘Space Butterfly’ giving birth to new stars Posted: 27 Mar 2019 08:07 PM PDT  Our Sun is one of the big reasons we're all here today. It provides much of the energy needed for life to exist, and without it I wouldn't be writing this and you wouldn't be here to read it. We think of stars as ancient things that have been there forever but new ones are being created all the time, and NASA just captured a gorgeous image of a place where new stars are born.NASA affectionately calls it a "Space Butterfly," but in reality it's a pair of massive gas clouds. Its official name is Westerhout 40 (W40), and it's a nebula. W40 and nebulas like it are massive pockets of space where material like gas and stardust begins to coalesce into new objects like stars."Besides being beautiful, W40 exemplifies how the formation of stars results in the destruction of the very clouds that helped create them," NASA's JPL explains. "Inside giant clouds of gas and dust in space, the force of gravity pulls material together into dense clumps. Sometimes these clumps reach a critical density that allows stars to form at their cores."Nebulas are like star nurseries, but stars also die here. In fact, the massive "wings" of the space butterfly -- made up of gas and other material -- were blown into space by stellar explosions. In this case, a star cluster in the center of the two large bubbles is responsible for the colorful clouds of W40, and that material that was once star matter is well on its way to becoming new stars again.The image was captured using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. It's a remarkably detailed image considering the nebula is some 1,400 light years away from Earth. The single image seen here is a composite of four individual photos snapped using the telescope's infrared camera.
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| Michael Avenatti goes from media darling to criminal suspect Posted: 27 Mar 2019 05:51 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Avenatti seemingly came out of nowhere, a sharply dressed lawyer with a penetrating gaze who said he would prove President Donald Trump had sex with a porn star and paid her off to keep quiet ahead of the 2016 election.
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| Boeing Readies 737 Max Software Update as Senate Probes Crashes Posted: 27 Mar 2019 04:29 PM PDT  While investigators are still piecing together what caused an Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max 8 to fall out of the sky this month, senators in Washington zeroed in on a controversial safety feature on the plane. Across the U.S. in Renton, Washington, where the plane is made, Boeing hosted news media as well as 200 pilots and industry officials to detail software changes it intends to submit to the Federal Aviation Administration for final approval this week. The company also defended its aircraft-certification process and safety oversight.
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| Two Women File Lawsuit After Chicago Police Raid Wrong Home During Child`s Birthday Party Posted: 26 Mar 2019 08:19 PM PDT  Two women are demanding justice after they say their home was mistakenly raided by Chicago police during a child's birthday party, leaving the kids terrified.
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| Why the U.S. Air Force Just Launched 24 Stealth F-22 Raptors Into the Sky Posted: 27 Mar 2019 03:00 PM PDT  The dramatic "elephant walk" at Elmendorf Air Force Base was more than an impressive photo-op. It showed off much of the new, bigger F-22 force at the base, underscored the resident 3rd Wing's apparently improving maintenance capabilities and underscored the Air Force's evolving strategy for deploying F-22s and other planes in self-sustaining small groups.
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| Teenage boys at Maryland school rated female classmates based on their looks - so the girls fought back Posted: 27 Mar 2019 11:14 AM PDT  It included the names of 18 girls in the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School's International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, ranked and rated on the basis of their looks, from 5.5 to 9.4, with decimal points to the hundredth place. A group of male students in their program created the list more than a year ago, but it resurfaced earlier this month, through text messages and whispers during class. One male classmate, seeing the name of his good friend Nicky Schmidt on the list, told her about it, and within 24 hours, dozens of girls had heard about the list.
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| Republicans defeat Green New Deal in U.S. Senate vote Democrats call a stunt Posted: 26 Mar 2019 03:08 PM PDT  The vote was 57 against the resolution in the 100-member chamber, with 43 Democrats voting "present," avoiding an up-or-down vote. Republicans won over Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema and one independent senator, Angus King, who usually votes with that party.
