| Iran president says US 'leader of world terrorism' Posted: 09 Apr 2019 04:25 AM PDT  Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday accused the United States of being the real "leader of world terrorism", hitting back after Washington blacklisted Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organisation. Tehran was quick to retaliate on Monday by declaring US troops "terrorists" following Washington's move, which was welcomed by Iran's regional arch-rivals Israel and Saudi Arabia.
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| Debris Found After Japanese F-35A Stealth Fighter Crashes at Sea Posted: 09 Apr 2019 09:22 PM PDT  The plane and its pilot, a man in his 40s, went missing about 135 kilometers (85 miles) off the Japanese coast Tuesday after departing Misawa Air Base on the northeastern corner of Honshu Island, the Japan Air Self-Defense Force said in a statement. A part of what's believed to the the plane's tail was spotted floating near where it disappeared, Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya told reporters Wednesday. The Lockheed Martin Corp. F-35 is considered the most expensive U.S. weapons system.
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| In New York, confusion reigns in the emerging CBD edibles business Posted: 09 Apr 2019 06:53 AM PDT  New York state officials told food growers and processors in mid-December that they had the state's blessing to produce and sell tea and chocolates laced with CBD, the cannabis derivative reputed to ease anxiety and other ills without marijuana's high. The New York City crackdown highlights the inconsistencies that have emerged in federal, state and local rules governing CBD, bewildering the small but growing number of businesses selling edibles in New York and other states. "I'm trying to be compliant with the law, but no one seems to be fully aware of what the law is and isn't," said C.J. Holm, the owner of the Fat Cat Kitchen, which touts CBD coffee and cookies on a sidewalk chalkboard.
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| Top Homeland Security officials ousted amid push for tougher policy Posted: 09 Apr 2019 09:30 AM PDT  The oustings come as ABC News has learned President Trump came far closer to closing the southern border than originally thought.
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| I Am the Rabbi of Tree of Life Synagogue. Here Is a Simple Thing We All Can Do to Help Stop the Next Christchurch Posted: 08 Apr 2019 10:46 AM PDT  A reflection on pain and the power of goodness
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| Democrats press Barr over Trump's war on Obamacare Posted: 09 Apr 2019 10:27 AM PDT  Attorney General William Barr was pressed on the Justice Department's lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act that, if it prevails, would cause millions of Americans to lose their health care coverage.
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| Merkel says backs longer Brexit delay than London seeking Posted: 10 Apr 2019 07:18 AM PDT  German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday that she was open to giving Britain more time to arrange its exit from the EU than the June 30 departure London is seeking. Merkel told Germany's parliament ahead of a special EU summit in Brussels dedicated to Brexit that leaders may well agree to a delay "longer than the British prime minister (Theresa May) has requested". "I am of the opinion, the German government is of the opinion, that we should give both (British) parties a reasonable amount of time" to reach an agreement on an orderly Brexit, she said.
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| UPDATE 4-U.S. judge defers ruling on PG&E $350 mln bonus plan Posted: 09 Apr 2019 01:44 PM PDT ![UPDATE 4-U.S. judge defers ruling on PG&E $350 mln bonus plan]( "UPDATE 4-U.S. judge defers ruling on PG&E $350 mln bonus plan") A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Tuesday deferred a ruling on whether to approve a PG&E Corp plan to pay up to $350 million in bonuses to 10,000 employees, saying he wants more details from the California power producer that is facing bankruptcy following last year's wildfires. Judge Dennis Montali of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San Francisco set April 23 as the next date for a hearing on the plan, saying he wants PG&E to give him a "tutorial" on it. The plan covers 2019 and takes the place of a previously proposed 2018 bonus program that the California power provider scuttled after criticism from wildfire victims and their lawyers.
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| California governor hears of Salvadorans' struggles in visit Posted: 09 Apr 2019 04:22 PM PDT  PANCHIMALCO, El Salvador (AP) — David Escobar Fuentes fled El Salvador because gangs were extorting his ranching family, while Bryon Melgar Menjivar wanted to escape the pressure to join a gang that started when he was 15. Sandra Monroy headed north for a good job.