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| Blackouts savage Venezuela's already tattered economy Posted: 27 Mar 2019 06:39 PM PDT  Two vast blackouts that hit Venezuela this month have savaged its already ragged economy, paralyzing its vital oil industry and costing the country $200 million a day, experts say. "Each day of blackout... we have losses of around $200 million," Carlos Larrazabal, head of Fedecamaras federation of chambers of commerce and production, told AFP.
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| Ex-Yale coach set to plead guilty for soliciting almost $1 million in bribes in college admissions scandal Posted: 28 Mar 2019 06:57 AM PDT  The former women's soccer coach at Yale University is expected to plead guilty Thursday to taking bribes in exchange for pretending applicants were recruits to boost their chances of getting into the school.
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| Cuba, Google move to improve island's connectivity Posted: 28 Mar 2019 09:27 AM PDT  HAVANA (AP) — Cuba and Google signed a deal Thursday moving the island one step closer to having a state-of-the-art connection to the modern internet.
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| 'There was smoke': Comey says Mueller probe had to happen, results reaffirm FBI isn't a 'nest of vipers' Posted: 27 Mar 2019 05:19 PM PDT  Former FBI Director James Comey spoke out in an interview with NBC News Wednesday where he defended the rationale for special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
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| U.S. House fails to override Trump veto, upholding border wall emergency Posted: 26 Mar 2019 03:02 PM PDT  Democrats who control the House did not attract enough Republican support, falling some three dozen votes short of the two-thirds majority vote needed to overturn Trump's veto. Just 14 Republicans joined 234 Democrats in voting to override, one more Republican than had bucked Trump in a previous House vote on the border wall emergency. With the 248-181 tally, Trump is now likely to continue scouring federal accounts for money he wants redirected to building a border wall, which he says is needed to curb illegal immigration and drug trafficking.
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| India Smashes Satellite in a Surprise Test of a New Space Weapon Posted: 28 Mar 2019 06:14 AM PDT  The test, which was announced to the nation by the prime minister, was unexpected.
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| Markets Right Now: Health care, tech lead US stocks lower Posted: 27 Mar 2019 01:11 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):
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| Five migrants arrested after Maltese special forces raid brings end to high seas hijack drama Posted: 27 Mar 2019 11:15 PM PDT  Five migrants who allegedly led the hijacking of a tanker in the Mediterranean to avoid being returned to Libya were arrested in Malta on Thursday after special forces stormed the vessel to take back control. The five men, some of whom were led off the merchant vessel in plastic handcuffs, were among 108 asylum seekers who were rescued by the El Hiblu 1 tanker north of Libya on Tuesday. The tanker was ordered by Libyan authorities to take the migrants to Tripoli, but they allegedly subjected the 12-man crew to physical threats and forced the vessel to sail north instead, towards Europe. Migrants in Libya are held in horrific conditions and are often subjected to beatings, torture and rape, according to the UN and humanitarian agencies. A migrant suspected of hijacking the ship is detained in Valletta, Malta Credit: Reuters The Maltese military intervened in the early hours of Thursday, with armed commandoes boarding the tanker in an operation that involved Maltese naval vessels and helicopters. Maltese authorities established communications with the captain of the 170ft-long oil tanker when it was about 30 nautical miles away from Malta and proceeding towards the island. "The captain repeatedly stated that he was not in control of the vessel and that he and his crew were being forced and threatened by a number of migrants to proceed to Malta," the authorities said. The tanker was escorted by navy vessels to Valletta, Malta's capital, where the five alleged ringleaders were arrested and taken away for questioning. They are likely to be charged with "illegally forcing the captain of the ship to hand over control through coercive action and changing its course," Maltese government sources said. No one was injured during the high seas drama, but the outnumbered crew said they were