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| U.S. tourist, guide kidnapped in Uganda freed after 'settlement': tour firm Posted: 08 Apr 2019 03:27 PM PDT  Amid fears the incident could deter tourists from visiting the East African country, U.S. President Donald Trump called on Twitter for the kidnappers to be found. Ugandan authorities said on Sunday that Kimberley Sue Endecott, 35, and her driver, Jean Paul, had been rescued unharmed after being seized by gunmen in Queen Elizabeth National Park, near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo, on April 2. "I don't have details of the final settlement" New Vision reported on Monday, citing undisclosed sources, that a ransom of $30,000 had been paid.
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| Imran Khan accuses India and Israel of moral bankruptcy over election annexation pledges Posted: 09 Apr 2019 05:46 AM PDT  Imran Khan has accused India's leaders of moral bankruptcy for trying to win votes by annexing Kashmir, after Narendra Modi pledged to remove its special autonomous status if re-elected. In outspoken remarks just days before voting begins in India's upcoming election, Mr Khan said Mr Modi was flouting a United Nations resolution and his own constitution with his manifesto pledge. Pakistan's prime minister also attacked Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, after he promised to annex Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank if he is re-elected on Tuesday. "Don't their people feel a sense of outrage and wonder at how far they will go simply to win an election?" Mr Khan asked. Mr Modi earlier this week told a crowd at Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters he would scrap the autonomous status Jammu and Kashmir has had since 1954. He would also remove laws that prevent outsiders from buying property in the state. When ldrs in Israel & India show a moral bankruptcy in their readiness to annex occupied West Bank & IOK in defiance of int law, UNSC resolutions & their own Constitution for votes, don't their ppl feel a sense of outrage & wonder how far they will go simply to win an election?— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) April 9, 2019 Scrapping the protections would help integration with the rest of the country, the BJP has argued. However political leaders in Muslim-majority Kashmir, where Indian forces are fighting a fierce armed insurgency, have predicted the repeal would stoke further unrest. Kashmir and tensions with Pakistan have become a key election battleground in the election after a suicide bombing killed at least 40 Indian paramilitary police in the region in February. Both countries claim the disputed territory Kashmir, and it has been at the the heart of military tensions between the neighbours for decades. Mr Modi's manifesto pledge on Kashmir risks a backlash in the region Credit: Reuters Mr Modi's decision to launch a retaliatory air strike inside Pakistan after the bombing was claimed by the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammad militant group led him to pose as a strong national security candidate. The clash is thought to have helped Mr Modi's electoral chances by distracting from his failed economic promises. But Mr Khan has accused the BJP of "whipping up war hysteria" to win the election. Pakistan's government has accused India of plotting further military action to win votes, claiming it has "reliable intelligence" that India will attack again this month. Voting in India's general election begins on Thursday but, with around 900 million people eligible to vote, the polls will be held around the country over coming weeks, and the votes will be counted on May 23.
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| Boeing orders and deliveries tumble as Max jet is grounded Posted: 09 Apr 2019 02:09 PM PDT  DALLAS (AP) — Boeing failed to win any orders for its 737 Max airliner in March as scrutiny of the plane increased following a second deadly crash in less than five months.
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| Nancy Pelosi once again mocks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for using Twitter for back-up support Posted: 09 Apr 2019 10:29 AM PDT  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made a subtle jab towards Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over her alleged dependency on Twitter for public support, insinuating that the freshman lawmaker is neglecting to do work required pass the Democratic agenda into laws.Ms Ocasio-Cortez has almost 4 million followers on Twitter and has often used Twitter as a tool to rally public support for her progressive proposals including the Green New Deal.Ms Pelosi, 79, told USA Today on Monday that she is running into issues of leading a House caucus while freshman Democratic lawmakers are pushing the party further to the left. She accuses them of prioritising symbolic gestures over actual legislative achievements. "While there are people who have a large number of Twitter followers, what's important is that we have large numbers of votes on the floor of the House," the California Democrat said.She did not mention Ms Ocasio-Cortez by name in the interview.Ms Pelosi added that she believes progressives are "fine" after she told them they needed to look into introducing moderate legislation that have a higher chance of passing the House."As I say to my own district, 'You go out and elect 218 people, just like San Francisco, then we can talk,'" Ms Pelosi added.This isn't the first time the House Speaker derided Ms Ocasio-Cortez. In February, Ms Pelosi scoffed at the Green New Deal, a climate change proposal introduced by the New York Democrat, in an interview with Politico."It will be one of several or maybe many suggestions that we receive," Ms Pelosi said. "The green dream, or whatever they call it, nobody knows what it is, but they're for it, right?"
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| A New Subaru Outback Is Coming Next Week and Here's What to Expect Posted: 10 Apr 2019 06:40 AM PDT  Now that the new Legacy is here, we can guess what the next-gen ruggedized wagon will be like.
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| Baltimore mayor urged to step down over children's book sale Posted: 08 Apr 2019 12:20 PM PDT  The Baltimore city council called for the immediate resignation of the troubled Maryland city's mayor on Monday over her sale of children's books she wrote to the state hospital system for $500,000. Fourteen of the 15 members of the city council signed a letter saying they believed it was "not in the best interest of the city" for Mayor Catherine Pugh to remain in office. Pugh, a Democrat, was serving as a member of the hospital system's board at the time but has since resigned the post.
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| Southwest flight canceled? Here's why the airline won't book you on another carrier Posted: 09 Apr 2019 01:06 PM PDT  Frustrated Southwest Airlines passengers have bombarded the airline with questions in the wake of heavy Boeing 737 Max 8 flight cancellations.
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| UPDATE 1-United Airlines says using larger jets on 737 MAX routes is 'costing money' Posted: 09 Apr 2019 08:03 AM PDT ![UPDATE 1-United Airlines says using larger jets on 737 MAX routes is 'costing money']( "UPDATE 1-United Airlines says using larger jets on 737 MAX routes is 'costing money'") United Airlines' use of larger aircraft on routes previously flown by Boeing Co's grounded 737 MAX jets is costing the carrier money in the short-term, the company's President Scott Kirby said in a letter to employees on Tuesday. Chicago-based United, which owns 14 MAX jets and has dozens more on order, has been using its larger 777 or 787 aircraft to cover routes formerly flown by the suspended MAX planes, without being able to fill the extra last-minute seats.
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| From ‘Full House’ to Big House, Lori Loughlin Faces Two Years in Prison Posted: 09 Apr 2019 02:54 AM PDT  Paul MarottaDisgraced TV star Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli could face a minimum of two years in the slammer over the bribes they allegedly channeled to a crew coach to get their daughters into USC, even if they plead out a deal with the feds. While her fellow accused Felicity Huffman could spend as little as four months inside, Loughlin is likely to face a much heftier jail sentence due to the amount of money she is alleged to have forked out to get her daughters into the elite school.TMZ reports that her alleged payment of $550,000 lifts her alleged crime into a different sentencing bracket, where the recommended minimum jail time is between 24 and 30 months. Quoting sources connected to the case, TMZ says all of the parents in the college cheating scandal have been offered plea deals, but prosecutors will only accept pleas with prison time attached. So far, 13 have accepted the deals offered while another 37 have yet to proceed.Huffman reached a deal on Monday and issued a statement saying: "I am in full acceptance of my guilt and with deep regret and shame over what I have done, I accept full responsibility for my actions and will accept the consequences that stem from those actions. I am ashamed of the pain I have caused my daughter, my family, my friends, my colleagues and the educational community. I want to apologize to them and, especially, I want to apologize to the students who work hard every day to get into college."Prosecutors alleged that parents involved in what authorities have called the "largest college admissions scam prosecuted by the Justice Department" paid admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer, 58, more than $25 million total to rig test scores, cheat on SAT exams, and bribe college coaches. In some cases, the complaint noted, the students didn't even play the sports for which they were "recruited." Singer has pleaded guilty to charges including racketeering, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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| Company veterans promoted to set a course for the future of Ford Posted: 10 Apr 2019 08:15 AM PDT  Joe Hinrichs and Jim Farley will lead the automotive and strategic units.