threatened with assault unless they followed orders. The rescued migrants consisted of 77 men, 19 women and 12 children. "We do not shirk responsibility, despite our size. We will now follow all international rules accordingly," said Joseph Muscat, Malta's prime minister. Matteo Salvini, the hardline deputy prime minister of Italy, had called the migrants "pirates" and vowed that they would not be allowed to land on Italian soil. Police buses await migrants who arrived on the 'hijacked' merchant ship Credit: DARRIN ZAMMIT LUPI/REUTERS "Immigration is managed by criminals and should be blocked by any legal means necessary," he said. Sea-Eye, a German migrant rescue NGO, said one of its vessels had overheard radio messages between a European military aircraft and the captain of the tanker. "The captain of the ship…said unequivocally on the radio that people are very upset and do not want to be brought back to Libya," Sea-Eye said. Vincent Cochetel, the UN refugee agency's special envoy for the central Mediterranean, said that the safety of merchant ship crews was as important as that of "human beings fleeing a hellish situation and not wanting to return there." A Maltese special forces soldier guards a group of migrants Credit: DARRIN ZAMMIT LUPI/REUTERS Italy's populist coalition closed its ports to rescued migrants last summer, leading to a number of stand-offs with other EU countries over boatloads of rescued migrants. There has been a sharp drop in the number of asylum seekers crossing the Mediterranean, as the EU-trained Libyan coast guard intercepts them and returns them to the Libyan coast. Humanitarian organisations said the migrants should not be characterised as criminals or "pirates" because they were trying to avoid returning to a hellish existence in Libya. "It is entirely legitimate for people found in distress at sea to reject being returned to Libya, the very place they know they will only continue to suffer the gravest of violations of their rights and the most degrading treatment," said Johannes Bayer, the chairman of Sea-Watch. Matteo Salvini, the Italian interior minister and deputy prime minister Credit: AFP EU countries such as Italy and Malta "alert the Libyan coast guard when refugees and migrants are spotted at sea so they can be taken back to Libya, despite knowing that people there are arbitrarily detained and exposed to widespread torture, rape, killings and exploitation," said Matteo de Bellis, an expert on migrants for Amnesty International. In November, dozens of migrants seized control of a container ship that had picked them up at sea, barricading themselves inside and refusing to disembark in the Libyan port of Misrata. After 10 days, Libyan authorities forcibly removed them from the ship and placed them in a detention centre. Sign up for your essential, twice-daily briefing from The Telegraph with our free Front Page newsletter.
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| Jury begins deliberations in Roundup trial phase 2 Posted: 27 Mar 2019 01:13 AM PDT  San Francisco (AFP) - "Monsanto knew" its weedkiller Roundup was carcinogenic yet sold it anyway, the lawyer for an American retiree said on the last day of a trial to determine the agriculture giant's culpability for his cancer. The company's attorney meanwhile denied the allegations and accused Monsanto's critics of concocting a conspiracy, as arguments drew to a close and the jury began its deliberations midday on Tuesday. The same San Francisco jury previously found that a quarter century exposure to Roundup, whose principal ingredient is controversial chemical glyphosate, was a "substantial factor" in giving 70-year-old Edwin Hardeman non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
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| Jake Patterson: Wisconsin man pleads guilty to kidnapping Jayme Closs and shooting her parents Posted: 27 Mar 2019 11:46 AM PDT  Jake Patterson has pleaded guilty to kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs, killing her parents and holding her captive in a remote cabin for three months. The intentional homicide counts carry a sentence of life in prison. According to a criminal complaint , Patterson told authorities he decided she "was the girl he was going to take" after he saw her getting on a school bus near her home.
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| Ethiopian official: Preliminary report on Boeing 737 MAX 8 crash due out this week Posted: 26 Mar 2019 03:04 PM PDT  A preliminary report on the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 will be released this week, a spokesman for the country's transport ministry said.