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| Dalai Lama hospitalized with chest infection, feeling better Posted: 09 Apr 2019 09:57 PM PDT  NEW DELHI (AP) — The Dalai Lama has been hospitalized in the Indian capital with a chest infection and is feeling better, his spokesman said Wednesday.
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| Trump administration moves spark fears of new immigration crackdown Posted: 09 Apr 2019 10:00 PM PDT  Trump denies plans for 'big' action but officials suggest otherwise, raising prospect of renewed family separations A prospective policy would force migrant parents to choose between being detained in jail-like facilities with their children or agreeing to a separation. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images Donald Trump flatly denied on Tuesday that he was planning a "big" new crackdown on migrants at the southern border, even as senior administration officials briefed reporters on the details of such a plan in the works, leaders in charge of immigration policy were shuffled, and insiders described Trump in private as apoplectic over a recent increase in migrant arrivals. A senior official told reporters the White House was crafting a plan that would target asylum-seekers anew and possibly bring back a version of Trump's deeply unpopular policy of family separations. Under a prospective policy the administration calls "binary choice", migrant parents would be forced to choose between being detained with their children in jail-like facilities or agreeing to a separation under which children would be taken out of detention and placed with a guardian or in a shelter, the senior official said. Immigration rights groups warned that the proposals could lead to egregious new violations of international obligations and constitutional law. "We're obviously very disturbed to hear these reports," said Charanya Krishnaswami of Amnesty International USA, speaking to the Guardian from near the San Ysidro port of entry in California. "There's already been a relentless, multi-faceted attack on asylum seekers. The idea that they're somehow going to enact greater restrictions and make it worse, it's just hard for me to imagine what that would even look like." Trump's gathering initiative at the southern border, which was signaled on Sunday by the announcement that the homeland security secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, would be stepping down, appeared to be the result of presidential frustration, possibly the election calendar and the news last week that 103,000 migrants had arrived at the border in March, the highest total in more than a decade. In one White House meeting last month, an anonymous attendee told CNN, Trump was "ranting and raving, saying border security was his issue" and demanding a port of entry at El Paso, Texas, be closed, only to have Nielsen talk him out of it. Then the firings started. On Sunday, Trump tweeted that Nielsen was out. On Monday, Trump fired a second top homeland security official, the director of the secret service. Last week, Trump withdrew his nominee to head US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), saying he wanted someone "tougher". In spite of the visible churn and the background briefings, Trump denied before the cameras, in a spontaneous exchange with reporters at the White House on Tuesday, that he was planning a significant new move on immigration. "We have to close up the borders," Trump said, during a meeting with Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi. "We're not doing anything very big." Trump also denied he was considering a new family separations policy, saying: "We're not looking to do that." But the exchange with reporters was otherwise so saturated with falsity and misdirection that the actual state of play was left in doubt. Trump claimed to have ended the family separation policy, as opposed to implementing it, saying: "President Obama had child separation. Take a look. The press knows it, you know it, we all know it. I didn't have, I'm the one that stopped it. President Obama had child separation." Trump also described the family separation policy favorably: "Now I'll tell you something, once you don't have it, that's why you see many more people coming. They're coming like it's a picnic, because, 'Let's go to Disneyland.'" Any unilateral move on immigration policy in the form of an executive order or presidential proclamation is sure to run into legal challenges. A judge in San Francisco on Monday blocked a Trump policy from January of returning asylum seekers to Mexico while their cases are processed, a wait that could take months or years. The "remain in Mexico" policy lacked sufficient protections to ensure migrants do not face "undue risk to their lives or freedom" in Mexico, the judge, Richard Seeborg, said. Without action by Congress, which has declined to join Trump in most every one of his immigration initiatives, the administration's legal options for altering policy are limited, said the Cornell University Law School professor Stephen Yale-Loehr, co-author of a 21-volume immigration law treatise. The quickest legal way for Trump to accelerate the deportation of asylum-seekers, said Yale-Loehr, could be by expanding a process known as expedited removal, which could allow for deportations of migrants arrested within 100 miles of the border up to 14 days after crossing. "But they would have to do that through a rule – they couldn't just announce it," Yale-Loehr said. "And so it would take some time to go through the rule-making process." Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a policy analyst at the American Immigration Council, said it was hard to discern the Trump administration's overarching legal strategy. "They've certainly been engaging with Congress on this," Reichlin-Melnick said, "but it's hard to say, with the chaos going on in the administration right now, whether they're truly focused on finding solutions inside the [Department of Homeland Security], or whether they're really hanging their hat on Congress as their only hope." Yale-Loehr said: "This administration doesn't seem to have a coherent policy. "It seems that the president simply wants to score political points by seeming to be tough on immigration without really thinking through the best way to get to the root cause of why people are fleeing violence in Central American countries to come to the United States. "The rules are already stacked against immigrants in trying to stay in the United States, and this administration is trying to make it even harder but without thinking through the consequences."