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| This website keeps track of every product and service that Google has ever killed Posted: 26 Mar 2019 01:14 PM PDT  We're still a few months away from the halfway mark of 2019, and already Google has sent some pretty high-profile products to an early grave -- products that the company had high initial hopes for, like its Inbox email service and its failed Facebook killer Google+. But this, as we all know, is really par for the course when it comes to the search giant, which has tried so many experiments over the years with products, apps and services that didn't quite work out as planned that it's ended up building quite a crowded graveyard of failed ambitions.Maybe there's even a few of those that you loved and are still frustrated with Google for killing them.To keep track of it all, one developer created an open source list called "Killed by Google" that serves as a kind of running tally of all these efforts -- everything from Google Zeitgeist to Buzz -- that the company killed early.The list is simply a rundown of all those former Google properties, listed with a tombstone icon next to them and the years they existed. "Killed by Google is a Free and Open Source list of dead Google products, services, and devices," reads some boilerplate language at the bottom of the site, which continues: "It serves to be a tribute and memorial of beloved products and services killed by Google."The Twitter account associated with the list, @killedbygoogle, notes that it's the product of Minneapolis-area developer Cody Ogden. In a blog post explaining the list's creation, he writes that the early buzzy around the project both surprised him and served as a reminder of "how much we can bond with the technology that we introduce into our lives. We grow accustomed to the apps, services, and devices we use as a part of our routine. We come to know their characteristics, their quirks, and like a relationship, it deeply affects us, even for years after they are no longer with us."As proof, he then goes on to highlight some of the comments from a Reddit post about the "Killed by Google" list which shows how much passionate support many of the products had and still enjoy:https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/b592jc/killed_by_google_a_tribute_and_log_of_beloved/ejc6jcq/https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/b592jc/killed_by_google_a_tribute_and_log_of_beloved/ejc2byd/https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/b592jc/killed_by_google_a_tribute_and_log_of_beloved/ejbwazw/
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| Mueller could never have saved us from Trump. That's what politics is for Posted: 27 Mar 2019 03:00 AM PDT  Being unfit for office is not a crime. It will be up to the American people to absorb and act on that insight 'The Mueller investigation lulled us into hoping that Trump's essential unfitness for office would find objective confirmation by our system of criminal justice. ' Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images The Mueller investigation has ended, not with a bang but with a whimper. Dispirited are those who looked forward to seeing Donald Trump removed from office first by impeachment and then in leg irons. True, the investigation was, by many measures, a redoubtable success. It painstakingly documented Russia's criminal meddling in our election and led to the conviction of several of the president's closest advisers and enablers. And it hardly provided the "complete and total EXONERATION" that the president claimed in a characteristically inaccurate tweet, as the report left open whether the president obstructed justice. Still, for those who saw special counsel Robert Mueller moving up the chain, closing in on Trump and his family, the report – or at least what we know about it – must disappoint. Yes, the attorney general William Barr's conclusion that Trump did not obstruct justice warrants closer scrutiny, and certainly we deserve a full release of the findings. But Barr's conclusion – that it's hard to prove the existence of obstruction when there was no underlying crime to obstruct – hardly seems scandalous. How are we to make sense of the disappointment? I think the answer is that many of us were hoping that the law could deliver us from our contemporary politics, a toxic world shaped but not created by Trump himself. If in Trump's universe, no facts are safe from distortion, the law at least holds out the promise of resting on somewhat firmer terrain. In court, the word "felony" still has a stable meaning. And while congressional Republicans might be too craven to place restraints on Trump , not so federal prosecutors and judges. And so we looked to a handful of public servants, dedicated to no value higher than the preservation of the rule of law and the impartial administration of justice, as our saviors. The Mueller investigation lulled us, then, into hoping that Trump's essential unfitness for office would find objective confirmation by our system of criminal justice. By pinning our hopes on Mueller, we were hoping for legal corroboration of something millions take to be true – that an intemperate and unbridled liar, who never ceases to shower contempt on the most basic constitutional norms and practices of democracy, is unfit for the presidency. The mistake, of course, was to seize on evidence of criminality as the standard by which to measure unfitness for office. For while proof of serious criminal actions may suffice to demonstrate a president's unfitness, the opposite hardly is true: absence of clear criminality hardly resolves the question of fitness. The idea that the law could have saved us from what ultimately must be a political judgment was perhaps always naive. The president had already made sure that among his fervent supporters, no member of his justice department or even federal judge of his own picking could be trusted not to be part of the witch-hunt that made the Salem tribunals look even-handed by comparison. Some may relish the irony of Trump citing a report he claimed tainted to the core as proof of his complete innocence. All the same, trying to score points by demonstrating his lack of consistency is an exercise in futility. And alas, Trump's response to the end of the investigation – his announced intention to redouble his efforts to settle scores with his political enemies – only underscores the very unfitness that made so many see Mueller as our deliverance. This is not to say Trump won't one day face his legal comeuppance. Trump's former lawyer has testified that he violated campaign finance law, engaged in an illegal payoff and instructed him, the lawyer, to lie to Congress. Federal prosecutors in New York's sixth district continue to investigate whether the Trump Organization engaged in criminal activities such as money laundering on behalf of Russian investors. So Trump is far from in the clear. But neither is American democracy. We hoped that grave character flaws and egregious misbehavior would manifest themselves in transparent violations of law. Alas being unfit for office is not a crime. It will be up to the American people to absorb and act on that insight.