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| Famous wrestler Bret 'The Hitman' Hart attacked while giving speech at Barclays Posted: 08 Apr 2019 03:23 PM PDT  It looked like it was part of the show, but police say an attack on a famous wrestler while he was giving a speech during the WWE Hall of Fame ceremony on Saturday at the Barclays Center was not staged.
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| How Washington's IRGC Designation Pushes War with Iran Posted: 08 Apr 2019 10:24 AM PDT  The decision by the Trump administration to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organization marks another dangerous step in the relentless campaign Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Advisor John Bolton are waging to provoke a U.S.-Iranian military conflict and topple the regime in Tehran. Their success will depend on whether they can manipulate a distracted, ill-informed, impulsive, and erratic president into acting against his own instincts to avoid another regime-change campaign in the Middle East that could drag the United States into a messy and open-ended conflict. They have been able to get the president to dance to their tune on other issues, but can they do it again on an issue with much higher stakes for the country?
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| See Photos of the 2020 Mercedes-AMG GT R Pro Posted: 09 Apr 2019 02:09 PM PDT |
| A 3-year-old disabled his family's iPad for 25 million minutes. His dad went to Twitter for help Posted: 10 Apr 2019 05:49 AM PDT  A 3-year-old boy disabled his family's iPad for 25 million minutes this weekend after repeatedly trying to unlock the tablet.
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| US actress Lori Loughlin faces new charge in college bribery scandal Posted: 09 Apr 2019 12:47 PM PDT  American actress Lori Loughlin was hit with a second charge on Tuesday stemming from a college admissions bribery scandal, increasing the likelihood that she could serve time in prison. The actress, known for her role on "Full House," now faces the charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering in addition to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, federal prosecutor Andrew Lelling said. Unlike actress Felicity Huffman, who was also among 33 parents charged in the case, Loughlin has so far chosen not to plead guilty -- a move that, in addition to avoiding trial, usually results in a reduced sentence.
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| Barr cites 'spying' on 2016 Trump campaign, says Mueller report due next week Posted: 10 Apr 2019 09:30 AM PDT  During questioning by senators, Barr said "spying" on Trump's campaign was carried out by U.S. intelligence agencies, but he later recharacterized his concerns as focused on "unauthorized surveillance." Initially using language echoing Trump's attempts to discredit Mueller's probe, Barr pulled back under questioning by Democratic Senator Brian Schatz, who said the use of the term "spying" was "unnecessarily inflammatory." Barr, a Trump appointee, said: "I want to make sure there was no unauthorized surveillance," modifying his language. "I've been willing to discuss my letters and the process going forward, but the report is going to be out next week and I'm just not going to get details of the process until the plane's on the ground." Barr discussed the report after a blistering assault by Trump on the FBI investigation that was taken over by Mueller, which the Republican president called an "attempted coup" involving "dirty cops." Barr told the committee that he would review all the intelligence activities directed at Trump's 2016 campaign.
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| Women accusing Joe Biden of inappropriate contact ‘support other candidates,’ Democratic senator says Posted: 08 Apr 2019 03:55 PM PDT  Joe Biden has become arguably the most popular — and controversial — 2020 Democratic candidate who has yet to officially launch their campaign for the White House. The former vice president has garnered national headlines after numerous women described feeling uncomfortable with his physical greetings and other exchanges from over the years, including former Nevada Democratic lawmaker Lucy Flores, who recently wrote about her "awkward" experience with Mr Biden in The Cut. But not everyone is apparently buying the accusations of inappropriate contact levelled against him. Christopher Coons, a Delaware Democrat, said during an interview on Monday: "There are folks who, I think, are coming forward and standing up about this because they support other candidates."Speaking to CNN, the senator also added: "There are folks who, I think, are coming forward out of a genuine sense of feeling disrespected or unappreciated." "At the end of the day, the best way to measure this is to see how former Vice President Biden does on the campaign trail," he continued. Mr Coons has previously spoken out in defence of the former vice president, who has been mulling a 2020 bid in recent months. He has said photos of Mr Biden had been taken out of context to claim wrongdoing in some cases, when the former vice president was actually being kind or thoughtful towards constituents. "In my many years on the campaign trail and in public life, I have offered countless handshakes, hugs, expressions of affection, support and comfort. And not once — never — did I believe I acted inappropriately," Mr Biden said in a statement addressing the controversy. He added, "If it is suggested I did so, I will listen respectfully. But it was never my intention."
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| Uganda tour rerouted following kidnapping, ensuing traveler safety concerns Posted: 08 Apr 2019 03:16 PM PDT  Tourists may be asking themselves if it's safe to travel to Uganda.
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| Fox News’ Shep Smith and John Roberts Tag-Team to Fact-Check Trump Lies on Family Separation Posted: 09 Apr 2019 01:07 PM PDT  Hours after President Trump falsely claimed his predecessor was the one responsible for separating migrant children from their families, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith and chief White House correspondent John Roberts tag-teamed to deliver a comprehensive fact-check of the president's lies.During a press spray at the White House on Tuesday, Trump repeated the falsehood that President Obama's administration instituted the specific policy of separating families at the border, wildly claiming he was "the one that stopped it" while insisting that he isn't looking at reinstating his zero-tolerance policy to stem the flow of migrants at the southern border."President Obama separated the children," Trump exclaimed. "Those cages that were shown, I think they were very inappropriate. They were built by President Obama's administration. Not by Trump. President Obama had child separation. Take a look. The press knows it, you know it, we all know it."Noting that Trump has made similarly false claims in the past when it comes to the separation of migrant families, Smith went on to highlight how both the George W. Bush and Obama administrations had operations to arrest, imprison, and deport those here illegally, but they gave children a pass and tended to keep families together."There were exceptions, but it was not the policy to separate," Smith said of the Obama administration. "After President Trump issued the zero tolerance order, officials did separate children from their parents. Some families have not yet been reunited."As for the use of cages, Smith pointed out that "it is true" that the Obama administration kept some children in "chain-linked enclosures" during a 2014 surge in border crossings, adding that the administration "started jailing families together as family units." The Fox anchor also said reporting shows that "Obama administration officials considered separating families, but opted not to do so.""The Trump administration did separate families," Smith declared. "The Trump Department of Homeland Security estimates more than 2,300 children had been separated from their families by last spring. And the Trump administration did detain children in cages. An unknown number of those children is still not back with their families."Later in the segment, while reporting on Trump insisting that he's not looking to reinstate family separations, Roberts addressed the president's claims that "President Obama had the law" and "we changed" it."The accurate reporting is that the zero-tolerance policy about prosecuting head of household was enacted under the Trump administration," Roberts stated. Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here
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| Mercedes 2020 AMG CLA 35 announced ahead of New York debut Posted: 09 Apr 2019 07:24 AM PDT  Mercedes announced that the new 2020 AMG CLA 35 will make its world premiere at the New York International Auto Show, a model very similar to the AMG A35 sedan that was unveiled two weeks ago.
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| US labels elite Iran force a foreign terrorist organization Posted: 08 Apr 2019 03:55 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States on Monday designated Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist organization, an unprecedented declaration against a foreign government that may prompt retaliation and make it harder for American diplomats and military officers to work with allies in the region.
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| Ford Again Recalls F-150 and Super Duty Pickup Trucks for Second Repair over Engine-Block Fire Risk Posted: 10 Apr 2019 08:44 AM PDT  The new recall will bring back more than 130,000 U.S.-market trucks for another fix; more than 400,000 pickups in the U.S. alone have been affected by the recall.