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| Russia says it sent 'specialists' to Venezuela, rebuffs Trump Posted: 28 Mar 2019 08:23 AM PDT  Trump said on Wednesday that "all options" were open to make Russia pull troops out of Venezuela after two Russian air force planes landed outside Caracas on Saturday carrying nearly 100 Russian troops, according to media reports. As Venezuela has descended into political turmoil this year, Russia has emerged as a staunch backer of President Nicolas Maduro while the United States backs the country's opposition and has imposed sanctions. Venezuela's military attache in Moscow said on Thursday Russia had sent "servicemen" to Venezuela, but that they would not take part in military operations, Interfax news agency reported.
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| Microsoft: Seizure of sites Iranian hackers used for attacks Posted: 27 Mar 2019 11:40 PM PDT  Microsoft said it seized 99 websites used by Iranian hackers to steal sensitive information and launch other cyberattacks.
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| Bill to let banks work with cannabis companies advances in U.S. House Posted: 28 Mar 2019 07:22 AM PDT  A U.S. congressional panel advanced legislation Thursday that would allow banks to provide services to cannabis companies in states where it is legal. The bill would provide sought-after clarity to banks across the country that want to do business with the growing industry, where companies have struggled to gain access to the financial system. The measure, which was broadly backed by a mixture of Democrats and Republicans, now proceeds to the full House, where it is expected to be passed by the Democrat-led chamber in the near future.
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| “It's Like Fighting Mr. Invisible”: I Fought Against a Stealth F-22 (And Lost) Posted: 27 Mar 2019 11:00 PM PDT  It did not end well.
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| Man pleads guilty to kidnapping Jayme Closs, killing parents Posted: 27 Mar 2019 08:22 PM PDT  BARRON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man pleaded guilty Wednesday to kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and killing her parents, in a move that spares the girl held captive in a remote cabin for three months from the possible trauma of having to testify at his trial.
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| Pope Francis Wouldn't Let Worshippers Kiss His Ring Posted: 28 Mar 2019 06:33 AM PDT  Pope Francis Wouldn't Let Worshippers Kiss His Ring
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| Delta, Korean Air apologize after teens kicked off of plane because of peanut allergy Posted: 28 Mar 2019 07:40 AM PDT  The brothers were traveling on their own on Delta partner, Korean Air, which wouldn't accommodate a request to refrain from serving peanuts.