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| Jeep Five-Quarter Concept Channels Brand's Military History Posted: 09 Apr 2019 06:33 AM PDT  Over there, over there, tell Moab to beware, the Jeep M-715 Five-Quarter concept vehicle is awesome.
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| Stanford kicks out student linked to largest-ever college admissions scandal Posted: 09 Apr 2019 11:32 AM PDT  A Stanford University student linked to the wide-ranging admissions scandal involving elite schools across the nation has been kicked out of school.
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| Hypersonic travel could allow flights from New York to London in less than an hour Posted: 09 Apr 2019 03:52 AM PDT  Aircraft manufacturer Reaction Engines Limited says it's solved an engine-temperature problem that would allow planes to travel at five times the speed of sound.
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| Israel election: Netanyahu warns his voters are 'complacent' and must get to the polls Posted: 09 Apr 2019 06:34 AM PDT  Benjamin Netanyahu launched a last-minute campaign blitz to urge Right-wing voters to support him in Tuesday's election, as he tries to see off a centrist challenger and secure a fifth term as Israel's prime minister. Standing outside a pub in the middle of a busy Jerusalem market, Mr Netanyahu warned on Monday that Right-wing Israelis were "complacent" because of media reports that he was on course to victory. "Some of our people are complacent and believe the media, which is trying to put them to sleep," Mr Netanyahu said. "Right now we are behind by several seats." The prime minister's strategy is to frighten supporters of small Right-wing parties into giving their vote to his Likud party at the last minute. A similar method helped propel him to victory in the last election in 2015. Polls have shown Mr Netanyahu's Likud trailing slightly behind Blue & White, which is led by former army general Benny Gantz. Mr Gantz, 59, has attacked the prime minister as a corrupt politician who is prepared to tear Israeli society apart to hold onto office Credit: NIR ELIAS/ REUTERS However, the same polls give Likud and other Right-wing parties a slim majority in parliament, which could be enough to keep the 69-year-old Mr Netanyahu in power. After an election eve visit to the Western Wall, Mr Netanyahu, 69, voted at a polling station in Jerusalem on Tuesday morning, accompanied by his wife, Sara. "This is truly the essence of democracy and we should be blessed with it," he said, shaking hands with election officials and posing for selfies. "With God's help the State of Israel will prevail. Thank you very much. Go to vote." Casting his vote in Rosh Ha'ayin near Tel Aviv, Gantz, 59, said: "This is a day of hope, a day of unity. I look into everyone's eyes and know that we can connect." Mr Netanyahu is facing criminal corruption charges and this year has been the most serious election challenge since he took power in 2009. If Mr Netanyahu wins today - and is able to stay in office until July despite the indictments against him - he will become the longest-serving prime minister in Israeli history. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks as he visits Mahane Yehuda Market a day ahead of Israeli national elections Credit: REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun Mr Gantz, 59, has attacked the prime minister as a corrupt politician who is prepared to tear Israeli society apart to hold onto office, while offering himself as a unifier with vast military experience. "I have presented Israeli society with an honest and clean alternative," he said. "Netanyahu chose to incite and malign and to go to the lowest places that any Israeli prime minister has ever gone." Election day brings an end to what many Israelis have seen as an especially ugly campaign, where more time has been spent on personal attacks than policy discussions. Around 6.3 million Israeli citizens - around 74 per cent Jews and 21 per cent Arabs - are eligible to vote and turnout is expected to be around 70 per cent. The roughly 2.5 million Palestinians living in the Israel-occupied West Bank cannot vote. More than 40 political parties are taking part in the election but either Mr Netanyahu's Likud or Mr Gantz's Blue & White will be tasked by the Israeli president with forming a government. Israeli Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men wait in line to cast their vote at a polling station Shahar Levinson, who arrived to vote in Jerusalem with his wife and three young children, said he was voting for Netanyahu's Likud, citing security like many of the premier's supporters. He also spoke of wanting a government that is "right-wing and capitalist". Voting was also underway in Israel's settlements in the West Bank, the Palestinian territory under occupation since 1967. In Elazar settlement, three parties had displays outside a voting station: Likud and two far-right parties, United Right and Zehut. Saville, an accountant, said he was supporting Netanyahu as he did in the last elections in 2015 because he "is the best", but also because he finds Gantz "dangerous". Likud won most votes in the settlement four years ago. Yishai Dror, a 28-year-old banker, was voting for Zehut mainly because of its libertarian view of the economy. He said he hoped for a coalition between Zehut and Likud. "The right-wing bloc will be strong," he predicted. In Jerusalem, most Palestinians do not hold Israeli citizenship and as a result cannot vote. They instead have residency cards. Israel occupied east Jerusalem in the 1967 Six-Day War and later annexed it. It now considers the entire city its capital. A polling station was set up in Beit Safafa neighbourhood of mainly Palestinian east Jerusalem and saw only a handful of voters enter. Marwan Alyan, 65, voted for Ahmed Tibi, one of the most popular Arab Israeli parliament members. Arab Israelis are the descendants of Palestinians who remained on their land after the creation of Israel in 1948. They account for some 17.5 percent of the population of nearly nine million people and hold Israeli citizenship. They are largely supportive of the Palestinian cause and say they face blatant discrimination.
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| Yahoo strikes $117.5 million data breach settlement after earlier accord rejected Posted: 09 Apr 2019 11:29 AM PDT  The proposed class-action settlement made public on Tuesday was designed to address criticisms of U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California. Koh said the original settlement was not "fundamentally fair, adequate and reasonable" because it had no overall dollar value and did not say how much victims might expect to recover. Yahoo, now part of New York-based Verizon Communications Inc, had been accused of being slow to disclose three data breaches affecting about 3 billion accounts from 2013 to 2016.
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| Head of US Secret Service to quit job: White House Posted: 08 Apr 2019 02:04 PM PDT  The head of the US Secret Service, which guards President Donald Trump and visiting heads of state, is stepping down, the White House said Monday in the administration's latest sign of turbulence. "United States Secret Service director Randolph 'Tex' Alles... will be leaving shortly and President Trump has selected James M. Murray, a career member of the USSS, to take over as director beginning in May," Trump spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a statement. No reason was given for Alles' sudden departure.
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| India's Congress party chief files election nomination Posted: 10 Apr 2019 03:37 AM PDT  AMETHI, India (AP) — Congress party chief Rahul Gandhi, the scion of India's most famous modern political dynasty, filed nomination papers in the family stronghold of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh state, hoping to hold onto a key seat for a fourth consecutive time in national elections that begin Thursday.
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| The 2020 Mercedes-AMG CLA35 Is the Curvier Choice among Entry-Level AMGs Posted: 08 Apr 2019 03:01 PM PDT  Everything that's great about the A35 sedan but with a prettier shell and a premium price.
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| Amazon’s running a huge sale on Easter candy, today only Posted: 08 Apr 2019 11:19 AM PDT  Whether or not you celebrate Easter, there's a one-day sale happening today on Amazon that you should definitely check out. Why? We have one word for you: candy! Amazon has a Gold Box sale on Monday that slashes prices on all sorts of great candy. Yes, some of it is Easter themed like Godiva chocolate Easter eggs and this giant chocolate bunny from Dove. But you can also get big discounts on things like 20-packs of Hershey's chocolate bars, 5-lb bags of Hershey's minis, 5-lb bags of Jolly Rogers, and more. Shop the entire sale right here on Amazon's site, and check out some of our favorite deals below.
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| Man sentenced 26-years to life in brutal hammer death of 'Bridalplasty' reality star Posted: 09 Apr 2019 07:08 AM PDT  Jackie Jerome Rogers was sentenced to 26 years to life in state prison for killing Lisa Marie Naegle with a hammer and burying her body in his back yard.
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| Pantene explores strict Japanese school rules for hairstyles with new campaign Posted: 09 Apr 2019 02:33 AM PDT  Pantene has launched a new haircare campaign in Japan, focusing on the prevalence of strict hairstyle rules in public schools. "News of high school students being forced to dye their hair black provided the inspiration for this campaign," said Yoshiaki Okura, Regional Associate Brand Director, Hair Care Focused Market at Procter & Gamble, in a statement.
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