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| Trump's border emergency declaration stands after House vote falls short Posted: 26 Mar 2019 04:59 PM PDT  * Lawmakers fail to reach two-thirds majority to override veto * Pentagon reallocates $1bn to help fund Trump's border wallSalvadoran migrants wait for a transport to arrive after turning themselves in to the US border patrol by the border fence under construction in El Paso, Texas, last week. Photograph: Paul Ratje/AFP/Getty ImagesDonald Trump's emergency declaration over the US border with Mexico remained in force after the House failed to garner the two-thirds majority needed to overturn the president's veto.The House voted 248-181 on Tuesday to override Trump's veto, the first of his presidency. Democrats succeeded in attracting 14 Republicans to join them in the effort, but still fell 38 votes short of their target.The result was seized upon as yet another victory by Trump, who is already on a high after the special counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. In a tweet, the president pronounced the vote to be a "BIG WIN" and repeated his caricature of the Democrats as the part of open borders, drugs and crime.> Thank you to the House Republicans for sticking together and the BIG WIN today on the Border. Today's vote simply reaffirms Congressional Democrats are the party of Open Borders, Drugs and Crime!> > — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 26, 2019The two Democrats who wrote the resolution to override Trump's veto, the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and Joaquin Castro, a congressman from Texas, denounced the emergency declaration as a "dangerous action" that violated the exclusive responsibility of Congress to set budgets. In a joint statement, they vowed to carry on striving to "restore our constitutional system of balance of powers".Trump resorted to the highly contentious move of triggering a national emergency declaration in February, following a five-week government shutdown over funding for the president's much-vaunted border wall. The move provoked a rare display of disapproval towards the president from Republicans in both the House and Senate, who joined Democrats to pass a resolution that would have ended the national emergency, until the president vetoed the measure.One of the Democrats' main concerns was that Trump would use the national emergency to siphon off money from the military to pay for his wall. The first signs of that scenario materializing emerged on Monday night when the Department of Defense announced it had redirected $1bn in funding to allow some construction to go ahead.Democrats immediately warned the reallocation of resources would worsen existing "substantial shortfalls" in defense spending.Patrick Shanahan, the acting defense secretary, said the $1bn would go towards 57 miles of 18ft-high fencing and other measures along the border, CNN reported.Sign up for the US morning briefingIn a letter to the homeland security secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, Shanahan said he had authorized the Army Corps of Engineers to commence planning and construction of the wall near the Yuma and El Paso sections of the border, according to CNN.In a letter to Shanahan, a group of Democratic senators who sit on subcommittees on defense and military construction, veterans affairs and related agencies accused the Department of Homeland Security of allowing "political interference and pet projects to come ahead of many near-term, critical readiness issues facing our military"."We strongly object to both the substance of the funding transfer, and to the Department implementing the transfer without seeking the approval of the congressional defense committees and in violation of provisions in the defense appropriation itself," the senators, including Tammy Baldwin, Dianne Feinstein and Richard Durbin, wrote."The $1bn reprogramming that the department is implementing without congressional approval constitutes a dollar-for-dollar theft from other readiness needs of our Armed Forces."
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| Google launches AMP for Gmail, making your email feel more like webpages Posted: 26 Mar 2019 05:08 PM PDT  Google first announced a little more than a year ago that it would eventually be bringing its accelerated mobile pages framework, or AMP for short, to email, which would allow for the creation of richer and more dynamic experiences in a digital realm where people still spend an outsized portion of their day. Today, Google announced the arrival of AMP for Email, officially bringing the capabilities to Gmail that will turn your messages into something that actually resembles an interactive, webpage-like experience.In a blog post today, Gmail product manager Aakash Sahney said that bringing AMP to Gmail is an outgrowth of how much web experiences have changed over the past decade. Despite how those experiences have changed from "static flat content to interactive apps," though, email hasn't kept up with the pace of that change."Starting today, we're making emails more useful and interactive in Gmail," Sahney explains. "Your emails can stay up to date so you're always seeing the freshest information, like the latest comment threads and recommended jobs. With dynamic email, you can easily take action directly from within the message itself, like RSVP to an event, fill out a questionnaire, browse a catalog or respond to a comment."He offers Google Docs as one example, and the way that comments flow into Gmail messages. Instead of getting a barrage of email notifications when, say, someone mentions you in a comment, now you'll just see a constantly updated thread where you can reply and resolve comments from within that message.Businesses are actually already starting to use these capabilities to make their emails more actionable and relevant to recipients. Over the next few weeks, businesses like Booking.com, Freshworks and Pinterest will start sending out missives that showcase Google's abilities here.Pinterest, for example, is making it easier to discover new ideas and save them to boards, according to Sahney. "Like the rest of Gmail, dynamic email is safeguarded by best-in-class privacy and security protections," he explains. "To ensure added security, those who want to send dynamic email have to be reviewed by Gmail first before they can get started."In terms of who will start getting these and when, dynamic Gmail messages begin rolling out to web users today. Mobile support is coming soon, and Sahney also points out that if you're using another mail app with Gmail, you'll see the static version of the email.
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| Boeing holds test flights for 737 MAX fix: sources Posted: 26 Mar 2019 07:16 PM PDT  US aviation authorities will defend their certification methods for new planes before lawmakers Wednesday, two weeks after grounding the Boeing 737 MAX over two deadly crashes in less than five months. Boeing has flown test flights of its 737 MAX to evaluate a fix for the system targeted as a potential cause of the crashes, two sources familiar with the matter said Tuesday. Boeing needs authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) before the MAX can return to service.
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| Ericsson says no bounty from Huawei 5G security worries Posted: 27 Mar 2019 06:59 AM PDT  The mobile network gear maker counts market leader Huawei and Finland's Nokia as its main rivals and some analysts think it could benefit from Western suspicions of Huawei, after Washington alleged its gear could be used by Beijing for spying. Huawei has strongly rejected the allegations and launched a lawsuit against the U.S. government. "What we see is that customers are worried," Ericsson Chief Executive Borje Ekholm told Reuters ahead of the firm's annual meeting at a venue close to its north Stockholm headquarters.
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| See Photos of the 2019 Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack 1320 Posted: 28 Mar 2019 08:08 AM PDT |
| AP sources: Mueller report is more than 300 pages long Posted: 28 Mar 2019 08:55 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation report is more than 300 pages long, a Justice Department official and another person familiar with the document said Thursday.
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| UPDATE 1-PG&E creditors propose $35 bln exit plan - Bloomberg Posted: 27 Mar 2019 10:36 PM PDT ![UPDATE 1-PG&E creditors propose $35 bln exit plan - Bloomberg]( "UPDATE 1-PG&E creditors propose $35 bln exit plan - Bloomberg") Some creditors of PG&E Corp, including Elliott Management Corp and Pacific Investment Management Co (Pimco), are proposing a $35 billion plan for the California power utility to exit bankruptcy within a year, Bloomberg reported late on Wednesday. Pimco, Elliott and David Kempner Capital Management have discussed the proposal with California lawmakers and other stakeholders, Bloomberg reported https://bloom.bg/2JOGnv0, citing sources familiar with the matter.
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| Israel's Netanyahu to Rep. Ilhan Omar: 'From this Benjamin: It’s not about the Benjamins!' Posted: 26 Mar 2019 12:11 PM PDT  Netanyahu's jab was a response to a tweet Omar wrote in February about the influence of AIPAC. "It's all about the Benjamins baby," she wrote, suggesting lawmakers were beholden to the group because of campaign contributions.
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| New details about Google’s upcoming mid-range Pixel model just leaked Posted: 27 Mar 2019 03:04 PM PDT  Bit by bit, we're learning new details about the long-rumored mid-range Google Pixel model that's been the subject of speculation for almost a year now.It seems that these next additions to Google's reasonably successful Pixel line, which will reportedly be called the Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL, will be released in black, white and "iris" color finishes (with the latter looking like a mix between blue and purple). They'll also be priced around 450 euros, or the equivalent of a little more than $500.Those details come via a new report from WinFuture, which derived its details "from European online retailers" and which offered the caveat that that price estimate is not certain as of yet and should be taken with a grain of salt. Still, for comparison, the current Pixel 3 model which of course has better internals and sports more features than the 3a will no doubt carry, currently retails for $600.The current rumored launch for this new mid-range model is sometime this spring in the US, another unconfirmed tidbit that comes via Android Police. Their reporting indicates the launch will be a Verizon exclusive.The other detail that emerged today from these new leaks about the 3a model is the color, with WinFuture not shedding too much additional light there. However, one source confirmed the purple-ish additional color to 9to5Google, which noted that it's referred to in certain documents by the "iris" moniker. We don't know, however, if it will be an option for both models, or just one of the two.The phones will apparently come with 64GB of internal storage, and a 5.6-inch OLED display on the 3a, while the 3a XL will have a 6-inch display. They're also apparently going to ship with a 12MP rear camera, 8MP front camera and USB-C ports, along with headphone jacks and the presence of Android Pie.
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| US judge recommends partial ban on iPhone imports to US Posted: 26 Mar 2019 05:16 PM PDT  A US trade judge ruled Tuesday that Apple had violated a Qualcomm chipmaker patent and said she would recommend banning imports of some iPhones. International Trade Commission Administrative Law Judge MaryJoan McNamara wrote that she would be recommending a "limited exclusion order together with a cease and desist order" against Apple. "We appreciate Judge McNamara's recognition of Apple's infringement of our hardware patent and that she will be recommending an import ban and cease and desist order," Qualcomm general counsel Don Rosenberg said in released statement.
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| Republican congressman Mo Brooks quotes Hitler's Mein Kampf to accuse Democrats of promoting 'big lie' against Trump Posted: 26 Mar 2019 01:25 PM PDT  A Republican congressman has been condemned after he quote from Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf to accuse Democrats of lying about Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia probe. Speaking on the floor of the House of Representatives, Mo Brooks claimed Democrats and the media were guilty of pushing a "big lie" over the conclusions of the special counsel. "For more than two years, socialist Democrats and their fake news media allies – CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, Washington Post and countless others - have perpetrated the biggest political lie, con, scam and fraud in American history," said Mr Brooks, from Alabama, saying accusations the president colluded with Moscow were "nothing but a big lie".
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| Fed up constituent announces she's running to oust Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Posted: 27 Mar 2019 04:56 PM PDT  Ruth Papazian explains why she's running against Ocasio-Cortez and what the failed Amazon HQ deal had to do with it.
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| Maker of OxyContin agrees to $270M settlement in Oklahoma Posted: 26 Mar 2019 03:20 PM PDT  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The maker of OxyContin and the company's controlling family agreed Tuesday to pay a groundbreaking $270 million to Oklahoma to settle allegations they helped create the nation's deadly opioid crisis with their aggressive marketing of the powerful painkiller.
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| May Plans to Step Down Once Divorce Deal Agreed: Brexit Update Posted: 27 Mar 2019 10:52 AM PDT  Key Developments:May announces plan to step down in meeting of influential 1922 Committee of Tory MPsMay's aiming for a vote on her deal this week, with Friday the likeliest day. Theresa May's office has just released a partial transcript of her speech to rank-and-file Tory lawmakers and she made a very clear commitment to go.
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| Mercedes-Benz Recalls Cars Over Seat Lock Issue Posted: 26 Mar 2019 01:02 PM PDT  Mercedes-Benz Recalls Cars Because Seats Don't Lock Into Place Mercedes-Benz is recalling 22,637 cars and convertibles because the front seats might not lock into place as expected. As a result,...
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| Deutsche Telekom still confident T-Mobile-Sprint deal will go through Posted: 28 Mar 2019 06:31 AM PDT  Deutsche Telekom is still confident of winning the approval of U.S. regulators for U.S. unit T-Mobile's $26 billion deal to take over Sprint, CEO Tim Hoettges said on Thursday. "I think this deal is good for America and that we, at the end of the day, will win approval for the transaction," Hoettges told the German company's annual general meeting. Updating shareholders, Hoettges said the clock on a 180-day review of the deal was currently stopped with 58 days to go.
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